Michael Moynihan
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
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And I think reasons for optimism with respect to the kind of culture of free speech reasserting itself. Although I've been assured by some people that that isn't a thing that exists. But I beg to differ.
I don't know. I don't know if Greenland is particularly maggot. And I don't suspect that statehood is actually in the cards here. But there are some legitimate forward policy and economic issues here. I mean, China and Russia both have a lot of interest in the Arctic region. China has a lot of cutters and can get into the ice and can go look for stuff.
And there's been essentially this competition to see who can get out there and stake claim to as much space as possible, or at least kind of clog up the routes so that it's difficult for the United States to have access. And the United States is interested in having access to a bunch of rare earth metals that you can kind of only get in places like China and Pakistan or India, Pakistan actually.
And the fact that some of this stuff happens to be in Iceland as well is of unique interest to the United States. So if what Trump is doing here, and I actually purchased a copy of Art of the Deal in the last 24 hours and a and going through it to try and understand.
To try and understand. Listen, I'm a little late, but I mean, there's maybe a little game here.
Trump seems, listen, you could have a ghostwriter and still have particular ideas, and he's running the playbook. I mean, these are grandiose, kind of over-the-top statements. Oh, we're going to annex them. I won't rule those other things out. But if what you really want is a strategic partnership
to the exclusion of the Chinese and the Russians, and you want to build up kind of public concern and interest in this issue, you can try to go about this strategically behind closed doors and be very diplomatic, and it won't even be below the fold in the New York Times. Right now, everyone is talking about Trump's interest in Iceland or Greenland. Excuse me.
It's easy to confuse the two because of the silly way that they've named them. Yes. And the fact that we are talking about it at this point and that it's not just him insisting, I want to control it, and if I don't get it, I'm going to start to put tariffs on Norway.
He's also saying we're open to other things, and he's sending his envoys, and the envoys are having more strategic, substantive conversations. And the hope here is clearly to try and get some sort of strategic deal.
I mean, Trump has been talking about this since 2018, 2019, and as soon as he gets back to the White House, or at least within striking distance of being in the White House again, he's talking about it again. This is a serious issue for him. And similarly with Panama.
He hasn't said that exactly. He hasn't said that exactly. And again, he's just implied it. Like China is spending a tremendous amount of money in Africa and South America. Exactly. Red China. And they're trying their very best to have influence there.
They have private, well, not private companies, but Chinese owned or linked companies who have some interest in the Panama Canal or at least in the surrounding area. To the extent that the United States is expressing concerns about this stuff in formal ways and in grandiose circus-like theatrical ways is probably not a bad thing on net.
And as strange as it is to have to acknowledge, if the end result of Trump saying what seemed like completely ridiculous things about acquiring or annexing some other country is that we do end up with a strategic partnership of some kind that is to the advantage of the United States and to the disadvantage of our international adversaries. That's kind of a good thing.
He said he wouldn't rule it out.
Wow. A fact check though. I think it was brown face and not black face, but yeah, there was one that was very black face.
From the Free Press, this is Honestly. I'm Michael Moynihan.
Last week marked a historic turning point in Syria.
For decades, the Assad dynasty ruled through unimaginable violence, launching chemical attacks on civilians, silencing dissent with mass imprisonment and torture, and presiding over a civil war that killed an estimated 600,000 people and drove 13 million into exile.
In cities across the world, jubilant Syrians have celebrated the regime's downfall as one of the world's most oppressive dictatorships has now collapsed.
But not everyone is celebrating. Or at least some people are saying there's reason for caution. That's because the Coalition of Rebel Forces Taking Control of Syria is led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, a militant Islamist organization which originated as an offshoot of al-Qaeda. Its leader is a Saudi-born Syrian who calls himself Abu Muhammad al-Jolani.
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