CNN global affairs analyst Susan Glasser and military analyst Gen. Wesley Clark (Ret.) discuss the immediate effects of Russian President Vladimir Putin declaring martial law in illegally annexed regions of Ukraine and what his next move might be. #CNN #News
For the first time in human history, a country has declared martial law on territory it does not conquer. What a way to go down, Russia!
@korotiwka1983
No, the term Kievan Russ was of Viking origin and was used to describe a kingdom created and ruled by a Viking King called Oleg, ruler of Novgorod from 879, all the people in this region were a mixed bunch including, Ukrainians, Finnish people, Russians and others.this kingdom stood for 400 years and it wasn’t ruled by the Russians, it was the Vikings
@Kieron Ukraine is being taken back, I am not sure what war you are watching? Kyiv first, then Kharkiv, now Kherson and the LPR.
I feel sorry for civilians in Kherson
Lets pray for them and support them in whatever way we can
@Neil Wani I wouldn’t put anything past PU-tin OR Orange Face.
I feel sorry for any civilians under putin
Declaring Martial law in a war zone. Brilliant.
@jakeolthof I call BS on all of that..except Washington and Adams…
Sounds like he’s approaching this like a child giving up a toy. If I can’t have it, I’m going to break it. Poetically moving ppl out in order to drop a few ‘strategic’ nuclear weapons
@C Teal its safe to assume most of the people who stayed in Kherson are pro Russian. about half of the city left, they will have been pro ukrainian.
The people of Kherson will remember when Russia first invaded Kherson the Ukraine soldiers ran away from Kherson and left the people there.
@PaperCup because Kherson is much more populated than any other place that is currently occupied by Russia and it is a hard place to withdraw from quickly, so if Russia do have to withdraw it would be irresponsible to try and move 100,000 people out of Kherson in hours. It would be a disaster.
Now you can apply your own statement to yourself.. “Maybe if you widened your information sources and applied some intelligence to what you discover, you would understand.”
Also throughout this war Russia has always tried to evacuate civilians from areas they were withdrawing from except from the Kharkiv area where the attack was so quick they didnt have a chance to pull civs out.
Putin or Trump ??….😅🤣😆
Sorry….but when (Retired) General Wesley Clark speaks….I definitely listen! Nothing against Susan Glasser but General Clark is consistently spot on with his analysis and predictions and his explanations and strategies are nearly always spot on!!
Stalin’s playbook unfortunately was not discarded and burned… forced migration is a classic move for them. Absolutely horrible.
I believe Turkey did this to their 1 million Armenian residents in the 1915-22 genocide.
@David Renwick and this is relevant to genocide that Russia does once a decade how?
My concern is the evacuation. Is this in advance of a particular type of attack? I concur with this wise General.
@Michelle Sheaff Hi Michelle. It sounds like ypu know much more history than I do and can put this in perspective with that. History certainly often predicts likelihood of something recurring. My original thought was that he could be moving them for reasons the general said, then withdrawing his troops, and bombing anyone left who didn’t comply. Let’s pray that’s not the case. Either way, it’s awful.
@Shawn Rice
Well put.
Only takes a nibble in this case.
Last fight https://youtu.be/pq9yyaZ25YI
@Michelle Sheaff i feel like the evacuations could also be a way to justify using nukes. To evacuate all of the citizens, and reduce the only victims to being the ukranian army. I think they will nuke the front line to prevent further ukranian advancement long enough for them to recoup and also because it would show NATO that Putin isn’t fucking around. Im sure at this point he would rather have an uninhabitable border seperating the nations than to let Ukraine have any land back and maintain their indendence. One thing that is for sure is that its not going to end lightly with Ukraine, Findland, and Sweden being officially on track to join NATO. Meaning if the war in Ukraine drags out long enough without nukes, it would still turn into NATO vs Russia which would ignite ww3 because Russia still has allies that will go to war with them, 2 of them being China and North Korea. You can count Iran in too and possibly India
Desperate situation requires desperate measures and P.Putin still needs control even as Ukrainian forces make further inroads 🇺🇦🇬🇧
The Kherson evacuation is merely the cynical use of civilians as human shields. It makes it impossible for Ukraine to shell the retreating troops.
These are 2 very excellent guests. Both have much to contribute. Thank you. Canada
I honestly never thought that Putin would be that evil!
Last fight https://youtu.be/pq9yyaZ25YI
He’s got a bolt loose.
He never ceases to disgust me.
Isn’t it likely Russia’s evacuating of Kherson residents warns of the escalating to larger types of weapons, such as nuclear or gas?
Last fight https://youtu.be/pq9yyaZ25YI
Evacuation of civilians serves a purpose in basically all scenarios. It’s not strongly indicative of one course over another.
If the Ukrainian army is at the gates and you plan to fight them, a large civilian presence greatly increases the risk of partisans helping the Ukrainian army.
If you plan on retreating, it’s your last chance to abduct people and send them to Russia.
If you want to threaten with the use of nuclear weapons without using them, it’s potentially helpful. As you can see from your own question.
According to Russian law the civilians are now Russians. Not at least making a symbolic show of protecting them might be a bad move.
The list goes on.
You can of course never be sure but I think it’s highly unlikely that evacuation is a prelude to an escalation in terms of nuclear or other unconventional weapons.
No because you dont have to fight in the city.
I would like to have heard what the general had to say about the possibility that the Russians might retreat, and to where they might retreat.
into Iran
to the moon would be appropriate
Wesley Clark wise men no doubt his amazing
Both of your guests are the most knowledgeable and with authority on their fields. Thanks.
Damn the animosity towards the General at the beginning
This lady is a great interviewer. She asks good questions, allows her guests to answer in full, balances the time for each guest to speak and shows a great deal of respect.
If this New Yorker staff writer had actually paid attention, Putin did more than just declare martial law in the occupied regions of Ukraine. He also set elevated levels of alertness (basically pseudo martial law or martial law lite) within actual ruzzia, from the regions bordering Ukraine, to somewhat deeper within ruzzia. His new order created two sets of elevated alertness, one more stringent than the other. These regions even include Moscow. The heightened levels of awareness give Putin’s government expanded powers within these affected ruzzian regions, including the power to requisition some types of private and corporate property that can be used to further the regime’s war efforts, such as transportation, communication, printing, computing, and automation industries, extra powers over transportation and communication within affected regions, restrictions on transportation of goods within affected regions, and extra inspection measures. Bizarrely, the level of “martial law lite” within ruzzia that is the most stringent is called “average alert level”, while the level under it, with fewer restrictions is called “elevated level of alert”. Obviously this is an attempt by putin to basically declare martial law in ruzzia in the most important ways he needs to, without panicking too many people and further eroding the understanding with his political base that keeps him afloat. The Orwellian naming scheme also served to further this agenda and obfuscate the truth of his actions and intentions.
makes me laugh every time when Americans talk about atrocities of other countries
Thanks to the “old” general Clarc for directing attention towards the war’s terrible costs to the people and for including in particular “sivilians holding on to their homes” as well as the brave “separatists” who within their own country are ever refusing to let go of a place within a fairly democratic country in exchange for becoming part of a country that now allows nothing but depression and despair for anyone abstaining from supporting the kind of “greatness” that builds on small people’s love for denial of better people’s natural rights. Some day our world’s armys will all serve to protect our freedoms, but will that happen before we have a UN ably equipped and ready to take control of each eventual suppressor of a governing power until sound governing is eventually restored? It seems obvious that we’re still where the free world must make its demands to each and every state before the old kind of “greatness” will at last become history once and for all.
Thanks also for Glasser’s splendid reminder of what kind of reminiscences seems not at all yet to be buried as by so many of us now for some time presumed, how ever strange it may still seem to us that some would ever want for such returnals.