Jim Bakker Show - A General’s Perspective on Ukraine | Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin on The Jim Bakker Show
Aired: 2022-05-03
Duration: 04:42


=== Russia's Miscalculation (04:41) ===

[00:00:00]  I'm going to start out with the war in Ukraine because we've been living in that war ourselves.
[00:00:08]  Yeah.
[00:00:09]  And we're just overwhelmed by what we see.
[00:00:13]  Yeah.
[00:00:13]  The death, the carplex.
[00:00:18]  The destruction of a country.
[00:00:20]  I've never seen anything like that because we have not.
[00:00:23]  You probably have seen it in person in war, but I've never seen war like this every day on our screens and just a country basically wiped out.
[00:00:36]  From your standpoint, General, what is the goal?
[00:00:39]  What is the reason that Russia is doing this?
[00:00:43]  You need to step back a few years and reflect on a statement that Vladimir Putin made, where he talked about the disintegration of the Soviet Union was one of the, was the largest geopolitical mistake in the 20th century.
[00:01:04]  What he was saying was when the Soviet Union came apart that essentially the whole world was paying a price for that.
[00:01:15]  His objective has always been to restore the Soviet Union, to bring back those satellite countries that created the Soviet Union.
[00:01:27]  The obvious one to start with was the Ukraine.
[00:01:31]  And because he had, in his mind, he could justify through his propaganda, he could justify going after the Ukraine simply because at one time it was not only a satellite of Russia, it was part of Russia.
[00:01:45]  And in fact, historically, at one time, it was Russia.
[00:01:50]  And then Moscow sort of became the center of the nation of Russia.
[00:01:58]  But he is trying to restore the Soviet Union, and he had to take the Ukraine first.
[00:02:06]  But I got to tell you, Jim, and we can talk about this as you want to, this is a war of miscalculations.
[00:02:16]  He miscalculated how the Europeans would act, because the Europeans came together.
[00:02:24]  They were unified.
[00:02:25]  He miscalculated how NATO would act.
[00:02:28]  NATO did the same thing.
[00:02:30]  He miscalculated how the tenacity and the war-fighting spirit of the Ukrainian people.
[00:02:38]  And then finally, he very much miscalculated the capabilities of his military, which has been a miserable failure.
[00:02:48]  A war that was only supposed to go about three days before they had the capital and were in the process of setting up a puppet government has now dragged on for five weeks, and it's going to go on even further.
[00:03:02]  So Putin, I think as a result of this, ultimately, this will be his demise.
[00:03:10]  Wow.
[00:03:11]  Are you surprised that the Ukraine has fought back instead of surrendering to Russia and Vadimer Putin?
[00:03:20]  No, Jim, and I was very clear in leading up to this, as I did media appearances.
[00:03:28]  I said the Ukrainian people are tough people.
[00:03:31]  Now, they have a lot of corruption in Ukraine as well, and people keep bringing that up as if they forget that we in America have corruption within our government.
[00:03:42]  But they are a tough people.
[00:03:46]  They are a people that have endured a lot of hardship throughout their history, and I am not surprised that they have fought.
[00:03:56]  But I will tell you, they've exceeded my expectations.
[00:03:58]  I knew they were going to fight hard and I knew it wasn't going to be a quick battle, but I'm going to tell you, they've even exceeded my expectations here.
[00:04:06]  And I think that fundamentally they have already won this war.
[00:04:12]  That we don't know what Putin's going to do in the future.
[00:04:14]  He may level the entire country.
[00:04:17]  He may ultimately occupy the entire country.
[00:04:20]  But these Ukrainians have won this war because this is a Samson and Goliath event right here.
[00:04:29]  And what you're seeing is you are seeing an outgun, outnumbered military that is held together by a common goal, and that is to defend their way of life.