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The speaker proposes an analogy in which Russia and Ukraine have fought trench warfare for 100 years, with intense animosity and Russians taking tens of thousands of Ukrainians for human sacrifice, as a better model for understanding the conquest.
Unidentified speaker · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026
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“And I think a better model might be something like imagine if it's Russia and Ukraine have been doing trench warfare for 100 years and imagine the animosity and then also the Russians are like taking tens of thousands of Ukrainians and like doing human sacrifices with them.”Play from 20:59Report a misattribution
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