NATO’s New Momentum | Foreign Affairs Interview Podcast
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2023
- Foreign Affairs invites you to listen to its podcast, the Foreign Affairs Interview. This episode with Julianne Smith was originally published on June 9, 2022.
In the fall of 2021, NATO was trying to find its way. The Biden administration was trying to reestablish U.S. commitment to the transatlantic alliance after President Donald Trump had left it on shaky ground. The chaotic withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan didn’t help. U.S. allies felt left in the dark, their concerns barely listened to. At the same time, Russian President Vladimir Putin was busy amassing troops on Ukraine’s border, causing neighboring countries-and NATO members-to begin to panic.
It was against this backdrop that Ambassador Julianne Smith started her new job as the top U.S. diplomat to NATO in November 2021. She worked quickly to rebuild morale and to engage with her European counterparts to plan for a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine. She brought years of experience in Washington to the position: during the Obama administration, she served as the acting national security adviser and the deputy national security adviser to Vice President Joe Biden. Before her post at the White House, she served for three years as the principal director for European and NATO policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon.
We discuss how the U.S. government worked to build unity among its European allies in the face of Russian aggression, what it’s been like to be in NATO headquarters in Brussels during this pivotal moment in transatlantic history, and how the war in Ukraine is giving NATO a renewed sense of purpose.
SOURCES FOR THIS EPISODE
“The Old World and the Middle Kingdom” by Julianne Smith and Torrey Tausig
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“NATO in the Age of Trump” by Julianne Smith and Jim Townsend
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NATO's “Strategic Concept 2010”
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Read More by Julianne Smith
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33:00 Unfortunately, Putin does not recognize the agency of NATO members other than the US. All the constant negotiation and debate among NATO members is viewed as some kind of theatrics to Putin and he won't believe for a second that NATO expansion wasn't a coercive imperial enterprise by the US.
who cares what Putin thinks loser
He believes they’re all npcs, fake states that shouldn’t and don’t exist
Расширение НАТО на Восток закончилось, ибо оно споткнулось на Украине. Теперь для большинства россиян стало абсолютно ясно, что НАТО для их страны представляет смертельную опасность. Поэтому в предстоящей схватке с натовцами , российские солдаты и офицеры этих натовских выродков жалеть не будут. В плен их брать бессмысленно, ибо их содержание обойдётся Российской казне слишком дорого. Одним словом пленных у российских бойцов не будет, а будут только трупы. И с гражданским населением врага , российские войска тоже церимонится не будут. Если в интересах сохранения жизни русских солдат надо будет сносить города с их жителями - значит это будет сделано. Те времена, когда брали в плен и жалели гражданское население, давно прошли. Тем более в Европе слишком много населения. Так что Русская армия поможет решить эту проблему с перенаселением.
Excellent cometary!!
Extremely well done, thx
22:50 ‘shots weren’t fired’ yet Russians were killed in the fighting and they, not the separatists, captured debaltseve
What?
hopefully the orange agent will not break down all this good work again
Why do these ghouls always forget about the Yugoslav wars
Agree 💯
Because it doesn't fit their narrative
А потому и не вспоминают натовские выродке об трагедии Югославии, потому что сами приложили свои подлые ручки к этому межнациональному конфликту.