Jon Sweet and Mark Toth - Washington Must Now Greenlight the Use of US-made Weapons to Strike Russia
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- Опубликовано: 25 май 2024
- Ukraine needs a game-changer. In fact, it needs two, argue Jon Sweet & Mark Toth in their latest article in The Hill. The first is Washington’s unequivocal greenlight to use US made weapons, and other western equipment, to strike Russian troops staging along its borders - especially those near the Kharkiv Oblast. Russia is using this US restriction as a way to plan and execute attacks against civilians and to launch new offensives. Secondly, Kyiv needs a no-fly zone, and fast.
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Jon Sweet is an accomplished intelligence professional who served for 30 years within the Defence and Intelligence sector as an U.S. Army Military Intelligence Officer. He is now a freelance author, contributor and columnist for The Hill, The Messenger, Washington Examiner, Kyiv Post and FOX News. He provides an experienced military perspective on current world events.
Mark Toth is a retired economist, historian and entrepreneur and has lived in US diplomatic and military communities around the world. Mark writes on issues of National Security and Foreign Policy and is a regular contributor to The Hill, BBC, Washington Examiner, Fox News, Kyiv Post and The Messenger.
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In WW2 the U.S. did not restrict Britain's use of weapons we provided to them and should NOT restrict Ukraine.
Different time and place.
Sadly we didn't restrict the Soviet Union either in WW2. 🤦🤦🤦
@catchaser52 Different times, but a good analogy.
@@catchaser52how exactly are the weapons different, they had dumb bombs in ww2, they had artillery and mortar shells, now Russia is using these weapon systems against civilians just like Nazis did. Explain how Russia is not acting exactly like Nazis
Can you NAZI the humor of your recollections?
Great interview! These men understand the Russian threat. Unfortunately, too many people in the West, including so-called leaders, don't.
it is very scary to me to see the lack of attention in the USA where i am paid to all these hot spots around the world!!
Cheers. Thank you for the kind words and for watching.
Best to you, Mark
Thanks for holding on and generating content faithfully with knowledgeable people.
You really are a source to insights beyond what a simple family man like myself would ever be able to avail myself of. Long live Ukraïna
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@@SiliconCurtainJonathan could you reach out to Ken Harbaugh from meidas touch network, he is an American, former military man who recently traveled to Ukraine, he is as articulate and passionate as you in defense of Ukraine and democracy.....thanks for all your tireless effort...
It never ceases to amaze that politicians are the last to get this message of really what is needed in Ukraine. Politicians are not leaders, but followers.
The difference between politicians and statemen.
Late 1930s were the same. Politicians like Chamberlain chose to ignore the obvious trends in Hitler’s behaviour. Then far too slowly increased military strength. Today, Biden is causing escalation by not allowing a fight-back. Chamberlain made the exact same mistake in 1937. The unintentional consequence was Hitler attacking Western Europe. He had no intention, but the whole lot was effectively gifted to him.
Politics today always follows the line of least resistance. Margaret Thatcher, UK’s only true leader post WW2, was removed because she really was too good. UK is governed by managers. Chamberlain, Wilson, Heath, Major, Blair, Sunak. They are all the same. Incapable of strategic thinking.
Bunch of managers instead of leaders who want to take as little risk as possible in an attempt to maintain the status quo as opposed to leading into the future. The mind-boggling thing is how self-defeating it is. I can't think of much that would be more beneficial to democracy around the world, or in the U.S., or to Biden's standing for the upcoming election than helping Ukraine defeat Russia. Yet they just keep letting the snowball get bigger and bigger as it barrels toward us.
They are merely slaves to their donors
I just do not see the point of restricting any use of any weapons that we provide to Ukraine to strike Russian territory. This is war, not a game of chess, and in my opinion there should be no restrictions whatsoever from any country providing them. We should all be asking ourselves how much we value our freedom and plan accordingly. Do you want freedom or do you want a government where freedom of speech is an outdated concept?
Agree wholehartedly with you!!!!!
Absolutely agree as well... let's get tough... no RU BY athletes in Paris; all pro sports leagues should invoke the war clause & send RU & BY players home immediately w/o pay... NATO members... no more travel visa's to RU BY passport holders... enough is enough.
@@georgek1234 absolutely right! At this point, with this 2.5 yrs openly-stated as genocidal-intended war of choice and with sadism so massive that up to half of an entire city of Kherson was tortured by the Ru federation thugs, it's time to bar travel by Ru officials and representatives. It's over.!
LISTEN TO THESE MEN. THEY ARE RIGHT. Ukraine must be allowed to WIN, and equipped to WIN.
Your delusional & what’s worst, uninformed.
These two guys are speaking truth to power. They have so much experience and wisdom. It’s time to take off the gloves and double down on Putin. Ukrainian lives matter!
Vicki back again! 😀🤗
I agree with these guys totally, it's time to act, grow some balls.
Appeasement has never worked.
That is not what speaking truth to power means.
Delighted to see Mark Toth! His judgement is always on point. Thank you from a Ukrainian.
Zorgius, Thank you for your kind words and for watching.
Slava Ukraini!
Best to you & your family, Mark
"A non decision is a decision not to do the right thing". Great quote.
Slava Ukraine, Ukraine will win.
Heroyam Slava
While Biden’s administration deserves the criticism for insufficiency, this convo fails to address the alternative: Trump’s position on Ukraine + NATO, which is far worse than insufficiency: utterly catastrophic.
@@Billy-rx8mn we don’t have to guess what Trump’s policy would be. He’s been telling us (and Putin allies like Viktor Orban) directly that he would abandon NATO and halt Ukraine aid: “would not give a dime to Ukraine, and therefore the war would end.” …and that’s on top of his effusive praise for Vladimir Putin and other authoritarian dictators like Kim Jong Un.
Why is is your guests are so much smarter, wiser, and think so much more strategically than the half wits in our administrative?? Terrific guests, good job putting this broadcast together.
Or indeed in the mainstream media!
Too many people only read the Russian version of history in school. The education system in general let us down, in my opinion. I had some fine teachers, but I don't know how true it is for others these days. I also think the collective wisdom of the world is shrinking.
Thank you so much Johnathan for your wonderful content ,understanding and support for Ukraine . With your great guest speakers you help fill the news gap that the main stream media should be providing but are so lacking. We will always support the brave people of Ukraine who are fighting for all our freedoms . Slavs Ukraine from the UK
I do hope this message is being directed not only to us, the viewers, but also the White House. I hope Sweet and Toth are putting their message to the White House as directly as they can.
Thanks Jonathan for such a guests. From Ukraine with love
Slava, Ukraine! Slava the Heroes of Ukraine!
Just donated to NAFO 💙💛💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
Thank you for your contribution to the Victory of Ukraine.!
Please continue your wonderful work!
Glory to Ukraine!
The last time America put down restrictions on not attacking over the border , was north Vietnam , see how that worked out ?
border mate border its not a difficult word to master and its attacking not attaching apart from that....perfect
The ukrainies MUST win,
Best interviews on RUclips
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The truth! x
Another very interesting and informative podcast. Thank you Jonathan for all you do on behalf of Ukraine.
NATO leader Stoltenberg just urged all allies to allow Ukraine to use weapons over the Russian border... so the US should follow suit.
Limited warfare is a slow defeat
Ukrainians have enough conventional weapons to win this war for example why are their bridges still standing on the Russian side next to Ukraine northern border those should have been taken out over a year ago and that is just one example American war doctrine since world war II "limited war" it has only cost American lives and a retreat from those territories all but one
You must pick a side and give that side whatever they need to be victorious
Exactly, and Putin have many supporters in US.
💛💙💜💙💛 here I am, listening uninterrupted 😊 thanks, Jonathan, and your excellent guests 👍
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Damn… This is the Best and the most honest discussion about current situation in the World. Thank you both 🙏
Thank you so much for this. As a brit I look on with bewilderment as to what happened to the conversation in the USA. What happened to the Maggies and Reaganites who did not lack for clarity or conviction.
They all drank the orange cool aide. Well, the ones that had any surviving credibility post 21 years of pointless policing the ME that left the country utterly unprepared for where it now finds itself.
The youngsters don’t want to inherit the fight! They think they can talk around it, they don’t have the understanding that talk and treaties and ceasefires are hot air with certain entities.
These youngsters are gonna be stuck with a HUNDRED YEAR WAR if russia is dealt with. Schoolyard bully with the largest landmass on the planet, it only has an economy smaller than Italy now.
But if the West pretends away Eastern Europe and hopes Ukraine will just disappear, they are making the greatest geopolitical mistake of the century. Putin declared WAR ON THE WEST.
By starting wars in as many Third World countries as possible, putin can keep the immigrants fleeing, desperate, hungry, violent, to Western Democratic borders. Risking their lives, and the lives of their children, these desperate refugees are weaponized to beg, borrow and coyote their way through every nook and cranny of any western immigration system to flee the violence of their home countries. All RUZZIA has to do is keep doing wars all over the planet, something it’s very, very good at. Russia even flies/buses the migrants by the thousands to western borders as an added incentive.
And the older idiots are scared
Thank you, Jonathan. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
Thanks for great interview. These two men speak the truth. We know, they know, all humanity who support Ukranian sovereignty know, Ukranians know. Is it possible that our "leaders" don't know?
I've read several comments saying they contribute to Fox News I don't know either one I wonder if they speak the truth on Fox News
Just thanking you, Jonathan, for access to very informed conversations with excellent guests.
With regards to Putin's aggression and the West's ambiguous and ineffective response so far, I am reminded of Churchill's words when presented with the rise of Nazism, "We learn nothing from history. The endless repitition of castastrophes continues until we become victims. . . When the situation was manageable it was neglected, and now that it is thoroughly out of hand we apply too late the remedies which then might have effected a cure. . . It falls into that long, dismal catalog of the fruitlessness of experience and the confirmed unteachability of mankind."
Incredible and prophetic.
Limitations are insane and an insult to Ukraine. Slava Ukraini.😍
Thank you for your ever fantastic videos. You always make me reflect over things I otherwise wouldn’t have thought about.
Excellent discussion and much needed topics we need to get Washington DC to move on fast.
Thank you.
It’s not just Leadership, it’s a split in the Generations of the USA leadership. The youngsters are not on board, we really over-passified them!
Not entirely true! They’re ready to take on cyber warfare on a scale Russia or China cannot match at scale since they’re full out now and we’re not.
They dont really know Russia or Putin yet, I think.
@@KirstinevadI sure didn’t know Russia or Russians. I couldn’t believe it when Russia invaded Ukraine. Why all the other Russian aggressions didn’t make a dent with me, idk. I really didn’t believe malevolence couldn’t be redirected or neutralized.
I think Vietnam and Iraq were huge opinion-changers, people started thinking that not fighting is the right thing to do. It was, in Iraq. But unfortunately, doesn't apply to Ukraine.
@@lsees5753 I dont think I really would have realised the invasion of Georgia if I had not been to a Katie Melua concert at the time here in Denmark. She said something about her country being at war. I remember the cold war. The youngsters havent experienced that. I knew about the pressure of journalists and opposition. It certainly made the it to Danish news. I still didnt believe Putin would invade Ukraine. It is big like France AND the plan to invade was exposed.
I remember my 16 year daughter saying, "It seems so oldfashioned to invade another country" and I agree with that. However Putin seems to be stuck in sovjet-times cold war with The West.
Keep up the great work you do 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Well done well done this was very important!
All the US has to say that they do not dictate to Ukraine how it will defend itself. That's not an encouragement by the US to attack Russia with US weapons; it's simply a recognition of Ukraine's sovereignty as a nation and its right to do what is necessary to defend itself.
Putin will say what Putin will say!
Excellent Host and excellent guests!
The F16s change the game . And why tell Russia how you plan to beat them. Stop asking for a public plan.
Thanks Guys This Was Amazing.The War for Truth is Real.
Silicon Curtain , great conversation 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦💪💪💪💪💙💙💛💛
Thanks!
Thank you!
*_THANKS, Derek!_*
After a 7 month wait for aid passage, how dare America make Ukraine sitting ducks! I'm an American and am furious!! I've been calling and writing my lawmakers. I will not vote for anyone who doesn't support Ukraine. Ukraine must be allowed to defend itself!
You are a must follow on RUclips.
The US, German and Italian leadership have forgotten what is needed to lead.
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..Thanks for the stream Silicon Curtain ..great as always… 💙💛💙
Refreshing to see a couple of patriots with no political agenda..just facts.💙💛
"The old global order ended on February 22nd, 2022."
There it is. Finally, somebody said it out loud. Finally.
Cheers Matt. Thank you for watching and commenting.
Best, Mark
Its not just Georgia, its Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia.
"Stategic ambiguity" is the opposite of this policy. Seems this ability to target inside Russia is gaining some momentum.
great content
A few years ago I was fortunate to spend some time in Ukraine, specifically at a university in Zaporizhzhia. The people were warm, friendly, and proud of their country. One friend from that visit ends her messages to me by saying, "miss you, kiss you"! Older people in Ukraine looked beaten down and I could feel the tragedy of what Ukraine had been through in the past and the dismal juxtaposition of being pressed on two or more sides by Russia. It breaks my heart to see the death and destruction that they are enduring. It makes me so anxious and sad to see how our congress and administration have been holding back support. I really appreciate the analysis and support offered by Jon Sweet and Mark Toth. My congressmen has been supportive of Ukraine but I am going to share this video with them. I will also send this to Biden. I write letters but I am just one measly person without any power except to write. Thank you for for your exceptional discussion and decisive stand on the critical issues we are facing. I pray we will have the heart and courage to attack this problem with the necessary power and force.
More people, bigger country....
BIGGER TARGER!
Ukraine needs a no-fly zone!!!
won't help - the russians are lobbing bombs from russian airspace!
Once again a great conversation. All European and U.S. politicians need to hear this. ❤
Thank you
Every parent knows that children test limits, not because they are bad, they just need to know where the boundaries lie.
If a parent fail to set boundaries the child gets confused and frustrated and start to behave bad. The parents here are EU and USA, and Russia is the child.
We need to let the Ukrainians fully and properly defend themselves. And drastically increase our own military and counterintelligence spending.
Unless, of course, we want to fight the enemy on our own streets.
I completely agree with Mark Toth. Jake Sullivan isn't managing escalation he is enabling it.
Interesting & reliable.
Great interview, loved listening to you all discussing what needs to be done. We really do need our governments to stand up to Russia and support Ukraine until this war is won.
I feel like we are all screaming into the void here. How can we all know this but entire military strategy rooms of the west and govts not “get it”? I think you guys are right its a lack of leadership. Asleep at the wheel during a storm
Good work, great talk!
Speaking of handling bullies, yes I guess we have very different times now, I recall in primary school I told my teacher I was being harassed by a bully, one year older and bigger than me. That teacher advised me that the next time it happened I should punch the guy in the stomach as hard as I can. I was not happy with that advice. But sure enough it came to pass and I did as advised. That bully and I got along very well in school for the next six years. That advice turned out to be good for me and good for the bully, who grew up to be an OK guy instead of escalating his bad behaviour. I guess that teacher would be fired if anyone found out what he advised today.
I am so looking forward to this. Thanks to you and all channels who throw their weight behind the pressing issue before us. It makes a difference.
Also, I don’t know if you have watched Jake Broe, a faithful advocate for Ukraine, who raised over a million dollars this month over a few days to buy specially outfitted trucks for Ukraine.
Thank you, Jonathan.
Look back through Jonathan's videos he interviewed Jake bro a few weeks back good interview check it out
@@gregwatkins2525 Wow, thanks! I must have missed the notification for that one!
The US shouldnt be restricting how Ukraine can use the weapons, and Ukraine is not going to negotiate.
“The floggings will continue until morale improves,”
Excellent interview
Another brilliant discussion.
We need James Bond, Doctor Who and Winston Churchill, not Jack Sallivan.
Thank you for your service, Jake Sullivan. Don't let the door slam on your a#se on the way out.
Captivating conversations with your guests again today..I’d like to note the realism of their knowledge and points of view. ❤
Cheers Mike. Thank you for watching and commenting.
Best, Mark
This man seems exactly spot on.
Brilliant analysis
Excellent discussion! Thank you, gentlemen!!
SHARE THIS FAR&WIDE!!
Always excellent guests Jonathan!
Thank you for another great content!
I could not agree more. Amazing conversation! Unfortunately, the current US administration is all about self- deterrence, insted of attack attack!!! ❤❤🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Don't you think Russia can supply weapons to the enemies of the US? Their patience isn't limitless
That was your best video yet
The us government needs to employ Hodges as an advisor and listen to what he is saying
That was a great informative interview
Great conversation!
#ArmUkraineNow #StandWithUkraine #AirDefenseForUkraine to #StopRussianImperialism !!! thank you!
Extremely thoughtful and informative!
yes. many truths were said here. the problem is that not many are ready to acknowledge them and act accordingly.
And now Italy has joined the US and Germany stating that Ukraine should not use western weapons inside russia.😡
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Why is USA granting Russia perception of equality in history, morals, rule, values, status?
plus faith and morals
Great debate
"We have nothing to fear but fear itself"
I'm here for the algorithm, I listened to this on Spotify. Great episode!
I've been following you for a while now. I have to say this episode and interview is at the top of my list of interesting and impactful interviews. You did a good job of leading the conversation and letting your guests speak their opinion. Jon and Mark made many remarks that spoke truth to the power in US/UK/West as well as western society in general. Good episode.
Yes
great interview, thank you gentlemen
Well said
DATELINE KYIV OBLAST
Good episode. A timely, informative, and thought-provoking conversation. Thank you, gentlemen.
V/r - IB
An American in Ukraine
(2019 - Present)
Excellent!
The message sent by the West in a large part has been as solid as warmed over butter.