What the Hell Is Going On: WTH: Four Years of Putin’s War in Ukraine. Frederick W. Kagan Illuminates.

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🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Yesterday marked the fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Four years of war in which Russian forces have occupied roughly one and a half percent of Ukraine’s territory at the cost of approximately half a million lives. Our guest, Frederick W. Kagan, and his team at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) […]

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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.
0:29.4	Hi, I'm Daniel Pletka.
0:31.1	I'm Mark Tiesin.
0:32.2	Welcome to our podcast.
0:34.1	What the bloody hell is going on, Mark?
0:37.2	The British version.
0:38.5	Yes.
0:39.6	Or the Aussie version in your case.
0:41.6	I couldn't say it in Russian.
0:44.7	What the hell is going on is this week, the war in Ukraine, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, marked its fourth anniversary.
0:52.9	Four years that Ukraine has been standing up to
0:57.4	this unspeakable Russian aggression against its people and its – at that – putting aside
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