"We've Been Handed a Way to Deter China" — Timothy Snyder on Ukraine and Taiwan
Historian Timothy Snyder joins Scott Galloway to argue that helping Ukraine beat Russia is the cheapest way for the US to deter a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, and that recent US policy is wasting that chance.
The gist
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Galloway argues every Ukrainian battlefield win lowers the odds China risks invading Taiwan, and Snyder agrees, calling Ukraine a deterrent handed to the US by history.
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Snyder says letting a nuclear Russia win through nuclear blackmail pushes middle powers to build their own nuclear weapons, making the world more dangerous.
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Snyder notes the 1994 Budapest memorandum promised Ukraine protection for giving up nuclear weapons, and other countries may now conclude that keeping them was smarter.
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Snyder claims munitions like Patriots spent in the first 10 or 12 days of the Iran war could have won the war for Ukraine.
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Snyder says Trump's envoys, including Kushner, cannot express Ukraine's interests and see Putin as a fellow oligarch rather than a state's representative.
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