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French Friday: Update from Ukraine & The Future Of Affirmative Action

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The Importance of Treating Ukraine Differently

There's an intimidation that Russia is not someone we want to cross sabers with? Right. Like we could deploy large numbers of conventional forces to Iraq and kick Iraq out of Kuwait without danger of nuclear escalation. We couldn't treat it like Saddam Hussein. But in my view, we've been excessively cautious about providing Ukraine with weapons because realistically, it is wildly implausible,. not impossible, but wildly implausible, that Putin would use nuclear weapons to prevent battlefield defeat in Ukraine as opposed to defeat in Russia which is not on the table.

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