Fmr. CIA Chief David Petraeus to Russian President Putin: ‘He Is Losing’

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PETRAEUS: “It is significant, but it’s also desperate.
He is losing and the battlefield reality he faces is, I think, irreversible. In other words, over the last seven months presents the Zelenskyy in Ukraine have mobilized vastly better than has Russia. In other words, Ukraine has recruited, trained, equipped, organized and employed for is incomparably better than Russia has, and the reality facing Russia now is that Ukraine, a country a third, the size of Russia, has a bigger, much more effective army on the ground and air or other assets as well. All of this, of course, supported by the arsenal of democracy, the United States, now up to Seventeen billion dollars over another billion announced this week in military arms, ammunition and materiel, and also supported by the other NATO countries and other western countries around the world. So he faces a situation that I think again is irreversible. There are no amount of shambolic mobilization, which is the only way to describe it. No amount of annexation, no amount of even veiled nuclear threats can actually get him out of this particular situation. He announced the annexation and he’s already lost a really critical element in that critical city. That would have been a very key supply hub. Had they been able to go farther and that’s just going to continue he’s going to continue to lose on the battlefield and some point there’s going to have to be recognition of that at some point, there’s going to have to be some kind of beginning of negotiations, as presents a lynskey has said, will be the ultimate and and at some point by the way as well. I strongly agree with the idea of Ukraine becoming part of NATO, although is center, rubio noted, let’s make sure that the battlefield goes well foot by irreversible. You mean that Russia cannot. They cannot there’s nothing. You can do at this point again. Toot even in the is have been staggering rate they have hundred and plus they have been many multiples in seven months. What Russia lost in nearly a decade in Afghanistan, many many multiples and again they’re losing on the battlefield end it’s going to continue. The only question really is: when do you start to see? Not just individual soldiers are small unit surrender, but when you start to see larger units, crumble crack and perhaps actually collapse, and I think that that will be coming in then the questions for presents a landscape will be. Do we take that little part of the dumbass that was controlled by the separatists since two thousand and fourteen and what about crimea? And when do we have some kind of negotiation with Russia and, of course, by the way, in response to this annexation, Russia got hit by hundred thousand more individual personal and other sanctions, showing that the west still has more. That can be done to Russia. It can still get worse for Putin and for Russia, and even the use of tactical nuclear weapons on the battlefield won’t change this at all”