Escalation Ep 2: No Guarantees

Lawfare Presents: The Aftermath

Lawfare

Trump, News & Politics, January 6, Politics, Lawfare, Insurrection

4.8 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Newly-independent Ukraine has inherited thousands of nuclear weapons from the former Soviet Union. So The United States, Russia and Ukraine craft a high-stakes deal to disarm Ukraine in exchange for national security protection. But has Washington held up their end of the bargain? Or has Ukraine been betrayed?

About Escalation:

In this narrative series from Lawfare and Goat Rodeo, Escalation lays bare the stakes of the Ukraine-Russia War through powerful storytelling and compelling voices. It reveals forgotten promises and fragile alliances that have shaped the U.S.-Ukraine relationship and how the decisions of policymakers in Washington, Kyiv, and Moscow have global consequences.

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0:24.6	deleteme.com slash escalation.
0:29.8	Previously on Escalation.
0:32.4	Bush Sr. I mean, he's infamous for the so-called Chicken Kiev speech.
0:37.0	Americans will not support those who seek independence in order to replace a far-off tyranny with a local despotism.
0:44.7	This world has a new country tonight, Ukraine.
0:47.4	They looked at us as their colony, as somebody who was inferior to them.
0:51.9	They've suddenly inherited nuclear weapons.
1:10.6	Hey, Max.
1:13.9	Hey, Maritika. I just got to the White House. Where are you?
1:23.8	Okay, I'm coming straight to the White House. I'm in this, you know, my skirt has Ukrainian red-type embroidered things.
1:25.5	So you'll not confuse.
1:26.6	I'll see you shortly.
1:33.3	It's a rainy September day in Washington, D.C. Our executive producer Max has an umbrella in one hand and a microphone in the other.
1:39.3	And just outside the White House, he's meeting a Ukrainian activist named Maria Hylittin.
1:45.3	She goes by Marichka.
1:46.5	Hey, good to see you.
1:48.0	I'm sorry.
1:48.6	I'm not a lot of people at all.
1:51.0	Hey, you're still doing it.
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