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Julia Ioffe is a Russian-born American journalist who covers national security and foreign policy topics for GQ. Her articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Foreign Policy, Forbes, Bloomberg Businessweek, The New Republic, Politico, and The Atlantic. Ioffe has appeared on television programs on MSNBC, CNN, and other news channels as a Russia expert.Wikipedia
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August 01, 1982, Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union


has in the last hour impressed and informed me to a great extent in relation to this difficult situation.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shavonne


10 hours ago
What a fantastic interviewer. That ending was nothing but a chill foreshadowing of what we all hope doesn’t come to reality.

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Michael Szymanski
Michael Szymanski
10 hours ago
As fantastic as the full Frontline shows are, I've found these "unabridged" interviews to be incredible supplemental materials that offer so much additional and useful context. Incredible journalism, thank you.

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rabble levin
rabble levin
21 hours ago
We need more interviews like this where there is sufficient time on the clock and the expert is allowed to talk at length uninterrupted. That was an actual professorial explanation into Putin's probable mindset by someone steeped in the nuances of the matter.

Posted By: fostertom Defence of Ukraine (or Hungary) would be 'just' but looks like NATO's not brave enough.

Not brave enough or not stupid enough?? Left on its own theres likely tens of thousands of dead in Ukraine. If NATO squares up to Russia the skys the limit for the body count

NATO is a defence pact born out of previous Russian, ( Soviet ), expansionism which left most of E. Europe as its own controlled, and deprived "Buffer Zone", for a generation. It is now seeking to do the same in Ukraine.

Given that, which bit of Defence Pact don't you understand?
Therein lies its weakness, there is no over-arching military structure ( as the Russians have ) that would allow vast movements of military hardware UNINVITED, into the Eastern border Nations of Europe.
Each nation guards its own military autonomy, and such, a co-ordinated mass mobilisation plan that would circumvent National parliaments, AFAIK doesn't exist. Yet militarily, that threat counter is what's needed, when faced with an aggressor. Calls for NATO to "do something" are to some extent futile, given its set up.

Re; Iraq and Libya; I seem to remember two dictators who had both got too big for their boots.

Re; Syria; another dictator this time propped up by Putin, now they are likely to find themselves in the pay back phase as Putin calls for Foreign supporters to join him.
As for Ukraine they are a threat, because of people power, that's what scares him, especially given Russia's 1917 history.

Posted By: fostertomA test question then

Another red herring you mean. Not the subject under discussion. I'm out. Why isn't the discussion under politics anyway?