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Gen. Jack Keane Putin is pushing a false narrative about NATO expansion · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: Alcumbag America, Russia, and Ukraine. I feel like general, we
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  Speaker 1: discuss these issues, and we must for years, but we
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  Speaker 1: need to keep at this and tap into your brilliance
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  Speaker 1: and experience here. I have a simple question for you,
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  Speaker 1: other than Ukraine's you know, inventiveness in terms of offensive
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  Speaker 1: weapons and drones and trying to hit targets in Russia,
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  Speaker 1: if the West, whether it's Europe, whether it's US, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's a combination of US, don't provide Ukraine with the
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  Speaker 1: weapons necessary to hit the interior of Russia and to
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  Speaker 1: hit their military sites and so forth and so on.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't see the former k G agent Putin,
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  Speaker 1: and I can see the behavior of the course of
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  Speaker 1: the last several years here. I just don't see him
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  Speaker 1: sitting down agreeing to a peace deal that makes any
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  Speaker 1: sense other than essentially Ukraine surrendering all of the land
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  Speaker 1: that's already lost and without any serious security arrangements going forward.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't see it. Am I wrong?
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  Speaker 2: No, You're absolutely right. I mean Putin's objectives are the
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  Speaker 2: top of the government in Ukraine, take the country over,
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  Speaker 2: used that as an anchor to expand into Eastern Europe.
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  Speaker 2: How do We know that because that's what he said
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  Speaker 2: time and time again. He's got two false narratives out
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  Speaker 2: there to support him in that. One. The justification for
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  Speaker 2: doing it in the first place because NATO is encroaching
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  Speaker 2: with the new Eastern European members that they took on
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  Speaker 2: beginning in the nineteen nineties, who used to be part
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  Speaker 2: of the Soviet Union, didn't want any part of being
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  Speaker 2: part of Russia going forward, saw them as a threat
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  Speaker 2: and wanted the protection of NATO. Putin turns that around
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  Speaker 2: and says Eastern Europe is encroaching on us, and that
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  Speaker 2: is a security problem that we have. That is absolute rubbish.
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  Speaker 2: But there's people in the United States who have bought
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  Speaker 2: into that false narrative. There's no offensive weapons on the
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  Speaker 2: Eastern European border. There's no designs in NATO or any
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  Speaker 2: one of those countries to invade Russia. We don't even
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  Speaker 2: have enough troops there to defend the eastern boundaries, to
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  Speaker 2: be quite frank about it, much less conduct some kind
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  Speaker 2: of offensive operation. That's an absurdity, false narrative, and people
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  Speaker 2: buy into it. The second false narrative, and it gets
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  Speaker 2: to the heart of the issue here is we're winning
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  Speaker 2: this war, and it's inevitable we're going to win. And
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  Speaker 2: we have people in the United States and some people
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  Speaker 2: who have provided advice to the president who buy into
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  Speaker 2: that narrative. It is completely false. What am I talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the facts. In twenty twenty five alone, Russia is
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  Speaker 2: moving at a footpace in position of warfare. What do
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  Speaker 2: I mean by that? They have taken zero point six
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  Speaker 2: percent additional territory so far this entire year out of
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  Speaker 2: the territory they already own, that is it. And they
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  Speaker 2: are taking over a thousand casualties a day, over three
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  Speaker 2: hundred thousand casualties so far and making those slight, marginal gains.
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  Speaker 2: And Putin is suggesting that he's winning the award doing this.
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  Speaker 2: We at the Institute for Study Award don't see him
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  Speaker 2: being able to take all of southern Ukraine for years
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  Speaker 2: to come, given the capability his force has today poorly
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  Speaker 2: led and poorly trained, well equipped to be sure, but
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  Speaker 2: use institutional problems despite the fact they're fighting a smaller
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  Speaker 2: nation and a much poorer nation that doesn't have the
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  Speaker 2: defense industrial base that they have. But he believes time
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  Speaker 2: is on his side and he can weaken the resolve
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  Speaker 2: of the United States and its leadership, weaken the resolve
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  Speaker 2: the Europeans and their leadership, and break the will of
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  Speaker 2: the Ukrainian people by escalating the war and now killing
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  Speaker 2: thousands of them with drones and ballistic missiles. And he
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  Speaker 2: thinks all of that combined, pressure on Ukraine people to
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  Speaker 2: making sessions with the government, making sessionsressure on the United
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  Speaker 2: States and the Euros to back away, then it becomes
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  Speaker 2: his That is what he's about. He has not made
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  Speaker 2: a single concession, not one concession whatsoever. He wouldn't even
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  Speaker 2: think of going to a ceasefire. Why is that because
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't want Ukraine to get stronger. It is that simple.
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  Speaker 2: He thinks he can wear us down until such time
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  Speaker 2: as we put pressure on him to change his behavior.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to continue suggesting that war is the best
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  Speaker 2: option for me. So finally we're seeing some real sanctions
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  Speaker 2: mark on oil and those companies that he's hitting and
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  Speaker 2: all as subsidiaries. Is going to make a difference. This
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  Speaker 2: is not my expert, Lane, but everybody had consults who
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  Speaker 2: knows about this in significant detail of what's actually going
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  Speaker 2: to take place. That's a positive step. President Trump has
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  Speaker 2: removed the restrictions on the use of Ukrainian weapon systems.
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  Speaker 2: Military pressure is very important here as much as pressure is,
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  Speaker 2: and we've got to give them all the offensive weapons
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  Speaker 2: we can give them to reach deep into Russia. So
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  Speaker 2: our audience understands, Russia has their largest shah Head drone
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  Speaker 2: factory outside the range of the current weapons that Ukraine
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  Speaker 2: has that we've given them into Europeans by design, and
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  Speaker 2: they are manufacturing thousands of these every single week. When
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  Speaker 2: they swarm into a Ukrainian city, it is the shah
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  Speaker 2: Head drones that are doing that swarming. They need these
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  Speaker 2: Tomahawk missiles to defeat that Abeluga manufacturing center, and they
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  Speaker 2: need the Tomako missiles to defeat the major air power infrastructure,
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  Speaker 2: the bombers that are delivering the crews and ballistic missiles
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  Speaker 2: every single night at the Ukrainian population.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I think you're quite right. And if we learn
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  Speaker 1: anything from the Middle East, it was providing Israel with
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  Speaker 1: the right weapons that they good use that result ultimately
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  Speaker 1: in this piece deal because Iran wasn't going to go
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  Speaker 1: along with peace Hamas wasn't going to go along with
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  Speaker 1: anything else like that. It was that they had no choice.
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  Speaker 1: Their backs were against the wall. General, I want to
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  Speaker 1: thank you very very much. We really appreciate your insight.
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  Speaker 1: God bless you, my friend.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Great talking to you, Mark and your audience. As always,
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