'Putin would be ousted' if Ukraine takes back Crimea | Anders Aslund
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- Опубліковано 30 бер 2024
- “The important point we need to make is that what is happening in Ukraine is not a stalemate.”
At this stage, either side is likely to push ahead and win the Russia-Ukraine war, says economist and author Anders Aslund.
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The west has raised the white flag to Russia. Ukraine desperately needs us and we are letting them down. As a western citizen I find this very hard to live with.
😂 the west failed just like they were humiliated in Afghanistan after 20 years not too long ago. Ukraine are always looking for more cannon fodder so if you care so much off you go to the front lines.
Me too..this is difficult what the US is doing..it makes me sick to think about this😢
Shouldn't have started a fight you can't finish, should you, citizen?
@@dalecrocker3213Ork alert.
I would just love Ukraine to win ….Evil must be stopped …..he will not stop at Ukraine and cannot be trusted .
American here. I am ashamed of my government all together. A complete let down. Shame !
Its not your government, its one person. Speaker john Stone. He is the Trojan horse
As Usual lol ....Roof top evacuation....
The GOP are not the government. They are the opposition and they're holding up Aid to Ukraine.
@@JohnCSmith-lp1qr Meanwhile a Russian son gets flushed down Putins golden toilet every 63 seconds.
I agree with you. USA is on the verge of losing influence and respect in the free world.
What a shame on our government as an American.
Agree but how can Ukraine liberate Crimea when the West and especially the USA is not helping them but more over helping Russia (indirect). How can you win any conflict if you are not allowed to attack the place that indifferently attacks all you civilians.
Crimea was liberated in 2014.
@@dalecrocker3213Ork alert
@@ger8499Nazis bot alert.
@@alexanderlazarev3570 Ork alert 2
@@dalecrocker3213 get lost
Nous devons aider et soutenir Ukraine maintenant
Mais oui! 🤔(Green Fire UK) 🌈🦉
Well off you go then.
@stu281 As soon as you've put on the Russian uniform
Proud to be Swedish when I hear Anders Åslund voice these facts!
Ganz meine meinung.
One of the few
Instämmer. Tack och lov begriper också den förkrossande majoriteten av svenska makthavare. (Hoppas Ukraina snart också kan få Gripen.)
Sweden refused yearly invitations to join NATO for 73 years. Then Putin invaded Ukraine, and you understood the threat.
@@thinkerly1 Behind the scenes, Sweden has actually cooperated militarily with the USA ever since WWII. It wasn't talked about, part of it even top secret, and most Swede's lived in some unknowing delusion of "non-alignement/neutrality". I've considered it a dangerous policy charade for 40 years, since Russia certainly never considered us "neutral". And the past two decades, Sweden has more or less been a NATO member in all but name. Like interoperability of weaponssystems and taking part in excercises and operations.
But I also argued that Finland had to have the last word on possible NATO membership for Sweden. And that's how it happened.
Spot on.
the supplies to Ukraine are simply pathetic, our economies haven’t been touched by the paltry aid we have provided, and should Russia succeed we face disaster.
I'm glad someone more credible than me is thinking exactly the same way.
Er...yep. He's right. I was going suggest to get this chap on again, but he said everything that needed to be said.
Are our own western politicians so blind?
Not blind but ideologically committed. No off ramp.
Not blind just using the desperate situation to play political games in their own country. Despicable people!
More in denial I think - it's the same level of magnitude as the pandemic was & requires the same level of response.
I 100 % agree, smart guy
America stand up served in Australian army in vietnan.good soldiers. Gutless politicians
The Dutch and Canadians are also a good bunch, can’t say the same about their politicians.
@@johnnyquid-xj4kk which one dutch govement is finaly he govement a try Norse Nederlander .canadian naaaaaah i agree
As a German I am ashamed and outraged at my government especially the party of chancellor Olaf Scholz. I already wrote them and critisized them for that!
He comes across as a coward, and being mostly devoid of strategic forward thinking.
@@patrikfloding7985 Yeah. Had he not been spineless, he'd tell the US to foff and not involve Germany in its machinations with Ukraine. As it is, Germany stands devastated by the actions of its leadership.
@@libertarianbydefault Hi, Putinbot!
@@patrikfloding7985 Hi there! Patrik does not sound very Ukrainian. Is that a way masking one's origin? Does it work?
Europe must be strong and united.
Except that these platitudes won't do anything because all they do is rely on the USA for leadership and guts.
Nicely summed up 👍
Thank-you for this very direct interview.
It feels as if we are at a similar tipping point that we were at at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic - where our leaders finally realise that the impossible is happening & that drastic action is needed.
The dread of realisation that we'd all prefer to deny.
Anders Aslund also being an economist, a question about the level of effort required to address this threat would have been useful, especially during our economic difficulties & the upcoming elections.
And what drastic action has the mad Swede inspired you to take ?
He is so right. We have to listen carefully to what he is saying.
If? It took massive persuasion by the UK for America to do the right thing in WW2. Throughout this conflict the US have been a bad faith actor. No strategy and lies from the start.
IMO, that's unfair and ridiculously simplistic. Politics is the art of the possible and the side effects of war on economies were always going to encourage a backlash against large aid with an appeasement faction. The US government chose containment and it is Trump & MAGA in league with Vladolf that have cut off the aid, that has encouraged the RF to pursue a victory.
The UK government failed to ramp up ammunition production or make preparations despite being long on rhetoric.
While in Europe they've had to realign energy supplies. Other countries in the world failed to join the principles sanctions and instead chose economic advantage of cheaper oil.
Sliding carelessly into WW3 simply wasn't ever a popular policy, which is why defence of Ukraine through support, but winning slowly was the strategy chosen. The RF has taken drastic inconceivable economic measures as it slid deeper into madness, enabled by the equivocation of much of the world.
Party politics is more important to some in the USA than continuing to assist Ukraine with the necessary military aid. The requirements would be being fulfilled still if it wasn't for political games within the country.
Everybody I've seen interviewed on Times Radio so far has been after access. Like: Have you got any spare change please?
To be fair , USA has given more money and arms than any country. While yes i agree we should be giving more long range weapons; however Europe shouldn't cast stones in this. Had they not just sat back for years ,not spending money on defense and letting their militaries slide into mediocrity. Europeans themselves have had their heads in the sand for years always being reliant on the US to provide the manpower and weapons in case of security problems.
Yes our politicians our all playing games right now , what have Europes politicians been doing since 2014 ?
@@leifleblanc160 Div. The US withdrew months ago!
Mr. Aslund is right on.
Wonderful insight. I do love to hear people talk about Russia's illegal war of aggression in Ukraine for what it is and that is the start of a larger hot war, a shooting war, unless Russia is soundly defeated in Ukraine. I know western governments understand this so I have to wonder how much influence foreign money has over many of the governments of the global west. I certainly seems to be a lot influence.
The West is going to be Very Sorry for dragging our feet on this issue. We’re only putting off the inevitable conflict with Putin’s regime. He only respects strength and we appear to be cowards. 🤬. ✌️🇺🇦💯
This is absolutely true!
Already Hernando Cortez noticed that different tribal groups lived on different islands and some terrorized others and thus lived at the expense of others. Muscovite works in exactly the same primitive way even today. The terror of this country is indescribable, always threatening and blackmailing smaller countries and even stealing the original Rus identity from Ukrainians.
You are 100% correct! The collective "West" always seems to display a pollyannish "this can all be solved with clever diplomacy" attitude only to discover that it rarely can be settled at a negotiating table until the foe is vanquished completely and surrenders unconditionally. Only then can "Talks" begin. The West suffers from collective amnesia.
100%!
Ukraine is on the same par as if Quebec succeeded from Canada 🇨🇦 But Canada would respect the peoples decision instead of invading with tanks and missiles.
Scandinavian and Finish are the most logical people in this point in history, all the rest of the countries seems to has gone completely nuts
Excluding our current insanity, the UK is remarkably sane on this.
Yes. That is why they joined NATO. Most logical of all. :D
The US has a poor foreign policy record with Vietnam, Afghanistan and this looks like another and third strike and they are out. The EU has to stand up and be counted as the threat is on their doorstep.
Holy cow! What "strike" was Iraq for the US then? At least Afghanistan had a patina of legitimacy within the UN sphere.
Even the group claiming a million died in Iraq admit the majority of people in Iraq are happier than before they now have a say in their government that will not happen under Putin.
🤣🤣and pigs would fly if they had wings (and antigravity belts)
spot on arguments.
Today, March 31 in Russia marks the Day of Military Glory, the entry of the Russian army into Paris in 1814.
Inferiority complex
@@Amradar123 This complex is called bonapartism.
@@user-mc2sf2kt8qTnx, indeed.
I learned something 😊
Great analysis and update.
Ukraine cant even retake backmut, how on earth are they going to get to crimea?😂
ruzzia couldn't even hold Snake Island and has to hide its fleet of ships - now THATS funny 👍
@@colinmassey527 but they are holding bakmut, right🤣. Is that still in Zelensky heart?
@@a.u.b1 three day operation is going to plan though? From the second army in the world - Chinese golf buggies full of meat - that's embarrassing 👍
@@colinmassey527 three days operation!? Where was it stated? But that's still better than the 20 years of the US in Afghanistan. And it is going as planned, still holding territory 👌
Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦♥
The word "ousted" sounds like "avsted" meaning "off place" or rougly translated as "Go" og "Get going" in Scandinavian. I find it facinating how similar English often is to nordic language.
Remember the counter offensive was to put Ukraine in a better negotiating position?
This will bring Putin to the table you all said.
Then attacks on Russia proper would,
Now attacks on Crimea will?
Zelensky has banned himself from negotiating.
Make it make sense.
Like supporting a government that prevents free and fair elections? Putin's 20+ yrs in power says it all.
No one said any of the above. What is all this about negotiation. President Zelensky wants the Russians out of Ukraine, not negotiation.
@@daydays12 if YOU say so. 👍
It is President Zelensky that said that not me. @@AnthonyCarroll-ue3uv
@@daydays12 Zelensky said that Ukraine needs a counter offensive to be in a better position to negotiate.
Shame on those republicans holding up the most recent aid package. Surely they must realise every days delay is costing lives? Having said that every European country needs to do more.
Suppose Ukraine gets the 61B, in 12 months they will be back asking for another aid package.
@@mrjerzheel Since when have you heard of a war being paid with using a single lump sum? Does the word "consumables" register? Actually, funding Ukraine is the cheapest way the US will ever have for bleeding the Russians without risking our own people. And if Putin's clowns want to tango with a first-rate unit, 101st Airborne is parked over in eastern Poland right now.
I don't think Speaker Johnson ever looks at videos of the horrors that Russia is wreaking in Ukraine... or worse still he doesn't care.
@mrjerzheel And suppose they don't get it and they collapse and putin wins. Who's next on the list? Poland? The Baltic States?
If I wasn't already panicking before, I am now.
"would" be ousted "if"...
Yep. Ifs, buts and the blame game.
Times radio same questions different guests dame Answers,also T.R. gives russia a heads up
Why don't the western politicians get it 😢
Also pitiful pennies of military aid allocated/delivered by Australia's Prime Minister Albanese and New Zealand's Prime Minister Ardern & Hipkins. Something like 500 million euros (Australia) and 35 million (!!!) euros (New Zealand) of military aid for 2022-2023. [In comparison, Denmark did more than 4 billion euros, Finland 1.6 billion euros, and Norway 1.4 billion euros.]
I've written to the new conservative New Zealand PM and again to the Australian PM, Defence Ministers in both countries, and my local MPs --- but just get no response or blank looks back.
When he talks about one million Russian soldiers do not forget that a lot of these are conscripts who have had minimum training. Russia has already lost many of it's elite VDV airborne forces along with some of it's best equipment and many helicopter and fighter pilots who take years to train. Even a competent tank crew takes time to train and we have seen many a Russian tank driver drive over a visible anti tank mine. However, here in the UK the privatisation of recruitment has had s detrimental effect on our forces fighting strength along with poor pay and accommodation. And to be quite Frank our current crop of self serving politicians are just not up to the task.
The Free World must stand together. Slava Ukraini and Slava the Free World!!!!
👍👍👍💖
I'm a U.S. citizen, and I'm very angry about our Congress holding up aid and ammunition to Ukraine. I know that the Speaker of the House is holding this vote up bc Trump wants him to. It's outrageous. Why did the USA even start to arm Ukraine if they weren't going to follow through? I'm ashamed of the Congress and the President Biden. 😢
Ousting Putin sounds good to me!
Six more year and he'll retire.
Nothing to worry about.
@@markbryant4641 At the accelerating rate of Putin's harm to both Russians and others alike, he'll do a lot of damage in 6 years.
Why is Europe not helping Ukraine? Don't they realize Putin won't stop there?
Cowardice or $$$$$
For the same reason that far too many Russians still acquiesce to control by Putin and the kbg: the avoidant psychology of hiding from unpleasant reality for just a little while longer.
Two reasons: because Europe has nothing to help with and because Europe knows Putin is not going to attack it. Europe really wants the Ukraine to win and does what it can to help but it is not going to do anything drastic because at some point it stops being worth it.
@libertarianbydefault There is talk that Putin wants to recreate the Soviet Union borders, meaning invading Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and possibly Poland. They are NATO members. Would Europe allow that?
Pootin won’t stop at Ukraine . If you believe this then you will believe anything and everything. He must be stopped .asap
L’ouest est abandonné Ukraine parce que de peur
Ou l'ignorance.
Ignorance sur la parte d’ouest
Democracy lost to autocracy!
The USA was interested in helping Ukraine at first, but now they seem to be losing interest ... they even want Ukraine to stop attacking Russian oil refineries!
There is no time for West to “wake up”!…We afraid it will be :TOO LITTLE TOO LATE!…We have known about the USA Arizona desert conserved thousands of military equipments that Ukraine needs so so much!…But NO ONE EVER preposed them TO suffering from the bloody war Ukraine !!!😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
i don't understand there is some chief of government reaching that age, he should be retired and stay in a garden, and leave the young Ukrainians and Russian to live.
The only means available to Putin to literally save his own skin is to ensure that the reach of the world community’s legal authority remains safely outside of Russia’s borders.
Of course, but he is powerhungry.
Not IF… When!!!
Ukraine will liberate Crimea. Its Ukrainian land and belong to Ukraine 🇺🇦
One has to wonder if west is fighting the third Crimian war or actually fighting a monster that has brought war in Europe to the greatest extent since September 1st, 1939.
Biden? I am confused now.
"The Republicans tend to like dictators, unfortunately." Although, I'm not sure US Presiedent Reagan would agree with that statement. As for Donald Trump, I don't know what motivates him. Perhaps it's as simple as the idea of bullies liking other bullies. Who knows?
The person who was interviewed has such a strong accent that I just did not understand what he said.
Probably not…
USA need younger options for president . The 2 they have are way too old . .everyone should help Ukraine or Pootin will not stop ..
Yes it does but even with Biden the man with half a brain is still going to beat diaper Donny like a drum at the next election.
The US doesn’t need to merely dump old stocks on Ukraine. More is at stake.
This speaker lost all credibility when he said that Republicans like dictators good dictators, like Putin and like Donald Trump.
This is absolutely absolutely absurd. I expected there to be some semblance of education and intelligence in these points.
@joshuaconnelly2415 You are correct in so far as using the word "Republicans", many are traditional Republicans or Reagan Republicans and support democracy. However, if you have viewed the speeches given, you will repeatedly hear praise by Trump for dictators and the statement that he would be a dictator "for a day" if elected. Then you have Project 2025 and what that would imply for democracy, so in that respect dictatorship is admired.
Trump likes dictators.... just listen to him talking about his love letters from and to Kim Jung Un and his calling Putin's illegal invasion of Ukraine brilliant and the work of a genius. Speaker Johnson does anything Trump wants. That's the Republican party now.
@@davidhowse884 I hope you know that you guys claimed Trump would be a dictator in 2016. then it never happened.
@@attilamarics3374leaving aside the attempted jan 6 coup attempt and denying that he lost
@@peterkratoska4524 Sure. The 'coup' attempt.
Not really convinced by this interview. What Ukraine lacks but Nato has in spades is sophisticated weaponry. If Russia attacks any Nato power they would be deployed immediately. The “meat grinder” war would not exist. You can’t disinvest weapons of mass destruction.
I doubt MANY Ukrainian's would fight for Pootin In Trash if Ruzzia where to fully occupy Ukraine.
They wouldn't have the choice.
Nice interview 😊
Roman Law😊. Never Submit 😊
It’s not about Ukraine. It’s about the west itself.
Only one channel provides dumber commentary than Newsweek. Yep, Times Radio. Home of the armchair warrior and some rather confused "historians"...
Ontop ov that , Navalny is probabllee le new Rasputin.
This makes no sense, in ANY way.
Russia cant even take ukraine east coast black sea fleet
i wish the whole west would Listen to This Fellow !! Exactly !!
If if if....IF Ukraine takes Crimea. Please...this wild speculation is childish.
Is not just wild speculation, the guy is living in cucu land
OK putler.. loving the new black sea submarine fleet gifted by a country with no navy.. 😂😂😂
Curious these Russian bot accounts like their monochrome profile images
Ignorance? Or you just like the nonsense that falls out of the whole in your head?
@@gushunter6709 Agreed, the BIack Sea campaign by Ukraine has been very successful. I am pro Ukraine, not Russia. But this 'counting your chickens before they hatch' type propaganda builds false hopes.
A1 information so ture.
How is Ukraine going to take Crimea if it can’t even hold its own ‘on shore’ land?……. Ukraine is in a slow steady retreat at the moment…..
Black sleet fleet down 35%, no russian air superiority above the black sea and Crimea, Crimean harbours and bases no longer safe and no ships is the western black sea at all.
So Ukraine is getting there.
@@Amradar123 So Ukraine has enough air superiority to retake crimea but not enough to stop countrywide blackouts 5th day in a row ?
@@Amradar123 Yes. Because the war is happening at the sea, around Crimea. Not on a 1000-mile long land front line.
@@nasterfireguy4467ruzzia has stopped all the oil plant attacks in its country then?
@@Amradar123 getting where exactly?
It's easy to forget that Ukraine has been Russian for three hundred years and only independent for thirty. Naturally the Russian power elite still consider it their back garden and want it back under their control. However, it is clear that the Ukrainians have not willingly been part of Russia or the USSR, and have longed for that independence already for a very long time. They may be ethnically similar to Russians, but they have a language and a culture which is not identical. Now that they have so clearly expressed a wish to be part of Western democracy rather than part of the Russian Mir, so authoritarian and nationalistic, I think it would be best to do more to help them in their current struggle. Fear, more than parsimony, rules our response.
Easy because it's a lie
Australia and Canada and New Zealand were English realms. Russia needs to let go and become part of the civilised world.
Someone's been spending a little too much time listening to Putins ramblings
You got more on point when you referred to Ukraine's desire to be part of the west. Whatever history there is in the region, it's irrelevant to the principles involved. There is no such thing as the right to a dictatorship, or the rights OF dictatorships. Even ones voted in are not legitimate. Russia, being a dictatorship, has no valid claims to any territory, even their own, much less the territory of a freer country.
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 🇬🇧
this guest nails it exactly.
IF
Cute narrator.❤
What evidence do you have that Putin let the terrorists attack happen? No bassist whatsoever.
Indeed. The sheer incompetence of the FSB is more than enough. Right now, they only are protecting Putin.
Maybe you've got a point. But what is open to question, is that when any demonstration against Putin takes place, and wherever the location, a disproportionate response is pretty quick to materialize. On this occasion, it seems that the appropriate response was slow to say the least, and I feel that the Putin of old would have managed it better with the means he has at his disposal. Just a thought. Oh. And don't forget. When the Wagner group turned its eyes on Moscow a while back, Putin definitely felt threatened, and there seemed little military response to that event. What if! Regards, 🤔
@@nickphillips7319 The response was pretty quick. The whole affair lasted for barely more than 10mins and the authorities were on-site within several minutes. The "it took them hours to get there" is a rumour that had surfaced on day one and was subsequently refuted as false. Of course, who cares if it makes for a juicy narrative.
@@nickphillips7319 you just wrote a lot of nonsense.
The attackers escaped after 20minutes. If the police or security arrived after 10 minutes why did they let them drive off in the very car they arrived in? The video showed the white car in the middle of the road, right outside the main entrance,
That is even worse than the previous version that it took 90 minutes for them to arrive. Because if the escape was 10 minutes after the police arrived, what were they doing? Having a nice chat? Then let them go, only to chase them hours later all the way to the Belarus boarder?
Sorry that does not add up.
Optimism is nice and Russia is truly hopeless, but they aren't about to lose Crimea. Ukraine is now sitting on the defensive.
Well apart from yesterday when the Russians RAN AWAY and Ukraine liberated 5 settlements in Kharkiv Oblast. Oh and the day before when they liquidated 1259 Russians , and the day before when they liquidated 1124 Russians , and the day before when they liquidated 1307 Russians , and the day before.........................................................
Well apart from yesterday when the Russians retreated in Kharkiv Oblast and Ukraine retook 5 settlements and liquidated over 1300 Russian sons , and the day before when they liquidated 1164 Russian sons , and the day before when they liquidated 1216 Russian sons , and the day...............
The combination of a failed war abroad and a brittle, strained system at home is increasing the likelihood of some sort of implosion inside Russia.
@@Yuri_Volkov. The figures produced by each side for casualties are nonsense. Russia will have taken huge losses (as usual), but the idea of exact figures is just unrealistic. Ukraine went back into the heavily mined grey-zone yesterday. Really not a gain. It was already under their fire control.
The "West's" betrayal of Ukraine is disgusting and shameful like the betrayal of Czechoslovakia in 1938
This is random output of an impaired mind.
Good day dreaming
Te old man was scared because of pooptin
What a sobering interview
Time to stop this bloody senseless war. Ukraine has already lost although no Western politician wants to admit it openly. Aslund should focus on writing his memoirs instead of warmongering which will backfire on the Western suporters.
Ukraine has lost because of 20km?
Nah. The situation for russia at Crimea is very bad. The US should get the aid flowing and the EU should get their military production going but it seems that they want to bleed russia longer
Ahahahahahahaha 😂
Old man you arent threatening the west
west let down crimean people and donbass people when they made a clear choice to stay with Russia because 95% of them are native russians. taking back Crimea is not possible in this reality. did you even ask people who live there at all?
All the russians crying in the comments 😂😂😂😂😂
What are you talking about. There are only 15 comments not a single one is a crying Russia.
@@TheDuravida I agree, read my comment.
@@TheDuravidaA lot of disinfo and hate speech gets deleted after a while
@@JC-rr1wu by hate speech and disinformation do you mean opinions which do not chime well with your own? Or which are not consistent with a certain narrative of a particular youtube channel?
I ask this not to be combative or rude to you, but simply because Aslund could be accused of disinformation in this interview and giving credence to a conspiracy theory regarding the terror attacks.
I think any Russians would be laughing at the idea Ukraine can capture Crimea
No one is scared of the wannabe gay sean p combs😂😂😂😂
Russia hiding from russia 😂😂😂
What a silly title the chances of Ukraine taking back crimea are somewhere between slim an zero
Crimean harbours and bases are under permanent attack, 35% of black sea fleet js destroyed and they have no air superiority or any ships in the western black sea. Russia is LOSING at Crimea.
@@Amradar123 I have counted 4 lies within one line there. Not bad, not bad at all! :D
@@Amradar123 so how would ukraine take bac crimea?
WHEN Ukraine takes back Crimea not if.🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱
This station lives in cloud cuckoo land. Never heard such nonsense.
They are doing what they are paid to be doing.
@@whatwasithinking-jt9nzLike a russian troll like you?
Biden as weak leader ship
OK putler. 😂😂
Putin terrified by this new life hack.
Keep talking… U all betrayed Ukraine and u going to face the consequences
Nordic countries
As much as I want them to I don't see how Ukraine take back Crimea. Even if they were to force Russia to retreat the Russians would retreat into Crimea flooding the place with a few hundred thousand red troops. They are not exactly pushing the Russians back in any significant way, anywhere in Ukraine! So, as I say, I can't see it happening.
Such a defeatist attitude. The same sort of thinking that made Western countries sit on their hands during the initial invasion. "it's a lost cause, blah blah blah..."
And how, pray, do you envisage supplying those 'few hundred thousnad red troops' with no Kerch bridge and no Azov Sea railroad? Sounds like a great plan devised by Baldrick.
@pedtrog6443 I'm not saying be defeatist I'm saying whilst they are not being armed by the west they don't stand a chance of taking Crimea back as they can't even get near there in large numbers without it, let alone take it! Try reading carefully next time!
@CHHickory Firstly it's hardly a plan I've come up with but it is a fact that they would be forced into a retreat into Crimea if the Ukrainians forced them back, unless you think they'll retreat into the sea! Idiot. And secondly they will continue being armed by whoever they're being armed by, namely Nk and maybe even China. Either way I never said they'd be armed enough to hold Crimea...or even fight back against the Ukraine but as it stands Ukraine aren't exactly being armed to the teeth by the west at the moment are they.. another idiot who sees what he wants to see in my initial comment. That's 2...is there any more idiots want to try to pick holes in my initial comment that is actually accurate and makes perfect sense when you read it with an open mind and not too busy thinking how they want to bite back because they're too ignorant to understand what I actually typed??? 🤷♂️
Russia is not communist it is fascist. The USSR doesn't exist any more.
Ukraine could easily take back Crimea. It is well within its reach now, especially with Russias Black Sea fleet almost completely destroyed.
😂😂
Work in progress indeed.
Ukrainian bot!
See? How do you like it, Sally?
It's funny because it's true! Putler lives in a black sea submarine.. 😂😂😂
That is the strategy indeed.
Zelensky has to start talking peace and be ready to seek asylum
Times Radio is obviously an affiliate organization of MI-6.
Hello bot
What flavor of nonsense are you saying
OK putler 😂😂😂
UK ranks 26 on the press freedom index. russia is at 164 out of 180. Which do you think is more trustworthy?
@@SirDigby3601 Who's doing the counting?
Russia is so poor they make sudenese pirates better
Good thing I was fed not like your slaves
North korean are starving thanks to Kim jun un