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Estonian PM warns: Don't appease Putin

Amanpour

CNN

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

It is painful, it is tough, and it’s where Ukraine’s future will be determined, says Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky of the brutal fighting in the east of his country. Russians and Ukrainians are essentially locked in a war of attrition, each side rapidly losing troops, something Russia has in much bigger supply. Few actually know the stakes of this fight better than the Baltic states – they are Putin’s neighbors and some of Ukraine’s staunchest backers. In Estonia, Prime Minister Kaja Kallas’s fierce support for Kyiv helped secure her decisive re-election victory last week, and she joins Christiane from Tallinn to sound the alarm against any notion of appeasing Putin.  Also on today's show: Betsey Stevenson, Professor of Public Policy and Economics, Univ. of Michigan & James Jacoby, Director/Correspondent, Frontline’s “Age of Easy Money”; Adam Gopnik, Author, “The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery”  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.

0:07.0

Living next door to Vladimir Putin, Estonia's Prime Minister Kaye Callis tells me

0:16.0

about staring down the Kremlin and cruising to election victory.

0:20.0

Then, Americans can rest assured that our banking system is safe.

0:25.0

Tamping down panic in the USA, after the collapse of a major bank gives investors flashbacks

0:30.6

to the 2008 financial crisis.

0:33.0

Economist Betsy Stevenson joins me alongside James Jacoby,

0:37.0

director of the new frontline documentary Age of Easy Money.

0:40.0

Plus, everything you try, whether it's drawing or dancing or boxing, which I took up, begins

0:46.2

with a set of small awkward steps.

0:49.3

How to master a craft, writer Adam Gopney tells Harry Strenovassen the tips and tricks that he's

0:55.0

learned from the grapes for his new book The Real Work. Oh, Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. It is painful

1:19.4

and it is tough and it's where Ukraine's future will be determined. So says President

1:24.5

Valodir Zelensky about the brutal fighting in the east of his country. He

1:29.2

promised that we need to destroy the enemy's military power and we will but as anyone can see it is a very tough

1:36.8

slog Russians and Ukrainians are essentially locked in a war of attrition each side

1:41.9

rapidly losing troops something Russia has in much bigger supply.

1:46.6

Europe and America are still promising to back key for as long as it takes,

1:51.2

but there are questions about whether their weapon shipments are too late,

1:55.2

too little. And now the likely Republican presidential hopeful in the United States, Ron

2:00.6

DeSantis, is making news by saying getting involved in Ukraine is

2:04.9

actually not in America's vital national interest calling it a territorial

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