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Joe Biden's Putin Problem

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

What does a massing of Russian troops on the Ukrainian border mean? And could this conflict be defused yet by diplomacy?

Guest: Slate’s Fred Kaplan, author of The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War

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If you Google around enough, you can find these satellite images of stuff building up on

1:10.2

the border between Russia and Ukraine. You know, it's publicly available. It's not classified.

1:16.7

Slates Fred Kaplan says military folks, they know what this stuff is. Battalions of troops,

1:26.2

weapons of war.

1:28.3

But these latest satellite images from Russia suggest Moscow is now engaged in an unprecedented

1:34.3

buildup near the Ukrainian frontier, enough to mount an overwhelming invasion.

1:40.0

Well, it shows that a lot of about 90,000 troops, a lot of tanks, some of which have been

1:47.7

moved to the Ukrainian border from as far away as the far-south eastern part of Russia.

1:56.0

The front line between Ukraine and Russia is on high alert tonight. All leave cancelled

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