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Is the U.S. Treating the Ukraine Conflict as a Proxy War Against Russia?

This clip is from the April 28, 2022 broadcast.

The Biden administration has pledged billions in military aid to Ukraine since Russia invaded in late February, and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said this week that the U.S. goal was "to see Russia weakened." Author and analyst Anatol Lieven, senior fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, warns that unless there is a commitment to finding a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it could become a U.S. proxy war with "very, very dangerous potential consequences."

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