WTH Is Next for Ukraine and Israel? General Jack Keane Explains.
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
The Trump administration continues to focus on achieving peace in the Middle East, navigating a fragile ceasefire and defining the conditions for a Palestinian future. Meanwhile, Putin’s war in Ukraine rages on, marked by stalled negotiations and continued bombardments. Both situations have proven more complex and unpredictable than the President initially hoped. Lately, Tomahawk missiles remain top of mind for President Zelensky, while Trump cancelled a proposed summit with Putin. What comes next for these two conflicts? And what can we do to ensure the good guys prevail in the end?
General Jack Keane is a retired 4-star general and the former Vice Chief of Staff of the US Army. He is also the Chairman of the Institute for the Study of War, a Fox News Senior Strategic Analyst, and a member of the Secretary of Defense Policy Board. General Keane has previously advised four Defense Secretaries and was a member of the 2018 and 2022 Congressional Commission on the National Defense Strategy.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
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| 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. |
| 0:30.3 | Hi, I'm Danielle Pletka. |
| 0:32.1 | I'm Martisan. |
| 0:33.3 | Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:34.8 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:36.8 | Mark, what the hell this week? |
| 0:38.6 | The short version is we got peace in the Middle East and not in Ukraine. And so we're talking about |
| 0:44.3 | both of them. We've got General Jack Keane with us, who has just come back from a trip to Israel, |
| 0:49.2 | and he's going to brief us on where he sees the Trump Peace Initiative going, what's working, what's not, |
| 0:56.5 | it's going to be hard going forward. He's got some very clear-eyed analysis of this. And then |
| 1:00.8 | we've got developments in Ukraine, where President Trump was about to send Tomahawks to Ukraine. |
| 1:06.1 | Then Putin called, and they sort of put it off, and they were going to have a summit in Budapest, and then the meeting between the phone call between Lavrov and Rubio didn't go so well, and now we're hammering them with the toughest sanctions we ever have and taking the gloves off with some military technology. So he's going to walk us through that as well. |
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