Trump the Neocon?

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Commentary Magazine

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🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Today we discuss the president's dinner with Bibi Netanyahu and the clear bond between the two—and Trump's consistent support for Israel over his two terms. And we relate it to the surprising turn on Ukraine, with Trump now saying he will send weapons there and disavowing his own administration's withholding of arms. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hope for the best.
0:08.0	Expect the worst.
0:10.0	Some drink champagne.
0:13.0	Some die of thirst.
0:15.0	The way of knowing which way it's going.
0:19.0	Hope for the best.
0:20.0	Expect the worst., for the best, expect the worst.
0:22.6	Oh, for the best.
0:24.6	Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast.
0:27.6	Today is Tuesday, July 8th, 2025.
0:30.6	I'm John Podhawrits, the editor of Commentary Magazine.
0:33.6	Yes, once again, reminding you to go to our YouTube channel and please subscribe.
0:40.2	Our numbers are growing by the day, and it is incredibly helpful in getting YouTube viewers
0:47.1	to sample our wares.
0:50.7	The more subscribers and the more likes we have.
1:12.8	People in our general ideological orbit will be exposed by the algorithm to our content, a word I despise, but nonetheless, there it is, and will allow us to get into the more general conversation on some of the matters we'll be talking about today that are, you know, very populist in nature, but I'm really grateful
1:19.5	that everybody has followed Matt Contonetti's lead in in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in,
1:24.6	in, in, in, in, and, and, and this has been a really great thing for us and uh so if
1:33.2	you haven't done it yet just give it a shot then you might even want to give it a shot watching
1:38.6	i don't know if you're listening to the podcast it's obviously something that you do because you're in the car.
1:45.9	You're not going to watch it while you're in the car or something like that. So, but nonetheless,
1:51.0	it would be a great, great thing if you did that for us. And by us, I mean small house today.
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