How Much Damage Did Trump Do to America’s Standing In the World?

On with Kara Swisher

New York Magazine

News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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A year after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and weeks after the presence of a Chinese spy balloon led U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to put off his Beijing visit, Kara and Nayeema talk about where the U.S. stands in the world and whether President Biden has the global coalition and momentum he claims. These are great questions for our guest today, Richard Haass. The foreign policy expert helms the Council on Foreign Relations and has had a long career in the Carter, Reagan and both Bush administrations as well as beyond working on intractable challenges from Northern Ireland to Iraq. Kara asks him why America’s global standing is on the decline, how Biden should deal with Xi and why his most recent book looks not to the rest of the world, but to our domestic problems. Questions? Comments? Email us at [email protected] or find us on Twitter @karaswisher and @nayeema. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, from New York Magazine in the Vox Media Podcast Network, this is Vladimir
0:16.6	Putin's address to the Russian Federal Assembly with 100% less historical revisionism and
0:22.6	bloodthirsty revanchism.
0:23.9	Oh, that's a good word, that's an SAT word.
0:27.0	I was kidding, this is on with Kara Swisher and I'm Kara Swisher.
0:30.2	And I'm Neymaraza and I cannot believe that one, you still have no voice.
0:34.6	Yeah, oh well.
0:35.6	And two, we have arrived at the anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine.
0:39.5	Yeah.
0:40.5	It feels like it was just months ago when we had John Stewart on and then Clint Watts on
0:44.2	and Putin was trying to block off the internet and the media, remember that?
0:48.3	Yeah, that was an interesting time.
0:50.2	I mean, I think it's a good time to think about what's happening now and what it means.
0:55.0	And it's important to think about foreign policy, it's not something everybody loves
0:58.8	to talk about.
0:59.8	It's, you know, people that they don't rate as much as if we sit around and talk about
1:04.1	ketamine or osempic or whatever, you know, or celebrity, but it's critically important.
1:10.2	This world is really rock and in a way that's not good.
1:13.2	Well, last week was the Munich Security Conference, Vice President Kamala Harris was there,
1:17.7	Secretary of State Blinken, obviously, Macron, Schultz, a lot of Western leadership and
1:22.8	China's top diplomat, Wang Yi was there and after he went on to probably, you know, more
1:27.6	important trip for him, maybe, which was Moscow.
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