Trump Is Weaponizing the Global System | The Ezra Klein Show
January 29, 2026
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as posted by the channelThe U.S. has always had outsized power in the liberal international system. But as the international relations scholar Henry Farrell explains, President Trump is exploiting the system. “The plumbing has become political. All of these means that we use to integrate the world — all of these financial systems, all of these trade and production systems — are suddenly being turned against countries,” he says.
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