Robin Horsfall - The Spring Offensive has Begun - Can Ukraine Surprise with Bold and Decisive Gains?

GUEST: Robin Horsfall, soldier, writer, campaigner and keynote speaker.
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Russia's much vaunted 'new offensive', started without huge fanfare, and seems to have petered out with little tangible success, but an unimaginable scale of losses. This is nowhere more apparent than in the attritional 'meat grinder' confrontations around Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Vhuledar. To win outright, or initiate negotiations to end the war, Ukraine will have to avoid the same failures with it's expected Spring Offensive. Can Ukraine surprise the world, and more importantly the Russian high command with bold and decisive gains? Has the offensive already begun? And is Russia gearing up for the most catastrophic round of conscription yet, with the rollout of electronic conscription in the major urban centres, - not just in the provinces this time, or through marginalised ethnic minorities.
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SPEAKER:
Robin Horsfall joined the British Army at the age of fifteen in 1972. He served with the Parachute Regiment and 22 Special Air Service. He left the British Army in 1984 and worked as a mercenary, bodyguard and as a medical officer is many active zones around the world. He then built London Karate for twenty years, teaching thousands the art and discipline of karate. He retired and went to Surrey University aged 56 and graduated in English Literature and Creative Writing three years later. He is the author of several books including his hugely successful autobiography Fighting Scared - which I highly recommend you read.
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BOOKS:
https://robinhorsfall.co.uk/books/
- Fighting Scared
- The Words of the Wise Old Paratrooper
- Warrior Poet: A Soldier’s Songs

Find out more about Robin's extraordinary life and achivements here, as well as an online shop to buy his books: https://robinhorsfall.co.uk/
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 and so it begins - the long heralded Spring Offensive
02:30 There were signs over the last weeks that Offensive in the offing
04:58 Economy of force is crucial, to preserve Ukrainian lives and strength
10:52 Advancing in Zaporizhia, as a crucial step to liberating Crimea
14:14 Russia colonists tipped the balance of support for Russian in Crimea
18:41 Conscription is already happening - Russia is a full police state
21:52 First there has to be a military victory before change in Russia
24:13 Russia now has people who have experienced intense combat over 14 months
31:11 Media uses doom and dread to twist narratives, undermining support for Ukraine
35:42 Ukraine has near limitless needs for equipment, but the supply is limited
39:36 The buffer states of the USSR will eventually drop support for Russia
44:19 Ukraine has integrated 'combined arms' into their forces, which Russia has not
47:58 Losses in Ukraine are terrible sacrifice - partly due to Western weakness
54:08 Core values, which you build integrity upon are the best antidote to disinfo
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