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March 18, 2022

Ashford on the Ezra Klein Show: A realist take on how the Russia-Ukraine war could end

By Atlantic Council

On March 18, Emma Ashford was featured on the Ezra Klein Show and provided her insights on a possible end to the Ukraine crisis and the conflict’s implications for the United States’ place in the world.

“I think people underestimate the extent to which American foreign policy, since the end of the Cold War, has become incredibly expansive, and in particular, expansive in a very military sense, though we’ve also seen a lot of expansion on things like sanctions, expansion of some US alliances, like NATO. But American goals have become just far more universal than they were during the Cold War.”

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