My wife and her family are Russian and i can tell you they are embarrassed and ashamed that The Great Bear seeks help from a man like Kim,Putin is bringing Russia down with his stupidity.
I was involved with a beautiful Russian woman from St Petersburg many years ago and learned a good bit about Russia. The first thing: Russia isn't a bear.
The only places on a rail line that take time to replace are bridges and tunnels. Locomotives are good targets too but are easily removed when damaged. A rail road is dirt with layer of rock ballast and sleepers floating on top with rails attached. Rail segments and points can be replaced rapidly unfortunately so ideal is hitting fuel or ammo train on bridge or in tunnel. Like Ukraine did on kerch bridge. That damage has not been repaired and can't be so only light trains can use the bridge. It's difficult to get saboteurs that far into Muscovy though Ukraine did it once in far east.
A long train ride to nowhere. Imagine being a DPRK grunt on that train. You'd be like a death-row convict on his last day, but I doubt there's any big last meal. And instead of watching a clock tick away your last seconds, you watch the landscape go by from a window knowing you're approaching Ukraine...
Drop anything with sugar in it One north Korean soldier got to taste a choco pie and at that moment he knew he had to escape to the south Fella took six or so bullets driving/running across the DMZ ...it's all on film somewhere As a bonus the makers of choco pie gave him a lifetime's supply
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 Kim Jong-un holds security meeting to discuss military response to South Korean drone infiltration. (South sent drones into North korea and dropped leaflets over Pyongyang.....would be better dropping Choco-pies IMHO but just shows....Drones beat Artillary just as scissors cut paper).
South Korea has been doing this for quite awhile -- the NK's retaliated by sending balloons &/or drones carrying bags of feces to the SK side of the border. However, either the 'irritation campaign' has struck a nerve by actually inducing someone IMPORTANT to bolt for the nearest border that will get them out of reach of Kim's assassination squads, or the overgrown & overfed brat is just feeling like he's not getting enough attention while Israel/Iran & Ukraine/Russia are getting all the media spotlights. The generals need to up his meds and lock him in with his slave harem (sorry, girls, would pull a James Bond and get you out, but I'm just an aging USN vet who on good days feels like I'm 36, and on bad days feels alot older than I really am). So, now the NKs have gone completely batsh*t, destroyed roads to/across the border, destroyed all lights on their side of the border... and recently put it in whatever passes as their BS 'constitution' (ironic, for a multi-generation dictatorship) that SK is a 'declared enemy' (like somehow nobody KNEW that). ADD in more nuclear missile-rattling by the 'babydoc' rp'er and hisses and threats from his backstairs sister, and they're getting very freaky.
With NK soldiers on the front lines bordering Ukraine, I'm guessing that a significant number might seize the opportunity to cross over and seek refugee status. Their best chance of escaping North Korea.
That is true, regardless of your view of everything else. Escaping from North Korea is incredibly difficult. It is possible that more North Korean soldiers have already escaped from NK now than the twenty or so people that escaped from North Korea last year.
The General is right in that Europe is fully developed. It has a GDP of 20 Trillion dollars. It could easily buy US weapons and give them to Ukraine. It's been 80 years now of dependence on the US. Time for Europe to step up.
You been paying attention the last 2.5 years? They have been. Not to mention Finland and Sweden joined Nato! do your homework. Canada is the joke of the alliance thanks to the coked up black faced grooming POS Crime Minister Trudirt!
Tbeyre supplying more weapons than the US. The Poles for instance have large reinforcements all a long the border. We Brits have sent extra troops to Estonia. I think you might want to do a little bit fact finding instead of living in a bubble watching US right wing propaganda that knows fuck all.
It maybe pointless to people in the West but for Russia it makes perfect sense. It destabilizes NATO, puts part of Ukrainian territory under Russian control. Politically western support for Ukraine is too little too late. Russia has scared the west enough to keep NATO troops out of Ukraine and stops Ukraine from using Western long range weapons on Russian territory.
If N. Korea is effectively attacking a European country bordering NATO they need to be made to understand that this will not be tolerated and removed from the equation.
@@barrycouda8481 Give it up.. You yanks have lost your hegmony the World sees you as a Bully boy and are turning to BRICS. Your sanctions mean nothing to them now. China has beaten you at your own game "Capitolism" its over. You lost.
I am so glad that Gen Hodges speaks about the importance of the size of the economy and ability of the EU in relation to Russia regardless of what happens in the US election and the needs for help for Ukraine .Russia is geographically huge but poor and weak in just about every other measure.
I am tired of the US being a primary tit for Ukraine. I am with Ben Hodges that Europe need to step up to the plate because Russia is in their back yard.
The US has mostly been giving Ukraine old equipment much manufactured in the 80s and 90s that needed replacing and then buying new inventory. The new inventory is mainly from US based manufacturers and has been stimulating the US economy. The old inventory would have cost money to decommission, saving the US a lot of money. The destruction of the Russian military has come at a very low price for the US and NATO. While the US has contributed a lot militarily, the Europeans have given more in humanitarian and other aid. Ukraine has paid a very high price.
General Ben Hodges was right when he said Ukraine would have to make their own long-range weapons, to defeat Russia, and I know they're not alone Poland Norway Sweden Japan South Korea or helping them financially build up their military weapons capability and industry and I know they have agreements signed with these countries Ukraine has become the master of drone warfare so all the countries that are buy them Japan and South Korea would benefit from Ukraine being able to have a manufacturing base of military weapons and hardware, now the Ukraine has its own long-range weapons I think it will be cheaper than America's long-range weapons, and do the fact it will be made if not in your Crane in a country real close to Ukraine., so Russia won't be able to hit it, it will be time to take out the trash on Russia's aggression which will leave Putin scrambling for what to do.
Absolutely agree with the first strategic point, South Korea and the U.S. will have to finally have the guts to put kim in a permanent state of dirt nap, take out this dictator who’s family has somehow been controlling over 1/3rd of Korea for several decades. South Korean leadership within the political, military and intelligence spheres really need to step up their game, kim should have been 💀 a long time ago to finally free the Korean people being help captive by this dictator in the north.
Does anybody really think NK gives a rats about losing a million or 2 soldiers? The whole concept of not allowing an ally unlimited use of weapons against any legitimate target is an absolute DISGRACE! The Yanks will say "Oh perhaps we should have" if things go horribly wrong. Ukraine is surely now in a position where they have been left no option other to just go ahead and bugger the consequences. Russia has been killing, torturing, bombing hospitals, schools and civilian targets for 2 plus years now with impunity and Ukraine is STILL not allowed to defend itself!
@@raycope2086 Judging by the propaganda vomiting from the US right wing media and poorly and informed and uninformed, and by the lkes of Donald "I'm a rapist and a traitor" Trump, is day he's on point.
It's time for Europe to step up and regulate their own neighborhood. It's been almost three years and the U.S. is still being relied on. Europeans, defend your continent!
Europeans didn’t start this war - the hidden pyscho elites from the west started this war - endless expansion of NATO eastwards , wanting to put missiles right up to the border with Russia in the never ending encirclement of Russia . Russia doesn’t have a right to own Ukraine - but it had to stay neutral to keep the peace - if it had this war and now the long dead risk of WW3 now re ignited , would never have started .
What the feck do you think we’re doing? We are doing our bit, your arms industry is making a fortune and you are getting rid of old out of date equipment and replacing it with new. Do your homework instead of listening to propaganda and by the way you set yourself up as the worlds policeman so just get on with it….
Who gives the most aid to Ukraine? Is it Europe or America? Hint: it's not America. Which NATO country is the only one to ever invoke Article 5? Hint: it's not a European one.
The US has the biggest stockpiles of old kit, and the least obvious need to keep it. Australia has just donated almost all of its Abrams M1A1s….. How many of those does the US have just parked in a desert somewhere? Most of the $ figures that the US calls “aid to Ukraine” is ending up paying for new kit from AMERICAN manufacturers, going to AMERICAN military or AMERICAN allies, while the Ukrainians get the old, outdated kit that is being replaced.
I bet he trades them form money, for himself. Same salary as for the russians. $2,000 per month, 10,000 soldiers, that's $20,000,000 a month for the little fat guy to buy exclusive cognac and new golf clubs.
Dang I wish Ben Hodges was Ma President! I would even go door to door campaigning for him. Ben Hodges has a point that many young Ukrainian men are prancing around Europe not supporting their country in the military. They could be all important drone operators, medics or technology, IT experts, etc. and for that matter, so could Ukrainian women. Not all of the military involves combat on the frontline. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦🇺🇸🇺🇦💙🩵💙🩵💙
This reason is perhaps the main reason why support is dwindling in America. Ukraine's youngest soldiers are 25 and they still refuse to lower it to 18, recall their citizens, or hold a draft. How are Americans supposed to support them if they won't support themselves. That's what it's starting to look like to us.
@@RustyShackleford-s2o Then Americans should possibly consider why Zelensky is doing this. He is thinking not just of the the present but of the future too. Zelensky, this year dropped the age from 27 to 24 for draft purposes. He wants his young people to have experienced something of living before they run the risk of dying, he wants them to complete their education so Ukraine has an educated generation to look forward to running their country if and when this horror finishes. He wants youngsters to meet, marry and breed another generation before getting killed or maimed fighting for today. He knows a nation is not just a balance sheet or a GDP but the sum product of his people and wants to ensure there is a generation to grow and emerge to ensure Ukraine can fight its way to what we in the west just take for granted - our freedoms! What is so difficult to understand or appreciate about a leader who has one eye to the future wellbeing of his country and not just the next election cycle or tax year? Whilts Tsar Putrid is busy trying to get as many of his young men killed or maimed as possible, Zelensky is doing exactly the opposite.
Perhaps I’ve missed something, but how is the loss of 6 officers, out of the 1500 troops NK has sent thus far, a staggering loss? I’m not a fan of Putin, but click bait titles do not help Ukraine’s case.
It depends. Those six officers could have been instrumental in communicating with and commanding Korean troops. How many Russians you figure speak fluent Korean?
@@davidwood2205: presumably they have access to Google translate. So maybe it’s not a huge issue. In any event, it wasn’t mentioned anywhere in the video how the loss of six officers out of 1500 or so North Koreans already there was a staggering loss. That seems like Clickbait.
Respectfully, General Hodges forgets that the majority of NATO members never met their 2% defense requirement. Trump pointed that out and finally NATO gets it. Now, for the Generals worst nightmare, Trump has a real possibility of returning to the WH. NATO needs to have a contigency plan for that.
As of July 2024 out of the thirty-two NATO allies, twenty-three now meet the 2 percent target, up from just six countries in 2021. In total, NATO countries now meet the 2 percent target, together spending 2.71 percent of their GDP on defense. Poland stands out as the biggest allocating 4.12 percent of its GDP to defense., Estonia is 3.43 % both higher than the US at 3.83%.
General Hodges didn’t forget. Trump amplified the “2% defense level”, which was never a requirement. He identified that the EU could do more, but, for all its stature, NATO does not actually have a standing military. Each country has their own. It’s a defensive alliance. Each country had a choice of how much to obligate, including the US. Our lawmakers chose to meet the obligation, but no one was twisting their arms to do so. And currently? The EU surpasses the US in overall aid to Ukraine (military and humanitarian).
The Ukraine war is not a NATO problem, or an American problem, it's a EU problem... Should the US help? I think so, but not with cold hard cash, that should be left up to the European countries on how they would like to prop up Zelensky and Ukraine. They also need to stop being so timid with Putin.
So why is it an EU problem, is Ukraine a member of the EU now? And what about all those times Ukraine helped NATO? Afghanistan, Kosovo, Iraq - Ukraine was there.
The US and Britain made promises of security if Russia ever tried to invade if Ukraine gave up their nukes when Ukraine was #3 nuclear power in the world and now are letting them down applying restrictions in favor of Russia
The vast majority of aid sent to Ukraine has not been "cold hard cash", it's been decades old obsolete artillery awaiting disposal. The US and UK are obligated by the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 when they strong armed Ukraine into giving their entire military arsenal, including their nuclear weapons, to Russia in exchange for "security guarantees."
@@Ode-to-Odysseus Lol... Nobody is trying to "create a division" between Europe and America. Maybe I should have made myself a little clearer. I do not believe, that the US, has any business giving Ukraine COLD HARD CASH!!! Weapons YES!!! And, EVERYONE NEEDS TO STOP PUSSY FOOTING AROUND WITH PUTIN!!
Just a thought. From Kim the Great's perspective, are high losses a plus, a feature and not a bug? High losses equals less mouths to feed. The army ain't doing much anyway, I am trading lives for political influence, technology, weapons and commodities. That sounds like a good trade to me ...
Exactly. He never spoke up about NATO member doing more when he was a General. Just be quiet or you will never get to a think tank or the board of Boeing.
if trump was anything but a habitual liar, we could take his words at face value. You would have a point. However, since Trump continues to lie and make things up, anything he says can not be trusted.
This is one way of making North Korea's meager food supplies go further. Exporting starved personnel to be better fed in the service of a slightly different megalomaniac.
Ukraine reported just yesterday that they have NOT encountered a single NK soldier on the battlefield and that all known NK soldiers were still in training in Russia. Any interactions with NK soldiers like the reported defections are unconfirmed rumors Anther deceptive headline, thumb down.
Correct. They are reportedly near Vladivostok in training to learn basic Russian, receive Russian unit training, and familiarize themselves with more modern Russian weapons. It could be spring by the time they could be ready except for perhaps a few battalions.
@@christopherhines2718 yeah all videos online are real check. how are they defecting when 10, 000 of them flew into the same Russian air force base 1000kms inside of Russia
The way it works with soldiers is that they will bet on how many enemy combatants they will takeout, and if you add a new adversary, the stakes are much higher and so are the payouts, as a veteran I've been there and done that.
The North Koreans are entering a fight on the side of an army that has repeatedly shown poor coordination and logistics, and a reckless attitude towards unexperienced conscripts, throwing them again and again into suicidal advances without any concerns about the losses of lives. Communication and coordination between North Korean soldiers and Russians will be as poor as it can be, considering the huge language gaps, and differences in equipment, command and training patterns. Most likely Russian officers will sacrifice North Korean soldiers gratuitously in any opportunity where they can avoid sending Russians to the slaughter house. It can be expected that North Korean scarce ammunition and equipment will be stolen by the Russian soldiers at every opportunity they find. Most likely, the involvement of North Korean will be disastrous for them and the tyrant, a balloon full of gases, will realize his stupidity in listening to the toxic Putin and his evil arguments.
Well presented and informative : It's always insightful having Retired General Hodges opinions that represents common sense and decency. THANKYOU FOR WHAT'S NEEDED TO BE SAID. GLORY TO UKRAINE!!!
Since N Korea is currently starving by the thousands the decision to send troops serves multi purposes. Their military gets fed first so sending thousands to Russia eases the food shortage and they don't care about loses. Their troops have zero combat experience so survivors will enhance their capabilities.
I hope South Korea somehow can get information to the North Korean soldiers about the real world outside NK and that their best option is to not fight and live in the free world.
North Korea doesn’t want to fuck with the USA or South Korea. The US needs to form An Alliance similar to NATO in the Indo Pacific region. The US, South Korea, Japan, The Phillipines, Australia, New Zealand would all be members. And Malaysia and Indonesia if they wanted to. Or we should expand the NATO alliance to these countries as well. Especially Japan, South Korea, Australia.
This is a klick bait title. There is no proof from any body, at least at this point, that North Korean soldiers are suffering staggering loses. Common War & Politics 24. Just tell us what information is available at this time. 🤐
Why not mentioning 'Great Britain' when talking about 'Germany & France' ? As well I don't know where he has seen those luxery cars in Europe with Ukraini license plates on ?
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 Kim Jong-un holds security meeting to discuss military response to South Korean drone infiltration. (South sent drones into North korea and dropped leaflets over Pyongyang.....would be better dropping Choco-pies IMHO but just shows....Drones beat Artillary just as scissors cut paper).
Hodges always says the same thing and why should he say anything different ? "Ukraine must win". Democracies cannot afford to lose this war or else it just gets bigger. No mystery here ...Slava Ukraini
Trump 24, clean this mess up. And yes NATO , get your shit together,this is on your borders and stop waiting for American help.America has its own problems.
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My wife and her family are Russian and i can tell you they are embarrassed and ashamed that The Great Bear seeks help from a man like Kim,Putin is bringing Russia down with his stupidity.
There's a lot more to be ashamed of
I was involved with a beautiful Russian woman from St Petersburg many years ago and learned a good bit about Russia. The first thing: Russia isn't a bear.
Seeking help from Kim Jong? Pffffff. Having the chizoid midget at the helm for 25 years may be slightly more embarrassing.
@@tobytylor919 selective amnesia here concerning the really heinous stuff
10,000 N Kora soldiers deployed 6000 claiming Asylum in Britain 1000 killed
The NK soldiers must ride a train to get to the front. Why allow that Train to exist?
Because Ukraine aren’t allowed to use long range weapons provided by nato to hit inside Russia
That's a long train ride.
The only places on a rail line that take time to replace are bridges and tunnels. Locomotives are good targets too but are easily removed when damaged.
A rail road is dirt with layer of rock ballast and sleepers floating on top with rails attached. Rail segments and points can be replaced rapidly unfortunately so ideal is hitting fuel or ammo train on bridge or in tunnel. Like Ukraine did on kerch bridge. That damage has not been repaired and can't be so only light trains can use the bridge.
It's difficult to get saboteurs that far into Muscovy though Ukraine did it once in far east.
A long train ride to nowhere.
Imagine being a DPRK grunt on that train. You'd be like a death-row convict on his last day, but I doubt there's any big last meal. And instead of watching a clock tick away your last seconds, you watch the landscape go by from a window knowing you're approaching Ukraine...
More than half of that railroad is from 4000 to 7500 kilometers from Ukraine.
Drop leaflets in Korean to the North Koreans offering Amnesty, Freedom, Food and Saki. All of which they don’t have in North Korea.
They do not comprehend the concept of those words, except 'food'.
Drop anything with sugar in it
One north Korean soldier got to taste a choco pie and at that moment he knew he had to escape to the south
Fella took six or so bullets driving/running across the DMZ ...it's all on film somewhere
As a bonus the makers of choco pie gave him a lifetime's supply
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Kim Jong-un holds security meeting to discuss military response to South Korean drone infiltration.
(South sent drones into North korea and dropped leaflets over Pyongyang.....would be better dropping Choco-pies IMHO but just shows....Drones beat Artillary just as scissors cut paper).
South Korea has been doing this for quite awhile -- the NK's retaliated by sending
balloons &/or drones carrying bags of feces to the SK side of the border.
However, either the 'irritation campaign' has struck a nerve by actually inducing someone IMPORTANT to bolt for the nearest border that will get them out of reach of Kim's assassination squads, or the overgrown & overfed brat is just feeling like he's not getting enough attention while Israel/Iran & Ukraine/Russia are getting all the media spotlights. The generals need to up his meds and lock him in with his slave harem (sorry, girls, would pull a James Bond and get you out, but I'm just an aging USN vet who on good days feels like I'm 36, and on bad days feels alot older than I really am).
So, now the NKs have gone completely batsh*t, destroyed roads to/across the border, destroyed all lights on their side of the border... and recently put it in whatever passes as their BS 'constitution' (ironic, for a multi-generation dictatorship) that SK is a 'declared enemy' (like somehow nobody KNEW that). ADD in more nuclear missile-rattling by the 'babydoc' rp'er and hisses and threats from his backstairs sister, and they're getting very freaky.
@@Bob-nd2mr Choco Pies with a propaganda middle?
With NK soldiers on the front lines bordering Ukraine, I'm guessing that a significant number might seize the opportunity to cross over and seek refugee status. Their best chance of escaping North Korea.
If they have no relative in NK
That is true, regardless of your view of everything else. Escaping from North Korea is incredibly difficult. It is possible that more North Korean soldiers have already escaped from NK now than the twenty or so people that escaped from North Korea last year.
They won't have a concept of what refugee status is.
The General is right in that Europe is fully developed. It has a GDP of 20 Trillion dollars. It could easily buy US weapons and give them to Ukraine.
It's been 80 years now of dependence on the US. Time for Europe to step up.
You been paying attention the last 2.5 years? They have been.
Not to mention Finland and Sweden joined Nato!
do your homework. Canada is the joke of the alliance thanks to the coked up black faced grooming POS Crime Minister Trudirt!
US won’t allow appropriate use of the weapons that HAVE been supplied.
@@peterwebb8732 All Europe has to do is buy the weapons.
WWI, WWII, a long Cold War. The Balkans..
Hmmm, isnt that what Trump has been saying?
that's what Donald Trump is saying all along European Union has to step up to the plate can't always be the United States
Europeans need to STEP UP and defend their region.
Yes from you cowboys.
This is your proxy war, your Victoria Nuland started it 2014.
Seems you guys know Nothing.🇬🇧
Tbeyre supplying more weapons than the US. The Poles for instance have large reinforcements all a long the border. We Brits have sent extra troops to Estonia. I think you might want to do a little bit fact finding instead of living in a bubble watching US right wing propaganda that knows fuck all.
Don't let any North Korea soldiers escape
I bet Putin has a harem of ladyboys now .
Ukraine is very good at reverse engineering weapons.
What a pointless conflict, I can’t imagine losing a child for this stupidity.
50% is pointless, the other 50 are the Ukrainians defending their lives.
tell zombieland tzar about it doc.
It maybe pointless to people in the West but for Russia it makes perfect sense. It destabilizes NATO, puts part of Ukrainian territory under Russian control. Politically western support for Ukraine is too little too late. Russia has scared the west enough to keep NATO troops out of Ukraine and stops Ukraine from using Western long range weapons on Russian territory.
Russians and North Koreans are totally brainwashed.
Putin and his maffia are out of mind and don't care about People
America Needs to grow some balls
Russia has shown just how incredibly weak it is more so after bring in North Korea .
Rest assured, NK is not sending their best and brightest to fight for Russia.
From what I’ve read, they have no “best and brightest”. They are a third world impoverished country.
NK is sending cannon fodder which it hopes does not return. Fewer mouths to feed.
They cannot send what they do not have.
Even the best and brightest North Korean military personell are horribly malnourished.
If N. Korea is effectively attacking a European country bordering NATO they need to be made to understand that this will not be tolerated and removed from the equation.
And who is going to enforce that?
@@RidleyHolmes-sr2tw .....The West !!!
Ok Rambo go do some thing about it.😄
@@barrycouda8481
Give it up.. You yanks have lost your hegmony the World sees you as a Bully boy and are turning to BRICS.
Your sanctions mean nothing to them now. China has beaten you at your own game "Capitolism" its over.
You lost.
We have a sleeper agent already in russia, it's Steven Seagal. We just give him the word to go into NK.
I am so glad that Gen Hodges speaks about the importance of the size of the economy and ability of the EU in relation to Russia regardless of what happens in the US election and the needs for help for Ukraine .Russia is geographically huge but poor and weak in just about every other measure.
Me too
Not ruSSia, the muSScovite empire is huge, like a brontosaurus, with a tiny brain.
But your proxy Bandera pals are doing the fighting for you.😄
You can pay for it, yet give your own people $750 from FEMA. Sick.👎
I am tired of the US being a primary tit for Ukraine. I am with Ben Hodges that Europe need to step up to the plate because Russia is in their back yard.
"Why we fight" is not proximity - its Sovereignty Democracy Freedom and Justice - Buddy can you spare a dime?
That's good, because the US is not the primary tit for Ukraine. Find out the truth, not the propaganda.
The US has mostly been giving Ukraine old equipment much manufactured in the 80s and 90s that needed replacing and then buying new inventory. The new inventory is mainly from US based manufacturers and has been stimulating the US economy. The old inventory would have cost money to decommission, saving the US a lot of money. The destruction of the Russian military has come at a very low price for the US and NATO. While the US has contributed a lot militarily, the Europeans have given more in humanitarian and other aid. Ukraine has paid a very high price.
Europe , France and the UK are spending a lot there too , billions
@@michaguy this is the best answer to this reoccuring question, thank you
Food is scarce in North Korea so a few thousand less mouths to feed helps the regime. Plus Russia has to feed any of them who stay alive.
A very thoughtful and balanced talk
Love Ben Hodges
NK troops are a great reason to free UA from restrictions.
Why isn’t this considered an escalation???????????????? 😮😮😮😮
It is. So who in Europe is going too step up?
@@RidleyHolmes-sr2tw And who in America? Is it Europe's job now to fight all of America's enemies alone?
@@Ode-to-Odysseus No. To save yourselves. You couldn't stop Milosevic. Can you imagine what the Russians would do to you?
@@RidleyHolmes-sr2tw I have no fear of Russia at all. Neither does anyone else I know. Get used to it.
General Ben Hodges was right when he said Ukraine would have to make their own long-range weapons, to defeat Russia, and I know they're not alone Poland Norway Sweden Japan South Korea or helping them financially build up their military weapons capability and industry and I know they have agreements signed with these countries Ukraine has become the master of drone warfare so all the countries that are buy them Japan and South Korea would benefit from Ukraine being able to have a manufacturing base of military weapons and hardware, now the Ukraine has its own long-range weapons I think it will be cheaper than America's long-range weapons, and do the fact it will be made if not in your Crane in a country real close to Ukraine., so Russia won't be able to hit it, it will be time to take out the trash on Russia's aggression which will leave Putin scrambling for what to do.
Absolutely agree with the first strategic point, South Korea and the U.S. will have to finally have the guts to put kim in a permanent state of dirt nap, take out this dictator who’s family has somehow been controlling over 1/3rd of Korea for several decades.
South Korean leadership within the political, military and intelligence spheres really need to step up their game, kim should have been 💀 a long time ago to finally free the Korean people being help captive by this dictator in the north.
Does anybody really think NK gives a rats about losing a million or 2 soldiers? The whole concept of not allowing an ally unlimited use of weapons against any legitimate target is an absolute DISGRACE! The Yanks will say "Oh perhaps we should have" if things go horribly wrong. Ukraine is surely now in a position where they have been left no option other to just go ahead and bugger the consequences. Russia has been killing, torturing, bombing hospitals, schools and civilian targets for 2 plus years now with impunity and Ukraine is STILL not allowed to defend itself!
Couldn't agree more.
Germany and France are notoriously apathetic on the world stage. I don't think they even know what day of the week it is.
" And almost islamic if they don't do something about it."
@@raycope2086Oh no 🫣, the Islamics. I’d worry more about right wing nationalists.
rUZZia still thinks its 1985
@@John-qb8vd Then, with respectJohn, you're nuts!
@@raycope2086 Judging by the propaganda vomiting from the US right wing media and poorly and informed and uninformed, and by the lkes of Donald "I'm a rapist and a traitor" Trump, is day he's on point.
Hold on , 2 more weeks .
It's time for Europe to step up and regulate their own neighborhood. It's been almost three years and the U.S. is still being relied on. Europeans, defend your continent!
Europeans didn’t start this war - the hidden pyscho elites from the west started this war - endless expansion of NATO eastwards , wanting to put missiles right up to the border with Russia in the never ending encirclement of Russia .
Russia doesn’t have a right to own Ukraine - but it had to stay neutral to keep the peace - if it had this war and now the long dead risk of WW3 now re ignited , would never have started .
What the feck do you think we’re doing? We are doing our bit, your arms industry is making a fortune and you are getting rid of old out of date equipment and replacing it with new. Do your homework instead of listening to propaganda and by the way you set yourself up as the worlds policeman so just get on with it….
Who gives the most aid to Ukraine? Is it Europe or America? Hint: it's not America.
Which NATO country is the only one to ever invoke Article 5? Hint: it's not a European one.
The US has the biggest stockpiles of old kit, and the least obvious need to keep it.
Australia has just donated almost all of its Abrams M1A1s….. How many of those does the US have just parked in a desert somewhere?
Most of the $ figures that the US calls “aid to Ukraine” is ending up paying for new kit from AMERICAN manufacturers, going to AMERICAN military or AMERICAN allies, while the Ukrainians get the old, outdated kit that is being replaced.
But Kim trades them for food and oil so the tally works for him
I bet he trades them form money, for himself. Same salary as for the russians. $2,000 per month, 10,000 soldiers, that's $20,000,000 a month for the little fat guy to buy exclusive cognac and new golf clubs.
I bet your not wrong there- and his fellow generals ( got to keep the cadre’s happy)
Thanks guys 😊
"As men do not live by bread alone, they do not fight by armaments alone." Franklin D Rooseveldt 1941
Glory to Ukraine Слава Україні
North Korea was looking for someone to feed them.
Dang I wish Ben Hodges was Ma President! I would even go door to door campaigning for him. Ben Hodges has a point that many young Ukrainian men are prancing around Europe not supporting their country in the military. They could be all important drone operators, medics or technology, IT experts, etc. and for that matter, so could Ukrainian women. Not all of the military involves combat on the frontline.
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Agree, Ukraine needs to go all in and win this war draft 18 year olds and up. They keep dragging this out and risk losing.
This reason is perhaps the main reason why support is dwindling in America. Ukraine's youngest soldiers are 25 and they still refuse to lower it to 18, recall their citizens, or hold a draft. How are Americans supposed to support them if they won't support themselves. That's what it's starting to look like to us.
@@RustyShackleford-s2o Then Americans should possibly consider why Zelensky is doing this. He is thinking not just of the the present but of the future too. Zelensky, this year dropped the age from 27 to 24 for draft purposes. He wants his young people to have experienced something of living before they run the risk of dying, he wants them to complete their education so Ukraine has an educated generation to look forward to running their country if and when this horror finishes. He wants youngsters to meet, marry and breed another generation before getting killed or maimed fighting for today. He knows a nation is not just a balance sheet or a GDP but the sum product of his people and wants to ensure there is a generation to grow and emerge to ensure Ukraine can fight its way to what we in the west just take for granted - our freedoms!
What is so difficult to understand or appreciate about a leader who has one eye to the future wellbeing of his country and not just the next election cycle or tax year?
Whilts Tsar Putrid is busy trying to get as many of his young men killed or maimed as possible, Zelensky is doing exactly the opposite.
@RustyShackleford-s2o exactly
Perhaps I’ve missed something, but how is the loss of 6 officers, out of the 1500 troops NK has sent thus far, a staggering loss? I’m not a fan of Putin, but click bait titles do not help Ukraine’s case.
Folks that do not speak Russian and have no leader might struggle to be useful.
youtube is one big clickbait
It depends. Those six officers could have been instrumental in communicating with and commanding Korean troops. How many Russians you figure speak fluent Korean?
@@davidwood2205: presumably they have access to Google translate. So maybe it’s not a huge issue. In any event, it wasn’t mentioned anywhere in the video how the loss of six officers out of 1500 or so North Koreans already there was a staggering loss. That seems like Clickbait.
Respectfully, General Hodges forgets that the majority of NATO members never met their 2% defense requirement. Trump pointed that out and finally NATO gets it. Now, for the Generals worst nightmare, Trump has a real possibility of returning to the WH. NATO needs to have a contigency plan for that.
Trump is an idiot. Please never quote his bullshit
As of July 2024 out of the thirty-two NATO allies, twenty-three now meet the 2 percent target, up from just six countries in 2021. In total, NATO countries now meet the 2 percent target, together spending 2.71 percent of their GDP on defense. Poland stands out as the biggest allocating 4.12 percent of its GDP to defense., Estonia is 3.43 % both higher than the US at 3.83%.
there was no need for him to inject his political viewpoints, wrong and ... tacky
General Hodges didn’t forget. Trump amplified the “2% defense level”, which was never a requirement. He identified that the EU could do more, but, for all its stature, NATO does not actually have a standing military. Each country has their own. It’s a defensive alliance. Each country had a choice of how much to obligate, including the US. Our lawmakers chose to meet the obligation, but no one was twisting their arms to do so. And currently? The EU surpasses the US in overall aid to Ukraine (military and humanitarian).
They are pathetic wimps, militarily speaking. And the leaderships are even worse.
The Ukraine war is not a NATO problem, or an American problem, it's a EU problem... Should the US help? I think so, but not with cold hard cash, that should be left up to the European countries on how they would like to prop up Zelensky and Ukraine. They also need to stop being so timid with Putin.
So why is it an EU problem, is Ukraine a member of the EU now?
And what about all those times Ukraine helped NATO? Afghanistan, Kosovo, Iraq - Ukraine was there.
Stop trying to create division between the allies. Europe and America must stand together, or decline in solitude.
The US and Britain made promises of security if Russia ever tried to invade if Ukraine gave up their nukes when Ukraine was #3 nuclear power in the world and now are letting them down applying restrictions in favor of Russia
The vast majority of aid sent to Ukraine has not been "cold hard cash", it's been decades old obsolete artillery awaiting disposal.
The US and UK are obligated by the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 when they strong armed Ukraine into giving their entire military arsenal, including their nuclear weapons, to Russia in exchange for "security guarantees."
@@Ode-to-Odysseus Lol... Nobody is trying to "create a division" between Europe and America. Maybe I should have made myself a little clearer. I do not believe, that the US, has any business giving Ukraine COLD HARD CASH!!! Weapons YES!!! And, EVERYONE NEEDS TO STOP PUSSY FOOTING AROUND WITH PUTIN!!
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I wonder how many will defect to “the enemy”?
I always enjoy hearing General Hodges take on the current events taking place in Ukraine.
Hodges has become a socialist / communist ! Very , very sad to see this happen !
You mean you like being lied to?
He speaks the hard truth and facts unlike the lying fake mainstream media
Just a thought. From Kim the Great's perspective, are high losses a plus, a feature and not a bug? High losses equals less mouths to feed. The army ain't doing much anyway, I am trading lives for political influence, technology, weapons and commodities. That sounds like a good trade to me ...
Hodges complains about Trump then reiterates Trump's message that the EU needs to do more.
Exactly. He never spoke up about NATO member doing more when he was a General. Just be quiet or you will never get to a think tank or the board of Boeing.
@@RidleyHolmes-sr2tw He is as full of crap as Jake Broe.
if trump was anything but a habitual liar, we could take his words at face value. You would have a point. However, since Trump continues to lie and make things up, anything he says can not be trusted.
@@Doo_Doo_Patrol Agreed. That MF lives in Ukrainian fantasy land even though he has never been there. Probably why he was pushed out of the military.
Is it a big deal to agree on some things and not on others? idolizing trump a bit?
This is one way of making North Korea's meager food supplies go further. Exporting starved personnel to be better fed in the service of a slightly different megalomaniac.
Ukraine reported just yesterday that they have NOT encountered a single NK soldier on the battlefield and that all known NK soldiers were still in training in Russia. Any interactions with NK soldiers like the reported defections are unconfirmed rumors
Anther deceptive headline, thumb down.
not true there is a video online of north koreans deserting their posts 18 of them
Correct. They are reportedly near Vladivostok in training to learn basic Russian, receive Russian unit training, and familiarize themselves with more modern Russian weapons. It could be spring by the time they could be ready except for perhaps a few battalions.
They were killed at a training camp in Zapirisha, I know that I spelled it wrong.
Exactly.
@@christopherhines2718 yeah all videos online are real check. how are they defecting when 10, 000 of them flew into the same Russian air force base 1000kms inside of Russia
The way it works with soldiers is that they will bet on how many enemy combatants they will takeout, and if you add a new adversary, the stakes are much higher and so are the payouts, as a veteran I've been there and done that.
They went to Ukraine to get more modern fighting experience, but all they got was more dying experience.
Thank you, Sir!
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The North Koreans are entering a fight on the side of an army that has repeatedly shown poor coordination and logistics, and a reckless attitude towards unexperienced conscripts, throwing them again and again into suicidal advances without any concerns about the losses of lives. Communication and coordination between North Korean soldiers and Russians will be as poor as it can be, considering the huge language gaps, and differences in equipment, command and training patterns. Most likely Russian officers will sacrifice North Korean soldiers gratuitously in any opportunity where they can avoid sending Russians to the slaughter house. It can be expected that North Korean scarce ammunition and equipment will be stolen by the Russian soldiers at every opportunity they find. Most likely, the involvement of North Korean will be disastrous for them and the tyrant, a balloon full of gases, will realize his stupidity in listening to the toxic Putin and his evil arguments.
The NK's must be hungry by the time the train takes them to the front.
I wonder if they are prepared for the mud and cold.
The West is the BEST
They weren’t being fed in their homeland anyways
Well presented and informative : It's always insightful having Retired General Hodges opinions that represents common sense and decency. THANKYOU FOR WHAT'S NEEDED TO BE SAID. GLORY TO UKRAINE!!!
Since N Korea is currently starving by the thousands the decision to send troops serves multi purposes. Their military gets fed first so sending thousands to Russia eases the food shortage and they don't care about loses. Their troops have zero combat experience so survivors will enhance their capabilities.
I hope South Korea somehow can get information to the North Korean soldiers about the real world outside NK and that their best option is to not fight and live in the free world.
Ben is my general.
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That explains it.
It's the problem with Catholic international prohibition against war against war
North Korea doesn’t want to fuck with the USA or South Korea. The US needs to form
An Alliance similar to NATO in the Indo Pacific region. The US, South Korea, Japan, The Phillipines, Australia, New Zealand would all be members. And Malaysia and Indonesia if they wanted to. Or we should expand the NATO alliance to these countries as well. Especially Japan, South Korea, Australia.
Mr Kim sold his own army to Vladimir Putin , kim needs a food Putin needs a soldier 😅
10,000 N Kora soldiers deployed 6000 claiming Asylum in Britain 1000 killed
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This general is an example of the weak leadership we are cursed with.
Please explain your statement. Gen. Hodges is retired and out of the chain of command. Your logic is far from apparent.
He's not weak at all! he makes more sense that the rest of them put together!
@@Riddim4Thank you. The statement is very “bot-like”.
Consider me unenlightened if you will, jus trying to understand. I thought Norway had given much relief to Europe wrt oil and gas?
Every North Korean soldier is on less on the DMZ! Are this two discounting Kim disregard for the death of his combat troops.
Cannon Fodder!....NKPA is just that Canon Fodder!!!....
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Total hack. This guy is a bought and paid for mouthpiece.
This is a klick bait title. There is no proof from any body, at least at this point, that North Korean soldiers are suffering staggering loses. Common War & Politics 24. Just tell us what information is available at this time. 🤐
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Dillon. 🍊for Putin ?
Dillon for peace. Warmongers and Dick Cheney for Kamala.
They need more training. Say, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare for starters.
They may have families in NK that will be punished ..
When is CHINA sending troops to the Ukraine?
6 is staggering?
Shocking amount. Mindblowing too.
So sad so many people dead
General Hodges, how many artillery tubes does North Korea have within range of Seoul?
Irrelevant
Why not mentioning 'Great Britain' when talking about 'Germany & France' ? As well I don't know where he has seen those luxery cars in Europe with Ukraini license plates on ?
I live in the U.K. and I’ve never seen a car on Ukrainian plates
@@Decadentwesthe lives in Germany and Ukraine isn't too far, besides he is observant and interested
Very informative
this is getting old.
Ben Hodges for President!
President of the "Will Tell Any Lie For The Next Star" Society.
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Nort Corea wil be vurnuable because sending 12 000 soldier or more to Ukriane? ofc not since NK have millions of soldiers so it dont matter at all.
Why don’t you you ask someone neutral so someone will believe this interview
Ben Hodges only person worth listening to.🇬🇧
That rail line between NK and Ukraine must have well over 100 bridges?
I read that Russia brought the NK soldiers into Russia by ship.
Who knows. No evidence.
Kudos to Hodges, especially about Trump.
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CLICK BAIT
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North Korea soldiers dying in Ukraine?🤔
Ahahahahahaha 😂
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Kim Jong-un holds security meeting to discuss military response to South Korean drone infiltration.
(South sent drones into North korea and dropped leaflets over Pyongyang.....would be better dropping Choco-pies IMHO but just shows....Drones beat Artillary just as scissors cut paper).
stop this fucken war!!!
Then get out of Ukraine!!!
This interview is NOT new! I saw it earlier in the week. Why does this channel repost interviews and act like they are new?
Hodges always says the same thing and why should he say anything different ? "Ukraine must win".
Democracies cannot afford to lose this war or else it just gets bigger. No mystery here ...Slava Ukraini
@@Bob-nd2mr I do not oppose Ukraine defending itself. I oppose phony news stories when the publisher acts like they are a NEW interview and it is NOT!
they only went there 2 days ago? WTF is going on, are you lot making this all up as usual.
Ben ur back again 😂
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Is he putting on this accent or what 😂
This is a European problem. The U.S. bailed them out of two world wars and all we get is insults, and disrespect. Close the gift shop.
Which NATO country invoked Article 5? Did Europe say this was not their problem?
Thank you Dan and General Hodges.
Trump 24, clean this mess up. And yes NATO , get your shit together,this is on your borders and stop waiting for American help.America has its own problems.
Yep the enemy within, orange vonshizinpants 😮😂🤣🤡💩💩
I'm certainly happy that hodges is out of the military.
Ben hodges for president