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A Former CIA Official on One Year of Russia's War in Ukraine

Odd Lots

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The Russians Are Engaged in Economic Warfare

I think there's a lot of very serious preparations going on on both sides, but I'm just surprised we haven't seen war yet. We've seen exactly the kind of economic destruction that you've talked about where the Russians are engaged in economic warfare. The level of resolve of the Ukrainian people is absolutely amazing and heartening. Some have come back when they saw that the war was going a little better than they thought it would. But eventually you reach a point where the economy is more abundant, where there is no economy. It becomes a state completely dependent on the West for its survival.

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