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Conversation with my colleague Anatole

Leaven of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

about Keith.

President Selensky firing General Zalujny, a very popular figure who has run the war with inadequate resources for nearly

two years, replacing with a man, Sierzky, Alexander Sierzky, who is also a Combat Veteran General associated with the Battle of Buckmoot.

However, Anatole looks at this from the point of view of what was the dispute between

Solutioni and Zolensky that could only be

resolved by firing the general and creating a political quandary. The general is

very popular and thought of as a future presidential candidate.

Anatole identifies it as recruiting and the bald fact that it might be Ukraine is not running out of manpower, it's out of

manpower. The average age of the combatant in the front lines against the Russian

artillery is 43 years old.

That is alarming.

It's also the possibility that the ability of Ukraine to recall volunteers from the diaspora is limited or attenuating. In other words, Russia

overwhelms Ukraine with firepower and with manpower. What is to be done? And at all analyzes what that means for going forward for a spring

offensive in 24 or a spring offensive in 25 and no leaving Quincy Institute for Responsible State Craft. Ukraine

Crisis.

Well that's what all the reporting suggests, you know, in the New York Times and the BBC and political and elsewhere.

I mean in the end, Russia just has by now almost five times the population of Ukraine, given you know how much of Ukraine has been lost to Russia and how many people have fled abroad.

It can just recruit far more men and as the war goes badly so the flow of

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