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What Next: Joe Biden's Putin Problem

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4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

What does a massing of Russian troops on the Ukrainian border mean? And could this conflict be defused yet by diplomacy? Guest: Slate’s Fred Kaplan, author of The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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If you Google around enough, you can find these satellite images of stuff building up on

1:10.2

the border between Russia and Ukraine.

1:13.0

You know, it's publicly available, it's not classified.

1:19.5

Slates Fred Kaplan says military folks, they know what this stuff is, battalions of troops,

1:25.9

not weapons of war.

1:27.9

But these latest satellite images from Russia suggest Moscow is now engaged in an unprecedented

1:34.2

build-up near the Ukrainian frontier, enough to mount an overwhelming invasion.

1:39.8

Well, it shows that about 90,000 troops, a lot of tanks, some of which have been moved

1:48.8

to the Ukrainian border from as far away as the far-south eastern part of Russia.

1:56.2

The front line between Ukraine and Russia is on high alert tonight, all leave cancelled

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