A Looming Showdown Over Ukraine?

December 02, 2021 00:40:34
A Looming Showdown Over Ukraine?
Modern War Institute
A Looming Showdown Over Ukraine?

Dec 02 2021 | 00:40:34

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Show Notes

Recently, large numbers of Russian military forces have been moved to areas near Russia's border with Ukraine. This has set off a wave of reporting and analysis about what it likely means. But there’s a considerable degree of nuance and substantial context that both need to be accounted for to best understand what the troop movements indicate, to predict what comes next, and to identify what strategic options are available to the united States and NATO. To examine all of that in this episode of the MWI Podcast, John Amble is joined by Michael Kofman, the director of the Russia Studies Program at the Center for Naval Analyses.

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