WTH is Happening Two Years into the War in Ukraine? Yaroslav Trofimov Explains
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Since Russia invaded Ukraine exactly two years ago, Yaroslav Trofimov has been covering the war on the ground. His newest book, Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine’s War of Independence, is a stunning account of the lead-up to the war and how Ukraine has consistently upended the conventional wisdom about its prospects for victory. But in recent weeks, the Ukrainians have faltered, with support from the United States hung up in a divided Congress. What is the lesson of history? That our enemies will vanish – as long as America is resolute.
Yaroslav Trofimov is the chief foreign affairs correspondent of The Wall Street Journal. He has covered the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in 2021 and has been working out of Ukraine since January 2022. He joined the Journal in 1999 and previously served as Rome, Middle East and Singapore-based Asia correspondent, as bureau chief in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and as Dubai-based columnist on the greater Middle East. He is the author of three books, Our Enemies Will Vanish (2024), Faith at War (2005) and Siege of Mecca (2007).
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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. 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. Hotels gone on. |
| 0:01.0 | Who in God's name knows what it's all about. |
| 0:28.9 | Hi, I'm Daniel Plattgan. |
| 0:30.7 | I'm Mark Tiesin. |
| 0:31.7 | Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:33.3 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:35.5 | Mark, what the hell today? |
| 0:37.5 | What the hell is going on as we're approaching the two-year mark of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:42.9 | And so we have invited a good friend of the podcast, Yarosov-Trufimov, to come on and discuss it. |
| 0:48.9 | He's got a fantastic new book called Our Enemies Will Vanish. |
| 0:52.6 | And Danny's holding it up, and I can't read the subhead because my eyes are so |
| 0:55.7 | bad. |
| 0:58.1 | Our enemies will vanish. |
| 0:59.9 | The Russian invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence. |
| 1:05.5 | There you go. |
| 1:06.6 | Thank you very much for the elder care. |
| 1:09.7 | So first of all, Yarrow is Ukrainian. |
| 1:12.5 | He was in Kiev when the war began. |
| 1:14.7 | He was in Kabul when the Taliban invasion happened. |
| 1:18.3 | He's one of the most storied, experienced war correspondents in the world. |
| 1:23.3 | He writes for the Wall Street Journal. |
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