I have watched his presentation but not the Q&A's.
The scary thing about Trump long term is not the many things that he is wrong and naive about but the taint that he will attach to the few things that he is right about. Which is in virtually every case he is right about as a consequence of his avarice and ego. He is right that we should be treating Russia more as an equal to reach a lasting peace to avoid a new cold war and he is right that globalization has hurt the middle class in the US possibly irreparably.
The two most destructive paradigms that have shaped policies in the US over the last forty years are neoliberalism and neoconservatism. Both have come into play in our relations and our treatment of the Soviet Union first and later of Russia. Pozner is right that the Wolfowitz doctrine, the full expression of neoconservatism, was responsible for the ill-treatment of Russia leading up to the New Cold War and the missed opportunity for an equable peace,
But he might not fully appreciate the small-minded reason for this behavior which is neoliberalism, the idea that we should be changing our economy from one that works into one that has never existed anywhere at any time, the self-regulating free market, which seems to involve doing those things that transfer the maximum amount of income and wealth in our current economy to those who already have a large amount of income and wealth. I propose that you don't have to be that much of a cynic to believe that the pursuit of neoliberalism has less to do with the devotion to the idea and belief in the self-regulating free market and more to do with the enthusiasm on the part of the wealthy to accumulate more income and wealth and their control of the Republican party and at least half of the Democratic party to achieve it.
And as a part of this, I have to ask the question what results in more wealth transferred to already rich, the continuation of the cold war with its many and almost continuous small wars and its high defense budgets or forging a lasting peace?
