Hello and welcome to or welcome back to Colonial Outcasts. We are kicking off this week with a hot story right now. Ukraine has taken the Russian military unawares and launched a massive spear thrust invasion into northern Kursk, in the border of northern Ukraine. I don't know.

That's that's the headlines that we're seeing coming from the corporate Western media

that has been misreporting the war from the start. So Ukraine invades Russia. Was it a master's

a strategic blunder?

Which one is it?

Spoiler alert, it's not looking like the best operation.

So today I've got myself on this episode, Greg Stoker,

former United States Army Ranger.

I now do geopolitical analysis and stuff.

Also in Mint Press.

And I did cover this last night

on Mint Press, but here on Colonial Outcast, I am not bound by the editorial requirements

of a news organization. So we're just going to get into it. Alina Xenophantos is also here coming

to us from Cyprus, and we are going to talk about what the actual F is going on

with this military operation and I'm going to contextualize in case you guys aren't really tracking

what's going on and then we're just going to dive right in Alina thank you so much for joining

us yet again yeah it's always good to be on.

You know, so when I talk about like the Russian-Ukraine conflict, I kind of sometimes hate reporting on it,

the subject because I'm totally baffled that I get called a tankie,

which to me is absurd.

Do you know the term tankie?

No, I don't.

...