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In this episode of The Source, our Senior Editor Zain Raza interviews Lawrence Wilkerson, retired Army Colonel and former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell, on the latest developments surrounding Gaza and Ukraine. Zain begins the interview by assessing the significance of growing political sentiment in the US and Germany for lifting Ukraine’s long-standing restriction on striking targets in Russian territory. They then discuss Ukraine’s and Russia’s peace proposals to end the war and assess which of them is more realistic. Zain then transitions to an examination of Israel’s and the West’s response to the International Criminal Court’s request for an arrest warrant against the Israeli leadership as well as the International Court of Justice’s ruling that Israel must halt its offensive in Rafah, Gaza.
To read the transcript of this video: West considers lifting Ukraine’s restriction on striking in Russian territory
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Lawrence Wilkerson is currently a Senior Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and formerly a Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Government and Public Policy at the College of Williams and Mary. Lawrence Wilkerson’s last positions in government were as Secretary of State Colin Powell’s Chief of Staff (2002-05), Associate Director of the State Department’s Policy Planning staff under the directorship of Ambassador Richard N. Haass, and member of that staff responsible for East Asia and the Pacific, political-military and legislative affairs (2001-02). Before serving at the State Department, Wilkerson served 31 years in the U.S. Army. During that time, he was a member of the faculty of the U.S. Naval War College (1987 to 1989), Special Assistant to General Powell when he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989-93), and Director and Deputy Director of the U.S. Marine Corps War College at Quantico, Virginia (1993-97). Wilkerson retired from active service in 1997 as a colonel, and began work as an advisor to General Powell. He has also taught national security affairs in the Honors Program at the George Washington University. He is currently working on a book about the first George W. Bush administration.
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