Power Play

"They thought the man had gone bananas": a conversation on Trump and why Europe sees him as a threat to rival Putin with Sweden’s Carl Bildt 

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In an exclusive for The Global POLITICO, Paul Wolfowitz, architect of the Iraq war, talks Trump, Iraq and his fears the country could descend into “chaotic violence” all over again, and the need for America to step back up in the melting down Middle East. An original #nevertrumper, hehe says he’s now seeing “fantastic opportunity” in Trump’s newly assertive foreign policy. 

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Michael Anton wrote inflammatory essays backing Trump during last year’s campaign. Now he’s in charge of explaining Trump’s keep-em-guessing foreign policy at Trump’s NSC. In an exclusive interview with Susan Glasser’s Global POLITICO podcast, Anton talks Syria, North Korea, Steve Bannon — and the virtues of Trump’s unpredictability. Not to mention who’s best dressed in the White House, and why his intellectual hero Machiavelli would approve of the president. 

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After President Trump called her “Hillary Clinton’s P.R. Person,” NBC’s Andrea Mitchell has some choice words for him too. In an exclusive interview for The Global Politico, Mitchell says “I’ve never seen anything like” the flat-out lies of the Trump White House, with the briefing room being used to “mislead or misdirect or obfuscate.” 

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Obama’s top homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco talks about the Russia hacking of 2016 and whether the White House should have talked more publicly about it before the election. Plus: her thoughts on how Trump is undoing their counterterrorism policies “with the stroke of a pen." 

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Donald Trump wants to team up with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make the deal of the century between Israel and the Palestinians. But what if a Trumpian TV star-turned-politician gets Netanyahu first? Israel's leading opposition politician Yair Lapid joins The Global Politico this week. 

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Are the spiraling investigations around Trump and Russia “a conspiracy trap”? How much is Trump like President Putin after all? Russia-born author and journalist Masha Gessen joins The Global POLITICO this week to talk about the strange confluence of these two leaders — and what we should really be afraid of when it comes to these two nuclear-armed tough guys. 

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The Global POLITICO hits the road this week, traveling to Kurdistan to talk to Deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani about the the raging battle to retake Mosul from the Islamic State, the “failure of Iraqi politics” — and what America First means to the Middle East. “We are fighting a war of survival,” he says, and the outcome isn’t at all clear. 

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America’s most senior diplomat just hit the exits from Trump’s melting down State Department after 40 years of being the man in the room when Russia was involved. Daniel Fried reveals what he would have told Trump about Putin — if he’d asked — plus what he saw up close as Clinton, Bush and Obama struggled with the KGB man in the Kremlin. 

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The foreign policy powerhouses respond to President Trump's macho national security policy; the ladies delve into the world's view of the United States, the consequences of not having women negiotating at the table and why millennials give them hope for the future. 

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