Of All the Dumb Wars, This One is Somehow the Dumbest

About this episode

Ben Burgis critiques the arguments supporting Trump's unprovoked war and discusses its implications for American democracy.

We're back, baby! Ben Burgis breaks down the idiotic arguments made by the MAGA faithful in defense of Trump's decision to wage an unprovoked, illegal, open-ended war against a country with far more capacity to defend itself than Afghanistan had in 2001 or Iraq in 2003, and makes the case that opposing it isn't just a question of anti-imperialism or harm-minimization (though it certainly is all that) but that there's a basic question of American democracy at stake. Read Ben's article in Jac...

People in this episode

Host: Ben Burgis

Topics covered

• war
• politics
• American democracy
• anti-imperialism
• MAGA
• Trump

Keywords

• Trump
• MAGA
• war
• American democracy
• anti-imperialism
• Iraq
• Afghanistan

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: MAGA, Jac

Places: Afghanistan, Iraq

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