Assessing the Russia-Ukraine Crisis (Robert Wright & Anatol Lieven)

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News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

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🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Does the Russia-Ukraine crisis justify the current sense of alarm? ... How concern for ethnic Russians in Ukraine shapes Moscow’s policy ... What the US and NATO can do to resolve the crisis diplomatically ... Can Europe help Biden by staging a diplomatic intervention? ... Russia’s next military steps if diplomacy fails ... Anatol estimates the odds of a Russian invasion of Ukraine ...

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0:00.0	you're listening to a podcast from blogging heads TV.
0:08.8	Hi, Anatole.
0:10.6	Hello.
0:11.7	How you doing?
0:13.0	Fine.
0:13.6	Nice to see you.
0:15.2	Good to see you again.
0:16.1	It's been a while.
0:16.6	Let me introduce this.
0:17.5	I'm Robert Wright.
0:18.4	This is the right show available on both streaming video and via audio podcast. You're Anatole Levin. You've been a professor at various places.
0:27.5	Right now, you are at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft in Washington.
0:32.3	I mean, you're not physically there, but that's your big affiliation now.
0:36.6	Your senior research fellow on Russia and Europe.
0:39.9	Author of a number of books, most recently climate change in the nation state, that's not what we're
0:43.7	going to talk about, maybe down the road, but you're also the author of an earlier book called
0:49.0	Ukraine and Russia, fraternal rivalry. That's closer to what we're going to be talking about, which is the Ukraine
0:55.8	crisis, which most people are probably familiar with. There are Russian troops along the Ukrainian
1:01.7	border. Vladimir Putin has called for some things that strike some people as an ultimatum,
1:11.9	notably including some kind of guarantee that Ukraine will not ever join NATO.
1:19.2	The list is longer than that, but that seems to be at the top.
1:23.5	And I wanted to talk to you about this whole thing because you know a lot about the region.
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