Ian Bremmer
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4,435 appearances
19 recordings
12 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 1 Aug
Ian Bremmer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Now, a lot of people will say, well, that was a bad deal and you gave away the store to them.
But most Americans would say ending 20 years of a failed war with trillions spent and hundreds of thousands of American lives disrupted to say nothing of what happened to the civilians in Afghanistan, ending that was a positive thing.
Trump got that done.
Biden finally, you know, sort of got the troops out.
They didn't like it when Biden actually finished that job.
when America began to withdraw.
The planes and the people hanging off of it and all of the rest, they wanted it to be cleaner, let's say.
It looked like an America's leaving Saigon and the embassy moment.
And so I understand that.
But the broader point I'm trying to respond to here is that there are an awful lot of Americans that like the idea of the U.S.
should stop with all of these foreign wars that are thousands of miles away and have very little to do with American interests.
And so if Trump goes to China and says, yeah, I'm not gonna, why do I care about giving military support to Taiwan, which is 9,600 miles away?
Most Americans, not the establishment, not the Republican establishment, not the Democratic establishment, but most Americans would say, yeah, why are we doing that?
When Trump kicks Zelensky out of the White House and says, you don't have the cards, turns out he's wrong.
But I think most Americans think we've done too much for those folks.
Taxpayers shouldn't be paying for that when you're not paying for me.
Where Trump then goes wrong, of course, is he had so much of the message at the beginning.
He said, drain the swamp.
And yet it's much swampier now than it was before.
He said, end the wars.
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