He featured an Asian "expert" and a professor of Asian studies, and they spoke of this week's Mar el Lago meetings between Trump and Xi.

Arthur Waldron and Gordon Chang as academics and experts shocked me with their calm and rationale advocacy for a newly aggressive American war in Asia.   You can listen for yourself, although I'm not sure it's worth it content-wise.  What concerns me is what passes for discussion of foreign policy on America airwaves.

Having worked with and for the chickenhawk class in Washington, D.C. 15 years ago, and studying their behavior and actions throughout the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s, it becomes clear that the target of their affections and obsessions can and does change.  The collapsing French empire in Asia was attractive – and really, to be fair, exactly as attractive as the collapsing Spanish empire in the late 1800s had been.  Occupations of the Philippines and elsewhere, and the attempted remaking of Vietnam share ideological similarities, and the "losses" there are still felt deeply by the chickenhawks.  Not the deaths of innocents and draftees, of course.  But the loss of "face," of the "game."  The overarching goal, for this political sector, is repetitive:  Must Control, Must Expand Political Authoritarianism, Must Pursue Raw Materials, Must Appear Unchallengeable And Superior At All Times.