Are We Any Closer to Solving Europe's "Russia Problem"? (with Ian Brzezinski)

About a week into Ukraine's counteroffensive, Giselle, Dalibor, and Iulia spoke with military expert and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO Policy Ian Brzezinski about what we should expect moving forward. While Brzezinski said whether or not Ukraine's recent success will be a turning point is "yet to be seen," it has displayed the Russian Armed Forces' lack of discipline, training, and commitment to the fight. Nevertheless, Brzezinski suggests the "fundamentals" of the war are still in Russia's favor. Not only is Ukraine's economy retracting by a much larger margin than is Russia's, but Zelenskyy is also selective in the way he directs Ukraine's military action. Putin, rather, has abided by a "terror to the max" strategy, wreaking as much havoc necessary to break the Ukrainian people. The co-hosts and Brzezinski ponder several courses of action the West can now take.

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Ensuring the balance of power in Europe has, since the inception of our republic, been a core security interest for the US. Today, and for the entire post-Cold War period, the challenges to the European peace have emerged along the line running roughly from the Baltic to the Black Sea. This is what we call the Eastern Front. Our goal in this podcast is to better inform the American people about what’s going on there. Join us, Iulia Joja and Dalibor Rohac every week on in our discussions on what’s next for “The Eastern Front.”