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At 15:15, Yanis says "The capitalists are now vassals to the techno-feudal lords, the people who own the cloud capital." All of us should realize a new form of commerce is upon us.
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It is always a pleasure tuning in to Freddie on the very high rated and deservedly so, Unherd Show. Having a military expert analyze the situation in Ukraine is good because we get to see what the people who are military historians and analysts have to say. As far as the Ukraine war goes, we must realize that no one, even President Biden is going to publicly say truthful things about sensitive subjects like F16s being sent by the US to Russia. In my opinion, Biden was wise to cut down that area of discussion, because you cannot show your cards on the international stage and expect the Russians not to be tuning in. Nex; the Ukraine is never going to stop asking for military assistance for one very good reason. Imagine if Ukraine said we've got enough bullets now, thanks a million and we'll just carry on fighting now that we have enough ammunition. Suppliers from western countries would turn off the spigot in minutes and it would take long discussions by Ukrainian officials to get the arms flowing back in their country again. They are asking for 500 tanks because they know if you ask for the exact number of anything you need, you'll get only half of it, if that. My solution for the end of the conflict won't please a lot of people, but I think we have to keep saying on every media platform that the Russians have to understand that we view the Ukrainians like a person drowning in a dark patch of a rip tide. What do I mean by that? I mean that all of us and anyone we know who saw a person drowning would do everything in their power to save him or her. We have to stress to Putin that we mean no disrespect to him or the Russian people, but invading a sovereign country is crossing a red line for us. This is who we are; we will save the Ukraine because for us it is like a person drowning in front of the whole world. We have to make President Putin realize that we are in this for as long as it takes, because for us the Ukraine cannot fall.
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I would just like to say that at about 10:00 into Freddy's excellent videocast, Mr Gurri said that Jack Teixeira probably didn't understand the oath he took the way he did when he signed up. I think it's probably the opposite. Young Jack clearly understood the oath he was taking, but when he found out later how easy it was to access top-secret material, the temptation was too great because releasing the material to his online 'friends' would mean instant recognition i.e., peer adulation. We forget how fragile our egos are at 21 and how flaunting the rules is part of being young. What is absurd is how a newcomer in the intelligence field would ever have been able to look at, let alone download secret files that exposed the inner-workings of the intelligence game. The trouble is that Jack's actions have most likely had a negative effect on agents in the field to put it politely. What this latest gaffe of gaffes shows me is how The Peter Principle is alive and well in every industry, business and government on the planet. People get promoted to positions they have no business being a part of. Jack's superiors should have seen in him a reckless spirit and in the intelligence world that would only spell trouble, but they didn't because they were incompetent. Heads have to roll for this terrible leak of classified documents.
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This has to be one of the finest interviews I have ever heard and watched on the internet. Freddy Sayer brings out of Iain McGilchrist a waterfall of wisdom in words that do not go over our heads but straight into them. The only criticism or comment I would like to make and as I am not an academic, rather coming to this discussion as an artist, what I think Iain and quite frankly, a comfortable dozen or so intellectuals and powerful people around the globe are saying, is that civilization is teetering out of control. We are going to lose this wonderful life, etcetera and etcetera. When I hear Mr McGilChrist nod to the philosophy of ours being a sleeping giant on its deathbed, ours being the world as we know it. This is where I get off the bus and where I reject the point that we have entered into a doom-loop. This mentality has reached our highest thinkers, but I say nonsense to the tipping point gang---not that we won't surpass tipping points---but that the world and our civilization will change away into stardust. No; I have not evidence other than my optimism and my strong intuitive feeling that we are on the cusp of change, but we will be at the helm of the good ship humanity for as long as it takes, because we have learned from mankind’s past mistakes.
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Before I listen in to UnHerd's Freddie Sayer's interview, what I have heard about the war in Ukraine is the Mariupol, the city taken over by the Russians who destroyed it, will take 30 years to re-build. In the city where I live a new block of flats takes a few years to do---and this is in peacetime. The city of Mariupol was blown to pieces by tanks and artillery and rockets. WW III means destruction with untried weapons systems like tactical nukes which will probably be able to take out a city of 20,000 people with one bomb. Boys and Girls, this is why winning the war in Ukraine is so important, because there is a Commander-in-Chief in Russia, namely President Putin who has repeatedly threatened to use nuclear weapons to win his war in Ukraine. Putin is Britain's Madman Across the Water to quote an Elton John album title from the 70s. But if the nukes start flying the only music, we are going to hear is the last seconds of screeching birds.
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With only 26 odd minutes into the interview, it has to be said that Freddie Sayers has an incredible grasp on the issues of our day and Richard Dawkins is a can opener, or a tin opener, or even a bottle opener of what has been inside the human brain since the beginning of thought. What I would like to do is throw this into the mix; I don't know if I believe in God or not but I know one thing and that is that it scares me to death to put any of my beliefs in another God-like person or God. What do I mean by that? I mean, I cannot and will not and could never put my faith into what someone else says is the way to live my life no matter how glorious or God-like the person may be. This of course has meant that I have sat on the fence of ever finding a place in a house of worship be it a church, or a synagogue or mosque in which I could find my place. This feeling of relying on my own inner voice or inner self to cut my path through my destiny has not been easy and I have taken many, many wrong turns. But I still maintain that what we are as a human being is all we need to make it in this world, because we are the source of our own belief system; our purpose in life is to follow our instincts and not the words of others who speak in perhaps flowery language and promise eternal life.
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In all due respect to Mr Lieven and high fives to Freddy for this great interview, retired Lt. General Ben Hodges is on TV almost every other day it seems and he says over and over that Crimea will be in Ukrainian hands mid-August of this year. He also says that Ukraine as a country cannot exist for long if they don't control Crimea for two very good reasons. The coastal cities on the Sea of Azov would never be able to live in peace because of the Black Sea fleet and the ports of Odessa would forever be at the mercy of Russian gun boats from Sevastopol. If General Hodges' assessment isn't star power, then I don't know who to believe. He says over and over that the west wants the Ukraine to win, but it won't give them the weapons they need to win.
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At only 7:16 into this riveting vocast, the video of Jordan hissing out about 'we'll see who gets cancelled', is troubling for one thing that is very, very important: Eliot Page's feelings. Wouldn't he have been devastated to hear Jordan Peterson justify his vile tweet and, in the process, throw Page under the bus? Someone took a very, very big decision to transform themselves from a woman to a man, there shouldn't be any sort of comments deriding the person or the doctors who performed the operation. I am shocked that in the video there is no compassion at all in Jordan.
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Freddy and Floe, you have done your country and the Palestinian and the Israeli cause a great service by shining a light on this dark drama being played out in your nation's capital. What I think should happen right now at the UN and in all western governments and other world powers---if they want to help out---is that everything else should be put on the back burner and the problem of securing a proper country, a piece of land fit for all Palestinians to have forever as their own country should be hammered out and forged into reality before this thing gets so rotten at the core that all-out war in the middle east happens and that would make the raging war in Gaza today look tame in comparison. What of course is the stubborn problem is that Israel as a sovereign country is not going away and neither is the mindset of the Palestinians. The Palestinians of course are justified tenfold in calling their fate unfair on all fronts, but unfortunately there is not ever going to be a day when Israelis pack up and leave; this is not going to happen. And: this is why we have to put the best minds of the world together and redraw some boundaries out there in the middle east and solve this seemingly intractable problem before it drives the whole world crazy. Concessions have to be made and there will be no gain without pain, but first and foremost I believe a Palestinian country can be created by asking the great Arab nations to pitch in. We have shed enough tears; it is time to honor the fallen on both sides of the struggle with a plan that spells out in capital letters a peaceful co-existence for all parties concerned. We have the power to end to this existential and eternal conflict, what is needed is the will to make it achievable. Peace.
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This is Freddie Sayers at his best and we hear the well-researched views of Louis Gave who paints a picture of the world today in primary colors which everyone can understand. I beg to differ at 23:00 and change into the vocast where Mr Gave says we cannot win a two-front war against Putin on the one hand and against climate change on the other. Louis, you are undoubtedly ahead of the curve on this, but don't we really have to break the rules this time and fight perhaps even a 3-4 or even 5 front war? Don't let's not think that if Putin's invasion in the Ukraine stalls to the point where he might have to consider shoring up his losses and head for home-sweet-home, that his best buddy President Xi in China might decide to go for a Royal Flush and throw the Taiwanese invasion card into the global power-politics game? What Putin has done is sever all ties with the west and his planners have probably known for years that this China as Russia's new brother-in -arms scenario would be unfolding one day? The only problem is that Putin's hero, Peter-the-great, whose plan was to be an empire builder and restore Russian borders, that Peter-the-great's plan has now been adopted by Putin. Worse, the end game is to take Russia to the Baltic sea. This means either that he is stopped cold or that Europe goes to war against Russia: a nuclear power. A lot of people want Putin to win. Meanwhile a 4th element will soon be coming this way soon to a hospital near you; COVID is making a come-back. So; it's a 4-way-front war or at least a possibility of many things happening at once and as Louis said, the financial system is going to take a bit hit as well. Boys and girls, better to buckle-up for some stormy weather rather than thinking we are going to make it out of this anytime soon.
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@SWTORDREKKIN GGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. There are no angels in international politics and I certainly don't have all the facts. Ukraine won't fall but if it starts to teeter the conflict will spill over into neighboring countries and then a world changing war will turn our civilization on its head.
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@uwanttono4012 GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. There are bumps in the road in democracies, and you have named but a few. Cheney's grip on power with his brother-in-arms Rumsfeld and his lackey George 'W' threw the USA's reputation in the gutter by their conquering Iraq and Afghanistan at great loss of blood and treasure for results that are dubious to say the least. But, they've climbed out of the cesspool they created and could only do so because you can vote in new fools to replace the old ones in democracies, so we do get to right our wrongs. Tony Blair, bless his heart, followed his instinct and went to help a friend who had helped Britain; he followed his heart and mind and felt he was doing what was best for the free world. 20 / 20 vision for past actions will only make you criticize those who jassessed the events in their own way. History judges all of us, but in spite of their tendencies to self-destruct, democracies have all we got to get us where we want to go. The autocracies have to end up in the trash heap of history because one man's rule over all is showing its mettle in Putin's war which is calculated slaughter of his young Russian boys on a sovereign democratic nation...
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@gezalesko3813 GGGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. We are all trying to make sense of the Ukraine conflict...
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There are no such things as cycles with empires. America is not going to implode or become extinct or go anywhere soon except to re-invent itself like the rest of us are doing on a daily basis. We must have no fear of the future for it is already here and people in Canada show us what to expect. Last summer we see them adapting to Canada having 1,000 forest fire burning with 650 out of control. Did we hear Canadians running for the exits last summer and early autumn with so many fires burning out of control? No; and if there is a nuclear exchange between the superpowers, people will be out and down by the river washing their dirty clothes if need be. The key word is to adapt: we must remind ourselves we are masters of this task.
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I have been tuned in for ten minutes and it is already possible to see that Freddie Sayers is at his best in interviewing a very well prepared and researched former French Ambassador, the esteemed Gérard Araud who is brimming with experience on the world stage. At 10:51 I am giving an American geo-strategist’s (Mr Andrew Chung) /please check your resources on the spelling/ assessment to Freddie's question to Ambassador Araud about if the USA would go to war if China invades Taiwan. Mr Chung, whom I believe is of Chinese descent, has stated that China always telegraphs its military intentions in advance. Boys and girls, I think we all have to prepare ourselves for a war that is going to make the present world order look like a rundown flea market, because President Xi has publicly stated several times now that China is going to take back Taiwan militarily or otherwise. What I think we have to realize is that China will be using its ancient war tactics and philosophy of letting two tigers (the USA its allies and NATO versus Russia) battle it out i.e., wear themselves down to being paper tigers and then China will do what it has said it will do and probably not stop at Taiwan.
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Thank you, Freddie and Gérard, please excuse me for a second comment, but here is something I have paraphrased and written as a comment that Professor Clarke said to Kate in the Frontline show that I believe deserves repeating about the war in Ukraine.: Michael Clarke's point of view. If Putin walks away with what is perceived by him and the rest of the world to be a victory or partial victory, then the west loses very badly, because dictatorships are on the march across the world and because we’ve now committed ourselves to Ukraine in the way we have over the last year. The credibility of liberal democracy is on the line; not just as an ideology---but as a power center in world politics of which it has been for over 200 years. So; in a way, we are on a tiger’s back now, because having committed ourselves to defeating this Putin adventure, if we fail to defeat it, then the rest of the world will draw its own conclusions about the waning power of the western world and we’ll feel the effect of that pretty strongly. What Michael Clarke expects is if Putin can be thrown back, not out of all Ukraine, that would be very good if he were, but Clarke suggests that if Putin were thrown back out of the parts of Ukraine that he’s conquered since 2022, the western world would regard that as a victory, and most probably would accept it as a win. And: though Ukraine probably wouldn’t like it, if the west thought that gaining back the territory that was conquered in 2022 was good enough, then Professor Clarke thinks Kiev would have to decide that at least for the time being that was it was okay to let Crimea be off of the bargaining table. (I believe retired Lt. General Ben Hodges however, and he states that without Crimea in Ukrainian hands, the ports of Odessa and the coastal cities on the Sea of Azov will be forever under Russian gunboat domination.)
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One can understand retired General Ryan's reluctance to point a finger at his own government. His career credentials read like a national hero and he isn't about to put his foot in his soup and finger his own team. President Biden is on tape saying matter-of-factly that the US would blow up Nord stream pipeline if Russian invaded Ukraine. Russia invades and the pipe gets blown to smithereens. Let's be real: Biden’s gaffe was a Freudian slip only he could have made and shows once again how US military secrets are like flour poured into a sieve. A lay perspective might say it this way: a highly qualified commando group with submarine support and sophisticated ultra-powerful and laser focused explosives could do what was done to the Russian pipeline and get away with it. The buck stops here: The US has captured Europe's gas market with liquified natural gas now being delivered from the US to European countries. Sure; the Ukrainians could have done some sort of do-it-yourself contraption and sent down a team of divers, but if you follow the money...
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Carlson's interview with the Russian leader does not have to be extraordinary in any sense of the term, because Tucker Carlson is an influencer who knows which buttons to press so that masses get their dose of reality i.e., alternative facts. President Putin has had more than 20 years to master his antics and he has become an expert at out-manipulating manipulators and what comes out of the interview of the Russian President and Tucker Carlson is Putin being very nice and civil to an American citizen whose views correspond to Russia's leader. Let's face the hard facts: Carlson is impressed with a lot of what he sees in Russian society and the best thing about this whole discussion about Carlson is that his visit has calmed Russian supspicions that Americans are against ordinary Russians. Carlson's visit, writ large, shows Americans who have nothing but respect for oridnary Russians and they want to stay friends. It's an opinion...
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Freddy Sayers does a wonderful job in getting Paul Kingsnorth to explain what drives him in his quest to tell the stories of the people who get pushed to the side, as he puts it. I have to beat my own drum here----but I don't mean to do it other than to point out what I think Paul is fighting against----and that is the capitalism is the reason the world has become a technocracy. We're the best at creating wealth, and gathering material things---even worshipping people who have the most stuff. And: as a result of the economic system running silent and running deep within our societies, the forests, the environment, the human community and human experiences that don't factor in to profit making mentalities get lost in the mix. What's the answer? Paul, I don't say I have the replacement for capitalism, but I have invented an economic model in my book The Treatise of Teknomix where money does not equal power----and it's called teknomix. I believe to see Paul's ideal world come to be; we need an economic system based on exactly what Paul says are being pushed aside in the world we live in. I submit that there may be some principles of teknomix that could be used to build a better economic model where humanity is freed from an economic system that is really feudalism on steroids.
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Please excuse a second opinion. Mr Mearsheimer does not seem to realize that the UK has reached superpower status and equally so in military affairs. The Ukrainians are winning against the Russians because tens of thousands of those troops are British-trained fighters. Imagine, just imagine, if Great Britain's Army were on the battlefield? It is not that American support is not necessary along with the NATO alliance countries, but the UK would have no trouble holding its own against the Russians---and the Russians know this. Medvedev's latest thinly veiled threats against the UK show us that if we read between the lines, the Russians view the UK as their equal on the 7 seas and in the battlefield.
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We must remember that under international law that was signed by Moscow, all the treaties say that sovereign countries get to choose what alliances sovereign countries belong to. This is where I believe John Mearsheimer’s arguments hit a speed bump. Why do I say that? Because Professor Kotkin said that treaties like the UN Charter was signed by Russia. The 1975 Helsinki agreement was signed by the Soviet Union. The 1990 Charter of Paris for a new Europe was also signed by the Soviet Union. The 1997 NATO Russia Founding Act was equally signed by the Russian Government. All those documents were signed by either the Soviet Regime or the Russian regime, which is the legally recognized international inheritor i.e., successor of the Soviet State. The fact is those agreements are still in place and they clearly state that sovereign countries can freely choose their foreign policy and what alliances they want to join. For the President of Russia to warn western nations not to help the Ukrainians defend themselves is pure hypocrisy and insulting to the free world writ large. John Mearshimer says the west is provoking Russia by its call for Ukraine to part of NATO, but if Professor Kotkin’s information is correct, Russia has no business insisting the Ukraine must not be a part of Russia.
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Very interesting to hear Freddie's and Mary's interpretation of the Russell Brand allegations. With all due respect to Elon Musk, I think that Elon, Mr Rocket man himself, thrusting his X-tweets on us about the Brand accusations shows that the world's richest man and his latest toy, X that was once called Twitter, is proof positive that our global society can be manipulated by people in power, because they can buy up the corporate megaphones and harp on us their values nonstop and get away with it. There is something uncool and uncensored about Musk's views being aired on an international platform that he controls. It's harmless some may say, but I think Musk is a beaver chewing on the tree of integrity that society should be and with each bite we come closer to having technical Feudalism kings cum high-end entrepreneurs dictating our behavioral codes before too long. As for Russell Brand, the journalists spent a mind boggling 4 years digging for gold on Brand's missteps with the opposite sex, and that translates out to mean that those allegations are water tight and hermetically sealed indictments against a former high flyer and international celebrity. Mary's interview makes one come away with the idea that we are suddenly in very uncharted territory with the Russell Brand allegations.
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You know Paul, it sort of feels like you have given up on us. You have retreated into the life of a proverbial hermit in Ireland. You have found a place to inhabit in Christianity's veritable historian and eye-witness i.e., Paul's view of Jesus Christ as being a spiritual entitiy in which you have swallowed Paul's agnostic view of Christ hook, line and sinker and lastly you have given us your thoughts through a prism of a man who has decided that the world can no longer go on. Come back to England, Paul. You have too much to give to hang up your guns.
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To win a war in the 2020s you need Air Superioity, you must use Surprise, you must have Shock, and you need a solid Offensive strategy. Lt. Gen (ret.) Ben Hodges from the USA believes that for its survival, the Ukraine must take back Crimea or its days are numbered no matter what the outcome of the war brings. He believes Urkaine can take Crimea as a prize by August if they are given the right sort of weapons. Once Crimea falls---and at this writing the Ukraine have their hands of the water supply so no more irrigation will be possible. Once Crimea falls, Russia will most likely throw in the towel. So; let's get behind General Hodges and give them the weapons systems they need and especially while they are on a roll and the Russians are falling into despair.
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It's only ten minutes into Freddy's interview with Fiona's and Fiona has just said something to the effect where Russia feels Ukraine, Moldova and other countries should be a part of Russia and ruled by Russia and that has made me sit up and write this comment because of this question. Why on Earth wouldn't the Russians see it as very culturally richer to have Ukraine be a country run by Ukrainians, ditto with all the rest of the countries in its orbit? It is so much richer to have cultures that are living and evolving, rather than having them steam-rolled over by a domineering Empire-thirsty, mega-country like Russia. You just have to hear about teachers bussed in from Russia to teach the children of Mariupol who are teaching these young Ukrainian kids that the Ukraine has never existed to realize a culture is being erased before our eyes!!! Why do Russians think they need to dominate other cultures in the first place? Why aren't most of the countries in the world outraged by what is going on in the Ukraine? All of South America is neutral on the Ukraine war; that means if Russia wins, that's okay with them!!!
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For Freddie and Flo, I think the accolades and thank yous will go on for a long, long time and reach galaxies far, far away along with 'I love Lucy' sitcom sketches. The only glitch in the works of course is that there has been no mention of my book, The Treatise of Teknomix, although admittedly, what on earth do we need another economic model to replace finance capitalism for? From the streets of San Francisco to the High Street in sleepy London Town, the sleeping hobos only add to the Christmas spirt and of course---I am joking. But I would love to be interviewed for what I think is an economic system that could turn your country into a powerhouse of progress for the human community and end the debacle of finance capitalism that has turned our world into a raging race to end the human experiment.
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@douglas_gemini GGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. Thank you so much for expressing interest in what I think is the main cause of humanity's plunge into darkness: finance capitalism. First, I am not qualified to offer anything in economics; I am an artist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kN3RCs4bYc My economic model needs to be looked at by people in the know; I have offered the nuts and bolts of what could put 90% doing well and a retirement plan that fits the modern era and an idea for a way to govern the earth that differs from how it is done in today's world
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Thank you Freddie for a very interesting interview and thank you Mr Tegnell for your very candid discussion on what you put in place to manage the pandemic in Sweden. Shouldn't we all be asking Vice-President Chen--I'm sure I've got his name wrong--but the Vice-President of Taiwan who knew immediately it was a deadly virus coming in from Wuhan. He immediately ordered the whole country in lockdown and Taiwan as we know avoided catastrophe. In all fairness, the 3rd or 4th wave did hit them hard, but he is a virologist himself and that's how he handled things. It stands to reason that if you take 2 weeks and lockdown everything in the verb beginning that the virus has no place to go. Freddie, could you please try and interview the Vice-President of Taiwan because the interview I read about him was very impressive. What worries me the most is this coming flu season and we haven't heard in a while of a new variant of the Covid-19 virus. Are we going to see the coming winter bring with it a double-whammy, flu + new variant? My other concern is about a booster. If we're getting the same jab from the same old stock of vaccine, aren't we using vaccines that have lost their killing power? We don't take a 3 year old vaccine for this year's flu shot.
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Britain has trained tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers along with her allies and the proof is in the pudding when you see how magnificently the Ukrainian light infantry, pilots, tank crews, support on up have performed on every sort of battlefield. The world will one day thank the UK and honor the former Prime Minister Johnson for the Ukraine surviving as a sovereign country. Britain and Boris Johnson and Prime Minister Liz Truss and Prime Minister Sunak have done and are doing everything possible to help the Ukrainians win an uphill and an unequal battle between a superpower and a much smaller country, but now we need to think out of the box because as Freddy has pointed out, we now find ourselves a dwindling minority of the world population caring in the least about the outcome in the Ukraine. This is a red flag we must react to and that is why I believe we need to create a new department for future possible outcomes. We need a team of people exploring the untraveled roads ahead of us working full time to help us make sense out of what is coming down the pike. We need to be trying to upgrade the way we can get information to people on the fence in Putin’s Russia and Xi’s China so that they can at the least brought up-to-date on what is happening in real time out of the cage they are confined in.
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Forgive me for coming in at 18:58 where Fiona is asking how can we reconcile all of these things. The retired American Lt. General Ben Hodges says that in less than 180 days the Ukrainians will take back Crimea and force the Russians out. I am not a military analyst or geo-political scholar, but I firmly believe Putin will throw in the towel when Crimea is lost. If there ever was an Achilles Heel to the leader of Russia's 'military exercise' it is the crown jewel of Crimea. Putin would not survive the ground swell of dissent from the Russian population and especially the Russian military, because morale would hit historic lows knowing that they have been fighting for a few deserted acres of farmland and their beloved holiday island was lost to the enemy. If you look at it, every way you look at it, it's a win / win deal all the way around and on top of that it gives a beleaguered Ukrainian President and his people a short-time goal that a top military specialist says is doable. Putin will not last in office when Crimea has been taken back by the Ukrainians. Fiona, we should look at setting short time goals, because we are a world running on social media and in two days, we'll be at 365 days of an atrocious conflict where civilians are not safe in their own homes. We should put all of our efforts into helping the Ukrainians take back the only thing that is keeping Vladimir Putin in power: Crimea. Ukraine + Crimea = the end to the war and only a clean-up operation to follow. It is doable; we need to think in short-term goals.
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