Zaporozhye accelerated collapse. Zelensky corruption scandal
The Duran: Episode 2385

Kiev's Darkest Day; Zelensky Begs More Missiles After Huge Russian Kiev Strike; Gives Up On Pokrovsk
Topic 1730

Medvedev, World Kindness Day. Maduro's message to Trump. Zelensky wants $160B. Song downs Kinzhal
Topic 1876

The Duran: Episode 961
France's Marine Le Pen Acquitted in Case Over Violating Hate Speech Laws
https://sputniknews.com/europe/202105041082797685-frances-marine-le-pen-acquitted-in-case-over-violating-hate-speech-laws/

I have trouble listening to Prof Jiang Xueqin. I am not used to the Chinese version of English. My fault. But what he says makes a lot of sense. But he seems unable to distinguish between the Asian/European Jews like Netanyahu and the Jews of Abraham. However, 90% of what he says is spot on.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗽𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗣: 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽, 𝗜𝘀𝗿𝗮𝗲𝗹 & 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗛 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 | 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳 𝗝𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗫𝘂𝗲𝗾𝗶𝗻

The US fleet in the Caribbean is extremely vulnerable to modern Russian, Iranian and Chinese missiles. This factor seems to be ignored by the media and "experts".

In the 1940's they thought that aircraft could not drop torpedoes in shallow waters. That was despite reports in the late 1930's that the Japanese were practising doing so in Tokyo Bay.

I have no idea why the Chinese are building aircraft carriers. They should know better. The Russians seem to have woken up. But the Russians are still making advanced tanks when they are no longer used as such.

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The Japanese mastered the art of dropping torpedoes in shallow waters by late 1941, specifically in September 1941 during the operational planning for the attack on Pearl Harbor. They developed modifications to their Type 91 aerial torpedoes, including stabilizing fins and wooden breakaway fins, enabling the torpedoes to be successfully dropped and run in as little as 40 feet (12 meters) of water. This was a ...

If so, then any Western plans that depend on inciting an insurgency to bog down and weaken Russia in Ukraine may be ill-conceived and based on a whole set of wrong assumptions. As Putin never tires to point out, Russia and Ukraine have a long shared history and the commonalities between them as eastern Slav nations are profound. It is far from impossible that a reabsorption of Ukraine, including its western regions, even including Lviv, back into Russia might be long lasting and successful. If so then any Western plans to lure Russia westwards in order to bog it down or weaken it might end up producing the opposite result. They might instead lead to the permanent enlargement of Russia and the disappearance of Ukraine.

Since I presume this is not an outcome the West wants, by far its better course is to negotiate a compromise whilst there is still a Ukraine left. That does not however seem to be a course the West is inclined to follow.