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Mar 2022
37m 15s

#275 — The Russian War in Ukraine

SAM HARRIS
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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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