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230. Russia, Ukraine, and the West | Frederick Kagan

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Putin Is a Russian State and Russia Is an Independent State

Russia signed agreements stating that as far as they were concerned Ukraine was a country among other countries. They did something even more because when the Soviet Union fell parts of its nuclear arsenal were still in three other countries and we worked very hard to persuade those countries to give their nuclear arsenals back to Russia. Putin hypothetically doesn't feel that he's bound by that agreement but within the framework of international law he is I mean he can regard himself however he wants to but he is so not only did Russia recognize Ukraine as a country but it specifically recognized Ukraine in the borders that it had in 1994 okay So now we've established the illegality element of that like he had signed agreements or Russia had signed

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