Trailer: Escalation

Lawfare Presents: The Aftermath

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Trump, News & Politics, January 6, Politics, Lawfare, Insurrection

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🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

When Russia invades Ukraine in February 2022, the Western world is shocked. But to Ukrainians, the invasion has been centuries in the making. So how did we end up here? And have American efforts to avoid escalation in Ukraine & Russia created something deadly in its wake?

COMING FEB 24TH

In this new narrative series from Lawfare and Goat Rodeo, Escalation lays bare the stakes of the Ukraine-Russia War through powerful storytelling and compelling voices. It reveals forgotten promises and fragile alliances that have shaped the U.S.-Ukraine relationship and how the decisions of policymakers in Washington, Kyiv, and Moscow have global consequences.

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0:00.0	I get a phone call from a White House official.
0:05.5	The first thing is I think to myself, oh shit.
0:08.2	Case officer with the Central Intelligence Agency.
0:10.2	And my first post was embassy Kiev.
0:12.9	My family was tortured, murdered, and robbed.
0:17.1	They said over and over and over again.
0:20.2	They know Russia better than we do.
0:22.1	And we just ignored it.
0:23.6	What if a warning siren sounds?
0:25.8	Look for cover.
0:26.7	The nearest color.
0:28.4	I don't want to say Europe wasn't present, but it wasn't the hot issue.
0:32.5	And there was a time when the Ukrainian government had to decide.
0:36.0	We were all living in a bureaucratic process
0:37.9	and Putin's living in the world of hard power.
0:40.6	And the word escalation.
0:41.9	Everyone just says it.
0:43.1	It's like a code word.
0:44.1	This latest escalation...
0:45.9	...ineralized because of nuclear escalation.
0:50.1	And you know what is interesting about the war?
0:54.0	When you don't want to understand the war from the distance, it come closer and closer.
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