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Russia Winning the Ukraine War

from Kevin Spacey's Soup & AI Saints | The Tim Dillon Show #393 · #393

5 min

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Tim argues the Ukraine war was unwinnable from the start, that Russia has only grown stronger economically and diplomatically, and plays a clip of Blinken singing "Rockin' in the Free World" in Kyiv.

In this bit7 moments
  • Tim explains how NATO expansion promises led to the Ukraine war and why Russia was never going to lose it.
  • Western boycotts removed McDonald's and Pizza Hut from Russia, but they responded by building a domestic middle class through military production and war industries.
  • Russia is now in its most powerful position in Tim's lifetime, allied with China and having proven Western sanctions ineffective.
  • Smart strategy with Russia would be negotiation or waiting for leadership change, not forcing an unwinnable confrontation through Ukraine.
  • Tim questions whether the U.S. Secretary of State will pursue peace after Americans have been killed in a proxy war they've been blocking resolution for.
  • Clip of Secretary of State performing "1999" and assuring Ukraine that the Free World is fighting with them in the war.
  • Tim calls the current U.S. leadership terrifying, describing the Secretary of State performing rock music in a war zone as evidence of incompetence.
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Kamala HarrisSecretary of StateUkraineUnited States governmentRussiaPizza HutAfghanistanChinaMcDonald'sNATO

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