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🗓️ 24 January 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hi, this is Kelly. I'm currently at Miami International Airport and I'm headed to |
0:04.1 | freeze New York for the last semester of college. This podcast was recorded at 2.19 pm on Monday the 24th of January. |
0:12.8 | Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but hopefully I will be back in my Toasty |
0:16.8 | apartment getting ready for my last first day of undergrad. Okay, here's the show. |
0:21.0 | All last first day. Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast. I'm Tamra Keith. I cover the |
0:30.4 | White House. I've got Detreo. I also cover the White House. Russia denies any plans to invade Ukraine, |
0:37.1 | but it has amassed more than 100,000 troops at the country's border. The US is preparing for a |
0:43.5 | possible incursion by reducing staff levels at its embassy there. Jackie Northam covers all of this |
0:50.5 | and more at NPR's International desk. Hey Jackie. Hi, Tam. Hello. So here we are and I'm hoping that |
0:59.6 | you can start us out with something really straightforward, which is why would Russia want to invade |
1:07.3 | Ukraine? What's the point? You know, anybody who studied Russian President Vladimir Putin says, |
1:15.7 | this has been his mission for decades ever since the Soviet Union imploded in the early 90s. |
1:21.6 | He thinks that Ukraine is part of Russia. You know, this is a huge swathe land, a lot of resources, |
1:28.0 | and he wants it back. And that became really more important to him as it, as a Ukraine, |
1:34.8 | became more aligned with the West to the point where there was, you know, |
1:38.4 | there's talk of it becoming part of NATO, which Putin sees in this as an extension or a tool of the US. |
1:44.2 | In, you know, 2014, Russia annex Crimea started a proxy war in the Donbass and the southeast of |
1:52.1 | Ukraine. And there wasn't any real recourse. You know, NATO didn't respond militarily. Russia seems |
1:59.1 | to have stood sanctions that have been imposed in sense. So that may have emboldened him now. |
2:06.4 | You know, there is some speculation about why he's doing this now. One of it is, you know, this is |
2:11.5 | 30th anniversary of the breakup of the Soviet Union. The other thing though is that he could be using |
2:18.2 | Ukraine to get onto something bigger, you know, getting the US and NATO out of eastern Europe completely. |
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