Some people think as much as 450 000 I don’t know Putin in his speech talked about 71 000 potentially dead Ukrainian troops as a result of the last offensive I again I don’t know but anyway you slice it they’re losing soldiers at a rate that is about the same as the
Allies lost troops in World War One on the Western Front so remember we we fought for 110 days in the first World War and we had 318 000 casualties of that number 110 000 Americans died so you could say that every day every day that we fought a battle in 1918 on the
Western Front we lost a thousand men that’s the kind of loss that the ukrainians are experiencing now what does this mean what it means is that we’re into what I would call now the Biden phase of the Ukrainian War what’s the Biden phase well it’s the phase where the ukrainians don’t really have
Any troops to throw at the enemy so now we’re giving them long-range strike systems uh 300 kilometer range missiles or 500 kilometer range missiles 300 miles 200 miles 150 miles and they’re lobbing these things at the Russians primarily in Crimea so we just saw a major attack involving
11 Storm Shadow cruise missiles three got through the other eight were shot down those three did damage to the dry docks and harbor in Sebastopol to a submarine and to a capital ship in other words a warship they also managed to employ some underwater unmanned systems they call them underwater drones or
Water drones they’re probably British they did some damage to Crimea in other words the ukrainians have nothing left they don’t have the artillery ammunition to support a major ground attack so the ukrainians are lobbing long-range strike systems at the Russians so what does this mean for us well it
Means that we’re goating the Russians into a major offensive to end the Ukrainian War because the Russians are looking at this and saying well we’ve already killed what what consists of most of the Ukrainian Army so having killed most of it what are we going to do now about these launches
Well we know that the ukrainians launched some of these strike systems from the coast of Southern Ukraine between the Romanian border and Odessa well Odessa is on the menu so I suppose this now means that the Russians will have to cross in the upper river move
South and seize Odessa they can do it the biggest problem for the Russians down there will be Logistics because it has to come once again through Crimea and over the river down into Odessa the Russians were also positioned to launch an offensive up in karkoff up in the northeast corner of Ukraine
Interestingly enough the ukrainians are evacuating people from both karcoff and uh Odessa so what are we going to do well we can give them more long-range strike systems we can give them f-16s at some point even though they’re going to be very hard to employ them and they can’t really sustain them
But what are we going to do and this is this is the key question because we’ve reached the point now where we either have to say that’s it we can’t do anything else because to do much else risks direct war with Russia or uh we get more deeply involved we
Actually talk about the use of our own Ground Forces now I don’t know which way this is going to go but I can tell you that if we’re going to risk a direct confrontation with Russia we’re not prepared we don’t have the months of ammunition we don’t have the means of reinforcement
If we go to war with Russia the Russian submarine Fleet will sink everything that tries to cross the Atlantic can’t be done if you can’t move reinforcements across the Atlantic guess what you’re in a lot of trouble in Europe this means that there are 32 member states who
Potentially now offer targets to the Russians the Russians don’t have to sit there and take damage from us from long-range Strike weapons if they find out we’re launching weapons from Poland from Romania from Slovakia they can attack those places from Lithuania Latvia Estonia remember they’ve got 300 000 troops sitting in
Reserve and they’re continuing to quietly mobilize with the goal of reaching 1.2 million probably in January or February of next year so we’re in a terrible position if we want to wage war with the Russians so why are we doing it why are we poking them why are we provoking them why are
We giving the ukrainians weapons with which they can attack targets inside Russia because that’s an invitation to a broader War that certainly is how alarming is it to you to see Vladimir zielinski uh going to be on a plane in a couple days and up on Capitol Hill asking Congress for more
Money and weapons and having a state dinner with Joe Biden next week well I’d rather he eat with Biden than me I have no desire to do that and I could I can imagine that must be a very confusing meal you know past assault and God knows what Biden is going to hand
Him yeah so I you know I don’t want to go to the go to that but zielinski is coming for a 21 billion dollar payoff more money thrown down the Rat Hole when there’s absolutely no chance for zielinski to win there never has been and his government is really miserably unpopular
Inside Ukraine remember they’re they’re now pulling people off the streets they’re headed into the Carpathian Mountains to find any living human beings they can they want NATO governments to round up military age eligible Ukrainian men and ship them back to Ukraine to die in the Russian
Meat grinder and this is this is a catastrophe the the inhumane Dimension cannot be overstated right because the wounds that these Ukrainian soldiers are receiving on the battlefield are wounds from which that most of them will never recover we don’t know how many amputees are but there are tens of thousands of
Them I’ve heard some people say seventy thousand I’ve certain others say sixty thousand I mean the whole thing is insane there’s no chance for a victory here so what else is he going to be told while he’s there well I’m being told that Lincoln and Newland are saying well
We we have to have a freeze we have to freeze the the battlefronts that’s the only way forward well Russians aren’t going to freeze anything the Russians have a set of Demands we have been unwilling to consider any of them at the beginning of this whole thing these were requests now they’re
Demands that have to be met Ukraine cannot join NATO end of discussion so that means Ukraine can be neutral now I don’t know what other conditions may be attached to it but we can certainly live with neutrality we don’t need Ukraine and nato in fact Ukraine is a neutral State it’s a
Wonderful idea it puts almost 500 miles between us and the Russians why is that a bad thing it’s not a bad thing but see the larger problem is that the goals that we originally stated when I say we I’m talking about people like blinken and Austin and uh Newlin and
Biden and Sullivan and others was to harm Russia arm its economy weaken the state potentially overthrow or remove Putin it’s all nonsense the opposite has happened Russia is stronger now than it’s been since the 1980s it’s military establishment is probably the best of its kind I would say certainly in Europe and
Maybe in the world given the enormous armaments that they’ve managed to turn out brand new equipment the tactics they’ve used the organizational construct they’ve built what do we you know what are we trying to accomplish we’re not going to get it we’re not going to get a freeze the Russia is
Going to say freeze yourself stick your head in the freezer it’s not going to happen in Ukraine so where are we headed well I’m afraid we’re headed to more escalation until finally the Russians are standing on the Polish border and my fear is always being that we would
Become desperate because we can’t do anything other than throw Boulders at them over the wall you know this is sort of like Siege Warfare if you can’t take them on what do you do you start hurling crap over the wall that’s what we’re doing it’s not going to win it’s
Not going to change anything it’s not going to improve our strategic position so I’m I’m worried about desperation in the west now of course you know it may be given Europe’s really fragile economic condition right now that Europe collapses financially and economically before anything gets much further I mean
We’re in trouble too yeah I mean all you have to do is turn on the business channels and people say oh treasury yields are up prices for bonds are down nobody wants our bonds oh by the way trillions and U.S treasuries are being dumped by China Saudi Arabia the Emirates
This is not a good thing for us we’re in trouble so you would think someone with a any sense of balance or rationality would say gee we probably ought to find a way out of this let’s get some sort of deal on the table and put it into this thing
But it’s not happening it certainly isn’t listen I do want to talk about a state dinner that was a little bit more important than the one between Joe Biden and Vladimir zielinski is going to happen this week and that’s the one between Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un
When you saw the hermit dictator make it out of the kingdom and then stick around for an Extended Stay in Moscow what are the Optics of that and in the big scheme of things here I mean Vladimir Putin’s always trying to play two moves ahead what does it mean for you know the
Global Battlefront as it’s shaping up right now well first let’s make something clear Mr Kim has not missed many meals so if you offer him something to eat he’s going to show up I’ll guarantee it uh other than that this is much more important for Mr Kim than it is for
Putin what Putin has done is sent a clear and unambiguous signal to us you refuse to cooperate with us you won’t talk with us you won’t negotiate with us you continue to try and harm us fine then we will provide to Mr Kim the missile body and the Warhead that he
Needs to have an ICBM an intercontinental ballistic missile that can mount a nuclear warhead and if necessary reach Targets in the United States so he’s done that G in Beijing has always fought that and objected to it Chinese don’t like North Korea North Korea is a dangerous Catalyst for conflict the Chinese are
About stability not war and the Chinese have enormous problems at home themselves Brothers with unemployment promised with real estate problems with corruption but the Chinese have relented and told Putin all right you can do it give Kim this capability the capability is designed to terrify the hell out of us
You know what it works I’m not reassured in the least that Mr Kim has this capability I don’t think he’s crazy but I don’t like the idea that he’s got it and by the way keep your eye on Cuba Venezuela Mexico Colombia Latin America because things there could get very
Dicey very quickly we have open borders we don’t know what’s going on in Mexico and Central America in most cases the places are overrun with Russian and Chinese influence agents spies Intelligence Officers all of these can contribute to one hell of an explosion inside the United States when they want
It to we’re not thinking about that if we had any brains at all we’d secure the Border start rounding up illegals and boot them out we’re not doing it we’re not enforcing our own laws anywhere criminality is out of control
