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The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Crisis Management, One Stunt at a Time

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Bloomberg columnist and host of the upcoming podcast, “The Reeducation,” Eli Lake joins the show today in John’s absence. We talk about the news from the front in Ukraine, Joe Biden’s releases from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and the Democrats in genuine disarray.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast for today Thursday March 31st,

0:29.4

2022. I am Noah Rothman with us as always is commentary senior editor,

0:34.8

I've green walled. I'm talking about a better executive editor, executive

0:38.2

editor. I know. Hi, hey, senior writer, Christine Rosen,

0:42.6

Hi, Christine. I know. John Bajoritz is out today, but with us in his place is

0:48.1

the incomparable Eli Lake, Mr. Lake. How are you? I'm great. Thanks for having me.

0:53.5

Thank you. So yesterday we can we you know,

0:56.7

stepped away from the news and the headlines to talk about broader issues and

1:02.4

a 30,000 foot perspective with you've all of them, but we got to get a little bit

1:06.8

back into the headlines today and at least talk a little bit about the news from

1:10.8

the front lines in the war in Ukraine. Some interesting developments over the last

1:16.4

2448 hours as we have seen Ukrainian advances and counterattacks beginning to

1:23.6

bite. There's a lot of information coming out of Ukrainian ministries, which

1:28.4

you should take with a grain of salt. But when we see reporters, Western

1:31.5

reporters on the ground in areas that were once occupied by Russian forces,

1:37.0

particularly around Kiev, you have to accept the reality of the fact that Russia

1:42.3

is pulling back from some of the territorial gains it made very early in the

1:46.1

war, particularly in one one airport outside of Kiev, Hostelmell Airport,

1:53.5

which has been retaken by Ukrainian forces. This was objective number one of the

2:00.2

initial Russian invasion. Their first blitz into Ukraine involved an air

2:07.1

assault on this airport, presumably with the intention of taking it and using it

2:11.7

as a point of resupply for the second of Kiev within the first week, I guess,

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