Podcast: Maximum Pressure, Maximum Failure

Will Porter returns to Foreign Policy Focus to talk about Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ strategy. Will covers the recent news that Iran shot down the Ukrainian civilian flight, killing 176 people. Will and Kyle explain how Trump’s maximum pressure against Iran created the tensions leading to the deadly event. Will and Kyle breakdown their recent article Maximum Failure: Trump’s Convulsive North Korea Strategy Can’t Bring Kim to the Table. The article explains how Trump squandered his opportunity to bring peace to North Korea with maximum pressure and poor staffing decisions. 

Will Porter is a staff writer at RT.  He publishes articles at Consortium News, Antiwar.com, and the Libertarian Institute.