Good evening and welcome to Hudson Institute policy center. Im john walters, the chief operating officer and i like to welcome our audience here out of pennsylvania avenue headquarters and our cspan audience to our first ever podcast keeping, that is both live and marks the Second Season premiere of podcast of the Second Season of the realignment hosted by hudson media fellow marshall kosloff. We are proud of the realignment here at hudson. Podcast launched last year and i recommend aspersion for those of you who have been following it that you take a look at the episodes from last year, particularly the conversation with secretary of state mike pompeo, josh hawley, micah gallagher, Michael Doran and others. Its an Excellent Program partly because of the two people who put it together and their ability to bring up topics and to move the argument along. We couldnt be prouder of the work they have done and i want to thank them for that and we are happy to launch this Years Program with m
The trial issue room shifted the national conversation. In 2014 relative to today, the Democratic Front runner, china is a significant problem economically and in the International Security sense. The credit for changing the conversation goes largely to the 2016 election and donald trump. Host on the democratic stage only one candidate said he would take away china tariffs and most said they would vote for a street deal with nafta. If that is not a political realignment not sure what is. An interesting thing, we should one of the east economically disruptive are implemented to restore a more even balance of power to the capital and labor. Tight labor markets, labor naturally wants a buyers market in labor or a sellers market in labor and employees want to buy ors market so that is basic, from the 1820s until 1990s the labor market from and tended to be, more generous policies, the former Country Club Republicans have become the new postal democrats, the children or grandchildren have,
At least once communicated with gagarin considered him a friend. Yuri alekseevich knew how and loved to make friends. Nowadays he would be called an extrovert. Yuri alekseevich could often bring those people who were close to him, whom he liked, home in the evening and, completely unexpectedly, continue communication, continue the conversation with them at home. After the flight, it turned out that gagarin was a natural born leader, although when selecting candidates for the first flight, this quality was unimportant, the flight was solo, people were ready to follow gagarin, and most importantly, he was ready to lead them. In may sixtyone he was appointed commander of the cosmonaut corps, in sixty three deputy head of the Training Center for. Pyotr klimuk in sixtyfive also underwent this initiation. We have a swimming pool, in this pool everyone was naked in swimming trunks. Yuri alekseevich really was neptune, everyone had to say something, and he asked such questions that were quite
Europe in a car with russian license plates. What are the russians to blame for here . Because they are russian. Why cant russian artists and athletes participate in competitions under their National Flags . They are being deprived of their national pride. Its amazing that americans are patriots, every third house in the usa hangs an american flag, this is correct value, why take it away from the russians, the dollar has become a currency of sanctions, if you do not follow american policies, your accounts are blocked, if you want to open a bank account in europe in most countries of the world now, take out insurance, you must give permission to the american through your bank tax system on. But there was another problem that french president charles do gaulle faced directly, which was a consequence of his step to liberate france from american dictatorship, the war in algeria. During the war in algeria, for example, the americans directly financed the oas, a military group that was suppo
History up to that point and poland was, had a, sizable army. Small air force, small navy. It was basically a poor country. It didnt have the sense and financial wherewithal germany did. They thought they could hold off germany at least for a while but germans rolled over them. Cspan you say it wasnt a surprise. The date was maybe a surprise but was the rest of europe preparing for war at this point . Guest they expected war was coming. Most European Countries hoped it wouldnt happen. Half the European Countries were neutral. They declared neutrality. Some prepared for war to a certain extent but none of them were really ready for what was about to happen to them. They hoped somehow something would happen to prevent germany from embarking on what, you know, hitler had been really preparing for a number of years. So they were basically keeping their fingered crossed. Obviously that didnt work. Cspan why werent they prepared . If they were aware of what hitler wanted . Part of the reason