WTH is Biden Letting Russia Win in Eastern Ukraine? Ukrainians Are Running out of Ammo and Losing Ground
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 15 June 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Is the news out of Ukraine as bad as it sounds? Russia may not be able to hold out as long as Putin believes, but the Ukrainian military desperately requires longer-range missiles to beat back the offensive in Luhansk. Ukraine’s putative allies are failing to "flood the zone," and do not seem to realize that a frozen conflict is a strategic pause for the Russians, not the end of the game. Domestic politics and news headlines alike reflect a desire to move on, yet Ukraine is at a critical inflection point in Severodonetsk, the last significant Ukrainian prepared defensive position within Luhansk Oblast. How do we ensure that we don't look back at this moment years from now, only to conclude that delays in aiding Ukraine helped the Russian offensive gain a critical strategic advantage?
These questions and more in today's conversation with George Barros. Barros is a geospatial analyst on the Russia and Ukraine portfolio at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). Check out ISW's daily interactive map linked on the transcript, which he helps each week to update.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:03.0 | If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. Thanks for listening. Here's our show. What the hell's going on? What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on? I don't know what the hell he's talking about. You don't have to know what the hell is on it. What hell's the matter with these guys? We don't know what's going on. What hell's going on? |
| 0:01.1 | Who in God's name knows what |
| 0:22.4 | it's all about. Hi, I'm Danielle Pletka. And I'm Mark Dyson. Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:38.4 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:40.3 | Mark, sorry, that made me laugh just because it's so apt. |
| 0:43.7 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:45.2 | What the hell is going on is I've been picking up the newspaper lately and reading stories about Ukraine that are really disconcerting. |
| 0:51.4 | This is the headline in the Washington Post the other day. |
| 0:54.2 | Russia likely to seize all of Lujansk region soon, U.S. officials say. |
| 0:58.5 | The lead is, Russia is likely to seize control of the entire Lohansk region of Ukraine within a few weeks, |
| 1:03.2 | a senior U.S. defense official said, as Ukraine sustains heavy casualties and its supplies of ammunition dwindle. |
| 1:09.6 | The New York Times had a front-page story the other day, which says nearly four months after Russia invaded, the Ukrainian military is running slow on ammunition for its Soviet-era artillery and has not yet received enough supplies from its allies to keep the Russians at bay Ukrainian officials and artillery officers in the field say, |
| 1:27.9 | the shortage has put the Ukrainian troops at a growing disadvantage in the artillery-driven war of attrition |
| 1:33.1 | in the country's east. |
| 1:34.9 | I could go on. |
| 1:35.6 | There's quotes from the artillery officers and all the rest of it talking about how they can't return fire to the Russians, |
| 1:40.2 | because one-for-one, because they don't have enough artillery. |
| 1:43.4 | I don't know what the heck we're doing wrong. |
| 1:45.4 | But the idea that at this point in the war, |
| 1:48.6 | that we are not providing them with enough ammunition |
| 1:51.5 | and enough artillery and enough supplies to hold Russia at bay |
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