Are Russia winning their war against Ukraine? | LBC analysis
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- NATO reveals that Russia has missiles stockpiled for the winter, warning that the Ukraine war could be coming to a stalemate. General Sir Richard Sheriff tells Andrew Marr that America, Great Britain and other super powers 'shouldn't give up' support for Ukraine as they're 'fighting on the behalf of NATO'.
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I remember when Zelensky was ready to Negotiate with Putin and avoid the war until Boris Johnson rushed over there and told him not to
As usual it’s only a matter of time before the west throws zelensky and Ukraine under the bus and moves on to another conflict somewhere else
There can be no peace on earth as long as there exists a United States of America !!!
And That's exactly what is happening in Ukraine
It's already happening.
Sorry the general was not that convincing. And we are not idiots if we remain sceptical thanks very much Andrew.
Sometimes the carefully crafted propaganda narrative slips into hyperbole and then we glimpse the man behind the curtain.
He's a general and a hawk ? What a surprise ! Not a thought for any potential for diplomacy or even a suggestion of a ceasefire.
No I don't. Do you remember when Vlad had that plan to invade Ukraine in the early 2000s and we just invited him in and kept buying cheap oil from him?
I don’t remember any time when Ukraine seemed to be winning. What I remember is western media giving the impression they were winning
Ukraine definitely seemed to be winning when they took Kharkiv and Kherson.
@@zfloyd1627These are just battles won in a WAR. A war is fought on all fronts. Just like WW1 and WW2 it was not only just indivisual battles that lead to the defeat of Germany.
Winning can mean many things. Ukraine definitively hit above their weight class a couple times. Russia is loosing equipment and men more rapidly. The human wave tactics may be what makes the Russian regime crumble from within and eventually save Europe from further conflict.
"Ukraine is fighting on behalf of NATO" 😊. I thought ukraine is fighting for their Freedom 😂😂😂😂
hahaha
They're fighting a terrorist state.
No contradiction there, you just haven't read about what happened to the parts of Ukraine occupied by the Russians.
Krembot Pidor.🏳🌈Only 3 comments in 1 year and no uploads. This is definitely a FSB sleeper account.
@@16252 The Krembot knows all about the 1,000,000 casualties. I bet it knows at least 1 of the 3330,000 LIQUIDATED Russian sons.
He says Putin doesn't care about losing a lot young men as if the west cares about Ukraine losing thier young and old men and women.The other thing he says Russia has lost 300k men,how many has Ukraine lost as well?
Are you saying Ukrainians should surrender themselves to the mercy of Russian rule? If not, what's your point?
@@Wintermute9366yes, they should. This is only option
@@Blink-kq9fk Yes Vladimir
@@Wintermute9366 Or loose more lands and people. What do think more worth. Loosing more and more people of ur land and lot of destruction. It is evident West can provide and Ukraine can't keep up the phase with Russia. So, leave the emotions aside and better start working on some exit critera. U like it or hate it this can't continue. Ukraine anyway not going to or has capacity to do so...Sad reality....
@@DerekYoung1Cope Harder Kissenger.
If Russia lost 300000 and still winning then how many soldiers did Ukraine lose after losing 20% of territories?
Like 100 soldiers according to Ukraine and western intelligence 😬
Russia at best lost 40k KIA and Ukraine over 500k KIA
The fate of Ukraine is not an existential problem for EU or NATO. These people are being ridiculous.
@@cjchris8317 lol thats because Russia doesnt count the bodies they're using as sandbags on the front lines
Russia losses 40 to 50,000 KIA
Ukraine over 500,000
This Richard Sheriff wants those numbers to go up with the same result.
Only Russia is trying to extend its influence
the US , UK, and the EU are just seeking peace and love 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@quepoxi😂😂😂
Had me on the first part
Don’t mention NATO moving further east. No issue here at all !
@@miguelramalho8792 Yeh its almost like they're scared of Russia attacking them - oh no wait
The NATO general is completely delusional.
WONDER IF THIS🤡WORKS FOR BAE OR LOCKHEED/MARTIN OR 😎
He is former general, so he can say anything and it won't make any difference most likely.
They all do. All these “generals” who have never seen a real war all work for the military industrial complex.
Not as delusional as the Russian bots on here
@@RobinHarris-nf4yv Botophobe
31 NATO countries cannot attack just 1 Russia
Yeah, we NATO countries tend to be anti nuclear war and possible Armageddon
Actually they can't even exist without Russia. Despite so called sanctions NATO countries are importing so many things from Russia. Even Russian gas via a pipeline running through Ukraine.
@@Panaputra So true. Ukraine one is damaged by Ukrainian Nazis. Through Kazakastan. And rest via India... Nato is a paper tiger with out tooth..
Basically Russia is a Gas station built inside a military production zone. U name it. They produce ammot to rockets to submarine to warships to shells with out external contracts. Other countries don't have that capacity except US.. Plus they have the best rocket engineering science (Even US is behind that.). It is proven they can attack US with Samaritan or Sartan missiles with in seconds. They have just produced the prototype middild with infinite projectile. West severely under estimated Russia.
Yeah, because NATO people only like to gang up on countries that barely have armies to speak of like a pack of wild dogs.
So, Ukraine is fighting Russia on the behalf of nato?! 🤔🤔🤔What a pity! 😢😢😢
this video has answers.
Some of us been saying this since earlier stage of the war but we called idiots because we are Africans
In a de facto sense
Nope but cute cope
@@mdumisenihlophe4001 No, you are being called idiots because you're parroting Russian propagandists against all evidence to the contrary.
This general is living in a dream world
So are 324,000 Russian mothers because they swapped their sons for fur coats and fridge freezers. Dreams do come true in Russia.
His dream of glory is our dystopian nightmare . Psychopaths seem to rise to the top more and more these days. Of course it's almost reliably predictable in the military.
Honestly, I don't know where we get our leaders from? They are all fools, and it is costing us dearly. NATO should have gone at the same time as the Warsaw Pact. This is all about American Hegemony, and once America staring defeat in the face, looses interest, that General and his cronies, will disappear back into the woodwork. They are pompous fools hanging onto America's coat tails. Sick and tired of them all. NATO, and that means America are the cause of the war in Ukraine, and it is they that will keep it going to the last Ukrainian. Russia is going nowhere, and yet our political leaders have destroyed all our European economies over it, for generations to come.
There is no cure of delusion.
Six months ago the UK media had Ukraine winning the war and the Russian armoury bereft of missiles.
How the story has changed.
Money mate, the kremlin has released a load of funding to buy supposed jounalists but they're actually content creators. Don't believe everything on the internet. russia is getting massacred!
Russian propaganda media tells every day that Russia win, but noone belive them
They have always thrive on propaganda.
@@JQ-999and yet the world media is owned and controlled by the same globalist that fund Ukraine
"Are Russia winning their war against Ukraine?" YES.
months...they still have not taken..yup-little advika????...hillarious....
@@darocazaranchi2659peace according to Putins demands. That's not peace. That's surrender
@@scottbarker9058are people still making this kind of comment even in the face of reality??
@@scottbarker9058Two decades and the most powerful military in call of duty couldn’t even take little Afghanistan. 😂😂
@@scottbarker9058 it's because they are using shovels against challengers,storn shadows,bradleys, leopards,javelins,abrams,atacms,cluster munitions...surely what do you expect of an army consisting of prison conscripts to do against such moden western kit..
No Ukraine is winning,, how can Russia win with shovels..
You forgot to mention they are poorly led, poorly fed, poorly equipped, poorly trained and lack morale..have no winter gear
@@timothykatende8484LOL. The narrative ran like clockwork
@timothykatende8484 You forgot that they're being trounced by the goast of kyiv , they miss their mothers and the "whole" world is against Russia and behind that not-a-nato proxy Ukraine.
@@timothykatende8484 exactly 🤣😅😆
@@timothykatende8484 against an army which had a dozen game changers
Since when is China giving military help to Russia? He stated this as a fact, yet I haven't heard any Nato official make this claim before. China is officially neutral in this war. Sure, it is selling bunch of civilian drones, but to both sides and indirectly, since China imposed restrictions on exports of long-range civilian drones to Russia and Ukraine. I don't get why is it necesarry to lie about things like that.
Plate carriers.
He’s a half decent warmonger
China isn't helping Russia except in terms of political support. He's lying because China is the bext bogeyman they want to talk up.
The war wouldn't be happening without China's OK.
It’s called propaganda, ie lies!
Surely everyone except NATO could see this outcome, all the lives & money for what ? American foreign policy
Better than Putin having control of all that land and 40 million people to conscript
@@SlowhandGregyou mean old mad dog Putin who is actually a body double and also dying?
That is precisely what NATO wanted.
@@mykie5682 Almost. The US wanted to put Nukes in Ukraine. That won't happen now.
All for bolstering the military industrial complex to enrich shareholders and their politician minions
Just like with Vietnam they are talking about the domino effect that didnt happen. Russia wont attack other nations when they defeat Ukraine.
This former Nato leader summed up why Nato has failed at propaganda. 1) Trying to convince that if Russia defeat in Ukraine , it will move to attack another Nato country😂 .... 2) Realizing only now that Russia is ready and keen on a long 'war of attrition' ... No wonder Nato hasn't won any war recently .
Well no2 make no1 pretty plausible and those who know and understand Putin and Russia know exactly how plausible it is
The ol Ukraine needs to be in NATO to be safe, yet if Russia feels it won in Ukraine it’ll attack NATO. Classic incoherence from the aging general. Poor soul.
@@DerekYoung1 Lol . Read the other commenter opinion above on No 1. For No 2, well , my point was if that a realization you have only NOW that a long war of attrition was in the works , then you (Nato) can't read the room easily , which means it shouldn't get into wars to beging with
One thing is not clear: you can give weapons and all the equipment for war to Ukraine, but who will fight? there are no soldiers left capable of fighting
@xena6894 lol the mistake you make is not understanding that Putin thinks your liberal values are a weakness and something to be taken advantage of. This is something the baltic states understand and hence why they're pumping 50% of there GDP into this war. Its not for fun they understand the situation better than you do.
Russia is doing the same in Avdiivka they did in Bakhmut. They surround and inflict huge casualties and Ukraine keeps reinforcing so Russia continues to inflict casualties its the same tactic they continue to use and Ukraine keeps falling for it
I think they call that "defending". I know it comes as a shock, but fighting is usually a byproduct of war.
@@mythologue why continue to lose large amounts of men and supplies while being surrounded on 3 sides? If an army wouldn't withdraw to a position that they can defend they shouldn't be allowed to endlessly throw men and supplies away
@@robertmarks2379 They've pushed over the Dnipro which was a critical move and possibly a turning point for the war. They're approaching territory that Russia invaded almost ten years ago. Most critically, they've racked up more than 300,000 Russian casualties. That's a huge deal. Why would they withdraw now?
@@mythologue they're surely defending it well while losing hundreds of men without that much air support too. Russian airforce keeps pounding Adviika. This is literally the same situation as Bahkmut, they're gonna say its the most important area in Ukraine then after losing it they will say its the most useless area in Ukraine
As if Russia hadn't lost huge quantities of men and vehicles in Avdiivka.
I thought Ukraine was winning!😮
I was told Russians had no missiles, no uniforms, low morale and were fighting with shovels and washing machines. What happened 😮😢??
Can you imagine if you could buy those shovels.
Propaganda
some of these bot are quite funny indeed. They
LOL. Are you interesred in buying a large bridge over Auckland that I own?
You believed the MSM? Now that’s funny😂😂😂
They can't give because they don't have it to give. Western production of shells and systems is shockingly poor whilst that of Russia is impressive. The dig about north Korea, Iran and China supplying munitions to Russia is mainly Western hype and sour grapes.
Increasing reports of surrendering and fleeing Ukrainian troops is symbolic of the outcome of this war and the west is in panic mode. You see from the failure to implement the Minsk accords to the scuppering of the Istanbul agreement, the west has rejected peace. Now after all the death, destruction and indeed de-industrialisation of Europe these same actors are ramping up the pressure on Ukraine to negotiate. How perverse is that.
Very well said 👍
If a headline like this appears on LBC, then things must be far worse for the Ukrainians and the morally bankrupt West is directly responsible for hundreds of thousands of peoples death in Ukraine.
You have nailed it
Couldn't have said it any better. A little research and commonsense is all it takes to get to the truth, the idiots think we are all brain dead.
@@chidimarvels The oscar of the most insane title is still held by the BBC : Russians are fighting with shovels...
😮 Nato is really a papper tiger, not ready to fight a real war.
"If you run a business"
To run a business you need staff, Russia has staff on the ground manning artillery and more staff producing shells. Ukraine is losing staff every minute and has a huge shortage of personnel who are supposed to man any arms that NATO sends.
Biden and Boris are using Ukraine to launder money and steal Russian asserts, just like America did in Libya and Iraq, Libya gold bullion stolen when America invaded has the general forgotten
America and NATO will make sure Russia never wins in Ukraine. FACT..
Took them this long to tell us we don't have enough shells.
Why did they plan a spring offensive if they did not have enough armemants. It's a lot of bull from some very dodgy people at the top
They hyped it up in order to drum up support from a war-weary public. The so-called "spring offensive" wasn't going to get them anywhere and they knew it from the beginning! If they actually believed the Offensive could have pushed the Russians out of the Donetsk, and instead they advanced 10 km across the broad front ....this disparity between plans and reality would have gotten the entire military intelligence community of the West to be sacked !!!
What is happening in Ukraine is on scope and scale which NAT0 was not even able to imagine and has no answer to it. NAT0 has almost no ammo left, no artillerry , no tanks, no missilles to stand up Russia. Imagine, U. K. , or some people in U.K. want to fight Russia directly while only having 40(!) Chalanger tanks in working order :) Ridicul*us NAT0 is a paper tiger. NAT0 spent 2O years learning how to fight Afghan wedding parties and Iraqi villagers, because that is pretty much what NAT0 was doing. NAT0 forgot how to do a large scale ground combat. NAT0 even has no means to do large scale combat. China is there for Russia, Russia is there for China.... Who is there for USA? United Kingdom with their 40(!) Chalenger tanks in working order ??? Or Germany? Germany is not only 100% out of ammo, but on the top of that Germany was even bombed by USA!!!!(Nord Stream) Ridicul*us NAT0, unfortunately still able to make mess around the globe !!! Recently we could see the "quality" of USA´s weapons in counterofensive in Ukraine. The only things which are remarkable about those guns are the PRICE and the SPEED in which these are being wiped out... USA only has the most expensive military in the world, while Russia has the strongest army in the world and the most experienced army in the world..
Russian bot; 'exact' same comment posted on this channel multiple times
Yip utter nonsense.
@@Boghopper9999none so blind as those who do not wish to see .... enjoy your delusion
@joyholtzhausen8976 not delusion simple fact checking you should try it
This is all very amusing, Totally untrue, but funny nonetheless. 😂😂😂
They did not mention the 40 and 50 year old current soldiers of Ukraine😄😄😄.....the young ones have now passed.....and Russia won't disgrace thier dead soldiers with a peace treaty
Day 649 of Putins 10 day SMO
No, they'll just disgrace their living soldiers with a war they're not going to win.
Russia is losing
@@RobinHarris-nf4yv Did the BBC inform you?
Just admits that you can't win war against Russia
What is happening in Ukraine is on scope and scale which NAT0 was not even able to imagine and has no answer to it. NAT0 has almost no ammo left, no artillerry , no tanks, no missilles to stand up Russia. Imagine, U. K. , or some people in U.K. want to fight Russia directly while only having 40(!) Chalanger tanks in working order :) Ridicul*us NAT0 is a paper tiger. NAT0 spent 2O years learning how to fight Afghan wedding parties and Iraqi villagers, because that is pretty much what NAT0 was doing. NAT0 forgot how to do a large scale ground combat. NAT0 even has no means to do large scale combat. China is there for Russia, Russia is there for China.... Who is there for USA? United Kingdom with their 40(!) Chalenger tanks in working order ??? Or Germany? Germany is not only 100% out of ammo, but on the top of that Germany was even bombed by USA!!!!(Nord Stream) Ridicul*us NAT0, unfortunately still able to make mess around the globe !!! Recently we could see the "quality" of USA´s weapons in counterofensive in Ukraine. The only things which are remarkable about those guns are the PRICE and the SPEED in which these are being wiped out... USA only has the most expensive military in the world, while Russia has the strongest army in the world and the most experienced army in the world..
Vladimir Putin appears to be winning against Russians.
@@davidwright5094and klaus seems to be winning against Europe.
No thanks Ivan Pidor.🏳🌈 324,000 Russian mothers have exchanged their sons for fur coats and fridge freezers. Russia cannot even take the Donbas.
Get back to me a year from now.
Ukraine was never winning..
Russia cannot even take the Donbas. Putin vagrant army has lost 324,000 men LIQUIDATED.
All that Putin needs, what he dreams of, he openly expressed in his famous Munich speech on February 10, 2007, in which he declared that Russia would be a free sovereign country, an honest friend to its neighbors and partners overseas. But at the same time in Munich this was perceived as a rebellion against the “Washington world order.” In that world order, there were only three types of countries: the United States itself, the vassals of the United States, and the countries bombed by the United States in the Stone Age. After this speech, Putin was labeled a crazy despot, as he is still considered in the West. And he only honestly and systematically defends the postulates that he stated then.
Another guy made a speech in Munich. No difference.
“An honest friend to its neighbours “. ???? You been on Jupiter since Feb ‘22 ?
@@lfarrell6375 What's wrong? Everything that happens is natural. Everyone gets what they deserve. In the late nineties, NATO began to expand eastward, and naturally this caused concern among the Russian military-political elite. I think this is one of the reasons why the military-power bloc promoted Putin into President Yeltsin’s entourage and subsequently brought him to power. Before this, Russia was ruled by oligarchs. At the very beginning of the 2000s, Putin voiced the concerns of the Russian elites regarding the expansion of NATO and proposed the simplest solution to the problem through Russia’s accession to NATO. This would immediately relieve tensions in relations, calm Russia’s military elites, and NATO would have the country at its disposal with the most powerful nuclear arsenal and gain maximum “transparency” of Russian domestic and foreign policy. After President Putin, President Medvedev asked to join NATO; at that time he professed radical liberal values and was as loyal to the West as possible. But his request was also refused. After such a refusal, it became obvious that NATO expansion was directly anti-Russian. Putin’s Munich speech was precisely a reaction to the refusal to accept Russia into NATO. After Putin’s Munich “revolt,” NATO began to actively look for new members and started with Ukraine and Georgia. Everyone understood perfectly well that joining a military Alliance hostile to Russia was a clearly unfriendly gesture, but no one took Russia seriously at that time, especially in military terms; everyone was confident that everything would happen as the Great USA wanted. Therefore, both Ukraine and Georgia were going to join NATO not for their own protection, but in order to be on the team of those who would tear Russia apart and get rich by gnawing on its bones. The political elites of Poland, Ukraine and the Baltic countries in those years openly spoke out on this matter, all you need to do is just search, the Internet remembers everything. After the Georgian army was defeated in a few days during the “Olympic War” on 08/08/08, plans for Ukraine and Georgia to join NATO were put on pause. They decided to overthrow Russia due to the Orange revolutions within it and in the states adjacent to it. Since 2008, hundreds of hostile steps have been taken against Russia, and Russia has accumulated a very large “list of grievances” that require revenge. Therefore, do not be surprised at the schadenfreude of Russians observing the collapse of the European economy, especially their sworn “friends” in Britain and Germany, the socio-economic devastation in the Baltic countries, the crisis of the military-political impotence of the United States. In its immense arrogance, the US has tried to bite off more than it can chew. If Russia were now in NATO, the world would look completely different, the problem of China would simply not exist for the United States. At the current stage, with its independent existence, Russia ensures China's nuclear security. As in many Westerns, a duel between three cowboys ends with the first two to draw their weapons becoming victims not only of each other, but also of the third who shoots last, a mutual nuclear war between the United States and China will leave both defenseless against a possible finishing blow from Russia. At least the United States, if it were in Russia's place, would do this. Therefore, without destroying Russia as an independent player, they will never start a nuclear war with China, even having a colossal superiority over it in nuclear weapons. The problem for Ukraine is that it believed Western promises that the entire Western world was ready to fight for Ukraine, together with it. And when it came down to it, as usual, there were no takers.
34 nato vs 1 russia and still cant win
The Collective West are victims of their own narcissistic propaganda.
Russia is not easy bro😅
Judging by the majority of the comments here, a lot of non ficticious persons have not been convinced by the brave general’s arguments
What is happening in Ukraine is on scope and scale which NAT0 was not even able to imagine and has no answer to it. NAT0 has almost no ammo left, no artillerry , no tanks, no missilles to stand up Russia. Imagine, U. K. , or some people in U.K. want to fight Russia directly while only having 40(!) Chalanger tanks in working order :) Ridicul*us NAT0 is a paper tiger. NAT0 spent 2O years learning how to fight Afghan wedding parties and Iraqi villagers, because that is pretty much what NAT0 was doing. NAT0 forgot how to do a large scale ground combat. NAT0 even has no means to do large scale combat. China is there for Russia, Russia is there for China.... Who is there for USA? United Kingdom with their 40(!) Chalenger tanks in working order ??? Or Germany? Germany is not only 100% out of ammo, but on the top of that Germany was even bombed by USA!!!!(Nord Stream) Ridicul*us NAT0, unfortunately still able to make mess around the globe !!! Recently we could see the "quality" of USA´s weapons in counterofensive in Ukraine. The only things which are remarkable about those guns are the PRICE and the SPEED in which these are being wiped out... USA only has the most expensive military in the world, while Russia has the strongest army in the world and the most experienced army in the world..
The General definitely has to work on his fiction if he is going to have any hope of continuing to fool people.
He made an extraordinary claim - that Russia is gonna start WWIII by attacking - without evidence. There’s no connection between attacking a non-NATO state and attacking NATO. One would probably attack Estonia first, not Ukraine, if Russia wanted to start WWIII as to not waste resources on a non-nato state
@@1stLtDavis Evidence? - jeez he's only been talking about it for the past 20 years
@@mirekslechta7161,says the Orc bot,😂😂😂😂,hilarious!!
British soldiers may well be fighting and dying but the bigger issue is who do you think will go and fight when our soldiers are massively reduced in numbers? I can confidently say that conscription will fail Thousands of people will refuse to fight as it's not their problem. as they have had enough of the corruption and warmongering being dished out by the likes of NATO and the EU. So I hope you've got YOUR uniform ready to get on the front line and fight.
Dunno why anyone would even bother joining the British army these days, we dont even defend our own borders and culture from an unarmed invasion.
drones and AI guided robots will go fighting, the wars of men are on the verge of being over. Machines can beat armies of Russian soldiers, they can beat any men.
Loooooooool
Thought you all said russia is running out of missiles?
The fog has cleard
Your narrative has failed
Are you expected on the front line?
@@sharkasattack7794nah, he's learning chinese ready for his new overlords to take over administration of his country once their economy collapses.
(Nat gas was generating bulk of gdp. China just declined a new pipeline leaving Nat gas exports at about -85%. Only other option would be to invest in LNG which would be ready to go in about a decade, except they don't have the required technical capability. I'm impressed that they've avoided running money printer 24/7 so far, but it's coming in the next year or so.)
@@thedeadmoneyallstars @sharkasattack7794
Do you not remember the Western media telling us how Russia had run out of weapons, and soldiers? I remember reading about it in all the Reuters-controlled media.
Like even if you have some sort of deep-seated Russian-based xenophobia, you surely remember the media? The odd attempts to derail the conversation make it seem very petty.
They were a few months ago. But like was said Russia has started to produce large enough quantities now to almost replace what is being expended. The real issue for Russia was artillery shells but they have been getting them from North Korea.
Russian shovels saved the day
I am not convinced, and I must be an absolute idiot. So must John Mearscheimer. George Kennan, Noam Chomsky and Jeffrey Sachs. The costs of continuing to escalate this confict could be far more tragic than the interviewee even begins to let on, and potentially not just for the Russians and Ukrainians.
More important questions need to be asked about what is the neo-conservative and military establishment's agenda in Ukraine and in other conflicts it has created or escalated.
First three sentences all correct.
Fourth would need definitions for neo-conservative and military establishment as it sounds like you're using the terms incorrectly, and also presumes to take unevidenced presuppositions as factual. If that were the case, the military industrial complex would be generating windfall profits - which is not the case, share prices have actually flatlined in the sector since 2022 where they were growing in the years leading up to it.
Data is your friend. It's ok to not have definitive answers. Outsourcing your critical thinking to tiktok leads to you looking silly in youtube comments.
@@thedeadmoneyallstars "If that were the case"? If what was the case?
If "more important questions need to be asked about what the neo-conservative and military establishment's agenda in Ukraine [is]", then they would be generating windfall profits?
Who looks silly in CZcams comments?
@@OhAwehave you finished incorrecting my grammar?
@@thedeadmoneyallstars "incorrecting"? Are you trolling? I kind of hope you are lol.
@@OhAwewell, you don't understand grammar, but then tried to misquote what I said to make a point about your incorrect understanding of how the phrase "if that is the case" works.
So whilst I might be trolling sophists, in this instance I'm mostly pointing out you got your GCSE in Eng Lang from Wish.
This guy is talking nonsence! for the truth listen to Alexander Mercouris,. John Mearsheimer, and Jeffery Sachs
Alexander Merciouse a far right troll, paid by Putler
@@andraskleistenes8586whoever says anything misaligned with official propaganda is automatically troll paid by Putin?
What the Putin apologists? These guys dont have a clue about Putin or Russian culture. They would bend over and throw in the baltics as well
@@P00009everyone who disagrees are bots to these people. They cannot cope when there little bubble is threatened. You can’t help these people tbh, cognitive dissonance is a terrible affliction
This general is just too old to know they modern warfare! He's just talking nonsense, 😂😂😂😂😂
Call off the campaign to expand NATO eastward alone Russia’s borders, and so restore the balance of power between NATO and Russian. This balance of power has served to keep the peace between Russia and the West for over seventy years.
The number one thing is to be more balanced on Israel / Palestine. Every day the general public and a number of allies become disillusioned with the double standards and these are emboldening alliances around Russia and China. And will erode the public's support for ongoing expenditure.
How do you be balanced toward Hamas terrorists?
@@tayler2396 how is killing kids going to get rid of Hamas?
@@DerekYoung1 Shorter answer: How can Israelis get rid of Hamas without unintentionally killing kids if Hamas hides under kids?
@@tayler2396Seriously need to wake up. Didnt start October 7th. started 1948 Israel invaded Palestine murdering 700.000.
Cynical but true
Frightening that america can only come up with people like trump to be president . Utter madness that a country so powerfull cannot find better candidates
Not that surprising labour will be better for the uk but as we’ve seen it’s just Tory lite
You not happy with sleepy Joe dribbling all over the place?
At least the Brits have wanna-be-white Sunak and Braverman.
Buddy, the countries with the most intelligent leaders will win out in the end --
this is the age of Russia and China.
You mean Biden? Trump is fine.
Better candidates like Biden, Bill or George?? War criminals?
It mysteries me as well!
Not only does Russia have greater manpower and weapons, its also conquered vast territory. Ukraine is fast running out of. All of the above and is now desperately trying to recruit civilians and train them in record time to reinforce a heavily depleted army. We’re only told about Russian losses, but its actually doing a lot better than we’re being told. Could be time for Zelensky to look for a way out or he could find himself being ousted or worse.
It has conquered/destroyed most of Ukraine's industrial base. Without NATO deliveries it would be over in a month. Russia has losses but Ukraine has far greater losses. The average age in the Ukraine army is 43, the average age. And dead female Ukrainian soldiers have been starting to show up in the trenches. The government in Kyiv used to govern around 40 million people 3 years ago, now it's less than 20 million. This general is a fool blind to the truth or he actually does want a direct NATO-Russia war.
Ah. So russia is fighting ukraine , not nato. You finally noticed.
@@stephenhill545 Russia is fighting NATO's proxy Ukraine which has been trained and funded by NATO since 2014.
Day 670 of the 3 day special operation.
Do you know what’s funny? That they think we believe anything they say 😂
Sadly some evidently do
North Korea, China and Iran 😂 and there is Ukraine with NATO more than 28 countries including other U.S. allies, it seems to me that Russia is quite a huge military power 😂
Well, a large military power less 300,000.
@@mythologue You can make 3 million, but why? No country in the world can afford to maintain an army of 3 million.
@@mythologue Wars don't happen that often.
Russia has right to defend itself.
From who? Russia seems very scared of nato even tho they like to boast about their strength 😂
Did anyone invade Russia? Who would invade a country with nukes? What for? Russia did invade Ukraine because Putin wants to annex Ukraine and bring russian empire back. All the rest is bs excuse for Putin's greed. Nato never invaded Russia. Russia did invade most of its neighbours multiply times.
Russia has been very patient in doing so. None of the countries attacking Russia would have been quite so patient. The amount of lying from western leaders and media has been phenomenal.
@@ivanexell-uz4mv NATO has been nothing but aggressive towards Russia. When Crimea was annexed in 2014 work on a massive US naval base had already started there. Outside NATO itself very few are fooled by NATO calling itself a defensive alliance. We in the West are crying about how China's Road and Belt imitative isn't what it claims to be. Well that goes for NATO too. What Russia does is the same as the US Monroe Doctrine just a lot more modest.
@@Cl0ckcl0ckcouldn't agree more. NATO provoked this war and will expose it's weakness when Russia eventually wins.
Russian bots firing on all cylinders in here today
Ironic that there are western bots on every news feed covering this conflict that say the exact same thing isnt it?
No, just individuals that have sense and knowing
Average age of Ukrainian soldier is 43 years old.
Maybe the older generation are taking the brunt on purpose 🤷♂️. If they are….. they are hero’s.
They are sending women now
And yet nobody talks about their casualties. iron men?
and spending more time preventing men from running away than actually fighting.
@@quepoxi you have not seen how women fight, they are the soldiers you want to have on on your side.
Thanks to China and India who stood by trade relations with Russia
China and India just don’t give the f about Ukraine like you don’t give a f about Palestinians.
I wish to know this guy’s involvement in Arms Dealing!
I think we can guess.
Like all these pundits ex army.
Non execs no doubt in a defence contractor.
It's extremely likely.
Russia was underestimated when they were warning about nato expansion, now deal with the consequences!
This guy is living in a dream world.
Pure LaLa Nato land.
Its funny how he thinks the UK even has a border when we cant even stop unarmed boats from getting here.
You forgot the "☝️☝️"
@@sonofsomerset1695is a country a country without borders??? Look at America 22 million have crossed into it
This guy is saying a lot but why is he not on the front line fighting? as he seems so concerned?
The crazy thing of feeding the insatiable millitary industrial complex
Stop Propaganda pls; Let the viewers know that Russia is winning.
Pathetic conclusion from Marr at the end, you'd have to be an idiot to take the generals argument seriously 😂 just take the loss like we did in Afghanistan, Syria etc
Are you talking about America? The American military is undefeated! You want them to stay in Afghanistan forever? They established their control over the poppy fields and set up the routes of trade.
That because we didn't take it seriously enough. Marr's statement is correct
The general is correct
It is you that is delusional
We tried to go into.Afghanistan and failed. Putin is the one that went into Ukraine and he is failing...none of his objectives have been achieved and at least 300,000 of his forces dead.
Russia won and achieved their objectives a few months after the beginning of this war.
Peace could have been achieved at anytime. All that is required is to accept that Ukraine will not be part of NATO and the Russian speaking parts of Ukraine will be autonomous, independent or part of Russia; whatever their people decide.
NATO will keep draining Russia of resources, thats what this war is about
One cannot be forced into autonomy against ones own will. The idea is not even meaningful.
You seem to be conveniently ignoring all the parts of Ukraine that Russia has tried to annex which are not and have never been predominantly Russian speaking. Also, Russian speaking populace being a criteria to determine who should run the country is complete nonsense. Should England run The Republic of Ireland just because the Irish people predominantly speak English?
@@Boghopper9999Well, England still occupies part of Ireland....
@@user-ee7bz3ip2bhow’s that working out? All nato achieved was to make BRICS 60% of the worlds population. And make China and Russia allies. Russia isn’t even using there own weapons. Only old Soviet stocks. Nato is being deindustrialised. They can no longer produce anything they lose in a war. The factory’s and skilled workers are gone. There plans failed Russia didn’t collapse
Now it is understood why Britain left the European Union.
""we need to turn to a war time economy"....is this an admission finally that we are at war...lol!
Yes, and in the same interview they made it clear that NATO is fighting a proxy war in Ukraine.
@@drutterAnd the USA is directing NATO
utter claptrap
The real question is why can't the UK,and US do more for their own citizens and stop causing trouble around the world?
The tone is changing, and this is not just an admission that UKraine is losing and Russia is winning the war, but the war is almost over. They dumped Ukraine after realising that Russia is undefeatable and that this war is eating their stockpiles.😂😂
"undefeatable" - LOL. Its not a lack of ability its a lack of will.
The just don’t want to pay the price to win, and that’s understandable as Ukraine is NOT a nato state. It’s not owed the same things.
We should have never endorsed this conflict and no one has spoken of peace. Now Europe is paying for the consequences of American foreign policy.
We have been paying the price ever since Iraq.
America shouldn't be defending Europe. Europe should be
BS! You know nothing!
Put your money where you month is says it all.
The war was over day 1 when Russian tanks entered Kiev oblast
@@infosuge lol - the same tanks and troops that ran out of petrol and food because they thought they were going to walk in?
Today, only a person in triple pink glasses cannot believe it, perhaps in a fit of emotion or patriotic feelings. It is impossible to win a war with a country with nuclear weapons, a rapidly developing military-industrial complex and a mobilization resource that will be enough for 2 Ukrains. It's hard to imagine only that there are people who still don't get it.
Not just 2 Ukraines, Russia can fight the entire NATO
So why are Russia still struggling?
Well, look, any war has its own specific declared and not so declared goals, right? Any war is waged with the aim of achieving these goals at least partially. Now please answer me, what specific goal has the army of the Russian Federation fulfilled, officially declared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation or personally by Vladimir Putin?
I’m almost sure that you won’t name a single goal other than one invented based on personal logic. Because they simply have not been achieved, and will not be achieved for years if the current pace of combat operations is maintained, and while at least half of the military resources are preserved.
Two years of active front-line battles on the steppe terrain with such intensity of hostilities is a huge period of time, for example, the Second World War, in which a huge number of countries with enormous resources participated, lasted only 5-6 years and as a result were exhausted to the limit, including the United States .
So, in this case, what makes you talk with such cynicism about who will win this war and how obvious it is, hm?
The United States had nuclear weapons and colossal economic superiority in both the war in Afghanistan and the war in Vietnam, it lost both. The USSR had colossal economic and military superiority and lost the war in Finland and Afghanistan (nuclear weapons were already present in this war).
For the United States, Russia was, is and will be one of the key enemies that sooner or later they will have to face directly or indirectly, so why not use such an excellent opportunity to critically weaken this threat, and not talk about how Ukraine is doomed and cannot do anything?
Ukraine has already proven more than once with its own efforts that it is not a matter of three days or three months to subjugate and capture it. What is stopping the United States from helping this country win?
The United States spends less than 5% of its defense budget and is already tightly holding back its sworn enemy, imagine what will happen when the United States spends not 5 but 10% of the budget?
BREAKING NEWS. Putin orders another 170,000 men to be mobilized because the Russian army has been DESTROYED. The Russian bots are going to be sent to the Storm Z because the FSB always cleans house.
@@zoom777 If that was true why is Putin mobilizing another 170,000 men for the meat grinder. I bet your name is on the mobilization list. Have you forgotten that Russia has a population of 130 million and NATO has a population of 875 MILLION. NATO would CRUSH Russia.
Stalemate??
What has happened so far, the successful Ukrainian offensive?? I'm really interested in how much the positive opinion of two old men on any topic costs...
What happened to Russia's winter offensive? Oh wait that's right. It's been CRUSHED at Avdiivka. The useless Russian vagrant army cannot even take the Donbas.
Dude those offensive are like 2 street blocs
Look at a map of the frontlines dude😂😂
Its a stalemate on the wider spectrum
@@thebigflop3118 Wider spectrum?
Is that what it's called today? 😁 BS - just watch in the next few days 😉
@@M88881 winter is coming aint gonna be nothing relevant coming soon 😞
@@thebigflop3118 The Russian slaves bots never mention that the Ukrainian counter offense has liquidated over 100,000 Russian son in the last 5 months. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The Baghdad Bob of NATO
and let me get it straight. nato is running out of bullets and arms to send to Ukraine, and Ukraine is running out of men to actually use the weapons, but Russia has got an awesome industrial base that can churn out arms aplenty, and millions of reservists and soldiers at the ready. And you chaps are still envisioning a scenario where Ukraine wins? what the heck are you chaps smoking????
Russia does *not* have an "awesome industrial base".
NATO isn't running running out of bullets.
So, enough with churning out the straw men 🙄
Russia changed its industrial base decades ago switching to a Petro economy
It doesn't have the soviet era capacity anymore
Just wait until UKraine starts making its own weapons, there soldiers will march to Moscow without doubt
Interview sachs, crooke , Ritter
It's kind of a case of either Ukraine wins or Europe loses.
Ukraine defence is critical to the UK defence? Really? Since when has Ukraine become part of the Kingdom, exactly? Pulling Ukraine into NATO caused this conflict, so, may be, it is time to recognize that this was the mistake, and save NATO (and British soldiers) from the direct conflict with Russia?
Do you think the baltics are putting 50% of they military budget into this war for fun? Do you think Finland jumping into NATO was just because of paranoia. They know and understand Russians and Putin way better than you do
This is pure nonsense. Pure unadulterated nonsense. He will be on times radio after this. They love babble over there.
300,000 Russians dead or maimed. How can he know that? The losses on both sides are completely unknown, and speculative estimates usually range from 50K to 250K and tend to be based on very little.
of course he will lie but there are ways to get a close idea, and apply common sense
The general is spouting the same BS that Western media have been doing for the last 2 years.
The Russian numbers are public, the ministry of defence reports all the time. I just don’t get we’re the 300 thousand number comes from?
@@kabzaify That's kind of how it works in every conflict. There's still no absolute consensus over how many civilian fatalities there were in Iraq or Syria. Military losses are often either overstated or understated for reasons of propaganda.
@@kabzaify
500,000 Ukrainians KIA
Russia is counting bodies.
Counting grave sites, with Ukr
Social media posts.
News paper Eulogy's etc
Average age of Ukr soldier is 43
Where are the young soldiers conscripted
Conscripting women now, where are the men
Be more ways to tell ..
One more dollar on weapon for Ukraine means one less dollar on new hospitals, new roads, faster internet speed etc. back home.
And what does that dollar really do?
and what do you think the future costs will be when Putin attacks again?
2021 must have had record spending on hospitals then!
Oh wait, it was less that 2022/23. Oops, turns out you got your critical thinking from tiktok 😂😂
Ivan Pidor.🏳🌈That's not how it works. 87% of all American funding stays in the U.S and creates HIGH PAID - HIGH SKILLED American Jobs for American Workers in American weapons manufacturing sector. Mean while Putin has his begging bowl at Kim Jung Un's feet. Like a Slavic Oliver Twist Putin begs. PLEASE SIR , CAN I HAVE MORE. 😂
Love to Russia from the UK
Its amazing how the British minnows think they are even a factor in any of this. 😂
Leave Russia's borders alone, USA and NATO.☝⚠️🔊
This guy should listen to a famous song by BWO “ living in a fantasy”
I sold 120 armoured vehicles to Ukraine then Barclays cancelled my bank account last December. Ukraine have been desperate for more of my vehicles for casualty evacuation. Now tide have cancelled another of my accounts.
No uk bank will handle Ukranian money I have 75 more armoured vehicles adapted for casualty evacuation all order by Ukranian customers but they can’t pay me. Why won’t just one uk bank stand up and be counted and support Ukraine. Thousands of lives have been lost due to these restrictions.
send for free, this is an existential fight, do not be greedy
@@swojnowski453 I need payment to keep replacing vehicles. They have the money they just can’t put their money in a uk bank
Maybe it’s better you would just not provoke more casualties with your armored machines?🤔You know, blood money, no?
Yes, because CEOs of military vehicle contractors spend their time in youtube comments 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@m4x1k adapted for casualty evacuation. Saving lives.
This was like a late night conversation in a local pub, with an incredible degree of delusion/ mendacity.
Nato should have supported the armistice agreed in principle at Istanbul in 2022. The 350k Ukrainian fatalities could then have been avoided. Russian casualties are in fact much lower
I feel so much safer knowing General (not fit for) Purpose is around talking so much sense.
Ukraine could get the necessary weaponry to defeat Russia, only if all NATO countries turned their entire economies - and social stance of course - into war economies. And even if they did this today it would take a couple of years - if not longer for many of them - to start catching up with Russia's production of weapons and ammunition - let alone overcoming it. This is impossible right now. That's why Ukraine is destined to lose this war, regardless of these theoritical - and rather common - measures the general tries to propose.
And that’s the problem. The leftist EU are pacifist ponces.
It's not true. It's not about production capacity at all. It's about why me. Europe alone can fight two Russias.
@@SantoshKumar-qe6eq No it can’t.
They've been destroyed by Russia's might machines stop confusing people 😂
These people are crazy to say the least. Creating tensions and wars then preach how it is necessary to add more wars for peace.
That 300 k casualties is a Ukrainian propagandist figure the real loss on the Russian side is around 42 k Kia. Casualties on Ukrainian sides as per Ukrainian sources as of 27 th of November stands at 1,126, 652 (source 1 + 1, a Ukrainian propagandist channel). This can be very easily verifiable given the sheer size of the Ukrainian military cemeteries.
WRONG. Russia is losing 7 TIMES more then Ukraine. 324,000 Russian mother have exchanged their sons for fur coats and fridge freezers. The useless Russians cannot even take the Donbas.
Yeah you call it propaganda when reality doesnt conform to the Russian narrative! 😂
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦💙💛🇺🇦
If Ukraine had lost over a million soldiers their army would have collapsed.
nice argument senator, why dont you back it up with a source?
How is the counter offensive going?
31 NATO vs 1 Russia who win? and you think Russia dont feel embolden.
... I think that man just called me an idiot ... why I never ...
Stupied proxy war
NATO countries should not listen to the warmongers and cut their losses while they can
You think NATO should abandon its allies .... like Russia just did in Nagorno Karabakh?
@@Boghopper9999 The Russian bot farms are going HAM in this comment section. Their cope is hilarious because things are going real, bad for the Russo-Nazis in Ukraine. 324,000 liquidated Russians and they cannot even take the Donbas.
No No No ....Poland and Warsaw Pact nations were NOT part of the Soviet Union, nor where they annexed. The only part annexed were the Baltic states (August 1940), but they were annexed before the Warsaw Pact. How can this Knighted General make such a fundamental error?
They should do better control on companies who re-sell to countries which have border with Russia .
Just keep sending them and isreal our money - I'm sure we don't need it!!
Straw man arguement; The cost of supporting Ukraine is far cheaper than the cost of doing nothing now and dealing with an increasingly aggressive Russia later.
@@Boghopper9999 Projection. Increasingly aggressive NATO, you mean, judging by Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Syria, Somalia, the NATO nuclear-sharing policy, encroaching on Russia's borders, and NATO's attempted encroachment into the Indo-Pacific region.
Blasphemy!! If you have this on the Russian armed with shovels are taking territory!
You can almost see the word British Empire emerging from the redness of this general face as he gets exited!
How does the general know the sources of russian weapons? The fact is he doesn't and his comments are made to satisfy an agenda. Thus a worthless interview.
British are blind. It is not a stale mate but a complete defeat. Casualties : Russia 60 000, Ukraine : 1 125 000.
BS! Do you really think so? Let me tell you a little secret. Fighting forces, Ukraine has lost 20% compared to that of russia at WELL OVER 300,000! You're living in a dream world! How's your ruble going? It must be tough buying xlib and maloko these days!
Where do these numbers come from?
@@mwd331 obviously some falsified rushit report. 🤣🤣 Let them keep dreaming!
@@JQ-999check out a few channels: lost in Moscow or expat American, and u will be extremely surprised by the level of life
LOL
1M shells from NK? this is 10 days operation for russia. and ru sustained its ooperations for 600 days and will continue to do so. this dude is a military commander - no wonder nato is wnd will be loosing!
Because he assumes the public either don't know anything or won't know the difference.
so as a result of NATO expansion UK is less safe, that's what he is saying to that fictitious person?
because I looked at the map and to me Russia landing on the islands scenario didn't seem very realistic
Britain should save its people. It’s poor.
This war could have been resolved very early on if Ukraine had agreed not to join NATO.
True, this is a totally unecessary war that got started by USA 2014 and now USA lured European nations into a horrible situation.
Yeh true Zelenski should have just accepted being poisoned or bribed by Putin
@@DerekYoung1wow what a paranoid deluded comment 😊
@@niblet112 neither - just a simple case of facts and history and sarcasm
@@DerekYoung1 facts?? Where’s the evidence?? Western media propaganda pushed to brainwash isn’t facts,
This General is lying 😂😂😂
You told us Ukraine was winning! So what happened?
The eu and us needs to raise its taxes and give more money to ukraine
Ukraine has a draft, and that’s one thing it shouldn’t need. Tells me all I need to know.
Russia also has a draft
@@Boghopper9999 Calling up reservists is not the same as a draft.
@@Boghopper9999Russia is fighting nato. Ukraine is being sacrificed by nat0.
Ukraine shouldn’t need a draft, as it’s the victim and allegedly it’s existence is on the line.
@@1stLtDavis Russia shouldn’t need a draft as it’s a victim surrounded by 400 American military bases. And is fighting the western globalist for its very existence. Tell me mr troll who sanctions America?