you just gave me your book that came out last november last october. october. i will be looking at that on the plane. i appreciate it. tell us about the ukrainians gaining the tanks and the russia s losses so far. are they being over played in the scheme of things with the fact that russia s onslaught continues, or are the ukrainian gains important on the battlefield? mika, they are very important. it looks to be implaquable and for the russians now, the withering of their forces there never ending. they have long supply lines, trucks, vehicles, that aren t armored, that ukrainian forces
is developing where the russian forces out there, including the ones that are coming in from siberia, are hearing the news and they really don t want to be in this fight. it s getting more brutal. then the longer the ukrainians hold, the more pressure on russia, and i believe there s a tipping point on the ground where you have these russian forces that are kind of big groups but surrounded, and they are withering, they are melting away and at a certain point i think you have units saying stop, we can t do this and pull back. it s ugly, though. some didn t probably expect to be going in? wasn t the thought this was going to be quick? that s right. what is coming out is a lot of the operational tactical forces were not really briefed on the operation until the last-minute for secrecy. it was operation security.
of a bubble and probably in major denial. and from his perspective, winning, however he defines it, which is first and foremost, holding his power and then by extension being able to be seen as successful in ukraine is critical, because his main concern is, i believe, are his own people, and ukraine has become now a gigantic and dangerous ulcer for him. all and the russian military we ve seen indicators and reported it all over seem to be withering, from this thousand cuts pushback by the ukrainians where anywhere the russians are able to get, you know, mass,
the biden administration ignored that dire warning, and here we are, in this situation, at this hour, where thousands of americans, tens of thousands of our afghan allies, are in extreme danger. their lives are at risk. many of these allies will be murdered if they are left behind, and the worst part of all is every bit of this was preventable. but the president of the united states, he has been completely checked out, missing in action, he endured every clear warning that this was all going to occur, in a press conference earlier today, joe biden once again showed his true colors, repeatedly told outright lies to you, the american people. a man without character, career politician, clearly no moral compass, withering, decrepit shell of a human being, who puts his own priorities, obviously, above those fellow americans abroad. and until midday today, joe s
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