I'm Steve Schmidt, and I'm thrilled to be joined by Sasha Ingber.

She writes on Substack at Humint.

Human stands for human intelligence.

And Sasha covers spies and spying in the intelligence community,

the dark arts, what's happening around the world in the shadows,

this competition between great states and actors and players in nations,

in a time of war and tumult and chaos.

Before we begin, I just want to say that Franklin Roosevelt, who is the architect of the modern world,

and the first cornerstones of that architecture are laid at the Atlantic Charter in 1940 before the

United States enters the Second World War. And it talks about a world not where the strong

nations dominate the weak, where the powerful prey on the small,

but one of values and ideals.

And that world is the one that prevails in the Second World War.

And when that war ends, the most powerful nation in human history is the United

States of America. And it does not use its power to strike mineral deals. It does not use its

power to take. It rebuilds Japan.

We rebuild Europe.

And we unleash the greatest period of prosperity and progress in all of the recorded annals of human history from the cave drawings through this present moment,

including landing men on the moon.

And so this moment, this is what's at stake.

The Canadian Prime Minister was an indispensable partner of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister

Churchill during the Second World War.

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