Meacham: Trump’s Rare Minerals Deal with Zelenskyy ‘Is a Kind of Imperialism’

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MEACHAM: "Yeah, in more ways than one, it's a pre-1914 maneuver. It’s a kind of imperialism. Basically, Zelenskyy is renting us, or we’re renting ourselves to them for a certain amount of money and asset. The thing that I go back to again and again, and I have never heard a very good answer and so we’ll just frame the question one more time, is how did the party of the Reagan Republican/Cold War/'Tear down this wall,'/George H.W. Bush/'This aggression will not stand,' this ethos of protecting the interests of democracies against autocracies, when did that just suddenly change? Not when, but why? Why did that suddenly change? And to me, it’s one of the central questions of the era, because the reorientation of American foreign policy from a — particularly on the center-right and over, from 'We will stand for freedom,' not universally, not saying we were somehow perfect before 2017 and now we’re not, but what is it in the Trump canon that has put us more on the side of aggressors, as opposed to those who ordinarily, for decades would receive our support and our sympathy?"