Heilemann and Nichols assess the state of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s calculations in the face of the Russian military's inability to win a swift and decisive victory, and the emerging consensus in the West that war has reached what could prove to be a protracted and bloody stalemate how President Zelenskyy has wielded a masterful media strategy to galvanize support around the world and dominate the information battlefield and the difficult decisions facing Joe Biden and the NATO alliance as Zelenskyy warns that we may already have entered World War III.
Naval War College, and author of eight books on foreign policy and politics, including, most recently, Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from Within on Modern Democracy. See /privacy for more information.Ī special two-part episode in which John Heilemann talks with international affairs and national security guru Tom Nichols, contributing writer at The Atlantic, longtime senior faculty member at the U.S.
The conversations are deep, rich, and bracingly real, but also hopeful, as Heilemann and his guests grapple with the fact that, to quote Bob Dylan, “Everything is broken,” and try to figure out how to fix it … together. On Hell and High Water, John Heilemann - host of Showtime's The Circus, co-author of Game Change, and national affairs analyst for MSNBC - explores this apocalyptic-seeming moment with seminal figures in politics, entertainment, business, tech, the media, and beyond. The never-ending pandemic, the routine mass shootings, the climate literally and figuratively on fire the economy first battered by recession, then ravaged by inflation an angry electorate, armed to the teeth and addled by conspiracy theories, as our democracy teeters on the brink, with Donald Trump still working overtime to push the whole thing off a cliff. Living in America these past few years has been like living in a movie-a mashup of Blade Runner, A Clockwork Orange, and Idiocracy, that is.
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