Fault Lines Episode 614: Drones and Diplomacy

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Today, Jess, Les, John, and Andrew cover a busy news cycle spanning the skies over Moscow to the streets of America. Ukrainian drones — produced domestically and flying hundreds of miles — are hammering Russian energy infrastructure and forcing Putin to publicly acknowledge fuel shortages across the country for the first time, as air defenses are redeployed from Crimea to protect the capital.

Can Ukraine’s drone campaign sustain enough pressure to meaningfully shift the strategic calculus for Putin? What does Russia’s fuel crisis reveal about the durability of its war machine? ⁨Can the U.S. men’s soccer teams advance to the round of 16 by defeating World War instigators Bosnia and Herzegovina?

Check out the answers to these questions and more in this episode of Fault Lines.

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