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#278 – Skye Fitzgerald: Hunger, War, and Human Suffering

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The Leverage of Power in Syria and Ukraine

I think the conflict is just going to exacerbate, you know, sort of the global challenge we have with displacement. I wish that the levers of power were used differently in situations like Syria and Ukraine. We completely missed our opportunity as a player on the global stage with military capability to prevent the killing of hundreds of thousands of civilians in Syria. The last entire trilogy I did was about displacement until we did a war. And this is a huge displacement of human beings, regardless of the cause.

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