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119: Ukraine Update with The Atlantic’s Frank Foer

The Al Franken Podcast

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The Tension Between Apologists and Military Planners

Biden is doing what any leader in his position Would do. There's a temptation to cave every time he asks for these things because it's politically expedient but there's also the battlefield reality and um It does make sense to me to have Pentagon military planners who are the best in the world Um having some say in what we give them If that makes me an apologist then god dammit al Call me an apologists. I'm sorry No, uh, I This is helping our understanding Which is kind of the purpose of the podcast. So this is like three-dimensional Chest except maybe even more complicated four-dimensional chest which I don't know what thatI don't even know what

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