FTA: The Ukraine War - Where are We and Where Do We Go From Here?

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 3 August 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Original air date: August 23, 2023 Michael’s guest this week is Australian Retired General Mick Ryan. Mick is a military analyst who served in the ADF for more than 35 years and was commander of the Australia Defence College. He is the author of War Transformed and an adjunct fellow at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC. Michael and Mick discuss the latest developments in the Russia-Ukraine war and what could be in store for the coming months. Don’t miss it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.0	Today's episode from the archive was originally published on August 28th,
0:46.1	2023. We hope you enjoy. Hi and welcome back to Foreign Office I'm Michael Weiss Director Special Investigations
1:06.4	at the Free Russia Foundation and the editor of the English language version of
1:10.4	the Insider. We're joined this week by retired general Mick Ryan. He's a
1:15.2	former guest of the show and he is to my mind at least one of the most
1:20.2	astute military analysts on the war in Ukraine.
1:23.2	I always read his Twitter threads with great interest.
1:25.4	I read his posts and his articles and he cited all over the Australian media.
1:30.5	I should have mentioned, he's of course a retired general in the Australian Army.
1:33.7	Mick it's great to have you back and I couldn't think of a better guest to have on at this moment
1:38.4	because I like to give a bit of a contextual introduction to what the episode is going to be about and the things I'd like to drill down into with you but we're at a strange kind of moment in the war and there's a bit of a disconnect between what A the Ukrainians think about
1:56.4	their prospects for success as they so measure them. B what the Russians are saying
2:06.7	online and social media platforms about the Ukrainian counter-offensive, which is now about 11 or 12 weeks old, and then see what
2:11.8	we're beginning to see in the Western media landscape and the analytic community
2:17.1	a sprinkling of cold water if you like on the optimism and the sort of
2:27.1	gung-ho nature of our understanding of this thing, which was Ukraine can in fact win and retake vast swaths of territory coming off the back of three pretty impressive
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