Europe's Drone Escalation: A Sign of Weakness, Not Strength
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🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Europe's Drone Escalation: A Sign of Weakness, Not StrengthThe Duran: Episode 2500
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Alexander, let's talk about what is happening with Project Ukraine. |
| 0:05.4 | And we have missile strikes from Russia into Kiev. |
| 0:09.7 | We have drone strikes from Ukraine into Russia. |
| 0:13.7 | We have an interesting list of weapons facilities and specifically or focused in on drone facilities outside of Ukraine, |
| 0:24.3 | published by the Russian Ministry of Defense. And Medvedev has commented on this as well. |
| 0:32.1 | You may want to talk about that. And we have Lavrov in China. And he's also made statements about Europe, |
| 0:41.9 | building up their military. He says Europe's building up their military quickly and rapidly |
| 0:47.6 | to take on Russia, to contain Russia. And then we have everything that's happening on the front lines. |
| 0:55.5 | And Russia continues to advance and to take territories. |
| 1:00.5 | Zeletsky claims that Ukraine captured a village using only robots, right? |
| 1:08.4 | Robots or drones or something. |
| 1:10.4 | Robots, I believe he said. So this is a big, a big deal for |
| 1:14.2 | Zeletsky. Obviously, it didn't happen. But anyway, you might want to address that. So where do you |
| 1:19.1 | want to begin? We have a whole lot of different things going on. You know, I think, I think the first |
| 1:23.7 | place to begin is where it really matters in some respects, which is looking at the |
| 1:27.9 | actual situation in the war itself, because over the course of the winter, the late winter, |
| 1:36.5 | and the early spring, until very recently, we've had a revival of that perennial narrative about the war being in stalemate, about the lines |
| 1:47.8 | holding, about the Russians losing territory, about the Ukrainians taking the initiative, |
| 1:55.1 | about successful Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia, about the Ukrainian successfully damaging Russia's oil export facilities |
| 2:05.5 | and causing major problems in Russia's economy. |
| 2:10.0 | We've had an unending flood of this kind of, well, information, if you want to call it that, |
| 2:20.9 | pouring out of Ukraine, circulating in the media in the West. And I'm going to say straightforwardly, I don't think any single |
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