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Janan Ganesh

Why MAGA is obsessed with meddling in foreign countries

From South Africa to Europe, Donald Trump’s movement is fixated on other countries, contradicting its isolationist label.

The tension between India and Pakistan is “fundamentally none of our business”, according to J.D. Vance.

A man answering to the same name has, over the course of five months as US vice president told German politicians to accept the hard right as a potential governing partner, nagged the UK’s Sir Keir Starmer on the state of free speech in Britain and pledged America to the defence of religious freedom, “both within our borders and especially outside our borders. (My italics, if those words don’t unnerve you in plain font.)

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Janan Ganesh is the principal political columnist for the Financial Times.

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