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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and other leaders are calling for NATO to impose a no-fly zone over the country, but thus far, NATO leaders haven't signaled they're willing to make that move yet, fearing it could be seen as a direct act of war against Russia and risk escalating the conflict...

Conflict Analysis & Prevention

Mariya Gut sipped water at a restaurant near the Baruch College campus in Manhattan – where students squinted into the cool glare of laptops and the only sign of war was a message spray painted on scaffolding across the street demanding Russia remove its “bloody hands from Ukraine!” For the 18-year-old business management major from the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, her freshman year has become an afterthought...

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Russia’s attack on Ukraine has resulted in strong, international actions aimed at punishing Russia. But restrictions on Russia also put pressure on other countries. Clay Lowery is an official at the Institute of International Finance, a trade group of banks. “We know there are consequences that we cannot predict," he said. Most major economies have only limited trade with Russia. For the United States, it is 0.5 percent of total trade. For China, it is around 2.4 percent...

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Former Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor said there is "no doubt" that Russian President Vladimir Putin underestimated the Ukrainians and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday on CNN. Taylor said Putin not fully taking Kyiv in the 10 days since the invasion signals he "underestimated Ukraine, he underestimated President Zelensky, he underestimated the unity of the NATO alliance and the ability of the American administration to pull this all together." "I want to go to some of the viewer questions. We had some excellent ones. One is did Putin underestimate the response to his actions?" a CNN anchor asked Taylor...

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Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Ambassador William Taylor, and Ukraine’s Minister of Culture and Information Policy, Aleksander Tkachenko, join MSNBC’s Ari Melber to discuss the escalating conflict and the cultural history Putin’s forces are destroying...

Conflict Analysis & Prevention

Former Obama Administration National Security Advisor Tom Donilon and Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor join Andrea Mitchell to assess President Putin’s actions in Ukraine and Russia and to predict his next moves in the region. “There's not a system around Putin. This just one person and I think increasingly isolated, I think exacerbated by Covid,” says Donilon. “The way these dynamics work in an autocracy like this is, you don't get a lot of reward for coming in and being the truth teller.”

Conflict Analysis & Prevention