One Year of War in Ukraine
Melanie, Zack, and Chris, survey the course of Russia's brutal war of aggression in Ukraine at the one-year point, with a focus on a recent paper by RAND's Samuel Charap and Miranda Priebe. How did we get here? What key assumptions have been tested? And what does that mean for the future? How do U.S. and Ukrainian interests in this war align or conflict? Does a long war serve anyone's interest? And what are the prospects that this war will end any time soon? Grievances for China's mishandling of the balloon fiasco, and to Disney for bowing to the Chinese Communist Party's implicit censorship…
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