Why U.S. Foreign Policy Backfires | Scott Horton

Scott Horton has spent decades tracing the wires that connect America’s foreign policy to blowback abroad and decay at home, and in this new interview he lays it all out with brutal clarity. From the war on terror to the proxy war in Ukraine, he shows how Washington has repeatedly switched sides, fueled extremism, and treated entire nations as expendable pieces on a chessboard. Along the way, he explains how the costs of empire show up not only in distant wars, but in a post‑constitutional national security state, a weaker economy, and a public that is finally starting to question the whole project.

This conversation is one chapter in a much larger project: a multi‑interview investigation into how U.S., NATO, Russian, Chinese, and Israeli policies are converging into what could become a true global conflict. Across this series, military strategists, historians, journalists, and dissidents map the road from “limited interventions” to a world where nuclear war planners seriously game out scenarios that end with hundreds of strikes on major cities. Scott’s warnings about NATO expansion, the manufactured stalemate in Ukraine, and the way “extras in their movie” pay the ultimate price are central threads in the emerging story.

All of these interviews are building toward the feature documentary film WWIII, which asks a simple but urgent question: can we break the cycle of escalation before it breaks us? As episodes roll out, we’ll share new conversations, behind‑the‑scenes updates, and early looks at how the film is coming together, so you can watch the narrative of modern empire—and its possible collapse—take shape in real time. If you want to follow every step on the way to the WWIII premiere, make sure you’re subscribed, add this address to your contacts, and share the series with people who need to see where all of this is heading.

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