He says the Ukrainian side shows the opposite pattern: forced mobilization of older men, very high desertion, and a war effort that is already hopelessly lost.
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Jiang says the Zelensky government cannot survive peace because the same corruption, propaganda, and war expectations that sustained the regime would turn into regime-threatening liabilities the moment the war is openly acknowledged as lost.
Jiang says the Ukraine war is already lost for Kyiv if one looks honestly at the front lines, Russian momentum, and Ukrainian manpower exhaustion.
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"This is a crusade to save Russian civilization. This is a crusade to save the murderland. This is a crusade to destroy the Antichrist,..."
"So Ukraine is lost. The war is lost. The problem is that if Ukraine is lost, if NATO admits to losing this war, then..."
"All right. So I'm going to make some pretty stark statements about this war in Ukraine. First of all, I believe the war is..."
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