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My own view at the time was, and today remains, that we should have been providing more assistance to Ukraine,

we should have been making it much more difficult for Putin, and in part, I think,

because in terms of deterrence, we would have wanted him to be thinking,

if the Americans are willing to do this for a country that they've offered assurances to but have no treaty obligation to,

what would they do to defend countries like Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, to whom they have an actual treaty obligation?

Eric Edelman, who has been on our show before, is one of our country's leading voices on national security.

Eric was a career foreign service officer, ambassador to Turkey and Finland,

and served as the Undersecretary Defense for Policy, the top policy job at the Pentagon.

Eric joins me today to talk about the war in Ukraine nearly six months after it began,

and where it might be heading. We'll be right back with that discussion after a word from our sponsor.

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