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Ryan Bridge: Putin's game of chicken · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Putin's playing a game of chicken with the Europeans, and
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  Speaker 1: so far the Europeans are the chickens. The NATO has
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  Speaker 1: pretty much done nothing but talk about these fighter jets
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  Speaker 1: and drones intercepted a couple. Take your pick of experts
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  Speaker 1: and former military bosses chiming in on the why over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend, and you'll get as many different answers. Are
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  Speaker 1: these incursions a mistake, No, there's too many of them now.
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  Speaker 1: It's orchestrated clearly. So he's doing this for one of
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  Speaker 1: two reasons. To keep more territory in Ukraine, freak the
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  Speaker 1: Europeans a bit they might buckle and give them more
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  Speaker 1: of what he wants. Or he's picking off countries one
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  Speaker 1: by one to test the NATO response, lining up his
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  Speaker 1: next target. Does NATO respond differently to a Polish incursion
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  Speaker 1: than a Danish one? The point of NATO is that
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  Speaker 1: it shouldn't matter. It should be all for one, one
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  Speaker 1: for all. The question then becomes, how do you deal
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  Speaker 1: with that? And you've got to listen to a guy
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  Speaker 1: called Maritz Break. He's with the Center for Advanced Security,
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  Speaker 1: Strategic and Integration Studies. He says, you've got to be
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  Speaker 1: more forceful with the Russians. The Turks. They shot down
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  Speaker 1: a Russian jet back in twenty fifteen. You might remember
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  Speaker 1: that seconds after it entered their airspace. And guess what.
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  Speaker 1: Putin didn't go to war with Turkey, did he. The
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  Speaker 1: fighter pilots from Russia learned pretty quickly just whose airspace
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  Speaker 1: belongs to who. For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge,
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