American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist.
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American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. On the contrary, MAGA ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve the interests of American crypto, mineral and tech companies, especially if they have links to the president. They think of themselves as "the vanguard of a movement that will alter not just America, but the world."
Read "Empire of Grift", my Atlantic cover story, here (gift link)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/10/maga-foreign-policy/688352/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3w3onHNSnF53FTCE5KWWZBg -
American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. On the contrary, MAGA ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve the interests of American crypto, mineral and tech companies, especially if they have links to the president. They think of themselves as "the vanguard of a movement that will alter not just America, but the world."
Read "Empire of Grift", my Atlantic cover story, here (gift link)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/10/maga-foreign-policy/688352/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3w3onHNSnF53FTCE5KWWZBg@anneapplebaum I won't use one of your gift allowances, since I have a sub, but I've made myself a sticky note to go pull it up on the other system.
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American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. On the contrary, MAGA ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve the interests of American crypto, mineral and tech companies, especially if they have links to the president. They think of themselves as "the vanguard of a movement that will alter not just America, but the world."
Read "Empire of Grift", my Atlantic cover story, here (gift link)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/10/maga-foreign-policy/688352/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3w3onHNSnF53FTCE5KWWZBg@anneapplebaum They've already altered the world - right off a fucking cliff - I hope their air conditioners go out first in the next heat wave they think they're going to skate through while all the unhoused and vulnerable are at heightened risk of perishing en mass
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American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. On the contrary, MAGA ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve the interests of American crypto, mineral and tech companies, especially if they have links to the president. They think of themselves as "the vanguard of a movement that will alter not just America, but the world."
Read "Empire of Grift", my Atlantic cover story, here (gift link)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/10/maga-foreign-policy/688352/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3w3onHNSnF53FTCE5KWWZBg@anneapplebaum This is the most depressing thing I've read in ages. Thank you for this deeply researched and thought-out soul-killer.
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American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. On the contrary, MAGA ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve the interests of American crypto, mineral and tech companies, especially if they have links to the president. They think of themselves as "the vanguard of a movement that will alter not just America, but the world."
Read "Empire of Grift", my Atlantic cover story, here (gift link)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/10/maga-foreign-policy/688352/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3w3onHNSnF53FTCE5KWWZBg@anneapplebaum Few countries have been more pro-American than Ireland. The dismay and revulsion in Ireland at the corruption of the current administration is off the scale. I dined with friends tonight. Everyone counting the days to 3 November and speculating on possible GOP malfeasance (sabotage). Too much to hope there will be proper reckoning and actual jail time.
Important article.
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American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. On the contrary, MAGA ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve the interests of American crypto, mineral and tech companies, especially if they have links to the president. They think of themselves as "the vanguard of a movement that will alter not just America, but the world."
Read "Empire of Grift", my Atlantic cover story, here (gift link)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/10/maga-foreign-policy/688352/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3w3onHNSnF53FTCE5KWWZBg@anneapplebaum I use the shorthand "VIP lanes" to describe their strategy of impunity. "Making the world safe for corruption" is exactly what I have in mind when I think of that.
edit: obviously, I should add the hashtag...
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American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. On the contrary, MAGA ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve the interests of American crypto, mineral and tech companies, especially if they have links to the president. They think of themselves as "the vanguard of a movement that will alter not just America, but the world."
Read "Empire of Grift", my Atlantic cover story, here (gift link)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/10/maga-foreign-policy/688352/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3w3onHNSnF53FTCE5KWWZBgOh yes, these are the guys who chose to go to war with Iran and lost. The sovereign individuals who are of course the world’s “cognitive elite” destined to rule over the universe as digital gods, Have demonstrated that they are very good At waging war on us from the White House, but every other autocrat out there looks only to their interest they have no loyalty.
These dumb dumbs in the US are playing checker at the international game of poker where everyone is cheating
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Oh yes, these are the guys who chose to go to war with Iran and lost. The sovereign individuals who are of course the world’s “cognitive elite” destined to rule over the universe as digital gods, Have demonstrated that they are very good At waging war on us from the White House, but every other autocrat out there looks only to their interest they have no loyalty.
These dumb dumbs in the US are playing checker at the international game of poker where everyone is cheating
Oh, and also, it is funny how they are international cabal not quite seeking a one world government, but uniformity in object tyranny.
It’s still every accusation is a confession
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American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. On the contrary, MAGA ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve the interests of American crypto, mineral and tech companies, especially if they have links to the president. They think of themselves as "the vanguard of a movement that will alter not just America, but the world."
Read "Empire of Grift", my Atlantic cover story, here (gift link)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/10/maga-foreign-policy/688352/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3w3onHNSnF53FTCE5KWWZBg@anneapplebaum
It's not enough to beat them, they need to be annihilated at the polls.
Dems need to quit the petty bickering among themselves and focus on the true danger. -
American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. On the contrary, MAGA ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve the interests of American crypto, mineral and tech companies, especially if they have links to the president. They think of themselves as "the vanguard of a movement that will alter not just America, but the world."
Read "Empire of Grift", my Atlantic cover story, here (gift link)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/10/maga-foreign-policy/688352/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3w3onHNSnF53FTCE5KWWZBgThis is what happens when 6 dynasties fund the purchase of a corrupt US Supreme Court & crooked Congress.
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-map-north-america-us-territory/
Bradley, Koch, Coors, Scaife, Mellon, Seid, Uihlein - building an international system of oligarchic rule & an economy that only serves The Moneyed.
https://www.desmog.com/2025/01/21/mapped-donald-trump-transatlantic-anti-green-network/
"White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller told CNN’s Jake Tapper in January, “but we live in a ..."
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This is what happens when 6 dynasties fund the purchase of a corrupt US Supreme Court & crooked Congress.
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-map-north-america-us-territory/
Bradley, Koch, Coors, Scaife, Mellon, Seid, Uihlein - building an international system of oligarchic rule & an economy that only serves The Moneyed.
https://www.desmog.com/2025/01/21/mapped-donald-trump-transatlantic-anti-green-network/
"White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller told CNN’s Jake Tapper in January, “but we live in a ..."
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" ...world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power.
These are the iron laws of the world that have existed since the beginning of time.”
Miller’s words surely appealed to the business leaders who are delighted to see the tools of American government and diplomacy being redeployed, not to build a world that’s safe for democracy, or even safe for Americans, but to create a world that’s profitable for them."
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American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. On the contrary, MAGA ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve the interests of American crypto, mineral and tech companies, especially if they have links to the president. They think of themselves as "the vanguard of a movement that will alter not just America, but the world."
Read "Empire of Grift", my Atlantic cover story, here (gift link)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/10/maga-foreign-policy/688352/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3w3onHNSnF53FTCE5KWWZBg@anneapplebaum
Not very different, really, than the 16th and 17th century trading companies formed to extract sugar, spices, fur, etc from colonies. Like the Dutch East India or Hudson Bay companies. -
American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. On the contrary, MAGA ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve the interests of American crypto, mineral and tech companies, especially if they have links to the president. They think of themselves as "the vanguard of a movement that will alter not just America, but the world."
Read "Empire of Grift", my Atlantic cover story, here (gift link)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/10/maga-foreign-policy/688352/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3w3onHNSnF53FTCE5KWWZBg@anneapplebaum That. Is. Really. Good. Journalism. Woah. Thank you for writing. -
American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. On the contrary, MAGA ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve the interests of American crypto, mineral and tech companies, especially if they have links to the president. They think of themselves as "the vanguard of a movement that will alter not just America, but the world."
Read "Empire of Grift", my Atlantic cover story, here (gift link)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/10/maga-foreign-policy/688352/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3w3onHNSnF53FTCE5KWWZBg@anneapplebaum esp. bad as trumb and muskx are supporting freaktionary / fascist elements in other countries (in GER -> afd, in LatinAmerica -> the chainSaw guy with the chain-saw inventor fernando #cerimedo )
and the EU is even coping with the kutcher_ai_web_control network ()aka #thorn & friends
#maga_fools
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@anneapplebaum I won't use one of your gift allowances, since I have a sub, but I've made myself a sticky note to go pull it up on the other system.
@MissConstrue that's ok! I can make as many gift links as I want...
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@anneapplebaum
Not very different, really, than the 16th and 17th century trading companies formed to extract sugar, spices, fur, etc from colonies. Like the Dutch East India or Hudson Bay companies.@arniepix yes, the East India Company is a similar model
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American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. On the contrary, MAGA ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve the interests of American crypto, mineral and tech companies, especially if they have links to the president. They think of themselves as "the vanguard of a movement that will alter not just America, but the world."
Read "Empire of Grift", my Atlantic cover story, here (gift link)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/10/maga-foreign-policy/688352/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3w3onHNSnF53FTCE5KWWZBg@anneapplebaum That article reads as a whose who of the political underworld. Take solace in that the ultras through their greed are becoming fewer and fewer, and their thugs are cowards without their arms. Now that their dirty hands are out in the open, they have made themselves easy targets. Money is debt after all, and theirs is the most toxic and acrid! #JusticeWins #TheReckoning #HomunculusHydra
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American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. On the contrary, MAGA ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve the interests of American crypto, mineral and tech companies, especially if they have links to the president. They think of themselves as "the vanguard of a movement that will alter not just America, but the world."
Read "Empire of Grift", my Atlantic cover story, here (gift link)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/10/maga-foreign-policy/688352/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3w3onHNSnF53FTCE5KWWZBgThanks for this great article.
National Security Strategy is clear on planned US energy dominance of the world and an explanation for Venezuela, Iran, Canada, Greenland and Europe as a consumer (EU Trade Deal - 750 billion for energy imports from US). They have no sense of shame.
„Restoring American energy dominance (in oil, gas, coal, and nuclear) and reshoring the necessary key energy
components is a top strategic priority. ….
Expanding our net energy exports will also deepen relationships with
allies while curtailing the influence of adversaries, protect our ability
to defend our shores, and—when and where necessary—enables us to
project power. We reject the disastrous “climate change” and “Net
Zero” ideologies that have so greatly harmed Europe, threaten the
United States, and subsidize our adversaries.“ -
American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. On the contrary, MAGA ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve the interests of American crypto, mineral and tech companies, especially if they have links to the president. They think of themselves as "the vanguard of a movement that will alter not just America, but the world."
Read "Empire of Grift", my Atlantic cover story, here (gift link)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/10/maga-foreign-policy/688352/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3w3onHNSnF53FTCE5KWWZBg@anneapplebaum welcome to the new world order
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American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. On the contrary, MAGA ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve the interests of American crypto, mineral and tech companies, especially if they have links to the president. They think of themselves as "the vanguard of a movement that will alter not just America, but the world."
Read "Empire of Grift", my Atlantic cover story, here (gift link)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/10/maga-foreign-policy/688352/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3w3onHNSnF53FTCE5KWWZBg@anneapplebaum This is an excellent piece. It really hammers down the fact that to a large extent democatic processes are not working in the US anymore, and that we should treat this as an actual political revolution of a certain class of rich people against democracy.
Also thr threat to Europe and democratic nations elsewhere, which is coming from from the US, has already leveled up to an active political interference campaign, already effecting our societies.
