Michael Kirk, I would have thought on paper that Russia would have rolled over them in three weeks and. Wow. The President at one point said, what. People forget, Sean, is that at some point in this war, Russia controlled substantially more territory in Ukraine than they do now. The Ukrainians, if you look at what the map looked like in March or April after the invasion, or May, three months after the invasion, and what it looks like now, the Ukrainians have pushed the Russians way back from where they were. (19:11–19:16)
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Asserts that Russia previously controlled more territory in Ukraine than currently.
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