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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: John Sullivan: Midnight in Moscow
Description: For weeks before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, John J. Sullivan, the U.S. ambassador in Moscow, was warning that it would happen. When troops finally crossed the border, he was woken in the middle of the night with a prearranged code. The signal was even more bracing than the February cold: it meant that Sullivan needed to collect his bodyguards and get to the embassy as soon as possible. The war had begun, and the world would never be the same.Sullivan has laid down his story in his new book Midnight in Mos...