determine it because his assumption now is still that eventually, the west will stop supporting ukraine. eventually, the ukrainians will give up. and that s why he s still fighting despite staggering losses that you just described. you know, it s interesting that there s no overt admission of failure, but there are actions that are tantamount to admissions of failure. the use of the wagner group to supplement their military troops which they are losing in staggering numbers. this is the latest about the wagner group. evgeni prigozhin who is head of this criminal organization has accused the russian defense minister of trying to destroy the group, claiming his fighters have been deprived of ammunition, so you now even have the kind of crimy violent groups like wagner saying no, they re not getting enough supplies either. yes, the wag nur group for those who don t know is a kind of mercenary group who pretend
peculiarities, for instance well, in south carolina in general, there was a provision in the law that you could you wanted to bring a lawsuit against let s say a railroad company, for an injury, you could bring that lawsuit in any county of your choice, regardless of where the injury occurreds long as the injury occurred in south carolina and as long as the railroad company owned property in the county you chose to bring a suit in. so the murdaugh family exploited this to great advantage, and it became one of the basises of their fortune. they made hampton into a kind of litigator s paradise, where they would routinely obtain very large settlements for plaintiffs. and they had a very accommodating jury pool that would regularly award settlements that were vastly higher in many cases than you would get anywhere else in the
extraordinary thing, is the number of deaths. actually, i heard a pentagon source tell me a few weeks ago that they reckon 200,000 including dead and wounded. so 200,000 people taken out of the fight. which is, you know, staggering number. far higher than vietnam, far higher than the soviet union and afghanistan some years ago. and sooner or later that has to have some kind of echo in russian society. i mean, of course, because it s not a democracy, there s no mechanism by which popular discontent or anger or sadness translates into the public sphere. so it s not seen much in public. but of course, they will the regime will know how much is being said in private and will have a sense of when discontent is rising. as that happens, there may be people who at least begin to push the president in a different direction, if not as you say out affwindow. there s an interesting thing
started. their war stocks were already out there. more importantly, they were going to fight to defend their land. that s why i joined them. because this is a righteous fight. russia invaded them blindly. there s no, you know, granted, this war started early in 2014, but what s happening here is an order of magnitude different. what the russians didn t understand was that they were going into the lion s den. these people were going to fight, not to the last man, they were going to fight to protect their women, their children, their parents, their brothers, their sisters, and their neighbors. that kind of what we would say in the military force multiplier, made the ukrainian army quite literally unbeatable. they would be fighting the russians right now if we hadn t given them one bullet. but we have given them the resources to fight russia. they are winning. russia is going to lose this war. i feel like i m hearing back, ali, what you have communicated
like this, and joy, i thought it was a language issue, maybe she didn t understand the question. the truth is she didn t understand the question, but it wasn t a language issue. what are you even asking me? of course we re going to win this war. of course i m going to go home. there s a kind of spirit there. when people are determined to be free, they re going to be free. russia needs to learn that lesson if they haven t learned it in five or six wars. thank you both very much, my friends. up next on the reidout, a look at the extent to which the russian people are paying the price for putin s incredible miscalculation. the reidout continues after this.