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How The War In Ukraine Could Go Nuclear

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Do We Really Need to Calm Our Support to Help the Ukrainians Invade Crimea?

Voche: The US would be perfectly happy if the Ukrainians were to restore the status quo ante of before this full-scale invasion of 2022 not the previous invasion of 2014 which included Crimea. He says there is a tricky dynamic here whereby you can imagine a sort of catastrophic success scenario that might be morally and legally justified but could end up potentially creating these quite significant risks yeah I think that's totally fair Sam. Voche: There's actually kind of a fairly vigorous debate within the Biden administration as to how much support they should provide the Ukrainians.

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