Anne Applebaum

It's just all about winning and dominance and victory.

Exactly.

And the next minute, who cares?

You know, and he's fine to talk to Mamdani, you know, and he's fine to do something else.

He has no strategic view at all.

You know, the Dunrow Doctrine, I think, is something somebody else made up.

By the way, the Munro Doctrine was about keeping European imperialist powers out of the Western Hemisphere.

You know, the original idea wasn't the version that Trump has come up with.

But there are people around him who have strategies and you hear them from time to time or you see echoes of what they think.

I mean, one version was in the National Security Strategy that was published before Christmas, which had the rudiments of the Senate.

You know, the U.S.

needs to dominate the Western Hemisphere, needs to take over all the important economic assets.

And what happens to Europe and what happens in Asia is of less interest to us.

And we're not really interested in talking about Russia and China as rivals anymore.

That was their strategy.

That was the fundamental basis of that document.

First of all, the origins of this idea that there should be three spheres in the world is Russian.

This was a kind of Russian geopolitical.

Partly because it's the justification for the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Georgia and so on, and also because it makes Russia, which is poorer by 10 times, the new European Union makes it look more important if it's sharing the world with American China.

Actually, Russia is a client state of China, not by any means it's equal.