Natalie Kitrow

And this time, the threat came from inside the family, one member against the rest.

You know, what's ironic about some of this is that Trump's foreign policy at one point seemed to be geared toward persuading the rest of the world to break its dependence on China.

That was the goal of the U.S.

's tariff war with China and with a lot of what Trump was doing on the global stage.

But now it seems as though his brand of foreign policy in term two has actually had the effect of pushing the world to break its dependence on the United States, probably to China's benefit.

Is that the right assumption?

On the other hand, I have to wonder whether there's some way that Trump would actually see that outcome that you're describing as a win for the U.S.

And, you know, pushing smaller countries into the arms of China, he may just view that as an inevitable result of his quest to realize this worldview that he has, which you, Mark, have described on this show, that the great powers should divide the globe into these spheres of influence that they dominate.

And the Europeans in this case seem to get Trump to back down.

Mark, thank you so much.

We'll be right back.

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