America's Role in Ukraine | A Debate with William Ruger
Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw
Dan Crenshaw
4.6 • 16K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In a debate hosted by National Review Institute, Rep. Crenshaw and Cato Institute's William Ruger take opposing sides on the question of America's role in the Russia-Ukraine War. Does America have a strategic interest in providing support to Ukraine? More broadly, does America have a duty to defend liberty abroad? Do our own freedom and prosperity depend on success of these values around the world?
William Ruger is a research fellow at Cato Institute and the President of the American Institute for Economic Research. Follow him on Twitter at @WillRuger.
The moderator for the debate is Adam Klein, the Director of the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, The University of Texas at Austin School of Law.
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| 0:00.0 | We hold these truths to be self-evident. |
| 0:02.0 | That all men are created. |
| 0:04.0 | Because the number of Congress I get to have a lot of really interesting people in the office. |
| 0:07.0 | Experts on what they're talking about. |
| 0:09.0 | This is the podcast for insights into the issues. |
| 0:11.0 | China, bioterrorism, Medicare for all, in-depth discussions. |
| 0:16.0 | Breaking it down into simple terms. |
| 0:18.0 | We hold these truths with Dan Crenshaw. |
| 0:24.0 | Since the founding, Americans have been torn between two competing impulses, |
| 0:29.0 | each of which is deeply rooted in our national character. |
| 0:32.0 | Does our belief in the blessings of liberty and representative government impose on us a duty to help others achieve them? |
| 0:39.0 | Or does our uniquely favorable geography mean that our most natural foreign policy is avoiding foreign entanglements? |
| 0:47.0 | Arguably, the view that we should keep to ourselves enjoys an older pedigree. |
| 0:51.0 | In his 1796 farewell address, President Washington warned Americans that, quote, |
| 0:56.0 | it is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. |
| 1:03.0 | And on Independence Day, 1821, Secretary of State and future President John Quincy Adams, |
| 1:08.0 | gave perhaps the most famous formulation of a policy of restraint. |
| 1:12.0 | Speaking of America, he said, |
| 1:15.0 | wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been, or shall be unfurled, |
| 1:19.0 | there will her heart, her benedictions, and her prayers be. |
| 1:24.0 | But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. |
| 1:28.0 | She is the well-wisher to the freedom of independence in all. |
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