Zawahiri, Putin & Pelosi - with Richard Fontaine

Published: Aug. 5, 2022, 12:59 p.m.

b"Why did Speaker Nancy Pelosi\\u2019s visit to Taipei get such outsized attention?\\nShe\\u2019s not the first US Speaker to travel to Taiwan.\\n\\nWhy did the killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri get so little attention? After all, he was one of the three most important figures in al-Qaeda's leadership for decades.\\n\\nAnd why the dwindling focus on the Russia-Ukraine war? Where does the war stand right now?\\n\\nRichard Fontaine returns to the conversation. He is the CEO of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a bi-partisan foreign policy think tank in Washington, DC. Prior to CNAS, he was foreign policy advisor to Senator John McCain and worked at the State Department, the National Security Council, and on the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He currently serves on the Pentagon\\u2019s Defense Policy Board."