Lawfare Archive: Alex Vindman on the Escalation in Ukraine
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🗓️ 5 May 2024
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From April 9, 2021: Tensions are heating up between Russia and Ukraine, seven years after the seizure by the Russians of the Crimean Peninsula and the incursions into Eastern Ukraine. With troop movements and some saber rattling, is Vladimir Putin trying to send a message to Joe Biden, or perhaps to Ukrainian President Zelensky? Is he trying to satisfy domestic constituencies or distract them? Benjamin Wittes sat down with Alexander Vindman to talk about what Russia is doing and why, and what the Biden administration should do about it.
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| 1:18.0 | Archive for May 5th, 2024. |
| 1:21.0 | On April 25th, President Joe Biden signed a $95 billion foreign aid package and allocated a significant |
| 1:27.3 | portion of the aid to Ukraine, more specifically $60.8 billion in military and economic assistance. |
| 1:33.9 | For today's episode, I chose an episode from April 9, 2021. |
| 1:38.7 | In the episode, Benjamin Wittis sat down with Alexander Vindman to talk about how tensions were heating up between Russia and Ukraine, which at the time was one year prior to the Russian invasion. |
| 1:48.0 | They discussed what Russia was doing and why, what they thought the Biden administration should do about it and more. I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the Law Fair Podcast, April 9, 2021. |
| 2:13.6 | Tensions are heating up between Russia and Ukraine, |
| 2:18.9 | seven years after the seizure by the Russians of the Crimean Peninsula and the incursions into |
| 2:26.1 | eastern Ukraine. There have been troop movements. There's been a certain amount of |
| 2:31.2 | saber rattling. is Vladimir Putin trying to send a message |
| 2:35.6 | to Joe Biden is he trying to satisfy domestic constituencies or distract them is he trying to send a message to Ukrainian President Zelensky? |
| 2:46.3 | What's going on here? To talk about it all, I asked Alexander Vinman to join me in the virtual jungle studio to go over all of the ins and outs |
| 2:57.5 | what is Russia doing and why and what is the Biden administration doing about it? |
| 3:05.2 | What should it be doing? |
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