What Preston Stewart has said about Foreign policy of the second Trump administration

1 quote · 1 episode · Nov 10, 2026

Preston Stewart, West Point graduate and Afghanistan veteran who covers the Ukraine war on YouTube, the War and Conflict podcast, and the Defense Tech News newsletter, has been quoted on Foreign policy of the second Trump administration once in 1 episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, most recently on November 10, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

Stewart suggests Trump underestimated how hard ending the war would be and lost focus, ceding U.S. leadership and leverage.
“I get the impression that maybe the president thought this would be easier to resolve than it has been, maybe lost some focus”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #504 – Russia-Ukraine War: Putin, Zelenskyy, Drones and the Future of Warfare (Nov 10, 2026) · Listen from 2:36:19

Episodes

#504 – Russia-Ukraine War: Putin, Zelenskyy, Drones and the Future of Warfare
Lex Fridman Podcast · Nov 10, 2026 · 3 h 1 min
Lex Fridman talks with military analysts Michael Kofman and Preston Stewart about the state of the Russia-Ukraine war, drone warfare, Bakhmut, Prigozhin's mutiny, leadership, and paths to peace.

Others on Foreign policy of the second Trump administration

Michael Kofman · 1 quote

Preston Stewart on other topics

Mission command · 2 quotes
Drone warfare · 2 quotes
Russian invasion of Ukraine · 1 quote