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The host and Jiang use the term for a post-Odessa Ukraine reduced to a landlocked, diminished polity dependent on outside patrons to keep fighting.
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rump state
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...need western Ukraine. And then western Ukraine would basically become a rump state. It would be useless. So the last piece to this puzzle..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...need western Ukraine. And then western Ukraine would basically become a rump state. It would be useless. So the last piece to this puzzle..."
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The host recalls Jiang's earlier Odessa forecast and asks whether a Ukraine that loses the city becomes too diminished to remain sovereign or semi-independent.
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Jiang argues that Odessa is the decisive final stand because if the city falls, Ukraine becomes a de facto rump state dependent on European warfare and the conflict loses its remaining strategic point.
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"Now, you also forecast before that the fate of Ukraine will be decided in Odessa. And if Ukraine loses it, it will become landlocked,..."
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"...falls, the war is over because Ukraine becomes a de facto rump state dependent on European warfare. There's no more point in fighting this..."
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"...need western Ukraine. And then western Ukraine would basically become a rump state. It would be useless. So the last piece to this puzzle..."
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