Is Peace on the Horizon as Ukraine Agrees to Drop Hopes of Joining NATO?
We begin with conflicting rumors of peace between Russia and Ukraine with Trump claiming we are closer to peace than ever and the head of the UK’s MI6 foreign intelligence service saying Putin will continue to string along the peace process until he gets everything he wants. Joining us to discuss how Ukraine could defend itself without joining NATO which Zelensky has apparently conceded on is Jennifer Kavanagh, a senior fellow & director of military analysis at Defense Priorities where her research focuses on U.S. military strategy, force structure, defense budgeting, the defense industrial base, and U.S. military deployments and interventions. Previously, she was a senior fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and she has an article at Defense Priorities we discuss, “An armed nonalignment model for Ukraine’s postwar security.”
Doubts of Putin’s Interest in Peace in a Europe Rattled by Trump’s National Security Strategy
Then we speak with Karen Greenberg, an international studies fellow at New America, a fellow at NYU Law School’s Reiss Center for Security and a permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations, as well as the cohost of the Spytalk podcast. She is the author of Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State, Subtle Tools: The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump, and Our Nation at Risk: Election Integrity as a National Security Issue, co-authored with Julian Zelizer. We discuss doubts about Putin’s interest in peace coming from the new head of the UK’s MI6 and how Trump’s new National Security Strategy has rattled Europe.
Higher Education in a Time of Fascists and Autocrats Taking Over the World
Then finally we speak with Henry Giroux, a renowned educator, author and cultural critic who holds the Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, Canada. His recent books include Insurrections: Education in the Age of Counter-Revolutionary Politics, Fascism on Trial: Education and the Possibility of Democracy and his latest book is The Burden of Conscience: Educating Beyond the Veil of Silence and he we discuss his recent article at Counterpunch, “Higher Education in the Time of Fascist Plague”