Another talk between Chas Freeman and Pascal Lottaz

Charles W. Freeman Jr. is 2 and was the U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia at the time of the Gulf War.

The shock within the EU and NATO and especially in the UK is the result of the fact that we've all been living in the midst of the most intensive information war the world has ever seen. You have people who think who thought that it was a good idea, this is the Biden Administration, not to discuss anything with the adversary on the battlefield. How that was supposed to accomplish anything is unclear but there was no diplomacy at all there, was only fighting. The fighting steadily escalated amidst claims that Ukraine was winning which was palpably false, amid claims that the Russian casualties vastly outnumbered those of Ukraine which is also false and amid repeated claims that the introduction of some new weapon would cure everything on the battlefield in favour of Ukraine. None of those things were true and so people who believe those things which is the majority in both Europe and America but not the majority in the rest of the world where there was great scepticism, now confront reality. The reality is completely at odds with what they've been told for the last three years so naturally this is a shock.

He blames blames Boris Johnson for persuading Mr Zelensky to stop negotiations that were about to bring to peace.

Our good friend Boris Johnson then suddenly flew to Kev and apparently delivered a message to the Ukrainians that you may be ready for peace but we're not which illustrates that the purpose of the war to the extent it had any purpose was not to do anything for Ukraine, which has suffered terribly in this in this war, but, in the words of Lloyd Austin the then Secretary of Defense, to weaken and isolate Russia. 

So it was a strategic move and we were prepared to fight to
the last Ukrainian to to achieve it and we are now down to pretty close to the last Ukrainian which is why wonderful weapons of some major new kind are not going to produce a setback to the Russians.

The problem Ukraine has is it's lost too many men and women to carry on an offensive.

The conversation is here.