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.
To mark a year since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Galen Druke brings back two experts who first joined the podcast when the war began. Samuel Charap is a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation and author of the book “Everyone Loses: The Ukraine Crisis and the Ruinous Contest for Post-Soviet Eurasia.” James Acton is a physicist and co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Together they describe why the war has not turned out as originally expected, what the risks of escalation are today and how the conflict might come to an end.
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