In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast Ziemowit Gowin interviews Elan Journo and Onkar Ghate on Trump’s stance on the Ukraine-Russia war, which led him to call President Zelensky a dictator and publicly berate him in the Oval Office.
Among the topics covered:
What America’s approach to the Ukraine-Russia war should be
How Trump’s Oval Office blowup at Zelensky reveals his amorality
The mindset driving Trump’s sympathy for Putin and his approach to negotiation
When it would be proper to negotiate with an aggressor
The long-term consequences of America’s pro-Russia shift
Mentioned in this podcast is Ayn Rand’s essay “The Anatomy of Compromise” in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal. Recommended for further reading are Elan Journo’s essay “Why John Mearsheimer Gets Ukraine Wrong,” Ziemowit Gowin’s essay “European Appeasement Emboldened Putin’s Aggression,” and Journo’s and Ben Bayer’s essay “Putin’s War Embodies National Conservatism’s Ideology.”
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