330 | Does Great Power Equal Responsibility? America and the World from WWI to Ukraine with Robert Kagan
The Realignment
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Putin Still Had Plenty of Steps, Hitler Got Czechoslovakia, That Changed Everything
If Putin were to accomplish his original goal of taking all of Ukraine, he would be in a much stronger position in Europe. But it would still be facing an overwhelmingly powerful Western alliance. And so he would not actually have fundamentally shifted the situation in the same way that Hitler was able to with moves that did not cost Hitler anything. So I'm just saying it's the situation similar, but we should be in a way thankful that the world system that the United States created has been sufficiently resilient"
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