Ian Bremmer
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4,435 appearances
19 recordings
12 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 1 Aug
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The EU is the EU.
And so now there is an agreement for the EU and Mercosur.
It's bringing those tariffs down that will facilitate greater trade flows between the Latin American countries and the European countries, which will mean less trade flows with the United States.
Trump deserves credit for that.
It would not have happened without him.
without the tariffs that he put on unilaterally towards all the American allies.
And I can give you so many other examples of those things happening, all of which individually are small, collectively make the United States a smaller piece of indispensability with other countries.
And that means less money to the US, less money through the US, less jobs in the United States.
Those are own goals that are near-term irrelevant.
And Trump cares about the near term.
But long term, we'll have real costs for a United States that is the biggest engine of global growth still in the world.
The trap that's been on my mind is the Gracchi trap.
uh which was when the gracchi brothers um who had uh policies of grievance that believed that uh there was no more mobility and that the the poor roman citizens were never going to have their due started breaking they had their own political revolution
and started breaking the norms and the laws of how Rome was run.
And the allies of Rome no longer saw Rome as dependable.
The enemy was inside the house.
It was the political dysfunction of Rome that was defeated the first time, defeated the second time, but ultimately led to the collapse of the Roman Republic.
Again, internal political revolutions that failed, but that weakened the system.
and that also allowed people to get used to those norms getting violated so that when they were violated a second time and a third time by different leaders, they weren't so surprised, right?
And that is what I see happening in the United States right now, that the US is unilaterally withdrawing from its alliances.
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