While the telegraph is telling tales, Russia liberated more land in a few weeks than Ukraine did during the entire counteroffensive :)

Audio Volume levels are VERY low in this episode, apart from the advert and the intro.

Adverts at the start of this are in pretty bad taste tbh

Hellooo! The Russian Foreign Ministry said to the British Ambassador that if British missiles are launched against Russian territory, the Russians will consider Britain directly involved in the war in Ukraine and the Russians reserve the right to retaliate against British military installations and bases in Britain itself and go after the British military elsewhere in the world. it's an ultimatum.

WTF is with the ad at the start?

What's with the ads?

Starts at 2:00

Informative, very limited reporting about Ukraine on Australian media, our media is absorbed with Gaza,

Amazing commentary as usual fills me with images of brave unicorns fighting along side Rishi, Dave and Ze

His Majesty's Naval Base, Portsmouth (HMNB Portsmouth) is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Clyde and HMNB Devonport). Portsmouth Naval Base is part of the city of Portsmouth; it is located on the eastern shore of Portsmouth Harbour, north of the Solent and the Isle of Wight. For centuries it was officially known as HM Dockyard, Portsmouth: as a Royal Dockyard, Portsmouth functioned primarily as a state-owned facility for building, repairing and maintaining warships; for a time it was the largest industrial site in the world.[2]

To be able to make a more sensible choice replace "difficult war" with "lost war"

Excellent as always

Thanks for bringing this special episode, Wish I had known earlier about the q&a ahead of time so I could have participated.

The Port of Felixstowe, in Felixstowe, Suffolk, is the United Kingdom's largest container port,[1] dealing with 48% of Britain's containerised trade.[2][3] In 2017, it was ranked as 43rd busiest container port in the world and 8th in Europe, with a handled traffic of 3.85 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU).[4] In 2019 it was ranked the UKs 7th busiest port.[5]

Disregard for horrible loss off life , while pushing for more war,more loss is appalling,so British

Bravo guys

Keep up the good work guys!

Seagreen is an offshore wind farm located in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland. It is a joint venture between SSE Renewables and TotalEnergies,[1] having exclusive development rights to the Firth of Forth zone of development granted by Crown Estate in 2010. The wind farm consists of 114 Vestas V164 wind turbines with a capacity of 10 MW each. The farm has a total capacity of 1,075 MW,[2] and became the largest offshore wind farm in Scotland when it became fully operational in 2023.[3]

We ain't interested in adverts ...all we want to hear is the emotional roll coaster of Dom

Moray East Wind Farm is an offshore wind farm located in the Moray Firth off the coast of Scotland.

Your analysis is truly entertaining 😂

I dont mind the ads if they support the best podcast in the world. Also who wouldnt just wanna get a beer with one of these guys? I would book a trip to london just to buy a round 😂

Hi to david and the team, one question I really need to get of my back, and I listen all the time and it's never comes up. So russia is buying its weapons from Iran, north Korea and China, so it's OK to use there weapons in Ukraine, ok the west moans, sanctions kick in here and there, but as soon as Cameron comes and says its ok to use British weapons in Russia or Ukraine, christ all mighty, bloody Russia starts getting it's nuclear weapons ready etc surely all this is no different from them using weapons from china and Iran???what the bloody difference. Many thanks Oliver.

To answer the title: Yes. A bad peace is just an unresolved conflict, at best. And this is a particularly ugly conflict.

I was wondering whether the advert before the podcast proper, is an instance of pro-Russian hacking, or just generic hacking. Not sure how open to hacking KZfaq uploads are. If people complained to Google about the advert, would Google act to shut down this channel. Anyway, looking forward to listening to the podcast content.

Good info

If podcasts start introducing ads into their videos, then Premium YT is useless...

Sound needs an increase or is it because I'm far away in New Zealand?

So, Francis concedes that the Taliban were a resistance force during the American War and not terrorists.

Great work as always guys

10:30 I was also very interested in the question of the extent of the Ukrainian resistance efforts taking place in Russian occupied territories and one of the previous episodes offered some very interesting slivers. The Russians just completed a critical overland rail line to Crimea. I can imagine that there will be some harrowing accounts after the war or an armistice that bring forth further details of what activities are happening behind the front lines, particularly those to raid and sabotage Russian supply lines.

It's not like it sows the seeds for another war or anything like that. You'd have to be _Verysailly_ to think otherwise.

why the poor audio????

This is a bit of a strange episode, I agree the sound is not only low but a bit off and the stupid ads at the beginning threw me too!! Are there gremlins afoot?

Thanks again for your continuous reporting. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 The Uk 🇬🇧 stands by Ukraine.

As long as the ring isnt hairy

The NATO variable has the most significant effect on the result of the War and Peace equation.

Russia doesn't have any significant experience, nor have they put resources into amphibious operations. If they put in the resources over time, they could do it, but any amphibious operations they try will be at a huge disadvantage. It is not just equipment that is needed, it is people and doctrine.

Skip to 01.00 to avoid ads 👍

One question I have not heard asked or addressed - Is there not a compelling incentive for the West to back the Ukraine to a decisive victory, to recover, thrive, and ultimately pay it's Western debt back. If Ukraine loses, that debt will have to be written off....or would this be viewed like a gambler trying to recover his losses with more gambling? 🤔

Why so quiet? I have everything turned up full and still can't hear it.

With this conflict having largely dropped off the current headlines, is there anything we can do to influence political leaders or the media to reinvigorate attention? And/or action to support Ukraine? Also...WTF!! With the ridiculous and innaporopriate adverts!

What the hell... those adverts at the beginning of the video are quite tacky

Answering to the title; in the case of RuZzia's invasion of Ukraine the answer is a definite "yes".

Very low sound level. Nearly gave up. Phone on full volume and had to hold it to my ear

Very quiet at times. Can't hear a thing in traffic

❤❤❤ i believe everything is connected, I don’t know what this concept of connectedness means, so I try to maintain a big picture approach. This means, for me the evolution is positive change, positive changes can’t be measured objectively by those woh are part of the change, unless they hve an unmoving point of reference which guides their lives beginning beforehand and continues throughout their life. This war, is set within a greater context and that greater context is set within another dimension which extends towards the heavens and the earth. This is difficult for people, like yourself who are , not to be insulting, but part. Of their destiny to be on mountainous viewing other mountains. It’s easy for such mountains viewing, living people to think that the valley is intolerably small compared to their experience in the mountains, and upon further reflection their families and everyday connections are a kind of normality, their assumption that they’re closer to the stars than the valley people…so they’re manipulated by their environment just as much, or I would argue, more so a victim, of their knowledge and environment than the valley peoples. They’re divided, in. Tragic state S the valley people are divided by a nearby mountain range or River. The proces of change are affecting all these environments, even me. However, there’s an important difference in how we conceptually perceive the mental and social environment. Mountain communities are seen as superior to the other groups, and accorded greater deference and given greater voice. The war in Ukraine isn’t being held into an all embracing concept with climate change and what is happening in other places like. Haiti, for example. Until the mountains people can make their mental models incorporate all this…we’re all just pushing deck chairs on a wallowing boat boat in a storm. We’ve all all contributed to.

Peace of western wets is totally unimportant! Justice in getting Russia out of Ukraine is very important

volume guys

We need to hope the F16s help, as soon as possible. We also need to appreciate it not airframes that win the air war, but the weapons and systems that surround them. F16s are important because they are well harmonised in that respect. Expect plenty of surprises.

What was Russias aims in the beginning of the war?

No war. For Blackrock

They shood have started training 10,000 F16 pilots over 2 years ago.

Slava ukraini 🇺🇦 🇺🇸

Thanks for the update and the guests…💙💛💙

“To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, to be America’s ally is fatal” - Henry Kissinger

Adverts from both youtube and sponsorships?!! This doubling the adds telegraph

Spanish Civil War, guerrilla resistance

Ask Britain to make peace with Germany in 1940. Same energy.

Western embassies in Ukraine should install their own air-defense systems to protect from Russian missiles and drones. Also, the US and UK helped shoot down Iranian missiles and drones on their way to Israel. Why can’t they do this in Ukraine?

lasst mich in Ruhe

Why is there a dog egg advert at the start? Poor effort boys, are we a skint yank broadcaster now or something? Tut tut.

The west shood have started training 10,000 F16 pilots within a month of the start of this invasion with the assumption that only the best 10% of the pilots would be selected.

No.... no its not

Ads?! 🙄

Comedian zelensky days are numbered 😅

Sound is too weak.

Loose the adverts!

As a sth Vietnam i can tell Ukraine They came They lied They betrayed They abandoned.

Stopped at the advert.

Dom is on a bad mic.

Question 2, Francis explains that there has been of lack of commentary telling the world that Russia's actions in Ukraine are a direct threat to us all. That exact sentiment has been repeated ad nauseum by the talking heads since day one. Why is Francis so utterly clueless?

Cope talk, they've been walked into disaster by this regime.

Great job guys. I didn't envisage I would still be a regular listener. SLAVA UKRAINI from the United States.

We tried this "bad peace"; it was called the Soviet Union.

Slava Ukraini!!! Free Tibet! Free the world!

downvote for initial advert.

интересно, британцы правда не понимают, что за вмешательство в конфликт между Россией и Украиной они заплатят ОЧЕНЬ высокую цену?

At this point unconditional surrender is the only practical solution for Ukraine. Hitler's Germany also refused to admit defeat until Hitler killed himself, then Keitel signed unconditional surrender.

Russia needs to fear escalation not NATO.

This podcast started running ads? I guess Ukraine aid has really dried up.

🙏💕🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

I know revenue is a thing, but really? A overly patronising California advert in poor taste? Please review that gang, maybe something less grating? However if that's what the Americans want in exchange for weapons, then I'll put up with it I guess 😅 Anyways, Slava Ukraine, love from the UK.

The #1 Ukranian phrase I SURRENDER!

But I thought Ukraine was winning. At least I was told so. What happened?

The Poseidon (Russian: Посейдон, "Poseidon", GRAU index 2M39, NATO reporting name Kanyon), previously known by Russian codename Status-6 (Russian: Статус-6), is an autonomous, nuclear-powered unmanned underwater vehicle reportedly in production by Rubin Design Bureau, capable of delivering both conventional and nuclear warheads.[1][5][6] The Poseidon is one of the six new Russian strategic weapons announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin on 1 March 2018.[7]

These guys sitting comfortable talking Ukraine fighting for 40 years for crimea…which they will never take from Russia..delusional people…

the russians must be scared the bots are out

Will the West still support Kiev if Zaluzhny, a committed Banderist becomes President ? Why has there never been a proper investigation into the shooting in the Maidan in 2014 ? Should a country that is attempting to eradicate the language, religion & culture of a significant proportion of the population be called a democracy ? So many questions that should be addressed but predictably were not.

It's over...

This program has been wrong from day 1 .😅😅😅😅people that believe state run media 😅😅😅

So have Russia not decided yet that Crimea (which is sovereign Ukraine) is Russian or not?? Stormshadow hit there a long time ago and Russia never got its pants in a twist!

No a nuclear war is worse for Ukraine AND France, UK, EU and US... and RF and CH.

Targets, targets, targets... Cameron needs to keep his trotters and snout out of the Ukrainian trough.

Wrong then and wrong now….

this podcast is pure copium

So peace is dangerous 😂 Brainwashing in progress

I’m here for the lies.

If Ukraine uses British weapons to strike Russia, Moscow will strike London The Russian Foreign Ministry warned the British Ambassador about Moscow's imminent response to attacks on the Russian territory, the department said in a statement. UK's Ambassador Nigel Casey was summoned to the Foreign Ministry on May 6. French Ambassador to Russia Pierre Levy was summoned to the department the same day. The Russian Foreign Ministry clarified that Casey was summoned following the recent statements from British Foreign Secretary David Cameron. The latter claimed that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had the right to use British weapons to strike Russia. The Russian Foreign Ministry expressed a decisive protest in connection with Cameron's remarks. The Russian Foreign Ministry pointed out the contradiction between Cameron's current and previous remarks when he said that longer-range missiles "under no circumstances" would be used to strike the Russian territory. Such rhetoric indicates that London is de facto becoming a party to the conflict, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. The Foreign Ministry also listed potential retaliatory measures that would follow should Ukraine use British weapons to strike Russia. Casey was warned that any British military facilities and equipment both on the territory of Ukraine and beyond could become targets in response to Ukraine's attacks on Russia with the use of British weapons. The Russian Foreign Ministry also said that Casey must refute Cameron's "belligerent provocative statements.” "We urged the ambassador to think about inevitable catastrophic consequences of such hostile steps from London,” the Russian ministry said. In a conversation with Reuters, David Cameron said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine could legitimately use British weapons to strike Russia. The agency later withdrew the article with Cameron's statement, but then published it again, leaving the quote about Kyiv's right to use British weapons to strike Russian territory unchanged. Pravda

The more I listen the more lies I hear