{"id":199,"date":"2026-05-30T05:35:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/housingnewsamerica.com\/?p=199"},"modified":"2026-05-30T05:35:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:35:28","slug":"trump-putin-and-genghis-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housingnewsamerica.com\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"Trump, Putin, and Genghis Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Fiona Hill has spent her career trying to understand\u2014and, in one case, advise\u2014leaders with grandiose ambitions, high risk tolerance, and an unshakable sense of themselves as world-historic figures. She has been a close observer of Vladimir Putin for decades, as a scholar and a member of the U.S. intelligence community. In Donald Trump\u2019s first term, she was a senior member of the National Security Council before becoming a household name during Trump\u2019s first impeachment, for testifying about his relationship with Putin and with Volodymyr Zelensky.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/housingnewsamerica.com\/?p=197\">Russia\u2019s Descent Into Tyranny<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, Hill is watching as Trump and Putin, as well as Xi Jinping and others, upend global order, and policymakers everywhere try to navigate the most turbulent period in recent memory\u2014while the rest of the world tries to discern what might come in its wake.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Kurtz-Phelan spoke to Hill on the morning of Tuesday, May 5, about the wars in Ukraine and Iran, the predicament faced by American allies, and what Trump\u2019s second-term foreign policy will mean for the future of American power.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/housingnewsamerica.com\/?p=195\">Why Putin Still Prefers War<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow to Fight an Economic War\u201d by Edward Fishman<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow Geopolitics Overran Globalization\u201d by Eswar Prasad<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia Is the World\u2019s Worst Patron\u201d by Alexander Gabuev and Sergey Vakulenko<\/p>\n<p><em>The Doom Loop<\/em> by Eswar Prasad<\/p>\n<p>This episode of <em>The Foreign Affairs Interview<\/em> was produced by Elise Burr and Kanishk Tharoor, with audio engineering by Christopher Koch and Markus Zakaria and original music by Robin Hilton. Special thanks to Irina Hogan.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/housingnewsamerica.com\/?p=193\">The Coming Crisis of NATO Deterrence<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Conversation With Fiona Hill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,30,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diplomacy","category-foreign-policy","category-geopolitics","category-security"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump, Putin, and Genghis Khan - Housing News America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/housingnewsamerica.com\/?p=199\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump, Putin, and Genghis Khan - 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