re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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On his radio show, The Full Contact, Solovyov weighed in on news that Major General Ivan Popov, who commanded Russian military units in southern Ukraine, was allegedly dismissed from his position for informing military leadership about the grim realities of Russian forces on the frontlines. In an audio message published by Russian lawmaker Andrey Gurulyov—an ever-present fixture on Solovyov’s shows—Popov complained about the deaths of Russian soldiers and the lack of Russian counter-artillery systems and reconnaissance.

Addressing the scandal, Solovyov compared Popov to Prigozhin and criticized his friend Gurulyov for disseminating the recording. “I think that publicizing his statement is a brave and phenomenally incorrect step. Popov is a respected general who had every opportunity to carry his point of view across, since he knows many people in the presidential administration very well. He could have picked up the phone and gotten his message and his point of view to the Supreme Commander, with whom he met, as I understand it.”

Solovyov went on: “For him to make it public was an emotional step which was wrong, in my opinion. Now the Ukrainian media is happily rehashing it. Publicizing this does not make us stronger…. As a combat general, he unfortunately was excessively emotional. He recorded a strong statement, I understand him. But it shouldn’t have been made public.”

Viewers immediately barraged Solovyov with a bevy of messages—and to the host’s dismay, most of them supported Popov’s stance.

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“For me, it’s extremely sad that [Popov] succumbed to his emotions and decided to act in this manner. His questionable methods overshadow his goals. It is a big mistake! And it was a big mistake for my friend, Lt. Gen. Andrey Gurulyov, to publicize it... The country is at war! You have to be able to control your emotions!”

Apparently failing to follow his own advice, Solovyov angrily snapped back at one listener after another for supporting Popov. “Some cretin says we never declared war. Some cretin is trying to lecture me. Listen, you, cretin, get out of here! I’m responding to some idiot by the name of Andrey... I don’t care at all whether we officially declared war,” he said.

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Another listener, Irina, wrote that Popov did not violate any rules by recording his message. Solovyov promptly shut her down: “Yes, he did. If you don’t understand what you’re talking about, that is your problem!” He then yelled at another commentator, without specifying what he said or asked: “Andrey, you are a pathetic nobody, a cretin! Get out of here, Ukrainian swine! You are a worthless piece of shite!”

Afterwards, the host—notorious for his neurotic behavior and frequent emotional outbursts— demanded: “I call on everyone to stop and think before making any emotional statements... Anything else leads to anarchy and death!”

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Solovyov then went on to read another message: “Someone by the name of ‘Stalin’ writes, ‘Shoigu created these conditions for them.’ The Defense Minister is not responsible for this! This is an issue for the General Staff. You shouldn’t use a pseudonym that in no way relates to you! You are no Stalin! You are a piece of shite! Stalin wouldn’t write this trash! Don’t defile Stalin’s name, you are a pitiful nobody! You are a pathetic piece of shite, and not Stalin!”

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This has to be a joke

This has to be

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Last week Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security adviser, called in a few journalists to insist that Putin’s squabble with Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner militia, was an armed mutiny that showed weakness in the Russian’s leader command and control of his military. There’s simply no evidence for such assertions. If anything, I was later told by those with access to current intelligence, that Putin emerged stronger than ever after the Prigozhin implosion, which led to the absorption of many of his mercenaries into the Russian army.

Sullivan also took issue with the notion—he apparently did not say where it originated—that the Biden administration was paralyzed by the threat of a Russian nuclear attack and so would not fully support Ukraine. Such views were “nonsense,” he said, and cited Biden’s recent controversial decision to provide cluster bombs to the Ukraine military. He suggested that the anti-personnel weapons—each bomb can spread hundreds of bomblets—could give Ukraine an edge in the war and prompt Putin to deploy nuclear weapons. “It is a real threat,” Sullivan said, of a nuclear bomb. “And it’s one that does evolve with changing conditions on the ground.”

The only good news about such primitive and circular thinking, I have been told, is the impossibility at this point of any significant Ukraine success. “Biden’s principal issue in the war is that he’s screwed,” the informed official told me. “We didn’t give Ukraine cluster bombs earlier in the war, but we’re giving them cluster bombs now because that’s all we got left in the cupboard. Aren’t these the bombs that are banned all over the world because they kill kids? But the Ukrainians tell us they are not planning to drop them on civilians. And then the administration claims that the Russians have used them first in the war, which is just a lie.

“In any case,” the official said, “cluster bombs have zero chance of changing the course of the war.” He said the real worry will come later this summer, perhaps as early as August, when the Russians, having easily weathered the Ukraine assault, will counter-strike with a major offensive. “What happens then? The US has painted itself in a corner by calling for NATO to do something. “Will NATO respond by sending the brigades now training in Poland and Romania on an airborne assault?” We knew more about the German army in Normandy in World War II than we know about the Russian army in Ukraine.”

I have been told of other signs of internal stress inside the Biden administration. Undersecretary of State for Policy Victoria Nuland has been “blocked” —a word used by one Democratic Party insider—from being promoted to replace the much respected Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman. Nuland’s anti-Russian politics and rhetoric matches the tone and point of view of Biden and Secretary of State Tony Blinken. And a newcomer to the upper reaches of the American intelligence community—CIA director Bill Burns—trumpeted his love for Biden and his intense dislike of all things Russian, including Putin, in a speech on July 1 in England.

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He said the real worry will come later this summer, perhaps as early as August, when the Russians, having easily weathered the Ukraine assault, will counter-strike with a major offensive.

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Again I feel for Ukraine but this should have never happened with the us involvement

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What level of Russian propaganda dick sucking do you have to reach to come to the conclusion that the Wagner mutiny was actually good for putin?

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Does no one else find it concerning that so much top of the line Western equipment is barely making a difference in the war?

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Does no one else find it concerning that so much top of the line Western equipment is barely making a difference in the war?

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Ukrainians whose country has been destroyed and have lost homes, family, cities, and most of their country would probably disagree.

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Does no one else find it concerning that so much top of the line Western equipment is barely making a difference in the war?

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