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The Daily Beast Podcast

Putin’s Own Soldiers Are Refusing to Fight in Ukraine

The Daily Beast Podcast

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4.68.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Putin may not realize how poorly the war is going for him, but his troops do. Ukrainian diplomat Olexander Scherba joins the pod to explain what he’s hearing from soldiers on the ground, including stories of them refusing to fight. Plus, The Nation’s Elie Mystal pleads with Biden to say the word “abortion” and hosts Molly Jong-Fast and Andy Levy discuss whether Tucker Carlson can feel embarrassment and Molly actually sorta defends Mitt Romney when it comes to Tulsi Gabbard. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:41.3

Hi, I'm Molly John Fass, no relationship to Kim Jong-un. I'm a left wing pundit and a writer

0:55.2

at the Atlantic info. And I'm Andy Levy, former Fox News and CNN HLN guy and current cable

1:01.2

news conscientious objective. And I'm producer Jesse Kaden and I'm here to make sure things

1:05.4

don't go too far off the rails. We're here to have fun, smart conversations with the

1:10.0

wisest and funniest people in science and media and politics that help make what's happening

1:14.8

today clearer. Our world has been turned upside down and on the new app normal we'll talk

1:20.0

about the people who got us into this mess and how we'll hopefully get ourselves out of

1:24.0

it. What a fun show we have today. The nation's Ellie Mistal is going to come and talk to

1:27.9

us about his new book, Allow Me to Retort, along with some of the legal fuckery that's

1:31.9

going on in Texas right now. Then we're going to talk to Oleksander Sherbot, who's been

1:36.2

26 years in diplomatic service, including as Ukraine's ambassador to Austria, an author

1:41.6

of diplomatic thoughts. And he could tell us about the situation in Ukraine from the ground.

1:46.4

But first, let's have some fun. And, Andy Levy. Molly Jong-Fest.

1:51.5

Today is another day. It's another insane day in our insane political world. I thought

2:00.2

for sure that when Russia invaded Ukraine and the tanks rolled, I thought for sure the

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