“The Australian instructors are seeing these terrified Ukrainian mobilized men who don't want to be there and of course, what can they offer them? They can't offer them patriotism. They can't offer them hope. They can't offer them direction or a goal or a common goal even. They can't promise them they're going to live. They can't promise them they're going to win. There's nothing to look forward to.”

"The things he said about Ukraine and the origins of the war in Ukraine went far beyond anything Viktor Orban has said. Viktor Orban has simply made it a pragmatic issue, saying it has nothing to do with Hungarians... But he never really got into what really happened in Ukraine - Fico did. When you say things like that, you're clearly antagonizing powerful forces," Dr. George Szamuely, a senior research fellow at The Global Policy Institute, tells Sputnik.

“Australians and Ukrainians don't share similarities. Australians are hardworking people. Ukrainians are not. Ukrainians are used to standing in line for handouts, as they are in Germany and Poland and the UK and France and everywhere else all over the world.”

"I think there's going to be more pressure to censor political speech. And I think the powerful forces within the EU, what do they have within their crosshairs? They have within their crosshairs the populist movements. They hate the populist movements. They're afraid of them. And they're going to use this to censor a crackdown on the populist movements," Dr. George Szamuely, a senior research fellow at The Global Policy Institute, tells Sputnik.

"The length of the zone could be up to 100 kilometers, because it's necessary to protect the population of Belgorod from the enemy's cannon and rocket artillery. This means that the zone will include all settlements of the Kharkov region from the point of view of the Russian border, including Kharkov," Matviychuk said.

"If Kharkov falls into this zone, we will have to take control of the city to prevent the Ukrainian army from shelling Belgorod," the observer noted.

"This is a classic example of Israel fencing off the Arabs with the help of a buffer zone," Matviychuk said, referring to a number of other buffer zones, including between Israel and Egypt and Israel and Jordan.

“Chairman Xi Jinping’s initiative on global security was discussed during our visit to China at meetings both within the framework of delegations and at a meeting in a narrow group of leaders face to face. We see great reason that the practical promotion of the idea of ensuring global security would begin with the formation of the foundations of Eurasian security without any Euro-Atlantic flavor,” he said.

“But, firstly, not from a position of strength, not from a position of one’s own exclusivity, but only on equal terms and with respect for each other’s interests,” Lavrov underscored.

“Suddenly you saw a weakening of the military and that was the beginning of the end of the US military,” Bennett says.

“So you've seen the military transform from a nationally-owned organization to an organization that was really being used to feed corporate entities like Raytheon, McDonnell Douglas, Booz Allen Hamilton, SAIC, a myriad of defense contractors, missile manufacturers, arms dealers, and that was another death blow to the military because suddenly it became a profit-generating organization,” Bennett remarks.

“They completely corroded and decayed the military from within, causing a lot of the best soldiers, airmen, marines and sailors to depart, to not re-enlist,” he states.