Can Biden get Americans to support Ukraine long-term?

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🗓️ 24 February 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Host David Greene discusses with Mo Elleithee, executive director of Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and Public Service, and Sarah Isgur, senior editor at The Dispatch. And special guest Evelyn Farkas, executive director of the McCain Institute and former deputy assistant secretary at the Department of Defense, shares her thoughts on the future implications of Biden’s Europe trip.

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0:00.0	Everybody, this is David Green. I'm the co-founder of Fearless Media and your host here on Left Right.
0:06.1	And Senator, we're doing the show from Washington, DC this week.
0:09.4	And so I am in studio with our crew. We have Moelaithi here. He's executive director at Georgetown University's Institute of Politics and Public Service.
0:17.3	And to my left, which is odd, but to my left is Sarah Isger, a senior editor at the dispatch.
0:23.4	And we also have Evelyn Farcus in the studio with us. She is executive director at the McCain Institute and former
0:29.7	deputy assistant secretary at the Department of Defense. Hello to all of you.
0:33.5	Hello.
0:34.7	So Evelyn, one reason we asked you to come in and join us today was to help us work through the meaning of
0:42.5	President Biden's big trip to Ukraine this week. I mean, this was of course the best kept secret in politics.
0:48.8	So he was in Kiev after taking an OSO Biden route to get there, the train.
0:54.3	He met with President Zelensky. He delivered this message to Ukrainians about steadfast US support for their cause.
1:01.4	And he reminded Russia's president Vladimir Putin that Ukrainian sovereignty is officially part of US national security policy.
1:08.0	And in a speech in Poland, the president said that the United States, NATO and all democracies are being tested by Russia's invasion.
1:15.8	And he framed this war as a fight between democracy and aocracy between freedom and tyranny, between good and evil.
1:24.0	And he really stressed the importance of stability across Europe and the role that NATO plays in maintaining it.
1:30.4	There should be no doubt. Our support for Ukraine will not waver. NATO will not be divided and we will not tire.
1:38.8	Our support for Ukraine won't waver. NATO will not be divided.
1:43.2	I guess Evelyn general reactions, but in particular, I'm just interested in the expectations now that President Biden has put on the NATO alliance to support
1:53.8	Ukrainian independence.
1:55.8	Well, David, I think first of all, I just have to say thank you for having me on and in studio. It's really fun to be with everyone.
2:02.6	But I have to say that what President Biden did was brilliant on so many levels. It was obviously courageous. It was bold.
2:11.8	It was in terms of timing a getting out ahead of Vladimir Putin and his speech to his audience, which really were the elite Russians, and to some extent the Russian people.
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