RE: https://journa.host/@anneapplebaum/117288720218992235
A must read:
"Slowly, the Brazilians were learning the same lesson as other American allies around the world: The United States of America is no longer the entity they knew. And American power is no longer deployed solely by trained diplomats and reliable officials, working through state channels. Informal envoys, private companies, online grifters, and hardened ideologues both inside and outside the government matter more."
American foreign policy under Trump is not isolationist. On the contrary, MAGA ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve the interests of American crypto, mineral and tech companies, especially if they have links to the president. They think of themselves as "the vanguard of a movement that will alter not just America, but the world."
Read "Empire of Grift", my Atlantic cover story, here (gift link)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/10/maga-foreign-policy/688352/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3w3onHNSnF53FTCE5KWWZBg
