#1681 Trump's American Imperialism: Threatening Friends and Annoying Neighbors
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 8 January 2025
⏱️ 128 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 1/8/2025
Trump's first term was marked by all of the friendships he built with some of the world's worst, most oppressive leaders. His second term is getting an early start as he has begun making threats toward traditional allies and friends including Canada, Mexico, Greenland, and Panama.
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KEY POINTS
KP 2: Donald Trump's New Manifest Destiny - WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch - Part 1 - Air Date 12-26-24
KP 3: Why Elon Musk interferes in politics around the world - DW News - Air Date 1-3-25
KP 4: Is Musk Flirting With Fascism? - Politics unpacked - Air Date 1-3-24
(49:09) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
On the baby-brained ideas of the far right
DEEPER DIVES
(54:40) SECTION A: PANAMA
(1:16:10) SECTION B: MANIFEST DESTINY
(1:35:47) SECTION C: MUSK
(1:48:38) SECTION D: TRUMP 2.0
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast. |
| 0:07.3 | Trump's first term was marked by all of the friendships he built with some of the world's |
| 0:12.0 | worst, most oppressive leaders. |
| 0:14.2 | His second term is getting an early start as he has begun making threats toward traditional |
| 0:19.8 | allies and friends, including Canada, Mexico, Greenland, and Panama so far. |
| 0:25.7 | For those looking for a quick overview, the sources providing our top takes in about 50 minutes today, includes the geopolitical economy report, |
| 0:35.1 | the Wall Street Journal Opinion Potomac Watch, surprising, I know, |
| 0:39.7 | DW News, Politics Unpacked, Democracy Now, and the Muckrake Political Podcast. |
| 0:46.2 | Then in the additional deeper dives have the show, there will be more in four sections. |
| 0:50.1 | Section A, Panama, Section B, Manifest Destiny, Section C, Elon Musk, and Section D, Trump 2.0. |
| 1:04.5 | There's a popular narrative claiming that Donald Trump is supposedly an isolationist who is against war and intervention. |
| 1:14.3 | In order to believe this, you have to ignore his extremely hawkish foreign policy during Trump's |
| 1:19.7 | first term when he killed the top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and tried to overthrow the Iranian |
| 1:26.5 | government. He also killed a top Iraqi |
| 1:29.3 | military commander and occupied Iraq, refusing to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq. He expanded the war on |
| 1:37.7 | Yemen, brutally bombing Yemen. He expanded the war in Afghanistan. He boasted of selling offensive weapon systems to Ukraine. |
| 1:47.3 | Excuse me. |
| 1:48.0 | I didn't. |
| 1:49.0 | I'm the one that gave Ukraine offensive weapons and tank killers. |
| 1:54.9 | Obama didn't. |
| 1:55.6 | You know what he sent? |
| 1:56.2 | He said pillows and blankets. |
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