Vladimir Putin

The philosopher Mike Tyson was right -- how you react to the punch in the mouth is everything in boxing - and presidential primaries. Who do Rick, Reed, and Stuart think can take a proverbial punch? Will anyone step into the Trump haymaker of lies? And just how colossal a miscalculation was DeSantis' bid for the Putin endorsement?

Will Sommer joins Rick to talk about QAnon's infiltration of the GOP and his new book, "Trust The Plan." And in his first "Week That Was" segment, Rick gives his take on Ukraine, Ohio, and more.

Ukraine and an international alliance led by Biden are doing their part to defeat Putin, but the fight is threatened by the Right's sympathizers within the U.S. Victor Shi reminds us that democracy's survival hinges on winning the battles in which we all must engage.

Biden's visit to Kyiv and his bold rallying of NATO and European allies this week was a high point in post-Cold War American foreign policy. He understood the stakes, the risks, the rhetoric, and the optics of the moment.

Ukrainians fight and die – with guns, bullets, and missiles. We fight with words and political campaigns. If they lose their fight, we’ll lose ours. If we lose our battle, we’ll end up fighting as they do.

Can you tell the difference between what comes out of Putin's vile, lying mouth and DeSantis's, Ingraham's, Carlson's, or even Santorum's?

At every turn leading up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Putin and his mouthpieces lied about their intentions and Biden and his team weirdified them.

On February 18, 2022, one week before Putin’s invasion, Joe Trippi tweeted the picture he had taken on Kyiv's Independence Square five years earlier and wrote, “Putin has no idea how hard the Ukrainian people will fight to remain free of him.” Ukrainians have proven him right every day since.

Sarah Ashton-Cirillo arrived in Ukraine as a journalist and became a soldier fighting on the front line and serving as a medic. This is her story of why she felt compelled to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine and fight for liberty and democracy.

Resolute Square marks one year of the Russian war against Ukraine with a special conversation and exclusive video posts from Sarah Ashton-Cirillo from the front line.

Reed Galen, Rick Wilson, Stuart Stevens, and Joe Trippi take a look back - and ahead - at Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine in the latest Strategy Session.

For Vladamir Putin, the deaths of thousands of countrymen, significant losses of financial power, and universal condemnation mean little as long as buildings and lives continue to be destroyed in Ukraine. Ruth Ben-Ghiat provides us a glimpse of how autocrats think and why Putin will not stop until he has no other options.

The line of defense we hold is positioned where the attacks on us are constant, and the advances against us bring the opposing forces to within a few hundred meters on a regular basis. Due to this, casualties happen, with theirs outstripping ours exponentially.

Putin wrongly believed Trump had made America and NATO weaker and seized the moment to invade Ukraine. Dan Barkhuff writes Putin's miscalculation has united democracies around the world against Russia's criminal invasion and morally indefensible war.

Trump abdicated American leadership, so Putin thought he could roll into Kyiv and Ukraine would roll over. He grossly misjudged the fortitude of Ukrainians and of America under Joe Biden's leadership.

From an abandoned building near the front line, journalist-turned-war-medic Sarah Ashton Cirillo writes of another group of heroes in Ukraine's fight for freedom: Members of the free press.

Russian media is propaganda. Full stop. Russia expert Julia Davis created and operates the Russian Media Monitor and joins Rick to discuss Russian media's Ukraine invasion propaganda and Russia's meddling in the US Elections. And Rick has a very heartfelt message for this episode's entry on The Enemies List.

Despite the mythos being built around both Wagner on the ground in Ukraine, Ukrainians and the US understand the group for what it is: a terrorist gang.

Sarah Ashton-Cirillo writes that the blood of every war-related death, civilian and military, is on Putin's hands and why Ukraine is fighting to make the next death the last.

Putin's criminal invasion of Ukraine started nearly a year ago. Guest Alex Vindman talks with Rick about Ukraine's defiance and status, how they've surprised Russia, and what they need to continue defending their country and democracy. And Rick puts a permanent entry on the Enemies List. Listen to find out who.