Trump’s Global Strategy Raises Questions About a New World Order

The MeidasTouch Podcast

The MeidasTouch Podcast explores Donald Trump's emerging global strategy, suggesting a coordinated 'spheres of influence' plan involving the

Key takeaways

• The silence from Russia, China, Europe, and other nations after Trump's Venezuela move suggests a negotiated pact rather than indifference.
• Trump's strategy appears to be establishing spheres of influence: U.S. in the Western Hemisphere, Russia in Europe/Ukraine, China in Asia, with Middle East/Africa as contested zones.

Main topics

• Trump's global strategy
• Spheres of influence model
• U.S.-Russia-China coordination

Notable quotes

"The complete and utter silence from Russia and China following Donald Trump's announcement of this purported deal with Venezuela tells us something deeper is going on."

Conclusion

The episode argues that Trump's foreign policy is not chaotic but strategic—part of a larger multipolar world

Transcript preview

Speaker 3 (0:00) The complete and utter silence from Russia and China following Donald Trump's announcement of this purported deal with Venezuela. tells us something deeper is going on. And I believe it relates to spheres of influence. And I believe that CIA Director John Ratcliffe's visit to Moscow to meet with his counterpart there, the head of the intelligence community there, had to do with spheres of influence. The Trump regime has always viewed the world as being divided according to Three spheres of influence. The United States controls the Western Hemisphere. Russia controls Ukraine and all of Europe. And China controls all of Asia with the Middle East and Africa up for grabs. Marco Rubio at the beginning of this Trump regime said as much. He said the old world order where the U.S. was the only superpower and led organizations like NATO. He said that is done. We are in a multipolar war. world, then he said the polls include United States, it includes China, and it includes Russia. And so when this trip happened by CIA Director John Ratcliffe this past week, I believe that he tipped off the Russian head of intelligence about what was going to take place with Venezuela and furthered a pact that existed of you stay out of our hemisphere. We're going to do our part to stay out of your hemisphere. And Donald Trump, as you've seen, continues. to attack NATO. He continues to tap Zelensky along. I'm going to give you interceptors. I'm going to give you interceptor licenses. But then that never happens. And I also think that the message was delivered at this time as well, because it was before the Venezuela deal was announced. And also it's before the Shanghai Cooperation Organization is set to meet in Kyrgyzstan, which is about to take place in the next day or two. And then there's going to be the BRICS meeting. that's going to be taking place several days after that in New Delhi, India. And so I think you have this coordination at play. I also think that what's going on between Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, and Erdogan, the president of Turkey, is also part of this broader spheres of influence campaign that's taking place. Netanyahu being the proxy of the Trump regime. And I believe that Erdogan focusing more closely on bringing the Muslim countries together, the Arab countries together, you know, with a potential leaning in a direction that would obviously be counter to the Abraham Accords, which was Donald Trump and Jared Kushner's initiative. And so I think we have this dynamic at play. Someone who agrees with me, and I want to share it with you, who I think that she's been spot on a few times is Patricia Marins. She says, the quiet around Venezuela is especially unsettling. Not a word from European capitals, from Beijing, from Moscow, from Brazil, from anyone. The silence feels like indifference and more like a negotiated pact, one that ties Taiwan, Ukraine, Venezuela, and not far behind Cuba in the same unspoken bargain. And so I think that was also... what was discussed in a spoken bargain, if you will, when Ratcliffe went over there to Russia. I think one of the main topics as well was Cuba, because obviously Cuba is being helped by Russia and China. And I think the broader discussion was not Ratcliffe delivering a message to Putin saying, you need to stop bullying NATO and you need to stop bullying Ukraine and stop the invasion. Okay, if you've been following the Trump regime, you know that everything Donald Trump has done was attack NATO and undermine Ukraine. So why would you think that Ratcliffe would be there to deliver that message when Donald Trump's out there attacking NATO and deceiving Ukraine on a daily basis? I mean, come on, it's pretty obvious, I believe, that Ratcliffe was there saying, look, spheres of influence, here's how it's going to go down. We're going to do this deal with Venezuela where we're going to say we get 65. billion barrels of their oil. That's what we're going to do. Next, we're going to look to Cuba. We're going to try to unwind this catastrophic and unlawful war in Iran, although they're not going to phrase it that way. Iran is going to be showing up at the BRICS meeting, as well as the Shanghai