The Storm Before the Calm?

The United States is in crisis, but George Friedman says it’s happened before.

Description of interview: "Soviet dissidents have long admired the United States and its Founding Fathers for their attachment to a moral core, the basis for individual human liberty. So what happens when American power is used not for moral interests but for solely pragmatic ones?

Host Garry Kasparov is joined by George Friedman, founder and chairman of Geopolitical Futures, a firm that analyzes foreign policy and forecasts global events. George’s view of the world—drawn from the experience of his family fleeing Nazis in Eastern Europe—echoes Henry Kissinger’s geopolitical philosophy: realism, not idealism.

Garry and George consider whether realism is realistic, and what the future of American foreign policy means for democracy at home."