PREVIEW - The Friday Edition Part 2: The Atlantic's Anne Applebaum on the future of the Ukraine war
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In late September, Senior Editor Will Kaback spoke with two experts on Russia, Ukraine, and the war.
In part 2, Will spoke with Anne Applebaum, a staff writer at The Atlantic and a senior fellow at the SNF Agora Institute and the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Applebaum has also written several books on Russia and Ukraine and reported on the rise of autocracy and authoritarianism around the world.
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| 2:03.1 | Hey everybody, this is Tangle Senior Editor Will Kayback. I'm here to share my conversation about the war in Ukraine with the Atlantics and Applebaum. This episode is my full unedited conversation with Anne. I do want to note up front that I also interviewed Richard Sokwa, another expert on this conflict, and I gave a longer, more comprehensive introduction to this interview series at the |
| 2:08.2 | beginning of that episode. So I would recommend checking both of them out. And if you want to hear a |
| 2:12.2 | little bit more background about how these conversations came to be, you can go over to the |
| 2:15.9 | Tangle podcast page and listen to the start |
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