#358 — The War in Ukraine

Sam Harris speaks with Yaroslav Trofimov about the War in
Ukraine. They discuss the widespread false assumptions that
Russia would win a swift victory, Ukrainian attitudes toward
Russia, the transformation of the Ukrainian military, Russian
incompetence, Russian public opinion, the Azov Battalion and the
“de-Nazification” of Ukraine, the role of the Orthodox Church,
conspiracy thinking and Russian propaganda, Putin’s popularity on
the Right, NATO membership, the Minsk 2 agreement, alleged
failures of Western diplomacy, Zelensky’s leadership, the moral
clarity of the war, Russian war crimes, the new cult of WW2
victory in Russia, the numbers of casualties and displaced people
in Ukraine, delays in US aid to Ukraine, nuclear blackmail,
long-range weaponry, the weakness of western sanctions, the
sabotage of the Nordstream pipeline, how the war might end, the
complicated prospects of a Trump presidency, and other topics.


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