Ep. 20: Bill Roggio on Ukraine

Bill Roggio, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and editor of the Long War Journal, joins the show to discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

01:10 - Introduction

7:32 - Assessing Russian objectives in Ukraine

13:25 - Russian shortfalls

23:12 - Limits on Russian resources

28:37 - Does the lack of preparation hurt Russian troops?

32:21 - No fly zones

38:36 - Escalation scenarios

43:00 - Prospects for insurgency 

49:32 - How does this end?