35 - Ukraine and the War in the East - a podcast by The Red Line

Russias entire defense strategy relies on a friendly or neutral Ukraine, so when Ukraine almost turned to the west in a revolution in 2014 panic swept the Kremlin; and Russia invaded and occupied the Crimean peninsula and the Donbas region in the East. 

Will this war slow down to frozen conflict like in Transnistria, or will it roar back to life like in Karabakh, we ask our expert panel. 

This week 

Steven Pifer (Brookings Institute)
Gustav Gressel (European Council of Foreign Relations)
Thomas Graham (Yale University)

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