I don’t listen to the Duran very often because I don’t have the energy to spend hours in the  day. However, I am slowly making my way through.

Scott Ritter gives a very good appraisal of the start of the war when mistakes were made, both in the assessment of the Ukrainians and in not seeing the arms that would be supplied to Ukraine (something Gonzalo Lira couldn’t see and led to him burning his bridges with Ritter).

After having been betrayed  numerous times with the Minsk accords and the Istanbul negotiations the scales have dropped from Putin’s eyes – and he was the most moderate leader possible in Russia right now.

Much recommended