#StateThinking: Two wars and the Republicans. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 21 August 2024
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Batch from Mary Kistles here and we've been looking at two kinetic hot wars and the Democratic National Convention and its candidate Vice President |
| 0:16.6 | Kamala Harris. Now former President Trump is leading the Republican |
| 0:20.8 | moment and I want to concentrate just on one thing. |
| 0:24.8 | Russia and the aggression in Ukraine. |
| 0:27.2 | The aggression generally always showing off ballistic missiles with nuclear-tipped |
| 0:32.1 | warheads. |
| 0:34.0 | Mary, the Trump administration in the first term, |
| 0:38.4 | was quite profoundly different circumstances |
| 0:41.3 | than we have now with the hot war in Europe. |
| 0:44.4 | And I am unaware that Mr. Trump has said anything to suggest that he would do more than what he |
| 0:52.3 | says. |
| 0:52.7 | I'll settle the Ukraine war on the first day. |
| 0:54.7 | Does that mean that Mr. Trump's disposed towards what you'd have to say |
| 0:59.6 | a gesture of disarmament or disarming Vladimir Putin that's the word I want to use not |
| 1:06.2 | about weapons but about being charming how do you anticipate mr. Trump would |
| 1:10.6 | approach Vladimir Putin in the second term. |
| 1:12.8 | We have a couple of minutes. |
| 1:14.4 | Well, again, you can look at his record. |
| 1:16.4 | He was the toughest president on Putin |
| 1:18.2 | out of the last four presidents that we've had. |
| 1:20.5 | He sanctioned his inner circle. |
| 1:21.8 | He unleashed US energy cutting off a major revenue source for Putin. |
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