Giselle, Dalibor, and Iulia again welcome Fred Kagan, Senior Fellow and Director of the American Enterprise Institute's Critical Threats Project (CTP), who offers another update on the state of Russian forces in Ukraine.The good news, for Ukraine, is that the Russian military has committed the sin of underpreparing and that it has forgotten major lessons from previous military campaigns. Fred discusses various options the stalled Russian military may consider to achieve Vladimir Putin's objectives, offering analysis of fighting in key territories like eastern and southern Ukraine. Fred also unpacks the timeline, how Russian military attempts to control Ukraine's most targeted cities could require at least two weeks of further preparations, given Ukrainian opposition. Receive regular updates on Ukraine from Fred and his colleagues at CTP&nbsp;<a href="https://www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/ukraine-conflict-updates" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.

The View of Ukraine from Georgia (with Ani Chkhikvadze)

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.”