Tom Nichols

And just to make the point that it's not about some sort of strategic calculation, he's also decided to send home Ukrainian refugees. He wants to take that refugee status away from them. You know, this is basically operating in concert with Putin. Vladimir Putin. My colleague David Frum had a great line.

You know, the Trump-Russia theory is like now one of the most durable theories in political science because you're watching it play out in real time. You know, we're getting confirmation of it every day. Was there any... overwhelming strategic or American interest reason to do this? And the answer, of course, is no.

You know, the Trump-Russia theory is like now one of the most durable theories in political science because you're watching it play out in real time. You know, we're getting confirmation of it every day. Was there any... overwhelming strategic or American interest reason to do this? And the answer, of course, is no.

You know, the Trump-Russia theory is like now one of the most durable theories in political science because you're watching it play out in real time. You know, we're getting confirmation of it every day. Was there any... overwhelming strategic or American interest reason to do this? And the answer, of course, is no.

And it's amazing because MAGA World always reacts to this like, well, we have to bring our boys home. Yeah, right. It's like, what boys?

And it's amazing because MAGA World always reacts to this like, well, we have to bring our boys home. Yeah, right. It's like, what boys?

And it's amazing because MAGA World always reacts to this like, well, we have to bring our boys home. Yeah, right. It's like, what boys?

It's not trying to achieve a just peace so that people stop dying. It's trying to achieve an unjust peace on Vladimir Putin's terms so that the people who do the dying are going to be mostly Ukrainians from here on out.

It's not trying to achieve a just peace so that people stop dying. It's trying to achieve an unjust peace on Vladimir Putin's terms so that the people who do the dying are going to be mostly Ukrainians from here on out.

It's not trying to achieve a just peace so that people stop dying. It's trying to achieve an unjust peace on Vladimir Putin's terms so that the people who do the dying are going to be mostly Ukrainians from here on out.

To get across to your listeners just how astonishing this is, I'm going to go into, like, nuclear professor mode for a minute and say, you know, Remember that the French created their own nuclear force because they felt cut out of the U.S.-British kind of nuclear duomvirate, right, back in the 50s.

To get across to your listeners just how astonishing this is, I'm going to go into, like, nuclear professor mode for a minute and say, you know, Remember that the French created their own nuclear force because they felt cut out of the U.S.-British kind of nuclear duomvirate, right, back in the 50s.

To get across to your listeners just how astonishing this is, I'm going to go into, like, nuclear professor mode for a minute and say, you know, Remember that the French created their own nuclear force because they felt cut out of the U.S.-British kind of nuclear duomvirate, right, back in the 50s.

And they literally said, one of their leaders said, we can't have our security be at the sufferance of les Anglo-Saxons, you know, like France will have a nuclear force that is not for anybody but France. And they literally did things like they had a couple of ICBMs. They're gone now, but they had a couple of ICBMs.

And they literally said, one of their leaders said, we can't have our security be at the sufferance of les Anglo-Saxons, you know, like France will have a nuclear force that is not for anybody but France. And they literally did things like they had a couple of ICBMs. They're gone now, but they had a couple of ICBMs.

And they literally said, one of their leaders said, we can't have our security be at the sufferance of les Anglo-Saxons, you know, like France will have a nuclear force that is not for anybody but France. And they literally did things like they had a couple of ICBMs. They're gone now, but they had a couple of ICBMs.

They put them on the French border so that they could say to the Russians, listen, you know, no matter what you do to the rest of Europe, once you roll in here, you're going to roll over these things and we're going to fire them. And that's separate from NATO and the Americans and their little cousins, the Brits and everything.

They put them on the French border so that they could say to the Russians, listen, you know, no matter what you do to the rest of Europe, once you roll in here, you're going to roll over these things and we're going to fire them. And that's separate from NATO and the Americans and their little cousins, the Brits and everything.

They put them on the French border so that they could say to the Russians, listen, you know, no matter what you do to the rest of Europe, once you roll in here, you're going to roll over these things and we're going to fire them. And that's separate from NATO and the Americans and their little cousins, the Brits and everything.

This has now turned everything on its head where the French, they haven't made a policy decision yet, but for France to say, okay, basically we'll take over as the nuclear guarantor of NATO. What? Wow. And considering that the French, you know, nuclear force is relatively small, that doesn't mean, you know, nuclear war fighting or tit for tat. I mean, that basically means that the, you know,