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PREVIEW: The Ukraine war and the failure of both parties, #StateThinking: @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PREVIEW: The Ukraine war and the failure of both parties, #StateThinking: @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.

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0:30.0

This is John Bachelor. I speak with my good colleague Mary Kessel, the Executive Vice President

0:35.8

Stevens Incorporated, former senior advisor to the Secretary of State, of the Democratic

0:42.0

and Republican stumble when it comes to Ukraine war.

0:46.0

Mary is blunt. In the Republican Party, this is isolationism.

0:50.0

In the Democratic Party, it's a want of leadership.

0:54.0

Here's Mary.

0:55.0

Well, I think sitting in the United States, the Ukraine war feels far away.

1:00.0

It doesn't feel that way in places like Poland for instance or the Baltic states or

1:07.3

nations like the Czech Republic that have experienced Soviet oppression within

1:11.9

you know living lifetimes of people in Prague.

1:17.8

So it takes U.S. leadership to stand up and to explain, hey, this is American public why we're sending money to Ukraine.

1:25.0

This is our strategic goal in the conflict.

1:27.5

This is why it benefits American national security for us to do these things.

1:31.5

And President Biden really hasn't done very much of that.

1:35.0

And so the result is Republicans questioning what we're doing,

1:40.0

why we're spending the money, what are the strategic goals,

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