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The Ukraine War Ep. 6: Defiance

This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler

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The Presidential Administration's Position on Reclaiming Ukraine's Territory

The political logic won the argument therefore there was a fixing action that was conducted against the Kharsan in the south. They succeeded in collapsing one Russian group of forces. Politically it absolutely had the effect right up until August it was really hard to convince anyone that Ukraine might be able to win this. I would say after September it was the opposite problem I was struggling to convince people that victory wasn't inevitable. It was possible but contingent upon us properly supporting the Ukrainians to develop new units to be able to continue offensive operations in the spring.

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