Joining us on IHIP News is Timothy David Snyder, a historian specializing in the history

of Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

He is a leading scholar on the nature of tyranny and authoritarianism.

That all seems rather appropriate right now. And is the author

of several acclaimed books, including on tyranny and on freedom. Welcome to IHIP News.

I'm glad to be with you. This is our, you've been on before. My listeners absolutely love you.

And this is our first time in person. There's so much to discuss. And I read recently that Vladimir Zelensky is giving up on the United States.

The Ukraine has stopped trying to win Trump over and is actively pivoting away from the U.S.

and seeking new military partners speaking bluntly about American unreliability in planning for a European security architecture without Washington.

What is your take on that?

Well, it's a symptom of larger American mistakes.

I mean, we can talk about Ukraine, but what the Ukrainians have to do is a result of what

Americans are failing to do.

Americans are neglecting their traditional allies and mocking them and marginalizing them.

Americans are not attending to the most important conflict which is going on in the world

right now, which is the Russo-Ukrainian war.

Americans not only denigrate their allies,

but they make it impossible for their allies to plan. So I've had a lot of conversations,

not just in Ukraine, but around Europe. And nobody wants to leave the United States behind.

It's not anybody's first choice or second choice or third choice or fourth choice, but we're

making it impossible for people to deal with us.

Now, from the Ukrainian side, they've got a war to win.

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