Foreign and Security Policy

On The Record

Podcast featuring Congressman Steve Russell

“The bonds are too strong to see them unravel”

For more than 21 years Steve Russell served in the U.S. Army. He has fought in Afghanistan and in Iraq. Since 2015 he represents the 5th district of Oklahoma in the Congress of the United States. Russell regards the transatlantic alliance as stable and culturally ingrained. The Congressman explains in conversation with Atlantik-Brücke where Americans and Europeans should encounter each other, why Eastern Europe must concern us and why he doesn’t trust Iran. An on-site visit in Oklahoma City.

Interview: David Deißner

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