. the government ask citizens to stay at home while opposition leaders are unable to agree on who will replace the president. also coming up, japan has been saying that well to the countries longest serving prime minister, thousands of people have gathered in tokyo to pay respect fissions, a lobby up to plenty of guns down at a campaign route last week. plus nasa releases the post full color image from the largest and most powerful space telescope launched the revolutionary james web telescope is designed to prove that caused the dawn of the universe. ah, i ve been visible and welcome to the show. as russian shelling intensifies in easton, ukraine caves forces have launched a counter offensive in the southern san region. keith said they had destroyed an ammunition stair poke russian state use agency tass claims at least 7 people were killed and dozens injured in the attack in the russian hill. town of nova cockle block. i cough got elsewhere in ukraine south. the city of niko
the breakup of yugoslavia a civil war. so let s begin with something. i usually stay away with stay away from rather my day-to-day podcast and that is what s happening on the ground. we want the podcast to survive forever not become dated, but i am curious as to what you think about why russia s invasion? has gone so poorly at least from a russian perspective not achieving any major objectives yet. well, i think there are a couple of factors it begins i think with a ambition that was unrealizable from the beginning in this ambition was to dominate entirely the country of ukraine to knock out its government. to put in a puppet really to take control in some way. maybe not over all of ukrainian territory. but over most of it now, it s a country. that s roughly the size of texas a population a bit less than 40 million people and the russians came in with a with an army of 200,000 soldiers. so it just wasn t proportional from the beginning and there was great overconfidence on th
historian. michael kimmage. welcome michael. thank you for having me. good to have you here. you are a member of the state department s policy planning staff 2014 to 2016. your portfolio was russia and ukraine. so you bring a lot of expertise to the subject. we re going to talk about today. you are an expert on us russia relations, and that is the road to war in eastern europe. how did we get to this point where europe is seeing its first major land war since world war two the possible exception of the breakup of yugoslavia a civil war. so let s begin with something. i usually stay away with stay away from rather my day-to-day podcast and that is what s happening on the ground. we want the podcast to survive forever not become dated, but i am curious as to what you think about why russia s invasion? has gone so poorly at least from a russian perspective not achieving any major objectives yet. well, i think there are a couple of factors it begins i think with a ambition that w
department s policy planning staff 2014 to 2016. your portfolio was russia and ukraine. so you bring a lot of expertise to the subject. we re going to talk about today. you are an expert on us russia relations, and that is the road to war in eastern europe. how did we get to this point where europe is seeing its first major land war since world war two the possible exception of the breakup of yugoslavia a civil war. so let s begin with something. i usually stay away with stay away from rather my day-to-day podcast and that is what s happening on the ground. we want the podcast to survive forever not become dated, but i am curious as to what you think about why russia s invasion? has gone so poorly at least from a russian perspective not achieving any major objectives yet. well, i think there are a couple of factors it begins i think with a ambition that was unrealizable from the beginning in this ambition was to dominate entirely the country of ukraine to knock out its govern
today catholic university historian. michael kimmage. welcome michael. thank you for having me. good to have you here. you are a member of the state department s policy planning staff 2014 to 2016. your portfolio was russia and ukraine. so you bring a lot of expertise to the subject. we re going to talk about today. you are an expert on us russia relations, and that is the road to war in eastern europe. how did we get to this point where europe is seeing its first major land war since world war two the possible exception of the breakup of yugoslavia a civil war. so let s begin with something. i usually stay away with stay away from rather my day-to-day podcast and that is what s happening on the ground. we want the podcast to survive forever not become dated, but i am curious as to what you think about why russia s invasion? has gone so poorly at least from a russian perspective not achieving any major objectives yet. well, i think there are a couple of factors it begins i th