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#Ukraine: Three options and the catastrophic futility of 1916 in 2023. Katrina vanden Heuvel. The Nation, Washington Post.

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#Ukraine: Three options and the catastrophic futility of 1916 in 2023. Katrina vanden Heuvel. The Nation, Washington Post.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-3-options-since-putin-not-giving-up-war-experts-2023-3


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0:00.0

This is CBS Eye in the World. I'm John Bachelor. Ukraine conflict more than a year.

0:11.0

And esteemed voices at the Institute of Study of War now identify for Kiev or Ukraine

0:17.6

three possible futures. One surrender negotiate. Minced to or whatever it takes with knowing

0:26.8

that there is something like a Marshall Plan to follow from the IMF, the World Bank, the

0:32.2

European Union and the United States to rebuild the part of the country that remains Ukraine.

0:38.6

That's the first option. Two, fight to stillmate more. In other words, the gun clubs that

0:46.9

are gathered along the front, the Donbass front can continue indefinitely with heavier

0:52.1

ammo and drones and missiles flying back and forth. But no great movement by either

0:59.1

by either force fighting the back move into 2023. And then three recommendation for Ukraine

1:08.7

to launch counteroffensives to oblige Putin to the negotiating table. I welcome Katrina

1:15.3

Van Nauvel of the nation. Now publish she is both the publisher and the editorial director.

1:20.8

And someone very familiar with the Russian culture, the Russian world of fighting at length

1:27.5

and sometimes without success, but continuing for a much longer than you can imagine is

1:34.6

possible at the start of the conflict. Katrina, a very good even to those three options

1:39.8

are advanced by the Institute of Study of War. The first one, Ukraine's surrender and

1:44.9

counter on a Marshall plan. Is that credible? Well, there will need to be a Marshall plan

1:49.8

and some estimates are putting it, I think, at 310 billion, 400 billion at a minimum for

1:57.4

just a few months' time. But Ukraine's surrender, I don't see that because as long as the weapons

2:06.5

from the West and NATO forces are flowing in, though they may come in more slowly, there

2:11.8

will be a will not to shut down. I think it's important to remember, though, John, the

2:18.9

meeting last week in Moscow between Chinese leadership and Putin was interesting in many

2:25.7

ways, but it showed a kind of shift from West to East and a partnership, not a friendship

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