EUROPE'S BETRAYAL: The secret anger growing in Ukraine. Guest: Yevhen Hlibovytsky

EUROPE'S BETRAYAL: The secret anger growing in Ukraine. Guest: Yevhen Hlibovytsky

June 15, 2026 · 52 min

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Yevhen Hlibovytsky critiques Western strategies regarding the war in Ukraine and discusses the implications for Europe and global stability.

Welcome to a brutally honest and eye-opening episode of Ukrainapodden. In this session, we are joined by Yevhen Hlibovytsky, one of Ukraine's most prominent thinkers, to dissect the profound layers of Western naivety and the geopolitical paralysis surrounding the war in Ukraine. Yevhen Hlibovytsky delivers a chilling critique of the current international strategy, arguing that treating this purely as a localized conflict ignores a dark reality: without a decisive stance, this will become the first theater of World War Three. We dive deep into why both Moscow and Western analysts completely failed to predict Ukraine’s historic resilience. While Russia relied on cold quantitative metrics and the West analyzed formal institutions, both overlooked the invisible, self-reliant networks of Ukrainian civil society. Hlibovytsky challenges the Western concept of the «steel porcupine»—a strategy that cynically allows Ukraine to bleed eternally on its own territory while receiving financial aid. The conversation exposes the sophisticated, legal corruption deployed by the FSB to compromise thousands of Western corporate managers, creating an embedded network of…

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