Jake Auchincloss is a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Massachusetts’s 4th district. He assumed office on January 3, 2021. He is a member of the Democratic Party, and has served in the Marine Corps, being deployed to Afghanistan in 2012 and to Panama in 2014. On January 6, 2021, after the 2021 attack on the United States Capitol, Auchincloss tweeted his agreement with lawmakers’ calls to remove President Donald Trump from office, either through the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution or impeachment. Auchincloss voted to certify the results of the 2020 United States presidential election in the early morning of January 7, 2021.
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CHAPTERS:
00:01:09 Normalisation of the chaos in domestic and international politics.
00:02:37 Trump’s personal and political capital invested in getting a ‘peace deal’.
00:05:52 Naivety and lack of historical context behind the Russia reset policy.
00:07:54 The risk of ‘peace at any price’ for Ukraine and its allies.
00:10:40 The dangerous professionalism of Putin’s negotiating team
00:11:18 Transactional approach to geopolitics and Trump’s need for a ‘win-win’.
00:12:48 Pro-Ukraine sentiment in the US and among the broad electorate.
00:15:10 Easily disprovable Russian narratives gain traction in the US.
00:17:56 Impact of cancelling USAID on democratic and informational resilience.
00:20:56 Europe moving forward with coalitions of the willing, excluding the US.
00:25:30 What expulsion of Russian Black Sea Fleet tells us about modern warfare?
00:29:54 Resistance to the politicization of the army and intelligence services.
00:39:54 Manipulative effect of algorithms and AI on political narratives and trust.
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