He predicts that if Russia takes Odessa, western Ukraine would be reduced to a landlocked, resource-poor dependency surviving on European welfare and generosity.
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Western Ukraine
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...if Russia were to control eastern Ukraine, it doesn't really need western Ukraine. And then western Ukraine would basically become a rump state. It..."
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Jiang predicts western Ukraine will end up as a welfare dependency for Europe and says Europe sacrificed Ukraine by encouraging it to keep fighting Russia.
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"...and agricultural heartland of ukraine is actually in eastern ukraine not western ukraine western ukraine is actually a poor uh resource poor area and..."
"And what will end up happening is that Western Ukraine will become a welfare state for the Europeans. I hate to say this, but..."
"...if Russia were to control eastern Ukraine, it doesn't really need western Ukraine. And then western Ukraine would basically become a rump state. It..."
"europeans are able to consolidate uh western ukraine um and um and and then threaten you so you you rather fight the the um..."
"...And the third thing is that so Ukraine is divided into Western Ukraine and Eastern Ukraine. Ukraine is historically Russian. Western Ukraine is traditionally..."
"...controls eastern Ukraine, which is the agricultural industrial heartland of Ukraine. Western Ukraine would just be a rump state. Right. So the Europeans would..."
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