Richard Nixon Predicted Putin and Russia (1994)

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mr president the uh the world has been

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virtually turned upside down in the two

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and a half years since the berlin wall

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came down a new dynamic is a word

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emerging and also emerging

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is a new russia as a great superpower

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yet this russia is having trouble

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getting its feet on the ground so to

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speak and and turning its directions

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into a capitalist economy a free market

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economy uh you have made recommendations

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not only in your book but in your

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speeches and at your recent conference

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about what the united states should do

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to help russia and you've also pointed

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out what the consequences of not helping

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russia will be would you share with us

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your thoughts

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well russia at the present time is at a

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crossroads

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it is often said that the cold war is

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all over and that the west has won it

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that's only half true

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because what has happened is that the

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communists have been defeated

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but the ideas of freedom now are on

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trial if they don't work there there

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will be a reversion

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to

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not communism which has failed but what

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i call a new despotism which would pose

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a mortal danger

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to the rest of the world because it

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would have been infected with the virus

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of russian imperialism which of course

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has been a characteristic of russian

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foreign policy for centuries we begin

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with that therefore the west has the

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united states has all those who want

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peace and freedom in the world a great

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stake in freedom succeeding in russia

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if it succeeds it will be an example for

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others to follow it will be helpful for

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china for example to follow

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for the other communist states the few

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that remain

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if it fails

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it means that the hardliners in china

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will get a new life they will say it

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failed there there's no reason for us to

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turn to democracy that's part of what is

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at stake here

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the other point that we have to have in

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mind

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is that it's vitally important that it

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succeed

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because it means that russia

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which for 70 years has been exporting or

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trying to export the ideas of communism

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to the world will now be exporting the

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ideas of freedom the ideas of democracy

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the goods of freedom it means that

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russia for example will be able to

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export goods that'll be a huge export

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market for example for the united states

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and other countries so i would simply

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sum it up to say for our korean audience

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it means a great deal to korea too

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because russia

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the soviet union i should say was a very

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strong supporter of north vietnam

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russia will not be a supporter of north

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vietnam and that means that

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we have here a potential ally

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joining with the united states and other

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country other free countries in putting

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pressure on north korea not to go

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forward with a nuclear option

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Russia brands tank move 'direct involvement by West' | WION Pulse | Late...

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The USA leading NATO into a messy situation leaving NO way OUT for Russia...we saw it coming...

 

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you know yesterday on we on pulse we

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told you about two new Western tanks

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approved for Ukraine as Kiev lauded the

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move little did it know that Moscow was

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planning its next move since the

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announcement Russia has launched a

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barrage of attacks towards Ukraine

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Airaid alarms had sounded across the

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country 11 people lost their lives and

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many were left injured the visuals on

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your screens are from the capital city

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of Kiev residents were forced to take

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shelter in underground Metro stations

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the missile even landed on

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non-residential buildings in the south

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of Kiev remember even before the West

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gave the green light Russia had already

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vowed to retaliate and has sent a

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barrage of missiles onto Ukrainian soil

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The Wiz decision to send more Firepower

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to Ukrainian troops has enraged Russia

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Moscow is calling it a direct

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involvement by the West

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yes

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the lipid 2 and Abram's M1 tanks have

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gotten the green light but there is a

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long road between that and reaching the

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Battleground there are logistical

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challenges of how the tanks will reach

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Ukraine then the soldiers will have to

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be trained for the high level tanks then

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there are artilleries to be decided that

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will accompany the tanks well we cannot

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confirm everything at the moment but the

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German defense minister says the Liberty

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tanks will reach Ukraine by the end of

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March it's important to note that the

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Western countries have already sent

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Ukraine everything from artillery to

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Patriot anti-missile defend systems the

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tanks were long considered a step too

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far not just by Russia but also by the

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west but Ukraine is also desperate it is

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gearing up for a new spring assault so

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naturally allies on our scrambling to

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send the powerful weapons Russia's game

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plan is not known it could be the latest

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twist in the biggest European conflict

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since World War II to Russian forces

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have tightened the screws on buckmut

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ukrainians have described it as a wave

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of attacks on Humanity

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now for more on this we're being joined

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by Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis who

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is a military expert for defense

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priorities thank you for being with us

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Colonel now Ukraine Got the green light

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on the tanks that it wanted the Abrams

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and the leopard II but did they

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underestimate Russia's retaliation

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yeah I doubt that they underestimated I

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think they're completely uh uh clear

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that that Russia is in all that Ward and

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they're going to do everything that they

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can I believe that this is a response to

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that in fact that they say hey if if

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Russia's coming at us with everything

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they have then we want to get everything

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that we can get on the other side to

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defend and then eventually to reverse

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the situation to try and drive Russia

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out that's very clearly he has intention

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that's what zelinski has said almost

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from the outset and has said nothing

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different uh in the recent days and now

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you see both Washington and uh Berlin

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and now and also uh uh London are all

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willing to say hey here's some of our

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Top Line you know or something close to

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our Top Line main battle tanks to go

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along with all the other categories of

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things you just mentioned have already

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been delivered uh and it remains to be

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seen if under the most grueling

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conditions Ukraine can convert all of

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those those items into effective combat

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power and that's the that's the real

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unknown at this point right and Colonel

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we've seen of the strikes in Kiev is

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this the next phase of Russia's Invasion

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and what do we make of Russia's

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statements saying that its direct

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involvement by the West

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yeah I think what you're seeing with

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this this current uh wave is just the

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latest in a long series of waves going

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back all the way to October they have

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been periodically uh coming at with

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large numbers of multi-wave strikes uh

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like this one that's where they try to

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take out both the energy infrastructure

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that's necessary for Ukraine to support

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and move its military around and also uh

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to specifically degrade Ukraine's

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military capacity both in terms of

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troops and infrastructure and then

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apparently all of those were targeted in

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this latest one uh and most likely this

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is in in preparation for uh what almost

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has to be some kind of Russian uh uh

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winter offensive and and I think that

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that is going to take on more urgency

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now because of all these weapons that

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are going to be coming in later in the

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spring it's there's a window of

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potential opportunity right now for

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Russia where I think that they're going

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to feel compelled to move maybe sooner

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than they would like or certain really

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an urgency to strike in this winter

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because once those things starts coming

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in and Ukraine starts getting trained on

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them you know how far they can go is

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another matter but the fact that those

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weapons will be on the ground with

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ammunition will unquestionably improve

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the Ukrainian side

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all right Colonel thank you very much

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for being with us and your analysis

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