In this episode, Maxwell Slate examines how the Trump administration's "America First" foreign policy dismantled seventy-five years of carefully constructed international relationships. From withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord and Iran Nuclear Deal to straining NATO alliances and abandoning traditional diplomatic channels, Slate reveals how transactional diplomacy reduced America's global influence while empowering authoritarian rivals. The episode explores devastating impacts on intelligence sharing, arms control agreements, and America's role in international institutions, while examining how China and other powers filled the vacuum left by American retreat. Slate analyzes the human rights consequences, refugee policy changes, and the collapse of American soft power, showing how policies meant to strengthen America instead isolated it from allies and emboldened adversaries on the global stage.
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