How Putin's web of corrupt allies became Ukraine's 'secret weapon' | Mark Galeotti
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- Опубліковано 8 тра 2024
- "If there is any sort of kick off in Chechnya, the question is who would deal with it when his armies, I think 97% of all operational ground forces are currently deployed to Ukraine."
Putin's delicate web of allies have a tendency to undermine Russia and underestimate Ukraine says Mark Galeotti discussing concerns that the leader of Chechnya could be dying.
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Don't take out Putin. He's the guy NATO has to thank for persuading Finland and Sweden, who had been neutral for half a century, to join NATO with their very good armies. He's the guy who managed to persuade politicians and societies of Europe that armies need to be rebuilt and defence production - strengthened. He's the one who's donated dozens of ruSSia's most modern weapons systems for NATO to analyse - by letting them fall into the hands of the Ukrainians, for examples when the ruSSian army turned tail and fled from the Kharkiv Oblast in the face of the Ukrainian offensive. In the same way, he's the one who has donated the biggest number of tanks to the Ukrainian armed forces (the tanks that ruSSians abandoned without destroying are actually even more numerous than the 350 tanks that Poland gave to Ukraine). He's also the guy who's ruined ruSSia's economy.
His political battles have also thrown away a lot of Russias best troops.
The part about the Russian economy being ruined... Opf, yeah that might not be true, the economy is now recovering and even strengthening, thats not good, for us.
He also has the attention of the world allowing the corporate criminals in the west to continue their crimes with less attention.
@@kristsdabolins2642 don't get confused by statistics. Their GDP is solid, yes, but that GDP is immediately fired from guns in Ukraine . That's not productive GDP. If you repair or build a tank, it's expensive so it adds a lot to your GDP. It seems everything's nice because the GDP isn't falling. But if the same tank is destroyed in Ukraine next month, your GDP was wasted.
Imagine in peacetime a "booming" economy where hundreds of office buildings are built giving us great GDP but then 80% of those buildings are blown up. You had your GDP but now it's wasted.
Also, Russia is only able to sustain the war thanks to loans from China and munitions supplies from China and North Korea. These debts will have to be repaid after the war, hugely damaging post-war economy.
Even now Russia has already become an economic vassal of China, because China is not helping for free. Instead, it's giving loans and buying out Russian companies in the mining and oil industries. Basically, China is slowly starting to control a large part of Russia's economy, just like it did with many African countries.
The military production in Russia is up but in fact most of tank "production" is just repairing old tanks from deep storage. Satellite photos have confirmed a lot of the storage is gone.
No aircraft are being produced. There are problems with spare parts so planes are cannibalised for parts.
Railway rolling stock is deteriorating quickly, the number of breakdowns and downtime is up.
Investment in civilian infrastructure has stopped.
There are problems with access to medications and medical services.
Public services have never been very good but now they're worse.
Roads are deteriorating. Heavy military traffic is damaging them but there is no money to fix them.
30% of Russia's budget - a third of the money the whole country has - is spent on the war. Again, it's unproductive spending.
One by one, the extractive industry is damaged and destroyed by Ukrainian attacks and Russia doesn't produce the necessary oil mining equipment.
Russia's economy won't collapse but the country will be in much worse state than before the war and it will ve China's vassal. Naturally it will be the ordinary people that will suffer, not the rich.
@@kristsdabolins2642 I don't think Russia's economy is recovering. Putin is spending Russia's savings on the war and weapons. That makes the figures people like the IMF see. But it is money down a black hole not any sustainable investment for the future. That rate of burn cannot go on for long.
Is there anyone in the former Austro-Austrian Empire who regrets it? Is there anyone in the former French or Brittish Colonial Empires countries who want to go back to colonialism ? Why Would the Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Estonians want to go back with Russia ??
They don't do they but Putin simply refuses to see that
The Tsarists won't take no for an answer when they make offers you can't refuse.
Yea, Rhodesians and South Africans
Yes their is.....
In zimbabwe
(Rhodesia)
For over ten years they repeatedly requested Britain take charge of the country.
Putin is living in the past, dreaming of himself as Stalin... Except he's not Stalin, he's a guy in platform shoes with a bad attitude
During WWII the most serious threats to Hitler's life came from within, I expect the same can be expected in Russia today. The war is obviously going badly and powerful people in Russia at some point may decide to take matters into their own hands.
THEY HAVE occupied 20% of Ukraine and IMF said their economy is going strong...the war is going bad in your head only
How exactly is it going badly? 😂
Biden better look out then
Ummmmm......where to start.......Black Sea fleet ?
@@jamesgreen1116 Do you think the 'special military operation' is going as planned and envisioned by Putin?
kadyrov is fine. In fact, he's in great shape. I saw videos of him lifting a foam prop rock to prove his fitness.
Yeah. Saw this too! Strong like an oxen.
I saw him pushing a huge U.S. made truck! He looked ridiculous!
@@Mozart69938 ...like an oxen with advanced pancreatic necrosis? xD
How else could he push/pull a truck? He's Fine!
I heard he needed the assistance of one or two man servants to sit down when putin got inaugurated
Excellent interview. Many thanks 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
“Believe in the power of your resilience, you have the strength to overcome any storm, for you are Ukrainians & you are not alone in defending your homes”
du Barrie 2024
Much love from the U.K. Slava Ukraini 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇦
At LAST.... someone else with patriotic gumption. Bravo and yes absobloodylutely Слава Україні!
RUSSIA DELENDA EST!!!
PUTAIN...IS...DOOMED......
@@mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311 No need to destroy Russia, but the rest of your post rolls!
FFS stop repeating the middle section at the start
as an old BBC journo this technique seems a bit weird.... and not a little annoying.
What is the reason for that, it's just annoying.
Very annoying
Totally agree,it’s really starting to put me off..
Hear, hear!
"Putin has been Ukraine's secret weapon, and why would you want to throw that away? "
What are remarkable, thought provoking perspective, and thing to say! I never really thought of it this way!🤔
This is basically an admission from Times Radio that the West has been unable to take out Putin. Which you some how put a positive spin on.
@@stephenglover8828you're doing some strange between the lines reading
@@Bushwookie998 well Times Radio has reported so my times that Putin is worried, ill, stressed, going to be replaced etc etc and now they are saying it's a good thing he stays.
Which one is it.
I think the real reason getting rid of Putin would be bad for everyone isn't that someone more competent might take his place, but someone more radical.
His current army of sycophants are falling over each other to present themselves as the most aggressive and unhinged to please their boss.
Most of them, of course, are bluffing, but some aren't
@@stephenglover8828 It’s not an either or thing, whether Putin gets sick and dies (or gets assassinated) so be it, perhaps his replacement will be less keen on prosecuting the war. If he stays on, so be it, his current track record as a war leader has been abysmal. Either scenario is a likely win for Ukraine.
Fascinating analysis. Thank you.
I like the explanation of the concept of traitors and enemies of Putin.
Good interview, informative and well-presented. Good one Times Radio.
Dictator is just another word for criminal.
Prigozin - done
Kadyrov - soon
Gerasimov - in other dimension
Shoigu -
Putin -
Don’t forget Surovikin and all the dead businessmen.
@@PatriciaGoodsonpianist Timur Ivanov not feeling good.
@@bestopinion9257 :) the guy is still under a strong mental shock!
Don’t forget that little weasel, Dimitri Peskov.
Don't forget about Sokolov.
Mark, you have a remarkably able sense of the varying ongoing dynamics in the geo-political issues involving Ukraine!
Thank you and Times Radio for another illuminating interview🙏
The question is clear. For those of us in civil society who depend on law and order, the question should be whether we can allow others, whether individuals or the state, to break the law and violate the interests of others.
Like tRump does in the USA....
The answer is, no. Trump is history.
Mark Galeotti - always great to listen to! Thanks for this interview. 👌🏼
Put the tongue back in buddy, it has brown stuff on the end!
@@hughbarr8408 talking about yourself?
You South Africans never were too clever.
Haha didn‘t know I am SA. But thanks for the compliment. Just a tip: the www is indeed „worldwide“, hence you better do not judge people based on their nickname and pic. Look beyond your own plate. And in case you‘re living in RU - travel to a democratic country. It would help enhance your point of view.
Oh big boy, did I touch a raw nerve? American, with a name like that? I am laughing now and that goes a very long way in explaining how very naive you are. South Africans are far smarter than that.
Mark is superb. His podcast "in moscow's shadows" is excellent
Will look it up thanks
Brilliant discussion with great depth and insight. 🇺🇦
"Putin has been Ukraine's secret weapon."
I thought that was Shoigu?
I thought the secret weapon was the corruption in the Russian system.
As a Finn and interested in history, especially Finlands, and wars, I would like You to:
Remember Napoleon, the Corsican guy in France, if You recall.
It is alleged, that he once said:
If Your opponent is making misstakes on the battlefield, don`t stop him. End of "quote".
I think this is a similar situation, so give Ukrainians enough, weapons, to end this war, and a realistic opportunity, to get their country back, now!
This will, in case of they don`t get those means, continue to the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.
They, are dying today, otherwise we, in those other countries, are going to do so, in a near future, .
from a Finn in Diaspora
Was that the same Napoleon who was thwarted in his attempt to invade Russia. ?
Very informative interview .....
Could Putin also view Zelensky as a too successful competing oligarch, or as a too popular ethnic nationalist? How many leaders of Russian Federation states are out there who might want to do what Zelensky has done, de-Putinize, de-Kremlinize, or de-Moscowize their territory?
Interesting idea.
Interesting. Some people, especially those who insist on primitive, unsophisticated politics such as Tsarism, assume that others elsewhere in the same position operate on the same set of assumptions. It's not always true. Russia wanted Ukraine as an economic power generator that would be broken up into fifes and bestowed on whoever the Tsar pleased, to use as their personal business, like it was always done.
You might have heard of the Bashkir activist who was recently jailed. Ossetia is not happy. Etc etc. A lot of republics would not mind being free. Ukraine and the Baltic republics are bad examples and Putin wants to recerate the glory days.
Amazing analysis! Enthralling
A brilliant man!
I never wish illness on anyone but this guy is so terrible to his people that its hard to be sympathetic
Kadyrov got some of the polonium love from his bud eh, yeah, fell out of Putin favor eh, bye.
Great interview.
They were convinced they could win in Afghan too. This time the enemy is better equipped
The mujahideen were supplied by the US mostly and Britain
@@evangiles4403 yes and the soviets lost
But he Afghans are even fiercer, with a much harsher climate even. My Ukrainian ex-boyfriend was a conscript in Afghanistan. I do not know how he made it alive.
Yeh, so well equipped that Ukraine has lost over 600,000 of their soldiers and currently Ukrainian soldiers are surrendering en masse.
@@hoptoads Not true dusha moya.How well your name fits.
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Extremely interesting analysis, thanks!
Very good. Thank you.
thankyou
Thunderbird 2... love it :)
Pootin ALWAYS has to have an enemy......
This is true, as it is for almost all dictators. So I don't buy the view that Putin only wants to restore Russian Empire boundaries. Once he has them, he'll still need to be the "protector"...
Pootin's been tilting at windmills for years,
He has to keep the Russian people believing that they have enemies...
And that he is best one to protect them.
History needs a well written bad guy. He’s a modern day Eribus but surrounds himself in child knicker sniffers and autism.
Who told you? Prove it
I think it's extremely likely that kadirov is on the way out. Why else would he be trying to get his 16-year-old child ready in a huge hurry! This is going to be loopy.....
His son is an early bloomer dictator and already full of medals!
His son probably won't live as long as him. Warriors always die young.
If the Russians ‘don’t understand’ Ukraine and Ukrainians, I guess that kinda blows the ‘Ukraine is not a real country’ belief on their part…
😂YOU people don't even understand the nature of the current conflict...a civil war, fought along ethnicity lines and ongoing since 2014
Just consider russians to be a herd of brainwashed cattle and you will see why
they don't understand ANYTHING...
Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014.
Guess what? They weren't welcome.
@@therovingrobin5938The current conflict is the result of Putin trying to occupy territory in Ukraine. We have all heard the various reasons he gives. There is no ethnic issue because according to Putin and others, Ukrainians are actually Russian. Ukrainians also represent a threat to Putin’s control over his kingdom. The annexation of Crimea was the first part of the plan, and then on to the Donbas where Russian backed rebels (mostly Russian nationalists) tried their hand at annexing that region. Ukraine fought back.
@@therovingrobin5938 that line is so 2022. Putin has moved on to other narratives…didn’t they give you the new talking point list, yoshko?
Excellent.
never forget Anna Politokovskaya
Mark makes a lot of sense
Brilliant
Not long ago they were talking about Pootin dying and KMAN.
Puutin has poisoned kadyrov😮
Why would he do that?
@@SenorJuan2023 for fun, they just enjoy it
@@SenorJuan2023 Why did Cleopatra do it? For fun and profit.
Oooh! Interesting thought!
@@dixonpinfold2582 There was no incentive for Putin to do it. I think someone in his inner circle did it instead, probably in hopes of replacing him.
If Putin is terminal we have to start to worry about ww3, what does he have to loose?
Na, na, na, na, hey, hey, gooodbyyye! Say goodnight, Ramzan.
And yet during war, we all pay the price. THINK before you speak.
I heard Ramzan Kadyrov on the YT channel Russian Media Monitor yesterday. He sounded like he was heavily medicated or had a strong buzz.
He's been smoking Russia's best selling bath salts "Babushka's secret" for quite some time.
Don, don, don.....
Inshallah 😊
Porque no los dos?
He did always sound like being heavily medicated in some kind of form to talk that much bullsh*
Mark have you got any gigs lined up when this one ends?
Much of the Russian Federation is tribal and clanish. The Russians themselves are an ethnic majority with complete control of the country, rulung through local satraps eg in the Caucasus. Life expectancy for men is short, barely 66 years. And total population is shrinking with a collapsing birth rate.
Very Interesting.
China & Taiwan;
Vladivostok is wide open.
Manciuria is waiting
Still the middle of nowhere
@@ugiswrong A lot of natural resources in Siberia. China want to extend manchuria all the way to ural...
China has 4 icebreakers, with more on their way. Seems kind of out of place for a nation that doesn’t have any ice near their ports…
And keep in mind that naval policy is always almost directed to long-term foreign policy, they definitely intend to move North in one way or another
The two colonels we apparently silent Russian agents before the war started so we’re sleeping until recently activated the story goes
"were" and "were". "we" means us and "we're" means "we are".
So it’s possible they were on the payroll but didn’t act at the start of hostilities in February 2022. My understanding was a lot of these corrupted “agents” were surprised by the invasion. Actually carrying out the plots was not on their minds.
Just the same, they’re corrupted. It’s better to be safe than sorry.
@@Dingbat-tb5wz Nit picking.
@@cattymajiv Clarity of communication.
This does explain a lot about Kadyrov’s seemingly bizarre tendency to drop to the ground and start doing push-ups on Chechen live TV. Probably sensitive about health rumours.
thx good points there at the end... and who knows how many doubles the little guy has..
Shoigu knows too much. His remaining lifespan is likely less than a month in my opinion.
Does he have cancer....or "KGB Flu"?
Surely that should be "KGB flew"? As in out a window.
if it has a faint blueish glow at night, it´s KGB flu
Very interesting.
Kadyrov is the biggest traitor of them all
Putin got he's father killed
Eh?
@@andrewwhitehead2353He sold out his own people. Chechnya wanted to be free from Russia and thought they had a chance after the fall of the Soviet Union. Russia invaded twice and obliterated their capital of Grozny.
@@spamcan9208 I see what you mean
Any TRUE Chechen will indeed consider him a traitor who sold out his country.
I am at present reading KILLER IN THE KREMLIN by John Sweeney and it tells us the story of Putin from his youth to the near present. How Putin has got where he is today is hard to believe but it is Russia we are talking about.
Did he catch it from a goat?
😂
Great interviwe
We can pontificate all we like. In the end, we don’t know what is going on. Other than, people are dying. For what??????
GJ!
Good analysis!
😂
I really reckon that it's just as well that Kadyroff is in such bAd health, for the sake of decency & fairness!
All through history, a warlord is successful, but then he dies, and now what?
Kadyrov has cancer? AAAHAHAHHAHAHA That would be too good to be true. I can't believe it.
It's not true, so you probably shouldn't believe it.
@@xbmcxbmc5680 I wish it WAS TRUE.
"To cajole, browbeat and charm" needs to be slogan of the new era! Put it on a dollar bill instead of "E pluribus, unum"
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Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Don’t forget his son. Kadryov
Is this Carl from the movie UP?
Mir u cijelom svijetu odmah sada mir mir mir 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
He can be replaced,no one is here forever.
That is so beliveable as when they said putin died for the 289th time.
97 percent of operating army in the Ukraine? Who and how do you know that with such a precision?
please PLEASE don’t slice and dice major parts of a single interview and then post several slightly different versions with an entirely new title & posting date/time, which suggests you have NEW information on a thread you have been pursuing. if there is any distinction in the focus on the issue at hand created by the numerous versions, it is slight indeed.
this is disingenuous, if not downright deceitful. i can’t even imagine how such practices are in compliance with journalistic integrity/editorial policies and procedures on honesty.
i am and will continue to find other widely acknowledged sources for my information on global affairs, rather than receiving your content rehashed and heated over.
I thought he pushed a truck today
Perfidious Albion.
The question is can Ukraine's security services potentially, take out Putin??
So good you show it twice.
Will be shown many more times so that those who missed it first ,second time will have a chance to see it. Though it might be with a different title
Georgia, Chechnya, Armenia, Belarus , Siberian republics
Galeotti is getting more like Peter Zeihan with each interview, lots of hyperbole and speculation, without much evidence to back it up.
Old saying:”The devil you know is better than the devil you don’t “.
Nope we know how demonic they are and too many Chechnyas think Kadyrov betrayed them to Putin
You neglected to mention my cat, Max😾 He's not happy, because he's a Russian blu, and is the world's foremost expert on both Russia and Ukraine. Please don't make that mistake ever again. I have to live and feed this expert/terrorist and I fear for my life. Looking very smart today with your outfit James 😮
Didnt Kadyrov promise to take a fatal nerve agent to prove his loyalty to Putin? Anyone say YOLO?
😉😉😉Chechnya is also one of our very best ‘secret’ weapons.
Батько наш Бандера!! 🇺🇦💪🇬🇧💪🇺🇸💪🇺🇦
God Bless 🙏🙏🙏 Ukraine with Victory and Justice ⚖️⚖️⚖️
If you enjoyed this interview with Mark Galeotti, then look for "In Moscow's Shadow", his insightful podcast
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He's probably been given a taste of novachec 😮😮😮😊😊
I think this has been uploaded already
Always stop and listen when Mark Galeotti is the guest speaker!
Doesn't the Chechnya thing go back to the 1870's I'm reminded of the book "Prisoner of the Mountains" by Tolstoy.
Why do evils live long? just wonders me..
Why are these despots live and suppress his own kind..
Well, fundamental question it is..
Thunderbird II
Take him out. You obviously don't play chess.
this is like video game chess where you can respawn the king
Putin isn't the king on the board, he's the opposing player. If you take him out and a better player takes his place all that does is make things worse for you
Does that tool ever get tired of telling lies?
Going by times radio even putin died already two years ago.
Those sanctions are never coming off 😂
Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦 ❤😊 !