The Duran Podcast - Ukraine’s Zaluzhny admits defeat, prepares alibi

Episode Date: November 3, 2023

Ukraine’s Zaluzhny admits defeat, prepares alibi

Alexander, let's talk about the article from Time Magazine focusing on Zelensky. And let's talk about the article that came out the other day from the economist focusing on Zillusion. Actually, Zillusion he wrote a short, if you believe it's coming from Solutiony. He wrote a short, yeah, he wrote a short article as well about his needs. A Wishlist is basically what he came up with. Provide me a whole new army with fighter jet. and drones and surveillance and counter battery and everything. Give up a whole new army, give it to me and we'll win.

That's pretty much what the article is about. But maybe we start with Time Magazine's expose on Zelensky, which effectively just confirms all of our reporting over the last year and a half. Welcome, welcome to reality, Time magazine. It's good to finally have you with us. Absolutely. Bear in mind that Zelensky was Time Magazine man of the year last year in 2022. So, I mean, we're not talking about, you know, from hero to zero.

If you read this article, it's from Hero to absolute minus. I mean, this is an absolutely. devastating, eviscerating, pinpoint portrait of Zelensky. I mean, it absolutely takes him apart. I mean, first of all, and I think we need to say this, it admits that the counteroffensive has been a failure. I mean, it essentially says that. It says that the counteroffensive has failed, the losses have been enormous, there's no real military plan to victory. Nobody can come up with one and the whole situation is basically turning round and Ukraine is clearly losing. But at the surgery of it all, they portray a Zelensky who is all the time inside a bunker

who's gloomy and morose and depressed, who's got a Messiah complex, who is delusional, who gives crazy orders like trying to capture Grolowka whose generals no longer have any confidence in him and who in many cases now are disobeying his orders and yet who refuses to face reality continues to refuse to face reality and who won't countenance under any circumstances

any sort of negotiations now if that sounds like the moustache of gentleman of the 1940s who ended his life in a bunker in Berlin. Well, it's all there in Time magazine. It's because it does. I mean, the parallels are so obvious

that I can't believe that whoever penned that article didn't see them and wasn't in a kind of a way trying to highlight them. So, I mean, this is about as bad as it gets. I mean, you know, this is a man who not so long ago was being, Zelensky, was being compared to Churchill. And now we have a pen portrait of him in Time magazine that makes him appear, you know, sound, look like, more like Churchill's adversary. Now, as you correctly said, there's nothing here that we weren't aware of before.

Time magazine has only just caught up with reality, but there it is. It also shows, by the way, all these highlights the fact that Zelensky's own staff that basically lost or confident. and belief in him. And it also confirms that corruption remains a massive problem in Ukraine. In fact, if anything, a growing one. So there we go. Yeah, they destroyed Zelensky. Absolutely destroyed him. The funny part about the article is that his chief of staff actually posted the article on Telegram and Twitter without reading it, and they thought this was going to be another glowing piece about Zelensky administration. And then they got word about what the article was really saying.

And so they removed the links to that article anyway. Yeah, I mean, that's talk about that. That is the story. They're idiots. They're idiots. Either that or that's the story we're being given or perhaps. Just just saying, perhaps he posted it on purpose. Because he also has lost confidence in his boss.

Maybe he had. And, you know, then when, you know, Zelensky, he furiously came along and said, why were you posting this thing? He came along, oh, I didn't read it. It was all the mistakes. Just bear that in mind because, of course, the other, the bigger story here is, why are these articles appearing now? And again, I can't help but think that Zelensky is now being present,

is being set up as the full guy. The offensive has failed. And so we're trying to look for some kind of a way to remove him from the scene, because we've got to have a fresh start with someone else. so we have this disastrous, this utterly disastrous pen portrait of him. By the way, it was a very interesting article in some of the things that it said. Apparently Zelensky is now busy preparing to sack his top general. That clearly is illusiony.

So we'll no doubt come to him in a moment in this program. No, let's come to him right now because he may be the replacement and the economist, they gave Zillusioni quite a big platform, a lot of exposure in their latest article about Zillusioni. And they actually gave Zillusioni the ability to pen, his own wish list. But just going back to the Time Magazine article, just the final point that you made is the main question is,

you know, who gave time permission to publish this article? because there's no way that time would have published this if it didn't get permission from the globalist or the deep state of the Biden White House to publish such an article about Zelensky. So no doubt time was told, yeah, we want you to start deconstructing the mythos that is below demure Zelenskyy.

So bad news for Zelensky. That is exactly true. I mean, bear in mind, last year, they were declaring him, making him man, the year. Now they're representing him in this kind of way. It's absolutely clear to me that they want to get him out and they want to replace him with someone else and they want that someone else to try to arrange a ceasefire with the Russians and they're priming Aristovic, you know, a Zelensky's former spin doctor who's now turned on Zelensky and is calling him a dictator and corrupt and all of those

kind of things and they're getting aristovitch to go around and say well you know what we need to do is just to go into the defensive and we're course he can't negotiate with the russians but he's basically hinting at some kind of ceasefire and freeze all of which of course is so much pie in the sky in itself but you can see that that's where they're moving towards which is which is but once again before we get to zaluzzi which is why they kept aristovic around under any other circumstances There would be no way on this earth that Aristovich would be able to hang around Kiev and live in Ukraine, saying all the things that he's been saying about the current administration. So obviously, the Zeletsky administration, they also got word from high above.

Do not mess with Aristovic. Let him say what he's going to say. We understand that he's your best friend who's now your number one enemy. That makes a great story, by the way, because they love to create these, cinematic narratives. It's a great story. The best friend, his co-star and so many television shows and films turns against him and now he's the opposition. Yeah, that's why they kept Aristovich around is because they had him as a backup as plan B or C, you know, just in case you want to get rid of Zelensky. This guy would be an interesting replacement. But we have Zilluzni as well.

Absolutely. And what do you make of everything that he said on the economy? Well, it's all very interesting. Bear in mind, again, just coming back to the Time magazine article, it's pretty clear that Zelensky is preparing to sack him. So Zoluzni's days as commander-in-chief are probably numbered. Now, the very interesting thing about this article is that it, first of all, has straightforward admissions from Zoluzni, that the offensive has failed. We can unpick it, but that is basically what he's saying. He said it didn't work out. He didn't work out, because, Well, I made a mistake. I thought that if I killed hundreds of thousands of Russians,

which is, of course, what he claims, then Russia would collapse. I didn't realize that Putin was this ruthless tyrant, and that Russia is this supine country, and that the people would continue to join the military and be killed in these enormous numbers, and as a result, would be able to hold my armies back. So, you know, for all that nonsense,

that other nonsense aside, he basically admits that the offensive has failed. He always gives himself, by the way, another alibi, which is one which I've seen many people say. I mean, it's an analysis that you've seen floated around everywhere, which is that in modern warfare, it is impossible to obtain tactical surprise. Everybody can see what the other side is doing. So that's why, you know, we weren't able to break through. and the war is therefore in some kind of a stalemate. Now, I want to say, and I really do want to say this,

I don't buy that argument at all. And in terms of the absence of surprise with this offensive, well, the reason there was no surprise about this offensive is not because there are all these eyes in the sky and all these drones and all that. It's because the Ukrainians and the Western powers were talking about the offensive for months before it actually happened.

It wasn't as if the Russians needed any of this advanced technology to see what the Ukrainians were going to do because the Ukrainians made no secret of what they were going to do. So I just want to say those things. But anyway, he's now saying, you know, we can still win,

despite the fact that it's a stalemate, despite the fact that we can't achieve any breakthrough, but we need miracle weapons. We need far more weapons. every conceivable sort of weapon. We need gunpowder, as he put it, just as gunpowder changed the whole nature of the war back in, you know, nature of warfare back in the 14th century.

Now we need something equivalent this time in order to break through this logjam. And we can still win. And he says, you know, give me all of the things you have, the aircraft, the missiles, every single type of military equipment. and I can still win this war for you. But if you don't give me those things, well, eventually, because of the attrition, we just might possibly lose.

So he's effectively conceding that as well. If you drill through the article carefully, essentially he's admitting that as well. He's admitting that Ukraine, in effect, is on a trajectory to defeat, but he says you can still turn it round if you give me everything I want and perhaps even more than that.

He's trying to cover his butt, but he must realize that he's not going to get a new army. That's essentially what he's asking for is he wants a whole army, a whole new military and a modern, a modern new military at that. But obviously, this is not going to happen

because reason number one as much of the collective west has been demilitarized. They've given whatever. they can to Ukraine. A lot of countries, you just don't have anything left. And the second reason is that all of the good stuff, all of the stuff actually is going to go to Israel. I mean, that's, that's been said. I mean, they haven't made a secret of that in the United States. They've actually flown people to Kiev and told them. Everything that we have, including ammunition, first goes to Israel. So, you know, this article from Zalusin is,

is delusional in much the same way that that Time magazine presents Zelensky. If you take it at face value, it is completely delusional. I would add, of course, that, of course, Zalusely gave an interview to the economist last year, about the same time a year ago. He had a wish list there, which I thought at the time was pretty fantastic. 350 tanks, 6 to 700 infantry fighting vehicles, 500 howitzers. And I thought he couldn't possibly be expected to get all of this kind of equipment. And he did.

They gave him what he wanted. He asked for all of that last year, and they gave him what he wanted. And he burnt through it all. He launched his great offensive with all that equipment. He'd said he'd get to Crimea with it, and he didn't. He didn't get anywhere close to Crimea. He barely broke through in any place. In any place at all.

If you look at the front lines, they are almost exactly where they were on, you know, 1st of June before the offensive was launched. And in fact, the Russians are now pushing hard in Avdyevka and in Kupiansk. And there's been lots of reports from there. And it looks as if Ukraine is facing a severe crisis in both of these places. So, you know, comes back and he says, give me all these additional extra things. It's impossible. This time truly fantastical wish list. There is no conceivable way that he's going to get that. But what he's actually he doing he's doing two things firstly he's telling the west and the ukrainian people why despite getting everything that he asked for last year he failed why he didn't break through so blame the drones

and the intelligence and all these eyes in the sky blame the fact that the russians have an infinite capacity to accept casualties blame everything in other words except your own strategic and military mistakes. So you're not to blame, not in any conceivable way, and say, well, you know, we can still win, provided you give me even more of what I want. So in effect, what he's trying to do, this is the way I could see this, is he's creating the alibi for why he lost, and quite plausibly he's doing that in anticipation of him being sacked fairly soon, and quite plausibly he's also doing that, in anticipation of presidential run in which I suspect he's going to present himself to the Ukrainian people as the man who can turn things around and perhaps start some kind of negotiation with the Russians, possibly.

Who knows? Yeah, I agree with you. Zelensky, one of the worst moves he can make is to fire Zolushni. But Zelensky's a dummy. He really is. He's not a very smart person. And actually, I think there was a former interior minister who gave an interview and said the same thing. This was like two weeks ago.

He said Olensky is just, he's just, he's dumb. He's not very intelligent. Maybe he's a good actor. But he's stupid. And this is a stupid move. This shows that Zelensky doesn't have any strategic thinking whatsoever because what he should do is he should keep, if he really, you know, wants delusioning to be the fall guy and to remove blame from himself, he should keep Zillusini in place. Absolutely. But by firing Zillusioni, he gives Zillusioni exactly what he wants. Zilluzni gets out of this mess. When Ukraine does collapse, he's not the guy in charge. And he can start all these other things that you're talking about, start his political career, you know, build up his alibi even more, maybe even be like Aristovich and start criticizing Ukraine from the sidelines. It's a perfect position for Zillusion to be in is to be fired right now. Well, absolutely, and of course, Time magazine is there to help

because of the way they're representing Zelensky now. So, I mean, Zalusini can quite validly say, look, it's not just I who have lost all confidence in Zolensky, so are the Americans. Just see what they're saying about Zolensky also. Our allies, our friends and allies, have no confidence in this man either. So, I mean, it's a very, very bad look for Zolensky altogether.

I have to say, I think that, that this article actually, and I'm just going to take a step back, this article should really bury the myth of Zalusini as some kind of Napoleonic figure. I mean, he comes up with these feeble excuses, because they are feeble excuses, of why he lost. He's not really honest about the actual military realities. he's still, as you correctly say,

is pretending that this whole disastrous mess can be turned round. And I have to say this also, as a political leader of Ukraine, if he does become president, I think he will be as much out of his depth in a different way as Zelensky is. Yeah, well, I think the entire narrative

around Ukraine and the leadership is now being experienced. as just a, a media construct. It was all fake. It was all fake. Everyone was, yeah, it was all fake. The Ukrainian people, the collective West, the leadership of the European Union, many, many people and citizens in, in the collective West. In the United States, were all led to believe that these guys were awesome.

Zelensky's a hero. He's awesome. Zoluzini. He's the, he's better than. than Napoleon. I mean, he's going to be the one that that finally brings down Russia. It was all

fake. All of it was fake and it was a media construct, a complete myth. At the end of the day, we're seeing that these guys are just a bunch of bozos. Absolutely correct. I mean, one was Churchill, the other was Napoleon and neither is remotely,

by any conceivable stretch of the imagination, either of those things. Zelensky, as I So the time magazine is telling it's a delusional morose character who's lost all touch with reality and gives crazy orders. And as a illusionie, this frankly, you know, I could just say a whining person. Give me everything I want. And, you know, it all went wrong. Well, don't really blame me.

I just, all I did was underestimate the other side. and I couldn't keep my secrets. So, I mean, it's a really, really bad look. And that is the problem with propaganda about information control. I said this right at the start of the wall. You can have the most brilliant propaganda and information machine on the planet. You can fool pretty much everybody at the start. but in the end, reality catches up with you.

That was what the Germans found when the Russians got to Berlin, and it's what the Ukrainians and the West are finding now. Just to wrap up the video, the interesting part now is watching both Zelensky and Zilluzzi focus on self-preservation. It's very interesting to see how they're each maneuvering to either stay in power or to just exist because you have the neocons, you have the banderites in the West, you have all these sinister forces that are growing angrier by the day, by the minute. And I'm sure that's illusion, Ian Zelensky, understand all of this.

Absolutely correct. Totally right. I completely agree. All right. We'll end the video there. The durand.com. We are on Rumble odyssey, bitch, telegram, rockfin, Twitter, X, and go to the Durant Shop, $20. use the code the Durant 20. Take care.