Trouble Brewing in Ukraine
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
It's a scary time along the Ukrainian-Russian border these days. Russian troops are amassing in alarming numbers, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared recently that there had been a coup planned against him by Russian-aligned forces. How bad is it? Is it going to be another war? Is an incursion imminent? To go over all the questions, Benjamin Wittes sat down on Lawfare Live with Lt. Col. (ret.) Alexander Vindman, the Pritzker Military Fellow at Lawfare, and Dominic Cruz Bustillos, research assistant to Lt. Col. (ret.) Vindman at Lawfare. They talked about the Russian military buildup, the purported coup attempt and what, if anything, the United States can do to head off a coming disaster.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:31.2 | Right laptop, I'm ready to finish this thesis. |
| 0:34.2 | What thesis? |
| 0:35.2 | The one I've spent two years working on. |
| 0:36.7 | Don't have it. |
| 0:37.7 | What's the last version you saved? |
| 0:39.4 | Got final version, final final version, and no, I'm actually serious now. |
| 0:42.9 | This is the last version I will never save another version I promise, version two. |
| 0:46.7 | Surely that one? |
| 0:47.7 | No. |
| 0:48.7 | Why? |
| 0:49.7 | It's corrupted. |
| 0:50.7 | Oh, thanks. |
| 1:01.4 | Saved it again. |
| 1:05.2 | Our investment in the firmative investment, we're not containing Russia, we're making an |
| 1:13.3 | affirmative investment in Ukraine and Ukrainian democracy. |
| 1:17.0 | We both advantage our competition with Russia, but we also have an impact on this holy |
| 1:24.9 | grill of foreign policy, which is driving a wedge between Russia and China, keeping Russia |
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