Foreign Policy Live

I always look forward to these conversations! Keep ‘em coming. Thanks!

I find a lot of the episodes of FP Live I listen to are just milk-toast (plain) and discussion with a slight focus on foreign policy aspects. There is no rigorous discussion of American (or any other nation’s) diplomacy, international dynamics, or geopolitical game theory. The interviewer’s questions are always mundane (what’s your background, what do you think about this, blah blah) and uninspired. There have been times an interviewee has had a pretty sharp or unorthodox opinion on a topic and voices a controversial opinion and the interviewer just lets them go on without asking questions to force them to flush out their viewpoint. If you’re looking for something to put on in the background FP Live is fine, but it’s not worth deliberately listening to as there are a multitude of other podcasts that simply put in more effort.

If you want a regurgitation of Establishment/ Democrat Party foreign policy that has failed across the board, this podcast is for you. The interviewer is below average and rarely pushes back on the many silly things that many of the guests say. The interviewer is incapable of independent thought or analysis. I often wonder where do they find these intellectual lightweights and kooks who will always praise NATO, unconditionally support funding for Ukraine without a goal in mind, hate Trump and the Abraham Accords, kowtow to China etc.

ACADT’s presumptuous compromise of my privacy is unacceptable.