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Why Trump Sides With Putin

Why Trump Sides With Putin

The David Frum Show vor 9 Monaten

Fiona Hill on Putin’s long game, Trump’s transactional foreign policy, and the danger of mistaking size and bluster for real power. Plus: Trump’s grocery-price fiction and V. S. Naipaul’s “Among the Believers.”

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On this week’s episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s
David Frum examines one of the most consequential deceptions of the
Trump presidency: the insistence that grocery prices are falling
when Americans know from lived experience that they are not. David
explains how tariffs and trade policy are deliberately driving food
costs higher, why Trump keeps lying about it, and how breaking this
promise strikes at the core of the fragile trust between voters and
government. Then David is joined by Fiona Hill, a former adviser to
three U.S. presidents and a key witness in Trump’s first
impeachment, to analyze how Vladimir Putin sees the world and why
Trump remains so drawn to strongman power. Frum and Hill discuss
Putin’s long game in Ukraine, Trump’s archaic and backward
worldview, and how Trump’s presidency has been a gift to Putin
while steadily eroding American credibility abroad. Finally, David
closes the episode with a discussion of “Among the Believers,” by
V. S. Naipaul, reflecting on the Iranian Revolution and why
authoritarian regimes repeatedly fail at modernity. Get more from
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