I think media's expectations are often while we're outside of the way this war is progressing and what you can anticipate in your term. Media often drives kind of momentum narratives and has high expectations over things that just don't match the reality on the ground. The Russian military has a lot of challenges of its own to get through and it's often so potential as best one can tell is quite limited. It's fairly circumscribed and you can see that by the way they've been attempting a fence over the last couple months. So all things considered long term Ukraine has significant advantages"
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers meets Michael Kofman.
Michael Kofman is the Director of the Russia Studies Program at the Center for Naval Analyses and a Fellow of the Center for a New American Security. He joined UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers to give an update on the situation on the ground in Ukraine and debate the risks and benefits of pursuing an ‘all-out’ victory against Russia.
The military analyst on the risks and rewards of Western intervention
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