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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Here is your Channel nine first one to eleeve fore casts.
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I seventy one, a few storms possible, sixty four for
the high, overcast with some showers possible. Tonight fifty seven,
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(00:23):
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out of Evendale down to the lateral North Found seventy
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Speaker 1 (01:03):
Hey twenty nine here if your bove KCD talk station,
good time to be tuned in because every week at
this time, good to hear from Daniel Davis to win
the Daniel Davis Steve Dive. You can find his podcast
out there in the world where your podcast, Daniel Davis.
Good to see you, my friend. At least I can
see you my listeners camp, but they can hear you.
Welcome back, Welcome, thanks for having me back.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Man.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
I almost had to do therapy for mission you last week,
so eager to get back going today.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Uh, every once in a while I got to take
a day off, and I certainly miss our conversations. And
I presume you at least Gauge engaged in some reflection
on those who paid the ultimate sacrifice and service for
their country yesterday, Memorial Day.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Yeah, I indeed I do.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
I do that all the time, and obviously that's what
we're supposed to do on that day. So I always,
you know, harken back to that and respect the sacrifice
they've been paid by so many, especially by the family
members who still survive, and just always want to reinforce
the message all that day that let's make sure we
don't ever make unnecessary sacrifices to our country by asking
(02:05):
them to die for causes that have nothing to do
with our national security.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, or causes that are just seemingly crazy. And then
speaking of crazy, Donald Trump has suggested Bladimir and Putin,
in his words, has gone absolutely crazy.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Is that crazy like a Fox? Or is he unhinged?
Daniel Davis?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Because some of me thinks it's based upon our prior
conversations and my observations and reporting in the news, it's
more crazy like a Fox.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Well listen, I mean, I was a bit perplexed because
in that both the truth socialist Trump posted as well
as his comments that he made there before he got
back on Air Force One, he talked about how he
was really surprised, etc.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
That Russia was doing that.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
And I don't understand why he would be surprised, why
anyone would be surprised, because Russia is doing exactly what
they've said they were going to do. They said they
will not have a thirty day unconditional ceasefire. They will
keep fighting and keep talking at the same time they
want a negotiated settlement on their terms, or they'll simply
keep fighting for it. And listen, Also, this this drone
(03:09):
attack in Takiv that Trump was so animated about, is
the fact that there has been back and forth, for
going back to the several days, like five or six
days in a row, Ukraine launched hundreds, like seven or
eight hundred drones into Russia, tried to attack into Moscow.
Moscow retaliated every day. So it's a back and forth deal.
(03:29):
It's a war, and both sides are continuing to fight,
So I'm not sure why anyone would be surprised by
these sequence of events.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Well, and you know something you and I talked about before,
and is the expense of launching missiles to knock down
drones or other missiles from the sky. And as I
read now, the drone attacks feature in an array of
decoy projectiles that I'm meant to intimidate drone strikes, but
(03:56):
don't carry explosives. So Ukraine starts shooting at objects which
don't have any destructive power. But there's no way for
the Ukrainians to know whether or not they have they're
armed or not. But obviously that frees up an opportunity
for other drones to fill in the holes and attack
the targets. I don't This is modern warfare, and I
don't know how it's going to evolve down the road,
(04:18):
but this it seems to make perfect sense to me
that you would use, you know, a bunch of fake
ones in there in the mix with the real ones
increasing the likelihood you're gonna actually hit your target.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Right.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
And that's the problem that you really illuminated there that
from the Ukraine.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Side they have no idea which is which because a
lot of them are what's called repurposed S three hundred
and anti aircraft missiles and they look just like incoming
missiles on the radar screen.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
You can't tell the.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Difference, but part but they're just basically rocket motors that
are flying in the air and you have to or
even the slow drones, there's a medium speed drones, et cetera.
All these things require you either have to shoot them
down or they're going to strike their target. And what
we're seeing, by the way I told you, there's this big, huge,
like multi hundred drone strick. In both directions. Nearly all
(05:04):
of the ones from the Ukraine side to Russia were
shot down. Hardly any made it through handful of a few.
But on the Russian side, when they're firing into Ukraine,
a substantial portion of both the missiles and the drones
are hitting their target, and especially not before last in Odessa,
there was just catastrophic damage in there, and of course
you've seen the videos I'm sure from Kiev, etc. You
(05:27):
don't see a commensurate vision on that on the Russian
side because they have the air defense missiles and the
Ukraine side has insufficient air defense missiles.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
And this point it is a math problem for the
Ukraine side.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Right, which continues the theme that you and I've been
discussing now for what seems like months, which well, I
guess it has been the lack of arms that the
Ukraine has, and I guess the inability of NATO to
keep up with the with the demand in the United States.
Of course, I believe pairing back it's provision new weapons
(06:00):
of Ukraine, and I see German Chancellor merce now is
telling the Ukrainians that there's no longer going to be
any limit on the range of the weapons that so
it seems like that this is like another step toward
World War three if NATO countries are providing long range
missiles for Ukraine to fire deeper and deeper into Russia.
And I know, I guess the military strategy as well.
(06:21):
If they're building a bunch of these drones at a
factory that's two hundred, three hundred and five hundred miles
inside Russia, then of course that facility is fair game
since it's funding the Russian troops or providing weapons for
the Russian troops. But this is going to more directly
implicate NATO and to the extent they start, you know,
intruding into Russian real estate, that increases the likelihood of
(06:43):
some kind of armed conflict, doesn't it.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Well I'm glad you brought that up because the comment
by Chancellor Mets, the new Russian of Russian, the new
German Chancellor made a point of saying on German television
yesterday that UK, France now Germany, and he said, the
United States have all lifted all restrictions on all these
weapons and now they can fire deep. Well here's the well,
(07:06):
as many problems with it. They don't have that many
missiles that we're talking about. Russia can launch literally hundreds
per month, every single month because they have the industrial
capacity of.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Long range missiles.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Most are a good portion of them get through but
on the US and NATO side, we had probably a
couple hundred total. I think there's two hundred Taurist missiles
from Germany that could be put into the mix. We've
already said that our attackers long range missiles. We were
near the end of that at the end of the
Biden administration. We don't have a lot to put in there.
So why in God's name would you want to like
(07:41):
escalate the situation by striking something deep inside Russia with
one of your missiles when you know that Russia can
fire ten back for every one you can shoot and
risk exploding the war. Yesterday Russia said two merits, if
German missiles fire deep into Russia and strike a target,
we will consider that as a direct participation of Germany
(08:03):
in the conflict and will react accordingly. They left it
vague what it is, but it's very clear they could
either strike Germany itself, German assets.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
There's no killing what they could do.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
But if we think that Russia is gonna allow that
to happen and do nothing, I don't think we've been
paying attention.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Yeah, and the other component of this is a lot
of the hardware that we provided to Ukraine and we've
had our own people there helping them to operate it
because they don't have the security clearances necessary to make
the longer range missiles work. And I presume that's got
to be the case with Germany's weapons systems, which means
there are boots on the ground in Ukraine from foreign lands,
(08:42):
most notably NATO countries, that are helping out in the
waging of this war. I mean, you know, I don't
know what the rules of engagement are all about, but
that sounds to me like we're already engaged in direct conflict.
Just we don't have the uniformed troops on the front
line shooting with small weapons.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah, we just don't have them on the front line.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
But also, by the way, both the storm Shadow and
the Taurust missiles require US help also for targeting and
other telemetry data, et cetera, not just the German boots
on the Kiev ground so to speak. You know where
they're being launched from, so our fingerprints, even the United
States is on all these missiles at fire long range.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
And so going back to the fort about Ukraine hitting
further and further or deeper into Soviet into Solvie. Here
I go again channeling backwards into Russian territory. Say they
are going after the drone factory militarily. I guess that
makes sense from Ukraine perspective. But if a NATO country,
say Germany, is providing the war waging equipment to Ukraine,
(09:46):
then it seems to be fair play for Russia to
go ahead and bomb the factories that are making that
particular type of equipment.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Yeah, we don't want to ever put them in the
position to make that rational calculation, because here's the thing,
there is two little thought on what is the intent
of using a given military a piece of hardware or
a tactic.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Yes, you can say from a certain.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Perspective, totally legitimately that anything in Russia is fair game,
because everything in Ukraine is fair game.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
That's one issue.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
But then you have to say, what is the probability
of helping the Ukraine side and changing the balance of war,
and what is the risk of retaliation against US and
drawing US directly into the war. That's where the calculations
aren't being made. They're just doing the easy one and
they're not doing the harder one, which could, as you
very clearly point out, cause escalation. They could actually drag
(10:40):
us In and the last thing anybody in the West
should want is the possibility of having this thing escalate
what it should be, and its death throws the whole war.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Indeed, every day that goes by Russian makes more and
more progress insofar as it's moving movement into Ukraine, so
less and less more and more land is taken by Russia.
And that's where I started out with crazy like a fox,
because the longer Putin drags this out and refuses to
sit down at the table, the more likely it is
he's gonna end up taking over the whole country if
(11:09):
he wants to. But in terms of a peace process,
any negotiation, it's still Russia's position that they will not
sit down unless Ukraine agrees to disarm and disavow its
desire to join NATO.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Correct, that is correct, Yes, Yes, Sergey Lavrov reiterated that
about four days ago in a little known clip from
the West where he just categorically said, yeah, we're not
even going to consider anything short of demilitarization and denoxification
and of course the non NATO part two.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
So yes, so we're not making any forward progress here.
It's there. No, the two sides continue to go in
opposite directions with the.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Chancellor match with this, with Zelenski continuing to talk really
antagonistic toward anything Russia, continuing to say I want more stuff.
You have more people on this now with Trump making
these comments, more people in the US saying, you know what,
more sanctions and let's do more weapons. Jack Keane was
on Fox News this morning making that impassioned plea, all
of which go the opposite direction of bringing this to
(12:10):
a conclusion and increase the chance that Ukraine will ultimately
be militarily defeated.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Okay, real quick for we part company on sanctions is
do you think that sanctions could be a potential inrow
to getting the Russia to sit down and maybe take
a little less stronger stance at the outset? I mean,
do we have anything left in our sanctioned arsenal to
give too harm to Russia?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:33):
I'm not a skilled mathematician, but whatever the number less
than zero is, that's the chances for the sanctions having
any impact. If you've had zero for seventeen rounds of
sanctions when the US was fully on board and you know,
had the quote crippling sanctions and Russia weathered all that,
and now their economy is growing at a faster pace
(12:53):
than ours is. Then that tells you all you need
to know that Russia has made themselves sanction proof and
it is more insulting than it is effective to think
that you're going to have another sanctions round that's going
to do what almost four years of efforts before have
failed to do.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
It's irrational. Didn't pull any punches on that response, Daniel Davis. Now, finally,
one final question in terms of the available troops to
fight the war on behalf of Ukraine, they got to
be running out soon or their numbers have to be
perilously small. They've lost so many people on the front lines,
is do they have a well to go back to anymore. No.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
In fact, there's been there's been a couple of research
reports issued in just the last handful of days in
the West and some of Ukraine as well that have
calculated that Russia, and I think it was just the
last month, recruited fifty thousand troops in a single month,
fifty thousand, and the casualty rate is way less than that.
(13:53):
So by maybe ten to fifteen thousand, they're adding more
troops than they are losing. But Ukraine, even with the
worst mobilization where they literally take people off the streets
and that's now a routine thing in Ukraine, they're not
even able to offset losses.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
So both the.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Ukraine side is shrinking every day, the quality of what
they can put it up to a quarter and in
some reports say that they actually flee the battlefield when
they get there.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
And then you have the Russian side.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Getting bigger, stronger, economically, industrial capacity, everything is growing. So
any way you want to look at this, it's it's
bad news for the Ukraine and the Western side.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Daniel Davis deep Diye I find them online, get his podcast.
Tune in every every Tuesday at eight thirty the fifty
five KRC Morning Show. I'm not sure what we call
that news, Dan, it depends on which side of this
love the ledger you're on. But wow, truth it's true.
There you have it. I love getting truth and we
all get it from you. Until next Tuesday, my friend,
have a great week.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
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Here is your Channel nine first one to eleeve fore casts.
Gonna be rainy. Best chance of rain today east of
I seventy one, a few storms possible, sixty four for
the high, overcast with some showers possible. Tonight fifty seven,
clouds with a slight chance of rain. Tomorrow seventy for
the high. Overnight lower fifty seven with more clouds and
more chances showers, and Thursday a lot of the same
(00:23):
are mostly cloudy skies with the chance of rain low
seventies to high. Then it's fifty nine now cyd for traffic.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
From the UC Tramphank Center. If you see healthy, you'll
find comprehensive care that's so personal, makes your best tomorrow possible.
That's boundless care for better outcomes. Expect more ADU seehelp
dot com. The lake times continue to drop southbound seventy five.
The earlier accident at the Reagan Highway long gone, but
tram thanks still will cost you an extra ten minutes
(00:50):
out of Evendale down to the lateral North Found seventy
five minutes cleared North Found seventy one. A bit slow
at Red Bank ingram on fifty five kr S talk station.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Hey twenty nine here if your bove KCD talk station,
good time to be tuned in because every week at
this time, good to hear from Daniel Davis to win
the Daniel Davis Steve Dive. You can find his podcast
out there in the world where your podcast, Daniel Davis.
Good to see you, my friend. At least I can
see you my listeners camp, but they can hear you.
Welcome back, Welcome, thanks for having me back.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Man.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
I almost had to do therapy for mission you last week,
so eager to get back going today.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Uh, every once in a while I got to take
a day off, and I certainly miss our conversations. And
I presume you at least Gauge engaged in some reflection
on those who paid the ultimate sacrifice and service for
their country yesterday, Memorial Day.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Yeah, I indeed I do.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
I do that all the time, and obviously that's what
we're supposed to do on that day. So I always,
you know, harken back to that and respect the sacrifice
they've been paid by so many, especially by the family
members who still survive, and just always want to reinforce
the message all that day that let's make sure we
don't ever make unnecessary sacrifices to our country by asking
(02:05):
them to die for causes that have nothing to do
with our national security.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, or causes that are just seemingly crazy. And then
speaking of crazy, Donald Trump has suggested Bladimir and Putin,
in his words, has gone absolutely crazy.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Is that crazy like a Fox? Or is he unhinged?
Daniel Davis?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Because some of me thinks it's based upon our prior
conversations and my observations and reporting in the news, it's
more crazy like a Fox.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Well listen, I mean, I was a bit perplexed because
in that both the truth socialist Trump posted as well
as his comments that he made there before he got
back on Air Force One, he talked about how he
was really surprised, etc.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
That Russia was doing that.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
And I don't understand why he would be surprised, why
anyone would be surprised, because Russia is doing exactly what
they've said they were going to do. They said they
will not have a thirty day unconditional ceasefire. They will
keep fighting and keep talking at the same time they
want a negotiated settlement on their terms, or they'll simply
keep fighting for it. And listen, Also, this this drone
(03:09):
attack in Takiv that Trump was so animated about, is
the fact that there has been back and forth, for
going back to the several days, like five or six
days in a row, Ukraine launched hundreds, like seven or
eight hundred drones into Russia, tried to attack into Moscow.
Moscow retaliated every day. So it's a back and forth deal.
(03:29):
It's a war, and both sides are continuing to fight,
So I'm not sure why anyone would be surprised by
these sequence of events.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Well, and you know something you and I talked about before,
and is the expense of launching missiles to knock down
drones or other missiles from the sky. And as I
read now, the drone attacks feature in an array of
decoy projectiles that I'm meant to intimidate drone strikes, but
(03:56):
don't carry explosives. So Ukraine starts shooting at objects which
don't have any destructive power. But there's no way for
the Ukrainians to know whether or not they have they're
armed or not. But obviously that frees up an opportunity
for other drones to fill in the holes and attack
the targets. I don't This is modern warfare, and I
don't know how it's going to evolve down the road,
(04:18):
but this it seems to make perfect sense to me
that you would use, you know, a bunch of fake
ones in there in the mix with the real ones
increasing the likelihood you're gonna actually hit your target.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Right.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
And that's the problem that you really illuminated there that
from the Ukraine.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Side they have no idea which is which because a
lot of them are what's called repurposed S three hundred
and anti aircraft missiles and they look just like incoming
missiles on the radar screen.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
You can't tell the.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Difference, but part but they're just basically rocket motors that
are flying in the air and you have to or
even the slow drones, there's a medium speed drones, et cetera.
All these things require you either have to shoot them
down or they're going to strike their target. And what
we're seeing, by the way I told you, there's this big, huge,
like multi hundred drone strick. In both directions. Nearly all
(05:04):
of the ones from the Ukraine side to Russia were
shot down. Hardly any made it through handful of a few.
But on the Russian side, when they're firing into Ukraine,
a substantial portion of both the missiles and the drones
are hitting their target, and especially not before last in Odessa,
there was just catastrophic damage in there, and of course
you've seen the videos I'm sure from Kiev, etc. You
(05:27):
don't see a commensurate vision on that on the Russian
side because they have the air defense missiles and the
Ukraine side has insufficient air defense missiles.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
And this point it is a math problem for the
Ukraine side.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Right, which continues the theme that you and I've been
discussing now for what seems like months, which well, I
guess it has been the lack of arms that the
Ukraine has, and I guess the inability of NATO to
keep up with the with the demand in the United States.
Of course, I believe pairing back it's provision new weapons
(06:00):
of Ukraine, and I see German Chancellor merce now is
telling the Ukrainians that there's no longer going to be
any limit on the range of the weapons that so
it seems like that this is like another step toward
World War three if NATO countries are providing long range
missiles for Ukraine to fire deeper and deeper into Russia.
And I know, I guess the military strategy as well.
(06:21):
If they're building a bunch of these drones at a
factory that's two hundred, three hundred and five hundred miles
inside Russia, then of course that facility is fair game
since it's funding the Russian troops or providing weapons for
the Russian troops. But this is going to more directly
implicate NATO and to the extent they start, you know,
intruding into Russian real estate, that increases the likelihood of
(06:43):
some kind of armed conflict, doesn't it.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Well I'm glad you brought that up because the comment
by Chancellor Mets, the new Russian of Russian, the new
German Chancellor made a point of saying on German television
yesterday that UK, France now Germany, and he said, the
United States have all lifted all restrictions on all these
weapons and now they can fire deep. Well here's the well,
(07:06):
as many problems with it. They don't have that many
missiles that we're talking about. Russia can launch literally hundreds
per month, every single month because they have the industrial
capacity of.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Long range missiles.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Most are a good portion of them get through but
on the US and NATO side, we had probably a
couple hundred total. I think there's two hundred Taurist missiles
from Germany that could be put into the mix. We've
already said that our attackers long range missiles. We were
near the end of that at the end of the
Biden administration. We don't have a lot to put in there.
So why in God's name would you want to like
(07:41):
escalate the situation by striking something deep inside Russia with
one of your missiles when you know that Russia can
fire ten back for every one you can shoot and
risk exploding the war. Yesterday Russia said two merits, if
German missiles fire deep into Russia and strike a target,
we will consider that as a direct participation of Germany
(08:03):
in the conflict and will react accordingly. They left it
vague what it is, but it's very clear they could
either strike Germany itself, German assets.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
There's no killing what they could do.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
But if we think that Russia is gonna allow that
to happen and do nothing, I don't think we've been
paying attention.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Yeah, and the other component of this is a lot
of the hardware that we provided to Ukraine and we've
had our own people there helping them to operate it
because they don't have the security clearances necessary to make
the longer range missiles work. And I presume that's got
to be the case with Germany's weapons systems, which means
there are boots on the ground in Ukraine from foreign lands,
(08:42):
most notably NATO countries, that are helping out in the
waging of this war. I mean, you know, I don't
know what the rules of engagement are all about, but
that sounds to me like we're already engaged in direct conflict.
Just we don't have the uniformed troops on the front
line shooting with small weapons.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah, we just don't have them on the front line.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
But also, by the way, both the storm Shadow and
the Taurust missiles require US help also for targeting and
other telemetry data, et cetera, not just the German boots
on the Kiev ground so to speak. You know where
they're being launched from, so our fingerprints, even the United
States is on all these missiles at fire long range.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
And so going back to the fort about Ukraine hitting
further and further or deeper into Soviet into Solvie. Here
I go again channeling backwards into Russian territory. Say they
are going after the drone factory militarily. I guess that
makes sense from Ukraine perspective. But if a NATO country,
say Germany, is providing the war waging equipment to Ukraine,
(09:46):
then it seems to be fair play for Russia to
go ahead and bomb the factories that are making that
particular type of equipment.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Yeah, we don't want to ever put them in the
position to make that rational calculation, because here's the thing,
there is two little thought on what is the intent
of using a given military a piece of hardware or
a tactic.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Yes, you can say from a certain.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Perspective, totally legitimately that anything in Russia is fair game,
because everything in Ukraine is fair game.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
That's one issue.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
But then you have to say, what is the probability
of helping the Ukraine side and changing the balance of war,
and what is the risk of retaliation against US and
drawing US directly into the war. That's where the calculations
aren't being made. They're just doing the easy one and
they're not doing the harder one, which could, as you
very clearly point out, cause escalation. They could actually drag
(10:40):
us In and the last thing anybody in the West
should want is the possibility of having this thing escalate
what it should be, and its death throws the whole war.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Indeed, every day that goes by Russian makes more and
more progress insofar as it's moving movement into Ukraine, so
less and less more and more land is taken by Russia.
And that's where I started out with crazy like a fox,
because the longer Putin drags this out and refuses to
sit down at the table, the more likely it is
he's gonna end up taking over the whole country if
(11:09):
he wants to. But in terms of a peace process,
any negotiation, it's still Russia's position that they will not
sit down unless Ukraine agrees to disarm and disavow its
desire to join NATO.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Correct, that is correct, Yes, Yes, Sergey Lavrov reiterated that
about four days ago in a little known clip from
the West where he just categorically said, yeah, we're not
even going to consider anything short of demilitarization and denoxification
and of course the non NATO part two.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
So yes, so we're not making any forward progress here.
It's there. No, the two sides continue to go in
opposite directions with the.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Chancellor match with this, with Zelenski continuing to talk really
antagonistic toward anything Russia, continuing to say I want more stuff.
You have more people on this now with Trump making
these comments, more people in the US saying, you know what,
more sanctions and let's do more weapons. Jack Keane was
on Fox News this morning making that impassioned plea, all
of which go the opposite direction of bringing this to
(12:10):
a conclusion and increase the chance that Ukraine will ultimately
be militarily defeated.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Okay, real quick for we part company on sanctions is
do you think that sanctions could be a potential inrow
to getting the Russia to sit down and maybe take
a little less stronger stance at the outset? I mean,
do we have anything left in our sanctioned arsenal to
give too harm to Russia?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:33):
I'm not a skilled mathematician, but whatever the number less
than zero is, that's the chances for the sanctions having
any impact. If you've had zero for seventeen rounds of
sanctions when the US was fully on board and you know,
had the quote crippling sanctions and Russia weathered all that,
and now their economy is growing at a faster pace
(12:53):
than ours is. Then that tells you all you need
to know that Russia has made themselves sanction proof and
it is more insulting than it is effective to think
that you're going to have another sanctions round that's going
to do what almost four years of efforts before have
failed to do.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
It's irrational. Didn't pull any punches on that response, Daniel Davis. Now, finally,
one final question in terms of the available troops to
fight the war on behalf of Ukraine, they got to
be running out soon or their numbers have to be
perilously small. They've lost so many people on the front lines,
is do they have a well to go back to anymore. No.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
In fact, there's been there's been a couple of research
reports issued in just the last handful of days in
the West and some of Ukraine as well that have
calculated that Russia, and I think it was just the
last month, recruited fifty thousand troops in a single month,
fifty thousand, and the casualty rate is way less than that.
(13:53):
So by maybe ten to fifteen thousand, they're adding more
troops than they are losing. But Ukraine, even with the
worst mobilization where they literally take people off the streets
and that's now a routine thing in Ukraine, they're not
even able to offset losses.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
So both the.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Ukraine side is shrinking every day, the quality of what
they can put it up to a quarter and in
some reports say that they actually flee the battlefield when
they get there.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
And then you have the Russian side.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Getting bigger, stronger, economically, industrial capacity, everything is growing. So
any way you want to look at this, it's it's
bad news for the Ukraine and the Western side.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Daniel Davis deep Diye I find them online, get his podcast.
Tune in every every Tuesday at eight thirty the fifty
five KRC Morning Show. I'm not sure what we call
that news, Dan, it depends on which side of this
love the ledger you're on. But wow, truth it's true.
There you have it. I love getting truth and we
all get it from you. Until next Tuesday, my friend,
have a great week.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
See you next time. Eight forty three fifty five kr
S Detalk Station. Be right back. This is fifty five
KARC and iHeartRadio station.
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