The Educated Leader
This podcast seeks to educate and empower leaders in politics, civil society and the church to know what it means to be human and to act accordingly.
Dr. Christiaan Alting von Geusau leads the International Catholic Legislators Network (ICLN), which he founded in 2010 to provide Christian politicians with faith formation, education and networking opportunities. He is the founder and principal of Ambrose Advice e.U., a company that provides strategic advisory and leadership coaching to senior public office holders around the world. Dr. von Geusau is Rector emeritus and Professor for Philosophy of Law and Education at ITI Catholic University in Austria.
More information: https://ambrose-advice.com/
The Educated Leader
Does Trump hate Europe? Understanding the 2025 National Security Strategy of the United States: a conversation with Joe Grogan, former White House Director of the Domestic Policy Council
In this episode, Christiaan Alting von Geusau speaks with his special guest Joe Grogan, former Director of the Domestic Policy Council at the White House during the first Trump administration, also having served in the G.W. Bush administration before that.
We discuss the background and genesis of the National Security Strategy that was published by the White House in December 2025, and the consequences this document and the resulting policies have for international affairs. We also discuss in-depth the new focus of the US administration on the Western Hemisphere - where currently the conflict with Venezuela is heating up - and the challenges in the relationship of the US with Europe. Special attention is also given to the Ukraine war and the problematic role of Russian president Vladimir Putin.
The video of Otto von Habsburg warning for Putin in 2003 (in the podcast we speak erroneously of 2006/2008): https://youtu.be/P1lj6QsqDhU?si=45MkcGFI6YtrJeA7