I was about to say Marshall here, welcome back to the realignment, but today's episode

is a bit special.

I am cross posting the first episode of my new Hudson Institute podcast, Arsenal of Democracy.

You're going to hear my conversation with Hudson slash the Wall Street journals, Walter

Russell Mead about America and the world and the broadside of topics we're going to explore

on the Arsenal of Democracy podcast.

If you enjoy this conversation, definitely go click the link in the show notes and

subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts to the Arsenal of Democracy.

We'll be back next week of another episode, of course, and be sure to rate us five stars

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We back with our normally scheduled realignment programming next episode.

Welcome to the Arsenal Democracy, a podcast from Hudson Institute.

I'm your host, Marshall Kausloff.

In this podcast, we cover key developments in US foreign and domestic policy with an

eye to equipping policymakers with the tools to confront the most dangerous geopolitical

environment since the end of the Cold War.

For our inaugural episode, I speak of my Hudson colleague, Walter Russell Mead.

Walter takes us on a tour of global hotspots, covering everything from Russia's invasion

of Ukraine to the US position in the Indo-Pacific.

But the Russians and the Chinese are actually in some ways offering better deals to the world's

elites.

Now, with many of these countries, then we are being corrupt as you want.

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