Russia escalates the war in Ukraine
Pod Save the World
Pod Save the World
4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Tommy and Ben walk through the latest news from Ukraine, including how Russia has conducted the military campaign so far and why many experts are concerned that the risk to civilians will increase, the impact of sanctions, the strong response from Europe, which countries have refused to condemn Russia and why, the private sector response and how sports leagues have shown solidarity for Ukraine. Then Tommy interviews a 29-year-old Ukrainian refugee named Kseniia Putiatina about her three-day journey from Ukraine to Istanbul and how she made the decision to flee.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Padstay the World on Tommy Vittor. |
| 0:13.9 | I'm Ben Rhodes. |
| 0:14.9 | Ben, good to see you, man. |
| 0:16.9 | Good to see you. |
| 0:17.9 | Sorry to leave during like a work the busiest time possible. |
| 0:23.5 | Yeah, I expected to miss some news. |
| 0:25.1 | I did not expect to literally come back to a world that is changed forever. |
| 0:30.4 | Yeah, well, I don't think you have to apologize to anybody. |
| 0:34.1 | I'll just say that. |
| 0:35.1 | That'll be my core point. |
| 0:38.4 | Core point. |
| 0:39.4 | Don't worry about it. |
| 0:40.4 | But it is like, man, does make you kind of think about how, I'm talking about this on |
| 0:46.0 | Puts America, like, things are just really fragile in the world everywhere. |
| 0:51.1 | Yeah, I mean, I think that they've felt fragile for a while, right? |
| 0:54.5 | And leaders really matter. |
| 0:55.5 | Yeah, it's been a theme on this show for years now of how fragile things are. |
| 0:59.2 | And something like this was going to happen, you know? |
| 1:02.8 | This was always one of the flashpoints it was out there, right? |
| 1:05.1 | And it was actually always the most active flashpoint. |
| 1:07.7 | And so if there was going to be a conflagration around authoritarianism and aggression, you |
| 1:15.3 | know, it was going to be here. |
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