What Next - Putin’s Obsession With Ukraine
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🗓️ 23 February 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
President Vladimir Putin has begun sending Russian soldiers into Ukraine after spending months massing troops on the country’s borders. Why is Putin risking so much to take the Donbas region? And does this latest incursion signal a failure of the west’s foreign policy approach to Russia?
Guest: Josh Keating, global security reporter at Grid.
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| 0:37.6 | Here are a few of the words you might use |
| 0:40.4 | to describe what's happening in Ukraine right now. |
| 0:43.8 | You might call it an incursion of Russian troops. |
| 0:47.2 | Maybe the beginning of an invasion. |
| 0:50.4 | But one word some are resisting using so far at least, |
| 0:54.4 | is war. |
| 0:56.6 | This is not the all-out nightmare scenario we were fearing. |
| 1:01.9 | Josh Keating covers global security for the new site grid. |
| 1:05.7 | It was always clear that if a war started that Danyatsk and Luhansk, |
| 1:10.5 | these two breakaway regions would be the kind of tripwire for it, |
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