Introduction

The second of the special ucrane up date er podcast that i'm doing. I'm looking at something on a much more kind of macro scale, really. And what the current crisis shows us about the functioning of like clepto states. When we were shown during the civil war in syria, a in warships and aircraft a decisively acting to defend president bashir alasad. How can we account for this? There h've been some interesting questions raised about e the the number of setbacks, failures, and the canad overall y poor performance of the russian army in the past two weeks.