Daniel Fried

Now, as I mentioned, many Democrats were uneasy about this bill.

It only narrowly passed its first procedural vote by 214 to 211 after two Democrats crossed the aisle, and the reason for that was the unease highlighted by Ambassador Daniel Fried, who I interviewed last Friday.

Now, he was a former State Department coordinator for sanctions policy after the annexation of Crimea.

In a piece for the Atlantic Council, he writes how the bill could give President Trump the power not only to sanction China and India, but also, depending on his interpretation and will, US allies such as Turkey and Japan, as well as EU allies such as Slovakia and Hungary.

We don't know that a political bargain has been established, but it's certainly plausible that a political bargain has been established, or that there is some quid pro quo.

Uh, Michael McFaul, again, uh, responding to Daniel Fried, who says, "In general, it's a good idea to know who's buying the drinks," says, "I was in a hotel bar once in 2014 in Sochi with the US delegation to the Olympics.

Someone anonymously wanted to buy us a round of drinks.

I found out it was Mikhail L- Leontiev from Rosneft, also in the bar.

I was struck there by his observation, accurate in my view, that there remains a fear among European leaders that Russia cannot be left unsatisfied when the war ends.

Contrast that with the mentality adopted in Washington at the end of the Cold War, as explained on Friday's episode by Ambassador Daniel Fried, who played a key role in designing and implementing American policy in Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union.

They then took a very different approach with a far-sighted vision of a free Europe without an accepted Russian sphere of influence with profound consequences.

Thank you to everyone who's written in about that interview.

It's Friday, the 11th of September, four years and one hundred and ninety-nine days since the full-scale invasion began.

And today, I'm joined later by Ambassador Daniel Fried.

We now face the worst of both worlds.

Dragons are back, but snakes persist.

That's U-P-W-O-R-K.com, upwork.com.

But let's turn to our guest now, one I've been looking forward to sharing with you.

At a debate on Ukraine in Oxford earlier this year, I shared a podium with Ambassador Daniel Fried, who served for forty years in the US Foreign Service, playing a key role in designing and implementing American policy in Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union.

As Special Assistant and National Security Council Director for Presidents Clinton and Bush, Ambassador to Poland, and the Assistant Secretary of State for Europe from 2005 to 2009, he helped craft the policy of NATO enlargement to Central European nations.

But Washington so far has proven reluctant to seriously confront Beijing over its support for the U.S. enemy.

The rhetoric was ferocious, but the punch less so, said Daniel Fried, a former U.S. diplomat now at the Atlantic Council, a think tank.

Dealing a crippling blow to Iran's economy would probably require taking on big Chinese firms and banks.

As part of its new effort to end the war with Iran, the US sanctioned more than 60 entities, including Chinese firms that enable Iran to procure nuclear and missile technology, earn revenue from oil, and carry out cyber operations.