Putin is doubling down on Ukraine’s Donbas region, and the Pentagon says Moscow’s shift in strategy may be working for them. Their apparent advances on the battlefield come after Putin’s initial assault on the north two months ago was blunted by the Ukrainians in a show of force that surprised the world. Russian investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov has been taking a close look at Russia’s failures so far, and the blame game that followed in the Kremlin, and he joins the show from London.
Also on today's show: author Joel Simon, professor Darrick Hamilton, Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson.
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