All right, Alexander, let's talk about what is going on in Ukraine. Let's do an update on what is

happening in the front lines. Of course, we have the main battle, which is what's happening in

the Dombas, and then we have the battle in Kursk, which is a sideshow, but it still attracts

more of the attention what's going on in Kursk.

So where should we begin? Kersk or Dombas?

Well, I'm going to actually make a general point, which is that I think that there's a lot of

Western commentators, but even some commentators on the, if you like the Russian-Ukrainian sides,

are being left behind by events, by the critical truth about the events,

which is that I think they still imagine that this is a war being fought by two roughly comparable armies.

Of course, the Russians always had a superiority of material.

The Ukrainians, however, had material assets of their own.

They had at various points in the war.

They outnumbered the Russians.

That's now generally accepted.

I think a lot of people still believe that and they still think that these battles

that are playing out across Ukraine are battles between two roughly analogous armies. And you still get,

you know, people talk about stalemates, stagnation, that kind of thing. That isn't the reality of the war, as it seems to me at all.

I go every day, I listen to what the various commentators say I look at what all the various

reporting channels, Russian, Ukrainian, neutral and all of those say, I look at the videos

that come out, some of the very

haunting, terrible videos. But the reality is that Ukraine is being smashed and it is being

smashed all across the front lines. And the Ukrainian military is unable to hold its positions

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