A WORLD GONE MAD
A Progressive Liberal News Podcast
Veteran Television, and Radio Broadcaster Jeff Alan Wolf offers his Observations on the issues (many issues) of the week with a fearless liberal bent. His solid delivery, and dry common sense approach sets him apart from other liberals that populate Talk and Commentary Podcasts”
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Jeff is Unfiltered, Unspun, A little Unhinged, but offers a lot of Common Sense.
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A WORLD GONE MAD
Trump’s Ukraine Yard Sale Marines, ICE & Staged Fear
Another Monday, another Fallout.
The headlines are loud, but the truth is buried just beneath the surface…and that’s where the real story lives.
This week, Jeff Alan Wolf peels back the layers on what looks like routine politics. Foreign deals dressed up as diplomacy, troop movements packaged as security, and “law and order” stories spun into something far more sinister.
When leaders smile for the cameras while quietly negotiating in back rooms, it’s not just theater…it’s a test of what we’re willing to accept as normal.
And once the abnormal starts feeling ordinary, democracy doesn’t break in one moment… it erodes piece by piece.
From the global stage to the streets at home, this episode tracks how language like “peace,” “safety,” and “routine” gets weaponized…and why that shift matters more than most realize.
The surface story is simple. But line up the moves, the timing, and the power plays, and the picture that emerges isn’t stability…it’s intimidation dressed as governance.
That’s the Fallout. And that’s why you’ll want to hear this one all the way through.
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This is a world gone mad. This is a world gone mad, mad, mad, mad, mad. Hello, I'm Jeff Allen Wolfe. Welcome back to A World Gone Mad, and it's time for another Monday Fallout.
Speaker 1:The headlines are radioactive, the truth is buried in the rubble and I'm here to dig it out. Systems are breaking, trust gone, power plays everywhere. Okay, here we go. Washington takes center stage, where Trump is strutting like an international dealmaker who just found another property to flip while Zelensky fights to keep Ukraine off the clearance rack. Now Europe's leaders line up behind Zelensky, smiling for the cameras but bracing for the moment. Democracy gets treated like a bargaining chip.
Speaker 1:Washington is the stage this week and what's being floated is nothing short of a sellout. Trump is parading around like some master negotiator, but what he's really doing is treating Ukraine like a distressed property deal. A piece of Donbass here, a slice of Crimea there, move-in ready, cash only. That's not foreign policy, it's a fire sale. And behind this nonsense is the rotten idea of land for peace. Let's call it what it is Russia invades, kills civilians, flattens cities and then gets rewarded with the territory it stole. That's not peace. That's armed robbery with a smile and a handshake. It's extortion elevated to international diplomacy.
Speaker 1:Putin couldn't ask for a better accomplice. He launches an illegal war, commits atrocities, then sits back while the so-called leaders of the free world argue about how much of Ukraine they're willing to carve up to make the problem go away. It's as if the free world is bargaining with a burglar. You know, keep the rooms you already broke into and we'll pretend the robbery is over. The logic collapses under its own cowardice. The logic is obscene. And then there's that poison pill, this whispering campaign that Ukraine should never join NATO. Think about that. A country gets invaded and the punishment is sorry you don't get protection. That's like punishing the victim of a mugging by telling them they can't walk with friends anymore because it might upset the mugger. The intelligent people know this. It's not Ukraine's NATO bid that destabilizes the world. It's Russia crossing borders with tanks and missiles while Western leaders continue to stall for time.
Speaker 1:Now Zelensky is standing in Washington fighting not just for his country's survival but for the principle that sovereignty actually means something, that borders aren't suggestions, that if you defend democracy, you don't reward the autocrat who tried to crush it. Yet here we are watching Trump smirk, putin calculates, and European leaders smile for cameras while quietly wondering how much resolve they really have left. You know, if Europe backs down now, the rest of the world is in trouble. Here's the bottom line. If this summit produces anything resembling land for peace, it's not a breakthrough. Surrender it's not a breakthrough at all. It's just total surrender. And the precedent it sets will echo far beyond Ukraine. It tells every authoritarian out there that you can redraw the map with violence and eventually the world will shrug and let you keep whatever you stole.
Speaker 1:That's's not compromise, that's cowardice, plain and simple. And this is where Trump shows exactly why he is unfit to be anywhere near power. This isn't strategy, it isn't leadership. It's a man playing games with people's lives. Leadership it's a man playing games with people's lives like they're chips in one of his bankrupt casinos. He cozies up to Putin, one of the most brutal tyrants on the planet, not because it serves American interests, not because it protects democracy, but because it feeds his ego and makes Trump feel important. Trump doesn't give a damn about sovereignty or freedom or the cost of this war on ordinary Ukrainians. He cares about the photo op, the applause, the validation that comes from standing shoulder to shoulder with strongmen. He isn't negotiating peace. He's selling out democracy, bending over for a dictator and asking the free world to join him. It is cowardice, it is corruption and it is a betrayal of every principle America is supposed to stand for.
Speaker 1:Meanwhile, trump's out front haggling over Ukraine like it's a liquidation sale, but while he's playing dealmaker abroad, the weekend script here is shifting Marines headed to the Caribbean, additional National Guard shipped into DC by Republican governors. This isn't diplomacy, it's it's dress rehearsal for something darker. That's how I see it. So let me break this down. More than 4,000 Marines and sailors are being deployed to the southern Caribbean, along with a submarine, spy aircraft and destroyers. Supposedly it's about combating drug cartels. Right, because that's the problem Suddenly keeping Trump up at night. Not the fact that cartels have been pumping narcotics into the US for decades. Not the money laundering banks, not the fentanyl pipeline. Nope. Now, in the middle of an election season, coming up, midterms and an international standoff, suddenly the Marines are going to clean up cocaine.
Speaker 1:Sure, this isn't about drugs. This is muscle flexing. It's projecting force near Venezuela, near Latin America, in waters where we've staged coups before. It's a show of power dressed up in law and order clothing, like sending in Batman to bust jaywalkers. It makes no sense unless the real goal is intimidation.
Speaker 1:And here at home, three Republican governors West Virginia, ohio, south Carolina are shipping. The governors are shipping at least 700 National Guard troops into Washington DC. They're not there to hand out water bottles or fixed potholes. They're armed, they're stationed in the nation's capital as if DC is some unstable colony that needs policing. So ask yourself why? What's the justification? Is the Capitol under siege? Is Georgetown overrun by soccer moms rioting over pumpkin spice shortages? No, this is about building the visual of control Soldiers in the streets, uniforms in the Capitol, the message that power doesn't just speak, it shows up with rifles. Put the two together Marines abroad, guards at home, and you see the outline of a president who isn't just playing global negotiator, he's staging war games, foreign and domestic. Abroad the justification is cartels. At home the justification is public safety. But both lead to the same place Normalizing the sight of armed forces moving where they don't belong. And that's the darker part, because once people get used to Marines of Venezuela and the National Guard in DC, the next deployment doesn't feel shocking, it just feels routine. And that's how you slide from democracy into something else Not with a bang, not with a coup headline, but with one training exercise at a time.
Speaker 1:The weekend was already a full-blown power trip. Troops abroad, more National Guard sent to Washington DC, but ICE wasn't about to be left out. They grabbed a seven-year-old girl because, apparently, crayons are now a threat to national security. Here's what happened A mother, her teenage son and her seven-year-old daughter showed up for what ICE calls a routine check-in at Federal Plaza in New York City and instead of walking out, they were split up and shipped off. Mom and daughter sent to a reopened family detention camp in Texas, the son dumped into a youth facility in New Jersey.
Speaker 1:Because that's how family values work in Trump's America you keep the family together right up until you don't, and they call it routine. Routine like brushing your teeth, like taking out the garbage, only in this case the garbage is a seven-year-old girl and her mom. Garbage is a seven-year-old girl and her mom. Let's be honest, there's nothing routine about this. You don't target a second grader for national security. You target her because it sends a message To immigrants show up for your check-in and you'll never see your home again. And you'll never see your home again To Trump's base. See how tough we are. We're not just locking up adults, we're locking up their kids too. No-transcript. This is how we govern now.
Speaker 1:What's even more grotesque is the hypocrisy the same MAGA crowd that screams about tyranny if you ask them to put on a mask and target. Silent when the government locks up a little girl. Silent when mom and daughter get a one-way ticket to detention camp. Silent when family separation isn't an accident, it's policy. This isn't security. This isn't law enforcement. This is cruelty. Shrink wrap this policy.
Speaker 1:Trump doesn't care about the border. He cares about the show. Ice doesn't care about safety. They care about the fear and the MAGA faithful. They care about cheering cruelty, as long as it's not happening to them.
Speaker 1:So let's call it what it is. If you could normalize locking up a seven-year-old girl with her mom, you could normalize anything. Today it's an immigrant family at a check-in, tomorrow it's whoever else this administration decides doesn't belong, and the day after that we're all supposed to shrug and call it routine. Routine that's the word they want you to swallow. But don't, because there's nothing routine about putting a little girl and her mother in a detention camp and shipping the son off. That's not order, that's not justice. That's Trump's America and it's rotten to the core. So step back for a second. In one weekend you've got Trump floating away pieces of Ukraine like it's a yard sale, marines steaming south like we're revving up for another Latin America adventure and ICE hauling a seven-year-old girl, her brother and her mom into detention. That's not three separate stories. That's one story. It's the same story. That's one story. It's the same story.
Speaker 1:Power being used not to protect people, but to show off control. To remind you who's in charge Power being used not to protect people but to show off control. It's the flex Abroad, at home, on families, on kids, doesn't matter. The message is the same. We can do this and you can't stop us.
Speaker 1:And that's the real danger, listeners, because once you normalize it, once the fire sale in Ukraine looks like diplomacy, once Marines on the doorstep of Venezuela looks like policy, once a child in custody looks like routine, then democracy isn't democracy anymore. It's stagecraft, it's intimidation dressed up as governance. This is what Trump and the MAGA movement are selling, not leadership, not security, not even stability. They're selling cruelty as strength. They're selling fear as patriotism. They're selling you a country where rights are optional, laws are props and compassion is a liability. So circle that in red. Listeners, this is America under Trump. If you're not shocked, you're asleep. If you're not angry, you're numb. And if you think it can't get worse, trust me, they're already planning the sequel.
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