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Putin's Long-Haul Plan
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| That have you ever seen the city and been through it yourself? | |
| And, you know, Putin is in this for the long haul, it seems like. | |
| Do you think he really has a long-range plan for all of this? | |
| I think he has a long-range plan. | |
| But his plan has been altered, and he has now had to shift that plan. | |
| And keep in mind that the reason that Russia left the Ukraine, not the Ukraine, but Afghanistan, after 10 years of fighting in Afghanistan in 1989, they left. | |
| And they left rather capriciously, and that was because they could no longer explain the body bags that were being sent home to Russian moms and dads, and no one understood why their sons were dying. | |
| And now you've got the same situation now. | |
| You've got moms and girlfriends and wives and dads that are saying, what are we doing? | |
| What's happening? | |
| Why are we doing this? | |
| Because what you have is you have primarily a conscript army. | |
| And those young men didn't know what they were doing. | |
| They didn't know where they were going when they went up and marshaled on the borders. | |
| And now, if you look at what they're telling the interrogators when they get captured or when they just surrender, which they're doing at record rates, what they're telling them is, we don't want a part of this fight. | |
| We're not up for this fight. | |
| We just want to go home to Mother Russia. | |
| And we were forced into the military by conscription, and this is not our fight as far as we're concerned. | |
| And a lot of this war crimes and all that you're seeing is not coming from those young Russian men. | |
| It is actually coming from the Chechnyans that are being brought in as mercenaries. | |
| Ukraine is a beautiful city, and it's just been devastated. | |
| It's hard for me to watch and see the babies being killed and the mothers and the fathers and all. | |
| And I believe as a result of this, and by the way, I just talked to a brilliant analyst yesterday about this. | |
| I believe Putin is finished. | |
| When this is ultimately resolved and whatever that resolution is going to be, I believe Putin is finished. | |
| I don't think he can survive. | |
| I don't think the people of Europe, but more specifically the people of Russia, are going to allow him to stay in power because once again, he's killing their sons, sending them home in body bags. | |
| He now has brought in incinerators, portable incinerators, to burn the bodies of their own people. | |
| So they don't have to send them home in body bags. | |
| And the moms and the dads and the people of Russia, I think, are just about fed up with this. | |
| And by the way, don't believe the polls that you see. | |
| There is no such thing as a fair poll being taken unless it says exactly what the government wants it to say. | |
| And I heard somebody the other day that said 83% of the people in Moscow were supportive of Putin. | |
| I do not believe that figure. | |