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Stephen Kinzer: “We want leaders of other countries to put the interests of…”

Featuring: Stephen Kinzer, Critic of interventionist U.S. foreign policy | Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs | National

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Tulsi Gabbard and Stephen Kinzer Discuss U.S. Foreign Policy and the Cost of War

Published | Video Starts at 18:32

That can't be. And I think that's the role that the United States has played. We still cannot grasp, after all these decades the reality of nationalism in other countries. We want leaders of other countries to put the interests of the United States ahead of their own countries. This is not realistic and as we have now been told, that the world has to be divided between the democracies and the autocracies. And we'll decide who's on which list. (18:32–18:38)

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Asserts that the U.S. expects foreign leaders to prioritize U.S. interests over their own.

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