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System Update with Glenn Greenwald

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System Update with Glenn Greenwald

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Politics, News

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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0:00.0

And the Good evening. It's Monday, August 21st. Welcome to a new episode of System Update.

0:20.0

Our Live Nightly Show that is every Monday through Friday at 7 PM Eastern

0:24.4

exclusively here on Rumbull, the free speech alternative to YouTube tonight.

0:28.8

There's no question that the war in Ukraine has radically changed, even Western media outlets that have been

0:34.8

steadfastly cheering for this war, and indeed even Ukrainians themselves are now starting to

0:41.3

admit what battlefield realities dispositively prove.

0:46.0

The much-vanted Ukrainian counter-offensive,

0:49.0

the imminent dramatic event we were assured for months

0:52.0

would be transformative and finally giving Ukraine

0:54.6

the upper hand and dislodging entrenched Russian positions inside Ukraine.

1:00.2

Our claim that doubled as a propaganda tool to assuage or growingly restless

1:04.5

Western population about their endless support for this war

1:07.8

is now, no matter how you slice it, a failure.

1:12.2

After months of multi-pronged attacks Ukraine's gains are so minimal and

1:16.1

trivial as to be barely worth noting. Russia continues to occupy a very significant chunk

1:22.2

of both eastern and southern Ukraine, along with Crimea, which they have

1:26.1

held since 2014.

1:28.5

Even Western Intelligence reports acknowledge that the Russians defensive positions are

1:32.1

more fortified and entrenched than any seen in any conflict in decades.

1:37.0

The US has already depleted its own stockpiles of artillery and other vital weapons is simply do not have to give to Ukraine

1:45.2

what they need to have any hope of changing the situation and anything resembling

1:49.1

the near or even the midterm future.

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