The Daily Nationalist: Ukraine Military Analysis – DN 082522

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://archive.radioalbion.com/DN/dn%20082522.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1371" data-original-width="1371" src="https://archive.radioalbion.com/DN/dn%20082522.jpg" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://gab.com/SvenLongshanks" target="_blank"><strong>Sven Longshanks</strong></a> and <a href="https://www.rusjournal.org/" target="_blank"><strong>Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson</strong></a> use a <a href="https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2022/08/19/russias-destruction-of-the-ukraine-military/" target="_blank"><strong>Paul Craig Roberts</strong></a> opinion piece to discuss Russian objectives.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">NATO had amassed the largest army in Europe on Russia’s borders, concentrated in Mariupol and poised to retake Crimea.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Russia’s stated objective was to demilitarise this army and to do so, they first had to contain Kiev to prevent reinforcements.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">There never was a plan to take Kiev, that was all bluff and enabled the Mariupol units to be surrounded and picked off.</span></p><p><em><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-family: verdana;">Presented by Sven Longshanks and Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson</span></em></p><p><strong><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: verdana;">The Daily Nationalist: Ukraine Military Analysis – DN 082522</span></strong></p><br /><audio controls="" preload="none"> <source src="https://archive.radioalbion.com/DN/DN%20082522.mp3" type="audio/mp3"></source> Your browser doesn't support HTML5 audio. Here is a <a href="https://archive.radioalbion.com/DN/DN%20082522.mp3">link to the audio</a> instead. </audio><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;verdana&quot;;"><strong><a href="https://archive.radioalbion.com/DN/DN%20082522.mp3" target="_bl