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no bull, and the aftermath.

They're already trying to get their defense economy more online so that they can produce

more shells, produce more missiles. They're getting the legal mechanisms ready for a better

and bigger, more efficient mobilization if they need to go to that well again. So, you know,

trash is playing for time, they want time. Ukraine, I think, is acutely, Ukrainian leadership

is acutely aware that, and I, it seems to me looking at them that they feel pressure to

show progress, like not that anyone's pressuring them, but that they want to continue to demonstrate

progress and stay in the news so that people won't forget about them and move on. And

that's, you know, partially from experience like nine years ago that they had. So, there's

a lot of different factors. And I think in the months ahead all the way up to November

of 24, we're going to start to see different types of political influences coming here

in a stronger way on, on battlefield decisions and potentially battlefield outcomes.

I'm Scott Anderson and this is the LawFair podcast for September 25, 2023. For the past

several months, Ukraine has been engaged in a grinding counteroffensive aimed at retaking

the lost territory from Russian invaders. Last week, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky

joined President Biden for the UN General Assembly meeting in New York to make the case

for continued support of Ukraine's efforts, a message that they then repeated to members

of Congress, considering whether to move forward a much needed aid package. To discuss

the state of the Ukraine counteroffensive and where it sits in the broader political

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