Donbas, every mention
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every year anyone David Sacks 38Jason Calacanis 5Chamath Palihapitiya 5Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 3Brad Gerstner 2Vivek Ramaswamy 1
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Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History
- ▶ 57:27 Jason Calacanis And you think if, uh, they give up the Donbass and whatever other regions, you know, are on the table here, do you think Putin stops here, or do you think we'll see him invade another country?
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- ▶ 1:34:13 David Sacks I mean, what's happening is that the stage of the war is that the, the fighting is in the Donbass and along a 1200 kilometer front in Ukraine where the Russians have just been pounding the Ukrainians.
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- ▶ 1:18:16 David Sacks So it's kind of like, you know, Transnistria and Moldova is kind of like the Donbass was in Ukraine or South Ossetia in Georgia.
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- ▶ 54:37 David Sacks After the coup, a civil war breaks out in the Donbass because the ethnic Russians there are opposed to this new government and the fact that Yanukovych, who they voted for, was deposed in an insurrection. 3 times in the scene
In conversation with Vivek Ramaswamy
- ▶ 34:38 Vivek Ramaswamy That does give Putin most of the Donbas region.
In conversation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- ▶ 8:45 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. At the same time, the government that went, came into the Ukraine began enacting a series of laws that turned the Russian populations of the Donbas region into second-class citizens. 3 times in the scene
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- ▶ 1:07:50 David Sacks He refused to recognize the Russian interest in Crimea, and we gave no support to the Minsk Accords, which would have given some limited autonomy to the Russian speakers in the Donbass area.
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- ▶ 1:01:09 David Sacks You've got Putin basically annexing or saying he's going to annex the Donbass and somebody, we don't know who, but according to Radek Sikorsky, who's the Polish foreign minister, he thanked the U.S. 4 times in the scene
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- ▶ 1:10:19 David Sacks And you have to wonder, you know, I tweeted a few months ago that the White House economic advisor, Brian Deese, he said that in this interview with CNN, that the Biden administration was willing to endure a global recession in order to… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:19 David Sacks If I could choose an outcome right now, I would say it'd be great if the Russian army collapsed because of its morale problem, tucked its tail between its legs, went back to Moscow, and then the Ukrainians had the good sense to respect the…
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- ▶ 1:22:26 David Sacks It looked like Ukraine was winning the first couple of weeks, but now it looks like Russia has won this Donbass region.
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- ▶ 1:09:39 David Sacks In the Washington Post this week, in which the administration officials were quoted as saying that they would effectively prefer, or countenance was their word, a global recession and famine over letting Russia keep the Donbass region. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:46 David Sacks Russia has, they've taken over the Donbass, they've taken over this eastern 20% of the country, they have Crimea, and Ukraine basically, the rest of it, will not be part of NATO.
- ▶ 1:24:43 Jason Calacanis Or Donbass? 3 times in the scene
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- ▶ 1:13:51 David Sacks They've won that eastern, that Donbass region. 2 times in the scene
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- ▶ 1:08:38 David Sacks Now we're in this, uh, phase where the fighting is over in the Donbass. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:41 David Sacks The only thing left is this fight in the Donbass.
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- ▶ 1:30:15 David Sacks And then the last part is what they're really fighting over, which is this Donbass region,
E73: Late-stage VC markdowns and mistakes, market strategy, Ukraine/Russia update with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 54:45 David Sacks And then some version of independence for these, um, sort of breakaway territories in Eastern Ukraine, the, in the Donbass region. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:51 Brad Gerstner And I think Putin's saying, I can't hightail it out of here unless you roll back all the sanctions and give me a little bit of the Donbass. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:12 Chamath Palihapitiya They simply focused it on the Donbass. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:10 David Sacks Regional autonomy for these sort of Russian speaking areas in the Donbass, uh, which by the way, we could have had that too. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:44 Jason Calacanis You know, what if we offer to take the sanctions off, and then we are training Putin that these kind of misadventures get him something, Donbass, etc., and that the sanctions roll off.
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- ▶ 12:21 David Sacks And then some sort of independence recognized for the disputed territories in the Donbass.
- ▶ 57:29 David Sacks I don't think any of the details, now that we know, look, it's about Crimea, it's about Donbass, it's about neutrality.
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- ▶ 36:16 David Sacks So they moved to seize Crimea, and then after that, they started backing Russian separatists in the Donbass, and the Civil War began, ok? 2 times in the scene
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- ▶ 2:46 David Sacks Who rules the Donbass in a way that
- ▶ 4:53 David Sacks The fact of the matter is none of us on this pod want to send our sons and daughters to go fight and risk their lives and die to determine who rules the Donbass or even Ukraine.
- ▶ 16:06 David Sacks I mean, the, the, the eastern parts of Ukraine that are, you know, ethnically Russian, the areas of the Donbass, they will, those people will support him, but the western part of Ukraine that wants to be free, that's not ethnically…
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- ▶ 33:14 David Sacks And then in, uh, in Ukraine, they've got, um, the Donbass and, and Crimea, and it was now been, uh, annexed by Russia, which are these majority ethnically Russian areas, you know, and, and same problem in Moldova.