Jon Finer

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The MeidasTouch Podcast · Furious World Leaders Freeze Trump Out of New Alliances · 11 Jan 2026 podcast

What do you see?

So there's always a risk with this administration that when you start to characterize a strategy or a vision or a doctrine, we sometimes say in foreign policy, that you're actually imposing more coherence on their approach than it's actually warranted.

But I'll give a shot, which is I think they actually start one step more abstract than what you just said, which is they basically subscribe to the view

that in foreign policy, might makes right.

And not just might makes right as a descriptive matter, that's how the world works, but might makes right is how the world should work, according to them.

So from that flows this idea that big countries, strong countries are favorable to us, we like them better, we want to work with them, and they should have more prerogatives in their own region.

So for the United States, we should have special prerogatives in the Western Hemisphere, including the

apparently choosing who governs certain countries.

And we just saw what happened in Venezuela.

But it also, I think, and most concerningly, suggests that they're going to give special deference to Russia when it comes to Europe, as you just said.

They're negotiating right now to try to end the Russia-Ukraine war, which I think is a good thing, by the way, to be negotiating.

But a bad thing if what they're going to do is ultimately defer to what Russia says it needs.

And then when it comes to the Indo-Pacific or Asia, China has strong views about how that region should be organized.

And the United States has always stood by our allies and our partners in that region through deterrence to try to prevent China from imposing its will.

And it seems like this administration is at least implying that it will take a different approach.

And so I think if you are US allies in Europe, US allies in Asia,

you're quite concerned by this entire approach and this entire worldview.

And if you are in the Western Hemisphere, you got to get buckled up for what could be even more U.S.

intervention than we've already seen.

yeah look there's a uh let's start from a perspective of something at least i agree with uh the trump administration and i suspect you do too i won't i won't speak for you uh which is that the maduro government is a terrible government maduro himself is a horrible authoritarian uh dictator who you know no one has any any uh love lost for any tears shed about the fact that he's no longer governing venezuela that is fundamentally a good thing

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