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On this episode of Newt's World I want to talk about Putin's maneuvers in Ukraine and in Europe

and also put in context what's happening when a democracy is reasonable and a dictatorship is

unreasonable and that sense I think what we're watching happen with Ukraine is remarkably like what

happened between Adolf Hitler and Czechoslovakia in 1938. So I both want to put in context Putin's

thinking about the situation in Ukraine and what he's trying to accomplish and the frame of

reference for how dictatorships out maneuver democracies although in the long run it's very

dangerous because the democracies once they feel that they have no choice can be remarkably powerful

in response.

The dance has been amazing to watch. The Biden administration said well we would certainly be

very upset if he invaded Ukraine but on the other hand if he just did a few small things that would

be different. They were then promptly said they didn't really mean it even though it was President

Biden who had said it in press conference but right now they're behaving as though they did mean it

and the reason is that Putin has very carefully modulated what he's doing. There were two provinces

in eastern Ukraine which have been engaged in a running war now for over a decade. Both of them are

right on the Russian border. Both of them were militarily supported by the Russians. Both of them

have had constant skirmishing for over a decade. In fact I was told at one point that the Russian

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