Recorded: November 15, 2022 Nine months into Russia's disastrous war on Ukraine, we try making sense of Putin's strategy as Russian forces abandon Kherson and the right bank of the Dniepr, just weeks after Putin declared Kherson was "forever" part of Russia. Defeat & failure, somehow we always wind up on those themes. Total time: 1:31:21 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here