Russia's War

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🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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After years of threats, Russian forces invaded Ukraine—culminating in the largest attack against one European state by another since the Second World War. Global leaders, including U.S. President Joe Biden, widely condemned Russia’s actions and announced unprecedented sanctions aimed at a number of the country’s financial institutions and the Russian elite. What happens now? Join staff writer Anne Applebaum and contributing writer Tom Nichols in conversation with editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg as they examine the global reaction to Russia’s military campaign, the effectiveness of sanctions, and how the free world should address the rise of authoritarianism and ongoing threats to democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor-in-Chief of The Atlantic, and this is Radio Atlantic.
0:28.2	The sound of war, not heard in this European capital, since World War II.
0:32.6	This is what Russian President Vladimir Putin unleashed on Ukraine.
0:51.6	It's been five days since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
0:55.6	We're here to try to make sense of the crisis and to understand what might happen next.
1:00.1	In this bonus episode of Radio Atlantic, I'm joined by two of our writers,
1:03.9	Ann Applebaum and Tom Nichols, who also happen to be two of the world's preeminent experts
1:08.4	on Russia, on autocracy, and on nuclear weapons.
1:11.6	We spoke Monday afternoon at a live event.
1:15.0	Hello, everyone, and welcome to this edition of The Big Story.
1:20.8	We have a very serious subject to talk about today.
1:23.1	Russia's war against Ukraine, and we're going to jump right in.
1:28.0	I just want to introduce very briefly my two guests today, the first is Ann Applebaum,
1:35.0	staff writer of The Atlantic, and of course Pulitzer Prize-winning historian,
1:38.7	one of the preeminent scholars and commentators on Russia and Ukraine,
1:43.6	all of Eastern Europe, and autocracy, as many Atlantic readers know.
1:48.5	And we have with Ann Tom Nichols,
1:51.8	contributing writer at The Atlantic, one of the country's preeminent experts on Russia,
1:56.3	and on nuclear policy, which we're going to be talking about today at some length.
2:00.5	Tom just finished 25 years on the faculty of the U.S. Naval War College.
2:06.0	Congratulations on your graduation. Let's call it a graduation.
2:11.6	And Tom, of course, is the author of many great Atlantic pieces,
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