How the Ukraine War Ends (Robert Wright & Rajan Menon)

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News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Rajan walks through three ways the war could end ... Assessing Ukraine’s and Russia’s military aims ... The causes and consequences of Ukraine’s optimism ... What might weaken Ukrainian and western resolve? ... How America’s toxic political discourse prolongs the war ... Does Biden have a plan? ... Do we understand Putin’s motivation ... Will Putin accept anything short of taking the entire Donbas? ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:09.0	Hi, Raj.
0:10.7	Hi, Bob.
0:11.4	Good to see you.
0:12.4	Good to see you.
0:13.3	Let me introduce us.
0:14.2	I'm Robert Wright.
0:14.8	This is the Non-Zero podcast, and I'm the publisher of the Non-Zero newsletter.
0:20.6	And you are Rajan Minnan.
0:23.2	Political scientists.
0:24.3	You have a lot of titles.
0:25.4	I mean, first I should say you and I knew each other as fellow fellows at the New America Foundation.
0:32.1	Back when the New America Foundation was something of an anti-Blob think tank, at least its foreign policy arm was, if you
0:39.3	recall those days.
0:40.6	Yeah.
0:41.7	I wouldn't say that that still characterizes it, but everything is impermanent.
0:49.6	So let me, so again, you're Rajan Menon, Raj to some of us, among your titles, is, let's see,
1:00.6	where should we start? Senior Research Fellow Columbia University Saltman Institute for War and Peace,
1:05.8	Professor Emeritus at the City College of New York's Powell School of Public Policy, I guess that's named after Colin.
1:13.0	I guess most significantly now, in terms of your time commitment, it sounds like, it's probably
1:17.5	that you're director of the Green Strategy Program at Defense Priorities.
1:21.0	Correct.
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