WTH is the America First Case for Supporting Ukraine?
What the Hell Is Going On
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4.4 • 633 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Over the past 15 months, Ukrainians have surpassed expectations in their response to the Russian invasion, showing valor and resilience. But more than a year into the fighting, many of those who advocate for aid to Ukraine still do so as a matter of idealism. Voters should know that it is also in the United States’ vital national interests. President Biden, our commander-in-chief, has a responsibility to explain to the American people what is at stake in the war in Ukraine: the consequences of failure, the consequences of success, and America’s role. In this special episode of WTH, Dany interviews Marc on his important piece for the Washington Post, where he has collected the 10 strongest arguments for why helping Ukraine will make the United States safer, more prosperous, and more secure.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:03.0 | 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 is 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. What hell's going on? |
| 0:01.1 | Who in God's name knows what it's all about. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm Mark Teeson. And I'm Danielle Pletka. |
| 0:40.1 | And welcome to our podcast. What the hell is going on? |
| 0:41.4 | Danny, we're backwards today. |
| 0:43.0 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:45.1 | Well, Mark, funny you should ask. |
| 0:50.1 | Because the reason we're doing this backwards today is you had an extraordinarily important and I think extraordinarily eloquent piece in the Washington Post. |
| 0:53.8 | It ran online last week, |
| 0:55.3 | and it took up two full pages in this Sunday's Washington Post, which I think is the kind of |
| 1:02.3 | space, real estate newspaper talk, real estate that it deserved. It is entitled, This is the |
| 1:09.4 | America First Case for Supporting Ukraine. |
| 1:12.8 | And I want to ask you about the piece. |
| 1:14.7 | And you're going to be our co-host today and you're going to be our guest. |
| 1:18.2 | And let's talk a little bit. |
| 1:20.2 | But first I want to know, why did you write this piece? |
| 1:22.5 | So I was growing concern. |
| 1:24.0 | We were a year into the war. |
| 1:25.9 | And I mean, everybody's been inspired by the courage |
| 1:28.4 | of the Ukrainian people. I think no matter where you stand on Ukraine, 90% of Americans would say, |
| 1:33.4 | boy, the Ukrainians have just impressed us with their courage. But I was getting concerned |
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