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#StateThinking: Venezuela was fumbled. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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#StateThinking: Venezuela was fumbled. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/west-hits-pause-on-fresh-measures-against-venezuelas-maduro/ar-AA1oKj55


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0:00.0

This is CBS I on the world with John Bachelor.

0:10.0

Here's John Bachelor.

0:12.0

London reporting, the pig Paper of the Financial Times.

0:16.0

Russian Navy trained to target sites inside Europe with nuclear capable missiles.

0:24.0

Front page, can't miss it as you're looking for the trends in the markets.

0:29.0

I welcome Mary Kessel, Executive Vice President Stevens Incorporated, that's Market's Talk, former senior advisor

0:36.7

to the Secretary of State, that's Geo Politics Talk, and I call on Mary for her geopolitical

0:41.7

hat right now because Ukraine has launched an

0:45.6

offensive into Russia towards the large city of Kursk said to be as of this

0:51.2

writing I'm reading, a thousand square kilometers controlled by the Ukrainian

0:58.0

strike force.

0:59.0

What is notable is that for weeks Ukraine has been complaining about manpower shortage

1:04.2

complaining about weapons not arriving on time

1:07.1

saying we're low on ammo we can't match the Russians

1:10.5

artillery fire well all that might be true at the same time they were building up in a strike

1:16.8

force that is made up a very good equipment including very good equipment from

1:21.2

the US that I have seen on the battlefield not recently

1:25.8

and they're pushing into Russia meeting little or no resistance and the report now is that they've captured hundreds of Russian troops. I don't know that they've overrun any arsenals or depots, but they're pushing farther in. It doesn't look like a raid. I don't know what it looks like but

1:43.7

Vladimir Putin is not responding well. He's ready to fire the governor of the area

1:49.8

that has said that Ukraine is making advances.

1:53.2

All of this adds up to the unknown,

1:55.9

so we come back to Washington.

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