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00:00 Why voters reject wars but wars continue
03:01 Eisenhower’s warning and the military-industrial complex
05:24 The political cost of the Iran war
07:20 Can Democrats become the party of peace?
10:40 New lawmakers and an opening for anti-war politics
13:07 Overreach, living costs, and U.S. support for Israel
16:27 Sachs’s proposed diplomatic basis for ending the Ukraine war
18:35 Diesen’s question: can U.S. foreign policy break its pattern?
21:36 From the Cold War to the post-1991 drive for hegemony
24:21 How successive administrations sustained intervention
26:48 Why wars end, and why China changes the equation
30:37 CIA autonomy and the limits of oversight
33:01 Reasons for cautious optimism about a policy shift
35:26 Sachs’s call to press politicians for diplomacy
37:00 Diesen’s closing reminder about where power resides