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#NATO: If Trump is elected. If Trump is not elected. Katrina Vanden Heuvel, The Nation

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🗓️ 2 April 2024

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#NATO: If Trump is elected. If Trump is not elected. Katrina Vanden Heuvel, The Nation
https://on.ft.com/3TOavaO

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This is a CVSI and the world. I'm John Bachelor. The reporting from London mentions

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thousands to be recruited or drafted or conscripted by Russia for a spring offensive.

0:16.7

mentions a barrage of missiles of different types directed at the Ukrainian electric grid mentioned certainly preparations for

0:26.0

peppering Odessa part of Nova Rasea with missiles in order to prepare for we

0:31.8

don't know an invasion a bombing campaign Odessa is in the

0:36.6

target hairs if you're looking to retake Novoricea that's the Russian side I welcome

0:42.2

Katrina Vanenhove, the editorial director and the publisher of the Nation magazine, because both of us have looked at Gideon Rockman's new column in the Financial Times where Gideon Rockman, the foreign

0:55.3

correspondent for the FT, is looking at what happens from the American side in the event of the election, either turning to Mr. Trump, who could leave

1:05.6

NATO, who could abandon Ukraine, who could order vengeance against those he

1:11.8

describes his enemies, or Mr. Trump losing in which case

1:15.9

Gideon Rockman is projecting disorder turmoil on the in the direction of what

1:22.2

happened January 6th and 2021,

1:25.4

however much more involving elite forces

1:29.0

or the forces of sympathetic forces across the country.

1:32.8

It's a nightmare scenario and I lay it out quickly because it's a column today.

1:38.0

Katrina, I mention this because oft times when I speak to Europe now Germany and France and England

1:44.8

it's brought up what if Trump wins they're thinking about it hard and there is an

1:49.7

EU election in May which will determine the strength of the so-called right wing in Europe.

1:55.8

How do you measure these projections, these speculations, this imagination of Gideon Rockman?

2:01.2

So it strike you because as at the nation you you watch the country

2:05.6

very closely politically? Does it strike you as realistic or a paranoid of a

2:10.7

fever? Good evening to you. Good evening John I'd say somewhere in between I mean I've been spending more time reading this

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