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What’s Behind Trump’s Expansionist Instincts?

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How can history help make sense of U.S. President Donald Trump’s foreign policy? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Greg Grandin shares how Trump’s imperialist impulses may be inspired by the country’s Founding Fathers, and that he “rummages around the trash bag of history to find what’s useful at any given moment.”

Plus, Ravi’s One Thing on the recent U.S. sanctions on Russian oil companies.

Keith Johnson: Will Trump’s Russia Oil Sanctions Finally Sway Putin?

Greg Grandin: America, América: A New History of the New World

Ravi Agrawal: Why Trump Is a ‘Scarcity President’

Syrus Solo Jin: With Territory Comes Torment

Stephen M. Walt: Donald Trump Will Never Be a Restrainer

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How can history help make sense of U.S. President Donald Trump’s foreign policy? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Greg Grandin shares how Trump’s imperialist impulses may be inspired by the country’s Founding Fathers, and that he “rummages around the trash bag of history to find what’s useful at any given moment.”

Plus, Ravi’s One Thing on the recent U.S. sanctions on Russian oil companies.

Keith Johnson: Will Trump’s Russia Oil Sanctions Finally Sway Putin?

Greg Grandin: America, América: A New History of the New World

Ravi Agrawal: Why Trump Is a ‘Scarcity President’

Syrus Solo Jin: With Territory Comes Torment

Stephen M. Walt: Donald Trump Will Never Be a Restrainer

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