{"id":55956,"date":"2025-11-03T10:46:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=55956"},"modified":"2025-11-03T10:46:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:46:18","slug":"james-carden-on-the-kyle-anzalone-show-trump-ukraine-and-the-new-arms-race-is-the-world-past-saving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/03\/james-carden-on-the-kyle-anzalone-show-trump-ukraine-and-the-new-arms-race-is-the-world-past-saving\/","title":{"rendered":"James Carden on The Kyle Anzalone Show &#8211; Trump, Ukraine, and the New Arms Race: Is the World Past Saving?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new round of nuclear swagger, a fraying arms control regime, and a grinding war in Ukraine have pushed global risk back into everyday conversation. We bring James Carden of The Realist Review back to map how we got here\u2014starting with the choices made in 1992, when Washington bet on an inevitable democratic future and ignored repeated warnings from Moscow. That post\u2013Cold War confidence collided with NATO expansion, economic turmoil, and a parade of torn\u2011up treaties, leaving both sides more suspicious and less protected.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"[GUEST] James Carden : Trump, Ukraine, and the New Arms Race: Is the World Past Saving?\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y8KoGke8-fU\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We unpack the unraveling of ABM, INF, and Open Skies, and why New START\u2019s uncertain future matters more than any headline sound bite. Carden argues that treating Ukraine as the single prism for U.S.\u2013Russia policy is a mistake, and makes the case for delinking nuclear risk reduction from unresolved territorial questions. Expect clear-eyed takes on whether additional aid can change the battlefield, what a realistic endgame might look like, and how incremental agreements\u2014prisoner swaps, deconfliction, infrastructure safeguards\u2014can keep doors open when a grand bargain is out of reach.<\/p>\n<p>Then we head south and interrogate the rhetoric branding Venezuela a \u201cdrug caliphate.\u201d We trace the legal gymnastics behind labeling cartels as terrorists, the dangers of mission creep, and the historical record that shows kinetic strikes don\u2019t fix supply chains or demand. Instead, we outline smarter tools: targeted financial enforcement, precursor controls, regional coordination, and avoiding regime\u2011change traps that rarely deliver lasting security.<\/p>\n<p>If you care about nuclear stability, pragmatic diplomacy, and avoiding another forever conflict in our own hemisphere, this conversation is for you. Follow, share with a friend who tracks world events, and leave a review to tell us where you think policymakers should draw the next red line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new round of nuclear swagger, a fraying arms control regime, and a grinding war in Ukraine have pushed global risk back into everyday conversation. 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