Russia claims it downed 10 ATACMS missiles & interview with Defence Secretary Grant Shapps 

For over 100 years The Brits have been telling America they don't understand European politics and I think they may be correct.

Great work my friends 🇺🇦💪

Your take on Blinken in Ukraine 🇺🇦 never occurred to me. I 🇺🇸 thought it was cool 🎸. I have a complete idea of everything going on in Ukraine 🇺🇦. Haters gonna hate.

Listening from Brisbane Australia

How is the freezing of Russian assets going to change the battle lines

II would imagine that it would be an administrative stupidity if the S.A.S. and S.B.S, were not already in Ukraine. Learning all that can be learned and helping out where appropriate.

Excellent interview with Secretary of Defense!

My brother was on RFA Olmeda in the Falklands war. He was 18. They will step up.

Georgia protests are interesting - Russia is losing its grip everywhere.

Better watch for flying shovels

The fact there is people that want the Ukrainians to be sad, crying, scared and running is ridiculous. The Ukrainians have the right to mourn how ever they want... why should Ukraine civilians not be allowed to have fun while being killed by Russian missiles.

I’d also add that it’s a bit disingenuous to say that the U.S. aid has been lackluster to the point that Blinken’s visit creates bad optics. The U.S. has provided unbelievable amounts of ammunition, money and equipment already; not to mention the intelligence, targeting data, EW assistance AND the ongoing work by U.S. (and UK) spec ops to train Ukrainian forces. Could we- and should we- do more? Absolutely. And it’s true that a segment of the Republcan party opposes it…but it’s hardly true that the U.S. has failed to deliver such that Blinken’s visit appears “off”

Foreign policy and military decisions need to be bipartisan. The alternative is giving foreign bad actors an opportunity to influence our internal politics to their advantage.

The interview with Mr. Chaps was very misleading; In relation to the size of the country the UK (and US) support for Ukraine is much smaller than most EU countries and well below the EU average. Mr. Chaps should aim for the UK to reach the EU average and should encourage the US to do the same. It is insulting, and factually incorrect, to suggest that countries like Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and the Czech republic are doing too little - in particular when coming from the UK.

It's been clear for a good while now that we (Ukraine + allies) need two things that anyone exercising the Golden Rule would have done long ago -- (a) establish the shared goal in concrete terms, e.g. restore 1991 borders, and (b) extend the logistical envelope to Ukraine-allied stakeholders. The extra structure of extending the logistical framework could have mitigated the tragic outcome (Ukraine lives lost) of political performance idiocy. The last 7 months has been torture for those of us in the U.S. who care deeply about Ukraine. This is to say I want to see changes made so that we at the very least, smooth out the process for Ukraine's supply chain so they can know what is in the pipeline AND CAN COUNT ON IT.

Anyone can break us (here), we are not strong; we are Americans.

Thanks

Where are the F16's?

BUDAPEST, January 16. /TASS/. The West’s military assistance to Ukraine is senseless and only leads to more casualties, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said. "It [the conflict in Ukraine] has no military solution," he told a news conference after talks with his Hungarian counterpart, Viktor Orban. "The Ukrainian army is no longer capable of matching Russia blow for blow." According to the Slovak prime minister, the situation is unlikely to change even if military support for Ukraine continues. "In three years, we will be standing here and stating that the 50 billion euro (the EU plans to allocate as assistance to Ukraine - TASS) is a total loss, that each party [to the conflict] has lost 100,000 more troops and that neither of them has made any progress. Russians will go on controlling Donetsk and Lugansk; they will not budge, certainly not from Crimea. Russia’s negotiating position will only improve," he said, At the same time, he said that as a Slovak he is grieved to see Slavs kill Slavs because of the geopolitical interests of some forces in the West, who are behind this conflict in Ukraine. These forces, in his words, twice banned the Kiev authorities from striking a peace agreement. He called for letting common sense prevail and stopping the exploitation of Ukraine to weaken Russia. "The Russian economy is chugging along, the ruble is staying stable, Russia is becoming self-sufficient, Russian energy companies are reporting various record-breaking contracts for the export of energy to such countries as China and India," Fico said. He said that he planned to meet with his Ukrainian counterpart, Denis Shmygal, in Uzhgorod on Wednesday. "We continue to insist that we will only provide [Ukraine] with humanitarian assistance but will not send any weapons, as weapons cannot help resolve the problem in Ukraine," he added.

ATACMS have not made any impact on the battlefield so if Russia is or is not shooting them down its not of importance. The Stormshadow did make an impact making Russia withdraw its Navy until Russia captured one and can now shoot them down, one would assume in a few weeks ATACMS will be the same.

QUESTION! ARE SANCTIONS DIPLOMACY???

Shapps sounds like a political hack. I hope Ukraine's survival doesn't depend on him.

Much as I love this pod, the interview was a disappointment. Grant Shapps was allowed to get away with claiming the UK was giving more than other European countries. If he meant in total amounts of aid, Germany gives more. If he meant more in terms of per cent of GDP, 19 Europeans countries (including Germany and France) give more. (See Kiel Ukraine Support Tracker) The big question I'd like asked is, if Ukraine is so important to our future security, why not prioritise aid to Ukraine over future defence spending for our own forces?

It's pronounced "Fitzo".

11:30 west of Ukraine, not western Ukraine

Thank youvfor bringing news from Georgia! Please keep having updates from there for us, the people of Tiblisi and the rest of their country need to know we are watching

SLAVA RUSSIA SLAVA SPETSNAZ ☦️🇷🇺 FJB AND EV

Fico is pronounce “Feetsow’

00:34 Just for the laughs 😂😂😂

It’s more likely chihuahua position for estonia, not “hawkish”😂

david gnoll

It downed 10 out 0f 10 missiles, with it's base. Russia lies and lies.

A leaked slide U.S. Navy briefing slide reveals that China's shipbuilding capacity is 232 times greater than the United States. Specifically, Chinese shipyards have a manufacturing capacity of roughly 23,250,000 million tons, whereas U.S. shipyards have less than 100,000 tons.18 Sept 2023

Basically we have Nato backed Ukraine hitting Russian rear targets every once in a while with a fraction of the firepower Russia hits Nato backed Ukraine with daily and somehow the odd PR success of a missile getting through is game changing... No it isn't, the Russians have a vastly superior force and firepower advantage and always has the escalatory dominance over the battle.

Great episode

and in 14 days more than 500 thousand km of land and more than 20 villages... thanks to Zelensky for the lands and for the Sea of ​​Azov...

Czech President Petr Pavel spoke in favor of halting hostilities in Ukraine and starting negotiations on the post-war arrangement in an interview with Sky News TV channel. "It is necessary to stop the war and start discussing the future [post-war] order," the president said when asked whether Ukraine should now start negotiations with Russia and stop hostilities. Pavel believes it is "naive" to imagine that Kiev will be able to regain territory taken by Russia in the foreseeable future. "We have to be realistic," he said. The parties to the conflict should reach a compromise in resolving the situation during negotiations after the ceasefire, he noted. "There should be a compromise [worked out], but not without one consent of Ukraine, Russia and the countries that will guarantee this agreement," the president stressed. He noted that NATO cannot deploy soldiers in Ukraine. This would mean a conflict between Russia and the North Atlantic Alliance. "No one in Europe wants this conflict," Pavel said.

06:32 Which Western Official was that porky pie from? What’s that? It’s ’’Top Secret’’? LMFAO Hilarious!

No Fly Zone?!?!?! ....that's insanity!

Give Ukraine the Russian central bank cash.😊

How about the video showing destroyed planes radars and s 300 at belbek airport?

TBF, two S-400 launchers did technically intercept the ATACMS along with the "Grave Stone" phased-array radar, 3 Sukhoi-27 fighters, and possibly a Mig-31 interceptor fighter along with the support warehouse. I would pose that launching the S-400 regiment's fire control radar, amongst other things, is not the best way of intercepting ATACMS but...

The Rand corporation has nailed it. He has extinguished all the hopes of a Ukrainian victory . This must be sxtremey depressing to the Guys at the podcast...well just learn to live with it

Five guys from estonia eill not change anything.

Michael Green is a lightweight who should be nowhere near such an important job as defence minister.

The life of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who has survived an assassination attempt, is out of danger, Slovak Deputy Prime Minister and Environment Minister Tomas Taraba said. He told the BBC that the surgery was successful and the prime minister is not in a critical condition. Fico was wounded in a shooting incident that happened after a government meeting in the city of Handlova in the western part of Slovakia. He was hospitalized in a serious condition, with wounds in a limb, the chest and abdomen. The shooter was detained. According to the Slovak mass media, he is a 71-year-old writer Juraj Cintula, who carried out the assassination attempt on Fico over disagreed with the government’s policy. Fico adheres to a principled position on Ukraine, advocating an immediate ceasefire and peace talks. His government, which took office in October 2023, has halted military supplies to Kiev, but provides humanitarian assistance. The prime minister speaks out for normalizing relations with Russia.

As a New Zealander my feeling is that a military alliance with the USA is not worth the paper it's written on. We have good relations with China, those relations should be maintained.

Russia also claims to have defeated the Avengers and Thanos

In an empty bar.

interesting news and great interviews one name this week jake broe your work is very important to getting the word out. Bless Ukraine and Bless the AFU My heart is breaking for the peaceful people of Ukraine. May Ukraine have all defense systems to protect itself possible May Ukraine retake all its land saint javelin #CrimeaIsUkraine saint Himars #WhatWeAreFightingfor #Ukraine #War #Ctrl_Z

Eurovision song competion, wonderful, my favourite was the guy with the beard in the beautiful red frock. A total absolute pinnacle of western culture...well done.

I wonder how much public support there is in the uk for austerity to fund increased defence spending.

On May 16, the Russian Ministry of Defense shared the video that confirmed the precision strike in Ukrainian rear. According to the Russian military officials, Russian Iskander missile destroyed the command post of the 302nd air defense brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The strategically important military base was hidden next to an agricultural enterprise on the edge of the forest area near the village of Staraya Vodolaga. The Russian Ministry of Defense summed up the results of the attack. Ukrainian losses reportedly included a military warehouse with ammunition. Losses in manpower included about 50 Ukrainian servicemen. According to unofficial reports, in total, 35 Ukrainian officers inside the headquarters and 20 more servicemen who guarded the building from the outside were eliminated. The number of military vehicles seen in the area confirmed that the destroyed target was an important military facility. As a result of the strike, the centralized air defense control system of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Karhkiv region was destroyed. Russian precision strikes are pounding Ukrainian military facilities non stop. Amid the ongoing Russian advance in the Kharkiv region, the range of Russian artillery shelling, drone, missile and bomb strikes is expanding, complicating the military operations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Yes, we are the truth. The free world is fighting for the freedom and democracy of the world 🌎.

So many Russian trolls in the comments!!!

I love the way Dom talks. Very funny😅

Look at it from r's view, they see things, in nato are relaxed, this is easy, a breeze, it's no stress keeping r back. That in itself probably frustrates the furuer as he's still looking to justify his actions to his public. It's an incredibly weak position. He's not far from running out and we can only imagine he's done an audit so to fact check what's left in stock. An example is losing 100 flying things would create the same black sea result in he's frightened to sail as will he to fly Anyway, love the coverage every day . Slava Ukraine

Guys, there's no video.

The public school boys drooling over "boots on the ground" should volunteer for the Ukrainian infantry immediately.

Reuters - "EU Commissioner for Values and Transparency Vera Jourova said on social media platform X, 'it had also banned Russian funding of EU media, non-governmental organizations and political parties.' so, it's okay for the West to ban Russian funding but not vice versa ?

10 yesterday, 9 a couple of days before that. There are over 50 Pantsir-S1 systems in Crimea alone. That is over 600+ AA missiles in an area less than 1/20th the size of Ukraine. Nothing that flies gets through that...

Estonia to send troops to Ukraine...2 buses seen heading towards border

Ukraine was historically the munitions and missile production hub for the Soviet Union. Surely it makes sense to establish new production facilities in Ukraine... which longterm would give Ukraine economic recovery and become the munitions hub for wider Europe and NATO.

Yes Russia destroyed the missiles with their warehouses

Your propaganda is hilarious.

A troll is anyone a progressive disagrees with😂

Russia has the most in depth air defenses in the world now. Even the Pentagon admitted that when they first arrived only 7% Atacms were shot down or intercepted but now that figure is over 75%. If the Pentagon is admitting that then it is probably higher. The Russians have adapted astonishingly fast to every new weapon the west has supplied and now has a whole library of up to date profiles on hand for EW and missile interception of NATO arms.

I HAVE ZERO CONFIDENCE IN GRANT TO AMANGE OUR DEFENCE

Moscow is the hydra

Estonia wants to go to ukrain😂😂😂😂...The biggest joke of the century

Nobody in the west truly wants to see Ukraine have to give up territory to Russia. However, this last Russian offensive has been going on unabated since the beginning of winter. Russia is digging in for a long war and the risk of Ukraine running short of munitions again is too great. It's time to start thinking like the Finns did in WW2. Survival is its own victory. What we need to do is figure out an off ramp to negotiations, how to secure Ukraine's borders, and keep Russia out of Ukrainian affairs once and for all.

The Russian air defense is pretty solid so the claims are mostly likely true.

why do we have a joke as a Secretary of State for Defence....this guy is clueless

Dom Rabotino has fallen to the Russians...this must be very depressing news to the Western coalition...Rabotino was the only jewel NATO led counter offensive in June last year managed to show off...now that it is back into the hands of the Russians this is very depressing

Ukraine has lost. #FJB

Sunak: ‘if we give President Zelensky the tools……. He will launder it up and disappear into the sunset ‘ 😅

don’t forget palestine🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

Baltic troops in Ukraine seems logical. I for one applaud the forward facing decision (when it is made) given the reality of what will need to be done to shorten this war and thereby save lives and money.

I'm sure all the pro Dems will have some shity comments now!

british sec was so full of bs he must be your version of trump…what a bunch of gaslighting

Russia claims it is the holiest country in rhe world, so I would be hesitant in posting such claims too quickly. The huge fires at Birbeck airbase somewhat refute these claims. But I suppose clickbait headlines bring the viewers in.

No options regarding Ukraine have been ruled out by the West......other than commencing realistic peace talks.

Estonia 😂😂😂 sending troops for to crest graveyard for them . 😂😂😂😂 this is not robust sound this is stupid line and Estonian leaders thing that US will come in Ukraine to save those Estonian soldiers 😂😂😂😂😂… I think by this speech Russia got scared 😂😂😂😂😂

Situation is stebalize 😂😂😂😂 seriously another Ukrainian lies .. I saw latest video of battlefield which offcourse Ukraine and prodcast won’t share .. lots of Ukrainian just surrendered to Russian forces in kharkiv direction

Good job soap dodgers. 🫡 I won’t be listening tomorrow as I have a feeling it will lack the level quality and intelligence I have become accustomed to.