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This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler

2025: Trump’s Year of Living Dangerously

This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler

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News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

With his unhinged foreign policy pronouncements, including demands that Greenland and the Panama Canal be handed over to the US, and vague threats to annex Canada, Donald Trump is already setting governments on edge. How will the world cope with an America First foreign policy where chaos and uncertainty are features not bugs?  And as the self-styled dealmaker vows to bring a swift end to conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, what do his nominations to key defence and security roles – among them hawks, libertarians and a TV news host – tell us about his priorities?  Joining Gavin Esler to discuss the ‘known unknowns’ is Amy Mackinnon, national security and intelligence correspondent at Foreign Policy magazine. • This episode of This Is Not A Drill is supported by Incogni, the service that keeps your private information safe, protects you from identity theft and keeps your data from being sold. There’s a special offer for This Is Not A Drill listeners – go to Incogni.com/notadrill to get an exclusive 60% off your annual plan. • Support us on Patreon to keep This Is Not A Drill producing thought-provoking podcasts like this. Written and presented by Gavin Esler. Produced by Robin Leeburn. Original theme music by Paul Hartnoll – https://www.orbitalofficial.com. Executive Producer Martin Bojtos. Group Editor Andrew Harrison. This Is Not A Drill is a Podmasters production. www.podmasters.co.uk  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.1

We made history for a reason tonight and the reason is going to be just that.

0:37.7

We overcame obstacles that nobody thought possible.

0:41.4

And it is now clear that we've achieved the most incredible political thing.

0:47.4

Look what happened.

0:48.5

Is this crazy?

0:52.7

As you can imagine, the only thing truly certain about 2025 is uncertainty.

0:58.8

One major predictable moment comes with the inauguration of President Trump on January the 20th,

1:04.0

but that merely offers the certainty of an unpredictable presidency.

1:08.0

You can't hear about Panama and Greenland.

1:10.0

No, I can't assure you on either of those two.

1:12.6

But I can say this, we need them for economic security.

1:17.6

I'm not going to commit to that now.

1:20.6

It might be that you'll have to do something.

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