The War in Ukraine

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In this video I discuss the domestic situation in Ukraine in October 2024. Zelensky's regime is facing a number of challenges that may lead to its fall, such as resistance of the Rada to decrease the age of men subject to draft, the increasing number of desertions in the army, the widespread movement of resistance to draft; the pervasive corruption of officials connected to army draft; the feuds among the top men in government and the quarrel of Zelensky with general Zaluzhny and intelligence chief Budanov. All that in the context of failure to obtain more missiles and more billions of aide leaves Zelensky at a dead-end. Dr.Brovkin is an American historian now retired, formerly a professor of Soviet history at Harvard University, the author of several books on Soviet Russian history. The latest one is: From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin: Russia in Search of Its Identity (Routledge, London 2024) aailable directly from Routledge and Amazon