Russia's unsuccessful to date war against Ukraine reminds us how much people are fighting for their own freedom. I think that should be a very salutary reminder for China about how well-timed when these forces may fight in the event of a full-scale invasion. The effects of the conflict internationally have been profound we could start with the Europe-Russia relationship where there you know that relationship has essentially been definitively severed and it was hugely economically significant for both Russia and Europe particularly in the energy sphere.
To mark a year since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Galen Druke brings back two experts who first joined the podcast when the war began. Samuel Charap is a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation and author of the book “Everyone Loses: The Ukraine Crisis and the Ruinous Contest for Post-Soviet Eurasia.” James Acton is a physicist and co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Together they describe why the war has not turned out as originally expected, what the risks of escalation are today and how the conflict might come to an end.