Is Russia About To Invade Ukraine? NATO, U.S. Promise 'Massive Consequences'

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🗓️ 14 January 2022

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the U.S. is planning "things that we have not done in the past" if Russia invades Ukraine. His comments follow days of diplomatic talks and a deadlock on resolving the crisis brewing along the Ukraine-Russia border, where Russia has massed 100,000 troops with tanks and artillery.

Blinken speaks to NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about the current tensions and this week's diplomatic efforts.

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0:00.0	Is Russia about to invade Ukraine?
0:03.0	No one knows for sure.
0:04.8	Still no diplomatic breakthrough as the U.S. and its NATO allies try to convince Vladimir
0:09.2	Putin to withdraw his troops from the border with Ukraine.
0:13.2	This week the U.S. and its NATO allies have been trying to bring down the temperature.
0:18.3	With Russia, stationing tanks are artillery and 100,000 troops around Ukraine on three
0:24.7	sides.
0:25.7	And President Vladimir Putin has issued several demands of NATO, including a halt to U.S.
0:31.2	military deployments in NATO countries like Romania.
0:34.6	Russia also wants NATO to rule out ever admitting Ukraine as a member.
0:40.2	The U.S. position?
0:41.5	No way.
0:42.5	I don't see, and Russia's main focus here, which is achieving a failed state in Ukraine,
0:47.7	how we could overcome these things.
0:49.6	That is retired army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, a Ukraine expert who served on former
0:55.0	President Trump's National Security Council.
0:57.7	You may remember him as the whistleblower.
0:59.9	On that famous phone call, the one where Trump urged the President of Ukraine to investigate
1:05.0	his political rivals.
1:06.5	Well, today Vindman sees a Ukraine under threat from Russia, a threat in his view that's
1:11.8	about two things.
1:13.0	The first one is Ukraine as a success makes the Russian exercise of managed democracy a
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