On the London School of Economics’ The Ballpark podcast, Walter Russell Mead discusses President Donald Trump’s “highly activist” foreign policy and his approach to the Western Hemisphere as a strategic foundation for American power. Mead also analyzes the performative politics of Trump’s “America First” rhetoric.
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Migrants storm a barbed-wire fence as they attempt to cross the land border with Spain's African enclave of Ceuta near Fnideq in northern Morocco on September 15, 2024. (Getty Images)