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The Hartmann Report

How Trump’s MAGA GOP Increases the Risk of WWIII

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

News, Debate, The Hartmann Report, Economics, Thom Hartmann, Democracy, Climate Change, Congress, America

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🗓️ 28 October 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Republican-aligned rightwing billionaires are gleeful at the prospect of further government dysfunction gutting social programs while Putin, Xi & the leaders of Hamas are reveling in the chaos. If ever there was a time America needed the few remaining rational actors in the GOP to step forward to push the crazies and traitors out of the way, this is it.

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This is the Tom Harbin program.

0:47.5

My op-ed today over at harbinreport.com is titled How Trump's Omega GOP Increases the Risk of

0:52.9

World War Three. Vladimir Putin's best buddy Donald Trump is planning on pulling America out of

0:57.8

NATO is back to my riff about World War Three. This is the sort of thing right.

1:04.2

Trump is pushing for a major American foreign policy change in his second administration.

1:08.4

This is out of Rolling Stone magazine that Trump is planning to pull the United States entirely

1:13.4

out of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization unless it caves to his demand.

1:17.5

And his demand is if Russia attacks a NATO country that doesn't count as an attack on one is an

1:23.4

attack on all. So Trump's demand is that NATO change its rules so that if Putin decides to

1:31.2

attack Poland or Lithuania or Latvia or whatever, NATO doesn't automatically respond.

1:36.8

All the NATO countries don't automatically respond. In other words, gut NATO,

1:41.4

you know, just basically end its whole purpose for being.

1:44.4

Now, I mentioned this briefly yesterday that there are basically two groups

1:49.8

that are working really, really hard to devastate the United States government or, you know,

1:56.0

what you and I think of as the United States government. One is the group of right-wing

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