Walter Russell Mead
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379 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 22 Jun
Walter Russell Mead’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Where does it go?
Then you go into a fluid situation of chaos.
And Trump's core element of Trump's worldview is that chaos is his home.
That's where he's comfortable.
Many of us would hate to be like in litigation in 15 different court cases with bankers calling us up and real estate deals erupting all over the place.
That's where Trump lives.
And he actually believes that in those situations, he's better than almost anybody at dealing with it, right?
And so he moves the situation as he would see it onto his home court of chaos.
And there, if there is a rabbit to be pulled out of a hat along the way, he can do it.
He's relying on his instinctive ability to avoid trouble, to seek opportunity, to reshape a reality in ways that other people don't expect.
And then his kind of fallback idea is that that's the middle range.
Top range, regime falls, I'm a hero.
Middle range, chaos, and I'll probably manage to do pretty well in it.
All right.
Low range, it doesn't go that well, but I'm really good at spinning.
And so I'll be able to convince enough of my core supporters that, boy, I want a great triumph, that the damage to me is not going to be too great.
So that's how he does these things.
Look, for the Iranians, they don't believe one single word of the memorandum of understanding.
They're not sincerely swearing, oh, this is what we'll do.
For them, it's an element in the struggle.
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