Tom Nichols
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2,378 appearances
19 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 19 May
Tom Nichols’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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uh against international law and immoral um you know until we hear more from london i'm not sure exactly what their reasoning is but i'm gonna guess that they just don't want to be involved in this that they that they think that the president's just um arbitrarily killing people on the high seas and the united kingdom can't be a part of that and you know that's one thing if countries that aren't really crazy about you um or that you're not particularly close to come out and say well we don't want to cooperate with the united states on something like this
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When your closest friend and ally in the world tells you that they're pulling back from you, that's a signal that something's going really wrong and it's really disturbing.
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Well, we lost some of that trust after the first Trump administration.
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We had to rebuild it, and it comes back if and when Trump is gone, I hope.
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But it's more than just not trusting us.
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They think that what we're doing is wrong, which is why they don't want to be involved in it.
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That's a big deal.
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I mean, again, your closest ally in the world says, we think what you're doing is immoral and we don't want to be a part of it.
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That's pretty bad.
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No.
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I hate to just, you know, say it and be so depressing about it, you know, but no, there are no repercussions.
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We are not signatories of the International Criminal Court.
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It's unlikely that the president would have been appointed by that court, which would make it harder for him to travel to other places.
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You know, the thing that governs international law is that other states make determinations about what you're doing is wrong.
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And the Brits have taken a big step forward to do that.
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But, you know, the president, the Supreme Court has unleashed this guy.
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to say that any official acts, you know, basically have immunity.
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What they're really saying is the only remedy for this is impeachment and the political process.
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That's not going to happen either.
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So, you know, I think Donald Trump and the people around him have figured out that, yeah, he really can pretty much do anything he wants.
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