The Ukraine Situation.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Last week, news outlets in the U.S. began reporting that intelligence officials had determined Vladimir Putin was considering a "military action" in Ukraine — possibly an invasion — that could begin as early as 2022. The intelligence finding estimated Russia was planning to deploy as many as 175,000 troops and almost half of them were already present along Ukraine's border.
In response, President Joe Biden pledged to make it "very, very difficult" for Putin to take any military action, and then held a two-hour video conference with Putin in which U.S. officials say Biden issued a warning about the economic penalties that would come down if a large-scale invasion took place.
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| 0:35.2 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:40.7 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening, and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking without all that hysterical nonsense you find everywhere else. |
| 1:06.1 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we are going to be talking about the Ukraine situation, |
| 1:12.4 | what's happening in Ukraine with Russia and Vladimir Putin and President Biden and what it means for the U.S. |
| 1:18.4 | and all that good stuff. |
| 1:20.2 | Before we jump in, though, as always, we'll start with some quick hits. |
| 1:40.2 | Okay. First up, President Biden opened the first White House Summit for Democracy today, including 110 countries who joined to promote democratic principles. |
| 1:49.0 | Number two, the House of Representatives passed the bill that would ban imports from Xinjiang China because of concerns over the treatment of ethnic minorities. Number three, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia have joined the United States diplomatic boycott of the Olympics in Beijing. |
| 1:56.0 | Number four, the late Senator Bob Dole will lie in state at the Capitol today. |
| 2:02.6 | Number five, 50 Republicans and two Democrats in the Senate voted to repeal President Biden's testing and vaccine mandates, |
| 2:09.4 | but the repeal faces steep odds in the House and a certain veto from President Biden, even if it were to pass. |
| 2:24.5 | Thank you. President Biden, even if it were to pass. All right, that brings us to today's main topic, which is what's happening in Ukraine. |
| 2:29.2 | Good evening and thank you for joining us. |
| 2:31.3 | We want to begin tonight with escalating tensions between the two former Cold War rivals, |
| 2:36.2 | the U.S. and Russia. |
| 2:37.6 | During a video call tomorrow, President Biden will personally warn the Russian President Vladimir Putin |
| 2:42.6 | about the very real costs if Russia invades Ukraine. |
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