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The debate over lifting Ukraine weapons restrictions

More than 100 flags of Ukraine fly in support of the Ukrainian people last March in Boston. (Charles Krupa/AP)
More than 100 flags of Ukraine fly in support of the Ukrainian people last March in Boston. (Charles Krupa/AP)

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President Biden recently signaled that he could be on the verge of approving Ukraine's use of long-range weapons provided by the west inside Russia. Ukraine says that will help them win the war. But Russia warns it would spark a war between Russia and NATO.

Guests

Amb. William Courtney, adjunct senior fellow at RAND. Special assistant to the president for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia during the Clinton administration. Former ambassador to Kazakhstan, Georgia, and the U.S.-Soviet Commission.

George Beebe, director of grand strategy at the Quincy Institute. Former director of the CIA’s Russia analysis and staff advisor on Russia matters to then-Vice President Dick Cheney. Author of The Russia Trap: How Our Shadow War with Russia Could Spiral into Nuclear Catastrophe.

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