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The whole episode on our Patreon ???? / 1035podcast A lot of you wrote about it, you should have it. After about two years, we invited Mgr. Jana Ludvíka, Ph.D., from the Institute of Political Studies @fsvuk Here, she works at the Department of Security Studies and deals with nuclear weapons, nuclear deterrence and also, for example, frozen conflicts. "Russia has never hidden that it does not like the expansion of NATO," says Ludvík, but adds that "Ukraine was greatly helped by the fact that Putin had no justification for the invasion at the beginning of the war." Why did the war start in Ukraine? Could the Russian invasion have been prevented? What stage is the conflict currently in? And does it come to a conclusion? According to a study by Jan Ludvík and his colleagues, in the third nuclear age, the USA begins to treat Russia and China as rogue countries. But we are still far from using nuclear weapons. Why? Where does the imaginary red line for the use of nuclear weapons lead for Russia? And what is the state of the Russian or Chinese nuclear arsenal? War production is already in full swing in Russia, and any further increase would be at the expense of Russians' living standards. "It's about what people will allow," he says. As far as defense is concerned, Europe has already woken up, but it must catch up on the years it slept. There were also the American elections and the conflict in the Middle East. Enjoy listening. #ukraine #security