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This is Deep State Radio, coming to you direct from our super secret studio in the

third sub basement of the Ministry of Snark in Washington, D.C. and from other undisclosed

locations across America and around the world.

Hi, welcome to the podcast. I'm David Roscoff, your host, coming to you from New York

City. We are joined today by Demetri Alpervich, who is the executive chairman of Silverado

Policy Accelerator and was the co-founder of CrowdStrike. We'll be joined in a little bit by David

Sanger, who's currently at a White House press conference. We were going to be joined by Rosa

Brooks, who's had to go deal with a family issue. It's just you and me here to start out

Demetri, and that's good, because I've been interested. You've been drawing into providing

real-time commentary of what's going on in Ukraine. I think it's been very smart and informed,

and I just thought it'd be useful to hear your take on where you think things stand now with

President Slansky about to address the U.S. Congress tomorrow. You know, unfortunately, I don't

think things are in a good position for him or for the people of Ukraine. The reality is that

despite the complete incompetence of the Russian planning for this invasion,

the numerous problems they're having with logistics, with morale, with assumptions that they had

made about the fact that they thought the Ukrainian armed forces would just surrender and melt away.

None of that's, of course, this happened, but nevertheless, despite all those issues,

they're making significant progress, taking more and more territory surrounding cities, and now

pummeling them into oblivion from the air, from artillery strikes, multiple launch rocket systems,

and causing, of course, numerous, numerous civilian casualties. And just today, we had several

journalists, unfortunately, who were killed in Kiev, and American journalists in the Ukrainian one.

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