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Bobo Lo on Russia, Wagner and the Ukraine War

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The US Needs to Focus on the War in Ukraine

I think the US has to push hard now. I think it needs to not get distracted by events in Russia. It can't try and second guess, if we deliver this or that weapon system, it will provoke the Russians. That kind of self-deterrence is frankly not self-destructive but extremely unhelpful. Ukraine has to win this war. What does a win look like? That's much more difficult. At the very minimum it needs to regain all the territory that it has lost since February 2022. Crimea is a tricky one. Is Crimea a red line? I think we cross that bridge when we come to it. Yes, literally. This is the most difficult

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