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Cato Weekly Podcast • October 16, 2025 

# Peace President? 

President Trump is taking a victory lap for brokering peace in Gaza—while simultaneously escalating the U.S. proxy war in Ukraine and launching airstrikes against suspected cartel boats. Our panel assesses Trump’s Nobel ambitions, celebrates this year’s actual Peace Prize winner, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.

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Defense Priorities 

### [The Case for Withdrawing from the Middle East](/outside-articles/case-withdrawing-middle-east) 

By [Justin Logan](https://www.cato.org/people/justin-logan) 

For decades, U.S. policy in the Middle East has been based on shaky premises, mostly centering on oil.

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### [Maria Corina Machado, Venezuelan Champion of Freedom, Wins the Nobel Peace Prize](/blog/maria-corina-machado-venezuelan-champion-freedom-wins-nobel-peace-prize) 

By [Ian Vásquez](https://www.cato.org/people/ian-vasquez) 

Maria Corina has proven herself to be an effective, well-organized, and savvy leader who has given Venezuelans reasons to hope that they will be free sooner rather than later. Her well-earned Nobel Prize provides further inspiration for her compatriots and all Latin Americans.

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Free Society 

### [Liberty Versus Power in Milei’s Argentina](/free-society/fall-2025/liberty-versus-power-mileis-argentina) 

By [Ian Vásquez](https://www.cato.org/people/ian-vasquez) and [Marcos Falcone](https://www.cato.org/people/marcos-falcone) 

Argentine President Javier Milei entered office nearly two years ago on the promise of returning his country to its classical liberal roots. Since then, his administration has slashed government spending, reined in inflation, and deregulated large parts of the economy, but Argentina’s libertarian renewal is far from finished and under attack from the Peronist opposition.

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Former Senior Vice President for Policy, Cato Institute

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Vice President for International Studies, Cato Institute

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Director of Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute

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