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🗓️ 4 June 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Ukraine’s surprise drone strike deep inside Russia damaged billions of dollars’ worth of irreplaceable military aircraft and marks a major milestone in the ongoing conflict. Political scientist Ian Bremmer breaks down how the Ukrainians pulled off the astonishing attack, the risk of nuclear retaliation from Putin and why “asymmetric warfare” is here to stay. (This interview, hosted by TED’s Helen Walters, was recorded on June 2, 2025.)
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0:51.7 | On Sunday, we learned that Ukraine launched a surprise, large-scale drone attack on Russia, which the Economist magazine has called Ukraine's most audacious |
0:55.8 | operation on Russian territory to date. To look past the headlines and understand what just |
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