Anders Puck Nielsen - Violence is being Privatised by Mercenary Groups as the Ruling Elite Fragments

GUEST: Anders Puck Nielsen - YouTuber and military analyst
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Russia is paying a huge price in terms of blood and resource for every inch of Ukrainian territory it tries to seize. The capture of Soledar, a small town of little strategic importance that is claimed to have taken over the weekend underscores this – as it likely cost many thousands of Russian lives. But a war of attrition and stalemate on the frontline is the last thing Ukraine needs. Will a defeat of its forces in 2023 finally bring an end to Russia’s genocidal war against its neighbour, or will the drip feed of Western weapons and support undermine Ukraine as we go into the spring?

Today I’m speaking with Anders Puck Nielsen, influential YouTuber, and military analyst, based in Denmark. He specialises in naval warfare and strategy, but in today’s video we are going to be talking much more about the ground campaign in Ukraine.
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#puckanders #ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda #disinformation
#hybridwarfare #foreignpolicy #communism #sovietunion #postsoviet #war
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CHAPTERS:
01:15 Signs and Signals - Predicting the start of full-scale war
03:42 Autocrats always tell you what they are going to do, but are ignored
06:33 A year of humiliations for Russian 'superpower' from Kyiv to Bakhmut
10:18 How Russia forced Ukrainian army to restructure and reform after 2014
15:20 Dealing with known problems using unique military knowledge
19:09 Is time on Russia's side - does it actually want a war of attrition?
23:08 Russia had a very different industrial base in WWII and US support
26:19 Propaganda tries to undermine Western unity and support among allies
29:14 Putin has played the gas / energy blackmail card, and it has failed
31:41 How will Russia collapse? Civil war, or carved up by warlords
36:08 Russia is getting closer to Orwell's nightmare vision within 1984
39:19 this could be Russia's Weimar period - not equivalent of 1940
41:05 Eastern Europeans have been telling us what Russia is for years
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LINKS:
https://www.youtube.com/@anderspuck
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