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You know, this lack of aid will only exacerbate those political and societal tensions and sort of cause chaos in the

ranks of the Ukrainian army and so you could see cascading failures over the course of

2024. I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the Law Fair Podcast February 8th

2024. It's been a wild and woolly week on Capitol Hill with respect to the border, Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan,

and a lot of other stuff.

As we recorded yesterday, the Senate was preparing to vote, both on the apparently doomed

supplemental deal, including border security provisions and on one without them.

Joining me in the virtual jungle studio was Molly Reynolds Lawfair, senior editor, and Eric Charramella of the

Carnegie Endowment of International Peace.

We got together to discuss the congressional politics and also the situation in Ukraine that drives the need for congressional action.

We talked about how the border and the Ukraine supplemental got wrapped up

together, how they're being disaggregated, whether there is a path forward for Ukraine aid now that the Senate has killed the

compromise and we talked about what's going on on the ground in the Ukrainian

lines and what would happen if the United States

doesn't act it's the lawfare podcast February 8th Molly Reynolds and Eric

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