leadership in russia and the douma. so this is a long time coming to the lack of respect and lack of agency that russian leadership has always held. and it s always actually preceded vladimir putin. terrell, every time i talk to you i get smarter about a history that i do not know enough of the history that should. thank you. host of the black diplomatics podcast, terrell jermaine starr in ukraine. joining us news, melissa slotkin, before becoming a member of congress, congresswoman slotkin did three tours in iraq. and held a senior post at the pentagon where she oversaw policy on russia europe, middle east and africa. congresswoman, thank you for being with us. pleasure to have you here tonight. thanks for having me. i m sensing there s some si possibility, despite the fact
as soon as trump took office in 2017, his administration secretly set about to lift sanctions on it and congress found out about it and blocked it. trump only grudgingly signed it because congress passed it by big bipartisan veto-proof margins. then he eagerly set up a summit in helsinki with vladimir putin where he stood next to the russian leader and sided with him over american intelligence agencies on the issue of that russian election meddling. trump spent his whole term in office disparaging nature toe, yelling at our allies, advocating for putin to get back to world meets because he invaded ukraine. and he was actually impeached for a scheme in which he suspended american aid to ukraine, ousted the american ambassador there, and generally isolated and threatened the
it s supposed to go. president should be able to sign off. you were not a signatory to this letter. tell me why. s o well, mostly because the president has been very clear, frankly, i think a little too clear that we were never going to send u.s. men and women to fight inen russia ukraine, excuse me. he s been saying that a long time so he s not clear he s not seeking permission c from congrs to go into armed conflict with russians. youed can debate whether showin our cards like that was the right thing to do he s been pretty consistent about that. terms of reinforcing our nato allies, that s not something you needli approval from congress from. you do needval approval to fign ad war and i just don t think that s where we re going. it s not thatre you have an objection to what they re saying, you feel it s not necessary? t correct. congress basically since the iraq s war has been derelict in its duty to provide authorization. congress has just said, you know
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of ukraine historically and its relationship to russia which does deny ukrainians their agency. it does deny them a history as a country. they ve got a country, a culture and a history. russia would like the world to believe it s just all part of al russia? rt listen, ali, i think you r going to appreciate what i m about to say, this is nothing but putin pull your brain theory. he has essentially made up lies about aly country that he feels should never haveat left the russian n empire. we talked about the ussr. but in reality, putin sees is himself as catherine the great. this country was annexed and taken over by catherine the great in the late 1700s. putin describes ukrainians in