The "Thanks for Nothing, Volodya" Edition

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🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

This week, Alan, Quinta and Scott sat down sans guest to work through some of the week's big national security news, including:

“Like Stalin Without the ‘Stache.” The unpopularity of Russia’s war in Ukraine has led President Vladimir Putin to dramatically constrain what little free media and space for public dissent Russia had left. How will Russia be changed?
“The No-No-Fly-Zone.” The United States and Europe are finding themselves at loggerheads with the beleaguered government of Ukraine over the latter’s request for a No-Fly-Zone and other forms of support that they are so far unwilling to extend. What support should the United States and its allies provide to the Ukrainian government? And where is the line they shouldn’t cross?
“The Crime-Fraud Perception.” A new filing by the Jan. 6 committee points out that it sure looks like President Trump might have committed some crimes in the aftermath of the 2020 election. What does this mean for the future of a possible Justice Department investigation?

For object lessons, Alan expressed his horniness for the annual antler shed hunt that takes place in Jackson Hole, Wyoming each year. Quinta recommended a New Yorker piece on the possibility that former congressman and Trump chief-of-staff Mark Meadows engaged in a bit of voter fraud. And Scott shared his new favorite way to drink amaro: all shook up.

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0:00.0	So, Vice had an incredible story about how because Russia has restricted access to so much
0:09.1	of the internet within the country, that people are turning to Pornhub.
0:15.2	Ukrainians are using Pornhub to upload videos of themselves talking about what the war
0:21.2	has been like for them, because Pornhub is not yet blocked in Russia.
0:28.4	Well, Putin doesn't want a mass revolt. He's already doing a protest.
0:31.6	He can't handle a general strike. That would happen, of course.
0:34.8	I mean, this is taking reading it for the articles to a whole new level.
0:47.2	Hello, everyone. Welcome to Rational Security 2.0, aka Rational Security.
0:52.9	Infinity Boar. I am your host, Scott R. Anderson. Back with you again this week with my two co-hosts,
0:59.7	Quijit Dressick. Hello. And Alan Rosenstein. Hello, hello. And we are joined by no one for the
1:06.8	second week in a row, because we are having some real scheduling problems on this new early recording
1:12.0	time we're drying out that we're working our way through. We're very popular. We're very popular.
1:16.8	Everybody wants to come on the show. It's very exciting. But we are in spite of our lack of a guest
1:21.7	very excited to be here talking over some of the week's news with you once again in a little bit
1:27.6	of a perhaps forced light-hearted mood after our deeper and more serious dive last week.
1:32.9	Obviously, the topic we're dealing with are still serious. We want to give them due respect,
1:37.5	but we are going to try and get a little bit of our normal pace as we go through the weeks of
1:42.8	big stories. Topic 1 for this week, which we are calling the thanks for nothing, Valodia,
1:48.9	edition. Topic 1 is like Stalin without the stash. The unpopularity of Russia's war in Ukraine has
1:56.1	led President Vladimir Putin to programmatically constrain with little free media and space for
2:00.9	public descent. Russia had left. How will Russia be changed by this conflict?
2:06.9	Topic 2, the No No Fly Zone. The United States and Europe are finding themselves at
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