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Robert Wright's Nonzero

Trump’s Disruptive Foreign Policy (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7618 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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0:28 What could go right with Trump’s foreign policy? 8:11 Trump’s Bibi-pleasing Middle East path 13:49 How would Europe-led defence of Europe work? 15:55 What most miss about the Oval Office blowup 19:44 Has relying on America doomed Ukraine? 26:53 Heading to Overtime

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True), Derek Davison (Foreign Exchanges, American Prestige, Discontents), and Daniel Bessner (American Prestige, University of Washington). Recorded March 06, 2025.

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0:00.0

You're listening to Robert Wright's non-zero podcast.

0:29.2

Oh, look, it's Derek and Danny from the American Prestige Media Conglomerate.

0:34.8

They're here for a once every two months.

0:54.5

How well. How you doing, guys? Good, Bob. I heard you, I listened to you outside of this podcast. You mentioned us a couple times, but not by name. It's only the American prestige guys. It's not individuals. We're just a collective to you. Yeah, I mean, fair enough. To further complicate things, I had a good friend named Gary Davis in high school.

0:59.7

So like just keeping this whole Davis-Davis and thing straight is about as much as I can handle.

1:04.9

I get it.

1:05.4

I got it.

1:06.9

That's too much.

1:08.0

Yeah.

1:08.4

So this is the non-zero American prestige synergy materializing right before people's eyes.

1:14.5

Now, guys, here's what I thought.

1:16.9

Like, often in these get-togethers, we express criticisms of U.S. foreign policy.

1:23.3

We express dissatisfaction with the state of the world.

1:26.5

Today, I thought, since so many people are already dissatisfied with the state of the world,

1:31.0

we would give them a little pick-me-up, and I would start by asking you,

1:35.7

what part of Trump's foreign policy stands some chance of working out well?

1:42.8

Do you want to start, Derek, or you want me to?

1:45.8

No, go ahead. Well, I would say just thinking holistically is that a lot of the things that Trump is

1:53.5

attacking needed to be changed. And none of that was going to happen with the Democratic Party,

1:59.0

which is I genuinely it's a shame.

2:06.5

I think there could have been a more managed transition. And I think that that is the protect that might be the best we can hope for in the next 20 years in a lot of different

2:12.4

arenas, managed transitions to a new era, whether you're talking about U.S. regional

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