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Words -- for months when they didnt get the weapons they needed from us. should we give them more leeway in the way they can strike back when russia is amassed at the border firing at them? >> andrea, lets be clear about what caused that unconscionable delay in congress. it was the voices, mostly -- almost exclusively in the republican party, mostly in the house, that are arguing for isolationism, that were refusing to move ahead with funding ukraine and ukraines ongoing brave fight against russ...

Ukraine territory. russia will inevitably disperse forces to other areas along the border. channeling what the president representative told us today the u.s. policy toward ukraine has evolved along with the war. the president seemed in his remarks to also be messaging to those who would rather see the u.s. will outsmart its support for ukraine, saying isolationism was not the answer 80 years ago and is not the answer today well. >> thank you jackie very much. martha mccollum has been inerrant t...

Do. they thought that they should do it because it was in their self-interest and president biden said that the biden administration has been very clear that its foreign policy is because they are pursuing what they believe is the best national security interests and the interests of the united states so isolationism that we see the republican party being drawn to the biden administration just doesnt think that that is the right approach to foreign policy, but that is some message o2, when it co...

Has been the lynch pin of our national security for decades now. >> americas unique ability to bring countries together is an undenial source of our strength and our power. isolationism was not the answer eight years ago. and its not the answer today. we know the dark forces that they fought against. they never fade. aggression and greed, the desire to dominate and control, to change borders by force, these are perennial. the struggle between a dictatorship and freedom is unending. >> president ...

What ukraine is experiencing with the invasion of russia and more than two years of war, so the president talked about how isolationism back during world war ii was not the right approach, and he argues that that is not the right approach today. so the president honored the service of veterans. so did president macron of france, and also, there is the really moving tributes and ceremony of a day like this. but president biden was also clear to point out and europeans know it well, that the risk ...

Hitler treaty against the west. it was only when hitler made the greatest military error of all time of invading the soviet union, when they became the member of the allies. putin is playing that hitler role. that tran call person trying to conquer europe. you hear president biden say that. after ukraine, theres poland, theres the baltics, so thats energizing us now. its one of the reasons that biden tauds about ice lasmism. we cant afford to not participate this these things. and by the way spe...

1970s, there were a lot of 60s and 70s and which you covered so much in your book and your newest book. >> but was the country more divided than or do you think its more divided now? >> i think its more divided now than any time in my lifetime really since the civil war, we would divided over issues, maybe the vietnam war, isolationism, interventionism, race, civil rights. but this is like identity. people who are in one party and the other feel like thats their life. its a different thing. weve...

American power is overstretched, and the future of NATO and Europe itself depends on the continent’s ability to adapt.

America first idea. Critics would turn that into isolationism. Simply the idea that america needs to take care of its own difficulties and shouldnt be spending money elsewhere. When it comes to ukraine specifically, of course we have the former president s contentious relationship with russian president vladimir putin. This suggests that he could bring the war to ukraine with an end of one day within getting to the white house. It is assumed that he means he would pressure ukraine to make signif...

Comfortably because it had overwhelming democratic support. how does the candidate for the republicans, the presidential candidate donald trump fit into all of this? it is partly his influence that is creating a bit of division within the republican party on this as well, isnt it? 100%. notjust on ukraine but on the general issue of how engaged the united states should be with the world beyond its borders. essentially, the former president donald trump is someone who believes in what he would te...