Two wars, one magazine. That's the sentence nobody in Washington wants on a slide.
Alex Christoforou, co-host of The Duran, describes Ukrainian skies where Russia now strikes more or less at will, and the reason traces straight back to the Gulf.
His forecast for the ground war is sobering. Sloviansk and Kramatorsk fall, the fortified belt built over a decade collapses with them, and the Donbas objective closes.
Worth noting this desk heard the opposite read hours earlier from a retired US admiral who says Ukraine's front-line resilience is holding.
The detail that should travel is his arithmetic on hunting missile launchers.
Thousands of American munitions were fired at Iran's launchers and the kill count was a fraction of the arsenal, whether you take his number or the intelligence community's.
That is the same job Kyiv is being promised it can finish across a country twenty times the size.
"the danger is that they keep on provoking it"
His warning cuts against his own side's optimism.
Putin is a brake on harder men around him, and constant pressure eventually wears brakes down.
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