and i give the president relatively high marks here. to create a measure of deterrence. and punishment if in fact putin goes ahead with any military intervention. and yet ukraine is going to inexorably i think drift further to the west. so he can t solve this problem. which means this movie we re going to be watching for quite some time. early on in his presidency president biden clearly predicted that the world is right now a contest between i think he said democracy and authoritarianism. watch this. i predict to you your children or grandchildren are going to be doing their doctoral thesis on the issue of who succeeded, autocracy or democracy? because that is what is at stake. this is a battle between the utility of democracies in the 21st century and autocracies.
Alba Ortega, doctoral Student of the program on Biomedicine, will represent the University of Barcelona in the Coimbra Group contest “3-Minute Thesis”.