Podbit · The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
Himes visited Ukraine three weeks before this episode and found a country with genuine spring in its step. Russia is losing the equivalent of all U.S. Vietnam War deaths between now and the weekend. Ukraine is no longer just defending — it's negotiating from a position of growing strength.
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Galloway shifts the conversation to Ukraine, arguing it has been an incredibly positive few months for the country and the West. Himes agrees — he was just there, three weeks prior, visiting Kyiv and Odessa, and describes a schizophrenic atmosphere: missiles still landing on schools, real fatalities every day, but an unmistakable spring in the step of Ukrainians who know they are winning. [1] — Jim Himes "Himes visited Ukraine three weeks before this episode and found a country with genuine spring in its step. Russia is losing the equivalent …" 30:55 The casualty numbers Himes cites are staggering — Russia is losing men at a rate that would equal all U.S. Vietnam War deaths within a matter of days. Ukraine's realistic calculation has shifted: any negotiated outcome will be radically more favorable than it would have been a year ago, and there's a genuine, if not high-probability, chance the Russian people do what they have done every 50 years and remove the Tsar. When Galloway asks if a settlement is close, Himes gives an admirably honest and politically uncomfortable answer: he hopes not, because Ukraine on the march is the best position from which to negotiate, and Putin left unchecked may well try Estonia next.
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