The Auron MacIntyre Show - The Radical Foreign Policy of George Washington ｜ 5⧸9⧸25

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00:01:30.980 I wanted to talk to you a little bit today about foreign policy.

00:01:34.760 A lot of people look at the current Trump administration, some of the things that are happening,

00:01:39.940 and they don't like it.

00:01:41.240 A lot of people who invested heavily in the liberal global order,

00:01:45.820 thinking that the United States needs to be involved in these large global organizations

00:01:50.360 and these constant global wars, they're very angry at the current stance of, I think,

00:01:56.600 what you could call MAGA or the new right, that they sometimes accuse it of being isolationist and saying,

00:02:03.020 oh, well, you're discarding this legacy of American diplomacy and leadership around the world and all these things.

00:02:10.300 We need to return to the American tradition. 0.99

00:02:12.860 But what did the Founding Fathers actually say about foreign policy?

00:02:17.200 What did they really believe about whether or not we should get involved in foreign wars?

00:02:22.480 I want to take a look today at George Washington's farewell address.

00:02:26.540 This used to be something that you read in school.

00:02:29.920 It's something that every school child had to read and understand, but fewer and fewer people do this anymore.

00:02:37.100 And while I love to talk about many different philosophers, often in traditions that are perhaps outside of the United States,

00:02:44.340 I do that because sometimes I assume people know what our founders thought about these issues.

00:02:51.060 But more and more, the stories we tell ourselves, even as conservatives, are very different from the words of the founders.

00:02:56.960 So I thought we would do a little bit of civics class 101.

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00:03:05.140 We're going to break down some American civics.

00:03:07.060 We're going to go through George Washington's farewell address or at least several pages of it and get some of those original opinions.

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00:04:18.020 All right, guys, so let's take a look at George Washington's farewell address.

00:04:24.840 Now, this is not that long of a document.

00:04:27.520 I encourage you to read the whole thing if you haven't.

00:04:30.060 We don't have time to read the whole thing top to bottom on the stream today.

00:04:33.300 But I pulled several pages where he gets into the way we should look at foreign policy.

00:04:40.120 Again, so many people look at the Trump administration and their approach,

00:04:44.420 or they look at the new right and their desire to focus on America and put America first,

00:04:48.520 and they say that there's something wrong with this, there's something nefarious with this,

00:04:52.860 that this somehow betrays American tradition.

00:04:55.980 None of that is true.

00:04:57.460 In fact, it's really the opposite when you look at what George Washington says here.

00:05:02.620 Now, I want to make it clear.

00:05:04.060 Sometimes when we talk about the founding fathers,

00:05:06.040 we're creating a unified opinion where none exists.

00:05:11.060 The founders were different people, and they had different opinions,

00:05:15.400 and the understanding of someone like, famously, Jefferson and Hamilton were very different.

00:05:20.680 And so George Washington's foreign policy doesn't necessarily define every founding father

00:05:25.920 and everything that they believed.

00:05:27.840 But obviously, Washington's position as our first great general, our first great president,

00:05:34.280 well, first great general, we can get into details about that point being,

00:05:37.700 someone who's a great military leader, a great president,

00:05:40.780 someone who is obviously, arguably, the founding father,

00:05:45.540 his belief on this matters, right?

00:05:47.440 This is somebody who's got pretty big standing in the United States.

00:05:50.840 So I think looking at him gives us a pretty reasonable understanding

00:05:54.480 of what the American tradition was intended to be.

00:05:57.340 Again, it's not one voice.

00:05:59.280 You know, there are multiples, and we should look at multiple founding fathers.

00:06:02.960 But I think this one is pretty significant.

00:06:05.300 And again, since this is a critical document in, I think, our nation's history,

00:06:11.060 that a lot of people just don't read anymore.

00:06:13.360 I think it's just generally good to go over it and get the idea here,

00:06:16.820 because he warns us against being too hostile to other nations,

00:06:20.960 but also warns us against being too favorable to other nations.

00:06:24.820 He does not like us having a arch enemy or a best ally.

00:06:30.480 And since we throw around the words best ally a lot,

00:06:33.160 there's a lot of countries like the UK, we have a special relationship,

00:06:36.500 or Israel, our greatest ally.

00:06:38.700 We hear terms like that all the time.

00:06:40.600 And that's just not what George Washington believed that we should be doing.

00:06:45.700 He said specifically that that is not a good way to conduct ourselves on the world stage.

00:06:50.600 So if we decide to withdraw from those positions, if we decide to return to a more balanced foreign policy,

00:06:57.200 we are actually just returning to the understanding that someone like George Washington had about foreign policy.

00:07:03.080 And as stories start to come out about whether or not some relations have broken down

00:07:07.880 between the Trump administration and Netanyahu,

00:07:10.180 who I think it's wise to just consider this in the context,

00:07:14.460 because, again, this is what arguably our most important founding father told the nation.

00:07:21.740 This is the thoughts he wanted to share before he stepped out of a presidency he did not have to step out of.

00:07:26.900 He could have easily probably just been king, but he didn't.

00:07:29.880 He did the Cincinnati thing.

00:07:31.040 And when he left, he said some pretty profound stuff that I think we should be looking at today.

00:07:37.000 All right.

00:07:37.440 So let's take a look at what he said here.

00:07:41.520 Again, it's like 31 pages, not even, it's barely 31 pages, very short, very easy to read.

00:07:47.840 I encourage you to read the whole thing yourself if you have not.

00:07:51.460 But here's Washington.

00:07:52.560 He says,

00:07:52.940 So right off the bat, we should be looking for good faith and justice towards all nations.

00:08:10.240 It's what morality and religion dictate.

00:08:12.020 And if that's what morality and religion dictate, then that's what policy should dictate.

00:08:16.380 So right away, we see that Washington thinks that these are harmonious, right?

00:08:21.320 That all of these work together.

00:08:23.560 He says,

00:08:24.480 It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period, a great nation to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.

00:08:39.720 He says,

00:08:40.040 I am predicting that this will be a great nation and we should give an example to the world of a great people who are guided by justice and benevolence.

00:08:47.880 Who can doubt that in the course of time and things, the fruit of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantage that might be lost by a steady adherence to it?

00:08:58.700 We shouldn't be taking the short view.

00:09:01.380 We shouldn't look for short-term advantage.

00:09:03.260 We should be understanding that a solid policy, that a wise policy, that a prudent policy is one that will continue into the future.

00:09:11.740 Can it be that providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?

00:09:18.580 The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature.

00:09:23.880 Alas, it is rendered impossible by its vices.

00:09:27.240 So, once again, the founders are always pointing to virtue.

00:09:32.060 Virtue is incredibly important, right?

00:09:35.060 That's the key.

00:09:36.100 That's what allows the American form of governance to operate.

00:09:39.820 To the degree that it does not operate, it is a lack of virtue that has afflicted it.

00:09:45.800 And so, if you have a virtuous population, they should be able to conduct their foreign policy in this way.

00:09:52.180 In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential than that permanent, invenerate antipathies against particular nations and passionate attachment for others should be excluded, and that in place of them, just an amicable feeling towards all should be cultivated.

00:10:11.360 So, here he warns against being too hostile or too favorable, right?

00:10:16.240 We do not want to deeply invest our identity in hostility towards other nations or in loyalty to other nations.

00:10:24.440 We should be neither excessively favorable nor excessively hateful.

00:10:28.560 The nation which indulges towards another and habitual hatred or habitual fondness is, in some degree, a slave.

00:10:38.700 It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and interest.

00:10:48.500 So, if you are too angry or you are too loyal to another country, you become its slave. 0.53

00:10:55.140 If you are focusing all of your energy and hatred towards a country, you are its slave.

00:11:00.320 And if you are focusing all of your support or favor towards a country, you are its slave.

00:11:06.400 That is something that I think a lot of people on both sides of the foreign policy debate, especially around places like Ukraine and Israel, should probably think about.

00:11:15.460 Not overly hostile, not obsessed with being hostile to it, but also not loyal to it, not making yourself overly favorable to it.

00:11:23.400 Either way, that leads you towards slavery.

00:11:27.560 Let's see.

00:11:28.400 Where did I leave off there?

00:11:30.320 Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold on slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur.

00:11:48.100 So, don't be overly hostile.

00:11:49.500 It makes you quick on the trigger, right?

00:11:51.080 If you're too hot towards another state, if you're too angry, you're going to constantly be looking for offense.

00:11:57.900 You're going to take offense at every turn, and you are going to make mistakes.

00:12:01.560 Hence, frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests.

00:12:06.220 The nation, prompted by ill will and resentment, sometimes impels toward the government contrary to the best calculations of policy.

00:12:14.620 The government sometimes participates in the national propensity and adopts through passion what reason would reject.

00:12:21.040 At other times, it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister, pernicious motives.

00:12:31.520 The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty of nations, has been the victim.

00:12:37.560 So, if you are too passionately against a nation, if you're too angry, if you're too hostile to a foreign nation without cause,

00:12:45.540 this can create a situation where the government will follow the passions of the people and go to war in a case where it should not,

00:12:52.860 or the government has the ability to whip up the people to go to war if they have that special interest in a case where they otherwise would not,

00:13:02.100 where rational interests for the United States would not take this position.

00:13:06.500 So, again, here, being hostile has its own problems.

00:13:10.960 So, likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils.

00:13:18.760 Sympathy for a favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of imaginary common interests in cases where no real common interests exists,

00:13:28.220 and infusing in one the immunities of the other betrays the former into participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification.

00:13:39.840 So, he's already said we have to be careful about being too angry.

00:13:45.520 We have to worry about being too hostile towards another nation.

00:13:49.620 However, we also need to be very careful about being too sympathetic, about being too favorable,

00:13:55.600 because if you become too favorable towards another country, especially when they might not reciprocate the same way,

00:14:03.360 but even if they don't, even if they do, you still need to be careful,

00:14:06.560 because ultimately it will facilitate the illusion that you have common interests.

00:14:10.980 If you favor another nation, no matter what, on a consistent basis,

00:14:15.820 you will build up this idea that you have the same interests when you don't,

00:14:20.280 and that will make you easier to manipulate.

00:14:23.140 It will cause you to possibly take on their interests when you don't have them,

00:14:28.040 and this will put you in quarrelsome wars you should not be involved in with no real justification for it.

00:14:34.540 It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others,

00:14:42.840 which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions,

00:14:47.680 but unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained,

00:14:52.960 and by exciting jealousy, ill will, and a disposition to retaliate in the parties

00:14:58.240 from whom equal privileges have been withheld.

00:15:01.360 So if you make another nation your favored nation,

00:15:04.980 if you make a nation one that you are supporting no matter what,

00:15:10.340 then ultimately you will make these concessions,

00:15:13.680 and not only will those concessions hurt your country,

00:15:16.660 because you are making concessions you should not make normally,

00:15:20.360 but it will also encourage you to basically anger every other nation

00:15:25.940 who is not receiving that status, right?

00:15:30.260 If you are not receiving the status of the favored nation,

00:15:33.520 and everyone else is noticing the special treatment that the other nation gets,

00:15:38.500 it will create hostility from those other nations,

00:15:42.520 and your point as being an American politician is not to favor other nations

00:15:47.780 or create those relationships.

00:15:49.140 It's to serve the interests of the American people.

00:15:51.200 So if you're angering all these other nations because they're not getting the benefits

00:15:55.160 that the favored nation is,

00:15:56.960 then you are not doing America a service,

00:15:59.460 and you could be hurting America by giving concessions to a nation

00:16:04.260 that is not ultimately loyal to you.

00:16:07.340 And so he worries that this is something that just anyone will fall into

00:16:11.080 if they're constantly favoring a foreign power.

00:16:14.160 And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens

00:16:20.380 who devoted themselves to the favored nation

00:16:22.840 facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country without odium,

00:16:28.960 sometimes even with popularity,

00:16:31.760 gilding with appearance of a virtuous sense of obligation

00:16:35.120 a commendable deference for public opinion

00:16:38.460 or a laudable zeal for public good,

00:16:40.620 the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, and infatuation.

00:16:47.840 So here he's saying not only could you be hurting your general relationships, right,

00:16:53.540 with foreign nations and ultimately undermining the good of your own nation,

00:16:57.620 but there's an incentive that you introduce into the nation

00:17:01.840 when you create favored nation status with another nation.

00:17:06.500 You end up creating a relationship where certain elites,

00:17:11.460 certain leaders inside your society can gain interest,

00:17:16.660 they can gain power by appealing to the interests of the foreign nation

00:17:21.220 because your leaders have allowed the interests of the foreign nation

00:17:24.620 to be conflated with the interests of your own nation.

00:17:29.600 And so even though they are out there pushing for a foreign nation,

00:17:33.500 they can stand as if they are someone who is listening to the popular will,

00:17:39.080 facilitating the public good,

00:17:41.700 doing what the public ultimately wants

00:17:43.920 because they are doing what the public has been trained to see as their advantage, right?

00:17:52.080 They have seen this idea that this foreign nation is,

00:17:56.980 this has the same interests as just as important as their nation,

00:17:59.680 and so they become very passionate about it.

00:18:03.060 And then when a leader who wants to create favor with that nation goes and speaks to them,

00:18:08.600 they can speak as if they are talking about the good of the United States

00:18:12.780 because those two have been conflated.

00:18:14.520 They've been wrapped up together.

00:18:16.000 And so he warns that if you allow someone to achieve this favorable status,

00:18:20.360 then you have leaders who will be basically incentivized

00:18:25.060 to lobby on behalf of that nation

00:18:28.440 and act as if it is the interests of your nation.

00:18:36.360 As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways,

00:18:40.740 such attachments are particularly alarming

00:18:43.620 to the truly enlightened and independent patriot.

00:18:47.140 How many opportunities do they afford to tamper with domestic factions,

00:18:51.180 to practice the arts of seduction,

00:18:53.840 to mislead public opinion,

00:18:55.980 and to influence or awe the public councils?

00:18:58.860 Such an attachment of a small or weak towards,

00:19:02.900 of a small or weak towards a great and powerful nation

00:19:06.420 dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter.

00:19:10.860 So we have this scenario where he says,

00:19:13.620 if you have these avenues of foreign influence,

00:19:16.800 if you have these entry points for other nations to come in

00:19:21.420 and act as if their interests are the same as your interests,

00:19:24.880 then you create a scenario that should be alarming

00:19:29.360 to the enlightened and independent patriot, right?

00:19:33.160 It's something that you as a patriot should be worried about

00:19:36.560 because you don't want to create the opportunities

00:19:38.820 for foreign nations to tamper with your domestic factions.

00:19:43.000 And again, if we look at what's going on right now,

00:19:47.220 where we have this huge showdown on college campuses

00:19:50.680 between two factions, Israel and Palestine,

00:19:54.980 that have nothing to do with the United States,

00:19:57.660 we can see so much of American political life

00:20:00.880 fracturing across support for these two foreign nations, right?

00:20:04.920 This is exactly what George Washington says don't do.

00:20:08.040 He says, be careful.

00:20:09.760 Be careful because if you create these opportunities,

00:20:12.620 for foreign influence,

00:20:14.800 they will come in and tamper with domestic factions.

00:20:17.680 They will look for people inside the United States 1.00

00:20:20.680 who support one side or another,

00:20:22.820 and they will work together,

00:20:24.660 or well, they will work together,

00:20:25.840 they will work against each other,

00:20:26.900 but they'll work with those factions to agitate, right?

00:20:29.520 They will pull the American people apart. 0.86

00:20:32.000 And that is a problem.

00:20:33.320 That is a huge problem.

00:20:35.220 This is something that is incredibly important right now

00:20:38.980 because we see this on a regular basis.

00:20:40.940 It's every country that goes to war.

00:20:43.120 Ukraine, you know, they come in 1.00

00:20:45.120 and they have to lobby us on a regular basis.

00:20:47.300 Hey, I need to show up

00:20:48.680 to all of your different institutions and demand

00:20:51.000 all of these different benefits for my country,

00:20:53.860 and we're going to draw the line

00:20:56.040 between liberal and conservative

00:20:57.140 as whether or not you think

00:20:59.140 that you should send infinite dollars

00:21:00.600 to Zelensky in Ukraine, right?

00:21:02.900 And he knows it.

00:21:04.080 He knows that the most important thing he can do

00:21:06.780 is not really fighting the war in Ukraine.

00:21:09.560 The most important thing he can do

00:21:10.600 is lobby the United States

00:21:12.760 and create factions in the United States,

00:21:15.360 which is why he's basically working

00:21:16.880 with the Democratic Party.

00:21:17.900 That's why he's all but campaigning for Joe Biden,

00:21:21.640 because he knows that as the head of Ukraine,

00:21:26.440 the most important thing he can do

00:21:27.740 is agitate factions at home.

00:21:30.740 So no matter what the conflict is,

00:21:32.160 Israel, Palestine, Ukraine, Russia, you know, whatever,

00:21:36.500 it's always clear that there is a concerted interest

00:21:40.360 and effort to exacerbate domestic factions

00:21:43.440 inside the United States along the lines of support

00:21:45.880 for one of these countries or the other.

00:21:47.440 And the reason, as George Washington,

00:21:49.900 our first president lays out here,

00:21:51.580 is that you do not want to create

00:21:53.140 this favored nation status

00:21:55.240 or overt animus towards a nation,

00:21:59.080 because either way, it makes you the slave

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00:22:37.160 I mean, he even gets to the point here

00:22:38.780 where he says such an attachment

00:22:39.820 of a small or weak towards a great power

00:22:42.280 will dooms the former

00:22:44.760 to be a satellite of the latter, right?

00:22:46.940 It's very clear.

00:22:49.240 Against the insidious wiles

00:22:51.060 of foreign influence,

00:22:52.440 I conjure you to believe me, fellow citizens.

00:22:55.120 I jealous, the jealousy of a free people

00:22:59.260 ought to be constantly awake.

00:23:02.000 Wait, awake?

00:23:04.840 Like, like woke?

00:23:07.340 Was George Washington the first member

00:23:09.780 of the woke right?

00:23:11.400 Will we be seeing a diatribe

00:23:14.280 about the dangers of George Washington

00:23:16.540 and his identitarian politics?

00:23:18.840 I don't know.

00:23:19.720 Be careful.

00:23:20.240 Watch out, guys.

00:23:21.600 Founding fathers woke right, confirmed. 0.75

00:23:23.500 I guess we need to cancel them.

00:23:24.600 Drive them from all of the institutions.

00:23:27.580 You know, I would say,

00:23:29.500 I guess you got to tear down their statues,

00:23:31.080 but you already did that, I suppose.

00:23:33.460 So, so again,

00:23:35.980 against the insidious wiles

00:23:37.800 of foreign influence,

00:23:39.180 I conjure you to believe me, fellow citizens.

00:23:42.680 The jealousy of a free people

00:23:43.960 ought to be constantly awake

00:23:45.660 since history and experience

00:23:48.220 prove that foreign influence

00:23:50.480 is one of the most baneful foes

00:23:54.500 of Republican government.

00:23:55.900 I'm going to read that one again,

00:23:58.260 just in case you missed it.

00:24:00.900 Since history and experience

00:24:03.620 prove that foreign influence

00:24:06.600 is one of the most baneful foes

00:24:09.640 of Republican government,

00:24:11.580 you want to talk to me about America

00:24:13.240 being a republic?

00:24:14.540 Great.

00:24:15.160 No foreign influence.

00:24:18.360 Straight from the mouth

00:24:19.840 of George Washington, right there.

00:24:21.600 Foreign influence is one of the most 1.00

00:24:24.220 dangerous things

00:24:25.780 to the Republican form of government.

00:24:28.480 Republicans, governments

00:24:29.900 cannot survive,

00:24:32.000 cannot survive foreign influence.

00:24:35.560 Again, from George Washington,

00:24:39.940 alleged member of the look right.

00:24:42.780 But that jealousy to be useful 0.52

00:24:45.180 must be impartial,

00:24:47.220 else it becomes the instrument

00:24:48.520 of the very influence to be avoided

00:24:50.540 instead of a defense against it.

00:24:52.480 excessive partiality for one foreign nation

00:24:55.680 and excessive dislike of another

00:24:57.600 cause those whom they actuate

00:25:02.660 to see danger only on one side

00:25:05.940 and serve to veil

00:25:07.200 and even second the art of influence

00:25:09.900 of the other.

00:25:10.440 So again,

00:25:11.320 he warns you that it's both

00:25:13.560 excessive favoritism

00:25:14.700 and excessive hate

00:25:16.340 that are the problem.

00:25:17.940 These are both issues.

00:25:19.580 They're both issues

00:25:20.920 and they blind you

00:25:22.100 and they feed on each other.

00:25:24.100 You need to be careful.

00:25:25.520 Don't be too impartial,

00:25:26.960 but don't be too hostile either.

00:25:31.780 Real patriots

00:25:33.120 who may resist

00:25:34.480 the intrigues of the favorite

00:25:36.060 are liable to become

00:25:37.760 suspected and odious

00:25:39.680 while its tools and dupes

00:25:42.780 usurp the applause

00:25:44.780 and confidence of the people

00:25:46.000 to surrender their interests.

00:25:47.860 Again, amazing,

00:25:49.700 amazing prescience here, right?

00:25:54.760 George Washington

00:25:55.440 saw all of this.

00:25:56.980 He saw all of these problems coming, right?

00:25:59.900 Real patriots

00:26:00.620 who may resist

00:26:01.500 the intrigues of the favorite

00:26:03.280 are liable to become

00:26:04.440 suspected and odious

00:26:06.200 while its tools

00:26:07.380 and dupes

00:26:10.760 usurp the applause

00:26:12.080 and confidence of the people

00:26:13.160 to surrender their interests.

00:26:15.400 So he's saying

00:26:15.980 the danger here

00:26:17.340 is not only that

00:26:18.460 these interests

00:26:18.900 will enter into your country 1.00

00:26:20.560 but the people

00:26:21.340 who warn against it,

00:26:22.440 the people who are

00:26:23.200 real patriots,

00:26:24.620 they will become demonized

00:26:26.180 for pointing out

00:26:27.520 that foreign influence

00:26:28.900 has entered into the country

00:26:29.980 while the people

00:26:31.300 who have been duped

00:26:32.160 and become tools

00:26:33.020 of that foreign interest

00:26:34.280 usurp the applause

00:26:37.080 and the confidence

00:26:37.740 of the people.

00:26:38.480 The people will end up

00:26:39.660 cheering for the dupes

00:26:40.760 and for the tools

00:26:43.820 and they will reject

00:26:45.780 the real patriots.

00:26:47.140 There was just

00:26:47.760 an Atlantic article

00:26:48.580 about the dangers

00:26:49.560 of Pat Buchanan,

00:26:51.760 how dangerous

00:26:52.420 Pat Buchanan was

00:26:53.380 and guess what term

00:26:54.220 they used?

00:26:54.720 You'll never guess.

00:26:55.500 You'll never guess

00:26:56.080 what term,

00:26:57.100 what political weapon

00:26:57.960 that was meant

00:26:58.500 to destroy the right

00:26:59.360 they picked up.

00:27:00.240 That's right.

00:27:00.720 They picked up woke right.

00:27:02.360 They called Pat Buchanan

00:27:03.760 the woke right

00:27:05.060 which is exactly

00:27:05.800 what James Lindsay wanted.

00:27:07.000 He wanted that term

00:27:08.340 to become a term

00:27:09.540 that the left

00:27:10.480 could use

00:27:10.960 to destroy the right

00:27:11.820 and they say

00:27:12.760 he's very dangerous

00:27:13.980 because he was pushing

00:27:15.360 these ideas

00:27:16.200 like isolationism.

00:27:18.160 So Pat Buchanan,

00:27:19.820 very dangerous guy,

00:27:21.180 right?

00:27:21.380 He's been called a bigot

00:27:22.120 his whole life

00:27:23.620 because he wants America

00:27:25.020 to care about Americans first 0.99

00:27:26.340 because he worries

00:27:27.260 about foreign influence.

00:27:28.600 He warns about

00:27:29.940 foreign influence

00:27:30.640 and he wants people

00:27:31.760 to focus on the people

00:27:32.760 of the United States first.

00:27:34.300 Don't have a hostility

00:27:35.300 to another nation

00:27:37.040 that is unwarranted.

00:27:38.280 Don't have a friendship

00:27:39.300 with a nation

00:27:40.260 that is unwarranted.

00:27:41.040 Do not be favorable

00:27:42.600 or loyal to who won.

00:27:44.540 Don't despise

00:27:45.420 and become over enraged.

00:27:46.820 The other,

00:27:47.580 focus on America.

00:27:48.740 And George Washington says

00:27:49.660 guys like Pat Buchanan

00:27:51.220 will be hated for this.

00:27:53.260 He will be hated for this

00:27:54.780 if he does this.

00:27:56.540 And that's exactly

00:27:57.200 what happened.

00:27:58.100 That's exactly what happened.

00:28:00.380 George Washington,

00:28:01.700 again,

00:28:02.000 knowing exactly

00:28:02.700 what was going

00:28:03.440 to happen.

00:28:05.200 The great rule

00:28:06.280 of conduct

00:28:07.100 for us

00:28:07.900 in regard

00:28:08.300 to foreign nations

00:28:09.200 is

00:28:09.740 in extending

00:28:10.460 our commercial

00:28:11.080 relations

00:28:11.760 to have with them

00:28:12.660 as little

00:28:13.500 political

00:28:14.360 connection

00:28:15.300 as possible.

00:28:17.080 So far as we are

00:28:17.940 already formed,

00:28:19.660 we have already

00:28:20.700 formed engagements,

00:28:21.920 let them be fulfilled

00:28:22.760 with perfect

00:28:23.560 good faith.

00:28:25.560 Here,

00:28:26.260 let us stop.

00:28:27.360 Right?

00:28:27.620 So this is the idea.

00:28:29.280 We can have

00:28:30.360 commercial relations,

00:28:31.300 we can trade

00:28:31.840 with people,

00:28:32.500 but that should be

00:28:33.600 the end

00:28:34.560 of our political

00:28:36.100 connection with them

00:28:36.840 as much as possible.

00:28:38.200 So far as we have

00:28:39.060 already formed

00:28:39.660 those engagements,

00:28:40.500 let them be fulfilled

00:28:41.260 with perfect good faith.

00:28:42.500 Here,

00:28:42.820 let us stop.

00:28:43.420 All right,

00:28:43.640 so we made some promises,

00:28:44.640 we fulfilled those promises,

00:28:45.720 and then we walk away.

00:28:47.680 Okay?

00:28:47.980 We're going to keep 0.99

00:28:48.500 our promise there,

00:28:49.300 and then we're walking away.

00:28:50.760 We are not entangling

00:28:52.120 ourselves on a regular basis.

00:28:53.840 We are not continuing

00:28:55.520 a super-involved relationship.

00:28:58.580 We made a promise,

00:28:59.500 we keep it,

00:29:00.240 we keep our word,

00:29:01.000 and then we move on.

00:29:02.040 We fulfill that

00:29:02.920 commitment in good faith,

00:29:04.840 but we keep our

00:29:05.920 political connections

00:29:06.960 to as little as possible.

00:29:09.160 Just because we're

00:29:09.740 trading with you

00:29:10.420 doesn't mean we go

00:29:11.020 to war with you.

00:29:12.040 Just because we're

00:29:12.880 exchanging intelligence

00:29:14.000 one time doesn't mean

00:29:15.020 we now have to fight

00:29:15.840 your wars for you.

00:29:17.100 Just because we're

00:29:17.800 allies in one situation

00:29:19.060 doesn't mean that now

00:29:20.500 we are blood brothers

00:29:21.360 to the end.

00:29:22.420 We had a moment

00:29:23.300 where we had a common cause,

00:29:24.420 we fulfilled that cause,

00:29:25.220 and then we move on.

00:29:26.440 We do not continue

00:29:27.580 to stay in that forever.

00:29:32.320 Europe has set,

00:29:33.540 Europe has a set

00:29:34.900 of primary interests,

00:29:36.100 which to us

00:29:37.040 have none

00:29:37.920 or a very remote relation.

00:29:39.960 Hence,

00:29:40.580 she must be engaged

00:29:42.340 in frequent controversies,

00:29:44.260 the cause of which

00:29:45.120 are essentially

00:29:46.020 foreign to our concerns.

00:29:48.100 Hence,

00:29:48.580 therefore,

00:29:49.040 it must be unwise

00:29:50.820 in us

00:29:51.760 to implicate ourselves

00:29:53.260 by artificial ties

00:29:54.620 in the ordinary

00:29:55.940 vicissitudes of her

00:29:57.180 politics

00:29:57.780 or the ordinary

00:29:58.900 combinations and collusions

00:30:00.320 of her friendships

00:30:01.580 or enmities.

00:30:03.720 Understand this,

00:30:04.980 right?

00:30:05.640 This is a man

00:30:06.460 who just broke away

00:30:07.720 from the United Kingdom

00:30:09.680 a few years ago.

00:30:12.080 It has not been that long

00:30:13.500 since the United States

00:30:14.560 has severed

00:30:16.140 its political ties

00:30:17.680 to the United Kingdom.

00:30:18.980 And obviously,

00:30:19.760 the majority

00:30:20.840 of Americans

00:30:21.660 at this time

00:30:22.680 still feel

00:30:23.820 a reasonable connection

00:30:25.020 to Europe.

00:30:25.620 They are European 0.99

00:30:26.220 descendants almost entirely.

00:30:28.720 The vast majority

00:30:29.300 of the population

00:30:30.020 is European

00:30:30.880 at this point,

00:30:32.040 specifically Anglo.

00:30:33.500 Still,

00:30:34.260 for the most part,

00:30:35.380 this is a very

00:30:36.540 European-centric society

00:30:39.100 in many ways.

00:30:39.880 However,

00:30:40.300 even at this time

00:30:41.600 and even with those

00:30:43.060 close ties

00:30:43.980 being relatively

00:30:44.820 close in both

00:30:46.140 heritage

00:30:46.660 and culture

00:30:48.000 and in time,

00:30:49.840 still,

00:30:50.480 Washington says

00:30:51.060 don't be loyal

00:30:52.720 to Europe.

00:30:54.020 Do not treat Europe 0.99

00:30:55.040 as if they are

00:30:56.040 your brothers.

00:30:57.340 Europe is involved

00:30:58.280 in controversies

00:30:59.060 all the time.

00:31:00.560 Europe is constantly

00:31:01.760 in these frequent controversies

00:31:04.960 and that means

00:31:05.700 they are constantly

00:31:06.540 involving themselves

00:31:07.780 in political intrigue

00:31:08.740 and war.

00:31:09.460 Do not do this.

00:31:11.260 So think about that.

00:31:12.940 Just a few decades

00:31:13.940 removed from being

00:31:14.880 tied to the UK

00:31:16.040 not that just

00:31:17.220 a hundred or two years

00:31:18.480 from basically

00:31:19.260 everyone being

00:31:20.740 in Europe

00:31:21.860 at that point,

00:31:22.580 all the people

00:31:23.000 who are now

00:31:23.520 making up

00:31:24.020 the United States.

00:31:24.860 He still says

00:31:25.720 do not tie yourself

00:31:26.960 to European affairs.

00:31:28.220 So if that was true

00:31:29.300 back then,

00:31:30.300 how much more true

00:31:31.520 is it today?

00:31:32.720 And how much more true

00:31:33.860 is it to societies

00:31:34.760 that are not European 0.96

00:31:35.860 in nature?

00:31:37.140 We have no loyalty

00:31:38.880 to them.

00:31:39.580 They are not

00:31:40.120 our civilization.

00:31:41.560 Not even Europe.

00:31:43.520 George Washington

00:31:44.340 says we are

00:31:44.960 a distinct nation

00:31:45.960 and distinct people

00:31:47.340 at this point.

00:31:48.620 We do have

00:31:49.300 a European heritage.

00:31:50.460 We do have

00:31:51.200 some cultural ties.

00:31:52.340 We are distinct people

00:31:53.360 at this point.

00:31:54.240 So we should not

00:31:55.280 have overloyal.

00:31:56.580 We should not be

00:31:57.140 overly interested

00:31:58.640 in them.

00:31:59.660 We should not have

00:32:00.240 loyalty to them.

00:32:01.400 They should not receive

00:32:02.020 favored nation status.

00:32:03.260 And again,

00:32:03.580 if that is true

00:32:04.640 of Europe,

00:32:05.780 just a few decades

00:32:08.280 after parting company

00:32:10.240 from the UK,

00:32:11.140 how much more true

00:32:12.400 is it of far-flung

00:32:13.400 countries that have

00:32:14.260 nothing to do

00:32:15.080 with Europe today?

00:32:18.620 Our detachment

00:32:19.720 and distance

00:32:20.760 situation invites

00:32:22.320 and enables us

00:32:23.280 to pursue

00:32:24.000 a different course.

00:32:25.440 So one of the

00:32:26.040 beauties of the

00:32:26.620 United States,

00:32:27.220 one of the gifts

00:32:27.880 of America

00:32:28.400 has always been

00:32:29.060 how far it is

00:32:30.200 away from pretty

00:32:31.080 much every other

00:32:32.340 country that could

00:32:33.880 challenge us.

00:32:35.700 Right?

00:32:35.900 Mexico is not 0.85

00:32:36.500 really going to

00:32:36.880 put up a challenge.

00:32:37.940 Canada is not

00:32:38.320 really going to

00:32:38.700 put up a challenge.

00:32:39.660 We are very far

00:32:40.660 away from any nation

00:32:42.180 that realistically

00:32:42.920 could put us

00:32:43.760 in a bad situation.

00:32:45.260 We don't have

00:32:45.920 to constantly

00:32:46.500 be involved.

00:32:47.520 We're not like,

00:32:48.820 you know,

00:32:49.440 Europe is always

00:32:50.140 in this scenario

00:32:50.880 where you have

00:32:51.700 to care deeply

00:32:52.280 about Germany

00:32:53.360 and France

00:32:54.040 and England

00:32:54.620 and Spain

00:32:55.640 and like who's

00:32:56.320 in alliance

00:32:56.780 with who

00:32:57.240 and are they

00:32:57.960 going to team

00:32:58.400 up and is Russia

00:32:59.200 working with

00:32:59.820 these guys?

00:33:00.460 Because if at

00:33:01.420 any point

00:33:02.000 the balance

00:33:02.560 of power

00:33:03.160 is out,

00:33:04.160 then just the

00:33:05.480 whole thing

00:33:05.980 can collapse.

00:33:06.640 All of Europe

00:33:07.180 can become

00:33:07.960 very destabilized

00:33:09.680 very quickly.

00:33:10.720 In the United

00:33:11.120 States,

00:33:11.360 that's just

00:33:11.680 not the case.

00:33:12.580 And so we

00:33:13.000 don't have

00:33:13.580 to involve

00:33:14.140 ourselves constantly.

00:33:14.980 We don't have

00:33:15.380 to pursue

00:33:15.960 the European

00:33:17.100 understanding

00:33:18.000 of like this

00:33:19.440 constant involvement

00:33:20.540 with other nations

00:33:21.500 because we are

00:33:22.580 so isolated

00:33:23.780 geographically

00:33:24.760 and that's a

00:33:25.400 blessing.

00:33:26.240 We should embrace

00:33:26.960 that gift.

00:33:28.000 If we remain

00:33:29.080 one people

00:33:30.000 under an

00:33:30.740 efficient government,

00:33:31.780 the period

00:33:32.740 is not far

00:33:33.420 off when we

00:33:34.200 may defy

00:33:35.060 martial injury

00:33:36.160 from external

00:33:37.200 annoyance,

00:33:38.000 when we may

00:33:38.720 take such

00:33:39.460 an attitude

00:33:39.960 as will

00:33:40.580 cause the

00:33:41.140 neutrality

00:33:41.740 we may

00:33:42.520 at any time

00:33:43.240 resolve upon

00:33:44.100 to be

00:33:44.700 scrupulously

00:33:45.340 respected.

00:33:46.420 When belligerent

00:33:47.040 nations under

00:33:47.640 the impossibility

00:33:48.500 of making

00:33:48.980 acquisition

00:33:49.460 upon us

00:33:50.040 will not

00:33:50.760 lightly hazard

00:33:51.520 the giving

00:33:51.980 us of

00:33:52.360 provocation,

00:33:53.400 when we

00:33:53.760 may choose

00:33:54.600 peace or

00:33:55.240 war as

00:33:56.120 our interest

00:33:56.640 guided by

00:33:57.180 justice

00:33:57.680 shall

00:34:00.560 counsel.

00:34:01.160 So we're

00:34:02.040 going to

00:34:02.180 become a

00:34:02.480 great nation

00:34:02.920 and we're

00:34:03.600 going to

00:34:03.840 become a

00:34:04.140 great nation

00:34:04.640 to the point

00:34:05.120 where we

00:34:05.640 will get to

00:34:06.100 decide whether

00:34:06.660 or not we

00:34:07.200 involve ourselves

00:34:07.960 in war.

00:34:08.380 We can

00:34:09.380 choose.

00:34:10.240 We don't

00:34:10.500 have to be

00:34:10.920 goaded into

00:34:11.600 constant conflict

00:34:12.420 by foreign

00:34:13.100 powers or by

00:34:14.300 things that are

00:34:14.780 outside of our

00:34:15.520 control.

00:34:16.260 We don't have to

00:34:17.260 constantly enter

00:34:18.000 into conflict

00:34:19.380 because it's so

00:34:20.200 hard for other

00:34:20.940 nations to do

00:34:22.200 damage to us

00:34:23.060 because of our

00:34:23.620 geographical location

00:34:24.800 and now our

00:34:26.260 position of

00:34:27.500 military might

00:34:28.180 that we just

00:34:28.900 don't need to

00:34:30.300 constantly involve

00:34:31.120 ourselves anymore.

00:34:32.240 We can choose.

00:34:33.660 We have the

00:34:34.260 power.

00:34:34.560 Why forgo

00:34:35.900 the advantages

00:34:36.580 of so

00:34:37.280 peculiar a

00:34:38.000 situation?

00:34:39.000 Why quit our

00:34:39.700 own to stand

00:34:41.760 upon foreign

00:34:42.620 ground?

00:34:43.480 Why, by

00:34:44.020 interweaving our

00:34:44.660 destiny with

00:34:45.500 that of any

00:34:47.520 part of Europe

00:34:48.160 entangle our

00:34:49.420 peace and our

00:34:50.300 prosperity in

00:34:51.400 the toils of

00:34:51.980 European ambition,

00:34:53.400 rivalship,

00:34:54.340 interest,

00:34:55.100 humor, or

00:34:55.820 caprice?

00:34:56.780 Why throw away

00:34:57.500 our position?

00:34:58.580 Why throw away

00:34:59.280 our position as

00:35:00.240 a mighty

00:35:01.000 country, isolated

00:35:02.400 and able to

00:35:02.920 make its own

00:35:03.400 decisions?

00:35:04.600 Why throw away

00:35:05.580 that ability to

00:35:07.080 be our own and

00:35:08.120 choose our own

00:35:08.860 power and our

00:35:09.600 own interests and

00:35:10.500 the interests of

00:35:11.280 our own people?

00:35:12.500 And why stand

00:35:13.240 upon the power

00:35:14.260 of foreign

00:35:14.700 nations?

00:35:15.580 Why stand on

00:35:16.280 foreign ground?

00:35:17.360 Why interweave our

00:35:18.180 destinies with any

00:35:19.600 part of Europe or

00:35:20.600 the rest of the

00:35:21.140 world?

00:35:21.860 It just doesn't

00:35:22.440 make any sense.

00:35:23.360 There's no reason

00:35:24.080 to entangle our

00:35:25.240 peace and our

00:35:25.820 prosperity with the

00:35:26.980 toils of these

00:35:27.880 other people.

00:35:29.180 It's saying it

00:35:30.100 very clearly.

00:35:31.460 There is no need

00:35:32.340 to give up this

00:35:33.300 blessing.

00:35:34.580 God has given

00:35:35.080 you a blessing

00:35:35.860 that you as a

00:35:37.820 nation can stand

00:35:39.220 apart, that you

00:35:40.760 as a nation can

00:35:41.840 stand tall and you

00:35:42.760 can make your own

00:35:43.400 decisions in your

00:35:44.340 own interests.

00:35:45.340 And not only that,

00:35:46.160 you can set an

00:35:46.960 example for other

00:35:47.820 nations.

00:35:48.580 They can look at

00:35:49.460 you and say,

00:35:49.960 that is how one

00:35:51.200 conducts themselves.

00:35:52.520 That is how a

00:35:53.320 nation is strong,

00:35:54.500 fighting for its

00:35:55.140 own people and

00:35:55.840 for its own

00:35:56.640 interests, for

00:35:57.720 pushing that that

00:35:59.460 be the only

00:36:00.480 priority, for

00:36:01.620 expelling foreign 1.00

00:36:02.760 interest and for

00:36:03.460 not tying itself

00:36:04.520 to others and

00:36:05.260 constantly involving

00:36:06.020 itself in the

00:36:06.640 intrigue and the

00:36:07.280 interest of other

00:36:08.220 peoples.

00:36:08.640 He makes it very

00:36:09.860 clear here.

00:36:10.440 It is our true

00:36:13.480 policy to steer clear

00:36:15.160 of permanent

00:36:15.840 alliance with any

00:36:17.420 portion of the

00:36:18.300 foreign world.

00:36:19.000 One more time, from

00:36:20.400 the top, for

00:36:21.380 everybody in the

00:36:22.040 back.

00:36:22.340 It is our true

00:36:23.620 policy to steer clear

00:36:25.900 of permanent

00:36:26.800 alliance with any

00:36:28.760 portion of the

00:36:30.440 foreign world.

00:36:31.760 I'm looking at you,

00:36:32.600 NATO.

00:36:33.580 So far, I mean, as

00:36:35.620 we are now at

00:36:36.820 liberty to do it,

00:36:38.320 for let me not be

00:36:40.060 understood as

00:36:40.980 capable of

00:36:41.640 patronizing

00:36:42.360 infidelity to

00:36:44.600 existing engagements.

00:36:46.280 So he says,

00:36:46.780 look, we're going to

00:36:47.660 fulfill existing

00:36:48.840 engagements, but then

00:36:50.260 it's time to move

00:36:51.120 on.

00:36:51.340 We're not going to

00:36:52.800 break our word, but

00:36:53.900 we fulfill our word,

00:36:54.880 and then we move

00:36:55.740 on.

00:36:56.160 We do not stay

00:36:56.980 there permanently.

00:36:58.580 We're not going to

00:36:59.740 betray people we

00:37:01.100 have allied ourselves

00:37:02.120 with in the moment

00:37:03.580 we have allied them.

00:37:04.700 But that is not a

00:37:05.560 permanent blank check

00:37:06.640 as an ally.

00:37:07.700 You don't just get to

00:37:08.860 be on board the

00:37:10.240 American train or

00:37:11.280 make demands of

00:37:12.280 America in

00:37:12.940 perpetuity.

00:37:13.760 And we should not

00:37:15.160 be making more of

00:37:16.280 those if we can.

00:37:17.300 To the degree in

00:37:18.260 which we can avoid

00:37:19.620 these alliances, we

00:37:21.320 should.

00:37:22.200 I hold the

00:37:22.720 maximum no less

00:37:23.740 applicable to public

00:37:24.740 than to private

00:37:25.380 affairs.

00:37:26.200 The honesty is

00:37:26.780 always the best

00:37:27.360 policy.

00:37:27.920 So again, if I

00:37:28.840 made a promise to

00:37:29.520 you, I'm keeping

00:37:30.000 that promise, but

00:37:31.260 then we move

00:37:31.800 forward, right?

00:37:32.380 I'm not making new

00:37:33.100 promises.

00:37:33.480 I'm not tying

00:37:34.120 myself more.

00:37:35.460 I'm going to

00:37:35.920 complete the

00:37:36.440 contract as

00:37:37.320 offered, but then

00:37:38.360 I'm moving on.

00:37:39.540 I repeat it.

00:37:40.080 Therefore, let those

00:37:41.220 engagements be

00:37:42.180 observed in their

00:37:43.280 genuine sense.

00:37:44.320 But in my opinion,

00:37:45.580 it is not, it is

00:37:46.740 unnecessary and

00:37:48.300 would be unwise to

00:37:49.620 extend them.

00:37:50.920 So again, he

00:37:52.640 recognizes that we

00:37:53.880 have treaties.

00:37:54.600 He recognizes that

00:37:55.600 we've made

00:37:55.900 commitments.

00:37:56.600 He says, all

00:37:57.080 right, we will

00:37:57.520 fulfill those

00:37:58.180 commitments because

00:37:58.800 we want our

00:37:59.520 reputation to be

00:38:00.320 one of honesty.

00:38:01.560 We want our

00:38:02.220 reputation to be

00:38:02.960 one of faithfulness.

00:38:04.360 But once we are

00:38:05.380 done with them, we

00:38:06.600 should not make any

00:38:07.500 more of them and we

00:38:08.300 should not extend

00:38:09.000 them.

00:38:09.680 These are not

00:38:10.320 infinite guarantees

00:38:11.940 of American

00:38:12.980 intervention or

00:38:14.300 American allyship.

00:38:16.000 You do not get a

00:38:16.900 blank check because

00:38:17.760 at one point you

00:38:18.900 were an ally.

00:38:19.460 You do not get

00:38:20.720 permanent membership.

00:38:21.680 You do not get

00:38:22.780 permanent protection.

00:38:23.680 You don't get

00:38:24.540 permanent intelligence

00:38:26.060 sharing.

00:38:26.800 You don't get

00:38:27.600 permanent influence

00:38:28.520 in the country

00:38:29.040 because you were

00:38:29.580 an ally at one

00:38:30.280 point.

00:38:30.680 We fulfill our

00:38:32.440 obligation to you

00:38:33.480 as we promised

00:38:34.540 and then we move

00:38:35.820 forward.

00:38:36.360 It's unwise to

00:38:37.340 extend it and it's

00:38:38.540 unnecessary to

00:38:39.860 extend it in

00:38:40.840 George Washington's

00:38:41.640 own words.

00:38:42.740 Taking care always

00:38:43.760 to keep ourselves

00:38:45.140 by suitable

00:38:46.120 establishment on a

00:38:47.460 respectable

00:38:48.040 defensive posture

00:38:49.640 we may safely

00:38:50.880 trust to

00:38:51.940 temporary alliances

00:38:53.100 for extraordinary

00:38:54.380 emergencies.

00:38:55.260 So George Washington

00:38:56.660 isn't saying be an

00:38:57.720 isolationist.

00:38:59.020 That's not what he's

00:39:00.040 saying.

00:39:00.300 He says obviously we

00:39:01.660 do have interests

00:39:02.640 overseas.

00:39:03.580 Obviously we are

00:39:04.860 going to have to

00:39:05.980 at some point

00:39:07.060 have alliances.

00:39:09.200 However, if we

00:39:10.980 keep a suitable

00:39:12.220 establishment of a

00:39:13.960 respectable defensive

00:39:15.060 posture, then we

00:39:16.480 can safely

00:39:18.160 entrust to

00:39:19.500 temporary

00:39:20.340 alliances for

00:39:22.660 extraordinary

00:39:23.720 emergencies.

00:39:24.760 So we're not just

00:39:25.540 joining alliances to

00:39:26.540 join them.

00:39:26.880 We're not just

00:39:27.240 signing military

00:39:28.240 treaties or

00:39:29.000 involving ourselves

00:39:29.860 in wars to

00:39:30.880 involve ourselves in

00:39:31.820 wars.

00:39:32.280 When we have an

00:39:33.260 extraordinary

00:39:33.700 emergency, hint,

00:39:35.700 we do not have

00:39:36.320 extraordinary

00:39:36.780 emergencies right now.

00:39:38.680 So just the

00:39:41.420 implications there

00:39:41.980 should be pretty

00:39:42.520 obvious.

00:39:42.960 If we do not

00:39:44.140 have an

00:39:44.340 extraordinary

00:39:44.700 emergency, we

00:39:45.420 don't need a

00:39:45.900 temporary alliance.

00:39:47.020 And if we do

00:39:47.840 have a temporary

00:39:48.340 alliance, the

00:39:49.140 key word there is

00:39:49.860 temporary.

00:39:51.040 Again, we are

00:39:52.000 going to be keepers

00:39:52.780 of our word.

00:39:53.460 If we made the

00:39:54.340 alliance, we will

00:39:55.180 keep the alliance.

00:39:56.140 But the alliance is

00:39:57.040 temporary.

00:39:58.200 It does not give

00:39:59.300 you political

00:40:00.220 purchase in the

00:40:01.000 United States.

00:40:01.620 It does not give

00:40:02.340 you infinite amount

00:40:03.820 of credit in the

00:40:04.480 United States.

00:40:06.000 We have an

00:40:07.360 emergency, we make

00:40:08.460 a temporary

00:40:08.860 alliance, and then

00:40:09.640 we go back to a

00:40:10.700 respectable

00:40:11.180 defensive posture.

00:40:12.960 The default

00:40:13.740 position of the

00:40:14.560 United States is

00:40:16.140 America alone and

00:40:18.620 America first.

00:40:20.660 If we need to

00:40:21.620 make alliances in

00:40:23.500 an emergency

00:40:23.980 situation, we do

00:40:24.980 so.

00:40:25.320 They become

00:40:25.680 temporary, and

00:40:27.400 we do not extend

00:40:28.320 them unnecessarily.

00:40:29.640 We do not make

00:40:30.520 new ones unnecessarily.

00:40:31.840 As he pointed out

00:40:32.480 earlier, to the

00:40:34.040 extent that we need

00:40:34.880 to have relationships

00:40:35.600 with other countries,

00:40:37.240 they should be

00:40:37.740 commercial in

00:40:38.380 nature and as

00:40:39.420 little political

00:40:40.380 involvement as

00:40:41.400 possible.

00:40:41.840 Again, pretty

00:40:44.540 straightforward, and

00:40:46.660 I got to say, this

00:40:47.660 is my foreign

00:40:48.140 policy.

00:40:48.960 If you want to

00:40:49.720 know what is

00:40:50.800 Oren's foreign 0.85

00:40:51.300 policy, this is

00:40:52.140 it.

00:40:52.780 This is exactly

00:40:53.740 where we should

00:40:54.340 be.

00:40:55.020 And I think as

00:40:55.600 conservatives, as

00:40:57.240 people who talk

00:40:58.780 about tradition, as

00:41:00.460 people who talk

00:41:01.200 about carrying what

00:41:03.100 the founders said

00:41:04.040 and what they

00:41:04.880 believed, I think

00:41:06.280 that should be your

00:41:06.780 position too.

00:41:07.280 I think this is

00:41:10.040 the traditional

00:41:11.160 conservative opinion

00:41:12.560 for the United

00:41:13.300 States.

00:41:14.300 The same one that

00:41:15.200 Pat Buchanan had,

00:41:16.600 the same one that

00:41:17.480 I have, the same

00:41:19.120 one that many

00:41:20.140 Trump supporters

00:41:20.780 have.

00:41:21.580 America first.

00:41:23.060 It doesn't mean

00:41:23.920 isolationism.

00:41:24.840 It doesn't mean we

00:41:25.260 never pay attention

00:41:26.680 to what's going on

00:41:27.600 in foreign policy,

00:41:29.300 but we only make

00:41:30.860 temporary alliances

00:41:31.720 when absolutely

00:41:32.540 necessary and

00:41:33.220 extraordinary

00:41:33.660 emergencies.

00:41:34.580 And otherwise, we

00:41:36.240 don't involve

00:41:36.740 ourselves in the

00:41:38.200 problems of other

00:41:38.760 nations.

00:41:39.240 Because again, as

00:41:40.320 George Washington

00:41:40.880 pointed out, the

00:41:41.960 more you involve

00:41:42.580 yourself with other

00:41:44.040 foreign nations, the

00:41:45.120 more you invite

00:41:45.920 foreign influence

00:41:46.680 into the country and

00:41:47.360 more of the foreign 1.00

00:41:48.240 influence will start

00:41:49.660 to fracture your

00:41:51.060 people and will

00:41:52.620 destroy your 0.68

00:41:53.100 republic.

00:41:54.020 And if that doesn't

00:41:55.380 remind you of what

00:41:56.200 is going on right

00:41:56.920 now, then I don't

00:41:58.020 know what to say.

00:41:59.080 We are literally

00:42:00.120 watching the country

00:42:01.520 getting torn apart by

00:42:02.880 foreign factions.

00:42:03.840 Americans thinking

00:42:05.420 that they are

00:42:06.100 righteous on one

00:42:06.920 side or the other

00:42:07.580 by declaring their

00:42:08.700 allegiance to a

00:42:09.480 foreign power.

00:42:11.760 That's not what it

00:42:12.700 should be.

00:42:13.160 If you've got a

00:42:13.780 foreign flag in the

00:42:14.700 bio on Twitter,

00:42:15.700 you're doing it

00:42:16.440 wrong.

00:42:16.880 If you're spending

00:42:17.740 all your time

00:42:18.380 yelling about your

00:42:19.940 hatred for a

00:42:20.740 foreign nation,

00:42:21.360 you're doing it

00:42:21.920 wrong.

00:42:22.940 You should not be

00:42:24.120 spending all of

00:42:24.640 your time being

00:42:25.580 concerned with a

00:42:26.340 foreign nation,

00:42:27.320 either pro or

00:42:28.540 against.

00:42:29.380 You should only

00:42:30.200 think about it to

00:42:30.980 the extent to which

00:42:32.180 you must in order

00:42:33.600 to care about the

00:42:34.640 well-being of the

00:42:35.380 United States.

00:42:36.360 And if you're doing

00:42:36.960 it right, that should

00:42:38.180 be barely at all.

00:42:39.500 Because of the

00:42:40.540 geographic blessing the

00:42:41.960 United States has been 0.74

00:42:42.720 given, we do not have

00:42:44.560 to worry about other

00:42:45.480 nations all the time.

00:42:46.960 We don't have to live

00:42:47.800 like this.

00:42:48.860 We can actually care

00:42:49.720 about our nation and

00:42:51.380 our people.

00:42:52.380 And that's not just

00:42:53.600 okay, it's the

00:42:55.080 literal policy that

00:42:57.180 George Washington laid

00:42:58.300 out in his

00:42:59.260 farewell address.

00:43:00.160 So I say, for

00:43:02.100 once, let's do what

00:43:03.420 the founders actually

00:43:04.800 said, what they

00:43:06.260 actually believe, what

00:43:07.900 the first president of

00:43:08.640 the United States

00:43:09.100 actually said about

00:43:10.140 foreign policy.

00:43:11.220 Maybe that makes me a

00:43:12.140 radical.

00:43:12.840 But if it does, that

00:43:14.160 means George Washington

00:43:15.100 was a radical too.

00:43:17.260 All right, guys, let's

00:43:18.540 check here.

00:43:19.060 I think we've got a

00:43:19.680 question or two from

00:43:21.180 the audience.

00:43:27.380 Philosophical Thirst

00:43:28.200 Worm says, they too

00:43:29.760 have been deaf to the

00:43:31.200 voices of justice and

00:43:33.040 consanguinity.

00:43:34.920 Declaration of

00:43:35.560 Independence equals 0.99

00:43:36.480 woke right.

00:43:38.040 Yeah, again, so many

00:43:39.500 woke right quotes in

00:43:40.740 founding documents, I

00:43:42.240 guess.

00:43:42.460 There's a lot of

00:43:42.860 grievances, right?

00:43:43.740 They aired all the

00:43:44.700 grievances in the

00:43:45.440 declaration.

00:43:46.860 So that one's probably

00:43:48.640 they talked about the

00:43:50.120 injustice of the

00:43:50.920 system and the need

00:43:52.520 to dismantle it.

00:43:53.980 You know, so there's

00:43:54.540 all that Marxism in

00:43:56.540 the, you know, again,

00:43:57.680 if you take this

00:43:58.660 analysis and you put

00:43:59.760 it on the actual

00:44:00.940 founding of the

00:44:01.860 United States, you

00:44:02.820 can create all this

00:44:03.780 idea that the

00:44:04.540 founding fathers

00:44:05.100 were woke, right?

00:44:05.800 It's just insane.

00:44:10.900 Philosophical Thirst

00:44:11.580 Worm says, I don't

00:44:12.360 want to get involved

00:44:13.320 at the most.

00:44:14.220 I feel kinship for

00:44:15.000 the Palestinians

00:44:15.480 because as Americans,

00:44:16.120 I know what it's

00:44:16.620 like to be under

00:44:17.140 Israeli occupation.

00:44:18.120 Look, again, the

00:44:19.260 whole point is to

00:44:20.320 not be obsessed one

00:44:21.800 way or another,

00:44:22.660 right?

00:44:22.880 To not find

00:44:23.860 solidarity with

00:44:26.100 any one people,

00:44:27.100 whether it be

00:44:27.960 Israel or 0.89

00:44:28.980 Palestine.

00:44:30.420 Neither of these

00:44:31.060 people are on your

00:44:31.760 side.

00:44:32.980 America is on its

00:44:33.940 own side.

00:44:34.960 We are our own

00:44:35.820 team and no one

00:44:37.500 on a foreign

00:44:37.900 nation is on it.

00:44:39.660 We are our own

00:44:40.380 team.

00:44:41.500 America.

00:44:42.420 America first.

00:44:44.060 So don't feel

00:44:44.760 kinship with the

00:44:45.960 Israelis.

00:44:46.420 Don't feel kinship 0.95

00:44:47.120 with the Palestinians.

00:44:48.220 Don't feel, you

00:44:49.260 know, overly hostile

00:44:50.260 to one or overly

00:44:51.120 hostile to another.

00:44:52.240 Don't be a slave

00:44:53.100 either way.

00:44:53.740 This is Washington's

00:44:54.540 whole point.

00:44:55.000 Don't be a slave

00:44:56.620 to your passions.

00:44:58.180 Do what is best for

00:44:59.380 the country.

00:45:00.520 Focus on that.

00:45:01.680 If that means you

00:45:02.900 need to take steps

00:45:03.780 one way or another,

00:45:04.440 then that's what you

00:45:04.960 do.

00:45:05.780 But the focus, the

00:45:07.060 passion should be

00:45:08.260 about your people,

00:45:09.540 should be about this

00:45:10.580 nation.

00:45:11.460 And to the extent

00:45:12.000 you're taking action

00:45:12.840 and action might be

00:45:13.640 necessary, but to

00:45:14.940 the extent you're

00:45:15.740 taking action in

00:45:17.380 foreign policy, it

00:45:18.580 should always be

00:45:19.920 America first.

00:45:21.280 It should always be

00:45:21.800 centered on America,

00:45:22.780 never a special

00:45:23.800 relationship, a

00:45:24.980 favorability with

00:45:26.040 one nation, and

00:45:27.040 never excessive

00:45:28.160 hostility that's going

00:45:29.280 to drive you to make

00:45:30.200 mistakes.

00:45:31.200 Choose America every

00:45:32.620 time.

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The Auron MacIntyre Show - May 09, 2025

The Radical Foreign Policy of George Washington ｜ 5⧸9⧸25

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