On LSE’s 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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An oil tanker is being unloaded with imported crude oil at the Qingdao Port Oil Terminal in Shandong Province, China on April 7, 2026. (Getty Images)