The war in Ukraine could change everything | Yuval Noah Harari

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🗓️ 2 March 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Concerned about the war Ukraine? You're not alone. Historian Yuval Noah Harari provides important context on the Russian invasion, including Ukraine's long history of resistance, the specter of nuclear war and his view of why, even if Putin wins all the military battles, he's already lost the war. (This conversation, hosted by TED global curator Bruno Giussani, was part of a TED Membership event on March 1, 2022. Visit ted.com/membership to become a TED Member.)

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0:00.0	It's TED Talks Daily. I'm your host, Elise Hume. The world is watching as Russia invades neighboring Ukraine. It feels overwhelming and devastating to witness what is happening. So to help us understand this conflict and the global stakes, historian and author Yuval Noah Harari puts it into context.
0:24.3	His insights are from a TED membership conversation with TED's global curator Bruno Giussani, with questions also coming in from the digital audience.
0:34.4	We are at the end of day 6th of the war in Ukraine, or more correctly, of the Russian invasion of
0:41.7	Ukraine, launched on the 24th of February by President Vladimir Putin.
0:46.2	We are all shocked and saddened by the events and by the humans suffering their causing.
0:51.4	And as we speak, really, a Russian military convoy is headed
0:55.2	toward Kiev, other Ukrainian cities are being bombarded, half a million Ukrainians have already
1:01.7	fled to newborning countries and much more. It's still early days, and it's difficult to predict
1:09.9	how the situation will evolve, even just in the next few hours.
1:16.0	But this is a war that should concern everyone everywhere.
1:20.9	And so today, this TED membership conversation, we want to try to give it a broader context with our guest, historian and author
1:30.0	Yuval Noah Harari. Yuval, welcome. Hello, thank you for inviting me. I want to start from
1:38.2	Ukraine itself and its particular place between the east and the west. What do we need to know about Ukraine to understand this war and what's at stake?
1:48.9	The most crucial thing to know is that Ukrainians are not Russians
1:52.2	and that Ukraine is an ancient independent nation.
1:57.9	Ukraine has a history of more than a thousand years.
2:00.7	Kiev was a major metropolis and cultural center when Moscow was not even a village.
2:07.7	For most of these thousand years, Kiev was not ruled by Moscow.
2:12.4	They were not part of the same political entity.
2:17.7	For centuries, Kiev was looking westwards and was a part of a union with Lithuania and Poland
2:25.8	until it was eventually conquered and absorbed by the Russian Empire, by the Tsarist Empire.
2:32.0	But even after that, Ukrainians remained separate people to a large
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