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Sorry, Belle, but I've had enough "interesting" times in my fifty-seven years on this planet; I'm ready for some nice, easy, peaceful, boring times for a few decades.
Yes and the buzz is Russia doesn’t have the engineers or knowledge to be successful on their own. Russia produces nothing but oil and gas. They create nothing. All the intelligence is in Ukraine. Look what they are doing with drones. 🇺🇦
@@ninemoonplanet Especially not when russian propagandists are working overtime to threaten the EU, UK, and the US with nukes if they don't meekly hand over Ukraine.
Howdy Donald. If you havent watched it. Watch Bidens speech to the UN. I saw the edited parts of it on Lawrence ODonnel. That might be the best speech I have seen him do.
Folks can expect the U.S. military and strategic assets to follow the SAME trajectory as Russia if we re-elect trump. He will bring about the kleptocratic oligarchy the rich have had wet dreams about for years...
True, true, he'll ruin the country and destroy its military effectiveness, but he'll make it okay to barge into the changing rooms at teen beauty pageants, and that's what _really_ matters to his supporters.
@@kensmith5694- And there were enough experienced people remaining to rein him in. He plans to fire all those people and hire loyal worshippers who'll do whatever he demands.
This is part of the reason I do not take Putin's threats very seriously. This is not about a test failure; it is about a country not being able to manage and keep up their weapons. It has been my impression for over a decade that Russia's weapons are in such poor shape they are not nearly as functional as they want outsiders to believe. Every fight they have been in recently has demonstrated this to some extent or another.
Its not that theyre in such bad shape that its comedic. Its by comparison to the US., its comedic. But that holds true for pretty much everyone due to how authoritarian and militaristic the US has become with International policy... or, i guess as a whole. And BTW, this is not something to tout or be proud of. This is a worst case scenario and nightmare beyond Orwells worst.
Russia is proving that not only are they not the second best military in the world, or the second best military in Ukraine, they are only the second best military in Russia. If that.
As far as I know, there are 2 in Russia. It would be difficult to come in 3rd. But it's difficult to run a war so terribly. I guess Putin got a legacy after all, since this will be a case study forever.
@@kensmith5694 Hm, I wasn't thinking about mercenaries as separate. You're right. I don't know much about their new agreement, so it's hard to form an opinion on whether Wagner is currently mercenary.
@Maja-Danmark Yes indeed, but I prefer boring times. There's less blood shed. Edit: Though I think it could be argued that all of human history has been interesting times.
This is a good oops, unless you're Putin. He doesn't have nukes that can aim or fire. If he had plans to use those, too bad for him. The world is a little safer.
An 80% failure rate. Somehow I'm not surprised. After all, Russia ran out of tires for their trucks and military vehicles early in the attack on Ukraine. They resorted to using old tires from their graveyard of old military vehicles from the 60s. Which were degraded and the wrong sizes.
A nuclear weapon needs multiple nuclear primer explosives to provide multiple stages of 'step up' neutron explosions of ramping intensity to ultimately make the uranium and plutonium inside explode. The starting nuclear fuel is usually tritium, which has a half-life of 12 years. That means if a nuclear weapon is left to sit untouched, after 12 years the bomb will only have half the material for its starting explosion, and would most likely fail going into full detonation, and every 2 years almost 10% more of that starter explosive has decayed away. If Russia hasn't been actively refining more nuclear fuel and having technicians constantly top off all their warheads like us, most of their Soviet-era nukes have likely all gone to garbage.
@@wobblegong Two big caveats on this: 1) Tritium is only the fuel for _fusion_ weapons. Those include the largest nukes ever tested such as the US' Castle Bravo and Russia's Tsar Bomba, but they have never been used in actual combat. The two that were dropped on Japan were both fission devices using Uranium and Plutonium as their fuel source, with conventional explosives to initiate the reaction (ie: compress the fuel sufficiently to achieve critical mass and trigger the chain reaction). The maintenance concerns there are not so much the nuclear material (Pl-239's half-life is like 24 thousand years and U-235 is in the hundreds of millions). The biggest problems with aging fission weapons are more commonplace issues like oxidation (aka: corrosion/rust) damaging surfaces and electrical contacts, reducing structural integrity, etc - the same kind of problems they've been constantly demonstrating with their non-nuclear arsenal during their "special" military operation. Plus, it is unlikely Russia would jump straight from conventional weapons to multi-megaton strategic nukes anyway - if they do decide to go nuclear they will likely start out with devices in the range of hundreds to thousands of tons (so-called "tactical" weapons) in order to minimize international ire and the risk of the west responding in kind, and those smaller devices are almost exclusively fission weapons. 2) Tritium is also reasonably easy to manufacture. You just need to bombard Lithium with some neutrons, and they have functioning neutron production facilities. Whether they would have actually done so given the maintenance failures and straight up corruption that we've seen with their conventional equipment is anyone's guess, but they certainly _could_ have.
@@jpoeng Well old chap, we may let you ungrateful young colonialists off this once, just so long as you don’t let the covfefe drinking criminal narcissist anywhere near them! 👍🤔🤣😄
@@mrpepperidgefarms Interesting for a song lyric. I think this could create room for US nuclear arms reduction without worrying if adversarial powers join in. The CCP only have hundreds of working nuclear detonators, and our conventional arms would be enough to cripple Moscow even if they went full tilt on the rads.
Hi Belle. Mr Beau made a Great Decision on Marrying Mrs Beau. We are all thankful for your His wise decision. You Guys are My Power Couple. Take Care in your weather coming.
@@grmpEqweer*A Ukraine who has been given nearly unlimited funds and advanced weapons from the U.S. A U.S. who has also ended multiple peace negotiations between the two.
My Dear Miss Belle, did you know that the phrase "May you live in interesting times." is one of the most vehement curses of the ancient Chinese? Anyway I consistently recommend this site as the number one place to have the BS blown off the news in order to discover what it's actually made of. As time has gone by I've recognized the amount you added to the team from back when Beau was the face of the channel. I also detected your fear on your first few episodes. You hung in there and made sure we got the quality we were used to, despite your fear. Your bravery came through and I wish to say Thank You Ma'am, Semper Fidelis.
Russia, and the Soviet Union before, has experienced these kinds of failures in nearly every thing they attempt. Must be why they are so fascinating to Donald Trump.
I think there are Putin doubles. We may see Putin suddenly looking different and deciding that the Ukraine special operation was a total success and it is time to pull the troops back out in a orderly manner.
Remember this about nukes, people: the nuclear fuel, the actual warhead - it degrades. The nuclear reactions that go into making it a bomb are _always_ ongoing, and what keeps it from going... well, nuclear is dampeners that are set up to absorb the excess chain reaction and keep it from going supercritical (that's the actual term - it is simply faster to just say "critical") and thus detonating. It has to be monitored, and more importantly, it has to be changed if the nuke is to function as intended. Now, remember this about Russia: they have always been corrupt AF. This failure undoubtedly resulted from who knows how many levels of corruption, so frankly, it would have been a real act of God if it actually worked as intended. Now, take these two facts, add in how their "three-day special military operation" in Ukraine has been going on for nearly three years at this point, and what do they lead to? The very real possibility, maybe even likelihood, that Russia no longer has any functional nukes - or at the very least, not enough to pose any real threat to the rest of the world. Granted, there has to be at least _one_ nuke that will still work as intended, but which one? Could we know? Could the Russians know? Is its location even known? For all we know, Russia is no longer a nuclear power, and they are merely continuing the saber rattling so that no one (and quite possibly not even they themselves) find out - and that, by their rhetoric, appears to be the goal of both Russia and the Republicans. Keep this in mind along with whatever your main issue(s) is/are as you cast your ballot.
IIRC, you have to replace the radioactive material (Thallium?) after a certain number of years. They don't have a facility that we know of to produce more thallium.
Uhhhh ..... no. The "dampeners" have nothing to do with criticality. The weapon can not will not go critical without a critical series of events occurring perfectly. I spent 22 years working with nukes. But everything else you said was spot on - except - even if only 10% of their Nukes work, it is still going to be a bad day.
How many nuclear physicists left Russia when the Soviet Union collapsed? How many nuclear mechanics followed them? Does Russia even have the manpower/brain trust to maintain a nuclear option?
@Thomas.... I remember reading about one of the main people dying and a couple leaving and thinking "Who do they have left?" This was in the early 90's when I had the leisure to read journals. I think you're right. What with the lack of brain power, manpower, and materials, I doubt any of them have had proper maintenance for several decades.
This answers a question I've been asking since Putin invaded. If the Russian personnel are as poorly trained and equipped, and managed as has been reported.Ans if their equipment is as poor shape as their submarine fleet, what kind of shape is their nuclear arsenal in? Russian has always had a history of corruption, theft, sabotage, underfunding, and outright neglect. This answers my question. A Russian nuclear missile launch would be Russian roulette with a fully loaded gun.
All true, but there's an alarming implication of that. If the thieving oligarchs have sold the lubricants, the fuel, the welding gear, the bolts, the welding rods, the aircraft parts, the truck engines, the ammunition, the rations, the new tyres and so on and so forth overseas for personal gain, what have they done with the fissile material?
I remember a very non-James Bond movie where the spy got out by giving someone else the car and crossing on foot. The Russians were expecting him in the car and when the car showed up at the crossing, he went to the pedestrian border control check station. Their was a lot of trouble over on the road and nobody even looked at him while they stamped his papers.
@@victoriajohnson-parratt6975 Yes, get down on the floor facing away from the windows and sit with your back to the windows and all that stuff. I remember some advice like the big city is that direction and they can likely aim well enough so get to the other side of the hill. Today I question that the aim would be good enough.
@kensmith5694 Check out "The Century of Humiliation" for China. (1800's) China has always had a desire to reclaim the Sea of Japan from Russia and conquer the Korean peninsula. China would also like to access the resources of the Arctic Circle.
Whats really embarassing is it seems our intelligence services that we have paid trillions into over the last 60 years had no clue. That or they have been lying to us and we were too dumb to notice.
The Soviets were a different crew . If they had not stolen the A bomb design they could've made their own by the mid 1950s they did have some world class physicists. The best Soviet scientists came from Ukraine.
The original SARMAT (Saran) mission was designed and built in UKRAINE. so was almost all of the Soviet aircraft carrier fleet. And the largest Soviet aircraft (by Antonov of Kyiv). The biggest tank factory was in Kharkiv. What is the difference between Russia and Ukraine. Paved roads. And brainpower. What does Russia produce? Toilet paper, since the 1970s.
From what I understand it was the rocket engine that was built in Ukraine, and apparently Putin had the facility that made them destroyed in one of his many ordered missile strikes.
well, if they tend to blow up in the silo, then Putin was telling the truth when he said, our missile defense systems aren't quick enough to intercept them. hard to intercept something in between ignition and immediate catastrophic self disassembly.
It's really important to remember that they got into space before we did. Their legacy rocket systems are of outstanding reliability. They have not had a launch failure with their space program since around the time of Apollo.
@@Jay-ho9ioah it was Ukrainian man who led Soviet space program while the Russians held his parents hostage and threatened them. That was in Soviet Union days. We want Ukrainians on our side, they are really intelligent! Putin remembers the glory days when he had the Ukrainians captive. He wants them back!
@@Jay-ho9io Getting there is one thing, being able to stay there and not have a Nedelin disaster (which happened after Sputnik BTW) is more important. They did amazing things in the past, can they still do them? There’s a new moon crater where a Russian probe was supposed to land that says no.
Or something that failed to launch exploded in Russia. Libby is very astute and very accurate. She listens to your channel, too, in fact she promotes you to her viewers.
I appreciate when you bring us commentary on things corporate media doesn’t cover in these “interesting times”! Much gratitude to Belle and the Team! 💙
It's not that weird. Take a stroll down the history of nuclear near catastrophes some time if you ever want to be terrified into immediate support for global disarmament.
There are lots more nickels you don’t know about just like there were several RBMK reactor failures before The One That Got Away (from the coverup) in 1986.
Shhhh! Don't anyone tell the Russians it really IS rocket science.
Well they were the first to get a man into space (Yuri Gagarin) but I guess you just can't get the staff these days!
@@margaretnicol3423 When they stopped being communist, they also stopped being able to get things done. 😂
@@tarvoc746 Such is the curse of rampant capitalism!
@margaretnicol3423
Well, the OG Nazis are quite hard to come by these days.
@@tarvoc746
They didn't get anything done before Operation Osoaviakhim either.
What loss of 2,500 nazi scientists will do to a backwater.
Sorry, Belle, but I've had enough "interesting" times in my fifty-seven years on this planet; I'm ready for some nice, easy, peaceful, boring times for a few decades.
The mid 90s were probably it for our generation.
Even a few years would be nice.
Stop feeling sorry for yourself
I'm older than you. Look for the good people, for the helpers and accept that jerks have been around since snakes. ☮️🙂🇺🇸
I hate to tell you this, but the next 20 years are going to make these interesting times look like a lovely tea party.
I don't want to live interesting times anymore. I'm exhausted.
Switch off all screens and go for a walk in a park or a trail for a couple of hours just to clear your head for a while. Nature helps. 🥰
Same
Bring on boring. Bring back no drama.
Interesting times are good. You are mistaking it for disappointing times. This news is uplifting, seeing bad guys fail.
@@margaretnicol3423 or go buy a motorcycle, learn to ride it (safely) then get out and go to interesting places on it. 😄
80% failure rate is devastating for Russia. Slava Ukrani!
Yes and the buzz is Russia doesn’t have the engineers or knowledge to be successful on their own. Russia produces nothing but oil and gas. They create nothing. All the intelligence is in Ukraine. Look what they are doing with drones. 🇺🇦
Leftists before 2022: f**k all europeans including slavs
Leftists now: Slava Ukraini!
Very funny...
Heroyam Slava! 👊
4 of 5 missiles failed launch. Not a good record.
@@ninemoonplanet Especially not when russian propagandists are working overtime to threaten the EU, UK, and the US with nukes if they don't meekly hand over Ukraine.
nukes and opps should never be in the same title or sentence
Literally my thought exactly 🤣🤣🤣
Yes, too scary to associate these
Oops! All Nukes
... but it rhymes - given the times - it could have been gadzooks!!
Castle bravo, anyone?
I'm so glad someone is finding the time to post non-trump news of import!
There's plenty on the internet.
Seriously.
I'm still all in for continuing aid & resources to Ukraine in resistance of the foreign policy conflicts & failures of Russia 💛💙
better equipment to Ukraine than troops to Poland
@donaldrambo5150 100% in agreement Don ! Have a good night, my friend 🤞. Hoot🦉Hoot🦉 Hoot🦉 !
It's cheaper than the alternative.
@@tombrown4683🦉Hoot🦉Hoot🦉Hoot🦉 to you, my friend Tom! Good night! 🐑🥱💤😴😊🌌✨⚘
Howdy Donald.
If you havent watched it.
Watch Bidens speech to the UN. I saw the edited parts of it on Lawrence ODonnel.
That might be the best speech I have seen him do.
Russian nukes are scary, not for what they're designed to do, but for their totally unpredictable malfunctions 😅
Folks can expect the U.S. military and strategic assets to follow the SAME trajectory as Russia if we re-elect trump. He will bring about the kleptocratic oligarchy the rich have had wet dreams about for years...
True, true, he'll ruin the country and destroy its military effectiveness, but he'll make it okay to barge into the changing rooms at teen beauty pageants, and that's what _really_ matters to his supporters.
The only thing that saved the US in the 2016-2020 time frame really was that Trump is extremely lazy.
@@kensmith5694- And there were enough experienced people remaining to rein him in. He plans to fire all those people and hire loyal worshippers who'll do whatever he demands.
The fact that this was an attempt to intimidate makes it all the more delicious!
The flight time is *REDACTED*
Flight time from silo to explosion: 0 seconds.
Putins advanced retrograde hypersonic missile system. 100% success rate in animation.
@@blairhaffly1777 80% success rate in destroying silos!
The operation was a success but the detonation was a tad early.
This is part of the reason I do not take Putin's threats very seriously. This is not about a test failure; it is about a country not being able to manage and keep up their weapons. It has been my impression for over a decade that Russia's weapons are in such poor shape they are not nearly as functional as they want outsiders to believe. Every fight they have been in recently has demonstrated this to some extent or another.
But he has an animation video of his hypersonic missile performing perfectly.
@@blairhaffly1777 *chuckles*, just like Trump's "perfect" phone calls.
Which is why China is supplying weapons to them.
Its not that theyre in such bad shape that its comedic. Its by comparison to the US., its comedic.
But that holds true for pretty much everyone due to how authoritarian and militaristic the US has become with International policy... or, i guess as a whole.
And BTW, this is not something to tout or be proud of.
This is a worst case scenario and nightmare beyond Orwells worst.
Russia be corrupt and can't even field a decent army not worried about daddy vladdys pop guns
"Hello Tech support...Have you tried turning it off and on again..."
"Did you unplug it and plug it back in?"
"Unable to. On/Off switch melted hunk of plastic"
@@jpage6875 LOL 😂🤣 !
Do you have the warranty information?
Hope they get the same call center I get, lol. Make, model, serial number, and date of purchase. Oh, and do you have the receipt? 😂😂😂
Rattling sabers with broken scabards and stymied by a smaller country. Not a good look for a “major player.” Swan Lake, anyone?
Not yet, maybe soon, but not yet :(
🤞
Russia is proving that not only are they not the second best military in the world, or the second best military in Ukraine, they are only the second best military in Russia. If that.
As far as I know, there are 2 in Russia. It would be difficult to come in 3rd. But it's difficult to run a war so terribly. I guess Putin got a legacy after all, since this will be a case study forever.
@@yesitschelle Wagner?
@@kensmith5694 Hm, I wasn't thinking about mercenaries as separate. You're right. I don't know much about their new agreement, so it's hard to form an opinion on whether Wagner is currently mercenary.
Three words I never want to see used together, Russia, nukes, oops.
Interesting times
@Maja-Danmark Yes indeed, but I prefer boring times. There's less blood shed.
Edit: Though I think it could be argued that all of human history has been interesting times.
This is a good oops, unless you're Putin. He doesn't have nukes that can aim or fire. If he had plans to use those, too bad for him. The world is a little safer.
I still prefer that to seeing only the first two used together, given the current situation over there.
@@altrag yeah, it's the oops word that is scary.
Vlad's missile had a premature immolation.
Without even getting it up!
Ohhh my! 🤭 lol
😂😂😂😂
An 80% failure rate. Somehow I'm not surprised. After all, Russia ran out of tires for their trucks and military vehicles early in the attack on Ukraine. They resorted to using old tires from their graveyard of old military vehicles from the 60s. Which were degraded and the wrong sizes.
They just started using the vehicles also.
Lots of that stuff is missing from satelitte photos of the bases.
A nuclear weapon needs multiple nuclear primer explosives to provide multiple stages of 'step up' neutron explosions of ramping intensity to ultimately make the uranium and plutonium inside explode. The starting nuclear fuel is usually tritium, which has a half-life of 12 years. That means if a nuclear weapon is left to sit untouched, after 12 years the bomb will only have half the material for its starting explosion, and would most likely fail going into full detonation, and every 2 years almost 10% more of that starter explosive has decayed away.
If Russia hasn't been actively refining more nuclear fuel and having technicians constantly top off all their warheads like us, most of their Soviet-era nukes have likely all gone to garbage.
If 20% works as foreseen, that is scary enough.
@@wobblegong Two big caveats on this:
1) Tritium is only the fuel for _fusion_ weapons. Those include the largest nukes ever tested such as the US' Castle Bravo and Russia's Tsar Bomba, but they have never been used in actual combat. The two that were dropped on Japan were both fission devices using Uranium and Plutonium as their fuel source, with conventional explosives to initiate the reaction (ie: compress the fuel sufficiently to achieve critical mass and trigger the chain reaction).
The maintenance concerns there are not so much the nuclear material (Pl-239's half-life is like 24 thousand years and U-235 is in the hundreds of millions). The biggest problems with aging fission weapons are more commonplace issues like oxidation (aka: corrosion/rust) damaging surfaces and electrical contacts, reducing structural integrity, etc - the same kind of problems they've been constantly demonstrating with their non-nuclear arsenal during their "special" military operation.
Plus, it is unlikely Russia would jump straight from conventional weapons to multi-megaton strategic nukes anyway - if they do decide to go nuclear they will likely start out with devices in the range of hundreds to thousands of tons (so-called "tactical" weapons) in order to minimize international ire and the risk of the west responding in kind, and those smaller devices are almost exclusively fission weapons.
2) Tritium is also reasonably easy to manufacture. You just need to bombard Lithium with some neutrons, and they have functioning neutron production facilities. Whether they would have actually done so given the maintenance failures and straight up corruption that we've seen with their conventional equipment is anyone's guess, but they certainly _could_ have.
It’s a concept of a missle 🤷🏻♀️
😄😂😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😆😆😉😉😉😉
Support and defend Ukraine!
A giant oopsie. Yet another good look for Russia.
Thanks Belle - just for the record, I'm kind of over living in interesting times.
Amen to that!!
Which is why that is considered a curse. I was kind of surprised she used it.
Well, my life has been 'interesting ' since about 2012 and 'dull & boring ' holds immense appeal right about now.
The Navy tested a lot of D5 missiles while I was at Lockheed. 100% success rate.
You Americans are very good at making and using weapons, Russia.... not so much
@@Eldritch-1But they do have universal healthcare… 😆😆
Yeah, well, the American Trident missiles that were sold to the British have turned out a few duds.
@@mrb.5610 Obviously we can’t give the good ones to tea-drinking monarchists… 🙄
@@jpoeng Well old chap, we may let you ungrateful young colonialists off this once, just so long as you don’t let the covfefe drinking criminal narcissist anywhere near them! 👍🤔🤣😄
You know a country has sunk low when they have to resort to DPRK level nuclear theatrics.
Jeux sans frontières.....
It's a Knockout.....
If looks could kill they probably will
In games without frontiers, war without tears ......
But it's like high school drama level theatrics...
@@Eldritch-1 Hey, with the DPRK it's grade school theatrics.
@@mrpepperidgefarms Interesting for a song lyric. I think this could create room for US nuclear arms reduction without worrying if adversarial powers join in. The CCP only have hundreds of working nuclear detonators, and our conventional arms would be enough to cripple Moscow even if they went full tilt on the rads.
@@johnsteiner3417
I always thought so.....
I always kinda had that take away
I'm tired of living in interesting times. Can times be boring for a while? Or at least less weird?
Ikr? At this point I don't think anything would surprise me. Shock or horrify me? Easily. But surprise? Doubt it highly.
Been happening for years. Nyonoksa wasn’t yesterday
Haha,true, boring is the best times
China is fascinated by the wonderful trove of resources in Siberia.
The resources are looking more and more accessible by the day.
Ding ding ding, you got the bullseye prize.
China just needs to hold out till Russia needs to have a garage sale to be able to pay their light bill.
The Chinese are already there according to the locals
@@Maja-Danmark China has people just about everywhere it's kind of their thing.
Without immediate global warming
Howdy folks! I hope everyone has had a great day! 👋 ✌️
Stay safe, Belle, Beau, and family during the storm and anyone else in the path!
Hi Ross! I hope you're having a lovely evening after having a wonderful day!
The sun is up. The breeze is gentle. I turned off the news.
Belle... OMG... you went there... and I'm here for it... "May you live in interesting times" indeed... Brilliant!
That saying is considered a curse for good reason.
@@littlebitofhope1489... yup!
@@lylejanney5788 Chinese Curse
@@nilo70... yup... I've made the same reference often myself. Thanks!
@@nilo70Actually not. It's one of these misrepresentations that are wide spread, because it kinda sounds interesting. 😉
At this point I have more confidence in ACME products than anything made in Ruzzia ...
Side note" ACME products either worked too well or failed totally ,both causing the same end results
The out sourced to the Wile E. Coyote military group
Nukes and oops are a very bad combination 🙀
Good evening Belle 👋🏻💙. I voted today 💙💙💙🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸.
My ballot is on the way soon! 💙💙💙
What state?
@@AZsunflower Before the real answer arrives, I will suggest that is the state of optimism.
Hi Belle. Mr Beau made a Great Decision on Marrying Mrs Beau.
We are all thankful for your His wise decision.
You Guys are My Power Couple.
Take Care in your weather coming.
Are you sure she isn't his daughter?
@@kensmith5694 Yes. She's married to him.
I mean according to Russia, they're so badass they can beat NATO easily so I don't see why they need nukes for the battlefield.
...They can't even beat Ukraine.
@@grmpEqweer*A Ukraine who has been given nearly unlimited funds and advanced weapons from the U.S.
A U.S. who has also ended multiple peace negotiations between the two.
In all fairness NATO should not exist.
@@JimBob-jr5up Keep lying to yourself. It will help you cope better.
@@HR_8035_YEA What did i say that was a lie?
And who's coping?
Im not coping well at all with a full blown fascist America.
My Dear Miss Belle, did you know that the phrase "May you live in interesting times." is one of the most vehement curses of the ancient Chinese? Anyway I consistently recommend this site as the number one place to have the BS blown off the news in order to discover what it's actually made of. As time has gone by I've recognized the amount you added to the team from back when Beau was the face of the channel. I also detected your fear on your first few episodes. You hung in there and made sure we got the quality we were used to, despite your fear. Your bravery came through and I wish to say Thank You Ma'am, Semper Fidelis.
Russia, and the Soviet Union before, has experienced these kinds of failures in nearly every thing they attempt. Must be why they are so fascinating to Donald Trump.
Love that😂 very good chuckle!
Run by Trump University graduates?
Soulmates.
He said that Russia is strong because they beat the not sees and Napoleon. 🙄
@@timothyball3144 it would be interesting to speculate what would have happened in both cases without the Russian winters.
Thank you for making these "interesting times" more comprehensible and explicable for us, Ms. Belle!
I don't know... I'd rather live in boring times to be fair
when I heard you say "crater" I immediately, involuntarily face-palmed. oh my lord.
Yeah it's pretty bad.
I'm dome with the curse of living in interesting times. Can we live in boring times, and have the interesting stuff in our fiction?
Stay safe in the hurricane!
I'm really looking forward to the upcoming broadcast of Swan Lake.
I think there are Putin doubles. We may see Putin suddenly looking different and deciding that the Ukraine special operation was a total success and it is time to pull the troops back out in a orderly manner.
Major props for referencing THREADS. Most terrifying film I’ve ever seen.
I never saw Threads. I did see Testament, done around the same time. I had nightmares for a week.
@@cherylb6755I bawl at the end of Testament.
Similar for _The Day After_ (1983). Notably, it was also aired on Soviet television.
Really? It aired in the USSR? I never knew that.
We talkin bout that fresh hole in the ground in russia? whoa..chinese curse at the end..lol
Yeah, that was a special touch :)
Remember this about nukes, people: the nuclear fuel, the actual warhead - it degrades. The nuclear reactions that go into making it a bomb are _always_ ongoing, and what keeps it from going... well, nuclear is dampeners that are set up to absorb the excess chain reaction and keep it from going supercritical (that's the actual term - it is simply faster to just say "critical") and thus detonating. It has to be monitored, and more importantly, it has to be changed if the nuke is to function as intended.
Now, remember this about Russia: they have always been corrupt AF. This failure undoubtedly resulted from who knows how many levels of corruption, so frankly, it would have been a real act of God if it actually worked as intended.
Now, take these two facts, add in how their "three-day special military operation" in Ukraine has been going on for nearly three years at this point, and what do they lead to? The very real possibility, maybe even likelihood, that Russia no longer has any functional nukes - or at the very least, not enough to pose any real threat to the rest of the world. Granted, there has to be at least _one_ nuke that will still work as intended, but which one? Could we know? Could the Russians know? Is its location even known?
For all we know, Russia is no longer a nuclear power, and they are merely continuing the saber rattling so that no one (and quite possibly not even they themselves) find out - and that, by their rhetoric, appears to be the goal of both Russia and the Republicans. Keep this in mind along with whatever your main issue(s) is/are as you cast your ballot.
IIRC, you have to replace the radioactive material (Thallium?) after a certain number of years.
They don't have a facility that we know of to produce more thallium.
Which nuke will work? Wow, gives Russian roulette new meaning.
Uhhhh ..... no. The "dampeners" have nothing to do with criticality. The weapon can not will not go critical without a critical series of events occurring perfectly.
I spent 22 years working with nukes.
But everything else you said was spot on - except - even if only 10% of their Nukes work, it is still going to be a bad day.
How many nuclear physicists left Russia when the Soviet Union collapsed?
How many nuclear mechanics followed them?
Does Russia even have the manpower/brain trust to maintain a nuclear option?
@Thomas....
I remember reading about one of the main people dying and a couple leaving and thinking "Who do they have left?" This was in the early 90's when I had the leisure to read journals. I think you're right. What with the lack of brain power, manpower, and materials, I doubt any of them have had proper maintenance for several decades.
Thank you Belle
"Russia, nukes and Oops." Interesting times indeed.
This answers a question I've been asking since Putin invaded. If the Russian personnel are as poorly trained and equipped, and managed as has been reported.Ans if their equipment is as poor shape as their submarine fleet, what kind of shape is their nuclear arsenal in? Russian has always had a history of corruption, theft, sabotage, underfunding, and outright neglect. This answers my question. A Russian nuclear missile launch would be Russian roulette with a fully loaded gun.
That was my thought. Their nuclear weapons can't be operational either or as you said Russian roulette. Interesting
All true, but there's an alarming implication of that.
If the thieving oligarchs have sold the lubricants, the fuel, the welding gear, the bolts, the welding rods, the aircraft parts, the truck engines, the ammunition, the rations, the new tyres and so on and so forth overseas for personal gain, what have they done with the fissile material?
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Dang again, must be my insane impulse to hear you at the end of the day… thank goodness for you and the Fifth!! Xoooo
Poor Belle! She’s talking and we’re all just saying hi! 🤣😊
😂 We love you, Belle! We promise we're listening! We're multitasking 😉❤
@@TammeraFreno true that!
@@TammeraFreno I just listen from the beginning again if I've missed a minute or two. She can get a lot into a minute! 😏
I have been known to listen multiple times so I don't miss anything :-)
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So James Bond sneaked in and twisted some wires then left the country dressed as a 'volunteer'?
Nah. Perun did a video a couple of years ago about "Vranyo." There's a culture of lying in the Russian military and foreign agencies.
@@grmpEqweer Not only in the military. The entire society is clouded in it
I remember a very non-James Bond movie where the spy got out by giving someone else the car and crossing on foot. The Russians were expecting him in the car and when the car showed up at the crossing, he went to the pedestrian border control check station. Their was a lot of trouble over on the road and nobody even looked at him while they stamped his papers.
"Has a flight time of 3 minutes, twenty seconds" with an unspoken, 'give or take twenty years for proper development.'
How humiliating
This is news Im glad to hear. Thank you again Belle!! Yall stay safe.
Duds, just like everything Russian.
Including the orange cheeto.
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Good Wednesday afternoon s-c! I hope your day is going well!
@@victoriajohnson-parratt6975 Thanks Victoria! Hope your night is splendid!
Whenever it is wherever you are, I hope it's a good time for you!
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Failure to Launch
Thank you, Belle and crew. Interesting times indeed. This should be getting more coverage.
Wow. Thank you for this thought process, Belle 🎉❤💙
Wow, guess what? If you are corrupt and ignore maintenance on your resources, they deteriorate. Imagine that.
Slava Ukraini!
In leaked footage from the test site moments before launch, Bugs Bunny can be seen sticking a carrot in the silo
😂😂 😂 what’s up , Doc? Nothing!
Freud would have a great time with this one
Thanks, Belle and team. I learned stuff.
Maga delenda est.
I like learning stuff Jay!
Thanks, Belle. That certainly was... interesting. : /
As a Cold War kid, my fear is that China will own Eastern Russia in my lifetime. Since Russia can't defend it, it will make more sense to trade it.
Good evening Dean! I grew up with duck and cover drills too! They were as useless then as they would be now.
China wants to rule the world... not a smoking cinder. They win economically no need for military force the west is addicted to their cheap junk.
I don't fear China taking over that area of Russia. Neither nation can do much with it. It is other adventures by China that could be trouble.
@@victoriajohnson-parratt6975 Yes, get down on the floor facing away from the windows and sit with your back to the windows and all that stuff. I remember some advice like the big city is that direction and they can likely aim well enough so get to the other side of the hill. Today I question that the aim would be good enough.
@kensmith5694 Check out "The Century of Humiliation" for China. (1800's) China has always had a desire to reclaim the Sea of Japan from Russia and conquer the Korean peninsula. China would also like to access the resources of the Arctic Circle.
It's really funny that Russia is such a clown show but also embarrassing that we ever feared or respected them.
Look what they got us to spend on weapons, tho. The military we boast is why we can't get people off the streets.
Whats really embarassing is it seems our intelligence services that we have paid trillions into over the last 60 years had no clue.
That or they have been lying to us and we were too dumb to notice.
The Soviets were a different crew . If they had not stolen the A bomb design they could've made their own by the mid 1950s they did have some world class physicists.
The best Soviet scientists came from Ukraine.
It's not a saying it's a curse
The original SARMAT (Saran) mission was designed and built in UKRAINE. so was almost all of the Soviet aircraft carrier fleet. And the largest Soviet aircraft (by Antonov of Kyiv). The biggest tank factory was in Kharkiv. What is the difference between Russia and Ukraine. Paved roads. And brainpower. What does Russia produce? Toilet paper, since the 1970s.
From what I understand it was the rocket engine that was built in Ukraine, and apparently Putin had the facility that made them destroyed in one of his many ordered missile strikes.
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well, if they tend to blow up in the silo, then Putin was telling the truth when he said, our missile defense systems aren't quick enough to intercept them. hard to intercept something in between ignition and immediate catastrophic self disassembly.
"The Day After" will always live in my memory
as I grew up in the Fulda Gap
And the test punctured the threat rather than punctuating it.
If this is how Russia's newest most advanced ICBM performs, imagine how their 60 year old ones will fly. Failure to launch.
It's really important to remember that they got into space before we did. Their legacy rocket systems are of outstanding reliability. They have not had a launch failure with their space program since around the time of Apollo.
😂😂😂 yeah!
@@Jay-ho9ioah it was Ukrainian man who led Soviet space program while the Russians held his parents hostage and threatened them. That was in Soviet Union days. We want Ukrainians on our side, they are really intelligent! Putin remembers the glory days when he had the Ukrainians captive. He wants them back!
@@Jay-ho9io Getting there is one thing, being able to stay there and not have a Nedelin disaster (which happened after Sputnik BTW) is more important. They did amazing things in the past, can they still do them? There’s a new moon crater where a Russian probe was supposed to land that says no.
@@Jay-ho9iothey have launch failures all the time. Obviously getting it up is a problem...
"May you live in interesting times"
Is that a blessing or a curse?
Hoot 🦉
Hoot 😄!
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Hoooot🪷🌙🦉💕✨️ back atcha!
Good evening friend Tom! I hope you had a great day and are settling in for a wonderful night!
That film "Threads" was probably the scariest thing I ever saw on TV. Strange to hear it referenced 40 years later.
Its imagery still lives in my head. 😢
Or something that failed to launch exploded in Russia. Libby is very astute and very accurate. She listens to your channel, too, in fact she promotes you to her viewers.
I've been wondering lately if Swan Lake will be preformed soon.
I so want to hear it!!!
I love this for them
Excellent update
Have a great day Belle
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Howdy Pilgrim! Have a wonderful evening!
This interesting to say the least! By the way when you work on the bomb squad the one word you never want to hear is, "Oops"!
Lil' Rocket Man might be getting some ideas right now!
Wow. I always get so much understanding here. I'm grateful for your videos and you.
Excellent synopsis
I appreciate when you bring us commentary on things corporate media doesn’t cover in these “interesting times”! Much gratitude to Belle and the Team! 💙
This is the international poker game (where everyone is cheating) equivalent of that time Kim Kardashian played with mirrored sunglasses
Thank you Belle and Team, appreciate your analysis.
An educated guess would put the Russian fizzle rate at over 80%. If they can get a weapon to a target, it's gonna fizzle.
Love you Belle, hope you and family stay safe.
I say. "Just NOT THIS interesting."
"Russia, nukes, and oops." That title was NOT good for my heart! 😂
I've said that their nukes are like their tanks. Ex-B52 nuke bomb loader.
Old, rusty and ground bound?
Thanks, Belle and crew 😊.
Belle, I always heard that saying was an ancient Chinese curse.
It is. Although it is not certain it is Chinese.
I heard that too Tom.
@victoriajohnson-parratt6975 Good evening to you Victoria. Have a good night's sleep & dreams that are sweet 🫂🤩⚘️.
Hoot 🦉Hoot🦉 !
... or be careful what you wish for!
It is.
Apparently, the flight time of the Sarmat missle to ANYWHERE is 0 minutes and 0 seconds. Yikes
If I had a nickle for every time Russia had a nuclear *"uh oh"*
I'd have 2 nickles
Which isn't a lot ,But is *weird* it's happened more than once
It's not that weird. Take a stroll down the history of nuclear near catastrophes some time if you ever want to be terrified into immediate support for global disarmament.
There are lots more nickels you don’t know about just like there were several RBMK reactor failures before The One That Got Away (from the coverup) in 1986.
Look up the demon core