Former CIA Analyst: The West Cannot Defeat Russia in Ukraine

Click here for the full interview with former CIA analyst Larry Johnson: For $5 a month, become a Useful Idiot! Get extended interviews, Thursday Throwdowns, and chat live with Katie and Aaron in the Absurd Arena at Find us on Substack at Watch this week's Thursday Throwdown: Biden Throws “Vladimir“ Zelensky Under the Bus Join the Absurd Arena live chat with Katie and Aaron every Tuesday at 12pm est at “The west cannot win.” Former CIA analyst and deputy director of the US Office of Counterterrorism Larry Johnson has a grave outlook for the proxy war in Ukraine. And it ends with a lot of dead Ukrainians. Even with the hundreds of billions of dollars of HIMARS, Stingers, Javelins, and now the potential for F-16s and war-crime cluster munitions, Ukraine, according to Johnson’s military analysis, has not made a single successful stand against fortified Russian forces and will only suffer more losses as the pointless war rages forward. And what’s his solution? Well, you won’t be surprised to hear it’s just about exactly the same as every other Useful Idiots guest’s: diplomacy. The west wins through peace. Johnson covers it all: how Russiagate led to the war, the Wagner Group’s “coup” and Prigozhin’s silly disguises, and the real reason the west hates Putin so much. Hint: it’s not because of the communist/dictator/Hitler/4D-chess super genius stuff they tell us. “We’re angry at Putin because he shut down the money flow from the oligarchs that was going into the pockets of a lot of western capitalists. It’s that simple.” Catch it all in the extended interview with Larry Johnson. 0:00 Intro (Katie's birthday) 3:31 The Four Food Groups of News (Corporate AOC, Communist Barbie, Rosa George Parks Santos) 15:11 Fmr CIA Analyst Larry Johnson interview