In this episode -

00:40 - What is it like to go through a mass suicide drone attack?

10:43 - Combat update: Ukraine continues to advance around Bakhmut, but major shifts are unlikely until the counter-offensive. They also continue to hit strategic Russian points. Meanwhile, Russia struggles to find a solution to re-do's of the Belgorod border raid.

18:00 - A tangent about the rise of Russian PMCs as an erosion of Russian state power.

22:27 - Armenia takes further steps to concede the Karabakh dispute to Azerbaijan.

26:20 - NATO peacekeepers injured by ethnic Serb protesters while trying to control conflict in Kosovo.

34:53 - A tangent about how consociational governance isn't all that great and how some in the West tried to impose failing models from the Balkans onto Ukraine.

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