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🗓️ 25 February 2025
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Trump has said he may be slashing the Pentagon budget. Here's the truth. PLUS, the WSJ admits we're now a plutonomy. Those stories and much more today on the show!
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0:00.0 | Hello, folks. |
0:11.3 | Welcome to Dangerous Ideas. I'm Lee Camp. |
0:16.9 | Donald Trump somehow is continuing to seem like the anti-war candidate, |
0:24.5 | the anti-war president compared to Joe Biden and many others, |
0:31.4 | which is bizarre. |
0:34.3 | And don't worry, it doesn't mean he's good on a million other things, but at least at the moment, in certain ways, Donald Trump has reportedly ordered the shutdown of the U.S. military base in Arrucibat, Africa, Greece. |
0:52.6 | No, Alexandria, Alexandria, Greece, |
0:57.0 | according Greek newspaper, |
0:59.3 | the decision marked a shift in US military strategy |
1:02.3 | in the region and raised concerns among Greek officials. |
1:06.0 | The base has been a key logistical hub |
1:08.6 | for US and NATO operations in southeastern Europe. |
1:12.2 | Its presence had been a point of contention, though, to Turkey and to Russia. |
1:17.4 | And apparently he did it at the request of Russia and Turkey to close the base. |
1:22.5 | So is it a quid pro quo? |
1:26.0 | Absolutely. Who knows what the deal is? |
1:28.5 | But the point is, in many ways, |
1:32.3 | Trump is seeming like, like how fucking bad do the Democrats have to be |
1:38.3 | to make it so that Donald Trump, a Republican lunatic? |
1:44.0 | And don't worry, the Democrats are lunatics, a Republican lunatic, and don't worry, the Democrats' |
1:44.8 | lunatics too, Republican lunatic is Mr. Peace? How bad do you have to be? The Democrats should |
1:53.5 | ask themselves that. But here he is, again, talking about how he's going to be ending the |
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