This is the lightly edited transcript of an interview I did with Anatol Lieven on Behind the News, October 17, 2024. The audio is here. My introduction to the segment: Joe Biden’s foreign policy has been consistently and impressively bellicose, aggressively supporting wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and amping up tensions with China. And his anointed successor, who has something like a 50-50 chance of succeeding him, looks to be following suit. Many people have read Kamala Harris’s courting of endorsements from the Cheneys—the Liz and Dick of our times—as mere pragmatic… Read More