Fareed Zakaria

This is what's so different about this moment, whereas we've faced adversaries in the past.

We've faced ideological adversaries, geopolitical ones.

But what's strange is we now have within the West

very important strong forces that kind of agree with our enemies.

And that's what is such a kind of

That's what makes it so difficult to navigate foreign policy because you watch Trump on Russia and Ukraine, and it's pretty clear everyone tries to find some rationale.

He hates the Ukrainians, he likes the Russians.

He hates Zelensky, he likes Putin.

Zelensky is the guy who got him impeached in his first term.

His solution to peace is, I'm gonna squeeze Zelensky, try to get the Ukrainians to make all the concessions they can, hand it over to Putin,

and claim peace and say, hey, I got peace, can I please get the Nobel Peace Prize?

His problem so far is Putin wants more, right?

This is a very strange moment for the American president to be acting not as the lawyer for the embattled European democracy,

yearning to breathe free, but for the dictatorship, that is the aggressor.

And so much of it, I don't know if you've seen this, it's like 50s nostalgia.

You know, they have these photographs of...

kind of old cars and pristine beaches.

And it's so fascinating because the whole thing is the politics of nostalgia.

You know, there's this one moment where in Nikki Haley and her trying her best to do a MAGA imitation when she was running, she tweets something like, wasn't life so much simpler when we were growing up?

And I was thinking to myself, so when would that be, right?