'Putin under pressure' over Western weapon strikes in Russia | Maj. Gen. Tim Cross 

Fear based order: Your opponent can strike any part of your land, but you can't strike any part of your opponent's land. Rule based order: Your opponent strikes any part of your land then you can strike any part of their land.

Pressure, pressure, pressure ………… we need the see the backend of this conflict. The Ukrainians deserve safety and security.

GO DEEP, UKRAINE, GO DEEP!

The West shafted Ukraine big time in this war! First they delivered and continue to deliver weapons at a slow pace and not in sufficient numbers to make any significant progress on the ground and second they prevented Ukraine from striking into Russian territory with western weapons. It was madness to limit the war zone to only Ukrainian territory 🤨

Striking deep would require Russia to shift air defense.

We want Ukraine to WIN

Shoigu has been promoted to a penthouse apartment with a balcony. 😂😂😂

I never understood why this entire war had to take place solely on the soil of Ukraine

Ukraine can not be expected to fight with one hand tied behind there back.

Desde o inicio da invasão que os ucranianos deviam ter usado todas as armas contra os terroristas.A Ucrania tem estado a lutar com um braço atado atrás das costas.Os aliados são culpados da situação da Ucrânia, impedindo que atacassem quem os está atacando e dando as armas às pinguinhas.Muito têm feito is heróis ucranianos.

It is not right that Ukraine is being prevented from hitting Russian planes while they are in Russian airspace. Or Russian staging areas their side of the border. Ukraine needs to be able to exclude Russian military assets from the zone around Ukraine where they can hit Ukraine.

I can’t imagine Zelensky meeting with Putin. How could he now after everything that’s happened

Stop pretending Russia is democratic 😂

We need a strategy that helps Ukraine not only to win this war, but thereafter to win the peace. This involves fundamental changes in Russia - so fundamental that the Russian Federation needs to break up into smaller countries that no longer want to bully their neighbours

Sounds like appeasement ✌️1938

Excellent guest.

What on earth does “the ability to defend themselves” actually mean? Defence must above all be timely and forceful - especially in the face of the mongol horde!

The Kremlin finger painter is the most USELESS military leader in Russian history. He makes the Austrian painter look like a military genius and we all know how that turned out in the end.

Thanks for your good works, advice and enlightment. Blessings

" I can't see Russia being defeated" sums up the shyt opinion of weak Western military brass. Russia is already defeated. Just because you built a giant in your mind for 60 years you can't accept that this giant is actually only 5'3. Russia's real goal to erase the Kyiv govt is not impossible. They have been defeated, whether they eat on eastern lands or not.

So many Russians dying for one man....

Russia has put itself in a corner where it can no longer define when the conflict is over without complete withdrawal from Ukraine and maybe not even then,

The most level headed military man who has commented on this war. Still, I think Western experts inveterately underestimate how far Putin is willing to go in regards to Ukraine.

Yes

Timothy Snyder:” The peril of slowness” so true!

100 steps behind!

Under pressure from whom? No one in his own country dares to stand up to him.

Ukraine has been fighting with one hand tied behind it's back, we in the West need to let them use both hands.

Clarity 😊

Yes you are right ❤

I did not realize that Onslow from Keeping Up Appearances was a military expert! 😱

Ukraine doesn’t have to negotiate with Russia

These warmongers keep playing with fire

Someone mentioned Gerasimov, BTW.....where IS he?

realization once one FO&FO priceless

It’s about time!

Tim Cross said: "I can't see Russia defeated" ... I wonder if the more practical statement is "I can't see Russia winning". At this point, Russia is on the offensive, advancing more than before but at staggering cost. If they achieve a "win" where they force Ukraine to sue for peace after ceding a significant amount of their country, where does that leave Russia? An isolated state with allies like Iran and North Korea and completely dependent on China. That seems to be the best Russia can hope for from the current course of action. The part of Ukraine they will inherit will be in shambles, the population resentful and in urgent need of reconstruction. The economy in poor shape, having burned commerce bridges and retooled for war. The war veterans will come back to a country with few prospects. Ethnic tensions, always simmering, might boil over. That does not sound like much of a win.

You can't win just playing defense

Great interview Times but can you buy this guy a light

Good!

Well lets see if Putin meant what he said last week. That if UK Weapons are used to strike Russia he will respond by hitting UK Targets.

Also because democracy vs autocracy, the turtle always wins when chalenged by the rabit😂

Recommended move: "The Bodyguards..."

A fight is a fight

Sir slow n steady wins the race! It’s on the for long range missiles

The Ukraine won't have electricity for a year.

I subscribe to the view that Putin does not want a very competent person in charge of defence (to replace Shoigu) because they would control the armed forces and could then challenge Putin himself via a coup. He has no regard for human life except his own.

I’m starting to worry these experts tell us just What we want hear.

I totally agree with Maj. Tim Cross

You never get anywhere giving in to a bully. First time we asked Putin, "Are you going to invade Ukraine and he said no. We should have said good because if you do, we are fighting alongside Ukraine if asked. It's just common sense on the street stuff. Obviously, it's not something that MPs and most world leaders are good at. They don't know how to deal with Putin because he is just a criminal acting as a leader.

Will Surovikin replace Gerasimov?

How could Ukraine defend itsself with one hand tied in the back? Orcs need to pay the prices to learn!

It's absolutely straight forward, i thought!

Hang on; The Russ are advancing in the east of Ukraine. Economies of scale should benefit Pootin whether that is manpower or materials. Should Russia be ostracised from the democratic world after this war is over and a deal struck. Or will the world again return for cheap oil & gas.

Ukraine is the shield that protects America. 💙 .Go home Ruzzia!

This Reckless Behavior by the USA And NATO

Russia is suuuuuch a joke hahaha

Gerasimov is ⚰️, there was ONE video of him for 5 months, before he was often seen leading and giving instructions. The only video was of him voting, could be a 5y old video! Or a guy dressed and makeup as Gerasimov.

This is a well balanced perspective. Admittedly, what one defines as victory or defeat is somewhat subjective. For example, some claim that Russia has already 'lost' relative to their initial goal because 2+ years in, they only hold ~19% of Ukraine, much of which they've held since 2014, and stands little chance of gaining much more. However, I'm surprised that General Cross said he could not see Russia being 'defeated'. While I lack the military background to impose a solid reality check on my view, I think the combined west has more than enough production capacity and advanced weaponry, and Ukraine has the will to overwhelm what Russia has left. This could define 'victory' as Russia leaving ALL of Ukraine. I consider much of what media presents as suspect. Yet in aggregate, it suggests to me that: -) Russian troop moral is already low. We can accelerate that. It may not take much for it to reach a critical stage where any semblance of coherence is lost. -) The troops are often ill equipped of both arms and even basics like food and first aid. We can accelerate this shortcoming with 'long range fires' crippling Russian logistics. -) The massive losses of offensive, transport, and defensive vehicles/platforms already exceeds Russia's replacement capacity. 'Long range fires' can accelerate that loss rate. -) Increased quantities and freedom of use of 'long range fires' and introduction of F16s, will effect the point at which the 3 tasks noted above cause the Russian offense to collapse. Does the collective west lack the capacity to overwhelm Russia? Is it just a lack of will? Or, is it a calculated strategy to limit Putin from feeling the need to issue full scale mobilization orders until such time that Russia has been bled so dry that there is too little left for full mobilization to amount to much?

September 2005 the UK paid back the last 50 million USD war debt.

As a retired Army 24 yrs E-8 senior NCO. I remembered the British in Basra, my command wasnt impressed. So when it comes to war the British should leave it to we Americans . British can barely stand up 3 armor division. But we American still love yall.

what pressure? Stop this nonsense

Once the brits get there, the game changes and it's game over for putler.

yeah you got a world class discount on that war material.

Question: did the allies negotiate with Germany in the nineteen forties?

😅 this war could have been over a year ago if the West had any guts .

They have not said this

This was my feeling the second I heard a drone(that they(russia) admitted was Ukrainian)had hit the Kremlin and they didnt start launching nukes? I havnt wondered any further into how tough, or hostile russia is sense that.

Well, I indeed can see Russia defeated, Sir.

Another failed general with more failed predictions

The new buffer zone will include 80%

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I don't see Ukraine quitting and letting Russia keep Crimea is a solution. Ukraine would forever be at immediate risk of attack from a few miles from its major port. Which foreign investers would want to rebuild Ukraine with that risk?

I said this before I will say it again... Putin refrained from mobilizing before Sept 2022 cos he was also afraid if he mobilized a million then NATOI would see that as a threat and ramp up themselves. So instead he mobilized a lower number and then kept up with a 'replacement' rate of casualties.... about 30k a month. But now the casualty rate in the last week as skyrocketed to over 1500 a day, if it keeps going his casualty rate could go over 2500 per day... and that means he needs 45k to 70k a months conscripted or over half a million a year. So now he has NATO's undivided attention on this issue, EXACTLY what Putin was hoping to avoid at all costs... and due to Russia's ramping up NATO too are arming up. Russia cannot compete with the EU and US in terms of industry, young men, money, infrastructure and military power. If NATO nations in Europe really wanted to, if they had to, then they could raise an army of 10 million in a year. Thats exactly what's starting now.

No chance of them two meeting up

. . . anyway it is an stupidly arbitrary assertion that the useage of western weapons on RU territory would be making the "West a directly participating war party" - that is how RU wants to see / interpret it - but RU under no circumstances could take on a direct conventional confrontation with "the West" / NATO and so RU is threatening a (tactical) nuklear escalation which then would definitely cause an immediate direkt involvement of the West (or of NATO if any member would be attacked) . . .

Putin and Russia are your biggest nightmare.......... Goodnight west

Love the unwavering optimism of these guys 😂

I think major should help on th front in Ukraine. Go major, go

NO ONE WILL WIN

appeaser. Basically give Ukraine enough not to lose, but not enough to win. Has he got shares in a company e.e. Reiffensbank, Rand etc and hopes to make money from Russia after a ceasefire with Ukraine giving up its eastern lands and Crimea.

How dare anyone tell Ukraine they can't attack a country that has attacked them. So it's ok for Israil to commit genocide on civilians, wow, double standards

Putin has said he would do a peaceful deal where the boundaries are now

Putin screams "Cobra!"

Why is this a repeat from yesterday?

Appeaser.

Blinkin said no

Bout time.

Shoigu about to suffer from plutonium pill open window grief syndrome😊

This guy was a logistics general. Basically a warehouse manager and he's putting himself out there as a geo political/ military expert

If it were a war that would work. This is only a special op. Perspective,perspective.

Fighting a larger nuclear neighbor in hopes of using promised borrowed weapons from across the ocean 🤡

Why aren’t young Ukrainians signing up ? It seems odd to me that UKR wants weapons but so many don’t want to fight ? A war on home territory will not be won unless the entire population gets behind the effort to defeat Russia.

We’re providing Ukraine these things now because Ukraine is losing.

Why does Blinkin and other EU potentates have to travel by train after obtaining permission from Russia to go to Kiev?

Hello, professional liars!🖐️

Just stop your weathervane nonsense. Ukrainians are struggling to defend Kharkiv. Clickbait headline. Then heavily nuanced backtracking.

There is only two possibilities None Head It's all or nothing

clickbait title after clickbait title. So tired of it

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