Ep. 182: The U.S., Ukraine & Russia: What's Next? [The Outstanding Podcast]
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🗓️ 7 March 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
When President Donald Trump was elected, he promised to clean up the foreign affairs mess left by his predecessor - specifically the Russian-Ukrainian war. Professor at Regent University, Dr. A.J. Nolte, joins Joseph Backholm to explore America’s stance on Ukraine, the Biden administration’s role, and whether the U.S. should engage with Putin. Why is Trump the only president who seems willing to talk to Russia? What mistakes has Zelensky made, and is Ukraine’s corruption a barrier to peace? They break down the challenges of a deal, military risks, and the future of power in the region.
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| 0:00.0 | Reagan called the Soviet Union, the evil empire, and he still got plenty of deals done with Gorbachev, |
| 0:05.7 | so I think you can walk and chew gum at the same time. |
| 0:08.8 | But I also think that, you know, you can kind of understand why Trump coming from more of that business background would say, |
| 0:17.9 | yeah, sometimes it's going to have to deal with people I don't necessarily like, but I don't need to say that loud. |
| 0:22.5 | Outstanding is a production of The Washington Stand, where you can find news and commentary |
| 0:26.6 | from a biblical worldview. |
| 0:28.5 | Welcome to Outstanding, where we have critical conversations about the news of the day and the |
| 0:32.7 | ideas that shape us. |
| 0:33.9 | Once again, I'm your host, Joseph Backholm, and this is another exercise in taking |
| 0:38.1 | every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. We're doing our best to think Christianly about |
| 0:43.2 | the world that we live in. And one of the stories that continues to get a lot of attention for |
| 0:48.8 | really appropriate reasons is the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been going on for |
| 0:56.2 | three years now, and the human cost has been extraordinary. Civilian casualties are now |
| 1:02.8 | over 12,000 people killed, over 27,000 people injured. Ukrainian military casualties have over 43,000 soldiers killed, over 370,000 wounded. |
| 1:18.3 | Estimates on the Russian side are more difficult to get because they do not have the same |
| 1:23.8 | transparency. But as of December 2024, it was thought about 200,000 were killed, |
| 1:30.5 | over 550,000 wounded by any measure catastrophic human costs in this conflict that most of the |
| 1:39.9 | world believes was not only unnecessary, but in fact an act of evil. And the also additionally |
| 1:49.0 | challenging news is that there appears to be no end in sight from a military perspective. It's |
| 1:55.3 | like devolved into this almost World War I style, war of attrition, just kind of a slog where no one appears to be making |
| 2:03.2 | real progress. The Ukrainians are getting just enough military support to keep fighting, but not |
| 2:10.4 | enough to do things that would actually allow them to win. Meanwhile, the Russian military seems to |
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