From Pivoting in Asia to Confronting the National Security State

I recently went on The Realignment Podcast, which is an unusual show in that it both 1) skews young for a politics and foreign policy pod and 2) platforms a lot of reactionary people whom I view as being opposed to democracy in any meaningful sense. Curiously, they also occasionally have guests from the left too, which is how I ended up with an invite.
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