Poden's 'Buff Zone'

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Ukraine has always been a kind of buffer zone for nado as a threat. Poden would like to have that buff zone by not having krane become part of nato. He reached out to the west, and the west didn't even respond,. That's not even on the taperight. They didn't even come back and say, what? We can't do. Cant keep him out of nato forever. But abot 20, 25 years, which would be codifying reality.

In this conversation with the renowned Ohio State University political scientist John Mueller, author of The Stupidity of War, Retreat from Doomsday: The Obsolescence of Major War, and The Remnants of War, we discuss the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and what we might expect from Putin’s Russia in the coming weeks, months, and years, along with Dr. Mueller’s outline for how to end the current conflict and compromise with Putin. That seems unlikely at this point, but the prospects of the tragedy of millions of war refugees pouring out of Ukraine into neighboring nations, along with the number killed already and likely to be killed as the fighting escalates, why not give negotiation and compromise a chance? Read John Mueller’s op-ed that accompanies this episode.