Ryan McBeth
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379 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Sep
Ryan McBeth’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I think it is wishful thinking from the Putin is done crowd, which are people who, oh, Putin's hand was shaking when he was sitting at this table.
Putin is done.
And that's not true now whatsoever.
There has always been this deal that Russia has had with its elites.
And the deal is, do whatever you want with the country.
You can make us the pariah on the world stage, but don't touch our kids.
And the second you have a mass mobilization, a general mobilization, you are starting to touch the children of the people in Moscow and St.
Petersburg.
And they are not going to stand for that.
And even autocracies have a constituency.
I mean, there are elections in Russia.
Yeah.
But sometimes that election, the results of the election mean you end up hanging upside down over outside of a gas station.
You get the Ceausescu special or, you know, your whole family gets shot in the basement.
So the whole idea, if you're an autocrat, rule number one of being an autocrat is to stay in power.
And as much as people would like to think, oh, we can go get, the Russia might call up reservists or do a general mobilization and Putin is done, it's just easier to get a bunch of North Koreans, which you can get for pennies on the dollar.
And North Korea is more than happy to get rid of them.
They're also recruiting from, well, they were recruiting from Cuba and then the flight stopped.
I mean, it's kind of, you can't really put them on a boat.
Some South American countries, African countries, Colombia, you have Colombians serving in Ukraine and serving in Russia.
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