Steve Yates
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1,090 appearances
8 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 12 Sep
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During the Biden administration, we did that by policy choice.
It wasn't by taking on a major challenge that was going to get resolved.
In previous administrations, we've also had shocks that have come about for various reasons.
It's not sustainable for it to go long term.
And so the administration is going to have to do some things.
I think they have policies and strategies in mind that they think
will begin to move things.
Secretary Besant has hinted at those.
The Trump administration has a perfect record of keeping their cards close to the vest.
And then after things start moving, they begin to disclose and articulate.
That's very frustrating for those who might be friendly on the outside that would like to understand and explain and maybe help calm some jitters that are out there.
So we're dealing with a very different information environment.
When I lived in the Bush administration 20 years ago, there was a lot of information that went out.
The problem was that the actions on the ground didn't endure to the point of holding up that rhetoric and that vision.
We have the opposite challenge now where we have less rhetoric.
going out by way of explanation, but some facts on the ground are building somewhat of a foundation, but we're going to live with this uncertainty.
Politically, what emerges in Iran, what kind of coalition of forces kind of mow the grass in this region so that...
We're not the daily maintenance manager of what's happening in the broader Middle East.
We're going to have to have Saudi Arabia, UAE, Israel, others that are trusted allies step in in some pretty important ways.
And Japan, I think, is emerging in a very different new global role.
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