The right answer is puking every time tony talks about leadership. As the great General Smedley Butler said "War is a racket..." and tony is a racketeer par excellence.
He made a massive blunder in the middle east and a lot of other things too, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have anything interesting to say. His time as leader wasn't so bad for the UK compared to the clowns that followed.
Let's just ignore the fact that said enemy state ruled by one of the worst dictators the world has seen in the last 50 years used WMD against their neighbour previously. Also that a whistle blower from that country said they had WMD and they refused all option to verify they didn't have them.
@@donotreplydumbpeople3866 Are you? Key word in the comment "previously". He had used chemical weapons against Iran earlier, and had nuclear weapons programs (never a bomb). It's true that they no longer had WMD in the early 2000's, but they not only had previously, they had even used them against Iran.
@@drSvensen they had none, and that’s a fact, yes he had chemical weapons, yes he used it, but everything eles was just him acting cocky, and the USA knew it, c’mon man, this are things that you can easily google
Since ancient Greece, politicians are elected/chosen because the citizens don't have time to tend to policy themselves. The problem is that, to put policy before politics, you need to divest the politician from having to deal with the politics of the populace so they can invest their time in policy. This can't be done because you must cut the ties between the policy makers and the politics of the average citizen. The average citizen doesn't want a severed connection between themselves and the politician to allow the politician to become a good policy maker. This is because the citizens want to be able to tell a politician what to do for them and how to vote for them on policy even though they elected a politician to vote and make policy based on their own conscious so the average citizen doesn't have to take time themselves to think of such matters. That is, until the decisions someone else that was elected is using their own conscious to do exactly what they were, supoosedly carefully, chosen for by the citizens to do. People have to learn to be content with their elected officials doing their job to their own conscious until the next election to avoid distracting the politician from their job by trying to constantly influence the politician's decision making when displease of such decisions of conscious. Good luck with that, because the average citizen isn't even happy with their own decisions for themselves at least half the time, let alone someone elses' decisions for them. 😂😂😂 Also, a politician isn't going to tell those who vote that, after campaigning & elections, if elected that he will mostly avoid interaction with them and ignore their group's lobbyists until the next election. The people don't want that yet, they should, if they really had confidence in their own judgement and research on casting a vote for the period of term they want to elect someone for to do the real work they don't have time for in their lives. Good luck with that too! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 The bottom line is that the majority of citizens don't have the time or ability to even wisely research and elect a representative for themselves in a system where the majority vote is held as a standard.... even if with a protective constitution that restrains the elected's power of the majority's vote in them, that fatal flaw makes the democratic system highly flawed. Not to mention the ability it gives the powerful citizen or group the access to corrupt a politician with promised wealth and persona favors from the powerful. In short, democracy as it has been and currently is, always brings a shitshow of politics for the politician because their squeaky constituents and ease of corruption of politicians for favors and re-election probabilities. Politicians are less policy makers today than ever from the politics relating from distractions of mass media in the populace, technological fakery, access of wealthy private and public lobbyists and the dumbing down of the masses from what once was in the world. This is why in places like the U.S.A., certain groups trying to make the people forget that it is a Republic with limited democratic vote to the unelected citizen is for a good reason, not a disadvantage or reason to call for more or full democracy. "More democracy" should not me a coded war cry for actually meaning the politician and their free will to cast an unswayed vote of their own conscious be stiffeled to the demands of their swayed vote based on any other unelected official demanding they cast their votes as they want after they elected the individual politician to do the job of casting the vote they chose freely of their own free will and conscious to cast for the citizens who elected them. Democracy, againmore and more, is just becoming a depraved, love-hate shitshow between the weak spined people who are easily duped and easily corrupted. You get what you vote for, one way or another.
For those looking for pearls of wisdom in the words of Tony Blair, keep this in mind: the British government spent £13m on a report into the Iraq War that found Blair to be utterly incompetent.
He also oversaw the highest gdp growth, poverty reduction, and overall increase in standard of living for any british PM in the 21st century which is quite a bit more relevant.
@@quantumskull2045 That cannot be put down to Mr Blair - World GDP was experiencing an economic boom at the time. Britain specifically had posted strong GDP growth every year since 1992 (and all the poverty reduction et al that follows from that). This is more to do with a) military budgets being slashed post-Cold War which meant big tax cuts, b) ex-Communist countries now opened up to international trade, 3) the founding of the WTO in 1995 which reduced global trade barriers. Blair inherited an incredibly favourable economic position because of these things.
If I had a nickel for every time a youtuber I followed got an interview with a head of state, I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't much, but it's weird that it happened twice.
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How the hell did you get this interview? Your channel is on 🔥🔥🔥
Well he promised not to bring up Iraq
What do you think, genius? Industry plant.
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Just wow, the sheer quality of the guests (and your excellent geopolitical intuition) .... incredible output
The right answer is puking every time tony talks about leadership. As the great General Smedley Butler said "War is a racket..." and tony is a racketeer par excellence.
He made a massive blunder in the middle east and a lot of other things too, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have anything interesting to say. His time as leader wasn't so bad for the UK compared to the clowns that followed.
There are no solutions, only tradeoffs - Sowell
"Government is a conspiracy of distraction" for example claiming the existence of WMDs in an enemy state but finding oil fields instead?
Let's just ignore the fact that said enemy state ruled by one of the worst dictators the world has seen in the last 50 years used WMD against their neighbour previously. Also that a whistle blower from that country said they had WMD and they refused all option to verify they didn't have them.
@@drSvensenare you on planet earth? There were any WMD.. we know that by now
@@donotreplydumbpeople3866 Are you? Key word in the comment "previously". He had used chemical weapons against Iran earlier, and had nuclear weapons programs (never a bomb). It's true that they no longer had WMD in the early 2000's, but they not only had previously, they had even used them against Iran.
@@drSvensen they had none, and that’s a fact, yes he had chemical weapons, yes he used it, but everything eles was just him acting cocky, and the USA knew it, c’mon man, this are things that you can easily google
@@donotreplydumbpeople3866true dat bro
Thanks mate. Iraq war etc etc
having a separate channel for clips would be good
Dwarkesh stock 📈📈📈📈
Does he have stock?
Patel looking suave right now
Since ancient Greece, politicians are elected/chosen because the citizens don't have time to tend to policy themselves. The problem is that, to put policy before politics, you need to divest the politician from having to deal with the politics of the populace so they can invest their time in policy. This can't be done because you must cut the ties between the policy makers and the politics of the average citizen. The average citizen doesn't want a severed connection between themselves and the politician to allow the politician to become a good policy maker. This is because the citizens want to be able to tell a politician what to do for them and how to vote for them on policy even though they elected a politician to vote and make policy based on their own conscious so the average citizen doesn't have to take time themselves to think of such matters. That is, until the decisions someone else that was elected is using their own conscious to do exactly what they were, supoosedly carefully, chosen for by the citizens to do.
People have to learn to be content with their elected officials doing their job to their own conscious until the next election to avoid distracting the politician from their job by trying to constantly influence the politician's decision making when displease of such decisions of conscious.
Good luck with that, because the average citizen isn't even happy with their own decisions for themselves at least half the time, let alone someone elses' decisions for them. 😂😂😂
Also, a politician isn't going to tell those who vote that, after campaigning & elections, if elected that he will mostly avoid interaction with them and ignore their group's lobbyists until the next election. The people don't want that yet, they should, if they really had confidence in their own judgement and research on casting a vote for the period of term they want to elect someone for to do the real work they don't have time for in their lives. Good luck with that too! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The bottom line is that the majority of citizens don't have the time or ability to even wisely research and elect a representative for themselves in a system where the majority vote is held as a standard.... even if with a protective constitution that restrains the elected's power of the majority's vote in them, that fatal flaw makes the democratic system highly flawed. Not to mention the ability it gives the powerful citizen or group the access to corrupt a politician with promised wealth and persona favors from the powerful.
In short, democracy as it has been and currently is, always brings a shitshow of politics for the politician because their squeaky constituents and ease of corruption of politicians for favors and re-election probabilities. Politicians are less policy makers today than ever from the politics relating from distractions of mass media in the populace, technological fakery, access of wealthy private and public lobbyists and the dumbing down of the masses from what once was in the world.
This is why in places like the U.S.A., certain groups trying to make the people forget that it is a Republic with limited democratic vote to the unelected citizen is for a good reason, not a disadvantage or reason to call for more or full democracy. "More democracy" should not me a coded war cry for actually meaning the politician and their free will to cast an unswayed vote of their own conscious be stiffeled to the demands of their swayed vote based on any other unelected official demanding they cast their votes as they want after they elected the individual politician to do the job of casting the vote they chose freely of their own free will and conscious to cast for the citizens who elected them.
Democracy, againmore and more, is just becoming a depraved, love-hate shitshow between the weak spined people who are easily duped and easily corrupted.
You get what you vote for, one way or another.
Haha awesome! Cannot wait for this!
Wow. Trump/Biden/Zelenskyy next?
Wtf Dwarkesh, impressive, good shit
For those looking for pearls of wisdom in the words of Tony Blair, keep this in mind: the British government spent £13m on a report into the Iraq War that found Blair to be utterly incompetent.
He also oversaw the highest gdp growth, poverty reduction, and overall increase in standard of living for any british PM in the 21st century which is quite a bit more relevant.
@@quantumskull2045 That cannot be put down to Mr Blair - World GDP was experiencing an economic boom at the time. Britain specifically had posted strong GDP growth every year since 1992 (and all the poverty reduction et al that follows from that).
This is more to do with a) military budgets being slashed post-Cold War which meant big tax cuts, b) ex-Communist countries now opened up to international trade, 3) the founding of the WTO in 1995 which reduced global trade barriers. Blair inherited an incredibly favourable economic position because of these things.
That was because his arm was forced into joining along side the U.s
@@wiktorjachyra1869 Of course. It definitely wasn’t about oil at all was it?
@@wiktorjachyra1869 You are an apologist for war criminals. Shame on you. No excuses for Blair.
really great clip, looking forward
War criminal Blair?!?!?
If I had a nickel for every time a youtuber I followed got an interview with a head of state, I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't much, but it's weird that it happened twice.
Oh no
Things... Can only get better... 🎶
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No way haha