WTH is Going On in Eastern Ukraine? General Jack Keane on How to Defeat Russia
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 5 May 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Nuclear saber-rattling, threats to expand the war, and $33 billion in new aid: General Jack Keane joins Marc and Dany to discuss the direction of the war in Ukraine. Putin’s efforts have shifted from Kyiv to the self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and it’s still not going well. Meanwhile, on the home front, Biden has apparently turned a corner, now aiming to support an outright Ukrainian victory with more weaponry and a proposed $33 billion aid package. Will Putin’s military failures continue, or will he shift tactics and target neighboring regions? How strong is White House resolve to help President Zelensky achieve an uncompromised win? And how should Biden and Zelensky respond should Putin introduce nuclear weapons to the conflict?
These questions and more on this week’s episode with guest General Jack Keane. Jack Keane is a retired four-star general, former Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army and a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient. He is the chairman of the Institute for the Study of War, and a Fox News senior strategic analyst.
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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 Daniel Pletka. I'm Martisan. Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:38.5 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:40.3 | Mark, what the hell is going on? |
| 0:42.1 | Well, it seems like after two months and thousands of needless deaths, Joe Biden has finally |
| 0:49.1 | gotten over his pathological fear of provoking Vladimir Putin and has started really arming the Ukrainians. |
| 0:56.0 | And it's come at the moment where I think there was a pivot in the Biden administration, |
| 1:00.0 | where they initially they didn't think that Ukraine could win. And so they were arming them |
| 1:05.2 | in what they thought was a losing battle. But now the Ukrainians won the Battle of Kiev, |
| 1:10.4 | and they are now fighting |
| 1:12.4 | in eastern Ukraine, and we are arming them to the teeth. We're providing them with anti-armor |
| 1:18.3 | radar. We're providing them with drones. We're providing them with howitzers. Remember when there |
| 1:23.6 | was a time when we were only giving them old Soviet used gear, and now of a sudden we're giving them some of our most advanced weapons. |
| 1:30.7 | And President Biden has now requested Congress approve a $33 billion aid package for Ukraine. |
| 1:37.5 | And so maybe we've finally gotten serious. |
| 1:39.9 | Maybe we're actually trying to win. |
| 1:41.9 | No Biden official would say the goal was victory all of a sudden now. Not only is our goal to help the Ukrainians win, this is a quote from Secretary Austin, we want to see Russia weaken to the degree that it can't do the kinds of things it has done in invading Ukraine. So we're actually now in a goal of crushing the Russian military inside Ukraine. Things are getting better, Danny. Things are getting better. |
| 2:01.6 | And the only shame here is that it took so long for this administration, but also I would say |
| 2:06.7 | particularly the Germans and others, to realize that, in fact, Ukraine deserved defending. |
| 2:12.9 | You know, we've all marveled at the incredible strength and resilience of the Ukrainian people and of their |
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