I'd beg to differ on Owen Matthews' analysis about the "partition" of Ukraine. Being under occupation for a decade is not a sufficient time to change a peoples' identity, short of wholesale replacement by occupiers. Ireland, as an example, was occupied by the British for centuries. By his logic, Ireland should never have achieved freedom for itself from British colonialism - arguably an unfinished process. Matthews' view on Ukraine giving up the occupied territories can be regarded as appeasement of Putin. It didn't work for Europe nearly a century ago in the face of another such aggressor. It will not work this time, either.
@@bryandimery6509That is simply not true. The vast majority spoke Russian, did not support Russia and in fact supported joining the EU. Only a tiny percentage regarded themselves as Russian, about 5% from what I recall.
@@bryandimery6509Russia moved Russians into those territories. They speak Russian because for generations, Ukrainian language was forbidden and Russian was shoved down their throats. After the Holodomor and the forced starvation of 10 million Ukrainians during the Stalin era, Russians needed to fill those population gaps by shipping in Russians. The original inhabitants were UKRAINIAN.
Aargh. If Russia succeeds in gaining territory by unprovoked aggression, this would be a disgrace on all those countries who stood around and allowed it to happen.
Item of evidence for those who wants to understand Russia (Google can help you check on) “Matlock (U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union 1987-1991, negotiator) thought that Russian invasion of Ukraine in February, 2022 could have been avoided if the United States had not advocated for the admission of Ukraine into NATO. He (Matlock) sees the current policy as an abandonment of a commitment not to expand NATO, which he says was made to Gorbachev.”
Nobody promised Russia not to expand Nato east and there is no written agreement that enyone can show me. Besides Russia s not the one to decide about other country's pact choice. Nato does not expand by foce. Countires apply to join with their own free will and many of them joined in order to be secured from Russia because Russia itself has long history of invading, annexing and making mess there. Nato is ot a reason for Putin to invade Ukraine. It is just an excuse to justify Putin's greed. He wants Ukraine. Ukraine had no chance to join Nato because of Donbas mess and unsolved border issues. @@German-hv9nv
You are victim-blaming, which is a very sad character trait. There is no commitment not to expand Nato, what are you even talking about? There was a official commitment of RU not to threaten Ukraine. What was it worth? @@German-hv9nv
Or Korea. Where China and Russia ganged up. Proxy, but who's that fooling. Granted this time there are more countries involved, but the stakes are the same, although I would say they are higher.
I don't follow Owen's logic. So 20 years in Ukraine didn't make Donbas Ukraninan, but somehow 9 years in the Russian occupation did make them Russians. Give me a break. Most people care more about the financial aspect. There was no overwhelming support for the Russian invasion either in Donetsk or elsewhere. Giving these territories to Putin just because people "are used to living under the Russian regime" would be a mistake.
They can always move to Russia, those who cant stand living under Ukraine, just leave the border where it is You like Russia - pack your bags and good luck! But I trust they won't because they've seen how Russia 'takes care' of them. Living without water and even electricity in some places, men been drafted to war with Ukraine. Not the happiness they'd imagined RU to bring.
This man is not presenting information in a complete manner, the truth is that Zelensky needed more from the West for the offensive to be successful, period, and NATO/the US let them down. They were ill-equipped from the getgo, did not have air superiority and were not given long range munitions out of some ridiculous fear of Putins reprisals if targets in Russia were hit. The whole thing was bungled, not by Zelensky though, and now the West is failing them again with MAGA Rightwingers in the US refusing to help Ukraine due to their supplicancy towards Putins lapdog ala Trump. You need to provide this information to people in order for people to be properly informed.
You miss the fact that people of Donbas are predominantly Russian speaking & identity as Russian always have no matter how long they have been under Ukrainian administration. Nobody made them Russian they always were!
Russian propaganda did a lot to convince people that the more Western, Ukrainian speaking part of Ukraine was not only opposed to the Russian speakers but full of nazis. Perhaps those people who sided with Russia, now have a better understanding of what Rysskie Mir is really about. The other thing is that Russia has killed off a good percentage of working aged men in the Donbas by using them as cannon fodder so not sure what affect that will have. They have essentially destroyed the place and the people - but that is what Russia does best.
Likes not forcing Ukraine to respect the UN Charter of Human Rights. Do you not think ethnic minorities should have no rights in Ukraine. That was why parts of the nation wanted to leave they wanted to be free like you.
This man has a lot of insight but no matter what, Ukraine needs to gain and keep all of their territory. Sure there will be differences of opinion within Ukraine but it should absolutely not be broken up. Russia cannot be trusted ever. Ukraine does not and never will be part of Russia!
That is also the problem now with Russia and Finland. Under the treaty, they promised to be a natural state. Because it was not unconditional, Finland can now violate the peace treaty, and Russia can do northing. Russia should not have agreed to peace and occupied Finland militarily.
100 percent correct imagine another two years of that. People forget that the soviet union went bankrupt because of the afghan war. If the west just stays the coarse Putin and his Klepto mates are doomed.
According to what objective data? Or do you always take active war propaganda as gospel? It's a famous quote "The first causality of war is the truth" but it's amusing to me how to this day people have learned nothing from history. You are being lied to, it's that simple. During a active war both sides, Russians and NATO are spinning a narrative and putting out active war propaganda. You seriously need to be a little more skeptical. The German population too thought they were winning WW2 up until there was tanks rolling down the streets in Berlin. Only then did the reality that their media was hiding and distorting reality really sink in to the average people.
Correct; any negotiation with russia will result in them either blatantly lying or blatantly violating any treaty agreement they make. An utterly pointless excercise.
Rearm? lol. Russia is churning out tanks, munitions, drones like never before. They OWN their military industrial complex. They do not have to BUY their weapons from profiteers like the west does. And they control the output and investments made.
All I need to know about this conflict was 2 years ago, an old man was interviewed and said, "I do not want to live in Russia, I want to live in Ukraine!" Their military has fought like hero's ever since! Slava Ukraine.
Perhaps in your mind - in fact the reality is I'm sure much more stark - he is not operating from a position of strength. He is increasingly isolated - hiding doing his best to stay alive is his primary objective - not the ideal position to be expanding / launching attacks - 2 years ago he thought this venture would take 3 days - how's that going ?
There are many people who have left the occupied territories who speak up. Watch "20 Days in Mariupol" if you have any doubts. It's a documentary filmed during the invasion.
@@robertginsburg8113 they were forced to leave. It is two different things. I know many people from Mariupol and how it was there to live under ruzzian shelling and bombing
I am Ukrainian American, one thing people like you need to wrap your head around is yes, in Russian occupied territories Russia is more popular than Ukraine. It's just a fact. Many areas of eastern Ukraine consider themselves Russian, a majority of people in these areas do no want to be part of Ukraine. So the question you need to ask yourself is, do you actually believe in democracy and freedom? Or are you a hypocrite? If these people don't want to be part of Ukraine, forcing Russia out and Ukraine taking over would be against the will of the people and would essentially be territorial conquest by a invading unpopular army.
@@-Zevin- Even if you are Ukranian American that doesn't justify Russia's illegal invasion and you don't get to speak for the Ukrainian people anymore than I do. The Ukranian people that live there get to determine their government and they already decided. What you are saying about what Ukrainians in the occupied territories want is Russian propaganda and simply isn't true.
@@-Zevin- you are fsb bot. No freedom in ruzzia. Eastern Ukraine is occupied by putins army. If you disagree with kremlin narratives you will be killed or jailed. Donetsk is the shadow of itself before 2014. Half of its population left the city because of ruzzia. Occupation. You do not know what you talking about. Shame on u
The Baltic states were "russified" to some extent, and had a lot of Russian people move there. They are still there, and it does create tensions around language and questions of loyalty. BUT all three - Estonia, Lattvia and Lithuania - anyway managed to preserve their sense of identity, and restore themselves as vivid states with strong identity - after 70 years! Yes, there will be problems with the deoccupation process of Crimea etc, but it's the only sensible thing to do. And the Russian occupation has "only" lasted 10 years - not 70 years / a few generations. This is putting aside that it would send terrible signals to Russia. It's just encouraging Russia to take an incremental view on conquering whatever part of Europe they want.
Well it's the UK. Remember they love Russian oligarchs. Even made one a lord. This time it looks as if the UK is siding *with* the fascists, and Churchill must be spinning in his grave.
One has to consider that many of those living in Crimea have been recently transplanted from Russia. Putin has created this problem with people who are now residents of regions that do not belong to Russia but rather Ukraine. Giving Russia the capability to proclaim that it should own Crimea because its citizens have been relocated there by Russia over the course of more than a decade is absurd. Secondly, if Donbas is full of people who believe that they are Russian, then why not let them also relocate to Russia? Even more to the fact, why didn't they leave and immigrate to Russia previously? Why did they start a war? This isn't World War II and it doesn't involve an entrapped Jewish population with nowhere to go. Crimeans should have long had somewhere to go if they truly counted themselves as Russians. Of course, I presume that Russia would permit such immigration. If Putin were truly the generous world leader that he likes to pretend, why didn't he simply open the border to Donbas and Crimea and let the Russians living in those places stream back to Russia over the course of years? Why did he instead go to war with Ukraine and seek to destroy its identity as a nation? Why did he prop up governments in Donbas that have been seeking to abscond with territory that the USSR had once made part of Ukraine? (This is a very relevant question, given Putin's search for historical basis for his war.) Why has he been willing to threaten shipping to all those nations who purchase Ukraine's grain, including Africa, China, and South America in the midst of a long war if he is truly the friend of the global south? Putin clearly did not want to solve problems for people living in Ukraine through his former actions. He wanted to fuel a war, and he has done so. Permitting him to rise victorious would be the ultimate sham, particularly if Putin does so based on the withdrawal of support of western nations.
@UkeStudent, so many of you contributors are so limited and nonsensical in your own contributions. If you cannot see the problems, narrow mindedness and biases of your own thinking then there is no point to your arguments. If you were asked to give up the land or place of your birth because others say so, how would you react? I would personally fight against such a demand like an enraged lion. But there is one rule for people living under Western hegemons and another they deem "illegals!".
Land is bought and sold every day. No one was forcing anyone to give up their land. These people simply did not like being under the control of Ukraine's government, and their Russian ancestry gave them an excuse to welcome Putin and his killers so they could acquire power. I believe that they are the one's who have been trying to force Ukrainians out of Luhansk and Donetz. Yes, I did consider my stance on war. If it can be prevented, by simply selling one's property and relocating to a nearby place that one regards as one's acestral homeland, then one should do it, rather than getting more than half a million killed or wounded.
What an outrageous take. Imagine the US telling Britain you only get one chance at the whole WW2 thing. Or the French that, hey, the Germans have been there for years now so live with the new "reality". Preposterous. Absolutely and utterly preposterous.
This man is not presenting information in a complete manner, the truth is that Zelensky needed more from the West for the offensive to be successful, period, and NATO/the US let them down. They were ill-equipped from the getgo, did not have air superiority and were not given long range munitions out of some ridiculous fear of Putins reprisals if targets in Russia were hit. The whole thing was bungled, not by Zelensky though, and now the West is failing them again with MAGA Rightwingers in the US refusing to help Ukraine due to their supplicancy towards Putins lapdog ala Trump. You need to provide this information to people in order for people to be properly informed.
France lived under German occupation and even welcomed German solders. French fought in German army on a Eastern front. And it is not correct compare it to Ukraine. Ukraine was always part of Russia. Kiev is historical center of Rus. and there is no genetic, religious or cultural difference between twoщк even linguisticю Ukrainian is just Russian dialect upgraded in resent years.
I listen daily to everything onUkraine. Consistently experts journalists on the ground and people from Eastern Ukraine state that the war has completely united Ukrainian speakers and Russian speakers in the area..Matthews is on his own in this damaging message
Giorgia Meloni got Viktor Orbán to agree to support sending €50 billion in aid to Ukraine. But it is in economic not military aid. The war materielle that USA provided is essential to maintain. Unbelievable that USA should go back on their promises , not a good thing to do in the long term. Short sighted.
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Part of the Crimean reason is to block Russia for access to the Black Sea. That in turn would give Ukraine more security on shipping and their coast. But it's equally as important to Russia to have Crimea for strategic reasons and to project power. (which has significantly been weakened)
Russia has ~500 km of Black Sea coast without Crimea, so no one is blocking them from anything. The reason to take back Crimea is because it was illegally stolen by Russia, and to show Russia and everyone else **cough** China **cough** that this is unacceptable and the civilized world will not stand for it.
Why the land of our ancestors should be in hands of Bandera lovers?
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@@yelenashishkina8804 how far back do you want to go with your ridiculous statement? With your ridiculous statement even the turkey could make that claim or even Italy. 😂😂😂
@ It means you consider Bandera ideology and power to be a new geopolitical force comparable with Russia, Italy and Turkey? Interesting development)) So stop supporting them, let them prove their might in fair contest. Or suppressing Russian heritage inside “Windfall Ukraine” is their only virtue? Or you see them as amenable tool or NATO bulwark against Russia?
I'm a little stunned and bemused. No pushback? No questioning his assertion that Ukraine will be less secure if they reclaim their internationally recognized borders? Really? That's a ridiculous assertion if you ask me. If he believes that Ukraine will be insecure after reclaiming territory, then you must believe that they would be even less secure if they give up that territory. I find this guy to be very close to a Russian shill. I'm wondering what Times is thinking right now: "why did we have this guy on? What do we do now?"
"I find this guy to be very close to a Russian shill." - me too. I gave him the benefit of a doubt at first, but by the time he started mentioning Arestovych, who fled Ukraine and is now praising Putin, as some sort of an expert on Ukraine's matters i knew where he stood.
Lol, Western leaders have literally admitted they tricked Russia into signing the Minsk Agreements, which it did in good faith when it had the upper hand militarily.
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I disagree with the interviewee at about 32.3 on the video. The war in Ukraine is about borders and pushing Russia back to the Ukraine/Russian border. Mathews ignores that fact that Russia invaded INTO Ukraine. Your interviewee, Hanson, seems to forget that Russia is famous for sending Russian speaking into another country (Nation State of Georga comes to mind) then saying that, because that land is filled with Russian speaking people, that land becomes Russia's land. Also, interviewee Hanson, forgot that Russia has a contract with Ukraine to leave the border lines unchallenged in perpetuity: the exchange included Russia's receipt of nuclear weapons: (source: google '... nuclear weapons ...to Russia under a 1994 agreement in exchange for security assurances ...'). Again, it's about recognized borders of a recognized Country. Russia has violated Ukraine's borders - period.
You seem to be ignoring the fact that eastern Ukraine is and was full of Russian people, and claiming that Russia simply sent Russian's secretly across the border to fabricate that is unhinged conspiracy theory level thinking. Pew research even did polling prior to this war in eastern Ukraine, and 70-80% of the populations in Donbass, and Luhansk wanted succeed, to leave Ukraine and be independent. So my question to you is, do you not believe in the right of self determination of freedom or democracy? Why do you think the people of eastern Ukraine have no right to determine their own future?
You are referring to the Budapest Memorandum of 1994. You are quite correct the borders should be respected. Russia broke that in 2014 by invading Crimea and Donbas.
@@-Zevin- do you actually want us to believe that Russia invaded and then held a free and fair referendum with no ballot stuffing or coercion? The reports of the referenda being held in other areas of Ukraine since the 2022 invasion were practically at gun point. No right minded person will believe that without unrestricted and impartial independent scrutiny.
The validity of this guest speaker went out the window when he stated that Russia doesn't send conscripts to the war in Ukraine. Many of those conscripted were sent to the front lines in Ukraine and died by the thousands.
Factually untrue, over 700K volunteers have joined Russian forces since the start of the war, this is the reality whether you like it or not. Currently around 1K men per day are volunteering in Russia to join the military. You have every right to disagree or not support Russia, but it's a fact that the overwhelming majority of Russians support this conflict and are motivated to fight. No general draft or conscription has taken place in Russia. The only people called early in the war were reservists, people with prior military service and experience. No general civilian population has been drafted in Russia since the start of the conflict, unlike in Ukraine.
This guest has, unfortunately a poor grasp of the situation. If Russia keeps control of Crimea ( to which it actually has little historical, cultural claim), Ukraine will be starngled economically. Its a strategic matter and existential to Ukraine. On the moral side, ukraine had broad popular support inside crimea previous to the 2014 Annexation and has signaled the willingness to resettle the crimean tartar diaspora and alow them some form of self government. Russia is, in fact, a genocidal colonizing power and must be stopped in the name of human dignaty. Arguing otherwise is morally reprehensible.
Giving Crimea and Donbas to Russia would be very destructive to Ukraine's economy. Arestovych was a short-term adviser to Zelensky's government. He never had direct access to Zelensky himself. More important, many in Ukraine consider Arestovych to be a (now activated) sleeper agent for Russia.
yep, and he was the psychologist, right? total psyops op he was, by Ru, or unconsciously or consciously pro -ru, which a few key Ukrs had been in prior years, namely prior to Maidan and the invasion in '14
Giving Crimea and Donbas to Russia would validate Putin's worldview that the West will once again concede to a madman. Ask Neville Chamberlain how that turned out.
Owen’s proposal to let go Russian areas of Ukraine would signal to Putin that Baltic states should also hand over their Russian speaking enclaves. His war in Ukraine would be successful so more of Putins special military operations would ensue.
Or how about they just fall apart as a product of sanctions and ukraines direct action causing internal conflict. No need for negotiations if the opposition has split into 20 different states vying for control
Yeah, and the opinions of the people whose land it is don't matter eh? The Donbass and Crimea, and the people who've lived there for centuries, who built it, they're all the property of the Kiev regime that hates them.
He means that even in the ideal scenario (Russia renouncing all the territory they've claimed since before 2014, and complete peace along the border), that requires Russia to agree to not attack anymore. In this ideal situation, Ukraine and Russia would have to negotiate an agreement, in which Russia would have to agree to these terms. The only wars that don't end with negotiations are wars where the territory of one country is completely invaded and controlled by another (Germany WW2) or once side unconditionally surrenders (Japan WW2). Even the Korean war had negotiations at the end. Unless Russia conquers all of Ukraine or Ukraine conquers all of Siberia, this will hopefully be more of a Falklands situation. The defending country retaking the land, and then negotiations to end the violence and assure the land isn't attacked again. This isn't a case of Ukraine won't ever negotiate; this is a case of Ukraine won't negotiate any deals with Russia that don't involve complete territorial integrity. Russians leaving the same way they showed up still involves negotiations.
A British Hasán t any right to tell Ukraine to give up territories and not letting Scotland split away or giving back Gibraltar to Spain and Falkland to Argentina.
Well not sure about the current level of support for independence in Scotland, but Gibraltarians and Falklanders overwhelmingly want to maintain the link to GB (even if Gibraltar would have preferred to remain in EU)
I think he would say he is a realist. He made some good points but why have those areas become ruzzian? Because of an illegal takeover. Are we to accept and reward such tactics? Sounds like a dangerous precedent to me.
Listened to him until he started to mumble about Donbas. Dude doesn’t know what he is talking about. The fact that Russia forced Ukrainian men to fight for Russia doesn’t mean those men were pro Russian at all.
There was a rebellion in the Donbass in 2014 lol, the Ukrainian government had to send in the army. How did Russia force that? Have you ever been there? Have you ever even seen a word people from there Have to say?
I suggest everyone to find information about Owen who has worked for the Moscow Times, Newsweek Magazine's Moscow Bureau as a correspondent, in his work for Newsweek he has spend considerable time in Mordor and seems to have developed a love for the country. I would suggest interviewing Jake Broe, a youtuber who has a masters degree in International Relations, his insights into the relations between politics and the Ukraine war are valuable to anyone trying to keep up with this conflict.
leaving these territories to Russia is absolutely not a solution to this issue. otherwise, this program was incredibly interesting and educational and inspirational and a whole lot of other good things, great show.
If Ruzzuh is using a lot of artillery shells, and can't make as many as they use, by definition "they are running out". They have enough for current usage, but since they aren't making more than they use, then they are running out.
Narcissists, engaging in delusional wishful thinking. The change in strategy espoused here, makes sense at some levels. But is extremely dangerous. Since Putin has made it quite clear that if Russia comes under existential threat, they will move to a nuclear defence.
Russia gets now what it did since 2022 in Ukraine. The difference is, Russia doesn’t have allies, Ukraine has. So Russia gets economic blackout if it can’t stop these attacks on the energy infrastructure.
Russia doesn't have allies? Just an update, buddy. The world isn't Europe and the United States, the same nations that are supporting genocide. I would say, in terms of population, they have more support than the West.
Partisans in Russia could be inspired of the danish partisans during the german occupation of Denmark 1940-45. Not go after people but important infrastructure.
The other element of US aid is that we send Ukraine stock we are decommissioning, anyway. It’s cheaper to ship it to Ukraine than to destroy it, especially things like the shells-which have a destroy by date, whether or not you use it.
You’re coping n rationalizing the loss and desperation. It’s ok so is DC; while German economy gets crushed, Paris is in conflict within, and the Baltic Ststes get dimillatrized more in 2024. The Shell capacity will never catch up with Russia in its economic war mode. It’s not even close as Obama warned years ago in his speech that the US has no surge capacity in war production. That was all closed up and shipped overseas decades ago.,We don’t even possess the skilled tool n craftsmen to support the adjustments necessary to reverse these facts.,Complicated n not a pretty picture. Which is why DC ignores it and stays caught up in their war hawk propaganda n rhetoric.
@@JonAnthony3 You’re comment reminds me of the Japanese military and what they believed before attacking Pearl Harbor. You clearly have no understanding of US industrial capacity nor the American aptitude for going all in when we finally decide to do it. We are just itching for a just war after decades of BS wars and lies.
Thanks for your clarifying analysis of many confusing points, Mr. Mathews. However, at 8:00 - 8:10 here, you say Russia doesn't use conscripts on the front line. I have seen (and read their words in translation to English) many POWs on V, Zolkin's channel who claim to be untrained conscripts sent to the front line almost immediately after being apprehended. Are we to believe they're all lying? Do "minority" and migrant conscripts perhaps not come into your accounting?
I would say that while it is not theoretically impossible, there is a huge divide between conscripts and mobilized. The conscript system is the basis of the Russian military. Everybody there knows it is illegal to use them outside their borders and generally speaking mothers expect their sons to come home from the service, not sent to fight a war. If they start messing with the system, they risk permanently undermining their future military, because more and more people will try to avoid it. (Conscription wasn't popular in Russia even before the war.) Sure, they have forced (or tried to force) outgoing conscripts to sign mobilization papers, but I suspect the number of actual conscripts there is small to none and purposefully kept that way (despite the legalistic interpretation that they would still be inside Russia because those areas were supposedly annexed).
I think some of the confusion comes from how the term conscript is used. Russia has a system of 2 years of national service for young men of a certain age. Twice a year a new cohort is called up. These conscripts are legally not allowed to be sent outside Russia. In general English usage though, the word conscript can refer to anyone called up by the government and so would include the people mobilised during the partial mobilisation of September 2022. Convicts and Central asian immigrants with uncertain immigration status who had been forced into the fight could also be considered conscripts under this definition.
Owen is not recognising that Ukrainians who fled the Donbas can return, if they want to, when Ukraine regains control. The tens of thousands of men from the Donbas were mostly forced to fight for Russia, so survivors are not happy.
I don't understand this guys logic. Be subordinate to the power rather than the principal of right and wrong.I wouldn't respect him as a leader. Imagine him as a sports coach?
I think the best way to resolve the Donbas is to allow those who want to go to Russia to go. Maybe have some western funded asset purchase scheme. The problem there is that the younger family members probably want to stay in Ukraine and the oldies will want to be Russian. The language split isn't the loyalty split, not even close. It's one factor among many.
He doesn’t seem to realise the the US House Speaker is determined that no further support for Ukraine will be voted on. Unless some Republicans agree to vote him out there seems no prospect of a change in this situation now that Trump is nearly certain ro be the Republican presidential candidate. He should watch Mr Broe.
If Putin is obsessed with approval polls, how and why would he trust them when people are too afraid of saying anything negative. It certainly cannot be used as an accurate assessment of public opinion. Incidentally, did I mention that I have a cat? He's Russian, and I just luvs dat lil guy!🙀😻😺
Well when living in an oppressed society, you can guarantee (out of fear) that you will get the high polling you seek. No need for an accurate assessment, whether it is fact or fiction, its a pat on the back for an egomaniac right?
It would help if Europe would stop supplying Russia through the Central Asia backdoor. Plus you criticize the U.S. for not sending support, when later you basically say Ukraine has already lost.
The gall here who has contributed more than the US has to Ukraine? The shame is how Europe has ignored their defense spending for decades and relies on the United States to keep bailing them out. The Mexican boarder is related as they are both national defense issues, with Mexico being far more pressing.
There'll come to a point where you don't have enough men(lost in the war) in your work force to keep your economy going. So that's a pain for Russia for the next two generations
He fails to mention that most of the NATO countries up until a few years ago, failed to build up their military capability. This has resulted in. They are in inability to make really significant contributions of equipment and material to Ukraine at this point in time.
The West was supporting Ukraine since 2014 - remember Trump's call to Zelensky? Building up a military takes time, and halting the Russian invasion at all was a good result. We can blame the GOP for preventing a Ukrainian offensive this Summer, and dragging the war out for an additional year.
Agree completely... How can he slam the US, or anyone, without mentioning Gerhard Schroeder?? And a British person no less, being critical of any other country's foreign policy, or military investment levels. That is rich? How is Brexit going sir?
Item of evidence for those who wants to understand Russia (Google can help you check on) “Matlock (U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union 1987-1991, negotiator) thought that Russian invasion of Ukraine in February, 2022 could have been avoided if the United States had not advocated for the admission of Ukraine into NATO. He (Matlock) sees the current policy as an abandonment of a commitment not to expand NATO, which he says was made to Gorbachev.”
Owen Matthews is completely wrong about the Donbass. Something like 80% of the civilian population has been displaced since 2014. Only a small percentage fled to Russia & the vast majority into unoccupied Ukraine and elsewhere. Those people want to return home. Also let's not forget Ukraine fatigue in the west doesn't equal lifting sanctions on Russia ever, so long as Russia maintains any military occupation in even Crimea. Russia's economy, in spite of contrary propaganda, is akin to a glass house and Ukraine is starting to throw an ever increasing number of big explosive rocks. Russia's economy will collapse long before Ukrainian defensive lines do. Something else i don't hear talked about is the real reason Putin hasn't called up a new mobilization. It's far less that it would be deeply unpopular and much more that the Russian economy simply can't afford it. The only people in Russia that are unemployed are literally unemployable like retired etc. Where would Putin get the mobilised from?. If all the restaurants close & no one to stock the supermarket shelves or work on the munitions factory lines?. Those are the things that will really bring this war home to the Russians. Two years ago they had MacDonalds, I phones, BMW's etc & the better off could travel the world on foreign holidays. Even Russians have a breaking limit and I suspect that will be reached this year.
The Russian brain drain underscores this story. Conscription age males who can get out of Russia have gotten out, or are still trying. Russia faces the dilemma of running out of troops with their ground and pound strategy, or running out of labor.
People forget the sanctions. Russia is not going back to 'business as usual' as long as they continue to occupy Ukraine. I don't believe even a second Trump presidency would lift sanctions, because it would be contrary to the USA's own financial interests. There is also the not insignificant factor of OPEC, who's members would benefit from Russia being largely cut off from the world energy market. Oil is not going back to $150, because the Saudi's know full well this will simply accelerate the transition to alternative energy sources.
@@max.fleming1045 That means the channel owner deleted one or more comments, usually from spammers. This is usually a good thing. Sometimes the channel owner will delete true comments that contradict their guest's position. This is a very bad thing, and a channel you should probably avoid.
Anarchy for Russia? What like the Spring.summer,winter,spring summer offensive all the way to Crimea by Ukraine. Considering how much Oil sales have grown since we started buying our oil from russia via Turkey. Adviika is Falling as we speak. Anyone who knows. Knows. Exactly what that means. The west wont get to choose what Russia takes this time.
Imagine all the wives who think their husbands are still alive who are really dead and buried in mass graves or burned . That will be declared missing or deserters so the Russian federation doesn’t have to pay their insurance policy.
It's not a stalemate as in chess as that is a draw. It is dynamically balanced, with Russia losing around 6 to 1 in men in material, how is that in any way a stalemate. Russia is losing plain and simple, for if you are losing 1k men a day, and the equivalent in material, how long can you sustain that, Wars do not just end with negotiation or total victory, consider exhaustion of the forces involved, or the revolt of the soldiers or the population which they are drawn from. It's not just a military problem that any academician can properly solve with pat answers. Russia faces intractable problems they cannot solve and things are getting worse, they can't win, their economy is falling apart, their people are starting to stir, and their army/navy/air force is incompetent and much smaller than they once were. Now that sounds more like a chess game in which you are losing.
This person used a Russian name for the city of Kharkiv. Unfortunately he also tries to propagate the Russian perspective on this war. Russia just lost a missile corvette, along with three large expensive planes, along with a number of oil terminals. This doesn’t look like a stalemate. This is just another example of lazy journalism
@@jordancobb7553 No fanboy here, but he's right. Russia ran out of missiles about two years ago. The Kiev regime was supposed to be swimming and fishing in the Sea of Azov last summer. Who made those predictions? Putler?
@@johannuys7914 Fanboy Comrade "Johan", is Putin keeping his troll farms warm? Your post is a little slyer, indirect, and inaccurate, but still transparently troll farm. Try harder, comrade.
I speculate that without the usa providing weapons and dictating what ukraine are allowed to do with them. The Ukrainians are not stopped from taking the war to Russian territory, and doing things that might affect the global oil supply. Things that USA might not have wanted to be part of.
It is ironic that actions by Russian controlled Republicans to blockade military aid to ukraine, have Unleashed Ukraine to attack Targets on Russian soil
I’m surprised at Owen Matthews statements regarding Donbas and Crimea. He is apparently unaware of both the events in those places prior to Euro-Maidan, carried out by Girkin and others that were designed to provide an untrue appearance of Russian Nationalism in those regions, and the fact that an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 Russian nationals were translocated from Russia into those regions hot on the heels of the fleeing historical populace that had lived on that land for centuries. Such is the reality of ethnic cleansing, Russian style. Many of the “recruits” from Donbas and Crimea that have fought on the Russian side in this conflict are from amongst that number. Others were indeed from the indigenous population that had stayed when Russia annexed the areas, but were forced to essentially become human shields under pain of death. There are enough pieces of drone footage showing the reality of groups of unarmed or barely armed recruits advancing towards the frontline with squads of fully armed soldiers driving them forward at gunpoint. It should also be noted that such troops, if armed, are allocated the poorest of weaponry; rusty rifles, a single or two clips of ammunition, no grenades etc. He also promoted the fallacy that “Russian speaking” equals Russian aligned. Following Stalin’s depredations on Ukrainian culture and the firmly enforced requirement of Stalin’s Soviet that local culture and language be extinguished and replaced with Russian “culture” and language, all Ukrainians had spoken Russian primarily for at least the last 70+ years, with the Ukrainian language diminishing in use as time went by. I cannot help but feel that Mr Matthews has fallen prey, in some degree, to the Russian Propaganda narrative, though I doubt he’d admit the fact. Unfortunately, in light of his regurgitation of that inaccurate presentation of the truths regarding Donbas and Crimea, one has to question the validity of his other stated views and opinions throughout the interview.
Owen Matthews seemed to have conveniently forgot that the men from Donbas were forced to fight for the orcs, they weren't defending the land from an aggressor. More importantly, Donbas and Crimea aren't just lands, it's the people that Ukraine must liberate. Ukraine is a free country; those that don't want to be Ukrainian can move
Yes, mobiks are NOT the same as conscripts (something Owen got correct), but Russian conscripts DID end up in Ukraine during the early stages of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine by Russia even though Russian law doesn't allow for this. Putin promised that it would be looked into how they came to be there, but I'm sure we all know that won't happen. There were also reports of Russian conscripts either being forcibly signed onto contracts (negating their status as conscripts) or were signed as contract soldiers without their knowledge (also negating their status as conscripts). Russia can also change the law regarding conscripts at any point in time, and Russians will merrily go along with it.
