A Live Turkey

In the first Net Assessment recorded before a live audience,
Chris, Zack, and Melanie discuss the U.S.-Turkish relationship.
Has America “lost” Turkey? What are the benefits and limitations
of transactional relationships, rather than alliances? How should
NATO manage alliance members whose interests and behavior seem to
be at odds with alliance purposes? They then take questions from
participants in The Fund for American Studies programs. Chris has
a grievance for a Pentagon program to discredit the Chinese
COVID-19 vaccine, Zack condemns China’s ongoing aggression
against the Philippines, and Melanie has an attaboy for Bill
Gates’s effort to build smaller and safer nuclear reactors.


 


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