 Okay, so first time in the news, which I think is interesting and important, is the fact that Russia has announced that it is withdrawing from Gioshon. Gioshon is the only regional capital that Russian forces actually occupied since the beginning of the war. They tried to occupy Khakiv. They tried to occupy, ultimately, they tried to occupy Kiev. They failed with both of those. The one city that they actually managed to occupy is Gioshon. Gioshon is in the south, and to the south of Gioshon there is a river. The Ukrainian forces over the last couple of months are being slowly chipping away at Russian positions all around the city of Gioshon and to its east and to its north, and they've been closing in on the city itself. Yesterday, the Russians basically announced that they will be withdrawing from Gioshon. They will be withdrawing from the city and handing it over in a sense, handing control over to the Ukrainians. This is a major step. It's also a major change. I think the Russians have figured out that if they're going to leave a territory, if they're going to be withdrawing, it's better to do so in an organized fashion. It's better to do so in a planned fashion than experience the kind of routes that they have experienced both on the east, in the northeast, and more recently in the Gioshon province where the Ukrainians just overrun them and then get a bunch of equipment from them. This way, the Russians will be able to retreat in an orderly way. They'll be able to salvage a lot of the equipment. They'll be able to take it back to the other side of the river. So this is a major, major defeat for Putin. It's a major, major defeat for Putin's ambitions with regard to Ukraine. It is one more defeat. It's one more sign, one more piece of evidence to the complete incompetence of the Russian military, both from an equipment perspective, from a manpower perspective. Their ability to maintain ground that they took in the first few days of the war is pathetic, and their ability to stand up to Western-equipped Ukrainians just is non-existent. So Russia is clearly failing in its efforts in Ukraine. It's going to take a long time for Ukraine to regain the land. Ukraine's primarily because Russian military is digging in, and Putin seems to be committed to getting as many troops killed as necessary in order for him to save face in some kind of way, although I'm not sure what way he can save face given the thorough thrashing that Ukraine has provided the Russian forces in Ukraine. So it's going to be interesting. It's likely that once the Ukrainians, once the Russians retreat from this northern section of Gilson province, the city of Gilson, that the Ukrainians basically don't try to cross the river and don't try to take the southern part of Gilson because it's just logistically too difficult, and they expose themselves to Russian firepower, that probably keeps some troops there to keep the Russians busy. But my guess is that they will move their attack to, for the east, to the province east of Gilson province, and they will try to encircle Russian troops by attacking from there. They will also continue their focus in Luhansk province and to try to encircle Russian troops over there and try to break their supply lines. That will be tough over the winter, the winter fighting is going to be difficult. For the Ukrainians, as it is for the Russians, I think the Ukrainians are probably better positioned to handle it. Their supply lines are better, as well as of course the supplies and the support they're getting from the west is substantial. So huge victory for the Ukrainians, we'll see how much they can leverage this as winter approaches into more victories, but they've done a phenomenal job. And again, given all the experts, the generals, the mainstream media's expectation of the complete capitulation of Ukraine and Russian victory, the rights adoration of Putin and the rights expectation, even on this chat, expectation of a Putin, a quick or a slow or whatever Putin victory, I think we're just getting more and more and more confirmation that the Ukrainians are defeating the Russians and will continue to defeat the Russians on the battlefield. What consequence that has, we will have to see this is going to be another year before we know much more about how this all plays out. But as I've said over and over and over again over the last few months, Russia has lost already. I mean, the latest figures out of the US Pentagon is that Russia might have lost a hundred thousand troops, a hundred thousand soldiers have died in Ukraine, or at least been died or injured to the point where they can't be soldiers anymore. Most of these are professional soldiers. Most of these are, you know, part of the volunteer army that Russia had. This is the core of the Russian military. This is a significant percentage of battle ready forces in Ukraine in Russia, not to mention the number of tanks and the number of other military equipment that they have lost, both that were captured and destroyed. I mean, the waste in lives, the tragedy for the families, the tragedy for these young people who will never have the opportunity to live a life is horrific. What exactly did they die for? For Putin's grandeur, for Putin's ambition, for some greater Russia? Most of them never knew what they died for. Most of them never knew what they were fighting for. You know, you could say the Ukrainians are fighting for their home, they're fighting for their families, they're fighting for their own freedom. What are the Russians fighting for? They have no clue. What are they dying for? They have no clue. Super sad, super tragedy, a super waste of human life, a super waste of wealth but primarily of human life. How can Russia recover from this? I don't know. How can Russia rebuild an army? I don't know. Remember, Russian birth rates are very low. They have fewer and fewer young people anyway. They just managed to kill 100,000 young people or make them unproductive. How does Russia ever recover from that? Just from an economic, cultural perspective, I don't think it can. Again, Russia is a shrinking population, an aging population. This is a fading so-called superpower. This is Putin's fantasy of resurrecting the Soviet Union is dead. Of course, he has also managed to get Sweden, Finland into NATO, something that nobody would have ever expected is happening. He has managed to, in some senses, unite the European Union around a cause, anti-Putin cause. In every front, this has been an unmitigated disaster for Russia and it continues with the news coming out about the Russian retreating from Gerson. I feel for the Ukrainians who are battling day in, day out against these Russians and I feel for the Russian troops who have no clue what they're doing there and why they're there. You could say they could defect or it's very difficult, very difficult to actually defect in a situation like this, so they're dying for no fault of their own. So that's the update on Russia. Thank you for listening or watching the Iran Brook show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening, you get value from watching, show your appreciation. 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