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If China is full force supporting the Russian perspective than we're f*cked and this would nullify indefinitely the worth of assistance of any kind to Ukraine.

Agreed both have dictators in charge one has let his mask slip and shown his true colours to the free world……

So they are the same side of the coin, who gives a sh*t.

@@davidaponte7521 The free world.

Agreed 👍

The best is Jake broe and reporting from Ukraine. Much better than the English reporting

Best is a preference. A varied approach is important to self regulate any personal bias. I am subscribed to both u mentioned. But I float around to check the propaganda messaging as well. Im not subscribed to this one but ..

@@bernardetacoker4663 ok so u suggest listening to a language u cant understand?

obviously. But scale - wise its dominated by US...

Everyone knows that, and they already covered the pther supporters many times

The key problem with the aid to Ukraine is it’s only western style countries providing the aid The voting in the UN shows further the split developing in the world economy. The BRICS group if the16 other nations join it will hold over half the worlds population and over 60% of the key resources for industry. The destruction of the SWIFT system is in progress and movement from the Us dollar is also in play. Even countries like Japan are selling off their US treasury bonds. This doesn’t hold well for the western financial control

I feel there is a big gap between a possible conflict over Taiwan and the situation in Ukraine. The shear cost of the war in Ukraine is crippling the EU now and will further cripple the EU once reconstruction starts. No one is considering this cost at a time where massive amounts of money is required to build ports and handling facilities for LNG. The EU is looking at having to print money like the USA to get through this period.

The EU is now in a costly sanctions war with Russia. That cost, plus the many billions in military aid means that EU has sacrificed the most for Ukraine.

all russians , product of forced russification, that do not support Ukraine and are not loyal citizens should be given the right to join their motherland / fatherland. The same should apply to Transnistria, Ossetia, Donbass , Baltics, Kaliningrad.

Americans do? Why u going to Haiti then? not to mention other obvious countries.

​@@boom1538 *but whatabout*... good stuff.

Slava Ukraini and God Bless heroes and their supporters.

Russia (soviet) supported Vietnam against USA so this is just payback.

@@tpeterson9140 Bro is still using Internet Explorer

Poland has done all the heavy lifting and Ukraine showed their appreciation by bombing it to leverage more aid.

How’s the weather in St Petersburg?😊

@@supertuscans9512 About the same as Langley I image😉

@@robertsteele474 No way Ukraine hit Poland intentionally. If it was a Ukrainian missile, which after the latest news I doubt, it was because they defended.

@@marianaibrahim5037 The missiles were fired in the *opposite direction* of the incoming Russian missiles two hours *after* the Russian missile strikes stopped. Poland and US intelligence both confirmed it, so they were not defensive, Mariana.

Not to mention the HUGE political implications.

Agreed Ukraine needs everything, now is the time whilst the Russians freeze in trenches……

Crimea doesn't have a supply route if cut off from the Donbass. The Donbass is right next to the Russian boarder and far easier for Russia to supply. Russia are at there weakest when they are far away from Russia.

Military sensible in the short term, but Kyiv would be well-advised to recognise that the Crimean population are mostly ethnic Russians and they want to be part of Russia. The case of Crimea must be regarded as separate from the other Ukrainian oblasts taken over by Russia. To attempt to keep Crimea permanently would not only be morally indefensible but would also sow the seeds for a permanent state of war between Ukraine and Russia.

@@thetruth9874 The Donbas may be near Russia's border, but it is INSIDE Ukraine's territory ON Ukraine's front line.

Solar panels and windmills won’t replace nuclear and fossil for at least 100 years

Why would nuclear need to be replaced? Its cleaner and cheaper than any renewable.

@@goodlookinouthomie1757 ... define "cleaner"...

right? calling Vlad like a puss...he doesn't realize that Putin is KGB raised

I mean France is one of the most potent militaries in NATO.

A half hearted one

France talks the talk but has not walk the walk since 1815. They want to rule Europe via the EU bureaucracy in Brussels. Germany has to get an EU governance reorganization. The Germans may need the UK to return so that true democracy and human rights for Europeans remains an EU constitutional guarantee.

@@stephensipe5405 Germany with NS2love... errrhmh

Ukraine rotates its troops by sending the living soldiers to replace the dead ones. Russia rotates its soldiers by ensuring that they don't die trying to protect every square inch of land.

@@rodneyagesa1851 that’s not true Ukraine have far move troops on the front line than Russia and can rotate where as Russia sends old men

@@rodneyagesa1851 True. Russians don't live long enough to need a rest.

Ukraine just had its eighth call up. Russia is taking Ukrainian POWs as old as 65yrs. I think your a little bit confused

I think your getting confused with the Ukrainian civilians that the Russians are seizing off the streets in occupied Ukraine.

Don't sell yourself short; the UK has done really well. Although, I believe it should be less about dollar/pound/euro figures and more about specific equipment provided. If we spent 5% of our aid on tanks or heavy IFVs, Ukraine would have driven Russia out already. I've been telling everyone until I'm blue in the face: unlike the M1 Abrams, the Bradley is really cheap and easy to maintain, and yet it blew up more T-72 tanks in Iraq than the M1 ever did. We could easily afford to give them 1,000 fully loaded Bradleys and there's no way Russia would withstand that onslaught (and especially given their great night optics, whereas Russian night vision and thermal vision tend to be pretty bad.) Germany could turn the tide with Leopard 2s, the UK could do it with Challengers, etc. People need to start talking about this more, instead of talking only about passive, defensive stuff like getting them better air defenses.

It’s beyond time that the free world steps up to the plate to speed up getting Ukraine free from Russia . Get everything needed out of the warehouses and on to the battlefield ,Germany offering patriot systems to Poland what’s that all about ?

All of Europe need to question their policy on defence spending over the years. The lack of weapons and more so ammunition in storage is a joke.

agreed. Too busy pissing champaign up the wall ..The Americans will bail us out won't they..??

Hello Russian troll. Europe is in a costly (continent wide) sanctions war with Russia. This cost, along with the cost of literally millions of Ukrainian refugees welcomed in, and the cost of huge quantities of military aid, shows clearly that Europe has sacrificed more for Ukraine than the US. Wikipedia provides a list of aid to Ukraine by country. EU combined military aid is gigantic.

Mr Putin will soon pull out of Ukraine at the moment he is Ashamed Knowing he is the one who has started it and gain nothing.he is totally lost.

From US view this is a "limited" war, fought as much for strategic interests than simply for Ukrainians. E.g. to "weaken" Russia and promote internal regime change it has to go long enough for the pain to take effect (in Russia), and also to kick Xi's Russian poodle dog just hard enough to make the point on Taiwan?

a prelude? this IS the way "WW3" is being fought: Afghanistan Iraq Libya Syria Ukraine to Taiwan or Iran?

I use a free app called Brave on iOS pretty sure it’s available on android also, blocks out all ads.

@@jamespettinelli2510 I'll give it a gander

Get with what exactly general

Miley is not well respected in US by General Staff. He’s seen as a self serving fool.

@@PlanetFrosty i want to agree and I would love a source. My letter to Biden yesterday begged him to bring on Gen. Hodges as a Cabinet-level advisor. Miley is a disappointment on the days when he is not just angering me.

Money, most likely.

Must be some reason , it seems weird to drag it out instead of using shock and awe to sweep the Russians out of Ukraine completely asap…….

@@APW554 well now hold on there, the reason for that not happening ever is because most corporatists even though they are al buckwild crazy when it comes to money are not totally stupid and they know very well that if that happens there will be no Los Angeles New York Philadelphia Chicago and any other metropolitan area in the United States.

shaky western economics and greedy banks ..if there's no short term profit...

I frequently write to Biden, and attend pro-Ukraine demonstrations here in the US asking him to move to a full-throttle offensive support policy. One key problem may be a misread by Biden of his own political base, which is solidly pro-Ukraine and pro-war. I try to remind him in my own words of who the folks that voted for him are. I think Biden needs to be reminded of the anti-Russian and pro-democracy instincts inside the mind of average centrist Americans, which are his base, both core and his swing voters. I think Biden's personal instincts and ideology align with these same instincts, so i'm somewhat hopeful. An important point was made in the podcast: Biden tied his entire politics to domestic issues. This is extremely common for new US presidents, George W Bush did too. The "question" Biden now has is the "new" one every US President faces: what does he feel room to do on international issues? What are his political base's limits around spending; what will his average-income centrist American base voter tolerate given economic stresses in the US? How much can he spend and for how long before it goes against him? How much can he really engage, and for how long? What sort of timeline emerges from this horse-sense and guesswork? It must be said that realistically, if he and Democrats lose in 2024, a collapse in U.S. Ukraine support would likely ensue. The Republican Party is still under the thrall of Trump, or some other Neo-Isolationist, or Trump-inflected theory of Ukraine. So that way lies disaster: Biden needs to stay in power. I do think Biden was genuinely nervous around triggering a Russian nuclear use; hopefully a quiet and firm warning to China has taken the edge off that. To me the whole "Biden question" boils down to questions about his political limits in a closely divided US polity: spending for a foreign war / domestic support / how long we can do this,/and a little exhaustion after 20 years in Afghanistan & Iraq. Finally, what about Biden's advisors and their instincts? Lloyd Austin is the most suited to this challenge that Biden has. But Austin is over-balanced by Sullivan and Blinken (and Gen Milley, who defies explanation). It is a small group. Two people have too much influence, and i don't especially like them. Sullivan and Blinken came through the Obama foreign policy school, and lived two terms with an obstinately domestic-focused Obama. They are "shy," they are the opposite of hawks, their default foreign policy sentiment is avoidance. These same people accompanied Obama's avoidance of engagement with Russia over Crimea, Ukraine, Syria. Obama avoided the Minsk talks almost entirely, deferring to France and Germany. And that landed us here. So have these people learned that Putin must be defeated, or at least get negotiations staring down the barrel of a defeat? Rather than a forward-leaning or aggressive foreign policy cadre, unfortunately US voters elected a "steady hand" on the wheel and were domestically focused. Biden knows he was elected on a domestic platform. Can he transition to fully, forcefully engage this foreign issue? Biden may think we-all don't have the appetite for a full blown US engagement abroad, and for sacrifice; if so I suspect he is wrong. A steady hand may be one virtue in the post-Trump era, but caution and delay are a mistake in Ukraine. Very ironically, the US needs a hawk to frame the US stance on this, and lean into the war.

Did he also say ‘Teutonic plates’, instead of Tectonic plates? 😆

Well we can live in hope. It took 10yrs for the American public to wake up to what was going on in my country Vietnam. I don"t know if Europe has 10yrs

Are the neocons still licking their wounds or will Biden return to their fold and go after Iran next?

@@samsungtap4183 Agreed, best to find our courage now and face down the hard truths that are preventing action before things get worse.

@@ralphboardman7443 I haven't heard "NeoCon" in years, I had thought their movement was dead.

Ok Russian zombie

@@DogeickBateman Still not house-trained, Doggy?

It's obviously true. To me it seems Zelenski has been beyond reckless with both men and equipment. These endless attacks against Russia set positions is beond war it's murder.

@@samsungtap4183 Ok Russian Jewshevik

@@DogeickBateman 🤣🤣

My question also. Do we want the victory? US is defending russia. With the right weapons for Ukraine and if they are allowed to fight, they can obtain victory. Ukraine is not hitting russian military objectives because these are defended by US. I fully understand Latvia. If russia wins something in Ukraine, next are Moldova, Georgia, the Baltics. No matter what treaties are done with russia.

Pretty sure SBU already reported on that. I didn't know they were still keeping up with that. They probably are all not lost, however., they might work if the electric come back on.😉

As it’s driving the Russian economy back to the 1959’s who cares.

The price of freedom is not cheap, but it worth paying. Europe pays with higher gas prices, America pays with weapons and cash. All of this is nothing compared to the price the heroes in Ukrainain are paying.

@@thetruth9874 Looks like it time to cash in your bitcoin to do your part.🙄

@@thetruth9874 Europe pays with higher gas prices, and cash, and weapons. Lots of weapons. Wikipedia provides a list of military aid by country. Everyone should have a look.

General De Gaul nearly led France out of NATO. The fact NATO still functions after Trump is a minor miracle. Putin is now "all in" on Ukraine - will NATO see him or fold?

@@ralphboardman7443 history would dictate just wait it out and NATO will fold. The concern is not the people of Europe and America it is the cowardly leadership some of which seem very very close to Putin.

Putin is never to be trusted

"Real Republicans" have been in too short supply, John. I see the Trump/Isolationist fever may have broken. But i will beleive it when a Real Republican drives a holly spike through Trump's heart and they evict MTG and Putin's other minions from the GOP.

Russians Dying

@@GreenGoblinDK "Ukrainian Forces Outnumbered And Facing Supply Issues In Battle for Bakhmut" Newswek

Prigozhin (Wagner) is trying to make his name a household word in Russian politics. If he succeeds, he might be in the running as (an outside) successor to Putin. He has produced results in Ukraine for Putin, and is being given a free hand and plenty of mobilized Russians to feed into the grinder in pursuit of this. Will he pull off a victory? Possibly - unclear, but possibly. but as Jacob Nordstroem Hansen has posted below, it's a lot - a LOT of Russians dying there. Both conscripts and Wagner thugs. It's hard to tell which may kill more Russian conscripts - M777s or hypothermia. It's a very good day not to be a Russian man, anywhere in the world, least of all in Ukraine.

Wrong, lot's of Russian's dying.

@@thetruth9874 Yep, as some rando on the internet, make sure talk to Newsweek about it, truthless.🙄😬

It matches the level of quality and unbiased reporting I have come to expect from the Telegraph.😉

They say it's unbelievable the number of Ukrainian billionairs turning up in Monarco

It’s called a podcast

It always looks like that. It's a podcast.

@@HungryGhost999 never heard of that, matey, who dat?

@@nian60 why don't they fix it? should we let them know?

@@Balmorax Get a job

Of course it favours Zelensky, it is his home territory and his troops are well prepared for winter and on short logistic routes. The Muscovites are lucky to get functioning rifles let alone warm clothes.

Russia has lost every battle since march. the russian trolls have said ' yeah but wait a few months....' when russia retreated at kyiv, they said it was to reinforce karkiv, then they lost karkiv... then it was to protect luhansk...now they are losing luhansk... or remember that kherson wasnt a retreat..they were instead setting a trap...

@@roverboat2503 I think Ukraine's logistics route is much longer and fraught with difficulties due to Russian attacks on energy infrastructure (the trains are electric), than the Russian route.

@@PeterSedesse come back and repeat that in 2 months

If all the Russian trolls were sent to fight in Bakmut, a lasting peace would come to the comment section.

Funny that, all the jingoism I hear is coming from RT and the like, these days.

We’ve had world ending nukes pointed at each other for decades! We had for years non stop flights over the Arctic that if not called off would have nuked Russia off the map.

USSR was not a threat to US as long US has nuclear weapons and because USSR "received" Eastern Europe after the WW2. Now, Eastern Europe had enough of the russians. I am from Romania. NATOs extension is due to russia. In Eastern Europe we consider NATO the only defence against russia. We all were eager to enter NATO. This was not an easy task.

@@marianaibrahim5037 NATO was not made to defend against Russia. NATO was made to defend against the Soviet Union and the spread of Communism which it accomplished, now the question is what is NATO's role in Europe today. I do not believe today's Russian is the same as it was during the time of the Soviet Union. The reason why Russia believes NATO is a national security threat is based on the actions of the United States of America and not the actions of the Russian Federation. If Romania and Eastern Europe feels threatened by the Russian Federation then that should concern Europe and that concern does not need American assistance. The United States of America has taken a role that it did not expect but that it wholeheartedly accepted. It fit perfectly with the need and the desire of huge corporations in every field that we keep an enemy or Boogeyman to blame but I do not think that Russia is that boogeyman nor do I think that Russia is an enemy. The United States of America had the upper hand and a little credibility left but because of the way it's treated Russia she has squandered all of that credibility.