{"657634":{"#nid":"657634","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Breedlove Discusses Russia\u0027s Struggles in Ukraine in Council on Foreign Relations Panel","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERetired Gen. Philip Breedlove, distinguished professor of the practice in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, joined the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/\u0022\u003ECouncil on Foreign Relations\u003C\/a\u003E for a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0JmifIknEZA\u0022\u003Ediscussion\u003C\/a\u003E titled \u0026ldquo;The Struggles of Russian Military in Ukraine.\u0026rdquo; During the event, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/inta.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/philip-breedlove\u0022\u003EBreedlove\u003C\/a\u003E provided insight into why he believes it is that many have called Russia\u0026rsquo;s invasion of Ukraine a failure so far.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBreedlove suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin had either been ill-advised or had made poor decisions when staging his initial attack on Ukraine, as the Kremlin mistakenly had assumed they would quickly capture the capital city of Kyiv.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;When you start such a big operation, and you\u0026rsquo;ve done that on false assumptions\u0026hellip; it\u0026rsquo;s hard to recover,\u0026rdquo; Breedlove said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe former supreme allied commander of NATO also mentioned that before the invasion began, the West was too focused on Russian troop buildup at the border and didn\u0026rsquo;t pay enough attention to the Ukrainian military\u0026rsquo;s preparations to stave off an attack. He praised the West for its unification since the invasion began and noted that an increased NATO presence in Eastern Europe \u0026mdash; as well as Sweden and Finland potentially joining \u0026mdash; is exactly what Russia had hoped to avoid.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWatch the full panel on the Council on Foreign Relations\u0026rsquo; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0JmifIknEZA\u0022\u003EYouTube page\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe event was live-streamed on April 14.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The event was live-streamed on April 14."}],"uid":"34946","created_gmt":"2022-04-26 19:53:00","changed_gmt":"2022-04-26 19:54:40","author":"gwyner3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-04-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-04-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"650901":{"id":"650901","type":"image","title":"Gen. Philip Breedlove","body":null,"created":"1631913674","gmt_created":"2021-09-17 21:21:14","changed":"1631913674","gmt_changed":"2021-09-17 21:21:14","alt":"","file":{"fid":"246978","name":"breedlove 200x300.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/breedlove%20200x300.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/breedlove%20200x300.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":99704,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/breedlove%20200x300.jpeg?itok=By4USPkD"}}},"media_ids":["650901"],"groups":[{"id":"648414","name":"_OLD: Ivan Allen College \u0022The Buzz\u0022"},{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"88401","name":"Ukraine"},{"id":"1650","name":"Russia"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gwyner3@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGrace Wyner\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESam Nunn School of International Affairs | School of Public Policy\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}