Realistic foreign policy must recognize that national honor and keeping commitments to allies have real material consequences for future cooperation, and that betraying allies undermines the credibility that keeps the US dollar as the world's reserve currency.

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Speaker

Jonah Goldberg

Evidence Quote

it is a fact of of realism rightly understood that National honor matters that we've made commitments to allies that um that when we betray those allies when we betray our commitments when we break our word that has consequences for us going forward [27:17]

Source

Trump 2.0, DOGE, and America's Global Decline with Sam Harris and Jonah GoldbergSam Harris
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:09:28 AM

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