The Desperation of Vladimir Putin with LTC Alexander Vindman
The Lincoln Project
The Lincoln Project
4.7 • 8.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Host Reed Galen is joined by retired United States Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman who was the former Director for European Affairs for the United States National Security Council. They discuss the current state of the war in Ukraine, the exponentially increasing desperation from Vladimir Putin and his country’s instability, and why Tucker Carlson and the far-right media apparatus continues to take the side of Russia. Plus, how the heavily conservative Supreme Court is disrupting the balance of the U.S. government. If you’d like to connect with The Lincoln Project, send an email to [email protected].
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| 0:31.8 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project I'm your host Reed Gailan today I'm joined by retired |
| 0:37.2 | United States Army Lieutenant Colonel Alex Vandervin who is the former director for European |
| 0:42.1 | Affairs on the United States National Security Council from 2018 to 2020. Colonel Benman served |
| 0:48.7 | in the Army for 21 years and is a purple heart recipient since his retirement he's become a |
| 0:53.5 | New York Times best-selling author for his memoir here right matters an American story wherever |
| 0:58.6 | fine books are found is a senior advisor to vote vets a progressive veterans advocacy pact |
| 1:04.2 | and is currently pursuing a PhD in international affairs at Johns Hopkins University Alex welcome |
| 1:09.9 | back thanks for having me back and update on the Johns Hopkins thing I turned in my doctoral |
| 1:14.5 | dissertation so now I'm waiting for feedback and getting ready to defend well congratulations and |
| 1:19.7 | the next time you come back we'll call you doctor Benman yeah that's gonna be weird so Alex there's |
| 1:24.6 | a lot to talk about the last time you were with us it was just after Russia had invaded Ukraine |
| 1:29.6 | the Ukrainians are on the march there is a lot going on there so let's get into it how do you see |
| 1:35.2 | the conflict as it stands today so for the cause of democracy for the cause of a rules-based |
| 1:42.8 | international order for the cause of you know good versus evil things are going quite well on the |
| 1:49.5 | other side of the equation things are going terribly bad if you're not our tearing regime when we |
| 1:54.3 | spoke back in probably the February march time frame relatively quickly after the war started |
| 2:00.4 | it was apparent that the Russians were not going to be able to achieve all their military objectives |
| 2:05.4 | in particular their aspirations for seizing the entire country in short order were dashed they |
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