are not many opportunities in my opinion to have conversations with thoughtful critics of American foreign policy. There are lots of voices, critical voices out there, but I don't find most of them to be particularly convincing. We have had conversations with folks like John Meersheimer in the past or my former professor of Soviet history, Stephen Cohen, but we don't have as many as I would like and this is going to be an opportunity to do that. We might not get into really as much of a conversation about Ukraine as I would like, but let's start with your main critique or set of critiques of American foreign policy. What are those and how far back does one need to go in order to capture the totality of the strategic blunder that you've been describing in your recent writings and interviews? Well, these two issues of American exceptionalism and the post-Cold War and how we find ourselves in an outright war with Russia right now because we are at war. The United States has personnel on (15/45)