
In This Episode
Trump just tore up the Iran deal. Tommy talks with Ben Rhodes about what happens next. Then Tommy talks with Russia expert Mike McFaul about his new book,Ā From Cold War to Hot Peace, about his time working at theĀ White House and as US Ambassador to Russia.
Show Notes:
Mike McFaul
- NPR – Morning Edition – Ex-Ambassador Michael McFaul Traces U.S.-Russia Ties ‘From Cold War To Hot Peace’
- New YorkerĀ – By Susan Glasser – Donald Trumpās Pursuit of an Oval Office Meeting with Vladimir Putin
- AP TimelineĀ – Significant Moments in Trumpās 18 Years in PowerĀ
- Washington Post –Ā Op-Ed By Mike McFaul – Ukraineās democracy is approaching āmake or breakā ā and the West is missing in action
- Washington Post Book ReviewĀ – How did the end of the Cold War become todayās dangerous tensions with Russia?
- New Yorker – Under Russian Terror, All Exiles Are Fearful and All Deaths Are Suspicious – By Masha Gessen
- New York Times – Trumpās Tweets on Syria, Russia and China: The Triumph of Contradiction
- New YorkerĀ – For Trump and Putin, Syria Is a Battle of Competing Realities
- New York TimesĀ – Itās No Cold War, but Relations With Russia Turn Volatile
- New YorkerĀ – Putin, a little man still trying to prove his bigness
- The AtlanticĀ – What a Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Learned From Condoleezza Rice
- New Yorker – Watching the Eclipse – Ambassador Michael McFaul was there when the promise of democracy came to Russiaāand when it began to fade.
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