Jon Finer

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

We're going to put him on trial.

And now, you know, I want the Venezuelan people to decide their future.

He made two, I think, just critical mistakes.

And it's not clear that these were planned.

He may have just said these things, which happens obviously with him sometimes.

One is that when he was asked about the democratically elected

leaders of Venezuela in an election that took place during the Biden administration, 2024, which we believe was won very clearly, maybe two to one by the Venezuelan opposition, a candidate named Edmundo Gonzalez, who was sort of the handpicked ally of Maria Karina Machado.

He said, Gonzalez, Machado, they don't have a lot of support inside Venezuela.

So I'm not sure we want to turn the country over to them.

And then he made this comment that I think is going to live in infamy about the United States now running the show in Venezuela.

So whether that was intentional, whether that was kind of an ad lib, they now kind of own that approach and other administration people have tried to back away from it and say, actually, you know,

We're gonna do this a different way.

But every time he's asked, he sort of doubles down on what I think are these two critical mistakes that are gonna define this operation for the foreseeable future.

Well, so I think in some ways the Biden administration and the Trump administration have a similar objective, strategic objective in Asia, at least one, which is that for the United States and China to go to war with each other would be a disaster, a disaster for both countries, a disaster for the region, a disaster for the world, given the economic cost of a conflict between these two massive, I mean, the two world's largest economies.

but our approach to avoiding that conflict was through deterrence and through building up our alliances and our partnerships in that region strengthening our relationship with the koreans strengthening our relationship with the japanese strengthening their relationship with each other as you said and then strengthening our relationship with countries in the region that sometimes are considered almost swing voters uh sometimes they're a little more in the direction of china

Sometimes they're a little more in the direction of the United States.

Countries like Vietnam and Indonesia, where after four years, we were in a much stronger position than we were when we started.

The Trump administration's approach to this region, with the same goal, maybe, of avoiding conflict with China, is to cozy up to the Chinese, figure out what concessions have to be made to keep that relationship stable.

And they've made enormous concessions just in recent months.

in particular when it comes to export controls placed on advanced semiconductors, which you alluded to, in return, by the way, for very little from China.

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