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  1. DW News does not disappoint. You do excellent interviews and ask nothing but highly relevant questions. Justin Crump is a former tank commander and he analyzes the Ukrainian offensive in words that are very clear and he does not have any qualms in criticizing both sides of the conflict. What I take away from the interview is that tanks and armored vehicles are lost in any offensive to artillery, missiles and mines and soldiers get killed and what he said that sticks in my mind is that a tank commander can attack and have a very bad day and lose many tanks to mines etc., and soldiers too. War is brutal as Crump says and people like myself whom have never served in the military see very clearly that there is nothing joyful in winning back a village for the Ukrainians other than they have taken back one of their own, because when the fighting is over there are bodies from both sides of the firefight and that means friends and comrades won't be there for the next fight. We see young men not yet 20 coming out of a battle with an experience that pushes them much farther from their youth than years would do and leaves them with emotional scars that will fester never leave them in a lot of cases. What is practically consistent in all of the military analysts is that there is high praise for the Ukrainian fighting men. Britain, Germany, NATO's allies, all of you must be very proud to have trained tens of thousands of Ukrainians and see what your excellent military instructors have produced: 'A' list soldiers that have the world's admiration as a first class military. There are some terrifying days ahead for all of us, because in the stovepipe command system of Russia, one man bent on restoring his nation's former glory has the keys to the castle. President Putin is undoubtedly calculating what he will do when the walls of the Bastille castle come tumbling down around him and he is alone and faced with a tzars last goodbye. Will Putin leave by the ramp the west is offering him or blow us all up with him?
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