As leaders prepare for the NATO summit this week, the fighting in Ukraine rages on. We are now more than four months into the war. The US plays an outsized role within NATO, and is also directly aiding Ukraine’s military. Host Carol Hills speaks with Dara Massicot, a senior policy researcher at the RAND Corporation, where she focuses on defense and security issues in Russia and Eurasia.
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