A “potluck” edition of GoodFellows this time around, with Hoover senior fellows Niall Ferguson, H. R. McMaster, and John Cochrane “bringing their own” topics for group discussion. These include an examination of an anticipated tank battle in Ukraine’s Donbas that’s yet to materialize, China’s disastrous “zero COVID” policy, what a post-Ukraine economic and military order might resemble, plus Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter and Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s takedown of Disney and university faculty in the Sunshine State.
For more information on the Hoover publications mentioned in this video, please visit the links below:
Strategika: https://www.hoover.org/Strategika
China’s Global Sharp Power Weekly Alert: hoover.org/CGSPWeeklyAlert
Recorded April 26, 2022
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