Might Makes Right: Matt Duss on Trump's Foreign Policy Doctrine, from Ukraine to Gaza

[Uncle Joe]

We speak with foreign policy analyst Matt Duss about increasingly fraught relations between the United States and Ukraine, which have undergone a seismic shift under the second Trump administration. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is meeting with President Trump at the White House on Friday and is expected to sign an agreement giving the U.S. access to his country's rare earth minerals, which are key components in mobile phones and other advanced technology. It's unclear what, if anything, Ukraine will get in return, even as Trump pushes Kyiv to reach a deal with Moscow to end the war that began in February 2022 when Russian forces invaded Ukraine. Trump is simultaneously moving to restore relations with Russia and lift its international isolation. Duss says the throughline in Trump's thinking, from Ukraine to Gaza and elsewhere, is that "great powers" like the United States "make the decisions, and less powerful countries, less powerful communities and peoples simply have to live with the consequences."

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1. Great Powers make the Decisions

Trump has had zero to do at any time in our history with our being a great power. He will at the very least weaken our nation.