NATO is enlarging its rapid response force from 40,000 to 300,000, in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—a huge expansion. But who will foot the bill and how will the force operate in practice? Adam and Cameron discuss these and other questions in the first segment of the episode. Then, to mark the July 4th holiday, they dive into the history and economics of…hot dogs.
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If NATO's core shared ideology were summarized in a word, what would it be? By definition, an alliance of this sort is a politico-ideological struggle, but what exactly is the historic struggle that NATO is purporting to represent? The concert of Europe after 1815, i.e. after the Napoleonic wars, was united in a transnational security regime that could be summarized in one word: anti-Jacobin. That was its purpose, to prevent another fit of Jacobinism in France and across Europe. The concert of Europe failed, bourgeois-democratic revolution and reform was unstoppable. What is the equivalent ideology of anti-Jacobinism that is driving NATO today? If we can't summarize NATO's ideology in one word, then we can't judge it as citizens.