Andrei Illarionov. Whether JEF can help Ukraine

Andrei Illarionov's conversation with Lyudmila Nemirya.
Recording on February 27, 2024

Translation into English – privateer station

0:00 – Where are we now with the war?
1:49 – Putin announced the Russian-Ukrainian war in Yeisk on September 17, 2003
6:43 – Putin-Kuchma meeting on the Biryuchiy Island;
12:13 – Tuzla conflict
14:01 – Three stages of the war
19:00 – Third stage of the war
22:30 – The “broken glass” theory; the lack of an adequate response to aggression leads to its escalation
23:58 – Russia has become stronger economically
30:55 – Russia vs West: balance of military potentials
35:07 – Russian political regime has become tougher, repressions wider
37:53 – Policy of Western leaders is to prevent Putin's fall
38:55 – Enormous Western financial assistance to the Putin regime
40:35 – Military and economic assistance to Ukraine and Russia in 2023
43:20 – Historical examples of the share of military expenditures in GDP
46:37 – Military spending by Ukraine in 2024 – 33% of GDP
49:31 – Has Europe begun to wake up?
51:52 – To win a war, the armed forces of other states must participate; discussions at the Munich Security Conference on February 19, 2022
54:55 – How the JEF could help?
56:51 – How Europe disarmed itself, how Trump has changed this trend