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41: Max Bergmann Covers Europe, Ukraine, and Russia for The Center for American Progress

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I Think the Administration Is a Queer Signalling to Russia.

The west doesn't want to have any negative economic blowback on themselves. Europe needs russian gas, but russia needs europe's money and revenue. Russia is a country that has geopolitical am tions and operates in a way that puts geal politics first. I think Button is sort of hoping that something similar happens, right? That he'll invade, they'll be sanctions, but the west doesn't wants to have anynegative economic blowbackon themselves. And i think part of what vladimer putton is counting on jimmy carker wishing it would all go away.

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