Russia strikes back
every single day there's like these dramatic photos. there's excellent excellent photography that's done. he's Zelensky's] got all these great angles. And you know sometimes he's got his glasses on, he's looking scholarly, sometimes you know he's looking tough and like army top, sometimes he goes to the front etc. He's fallen around with these cameras that get these really dramatic movie like images even when he's given a speech. I think we had that on a couple of days ago. You could see those are great and unfortunately they seem to have an impact on his target audience, which is Western European leaders. They seem to actually be buying into what he says because it looks good, but folks you're going to have to start paying attention to what the hell's going on on the ground and now increasingly in the air because all that's going to come crashing to an end.
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Zellinsky, he can't make rational decisions, it's going to have to be made for him.
These attacks last week by the Ukrainians were deeply destabilizing. They took place just at the moment of these negotiations. They were an attack on part of the Russian strategic triad. The nuclear triad. Very dangerous. Very destabilizing. There was also the attack on civilian passenger rail that downed a bridge and killed dozens of people. And there's no doubt that the western agencies were deeply implicated in projects that took place over the course of more than a a year in preparation. So what we have had just today is a massive drone and missile attack by Russia all over Ukraine. The war is escalating. It's extraordinarily dangerous. The recklessness in my view of the Ukrainians and the Europeans, to say no realistic peace proposals. No attempt to find a solution. Just means more escalation. More devastation of Ukraine. More loss of life and to no end. To no good end.
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It is the difficult job of the president of the United States to put a break on the military-industrial complex. That's the job it requires skill. It requires steadfastness. This is a war machine that is always in operation. The president actually has to actively put the brakes on the war machine. It's not enough to not be a wararmonger himself, and Trump has not been a wararmonger when it comes to Ukraine, but it is an act of skill to put a stop to the war machine. We know presidents have sometimes paid the ultimate price for that as John F kennedy did when he put the brakes on the war machine. The fact of the matter is there is a powerful big business, the one half trillion dollar business a year just in the US alone, not to mention in Europe and a powerful ideological force that says just fight.
With this shift to a counterterrorism operation, now means that this war is going to be entering a new phase and it's going to be a more, it's going to be a devastating phase for Ukraine, because Russia is now, they up to this point, they've limited themselves on some targets including Zelinski right. And I I think particularly now that it's a counterterrorism operation that Zelinsky is definitely uh on the list of possible targets.
