Mark Hannah on The World
After backlash, House progressives withdraw Ukraine letter
IGA Senior Fellow Mark Hannah appeared on The World on October 26, 2022.
Thirty members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus publicized an open letter to the Biden administration on Monday, urging direct talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine. On Tuesday, the signatories retracted the letter. The Institute for Global Affairs’ Mark Hannah talks with The World’s Marco Werman about why the letter caused such an uproar.
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Mark is a senior fellow with the Independent America project at the Institute for Global Affairs and host of the podcast, None Of The Above.
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This post is part of Independent America, a research project led out by IGA senior fellow Mark Hannah, which seeks to explore how US foreign policy could better be tailored to new global realities and to the preferences of American voters.
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