Navigating Trade Tariffs and the Impact on Global Funding

Air Date 3/15/2025

It always bears repeating that the progressive perspective on the state of the world is not that everything was going just fine before Trump showed up but there's a world of difference between the leftist desire to improve things and Trump's bull-in-a-china-shop foreign and economic policies. Allow us to list the ways.

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KEY POINTS

1: Project 2025 Foreign Policy America Last - The Tristan Snell Show - Air Date 8-15-25

2: March 6, 2025 Full Show - Democracy Now! - Air Date 3-6-25

3: Trump's Foreign Policy - It Could Happen Here - 11-14-24

4: Ukraine's Fight for Self-Determination w/ Howie Hawkins - Jacobin Radio - Air Date 3-3-25

5: Russia, Ukraine, US The Global Chessboard - WhoWhatWhy's Podcasts - Air Date 3-4-25

6: After restarting aid to Ukraine, U.S. will present ceasefire proposal to Russia - PBS NewsHour - Air Date 3-11-25

7: Trump's tariff tumult - The NPR Politics Podcast - Air Date 3-6-25

8: Trumps On-and-Off-Again Tariffs, and Decoding Make America Healthy Again - On the Media - Air Date 3-7-25

9: Global Chess Europe's Unity Strengthens While American Trade Policy Falters - The Tristan Snell Show - Air Date 3-6-25

(59:04) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

On Monthly-ish Recaps and the week of activism

DEEPER DIVES

(1:02:33) SECTION A: RUSSIA AND UKRAINE

(1:44:50) SECTION B: TRADE WARS AND TARIFFS

(2:27:43) SECTION C: USAID

(3:03:26) SECTION D: US REALIGNMENT & NATO

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