Analysis of Russian Military Status

First of all, sir, if I could, I'd, I'd like to, um,

underline your comment about the specificity

of the degradation of the Russian forces.

Um, uh, much of the Russian military has not been

affected, um, negatively by this conflict.

Um, one of those forces is their undersea forces.

Um, it's hard to talk in public, as you well know, sir, about, about

undersea warfare and our efforts in that regard, but I can say that the

Russians are more active than we've seen them in years, and their

patrols into the Atlantic, um, a- and throughout the

Atlantic are, are, um, are, are at a high level,

uh, most of the time, at a higher level than we've seen in

years.

And this is, as you pointed out, despite all of the efforts that they're

undertaking inside Ukraine.

Okay.

Did you catch it?

I did.

Now, I heard that. I had to rewind it several times because

he was

contradicting, uh, uh, Representative Courtney there, and-

Well, what about all the-

... because Courtney, uh, Courtney assumed, well,

we've been knocking the Russians

back on their hind ends, and we've-

I know, but the, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, and CNN,

and Fox, and, and the New York... I mean, the London Times, and

Telegraph in London, and the Daily Mail, and the BBC,

and...

All the Western media, Doc, they've been telling us every day for

a year, "The Russians are losing. They're bleeding.

Their, their troops are deserting.

Um, uh, Ukraine is winning. Uh, the, the Russian army's gonna

collapse. There's mutiny."

It's all a lie, isn't it?

Yes. Uh, and you heard that from the com-

It's all a lie

... commander of the region. I mean, he j-

It's a lie. It's propaganda.

It's all propaganda. The Russians are

winning.

Yes.

And the only reason the Ukrainians are still there is that the

Western nations have spent hundreds of billions of

dollars collectively to prop up a corrupt

government run by Zelensky, who is stealing

unknown amounts of money, he and his generals.

And if we didn't prop them up,

they would, they would be, they would've been wiped out a

year ago.