Hello and welcome to the G-Zero World Podcast.

This is where you can find extended versions of my conversations on public television.

I'm Ian Bremmer and today, we are looking at the wide-reaching geopolitical implications of a second Trump presidency.

On January 20, 2025, Donald Trump will reassume the most powerful office in the world

amidst the global backdrop of two major wars, comparatively weaker U.S. allies, more aggressive

rogue states, and a more complex and competitive geopolitical architecture. And he'll be taking

the reins of the world's most powerful office with full support of

the Senate, the House, and a conservative Supreme Court.

Oh, and those moderating guardrails like Mattis and Kelly from the first Trump term,

gone.

In short order, the entire world will know what Trump unleashed looks like. Whether or not

that's a good thing is something we'll be discussing today. Here to help me unpack it all is a man

who follows U.S. national security and foreign policy closer than most. New York Times,

White House and National Security correspondent David Sanger. He joins me now. David Sanger, good to have you back on the show.

Great to be back with you.

A lot for us to talk about in this environment.

Maybe you start.

You said that we were going to have foreign policy picks that would be America first as opposed

to neocon. What did you mean by that and do you still feel as strongly

about it? Well, it's a Donald Trump administration, which means that ideological consistency

is not the currency of the moment. Loyalty is the currency of the moment, right? A couple of

interesting things about the group of people that

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