Jon Finer

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

Oh, the oil companies are dying to go in and get access to these resources, except, well, maybe we now have to subsidize them to do that.

And today, they're in Washington.

probably telling the administration behind closed doors, there's a lot of risk here and we're not gonna rush in without a lot more assurances that this is gonna be actually an economically viable proposition for us.

So Europe, to me, is the region of the world that has, in some ways, the most reason to be hopeful, but also the most perilous in the current moment.

I'll start with the positive because I almost never get to talk about anything positive when I answer questions about the world.

The Europeans, when Trump came in, I think knew they were not going to be dealing with a close ally anymore.

And they had some options as to how to deal with that.

They could have decided they are just going to follow Trump down the far right rabbit hole.

And there have been a number of elections in Europe since Trump came to power where there were far right candidates who Trump supported, who are aligned with his worldview.

who were defeated uh thankfully by european voters so they had that option and for now they have turned against it they also had the option i think if they were not going to be aligned with the united states to hedge uh and and maybe move in the direction of other big powerful countries maybe like russia and start to think oh we have to compromise on support for ukraine or on buying russian energy maybe even with china we can't afford to have the same national security concerns about cooperating with china economically or on technology

if we can't cooperate as closely with the United States.

And they have not gone down those paths either.

They have chosen the third option, which is to try to stand up on their own two feet, be a separate power center in the world that maintains sort of fidelity to their values, and to try to build their power by spending real money for the first time maybe in their modern history on defense and the things that they're going to need to be a sort of more independent region of the world.

So that's a good thing that Europe has done that.

The perilous part of this is that the Trump administration has pretty clearly decided that they have more or less given up on our traditional allies in Europe.

They have this inexplicable, and I genuinely can't explain it.

There are all kinds of conspiracy theories that I can't verify or validate, but they have this inexplicable fondness, at least the president does, for Russia and desire to have a better relationship

with Russia, which, by the way, has about a two trillion dollar economy.

The European zone has about an 18 to 20 trillion dollar economy.

So why we would want to trade the big one for the small one, I can't I can't argue for.

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