WTH Extra! How Can Trump Make NATO Great Again? Dany and Marc Discuss
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 11 July 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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In today’s WTH Extra! episode, Dany and Marc discuss Marc’s latest Washington Post column, How Trump Can Make NATO Great Again. While in office, President Trump pushed allies to meet their NATO commitments, leaving the alliance militarily stronger than it had been since the Cold War. But with a myriad of new threats facing the West, NATO is in an urgent need of a MAGA makeover that builds on the accomplishments of Trump’s first term.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:03.0 | If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. Thanks for listening. Here's our show. What the hell's going on? What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on? I don't know what the hell he's talking about. You don't have to know what the hell is on it. What hell's the matter with these guys? We don't know what's going on. What hell's going on? |
| 0:01.1 | Who in God's name knows what it's all about. |
| 0:29.1 | Hi, I'm Daniel Pletka. |
| 0:31.1 | And I'm Mark Tiesin. |
| 0:32.2 | Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:33.7 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:35.9 | What the hell is going on, Mark? |
| 0:38.5 | What the hell is going on? Wait, what the hell is is going on? What the hell is going on, Mark? Wait, what the hell is not going on? |
| 0:43.4 | What the hell is going on is the NATO summit, |
| 0:46.2 | which has been completely overshadowed by Joe Biden's travails, |
| 0:49.0 | but not for us foreign policy nerds who care about these things. |
| 0:52.8 | I had a big full-page essay in the Washington |
| 0:55.6 | Post this week on how Trump can make NATO great again. And laying out a mega agenda for NATO |
| 1:06.7 | that I think most conservatives could get behind. And I think that Trump could get behind. And I'm |
| 1:13.0 | hoping that he will. Me too. One of the ironies that came out among the many, many ironies that came out |
| 1:20.5 | in the recent conversations with Joe Biden was him claiming credit for NATO's revitalization, NATO's resuscitation. If I could pick one person who deserves |
| 1:33.5 | no credit for this, it's Joe Biden. One, you know, Donald Trump does actually deserve a lot of |
| 1:41.6 | credit, but number two, Vladimir Putin deserves a lot of credit. |
| 1:46.2 | Yes. Right. Well, our enemies remind us of what we could be. So I want to hear your piece. |
| 1:53.2 | So this is a part of our new series, What the Hell Extra, or our subtitle for it, what the hell did I write this week? |
| 2:18.1 | And so what we're doing is as we've done in the last couple of. And I hope we, we hope you're liking this. If you do like it, please let us know. If you don't like it and want us to stop, please tell us that as well. But we're reading some of our pieces, our work that we've done. And then we're talking about it a little bit. This week, we're doing my piece on NATO. So, Mark, your piece is entitled, How Trump Can Make NATO Great Again. The Alliance |
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