133: The Generation That Won’t Let Go with Clint Watts
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🗓️ 17 May 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Host Reed Galen is joined by Clint Watts (National Security Analyst and President & CEO of Miburo Solutions) to discuss Russia/Ukraine - including the strategies Russia is likely to deploy and how the Ukrainians can continue to successfully defend their nationhood, how the Russian people’s opinions are souring on the conflict as accurate reporting continues to trickle in, and how Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the model for a new generation of leadership on the international stage. Plus, what does the United States’ next generation of leadership look like and will this new generation of leaders arrive in time to win America’s fight for democracy?
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| 0:38.5 | Welcome back to the LincolnProject. I'm your host, Reed Gailan. |
| 0:42.5 | Today, I'm joined by Clint Watts, president and CEO of Mibaro Solutions, a strategic analysis and consulting company |
| 0:49.5 | specializing in the detection and countering of malign influence and extremism. |
| 0:54.5 | He's a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and a National Security Contributor for NBC News and MSNBC. |
| 1:01.5 | Previously, Clint served as a U.S. Army infantry officer and as a special agent with the FBI. |
| 1:07.5 | His writing has appeared in a range of publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, |
| 1:12.5 | Foreign Affairs, Politico, and War on the Rocks. Clint, thanks for joining me today. |
| 1:17.5 | Hey, thanks for having me again. |
| 1:19.5 | So you and I spoke on one of our streaming shows a few weeks back. So I want to talk a little bit about where Russia stands in the interbeening three or four weeks since we've spoken. |
| 1:29.5 | So it's been nearly three months since Russia invaded Ukraine. |
| 1:32.5 | We heard Vladimir Putin last week address his country on victory day that seemed to amount to a lot of empty words and was less than what I would call triumphant. |
| 1:42.5 | The Russian military has been brought to a standstill and has embarrassed itself on the international stage. The Ukrainians have shown the world that they know what it means to fight for their country. |
| 1:52.5 | So with all of this going on here, 90 days in or almost 90 days in, how do you see it? |
| 1:58.5 | I think there are two ways to look at it. I think Russia's got some big problems. I think Ukraine's got big challenges. |
| 2:04.5 | And what I mean by that is Ukraine has done way better than anybody anticipated. Russia's done much worse than anybody anticipated. |
| 2:12.5 | But when you compare those two in the current battle, which is unfolding, Russia's moving to one front at a time instead of three fronts at once. |
| 2:21.5 | They are advancing incrementally, although slowly in Dombas and Eastern Ukraine. |
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