⁣Literal bullshit.

Quit mirror imaging your own murderous predictions on the Russian nation.

History will show that Russia waged an incomprehensibly moral conflict against a fundamentally corrupted nation infected by the disease of Banderism.

America would have treated you like ISIS.

Leveling your cities.

Collectively punishing the innocent for the crimes of the guilty.

Ukraine is lucky they fought the Russians.

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⁣Zimovsky’s analysis is flawed.

We can ignore his casualty calculations as a byproduct of bad data.

Russian casualty rates have dropped from the spike that took place at the outset, and the period of the Wagner assaults around Bakhmut.

The war is fought on the basis of an attritional model where the infliction of enemy casualties and the minimization of friendly casualties are imperatives.

One would say it takes far more tactical and operational skill to implement this model than the maneuver-specific models seemingly favored by Zimovsky.

The key here isn’t that this model of attrition be extended artificially by linking it to a territorial paradigm; this model is about sustainability of resources, the exhaustion of one side’s ability to continue the fight.

This is strategic thinking.

Russia can sustain this model for the foreseeable future.

Ukraine cannot.

Which is why almost all observers of the conflict concede that Russia is prevailing in dominant fashion.

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⁣UKRAINE’S ENDGAME PHASE

The situation in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and the prospect for a negotiated peace literally defines the term “fluid.” Positions that were once seen as carved in stone have vanished, and relationships that were deemed rock solid have crumbled. The winds of change that have swept through US domestic politics under President Donald Trump, leaving chaos in their wake, have shifted to foreign shores, with no less disruptive an impact. The trans-Atlantic relationship between the US and Nato, once described as a “sacred bond” by former President Joe Biden, is teetering, as the foundation of a common cause that historically held it together erodes with changing US priorities. Amid this geopolitical anarchy, Ukraine, which once had the full support of the collective West, is left confronting the Russian forces that invaded and occupied its land. Western support is now very much in question, with the US realigning its strategic priorities in a manner that appears to favor Russia, and Europe is scrambling to respond. The ability of Ukraine to continue to resist the Russian military under these conditions is also in question. The key question is no longer whether Ukraine can be positioned to defeat Russia, but rather what Ukraine will look like after a peace agreement.

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Europe spent over 21 billion Euros purchasing Russian gas in 2024.

Europe sent 18 billion Euros in aid to Ukraine in 2024.

Europe funding Russia’s war effort while bankrupting itself is the defining feature of European geopolitical irrelevance.

The sooner the United States distances itself from this insanity the better.

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DO THE RUSSIANS WANT PEACE?
Interview for Judging Freedom

01:58 Interview begins.
04:03 Russia's reaction to US policy.
12:02 Germany's new chancellor and the war.
13:49 Trump's strategic course.
22:59 Possible CIA audit.
26:45 Problems with intelligence.

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⁣ASK THE INSPECTOR EP. 241

Live Stream Scheduled for February 25, 2025 at 3:00pm ET

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⁣TOLSTOY’S FOLLY

“Happy people have no history,” Leo Tolstoy wrote in Anna Karenina, a story about a very unhappy Russian lady whose mental instability manifested itself in her eventual suicide.

Russians who lived during the transition from Gorbachev’s Perestroika to Yeltsin’s “shock therapy” were, by Tolstoy’s literary posturing, inherently unhappy people, since they lived in a time which rewrote the history of a nation and people.

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UKRAINE’S FINAL SHOWDOWN: THE ENDGAME BEGINS!
Interview for Dialogue Works

00:06 Introduction and Trump's position on Europe.
13:44 NATO and the EU as a continuation of US policy.
17:41 Economic cooperation with Russia and China.
21:26 Political situation in the US.
27:07 Political situation in Germany.
33:29 The future of Europe.
39:45 CIA intervention.
43:20 Energy strategy.
47:50 Western Ukraine.
54:04 The influence of the Trump administration.
01:01:46 Influence on the Middle East.
01:11:02 Israel's strategy in Syria.

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BRICS DE-DOLLARIZATION IS DONE, TRUMP KILLED IT
Interview for Jamarl Thomas

01:54 Reaction to de-dollarization.
06:42 Continuity and de-dollarization.
09:28 Revolution in the USA.
11:27 Panic and chaos in Washington.
17:13 Revolution and its consequences.

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NATO'S UNCIVIL WAR
Interview for Garland Nixon

02:38 The role of the United States in NATO.
17:33 War with the European Union.
25:29 Historical mistakes of Europe.
31:09 Negotiations and diplomacy.
38:03 Security guarantees.
44:29 Warriors of the 21st century.
53:52 Strategic goals of Russia.
01:00:20 Diplomatic reconciliation of the United States and Russia. Optimism and realism in politics.
01:15:04 Trump and May 9.

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⁣WHY TRUMP ADMITTED RUSSIA WON THE UKRAINE WAR–NATO CUT LOOSE OR RETOOLING?
Interview for Danny Haiphong

Live Stream Scheduled for February 27, 2025 at 9:00pm ET

On why Trump appears to have conceded Russia's victory in the war, and how to understand the context bringing rapidly changing developments in U.S.-Russia relations. We ask: Is NATO done or retooling? Is the US seeking friendship with Russia or a more effective coercion?

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"A NATION THAT DOES NOT KNOW ITS PAST HAS NO FUTURE"

A nation that does not know its past becomes vulnerable to the times. It can become easy prey for manipulators who will use its ignorance for their own purposes.

Without knowing our past, we risk losing touch with our roots, losing the understanding of what is truly important.

Knowledge of history is not just a hobby, but a necessity. And today, the guest of The Russia House with Scott Ritter is historian Kirill Nazarenko.

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TRUMP ADMITS RUSSIA WON, PUTIN CRUSHES UKRAINE–NATO IN TOTAL COLLAPSE?
Interview for Danny Haiphong

00:01 Meeting between Trump and Starmer.
09:15 Arms supplies to Ukraine.
19:38 NATO funding.
29:50 Revolution in US politics.
37:45 Trump and Venezuela.
47:29 Trump's new foreign policy.
58:48 Middle East and Europe.
01:10:45 Competition with China.
01:24:13 Trump and China.
01:34:24 Multipolar world and Russia.
01:41:03 Negotiations with Russia.
01:57:27 Optimism and criticism of Trump.

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The Paris Peace talks that ended the Vietnam War began in 1968.

The final agreement was concluded in January 1973.

Trump has done more in one month as President to change the negotiating dynamic around the Russian-Ukraine conflict than anyone could possibly have envisioned.

And yet he continues to be attacked by those who question his commitment to peace.

Peace takes time.

Trump is on the fast track.

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⁣ASK THE INSPECTOR EP. 242

Live Stream Scheduled for February 28, 2025 at 8:00pm ET

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A CONVERSATION WITH SCOTT RITTER ABOUT UKRAINE AND DOGE
Interview for Issues that Matter with Cynthia Pooler

00:58 Trump and the "deep state".
14:23 The future of Doge.
21:43 Economic deal with Ukraine.
31:24 MAGA and its influence.

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