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Ep 128: Stephen Kotkin on Russia and Ukraine (War in Ukraine #1)

Stephen Kotkin, Kleinheinz Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and contributor to War in Ukraine: Conflict, Strategy, and the Return of a Fractured World, joins the show to talk about the war in Ukraine and what the endgame might look like.

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• 02:24 Introduction

• 05:09 Four victories

• 11:48 “Winning only on Twitter”

• 22:36 10/7 and Ukraine

• 28:27 Regime change in Russia

• 37:03 Keeping allies

• 45:24 Renting land armies

• 55:01 “European culturally but not Western”

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