Checks and Balance: Russia invades Ukraine
Checks and Balance from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 25 February 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
There is war in Europe. America has spent the past decade trying to pivot its geopolitical attention to Asia, away from its old allies in the West. But the crisis, and now conflict, in Ukraine has pulled it back in, showing how reliant Europe still is on the support of its friend across the Atlantic. How far will America go in standing up to Russian aggression?
Ex-CIA operative John Sipher takes us through the intelligence playbook. We find out about a forgotten founder of NATO. And John Tefft, a former US ambassador to Ukraine and Russia, examines what Vladimir Putin wants.
John Prideaux presents with Charlotte Howard and Idrees Kahloon.
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| 0:00.0 | If you dear European leaders, dear world leaders, leaders of the free world, do not help |
| 0:09.4 | us today, then tomorrow the war will knock on your door. |
| 0:15.6 | The Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky had a stark warning for the West as Russian |
| 0:20.1 | forces attacked his country. |
| 0:23.0 | America and its allies say they are helping, with sanctions, tough words, and some military |
| 0:28.8 | aid. |
| 0:29.8 | But Joe Biden has made it clear he will not send Americans to fight in Ukraine. |
| 0:36.4 | I'm John Prado, this is Chex and Balance from the Economist. |
| 0:41.2 | Today, what can America do now to help Ukraine? |
| 0:46.5 | There's war in Europe. |
| 0:48.7 | America has spent the past decade trying to pivot its geopolitical attention to Asia |
| 0:52.9 | away from its old allies in the West. |
| 0:55.4 | But the crisis and now conflict in Ukraine has pulled it back in, showing how reliant Europe |
| 1:00.7 | still is on the support of its friend across the Atlantic. |
| 1:04.9 | How far will America go, in standing up to Russian aggression? |
| 1:10.0 | With me to discuss this, Idris Kallun, the Economist's Washington correspondent, and |
| 1:14.4 | Charlotte Howard, the New York Bureau Chief, Idris I think will skip the usual hellos. |
| 1:19.8 | This is a fast-changing situation. |
| 1:21.6 | Can you give the context what's happening militarily at the moment so people know what we |
| 1:26.4 | know as we have this discussion? |
| 1:28.4 | Yeah, so we're recording this on Friday morning, London time, before I stepped in the |
| 1:33.7 | studio. |
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