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120: Sanctions and sanctuary: Japan responds to Russia's war in Ukraine w/ Noah Sneider

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Putenwood's Invasion of Ukraine

The proximity of ukraine to russia provides a direct challenge, or perhaps maybe too obvious, an example of a direct alternative, to puton's rule. The idea of russia launching an invasion of this scale against ukraine was unfathomable for people on both sides of the conflict. There are still deep personal ties, family ties. And clearly the russian leadership sort of miscalculated and how easy would be to take ukraine over.

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