Andrew basevitch, retired us. Army colonel, now the president of the quincey institute for responsible state craft,. o think tank in d c. Satellite imagery suggested russia was surrounding ukrane with 150 thousand soldiers. The thinking was those numbers were so great there was no way ukrane could win. Why hasn't the russian invasion been successful? Well, i think that, you know, the numbers have not really been all that overwhelming.
One month in, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine isn’t going according to plan. Historian and retired Army colonel Andrew Bacevich explains how it might end.
This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Noel King.
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