Walter Russell Mead discusses the China-Russia alliance, the US national debt, the rise of the European right, Roosevelt v. Wilson, and the Puritan-Woke connection on his podcast, What Really Matters.
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Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan, Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, and Indonesia's Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka during the G20 Leaders' Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 22, 2025. (Getty Images)