Americano: does Trump’s foreign policy make any sense? with Prof John Mearsheimer
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🗓️ 14 February 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:23.6 | Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, |
| 0:27.3 | a series of discussions about American politics, power and prejudices. |
| 0:33.2 | It is 2025 and Donald Trump is president once again of the United States. We will, of course, |
| 0:40.8 | be following the moves of the Donald and his second administration very closely. However, |
| 0:46.7 | it won't just be politics for us this year. We'll also talk a lot and cover American culture, |
| 0:52.6 | life and the arts. I should also remind you, because my producer |
| 0:57.3 | Natasha will not let me hear the end of it, that we are on Spectator TV. So head to our YouTube |
| 1:03.4 | channel to watch that. Today I am delighted to be joined by a favourite guest of our show, and that's Professor John |
| 1:12.5 | Meersheimer, who is a professor, an international relations scholar at the University of Chicago, |
| 1:21.0 | and we're going to be asking if Donald Trump's foreign policy makes any sense, because, as you would have noticed, over the last three weeks, |
| 1:30.0 | there has been a blizzard of foreign policy news coming out of the White House, major developments, |
| 1:37.0 | seemingly major developments, so much so that it's been quite hard to concentrate on what is going |
| 1:43.1 | on for journalists, let alone people who aren't |
| 1:46.6 | paid to follow this for a living. John, I'll start by asking you, what are your sort of broad |
| 1:53.9 | brush impressions of Trump's foreign policy in his second term? Has it differed in any way to what |
| 1:59.8 | you expected? |
| 2:12.1 | I think that basically what Trump is trying to do at this point in time is to sort of create chaos on all fronts, make a number of wild assertions, put forward policy ideas that are never going to be |
| 2:23.7 | realized. And I think the hope on his part is that out of all this chaos that he's creating, |
| 2:30.3 | he can come up with some sort of formidable grand strategy that solves all the big problems |
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