Gerald Butts
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1,669 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 15 Sep
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How both these seemingly contradictory things can be true is I do think Trump's first term.
was the kind of uh chaotic mess that it looked from the outside because I saw it from the inside, right?
There were a couple of people around him who had strategies, Bob Leitheiser, chief amongst them.
But I think there are far too many people around him now who have strategies.
Right.
And uh they're all dark strategies, which is why I raise
Um, J.D.
Vance, because Donald Trump may not be with us much longer, but J.D.
Vance is a young man who seems to
uh believe these things with more fervor even than Trump does.
And the the point that James made.
Uh, I agree that it's a stupid strategy, but there is a deep strain in an in the United States that the country is a republic, not an empire, and that all of this foreign adventurism and fashioning of the post uh war
rules based international order actually ended up screwing over regular Americans.
And I think that's absurd, but I do know how deeply
the people who believe in it believe in it.
And uh
They're all they're the tr the second Trump administration is lousy with those people.
So we can sit here and I think say rightly and obviously that the dismemberment of NATO over something so stupid as Greenland, uh, it's hard to believe it's happening, but it's happening.
And for a lot of the people who are egging it on around the president, the the
The um the loss of NATO would be a bonus.
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