An insiders look into Putins long game
More than a week into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has escalated his military offensive. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rallied international support for a major resistance. And major Western powers have isolated Russia by imposing devastating economic sanctions that leave Putin without an obvious off-ramp.\nThere is no end in sight to the war on the ground.\nBut there\u2019s another war being fought in parallel through news interviews, social media posts and open source data: the information war. And it\u2019s happening well beyond Ukraine\u2019s borders.\nToday, Playbook author Ryan Lizza talks with CNN senior international correspondent Matthew Chance, who\u2019s on the ground in Ukraine, and former White House National Security Adviser Tom Donilon about the relationship between warzone dispatches and Washington policy.\xa0\nRyan Lizza is a Playbook co-author for POLITICO.Matthew Chance is a senior international correspondent for CNN.Tom Donilon is a former National Security Advisor in the Obama Administration.Kara Tabor is a producer for POLITICO audio.Carlos Prieto is a producer for POLITICO audio.Jenny Ament is the senior producer for POLITICO audio.\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices