Russia launched an operation it felt it had to secure its country. We had been working tirelessly for at least the last 20 years to undermine and weaken Russia in whatever way possible. We decided that we didn't care very much for Mr. Putin and his success at retrieving Russia from the ash heap of history. And then the Russians made it very clear that they would not accept NATO on its borders. Effectively, they'd done that with Latvia and Estonia, but they made it very clear that Ukraine, which is roughly the size of Texas in the United States, could never be a member of NATO. That it presented too much of a danger. They made that clear in 2008 in Budapest.
Once the Russians invaded Ukraine, they made the mistake that they expected someone would negotiate with them. They went in with a really small force, no more than 90,000 on the ground, and they discovered after 2 or 3 months, 4 months, even though they were not taking heavy casualties, they discovered that they weren't going to get a negotiated settlement. Finally, the [Russian] generals met with Putin last summer and said that this is a war. This is not what we bargained for, we miscalculated, the underlying assumptions were wrong, there is no one to talk to. They realized they had to get ready for a real war, which meant mobilizing reserves, expanding the size of the army, training everybody up, and re-equipping people because the equipment they used initially was almost all obsolescent. So that was completed by Christmas. Then there was pressure to launch an offensive, but the weather didn't cooperate, so the decision was made, since we don't have firm ground, and you'll recall that in that part of the world we have this thing called Rasputitsa, which is effectively a sea of mud that makes it virtually impassable for armored fighting vehicles or wheeled vehicles. If you leave the hard-surfaced road, you're in big trouble. If you go back to WWII, you'll find that the major offensives were either launched in the dead of winter when the ground was frozen or they were launched in June, July, August, or September. So the Russians then said, fine, we'll build an impregnable defense, hold what we got, and invite the Ukrainians to attack us. And in the meantime, Ukrainians have taken terrible, terrible losses. These losses have never been truthfully reported in the Western media because Washington was very concerned that if it became clear that Ukrainians were dying in great numbers, their forces almost being destroyed faster than they could be fielded, the support for this insane notion for waging a proxy war on the backs of Ukrainian people against Russia would no longer be supported in NATO. So the easy solution was lie. And then you have a compliant media which is ideologically aligned with the globalist neocon governments, especially in Washington and London, then it becomes very easy to tailor the message to somehow or another to sustain support. And remember, Russia still has the legacy of the Cold War behind it, and what that means is that it's easy to convince people that Russians are bad, Russians are evil. After all, wasn't the Soviet Union bad or evil? Of course, this is not the Soviet Union. This country today is radically different. If anything, it is extremely religious, culturally conservative, and I think the Russian military, contrary to what's being reported in the Western media, has behaved extraordinarily well, is not guilty of 90% of the war crimes of which it's being accused. On the other hand, the Ukrainian military has behaved atrociously
11 million + Ukrainians have left the country, and they have no intention of going back to Ukraine. Haven't begun to traffick children and women. The squandering of cash that ends up in places like Cyprus, belonging to people like Zelensky and key people in his operation, including generals in the Ukranian Army even down to the battalion level. This is a disaster and we should put a stop to it right away and try to rescue as much of Ukraine as we can.
