The Trump-Putin Realignment

from This Week in Geopolitics · host Haisean Wade

In today’s episode we talk about, Defense secretary Pete Hegseth’s speech to NATO defense leaders and how it tore apart the artificial pro Ukraine consensus in Europe. After that we talk about JD Vance’s speech to the Munich Security Conference where he put Europe on notice that THEY are the authoritarians. Later on we go over Trump’s comments about meeting with Putin and Xi Jinping to discuss cutting our military budgets in half. All that and more!

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