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Chris Blattman is a professor at the University of Chicago studying the causes and consequences of violence and war. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Truebill: https://truebill.com/lex - Mizzen+Main: https://mizzenandmain.com and use code LEX to get $35 off - Grammarly: https://grammarly.com/lex to get 20% off premium - Indeed: https://indeed.com/lex to get $75 credit - Eight Sleep: https://www.eightsleep.com/lex and use code LEX to get special savings EPISODE LINKS: Chris's Twitter: https://twitter.com/cblatts Chris's Website: https://chrisblattman.com Why We Fight (book): https://amzn.to/3702fjb PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 1:04 - What is war? 12:14 - Justification for war 35:02 - War in Ukraine 1:18:30 - Nuclear war 1:29:51 - Drug cartels 1:46:34 - Joseph Kony 1:52:38 - World Wars 1:59:46 - Civil wars 2:06:20 - Israeli–Palestinian conflict 2:15:04 - China vs USA 2:21:13 - Love 2:27:38 - Hard data 2:35:13 - Mortality 2:40:19 - Advice for young people 2:45:00 - Tyler Cowen SOCIAL: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman - Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman - Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/lexfridman - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman
"what are your thoughts on the ongoing war in ukraine how do you analyze it within your framework about war how far would they go to hang on to power when push came to shove is i think the thing that w..."
"in your new book titled why we fight the roots of war and the paths for peace you're right quote let me be clear what i mean when i say war i don't just mean countries duking it out i mean any kind of..."
"example i was looking at just war index or people trying to measure trying to put a number on what wars are seen as just and not oh really i've never seen that it's there there's numbers behind it it'..."
"back out let me at a high level first ask what are your thoughts on the ongoing war in ukraine how do you analyze it within your framework about war a russian colleague of mine constantine tells this ..."
"so back to nuclear war what do you think about this that people were nonchalantly speaking about nuclear wars if it doesn't lead to the potential annihilation of the human species um what are the chan..."
"medellin by the way how do you pronounce the medellin both are fine i think the there they say medellin because that's kind of the accent is the on the double l but that's but medellin is would be tot..."
"coney the ugandan warlord um seeing here he kidnapped 591 children in three years between two totally they must have kidnapped i i had they probably kidnapped for at least a short time like a few hour..."
"so we talked about drug wars and medellin um are there other wars that stand out to you as full of lessons we can jump around a little bit maybe if we can return briefly at world war ii from your fram..."
"you speak to um lessons you learned from civil wars yeah perhaps the american civil war any others so lebanon one of the ways had tried for a long time to um preserve the interests of minority groups ..."
"difficult things going on in the world today israel palestine will we ever see peace in this part of the world and sort of your book title is the roots of war and the path for peace or the subtitle wh..."
"speaking of compromise and war let me ask you about one last one which may be in the future china and the united states yeah how do we avoid an all-out hot war with this other superpower in the next d..."
"so once again returning to love uh i read in your acknowledgement and as you mentioned earlier the acknowledgement reads quote i dedicate this book to a slow and now defunct internet cafe in nairobi b..."
"that you've been chasing that you've chased in your life like what are some interesting things because you mentioned like one of the things you you kind of want to go somewhere in the world and find e..."
"you've been thinking about war here in part dispassionately just analyze war and try to understand the path for peace but you as a single individual that's going to die one day maybe talking to um the..."
"advice for young people that want to do as ambitious as crazy as amazing of work as you have done in life so somebody who's in high school in college either career advice on what to choose how to exec..."
"one of the reasons i discovered your podcast or maybe tyler cowan yeah he's amazing tyler takes this approach to everything he takes this approach to movie yeah he's like walk into the movie theater a..."