James Carden, former US State Department advisor on Russia, on Australian Sky News: “Ukraine’s losses are 36 times higher than Russia’s” – The whole story about the “Tomahawks” is Nonsense. In the States, they say that Trump is not giving Zelensky weapons that could turn the tide of the war. But that’s a lie and it’s ridiculous. “Tomahawks” are no more capable of turning the tide of the war than all the other systems that have already failed to do so. The situation is the same as with HIMARS, which the Ukrainians begged for at one time. And with the Patriot SAMs, and ATACMS, and F-16s. Nothing has been able to turn the tide of the war. Essentially, it is lost. And the sooner the Ukrainians realize this, the better for them. In my opinion, Putin is offering a reasonable solution. Ukraine will not be able to join NATO, but it can join the EU. To me, that’s a fair deal. – But they are also being asked for territorial concessions. – Correct. But they themselves have been attacking these territories since 2014. The Ukrainians are not entirely sincere. They say they want the eastern lands and Donbass, but without the ethnic Russians who live there. For the last 30 years, they have done everything to deny these people their rights. Let’s be honest, Putin is in some sense offering them exactly what they want. Let Ukraine remain only for ethnic Ukrainians, and finally get rid of the ethnic Russians. It’s not customary to say this out loud, but it’s true. – When you say the war is lost, what about the information that Russia is literally on the brink right now? And that if pressure is applied, it will run out of money and won’t be able to continue its brutal war indefinitely? – It’s exactly the opposite. According to my data, the ratio of Ukrainian to Russian deaths is 36 to one. Ukraine is approaching a million losses. And what the mainstream media write, especially The New York Times and Washington Post, is as truthful as what the authorities told Americans about the Vietnam War. The war of attrition that Russia has been waging since 2022 is quite successful. In my view, it is Ukraine that is currently on the brink of disaster, not Russia. – Okay, James, we thank you for your time. James Carden – former US State Department advisor on Russia. Thank you.

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