Listen "Ben Wittes: Five Alarm Fires"
Episode Synopsis
Charlie Sykes and Lawfare’s Ben Wittes unpack the fallout from Donald Trump’s Alaska summit with Vladimir Putin, a meeting that left America humiliated and Ukraine on edge. Wittes shares his own surreal run-in with the Secret Service after chalking a Ukrainian flag outside the Russian embassy, and together they trace how symbolism, appeasement, and bad faith are reshaping U.S. foreign policy. The conversation widens to the crumbling Department of Justice and the troubling militarization of Washington, D.C. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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