Alexander Vindman

I think, you know, I guess even before we get there, I'll just point out that, you know, this book was undertaken after I was forced out of my military service after 22 years. I forced out of the White House after reporting Donald Trump's corruption and the scheming way back in 2019 testifying. And then I wanted to understand why we keep making the same mistakes over and over.

I think, you know, I guess even before we get there, I'll just point out that, you know, this book was undertaken after I was forced out of my military service after 22 years. I forced out of the White House after reporting Donald Trump's corruption and the scheming way back in 2019 testifying. And then I wanted to understand why we keep making the same mistakes over and over.

And the subtitle of this book really says it all. It's how the U.S. continues to deceive itself about Russia and betrays Ukraine. I wish I'd used the present tense and not past tense. I said deceived and betrayed. It's deceived and betrays. It continues to do that to this day. And it's to our own detriment. It is.

And the subtitle of this book really says it all. It's how the U.S. continues to deceive itself about Russia and betrays Ukraine. I wish I'd used the present tense and not past tense. I said deceived and betrayed. It's deceived and betrays. It continues to do that to this day. And it's to our own detriment. It is.

And the subtitle of this book really says it all. It's how the U.S. continues to deceive itself about Russia and betrays Ukraine. I wish I'd used the present tense and not past tense. I said deceived and betrayed. It's deceived and betrays. It continues to do that to this day. And it's to our own detriment. It is.

Not the fact that, you know, we are helping Ukraine to be, you know, just to be a good actor. It's because we understand the importance of Ukraine holding back the Russians from further aggression, helping to stabilize Europe. And my own experience, I mean, I left the Soviet Union as a refugee at the age of four. So my own experience has been entirely as an American serving in the U.S. military.

Not the fact that, you know, we are helping Ukraine to be, you know, just to be a good actor. It's because we understand the importance of Ukraine holding back the Russians from further aggression, helping to stabilize Europe. And my own experience, I mean, I left the Soviet Union as a refugee at the age of four. So my own experience has been entirely as an American serving in the U.S. military.

Not the fact that, you know, we are helping Ukraine to be, you know, just to be a good actor. It's because we understand the importance of Ukraine holding back the Russians from further aggression, helping to stabilize Europe. And my own experience, I mean, I left the Soviet Union as a refugee at the age of four. So my own experience has been entirely as an American serving in the U.S. military.

serving in embassies in Moscow, in Kiev, in the Pentagon, where I wrote the Russia strategy, how we contend with Russia as an adversary, where I was invited to the White House to be able to continue to do the work of advancing the U.S. national security interests. It is about the U.S.,

serving in embassies in Moscow, in Kiev, in the Pentagon, where I wrote the Russia strategy, how we contend with Russia as an adversary, where I was invited to the White House to be able to continue to do the work of advancing the U.S. national security interests. It is about the U.S.,

serving in embassies in Moscow, in Kiev, in the Pentagon, where I wrote the Russia strategy, how we contend with Russia as an adversary, where I was invited to the White House to be able to continue to do the work of advancing the U.S. national security interests. It is about the U.S.,

And it's shocking that we are now at this poison Kool-Aid stage of our relationship with Russia, appeasing them, accommodating them, always getting burned in the process instead of learning the lessons of the past and doing better, where we are far off from what I recommend, which is U.S. moral leadership and the centrality of values to interests.

And it's shocking that we are now at this poison Kool-Aid stage of our relationship with Russia, appeasing them, accommodating them, always getting burned in the process instead of learning the lessons of the past and doing better, where we are far off from what I recommend, which is U.S. moral leadership and the centrality of values to interests.

And it's shocking that we are now at this poison Kool-Aid stage of our relationship with Russia, appeasing them, accommodating them, always getting burned in the process instead of learning the lessons of the past and doing better, where we are far off from what I recommend, which is U.S. moral leadership and the centrality of values to interests.

It has a positive, I mean, I really lay out a positive case where It's going to take us to survive Trump. But on the back end, when we start to correct for all the damage that was done, that we recapture moral leadership by saying that we shouldn't be focusing on the bright, shiny object that Trump is falling for right now with Putin saying, hey, I might be interested in peace.

It has a positive, I mean, I really lay out a positive case where It's going to take us to survive Trump. But on the back end, when we start to correct for all the damage that was done, that we recapture moral leadership by saying that we shouldn't be focusing on the bright, shiny object that Trump is falling for right now with Putin saying, hey, I might be interested in peace.

It has a positive, I mean, I really lay out a positive case where It's going to take us to survive Trump. But on the back end, when we start to correct for all the damage that was done, that we recapture moral leadership by saying that we shouldn't be focusing on the bright, shiny object that Trump is falling for right now with Putin saying, hey, I might be interested in peace.

There might be some other deals we could work and never paying off when we should be focusing on the things that matter, like European security, because it's there for us when we are attacked. Europeans, because they're our largest training partner and they enable our prosperity. So to me, it's about the U.S. and how the U.S. could be safer. And we just made it a lot more dangerous for the U.S.,

There might be some other deals we could work and never paying off when we should be focusing on the things that matter, like European security, because it's there for us when we are attacked. Europeans, because they're our largest training partner and they enable our prosperity. So to me, it's about the U.S. and how the U.S. could be safer. And we just made it a lot more dangerous for the U.S.,

There might be some other deals we could work and never paying off when we should be focusing on the things that matter, like European security, because it's there for us when we are attacked. Europeans, because they're our largest training partner and they enable our prosperity. So to me, it's about the U.S. and how the U.S. could be safer. And we just made it a lot more dangerous for the U.S.,