#StateThinking: Trump and the EU in wartime. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 7 November 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:08.5 | Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:11.8 | Foreign policy, the day after the victory for the former president of the United States, |
| 0:17.9 | now President-elect Trump, We begin in Eurasia. |
| 0:21.7 | Mary Kissel, Executive Vice President Stevens, Inc., former senior advisor to the Secretary of |
| 0:27.6 | State and many years in Asia for the Wall Street Journal editorial page. |
| 0:32.7 | Mary, when you were in office with Secretary of State Pompeo, there was no Ukraine crisis. There is now. |
| 0:39.9 | And there's reason to believe that the Europeans are unprepared for a Trump victory. |
| 0:45.7 | I've spoken with them. The EU was unprepared. NATO, I don't bother with so much because the |
| 0:52.1 | engines of NATO are in the EU. |
| 0:56.0 | Unprepared meaning that they're waiting for the U.S. to take the lead continuing the Ukraine war. |
| 1:02.3 | The headlines in the F.T. mention America first. |
| 1:07.7 | In other words, they're looking to the past and the allegation of isolationism |
| 1:13.5 | that led to or is said to have contributed to the European crisis of the middle of the 20th century. |
| 1:20.5 | I throw all that down on the table because the dots may or may not connect. The Trump administration, |
| 1:26.8 | Mr. Trump has said things during the campaign, |
| 1:29.3 | but it's one thing to talk. It's another thing to organize your policy. How do you see the Trump |
| 1:33.9 | team went in place at state and defense and treasury approaching the Ukraine crisis? Good day to you, |
| 1:42.0 | Mary. Good day to you, John. Well, before we dive into this, |
| 1:46.9 | I just want to say as a foundational comment, I think that President Trump's overwhelming |
| 1:53.3 | electoral college and popular vote victories are a, again, triumph for American democracy, a vote of confidence in our institution and our system, |
| 2:05.3 | a victory for our economic prosperity, our domestic security, and on the foreign front, which is the |
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