Checks and Balance: Sit on defence
Checks and Balance from The Economist
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🗓️ 24 February 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
A year on from Russia’s invasion, Joe Biden has made it clear: America’s backing for Ukraine “will not waver”. But Ukraine needs more than strong words. Does America have the will and the means to back Ukraine for as long as it takes? And what does its commitment in Europe mean for America’s readiness to help defend allies elsewhere?
The Economist’s Anton La Guardia tells us how the battle in Ukraine compares to other recent conflicts. The Economist’s Jon Fasman visits a munitions plant in Pennsylvania. And Commandant of the United States Marine Corps General David Berger considers the prospect of war in the Pacific.
John Prideaux hosts with Charlotte Howard and Idrees Kahloon.
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| 0:42.2 | to be donated to the Hygiene Bank. In May 1950, Roman Papa Duke was born in a displaced |
| 0:54.6 | persons camp in Austria. His parents were Ukrainian and had been taken by the Nazis to Germany during |
| 1:01.2 | World War II to work as forced laborers. The family soon emigrated to America and via a |
| 1:08.4 | brief stint on a farm in Iowa settled in Brooklyn. Fast forward to September 1991 and Papa Duke |
| 1:16.2 | was working as a press secretary in the National Security Council. Learned Kravchuk who would go on |
| 1:22.8 | to become the first president of an independent Ukraine was visiting the White House and |
| 1:27.2 | chatted with Papa Duke in Ukrainian. Larry Eagleberger, the deputy secretary of state, overheard. |
| 1:34.1 | I know where I'm sending you, he told Papa Duke. A few months later his meaning became clear. |
| 1:40.4 | As America quickly established democratic relations with newly independent countries, |
| 1:44.7 | following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Roman Papa Duke became the first US ambassador |
| 1:50.3 | to Ukraine. Three decades on, the ties between the two countries that Papa Duke helped to forge |
| 1:56.4 | have proved crucial in Ukraine's fight against Russia. I'm John Prado and this is checks and |
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