Top Ukraine General ADMITS War UNWINNABLE

Top Ukraine General ADMITS War UNWINNABLE

let’s move on to Ukraine uh this was also a very important story this is one which uh we’ve been tabling for a little while there have been no immediate developments with the biggest news that really came out from just two days ago let’s put this up there on the screen is uh you can look view it in two ways President Putin of Russia has replaced Serge Shu who was the longtime defense minister one of his closest allies in the Russian government in a major security shakeup allegedly Crystal he had been uh he’s been nominated and given a promotion but I guess they call this like promotion a promotional firing in the best way possible but what’s fascinating is that he did not put a military man to replace him he actually put a former deputy prime minister quote who specializes in economics to replace shogo now the reason why that’s so important is that this shows basically that the Russian economy post sanctions the way they’ve been able to survive is to fully ramp up their entire military-industrial complex it’s the way that they’ve been able to pump so much money into their economy they become one of the major employers obviously they’ve drafted Andor recruited hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Russian citizens into the military they’ve got artillery production which is coming up so economic management and a fusion of the war industrial complex tells us actually that Russia is in a more robust and actually self-sufficient place than it was prior to the war sergey’s firing really comes on the heels of obviously his failed invasion of Ukraine and some of his embarrassing it it just revealed the oligarchic you know corruption that was inherent to the system hiring somebody like this especially on the heels of the many Russian victories recently uh that have been happening it tells us where things are going in that they’re coming at this from a total position of strength their economy is doing better than the Euro Zone according to the IMF you know the international monitor fund you’ve got Putin basically more popular than ever more of a stronger hold on power the oligarchs themselves all have not deserted him despite all of these sanctions and now you’re putting somebody frankly even more competent who’s in charge which if you think Russia’s an adversary is not necessarily something that you want so by all means their military is much more powerful their new leaders are much more efficient and they’re showing us that their War footing is actually on more of a basis today than it was before and that any attempt to degrade their capacity has not happened despite the $200 billion or whatever that we’ve spent so far yeah so reportedly there’s a few things going on here um to start with shyo is the guy who thought that they would just roll into keev and knock off the zilinsky government and it’ be over like this and no no problem and obviously that didn’t work out and you’ll remember the early phases of this war went very badly for Russia I mean it was really a truly a catastrophic like disastrous showing from the Russian military there’s also you know all these I’m sure Justified allegations of corruption in sense that he’s like you know corrupt dude who’s um you know eating off the tee of the state so there’s that and then the I think bigger picture here is that they describe this economist I’m going to go with bellav as his name they say he’s a fan of military Keynesian keynesianism he believes in the supremacy of the government in the economy government first then business and so it’s an acknowledgement too of the Contours of where this war is at this point that basically like you know you’re in this somewhat of a stalemate right Russia is starting to gain the upper hand and one of the key questions here is um you know how can your economy perform how can you spin up as much defense production as possible and um as as Sager’s about to talk about there are a lot of signs that you know the ukrainians not only because there’s been a lull in their support from the US that lull has now been filled don’t worry guys all the stuff is coming to you but because they have so little of their own defense production capabilities um that you know over the long run Russia is focused on being able to spin up their own production and using that to bolster their economy and also keep people happy in terms of wages and jobs Etc they’re going to be they’re going to be in a much better position no and they are in a better position so let’s go to the next part and we’ve just got sign after sign after sign that this just catastrophic news at every turn for the ukrainians here we have major offensive in the carke regions quote according to their own Commander the Russians simply walked in this is the commander of the Ukrainian special reconnaissance unit who fought in the carke offensive and yet what is he talking about here he says quote now his men are facing the prospects of doing the exact same walking in all over again because Russian forces have made small but significant gains right along the border of the carke region their advances quote are only a few miles deep but have swallowed up nearly 100 kilometers already of Russian territory and that in the more heavily defended east of Ukraine it has taken Russia months to achieve the same so they’re trying to consolidate as many of their gains as possible before major Aid begins to flow from the west but even if the aid does begin to flow you’re going to see that the Russians have really mastered of attritional Warfare on the ground they know what they’re doing now at this point let’s put this up there for example Russia’s bombardment of Ukraine is more lethal than ever and what you see is that the Russians have now had two years to test NATO missile defense systems and ones that The ukrainians Have and Have developed custom strike packages that are maximized penetration and so that they can hit all of the targets that they want they say in the past 6 months Ukraine has intercepted only 46% of Russian missiles compared with 73% in the preceding 6 months before the interception rate has fallen to 30% now and the interception rate for these long range Iranian drones has fell 1% to 82% in the past 6 months so drones you know remain relatively easier for them to shoot down they seem to have mastered that but missiles which are are you know frankly the something that Russians any highly Advanced nation state would be able to develop has largely been able to use and employ them and it’s something that the ukrainians themselves have been one of the biggest strategic problems for them that is happening on the ground I would also show you this a very recent interview with the Ukrainian uh the a top Ukrainian General General spitzky this is from The Economist I’ll read you directly what he has to say he does not see a way for Ukraine to win the war on the battlefield alone even if it were able to push Russian forces back to its borders quote an increasingly distant Prospect it wouldn’t end the war such Wars can only end with treaties he says right now both sides are jockeying for the most favorable position ahead of potential talks but according to him meaningful negotiations can begin only in the second TW half of 2025 at the earliest he says by then Russia will be facing serious headwinds because their military production has EXP expanded but it will reach a plateau by early 2026 due to shortages in material and Engineers frankly this is all cope and it’s BS you know their artillery production all of their military production has no signs that it’s going to Plateau anytime soon if anything they’re making exponential games year over-year and Crystal if they’re going to admit that even if they were to achieve their so-called military objective and push the uh Russians all the way back to to their borders that they still wouldn’t win the war then what are we doing here why are we spending all this money except you know increasing the risk of nuclear war Andor a a serious problem in Eastern Europe which the last thing that we all need right now I mean I can tell you what we’re doing it’s just pushing the problem off to you know after the election and pushing it kicking the can on the road because there’s no real possibility of ending the war at this point there’s you no effort to secure some sort of negotiation as we’ve discussed before anytime that American Presidents actually you know draw down troops withd draw from an area they get take hell from the news media I mean you can imagine if there was some actual concrete deal and Ukraine had to give up the dbas or Crimea or whatever officially Biden would be killed he I mean not literally guys but in the Press they would it would be wall to–all negative coverage just like we saw with Afghanistan so it’s just like we’ll keep funding it we’ll just try to preserve the status quo Kick the Can down the road at the cost of you know courting disaster and at the cost of decimation of generations of Ukrainian men and you know future possible instability um for years and years to come so that’s the phase we’re in at this point and no one even denies that I mean there’s not even a plan you don’t even hear this it’s not even talked about in the media anymore we’re entering that phase as well you you see you know obviously we’ve pulled some Wall Street Journal reports and whatever but when’s the last time you heard them talking about this on cable news is very much slid from the front page it’s just this sort of Perpetual ongoing conflict that they’re working hard to push to the back of Americans memories and you know attention span and hope that something undefined potentially one day changes absolutely and uh last but not least just to highlight why this remains dangerous let’s put this up there we still see a lot of actions from Putin and from Russia which we don’t want in a stable World puter Putin orders tactical nuclear weapon drills quote to deter the West which was only a week or so ago he said on Monday that it would practice their deployment of tactical nuclear weapons after what Moscow said were threats from France Britain and the United States this is because the insanity of of all of this is that as the ukrainians do worse and worse on the battlefield and as the West realizes that a alone will never be able to prop them up we have two choices we can force them to cut a deal and we can just wash our hands of an irrelevant conflict or what the British and the French want to do is hey maybe we send some troops there on the ground Special Forces and others immediately the Russians were like yeah if you do that we will kill them we will strike and kill soldiers who were deployed onto Ukraine and now what you know we’re in Article 5 territory we’re in a whole other disaster and that’s why the tactical nuclear weapon drills are not all that far away I mean we talk about this too with with Israel and Iran just because it didn’t go hot that one time it’s just all about tension and tension and tension when you read history it’s very rare that a single event just happens in a vacuum it’s easily predictable if you go back and you look at all the signs some of which can take years I mean you know 10 15 years of tension and buildup and all that before something eventually explodes so recency bias is far too high this is still a very very dangerous conflict that’s happening that’s absolutely the case hey guys if you like that video go to breakingpoints outcom become a premium subscriber and help us build the best Independent Media organization on the planet that’s right we’re subscriber funded we’re building something new we want to replace these failing mainstream media organizations so again to subscribe it’s breaking points.com

Krystal and Saagar discuss a top Ukraine general admitting the war against Russia is unwinnable.

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