The first episode of Politics Weekly America: Biden sanctions Russia

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🗓️ 25 February 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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To continue listening to Jonathan Freedland’s analysis of what’s happening in Washington and beyond, be sure to like and subscribe to Politics Weekly America wherever you get your podcasts. This week, as Russia invades Ukraine, Jonathan speaks to the former US ambassador to Nato, Ivo Daalder. The pair discuss why sanctions imposed on Putin by the west are probably too late for Ukraine. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/politicspod

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0:00.0	This is the Guardian.
0:14.1	Welcome to Politics Weekly America, I'm Jonathan Friedland.
0:18.1	We now have war in Europe on a scale and of a type we thought belonged to history.
0:26.0	Russia has invaded Ukraine.
0:28.4	Vladimir Putin authorized a special military operation.
0:32.4	Vladimir Putin is calling this a, quote, special military operation to protect on vast.
0:38.7	Russia's response will be immediate and lead you to such consequences that you have never
0:43.9	faced in your history.
0:45.0	Ukraine's president, Vladimir Zelinsky, he went on Facebook again to address the nation.
0:49.7	We are strong, he told them.
0:51.4	We are ready for anything and we will defeat everyone because we are Ukraine.
0:56.5	Putin chose this war and now he and his country will bear the consequences.
1:02.0	That's how the invasion of a sovereign nation,
1:05.5	how war in Europe, sounds in 2022.
1:10.1	Russia's invasion of Ukraine is first a crisis for the Ukrainian people
1:15.6	and for the continent of Europe, of course.
1:18.0	But it's also a crisis for the president of the United States.
1:22.0	You heard at the very end there addressing the American people
1:25.4	from the Eastern of the White House on Thursday evening.
1:29.5	The pressure remains very much on Joe Biden and his administration.
1:34.2	With the expectation that any Western response to Vladimir Putin's action
1:39.1	will inevitably be led by Washington.
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