Putin will not succeed in summer offensive | Daniel Fried

“Ukrainian lines held and it’s possible that if the Russians push the offensive, they will not succeed.”
Weapons from the US have reached Ukraine which will help them in holding their lines in the summer offensive, says former US ambassador to Poland Daniel Fried.
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[@kite7214]

Don't keep asking what weapons have been delivered. Careless talk costs lives. Slava Ukraini from UK

[@mikethomas4423]

It's insane how quickly the lessons of the past have been forgotten .

[@lw1zfog]

it’s insane how the mugs continue to chow down on the visibly nonsensical. stay bOo$tED !

[@mikethomas4423]

@@lw1zfog it's insane how deeply some people's tinfoil hats scramble their heads ..

[@lw1zfog]

@@mikethomas4423 mask up & get yourself over there A.S.A.P. mickey boy !

[@mikethomas4423]

@@lw1zfog no thanks five years time they'll be much closer to home

[@icu17siberia]

If I leave my house, and cross the street, I'm advancing. The question is does it get me anywhere and was it worth it ?

[@arnovriends5873]

Nope, you'd be walking, advancing as used here is a military term describing troop movement along an attack vector. I am sure you are not a military unit in a battle space, nor that you advance on random people as in "moving towards somebody with perceived malicious intent". So the real question is what is on the other side of your street and what would be your needs ; thoughts...and phrasing...or philosophy per chance? Still there seems a lot of work to be done for young Radonslur pademan.

[@icemanzw]

Basing on what?

[@gerryhouska2859]

The world is a wonderful place!

[@fjalics]

ATACMS isn't being made anymore. That it all coming from stockpiles. The Precision Strike Missile which will replace it is in production.

[@captainhadd0ck]

Slava Ukraini! 💙💛

[@joelturley4847]

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@morcheba2184]

The Africans Nepalese Indian being promised thousands of dollars a month and citizenship in Russia that's Russian army now and soon they'll realise the chances of picking up that month's cash is slim who next ?

[@73chengosaro4]

Russia is winning ------- NATO CAN NEVER DEFEAT RUSSIA

[@HannuKaleviElo]

Short men are said to behave especially aggressively or dominantly to compensate for their height. Putin is 168 cm and wears long pants and inserts in his shoes to look taller!

[@anthonyhulse1248]

He still only looks about 150cm

[@lahy1060]

The US Congress just passed the law of a $60 Bn aid package to Ukraine that has a provision of providing ATACMS to Ukraine, but it Did Not say or specify where and which targets those long-range missiles can fire at. So, President Zelensky can give orders to his Generals to fire anywhere he deems necessary to defend his country including military targets deep inside Russia such as weapon depots, airfields, weapons manufactory, energy production facilities, air defense infrastructures, command control centers, troops concentration, etc. In other words, the Ukrainian Armed Forces can use ATACMS for any purpose to defend their country as they deem necessary. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin inferred in his press conference, no restrictions on the use of ATACMS since the law provides no 'Restrictions" on the use of those missiles.

[@icu17siberia]

the law doesn't have to, that only helps Russia. there are technical ways to "govern" weapons use, at least high tech weapons. artillery...you can't

[@matthewyabsley]

What a silly statement. Ukraines use of western weapons is always under the constant advice of the west. Just because one channel doesn’t explicitly state usage terms doesn’t mean the military itself hasn’t got its own stipulations. It doesn’t mean politicians haven’t stated their red lines too.

[@luminyam6145]

Very pleased about Sophie's trip to Ukraine. Love the Royal family, they always step up.💖💖💖

[@jurgen6768]

Not in Cymru they're not . Grifters the lot of 'em .

[@__SKYNET__]

Russians have advantage with their shovels. I was told they were the second best army in Ukraine. What happened?

[@daydays12]

Who told you that? The poisonous dwarf?

[@truthseeker6116]

@@daydays12 Never bring a shovel to a gun fight.

[@rmdomainer9042]

Probably the third or fourth best after Wagner and Gazprom units have been added to the calculation

[@grantpalmer3321]

What happened? Ummm, reality?

[@HaakonOdinsson]

Yeah, they ran out of ammo, rockets etc….wes.tern media. Liars. That because it’s a w.ef war, blaakrock

[@JaapFeitsma-qi8ct]

Europe has Let down Ukraine if not betrayed them. Too late and too little again and again! und Sie Herr Scholz? Et vous monsieur Macron? Nur Worte, ne que des paroles!

[@MoralScienceEducation]

Having seen many similar comments and observed what did not happen over the years I’d be inclined to agree. At the very least, quick support, mutually constructive solutions, and peace proposals could have been instrumental in ending the war.

[@daydays12]

d'accord!!

[@xenofontzaras1112]

Sie haben absolut Recht And when I remember, these two countries refused to Ukraine to become NATO Member in the past And until now indirectly refuse to give the needed arms in quality and quantity, but "discussing" all the months, if they should give or not, or what are the consequences, and "worry" about themselves not to be part of the conflict In the same time, thousands of Ukraine people are dying This is a big shame for both!!

[@jaybeebee9288]

No, it's either "rien que des paroles", or just "que des paroles"

[@goenzoy712]

Really Germany is already close to cover 50% of war cost

[@JaneSoole]

At least and at long long last Stoltenberg is being honest.

[@robsin7406]

Slava Ukraini 💙💛🇺🇦🤘

[@renatob9909]

I remember seeing a video, at the very beginning of the war when Britain sent anti-tanks weapons, of a group of Ukrainian soldiers thanking Queen Elisabeth for the gift that allowed them to crumple some ruSSian tanks.

[@robstewart1703]

And?

[@renatob9909]

@@robstewart1703 🙄 Since the beginning the Ukrainians had a good opinion of the royal family and Britain, this visit has not created that, only confirmed. Got the point now?

[@Gayzenon]

❤Ukrainian ❤

[@JimTimber]

💙💙💛💛💪💪

[@Travis_22]

Hmmm.

[@robryan1933]

60 billion is apparently a misnomer. Some is going to support US troops now stationed on Europe

[@s0ycapitan]

The vast majority stays in the USA to go to the MIC and then to those flag waving politicians as campaign contributions.

[@daydays12]

More than half is going to US factories. The US only helps itself...

[@icu17siberia]

$13 billion goes directly to European countries to help them fulfill their promises to Ukraine as well. You should read the bill itself

[@lw1zfog]

PNAC PROXY WAR PNAC PROXY PUPPETS

[@anthonyhulse1248]

Proxybot

[@lw1zfog]

@@anthonyhulse1248 awwwwww, truth hertz tony 😭 now tell us all about that ‘bot’ stuff ... ‘A team of researchers at the University of Adelaide have found that as many as 80% of tweets about the 2022 Russia-Ukraine invasion in its early weeks were part of a covert propaganda campaign originating from automated fake ‘bot’ accounts. An anti-Russia propaganda campaign originating from a ‘bot army’ of fake automated Twitter accounts flooded the internet at the start of the war. The research shows of the more than 5 million tweets studied, 90.2% of all tweets (both bot and non-bot) came from accounts that were pro-Ukraine, with fewer than 7% of the accounts being classed as pro-Russian. The university researchers also found these automated tweets had been purposely used to drive up fear among people targeted by them, boosting a high level of statistically measurable ‘angst’ in the online discourse. The research team analysed a massively unprecedented 5,203,746 tweets, sent with key hashtags, in the first two weeks of the Russian invasion of Ukraine from February 24. The researchers considered predominately English-language accounts, with a calculated 1.8-million unique Twitter accounts in the dataset posting at least one English-language tweet. The results were published in August in a research paper, titled “#IStandWithPutin versus #IStandWithUkraine: The interaction of bots and humans in discussion of the Russia/Ukraine war“, by the University of Adelaide’s School of Mathematical Science. The size of the sample under study - over 5 million tweets - dwarfs other recent studies of covert propaganda in social media surrounding the Ukraine war. The little-reported Stanford University/Graphika research on Western disinformation, analysed by Declassified Australia in September, examined just under 300,000 tweets from 146 Twitter accounts. The Meta/Facebook research on Russian disinformation reported widely by mainstream media, including the ABC a fortnight later, looked at 1600 Facebook accounts. Reports on the new research have appeared in a few independent media sites, and in Russia’s RT, but not much else, so revealing the burial of stories that don’t fit the desired pro-Western narrative. This groundbreaking study, exposing a massive anti-Russia social media disinformation campaign, has been effectively ignored by the mainstream Western establishment media. It has become almost routine during the Russia-Ukraine war. The Adelaide University researchers unearthed a massive organised pro-Ukraine influence operation underway from the early stages of the conflict. Overall the study found automated ‘bot’ accounts to be the source of between 60 to 80% of all tweets in the dataset. The published data shows that in the first week of the Ukraine-Russia war there was a mass of pro-Ukrainian hashtag bot activity. Approximately 3.5 million tweets using the hashtag #IStandWithUkraine were sent by bots in that first week. In fact, it was like someone had flicked a switch, when at the start of the war on February 24, pro-Ukraine bot activity burst into life. In that first day of the war the #IStandWithUkraine hashtag was used in as many as 38,000 tweets each hour, rising to 50,000 tweets an hour by day three of the war. By comparison, the data shows that in the first week there was an almost total absence of pro-Russian bot activity using the key hashtags. During that first week of the invasion, pro-Russian bots were sending off tweets using the #IStandWithPutin or #IStandWithRussia hashtags at a rate of only several hundred per hour.’ - Peter Cronau, Declassified Australia, 2022

[@tombrazy12hunnit]

Any of you ever wondered what this new $60 Billion Aid suppose to do that the other $200 Billion Aid couldn’t do? 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@boink800]

Are we worried that the US cannot afford it? The USSR could not afford the last arms race. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha

[@tombrazy12hunnit]

@@boink800 because all does is prolonging the war for more young Ukrainians to die. If it took the US more than 5 months to pass this aid, how long do you think it will take to pass when Zelenskyy comes begging again especially when Trump is in office? Try using your brain. 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤣

[@atlantic169]

The $200 billion kept Ukraine in the war for the first two years. The $60 billion will keep them in it until European arms production ramps up to fill the gap. Russia is a poor, corrupt and rather backward country that cannot win a war of attrition with the West, as long as the West realizes that it has to match and surpass Russia's war economy which it is now starting to do. Russia is suffering too much attrition to keep losing men and equipment at the current rate for more than another two years.

[@s0ycapitan]

It's a farce. Most of it is being used to bribe US politicians via the American MIC.

[@erichert1001]

You could say the exact same thing about Russian war spending.

[@APW-ry2ok]

Russia will loose it has a tiny GDP compared to the free world,also it’s loosing its oil refineries,military hardware etc, it’s just getting bled out slowly and will be left without the means to carry on.

[@dalecrocker3213]

And what are you getting for Christmas, my little man?

[@user-nn5tr1yu9r]

I heard this story 2 years ago

[@derrickjoe1872]

They are both being bled out slowly, but Ukraine is bleeding faster, and they have a lot less blood from the beginning. Everything is on a timeline, and Ukraines time is running out much quicker. Russia's reserve force is over 2/3 the size of the entire Ukrainian population. And that's not even including a draft, which Ukraine is deep into, but Russia hasn't even started yet.

[@JimTimber]

@@dalecrocker3213 a baldy wig and high heeled shoes like puketin's

[@JimTimber]

@@user-nn5tr1yu9r that's an echo

[@Durnyful]

But they said Ukraine were going to drive to the sea of Azov last summer. Did that not happen?

[@anthonyhulse1248]

But but but 3 daaays. How’s that working out?

[@Durnyful]

@@anthonyhulse1248 repeating lies is foolish

[@roypfeiffer4442]

IMAGINE A BIG TUBE LAUNCH ROCKET FILLED WITH 50 suicide drones with each drone programmed to pop out of that launched casing 5 or 10 miles behind enemy lines... with a simple map.. go to 1 acre of land and hit something hot could cause specific chaos...could an army be encircled by a patch of sky filled with floating bombs...? A force shield?.... all this while facing an army of soldiers on the side away from the drones. .encirclement by land and sky?....

[@FelixLanzalaco]

how would so many exit a rocket without their rotors being damaged ?

[@truthseeker6116]

@@FelixLanzalaco They would be inside a warhead which would just split apart. As soon as the drones felt free fall, they would activate their rotors not as they exited the warhead.

[@xenofontzaras1112]

@@truthseeker6116 could be technically difficult

[@FelixLanzalaco]

they couldnt work on heat, as could be decoyed easily and they would all swarm to first drone explosion,, but yeh once an ai version is made of this, then manned warfare is over. There will be no way for soldiers to function without air defence systems

[@user-nn5tr1yu9r]

Too much marvel in comments, pls dont put iron man or thor on a ground

[@toby9999]

Where are the supplies? They were already on the move (we were told) a week ago. GET ON WITH IT

[@2804Holly]

The big joke was the famous counteroffensive from Ukraine.. we’re is the result? Ah they losing more territory

[@rmdomainer9042]

Funny part is that RU has failed in retaking those areas near Robotyne.

[@PawelLeszczynskipav]

The big joke is the population and territory size difference between Ukraine and ruzzia- and ruskis are still struggling 😂

[@2804Holly]

@@PawelLeszczynskipav well ask Biden what he do in 2014 … until now

[@Hangman11]

@@2804Holly It's either what he did, or what he did do. "what he do" is just not english. Don't they have english textbooks in russia?

[@2804Holly]

@@Hangman11 don’t care about “ the cup of tea” in States is different… do you understand?

[@StevenGarvey-ft6sk]

Russian drones cost about €50,000 whilst Patriot missiles cost €4,000,000 That’s a ratio of 80:1 This package won’t make any difference to the long term outcome

[@johnadam2885]

Russia did not announce any summer offensive, what are you talking about ? They are only skirmishing.

[@anthonyhulse1248]

That’s a lot of casualties for a skirmish

[@johnadam2885]

@@anthonyhulse1248 Yes, the Russians are inflicting a lot of casualties on the Ukrainians in these skirmishes, and they are begging for air defence protection, and the Ukrainians do not have manpower to go to the front. But they have not launched any major offensive. So why is Times Radio talking about summer offensive and saying Russia will not succeed when Russia has not announced anything ?

[@simplemantv9299]

We have heard this over a decade

[@anthonyhulse1248]

That was the preamble

[@RoyalBlue292]

Same story, same narratives.

[@livingtribunal4110]

Video title translated to make sense, realistically: *´Putin will not succeed in summer offensive...but I have absolutely no substantiated evidence or military strategic explanation as to why this would be´* _| by that guy in-the-know, former US ambassador to Poland, Daniel Fried_

[@73chengosaro4]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣THIS CHANNEL --- only old Men and women --- some evidently high on some substances parroting some very biased analysis ------- where do they gets the guts ?

[@s0ycapitan]

"It's possible that if the Russians push the offensive that they will not succeed" That's hardly "Pushing Putin Back" or "Putin's summer offensive will not succeed" Times. We don't know if there will be a major Russian offensive but if there is one it's likely to be devastating to the Ukrainians who's defence lines are already buckling and breaking from the limited local offensives.

[@lindabastable3021]

I disagree. I don't believe Russia can keep up their pushes. Russian soldiers will keep fighting and dying. Russia will keep bombarding Ukraine. However, the chances of Putin gaining the political advantage of a major breakthrough prior to 9th May are not likely. Ukraine is currently being resupplied. It is too little, almost too late. That said, Ukrainians don't want to cede territory they will just have to retake. They know supplies are once again arriving, freeing up available materiel for curreng use. I reiterate that Russia will not be permitted to win in Ukraine. Europe WILL NOT permit Russia's attempt to destabilise the entire continent to succeed. Neither will other democratic countries. Everyone is adamant that WWII will be the last time one megalomaniacal old man murders millions for his warped ego.

[@daydays12]

Indeed. The USA inaction and treachery has been abominable. European slowness has been shameful.

[@s0ycapitan]

@@daydays12 What if they actually can't do anything to help Ukraine because we haven't got the industrial base to match Russia. Money can't buy you love or 155mm shells.

[@grantpalmer3321]

@@daydays12 You can print money, but you can't print Patriot interceptor missiles. That is the fundamental problem. It's not a matter of money any more. You could send $600 billion to Ukraine and it would change nothing.

[@s0ycapitan]

@@grantpalmer3321 That's the point that has been laid bare. If NATO wants to be a serious military alliance they need to nationalise their Military Industrial Complex and root out all the corruption. How can a 155mm shell cost 10+ times the equivalent Russian shell? And how can Russia outproduce NATO many times over?

[@ragingmonk6080]

America should send Tyrion Lannister ( Peter Dinklage) because as the "hand of the King" it would be a "symbolic gesture". Make certain there is wine. Lots of wine.

[@newnewhutchison991]

Biden promised it would go faster

[@icu17siberia]

"it" being what?

[@godlymana]

NATO better get their logistics worked out before ww3.

[@lw1zfog]

rainbow epaulettes all round !

[@russellspeed1693]

Just more nonsense from Times Radio.

[@boink800]

Cringe man says the same thing yet again. It's *cringe*

[@boink800]

Cringe man was at the £1 store buying £2 worth of products --- debit card declined. What *cringe*

[@Travis_22]

​@@boink800lol

[@s0ycapitan]

​@@boink800 you can't buy much for a pound at Poundland any more. Our Globalist politicians want us to own nothing and be happy 🤨

[@rmdomainer9042]

One of the bottom 3 paid trolls has arrived. Whatever they pay you is too much.

[@flmnk3456]

He will suceed you will see 👍

[@__SKYNET__]

so 30+ NATO countries providing material and technical and intelligence support without troops cant defeat a gas station country?

[@anthonyhulse1248]

Oh it can. But doesn’t have to. Ukraine will

[@AntonioRomero-te4cb]

💪 🇷🇺 Z

[@boink800]

Moving forward at 7 km ... what a joke.

[@AntonioRomero-te4cb]

​@@boink800 A joke is pretending the Brits have a "military"

[@AntonioRomero-te4cb]

​@@boink800 British military, That's a joke.

[@alexanderlazarev3570]

​@@boink800As a German you certainly would prefer blitzkrieg but with Russians it doesn't work, attrition is much better way to get you to suffer.

[@michaelrowsell1160]

Putin and his buddies have bled Russia dry . And surfs like you still lick his boots .

[@samsungtap4183]

You people never give up peddling war.

[@robstewart1703]

Tell that to Putin 🥱

[@CakesWarden]

You have a child’s understanding of geopolitics. The future of Europe is at stake if Russia succeeds.

[@boink800]

How much are those Russian oligarchs making off this scam?

[@TheSkaffen]

@@CakesWarden Our nuclear weapons stop working? Wasting trillions of dollars on a threat that doesn't exist while no affordable housing, no timely healthcare, no border security, record taxes, inflation spiraling upwards for years, no HS2. Men & resources destroyed for NOTHING!

[@s0ycapitan]

​@@CakesWardenIt's you who needs an education. Explain exactly why the Russians would want to invade Europe. What do we have that they lack?

[@olorin4317]

A waste of Zelensky’s time to meet some royal stooge. Send elected representatives, they are the ones that matter.

[@cheztaylor8]

Might be a good idea to keep the Royals in there. Zelensky is on his third UK Prime Minister so far...

[@laurencelockwood6209]

Russia has many, many friends in America. They failed to block it this time, but Ukraine will run out again and hopefully Mike Johnson and Trump can hold the line for Putin

[@RudolphoAqui]

Margie traitor green and Vance helping poo teen not sees too!

[@davidjones-wt2qq]

It’s over Ukraine has lost,get used to it

[@_alienblood]

Russia are making ground at a hugh cost Ukraine have not lost and you know it the war is far from over the new Ukraine aid package will even things up on the battlefield

[@boink800]

Russia 1 tv claimed it would be over in just three days ... two years ago. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha

[@boink800]

@@_alienblood Russia have only advanced 14 km in the last two years in Donetsk. That's just 7 km a year. What a joke.

[@TheSkaffen]

@@boink800 The bear is fully awake. How many villages and towns in past week? How many villages did Ukraine capture during the big offensive - 1 and lost it again.

[@tombrazy12hunnit]

@@_alienbloodyou’re making claims of Russian lost without proof just to counter Ukraine’s lost in territory

[@IliyaOsnovikov]

Brits have provoked this war more than anyone else and now the Royals concerned about well being of Ukrainians. Priceless.

[@anthonyhulse1248]

Ruzzia chose to attack. You know what provokes a bully? Weakness.

[@AahFukIt]

Another expert! Lol, desktop folks.