Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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a tiny, tiny fraction of its military so far, and now it has China with its mass production capacity supporting its war effort. It's a hopeless situation, and we've been lied to. The press in our country and our government are just promoting this lie that the Ukrainians are about to win and that everything's going great and that...
Putin's on the run, and there's all this wishful thinking because of the Wagner group, you know, the Rogozhin and the Wagner group, that this was an internal coup, and it showed dissent and weakness of Putin, and none of that is true. That insurgency, which wasn't even an insurgency, he only got 4,000 of his men to follow him out of 20,000.
Putin's on the run, and there's all this wishful thinking because of the Wagner group, you know, the Rogozhin and the Wagner group, that this was an internal coup, and it showed dissent and weakness of Putin, and none of that is true. That insurgency, which wasn't even an insurgency, he only got 4,000 of his men to follow him out of 20,000.
Putin's on the run, and there's all this wishful thinking because of the Wagner group, you know, the Rogozhin and the Wagner group, that this was an internal coup, and it showed dissent and weakness of Putin, and none of that is true. That insurgency, which wasn't even an insurgency, he only got 4,000 of his men to follow him out of 20,000.
And they were quickly stopped, and nobody in the Russian military, the oligarchy, the political system, nobody supported it. And we're being told, oh yeah, it's the beginning of the end for Putin. He's weakened, he's wounded, he's on his way out, and all of these things are just lies that we are being fed.
And they were quickly stopped, and nobody in the Russian military, the oligarchy, the political system, nobody supported it. And we're being told, oh yeah, it's the beginning of the end for Putin. He's weakened, he's wounded, he's on his way out, and all of these things are just lies that we are being fed.
And they were quickly stopped, and nobody in the Russian military, the oligarchy, the political system, nobody supported it. And we're being told, oh yeah, it's the beginning of the end for Putin. He's weakened, he's wounded, he's on his way out, and all of these things are just lies that we are being fed.
You know, I would agree with that and I should have I said that myself at the beginning. That's one of the reasons my son went over there to fight, because he was inspired by the valor of the Ukrainian people and this extraordinary willingness of them. And I think Putin thought it would be much easier to sweep into Ukraine, and he found a stone wall of Ukrainians ready to put their...
You know, I would agree with that and I should have I said that myself at the beginning. That's one of the reasons my son went over there to fight, because he was inspired by the valor of the Ukrainian people and this extraordinary willingness of them. And I think Putin thought it would be much easier to sweep into Ukraine, and he found a stone wall of Ukrainians ready to put their...
You know, I would agree with that and I should have I said that myself at the beginning. That's one of the reasons my son went over there to fight, because he was inspired by the valor of the Ukrainian people and this extraordinary willingness of them. And I think Putin thought it would be much easier to sweep into Ukraine, and he found a stone wall of Ukrainians ready to put their...
their lives and their bodies on the line. But that, to me, makes the whole episode even more tragic, is that, you know, I don't believe, you know, I think that the U.S. role in this has been, you know, that there were many opportunities to settle this war, and the Ukrainians wanted to settle it. Vladimir Zelensky, when he ran in 2019, here's a guy who's a comedian now, He's an actor.
their lives and their bodies on the line. But that, to me, makes the whole episode even more tragic, is that, you know, I don't believe, you know, I think that the U.S. role in this has been, you know, that there were many opportunities to settle this war, and the Ukrainians wanted to settle it. Vladimir Zelensky, when he ran in 2019, here's a guy who's a comedian now, He's an actor.
their lives and their bodies on the line. But that, to me, makes the whole episode even more tragic, is that, you know, I don't believe, you know, I think that the U.S. role in this has been, you know, that there were many opportunities to settle this war, and the Ukrainians wanted to settle it. Vladimir Zelensky, when he ran in 2019, here's a guy who's a comedian now, He's an actor.
He had no political experience, and yet he won this election with 70% of the vote. Why? He won on a peace platform. And he won promising to sign the Minsk Accords. And yet something happened when he got in there that made him suddenly pivot. And, you know, I think it's a good guess what happened.
He had no political experience, and yet he won this election with 70% of the vote. Why? He won on a peace platform. And he won promising to sign the Minsk Accords. And yet something happened when he got in there that made him suddenly pivot. And, you know, I think it's a good guess what happened.
He had no political experience, and yet he won this election with 70% of the vote. Why? He won on a peace platform. And he won promising to sign the Minsk Accords. And yet something happened when he got in there that made him suddenly pivot. And, you know, I think it's a good guess what happened.
I think he was, you know, he came under threat by ultra-naturalist nationalists within his own administration. and the insistence of neocons like Victoria Nuland in the White House that, you know, we don't want peace with Putin. We want a war.
I think he was, you know, he came under threat by ultra-naturalist nationalists within his own administration. and the insistence of neocons like Victoria Nuland in the White House that, you know, we don't want peace with Putin. We want a war.
I think he was, you know, he came under threat by ultra-naturalist nationalists within his own administration. and the insistence of neocons like Victoria Nuland in the White House that, you know, we don't want peace with Putin. We want a war.
Yeah, I worry about it.