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 A weekly take on US politics and policies and how they affect the world.2026 Al Jazeera Media Network. All rights reserved. Politique et gouvernement
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    • Why is Trump upending 80 years of US foreign policy? | The Bottom Line

      Why is Trump upending 80 years of US foreign policy? | The Bottom Line
      Jan 25 2026
      United States President Donald Trump realises “the rules-based international order” never existed, and he’s “willing to turn his back on that”, former Trump administration official Christian Whiton argues. Whiton tells Steve Clemons that US foreign policy remained fairly consistent over the past 80 years while Trump is happy to upset “the globalists and the establishment unity party in Washington - Republican and Democrat - and all the generals”. In Europe, the US would like to see more populist, anti-immigration governments, Whiton said, adding that Western societies should “cast aside” the idea that they are “inherently racist, a patriarchy [with] … a racist, imperialist history”.
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    • How much of Trump’s foreign policy is driven by minerals and oil? | The Bottom Line

      How much of Trump’s foreign policy is driven by minerals and oil? | The Bottom Line
      Jan 18 2026
      China’s domination of minerals - especially the copper needed for electrification, data centres, robots, cellphones and defence technology - is pushing the United States to ramp up its control of oil and minerals worldwide, argues Daniel Yergin, one of the world’s top experts in the economics of oil. In this episode, Yergin explains how Venezuela, Greenland, Iran, Russia and other issues are connected to the business of oil and the competition to control Earth's minerals. And while US President Donald Trump’s motives in Venezuela and Greenland are unclear, Yergin says one thing is certain: The US is desperate to achieve supply chain independence from China.
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    • After Maduro: Is the US driving global instability? | The Bottom Line

      After Maduro: Is the US driving global instability? | The Bottom Line
      Jan 11 2026
      America First foreign policy means that the United States is becoming a country that opposes the rule of law, free trade and collective security, argues Ian Bremmer, president of the risk analysis firm Eurasia Group. Bremmer tells host Steve Clemons that the international system built by the US over decades “was going to reach a geopolitical bust” regardless of the advent of President Donald Trump. Washington’s decision to project power in Venezuela, coupled with rhetoric threatening Greenland, “makes the US more unreliable for its allies”, according to Bremmer, “and a much bigger driver of geopolitical risk on the global stage”.
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