19 December 2025
Does Trump have a coherent foreign policy?
Robert Wright reviews the year in US foreign policy with Connor Echols of Responsible Statecraft and Andrew Day of The American Conservative.
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In this video:
- What’s the long game in Venezuela?
- MAGA’s Monroe Doctrine
- Trump as deep state puppet
- Will Trump oust Maduro?
- Connor: Trump’s foreign policy is a “profoundly mixed bag”
- Has Israel lost the American electorate?
- Andrew: Trump’s Ukraine peace plan isn’t pro-Russia
- Silicon Valley’s inept arms makers
- The administration’s view(s) on China and Taiwan
- Europe learns to speak Trump
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The Trump Doctrine
