Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he has a plan for victory against Russia — and he was in the United States this week trying to sell it to U.S. President Joe Biden.
Meanwhile, as the Biden administration considers a Ukrainian request to use Western weapons to strike targets inside Russia, Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin yet again plays the nuclear card, stoking fears of escalation in Washington.
With Russia making slow incremental gains in the Ukraine’s Donbas region and Ukraine continuing to hold territory in Russia’s Kursk oblast, the largest land war in Europe since World War II looks stalemated. Can anything break the logjam?
On The Power Vertical Podcast this week, host Brian Whitmore speaks with Jeff Mankoff, a Distinguished Research Fellow at National Defense University’s Institute for National Strategic Studies and author of the must-read book Empires of Eurasia: How Imperial Legacies Shape International Security. [Note: Jeff Mankoff’s views are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of NDU or the U.S. Department of Defense.]
SHOW NOTES
The clips opening the podcast and the second segment are from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s speech to the UN General Assembly on September 25, 2024. The speech can be accessed here and here.
Jeff Mankoff’s book, Empires of Eurasia: How Imperial Legacies Shape International Security, can be purchased here. His other published works can be accessed here and here.
The Power Vertical Newsletter on Substack can be accessed here. Recently published work by Brian Whitmore can be accessed here and here.