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PREVIEW: Excerpt from a conversation with colleague Gregory Copley re the deterioration of Ukraine's defenses and Kyiv's increasing acts of desperation before it changes direction and negotiates a ceasefire and surrender -- including Kyiv's ordering Austr

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PREVIEW: Excerpt from a conversation with colleague Gregory Copley re the deterioration of Ukraine's defenses and Kyiv's increasing acts of desperation before it changes direction and negotiates a ceasefire and surrender -- including Kyiv's ordering Australia to obey demands for coal and military equipment. More later tonight.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/federal-government-must-stop-prevaricating-and-send-coal-to-kyiv-20240121-p5eyvt.html

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0:00.0

This is John Bachelor. What follows is an excerpt for my conversation with my colleague

0:04.1

Gregory Coppley, Defense and Foreign Affairs. He's in Perth, Australia, about Ukraine and

0:10.0

about the facts of the matter that the US Congress is not likely, not probably going

0:15.2

to oblige the administration's request for additional monies.

0:20.2

As Gregory observes, this is the last of the money coming from the US and it might already be spent.

0:27.0

What about Ukraine and its desperation?

0:30.0

This includes its ordering Australia to deliver goods that it needs, including helicopters

0:37.3

that Australia possesses to be rotated and to be done away with, to be destroyed because they're obsolete.

0:45.6

Ordering Australia what to do.

0:48.4

Ukraine is sinking and Gregory measures it quite bluntly. We can see it from the US, we can see it from NATO, which is

0:56.1

replenishing its arsenal now because it's depleted over the time supporting Ukraine.

1:01.9

But the last days of Ukraine before the negotiations begin.

1:06.0

Here's Gregory Coppley.

1:08.0

Well, we're either at the edge of negotiation or at some internal action within Ukraine to remove President

1:16.3

Selensky who really is prepared to fight to the last US dollar and not

1:21.4

realizing that he has in fact already spent the last US dollar.

1:26.5

President Biden has got other fish to fry at the moment in the run-up for the November

1:31.5

24 elections in the US and frankly he's run out of any use for the

1:38.7

Ukraine war as a distracting factor he's also think, even lost interest in major support for Israel, although the

1:46.9

Congress will not allow him to walk away from that. But the reality is that the only

1:51.8

help that's coming now for Ukraine or from Zilinski's part of Ukraine

1:58.0

is from Poland. He was very fortunate that Donald Tusk re-reashumed control over the Polish government recently and

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