Timothy Snyder
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181 appearances
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 28 Jan
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I mean, and I think it's one of the most important and maybe the central truth about Mr. Trump in particular.
He doesn't understand what a country is.
It's just not in his mind.
He doesn't know what it means to be a sovereign state.
He doesn't know what the American Revolution was about.
He has no idea why anybody would have taken part in it.
He has no idea why anybody would have fought in the Civil War.
He has no idea why anybody would fight in any war.
This is how he doesn't understand Ukraine.
For him, it's just a real estate deal.
This is why he doesn't understand why they won't just sell us Greenland because he literally doesn't understand the basic political reality or political and moral reality that most people live within, which is that there are sovereign states and that you care about your country by trying to make it better.
He does not accept that the world is made of sovereign states.
The world is just made of wealthy people who are trying to scam each other.
That is the entirety of his world.
And so for him, it is, I mean, it's sad, but it's sad and I wish it weren't true, but it is all a scam.
It is all a grift.
It is all a television show.
There is nothing in Mr. Trump's career from beginning to end, whether when he was in business or whether he's been a politician, there's literally nothing which suggests that he understands or would take a risk for or identifies with the United States of America.
There's absolutely nothing.
I mean, the fact that he wears, you know, that he wears just,
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