WTH is Going On with Ukraine's Counteroffensive? Kurt Volker on Russia's defeats and Putin's future
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 21 September 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Late last month, Ukraine launched a counteroffensive against Russian forces in Eastern Ukraine, taking back substantial territory. Incredibly, in the face of reputedly superior Russian forces, the Ukrainian military now enjoys the upper hand with respect to available personnel, equipment, command, and motivation. The tide has turned largely in Ukraine's favor… so why is the Biden Administration still dragging its heels? China and India are cooling on their support for Putin's military foibles, domestic support in Russia is wavering, and Moscow is now backed into sourcing drones from Iran and artillery from North Korea -- all dread signs for Vladimir Putin. So what is needed to galvanize available resources in the US and in NATO to push Ukraine over the edge into decisive victory?
These questions and more on today's episode with Ambassador Kurt Volker. Amb. Volker is a former US ambassador to NATO and the former US Special Representative for Ukraine. He is now a distinguished fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis, and a founding partner of the American University in Kyiv.
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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 Mark Teeson. Welcome to our podcast. What the hell is going on? Mark, what the hell is going on? |
| 0:43.7 | I always laugh when you ask me. I know, because I'm so, I'm so bad at being dramatic. |
| 0:49.7 | Oh, you're very dramatic, Danny. Shut up. What the hell is going on is there's been a dramatic shift in Ukraine. |
| 0:56.8 | The Ukrainians have launched a counteroffensive against the Russians in eastern Ukraine. |
| 1:01.4 | They've taken back the time of this recording, over 3,000 kilometers, square kilometers of territory. |
| 1:06.6 | The Russians have been surprised by this offensive. |
| 1:09.8 | They can't seem to handle it. |
| 1:11.5 | And, you know, we're now sort of in the stage where the Russians, first they fail to take Kiv, |
| 1:17.4 | then they had a little bit of success in eastern and southern Ukraine and taking territory. |
| 1:22.0 | And now the counteroffensive has launched and the Ukrainians are taking back territory. |
| 1:26.4 | And there's reason to |
| 1:28.1 | hope that this offensive could could be successful and that over over a period of time that |
| 1:34.7 | they will be able to get this is they're not just going to stop Russia from conquering their |
| 1:40.7 | country. They're going to be able to drive the Russians out of every inch of |
| 1:44.8 | Ukrainian territory, including... |
| 1:47.4 | Including Crimea, which they... |
| 1:49.3 | God bless them. We should help them do it and help them have victory. |
| 1:53.7 | So, to paraphrase, Winston Churchill, who very famously said, well, it's not the end, but it is |
| 1:58.3 | the end of the beginning. I'm really hopeful that what we've seen on the ground in Ukraine is actually the beginning of the end for Russia. I think a lot is |
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