PREVI!EW: From a longer conversation, Mary Kissel asks why POTUS and the Administration have not and are not rallying the American people to the cause and support of Ukraine after 22 months of war.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 19 December 2023
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1920 Ukraine poster of Russia aggressor
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| 0:30.0 | This is John Batcher, speaking with my colleague Mary Kessel about what is missing in the Ukraine conflict. |
| 0:38.0 | What is missing in the remarks by the President of the United States and his staff about why we fight. |
| 0:45.7 | What is missing that we've seen in previous conflicts in which blood and treasure are involved? |
| 0:51.5 | We have the President rallying but how? Nine o'clock speeches? No. |
| 0:57.0 | Campaigns across the country to rally support? No. Mary asks these questions and I don't have any answers. Do you? |
| 1:07.0 | Here's Mary. Well I think there's still a lot of bipartisan consensus on Capitol |
| 1:11.4 | Hill to support Ukraine and its fight. But democracies without leadership do tire of foreign conflicts |
| 1:19.7 | because ultimately you need the President of the United States as commander-in-chief to |
| 1:26.0 | rally the nation behind his foreign policy. |
| 1:30.1 | And he has started to do that in Ukraine, |
| 1:33.2 | but he hasn't done it to any significant degree |
| 1:36.8 | as we have in past conflicts, like, for instance, |
| 1:39.2 | the Iraq war or, you know one and two or or Vietnam or Korea or World War two. |
| 1:47.8 | There are no stirring you know battle cries to support our |
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