The State of the Ukraine War | Episode 14 | Everything is Everything
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
- How is the Ukraine counteroffensive going? Some are disappointed at not seeing the tactical blows they expected -- but Ukraine might just be playing a positional masterpiece.
Welcome to Episode 14 of Everything is Everything, a weekly podcast hosted by Amit Varma and Ajay Shah.
In this episode, Ajay follows up his cult masterclass on The Seen and the Unseen with an update on where the war stands today. What exactly is going on in Ukraine? Why does it matter? How should we look at Putin? How has the nature of warfare changed? Why is there reason to hope that Ukraine will prevail?
If you haven't heard it already, do check out the deep dive on the war in episode 335 of The Seen and the Unseen: • Ep 335: A Deep Dive I...
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
00:00 Teaser and packaging
01:25 Introduction: Ajay ko bula lo!
02:19 Chapter 1: Why This War Matters
18:32 Chapter 2: Master of the Dark Arts
23:55 Chapter 3: Incentives and War Machines
32:51 Chapter 4: The Changing Nature of Warfare
42:11 Chapter 5: Where the War Stands Now
1:01:29 Chapter 6: Ukraine's Positional Masterpiece
1:25:22 Chapter 7: Ajay's Recco
1:25:55 Chapter 8: Amit's Recco
USEFUL RESOURCES:
1. Amit on Twitter: / amitvarma
2. Ajay on Twitter: / ajay_shah
3. The Seen and the Unseen -- Amit's audio podcast: seenunseen.in/
(Also on all podcast apps. And RUclips, though less than 1% of listens come from here: www.youtube.com/@TheSeenAndTh...)
4. Ajay's organisation, XKDR Forum, on RUclips: / @xkdr
5. In Service of the Republic -- Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah: amzn.eu/d/hwGILb3
6. The Art of Clear Writing -- Amit's writing course: indiauncut.com/clear-writing/
7. A Deep Dive Into Ukraine vs Russia - Episode 335 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ajay Shah): • Ep 335: A Deep Dive I...
8. The Problem: www.washingtonpost.com/nation...
9. The Map: deepstatemap.live/en#6/49.438...
10. Basic facts about the map: www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...
11. The hard lessons from Ukraine’s summer offensive -- Christopher Miller and Ben Hall: www.ft.com/content/e83bd6fe-4...
12. Ukraine's offensive: is it failing? -- Lawrence Freedman: samf.substack.com/p/ukraines-...
13. Perseverance and Adaptation: Ukraine's Counteroffensive at Three Months -- Michael Kofman and Rob Lee: warontherocks.com/2023/09/per...
14. An Interview with Mike Kofman -- Lawrence Freedman: samf.substack.com/p/an-interv...
15. Stalemate, Zugzwang and a long Middle Game -- Lawrence Freedman: samf.substack.com/p/stalemate...
16. Russia, Ukraine, Foreign Policy - Episode 268 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Pranay Kotasthane and Nitin Pai): • Ep 268: Russia, Ukrain...
17. Conflict in Ukraine: A timeline (2014 - present) - Nigel Walker for House of Commons Library: researchbriefings.files.parli...
18. RUSI’s commentary on Ukraine: www.rusi.org/explore-our-rese...
19. The End of History? - Francis Fukuyama’s essay: www.jstor.org/stable/24027184
20. Birds Aren’t Real? How a Conspiracy Takes Flight -- Peter McIndoe: • Birds Aren’t Real? How...
21. How the War Was Won -- Phillips Payson O'Brien: amzn.eu/d/2FpOtIK
22. Ode To Kirihito -- Osamu Tezuka: amzn.eu/d/62Mry1A
23. The Push Man and Other Stories -- Yoshihiro Tatsumi: amzn.eu/d/fMlUheI
24. Abandon the Old in Tokyo -- Yoshihiro Tatsumi: amzn.eu/d/dVp7OcQ
25. Gekiga: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gekiga
Produced by Amit Varma and Ajay Shah
Shot by Vartika Singh: / @vartikasingh7
Edited by Nomsita MS Haritashya: / nomsitaharitashya
Thanks to Gaurav Chintamani for helping with sound: / gaurav_chintamani
Chapter images by Simahina: / i_am_simahina
(Note: An earlier version of this was uploaded a few hours ago with a brief glitch in the video when something went wrong with YT's processing. We've replaced that with this, so sorry if you commented there or shared it!)
This episode is so well rounded and is a good addition to the episode Amit talks about. There is nothing better to watch and learn on youtube than this show. Ajay and Amit - Thank you!
This is the greatest podcast I have ever heard.. Thanks man.. Forever grateful
Every episode feels like the best one yet. Keep up the fantastic work!
Thanks for the knowledge, the intellectual stimulation, and for you guys’ company for a long TV dinner. 😊
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Beautiful minds. Excellent analysis
It was like a revision and update of the Ukraine seen and the unseen
Ajay goes from joyous to a professor with folded arms in a second :)
I’m now curious what are those 16 things that Ajay knows. That could be a great episode in itself or 16 great episodes :)
We promise to go till Ep 104.
@@ajayshah5705I was about to ask about 16 but now I am intrigued about 104.
I do agree the 5 hour plus episode on Ukraine is a masterpiece.
Outstanding
Brilliant and concise !
Such a wonderful episode!
Masterpiece
That pettiness aptly described in a Border movie: Hum hi hum hain to kya hum hain, tum hi tum ho to kya tum ho
Wonderful episode
Zyada samajh nhi aaya par sun ke achha laga
Awesome as usual, Amit and Ajay!
One small complaint - once we finish an episode, the next one should automatically appear on the last page as a recommendation; but, it doesn't. Not much of a geek, but am sure youtube will have some function in settings to do it!
Amazing as always. One genuine question I do have is that how is Putins war different from Americas war in Afghanistan and Iraq from the lens of powerful countries bullying less powerful ones ?
To begin with, the overt imperialistic intent.
Pls pls pls do an update on - state of Indian liberal democracy - as the prior ones need an update with lots going on closer here.
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The worst part of Indian social media people that they celebrating war more than Russian people till now , I see very less video like your who criticize war
Well said that a great functioning country is where people can criticize and report the flaws with its solution. But what are the right channels or medium through which a citizen can do that?
I feel that conversations with 5/15 trusted people are the most important.
Can we expect a deep dive into Israel Palestine issue from both of you guys
Half way through the episode but can't hold my question for long. So... How much of the episode is scripted? I see on the Amit's computer that there is large text doc with pages and pages to scroll.
(FWIW, scripted or not, it doesn't change how much i enjoy the show. So just curious...)
Zero scripting. I have broad themes and the structure in my Roam Research. You can see my process in chapter 6 of episode 11: ruclips.net/video/-RHpE-B89Qg/видео.html
Why reupload??
A part of the earlier video was frozen because something went wrong during the YT processing.
I understand this is a very dense topic and maybe you touched upon this in the Seen and Unseen episode. But doesn't the same fraught political moment that makes this war important also make the NATO powered defence potentially fragile? The medium term sustaining of this defence depends on far right actors not grabbing power in Europe and, more importantly, the US. At least two GOP candidates, other than Trump, have already suggested the war is not America's business. The centre is holding by a knife edge in Germany and France. Upcoming elections will test how much Putinbros are able to infiltrate Eastern Europe.
In hindsight, Europe may come to regret the virtue signalling rhetoric they resorted to against anyone expressing skepticism about the war, especially when this skepticism arose from the Global South. They have lost friends in the process and allowed Putin and Xi to build bridges to a new alignment. It's not yet too late but that's assuming European leaders can get off their high horse and seek out allies. Using Khalistan to attempt regime change in India is not going to help either.
There are simpler explanations about the liking for Putin and Russia in India. E.g. Old notions of foreign policy. Lack of depth in the principle of freedom. Susceptibility to information warfare. Resentment towards the west.