In addition to mobilizing support for Trump and his “America First” movement in the U.S., Bannon has worked to support likeminded politicians overseas, and build an international movement devoted to undermining international institutions like the European Union, United Nations, and World Health Organization.

Bannon’s global ambitions were expressed in the theme of this year’s CPAC, “Where Globalism Goes to Die,” and in the appearance of right-wing populist politicians from around the world on the main stage and at a two-hour “international summit” the evening before the conference got rolling. U.S. speakers also supported the anti-globalism theme. Rep. Matt Gaetz called for the U.S. to leave the U.N. Multiple speakers denounced and called for the defunding of the World Health Organization, which they described as a threat to national sovereignty. On the second anniversary of the devastating Russian invasion of Ukraine, Vivek Ramaswamy mocked U.S. support for the country’s defensive war as helping “some Ukrainian kleptocrat” to “buy a bigger house.”

"For outsiders, this reality is mind-boggling, difficult to comprehend and impossible to understand," she reports. "In the week that the border compromise failed, I happened to meet a senior European Union official visiting Washington. He asked me if congressional Republicans realized that a Russian victory in Ukraine would discredit the United States, weaken American alliances in Europe and Asia, embolden China, encourage Iran, and increase the likelihood of invasions of South Korea or Taiwan. Don’t they realize? Yes, I told him, they realize.