Welcome to the Eurointelligence podcast, the first in 2026.

I'm Wolfgang Munchau and with me, Susanna Munchank, Jack Smith.

Today we would like to talk about U.S. foreign policy and how it affects the rest of the world and us in Europe.

We have since the beginning of the New Year, seen a lot of foreign

policy decisions by the United States, the capture of Maduro in Venezuela, the turning Trump's

attention towards Greenland and his claim to occupy the country, to own the country, either through purchase or military

annexation. This has put a severe strain naturally on the Europe-US relationship.

We have in the recent days seen an eruption of violence in Iran that the US U.S. foreign policy will, at the time of

the recording of this podcast, the U.S. State Department has issued a warning to U.S. citizens

to leave the country, a possible sign that something may be about to happen.

In any case, 2026 has been a year of US foreign policy,

and it's something for which we in Europe are clearly not prepared. And we've seen, you know,

US splitting European opinion by taking very aggressive positions at the end of last year. We've

had the national security strategy

published by the White House. It not only set out the Western Hemisphere, the Americas, as the policy

priority for the administration. It had Europe in third place. And what it said about Europe

was something that you would not assume Europe to be an ally. It sounded very much like Europe was an adversary. So we're living in a very new world and people, including ourselves, are now asking the question, is the transatlantic relationship still viable? What will it be after Trump? To what status will it return once he leaves or once

he, maybe his successor, if he were a Republican or she were a Republican, were to leave?

What is sort of a steady state we can expect in this relationship? Jack, what do you make of it? I mean, I think that

when you compare it to previous presidential administrations and the way that they approached U.S.

foreign policy, really since the end of the Second World War, there'd always been some element of,

I don't know, global ideological competition within American

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