Putin & Russian History

"The political tension in Georgia and the devastating war in Ukraine share a common point of origin: Vladimir Putin’s determination to deny them democracy and integration with Europe while also expanding Russia's sphere of influence. The Washington Post's David Herszenhorn, a specialist on the region's politics, spearheads the Post's “Russia, Remastered” series. He joins Hari Sreenivasan to explore the dramatic domestic transformation of Putin's Russia."

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Why It's Important To Help Ukraine

" - - - I guess over the holidays a lot of people talked with family members and their parents, or whomever and they had things to say about the amount of money the United States was spending on Ukraine and wanted to know what the U.S was getting out of it. - - - First, on the other side of this, when Ukraine emerges from the other side of this war, it is going to be an economic power, a big one, if, at the end of the war, it is aligned with Europe. That's good for the United States. It's good for NATO. - - - "

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Let's talk about what the US is getting out of Ukraine