The Long View - US Interventions Abroad
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President Trump says he's considering options to intervene in Iran, amid ongoing protests. The threat comes hot on the heels of a dramatic US intervention in Venezuela, and threats to take over Greenland. Together, they suggest a shift in US foreign policy towards more open interventionism. Jonathan Freedland takes the Long View of US intervention abroad, exploring revealing parallels between current foreign policy and a covert American intervention in Guatemala in 1954.
Guests: Dr Grace Livingstone, Affiliated Lecturer at the Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge; Jon Lee Anderson, staff writer, The New Yorker
Producer: Dan Hardoon
Reader: Sam Dale
Published on Tuesday, 13th January 2026.
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