What's up, everybody? My name is Imitra Kaffinus, and you're listening to Hidden Forces,

a podcast that inspires investors, entrepreneurs and everyday citizens, to challenge consensus

narratives, and learn how to think critically about the systems of power shaping our world.

My guest in this episode of Hidden Forces is Edward Luce, columnist and U.S. national

editor at the Financial Times, who has written several books on matters of politics and policy,

including a biography of former National Security Advisor Zabignu Bersinski, whose life and times

inform much of today's conversation. Head and I begin our discussion by tracing the decline of American grand strategy back to the end

of the Cold War and the emergence of a more risk-averse process-oriented era in U.S. foreign policy.

We then discuss how the Trump administration, in abending many of the practices that define that

era, has introduced new risks

and complications in the field of international relations and geopolitics, and then apply that framework

to Operation Epic Fury, American policy in the Gulf, U.S. Grand Strategy in Asia, and how to think

about the Trump administration's China policy, the head of the upcoming

Trumpshe's summit, said to take place in a little less than a month. If you want to access

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