Russia has been building its military presence around ekrane for quite a while. Unlike the dictators of the they tried to hide their plans, putin was quite open about it. He surrounded ukraine from east russia, south crimea, and also from bellerus from the north. So the bukraine was surrounded, and he had russian fleet in the black sea ready to to shell ukraneand ucranean introstructure. And last year, there was an argument that putin did it all for blackmail. But i think that is dus toknow after he met presidet byton in geneva.
Sam Harris speaks with Garry Kasparov about Putin’s war of aggression in Ukraine. They discuss Putin’s larger objectives, the perception of the war inside Russia, whether US and EU foreign policy is to blame, the expansion of NATO, American weakness, Republican support for Putin, the sanctions regime, whether the US and EU should impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine, whether to openly seek regime change in Russia, how we can avoid WW3, what post-Putin government in Russia might look like, Western economic entanglement with autocracies, and other topics.
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