GUEST: Robin Horsfall, soldier, writer, campaigner and keynote speaker.
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The existence of the USSR over many decades unfortunately shows that tyranny can be tenacious, and the extreme barbarism it deploys to suppress freedoms can last a long time and exact a huge toll of human suffering. That is why our weak strategy towards a decisive Ukrainian victory and complacency in the face of a revanchist, totalitarian (even fascistic) Russian World ideology is so very dangerous. We underestimate how pernicious, destructive, and long-lived this new wave of illiberal aggression from the Moscow swamplands could be.
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SPEAKER:
Robin Horsfall joined the British Army at the age of fifteen in 1972. He served with the Parachute Regiment and 22 Special Air Service. He left the British Army in 1984 and worked as a mercenary, bodyguard and as a medical officer is many active zones around the world. He then built London Karate for twenty years, teaching thousands the art and discipline of karate. He retired and went to Surrey University aged 56 and graduated in English Literature and Creative Writing three years later. He is the author of several books including his hugely successful autobiography Fighting Scared – which I highly recommend you read.
The video is quite long at 54 minutes, but should be very interesting. I haven’t watched it yet, so can’t comment on it. I posted the link as soon as I saw it.
I found a link to Robin’s new book. A signed copy will set you back £45.
https://robinhorsfall.co.uk/product/slava-ukraini-who-dares-shares-hardcopy/
Sadly, in stark contrast to our leaders, none of us underestimated mafia land’s deep-seated evilness. Of course, we made fun of this and that over the years, but there was never a smidgen of doubt that this fascist crime syndicate must be militarily defeated. No golden way out, no negotiations, no half-victory, no half-defeat … a full and thorough military defeat.
I watched it all. Too much ground covered to go into in detail, but Robin had an excellent interviewer who did not cramp his style and made some telling observations of his own, such as (paraphrased from memory only) :
“It is becoming clear that key decision-makers; especially Washington and Berlin, are placing limits on the scale and severity of the Russian defeat. They decided that Ukraine cannot have a victory that is too humiliating for Russia. Perversely putting the interests of the aggressor above the interests of the victim.”
Robin had an incredibly interesting response to that. I’ll leave it to the viewer to see and hear it and respond. FDR is referenced.
I don’t know Robin (although I have a passing acquaintance with someone that served with him back in the day who confirmed that he was “one of the best”), but I regard him and the other key commenters on LinkedIn as friends.
I’d like to pay tribute to just a few of them :
Yana Rudenko, Pastor Shawn Topham, Roman Sheremeta, Hannes Fassold, Maryna Chekh (still banned from LinkedIn but her friends post for her), Christopher Bakes, Brian Whitmore, Joseph Lindsley, Volodymyr Kukharenko, Dan Rice, Boris Lozhkin, Korkut Ozgen, Marijn Markus, Robin the Great and many others.
“It is becoming clear that key decision-makers; especially Washington and Berlin, are placing limits on the scale and severity of the Russian defeat. They decided that Ukraine cannot have a victory that is too humiliating for Russia. Perversely putting the interests of the aggressor above the interests of the victim.”
Didn’t Macron say exactly the same last year? I don’t agree one bit with this theory. russia have to be totally humiliated to the point of having their faces rubbed in the dirt, and reminded every 5 minutes they are a failed state that couldn’t beat an army ranked at around 30.
“Perversely putting the interests of the aggressor above the interests of the victim.”
he forgets one dimension: we are all victims of this agression, of course to different degrees, especially in direct suffering.
have we chosen to be the slaves of poutine? certainly not but the shortest path is not necessarily the straight line.
we may want to remove the desire of Russians to be soldiers, to be haters, but apart from that there are two European visions: those who want to dismember Russia and the others who do not.
if there was no climate emergency which is a parallel problem from which we are partly diverted by this war and which is superior and more insidious, to that of Russian fascism, if there were not to manage 18 sites of nuclear missile launches from countries with unclear borders, then we could wonder more about the unraveling of the federation… about the risk of having to manage a new Balkan x 10.
apart from that, the USA sees that the breakup of Russia would offer more opportunities to an “unwise” adversary like China and less to the USA.
so there is the short term, the medium and long term…
the remedy should not be worse than the disease.
Moreover, the more you humiliate, the more you create future Girkins and other twisted people. you have to correct it and come out on top.
draw a virtuous path despite the mud….