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Ep. 525 — Amb. Michael McFaul

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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The Cold War and the Window to Dealing With It

David Rothkopf: We put these things up for votes through the people that we elect and politicians get nervous. And you can see already, Mike, in our politics, you saw Ron DeSantis, who was a hawk on Ukraine when he was in Congress. You know, obviously Trump is in the full Tucker Carlson column against the wars or the pro-Putin rhetoric; polls do show some softening of American support. But this period does remind me of an earlier isolationist period,. I'm writing about a big book about origins of the Cold War and how to deal with China and Russia today.

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