BRICS versus NATO + AEB + EB (1)

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Scott Ritter: Mainstream Media Is Hiding Everything By Falsified…

Scott Ritter: Mainstream Media Is Hiding Everything By Falsified Narrative !!! YOU KNOW THIS TRUTH SPEAKER : Scott Ritter*CREDIT Scott Ritter

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the mainstream media is trying to

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convince people about a falsified

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narrative

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I’m not trying to convince anybody of

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anything I don’t have a you know I don’t

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have a dog in this fight I’m an American

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I’m not Russian I’m not Ukrainian I’m an

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analyst uh but I’ve gotten a lot wrong

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but I’ve gotten it wrong not because my

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intent is to deceive I find it wrong

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because I assemble a limited uh data set

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and I try to connect the dots and

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project you know what what future events

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will be and you know projecting the

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future is always a difficult analytical

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task even if you have 100 certainty of

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all the data because there’s just so

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many moving Parts you can’t possibly

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um be 100 correct all the time

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so I’ve been wrong on some things I I

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thought that for instance this war would

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not last as long I thought the Russians

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would you know would be more successful

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in their initial combat operations

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against the Ukrainian military it

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happened to be an assessment that was

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shared by General Mark Miley by by

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William Burns the director of the CIA

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and others we we all made the same

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mistake

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um not understanding that Russia wasn’t

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going to war against Ukraine uh my

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assessment was it was premised on Russia

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going to war against Ukraine not

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carrying out this limited self-limiting

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special military operation and it’s

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taken me and others some time because

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even though uh Vladimir Putin in in the

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Russian leadership has framed the

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special military operation politically

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from a military operational standpoint

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the Russians have not done a good job of

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describing to the layperson exactly what

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the a special military operation is

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Right we’ve been we’ve been compelled to

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um assess from long distance limited

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facts try to prioritize the fact set to

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what we think the Russians are saying

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and come up with a definition of what

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the special military operation uh is

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it’s taken me a little bit of time to do

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that I think I’ve gotten it right and

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once I once I recalibrated my military

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analytical uh modeling that takes place

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between the left earlobe and the right

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earlobe I think I’ve been much more

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accurate in in my predictions look at

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the end of the day you know factors like

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PK probably ability of kill don’t change

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you know whether you’re pro-ukrainian or

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pro-russian every time somebody pulls a

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lanyard on an artillery piece there’s

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there’s a mathematical formula attached

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to the probability of kill so you need

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to plan your pool with specific

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intelligence a specific combinations of

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fusing shell types the terrain Etc and

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and then from that you can pretty much

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predict what casualty rates are going to

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be and one of the things that I think

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I’ve been pretty good at is saying

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straight up that the ukrainians are

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suffering far more losses on the

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battlefield than Russia you know I mean

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people can point to the early days of

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the special military operation where

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Russian columns were ambushed where

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Russia suffered uh losses but these are

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one-ups these aren’t sustainable or

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sustained victories aren’t part of

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Ukraine it was part of the

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miscalculation made by Russia early on

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to push forward without adequately

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securing flanks in the rear under the

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assumption that the ukrainians wouldn’t

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resist to the level that they actually

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ended up resisting but once we got past

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phase one we moved into phase two

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I think I’ve been pretty dead on because

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again I’m not trying to convince anybody

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of anything I don’t have an agenda my

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job isn’t to convince people that you

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know that Russia is going to win or that

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Ukraine is going to lose my job is to

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take a look at the facts and say

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Russia’s

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right now the data set you know points

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to Russia winning on the battlefield for

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this reason that reason this reason that

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reason uh I was one of the first people

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in fact I was attacked very very

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aggressively by many people when in May

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I I said look the provision of tens of

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billions of dollars of NATO equipment is

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a game-changing event that’s going to

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fundamentally change the reality on the

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battlefield I was one of the first

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people to say that Russia has

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insufficient resources to the task uh

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that if you start a special military

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operation with 200 000 men and your the

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premises you made in in creating this

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Force didn’t pan out and you’re now

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engaged in a broad based War of

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Attrition against an enemy that

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outnumbers you three to one you’re going

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to have problems uh and the problems

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become magnified when that enemy despite

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being ground down by your forces because

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of your artillery Advantage has been

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reinforced dramatically and this this is

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what led to you know the the battles in

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uh in in card Cove in September uh the

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battles in carouson in in October where

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Russia was uh forced to withdraw from

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significant territory but I’m also you

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know I said that it was a Russian

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withdrawal not a Russian Retreat that

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the Russians hadn’t been defeated Russia

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simply recognized that it was in a

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disadvantaged uh situation and pulled

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back did Russia suffer losses yes but

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Ukraine suffered even more losses and

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that’s something I pointed out and

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basically my calculations are derived

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from Two basic concepts what I call a

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burn rate and what I call a

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replenishment rate and the burn rate is

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the casualty rate the degree to which a

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respective military force suffers

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casualties both Manpower and Equipment

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if you have a high burn rate you’re

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suffering High casualties if you have a

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low burn rate it’s lower uh we know that

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the Russians are you know having a a

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casually ratio advantage of anywhere

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from one to five to one to ten depending

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where you are in the battlefield the

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bottom line is Russia’s killing more

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ukrainians and the ukrainians are

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killing Russians but we also know that

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the Ukrainian replenishment rate is

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significantly reduced uh why else are

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they begging for more equipment from the

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West it’s because the equipment that

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they’ve brought in has largely been

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consumed uh in combat operations against

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the Russians the Russians meanwhile

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are finishing up the final preparations

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of the last of the 300 000 partially

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mobilized mobilized reservists their

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replenishment rate is huge so with a

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small big replacement rate taking on a

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huge burn rate small replenishment rate

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basic military math dictates that this

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is Advantage Russia then you link into

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that uh the the the overall conditions

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under which these armies are fighting

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Russia is fighting uh with a you know

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with the line leading back to a nation

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that is fundamentally intact politically

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economically socially the leadership of

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the Russian leadership has tremendous

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support base of support amongst the

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Russian people the Russian economy is

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not only functioning for the civilians

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but has been successfully transitioned

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into a wartime economy from a defense

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industry standpoint where the defense

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Industries are churning out military

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equipment I don’t I don’t see any

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disadvantages from the socio-economic

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political Foundation upon which the

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Russian military operation is based we

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come to Ukraine and we can’t say the

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same thing that the Ukrainian economy is

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in tatters the fact is if it weren’t for

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the injection of

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tens of billions of dollars of direct

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financial assistance to Ukraine their

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economy would collapse instantaneously

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even with this assistance their energy

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grid is devastated they I I don’t know

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what level they’re operating at now 30

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40 in some places less than that maybe

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in some places more than that but as the

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Russians continue to degrade the energy

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grid uh the ukrainians lack the ability

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to reconstitute it and this further

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degrades not only the economy of Ukraine

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but the Society of Ukraine yeah it’s

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shot and and so that when a society is

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poor morale it translates into a lack of

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support and we see zielinski right now

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engaged in internal political

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um conflicts with his Commander his

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Armed Forces as illusiony there’s talk

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about zillusny of becoming a political

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opponent to zielinski in the upcoming

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elections uh we see other players

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Klitschko the the mayor of Kiev throwing

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his hat in the ring there’s other

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players out there as well so there’s a

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lot to infighting political Intrigue

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taking place that doesn’t exist on the

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Russian side and then you have of course

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the the fact that the Ukrainian military

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is devastated there’s a lack of morale

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there and the equipment they are being

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provided is being provided haphazardly

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they’re not prepared to maintain it

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they’re not trained to operate it and it

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pretty much isn’t designed to

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transform the battlefield to their

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advantage so when you put all these

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factors in it’s not hard to say from a

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big picture

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not only is Russia winning but Russia is

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positioned to win to accomplish these

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objectives of demilitarization

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denotification now having said all that

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none of this is going to be easy and

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it’s not going to be cheap I mean we can

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sit here and talk about casualty ratios

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you know they’ve been throwing out some

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figures that you know in in the Bahamut

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uh solidair area region uh the the

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ukrainians are suffering 800 a thousand

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or even more casualties a day

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that’s a lot but remember this if the

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casualty ratio is one to ten and you’re

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suffering 800 casualties a day that

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means the Russians are suffering 80

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casualties a day that means in a week

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Russia is suffering you know nearly 600

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casualties in a week I don’t know what

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percentage of those are dead and wounded

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but if it’s 600 calories in a week that

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means 150 to 200 dead

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right that’s a lot a week so you know we

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we can’t sit here and just because I’ve

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painted this so-called Rosy pitcher that

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has Russia winning pretend that Russia

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isn’t suffering losses that this isn’t

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expensive for Russia this isn’t hurtful

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for Russia but the Russian Nation

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because it has a viable economy an

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economy that has voluntarily and

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willingly transitioned into a a wartime

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footing for defense industry because the

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nation has rallied behind its political

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leader I think Russia is positioned to

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absorb these casualties and move on

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without any hesitation whereas Ukraine

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the more the reality comes out about the

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Casual levels I think the less support

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uh is going to exist many ukrainians are

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fleeing the country many ukrainians are

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just fighting for basic survival so I I

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just think again it’s Advantage Russia

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but it’s not going to be easy and it’s

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not going to be cheap I don’t want

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anybody to think that I’m somehow

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predicting a simple easy a victory for

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Russia there’s nothing