The War in Ukraine with National Security Analyst Joe Cirincione
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 28 February 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Joe Cirincione is a national security and foreign policy expert He previously served for over 12 years as the President of the Ploughshares Fund, a foundation focused on nuclear nonproliferation and conflict resolution. He was an outside advisor to the State Department during the Obama Administration. He is a member of the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations. He is the Bill Press Pod foreign policy expert.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello again, good friends, good to see you, and welcome back to the Bill Press |
| 0:11.1 | Pod, where we try to help keep you up to date on all the big issues on the table in our |
| 0:16.3 | nation's capital. And one of the biggest ones, still now one year later, is Russia's war against Ukraine. |
| 0:24.7 | In a dramatic move, President Biden traveled to inside Ukraine last week, meeting President |
| 0:30.3 | Zelensky in Kiev and a show of solidarity and reaffirming America's commitment to Ukraine. |
| 0:37.4 | But back here at home, things are somewhat uncertain, |
| 0:41.5 | with several leading Republicans either actually siding with Putin |
| 0:45.5 | or arguing that we shouldn't give any more money or weapons to Ukraine. |
| 0:50.6 | So where do we stand on Ukraine? |
| 0:53.3 | What's the story on the ground there today? how long does it look like this war could drag on? |
| 1:00.0 | Well, as you know from the beginning, we have followed the war in Ukraine with our own foreign policy expert, national security analyst, and former head of the Plowshares Fund, Joe Sirencioni. Today, having just marked the first |
| 1:14.7 | anniversary of the war, we welcome Joe Sirenciani back for an update. Joe Sirenciani, welcome back to |
| 1:21.8 | the Bill Press pod. Could this do it to talk to you again? Thank you very much, Bill. It's always |
| 1:26.0 | great to be here. So we saw last week President Biden a very dramatic visit to Kiev, kept in top secrecy until |
| 1:35.4 | he arrived there and said hello to President Zelensky. How important was that visit, Joe? |
| 1:42.4 | Oh, it was a major step for Biden, for Ukraine, for U.S. support for Ukraine. |
| 1:50.5 | You know, German Chancellor Olaf Scholes has a phrase that he coined a year ago called |
| 1:57.5 | Zeitend Wenda means turning point. |
| 2:00.9 | And you meant about a turning point in Germany's defense policies because of Putin's invasion. |
| 2:06.5 | I think we may look back at this trip by Biden to Kiev as a Zayton Wenda, a turning point, |
| 2:12.2 | where Biden is just all in. |
| 2:14.5 | He is fully committed in putting his personal prestige on the line, making the most |
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