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At only 12:52 into this extraordinary interview with retired British Army General Sir Richard Shirreff, the master of the provocative question, Tim Sebastien, shows us why his interviews stand above the rest like proud sentinels in the world of televised broadcasting. What is clear to me about the Ukrainian war is that what matters most is the mindset of a nation and especially for its political class. Britain has the mindset of a superpower and that is why it really has become a superpower at a time where having all the kit in the world is only secondary. What President Putin has shown us is a mindset that is a mockery of good soldiering. Russian commanders have shown themselves to be inept and incompetent with poor leadership skills. Russia still has a WW I training-manual state of military mind and their lack of concern for the life of their fighting men is appalling. The troubling factor of course, with 'Putin's war' as Chancellor Scholz called it, is that Putin alone decides for his entire nation and he knows he cannot stop the war in Ukraine, because if he does his life will become expendable. What General Shirreff chillingly spells out though, is that complacency has begun settling in like gangrene in our western nations the more the war drags on. The Russians are smiling with glee as their famous and formidable friend, the winter god, is once again going to be a workhorse for them in wearing down the Ukrainian armed forces while the west twiddles its thumbs and gives pro-Ukrainian politicians the finger. We would be fools to refuse to heed Sir Richard's words of wisdom and this is why we must do everything in our power to give the Ukrainians the weopons they need to win their independence.
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@edvargas3105 GGGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. Did you know that there is one thing you have that no one else in the whole universe has? It's your point of view and if you have noticed even if you wanted you cannot give it away, because everyone has their point of view. 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. 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.
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