operation in ukraine, it s not a war, it s not an invasion, but suddenly your credit cards don t work and you can t buy stuff and you can t use stuff and you can t see stuff, and things aren t available on the shelves and your interest rates are 20% and your money is not worth anything, at some point people are going to say, this official story line doesn t jive with my life. some people are, ali, but most people are not. some people are going to be primarily young, educated, literate, and online. and least previously online. given how much is being shut down right now by russia. in major cities. but the majority of the population is overwhelmingly fed information through state media, and you know, that s television, it s newspapers, it s not digital, and the level of support for putin has historically been exceptionally strong among this group. and it s going to continue to be. and if you think that the united states is incredibly divided,
all of which in addition to punishing western sanctions takes a toll. try taking a disney movie away from a kid or an iphone away from a teenager. in addition to a massive ground stop on western goods and service, the russian economy is showing real strain. russian interest rates are now 20%. the ruble, up less than a penny. massive inflation. russian state media is doing its best to put a positive spin on this invasion of ukraine except you can t call it an invasion in russia, it is called a special military operation but even russian citizens who have fully bought into the state sponsored narrative will have trouble squaring up what that means and why they can t use their master card anymore and why they re running out of food at shops and why their money is worth nothing if this is just a special military operation in ukraine a large part of the russian population is old enough to remember the cold war and the soviet invasion of afghanistan
from a child. and in addition to a massive ground stop on worsening goods and services, the russian economy is showing a real strain. russian interest rates are now 24 cents. the rubble is worth less than a penny. massive inflation, the state media is trying to pose a positive spin on this invasion. it s called a special monday operation there. but even russian citizens who are fully bought into the state sponsored narrative are going to have trouble squaring up what that means, and why they can t use their mastercard anymore? and why they re running out of food and shops, and why their money is worth nothing of this is just a special military operation in ukraine. a large section of the russian but relation is also old enough to remember the cold war. and the soviet invasion of afghanistan, and what both of those things did to their economy. and how it all led to the collapse of the soviet union. you ve already seen more than 13,000 anti war protesters arrested across russia. that unr
that. absolutely. yes, this is a replay of the soviet invasion of afghanistan in 1979 and the war that followed. the soviets completely misunderstood what they were getting themselves into. they never put enough troops and boots on the ground to deal with the nature of the problem. and they had the same problem that the russians have in ukraine with allies nearby which are willing to provide supply lines. the 1980s, we were the quarter master of the war in afghanistan along with saudi arabia. in this war, we and nato can be the quarter master and let ukrainians have the equipment and the weapons that they need to win. general mccaffrey, spain has now announced seizing a $90 million yacht owned by sanctioned russian oligarch, victor vexelburg at the request of the u.s., does this make any
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, invasion of Afghanistan in late December 1979 by troops from the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union intervened in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anti-communist Muslim guerrillas during the Afghan War (1978–92) and remained in Afghanistan until mid-February 1989. In April 1978 Afghanistan’s centrist government, headed by Pres. Mohammad Daud Khan, was overthrown by left-wing military officers led by Nur Mohammad Taraki. Power was thereafter shared by two Marxist-Leninist political groups, the People’s (Khalq) Party and the Banner (Parcham) Party which had earlier emerged from a single organization, the People’s Democratic Party of