Ukraine of imminent defeat?
In a meeting with Ukrainian officials in Kyiv last week, U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll delivered a grim assessment.
Driscoll told his counterparts their troops faced a dire situation on the battlefield and would suffer an imminent defeat against Russian forces
War is about men, not about machines, not about money. You have to have machines and you have to have money, but without men it does not matter how much of the other categories you have.
Is this going to end? Is the military confilration going to end on the battlefield or a conference conference room?
Battlefield. There's Ukraine's incapable of making the kind of compromises necessary. Ukraine continues to insist that negotiations be done u that reflect that Ukraine is winning this war. That Ukraine gets to dictate outcomes. Ukraine gets to dictate nothing. Russia gets to dictate everything.
Russia has indicated based upon leaked phone calls and everything a willingness for you know for a negotiated settlement. One of the reasons is and this came clear and from my recent trip is that while the Russian economy is functioning and doing well the sanctions are causing problems. There's a cash shortage in Russia right now. They don't print money like we do. And literally the government is running out of cash uh to to continue funding this war. And if they don't have this war ended by say middle of 2026, Russia will have to go into a war mobilization economy.
Everybody says the Russian economy is going to collapse. They just have no idea what they're talking about. The Russians are capable of, you know, moving out of this capitalist, you know, kind of economy they have running now, venture capitalism, etc., and going straight to a mobilization war economy. They can make that transition overnight. And they can sustain the war forever at that point in time. But, you know, that brings a cost to the Russian economy. That will require the Russian people to do some belt tightening, which they're fully capable of doing, but the Russian government would prefer not to do that. And so if they can, you know, make this next step and get the United States to put pressure on Ukraine to end the war on terms, you know, that are in accordance with Russia's demands, that would prevent them from making this transition, but Russia's fully prepared to go all the way. I mean, they're there will be no backing down on Russia.
They [Russia] just wanted some rights for the ethnic Russians living inside of Ukraine. That was the primary cause that they had and no NATO. Those were the things. Had they agreed to that, there would not have been a war. Never have been a war. Somewhere around a million Ukrainian men would be alive today. somewhere around 10 million Ukrainian people would still be living inside of Ukraine instead of scattered abroad and throughout Europe being a heartache a headache and an economic burden on all these other countries
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every time you refuse peace, you deepen the wounds for Ukraine, deepen the cost for failure for Ukraine. But it doesn't seem to matter for us.
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when you have the machines, the money, and the men power in Russia's favour, you can't win. It doesn't matter how you consider your cause righteous. It doesn't matter how brave people are. Doesn't matter how tough they fight, how brilliant they just, you know, have tactics. None of that matters in a war of attrition.
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Russia won. Ukraine lost. Everything NATO did failed. Period. The only question now is how deep that failure is going to be once all is said and done. That's the only thing that's still outstanding.
I think uh the empire of lies that has been constructed over the last three and a half years by the west to try and justify this pointless destructive war against Russia at the expense of Ukraine and its people is beginning to crumble. And I think it's going to begin crumbling faster and faster with each passing week in the near future because the situation in Ukraine has reached a point where even the even the most skillful liar uh in Washington, London, Paris or Berlin cannot conceal reality from the public. The Ukrainian military is falling apart. It's disintegrating. Senior officers are surrendering along with thousands of of their men. There is now, I'm told, open discussion about turning on Kiev and Ukrainian troops actually moving on the city to rid themselves of Zelinsky and his corrupt government.
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the obvious and most intelligent solution from the very beginning which was the Austrian state treaty. The Austrian state treaty was not worried about deterring anything. The Austrian state treaty was a solemn obligation to divorce itself from NATO to prevent any foreign forces from establishing themselves on Austrian territory and maintaining a force that was required for Austria's security and internal stability and not much more. That worked out very well and I don't think the Soviets subsequently had any interest in going back into Austria
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the the globalists that are r ruling Europe want desperately to justify their existence and to perpetuate their power. If you admit that the war in in Ukraine is lost, that you have no means of changing that outcome and that ultimately you should focus on the restoration of your own economic productivity and prosperity, you're not going to retain power. You're going to be removed
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All these governments will be removed. They will go out of business because they cannot sustain themselves on the basis of these lies. Again, it's the empire of lies is crumbling. That's the real success story for the Russians in Eastern Ukraine because the Russians have no interest in marching any further west. Who in their right mind wants to take over anything today in Europe, let alone Western Ukraine? It's it's an enormous burden. There's no advantage to it. There there are no great resources to be acquired and the populations there are troublesome. So why why would anybody want to do it?
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Ukraine is not a vital strategic interest for the United States. Never was, never will be. The best that we could hope for in Ukraine was an early end of the conflict and the restoration of some measure of political, economic and social stability in that country. That was always the interest that we had. The Europeans and unfortunately people in in Washington who were also part of the globalist camp saw the war in Ukraine as an opportunity to destroy Russia to harm Putin just as foolish people in Washington are looking at the opportunity to remove Maduro as though removing him will solve a problem for us anywhere in Venezuela. It won't. You know, when you begin trying to remove governments, you begin trying to destroy stability and order in any nation, regardless of whether you like it or not, you take enormous risks. And that's what we did in Ukraine. And now we're about to pay the price. And I don't think there's going to be much money left over for anyone. I I don't think the Europeans are going to get the hundreds of millions of dollars or billions of dollars from the Russians that they want. They want to steal from the central bank in Brussels. I don't think that's going to work. And I think the sooner Ukraine falls apart, the sooner this war comes to an obvious conclusion, the less likely the Europeans are to take the risks associated with taking the money that belongs to Russia and redistributing it to uh organized crime in uh Western Ukraine, which is effectively what you've got right now. Ukraine is an organized crime state. It's not a viable nation state any longer.
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this Russian army bears no resemblance to the Soviet armies of the Second World War. They have not behaved like the Soviet armies at all.
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I think it's [Nato] already begun falling apart. It'll just become official in the months ahead. It's not something where all of a sudden we wake up one morning and the whole place collapses. It'll be a slow crumbling.
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the empire of lies constructed by Washington and its globalist allies in Western Europe is crumbling.
in international relations, you can have values and morals all day long from your perspective, but if you can't compel it on the other side, then it just is is empty words.
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this corruption is deep. It's endemic. uh it's tied into the oligarchs who've been, you know, using this as another another way for them to make money. And uh so this right now is um Zalinski doesn't have a lot of allies to fall back on. He's actually relying upon Europe to try to save his bacon.
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in fact the initial leak about the hundred million because you know hundred million when you're talking you know almost $50 billion yeah you know that's you know pocket change that's not it's not a lot of money but in the overall scheme of things but that was deliberately leaked out I believe in order to put pressure on the Zelinsky regime and to start setting up the narrative to justify say, "Yeah, we got to walk away from this because these are a bunch of very corrupt people and they've been stealing US taxpayer dollars."
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the west just simply don't understand the this the strong position Russia is in right now be because down in Kerasan and Zaparisia this is at the lower end of the Dniper River basin and Ukraine relies at least 60% of its economy depends upon river traffic going down to the Black Sea so that they can export grain and other minerals that uh previously they were shipping out. So once Russia completes its strangle hold and you know they will occupy at least the east bank of the Dnper River, the traffic will be cut off. So, I mean, the Ukraine's economy will be dead,
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the western narrative is Russia's losing, Russia's on the ropes, Ukraine is strong, it's winning, then why all the urgency about oh we got to get Russia to the table to make an agreement. Well why? I mean, if Russia is really on you're you're beating them, finish beating them, you know, don't throw in the towel. Knock them out. But they can't knock them out because the actual numbers on the ground tell a completely different story.
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When was the last time that Russia quote invaded Europe? 211 years ago, 1814, where the Russians along with a bunch of angry Germans and Austrians marched their way to Paris in retaliation for Napoleon having come to Moscow in 1812. So but Russia didn't invade Europe during World War II, the Great Patriotic War. Russia fought back after being invaded not just by Germans, but by Romanians and Hungarians and Italians and Spaniards, who helped Hitler invade Russia, the then Soviet Union. So at at the end of the war when Soviet forces were advancing into Europe, they were attacking Germans and Germanbacked armies that had attacked them. And then, you know, at the end of World War II, yeah, they they set up a buffer zone. Now, we in the West, let's see, they're in world domination. Well, I'd suggest that if we were in the same position the Soviets were, we would have done the same thing. They they put in place a buffer zone to control. They didn't go out to conquer the world. That's been a Western lie, the Western mythology. Because as long as we got those Russians as an enemy, that defense department's going to keep rolling along.
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we [Russia] will we would like to secure peace through diplomacy, but if we don't do that, we're going to do it militarily. And he also has said in the course of this year that the territory that the Russian soldiers occupy in places like Nepropet is currently not part of the Russian Republic. Neither is Kkefe. Neither is Sunumi. Neither is Poltava. Neither is Odessa. But he's made the point if we start taking if we've got soldiers in those territories, then you know what? Those territories will have an opportunity to vote whether or not they want to become part of Russia. And if they vote to become part of Russia, hello, we've got four or five new republics. So this, you know, the Russians are not on a clock.
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self-preservation's going to kick in and your marker's going to say, "You're going to make me the fall guy?" No, no, no, no, no, no, no. He's going to start spilling you know who his collaborators were, who his enablers were. And I guarantee you names like Boris Johnson are going to pop up. There are Western politicians, people in NATO that are going to be fingered for having taken millions of dollars and profited of this for facilitating it. Yeah. Yermach's not going to be the fall guy. Yeah. And the only way they would have prevented this, they would have killed him.
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what's going to happen with NATO because if we now everything collapses, Russia does attain a military victory and we never did the diplomacy part, we are going to have to be left with the fallout and the wreckage and things are going to get ugly and unfortunately. We could make some even worse decisions about how to engage with Russia after that and that's the big worry going forward.
Official peace talks between the U.S. and Ukraine on ending the Ukraine war moved to a productive phase Sunday – but only after President Zelenskyy sent a new-look team to Florida, according to a former Ukrainian government official.
With Rustem Umerov now leading Zelenskyy's team and longtime adviser and chief of staff Andriy Yermak out, the source claimed the move signaled Kyiv was reassessing its "uncompromising" stance.
