James O'Byrne on Russian Ukraine War
James O'Byrne
Russian Ukraine War
Claims and stances
Transcript
- 0:00 The Russian Ukraine war, which with the start date in February 2022, has been going on for about three years now.
- 0:08 And about almost three and a half years.
- 0:11 And as someone like myself, who is very intrigued in war, especially in this certain conflict.
- 0:17 And last week we had the meeting between Putin and Trump in Anchorage, Alaska.
- 0:24 And this are there's a there's a direction towards a ultimate ceasefire and an ultimate surrender.
- 0:29 But you know, you really have to look at the history and the the real origin of this war.
- 0:34 Um Russ uh Russia, the the the sole reason Putin invaded Ukraine and invaded eleven different countries in his tenure as um Russian Prime Minister is because after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia lost every Russia seceded everything, and there's no there's no um buffer zone anymore in Russia.
- 0:56 And Russia is highly dependent on natural resources as their exports.
- 1:00 Around 50% of the exports are natural gas and oil and other timber minerals.
- 1:06 So re very resource-driven, and there is limited to no agriculture.
- 1:11 And Ukraine is the breadbasket of Europe.
- 1:13 Ukraine uh generates about 50% of global wheat, and Putin knows that.
- 1:19 Putin knows that in order to guarantee the longevity of the Russian people, Ukraine was always on his radar.
- 1:27 He invaded Crimea in 2014, and he um which sparked you know the first annexation, the first uh the first direction towards control of Ukraine.
- 1:40 And in 2022, Putin believed that there, you know, there was a lot of support for his cause in Ukraine, especially in Kyiv, and he thought it would be a swift takeover, but he was met with a strong resistance from Ukraine.
- 1:52 And recently, the reason that you know this this war has kind of been in a stalemate, but with it's in r it's in Russia's favor, but we've seen that Russia is just thrown bodies at this war, and it's a bloody war.
- 2:05 It's deadlier, it's it's on a di on a vast different scale than World War I.
- 2:10 World War I was obviously an atrocity, obviously very bloody, but World War I didn't have drones that were flying with C4s and targeted artillery artillery and billion dollar military military equipment being destroyed by the dozens.
- 2:25 So I really hope that this war with President Trump and Putin meeting last week um goes in a direction of coming to a complete end.
- 2:34 And you know, that might mean that Ukraine has to secede some of their land to Russia.
- 2:40 Um, but I think for it's it's in everyone's best interest for this fighting this to stop because the youth of Ukraine and Russia has been lost, and there are a lot of people that have died, and this a lot of men, young men, brave young men who've died in this battle, um, this bloody battle for little to no gain whatsoever.