🔥 Could Putin really take Kyiv?
In this deep dive with Col. Doug Macgregor and Daniel Davis, we explore the real possibility of Russia capturing Kyiv and what it means for the future of Ukraine 🇺🇦 and global stability 🌍.
🔍 Key points covered:
💥 Macgregor’s perspective on Russia’s military strategy
⚔️ The reality of Russian forces advancing on Kyiv
🧠 Daniel Davis provides expert analysis on the current situation
📊 What Kyiv’s fall would mean for the Ukrainian government
💬 Can the West still prevent it, or is it inevitable?
This analysis goes beyond the headlines to give you a realistic view of the unfolding crisis.
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In this deep dive with Col. Doug Macgregor and Daniel Davis, we explore the real possibility of Russia capturing Kyiv and what it means for the future of Ukraine 🇺🇦 and global stability 🌍.
🔍 Key points covered:
💥 Macgregor’s perspective on Russia’s military strategy
⚔️ The reality of Russian forces advancing on Kyiv
🧠 Daniel Davis provides expert analysis on the current situation
📊 What Kyiv’s fall would mean for the Ukrainian government
💬 Can the West still prevent it, or is it inevitable?
This analysis goes beyond the headlines to give you a realistic view of the unfolding crisis.
👀 Watch, share, and leave your thoughts in the comments!
🔔 Subscribe for more in-depth political analysis.
#PutinKyiv
#RussiaUkraineWar
#ColDougMacgregor
#DanielDavisAnalysis
#KyivUnderThreat
#Ukraine2025
#RussianStrategy
#Putin2025
#UkraineConflict
#RussianMilitary
#MacgregorDavisDeepDive
#WarInUkraine
#RussiaAdvancing
#GlobalPolitics
#MilitaryAnalysis
#PutinUkraineInvasion
#UkraineGovernment
#RussianTroopsKyiv
#PoliticalAnalysis
#RussiaUkraineNews
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00:00I'm still baffled by the fact that no one in Ukraine has stepped forward to remove him,
00:05if for no other reason, to save what's left of the country.
00:08But that doesn't seem to be possible.
00:09But your contention is that Putin has self-restrained,
00:13but that something may be coming to take that restraint off.
00:17Well, the restraint insofar as move to the river and then potentially cross and take Kiev,
00:23I think that's a real possibility now.
00:25Because after all, he's in his mind, and I think in the minds of most Russians,
00:30they've held up long enough.
00:32They have slowed down long enough.
00:34They've tried to give the opposition multiple opportunities.
00:38They have talked with us and hoped that we would ultimately come around to understanding
00:42that they are not the ones who are promoting this war and prolonging it.
00:48It is, in fact, Zelensky.
00:49I mean, President Trump has said over and over and over again,
00:53I want the killing to stop.
00:54Well, you do that by stopping the aid to Zelensky and his heinous regime
00:59that is built on a mountain of lies.
01:02I don't know how else to put it.
01:03Yeah, I honestly think that it's viewed in some quarters as being cruel,
01:10but I think that that's probably the absolute best, most moral thing he could do
01:13for the Ukrainians who were still alive.
01:16But we'll see what he ends up doing that.
01:17Now, so I showed you some problems in Europe, in Kiev, about how they're viewing it.
01:22Now, let me show you that, unfortunately, it's not just those folks.
01:26There's some people who are a little bit disconnected in the United States.
01:29Now, this morning on our earlier show, we showed Representative Adam Smith,
01:34who was taking the Trump to task and said, oh, he's just giving in to Putin.
01:38He needs to put more pressure on him.
01:41That'll show Putin who's who.
01:42So you can say, well, that's just a Democrat.
01:44Of course, he's from the Obama administration, you know, the party,
01:48and they just want to go down that path.
01:49And he wants to hammer Trump.
01:51But here's somebody in the Senate from the Republican side.
01:56We're in a knife fight with Russia and China and Iran.
02:01And the Biden people wanted to quote Socrates to Putin has reneged on every promise that he has made to President Trump.
02:12His latest proposal is, well, nothing.
02:17He wants to keep all the territory that he's taken.
02:20He wants to prohibit Ukraine from joining NATO.
02:24And he wants America and Europe to stop helping Ukraine.
02:28I think that Putin thinks that America has taken the bullet train to Chumptown.
02:38I think he thinks we're afraid of him.
02:41He has jacked around President Trump at every turn.
02:46He has disrespected our president.
02:49I don't think it's going to get any better until we make it clear to Mr. Putin
02:54that we are willing to turn him and his country into fish food.
03:01And I'm not talking about nuclear weapons or nuclear war.
03:05I would start with oil.
03:08Okay, a lot to unpack there.
03:10I want to start with one of his first ones here, because I don't want to just dismiss this whole thing,
03:14because he says a number of things which are echoing a lot.
03:16A lot of people say it.
03:17I'd like your view on them.
03:18First of all, this issue that Putin has reneged on every promise he's made.
03:23Is there any truth to that?
03:25I'm unaware of any promises made by President Putin other than to comply with Trump's wishes in giving peace a chance.
03:34He was always willing to halt operations if, in fact, the Ukrainians halted them.
03:41He has always been willing to sit down and talk to the Ukrainians.
03:44Remember, he was willing to negotiate with them and bring an end to the conflict in April in Istanbul in 2022.
03:53I don't know what the man's talking about.
03:55This sounds like neocon propaganda.
03:59You know, it's kind of interesting.
04:01The left, when you hear it from Democrats, keep in mind,
04:04the Democrats were permanent apologists for Stalin and the Soviet system for decades.
04:10I grew up with that.
04:11They were always apologizing and trying to justify the horrors of communism in the Soviet state.
04:18They were in the front line to attack Goldwater, Reagan, Nixon, everyone who was fundamentally anti-Soviet and anti-communist.
04:27Now, all of a sudden, they've decided there's something positive and good about this strange character, Zelensky,
04:35who is really originally born in Russia and speaks Russian and is by no means a true Ukrainian.
04:41But beyond that, they seem to think he is morally superior.
04:45And we know from the heinous crimes committed by the Ukrainians against the Russian civil population,
04:51against their soldiers, nothing could be further from the truth.
04:54I don't know why he's decided to do this.
04:57Maybe this is maybe this is his way of supporting or he thinks he's supporting President Trump.
05:02And the notion that you're going to you're going to hurt the Russians in connection with oil is almost laughable.
05:11I don't know where he gets that.
05:12And I guess he's not aware of the oil production capacity in Russia, nor is he aware of BRICS and all the other nations in the world that are quite happy to do business with Russia,
05:23most of whom are not very happy to do business with us anymore, thanks to the terrible tariffs that have been imposed.
05:29So I don't know what the man is talking about.
05:33He's a strange duck.
05:35And maybe that appeals to his electorate.
05:37You know, there are lots of people in lots of states that like to talk in bellicose terms.
05:43I can't conceive of anything more damaging, more destructive than engaging in a conventional war, a high end conventional war with Russia.
05:52This man's obviously learned nothing from what's happened in Ukraine, because what's happened in Ukraine is a modest example of what could be done to us in Europe.
06:02We still have troops in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Romania, probably in Moldova.
06:08I don't know if he thinks they somehow or another could put up effective defenses against the Russians in an all out assault by a nation, quite frankly, that's ready to go to total mobilization.
06:23Russia is only a few steps away from complete mobilization and total war.
06:28We are ages away from that, and he doesn't seem to understand it.
06:32He doesn't understand that our stocks of munitions, of precision-guided munitions, all of those things are at an all-time low.
06:40They are ready to fight.
06:41We are not.
06:43Yeah, and then, in fact, that's one of the things in one of his second comments there that he, I think inadvertently, actually, is accurate,
06:52but he says it as though it's some avoidable choice.
06:56He said, but, you know, we're wanting to give him everything.
06:59We're going to give him land.
07:00We're going to give him no NATO.
07:02We're going to give him, you know, demilitarization, denazification, all those kind of things that were part of that deal.
07:07And he's like, he just wants it all, is the way he put it there.
07:10And I was thinking as I'm listening to it, I'm going, because he can take it all.
07:15Well, maybe, but I think the larger issue for Senator Kennedy is he should be a lot more concerned about the survival of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid financially in this country.
07:27He, along with his colleagues, have presided over this massive fiat explosion of cash and money, inflation.
07:34We are on the cliff's edge of going over into financial ruin.
07:40That's where he ought to be focused, not telling us that we should be prepared to go to war 7,000 miles away from our home in a country that is of no strategic importance to us and never has been against another country that, frankly, is not our enemy.
07:56This business of a knife fight with Russia and China is nonsense.
08:00Our disputes with the Chinese are largely economic, and the Chinese are willing to talk to us.
08:06But if we decide to carry the fight to China, we'll end up fighting over some ridiculous place like Taiwan and losing.
08:14Because in both cases, you're fighting the enemy on the enemy's grounds.
08:18Where does Russia have an advantage?
08:20In Eastern Europe.
08:21Where does China have an advantage?
08:24In Asia.
08:24This is stupid.
08:26This is monumentally stupid.
08:29And there's no excuse for it, except that I guess that goes down well with the folks back home.
08:36And where does this, I guess, this arrogance and this confidence, which he says will turn Russia into fish food.
08:47Into fish food.
08:48Number one, I don't even know what that means.
08:50But number two, where is the arrogance that he thinks that we can just, that Trump can just make some choices and is just going to hammer Russia in abject ignoring everything that happened in the last three plus years?
09:03Well, arrogance benefits enormously from ignorance.
09:07And this man has no idea what kind of world we live in today.
09:12He is stuck in 1991.
09:15He seems to think that Russia is what John McCain described.
09:19You know, oil, it's a large nation with forces, but it's essentially an oversized gas station.
09:29You know, we all have listened to the deprecating remarks from people like this senator about Russia, all of which have turned out to be fundamentally false and inaccurate.
09:38I just don't think he lives in the real world.
09:41But then again, when you cross the river into Washington, it's really a great deal like Versailles before the revolution in 1789.
09:49Everyone at that point was living in the same kind of fictional world.
09:54France was the great superpower.
09:56France had the biggest army.
09:57France had this.
09:58France had that.
09:59It had all these successful businesses in the middle class.
10:02And then they woke up to complete an utter financial disaster and revolution.
10:06And part of which was due to overextension overseas and wars at that time, principally commitment to us during the revolution.
10:14I don't think this man has any feel for any of those things.
10:18He obviously knows how to get elected in Louisiana.
10:21Congratulations.
10:22But he certainly doesn't understand the world he lives in beyond the borders of the United States.
10:27Yeah, and that is the real problem.
10:29Now, on the positive side here, we do have President Trump, who yesterday reiterated his desire to bring this whole thing to a close.
10:38I wanted to stop shooting, sit down and sign a deal.
10:41And we have the confines of a deal, I believe.
10:44And I wanted to sign it and be done with it and just go back to life.
10:50What unit of action are you considering taking against Russia?
10:53Well, I have a lot of things I can do.
10:55I'm not looking to do it.
10:56But I have a lot of strength.
10:58But does he have a lot of leverage if he wanted to use it against Russia?
11:04Well, I suppose what little strength we have left at this point could be squandered in a conflict with the Russians.
11:12I'm worried about seeing it squandered in the Middle East in a conflict with Iran.
11:17This is ridiculous.
11:18First of all, what he thinks is only 50% of the issue, maybe not even that.
11:25And quite frankly, go back to what we were saying earlier, where's the strategic interest?
11:31Let's not talk in stupid terms and say, well, we believe in democracy and freedom.
11:36Okay, fine, happy to hear that.
11:38Half the countries in the world we do business with don't know how to spell freedom or democracy.
11:43We have good relations with many countries that most Americans would look at and say, these are authoritarian states.
11:50They're by no means republics.
11:53So this notion that we have to defend the democracy in Ukraine is absurd.
11:57Ukraine is a dictatorship.
11:59There's nothing democratic about it.
12:00Hasn't been for a long time.
12:03So what is the interest in Ukraine?
12:05It's not rare earths.
12:06They don't have enough to make any damn difference.
12:08The one thing they have is agriculture.
12:10They have a huge breadbasket.
12:12It would be nice to see the war end so that they came back to growing food, which is essential to the rest of the country, the rest of the world.
12:21But I think he also needs to keep in mind that while we've been talking and complaining, Putin has given away 30,000 tons of grain to the people in Gaza.
12:33What's Senator Kennedy's plan for the people in Gaza?
12:36Would he like to gas them?
12:38Does he want to shoot them, bomb them, because that apparently is what the Israeli lobby wants him to do?
12:44I don't know.
12:46But this whole problem with Gaza seems to have been swept under the rug, as though two million lives are completely irrelevant.
12:54Now, that's music to Mr. Netanyahu's ears.
12:57But is that really the way we Americans want to think about it?
13:00I don't think so.
13:02So I don't know what this man Kennedy is talking about.
13:05But he's filtering a lot of nonsense from the White House, repeating it, things that Waltz makes up.
13:11At the end of the day, frankly, unless we want to go to war over Western Ukraine, there's not a hell of a lot we can do.
13:20What we should be interested in doing is facilitating an end to the conflict.
13:25That means bringing pressure about on our friend Zelensky, even if it means removing him.
13:32You're not going to pressure the Russians.
13:33They will not be pressured.
13:34If we haven't figured that out yet, we are very stupid.
13:38By the way, not all the Chinese.
13:40And if you put them together, the rest of the world pales in comparison, militarily and economically.
13:46So we need to start thinking in real terms.
13:48We are one of many great powers.
13:51We are not the superpower.
13:53We're not the only one.
13:54And Senator Kennedy has no right to stand up and talk as though he commands the armed forces and the resources of the American people, and that the American people should be thrown into the buzzsaw on behalf of this regime in Kiev.
14:08That's nonsensical.
14:10We need to get out of this right away.
14:12The last thing this country needs is a major war with a major power like Russia or China or any other number of large countries in the world.
14:20We are not the onlyenians.
14:21We are the only one who has given the wingman.
14:22We are the only one who has given the weapons for us for us for us.