"Why Did Putin Wait?" With John Bolton
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 15 March 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
John Bolton had unimpeachable Republican and Conservative credentials. Until he went to work for Donald Trump as his National Security Advisor. It did not go well as he detailed in his book, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir. Bolton and Bill discuss the current situation in Ukraine and Trump's attitudes toward Russia, Ukraine and Vladimir Putin.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends, and welcome back to the Bill Press pod. |
| 0:11.3 | Well, we're now into the third week of the war in Ukraine. |
| 0:14.7 | The good news is that Putin's failed so far in his drive to take over Ukraine and toppled its government. The bad news is |
| 0:23.7 | that Putin's military are closing in on major cities and are also escalating their attacks |
| 0:29.3 | on civilian targets, including schools, hospitals, apartment buildings, even maternity wards. |
| 0:37.2 | So far, there is no end in sight, and nobody knows |
| 0:41.3 | how long this war is going to drag on, nor how it will end. One good thing the war has accomplished, |
| 0:49.6 | bringing the vast majority of Americans, Republicans, and Democrats together in support of the United |
| 0:56.8 | States doing everything we can to help Ukraine against Vladimir Putin. Even a handful of former |
| 1:04.9 | Trump administration officials have broken with Donald Trump on this issue, none of them more outspoken than today's |
| 1:14.5 | guest, John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush, |
| 1:21.9 | and former national security advisor under Donald Trump. |
| 1:26.5 | Ambassador Bolton, good to talk to you, and thank you so much for joining us today on |
| 1:30.7 | the Bill Press pod. |
| 1:32.7 | Well, glad to be with you. |
| 1:33.6 | Thanks for inviting me. |
| 1:34.7 | So I want to talk to you, of course, about the situation in Ukraine, Ambassador, but a lot of |
| 1:40.4 | Americans are wondering, and I like to ask you first, why is it so important for the |
| 1:46.5 | United States and our European allies to be defending Ukraine, standing up for Ukraine? |
| 1:53.6 | Well, I think it's useful to start at the beginning, really, in 1945, when after two world wars, the United States really collectively |
| 2:04.5 | decided that it was an American national security interest that Europe be peaceful and stable. |
| 2:11.8 | And with the threat of the Cold War, we took a lot of actions to try and help do what we could |
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