Russia is FREAKING OUT About France’s Latest Announcement
Paul J. Warburg
17 min
The United States has misunderstood its actual level of power. There's no reason to assume that history could not repeat itself for today's most overconfident empire who doesn't understand the repercussions of the choices they are currently making.
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy
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Donald Trump
Chapters
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0:00
France's Intelligence Announcement
France now provides two-thirds of Ukraine's foreign military intelligence. The US lost its ability to force unfair deals by cutting aid and intelligence.
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2:05
Europe's New Capability
Europe and Ukraine can now provide their own intelligence and weapons.
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6:35
Limited Strategic Value
US intelligence only helps intercept a small fraction of Russian missiles.
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10:28
Global Order Shift
The US overestimated its unique power, leading to a dangerous decline.
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14:58
Historical Warning
Overconfident empires often collapse after a golden age of perceived strength.
Key points
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France now provides Ukraine with two-thirds of all of their foreign military intelligence.
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The United States has lost the last remaining piece of that leverage.
- 2:05
Europe and Ukraine started doing everything they could to provide their own internet services, their own intelligence services, and their own weapons.
- 6:35
Ukraine still only manages to shoot down around 21% of the ballistic missiles that Russia fires at them.
- 10:28
The United States has misunderstood its actual level of power.
- 14:58
History is a story of remarkably short-lived empires that rise to power, experience a golden age, and then coming out of that golden age, experience a catastrophic fall.
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The Russian Empire collapsed after overconfidently believing it could easily defeat Japan.
- 16:10
There's no reason to assume that history could not repeat itself for today's most overconfident empire who doesn't understand the repercussions of the choices they are currently making.
Who and where
People · 2
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy 1
President of Ukraine since 2019
Photo 1
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Donald Trump 1
President of the United States (2017–2021; since 2025)
Photo 2
1. Photo: Press Service of the President of Ukraine, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons · Wikidata · redrawn in our house style (Volodymyr Zelenskyy)
2. Photo: Daniel Torok, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons · Wikidata · redrawn in our house style (Donald Trump)
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