Oligarchs & A Nuclear Scare

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4.2 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

After the Russian military fired on and seized control of Europe’s largest nuclear plant in Ukraine, retired U.S. army colonel and a Medal of Honor recipient Jack Jacobs discusses Vladimir Putin’s military strategy, as well as the war’s most likely outcome. CNBC’s Robert Frank details the sanctions levied on dozens of Russian oligarchs, and author Ben Mezrich reflects on his experience yachting and clubbing with the Russian oligarchs who put Putin in power. Mezrich has written about Russian and bitcoin billionaires, and considers whether crypto is the currency of choice for the country’s elite. In this episode: Jack Jacobs, @ColJackJacobs Ben Mezrich, @benmezrich Robert Frank, @robtfrank Joe Kernen, @JoeSquawk Becky Quick, @BeckyQuick Andrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkin Katie Kramer, @Kramer_Katie

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0:00.0	This is Squawk Pod. I'm the NBC producer Katie Kramer today on our podcast
0:06.4	A Nuclear Power Scare in Ukraine. What is Putin's plan for Eastern Europe and
0:11.7	beyond with NBC military analyst and decorated veteran Colonel
0:15.1	Jack Jacobs.
0:16.1	Russia is basically a 14th century country with 21st century weapons that they haven't changed
0:22.4	in a millennium even, that it makes no difference
0:24.9	whether you've got Putin or Schmooten or Ivan the terrible. The Russians are going to
0:29.7	pretty much stay the same as they always have been. All the latest with our squawkbox anchors, Andrew Ross Sorkin.
0:36.0	Is this going to go on for years?
0:37.0	Russia ultimately winds up taking control of the entire country.
0:40.0	Two to four million refugees are in NATO country.
0:44.0	And then what ensues is an extremely, is a long, a tedious and costly guerrilla war inside Ukraine. and
0:55.0	Joe Kernan and Becky Quick.
0:56.0	And what good is having all these countries
0:58.0	when your economy is just, it does nothing for the people.
1:02.0	And by the way for the people so you
1:03.0	and by the way the people hate you in the places you're taking over.
1:05.8	Plus a man who reported on the Russian oligarchs and then lived to tell the tale
1:10.7	author Ben Mezrich.
1:11.8	They found Putin.
1:13.1	He was a low-level KGB agent.
1:15.5	They moved him to Moscow, put him in power over the country
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