May 15, 2025
“Putin is exacerbating that irritation, and that is going to be bad for Putin.”
There is a shift in the Trump administration away from Putin as the Russian leader overplays his hand, says former US Ambassador to Ukraine, William B. Taylor.
Something a bit weird happened at Times Radio. A short time ago today they pasted an interview with Mikhail Khodorkovsky, but then quite quickly removed it. It would be interesting to know why.
Khodorkovsky came to a different conclusion to Mr Taylor. My comment on the Khodorkovsky interview:
“Khodorkovsky understands the situation with greater clarity than the European leaders.
Putler has worked out that the Graham “bone crusher” sanctions, if implemented at all, may well be watered down.
Only a massive ramping up of military support will alter putler’s calculus. The rat nazi expects his coming summer offensive to increase the current c. 20% of Ukraine that his filth occupy. He’s banking on his enormous manpower resources, Ukraine’s limited manpower resources and reluctance to draft under 25’s to play into his hands.
He also doesn’t think that Europe will send enough firepower to help the ZSU push his vermin back.
He intends to sit down at the end of the year, with more thieved territory and having inflicted yet more death and misery upon his victims, to get even more advantageous “peace” terms.
It is really up to Europe to ensure that doesn’t happen.”
I found a trace of it listed 19 hours ago, but I was unable to recover it. 🤔
You know what happens to opinions that don’t meet the media narratives, they tend to go the way of Navalny and Nemtsov….