The Russia Challenge, With Liana Fix and Thomas Graham (Election 2024, Episode 1)

The President’s Inbox

Council on Foreign Relations

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4.5 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Liana Fix, a fellow for Europe at CFR, and Thomas Graham, a distinguished fellow at CFR, sit down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the future of U.S. policy toward Russia and the risks posed by heightened tensions between two nuclear powers. This episode is the first in a special TPI series on the U.S. 2024 presidential election and is supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Mentioned on the Episode Liana Fix, “NATO and Ukraine: The Peril of Indecision,” Survival Liana Fix and Michael Kimmage, “The Ukraine Scenarios,” Foreign Affairs The U.S. Election and Foreign Policy, CFR.org Thomas Graham, Getting Russia Right For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The President’s Inbox at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/tpi/russia-challenge-liana-fix-and-thomas-graham-election-2024-episode-1

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0:00.0	Welcome to the President's Inbox. I'm Jim Lindsay, the Mary and David Boy's Distinguished Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations.
0:14.0	Today's episode is the first in a special 2024 U.S. election series here on the president's inbox. Whatever the outcome of the election
0:23.4	on November 5th, the United States will have a new president come next January 20th. Whether that
0:29.2	president is Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, they will face a difficult and dangerous world. Over the
0:35.5	next seven weeks until election day, I will be sitting down with
0:38.8	experts to unpack some of the most pressing challenges in the next president's foreign policy
0:44.0	inbox. This week's topic is the Russia Challenge. With me to discuss the future of U.S. policy
0:53.5	toward Russia, including U.S. support for Ukraine,
0:57.0	are Leanna Fix and Thomas Graham.
1:00.2	Leanna is a fellow for Europe at the Council.
1:02.8	Her research focuses on European security, transatlantic relations in Russia.
1:08.4	Along with Michael Kimmage, she is the author of the popular Ukraine scenario series
1:13.3	at Foreign Affairs Magazine. She recently Lord a Peace for Survival Magazine titled
1:18.7	NATO in Ukraine, the peril of indecision. Tom is a distinguished fellow here at the council.
1:26.7	He was a foreign service Officer for 14 years.
1:30.1	He was Director for Russian Affairs on the staff of the National Security Council under
1:34.4	President George W. Bush from 2002 to 2004, an assistant to President Bush and senior
1:41.7	director for Russia on the National security staff from 2004 to 2007.
1:48.1	Tom is the author of Getting Russia Right, which was published last September.
1:53.3	Leanna and Tom, thank you for joining me on the president's inbox.
1:57.2	Thank you for the intervention.
1:58.6	Great to be here.
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