When i saw ladimir putin taking over at the end of 99 year, 99 toi have to say, i was stunned. He never tried to hide his a, a sympasis, afor the soviet union. And e every time that he did something to materialize his views, like attacking republic of georgia in two thousand eight or annexing crimea in two thousand 14, i thought that the world would wake up because he did it. And unfortunately, nothing happened. So basically, we are now intis in this tragic situation, and eucranes are paying with their blood every every not day, every second, as we speak.
Sam Harris speaks with Garry Kasparov about Putin’s war of aggression in Ukraine. They discuss Putin’s larger objectives, the perception of the war inside Russia, whether US and EU foreign policy is to blame, the expansion of NATO, American weakness, Republican support for Putin, the sanctions regime, whether the US and EU should impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine, whether to openly seek regime change in Russia, how we can avoid WW3, what post-Putin government in Russia might look like, Western economic entanglement with autocracies, and other topics.
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