Putin’s ‘hyperbolic power’ has been ‘proved wrong’

Putin’s ‘hyperbolic power’ has been ‘proved wrong’ | former US Ambassador to Russia

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Ай бұрын

“The notion that, the Russians had the physical power to overwhelm Ukraine in a very short period of time, that current hyperbole was proved to be wrong.”
We should analyse the Ukraine war with “caution” as they have managed to “overwhelm the battlefield and emerge on top” in the past, says former US Ambassador to Russia Thomas Pickering.
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@bevr944 Ай бұрын

Would the USA be willing to give up Alaska to Russia if Russia occupied Alaska illegally????

@gtube6913 Ай бұрын

Exactly. Ukraine has to recover all their territory. I don't see them shifting from this will. This is not a case of amputation to save the body.

@ConnorJane Ай бұрын

Alaska was sold to the US by Russia, and Russia to this day yet to see the payments. So...

@ConnorJane Ай бұрын

@@gtube6913The territory of Ukraine was bought from Poland in 15th century for gold.

@johnadam2885 Ай бұрын

@@gtube6913 Ukraine does not have the capacity to recover any land, with or without US support. Get it ? Considering it backstabbed Russia after independence, it should never have been made an independent country.

@gtube6913 Ай бұрын

@@ConnorJane and?

@hrvojesvetec3058 Ай бұрын

GIVE UKRAINIANS EVERYTHING THEY NEED TO DEFEND THEIR PEOPLE AND TO TAKE BACK THEIR COUNTRY!!!!.this is absurd,wrong,unjust..stay strong Ukraine,stay united and stay determed!.here in Sweden we belive in you and support you!💙💛🇺🇦💯🇸🇪❤️

@APW-ry2ok Ай бұрын

Russia should of been dealt with when the UN voted,what’s the point of delaying?Whats the benefit of letting a little dictator run around causing mayhem ? He is due to go to the ICC ,let’s make it happen.

@michaeldunham3385 Ай бұрын

Russia can veto any decision

@mikedon5205 Ай бұрын

@michaeldunham3385 exactly the UN is useless because of its own rules

@livingtribunal4110 Ай бұрын

Due to go to the ICC? How? On what charges? 😂

@foilhat1138 Ай бұрын

@@livingtribunal4110 He's wanted at the ICJ for kidnapping children, a crime he confessed to on TV.

@Bird_McBride Ай бұрын

He had some orphans rescued from the war zone. Zelenski failed in his duty to evacuate children. Zelenski is in fact the negligent party. Those children are his responsibility and he failed. It's nothing but negligence on Zelenski's behalf. I know the law.

@cindypomerleau950 Ай бұрын

This former Ambassador doesn't speak for the USA. Ukraine should not compromise....as it seems the former ambassador may have been. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦

@NightOwlinNewOrleans Ай бұрын

Any American diplomat or ex diplomat loses credibility when they talk about giving away part of a person’s country. The end, maybe he should give away some of his estate to his neighbor.

@johnadam2885 Ай бұрын

Any American diplomat or ex diplomat loses credibility when they talk about committing the US to defend another country for however long it takes. Clearly, the US is unable to honour this, or a future govt. will not be able to do so. That is why US and NATO have lost credibility as Ukraine heads to defeat. The war was lost strategically already in 2023, now it is a matter of trying to stave off the military endgame till after the elections - but the Russians will not oblige !

@AndydeQok Ай бұрын

I love Times radio. I’m here daily to get my dose of truth about this war. Unprecedented, unbiased coverage 👌

@TheDuravida Ай бұрын

Your being sarcastic right?

@michaelasamoah2390 Ай бұрын

Propaganda...uk lost its relevance and now trying to be Propaganda cheer leader for usa...ridiculous

@markmierzejewski9534 Ай бұрын

I love hearing Russian excuses 3 years of war and not a single oblast secured. … 3 years… against a nation they border. Here come the excuses

@johnf3885 Ай бұрын

@@michaelasamoah2390 Nobody listens to your BS Ivan.

@johnf3885 Ай бұрын

@@TheDuravida How would you know you're nothing more than a paid buffoon.

@captainhadd0ck Ай бұрын

Slava Ukraini! 💙💛

@user-iz6fi4mc1h Ай бұрын

Putins Days to Weeks, Weeks to Monthe, Months to Years some Strategist Putin is!. NOT

@erichert1001 Ай бұрын

We're in this mess because of "diplomats" like this. We already let Putin have Crimea, where did that get us?

@user-cm8co5nx4k Ай бұрын

Blinken was showing that life must go on and we all need some relief and social connection now and then. You won’t see Lavrov or other autocrats mixing with fellow citizens.

@johnadam2885 Ай бұрын

Blinken has only one prayer - that Ukraine does not collapse before the elections, as that would make defeat certain for Biden. He will act like this so that the Ukrainians don't get the feeling that they will be abandoned. Ukrainians already have realised they will be abandoned, that is why they are surrendering and refusing to enlist. After the elections, Ukraine will be handed to Europe to manage. Blinken's acting shows the desperation of the west to delay the defeat. Get it ?

@bradleys4783 Ай бұрын

The guitar playing is about confidence. Simple. That is Bliken saying to Putin... "you bit of more than you can chew this time you little squirrel."

@livingtribunal4110 Ай бұрын

Deluded, much?

@drfill9210 Ай бұрын

@livingtribunal4110 why yes you are deluded! The first part of recovery is admitting it. Congratulations on your first step into the light

@livingtribunal4110 Ай бұрын

@@drfill9210 Feel free to explain on what specific issues I am deluded about. Provide details so we can possibly engage in a debate of said ´delusion´

@foilhat1138 Ай бұрын

@@livingtribunal4110 Weren't you the guy who said Russia was using golf carts because they used 'regular equipment'?

@livingtribunal4110 Ай бұрын

@@foilhat1138 Never once mentioned golf carts in _any_ of my posts. Many times by other pro-Ukies though.

@dt9232 Ай бұрын

Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦 🇺🇦🇺🇸

@vasik9719 Ай бұрын

Kharkiv urgently needs a modern air defense system to protect lives and infrastructure!

@livingtribunal4110 Ай бұрын

They had 15 months and billions of $s of Western aid to fortify and protect Kharkov...but hey - I wonder where all the money went?

@Joasoze Ай бұрын

@@livingtribunal4110idiot

@solconcordia4315 Ай бұрын

There are many different types of "modern air defense systems" in the West's arsenals. What's actually effective over there depends upon what Russia is attacking with, whether short range, medium range, or long range, aircraft, drones, cruise missiles, dumb bombs, hypersonic missiles, etc. The F-16s can be very versatile because of their beyond-visual-range strike and heavy lifting capabilities (they seem to be akin to a sheer wing suit and what "pollen ball" this "shouldn't even be able to fly" bumble bee external-carries can be very massive and/or long range as needed.)

@livingtribunal4110 Ай бұрын

@@solconcordia4315 re: F16s UKR need to figure out the technicalities/hope that they can get them in the air and landing again first.

@boink800 Ай бұрын

@@livingtribunal4110 Please tell us the latest botski conspiracy theory. We want to laugh.

@Tyler-wl8kq Ай бұрын

Let’s put things in scale, can imagine trying to hold territory the size of Texas with 200,000 soldiers, than one soldier for every Square10 miles , impossible especially if Ukrainians have rifles and shot gun and stinger missles around every corner? It didn’t work out well for the Russians in Afghanistan did it ?

@danp2965 Ай бұрын

Hilarious how the presenter was squirming when the ambassador was talking about the necessity of peace talks …

@jon_do Ай бұрын

The last slap by the journalist on the former ambassador left him scrambling for words. Good job.

@la7dfa Ай бұрын

3 days to Kiyv.

@davidjones-wt2qq Ай бұрын

Azov by the end of last Summer

@la7dfa Ай бұрын

@@davidjones-wt2qq Why is your bot using a Western name? Let me guess; Russian inferiority complex

@livingtribunal4110 Ай бұрын

Enjoy dining out on something that was a ´thing´ for about 2 weeks back in March 2022.

@Robert-xy4xi Ай бұрын

5 days to the Sea of Azov, was the goal of the failed counter offensive last year!

@foilhat1138 Ай бұрын

@@Robert-xy4xi Russia has multiple failed offensives.

@bradleys4783 Ай бұрын

This guy is loaded... hic.

@ronmorrell9809 Ай бұрын

He would be more believable if he knew what year the invasion began.

@Somnationalist Ай бұрын

Why don't bring times radio to the extraordinary Mr Mcfaul former US ambassador of Russia, bring us we need to hear his insights and analysis, thank you so much 🙏

@jetfusion1532 Ай бұрын

I disagree with the guy around 19 minutes. He's chewing on a standard McDrive probability however nothing in this conflict is standard

@user-yn4jn3it5y Ай бұрын

I think that Blinken playing music with Ukrainian’s in a partying atmosphere was a beautiful statement of how a Americans feel about Ukrainians, with our support, gain the ability to decide for themselves who they prefer to party with.

@gusdogbrownlab435 Ай бұрын

Putin talks hyperbollocks now there's a surprise

@livingtribunal4110 Ай бұрын

Does he? When? What did he actually talk about?

@sevi7275 Ай бұрын

F…all

@livingtribunal4110 Ай бұрын

@@sevi7275 So he either talk hyperbollocks or F...all: which is it?

@Matt1975ism Ай бұрын

@@livingtribunal4110 When he talks we all turn off as he opens his mouth; he lies

@Howdy606 Ай бұрын

@@livingtribunal4110............ PUTIN: We aren't going to invade Ukraine.. hyperbollocks. PUTIN: ...... If you use western tanks, missiles etc, we will use nukes......hyperbollocks (multiple times). PUTIN:..... Russian military does not target woman children and civilian targets .....hyperbollocks etc etc etc

@michaelasamoah2390 Ай бұрын

Complete nonsense .captured whole country with 200thousand troops.?

@user-qu6qg7sk4v Ай бұрын

It's not like it was the first time russians have grossly overestimated their capabilities or underestimated their opposition is it 😎 russia's "intelligence" is obviously not as intelligent as you assume. Unless in early '22 the burning armor under Kyiv, bolstered with parade uniforms and remains of putinist troops was all part of the 4d chess grandmaster's clever plan 🤔

@user-tq5ry6zl6w Ай бұрын

this ambassador unfortunately is an appeaser to russia.

@operator9858 Ай бұрын

If you are so quick to make such assumptions he might as well. Heck he'll sleep better for it in the end to boot.

@dezurniprovokator373 Ай бұрын

“ Gave the cookies and music to the masses “!😂😂😂

@BillySnider-yc2cc Ай бұрын

God bless them all. Hope God step in.

@stevencharnock9271 Ай бұрын

Blinken has called on

@nicolettewiersma2510 Ай бұрын

Why inform the Russians by telling about the trouble Ukraine has on the front. I understand the troubles and I regret the delevering of the promised military aid is so slow😡, but never tell your enemy about your troubles you are struggling with.

@ConnorJane Ай бұрын

Because Russians somehow have no idea what's happening with Ukraine? Are you for real right now?

@brand8590 Ай бұрын

Does anyone realize the Billions that the US has spent on other nations military suppliers? Both for Ukraine and otherwise. I've heard all the whine about US weapons but have heard no one mention the huge windfall many European nations and their companies who have benefitted from this. Helps them develop/ advance their own countries capabilities too.

@user-tk3vj8pn7k Ай бұрын

He remains calm in his own way attitude influenced mind like picture of family at front....It was torturing listening trying to follow her dribble and frivble

@luminyam6145 Ай бұрын

Gd Putin, I want them out of Ukraine.

@philoaviaticus Ай бұрын

Weird

@vortigern3910 Ай бұрын

Mr Hyppebala is a fool,🙃

@Zheugma Ай бұрын

Just let the brains in the weather work and take care of important things

@RightSideNews Ай бұрын

Blinkin loves his guitar

@Bird_McBride Ай бұрын

And micochips didn't exist until i came along.

@ronmorrell9809 Ай бұрын

While I am ashamed of the US HoRs, blame also needs to be attributed to the local leaders in northern Ukraine. Denys Davidoff showed piles of "Dragon's Teeth" and of material for constructing trenches. They were lying in the fields where they had been off loaded from trucks. Aesop said "the gods help them that help themselves. Put your shoulder to the wheel"

@wendel6 Ай бұрын

Ukraine is nowhere near collapsing as this ambassador has implied. And despite US dithering which we all know will return at some point, Europe will not allow Ukraine to be defeated.

@Forest_Knight Ай бұрын

Solomia not Somalia!

@Bird_McBride Ай бұрын

Blinken wouldn't know an ANA gate from a NAND gate. Yet he tells everyone what they can do and what they can't do.

@davidjones-wt2qq Ай бұрын

God,more nonsense

@michaeldunham3385 Ай бұрын

Only from you

@jackbrown6788 Ай бұрын

Why are you here then?

@livingtribunal4110 Ай бұрын

@@michaeldunham3385 So far, you´ve provided zero respones when people have called you out on your ´factual´ inconsistencies and nonsense. Funny, that.

@vandenriesen1294 Ай бұрын

Zelensky looks BEWILDERED, DISORIENTED, without a clear direction to lead his Army, as Putin changes Goal Posts with a "calculating mind", knowing Zelensky's weakness

@jameskelley3365 Ай бұрын

BS......shameful

@justmyownpersonalopinion Ай бұрын

300 Billion in 3 year's to defend , againts one nation this Isn't Iraq or afghanistan

@vortigern3910 Ай бұрын

It is so funny watching you journalists trying to make the Russian incompetence look effective, you are supposed to report the news not create the news.🙃

@davemc9268 Ай бұрын

So similar to the idea that NATO is a force to be reckoned with.

@mikedon5205 Ай бұрын

NATO is a defence pact nothing more

@livingtribunal4110 Ай бұрын

The same NATO that was involved in one major military campaign since its inception

@gerryrohan8149 Ай бұрын

Have you seen any single warships from any NATO ? Have you seen any single airplane from NATO? Have you seen any submarine from NATO? Have tou seen any soldier from NATO? Have tou seen your brain blown away?

@mikedon5205 Ай бұрын

Nato is a defence alliance.. and to be fair ukraine with 30 year old NATO equipment seems to be destroying the Russian military

@livingtribunal4110 Ай бұрын

The same NATO that was involved in one major military campaign since its inception

@ErimiasEndale Ай бұрын

The political system in 🇬🇧 UK is rotten 😂😂😂😂😂

@boink800 Ай бұрын

Is that why Johnny Rotten is so Rotten?

@russellspeed1693 Ай бұрын

So basically Thomas is saying that he has been out of touch for the last two years.

@ErimiasEndale Ай бұрын

Civil war broke out in UK already 😂😂😂😂

@boink800 Ай бұрын

What civil war is that? The one playing in your head?

@timothypeterson1903 Ай бұрын

And most western media has been proven wrong 🤣🤣🤣

@Robert-xy4xi Ай бұрын

No mention of Zelenskiy elected term ending on the 20th of May.

@cliveashleyhamilton Ай бұрын

Playing the guitar was completely ridiculous

@user-tk3vj8pn7k Ай бұрын

GENIUS 🌻

@cliveashleyhamilton Ай бұрын

@@user-tk3vj8pn7k it was deeply offensive that he did that in Ukraine, hideous in fact

@DavidAshne-sv8nh Ай бұрын

Hello is this the delusional radio? I am looking for Times radio.

@lw1zfog Ай бұрын

tHe tiMEs continues in its risible daily cope broadcasts

@jeremymanson1781 Ай бұрын

Here you are dribbling your Russian serf nonsense again🤡

@JVendittelli Ай бұрын

Russia wanted to experience all of Nato's attacks and equipment so they could manufacture better technology.

@boink800 Ай бұрын

The result: the Turtle Tank. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha

@dlmsarge8329 Ай бұрын

That's exactly why they were "capturing" or "liberating" those high tech flush toilets at the beginning of the war.

@Danny1282 Ай бұрын

⁠love this ❤

@hardwareful Ай бұрын

Well I guess "former US Ambassador to Russia Thomas Pickering" has spent a little too much time huffing the russian fumes to come around saying "the realities". These are entirely up to debate, and the only side interested in disseminating the notion that there is some sort of inevitability is *drumroll* russia

@sosangyaden9328 Ай бұрын

Please come to reality that you (Ukraine)are losing the war. The faster you realise the better it is for your country .And please don't make the innocent people believe that you are winning.

@jeremymanson1781 Ай бұрын

You are so right: little Putler and his serfs are having their lunch in Kiev. Its just that noone has noticed 🤡

@Dabmonger Ай бұрын

Time for NATO troops.

@user-vb6sr3ud8y Ай бұрын

he answered no questions.....just babbled

@BrentDesouza Ай бұрын

More P R O P A G A N D A 😂

@jeremymanson1781 Ай бұрын

Explain 🤡

@BrentDesouza Ай бұрын

@@jeremymanson1781 Explain why you had to type the Explain twice with a clown emoji twice?

@BrentDesouza Ай бұрын

@@jeremymanson1781 If you don’t know this channel or you are dim witted sheep 🐑 then you will know this channel is as balanced as Radio Kremlin? 🤦‍♂️

@BrentDesouza Ай бұрын

@@jeremymanson1781 🐑

@jeremymanson1781 Ай бұрын

@@BrentDesouza gosh and golly that's a bit intellectual coming from a serf troll 🤡

@ErimiasEndale Ай бұрын

Ukraine is finished 😢😢😢😢

@boink800 Ай бұрын

Didn't we say that two years ago? Ha, ha, ha, ha

@ger8499 Ай бұрын

Orc alert

@boink800 Ай бұрын

@@ger8499 The botskis from the Internet Research Agency want to "influence" public opinion. They fail yet again. Ha, ha, ha, ha

@eirikjontvedt773 Ай бұрын

Nice try Igor.

@robertshiell887 Ай бұрын

Three more days!!!

@2804Holly Ай бұрын

The problem to the world is military bases of NATO and their expansion for what? A empire … rule and impose way of life… you rule your neighbor house?

@davidderolph2845 Ай бұрын

How.are NATO bases a problem to the world?

@daffyduck780 Ай бұрын

Who does NATO rule over?

@2804Holly Ай бұрын

@@daffyduck780 everywhere, spreading like a decease

@salted6422 Ай бұрын

How exactly is NATO imposing rules and regulations in my country? NATO "expands" because countries agree to join it mainly due to feeling unsecure and vulnearable. You can probably figure out why a peaceful country like Russia would have issues with their neighbors being able to defend themselves.

@JohnK004 Ай бұрын

@@2804Holly they are "spreading" because people want them to spread, if people didn't want them they wouldn't try to act like the Western people or copy Western values, get that through your head already, you will feel much better accepting this fact.

@loljk1991 Ай бұрын

Stop this BS , ukraine is losing . And no one is helping them 😢

@jeremymanson1781 Ай бұрын

Incorrect. You are drowning in little Putler's Russian serf propaganda.

@attasoa Ай бұрын

You have nothing to boast about when you're on life support.

@Akenfelds1 Ай бұрын

It's not about "boasting". It's about protecting one's sovereighty from a psychopath in Moscow. This is a war, not a sport. A slightly more mature interpretation of the situation is needed by observers like you." If you won an marathon, would you say that you didn't really win it if somebody else paid for your shoes and shorts?

@stream2watch Ай бұрын

@@Akenfelds1 " observers" He is a known bot.

@eirikjontvedt773 Ай бұрын

@@stream2watch bot for whom? you're the bot.

@s0ycapitan Ай бұрын

Another talking head pushing the strawman argument that Russia intended to take over Ukraine in 2022 - therefore they have failed. Blinken uses this argument regularly, when he's not making a total fool of himself with his guitar.

@foilhat1138 Ай бұрын

Yes, if Blinken wants to not look like a fool he should ride around shirtless on horseback.

@boink800 Ай бұрын

What is going to happen by May 20th? Please tell us botski. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha

@s0ycapitan Ай бұрын

@@foilhat1138 He could have played and sung out of key shirtless (shudders)

@foilhat1138 Ай бұрын

@@s0ycapitan Supposed anti gay Putin already managed to take one of the gayest pictures in human history.

@foilhat1138 Ай бұрын

@@s0ycapitan Or build a statue of himself dressed up like Octavian, like Putin did.

@hack44box Ай бұрын

Russia not get any Ukraine teritory but russia loose many own.

@goonerboz6023 Ай бұрын

No this is a lie he pulled his troops back because they had negotiated a deal with Ukraine but usa sent over boris to stop the deal and now Ukraine has suffered over half million troops being slaughtered for the usa

@michaeldunham3385 Ай бұрын

Kremlin propaganda myth the terms were totally unacceptable to Ukraine. Putin needs to get out of Ukraine.

@foilhat1138 Ай бұрын

This is a fantasy to save face.

@31Blaize Ай бұрын

The USA sent Johnson? 🤣🤣🤣 Come on, you can do better than that...

@ger8499 Ай бұрын

Orc alert

@ketafol Ай бұрын

Totally not a bot talking point getting spammed everywhere. Weak sauce.

@arnovriends5873 Ай бұрын

What a pile of defeatist bs, just make sure the NATO+friends supply and support Ukraine WELL,PROPER and CONTINUOUSLY , and poor some tea for yourself while mumbling softly to yourselves; KEEP CALM AND REARM.