Hello and welcome to another episode of Realpolitik. I am your host, Firas Madad, and today,

since this is the 47th episode of Realpolitik, I thought we would do a bit of an overview

on how the 47th President of the United States has been performing geopolitically. And I thought that we would

discuss some of the objectives that were set out by the Trump administration in the

national security strategy of 2025. If you remember, we did a bit of a long episode about that

a couple of months ago, I think, when it first came out,

and try to see, well, where are we now?

And the key points of the national security strategy were to have the United States

consolidate over the Western Hemisphere to reduce the American presence in Europe and to reduce

the role of the US in Europe and transfer responsibility for the Ukraine War to the Europeans,

but also to find a way towards peace in Europe by ending the Ukraine war completely. So these were the objectives for Europe.

There was obviously, again, continuing from Barack Obama a kind of pivot to Asia and focusing

on the confrontation with China and how to manage that. And there was the idea that the US would

reduce its presence in the Middle East

and basically no longer be dragged into endless wars in the Middle East. And so I thought we would

discuss each of these objectives and also mention things like the plan to take Greenland and the idea of

pushing the left out of power in Europe and so on and so forth. And to see really has Trump in any way

gotten closer to achieving these objectives and to fulfilling the aims that he had.

And I thought we would start first with Latin America and discuss a couple of countries there.

I'm not a Latin America expert, so please, you know, be tolerant, be patient with me.

And then we'll do a bit of a round-dropping around the world,

talk a little bit about Asia, talk a little bit about Europe, and talk about Canada and Greenland,

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