What the Hell Is Going On: WTH Can’t Putin Afford to Fail in Ukraine? Michael Tory Explains How He Will.

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🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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With regime change brewing in Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran, and the Russian war of attrition still marching on, Cold War déjà vu shapes our understanding of what happens when regimes do fall and offers a hopeful conclusion. Former Soviet states that have joined the EU have experienced an average tenfold increase in GDP since 1990, […]

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute.
0:03.1	If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share.
0:07.1	Thanks for listening. Here's our show.
0:08.7	What the hell is going on?
0:10.5	What's really going on?
0:12.0	We said, what the hell happened?
0:13.5	You don't have to know what the hell is on it.
0:15.6	They see what's going on.
0:16.7	I don't know what's going on.
0:18.0	What is going on?
0:20.0	We must find out what's going on. What is going on? We must find out what is going on.
0:30.4	Hi, I'm Danielle Pletka.
0:32.4	I'm Mark Tiesin.
0:33.6	Welcome to our podcast.
0:35.2	What the hell is going on, Mark? What the hell is going on? Mark?
0:37.8	What the hell is going on is President Trump is trying yet again to get a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.
0:44.4	And Ukraine has basically said yes. President Zelensky has said that they met in Davos and that he's met with the U.S. team.
0:51.8	And they basically have a deal that he's ready to sign off on,
0:55.1	and Putin is obviously dragging his feet. And he's been dragging his feet. He's been the
0:59.9	obstacle to peace from the very beginning, right? You know, he's the one in the Ukraine, when
1:04.2	the start of the Trump administration, Trump wanted a ceasefire to negotiate a peace deal.
1:09.1	Ukraine said yes, Putin said no. Everything that,
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