Ben Rhodes
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12 series
first heard Feb 2025
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The talk out of Poland was...
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about the inevitability, essentially, of Russian attacks on European soil.
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And these run the gamut from potential military actions into the Baltics to hitting European countries directly that are providing support to Ukraine.
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In talking to people, what you hear is that
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the intelligence about, you know, escalating these kind of gray space things that have already happened, like kind of drone probing, potential kind of sabotage attacks, potential drone attacks themselves, that that's kind of what's in the intelligence, that this could become increasingly, you know, kinetic, to use a jargony word, but blowing stuff up in Europe, which is, again, already happened, but, you know, could escalate.
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And that, you know, that should get people's attention.
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I have to say also, Tommy...
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After kind of freaking out about that for a couple of days, when the Ukrainians do the single largest strike on Moscow of the war, which they did a couple of days ago, it makes me nervous.
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Do I understand the Ukrainian desire to impose a cost on Russia?
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Sure.
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But I also think that at a certain point,
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that's going to lead to an escalation into Europe.
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And that, again, what should be happening is like a negotiation by people other than Jared Kushner and Steve Woodcoff to try to de-escalate this thing.
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Because right now we're going in one direction and it's not the right direction because you don't want to see attacks in Europe.
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Yeah, and it seemed like it was meant to kind of personally humiliate Putin, right?
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Who in the past has not taken kindly to any effort to, you know, when Hillary Clinton criticized his parliamentary election, you know, 2011 or 12, I forget which year.
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You know, Putin responded pretty forcefully.
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So, again, like I know people could say, well, you know, you you you can't put any constraints on the Ukrainians.
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I don't know.
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Like I just when you have a bunch of Europeans saying that they're going to start attacking Europe and killing people in these countries, I'm not sure like a massive drone bombardment of Moscow is like possible.
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