WTH: Ukraine Takes the War to Putin. General Jack Keane Explains Ukraine’s Strategy and Path to Victory
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 29 August 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Ukraine’s cross-border counterattack into Kursk Oblast, Russia, flipped the script on those who thought Ukrainians were losing in a stalemated war. Not only is the operation a brilliant tactical move, forcing the Russians to move troops to defend their own territory, but the invasion of Kursk also gives Ukraine leverage in any future negotiations. However the war is not won yet, and it is now up to the Biden administration to finally put an end to disastrous policies and restrictions on Ukraine that have only prolonged the fighting.
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. |
| 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 it's all about. |
| 0:29.4 | I am Danielle Pletka. |
| 0:31.2 | And I'm Mark Tiesin. |
| 0:32.4 | Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:33.8 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:36.0 | I don't know what the hell is not going on. Summer is supposed to be a time of rest and relaxation. And instead, we are here talking about the Ukrainian invasion of Russia. You heard that right. Not the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Ukrainian invasion of Russia. So while we were off doing our summer book series and indulging occasionally in political |
| 0:57.6 | talk over the month of August, the Ukrainians invaded Russia. |
| 1:02.2 | And they have seized a thousand squares kilometers, about 400 square miles of Russian territory |
| 1:09.0 | in the Kursk Oblast, Kersk region of Russia, and they're holding it. |
| 1:15.0 | And the Russians are diverting some troops over there to, not to take it back because they |
| 1:20.8 | really kind of can't, but to not make sure they don't take more. And this is just a, I think, |
| 1:26.9 | a brilliant move on the part of the Ukrainians. |
| 1:28.8 | What do you think, Danny? |
| 1:29.5 | So I think that the Ukrainians have been in an invidious position for a while. |
| 1:36.6 | Part of the problem with the Ukraine war, Russia's war on Ukraine, is that it has developed a narrative separate from reality, right? |
| 1:48.6 | So if you ask your average Joe Blow, how is the war going? The answer is, it's not going |
| 1:56.1 | well for Ukraine. There's a stalemate going on, and they're probably, it's going to drag out, maybe |
| 2:04.1 | they're even going to lose. That's why they agreed to some sort of, you know, peace talks in the |
| 2:09.7 | Gulf, which are now canceled or mostly canceled. And the reality is that's not true. And so as a tactical matter, they've changed the narrative with their incursion into Russia. |
| 2:22.3 | And I think that is more important than the actual territorial gain, although the territorial gain is pretty damn important. |
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