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1/2: #Ukraine: Michael McFaul Calling for a diplomacy surge. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.

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🗓️ 23 June 2023

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1/2: #Ukraine: Michael McFaul Calling for a diplomacy surge. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/20/us-launch-diplomatic-surge-ukraine/



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0:00.0

This is CBS, I Am the World.

0:07.0

I'm John Bachelor, Ukraine conflict, nuclear weapons, nuclear energy

0:11.1

planted risk.

0:12.9

The stories spill out in all directions, but right now we have President Biden's remark

0:17.9

of a real danger of nuclear weapons being used in the conflict.

0:22.4

At the same time we have reports, according to Moscow and Kiev, that there is accusation

0:29.9

going back and forth about using the Zapparition Nuclear Power Plant as a nuclear catastrophe.

0:38.0

There are also reports about Lukashenko, the dictator of Belarus, claiming or giving out ambiguous

0:46.3

remarks that he, as well as Putin, have access or codes or some kind of official registration

0:55.1

with nuclear weapons said to be deployed by Russia to Belarus.

1:00.4

That I remind you is the NATO frontier, Poland and Belarus, and Lithuania are contiguous.

1:06.6

However, we turn to a discussion I'm told is underway in Moscow TV and Russian TV, and

1:13.7

I welcome Anatol Liven of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, he is in the UK.

1:20.1

And he can help me understand how the question of nuclear weapons, nuclear energy, nuclear

1:26.0

catastrophe is being debated in Russia.

1:29.8

Anatol, a very good evening to you, the fog of war is descended on the battlefield.

1:35.0

So all we have is this finger pointing about who's going to use nuclear weapons and who's

1:40.0

going to be a terrorist at Zapparicia.

1:43.0

What can you tell me about the debate in Russia?

1:46.2

Good day to you.

1:48.7

Hello, John.

1:49.7

Well, there was a very striking article by Dr. Sergei Karaganov, who's a long-standing senior

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