Ben Hodges is a retired United States Army officer, who became commander of United States Army Europe in November 2014, and held that position for three years until retiring from the United States Army in January 2018. Until recently he was the Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies, at the Centre for European Policy Analysis, specialising in NATO, Transatlantic relationship and international security.
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A project to make a documentary film in Ukraine, to raise awareness of Ukraine's struggle and in supporting a team running aid convoys to Ukraine's frontline towns.
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CHAPTERS:
00:02:42 Russia is causing Americans to lose confidence in electoral processes.
00:05:22 Musk absolutely is a National Security risk but provides important capabilities.
00:07:48 The UN secretary general this past week was in Kazan at the BRICs summit.
00:11:27 I’ll look for ways to protect strategic interests, maintain relationships with allies.
00:14:34 The quid pro quo North Korea and Iran are getting from Russia and China.
00:16:05 We must defeat Russia first, not help Ukraine get a good negotiating position.
00:18:41 A plan for victory essentially requires a recognition that we are at war now.
00:19:54 We must understand the significance of why it's important that Ukraine wins.
00:23:38 Russia was willing to flaunt international law annexing Crimea illegally in 2014.
00:24:58 This is what was agreed after WWII, the international rules-based order.
00:27:28 We are easily blackmailed by Russian threats of tactical nuclear weapons.
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- Ben Hodges - There can be No Victory Without Retaking Crimea - Putin Won't Stop Escalating Violence. ( Download)
- Lt. General Ben Hodges - As Putin's Army Loses on the Battlefield he's Resorting to Terror Threats ( Download)
- Russia's War in Ukraine: Should & Will Ukraine Take Back Crimea (with Lt. General Ben Hodges). ( Download)
- Ben Hodges - Compilation of 4 Silicon Curtain Interviews with Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges - Oct-22 to Jun-23 ( Download)
- Full-scale War in Ukraine -Interviews with Ben Hodges, Fiona Hill, Vlad Vexler, Julia Davis & Others ( Download)
- Michael Kimmage - Putin's War in Ukraine Ushers in a New Age of Global Instability and Confrontation ( Download)
- “Ukraine Is Going to End Up Winning” | GoodFellows: Conversations From The Hoover Institution ( Download)
- For a mass movement of youth and students to stop the war in Ukraine! | IYSSE Online Rally ( Download)
- Ukraine and Nuclear War Risk | Seth Baum | EAGxVirtual 2022 ( Download)
- NATO and the Accelerating European Crisis | Kremlin File | Episode 16 ( Download)
- Mark Galeotti - Criminality, Conflict and Deception: Russia's Hybrid Warfare Transforms to Total War ( Download)
- Putin ‘absolutely rattled’ as 3000 troops cut off in Kursk | Frontline ( Download)
- Tug-of-War in the Black Sea: Defending NATO’s Eastern Flank ( Download)
- Noam Chomsky: Who is the greatest threat to world peace ( Download)
- Earnings Week | Bloomberg Surveillance 01/27/2023 ( Download)
