Matt Frei
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 3 Sep
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This is a global production.
The question is, will the Russians listen this time?
Imagine if Putin continues with this war.
There's I cannot imagine that if he hasn't managed to roll from the Donbass to Kyiv, he's gonna do it now.
He has not been to Kiev once.
Not once.
actual diplomacy.
In the ten years of a disastrous Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, they lost fourteen thousand men.
They've lost, you know, a hundred times as many in something that's lasted half as long.
I mean this is a disaster.
So a couple of things on that one.
It's a really, really good question, uh, Ben.
And I think first of all, I'm I was deeply alarmed when I read this because there was a similar visit by the then head of the CIA to Moscow just before the full scale Ukraine invasion at the end of twenty twenty one.
And that didn't go so well.
And we know from that particular visit that the then head of the CIA basically warned the Kremlin
You know, don't go any further.
You know, we've got intelligence that you're trying to invade Ukraine.
Don't do this, and they did it anyway.
So, although we don't know anything for certain, it is quite possible and plausible that again, you know, the th the the CI the today's CIA chief went to Moscow to say to uh the Russians, if you're thinking of an a a visible incursion.
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