The Lawfare Podcast

Trouble in Ukraine and Kazakhstan

Jan 14, 2022

58:45

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Episode guests

Alex Vindman

Alina Polyakova

Ambassador William Courtney

Dmitri Alperovitch

Highlights

AI Chapters

Episode notes

I Think the Window for Action Is Now.

02:47

Is This a Failure on Multiple Administrations?

03:24

Is There a Diplomatic Solution?

01:32

Introduction

3min

Russian Invasion

4min

Cossackstan

5min

Is There a Need for Further Talks?

3min

Do You See Any Possibility That This Is a Diplomatic Bluff

5min

Do You Think Russia Is Going to Take Home a Wind?

4min

Do You Think the Russians Are in Decline?

2min

I Think There Is Very Little That the Us. Administration Could Have Done to Forestall This Crisis

2min

Do You Think Poton Banks Is at the Top of the Agenda?

4min

10.

Is This a Failure on Multiple Administrations?

3min

11.

I Think It's Now It, a Crimlent Out of the Whole Cloth

2min

12.

Today Is De Zero

3min

13.

I Think the Window for Action Is Now.

3min

14.

Is There a Diplomatic Solution?

2min

15.

Do You Think the Russians Are Serious?

3min

16.

Do We Care More About Ukraine Than We Do?

2min

17.

Do the Russians Have the Military Resources to Invade Crane, Take Kie, Then Negotiate for the Really Want?

2min

18.

Could Russia Invade Ukraine?

2min

19.

Do You Think the Russians Are Going to Crush the Ukranian Military Forces?

2min

20.

I Think the Russians Will Lecocate Whatever

2min

21.

Lawfare Live - The Last Question to Day

3min

There's a lot going on in Russia's near-abroad, the countries on the periphery of the Russian Federation. There’s a war brewing in Ukraine, with talks in Geneva between Russia and the West seeming to fail this week. There are also Russian troops in Kazakhstan, there at the invitation of the autocratic Kazakh government in response to protests over fuel prices.

To check in on the situation, Benjamin Wittes sat down on Lawfare Live with Alina Polyakova of the Center for European Policy Analysis; Alex Vindman, the Pritzker Military Fellow at Lawfare; Ambassador William Courtney, who served as ambassador to Kazakhstan; and Dmitri Alperovitch, the founder of the Silverado Policy Accelerator. They talked about what's going on in Kazakhstan, the failure of the diplomatic process in Geneva, and the war that seems to be coming in Ukraine.

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