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Here's my conversation all about the state of the war in Ukraine with Preston Stewart (@prestonstew_) and Michael Kofman (@KofmanMichael). It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment). Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 1:00 - State of the war in Ukraine 14:39 - Drone warfare and the kill zone 51:49 - Who is winning the war? 1:03:26 - Military analysis of Russia's 2022 invasion 1:19:14 - Battle of Bakhmut 1:34:56 - War optimism and bad information 1:55:05 - Prigozhin's mutiny 2:09:20 - Putin vs Zelenskyy 2:27:18 - Trump 2:36:13 - Paths to peace in Ukraine 2:46:53 - Nature of war

I don't know much about El-Sayed, but he appears to have an extremely aggressive character, which I would generally consider a good thing if it weren't for his relatives questionable past. My concern is mostly his overly aggressive behavior toward his opponents. I understand his righteous anger after being gaslit so much, but at the same time, I question his ability to get a hold of that anger and unite the country instead of focusing on retribution. Just noting that he is someone to watch closely.

The root cause of Russophobia is jealousy.

I wonder what Ukraine did to deserve this. Oh, that’s right. They had the fucking audacity to exist next door to a dictator who thinks he owns their country. How dare Ukrainians want to live free in their own fucking country. Fuck Putin and every last one of you Putin cumguzzlers making excuses for his bullshit. Russia invades a sovereign country, bombs its infrastructure, and leaves innocent families suffering, and you spineless fucks still find a way to defend him. Imagine calling yourself a patriot while gargling a dictator’s balls. Fuck Putin. Fuck his invasion. And fuck every coward cheering it on. Freedom isn’t yours to fucking take away.

My grandfather built McCormick Spices from nothing after your ancestors tomahawked his wife and kids. I'll be damned if you take another scalp from my family fortune!

Number of extremely wealthy people I've met or heard about last couple of years downsizing the homes they have, switching to a Casio watch, spending more time on health/family than making the next billion or buying another mansion tells us all some important things

Perm, Russia

You can genuinely offend some people just by being happy.

I never understood the Western fascination with Russia. I was a Soviet citizen and lived under that system. I’ve also lived in America and Europe. Compared with the West, Russia is a shithole in every practical, moral and political sense. What exactly are you admiring?

I don’t know why reading tweets from random Europeans about all the cool stuff they find in America, particularly our south that is hitting me in the feels so hard

The Deep State spent years manufacturing a fake Russia collusion hoax against President Donald Trump @realDonaldTrump to intentionally desensitize the public to actual foreign subversion. Now, literal communist operatives, jihadists, and useful idiots in the Woke Reich are exploiting that exact blind spot to carry out a psyop on conservatives, with many of these influencers traveling straight to Moscow and various Muslim countries to coordinate an open infiltration of the Right to destroy Western civilization. Because the public was conditioned to ignore real threats after developing Russia fatigue following 10 years of Democrat lies about “Russia Collusion”, Russia took advantage of the fatigue and is now trying to weaponize the Woke Reich to destroy American sovereignty and usher in a total communist takeover and multipolarity. They admit this too by the way… it’s called Duginism.

Ben is the only conservative person in this poll.

The collapse of the USSR was the best thing to happen to the world since the defeat of Nazi Germany.

The US 🇺🇸 stopped 100% of military aid to Ukraine 🇺🇦 and intelligence has been significantly decreased At some point last year, Britain and France replaced the US as the top foreign military intelligence providers to Ukraine. Currently, the vast majority of intelligence Ukraine gathers comes from its own ISR, as well as from Britain and France. For long-range strikes deep inside Russia, targets are usually known, such as oil depots and refineries. In contrast, the remainder of the targets, Europe provides the most intelligence for, and the US provides less. When Biden was president, Ukrainian Generals would often meet with American Generals to discuss military cooperation and war plans, but that no longer happens under Trump. Overall, the US does not send any military equipment as aid, including no air defenses, and provides only a minority of the intelligence. Before Trump took office in early 2025, the majority of military equipment sent to Ukraine was sent by the US, and the majority of the intelligence came from the US. What’s even worse is that the US has recently delayed a significant amount of military equipment paid for entirely by Europe to US manufacturers for Ukraine. Even worse, a significant number of Patriot missiles were used by the US on Iran in the past 6 weeks, and ~90% of the Gulf States Patriot interceptors were used, meaning Ukraine won’t be receiving any Patriot interceptors from the US as aid or as a sale for many months or years, meaning the Ukraine will almost entirely be defenseless against Russian ballistic missiles. Currently, Ukrainian Patriot air defense systems are running out of interceptors. In the past week, Russia launched 11 ballistic missiles at several cities in Ukraine in 1 day, and none of them were intercepted. At the same time, Russia has a stockpile of over 600 Iskander-M and Kinzhal ballistic missiles waiting to be launched at Ukraine. The destruction will be 10x worse thanks to Trump’s anti-Ukraine stance.

I in fact do not “trust the plan,” especially when the exact plan is never coherently articulated. The idea that we should reserve criticism of our elected leaders on the vague assumption that there must be some sort of “plan” that we mere mortals don’t understand is just embarrassing. How did “trusting the plan” work during COVID? How has it ever worked?

“He went for his gun” “He pointed it at officers” “He was threatening them” All lies spread by morons and traitors to the American people. The 2nd Amendment was written to protect the American People from tyranny using force. This is what Tyranny looks like. Died on his knees