How important are motivations when it comes to fighting a war? Is a 'warrior mindset', rather than high level training, carrying the Ukrainian military through? 

Fresh from a reporting trip to Kyiv, former U.S. Marine Elliot Ackerman joins Arthur Snell to give an insight into the mentality of both the Russian and Ukrainian forces, and explain how Putin united the Western world.

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•  “The Russians have clearly underestimated the Ukrainian resolve to resist.”
•  “If you’re a Ukrainian you’re fighting for your family, home and identity. The Russians meanwhile are fighting for an abstraction.”
•  “The West has conflated Russia’s nuclear capability with its conventional capability.”
•  “When Putin makes reference to Russian history, he is mining grievances which he can use to invade Ukraine.”
•  “Russia’s spiritual mission is saving the world from the decadence of the West.”
•  “In the days after Russia invaded Ukraine, we saw the first bipartisan moment in the U.S. since 9/11.”



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