#UKRAINE OUT OF MONEY, AMMO, HOPE: 4/8: The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History. by Serhii Plokhy (Author)
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 22 January 2024
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https://www.amazon.com/Russo-Ukrainian-War-Return-History/dp/1324051191
...Ukraine, Plokhy argues, has remained central to Russia’s idea of itself even as Ukrainians have followed a radically different path. In a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international order, and a resurgence of populist nationalism, Ukraine is now more than ever the most volatile fault line between authoritarianism and democratic Europe.
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| 0:46.5 | 2021, the summer of 2021, Russia continues to run troops up to the Ukrainian border and then pull back, but leaves its equipment in place. |
| 0:57.0 | There's talk back and forth between now President Biden and Vladimir Putin, they meet in Geneva. |
| 1:04.0 | There's talks by the director of the Central Intelligence Agency in Moscow, |
| 1:10.0 | warning Putin not to do this, and Putin talking about his demands. |
| 1:16.0 | There's taunting going on in Ukraine all that spring, summer, and fall of 2021. |
| 1:24.0 | But Mr. Biden makes it clear again and again the professor reporting |
| 1:28.0 | that no U.S. troops are going to Ukraine, no weapons are going to Ukraine. |
| 1:33.0 | Professor, this is a colossal misjudgment of Putin. |
| 1:37.0 | Was it purposeful? |
| 1:38.0 | Did it serve NATO's purpose to pretend that Putin wasn't a deceiver and a predator? |
| 1:43.0 | The U.S. Intelligence did a fantastic job, really reporting to Washington on the modern the Kremlin on the plans for the war, |
| 1:59.0 | even predicting, if not the day and the hour hour then at least the week when the war would start. |
| 2:07.1 | And the Mr Biden's administration in the White House made an unprecedented move of |
| 2:17.6 | releasing almost in real time the intelligence information on those things that they were getting. |
| 2:24.0 | So the hope was that they would shame Putin into not doing that, into not attacking, |
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