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Bill Browder On Saving Ukraine, NATO, And The Threat Of Vladimir Putin : 1A Bill Browder is a financier turned anti-corruption campaigner. He made his fortune in post-Soviet Russia before falling afoul of Putin.

We last spoke to him back in 2018. Back then, few imagined Russia would dare carry out a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. But Browder wasn't one of them.

Now, with Donald Trump's return to the White House just weeks away, the newly knighted Browder tell us world leaders must act. He joins us to explain why Putin remains such a huge threat to Ukraine and the world.

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Bill Browder On Saving Ukraine, NATO, And The Threat Of Vladimir Putin

Bill Browder On Saving Ukraine, NATO, And The Threat Of Vladimir Putin

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Vladimir Putin is running a mafia state, he's the capo, he's the head mafia boss, and his intention is to commit terrible crimes, get away with them, and further his reach. We should be scared of Vladimir Putin. We should do everything possible to contain his evil intentions. We should defend NATO which is our joint defense agreement with other countries. And we should not allow Putin to run riot over Ukraine, Syria, and all these other countries.

That's what Bill Browder told us when last spoke to him in 2018.

Browder is a financier turned anti-corruption campaigner. He made his fortune in post-Soviet Russia before falling afoul of Putin. Back then, few imagined Russia would dare carry out a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. But Browder wasn't one of them.

Now, with Donald Trump's return to the White House just weeks away, the newly knighted Browder tell us world leaders must act. He joins us to explain why Putin remains such a huge threat to Ukraine and the world.

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