{"id":5966,"date":"2026-05-19T02:13:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T02:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=5966"},"modified":"2026-05-22T13:51:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T13:51:51","slug":"putin-playing-long-game-with-european-nato-states-ex-cia-analyst-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/putin-playing-long-game-with-european-nato-states-ex-cia-analyst-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin playing \u2018long game\u2019 with European NATO states \u2013 ex-CIA analyst (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Moscow is winning in Ukraine and is not interested in a direct confrontation with its backers, Ray McGovern has said<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"207\" data-end=\"291\"><strong data-start=\"207\" data-end=\"214\"><\/strong> Russian President Vladimir Putin is not interested in attacking European NATO states and is instead patiently waiting until their hostile and deeply unpopular leaders are replaced by their own citizens, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern told RT\u2019s Rick Sanchez.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1127\" data-end=\"1447\">In an interview published on Monday, the former analyst noted that Russians are growing increasingly frustrated with drone attacks facilitated by Kiev\u2019s backers. Moscow has said that Ukrainian UAVs are increasingly being built with the help of Europe\u2019s military-industrial complex and attack via NATO members\u2019 territory.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1449\" data-end=\"1638\"><em>\u201cWe\u2019re very fortunate in having such a cautious, perspicacious person as Vladimir Putin in office,\u201d<\/em> McGovern said. <em>\u201cHe\u2019s not going to be sucked into something that would be most dangerous.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"Latvian Prime Minister Evika Silina at the Munich Security Conference, Germany, February, 13 2026.\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a059536203027791a5b2a57.jpg\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/639977-latvian-prime-minister-resigns\/\">NATO member\u2019s government collapses after Ukrainian drone incident<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"1640\" data-end=\"1865\">Putin\u2019s priority, he suggested, is to continue advancing on the ground in Ukraine while avoiding provoking a US president <em>\u201cso volatile and so unpredictable as\u201d<\/em> Donald Trump into getting militarily involved in the hostilities.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1867\" data-end=\"2048\">The Russian president is aiming to outlast the <em>\u201cthree blind mice\u201d<\/em> \u2013 French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, he added.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2050\" data-end=\"2381\"><em>\u201cThe Europeans are going to do away with these clowns that they have at the top,\u201d<\/em> McGovern said. <em>\u201cStarmer\u2019s on his way out. Macron will be out next year. Merz is about the most unpopular chancellor that Germany ever had. So I think the Russians play the long game\u2026 I wish we all had the patience that Vladimir Putin seems to have.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2383\" data-end=\"2476\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><strong><em>Watch the full interview with former CIA analyst Ray McGovern on RT\u2019s Sanchez Effect below.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow is winning in Ukraine and is not interested in a direct confrontation with its backers, Ray McGovern has said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5966"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5970,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5966\/revisions\/5970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}