Welcome back to the Dispatch Podcast. I'm your host Sarah,

as you're joined by Jonah Goldberg, Steve Hayes, and David French.

We will start with the latest out of Ukraine, move to what's happening on Capitol Hill

around the gun debate, and finally a preview of the January 6th hearings starting in just a few days.

Let's dive right in. Steve obviously starting with you. President Zelensky of Ukraine saying

that Russia now controls one-fifth of Ukrainian territory.

Obvious question is the tide turning.

Yeah, I think the tide really is turning. David had a terrific newsletter about this earlier,

this week, in which it was sort of a proverbial shaking of people by the lapels to crystallize what

we have been seeing in news reports over the last several weeks. Talking to people who are

around the Pentagon and who are following this very closely, looking at what the Biden administration

is doing, what the Biden administration still could do, there is this sense that

Russia's gradually winning. They are finding success militarily. They are at least sort of fighting to a

tie in their own domestic political battles and that the world is losing interest in what's

happening in Ukraine. That's as much a problem as anything if you're looking at something that

looks to be a proverbial war of attrition. David picking up or Steve just left off,

a chart about social media interactions on stories about Ukraine. February 27th hits a high of about

17 million. Today, it's about 300,000. Is that having a real effect on the ground?

I don't think it's having an effect on the ground because not like social media interactions are

meaning more weapons are flowing in, more fewer weapons are flowing into Ukraine. Well, they could.

It's over time. But as of right now, that's not the case. As of right now, the American military

commitment is pretty darn robust. It's the over time part that I'm concerned about. It's always

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