A new plan for Ukraine to defeat Putin | Professor Anthony King
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- “All the analysis points towards an operational shift in the battlefield. Ukraine are encouraged to adopt a more radical approach.”
Ukraine must adopt a “bold defensive operation” by withdrawing to urban towns Kramatorsk and Slovyansk to “inflict damage on the Russian forces more effectively”, says Professor Anthony King.
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I have one simple question for our political leaders, "How do you expect the Ukrainian Armed Forces to fight like NATO while we refuse to give /sell/loan them the platforms they need in order to fight in our style? Why are we expecting NATO air superiority from a country without any of the necessary equipment?"
It's infuriating, the public are broadly supportive of Ukraine yet our politicians are failing to lead and act on this. Get them what they need!
Couple that with the reluctance to provide the platforms in a timely manner
The public want peace and low energy prices. Despite incessant media propaganda and no political representation there is growing discontent with this proxy war
Потому что превосходство нато - это блеф. На самом деле более 50 стран обосрались в вопросе снабжения 1 маленькой страны.
@@user-bg8lu8de1l Your keyboard is broken and is typing English backwards and grotesquely. Get it fixed!
Have I misunderstood the learned gentleman? Didn't Ukraine mount an urban defence, like he suggests, in Avdiivka? The Russians simply flattened it with FAB glide bombs, as they've been doing to Chasiv Yar, and starting to do to Kharkiv. Until Ukraine has the kit to take out the FAB launch platforms, this tactic will continue.
my thoughts exactly
That’s a good point, however I thing the analyst’s point is it’s better to hunker down in a large fortified city than a frontline village with little to no fortification. In the case of avdiivka, it has been on the frontline since the full scale invasion and is a lot smaller and easier to take than say Kharkiv.
urban areas have reinforced concrete and less open trenches. fabs arnt as effective
I think you make a good argument here and I see it differently. The Fab bombs are causing a lot of problems and they need to be dealt with by contending with the planes that deliver them. It is still better to defend in cities versus just open terrain or giving the cities to Russia without exacting a huge cost through attrition.
If these are best advisors we have in the west we are all going to die.
"Attack enemies as they advance." Truly, a military genius.
mind blowing genius 😮
There are some merit to his thoughts. Territory can be regained, lost soldiers can not, especially veteran soldiers. If you can trade some territory for increased russian casualties and less ukrainian casualties and then stop the Russians at strong, prepared defenses, it is worth discussing/thinking of.
Don't label all Republicans the same, blame the likes of the intellectually challenged in places like Georgia's 14th District.
Don't forget the districts of Mike Bost, Jim Jordan, Bob Good, Tommy Tuberville, Matt Gaetz, Chip Roy, and about 80 others...
The Republicans have generally produced better Presidents for foreign policy. Sadly the best and boldest leaders are only to be found in Ukraine, the Baltic states, Finland, Czechia and the like. The rest have let us down for a long time.
Eh, sure there's some fairness to this comment but a lot of them who aren't as off the deep end have done little to nothing to hold their own accountable, be leaders, or rein in the party
@@paulmes7667 In some ways, yes, but then on the flip side look at the Republicans who have been in national security and DoD, i.e. Kissinger, Rumsfeld, etc.
@@hemlock40 yeah I think the main reason I disagree with this sentiment is that there are actually more who have either given in to the craziest or have done nothing to call them out than there are who have done anything to put country before party
Great plan. Right now Ukrainian forces are bravely and very strategically advancing backwards, while the armless Russian troops are cowardly retreating forward
Well with such a efficienr industrial shovel making industry what else can we expect
glide bombs don't care about "fortifications"
meanwhile, airstrips in Crimea are not looking to be very safe harbor for Su-34s & Su-35s in recent days. The entire Russian air force is about to be chased out of Crimea (just like the Black Sea Fleet), thanks to ATACMs. If only the US would green-light ATACM strikes on Russian air bases in Russia proper...
Yes, because they miss them.
Glide bombs urban legends are very popular here...
With out air defense RU. Will level any urban position UA defends.
You need air power first!
Exactly this "professor" hasn't a clue about warfare
I like this guy! He actually sticks his neck out and gives a new fresh opinion without slandering the current Ukrainian leadership. We need more of this and less parroting of existing ideas.
Sorry, but this guy is just dead wrong. Were Ukraine to withdraw to the urban areas, Russia would simply move its artillery into range and proceed to level the cities. He's also premature - the Kharkiv front is now stabilizing due to Ukrainian reinforcements and counterattacks - outside of artillery range.
When I feel like having a good laugh I always go to Times Radio.
Yup, there are a lot of dumb rubots filling the comment section.
This was an interesting and great episode.
yep, always lots of dumb comments from rubots in the comment section.
@@cyberfunk3793ukro cope is much funnier tbh😂😂😂
Reminds me of "Bagdad Bob" from the first Gulf war.
If you create a gap for Russian traps, they used their air space to send glide Coombs and other types of missiles, unless something available to shoot them down whether inside Russia or elsewhere.
There is no such thing as safe fighting positions in towns. Russia flattens everything out before they move in. Sure they have huge losses; but until something has been found against the gliding bombs by which the Russians create the space to move in, it would not work.
Sorry to say, sir, but this is a bad idea.
It may make military sense, problem is that you say "ok, let the Russians get close enough to turn Kramatorsk into rubble". There's a deeply troubling civilian aspect to that.
Baldric: "I have a cunning plan."
Man just spent 15 minutes talking just to say "scorched earth defence".
the endless stream of ‘tHE tiMEs’ reLiEaBLe pundits rolls on 😂
Many experts, sitting far from the prroblem, giving opinions, while real people face immediate and real terror
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Are you fighting the Russians online? 🤣
where were the defences that got paid for on the new front? is it true the economic war isn't looking good for any dollar dependent nations
The evidence seems to show that the Russians have most problems and suffered the highest differential casualties trying to get TO the towns. Once in the built up area, odds are more even. Once into Bakhmut and Avdivka, the Russians moved through them quite quickly compared to their difficulties getting to them. Urban fighting is a great equalizer and a "meat grinder" for both sides and Ukraine can't afford to suffer casualties at the same rate as a much more numerous opponent.
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@@todd1770 The facts speak for themselves. Go check.
❤Ukrainian ❤
Excellent discussion.
The western allies aren't serious of supporting Ukraine to defeats Russian aggression, only UK is a bit tough, Ukraine is suffering huge manpower and giving them the right tools to fights, nobody will help nonsense analysis that meant to silence the right approaches and decisions to be made.
Fear is west greatest enemy.
Putin is increasingly holdig more and more horror performances.
Thx good analysis
The man makes sense. Easy - as he admits - for him to say. Play to russian weakness. Set the boogers up.
I am impressed with Professor King's assessment of the current predicament in Ukraine. I wonder if any of the planners here are considering his proposed options. Slava Ukraini!
Ukraine is losing.
@@worththewatch1517 Keep watching! Spend a little of your time watching the Russian economy, it is worth the watch!
This guy looks like he never hold a gun😂😂😂🤡... I would not let him to plan my holidays trip😂😂😂
@@worththewatch1517 Even Putin doesn't believe that.
@@donaldclifford5763he’s well aware that he is winning. All he has to do is watch our media to tell him that.
Question:
A. Could they not flatten the town at range.
B. Could they not surround and cut off the town?
Depends on a number of factors. It is highly likely that Ukraine has subterranean means to keep larger towns supplied. If you are talking about larger cities, you do not want to decimate large buildings because that gives your enemy excellent places to hide and take up defensive positions when you inevitably send in your infantry.
So the old plans backfired???😂😂😂😂
Excellent guest
It seems like this is a way to get the NATO style fighting which requires congregating large numbers of soldiers at one common spot. The Americans (some of them, anyway) went on
and on about this the first year of the world. Eventually it was agreed that, without air superiority, it just doesn't work and the Ukrainians gave up on it. So making sure Ukraine has air superiority is critical to prevent the Russians from sending their gliding bombs to flatten the "common spot" (i.e., fortress town). That is in fact the tactic the Russians are using right now. The other concern I have is that Russia wants to "negotiate" an end to fighting based on Russia keeping all lands they control at the time the negotiations begin. Giving them MORE land as a result of the recommended withdrawal would mean that Ukraine would lose all that land if they are forced by US and NATO politicians to agree to allowing the Russians to set a border that benefits Russia the most. These two problems are fixable, I believe. But any plan to execute Prof. King's recommended "active defence" would need to include dealing with the problems of air support and
refusing to accept the Russian proposal for ending the fighting.
FYI. I believe that NATO should bite the bullet and provide the air support that is needed by Ukraine to have the best chance of winning. That is, NATO forces could and should act
as an Iron Dome and limit air attacks by the Russians on Ukrainian lands. However, I am a big fan of the Ukrainian attacks on Russian bases and oil storage areas. These
"low and slow" drone attacks with some missiles included are analogous in my mind to David's slingshot strikes against Goliath. In other words, I do not believe that Ukrainian should
only fight a defensive war. NATO should not stop Ukraine from doing what they currently do so effectively. Be helpful but not hurtful is the approach NATO should be taking viz a viz
Ukraine.
An attritional retrograde was the NATO strategy circa 1958-1990. It plays to the strengths of the Abrams, Bradley, Leopard, Challenger. I suspect the Russians have neither the infantry or the armored vehicles to wage that kind of war.
While Ukrainians used to conduct defense on the front line., now with the Russians using glided bombs, Ukrainians are forced to also conduct defense in depth. If Ukrainians withdraw to Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, the Russians would bring artillery closer to these cities, and along with their glided bombs, level them more quickly. No matter how well-defended these cities are, the pressure will break them
Ukraine has been about defense in depth for a very long time.
I enjoyed the commentators perspective on the Ukrainian strategy however, I would have liked to know how the addition of F-16's will affect the strategies.
I see what he is saying, but wars are not won by withdrawals.
Cant get past the birdnest toupee
It looks to me, that every university has its strategic studies department. They should all be sent to some rough front line, every generation, to have them separate the wheat from the chaffs.
The fab 500s change the game compared to the summer of 2022. No? This makes the Patriot and other long range air defence all the more imperative.
All this dire outlook for Ukraine without context is worse than useless. How many kilometers has Russia advanced in the east and south in the last two years? At what cost to them? At this current pace, how long will it take to reach Kyiv? Easy math, love to have some of that analysis.
You can't win a war holding less ground than they did in 2022. In the long run, russia is losing badly. To tiny Ukraine, the second poorest country in Europe. Ukraine didn't even have an army in 2020 lol
It doesn’t really matter how long it takes as long as the outcome of Russian victory and Ukrainian defeat is certain.
It's not a question about territory
Russian aims to reduce Ukraine manpower.If soldiers are taking out of action in Kiev or in a village nobody knows the name makes no difference .Putin is just waiting for US election and other political ramifications
@@airhabairhab You may be waiting a very long while.
@@goenzoy712 I agree that's true but that's not the media narrative. They say Russia is gaining territory and that's the problem. The problem is what you said, and Ukraine has fewer resources.
It was a giant money laundry operation.
Where are the defenses that were payed for,,,? Why send anymore ?
You have to look at people like that and just laugh
And then the words that come out of their mouth is like gibberish
Do you own a brush or a comb?
Hard to win a war if you are on defense
and have about 5 months of manpower left
If retreating is a very small part of a ingenious plan which leads to a very huge blow for those Orcs … you might be right. Professor, one question: did you talk with a lot of high ranked military officers who are also busy thinking about a solution?
They are running out of plans ..
What is being said here more or less makes sense militarily. Ukraine has a problem though. It cannot cede these areas to the Russians and make these the de facto borders of Ukraine. Ukraine must contest these as the new borders and fight the Russians for being in their country.
Just in time for me daily dose of "The new game-changing plan" aka "we have no idea what we're talking about".
Remind me of when Russia said Kherson and Kharkiv would be russia forever, or when putin screamed "Kyiv in THREE DAYS!"😂😂
@@dpelpalI remind you when the Ukrainian counteroffensive was progressing towards a 'big win' scenario 😂😂
@@attasoa Was that the counteroffensive when they took back all of Kharkiv and Kherson? That was 50% of the land russia held!😏
@@dpelpalNo the one they made an advertisement for 🤫🤣😂
Literally no idea what they're talking about.
Add a few Ukrainian town names, babble on about some 'game-changer' and make something up about military strategy and hope no-one checks.
I think in the near future the Ukrainian Army will show the combined use of the cyber forces, tanks, artillery, infantry and aviation on the battlefield.
In the near future there wont be a ukrainian army
I am going to work towards the abolishment of politics.
It would be a lot easier and cheaper To sour the water,even though it's probably against the Geneva convention.
What about old plan
Using major population centers as defensive fortifications is very cynical, bordering on war crimes. This kind of strategy all but ensures their complete destruction. Say what you will about the Russians, but the Surovivkin line was built away from major cities and towns. Melitopol and Berdyansk, unlike Bakhmut and Mariupol, haven't been damaged to any significant degree in this war.
Russia is committing war crimes by attacking civilians
Is it possible that Western Economic estimates of the Russian economy are extraordinarily wroing? Is Russia exporting GOLD and OIL?
Rushes economy is smaller than Italy's and the 50% of the people there don't have toilets😂
@@dpelpal I bet everything you 'know' about Russia comes from western media and politicians. And could fit on the head of a pin.
Yes and they maintain a war for 3 years when Ukraine is a bowl of beggars
@@goenzoy712 Well, Ukraine is the second poorest country in Europe. And they basically fought russia to its knees. It just shows Ukraine can fight, And russia is a joke!
Ask yourself this.
Was that food you brought at the store grown with Russian ammonium nitrate?
Was it transported on a ship or truck using fuel from Ural oil?
Was the electricity you consume generated with Russian refined uranium?
“We had to lease it and pay it all back”. That’s not really correct. The terms of lend lease were so generous that the bulk of the aid was essential gifted. For example:
“1946, the post-war Anglo-American loan further indebted Britain to the United States. Lend-Lease items retained were sold to Britain at 10% of nominal value, giving an initial loan value of £1.075 billion for the Lend-Lease portion of the post-war loans. Payment was to be stretched out over 50 annual payments, starting in 1951 and with five years of deferred payments, at 2% interest.”
Note that inflation in the USA over this period was 690%. The compound interest would only accrue to 169% so the loan was basically reduced by inflation every year until towards the end of the period the remaining balance was reduced over 75%.
Russian shovels are the best in the world
Are the shovels how they lost all of Kharkiv and Kherson? Did the shovels protect their black sea fleet, which is now completely destroyed?😏
Why doesn't the Ukraine use its airforce and navy? @@dpelpal
@@Bird_McBride Ukraine's drone navy has all but destroyed russia's black sea fleet. A country with remote control drones has turned russia into a complete joke
@@dpelpalrussia faring rather well in kharkiv at the moment.
@@Bird_McBride Apparently, it doesn't need a navy as its taken control of the Black Sea without one, Boris.
Humza Yusef needs replacing on the screenshot. 😂
Could someone remind this gentleman. Ukraine lost Bhakmut.
Russia failed to take Kyiv
@@michaeldunham3385yet….
So what?
They should repeat that Bakmut as often as they can. That battle cost a lot of men and material.
Comments always deleted. Why and by whom?
I have the same problem Teresas...too often and hard to unravel a commone thread for deletions
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Why do times interviews always repeat sections
I think the theory is that they wish to give a little preview, early on, as to what the guest will be talking about, to give the viewer a chance to watch only the videos that they are interested in. It's like a movie trailer, in other words. However, I agree with you that this practice is a repetitive waste since we basically have already committed to watching a video once we start playing it, and thus have little need for a preview to entice us further, and can bail out at any time without penalty anyway.
But they seem rather committed to this practice at the Times, so I think we just have to get used to it.
A droning, wet tea bag armchair quarterbacking.
Good reporting
7:09 tHEY need contractors, air pilot foreign with experience 5+ year and troops from nation almost for war drone, map field and artillery 2 crew as rch 155 mm GERMANY. Self propelled artillery 40 shot 2 man. Not 9 as bogdana or Caesar
Question? What wood it hurt for French troops to help defend Ukraine cities to free up more Ukrainians soldiers to the front lines, how wild that escalate anything? It’s already escalated, Ukrainians need more man power, French troops could be a huge help to just defend, no front line actions, anyone?
Do you know How tiny the French military is compared to Ukraine's?
France only has 200k active personnel compared to Ukraine's 1.25 million. If France committed 10℅ of their forces - at the current rates of attrition - it would only last a handful of months.
Besides, France would never commit to sending in troops without an agreement from the US that they'll step in, should Putin retaliate.
I don't know if anyone has noticed the emphasis both sides have placed on capturing OR regaining territory? The reason is Meerkat simple!
"Artillary'--- is a Spectrum of weapons from mortars (300 metres+?) to ballistic missiles (eg gliding bombs and ATACMS---100+Km up to 300 Km plus! And---short and long range drones.
If a country fighting for it's survival has any respect for the people of it's second largest city, it would want the front to be held firstly where it is----or better still pushed back to the pre-2014 border!
Ukraine is a Rottweiler----Putin's Russia is a Jackal.
Ukraine is it's own best expert---it just needs F16'S!!! or similar! The gift that keeps on coming?
Excellent
Surely the West can work out how many Russian soldiers Russia has available and that Ukraine requires much stronger weaponry than rushia has to win this war.
I think that by not giving Ukraine the required weaponry and more, the sooner the West has a chance to fight Russia themselves.
The West can’t out produce Russia, so anything coming from the West will not impact Russia’s inevitable victory.
Hes missing a vital point, Russia levels everything.
Hes so unlikable. If this was so easy, do you not think theyd have won by now!?
they are all appeasers
No about winning its about making money
Make Ukraine Russia again!
All sounds sensible except that there is little chance of ukraine ever regaining land lost.
Don't think this guy knows what he's talking about
The next time Times Radio gets something right will be the first time
Michael Clark was on Sky News yesterday telling the Russian what they ought to do against Ukraine up in Kharkiv and to the south. Even the woman host commented at the end mentioning that Clark was more or less telling Russia how to win the war against Ukraine. I wonder what the analytics from Sky News CZcams Channel with respect to how many views there are from moscow and from the geography of russia over the past two years? I even had one more Muscovites viewer on my CZcams Channel than I did from my own hometown. (Thank you hometown.) I've carefully listened and watched Michael Clark over the years of his narrating what is happening in Ukraine. His last commentary was disappointing. This Times Radio commentator says more or less, it would be awful to do what he ends up doing. He says more or less because he is not in Ukraine at the front lines and in the meetings with Ukrainian generals, and because he not the one at "risk" in giving advice about what Ukraine should do, he gives his view of what Ukraine should do or not do. I wonder what the analytics of Times Radio CZcams Channel shows as to how many russians and muscovites have watched its channel since the war started and at the present time? I have commented yesterday that is was good that Ukraine's military was not taking its focus off of Crimea and the Donbas by recent strikes. I'll listen to this commentor again.
We don’t really care about Ukraine.
Mobilization is going to be of the utmost importance. Until Ukraine shows that they can train and formulate competent replacement troops to relieve soldiers who have been on the front for over 2 years.
Sorry but sorted those teeth out. 😊
You can tell, he's having a hard time sleeping at night.
There's no fortifications to retreat to.
Defeat Russia?! who, ukraine?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣they are not able to defend themselves, let alone victory! probably this "expert" is a technical drawing teacher!
Times, you can do better.
I disagree with this guy's tactical analysis.
My god …this channel is getting like satire now … in over 2 years has anyone actually got anything right !!! ???
They got right russias loss of all of Kherson and Kharkiv.... Russia has less Ukrainian land now than they did in 2022!😂😂😂
@@dpelpalBut it’s not over unfortunately…
@@martinwilliams4318Russia has lost. Western leaders know it, it was leaked in the Pentagon papers. They're just laughing at russian army at this point, and will attrite them to nothingness lol. Western military leaders are literally _laughing_ at what a joke the rushin army is at this point lol
@@martinwilliams4318 If, over 2 years, rushia is _losing_ ground, that's not good for russia. 400,000 men smoked and yet they have literally gone _backward_ in reality. Rushin army is a _joke_ lol
@@martinwilliams4318Russia is currently walking through the Ukraine. The buffer zone is 80% of the Ukraine. Still not full scale.
When civilian strategists talk about the pointy end of fighting 🙄
Like when putin screamed "Kyiv in THREE DAYS!"
@@dpelpalGet the bedbugs out your head troll. Nobody apart from General Milley stated "3 days to Kiev". Your disinformation attempts aren't looking good 😂
All you say, Arestovych said before fall of Avdiivka but he got labeled as a traitor.
Sloviansk and Kramatorsk will be flattend by this move... Worth it???
Russia has less land in Ukraine now than they did in 2022....I like Ukraine's chances
Name one time, Times Radio and their experts have been right.
Go on I DARE you ALL
Never. This is simply a propaganda outlet trying to keep morale up and fool people into thinking all is well. Unfortunately for them people have long since moved past the Ghost of Kiev phase when ukraine could get away with lying
Why does every staff and guest of Times Radio have bad dentition?
Professor? 😂😂😂😂😂
Yes. Literally. What are your credentials?
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You are delusional. Back to your James bond movies
Pretty accurate for a 007!🧠
This "expert" to the front lines..😂😂😂he will save us all 😂😂😂
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Zelensky is the greatest military commander of all time. He has issued stand fast orders.
Zelensky was a comedian, and he turned the russian mliitary into one big joke
@@dpelpalonly on western news. The Russians are currently walking through the Ukraine.
Zelenski is a puppet for the CIA. He was a drunken comedian that worked in bars and lived in a car.
@@dpelpalZelenskiy elected term ends on the 20th of May!
@@Robert-xy4xi not under martial law
Nato is losing badly in Ukraine 😂😂😂❤
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Civil war broke out in UK already 😋😂😂😂🔥
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What's with the accent? Private school education? Anyway he hasn't got a clue, as most of your guests don't. This guy lives in La La land. What he is suggesting is making sure there no Ukrainians left by the summer.
Who is this guy lol.
Stereotype nutty professor.
You're on the telly love, comb your hair.
He's been dispatched to start the coping for Ukraine running away from the Russian offensive.
Reminds of when putin screamed "Kyiv in THREE DAYS!" and then Ukraine took back all of Kherson and Kharkiv! I wonder how russia can win when they hold _less_ ground now than they did 2 years ago! I'm not a military girl but I think that's really bad!
@@dpelpal He's talking about Ukraine falling back to the Dnipro.
This is the American plan to divide Ukraine like Korea.
Not going to work because Russia will take Odessa and has plans for a large flotilla on the Dnipro.
@@s0ycapitan Oh yes, and they'll take "Kyiv in THREE DAYS!" as well! In reality, russia has lost. The entire world knows it. They just keep getting dragged deeper and deeper into a quagmire they can't win lol
Delusional !
Like when putin screamed the whole "Kyiv in THREE DAYS!" bit😂😂😂
A long holiday on Snake Island for you.
A long holiday on Snake Island for you.
3 days lol 😂 3 years approaching and Russia 🇷🇺 has captured a few tiny villages , what a powerful army Russia 🇷🇺 has lol 😂 😆 lol😊
@@dpelpal Putin never said 3 days that was the silly media lol
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Times radio just Russian propaganda