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How can the U.S. pursue a realist foreign policy without abandoning its core values? Alexander Vindman, retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and former director for European Affairs on the White House’s National Security Council, joins the "Values & Interests" podcast for a discussion on the critical interplay between morality and power in the practice of geopolitics. Together with host Kevin Maloney, Vindman discusses the shifting U.S. foreign policy landscape, President Trump's increasingly transactional approach to international relations, and what a just end to the war in Ukraine might look like.
Alexander Vindman's latest book is "The Folly of Realism: How the West Deceived Itself About Russia and Betrayed Ukraine."
For more, please go to: carnegiecouncil.co/values-interests-vindman
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#realism #foreignpolicy #ukrainewar #ethics
How can the U.S. pursue a realist foreign policy without abandoning its core values? Alexander Vindman, retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and former director for European Affairs on the White House’s National Security Council, joins the "Values & Interests" podcast for a discussion on the critical interplay between morality and power in the practice of geopolitics. Together with host Kevin Maloney, Vindman discusses the shifting U.S. foreign policy landscape, President Trump's increasingly transactional approach to international relations, and what a just end to the war in Ukraine might look like.
Alexander Vindman's latest book is "The Folly of Realism: How the West Deceived Itself About Russia and Betrayed Ukraine."
For more, please go to: carnegiecouncil.co/values-interests-vindman
Image/Video Credits (in order of appearance):
PHC C.M. Fitzpatrick - United States Department of Defense photo, http://www.defenselink.mil/multimedia/Public Domain
Office of the President of the United States/@realDonaldTrump on Twitter/Public Domain
ByDroneVideos/Shutterstock.com
Office of the President of Russia/CC (commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Xi_Jinping_and_Vladimir_Putin_at_the_parade_marking_the_80th_anniversary_of_the_Great_Victory_at_Great_Patriotic_War_%282025%29.jpg)
ByDroneVideos/Shutterstock.com
elfoly/Shutterstock.com
The White House/Public Domain
President Of Ukraine from Україна/CC (commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Volodymyr_Zelenskyy_took_part_in_hoisting_the_State_Flag_of_Ukraine_in_liberated_Kherson._(52502054830).jpg)
amazon.com/Folly-Realism-Deceived-Betrayed-Ukraine/dp/1541705041
#realism #foreignpolicy #ukrainewar #ethics
