Robert Kagan
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first heard May 2026
last heard 13 May
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The MeidasTouch Podcast · All Hell Breaks Loose as Trump Secretly Invades Allies?! · 13 May 2026
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Well, first of all, this is all taking place in the context of the Trump administration destroying all our alliances around the world.
We've effectively destroyed the NATO alliance.
Trump has made it clear that he's not interested in supporting our European allies, and therefore our European allies are going in a different direction.
I think that we're going to see the same thing in East Asia if we're not already seeing it.
The Japanese and the Koreans are paying an enormous price.
They're almost entirely dependent on this energy supply.
and they're gonna have to start figuring out how to look out for themselves.
So there is a big general global breakdown, but specifically in the case of the Gulf, the United States used to be hegemonic in the Gulf, and a lot of nations depended on the United States being supreme in the region and capable of enforcing a general peace.
The United States has now demonstrated not only that it cannot, but that it can't be really trusted to make sound strategic judgments.
So I think even the countries of the Gulf, which have been dependent on the United States, are going to have to look elsewhere.
And so the net result is a real diminishing of American global influence and, unmistakably,
The increase in influence of China, first and foremost, but also Russia.
They are the biggest beneficiaries to some extent other than Iran of the war so far.
And I say that in full consciousness of the fact that Iran has suffered terribly.
But even so, it can emerge from this war and I think is going to emerge from this war.
stronger than before the war began.
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