Joining us now is Joel Scousen. You can find him at world affairs brief.com. And that is an excellent

source of information and nobody knows what's going on, follows it more closely than Joel Scousin

does. Thank you for joining us, Joel. It's always good to be with you, David. Thank you. Let's talk

about, first of all, but it's been a lot of very a lot of developments things are

happening very quickly in Ukraine we now see in the headlines just yesterday it was 200,000

troops are massing by the Russians and then the Ukrainians say 500,000 is it 200,000 is it 500,000

is that happening the fog of war what is really going on in your opinion?

Well, it's very hard to say. I rely primarily on

the Brits at Rusey.com, which really is a very good non-globalist, honest intelligence outfit that has access to British intelligence

and some American intelligence. But you really can't tell what the Russians say or what the Ukrainians

or you can't take it for face value. There's a lot of propaganda on both sides.

That's right.

There's no way that the Russians could be amassing 500,000.

They already committed, of the 300,000, they committed 100,000 of the new conscripts,

untrained into the battle, and most of those have met their fate and have been killed. So that leaves

about 200,000 that they did give extensive training to, or at least whatever they could do in the

battlefield conditions there in Ukraine. And you've got the Wagner group that still has about 50 or 60,000

you know, top line fighters, but that's it from what the Russians have.

So, you know, we're looking at a maximum of about 300,000, which is what they started the original invasion with.

And according to, you know, Russian sources, Putin is demanding the same three-pronged attack

like they tried it the first, with Belarus coming out, Russian troops and equipment towards

Kiev, and then Crimea coming out of the south to attack the southern flank of Odessa,

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