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#Ukraine: Manpower shortage cannot be fixed. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute

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🗓️ 16 February 2024

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#Ukraine: Manpower shortage cannot be fixed. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/zaluzhny-zelensky-ukraine/

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0:00.0

Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. This is a

0:28.0

is CBS I on the world with John Bachelor. Here's John Bachelor.

0:30.0

I welcome Anatole Leibin of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft writing most recently

0:35.7

over a change of direction for the Ukrainian military directed by the president of the country

0:42.2

Mr. Zelensky. There is a new general in chief.

0:44.6

Alexander Serzky, replacing a man, Salusini, who is said to be extremely popular,

0:51.3

politically, politically.

0:54.0

This has to do, we're told, with decisions made

0:58.1

in the spring offensive of 23 that led not to success but now understood frustration, large casualties,

1:08.4

and no promise of better ahead.

1:11.3

However, this change of command does introduce the politics of Ukraine because

1:17.7

this year was a nominally scheduled for an election, which I understand is now not going to be held but

1:24.1

Mr. Salusini when he left office was even more popular than President

1:29.8

Zelensky and I told a very good evening to you. Your essay introduces politics into the general and chief.

1:37.3

In this replacement by Sierzky, as Mr. Zolensky solved the challenge of a political rival or is Mr. Zolusiony now as an independent

1:49.0

capable of campaigning against the president undermining him? Those are questions you raise in your essay.

1:54.4

A very good evening to you.

1:55.8

Hello, John.

1:57.8

Well, when I was in Ukraine last year,

2:00.3

I have to say that every analyst said that they expected Salushini to run for president in future,

2:06.0

whether in succession to Zelensky or against him.

2:10.0

So that was sooner or later going to happen anyway.

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