... French military just shared with me exclusive video 2 days ago in relation to this Macron's statement.
French military, as it turned out, already have first prototype of French equivalent of Oreshnik and Monsieur Macron already gave it a try personally. Which explains his red eye.He is a very courageous man, this Macron fella. I didn't know this about him. Live and learn.
The question asked is legitimate and the answer is very simple--of course it is not genuine. For those in discussion boards here who will rush with warnings to Russia not to trust the West, don't worry--Russians are not as dumb as you might think. Speaking of which--sadly only in Russian--Leo Tolstoy's great-great-grandson Petr Tolstoy delivers a doze of Russian geopolitical realism on one of the talk shows in Russia.
No, Mark, they gave you a very low number, real number of Russians killed a months is 100500 (Russians will know this number)). Europe is over, period. For people who still miss the most important part in Vladimir Putin's statement during the ceremony of receiving new ambassadors in Kremlin--it wasn't just about "cooperation in Europe", the most important part was what Russia preached since 1990s--ONLY on the mutually respectful bases, with Russia viewed as equal. All of Russia, Putin included, knows that this is impossible due to factors I speak about non-stop: majority of Europeans (I stress it--majority but not all) view and will continue to view Russians as subhumans. Russia can live without Europe.
Speaking about "massive Russian losses", here is video evidence of 404 terrorists enjoying realities of the war with Russia. At Slavyansk-Kramatorsk operational direction--like rats, filthy, demoralized, hiding in dugouts in fear of encounter with Russian standoff weapons, artillery, UAVs and, most terrifying, Russian Army's storm groups. NATO--that's you.
Now, some sat photos of the Bilche-Volitsko-Uhersky facility, gas control system, (make no mistake--this is NOT photo of now confirmed punctured has storage) which is gone after the visit by Mr. Oreshnik.
... and never was "political adviser" to Vladimir Putin. He is mentally deranged boy from Soviet nomenklatura with zero military experience, let alone in nuclear weapons and everything he spews is the result of his deranged mind. Utterly militarily incompetent. He is a sort of a demagogue akin to Dugin--same origin in privileged Soviet nomenklatura class, same useless "edukeishn" in bullshit such as "political science" et al, same set of connections in Moscow's "elite". I have news--Russia IS NOT going to be using nuclear weapons on anyone unless it meets criteria prescribed in Russian Military Doctrine and Nuclear Policy. Karaganov knows NOTHING about military but he rubs shoulders with some generals and admirals. He mistook it for professionalism.
I want to remind, Tucker, something about the likes of Karaganov by Hofstadter.
. . . the complexity of modern life has steadily whittled away the functions the ordinary citizen can intelligently and comprehendingly perform for himself. In the original American populistic dream, the omnicompetence of the common man was fundamental and indispensable. It was believed that he could, without much special preparation, pursue the professions and run the government. Today he knows that he cannot even make his breakfast without using devices, more or less mysterious to him, which expertise has put at his disposal; and when he sits down to breakfast and looks at his morning newspaper, he reads about a whole range of vital and intricate issues and acknowledges, if he is candid with himself, that he has not acquired competence to judge most of them.
The whole class of journos, political "scientists", sociologists, historians and "economists" has been exposed as people with primarily fraudulent backgrounds who cannot grasp the events of today and nutjobs like Karaganov are driven by ambition and ... ignorance aptly mixed with lies. But then again, every village needs its own corps of idiots.