Wars Consolidate Power At Home

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]One of them is that in declining democracies and in historically in autocracies is you have leaders who conduct wars as a way of consolidating their base and consolidating their support.

[00:00:13]And so one of the things that Trump likes to do is if he declares a war, I believe he had a different expectation of the Iran war. He's using foreign policy, he's using these fighting wars in order to consolidate his support at home. So that's that's a part of it's happening. But some of this is nothing to do with Trump. You know, we are now living in a world where the historical political system, the one that was built after 1945, some people call it the liberal world order.

[00:00:38]I don't really like that term because it sounds kind of mushy, but the the order that has existed since 1945, the one that was somewhat based on the UN, that was based on a set of rules and treaties, that order has begun to break down.