WTH is the Biden Administration Undermining The Ukrainian Counteroffensive? General Jack Keane Explains
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 6 September 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
This summer, several articles aired in mainstream media outlets citing unnamed individuals from the Pentagon, and criticizing the speed and tactics of the Ukrainian counteroffensive. These critiques appear to at once reflect a poor understanding of the military goals and capabilities of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, and also bolster the growing anti-Ukraine, pro-isolationism cohort in America. The lack of humility is even more remarkable: the US has not fought a war against a protracted Russian offense like Ukraine’s, since General Patton and the Metz campaign, in 1944...in France. What’s more, no Western military would ever conduct a counteroffensive without air power or long-range artillery; but by slow-rolling and limiting aid, the Biden administration is expecting Ukraine to do just that. It is also worth noting that since the articles aired, Ukraine successfully punctured Russia’s first line of defense. Why are we not celebrating that, and ensuring a decisive win against our shared enemy, Putin?
General Jack Keane is a retired 4-star general, the chairman of the Institute for the Study of War and Fox News Senior Strategic Analyst. General Keane is a member of the Secretary of Defense Policy Board and has advised four Defense Secretaries and is 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. |
| 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 is 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 it's all about. |
| 0:34.7 | Hi, I'm Danielle Pletka. I'm Mark Tiesin. |
| 0:59.9 | Welcome to our podcast. What the hell is going on? Mark, it's the end of summer. What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on is the end of summer? And we're back. The summer reading series is over. We're back to regular podcasting. And it's great to be back. It is great to be back. I wish that I could say that Washington had taken a pause while we were doing our book series and had had a sudden stroke of good sense. |
| 1:03.2 | But the subject of our podcast is, as usual, bad sense on the part of the Biden administration |
| 1:09.6 | and certain others on the question of Ukraine. |
| 1:13.4 | Exactly. So the counteroffensive is underway in Ukraine. And we have the Biden administration, |
| 1:19.1 | which is simultaneously handcuffing the Ukrainians in their ability to fight the counteroffensive |
| 1:24.2 | while chirping at them from the sidelines about how they're not doing it |
| 1:28.4 | well enough. And so we decided to bring you the smartest military and strategic expert we know, |
| 1:35.2 | General Jack Keene, to talk about that. He had a great piece in the Wall Street Journal, |
| 1:39.5 | which was talking about two things. One, that the, you know, criticizing the Pentagon and this, what I think |
| 1:45.7 | you think, Danny, is a coordinated campaign from the Biden administration to sort of, you know, |
| 1:51.0 | talk down the Ukrainians. That's a nice way of putting it. But at the same time, also saying |
| 1:55.5 | that the military advice, our generals, are giving the Ukrainians, is really bad military advice |
| 2:00.3 | and that the Ukrainians actually have bad military advice and that the Ukrainians |
| 2:01.0 | actually have it right in terms of the strategy they're pursuing. And so they're giving bad |
| 2:05.6 | advice. They're handcuffing them by not providing them the equipment they need to prevail. |
| 2:10.1 | And then they're going to the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal and just pissing |
| 2:14.9 | all over them. It's, you know, it's just mind-boggling. |
| 2:20.0 | Well, I've got to be honest with you, Mark, I, you know, we saw, we saw this campaign. I saw |
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