Satanovsky is a Jewish Russian pundit and academic who is very highly respected. He is a fixture on the nation's top political talk shows and has his own radio show.

Despite this choppy translation, he is worth listening to.

He explains how the current situation is reminiscent of Vietnam, why negotiations are a waste of time, how the US defense establishment will use Russia's new weapons to extract maximum funds from the budget, how well-informed Pompeo is (not very), how the US is in trouble in Afghanistan, and why he believes that US belligerence will end up in a military conflict with Russia either in Syra or the Ukraine, and that the US will lose, and only then realize its weakness and be willing to negotiate