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Historian. Michael kimmage. Welcome michael. Thank you for having me. Good to have you here. You are a member of the state departments policy planning staff 2014 to 2016. Your portfolio was russia and ukraine. So you bring a lot of expertise to the subject. Were 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 lets begin with something. I usually stay away with stay away from rather my daytoday podcast and that is whats 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 russias invasion . Has gone so poorly at l ....
History as it happens a podcast for people who want to think about Current Events historically. Im martin de caro and our guest 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 departments policy planning staff 2014 to 2016. Your portfolio was russia and ukraine. So you bring a lot of expertise to the subject. Were 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 lets begin wi ....
Two the possible exception of the breakup of yugoslavia a civil war. So lets begin with something. I usually stay away with stay away from rather my daytoday podcast and that is whats 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 russias 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, its a country. Thats 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 wasnt pro ....