On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Doug Bandow, former special assistant to US President Ronald Reagan and senior fellow at the Cato Institute. He discusses Trump directing the US government to purchase stakes in key companies such as Intel, the corruption between the US government and the defense-industrial base, the wasteful spending of trillions on war and empire, the prospect of a second US-Israel war against Iran, the hypocritical US policy of sanctioning India for buying Russian oil, US Ambassador Mike Huckabee’s extreme Christian theology which is helping guide US foreign policy, and Israel’s calculation that no US president will truly do anything to stop them. He also discusses Trump’s approach to ending the Ukraine proxy war, the deranged belief that Vladimir Putin would not use nuclear weapons under any circumstances over the Ukraine conflict, US foreign policy towards nuclear-armed North Korea, the enormous damage to the US’ reputation in the Global South after the Gaza genocide, and much more.
