'Putin is bluffing' about Russian success says British Defence Secretary Grant Shapps
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- čas přidán 18. 05. 2024
- "What's happening in Kharkiv is a direct consequence of us having taken our eye of the ball"
The advances on Kharkiv are a direct consequence of allies slow action but Putin can’t keep it up “without busting his entire economy” says Grant Shapps, Secretary of State for Defence.
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The first casualty of war is truth, so it's up to us the little people to do our own research ❤
That well-known Government Minister Michael Green...
Staying strong should be the easiest thing we can do. It is also the very least we should do.
'Staying strong should be the easiest thing we can do.'
Then why have you not sent troops to Ukraine ?
@@johnadam2885 or have we?...
@@oggierock Um no we haven't. Show me one instance of a UK soldier that isn't retired in Ukraine, a phot of him there, his dead body etc etc.
@@mikejones6065 I don't send troops and we haven't got to do anything. Your algorithm is broken laughing 😁
@@johnadam2885 The way it is gong, if we don't do it there, there's an an even chance we''ll be doing it in Norway, or Poland, or.......... It's only a matter of time.
Let´s look at this title for a moment:
*_British Defence Secretary Grant Schnapps_*
Now let´s try and figure out how this actualy happened.
Putin was on a begging tour with Xi. 2 liars meet, one speaks, the other thinks: Is he lying now? The other replies: The other one thinks: Is he lying now? This is what true friendship between dictators looks like, eternal friendship.
I'd call the rushn army a paper tiger. But that'd be an insult to both paper and tigers🤣
What did he beg for? And what was Xi answer... I can't find any proof of what happened
He has wonderful pals.....North Korea... Iran....China etc. Creme de la Creme of democracies......😩
Criminals are only friends while they're getting something. When their usefulness expires so does the friendship
@@dubbelhenke854 Rush ins, Chinese, and North koreans....It almost sounds like the start of a hilarious joke. 😂😂😂😂
Yes, we must stay strong, it’s the only thing Putin will relate to.
However we don’t have a good track record of doing so.
I wonder why so many people are trying to cross the border to get into the UK and US, and so many people are lining up at the rushin border to get OUT🤔
What doesn’t stay strong means? There was a time where Ukraine could have won. That time is over. They are very low on man power and at this point the west is putting its pride before the lives of Ukrainians
It has to be a 1941 moment where the West decides that Russia has to loose and then throw everything at them. Outspending and out producing them. No conditions to surrender. Retreat back to your borders.
'Tory'graffspèe finished.
Very glad to hear Putin is bluffing. I had assumed he was quite serious. Now I'm reassured.
I don't think anybody takes the rushn' army seriously. I mean, they're losing to tiny Ukraine...the second poorest country in Europe🤭
Clowns get serious only when they are not in the show. I bet putin is serious when he is alone, sleeping, eating, getting dressed; but as soon as he appears on camera, the Russian circus' show must go on; thus he performs his hilarious role.
er okay, funny
@@dpelpal Ukraine has had a lot of military support from NATO. And Russia is also massively held back by ''modern rules of war'' and ''humanitarian limitations''
The whole point of these rules is to make it harder for any country to quickly conquer another country, which is ofcourse super beneficial to any country *cough* US or EU *cough* that can instead take control over countries via 'peaceful means' like rigged elections, 'protest driven public sentiment shaping' or a political coup.
@@Tiasung Cringe
It seems more likely that British defence secretary is bluffing...
Putin has been bluffing every single day. 1 thousand red lines of Putin's have been crossed by NATO countries and nothing.
Why you think that ? I'm interested what would be the point in UK bluffing?
@@Alphamind123 British government was for war from the start, so he wants to promote the idea that NATO will win because Putin is "bluffing".
Agree 100%, Putin's been doing what he said before, the UK instead seems to have misjudged the real force of russian army since when Boris Johnson flew to Kiev to reject the peace deal that was ready in April 2022
@andreafosella2758 we thought Russia was super strong actually but now I'm thinking UK and Ukraine could possibly beat Russia if the government get in gear properly. Putin had the power to stop the war not Boris Johnson lol you been sold a lie that's partly true but it's been made to look how putin want sheep to see it
An independent Palestinians state has to be the way to go in the end, but that state cannot and must not be militarised so their security has to be underwritten by an outside party.
Not by the U.S. as their guarantees are not worth the paper they are written on as the Ukrainians can tell you.
This looks like Corrine Stockheath. Having a Defence secretary that doesn't even know his own name doesn't fill one with any confidence. Or is it Michael Green? They look so similar.
Coming from the greatest bluffer !
He wasn't bluffing when he screamed "Kyiv in THREE DAYS!" lol. But then the rushin' army was exposed as a total joke🤣
Boring bot,same old same old everyday 🤣
@@davidjones-wt2qq I don't think anybody can stop laughing at what a joke the rushn' army is lol. _Kyiv in THREE DAYS!_ 😂
40 miles of military vehicles on the road to Kyiv....paratroopers landing at the airport and trying to take it.....that's a bluff? No it's incompetence
@boota909 You tell me why people are lining up at the US and UK border to get in, and are lining up at the rushn' border to get OUT
@@dpelpal Ukraine is getting hammered on the battlefield lol even the western media are saying so,try harder on your little list of excuses 🤣🤣
100% Bluff...
Thanks!
I don't care what the trolls say, I have tremendous respect for Grant Shapps. All of NATO should have been following his advice from day one.
Grant shapps needs to be replaced by a human.
The experimental mrna compensation will dwarf the other damage by authorities that make blunders and stonewall their guilt.
Right…
Much appreciation to our friends in the UK. You guys have been doing a great job for our friends in Ukraine.
What is the great job ? The Challengers were hidden, and when they sent them to the front, 2 got destroyed and they had to be hidden again. Cameron said Storm Shadows can be used against Russia, then when their ambassador was called and told that British targets would be hit outside Ukraine, and Russia did a nuclear drill, Cameron climbed down and took off that tweet.
The proof that Britain is doing a great job is when it sends troops to Ukraine and strikes Russia with missiles. You think they have the guts when the US does not have it ?
Still didn't give us any points in EuroVision, did you?
I think its we who are the ones bluffing.
The US cannot maintain its current spending either, it is probably more vulnerable than Russia due to its current budget deficits and total debt. You should just hope it doesn’t take its “allies” down with it.
Don’t worry about America this will make them stronger it will make Europe and the west stronger
That's a yes, from Schnaffs.
Just like Putin, Netanyahu thrive in wartime and confrontation.
And will continue open or covert!
He just need to, to stay on top of "the game".
Good
Yes bluffing is the right word, Times radio was bluffing that this story was about Ukraine, some would call that a deception.🙃
Embarrassing
Who cares what grant shapps thinks
The UK tax payer
People with sense. Obviously Kremlin trolls are not very interested.
These political pygmies are in the past
he is the first person. said correct statement; futin can't keep the war even one more year; he just bluffing; basically whether he bluff or not, in reality he can't afford. this statement should all know and spread.
How ? Do you come to that conclusion Russia uses tanks and bodies in thier war and they have the most tanks can make them faster can make artilary shells faster and have more in ukriane then they did at the start. Trades cheap oil for military supplies thay have plenty of that. They have ground in ukriane slowly and with tons of bodies but check it out they have. I just don't understand why Russia couldn't keep up a war in your mind for another year with their neighbor's. They still have plenty of poeple tanks artilary and oil. They can go for a decade. +
@@jonmmath u r a normal person; talking from ur mind and russian news; I have been in couple of things for my whole life; u just come back end of mid 2025; then judge what said.
@golp4143 I don't watch russain news but I'm. A bit into history and is it not the Russian way to throw bodies tanks and artillary at thier enemies? Is it not possible that western support waivers? Everything points to a russain victory and the only reason they haven't made more progress is from aid and yes I'm a normal person?
@@golp4143 I guess I just try to take out all the news and go on what we know more tanks more artilary more poeple cheap oil make weapons faster like you know I want ukriane to win too. But I just can't justify it for those reasons in my head anyway see yeh
@@jonmmath😂 eso crees?
Si vieras lo preocupado q está sino hubiera ido a buscar a suplicarle a Xi q le ayude.
Zi no es tonto y aprovecha la oportunidad,pero q q precios?
Las sanciones económicas y los aranceles q iran subiendo más y más hasta aficciarlos Alos chinos.
No creo q pueda suste tarlo Xi a Putin.
WHO????!!!!
WHICH ONE OF HIS 5 ENTITIES, IS HE TODAY???
Another comedian
Who shappy, 🤔.
You are obviously your supreme leader Vladimir Putin. He will be just another stiff cadaver within the next five years. His days on this earth are very numbered.
Weird questions. Hes the defence secretary
Bring Ben Wallace back
Grant Shapps - motivational speaker?
Putin are a bigg Bluffer!!
Why do I not believe a word grant is saying!
Gaz Prom has pledged billions to remove the nuisances.
Gaz who?
Where will they get it from? They lost billions last year
@@mikejones6065 they've been doing this for decades. I'm sure they got money.
And we should believe...Grant Shapps...really ?
lol he is already in his bunker just in case and we are not allowed in with him
Or any of the MSM on this subject, as they have been so one sided, and never went into the history of this area or given any kind of nuance.
You could always listen to Vlad the grumpy dosser in the Kremlin who we KNOW is lying.
Work over war
Yes, Russia is no where near kharkiv
BLUFFING is a habit of putin. 😢😢😢😢
The fact they dismissed a general with decades of experience and replaced him with an economist means the shovels are running out.
8 years is not decades, and prior being def. minister Shoigu had no military background either....so no facts there just poor judgment of the sun/telegraph/times zombie audience.
Shoigu was a civilian economist his entire life after graduating and only that. His buddy gave him a nice economic bureau chief position before moving him into Defence in 2016. He has absolutely zero military training or background.
That's what dictators do - they position threats far from them. Soldiers are more inclined to follow a real General in a coup, one they respect and admire over some moronic lapdog with 0 experience and did not earn the position as they would. The MoD is the most powerful position next to their FSB divisions and wise for a dictator to partition. On top of that , Gerimov, the Chief of Staff outside of the MoD, is running the warfront operations.
@@LambofSuffering Correct. Shoigu was a novice in military matters but a mate of Putin's which explains everything.
The system is so corrupt it will not matter in the end
First of all being defence minister has nothing to do with being of military background. Shoigu wasnt a general he does not have any military related background.
What being defence minister means is understand the needs of the army, the capabilities of your mic and how to act in accordance with your budget.
More interesting in ukraine then own country safety and military, weak MOD
You think Russia is Germany..😁
Bad for you..
Hypocritical
Есть только один агрессор - Россия!
Так называемым лидерам этой страны лучше было бы сотрудничать, а не вступать в войну.
Bluffing is bluffing the bluffs bluff
where do all the comments go???
Gone with the Russia's win. This is getting dull, Putin, Putin Putin, he is everywhere, anytime. The whole world is running around Putin.
Most of my comments are deleted, especially on Ukraine channels. On some Ukrainian channels like Jake Broe I can't comment at all.
Brigade 77
@@Bird_McBridedon’t post misinformation, don’t harass, don’t post hate and you’ll be fine
@@anthonyhulse1248 problem is I don't violate any of that stuff. Many times what gets deleted turns up in headlines later.
Not bluffing.....lying
World has had enough of Israel!
The eloy and the boojums. The Eloy lived on the surface but occasionally the boojums would come up and eat the Eloy.
Russia practices Autarky. But also with a surplus growth currently at 3.6 percent. Russia has no requirement for a "war economy." This is only us.
You're using figures supplied by the Kremlin?
If they're doing well why hasn't the ruble recovered?
Rushns' don't have a war economy, they have a "lost war" economy😂
Correct. Putin has been planning this for decades. Russia has run large surpluses for 10 years plus. They have essentially zero debt and huge resources.
3.6 %? Dream on. The IMF gets its economic stats from Russia, not independent sources. Russia stopped publishing lots of economic data. Gosh, that's odd. 😂😂😂😂
It is not 3.6 but more than 5 per cent.
Y bluffing.
Has Putin as many aliases as Michael Green/Grant Schapps etc though?
Yes, his other alias is dressing up as Dobby the house elf so nobody recognizes him lol
They had a setback when one fell into Mount Doom a few years back.
Have no idea but I'm pretty sure the unprecedented sanctions will crush Russian economy in a few weeks, the media and Kerala kids can't be wrong
Putin has more body doubles than anyone, so there.
and bojo is hiding now
Grant Shapps 🤣🤣🤣 What a moby
Asap allies wake up!,,
USA NATO spearheaded this thing. When general Milley said three days he meant Moscow.
@@Bird_McBride You mean the USA...Nato is barely doing anything like usual.
Allies , ukriane not our allies or friends never was
What a 🤡
So when you get Ukraine pay for things
Use Putin’s frozen assets to pay
British Defence Secretary Grant Shapps!
Very nice to Listen to you , dear sir!
Thank you!!! 😊
But he haven’t done anything for uk yet
@@danielbailey5849 please give him some time!!!🕰️
max in 2 years there will be nothing left to defend
You're right, rusha is going up in flames daily due to drones flying around with no air defense
Yeah sure Russia hasn't got 2 years in it
Don't worry, you permanent holiday on Snake Island has been approved.
already Ukraine has run out of soldiers. It is recruiting pregnant women and young boys for the death march against the Russians.
Controlled demolition 🇷🇺
All over by Xmas 🎅
United States has given twice as much financial support than Germany, the second largest donor to the Ukraine war effort! Britain is third!
Continuous chiding of US funding delay is brazen denial of Western European dissent.
Russia has done everything that they said. General Milley of USA army thought three days...to Moscow.
They can't take even 10% of a country they share a border with, the world is laughing at the rushin' army, and rushins' _still_ dont have toilets
Yes you’re right. Personally I don’t engage with the three day narrative any more. It’s been done to death.
Putin said “there would be consequences to anyone who is helping Ukraine” and “I am not bluffing” Where are Putin’s consequences? Why is your fake CZcams account made 1 year ago?
Lately Russian commentators have been saying Poland and Finland are next after Ukraine. Will they do it? Will Australia and Antarctica be next? Ask the Russian trolls for definitive answers.
@@JohnWerner-te5zy next for what, USA conducting a proxy war against them?
Why is everyone concerned about Hamas attacking 7th October. Israel defending its self. When Israel has been attacking Palestinians since 1948. Palestine has the right yo defend it’s self too. Israel perpetrated October 7th by its actions.
Tell that to the generation of Ukrainian men that won’t coming back 🥴
Instead of worrying about the Russian economy, Schnapps should be thinking about what's left of the British one. But it's clear where his orders are coming from. The prosperity of Britain's people is no more on their list than the lives of the Palestinians.
his plan sounds simple to me. Where labour wants to improve the NHS, he wants to spend that money on the army instead
Putin may be bluffing - but NATO bluffs more 😂
The USSR had great success in Afghanistan. The USSR left Afghanistan with great victory parades. I cannot wait to see what victory parades russia has, should be pretty interesting. For decades after the USSR fell, propagandists were hunted down around the world, I have to wonder if the current propagandists for russia remember this? russia will not come out of this intact, no matter how much propaganda is tossed around.
You are not even worth to utter the name of President Vladimer PUTIN
Meanwhile, Russia takes loads more Ukrainian land.
Snippets but yes.
So Shapps or whatever he's calling himself these days thinks he can make judgements that have any value at all. 🤣
The international community accuses israel of apartheid & genocide that’s the truth. Shapps fails to condemn israel for breaking all international laws he says they should abide by.
It's because he's jewish.
It’s not a poker game. This is war is only the beginning. If we want to win we have to be prepared to be in it for a very long time and have the necessary resources.
You have already lost the war, that is why you have Times Radio peddling delusions.
But you don't have the resources or the army or the weapons to face Russia on the battlefield. You keep telling everyone that Ukraine is winning blah blah blah but they are already beaten and this will not end well.
@@danl5592 'But you don't have the resources or the army or the weapons to face Russia on the battlefield. You keep telling everyone that Ukraine is winning blah blah blah but they are already beaten and this will not end well.'
They know this. If for one moment they thought they could win, they would have sent troops to Ukraine.
The blah blah blah is because how else can they tell their public they got defeated ?
The British and western psyche is colonial, they feel they are entitled to set the world order, they were used to it. Boris Johnson said 'we cannot allow Putin to win, as it will end the 'rules based international order'.' The rest of the world recalls how Britain invaded Iraq using fabricated claims of WMDs. The British created Israel by ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and they aid and abet genocide in Gaza. So what is this 'rules based international order' that the west follows ?
Putin has ended their world order. The blah, blah, blah comes from helplessness over this.
This is not a poker game. It is a chess game. And the Russians are the masters of chess.
Not bluffing; LYING. As always this russia has been doing.
Cavalry coming over the hill? Someone might want to remind Shapps about the fate of General Custer.
This Gavalry's broke
Grant Schapps is the man who gave me the term ..Cyberpunk...a man who is trying to save himself from a lowly, shameful assessment...
The incredible thing is it just came to mind..and I had to Search the term and found Cyberpunk 77 a game & the objectiveis to save yourself from a shameful position.
This aligns perfectly with Grant Schapps and his attempt to talj down Russian gains and British embarrasment.
Liebore want Gaza 'refugees' here.
Putin bluffing from Grant Shapps........Pull the other one fact you're practising the empty fort strategy.
there is not much defence in British Defence Secretary he is just a sad warmonger rendering little britain to the almshouse !
Harassing refineries is a costly business...and extremely risky. They have billions.
Risky to who?
Costly to Russia.
Billions of what, rubles? Not much access to hard currency.
Like gold for instance
Billions of Rubles = US$25.45
If I had a penny every time I see here a post from Ukrainian bot or troll I would be really wealthy man.
Sorry to hear that you are in such a dire financial situation.
@@JohnWerner-te5zy Thanks God, I'm fine. But I appreciate your kind regard.
Was putin bluffing when he made schnapps poo his pants on board a flight from Ukraine ?
Yes
@@JohnWerner-te5zy So why did Shcapps cancel his visit to Odessa after a missile hit a place near where he was going ?
Well the Gazans have elected Hamas six times ...so apart from what Israel is now doing what is your plan for getting rid of them?
The world is too busy laughing at what a joke the rushin' army is😂
What are you taking about. There was ever a single election in Gaza and majority of those in Gaza were not born before that election. Also it was Netanyahu that supported Hamas. Is your iq seriously this low or are you desperately lying?
So are we supposed to believe Grant Shapps or Vladimir Putin? Grant does have a bit of a dodgy record with his online identities....
Not as dodgy as Putin’s. 😂
and Putin has how many body doubles?
Can’t AI replace Shapps?
Grant Shapps is talkng Balderdash - provocative Balderdash!
Who is saying this? British economy without its colonies and Europe is crumbling.
Rushns 1950: -Britain and America crumbling!-
Rushns 1960: -America has debt! Will fall tomorrow!-
Rushns 1970: -America and Britain, inflation will do them in!-
Rushns 1990: _Our country collapsed please help us with food and clothes_
😂
Where's the evidence of either economies crumbling?
Russian Central Bank recently admitted that it had lied regarding the economy because of the Russian elections and didn't want to make Putin look bad
@@dpelpalit’s true Europe is finished lol 😂
Britain decolonized after WW2, Russia never did.
@@nicolasolton Oh which colonies does russia own currently?
Russians are culturally very different from Britons in that they are very direct and they mean what they say. Putin is no exception.
So he meant it when he screamed _Kyiv in THREE DAYS!_ I don't think that worked out very well
Oh like when he said he had no plans to invade Ukraine?
Why do you talk about a country you clearly know nothing about?
You don't know the first thing about Russian culture
Untrue. Whatever putin blames others for is exactly what he is about to do next.
Putin lies like criminal mafiya boss he is. 😂
@@nicolasoltonmafia boss is a compliment pootin doesn't deserve. Pootin is too dumb to realize not keeping your word eventually will bite you. Any mafia boss knows that.
stop the genocide in palestine
Whatever package we the Brits have got, there is no way we can defeat Russia I'm afraid mister Snapps
Russia destroying itself
Surely you've been smoking with zelenskiiii
The Russian army is a total joke but two years and 250 billion in western aid and Ukraine is being slowly ground down.
This man we call a defence minister couldn't get the train operators to run trains on time so we should all have total confidence in his abilities on defence matters.
He's right about the economics. Russia is spending 40% of its budget on all things military. That's ridiculous.
@@stephenhill545what 6% of its GDP. Is 40% really?
@@stephenhill545Get a brain from Russia with love😂
Hhe said from.the beginning he did not want to take this region your wishful thinkings make you say anything without controlling the truth
@@theincrement4898 you hate the truth by the way zi am not an Ivan as I am not Russian I am just an objective European who resists American brainwashing
@@theincrement4898his post is right.
@@theincrement4898 why is this highlighted I am not Ivan I am not. Russian so what is so
Hes not bluffing, there are a world of there own dont need nothing....
......wow glad I don`t live with that woman who interviews this poor guy😂😂
I BELIEVE THIS MAN !🎉
And Israel is not a Terrorist organisation?
No
Attacked by terrorist organisation, defending their country. Um, Israel is still Gods country. Cool it with critisism,....
It would be nice to actually believe something Grant Shapps says but, alas, his record is what actually speaks for him and it is not a truthful one.
Shapps is the man who repeatedly denied that he had used an pseudonym - 'Michael Green' - and threatened to sue those who suggested he had - until The Guardian revealed that he had had a second job under this name for a year after he was elected as an MP in 2005. The second job? That of 'multi-million dollar web marketeer" who boasted in a audio recording that he could make listeners 'a ton of cash before Christmas'.
Shapps is now what he was then - a snake oil salesman peddling what he wants his audience to hear.
Yeah assuming that's true which I doubt exactly what does that have to do with anything
@@michaeldunham3385 nothing he just doesn't like the guy
It's almost humorous how foolish politicians are on the subject of Israel. Palestinians as as a group have never given any indication that their priority is peace and prosperity. Getting rid of Jews and Israel always emerges as the priority, no matter what Israel does. Israeli governments understand this and do what they have to do and they do it as humanely as they can under the circumstances. Sometimes there are no solutions to problems, only practical mitigation, and it's about time idiots stopped thinking that Palestinians would play nice if the Israelis spent all day feeding them chocolate. Peace is in the hands of the Palestinian people, nobody else's.
Totally agree 👍🏻
No matter what they do?? Why doesn't Israel opt for a 2 State solution, end discrimination and apartheid in Gaza and the west bank, allow Palestinians to live independently, recognize Palestine as a State and support this in the UN.
If you're so slick Mr Secretary, go in Ukraine to fight: But this time your Army won't be saved like Dunkirk... 😁💋
No more money for Ukraine, they are done
Believe me Russia is not bluffing.
russia is just lying both for the domestic russian public and world community. deceipt and manipulation, what else can you expect from a kgb man, seriously?!
ruzzia is broken
I don't believe you, despite your invitation.
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Nope we not true allies , ukraine just using uk , uk is foolish let it happen