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difficult situation ? can change the way the war is going again, because the russian achievement is actually pollination and this is a very important moment, it seems to me that we are now watching on the fronts of this war, let's just remember what the situation looked like when vladimir putin tried to destroy ukraine when he attacked on february 24, 2022 what were the objectives of this attack? putin tried to take kyiv. putin

tried to create a puppet government in ukraine. putin tried to demand power from this puppet and more of it even from the legitimate government of ukraine. to the negotiations that later began in belarus the recognition of the russian status of occupied crimea , the recognition that the so-called people's republics of donbas declared their independence, and it is obvious that he hoped to seize more and more ukrainian territories and the speech that putin gave on february 24, on the night of february 23, 24, to his compatriots and in which he reported

on the beginning of russia's special operation against ukraine contained another thesis about the so-called self-determination of the peoples of ukraine, this is a very strange thesis because unlike in russia, where there really are many peoples and a large number of them have the right to their own sovereignty, it is obvious and i will remind you that all the republics of the russian federation in the period of the late 80s and early 90s adopted declarations of their state register of ukraine, there are no such peoples, ukrainians are ethnic ukrainians are mainly the majority of our population. of course there are national minorities, there are indigenous peoples who mostly live on the territory of the autonomous republic of crimea and whose rights are confirmed by the relevant laws, however there are no such peoples of ukraine who should act on

their own self-determination on the territory of our country , what putin had in mind, we understand that he was ready to announce in each occupied region of ukraine the existence of a separate people, the people of donbas, the people of kherson oblast, the people of zaporizhzhia, and for this people to declare their sovereignty to join the russian federation after that and cease to be a people because in the russian federation we do not understand any peoples from the point of view of russian chauvinists, there are not all russians and that's it it was a program to leave the puppet government of yanukovych to the entire territory that will be determined in the kremlin and to join all other territory to the russian federation. to be honest, this reminds me very much of the option that the nazis chose for me at one time, because when mussolini lost power in italy, it became clear that italy would lose the second world

war together with hitler's germany and there was a coup against the musors and he was imprisoned, you remember that and was released by the ussr led by these isotosks and transported to lake garda in a small town of salo, where the hitlerites declared us a small territory of the italian fascist republic headed by granit and his supporters who remained allegedly from the fascist party. and they occupied all the rest of the territory of italy, they tried to occupy everything and of course they were not going to hand over power over this territory to a cursed village , that's about it putin was going to deal with yanukovych and other neo-nazis of the ukrainian political elite who were ready to serve putin and leave the company under

by their power to take some part of the ukrainian territory and occupy all the rest of the territory, that we have today a completely different situation , which i am talking about our western partners, and which is being talked about in the western media, who are talking to officials and military analysts, actually 5 months have passed since the beginning of this after the end of the war, the russians do not manage to occupy 100% even luhansk, where their military achievements were most noticeable from the first days of the war, they are forced to withdraw from the north of our country, they do not can continue offensive combat operations near kharkiv, they cannot occupy the territory of the

donetsk region completely, although the exit to the administrative borders of the donetsk luhansk region can be said to be a formalized goal of the russian president vladimir putin, all other tasks do not look formalized. to occupy kharkiv may not be occupied by anyone, so russia itself will not notice the defeat of this operation, because any retreat the russians from the positions they are in, as was known after the retreat near kiev and after the retreat from snake island, is always declared to be the good will of the occupation, but the fact that the russians will not succeed in occupying donetsk region and luhansk region is already a completely different story, as you understand, this will already

show that the special operation did not end with anything real, and we see that putin is not succeeding in this, just as he was unable to act simultaneously in the north, in the east, in the south in the kharkiv region, and at the same time trying to occupy all of this, just as now it is not possible to defend in the kherson region and occupy donetsk region, that is why western observers believe that russia is losing the initiative and that the ukrainian armed forces have the ability to de-occupy the south at least.

the real connection between the two parts that occupied the kherson region, at the same time, let's not forget, friends, that the kherson region is also fundamentally important for the russian dictator, therefore that providing water for crimea is one of the strategic goals of vladimir's operation without water, the crimean peninsula, as we can see, cannot exist normally, by the way, this is what i said about back in 2014, when crimea was occupied, i was then wondering if they were occupying crimea, okay? does putin realize that everyone is aware his group's company that crimea is a peninsula and not an island, and even if a bridge is built from the mainland to the island, as putin did to the kerch bridge, this does not make

the peninsula an island, because all the time of its existence as the territory of crimea was founded in direct connection with the mainland, well, that is, at first, of course. when the shores of crimea began to be inhabited, when there were ancient colonies, then crimea was part of the mediterranean sea, and of course the people who lived on its shores in these ancient colonies did not really care what was happening it is not far from the mainland , because in time it is a different distance, however, as soon as even a proto-state began to appear in the crimea on the territory of the peninsula itself, from the principality of feodor and the crimean khanate, it immediately became absolutely it is obvious how important the connection with the mainland is for crimea, and almost always the decline of crimea-crimea began with the breaking of this connection with the mainland, one of the first politicians who

realized the importance of this connection was the russian empress catherine ii, who, of course, annexed for the first time, crimea for the benefit of its state, what did it do, it first of all occupied these mainland lands on which the crimean khanate was located and actually cut off the connection of crimea with the mainland, there were already russian outposts on the trench, and with it kateryna ii did not destroy the statehood of crimea, but even more. it forced the authorities of the crimean khanate to give up their enthusiasm for the ottoman empire to declare their independence, but this independence was economically and politically unsustainable without the mainland, and it was not surprising that later the troops of catherine ii appeared on the counter and occupied bakhchisarai they burn books in libraries , destroy palaces and turn crimea into a colony of the russian state, engaging in a consistent

policy of squeezing the indigenous population of crimea from the peninsula for the benefit of e-e settlers from the moscow lands yes but crimea again from an economic point of view has the same connection with the mainland that it had before the annexation of the crimean khanate and thus develops as part of the russian empire first, then the soviet union, and not even here question in that what were the borders of the union republic in that all this time crimea was part of a single state body when in 2014 the russians annexed crimea and the supply of dnieper water to crimea stopped, many people say well, they lived without dnieper water about they still live. but you need to understand the economic and demographic conditions in crimea. there is a much larger population than

there was. until the time when the north crimean canal was being built in crimea, the structure of the economy was completely different, the structure of agriculture was different, and the needs of the military were different. of course, if we free the crimean kherson region from the invaders, we again create incredible problems for putin and his gang from the point of view of the future of the crimean peninsula, the question is even how they will be defend it militarily and whether they will threaten to use tactical nuclear weapons in the event of attempts by the ukrainian armed forces to liberate this territory from the russian invaders . question and now another question. what

does it mean that the russians are losing the initiative? does this mean that they will go home? this is the question that washington post interlocutors ask themselves and tell me that they will not go home. and then what? will try to change the course of this war, what military capabilities do they have. as such, surprisingly, there are not many of them, so they are engaged in covert mobilization, so they bring some more equipment there, but in the event that the ukrainian armed forces will receive modern western equipment that will allow to destroy as many russian military personnel as possible and their equipment, of course this process

will stop and the people they recruit will know for sure that they are going to certain death when they go to fight in ukraine and this will be very important moment, and by the way, it is very important for us to prove to the russians that the only alternative they can meet on ukrainian soil is not that they can steal something there or receive a high contract salary for their participation in the shameful adventures of vladimir putin, neither death, death, and death should be the only answers to the question of what should i do in ukraine to die and this will also naturally reduce the number of those who are ready to fight for vladimir putin even in the socially prosperous regions of the russian federation, which a lot. and by the way, we have to understand that he then pursues a policy of systematic destruction of the non -russian peoples of russia because he is a chauvinist, because

he wants russia to be less afraid of the chechens, and because they simply say that the russians did not reproduce, they took their place, but now we see that there are not so many representatives of national minorities who are so hated by russian chauvinists. in the army, people from purely russian regions have to be recruited in russia, and this is no longer part of vladimir putin's plans. so even if you imagine that the russian military is ready, it is ready for some kind of operations there in response to which they will try to get kherson region, or try to seize the entire donetsk region, even in such a situation, this does not mean russian superiority in the war, what will the goal be? well, if you want the destruction of ukraine for the workers this is his victory so that ukraine does not exist. and by the way, i recently watched

an interview with the leading russian political scientist fedir lukyan, the head of the president's foreign defense policy, who, of course, wrote in his time with of the kremlin's usual presentation of the text about the finnishization of ukraine and he says that such a thing as a ukraine of course in putin's imagination can exist, but from putin's point of view it is another russian state and then this russian state can only be friendly to russia only under the influence of russia. that is, they have to be two identical russian states, one is called russia, the other is called ukraine, and together they fight against the west, together, uh, they create this terrible world that now reigns in the russian federation, together they revive stalinism together, but if

ukraine doesn't want to, so it should not exist. that 's basically the political task of vladimir putin. well, if this task is not solved so easily by military means, there are several ways to change the situation . strikes, it is unlikely that this will now be the main direction of action of the russian armed forces for the simple reason that in situations of control over such an insignificant part of the ukrainian territory, it will not change the course of the war either, however will convince the world of the brutality of the russian regime, it can change the mood even of those countries that today are neutral to russian aggression or even those that

support vladimir putin, because even for china, putin's use of nuclear weapons means that he can do something similar against china or against some states that are close to china , that is, all this is dangerous, will putin be ready for such a thing? states will be a completely different world if putin uses nuclear weapons against one of the nato countries, a nuclear war will begin with huge destruction with the use of tactical strategic nuclear weapons, the destruction of the political map of the world, a large number of large megacities, the death of millions or tens of millions of people by the nuclear winter epidemic and in principle civilization will cease to exist in large parts of the globe, and this is a completely different story. this story is about the cp, about the automatic transmission, a-a, the apocalypse, and not about the war of russia against ukraine. yes that i will not even engage in this now because i am

an analyst and not a biblical prophet and i will not tell you all these horrors that will begin in the event that the kremlin decides to use nuclear weapons against nuclear countries, this one against ukraine. this can lead to not to the consequences that putin is counting on, well, that is, this is a special story, it’s hard to predict something because it has never happened, so far it’s unrealistic, you know that nuclear weapons were used only once, that’s also such an obvious fact when people didn’t really realize it yet the consequences and use and use by the united states in horisima and nagasaki in principle led humanity to the need to limit the very possibility of this use, to make nuclear weapons a weapon of deterrence, the entire world infrastructure of security control is based precisely on the deterrence of the use of nuclear weapons by the united nations, which we do not like so much is based on the idea of ​​limiting nuclear weapons by permanent members of the council

, a nuclear state is secure, and therefore they are given the right of veto because everyone fears that if they will not have the right of veto and instead of the right of veto they will simply use nuclear weapons and the enemies will be destroyed and that is why the organization of the united nations despite all our complaints remains the most effective structure that humanity has ever known because the alternative to this structure is the death of humanity in a nuclear war . million people and i will talk about the ineffectiveness of ion only when you get this big figure that today from a nuclear strike of this or that side that 5 or 6 million people died there at the same time, radiation is spreading, covering new new regions, new people are dying, then i will tell you everything. he is bankrupt, until this happens, we can say that the system that was built after 1145 was surprisingly effective. you just have to understand it, and then, by the way, it will no longer be for ukraine. that most likely people will die in such quantities that the number of people living in our territory will not be of particular

interest to anyone, it will be small the number of victims compared to the total victims of a nuclear war again, i hope that this will not happen. and what will happen? putin still has political opportunities for blackmail. that is what he is doing. political energy blackmail. economic life is now an important trump card of vladimir putin in his relations with the civilized world. the history of gas has become. i doubted it. look at the situation with gas. putin has been preparing for this war against ukraine for decades, i would even say that the russian president has decided that he will join the former

soviet republics at least to the zone of influence of the russian federation for the first time since coming to power, an indicator of this is the creation of so -called bypass gas pipelines through the territory of the baltic sea to germany, bypassing ukraine, and the establishment by gazprom of control over all gas transportation systems that go by land, bypassing ukraine, belarusian of the transport system , that is, putin wanted to completely free his hands for pressure on the ukrainian leadership and for possible military actions on ukrainian lands in the event that the leadership will not realize the consequences of depriving ukraine of its transit status, and he was ready to spend billions of dollars for these opportunities that will never be realized because it is necessary to understand that all these projects nord stream one turkish stream

nord stream-2 they are purely not profitable if russia would invest money in modernization of the ukrainian -belarusian gas transportation systems, it could , at the expense of these systems, also send exactly the same amount of gas that it currently sends through all these gas pipelines . it does not send by the way to europe, but they did not want to do this, although it is much cheaper and it is a real profit, it is obvious that vladimir putin did not need this profit , it is also absolutely obvious to everyone who follows the events that are happening around, and then we all said, you know how it will be the construction of the last bypass gas pipeline has been completed, which will give vladimir putin the opportunity to transport gas bypassing ukraine in europe, in a few weeks after that a big war will begin with millions of refugees destroyed by rockets

shelling, not only i am talking about this, you can look at it, ukrainian experts, specialists and politicians have been talking about it for years, when it came to nord stream-2, let's finish the construction of this nord stream-2 and in this quarantine, western politicians, experts in it simply did not believe it what an idiot, because they simply did not realize the real intentions of the russian president putin, his company, well, the war has started. but you have to understand that in order to build all this and to count on all this it would be necessary to create a model of europe's energy dependence here, of course, chernobyl helped incredibly, you know, there would be no happiness and unhappiness , the chernobyl atomic explosion helped, how did the soviet authorities react to this explosion, the consequences of this explosion, which are also related to the carelessness and

incompetence of the soviet leadership, became a serious shock said for the population of european countries, first of all for its germany, led to the emergence of a powerful environmental movement, now the green party is starting with a full-fledged part of the ruling coalition in germany, activists of this the parties strongly support this country and the resistance to russian aggression, but nowhere. the truth, children, it was the struggle of the greens with substitute energy that turned the german state completely dependent on russia in terms of energy. merkel is also not without the influence of environmental circles. so this joke is only with a child. so we sincerely thank the environmental movement of the whole world for creating opportunities for the disappearance of humanity