War. Peace. Soccer. With Foreign Affairs expert Joe Cirincione.
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 13 December 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends. Welcome to the Bill Press Pod and thank you for joining us. |
| 0:12.1 | Well, with the midterms now behind us, we decided to take a look today at some major |
| 0:16.9 | foreign policy developments that haven't received a lot of attention lately. First among them, |
| 0:22.3 | the ongoing war in Ukraine, now in its 11th month. What's the latest? Can Ukraine continue to hang |
| 0:29.8 | on and push Russia back? And what can we expect from a desperate Vladimir Putin? On another front, |
| 0:37.1 | a lot of Americans and Israelis have raised serious concerns |
| 0:40.8 | about the new extreme right-wing government that Bibi Netanyahu is trying to put together in |
| 0:46.6 | Israel. Concerns have also been raised about the recent visit of China's President Xi to Saudi Arabia. |
| 0:53.6 | After all the help we've given Saudi Arabia, |
| 0:56.7 | why are they now playing footsie with a major American competitor, if not adversary? And did the |
| 1:02.9 | United States make a good deal in swapping American prisoner Brittany Griner for Russian arms |
| 1:08.8 | dealer, Victor Boote? Well, for help sorting all of this out, |
| 1:12.9 | we turn today to our resident foreign policy guru and national security expert, Joe Sirencioni, |
| 1:21.0 | former president of the Plowshares Fund. Joe Sirencioni, good to connect with you again, |
| 1:26.9 | and welcome back to the Bill Press pod. |
| 1:29.9 | Thank you, Bill. It's a pleasure to be with you. So much to talk about Joe, but let's start with |
| 1:35.1 | the war in Ukraine. You and I have talked about it several times before. It's amazing to me that |
| 1:40.8 | the Ukraine has been able to hold on so long. But it seems to me now that they're not only |
| 1:47.4 | holding on, but they may have the upper hand. Am I wrong? How do you read what the status quo is today? |
| 1:55.8 | I think you're right, Bill. In fact, most military experts would agree with you that the pace of the war is in Ukraine's |
| 2:02.0 | favor. |
| 2:03.0 | They continue to hold the initiative. |
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