Thomas Grove
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89 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 31 Aug
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And that's
both in the number of drones that it can produce and how far they can fly.
While they've struck Russia's Black Sea fleet in the past, now they're really going after civilian infrastructure, things that are kind of keeping the lifeblood of the peninsula, so to speak, in terms of energy resources.
So that's really creating a huge problem and a big headache for Putin domestically, especially ahead of parliamentary elections later this year.
So I think Kiev's accomplishing a few things here at the same time.
On one hand, they've made it very clear they want to really attack the infrastructure that feeds the front line.
So whether we're looking at fuel supplies, whether we're looking at the industrial base that Russia uses to get its arms to the front line and the fuel that the soldiers run on.
On another level, I think there is an important psychological component here.
I think they are trying to
really show the Russians what they're capable of and parlay this potentially into some sort of negotiations in the future that will be, you know, terms of which could be more favorable to the Ukrainians, at least they hope.
But there are no talks as such right now.
And I think that's one of the problems that Kiev is facing is that right now there's no platform in which they could really, you know, launch this into a negotiating win.
Interestingly enough, we're more than four years into the war now.
We're seeing a lot of variables coming into play that maybe weren't there before.
I think we're seeing a slowdown in the Russian economy.
We're seeing faltering poll numbers for Putin.
Russia has always managed in the past to regain the edge and then lose it.
It's a cycle that goes back and forth between the two opponents, and it has for years.
There's a sense that Russia could very well get off its back foot militarily and start intercepting a lot of these drones.
The problem that Russia has here is the one that most European countries have, which is simply their air defenses aren't geared to handle drones.
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