What the West Got Wrong on Ukraine

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4.8 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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This episode is sponsored by Nexo, Arculus, and FTX US. On this week’s “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW reads three threads about Russia-Ukraine: "Why You Were Wrong About Ukraine and Will Be Again" by Konstantin Kisin Autocrats are crazy, with Melissa Chan Protests, with Sam Greene - Nexo is a powerful, all-in-one crypto platform where you can securely store your crypto. Invest, borrow, exchange and earn up to 18% APR on Bitcoin and 20+ other top coins. Insured for $375M. Audited in real-time by Armanino. Rated excellent on Trustpilot. Get started today at nexo.io. - Arculus™ is the next-gen cold storage wallet for your crypto. The sleek, metal Arculus Key™ Card authenticates with the Arculus Wallet™ App, providing a simpler, safer, and more secure solution to store, send, receive, buy, and swap your crypto. Buy now at getarculus.com. - FTX US is the safe, regulated way to buy Bitcoin, ETH, SOL and other digital assets. Trade crypto with up to 85% lower fees than top competitors and trade ETH and SOL NFTs with no gas fees and subsidized gas on withdrawals. Sign up at FTX.US today. - Enjoying this content? SUBSCRIBE to the Podcast Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1438693620?at=1000lSDb Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/538vuul1PuorUDwgkC8JWF?si=ddSvD-HST2e_E7wgxcjtfQ Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9ubHdjcnlwdG8ubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M= Join the discussion: https://discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8 Follow on Twitter: NLW: https://twitter.com/nlw Breakdown: https://twitter.com/BreakdownNLW “The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features Nathaniel Whittemore aka NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell, research by Scott Hill and additional production support by Eleanor Pahl. Adam B. Levine is our executive producer and our theme music is “Countdown” by Neon Beach. The music you heard today behind our sponsor is “Vision” by OBOY. Image credit: Alessandra Benedetti/Corbis News/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk. Join the discussion at discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW.
0:09.1	It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world.
0:15.0	The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, Arculus, and FTX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk.
0:22.8	What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, February 27th, and that means it's time for Long
0:28.3	Reads Sunday. Before we get into that, if you're enjoying the breakdown, please go subscribe,
0:33.2	give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to get deeper into the conversation,
0:36.9	come join us on
0:37.9	the breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or come to bit.combe,
0:42.3	Now, today for LRS, we're going to read three threads related to Russia's invasion of
0:49.7	Ukraine. Two of them are about why the West got it wrong on Ukraine, offering very different
0:56.2	pictures. And the third is, well, something a little bit different that I'll share at the end.
1:01.1	I share these perspectives not because I necessarily agree with them, but because I think
1:05.1	these are the questions that we're asking now, and it's important to ask them. It's important
1:09.5	to ask them out loud to be able to have the
1:11.5	conversation. The first is from Constantine Kissen, who's a comedian, the co-host of TriggerPod,
1:17.0	which is also a YouTube channel, and Constantine talks a lot about woke culture and the problems
1:22.0	thereof, which he'll see through this thread. He writes, the why you were wrong about Ukraine
1:26.9	and will be again
1:27.9	mega thread, and I'm going to excerpt it so there's a whole historical section in here
1:32.5	that you should go back and read if you're enjoying it. There will be no invasion, they said.
1:37.9	Putin is just saber-rattling, they told you. It's just Biden trying to escalate the situation
1:42.2	so he can look good by diffusing it, they explained.
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