Biden’s red line on Ukraine

1 big thing

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🗓️ 14 March 2022

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As Russia continues to pummel Ukrainian cities, the war is coming dangerously close to spilling over into NATO countries. Yesterday, Russia launched a missile attack on a Ukrainian military base 15 miles from the Polish border that resulted in dozens of Ukrainian casualties. Plus, inflation heads toward double digits. And, Republicans make gains with Hispanic voters. Guests: Axios' Margaret Talev, Neil Irwin and Russell Contreras. Credits: Axios Today is produced in partnership with Pushkin Industries. The team includes Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Julia Redpath, Alexandra Botti, Nuria Marquez Martinez, Sabeena Singhani, Lydia McMullen-Laird, Alex Sugiura, and Ben O'Brien. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at podcasts@axios.com. You can text questions, comments and story ideas to Niala as a text or voice memo to 202-918-4893. Go deeper: Dashboard: Russian invasion of Ukraine Double-digit inflation is now quite plausible Democrats' Hispanic peril Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.8	Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Monday, March 14. I'm Nyla Boudou. Here's what you
0:39.6	need to know today. Inflation heads towards double digits. Plus, Republicans make gains with Hispanic
0:45.8	voters. But first, today's one big thing. Biden's red line in the Ukraine war.
0:54.2	As Russia continues to pummel Ukrainian cities, the war is coming dangerously close to
1:00.1	spilling over into NATO countries. Yesterday, Russia launched a missile attack on a Ukrainian
1:05.3	military base, about 15 miles from the Polish border. Axios managing editor for politics,
1:10.8	Margaret Taliv is here to talk about President Biden and American options moving forward.
1:16.3	Margaret, if President Biden keeps saying we're not going to involve our US military and that
1:21.5	has been a very consistent message for the President, what options are left for the US?
1:26.5	Nyla, we're seeing a lot of those options already in progress. The Biden administration
1:32.6	signing off on another $200 million over the weekend in arms and equipment for Ukraine. We are
1:38.6	seeing the sanctions go into effect. What are we not seeing? That no fly zone. That Vladimir
1:45.0	Zelensky is asking for the Ukrainian airmen up in the sky with any sort of equipment that can be
1:51.2	used to combat what Russia is doing on the ground. Why? Because the intelligence, I think,
1:55.9	and the Western allies have largely concluded that it won't work. Americans are unified on the idea
2:01.6	that they don't want to commit American troops to another war. But the scenes from across Ukraine
2:10.6	are ghastly. And so what do you do? So yesterday, we saw Russia launching an attack on a Ukrainian
2:19.0	base just about 15 miles from the Polish border. If Poland is drawn into this, isn't the US also?
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