WTH Do Republicans Really Think About Foreign Policy? Roger Zakheim Explains
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 2 August 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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With the incessant politicization of real foreign policy issues, sometimes it is helpful to go back to the numbers. And in this case, the numbers are detached from the reality that anti-Ukraine Republicans are trying to sell. In fact, a new summer survey from the Reagan Institute finds that a 76% supermajority of Americans, including 71% of Republicans, agree that it is important to the US that Ukraine wins the war. This is not the “Ukraine fatigue” story we have been told. Moreover, support for aid increases substantially when respondents are given more information – where aid to Ukraine is going, how Ukraine has performed on the field. Knowing this, why are our leaders failing to give the America First case for aid to Ukraine?
Roger Zakheim serves as the Washington Director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute. He previously practiced law at Covington & Burling LLP where he led the firm’s Public Policy and Government Affairs practice group. Before joining Covington he was General Counsel and Deputy Staff Director of the U.S. House Armed Services Committee where he managed the passage of the annual National Defense Authorization Act. He was also the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:03.1 | If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. Thanks for listening. Here's our show. What the hell's going on? What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on? I don't know what the hell he's talking about. You don't have to know what the hell is on it. What hell's the matter with these guys? We don't know what's going on. Hotels gone on. |
| 0:01.1 | Who in God's name knows what it's all about. |
| 0:23.6 | Hi, I'm Danielle Pletka. |
| 0:36.6 | I'm Martisan. Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:38.7 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:40.9 | Can I just say this, Mark? |
| 0:42.2 | I wish that I did not think what the hell is going on every single damn hour of every single day. |
| 0:53.1 | Nonetheless, we have a podcast to do. |
| 0:55.6 | What the hell is going on on our podcast? |
| 0:58.4 | It's why it's the best name podcast in America, |
| 1:00.8 | because it's literally what everybody's wondering all the time. |
| 1:03.7 | So we were trying to figure out what the hell are the American people thinking about foreign policy. |
| 1:09.0 | And the Reagan Institute has a new poll out, which really |
| 1:13.6 | delves deep into where the American people are when it comes to foreign policy and focuses |
| 1:19.0 | primarily on the biggest foreign policy immediate challenge that's happening right now, which is |
| 1:24.2 | the war in Ukraine. But it also talks more broadly about American foreign policy. |
| 1:28.5 | And one of the things it shows us is that Americans are, you know, they are still in favor of a |
| 1:36.6 | principled foreign policy. They're still in favor of human rights. They're still in favor of |
| 1:41.8 | democracy. And they back Ukraine. There are caveats to that, |
| 1:45.8 | but it's an encouraging poll about the way that Americans see the world. So I love what our friends, |
| 1:55.3 | and I'm proud to call on that, our friends have done at the Ronald Reagan Foundation, because |
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