Tom Malinowski and Jen Rubin on U.S. divergence from European allies

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I'm here with our friend Tom Malinowski,

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Hi, this is Jen Rubin, editor in chief of The Contrarian. I'm here with our friend Tom Malinowski, former congressman from New Jersey, also former State Department official. Tom, we had an extraordinary series of votes at the United Nations today. We're recording this on Monday. The United States sided with Russia in a resolution,

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along with such wonderful powers like Belarus and North Korea. on a resolution that merely called for the return of territory to Ukraine and an end to Russian aggression. Have you ever seen anything like this in your entire career?

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No, I've been thinking about whether there's any precedent for this in modern American history and all of American history. And I can't think of one. There have been many times in our past as a country when we've been neutral between good and evil,

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Feb 25, 2025

Yesterday in the United Nations General Assembly, the United States sided with Russia voting against a resolution blaming Russia aggression for the war in Ukraine and calling for immediate peace. Diplomat and former Representative Tom Malinowski and Jen Rubin discuss the U.S. splitting from European allies, the destabilization of the international community, and a way forward.

Tom P. Malinowski is a former U.S. Congressman from New Jersey from 2019 to 2023. A Democrat, he served as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in the Obama administration. Before that, he worked with the National Security Council to help end some of the 20th Century’s bloodiest humanitarian crises, and as the chief advocate for Human Rights Watch, leading a bipartisan effort to end the Bush Administration’s use of torture.

Tom Malinowski and Jen Rubin on U.S. divergence from European allies

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