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0:00 Housekeeping
3:12 Making sense of the USAID cuts
15:44 Trump's push for ethnic cleansing in Gaza
24:19 How Trump's tariffs undermine US power
32:46 Deep Research and the AI arms race
Recorded February 07, 2025.
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What Trump gets wrong about US power
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