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🗓️ 24 February 2023
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0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Hello and joining me this week we have Spike's editor Tom Slater and |
0:25.7 | spike columnist and I are following in Mann. |
0:27.8 | Hi. |
0:28.8 | Coming up on today's show, Ukraine one year on, the rewriting of Raold Dahl and the S&P leadership race. |
0:37.0 | So on the 24th of February a year ago Russia did the unthinkable and invaded Ukraine a sovereign nation at the heart of Europe. |
0:48.0 | This week this anniversary has been marked by a surprise visit to Kyiv, by Joe Biden, and by Vladimir Putin, who gave a |
0:56.2 | rambling two-hour speech blaming the West for the war. Tom, before we talk about the more |
1:02.1 | current events, should we cast our minds back to the very beginning? |
1:05.9 | Because this was, not only was the invasion unexpected, but the fight back was pretty unexpected too. |
1:11.2 | No, I think that's exactly it. |
1:12.5 | I mean, first the invasion shot the world |
1:14.2 | and then the resistance shot the world. |
1:17.7 | Obviously, the US Intelligence Services |
1:19.7 | get a lot of undue credit in some respects. |
1:22.2 | Of course, this conflict because of the fact that they were saying this is definitely going to happen |
1:25.7 | even in the face of a lot of skepticism from the common terror or even from a lot of people in Ukraine themselves. |
1:31.8 | One prediction that really didn't pan out was what General |
1:35.3 | Mark Millie reportedly said in the run up to the invasion or in the immediate aftermath of it, I'm not |
1:41.7 | sure which, that Kiev could have effectively |
1:44.0 | fall within 72 hours. |
1:46.7 | And that this is why, you know, reportedly Zletsky was offered a way out in which he utters that potentially apocryphal line that he needed ammunition rather than a ride and so on. |
1:57.0 | I think that's worth sort of noting because obviously it's quite clear that Vladimir Putin completely under-recognized the strength of |
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