Well, howdy there internet people? Let's bea again. So today we are going to talk about

Zolinsky and some of the information that came out about some of the things that he

might have suggested. looks like he did, and whether or not it's a good idea.

And the two questions that have come in are, you know, could Ukraine really do this and should Ukraine really do this?

And those are two very different questions.

And then I'm going to add a third one that nobody asked, but I think it's really important.

Okay, so if you have no idea what I'm talking about, information came out that basically

Zellensky in private has suggested some aggressive

responses such as taking and holding Russian dirt, taking some of their small towns along the border,

and occupying them, or using or conducting missile strikes into Russian

territory stuff like this. Okay so we will, well we'll just talk about the more extreme taking and

holding Russian dirt in response. Okay, so could they? Yeah, yeah. Ukraine could absolutely do that. Should they? That's a very different question.

You have to think about what the Russian response would be to it.

And this is why his generals have probably advised against this,

apparently multiple times.

So, if a Russian town gets taken,

the... a Russian town gets taken. The Russian populace might respond by saying, hey, we're going to get

invaded. And it provide a better justification for a wider

mobilization. That's not good for Ukraine. You want them in the position they're in now begging for troops. That's where you want

them. You don't really want to give them a pretext to get people to sign up to be patriotic and all of that stuff to free name of

Russian city. Another risk is that, I mean, Putin is not the Putin of old. He is slipping.

That is obvious. What if he views it as an existential threat to Russia and he decides to

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