Provided this video. We are at the 75th anniversary of the potsdam conference. Big numbers like the 75th anniversary or hundred anniversary, are always occasions for looking back and for drawing attention. I think there is another reason to look back at potsdam as we are in our own day and age, reentering a world of Great Power Competition and reentering a world where geopolitics seems to have come back to the fore of international thinking in International Relations thinking. So it is well worth us coming back to this subject. Im especially glad to have a chance to talk to you about it. I wish it was in person again, in kansas city. I wish that we were able to do this face to face, but we will do the very best that we can. The key thing here, that i want to return to throughout this presentation, is shown by this photograph here, of Winston Churchill, harry truman and Joseph Stalin smiling and shaking hands. And the point that i really want to reiterate here, is that these three men a
With you. Donald trump and Winston Churchill have about a common. When you look at both men you wouldnt think that would be the case. One loves to drink in the other is a sixfoot threeinch teetotaler. One nap in his pajamas almost every afternoon and the other barely sleeps. One began their career by introducing and the other by opposing them. One with the soaring orator and the other a rather crude tweeter but nonetheless. On the surface they seem to be fairly different but peter is soon as you start to drill deeper in my looks trump and churchill defenders of western civilization you find the men have remarkable similarities both being intensely dislike and even hated. Both love their country and both clear thinkers, both alpha males, both had an acrimonious relationship with the media, both endured massive apples with the establishment in their own political party. Both had red assessors that were considered very weak. Winston churchill had Neville Chamberlain and donald trump had b
Cybersecurity and elections very seriously. At the same time we face many other challenges to ensure every vote counts if we count both. Some of the challenges are the direct result of human action related to Older Technology and as we have seen in the past even face risks from natural events such as major storms. I would like each of you to comment on how you would rate the current cybersecurity risk in the upcoming election as it relates to other issues. From my perspective, my entire orientation and of my organization it is looking at the cybersecurity risks and threats and so all of the other things youve talked about our outside of our purview with one exception which is the Contingency Planning that the state and other jurisdictions and local jurisdictions are encouraged to do under the voluntary system guidelines can also protect against these other kinds of natural disasters and other things youve referenced. I would put at risk again as i indicated on election day very low for
To benefit in terms of framing and produces a kind of way that thinks about them that requires them to continually perform gratitude, in arriving ways, which i think is really stifling. Expecting all of us to say thank you thank you thank you thank you. For deeply traumatized to get them into quite different cultures, languages, et cetera. Also that expectation of performance is something that is very problematic. By virtue of our culture, we have a slightly different framing. At the international level, this refugee migrant dichotomy is being performed in a different way. Does that possibly have to do with how the u. N. Itself defines refugee that sends the message in a humanitarian way. It has to do with the resfu gee convention and the ways we thought about different legal avenues for safe mobility. Many more barriers have done up, barriers are being raised high europe represents front line states. Theyre not actually the front line state. The real front lines are for the region of
The uss augusta on the way to tsdam july 714. Although truman took a large entourage, he and burns excluded every single one of their advisors except for admiral leahy and three state department officials. Specialist, the director of european affairs, and their top draftsman. They were all excluded and would travel separately to the conference. Sdam was going to be a highstakes poker game. Truman had two aces in the hole to play against stalin. Not only did he have the power to bring the war to an earlier end at least one atomic bomb, but he had the indoor emperors willingness to end the war. Indicated the japanese were playing a risky and dangerous game. They had adopted the basic strategy for conducting the war. Their plan was to fight a onefront war against the United States, attempt to administer a decisive defeat in repulsing the invasion, and sue for peace on favorable terms for a soviet mediation. The emperors, instincts remained but a military triumph must precede any diplomati