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Dr Jade McGlynn is a British researcher — Research Fellow in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, Senior Associate at CSIS in Washington DC, and head of the Ukraine and Russia programme at KCL’s Centre for Statecraft and National Security. (Note: she uses she/her pronouns.) She holds a DPhil from Oxford, is a fluent Russian and Ukrainian speaker, and now splits her time between the UK and Ukraine — primarily Kharkiv and the eastern de-occupied territories. She is the author of Russia’s War (Polity, 2023) and Memory Makers: The Politics of the Past in Putin’s Russia (Bloomsbury, 2023). She is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow whose six-year award funds research into Russia’s use of history in strategic communications towards Africa, China, Germany and the Western Balkans.

She is — uniquely among Western academic specialists on this war — explicitly non-neutral. As she states on her Substack: “I am not neutral in this war. I want Ukraine to win, and I want Russia to lose.”
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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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DESCRIPTION:
McGlynn & Hodges on Ukraine, NATO, and the West’s Will: Leadership, Deterrence, and Learning the Drone War

The host speaks with Russia specialist Dr. Jade McGlynn and retired Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges about Western support for Ukraine amid US political dissonance, noting Congress applauded the King’s strong Ukraine message while some US leaders obstruct aid. They argue neutrality effectively aids Russia, stress the need for moral clarity paired with clear strategic interests, and criticize wishful thinking about Putin’s death or a Russian coup. McGlynn contrasts Ukrainian agency with Russian learned helplessness and urges more mature end-state planning for Russia, while Hodges says NATO is strained but not “done,” though Europe must build self-confidence and capability given transactional US behavior. Both emphasize Europe’s economies dwarf Russia’s and that the West is learning Ukraine’s drone- and ecosystem-driven warfare too slowly, advocating faster procurement, training-driven adaptation, and investment in Ukrainian production. The episode repeatedly promotes a fundraiser to supply Skyfall “vampire” drones to Ukraine’s Khartiya Brigade around Kupiansk.
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CHAPTERS:
02:17 Kings Speech vs US Aid
08:16 Neutrality Helps Aggression
10:48 Populism and System Failure
14:46 Agency vs Learned Helplessness
19:19 As Long As It Takes Critique
21:35 Preparing for Russian Collapse
24:02 What Army Collapse Looks Like
27:25 Reading Russian Dissidents
30:24 War Economy Trap
31:39 Destabilizing Russia Debate
33:08 Fundraiser and Question Grenade
34:16 NATO Not Finished
39:21 Europe Plans and Will
42:10 Learning from Ukraine
47:55 Danish Model and Drones
49:35 Reforming Western Procurement
50:58 Training and Faster Acquisition
54:28 Mindset Risk and Accountability
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