Invasion Weekend?

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🗓️ 18 February 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

The COMMENTARY podcast welcomes tech columnist James B. Meigs back to the show as Russian troops converge on Ukraine ahead of what looks like a pivotal weekend. Will Russia invade, or will it allow the exercises that have served as a pretext for mobilization to end quietly? Also, the return of “herd immunity” as a Covid off-ramp and Jim’s astute article in the March issue on “Good NASA vs Bad NASA.”

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0:00.0	What's next?
0:06.5	What's next?
0:19.3	Oh well.
0:26.2	daily podcast for today, Friday, February 18th, 2022, John
0:31.2	Podhoritz is out this morning. But with us as always is senior
0:35.8	writer, Christine Rosen, high Christine. Hi, Noah, executive
0:40.4	editor, a Greenwall high Abe. I know. And joining us in John's
0:44.7	absence is tech commentary columnist James B. Meg's high gym.
0:49.6	Right to be back. I am Noah Rothman, associate editor, and I
0:53.4	have to apologize to the audience right up front because I am
0:56.6	struggling with a terrible head cold. I've been dealing with it
0:59.4	all week. And if you haven't noticed as a daily listener, it's
1:03.8	only a testament to my consummate skills as a broadcaster and the
1:07.9	good sense I had to keep very quiet throughout the entire
1:11.4	week. This is not a luxury I have today. So you will have to
1:14.8	struggle along with me. But we'll begin today with an update
1:18.5	from the front. More news on the Russia Ukraine tensions, which
1:24.6	are perhaps coming to a head this weekend, the United States
1:27.9	announced today that we believe roughly 169 to 190,000 Russian
1:33.7	service personnel are amassed along the border of Ukraine in
1:37.0	Belarus in Russia proper and in the occupied territories of
1:40.6	Crimea and the Donbass region, a significant increase from the
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