#Ukraine: #Russia POV: Moscow Said to be Launching pincer attack to surround and cut off the Ukrainian army. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety
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🗓️ 12 February 2023
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#Ukraine: #Russia POV: Moscow Said to be Launching pincer attack to surround and cut off the Ukrainian army. Professor H.J. Mackinder, International Relations. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety
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| 0:35.4 | Professor H.J. Mackinder International Relations to come in on six capitals. This week a |
| 0:40.6 | surprise capital number six. But first Moscow, Professor of very good even to the information |
| 0:48.0 | of the week in the London telegraph and other European press is that Russia is not only |
| 0:56.0 | preparing a major offensive. It's underway. The missile attacks, the destabilizing of |
| 1:01.5 | small governments to disrupt European unity, Moldova for example, Sweden and Finland |
| 1:07.4 | block by NATO or Kosovo being armed by suspect characters, probably Wagner group and Vutik |
| 1:15.9 | in Serbia to be either neither this nor that neither EU or Moscow. All the disruption |
| 1:23.9 | is possible under the table. But we come to the main battlefield and the way it's presented |
| 1:31.3 | is this. Russia has 2,000 armor vehicles and 300,000 soldiers ready to launch a pincer |
| 1:39.8 | attack on Ukraine. The flanks of the front that runs along the Donbas are the weakness. |
| 1:48.6 | Russia will attack from the north, driving deep into Ukraine by passing the villages and |
| 1:54.4 | towns, choosing the roadways around all of those exits. And they will attack from the |
| 2:01.5 | south out of Crimea, driving deep into Ukraine to close the pincer and trap the Ukrainian army |
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