Trump – the conventional foreign policy President?
Americano
The Spectator
4 • 714 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Trump has said he's "very, very unhappy" with Russia, and threatened severe tariffs against them if there's no deal on Ukraine within 50 days. He's also sending more weapons to Ukraine in coordination with NATO. What's behind his change of heart on foreign policy, and how's his MAGA base responding? Freddy Gray is joined by deputy US editor Kate Andrews, and Sergey Radchenko, professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
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| 0:59.1 | Today we're going to be talking about Donald Trump's increasingly tough rhetoric and positioning against Russia over the war in Ukraine. |
| 1:08.5 | Because yesterday Donald Trump made clear that he would be giving a 50-day deadline |
| 1:14.6 | to Russia to achieve peace in Ukraine. He also talked about the new weapons that America will |
| 1:22.6 | be providing for Ukraine and threatened sanctions, large sanctions on trading partners of Russia. |
| 1:31.4 | It's quite a dramatic change from the Donald Trump of 2003 and 2024 as far as Russia |
| 1:38.8 | and Ukraine is concerned. |
| 1:41.0 | And to discuss it, I'm delighted to be joined by Sergey Radchenko, who is in Dublin, |
| 1:45.5 | but he is in fact a professor at John Hopkins in Washington, D.C. And here in London, by the |
| 1:52.4 | deputy editor of The Spectator in America, Kate Andrews. Welcome Kate. |
| 1:57.4 | Hi, Freddie. |
| 1:58.6 | Sergey, I'll start with you. I mean, obviously everybody's calling this a U-turn from Donald Trump, |
| 2:04.1 | given that he initially seemed to be very friendly, well-disposed towards Putin, |
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