The Evening: War Crimes, Smaller Covid Spending Plan, Billy Joel, and More

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Good Evening,

It's Monday, April 4th.

War Criminal

President Biden once again called Vladimir Putin a “war criminal” and noted the grim scenes emerging as Russian troops pull out of northern areas of Ukraine. He called for gathering more details toward a “war crimes trial,” as the Washington Post reports

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European Sanctions

French President Emmanuel Macron’s call Monday for sanctions banning imports of Russian oil and coal into the European Union following the weekend’s allegations of atrocities in Ukraine is set to trigger the most divisive intra-EU clash yet over how to respond to Russia’s invasion of its neighbor, as the WSJ reports

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Smaller Covid Spending Proposal

Senators are expected to release a $10 billion coronavirus aid package as lawmakers scramble to reach a deal before Congress leaves Washington at the end of the week. The emerging plan is expected to provide funds only for domestic vaccination, testing, and treatment efforts, cutting $5 billion in funding for the global vaccination effort that had previously been proposed, as the NYT reports

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Executive Education

Inside DOD's FY 2023 Budget

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, a CSIS executive education

course, offers key insights from CSIS experts and practitioners on what the Biden administration's FY 2023 budget and strategy documents reveal about strategic priorities, major budget movements, force structure adds and cuts, and acquisition program changes.

Video Shorts

Check out CSIS's YouTube Channel

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for the latest releases in our “Crisis Crossroads: Ukraine” video series.

In That Number

9,000

China’s financial capital reported more than 9,000 Covid cases on what was meant to be the final day with Covid restrictions.

Source: WSJ

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Critical Quote

“I want every mother of every Russian soldier to see the bodies of the killed people in Bucha, in Irpin, in Hostomel. What did they do? Why were they killed?”

— Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

iDeas Lab

In the second episode

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of Ukraine: The Human Price of War, representatives from Ukrainian health and humanitarian organizations and CSIS experts explore the increasing brutality of the Russian military's offensive and the reasons behind it.

The Andreas C. Dracopoulos iDeas Lab at CSIS enhances our research with the latest in cutting-edge web technologies, design, and multimedia.

Optics

(Photo credit: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images.) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky walks in the town of Bucha, just northwest of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, on April 4, 2022.

Recommended Reading

“Space Threat Assessment 2022

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” by CSIS's Todd Harrison, Kaitlyn Johnson, Makena Young, Nicholas Wood, and Alyssa Goessler.

This Town Tomorrow

At 9:15 a.m.

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, join CSIS and the US-ASEAN Business Council for the first day of the U.S.-Indo-Pacific Conference, which will highlight the U.S. relationship with ASEAN and the Quad, as well as the role of American industry in the region.

And, at 1:00 p.m.

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, the CSIS Reconnecting Asia Project holds a discussion about U.S. and allied interests in Asia's evolving subsea cable networks, which are responsible for a large portion of the digital economy.

Then, at 3:00 p.m.

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, the CSIS Project on Prosperity and Development hosts an event about the role of U.S. foreign assistance in Bangladesh.

Video

Last Friday, the CSIS Strategic Technologies Program hosted an event on the artificial intelligence (AI) applications for healthcare. Watch the event here.

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Podcasts

Today's episode of Energy 360 examines the role environmental remediation plays in the just transition agenda.

Listen on Spotify

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& Apple Podcasts

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Smiles

Every so often, I’ll hear a Billy Joel song on XM-Sirius Radio and subsequently dive deep into Joel’s cannon. The power of Joel’s music is well-documented, but I’ll just say that songs like “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant,” released in 1977, are so vivid that they give me chills to this very day. Take this performance

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for instance. In addition, check out Liberty DeVitto on drums and Mark Rivera on sax.

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and follow me on Twitter @handrewschwartz

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The Evening is my daily guide to key insights CSIS brings to the events of the day. It is composed with the External Relations team: Kendal Gee, Paige Montfort, and Christopher Healey.

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