Welcome to the Dispatch Podcast. I'm your host Sarah Izger joined by David French,

Jonah Goldberg, and Steve Hayes. Plenty to talk about today, the latest in Ukraine.

What's going on with the Iran deal now in the Biden administration's foreign policy take shape?

And lastly, of course, we will talk about inflation, the Federal Reserve's decision on interest rates,

and the failure of another Biden nominee, thanks to Joe Manchin.

Let's dive right in. Steve, where are things in Ukraine?

Stock. I think things are stuck. Lots of reporting over the past 48 hours about the inability of Russia

to move forward toward Kiev. More details about the difficulty the Russian military is having both

taking and keeping cities, towns that it's targeting, and also keeping morale high, increasing

number of stories over the last couple days about potential morale problems associated with

how Russia went into the war and how many Russians have been killed in the war. And I think there's been

heard more optimism in the past couple days about the possibility that Ukraine could quote, unquote,

win the war militarily. That feels a bit premature to me given what we know Vladimir Putin

can do, and I think what we believe he's willing to do. But certainly this has been another

bad week for Russia. David, an international court found Vladimir Putin guilty, at least preliminarily,

of war crimes related to targeting civilians in Ukraine. I'm curious if you can put this in some

context. There's been a simmering debate over international law for the last 20, well, maybe 50

years. In terms of what it is, is it real? Is it effective? And on the one hand, Joe Biden has

now called Vladimir Putin a war criminal, and he has the receipts to back that up. On the other hand,

the court held that Vladimir Putin was to stop his invasion of Ukraine immediately, which obviously

will have no effect. So what are we supposed to think about international law at this point?

Yeah, international law is relevant only to the extent that is enforceable. And it's enforceable

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