@Talorc MacAllan well, half of you guys was all about Ghost of Snake Island heroes and Russia being out of rockets/ammo/soldiers year ago. So i doubt that you paid, but you looks like hella disinformed. Or may be you just scared to be called Putinbot.
What is it you dont like about multi party democracy, free press, free speech, freedom to protest, freedom to congregate, freedom to navigate the globe etc.
“The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we're still also driven by primal urges like greed and power.” - Michael Leunig
@@lnighttrain3804 lol nice try sergei. unfortunately no. the totalitarian run ruzzians are all out on their own as primitive archaic savages at this point in time. Europe is trying to stop the bloodshed and ruzzian invasion of a sovereign country. its ruzzians who are committing war crimes and violating international laws and rules of human decency.
@@lnighttrain3804 Its not that european people are more sofisticated. Its the european societies that are very well organized. That brings stability and resources enough to prosper but also sometimes to help others.
He is right!. The events of 2014 passed fully unobserved for a lot of people, including myself. An enormous error that we will pay for during years to come.
Obama and Merkle calculated that relations with Russia were more important than Ukraine independence. Biden continued the strategy, even after telling everyone they knew Russia was going to invade and he still did nothing to stop it.
One problem is that modern people do not know much about our recent history. I am in my 70s and have been a keen amatuer ww1 and ww2 reader. Yet my two daughters in the early 40s - one asked me last year what was NATO, the other one did not know what Chinese Communism was all about.
I also am in my 70's and grew up hearing about WW2. The problem is that WW2 is not recent history to anyone under 50. Korea is also forgotten and Viet Nam is on the way out as far as memory goes. We live in a society that believes anything more than 20 years old is outdated, useless and not worth thinking about. Germany and Japan are friendly and that Iron Curtain thing went away last century. Those who fail to learn from history ...
the problem is that people do not define things when talking about them. People often use acronyms only known by professionals. Your daughters know more about Tik Tok or IG than you? There are so many angles to view history through as well and layers upon layers of parallel technological developments taking place in many areas. Even I did not get taught in school about Breton Woods, the post WW2 period, Warsaw Pact, NATO, nuclear weapons testing, etc etc because public schools only want to get your feet wet and get you started on reading. Also things are whitewashed and censored for public school students. Also democracy is non-majoritarian in the US at least so young people are shown that voting does in fact not matter as much as who a big donor wants running for office.
@@raydunn2582 In my country Netherlands we have liberation day were we invite foreign liberators mostly Canadians (now in their 90's) to thank them for their sacrifice and heroism. They still get their Ticker-tape parade each year! Plus we pay for all their expenses and shower them in medals. We will never ever forget. But perhaps you have to lose freedom for a few years to realize how precious it is. In that regard i understand why countries in the former warshaw pact now want to help Ukraine so much well compared to their economy that is.
Yeah, fomenting a color revolution in a foreign country in collusion with Nazis to forcefully pull it into the Western orbit, eat its flesh, pop off Crimea from Russia, make sure the Black Sea becomes a "lake of NATO", eliminate the Russian population one and for all and transform a radicalized and up-armed country into a dagger against Russia was "not handled well". Got it!
@@davefloyd9443 You really have no clue, do you? Chamberlain knew it wasn't worth the paper it was written on. What he was doing was playing for time because he knew war was coming and the British military was in no fit state to fight it. He had implemented an extensive rearmament programme. The treaty with Germany gave us a bit more time to get ready for the war. If Chamberlain hadn't done what he had to do Britain would have entered the war earlier as it would have stgarted in 1938vand in a far worse state than the already poor state it was in 1939. He has been wrongly lambasted in history because he died in 1940 and became a convenient scapegoat as he wasn't around to defend himself.
The intelligence community has always been a part of the diplomatic corps, the fist behind the glove so to speak. An oxymoron is an idiot like Putin leading a country as large as Russia. But then Russia has a well trodden history of promoting fools into positions of authority.
@@rickmorgan1441 Which war criminals? The Russians or the Americans? Because the Americans has blown up the stream (or as they currently officially say, ukrainian radicals from a yacht :D ) And of course they also have their war crimes all over from Iraq to Afganistan (only to count countries from the previous 20 years).
@@rickmorgan1441 Oh dear, not been keeping up with current events much, have you? Or are you being a good little Epsilon and just going along with whatever the nice man on the BBC tells you?
The 16 year old bot account was new. Only 354 posts in 16 years... last three posts today... no Playlists... subscribed only to news stations like this as far as I could tell.
Alternate history: when US showed intention to invade Iraq in 2003, Putin decided to send help in form of missiles with tactical nukes to be used on US and UK troops once they cross the border. Every sovereign country has right to defend itself against aggression, or that rules applies only to NATO favored countries?
Sorry sir you’re analysis is wrong Russia has no where to go but to take Ukraine nato & America has pushed there military & economic power right on there door step so I respectfully disagree.
People smarter and grater then you have made this claim and history prove them wrong . After 5 waves af Nato expantion I don't blame russians for not wanting to discuss matters with us .
British military intelligence is a contradiction in terms, as has been proved many times and as this fellow is setting out to prove again. Without NATO ukraine would have collapsed well over a year ago, and despite NATO help it will probably collapse by the end of the year. Poland is eagerly awaiting its chance to grab a chunk, just as it did with the collapsing Czechoslovakia in early 1939.
From the same authors of "the russians have run out of missiles" and "they are fighting with shovels" now comes their new film "NATO weapons will defeat Russia in Ukraine"... another wonderful film from Pinewood Studios!! !
they are using S300 missiles to attack ground targets and had to buy weapons from Iran and N Korea. so yeah things are going great over there... how pathetic though. they are getting their teeth kicked in by Western hand me downs and us literally telling Ukrainians not to attack. Imagine if we just gave them weapons and said you do you. Just pathetic waste of life for a weak people trying to prove sth to themselves. yes we are poor and odnt have toilets but we have bahkmut.
It is a sad day when the former head of Mi6 can't get very simple basic facts right. Totally detached from reality which in other words means medically delusional.
If NATO military alliance, lead by the US, which invented the WMD lies, encircles Russia and moves east every year for the last 20 years providing Poland with US missiles, and other such countries on Russian border with US soldiers and military equipment, one should understand why Russia would get irritated... US would have taken military actions much quicker should the Russians done the same in Central America and Mexico.
Yeah I get that, but Russia surely has to look in the mirror to realise why all their neighbouring countries apart from a few similarly autocratic nation's, are wanting to align with EU and NATO etc. It's exactly because Russia is an aggressor state and invading Ukraine has proven the point?
Our former President should have seen the writing on the wall (Putin was testing the waters in 2014). Obama AND NATO should have sent troops to kick out "The little green men". Especially since Putin claimed they were not his troops and had nothing to do with it.
People forget how corrupt Ukraine was at that point, as well as unready. I think if the west had sent aid it'd just show up at arms bazaars across central Asia rather than be used to fight Russia. Even if not corrupt you can't simply send a lot of guns to people who have no command structure, no training, no strategy, etc. etc.
your new conscripts said it themselves you fool. no equipment, old used uniforms helmets filled with straw. rusty guns or no gun yet. conscripts had to buy there own uniforms. stop watching RT and Tass lol
@@amacke4736 better speak with facts than with dreams. a private army took bakhmut many people die from both sides but still russia got millions of reserves. how many fighters you think ukraine has?
it's shame on the part of these 27 countries to fight unitedly at the back and call of USA. If you are so capable then fight alone or live peacefully with your neighbour.
I have never heard anyone state why Russia attackesd Ukraine ! Similar to , the US attacked Iraq and Afghanistan and others .They always had valid reatsons and excuses to do it.They made the whole world accept the facts and go for it.However in Russia's case it has it's reasons as well ,no one wants to hear them .
... _> "I have never heard anyone state why Russia attackesd Ukraine"_ It was clearly stated in Putin''s speech at 24.02.2024. If the Western so-called "free" media did not report anything about this, then there is no point for me here for the 100th time to show a link to this video and quote what exactly was said. Because it won't change anything. Because the time for talking is over. And this is also one of the reasons why the war was started in Ukraine.
February 6, 2022 American mercenaries are behind the attack on Donetsk American mercenaries are behind the attack on Donetsk. American mercenaries who arrived in Donbas a few months ago are behind the attack on Donetsk the previous afternoon. This is evidenced by the fact that NATO-standard weapons were used during the shelling, moreover, at least two groups of American mercenaries were previously seen in the suburbs of Donetsk, which are under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It is known that American mercenaries are taking part in the fighting in the Donbass. At the same time, given that the city was shelled the previous morning using NATO-standard weapons, it is more than likely that members of a private military company from the United States are also behind the attack. According to official data, as a result of a two-hour shelling of Donetsk, there is significant destruction in the Kievsky district of the city. In particular, it is reported about the destruction of warehouses and garages. There is unofficial information about the victims, but this has not received any documentary evidence. Experts note that if information about the attack by American mercenaries on Donetsk is confirmed, Russia may send military assistance to the self-proclaimed republics, since Kiev's current actions violate the terms of the Minsk agreements. 15 February 2022 The US is participating in the war on Donbass. . Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the south of the DPR immediately after reconnaissance of an American aircraft . The units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the south of the DPR immediately after the reconnaissance of the American side. The American military reconnaissance aircraft Boeing RC-135V was involved in the latest attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the south of the DPR. As it became known to the Avia.pro news agency, the night before, fire was opened on a number of settlements in the DPR, where militia forces were moving, from various types of weapons, mainly from 120-mm mortars. . According to data obtained by the Avia.pro news agency, during reconnaissance by an American military aircraft along the line of contact, close attention was paid to militia targets located near the line of contact. Later, the southern part of the DPR was subjected to heavy shelling and, as it turned out, additional DPR units could indeed be deployed in the village of Kominternovo, although this information did not receive any comments from representatives of the self-proclaimed republic. . Experts note that the involvement of the American military aircraft in the attack is obvious, since the strikes were carried out only on certain areas of the line of contact and on settlements. February 19, 2022 UKRAINIAN ARMY CONTINUES MASSIVE SHELLING OF DONETSK AND LUHANSK ~ The Ukrainian army continuously fires 120mm mortars at the settlements of Zaitseve and Dokuchaevsk in the Donetsk region. Thousands of shells were fired during the day, mainly at civilian infrastructure and residential areas in the districts of Gorlovka and Lugansk, currently under massive artillery fire by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Dozens have been reported only in the last hour. A few hours ago, the car of the head of the People’s Militia of the DPR Denis Sinyakov was blown up by Ukrainian saboteurs in the center of Donetsk At midnight on February 19, a critical element of the Luhansk People’s Republic infrastructure - the node of the Druzhba (Дружба) gas pipeline - exploded. The strong blast shook the whole of Lugansk. Another explosion in Lugansk thundered in the Kamennobrodsky district. A gas station was blown up there. A couple of hours before, two transformer substations in the Donetsk Republic were damaged by shelling. The Ukrainian army is deliberately destroying the infrastructure of Donetsk and Lugansk, thereby implementing the idea of the President of Ukraine of Zelensky’s “indomitable” nationality, that all residents of these regions who disagree with Ukrainian Government in Kiev should flee to Russia. The President of Ukraine, Zelensky: “I think that if you live today in the territory of Donbass, temporarily occupied, and you think that: “Our cause is right, we are Russians, we are going to Russia, it’s a big mistake to stay in Donbass…” For the future of their children and grandchildren… it is already necessary to go and look for a place in Russia. It is right. Because there will be no civilization on this territory without Ukraine. Ukraine will grow upwards, Donbass in the occupied form will not grow anywhere. There will be no happiness for these people.” At the same time, when there are massive shelling and terrorist attacks in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, US President Biden during a press conference accused the DPR and the LPR of violating the ceasefire and said that there is no evidence that Ukraine is preparing an attack.
From 2018 The planning of WWIII. “A bipartisan commission appointed by Congress issued a lengthy report Tuesday backing the Pentagon’s plans to prepare for a “great-power” war against Russia, China, or both, making clear that the Trump administration’s belligerent policies are shared by the Democratic Party. Safe in the knowledge that its findings will never be seriously reported by the mass media, the authors of this report do not mince words about what such a war will mean. A war between the United States and China, which according to the report might break out within four years, will be “horrendous” and “devastating.” The military will “face greater losses than at any time in decades.” Such a war could lead to “rapid nuclear escalation,” and American civilians will be attacked and likely killed. It is impossible to understand anything in American politics without recognizing one fundamental reality: the events and scandals that dominate political discourse, which make it onto the evening news and into headlines on news sites and social media feeds, have precious little to do with the considerations of those who actually make decisions. The media talking heads play their assigned roles, knowing that the most important topics can be discussed only within very circumscribed limits. Those who actually make policy-a select group of high-ranking members of Congress, Pentagon officials, and think-tank staffers, as well as White House aides-speak an entirely different language among themselves, and in publications they know the general public will not read, and the media will not seriously report.
I like Obama but he proved to be too soft as a world leader when it came to conflicts. He failed in Syria & he failed in Crimea. I was always mad about that and felt it weakened the US vs Russia.
With a congress actively against him, US forces already wrapped up in the ME and Afghanistan for a decade, not sure what was expected for Crimean action? Its not like western Europe was acting, indeed they were more concerned about their new cheap energy sources than Crimea. Remember, a year and two months ago, Western Europe was still figuring out if it even wanted to send aid to Ukraine. And its not like Ukrainian leadership was settled back in 2014. Despite that, US forces trained Ukrainian troops from 2015 until January 2022. Just what more was expected or could really be done?
@@opieg7333 , really, his own party was actively against him? Your memory is faulty. The democrats controlled the Senate when Russia annexed Crimea and Obama already told the Russians (thinking the mic was turned off) that he would have more flexibility after the 2012 elections.
For me, this is the first video which describes the progress of relations with Russia after the Cold War. But as of 2:33 it's not said what actually went wrong. What a shame.
Because it was us who kept the conflict going; trying to finish off Russia from the inside while pretending to be friends. To see how the West were thinking in strategic terms, look up the Wolfowitz Doctrine, for example. The Russians didn't like it and killed our agents. And eventually we got here.
Russia was Russia. that is what went wrong. we bailed them out paid for their troops to go home. rebuilt their oil infrastructure for what? Them to realize they were humbled without a shot and get ignorant about it. so now they send their sons to die because it makes them feel like a great power again. Only good thing is so many are gone now the internet trolls will have to take their place soon. how weak does a "great power" have to be to rely on misinformation as a security strategy? cant beat a third world next door neighbor? pathetic. yet as always Russia thinks their great when they are not and thus everyone hates them. whole story in a nutshell.
I love how "others" seem to think they can decide what Ukraine should do to end this war. Ukraine and Russia need to resolve this. Either militarily, or if possible diplomatically. That said, "others" are welcome to suggest diplomatic solutions for consideration by Ukraine and Russia.
Yes others decide. These are the big powers. Over centuries, borders have been decided, countries broken up by these big powers. They will negotiate when it suites them.
That' s not quite right, Russia and Ukraine wanted to talk and find a solution, but Boris Johnson came along, and said no. Probably because Joe Biden told him so.
America runs their Ukrainian puppets.....they will attempt to negotiate when we say so.....but Joe "poopy pants" Biden miscalculated.....Putin doesn't need to negotiate at this point .....he will be on the Polish border soon.
I agree with you, but Zelensky was willing to sit down and work something out with the Russians in the spring of 2022, but was convinced to break off talks by Ukraine's western backers. Boris Johnson, then British PM flew out to Ukraine to personally assure him that he'd get all the military and financial support he'd need to carry on the war. Now a year later, we have a devastated land, tens (hundreds?) of thousands more dead and maimed, no end to the carnage in sight and zero chance of a negotiated settlement.
Good interview. How did the West ever get into the situation, where we are having to discuss the lunacy of an idiot like Trump getting back into office and the damage he could cause!
It's interesting though that the US did not engage in any new wars under Trump. That is not the case for at least the four previous presidents and not the current president.
Because at essence, humans have short memories and never learn the hard lessons until it's too late! He must never be allowed back into a position of authoritative power. Lest we all suffer the inevitable consequences.
Trump getting into office was disastrous. Getting into office a second time would be catastrophic, and not just for Ukraine. This is another reason why Europe as a whole needs to really ramp up their defence industries to a suitable level asap. Too much has been left up to chance for a good couple of decades now, and we've been rolling a one on the dice for some time.
I think we can be relatively sure that this is off the table. Or we could point to what Putin did to Syria. Again, not going to happen. The irony is that Russia united a broken Ukraine.
one small correction, Trump is the favorite to win the Republican primary by a wide margin but last poll i checked, he would lose in a general election to Biden
@@tonidimitrova6078 Uh Trump got crushed by Biden last time, and do you think Trump is more popular or less popular than after J6...? 😂Trump hasn't polled against Biden yet, only within his own party. How did those internal GOP polls work out for all the Trump candidates over the last 6 years, yup... the answer was it was a freaken disaster for them lol. Trump candidates crush other Reuplicans in primaries, over 90% of them lose general elections horribly 😂
@@ricardowilliams9201 > Russia take 25% of your country what you talking about Given that Russia's has a comparatively huge population and military, the real shock is that Russia ONLY took 25%... despite over a year of fighting... losing half their tanks and using most of their artillery shells... having to import arms from DPRK and Iran!!!!!!!!!?!?!?!?!!! 😲and that Ukraine's already rolled back much of the gains??? Don't forget Ukraine had already halted and turned back the invasion before foreign aid started showing up...
There are a lot of experts on the war now. The majority of them did not think Russia would escalate the war so lets take all these experts with a grain of salt. And let's not underestimate Russia. While 50+ countries take 6+ weeks to even decide who is going to manufacture artillery shells and how many are going to be delivered Russia has a huge military industry that is in wartime production that is making artillery grenades by the minute. So let's be realistic and understand that this will, unfortunately, be a long struggle if we do not step up and ramp up.
The majority of experts had thought the West would be smart enough to negotiate peace with Russia rather than impoverish their own people and place Europe at risk of yet another world war. This is not the case.
The Argentinians are confused by this guys speech, “you guys still haven’t returned the Falklands back to us & your criticizing Putin for retaking what was there’s before, what did the falklands float away from Britain & drift thousands of miles away...what’s this double standards you speak?..”😂
I'd like to hear more from him about the "brief window" mentioned at 1:16, "particularly after Putin was elected" when there was some optimism about Russia's direction, and what he thinks went wrong after that... I seem to remember a period of assassinations
The Anglo Saxons kept treating Russia as an enemy while conspiring against them and openly telling they want to dismantle Russia into small controllable countries while trying to set up bases right at their border wich was next in Ukraine. This happened.
@@derkernspalter The Russian empire broke up because countries which had been annexed by Russia wanted to regain their freedom and had nothing to do with "Anglo-Saxons" Turkey was barred from joining the EU and Ukraine was barred from joining NATO in order to appease Russia, but Russia has now moved the goalposts and as a result Scandinavian countries and Ukraine will join NATO and/or EU to protect themselves from the common enemy. Russia have scored a massive own goal and will pay the penalty of their misguided actions for years to come.
COMPROMISE, PEACE & NEGOTIATION If Western countries agree that the borders of a sovereign country must be respected, why should Ukraine consider compromising and give up any of it's territories? Russia guaranteed Ukraine's security in the Budapest Memorandum, then violated it without any basis. Why do we expect that Russia will abide by any peace agreement reached thru negotiations? Let's stop procrastinating and settle this matter militarily asap. We have the military capacity to help Ukraine win but we must also have the will. Additional measures are needed to ensure that Russia will not be a threat for the next 200 years 🥸.
So you want a nuclear escalation that will wipe out most people within a few years? That's what you would get and I doubt anybody would want to push it that far unless they were insane.
lets the west respect other borders of a sovereign country like iraq syria libya mali sudan and many more that why the world is laughing at the west and theirs double standards
You can't compare those conflicts. It's a symetric war and you gain land by winning battles with better weapons. In Afghanistan we won within weeks and then faced an insurgency. The Ukrainians won't have to deal with that. As soon as they liberated a village they won't face combat there. And through superior weapons we could take Iraq and Afghanistan fast with very little losses.
@@RandomGuy9 But didn't we cut our losses and turn tail in both Iraq and Afghanistan? Your suggestion that we won't have to deal with Russia if we defeat them misses one detail, they have rather a lot of nuclear weapons. We in the UK have errr none, the only nuclear weapons we have can only be fired under US command, one wonders if the US could fire nuclear weapons from British platforms against our wishes?
if you call 100k wounded and an 80% drop in artillery fire "ok". ohhh and now they are getting border incursions by other Russian forces. Or maybe its Ukrainians. Either way the only thing keeping their cities from getting wrecked is the west's red lines. Opposing forces can just go for a weekend stroll near Belgorod. pathetic
My favorite thing about Vladimir Putin... ... is that he has managed to take Russia's military from being the second most powerful in the world *allllllll* the way to being the second most powerful in Ukraine.
@@IAmBeingSilenced Russia only took Crimea. Donetsk and Luhansk saw their oppurtunity at that time and claimed independence from Ukraine. Russia only claimed Crimea after the 2014 altercation. Both asked for annexation but Russia refused.
Re: "What does it mean if Bahkmut had fallen?": It means that reduced access to reliable GPS has impaired Ukraine's coordinate detection and targeting. I believe.
It means that Ukraine actually got Russia to overconcentrate and to overinvest the area. Even now the flank attacks are pushing the Russians to over concentrate. Great battlefield shaping. Add to this that the Ukrainians only had about 3000 troops in the city at any one time as they rotate troops. The fact is if you let your opponent think they are getting somewhere they double down, which is exactly what happened. NOW Ukrainian troops on the heights with good views and great GPS targeting systems!
@@charlesrichardson8635 every single time when they try to rotate troops they were subdued to heavy bombardment their casualties are large they attempted to do that but it doesn't work trust me do ukrainians have suffered a lot. As for those Ukrainian defensive they've gone to a halt you need to keep updated, I wouldn't say anyting
Bachmut is a fortress, strategically situated and well fortified, where each street, each line of residential buildings, those solid concrete Soviet high-rises, occupied by Ukraine troops, served as a defensive line. It exhausted and expended the Russians pretty badly, hard to imagine a greater challenge, but taking it also means winning the war, so the Russians had to commit, fighting from the most disadvantageous position and suffering terrible casualties, since it wasn't just an ordinary piece of land, it was about delivering a knockout blow, which, first and foremost, means grit, determination, it was a battle of wills, the Russians had to prove that they are not Ukrainians and do not fight the Western war- out for a walk in the park, a "splendid little," a cheap, quick and easy victory, like the Spanish, WWII, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.
If this guy was running MI6, then I have no respect for MI6. Can't imagine his analysis are worth a thought... these people have such a huge attitude problem they can't see wood for the trees..
Why doesn't anyone seem to understand the wider implication of a ukraine that is part of NATO?? Any border dispute can then escalate into WW3 under article 5 of NATO. A neutral Ukraine is absolutely essential for world peace. And that was all that Putin wanted to achieve before his SMO. But he was laughed at in the international arena,when in december 2021 he tried to to talk about a new European Security Framework. So NATO left him no choice.
It's far worse this time for them far far worse. The other side has way more weapons this time. Hence in 14 years in Afghanistan they lost about 10k people, now they lost 200k in a year.
A burglar in your living room, he requests to negotiate over what furniture he is going to steal from you. And claims that the fact that you wanted to put a NATO lock on your door provoked him. Yeb vas mr putin
Someone should call up this guy and tell him that Bakmhut has fallen and the Ukranians have not gained any ground but consistently lose more despite Nato weapons and money.
Ukranian morale is still sky high. And as long as this is the case the west is by moral alone forced to support them. Not some sloppy support, but with the weight of the military production lines and there is still a enormous capacity in Europe. We can outproduce the Russian any day of the week. It only needs the will to do it.
This guy doesn't remember policy of his own country some 19 years before. Of course, that was different, Blair was all about moral in politics. And people believed him, because they haven't read Machiavelli's The Prince.
Russia isnt going to lose this war.The only war Ukraine comes out clean is it forces a stalemate but the prognosis dont seem to be good for Ukraine as Russia would most certainly would keep the lands it has won especially in the Donbas and South.The Russians might not be able to secure a decisive victory but it would achieve some sort of victory like the Winter War of 1939.This is the best Ukraine can hope for tbvh.
Same guy thought Iraq had WMD from information from a minicab driver in London. He was duped.
@Talorc MacAllan well, half of you guys was all about Ghost of Snake Island heroes and Russia being out of rockets/ammo/soldiers year ago. So i doubt that you paid, but you looks like hella disinformed. Or may be you just scared to be called Putinbot.
Actually, no, he didn't. The US and British gov knew it was a lie. We went in on that lie.
But it is now clear that Saddam/Iraq did, unless you do not consider nerve and biological weapons as WMDs
@@AaSs-ln9mmThat's true mate
You can't have a diplomatic solution with a country that doesn't do diplomacy.
I agree with that, that's why nobody deals with anything western any longer.
What is it you dont like about multi party democracy, free press, free speech, freedom to protest, freedom to congregate, freedom to navigate the globe etc.
dont even bother man...or bot?
@First Second Freedom comes with responsibility. That's what they can't handle.
@@firstsecond-ft1qg the fact that it is all a lie?
Richard!!! you escaped from the madhouse again 🤣🤣🤣
think so too... lol
“The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we're still also driven by primal urges like greed and power.” - Michael Leunig
The European no matter how technical or sophisticated he believes, he is he is still a savage. Just under the skin he is still a beast..
@@lnighttrain3804 lol nice try sergei. unfortunately no. the totalitarian run ruzzians are all out on their own as primitive archaic savages at this point in time. Europe is trying to stop the bloodshed and ruzzian invasion of a sovereign country. its ruzzians who are committing war crimes and violating international laws and rules of human decency.
True words!
NATO will defeat RUSSIA !!! HA HA HA HA HA 😂🤣😆
He got plenty of STUPIDIOT FANTASIES that little silly geezer 😲
@@lnighttrain3804 Its not that european people are more sofisticated. Its the european societies that are very well organized. That brings stability and resources enough to prosper but also sometimes to help others.
He is right!. The events of 2014 passed fully unobserved for a lot of people, including myself. An enormous error that we will pay for during years to come.
Are you talking about the US spending 5 billion to overthrow the democratically elected government in Ukraine? The event that started all of this.
That was no "error". It was intentional and organized OMISSION by the US Fake News media. Big difference.
Obama and Merkle calculated that relations with Russia were more important than Ukraine independence. Biden continued the strategy, even after telling everyone they knew Russia was going to invade and he still did nothing to stop it.
Democrats were in power then
Trying to be funny or are you just naïve???
Evils,Sinners,Bad People Don't Succeed!!!
Yes, let's hope the Americans fail.
Love coming back to these types of videos. They always give a good laugh
Send Politicians to the front. Experts first.
One problem is that modern people do not know much about our recent history. I am in my 70s and have been a keen amatuer ww1 and ww2 reader.
Yet my two daughters in the early 40s - one asked me last year what was NATO, the other one did not know what Chinese Communism was all about.
I also am in my 70's and grew up hearing about WW2. The problem is that WW2 is not recent history to anyone under 50. Korea is also forgotten and Viet Nam is on the way out as far as memory goes. We live in a society that believes anything more than 20 years old is outdated, useless and not worth thinking about. Germany and Japan are friendly and that Iron Curtain thing went away last century. Those who fail to learn from history ...
Your daughters properly never read anything outside the internet. Too much TikTk rottens the brain.
the problem is that people do not define things when talking about them. People often use acronyms only known by professionals. Your daughters know more about Tik Tok or IG than you? There are so many angles to view history through as well and layers upon layers of parallel technological developments taking place in many areas. Even I did not get taught in school about Breton Woods, the post WW2 period, Warsaw Pact, NATO, nuclear weapons testing, etc etc because public schools only want to get your feet wet and get you started on reading. Also things are whitewashed and censored for public school students. Also democracy is non-majoritarian in the US at least so young people are shown that voting does in fact not matter as much as who a big donor wants running for office.
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@@raydunn2582 In my country Netherlands we have liberation day were we invite foreign liberators mostly Canadians (now in their 90's) to thank them for their sacrifice and heroism. They still get their Ticker-tape parade each year! Plus we pay for all their expenses and shower them in medals. We will never ever forget. But perhaps you have to lose freedom for a few years to realize how precious it is. In that regard i understand why countries in the former warshaw pact now want to help Ukraine so much well compared to their economy that is.
I appreciate that the speaker acknowledges that criticism of the Brest agreement is both justified and 20-20 hindsight.
Yeah, fomenting a color revolution in a foreign country in collusion with Nazis to forcefully pull it into the Western orbit, eat its flesh, pop off Crimea from Russia, make sure the Black Sea becomes a "lake of NATO", eliminate the Russian population one and for all and transform a radicalized and up-armed country into a dagger against Russia was "not handled well". Got it!
@@GarrishChristopherRobin777 never trust a RuZZian
Ancient Wisdom
Chamberlain waving his bit of 'peace in our time' bog roll will attest to that...
@@davefloyd9443 You really have no clue, do you? Chamberlain knew it wasn't worth the paper it was written on. What he was doing was playing for time because he knew war was coming and the British military was in no fit state to fight it. He had implemented an extensive rearmament programme. The treaty with Germany gave us a bit more time to get ready for the war. If Chamberlain hadn't done what he had to do Britain would have entered the war earlier as it would have stgarted in 1938vand in a far worse state than the already poor state it was in 1939. He has been wrongly lambasted in history because he died in 1940 and became a convenient scapegoat as he wasn't around to defend himself.
Mi6 boss would be a great captain on the titanic 😅😅
It's May 20 2023 and Officially Bakhmut has completely fallen into Russian hands.
and that is great, yes
No way, it is just misintepretation of Zelenskiy words. Fortunately 🙂
@@psisteak4122Never trust a drug addict
I remember reading similar speculations from 1941 - "Why USSR will lose the war..."
Happy hundred years!
It's different now .Europ followed United States.
You think the USSR won WW2? lol yeah.....and i beat the school bully ....with the help of mike Tyson.
😅😅😅😅 True. Wishful thinking ..
You don't remember the before and after apparently 😂
Wait ... you all are asking the former MI6 boss for diplomatic advice ... isn't that a huge oxymoron?
The intelligence community has always been a part of the diplomatic corps, the fist behind the glove so to speak. An oxymoron is an idiot like Putin leading a country as large as Russia. But then Russia has a well trodden history of promoting fools into positions of authority.
Because of people like this one we have this war
Well said
Huh?
@@kennywong489
Some education for you.
ruclips.net/video/5It1zarINv0/видео.html
Think so too...
Be careful. Next thing you know the Russians will blow up Nord Stream.
too late, those low life war criminals done that and much much more since lol
@@rickmorgan1441 Which war criminals? The Russians or the Americans? Because the Americans has blown up the stream (or as they currently officially say, ukrainian radicals from a yacht :D ) And of course they also have their war crimes all over from Iraq to Afganistan (only to count countries from the previous 20 years).
@@rickmorgan1441 Oh dear, not been keeping up with current events much, have you? Or are you being a good little Epsilon and just going along with whatever the nice man on the BBC tells you?
lol - think that will be Ukrainians and blame the Russians..
Great, 50 cent for ur word
Good luck with that assessment.
Will? They already lost the war sundown of Day Four. Everything else is just bodycount.
shame for ricky d to have placed the wrong bet. peace is breaking out all over!
Well it looks like the bots have moved into the Times Radio video comment sections. Being off the bot farm radar was nice while it lasted boys.
Those bots are more impotent than a Kinzhal.
LOL I even recognize some of the bot "names"
You mean people who have a different opinion
The 16 year old bot account was new. Only 354 posts in 16 years... last three posts today... no Playlists... subscribed only to news stations like this as far as I could tell.
Those bots drew a mushroom cloud over Khmelnytskyi with a shovel.
Good interview
Alternate history: when US showed intention to invade Iraq in 2003, Putin decided to send help in form of missiles with tactical nukes to be used on US and UK troops once they cross the border. Every sovereign country has right to defend itself against aggression, or that rules applies only to NATO favored countries?
This didnt age well. Bradley and leopard square in east ukraine is proof
Sorry sir you’re analysis is wrong Russia has no where to go but to take Ukraine nato & America has pushed there military & economic power right on there door step so I respectfully disagree.
Sending dictators christmas cards? When the kremlin turd is finished off, there are 3 left to deal with. And they will under go the same.
Thanks so much for posting.
Training and provide the best of every weapon system NATO has.
People smarter and grater then you have made this claim and history prove them wrong . After 5 waves af Nato expantion I don't blame russians for not wanting to discuss matters with us .
Expecting the credible from MI 6😂😅😂😅
The leopards burned and the bradleys got blown up. The counteroffensive failed. The Western propaganda failed terribly.
You didn't mention how the invincible Challenger-2 burned during it's first time at the front, I love coming to watch this kind of propaganda videos😂
This was proven to be fake news by russian media's
Now 04/24 we See that nothing is true what this expert say. He is not only telling fantasy, he was also a bad choice for his contry.
Don't ever stop till it's done
Yes, go show Russia the mistake they've made. 🎉
The British "experts" doesn´t impress me with their predictions about this war.🤡
Clueless. Just show how deluded this western politicans are.
Your comedy shows keep getting better 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
British military intelligence is a contradiction in terms, as has been proved many times and as this fellow is setting out to prove again. Without NATO ukraine would have collapsed well over a year ago, and despite NATO help it will probably collapse by the end of the year. Poland is eagerly awaiting its chance to grab a chunk, just as it did with the collapsing Czechoslovakia in early 1939.
when someone can't accept the reality
B-but muh Ghost of Kiev
This didn't age well 🤡
We don't want No Perpetual War C' moooon!
From the same authors of "the russians have run out of missiles" and "they are fighting with shovels" now comes their new film "NATO weapons will defeat Russia in Ukraine"... another wonderful film from Pinewood Studios!! !
Oh yeah, faitytale nonsense.
they are using S300 missiles to attack ground targets and had to buy weapons from Iran and N Korea. so yeah things are going great over there... how pathetic though. they are getting their teeth kicked in by Western hand me downs and us literally telling Ukrainians not to attack. Imagine if we just gave them weapons and said you do you. Just pathetic waste of life for a weak people trying to prove sth to themselves. yes we are poor and odnt have toilets but we have bahkmut.
well done wagner
yes, they've captured a destroyed, lifeless city and lost countless thousands. Bravo 👏 👏 👏
It is a sad day when the former head of Mi6 can't get very simple basic facts right. Totally detached from reality which in other words means medically delusional.
😂😂😂😂 Britain dreams 😂😂😂😂
If NATO military alliance, lead by the US, which invented the WMD lies, encircles Russia and moves east every year for the last 20 years providing Poland with US missiles, and other such countries on Russian border with US soldiers and military equipment, one should understand why Russia would get irritated... US would have taken military actions much quicker should the Russians done the same in Central America and Mexico.
Yeah I get that, but Russia surely has to look in the mirror to realise why all their neighbouring countries apart from a few similarly autocratic nation's, are wanting to align with EU and NATO etc. It's exactly because Russia is an aggressor state and invading Ukraine has proven the point?
40 POWERS in NATO against one Country RUSSIA
Our former President should have seen the writing on the wall (Putin was testing the waters in 2014). Obama AND NATO should have sent troops to kick out "The little green men". Especially since Putin claimed they were not his troops and had nothing to do with it.
That's why he did those things. In case it went wrong. They should have seen through the bluff
People forget how corrupt Ukraine was at that point, as well as unready. I think if the west had sent aid it'd just show up at arms bazaars across central Asia rather than be used to fight Russia. Even if not corrupt you can't simply send a lot of guns to people who have no command structure, no training, no strategy, etc. etc.
Asking about china, and hes answer is about ukraine..? Am i missing something here..?😅
the same guys that said russians got only shovels... keep believeing the dream
your new conscripts said it themselves you fool. no equipment, old used uniforms helmets filled with straw. rusty guns or no gun yet. conscripts had to buy there own uniforms. stop watching RT and Tass lol
@@amacke4736 better speak with facts than with dreams. a private army took bakhmut many people die from both sides but still russia got millions of reserves. how many fighters you think ukraine has?
they kinda do
it's shame on the part of these 27 countries to fight unitedly at the back and call of USA. If you are so capable then fight alone or live peacefully with your neighbour.
I have never heard anyone state why Russia attackesd Ukraine ! Similar to , the US attacked Iraq and Afghanistan and others .They always had valid reatsons and excuses to do it.They made the whole world accept the facts and go for it.However in Russia's case it has it's reasons as well ,no one wants to hear them .
The reason being Ukraine wanted to join the EU and progress into a liberal modern nation.
... _> "I have never heard anyone state why Russia attackesd Ukraine"_
It was clearly stated in Putin''s speech at 24.02.2024. If the Western so-called "free" media did not report anything about this, then there is no point for me here for the 100th time to show a link to this video and quote what exactly was said. Because it won't change anything. Because the time for talking is over. And this is also one of the reasons why the war was started in Ukraine.
February 6, 2022
American mercenaries are behind the attack on Donetsk
American mercenaries are behind the attack on Donetsk.
American mercenaries who arrived in Donbas a few months ago are behind the attack on Donetsk the previous afternoon. This is evidenced by the fact that NATO-standard weapons were used during the shelling, moreover, at least two groups of American mercenaries were previously seen in the suburbs of Donetsk, which are under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
It is known that American mercenaries are taking part in the fighting in the Donbass. At the same time, given that the city was shelled the previous morning using NATO-standard weapons, it is more than likely that members of a private military company from the United States are also behind the attack.
According to official data, as a result of a two-hour shelling of Donetsk, there is significant destruction in the Kievsky district of the city. In particular, it is reported about the destruction of warehouses and garages. There is unofficial information about the victims, but this has not received any documentary evidence.
Experts note that if information about the attack by American mercenaries on Donetsk is confirmed, Russia may send military assistance to the self-proclaimed republics, since Kiev's current actions violate the terms of the Minsk agreements.
15 February 2022
The US is participating in the war on Donbass.
. Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the south of the DPR immediately after reconnaissance of an American aircraft . The units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the south of the DPR immediately after the reconnaissance of the American side.
The American military reconnaissance aircraft Boeing RC-135V was involved in the latest attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the south of the DPR. As it became known to the Avia.pro news agency, the night before, fire was opened on a number of settlements in the DPR, where militia forces were moving, from various types of weapons, mainly from 120-mm mortars.
. According to data obtained by the Avia.pro news agency, during reconnaissance by an American military aircraft along the line of contact, close attention was paid to militia targets located near the line of contact. Later, the southern part of the DPR was subjected to heavy shelling and, as it turned out, additional DPR units could indeed be deployed in the village of Kominternovo, although this information did not receive any comments from representatives of the self-proclaimed republic. . Experts note that the involvement of the American military aircraft in the attack is obvious, since the strikes were carried out only on certain areas of the line of contact and on settlements.
February 19, 2022
UKRAINIAN ARMY CONTINUES MASSIVE SHELLING OF DONETSK AND LUHANSK
~ The Ukrainian army continuously fires 120mm mortars at the settlements of Zaitseve and Dokuchaevsk in the Donetsk region.
Thousands of shells were fired during the day, mainly at civilian infrastructure and residential areas in the districts of Gorlovka and Lugansk, currently under massive artillery fire by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Dozens have been reported only in the last hour.
A few hours ago, the car of the head of the People’s Militia of the DPR Denis Sinyakov was blown up by Ukrainian saboteurs in the center of Donetsk
At midnight on February 19, a critical element of the Luhansk People’s Republic infrastructure - the node of the Druzhba (Дружба) gas pipeline - exploded. The strong blast shook the whole of Lugansk.
Another explosion in Lugansk thundered in the Kamennobrodsky district. A gas station was blown up there.
A couple of hours before, two transformer substations in the Donetsk Republic were damaged by shelling. The Ukrainian army is deliberately destroying the infrastructure of Donetsk and Lugansk, thereby implementing the idea of the President of Ukraine of Zelensky’s “indomitable” nationality, that all residents of these regions who disagree with Ukrainian Government in Kiev should flee to Russia.
The President of Ukraine, Zelensky: “I think that if you live today in the territory of Donbass, temporarily occupied, and you think that: “Our cause is right, we are Russians, we are going to Russia, it’s a big mistake to stay in Donbass…” For the future of their children and grandchildren… it is already necessary to go and look for a place in Russia. It is right. Because there will be no civilization on this territory without Ukraine. Ukraine will grow upwards, Donbass in the occupied form will not grow anywhere. There will be no happiness for these people.”
At the same time, when there are massive shelling and terrorist attacks in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, US President Biden during a press conference accused the DPR and the LPR of violating the ceasefire and said that there is no evidence that Ukraine is preparing an attack.
From 2018 The planning of WWIII.
“A bipartisan commission appointed by Congress issued a lengthy report Tuesday backing the Pentagon’s plans to prepare for a “great-power” war against Russia, China, or both, making clear that the Trump administration’s belligerent policies are shared by the Democratic Party. Safe in the knowledge that its findings will never be seriously reported by the mass media, the authors of this report do not mince words about what such a war will mean. A war between the United States and China, which according to the report might break out within four years, will be “horrendous” and “devastating.” The military will “face greater losses than at any time in decades.” Such a war could lead to “rapid nuclear escalation,” and American civilians will be attacked and likely killed.
It is impossible to understand anything in American politics without recognizing one fundamental reality: the events and scandals that dominate political discourse, which make it onto the evening news and into headlines on news sites and social media feeds, have precious little to do with the considerations of those who actually make decisions. The media talking heads play their assigned roles, knowing that the most important topics can be discussed only within very circumscribed limits.
Those who actually make policy-a select group of high-ranking members of Congress, Pentagon officials, and think-tank staffers, as well as White House aides-speak an entirely different language among themselves, and in publications they know the general public will not read, and the media will not seriously report.
These overgrown kids should be talking about how to end this DANGEOUS WAR not about who wins or losses.
I like Obama but he proved to be too soft as a world leader when it came to conflicts. He failed in Syria & he failed in Crimea. I was always mad about that and felt it weakened the US vs Russia.
With a congress actively against him, US forces already wrapped up in the ME and Afghanistan for a decade, not sure what was expected for Crimean action? Its not like western Europe was acting, indeed they were more concerned about their new cheap energy sources than Crimea. Remember, a year and two months ago, Western Europe was still figuring out if it even wanted to send aid to Ukraine. And its not like Ukrainian leadership was settled back in 2014. Despite that, US forces trained Ukrainian troops from 2015 until January 2022. Just what more was expected or could really be done?
@@opieg7333 , really, his own party was actively against him? Your memory is faulty. The democrats controlled the Senate when Russia annexed Crimea and Obama already told the Russians (thinking the mic was turned off) that he would have more flexibility after the 2012 elections.
Oi oi oi, you like more murdering....Of course, US-citizens are mad people. Did you come
down from Satan's world into this world out of bloodhunger?
No, that is exactly what american voters asked for, tired after years of bush wars. And yet here you are blaming him.
I didn't like Obama, but he was right about this.
Mirage 😮
For me, this is the first video which describes the progress of relations with Russia after the Cold War. But as of 2:33 it's not said what actually went wrong. What a shame.
Because it was us who kept the conflict going; trying to finish off Russia from the inside while pretending to be friends. To see how the West were thinking in strategic terms, look up the Wolfowitz Doctrine, for example. The Russians didn't like it and killed our agents. And eventually we got here.
Putin happened - he never wanted to talk;
@@RomaInvicta202 I can believe that.
Russia was Russia. that is what went wrong. we bailed them out paid for their troops to go home. rebuilt their oil infrastructure for what? Them to realize they were humbled without a shot and get ignorant about it. so now they send their sons to die because it makes them feel like a great power again. Only good thing is so many are gone now the internet trolls will have to take their place soon. how weak does a "great power" have to be to rely on misinformation as a security strategy? cant beat a third world next door neighbor? pathetic. yet as always Russia thinks their great when they are not and thus everyone hates them. whole story in a nutshell.
It needs no explanation as it was on show for all to see...
I love how "others" seem to think they can decide what Ukraine should do to end this war. Ukraine and Russia need to resolve this. Either militarily, or if possible diplomatically.
That said, "others" are welcome to suggest diplomatic solutions for consideration by Ukraine and Russia.
Yes others decide. These are the big powers. Over centuries, borders have been decided, countries broken up by these big powers. They will negotiate when it suites them.
That' s not quite right, Russia and Ukraine wanted to talk and find a solution, but Boris Johnson came along, and said no. Probably because Joe Biden told him so.
America runs their Ukrainian puppets.....they will attempt to negotiate when we say so.....but Joe "poopy pants" Biden miscalculated.....Putin doesn't need to negotiate at this point .....he will be on the Polish border soon.
I agree with you, but Zelensky was willing to sit down and work something out with the Russians in the spring of 2022, but was convinced to break off talks by Ukraine's western backers. Boris Johnson, then British PM flew out to Ukraine to personally assure him that he'd get all the military and financial support he'd need to carry on the war. Now a year later, we have a devastated land, tens (hundreds?) of thousands more dead and maimed, no end to the carnage in sight and zero chance of a negotiated settlement.
This is Britain and Biden agenda to fight to the last ukranian they don’t care about price at all
"Former MI6 boss explains why NATO weapons will defeat Russia in Ukraine | Richard Dearlove" Where does he explain that?
Exactly!!
The title of this clip is clickbait.
In a black box called Toilet....
You need a vivid imagination.
He explained that in between the lines in his imagination
Without the help of Europe Russia would win .Vladimir Poutin was out of his mind when he attacked Kiev.
It is not NATO weapons that will do the work... it is Ukrainians. The weapons are just tools... how they are used is the important part.
Weapons don't win wars, strategy and timing do. Russia has won in advance.
Good interview. How did the West ever get into the situation, where we are having to discuss the lunacy of an idiot like Trump getting back into office and the damage he could cause!
It's interesting though that the US did not engage in any new wars under Trump. That is not the case for at least the four previous presidents and not the current president.
It's incredible, isn't it? A sex pest and traitor. My god America.
Because at essence, humans have short memories and never learn the hard lessons until it's too late! He must never be allowed back into a position of authoritative power. Lest we all suffer the inevitable consequences.
trump is what can save the US. Self-propelled grandfather is killing America.
Trump getting into office was disastrous. Getting into office a second time would be catastrophic, and not just for Ukraine.
This is another reason why Europe as a whole needs to really ramp up their defence industries to a suitable level asap. Too much has been left up to chance for a good couple of decades now, and we've been rolling a one on the dice for some time.
We need to think about how to STOP the war, and not prolong the war.
Yep..negotiation is the only way
The emptiest talk about the issues discussed I have ever heard. Senseless speech. Tragicomic!
My prayers are this not to end like the Chechen war
I think we can be relatively sure that this is off the table. Or we could point to what Putin did to Syria. Again, not going to happen. The irony is that Russia united a broken Ukraine.
Prayers ? good luck with that .
Now Chechen capital it one of the weathies town's in Russia and just overall beatiful. If Ukraine will go through chechen treatment it's gonna be fire
@@retineyzer7906 Russia troll
@@ejtattersall156 Why do you think so? I'm just politicly active citizen.
NATO will win the war? Good luck with that. I'm Not a Russian. Just someone that knows handwriting on the wall when they see it.
Those idiots refuse to recognize the reality, that is very sad.
one small correction, Trump is the favorite to win the Republican primary by a wide margin but last poll i checked, he would lose in a general election to Biden
To Biden? Gotta be kidding!😂😂😂 Uncle 10% For The Big Guy that wouldn't even show up for a single primary debate???
I pray that this is true.
@@deborahhric7513 it's not true Karen
@@tonidimitrova6078 Uh Trump got crushed by Biden last time, and do you think Trump is more popular or less popular than after J6...? 😂Trump hasn't polled against Biden yet, only within his own party. How did those internal GOP polls work out for all the Trump candidates over the last 6 years, yup... the answer was it was a freaken disaster for them lol. Trump candidates crush other Reuplicans in primaries, over 90% of them lose general elections horribly 😂
@@hivetech4903 Trump got crushed by four years of slander and libel by the mainstream media, not by Biden.
Meanwhile in reality: Bakhmut is captured.
If anything that's come out of all this is the fact that at we now know that russian forces aren't all that was cracked up to be
@@MPresheva Maybe they can only fight weaker forces then?
Russia take 25% of your country what you talking about
@@ricardowilliams9201 Kherson and Kharkiv didnt happen then.? Look at the map and see what Russia has lost since.
@@ricardowilliams9201 In this day and age you think thats cool you sad muppet
@@ricardowilliams9201 > Russia take 25% of your country what you talking about
Given that Russia's has a comparatively huge population and military, the real shock is that Russia ONLY took 25%... despite over a year of fighting... losing half their tanks and using most of their artillery shells... having to import arms from DPRK and Iran!!!!!!!!!?!?!?!?!!! 😲and that Ukraine's already rolled back much of the gains??? Don't forget Ukraine had already halted and turned back the invasion before foreign aid started showing up...
From the same people who said Russia was running out of ammo a year ago.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Maybe not ammo but tanks and planes they are.
There are a lot of experts on the war now. The majority of them did not think Russia would escalate the war so lets take all these experts with a grain of salt. And let's not underestimate Russia. While 50+ countries take 6+ weeks to even decide who is going to manufacture artillery shells and how many are going to be delivered Russia has a huge military industry that is in wartime production that is making artillery grenades by the minute. So let's be realistic and understand that this will, unfortunately, be a long struggle if we do not step up and ramp up.
The majority of experts had thought the West would be smart enough to negotiate peace with Russia rather than impoverish their own people and place Europe at risk of yet another world war. This is not the case.
Overestimate would be more accurate. As for the katsaps being in "wartime production" thats a joke right? :D
The Argentinians are confused by this guys speech, “you guys still haven’t returned the Falklands back to us & your criticizing Putin for retaking what was there’s before, what did the falklands float away from Britain & drift thousands of miles away...what’s this double standards you speak?..”😂
Bakhmut has fallen
URAAAAA 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺
SLAVA RUSSIA 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺
I'd like to hear more from him about the "brief window" mentioned at 1:16, "particularly after Putin was elected" when there was some optimism about Russia's direction, and what he thinks went wrong after that... I seem to remember a period of assassinations
Putin was honest and a strong leader, not corrupt and in Washington's pocket like Yeltsin.
Uk poisons and kills just to blame Russia.
Conversations for uk means cohersion, blackmail, threats
The Anglo Saxons kept treating Russia as an enemy while conspiring against them and openly telling they want to dismantle Russia into small controllable countries while trying to set up bases right at their border wich was next in Ukraine. This happened.
@@derkernspalter Actually, the Free World never thinks about Russia except when it invades other countries.... otherwise it is an irrelevant backwater
@@derkernspalter The Russian empire broke up because countries which had been annexed by Russia wanted to regain their freedom and had nothing to do with "Anglo-Saxons" Turkey was barred from joining the EU and Ukraine was barred from joining NATO in order to appease Russia, but Russia has now moved the goalposts and as a result Scandinavian countries and Ukraine will join NATO and/or EU to protect themselves from the common enemy. Russia have scored a massive own goal and will pay the penalty of their misguided actions for years to come.
COMPROMISE, PEACE & NEGOTIATION
If Western countries agree that the borders of a sovereign country must be respected, why should Ukraine consider compromising and give up any of it's territories?
Russia guaranteed Ukraine's security in the Budapest Memorandum, then violated it without any basis.
Why do we expect that Russia will abide by any peace agreement reached thru negotiations?
Let's stop procrastinating and settle this matter militarily asap.
We have the military capacity to help Ukraine win but we must also have the will.
Additional measures are needed to ensure that Russia will not be a threat for the next 200 years 🥸.
So you want a nuclear escalation that will wipe out most people within a few years? That's what you would get and I doubt anybody would want to push it that far unless they were insane.
without any basis? lol
lets the west respect other borders of a sovereign country like iraq syria libya mali sudan and many more
that why the world is laughing at the west and theirs double standards
@@entrenched5555 On what grounds did Russia have to annex part of its neighbour?
just disregard the loss of life, that would mean a huge amount of money to the pocket.😂😂👍👍👍👌😂😂
Why does the interviewer keep referring to Putin as "Pjutin"? It's really annoying.
One of the lessons we should have learned from our failure in Vietnam and Afghanistan: Advanced weaponry does not guarantee a victory in war!
You can't compare those conflicts. It's a symetric war and you gain land by winning battles with better weapons. In Afghanistan we won within weeks and then faced an insurgency. The Ukrainians won't have to deal with that. As soon as they liberated a village they won't face combat there. And through superior weapons we could take Iraq and Afghanistan fast with very little losses.
@@RandomGuy9 But didn't we cut our losses and turn tail in both Iraq and Afghanistan? Your suggestion that we won't have to deal with Russia if we defeat them misses one detail, they have rather a lot of nuclear weapons. We in the UK have errr none, the only nuclear weapons we have can only be fired under US command, one wonders if the US could fire nuclear weapons from British platforms against our wishes?
@@gerardwhite6406 lol you can’t be serious?? America is thousands of miles away. Should we make Iraq a state and colonize it?
MI6 offering that daily dose of Copium _😂😂😂😂😂😂_
The only comment worth reading thus far 🙂
Their Zionist bosses write their talking points.
They don't refer to Britain as Perfidious Albion for no reason.
Oh Ricky , you are a great story teller , as any former 007 talking about the " day after " , just words, while people are dying senselessly !
Nobody win in a war .
@@alvinchua3518 A wuncha bankers wins every war...as do ye o£de war indU$tri€$.
Yep, NATO weapons, but also NATO weapons manned by brave Ukrainian fighters fighting for their homeland from an evil invader and his orcs.
Spot on
A former MI6 boss so a well known font of honesty then. Not like they are paid to deceive for a living
Russia seems to be doing ok considering they were supposed to run out of ammunition 12 months ago.
Well, western media likes to tell you the opposite of the truth.
if you call 100k wounded and an 80% drop in artillery fire "ok". ohhh and now they are getting border incursions by other Russian forces. Or maybe its Ukrainians. Either way the only thing keeping their cities from getting wrecked is the west's red lines. Opposing forces can just go for a weekend stroll near Belgorod. pathetic
My favorite thing about Vladimir Putin...
... is that he has managed to take Russia's military from being the second most powerful in the world *allllllll* the way to being the second most powerful in Ukraine.
Great comment lol
Are all of you CIA?
@@kevinjewitt6347 Nope. Just citizens of the free world.
Everyone forgets that 2 Eastern provinces of Ukraine broke away with no help from Russia.
Billy Bob? More like Baghdad Bob. LOL
@@IAmBeingSilenced Stick to facts if you can instead of name calling
@@denkeylee you have some nerve to mention "facts", Igor.
We both know Russia stole Crimea and the Donbass. Do you really want to play with facts?
@@IAmBeingSilenced Russia only took Crimea. Donetsk and Luhansk saw their oppurtunity at that time and claimed independence from Ukraine. Russia only claimed Crimea after the 2014 altercation. Both asked for annexation but Russia refused.
@@denkeylee cool story, broski.
You can and must trust everything MI6 tells you.
Europe is loosing this war, but nobody talks about it
yea because its much more fun to talk about how the Ruskis are losing this war as well - news flash no one wins in war except the weapon racketeers ;)
Re: "What does it mean if Bahkmut had fallen?":
It means that reduced access to reliable GPS has impaired Ukraine's coordinate detection and targeting. I believe.
It means that Ukraine actually got Russia to overconcentrate and to overinvest the area. Even now the flank attacks are pushing the Russians to over concentrate. Great battlefield shaping. Add to this that the Ukrainians only had about 3000 troops in the city at any one time as they rotate troops. The fact is if you let your opponent think they are getting somewhere they double down, which is exactly what happened. NOW Ukrainian troops on the heights with good views and great GPS targeting systems!
What are you talking about))). How it even corresponds, oh my god.
@@charlesrichardson8635 every single time when they try to rotate troops they were subdued to heavy bombardment their casualties are large they attempted to do that but it doesn't work trust me do ukrainians have suffered a lot. As for those Ukrainian defensive they've gone to a halt you need to keep updated, I wouldn't say anyting
@@onemanwithin Or maybe you are the victim of wishful thinking yourself. Your armchair generalship is second to none.
Bachmut is a fortress, strategically situated and well fortified, where each street, each line of residential buildings, those solid concrete Soviet high-rises, occupied by Ukraine troops, served as a defensive line. It exhausted and expended the Russians pretty badly, hard to imagine a greater challenge, but taking it also means winning the war, so the Russians had to commit, fighting from the most disadvantageous position and suffering terrible casualties, since it wasn't just an ordinary piece of land, it was about delivering a knockout blow, which, first and foremost, means grit, determination, it was a battle of wills, the Russians had to prove that they are not Ukrainians and do not fight the Western war- out for a walk in the park, a "splendid little," a cheap, quick and easy victory, like the Spanish, WWII, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.
If this guy was running MI6, then I have no respect for MI6. Can't imagine his analysis are worth a thought... these people have such a huge attitude problem they can't see wood for the trees..
Why doesn't anyone seem to understand the wider implication of a ukraine that is part of NATO?? Any border dispute can then escalate into WW3 under article 5 of NATO. A neutral Ukraine is absolutely essential for world peace. And that was all that Putin wanted to achieve before his SMO. But he was laughed at in the international arena,when in december 2021 he tried to to talk about a new European Security Framework. So NATO left him
no choice.
Russia leaned nothing in Afghanistan and Syria. The Ukraines are having to teach them all over again.
Ukraine are really showing them by having combined losses of over 500k so far 👍😂
So did the Americans and Brits
It's far worse this time for them far far worse. The other side has way more weapons this time. Hence in 14 years in Afghanistan they lost about 10k people, now they lost 200k in a year.
@@randar1969 russian combined losses excluding Wagner is about 80k ,Wagner have about 50k so far.ukraine we’ll over 500k so far.
Along with the Americans
Russian army is getting chewed up pretty good
One day people will recognize they're killing and fighting their own kind for war profiteers.
A burglar in your living room, he requests to negotiate over what furniture he is going to steal from you. And claims that the fact that you wanted to put a NATO lock on your door provoked him.
Yeb vas mr putin
can Russia put some nuke locks in Mexico or Cuba or this will provoke somone ?
He omitted Bush ignoring puttin invading Georgia. The love to point out Obama being soft and don't mind Bush encouraging putin
The West will be forced to concede defeat, just watch. Putin will recreate the USSR by 2026.
obama sponsored the Maidan coupe.Stay in your own f-ng country politics, America. Glory to Russia
Peeeuw-tin. I love it.
I remember Sadd-am Hew-seyn.
@@jasonalmendra3823 Don't forget Eyerak
Someone should call up this guy and tell him that Bakmhut has fallen and the Ukranians have not gained any ground but consistently lose more despite Nato weapons and money.
My earnest prayer are with the defenders
Russia is defending Ukraine and Russian speaking peoples
@@liveuser8527 Are you an allien??
You're so brainwashed
This prediction aged like milk left out in the heat of summer for days.
Ukranian morale is still sky high. And as long as this is the case the west is by moral alone forced to support them.
Not some sloppy support, but with the weight of the military production lines and there is still a enormous capacity in Europe. We can outproduce the Russian any day of the week.
It only needs the will to do it.
@@MPresheva Where did you get that its so original. What about the Russian military complex thats ok is it?
No it's not. Col. Douglas MacGregor explains in detail how weak Ukraine is. Russia will nuke the US and win. Nothing to do with morale.
This guy doesn't remember policy of his own country some 19 years before. Of course, that was different, Blair was all about moral in politics. And people believed him, because they haven't read Machiavelli's The Prince.
Lies
Russia isnt going to lose this war.The only war Ukraine comes out clean is it forces a stalemate but the prognosis dont seem to be good for Ukraine as Russia would most certainly would keep the lands it has won especially in the Donbas and South.The Russians might not be able to secure a decisive victory but it would achieve some sort of victory like the Winter War of 1939.This is the best Ukraine can hope for tbvh.
Orcs are defeated already. Russia as you know it? Ends. Fully isolated like north korea.
I wish Russia will soon win this war...
Russia has won.
Now we know how foolish is such a thinking....