mandates, he said this is how tyranny cannot his exact words, but this is how one can go about consolidating power. he said, one lesson is might be this: fear and the desire for safety are powerful forces. they can lead to the a clamor for action, almost any if action. as long as someone does something to address a perceived threat, a leader or an expert who claims to pix if anything.. fix anything if only we do exactly as he says can prove an irresistible force. we do not need to confront a bay to innocent, we need a nudge bay innocent before we willingly abandon laws adopted by our representatives and accept rules by decree. and i think he is spot on. those were my if biggest lessons from covid, the power of fear. and it doesn t, i like the line it doesn t require the force of a bayonet but simply a nudge. there was a twitter thread the
considered central to the counter-offensive. in your view, does ukraine have all it needs to order of start of that offensive when they were ready? it definitely has a information part of what it needs, when the time is judged right, and their political leaders. you know, the west, the united states, the united kingdom, the rest of many powers have we also accompanied that with training. it s easy for me to say 1,000 miles away, everyone should get along with it, i m not walking forward with a bayonet, but every year, we re in a position where the ukrainians have in many areas some advantages over the russians should they seek to try to push them back.
and their spades, which, you know, russian forces have traditionally also used in the equivalent way that a bayonet will be used by other forces. in other words, an indication ofjust how close the combat is on the ground in this battle that is now the longest battle in this war so far. this has been going now in bakhmut for well over six months now. there now appears to be new tensions between moscow and the wagner mercenary group which is fighting for russia in places like bakhmut. injanuary, wagner was estimated to have had about 50,000 fighters on the ground in ukraine. this is a still from a video which emerged last year showing wagner recruiting soldiers from a russian prison. the us national security council says about 80% of wagner s ukraine fighting force was enlisted from prison. at the centre of these new tensions is yevgeny prigozhin.
assaults on ukrainian positions solely with their firearms and their speeds. which, you know, russian forces have traditionally also used in an equivalent way that a bayonet would be used by other forces. in other words, an indication ofjust how close the combat is on the ground in this battle that is not the longest battle in this war so far. this has been going now in bakhmut for well over six months now. there now appears to be new tensions between moscow and the wagner mercenary group, which is fighting for russia in places like bakhmut. injanuary, wagner was estimated to have had about 50,000 fighters on the ground in ukraine. this is a still from a video which emerged last year, showing wagner recruiting soldiers from a russian prison. the us national security council says about 80% of wagner s ukraine fighting force was enlisted in jail.
well, i think it tells us just how it and fears the fighting is around the city of bakhmut in eastern ukraine, orwhat the city of bakhmut in eastern ukraine, or what is left of the city. essentially russian forces hold the south and east and the ukrainians hold the centre. the fighting is better, street by street, house by house door by door. there is the report that the british ministry of defence are reporting that somersaults have been carried out by russian forces with just firearms and shovels. they are about 20 inches long and are designed for digging trenches. lots of trenches are being dug in eastern ukraine right now. they are also designed to be weapons, they sharpen one side of it. it is their equivalent of a bayonet. it shows just how close the