#277 — How Does the War in Ukraine End?

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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🗓️ 3 April 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Ian Bremmer about the ongoing war in Ukraine. They discuss the current state of the war, the power of sanctions, Biden's "gaffe" about regime change, fear of nuclear war, the logic of mutually assured destruction, the role of China, the most likely outcomes of the war, and other topics.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast.
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0:39.9	Okay, well this is yet another episode in what is becoming a series on the Russian War
0:51.6	in Ukraine.
0:53.4	Like almost everyone else, I'm still thinking a lot about this, not just for what's happening
0:59.2	in Ukraine, but for the risk it poses, for the rest of the world.
1:04.7	We're in I think the seventh week of the war, and as you'll hear, I find myself still somewhat
1:10.5	confused about what we should and shouldn't be doing in response.
1:14.9	To help me sort it out this time, I have brought on Ian Bremer.
1:18.6	Ian's been on the podcast before, he is a political scientist who founded the Eurasia Group,
1:25.7	which is a political risk research and consulting firm.
1:28.9	Ian is the author of 11 books, he has no one coming out next month, titled The Power of
1:35.1	Crisis, How Three Threats in Our Response Will Change the World.
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