What Do You Think of Russia's Economic Retaliation?
i can't help but notice that the disorganization and disarray of the biden administration must have been tempting for poton to view the united states as weak. In regard to actually sically fighting a war, they tried to get the poles to put their air force into the ukranian territories to start a targeting russians on behalf, essentially, of nato. But they wisely decided not to do that. The economic part of it is something that i've been focusing on for a long time, because without understanding the economic foundations, the politics doesn't make a whole lot of sense. As it stands right now, puton's popularity is about 70 %, and
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The Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine on February 24th, 2022 surprised many around the world for its speed and scale, making it the largest military operation in Europe since World War II. Western media was quick to condemn the action as a flagrant act of aggression on the part of Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin, while news sources in other parts of the world – particularly China, India, and Africa – have been more sanguine, viewing this as a defensive response to NATO encroachment on Russia’s border. Dr. Matthew Raphael Johnson, Russian scholar and long time author on the political economy of the region, joins us tonight to help us disentangle the truth from the propaganda. Because Dr. Johnson has received numerous interview requests and could only speak with us for one hour, we will be following this episode in the coming days with a brief ‘After Dark’ bonus show focusing on the potential long-reaching supply chain implications of this conflict.
