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‘Putin still has a lot left to lose’: Niall Ferguson and David Petraeus in conversation

Niall Ferguson and David Petraeus on Russia’s mistakes, Xi’s plans and the lessons of Iraq

16 April 2022

9:00 AM

16 April 2022

9:00 AM

David Petraeus is a former CIA director who, as a four-star general, led US military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. He speaks to the historian Niall Ferguson about the war in Ukraine.

NIALL FERGUSON: General, I wanted to ask you to give your assessments of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. If you were grading Russia’s military performance and Ukraine’s, what grades would you give?

DAVID PETRAEUS: Clearly Russia has failed.

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