Zelensky Makes His Plea to Congress for Ukraine

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The Dispatch

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🗓️ 17 March 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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On today’s episode, Steve speaks with Eric Edelman, a member of the U.S. foreign service for 28 years who served as a U.S. ambassador, a national security adviser to the vice president, and an under secretary of defense. They discuss Vladimir Putin and his strategy going into the invasion of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky’s address to Congress, and finish with the latest on the Iran deal. Show Notes: -Edelman’s page at The Dispatch -Edelman’s podcast Shield of the Republic -TMD: “Iran Deal on the Ropes?” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dispatch podcast. I'm Steve Hayes.
0:03.8	Joining us today we have Eric Edelman,
0:06.9	a frequent dispatch contributor,
0:10.1	and someone with long experience,
0:12.3	both the Defense Department and the State Department,
0:15.3	as well as embassies throughout the world.
0:18.9	Eric served as a senior DOD policy official under Secretary of Defense for
0:25.1	Policy during the second George W. Bush term.
0:31.4	Before that, he served in senior State Department roles,
0:34.9	served as ambassador to Finland under Bill Clinton,
0:39.2	served as ambassador to Turkey.
0:42.1	Early parts of the Bush administration served on Vice President
0:45.3	Cheney's staff, principal deputy assistant for National Security Affairs.
0:49.9	He has a long and very distinguished history working on national security,
0:54.8	and diplomacy issues for the United States.
0:57.7	He also hosts a podcast,
1:00.5	the Shield of the Republic.
1:02.5	I listened to the most recent episode with Cory Shockey from the American Enterprise Institute,
1:08.1	and found it fascinating.
1:09.8	Eric and his co-host, Elliot Cohen,
1:12.7	have Andrew Roberts,
1:14.4	the British historian coming up on their next episode,
	...

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