Susan Glasser

It's that they literally have to, you know, alter themselves physically in order to be admitted into this male realm.

Yeah, I mean, Tuesday was the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

And that vote that you mentioned took place just a few hours before Trump's speech in which he made no mention at all of the extraordinary courage and bravery of Ukrainians in resisting this horrible and unprovoked assault on their independence, the largest attack

deadliest land war in Europe since the end of World War II.

What a contrast to four years ago when this happened right before Joe Biden's State of the Union, which was then rewritten, Biden promising to stand and that America would stand with Ukraine as long as it took to restore their territory and their independence.

And to me, again, if you cut through

the fog of words and the haze of, you know, Republican enabling for Trump, you know, what that tells you about yesterday is that Donald Trump has switched sides here.

And most Americans, and that includes Republicans as well as Democrats, they support Ukraine.

They want to stand by Ukraine.

They believe that Russia is at fault in this war of aggression.

And the president is pursuing a policy of not only appeasement toward Russia, but seeking business deals that would benefit himself and his inner circle in order to sell out

an American foreign policy that actually is bipartisan at a time when so few things are.

Yeah, again, I mean, you know, if you strip away a lot of the kind of like, you know, partisan litigating the case here, you know, just in a very, you know, Tony D, like call it down the middle here.

America, you know, is taking the side of the small number of countries in Europe who are led by right wing authoritarians supportive of Russia.

Period.

Full stop.

That's the way it is.

Further, America has decided to intervene in European elections in support of extremist right-wing political parties that wish to radically change the foreign policy and security direction of Europe.

Yeah, I do think they're conflicting signals.

I mean, first, just on the rhetorical front, you pointed out, you know, it's almost a sort of one of these postmodern leaps of faith required here to even be able to parse the argument in Trump's State of the Union speech, which was, I obliterated