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🗓️ 19 December 2023
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the President's Inbox, a CFR podcast about the foreign policy challenges facing the United States. |
0:09.0 | I'm Jim Lindsay, Director of Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. |
0:13.0 | This week's topic is the future of the war in Ukraine. |
0:25.2 | With me to discuss where the fighting in Ukraine is likely headed is Corey Shockey. |
0:31.4 | Corey is Senior Fellow and Director of Foreign Defense Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. |
0:37.5 | She has also served in several positions in the U.S. government, including as a member of the staff of the National Security Council and Deputy Director of Policy Planning at the State Department, both during |
0:42.9 | the presidency of George W. Bush. Corey has written widely on international relations and has five |
0:48.9 | books to her name, the most recent being America versus the West, can the liberal world order be preserved? |
0:55.7 | She is also the author of The Case for Conservative Internationalism, How to Reverse the Inward |
1:01.1 | Turn of Republican Foreign Policy, which is in the latest issue of foreign affairs. |
1:07.0 | Corey, thank you for coming back on the president's inbox. |
1:09.6 | It is such a pleasure, my friend. Thanks for having me. |
1:13.1 | Okay, let's jump right into it, Corey. |
1:15.6 | Six months ago, there were high hopes that a Ukrainian counteroffensive would break through Russian lines and turn the course of the war. |
1:24.1 | But just last month, Ukraine's top general described the fighting as a stalemate. By some |
1:29.4 | measures, Russia actually gained more territory in Ukraine this year than it lost. How do you assess |
1:36.7 | where the fighting stands has become near the close of the second year of the war? |
1:42.1 | Well, I was among those who was hopeful that Ukraine would have |
1:47.3 | more success against Russia, but I'm ashamed of the anonymous voices in the Pentagon and |
1:55.7 | elsewhere who are disappointed in Ukraine. When they say that Ukraine should have accomplished more, |
2:04.4 | because the time we left, the six months of slow dispersal of weapons to Ukraine gave the Russians |
2:14.6 | time to dig in in three layers of defenses. Clearing minefields is a terrible |
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