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end of the year series. We'll talk about 2025

under the Trump regime and we're going to talk about what we expect to come in 2026.

I'm Leanne Seymoulihan and this is in the news, a segment of the Socialist program, a patron's only episode.

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Leanne, there is a flurry of end of the year activity at Maralago, Trump's resort.

He met on Sunday with Zelensky, the head of state in Ukraine. He's meeting Monday with Netanyahu.

He also announced that the U.S. had struck land sites, land facilities in Venezuela. That's a

story that hasn't been verified by Venezuela. We don't know about it. The U.S. in the recent week or two

bombed Nigeria. This is another Trump bombing, bombed Syria. Anyway, there's a lot to talk about,

you know, when Trump came into office, he said he was going to end the war in Ukraine in a

single day. Well, that certainly hasn't happened. But one of the things I think we need to go through today

is to look at the facts of the past year. I mean, there are many facts. We need to sort of frame it.

But the facts regarding Trump's orientation, not only towards foreign policy, but towards military strategy.

I think it's very revealing when we actually go over the facts. And that's, I want to spend a

good amount of time today doing that. But anyway, there's a lot to talk about. There's a lot of

breaking news. So we had said in the beginning, we're going to summarize what happened in 2025, but 2025 is not over. In fact, things are happening every day,

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