Military expert warns world is 'closer than ever' to nuclear war
Aug 10, 2023
Military expert warns world is 'closer than ever' to nuclear war
Retired U.S. Air Force Brigadier Gen. Rob Spalding discusses the relationship between Putin and Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko after the Wagner mutiny on ‘Cavuto: Coast to Coast.’ #foxbusiness #cavuto https://bit.ly/2D9Cdse https://video.foxbusiness.com http://www.foxnewsgo.com/ https://www.facebook.com/FoxBusiness https://twitter.com/foxbusiness https://www.instagram.com/foxbusiness
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0 -> taking a look at the impact of what is
1.62 -> going on indeed in Russia right now
3.419 -> we've been following Vladimir Putin but
5.52 -> for my money the far more revealing
7.799 -> quotes at least lately have come out of
9.84 -> Alexander lukashenko he is the president
12.48 -> of Belarus and he's been saying a lot of
14.759 -> curious things that strike me as sort of
16.74 -> like Tony soprano-ish saying that
19.14 -> Belarus authorities will keep a very
21.24 -> close eye on them I'm referring to the
22.98 -> Wagner group and that when it comes uh
25.859 -> to you get the virgosin the leader of
29.64 -> the the soon to be disassembled Wagner
31.8 -> group uh his Exile in Belarus is being
35.76 -> closely examined what to make of all of
37.98 -> that with Rob Spalding the uh Air Force
40.5 -> Brigadier General that's up our CEO the
42.899 -> author of War without rules uh general
45.239 -> what to make of what the leader of
47.879 -> Belarus is saying he's not quite in sync
51.12 -> and obviously as his eyes certainly
53.399 -> unpregose and and on a lot of his
56.1 -> cohorts who are now in Belarus
59.64 -> well I think one of the things he is in
61.44 -> sync with is uh is Putin who he's
63.48 -> essentially acting as proxy for you know
65.76 -> there's two things in politics money and
68.04 -> power and I think this was about money
70.2 -> and clearly uh pagosian got what he
73.439 -> wanted uh the problem is now the
75.84 -> effectiveness of the of Russian fighting
78 -> forces I think that's going to suffer
80.1 -> so General when we talk about uh the
85.08 -> Belarus president saying troops are are
87.36 -> now on full combat Readiness when the
90.119 -> Wagner group arrived obviously that's
92.82 -> probably wise you know you don't know
95.04 -> what these guys are going to do but it
97.74 -> I'm wondering if he is working in
99.84 -> concert with Vladimir Putin himself and
102.36 -> Vladimir Putin has given in the go ahead
104.04 -> if he does anything you don't like or we
106.799 -> don't like deal with it
109.979 -> well you know I don't know how many
111.899 -> forces
113.579 -> um pregosian brought with him if any but
115.56 -> if he did one of the things that I'd be
117.479 -> concerned about both from the Belarusian
119.88 -> president and Putin is what are these
121.799 -> guys going to do they certainly don't
123.18 -> want to go and work directly for the
125.759 -> Russian military they're going to be
126.96 -> underpaid and under resourced they're
129.06 -> already upset about being under
130.44 -> resourced now you add in being underpaid
133.2 -> so I think they have a real problem in
135.3 -> trying to figure out what this
136.739 -> professional mercenary Army is going to
139.62 -> do now that pagosian is left so that
143.04 -> General raises a question I've been
144.78 -> raised with prior guests on this channel
146.4 -> and Fox News if you're president
149.16 -> zelenski in Ukraine uh you want to take
151.739 -> advantage of this and we're told right
153.42 -> now that they've been making advances
154.98 -> this is coming from president zielinski
157.16 -> uh quote in all directions so they are
161.34 -> seizing on this void uh but how do you
164.519 -> think that's going to go
166.98 -> as they should the problem that I have
169.62 -> quite frankly and it's been consistent
171.48 -> throughout this war is that if you push
174.3 -> Putin into a corner he's already wounded
176.58 -> clearly politically but if you push him
179.04 -> in the corner if it looks like
180.36 -> catastrophic defeat in Ukraine I think
183.36 -> we're getting closer than we ever have
185.22 -> been in the modern times to the use of a
187.379 -> nuclear weapon and everybody likes to
189.18 -> say it's tactical but no nuclear weapons
191.04 -> are tactical so my concern is what
193.2 -> happens they Russia is still a
195.3 -> formidable nuclear power and I could see
198.3 -> situations where we get into something
201.239 -> where Putin decides that this is his
202.92 -> only option or only out and so that's
205.319 -> the thing that really concerns me
206.58 -> because you know this is going to play
208.14 -> out over a long period of time but that
210.239 -> could be a real accelerator to this
212.7 -> conflict and the problem is nobody knows
214.68 -> where that might go
216.06 -> no we don't and that's the big worry uh
218.22 -> we'll see how it pans out uh the general
220.379 -> spelling always good having you know
221.819 -> thank you for your service to this
222.959 -> country
224.58 -> thank you
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjU4QohIzVE
