Excerpt - Richard Seymour on the US election and Trump redux (part two)

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🗓️ 27 November 2024

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To get access to episodes of PTO Extra please consider becoming a £5 supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/poltheoryother In this second part of a two-part episode Richard Seymour responds to more of the questions sent in by listeners on the US presidential election and its ramifications. We also talked briefly about the International Criminal Court's decision to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant. As always thank you so much for your support and to everyone who sent in questions!

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0:00.0	All right. So the next question comes from Clive, who says, is Trump more or less likely than Biden had been to ramp up tensions with China?
0:08.1	Not more or less, just differently. You know, Biden, we remember, criticized Trump for the tariffs and opposition.
0:14.2	Once in office, he implemented them and escalated. It was under Biden that we got the moves to ban TikTok.
0:19.4	It was under Biden that we got the hideous weather balloons fiasco, which is a form of cultural hysteria akin to the Havana syndrome.
0:26.9	It's under Biden we got escalation over Taiwan.
0:29.4	Under Biden, we got the press meltdown over allegations that China created COVID-19.
0:34.1	All this panic nationalism that was supposed to be a specialty of the Trump era was continued
0:38.8	in a kind of neocald war format under the Democrats.
0:47.9	If you'd like to hear the rest of this episode of PTO Extra, then please consider becoming
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