Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Growing up the child of Eastern European and German immigrants, former US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch strived to fit in.
Host Anne McElvoy asks Marie Yovanovitch, a former US ambassador to Ukraine, how far America and its allies should go in standing up to Russian aggression
This is a very narrow lane of supporting Ukraine but hopefully not escalating the war.
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When in fact what you have is somewhere in between, they haven't performed as well as some people have predicted but they also haven't performed poorly as they have.
This is just not a strategy that many people were thinking about beforehand because it doesn't seem straightforward how this will lead to a positive outcome.
As you start thinking about how a no-fly zone would actually unfold, it becomes very obvious this would be direct involvement in the war against Russia, and rather than end the war, a no-fly zone would enlarge the war and escalate the war.
There are striking parallels between the Russian invasion of Chechnya in 1994 and of Ukraine today. In both cases, the Russian leader believed that war would be over quickly, and even that many people would welcome them as liberators. In both cases, the Chechens and Ukrainians rallied and fought back.