WTH is the military situation in Ukraine? Fred Kagan on Ukraine’s heroic stand against Russia
What the Hell Is Going On
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4.4 • 633 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
As Russia’s violent assault on Ukraine enters its second week, causalities on both sides have been climbing, and many of Ukraine’s largest cities remain under siege. Despite Russian combat operations initially facing severe setbacks as a result of a determined Ukrainian resistance, the Russian offensive has been gaining ground in recent days, with Russian troops capturing their first major city, the southern port of Kherson.
Dr. Frederick W. Kagan joined Marc and Dany to discuss the current military state of play in Ukraine, Putin’s initial miscalculations, and the Ukrainian people’s heroic stand against Putin’s aggression.
Kagan is the director of AEI’s Critical Threats Project and a former professor of military history at the US Military Academy at West Point. He served on the ground in Afghanistan, providing civilian support to the US military mission.
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| 0:00.0 | What the hell's going on? |
| 0:01.7 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:03.0 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:04.1 | I don't know what the hell he's talking about. |
| 0:05.8 | You don't have to know what the hell is on it. |
| 0:07.7 | What hell's the matter with these guys? |
| 0:09.2 | We don't know what's going on. |
| 0:11.0 | What hell's going on? |
| 0:12.0 | Who in God's name knows what it's all about. Hi, I'm Danielle Plachia. |
| 0:27.7 | And I'm Mark Teeson. |
| 0:28.5 | Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:29.7 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:31.7 | Mark, what the hell is going on? |
| 0:33.9 | Well, first, because we've been told that you're still holding your phone. |
| 0:37.3 | So if the |
| 0:39.7 | commercial break keeps getting sooner and sooner, if you're holding your phone, you just hit play. |
| 0:44.3 | Right next to it, there's a button that says subscribe. Please subscribe to the podcast. |
| 0:47.6 | Share it with your friends. Tell everybody how great it is, even though you haven't listened to it all yet. |
| 0:51.6 | Second of all, we just had a conversation earlier this week with Marshall Billingsley about the sanctions regime and explaining how sanctions work. |
| 0:58.2 | Today, we're talking about the military situation on the ground. And boy, oh, boy, if you had told us |
| 1:03.5 | a week ago when we sat down with Jack Keene to talk about this, that Kiev would still be in |
| 1:09.1 | Ukrainian hands, that the Ukrainians would be fighting the |
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