This is vladimir putten kind of doing the smallest thing he can do, whith just assert himself in a former soviet republic. No one knows exactly what the human cost of such a war would be. But i think a lot of progressives are wondering if a diplomatic solution could have been better to this. It's something that e, you know, one of the great a hawkish leaders of penagon, robert macnamara, kind of architect of the viaamor said,. You have to empathize with your enemy.
Vox’s Jonathan Guyer explains how a Russian invasion of Ukraine could affect me and you and everyone we know.
This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Paul Mounsey, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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