Biden's Final Push For More Ukraine Aid
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🗓️ 25 November 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:48.8 | Hey there. It's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Susan Davis. I cover politics. I'm Tom Bowman. |
| 0:53.5 | I cover the Pentagon. And I'm Deirdre Walsh. I cover Congress. I'm Tom Bowman. I cover the Pentagon. |
| 0:54.5 | And I'm Deirdre Walsh. I cover Congress. And today on the show, how President Biden is trying to help Ukraine's defense efforts before he leaves office. His successor, Donald Trump, is skeptical of continuing aid to Ukraine and wants to help quickly negotiate an end to the war. |
| 1:08.8 | Tom, first just give us an update on the ground. What's the state of the |
| 1:11.7 | war right now? Well, the state of the war is something of a stalemate. Russia is making advances in |
| 1:17.0 | Ukraine's east, but the big news is President Biden has finally allowed U.S. long-range missiles that |
| 1:24.3 | can travel 190 miles, allowing them to be used inside Russia. |
| 1:29.4 | That is huge. |
| 1:30.4 | He was skeptical at first because he didn't want to escalate the war. |
| 1:34.4 | Russia is threatening nuclear weapon use. |
| 1:37.6 | But there are more than 11,000 North Korean troops that have gone into the Kursk area of |
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