"Russia can't even conquer Ukraine." Russia has achieved the objectives they set out to do, they occupy the Russian speaking Donbas region. At the start of the conflict in Russia was on the outskirts of Kiev which brought Ukraine to the negotiating table and an peace agreement was on the verge of been signed but the US sent its lapdog Boris Johnson to Kiev to persuade Zelensky to walk away from the talks, which he did. Now the result is that Ukraine has lost hundreds of thousands of their young men.
Russia can’t take Ukraine right now. However, if The West abandons Ukraine, Russia will box it up and rebuild their military for another bigger attack.
It’s propaganda for the smooth brains. Last year Russia was on the brink of collapse now Russia has become the Soviet Union again and is able to conquer Europe.
Americans need to start their industry, after their decision to move facilities to China. Now, to start a new production, they must clear market for their goods. Germany is competitor, now it's closing/relocating plants to USA/China. Win Win for USA and China.
We the people will not allow it. Bread and butter for US taxpayer is more important than Polaks fighting Russia. Kapish? This is why US Congress told F++you to Zelenski@@ZARuslan
How's this even a conspiracy? It's called realism. You're either lying to yourselves to comfort yourselves or are straight up naive. As much as we'd wish, Russia is not losing the war in Ukraine.
They have to get creative when the US only seems to want to fund only one regional war at a time. They were hoping for a bumper year in 2024, with three wars, but now they are behind schedule.
Russia has no intention to attack Europe.... It's ridiculous. The Zelenskey regimen should have honoured the minsk accords and we wouldnt have a war now. Thanks to Boris and Angela
Unfortunately some people benefit from every war, war is an interest for a handful of people who don't fight it themselves... Russia has been slowly and steadily winning in Ukraine for some time now, Bakhmut fell, now Avdiivka is gonna fall for sure, and some smaller settlements, but we have to remember...Ukraine was the underdog from the start, Russia couldn't even capture Kyiv and was repelled, they couldn't hold their own against some counteroffensives in 2022, Khakrhiv, Kherson, Izium, Krasny Liman.... and people think they're gonna attack Poland? No way, Russia is overestimated hard, it can only make empty threats like against Finland joining NATO. We should stop China potentially attacking Taiwan, that's a bigger issue and China must be stopped and prevented.
It is true that better gear is no guarantee of victory, but in large part the poor success of the Ukrainian counteroffensive was due to other factors. 1) shortages of modern equipment, 2) inadequate training, 3) being postponed too long allowing the Russians to build the fortifications that proved impossible to break through, and last, but not least 4) lack of air support and air supremacy, or even air superiority as the opposite was true with the Russians having it instead.
GOP Blocked it as they did in 1941 when the Nazis threatened Britain & GOP Turned down Churchills please, so she on the right will & destroying democracy , having done in in the USA now threatening Ukraines democracy.
Are you still visiting your psychiatrist? Keeping overestimated your real possibility and underestimated Russians, you will got surprised, Ukraine alone with all support will loose, nothing will stop that, if NATO join to war is going to be WW3 , and nuclear strikes, keep that in mind.
Funny. Didn't according to our media the "ghost of Kiev" and the "goat of Kiev" destroy the Russian air fleet? Where are the hundreds of Ukrainian fighter jets? Why after being so gloriously victorious are they now denying the ground forces any support? And why is the glorious, victorious Ukrainian army "inadequatly trained"? Stoltenberg and Merkel have all said clearly that Minsk II was a sham and that they have trained the Ukrainian army since 2014. Why is 9 years of training not enough? Could it be that our media and regimes are LIARS and that the alternative media and the Russian MOD speak the truth and they really have eliminated TWO Ukrainian armies along with all of Ukrainian ex Soviet military equipment including the entire air force and that the reports that the Ukrainians are so desparate to kidnap even minors and older men from the streets, and now even women, to put them into uniforms and throw them on the front without any training?
@@donzell1945 The consensus among western defense analysts and experts points to the inevitability of a war between Putin's Russia and Nato within the next three to six years if Ukraine loses this war, and by losing I mean fails to liberate their territories and is forced to sue for peace. Counter to this bleak reality, the western support to Ukraine is dwindling, and it never was adequate to begin with. At this point we are on a trajectory which will lead to the inevitable ruzzian victory over Ukraine, with the war to follow, unless NATO steps in and becomes a direct party to this conflict. In other words, the west will be in a war against Putin unless they radically and quickly step up their military and financial aid to Ukraine. I'm not talking about millions here, I'm talking about billions of US dollars every month.
NATO would be correct to assume the US won't be around to help out forever. Isolationism is creeping back as a policy by lots of US politicians. It's just that the US will find it will have vastly reduced leverage after doing so. US Diplomats will start getting the middle finger from all sorts of countries that previously bowed to US demands. Europe best get real about removing the bureaucracy that's hamstringing their weapons manufacturing, and the US better start ramping up for China.
bang on mate.. and guess usa would be the first to come to europe to ask for help when china and usa start over tiawan but turning ya back on europe is wrong idea from them
Exactly, I thought that was weird when they said "western weapons were less powerful than expected" A 155mm shell is a 155mm shell, it's just as powerful as you would expect. Giving Ukraine a few hundred vehicles and half a million shells won't win the war for them.
Additionally, US/Western equipment is meant to be used as part of a larger military force that assumes far more air support than Ukraine can manage. If Russia were to try and invade Europe (even without US backing) that wouldn't be the case there. Ukraine has done a great job at limiting the air operations of Russia, but doesn't have what it needs to project force the way European forces would.
And lack of the right type of equipment. Even the F-16s they shall be getting too late, are the older models from European oeprators, not more modern ones the US has plenty of in storage.
It's a fact. NATO weaponry is being destroyed by old Soviet-era equipment. Russia has rarely used its modern equipment due to there rarely being a need for it.
What crap for last year plus all we heard is how uselss is Russia and how crappy they are and the pathetic Rusiian military hardware, training, soldiers are and now suddenly " they are a threat" So which is it, are they useless or are they powerful
They are powerful, especially with the backing of its eastern allies like Iran, North Korea, China, Syria, Hezbollah and Lebanon, many African nations, states of Latin America hating Yankees, Gulf states, you name them.
It should be mindset of all europeans, not only poles and baltic states citizens, if you are rich somebody will envy and come for your riches. Easy to grasp
@@jenifferschmitz8618 Apart from Russians. Sting wrote a song many years ago. If the Russians love their children too. There are many families in Russia that have lost their children the last 2 years.
I think people are comparing todays Russia with the 80s USSR. These are very different countries, to include the amount of soldiers they would have on hand to conduct military operations. I have a really hard time seeing Russian Soldiers rolling through western Europe. I dont think they have the capabilities to do so. As for NATO, they do have the integrated combined arms warfare, but the amount of war stocks have been allowed to shrink compared to what was on hand in the 80s. Drone warfare is a huge thing, countries should be concentrating on anti-drone tech to counter drone swarms.
Not even that, Russia invading Europe is like punching your best client. Europe feeds Russia’s economy and even though its hostile to Russia, Russia still does trade with Europe in the hundreds of billions every year
Why are the number of tanks even seriously considered when it was already proven that tank on tank engagements have become very uncommon on the battlefield? A more realistic comparison would be in terms of Air Power which has proved to be one of if not the most decisive aspect of modern warfare.
When was it proven? If there is a conflict between Russia/EU( or NATO), and then possibly China and the US are pulled in, it will look nothing like any of the conflicts that have occurred in the twenty-first century so far.
AFAIK Tank on tank engagements were never the biggest thing anyway, that's a myth. E.g. In ww2 they were generally infantry support with a smattering of upgunned tanks for when they needed to meet other tanks.
Whys is this even a discussion? We can't attack Russia through fear of nuclear retaliation but they can attack NATO, who also have nukes? Either the Nukes are a problem or they are not, which is it?
@@jacekpliszka5326 not public opinion but they ensure a country will never be fully destroyed or invaded (as in Russia will not become another Iraq or Germany in ww2). it might also be a possibility for Russia to use nukes on non-Nato countries but it's not very likely.
we do not know who has better ANTINUKE defense. If Nato has secret new technology "radars" and "antimissile weapons" placed all over the world, and if the Russian Secret Service fails to obtain this information, then NATO can win a nuclear war because no or less nukes will fall on its soil. there is ALWAYS way to outsmart and defeat the enemy. so do not underestimate russia either
Whenever commentators talk about defence in the UK they always talk about the army. A land war in Europe should be defended primarily by central European powers (Poland has already taken on this mantle). The UK is a maritime power and we should prioritise the Royal Navy with an additional emphasis on deployable air power.
Our navy might be smaller than before but its well trained with a lot of real world experience and it's also technically advanced two air craft carriers a third being built also the most devastating battle ship ever made, nuclear submarines anything as great as the Americans can build. People also forget about these key features like we and the Americans are the only true blue water navy whereas we can put our forces anywhere around the world and keep them supplied in feul, weapons and fed think Afghanistan and Iraq two wars thousands of miles apart oh and of course the Falklands 8000 miles in the South Atlantic rough seas. Russia on on the other hand had trouble supplying their troops by road next door to Russia! Better food, better logistics, better medical care, better military equipment, better training, better reconicense (MI6, GCHQ), better navy, better Air force. Russia could not win against the UK or the UK and EU. 🇬🇧🤝👍
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In Tuker Carlson’s interview with Putin he said Russia achieved its historical borders when the Russian Empire hit its peak. Still gives the same point but is really interesting that he is trying to push this on western viewers
The Russian Empire did not include Romania. It was Finland and Moldova. Also, do not forget Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan as well as all the 'stans. They used to be part of the Empire.
@@elmarmammadov8349 yeah we all know Azeri used to launch rockets into space 500 years ago before those pesky Russians woke you up from opioid induced fever 😂
@@AndrewKoff I can write whole book about it. In short: In 1804 invaded Azerbaijan and from that time on took all natural wealth. Mainly Baku oil. Banned mother language from schools, to make people forget origin. In 1918 invaded again and created Armenia in Yeravan. In 1937 killed all enlightening people. Deported people from own cities to cental asia and moved Armenians there. In 1991 killed innocent people in streets: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_January . In 1994 helped Armenia to invade Azerbaijan and took all golds from Kabajar (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sotk_gold_mine#After_2020_Nagorno-Karabakh_war). And still trying to do something here.
Its worth noting that the underwhelming Ukranian gains in the offensive was attempted with no air superiority (something that the west would never do, but Ukraine was forced to), and agaisnt a very well prepared defense in deph. Even the tactics that they would've been using agiasnt the defensive line had air superiority in mind. NATO has no problem with air superiority, and its pretty impossible to evaluate how the west would fare by comparing them to Ukraine while we have been withholding crucial equipment that Ukraine needs to win this war
@@kevincorrigan1754 the issue is we can't send the pilots and mechanics alongside the planes, so we have to rely on the few existing Ukrainian pilots and train them to newer planes. Also the logistical chain for keeping the planes combat ready after each sorty is complicated and the reason why the west sends few planes.
I think it's easy to underestimate how much stronger the support from other nations in Europe would be in Ukraine if there was war within their own borders. Right now the general populations of those nations are supportive but not passionate. If their own people were dying in war the fires of passion would grow very strong very fast, and I don't think that effect can be gauged very easily by the current tea time support for Ukraine by average families and formal support for Ukraine by leaders. It'd be a fire.
@albertkirilov6921 I live in Europe. Norway. "Do you reckon family life is any better with the conflict going?" It sounds like you are implying that it's the defenders side that is causing the conflict to keep going. Russia has no intention of stopping. Fighting back and winning is the shortest least destructive path to ending the conflict, which was your point. Not fighting back, losing, and letting Russia expand, is the path to create broader and longer conflict. It also sounds alien to me to evaluate political opinion from the perspective of 'how does it benefit my family'. How would anyone ever fight for their nations freedom in history if that was the line of thinking? Our view here is that the west isn't instigating, Russia is currently like a criminal who is shooting at a person under cover and we are trying to hand the poor guy ammo to fight back. People opposed to that are saying "Hey you should both try to step back." while people trying to give the gun *correctly know* that the attacker has no intention of stopping shooting no matter what. Give an inch and a mile will be taken is the accurate assessment of the situation. -- Your reference to Socialism and Capitalism strikes me as a very American like view. I've always lived with 3-4 left parties and 3-4 right parties. The republicans are slightly to the right of our most right leaning party while the democrats are to the center over here. The thing is that here, if the rightmost party does something crazy they lose votes to the other parties on the right cause conservative voters don't need to sell their soul to the left. They have other conservative options. Same for the left. By only having two parties in America it leads to people more often than is natural 'seeing their own parties views' since there are no options. The party forming the people rather than the opposite. The two main reasons we have multiple parties here is that we have a voting system were we vote for parties in bunch. All votes are then tallied and if the green party gets 6% of the votes they get 6% of parliament. In America you would need the green party to get 40-ish % of the votes in 6 % of the congressional districts since you vote for every candidates rather than for party. This makes it so that it's practically impossible for smaller parties to get representation because in spite of having 6% of the vote in every state they never get a candidate. I think conservatives as well as liberals could benefit from more parties in the US as they would see that they don't have as much support for their causes as it appears they have and that they need to fully convince the population of their views rather than enact policies before the public is truly convinced. --
@albertkirilov6921 Socialists from the east were to a large extent dictatorships and the unhappiness stems from that. Free nations tend to choose some of the socialist policies but not all out ban the market. It's always been a part of American propaganda that the Socialism rather than the Dictatorship was the problem. Very transparent to me since we've always had socialist parties getting some of their policies through and it didn't destroy our nation, the problem is authoritarianism and in some cases totalitarianism. The free nations where the people can elect socialists sometimes and not at other times we simply don't vote for socialist party next election if it goes abit too far.
More than 50% in my country would just let the russians pass so they can go where they actually want to go. People here dont care about if the rich people who have power here are pro usa or pro russia. I say let them pass so they can go to uk and america. Their real enemies....
@@cyberneticbutterfly8506 I agree on Ukraine, but I will note that your idea that "we've always had socialist parties getting policies through and it didn't destroy our nation" is predicated on short-sightedness. Socialism is barely 100 years old. That's nothing at a state level. Things like dysgenic fertility can utterly destroy nations and even entire species, but often require decades to actually manifest, and centuries to take full effect. Norway is very lucky in this sense, but take one look at modern-day Sweden, and its fertility trends, and it is easy to appreciate how seemingly-benign policies can have unintended, and potentially catastrophic, long-term consequences. And of course Sweden not being an isolated example, but one out of many, corroborates this point further.
@@VVayVVard I agree that any policy might have unforeseen long term consequences. Why would socialism be special here if it's unforeseen? Wouldn't capitalist policies also have unforeseeable consequences? Isn't that the whole reason why people are critical of it these days? I am uncertain what you are saying with the Swedish fertility example.
The "funny thing" is that Russia is buying chips for rockets/boms from USA. Not only that, but from who all scared EU country's are buying military equipment from😅 USA is racking in big time
NATO equipment is meant to be combined with massive air power. Something Ukraine doesn't have much of. The destroyed rate would not equate to the same equipment being used by NATO forces.
I think it needs to be pointed out that NATO have only sent smaller arms to Ukraine as they don't want Ukraine using weapons to cross the Russian border. If people think we are sending our best weapons to Ukraine think again. We've sent our older weapons to Ukraine hence why people think that they are less effective.
Germany, the UK and France mentioned. It is really a bit funny, that the latest NATO member Finland has in its war time troops and reserves roughly as many trained soldiers as Germany, the UK and France combined... No, actually you must add Italy to the three to get even.
@@kingwata1 A nation of 180 million failed to conquer a country of 3,5 million. But my point is that the armies of the big European countries are ridiculously small, not that the Finnish Defense Forces were extremely strong.
not really, they fought the soviets off and then later on lost territory to the soviet army, so ukranian, belarusian, baltic, polish, kasachic etc troops combines with the russians. Remember Russia isnt the soviet union, its only half that population which is old, sick and with a low life expectency. The european states should be able to beat back Russia and work towards that. We cant rely on the Americans to save the continent again. The capabilities are there, the money, the people, the tech. Its just that everyone here needs to wake df up and prepare for a war in a few years. Its doable@@kingwata1
I cannot understand why Britain is is getting so involved with the ukrainan problem when they are people over here who is finding it hard to survive daily.
I wonder what could go wrong if almost 50 european countries started militarising and building massive armies right next to eachother :) . It seems these days we have loads of ''smart'' people but fewer and fewer wise people.
No need to wonder, their brains were replaced by media long time ago, just accept this fact and try to survive in this madness, among the masses of brainwashed idiots.
@@adwaitnaravane5285 It would save you all so much money in the long run. Your combined military would be much more efficient and likely as strong as the US' military after 5-10 years of reorganizing.
yeah, we will see for how long... :) They don't have the infinitive amount of resources to make quantity infinitive, it is finite and that limit is closer day by day. After that limit, there is a collapse.
@@rufanuf1 Russia had a 10 times larger airforce and 10 times more artillery than Ukraine as well as a 5 times larger armored force, yet they can’t even gain more than a couple kilometers after a 2 month offensive on Avdiivka. Despite its numerical advantage, Russia is in a stalemate against Ukraine. And the small amounts of western equipment Ukraine has gotten has been essential to Ukraine matching Russia head to head. And Ukraine was only given several hundred pieces of western heavy equipment, most of which is stuff like Leopard 2A4 and Bradley M2A2 which are both over 30 years old. Ukraine is not getting the newest western kit like M1A2 Sep V3 or Leopard 2A7 or Bradley M2A4
@@rufanuf1Russia is producing about 20 tanks per month. And they have use older optics and electronic equipment due to a lack of western parts. Before sanctions, Russia was using French commercially available thermals on their tank optics as well as many American electronics in missiles and tanks and aircraft Most of Russia’s tanks going in to service now are old T-62M tanks, T-72B tanks as well as some T-80’s and T-55’s. These tanks would be completely obsolete against a Nato army like Poland
They would. The US will be fighting China over Taiwan. Europe will have to face Russia alone and he is already in the Arctic and western Africa. Europe is nearly surrounded.
Romania and Poland were never part of the USSR. The whole validity of this video went up in flames when you said that. How is it possible to make such a huge mistake?
at first 01:30 it is said Romania and Poland territories were part of the old Russian Empire, not the USSR. did you get it wrong from the video, or are you manipulating?
The Russian empire was a separate entity than the ussr. It basically just had a tiny bit of Romania and the majority of Poland with all of the USSR’s borders.
Do you have any evidence that the weapons systems have been successful? I am asking a serious question not trolling. All my research online seems to suggest the Russian weaoons are mire advanced
I say this as an American, after the wars in Iraq, Afgan and all over, this is probably the smartest comment on I unironically have seen on TH-cam. That is the danger of a major continental war or world war. Reliance on technology can be a death nail because technologies you become dependent on can become obsolete overnight in something as competitive as a large scale war, never mind one side purposely abandoning technologies(ie a digital grid) to gain an advantage on a 'superior' technological opponent. From Afghanistan to Vietnam, you can feel over confident when winning a quick battle and a war (iraq, shock and awe) and lose the long wars because of jungle fighters and cave dwellers over a war of attrition. Technological advantages matter less as a war goes on, see America in Vietnam or Afganistan, Germany vs Soviet Union in WW2 and so on.
America also knows, no matter the president, that their biggest trade partner so far is and will be Europe, so yes they might ignore Ukraine. But im extremely sceptical towards the idea of US leaving Europe to Russia. No superpower with military bases in Europe would want the whole cold war era again.
Wrong, The top five purchasers of U.S. goods exports in 2022 were: Canada ($356.5 billion), Mexico ($324.3 billion), China ($150.4 billion), Japan ($80.2 billion), and the United Kingdom ($76.2 billion). Everything that Europe sells to the US we can get at better price points elsewhere. Europe is on it's own sooner or later.
Thank you for this stark warning. Definitely appropriate for everyone to stare at, with mouths open, and take on board. But WHY did you ignore the absolutely crucial factor of NO AIR DEFENCE support for Ukraine? And there was no reference to air defence comparisons between Russia and NATO. It is well concluded that the failure of the counter-offensive in Ukraine is largely down to 1) no provision, from the get go, of long range missiles capable of destroying the supply lines of Russia. 2) no provision of fighter jets capable, equally, of destroying the supply lines of Russia. And this report also needs to mention that the Ukraine counter-offensive was doomed by the LACK of speedy provision of weaponry. Every decision has been taking far too long = bad consequences for Ukraine and for Europe. Minefields everywhere and a LOT of trenches...Next time please acknowledge the empirical facts relating to Ukraine's dismal position of fighting FOR the West WITHOUT sufficient and appropriate WEAPONRY in all sectors.
I don't think it's down to the UK to fight a ground war with our tanks in continental Europe, and we're highly unlikely to fight a ground war with tanks on UK soil anytime soon, so I'm not surprised our tank numbers are that low. It's just priorities.
It's obvious that you know nothing about history like WWII when a madman decided he wanted to take over the world. What happened to the UK the last time a person like that existed. The UK at the time Hitler came to power thought the same way you are now and what happened. Maybe learn about the Battle of Britain. Look at pictures of what happened to London during that time.
We need more men and equipment. In the current climate, even if nothing at all ever happens, it'd be sensible to have it. Plus being an island means we can pick and choose where we help if any major conflict breaks out, that's the other benefit. You are correct in that we could invest in our naval and air assets again instead, but we need to be prepared either way.
@@RNA0ROGER Russia also is failing to achieve air superiority. Both countries have fairly capable air defense systems; while both also lack modern aircraft.
@@RNA0ROGER tier 1 no longer. this war has devolved into something comparable to corrupt arab armies fighting one another. yea, iran might have had the f14, and the ukrainians have the m1 abrams, but doing better than either of those countries means you're barely tier 3
And the West sent Ukraine scraps and hand-me downs - plus we did not give Ukraine the yields they asked for. Ukraine only had moderate success and is currently suffering because the West did not step up + several US congressmen were compromised by Russian intel.
NATO is an organisation with an agreement….it’s not a country that has any land mass. To say that an agreement has ambitions of an empire is farcical, so yes your eyes and ears fooled you. But your not the only fool in russia.
The western weapons systems were designed to work in conjunction with air power. Ukraine does not have anywhere near the kind of air power that NATO has. NATO’s air power and training will multiply the of those Western weapon systems.
How long air power lasts against air defences which are so numerous that you will be seeing fighter jets getting shot down every day just like how tanks are getting destroyed left and right with FPV drones and shells. How long will the air power remain before it turns back to same trench warfare we see in Ukraine? You can't manufacture enough shells to keep up with war. Forget about building aircrafts at this rate. This is not middle east warfare.
One other thing to consider is that the whole NATO military doctrine is designed around overwhelming airpower, which would not work if NATO's adversary had capability to shoot down aircraft, including stealth, and sink the aircraft carriers.
Fair enough but how would NATO react to a limited war in for example Estonia or Latvia ? There is likely to be some NATO countries ie Poland and Germany that are for going to war but then there will be other countries that want to stay out of it. So when it comes down to it yes NATO has air superiority….on paper. Let’s not even go there….the time to defeat putin is here and now. Give Ukraine the weapons and means to do it.
No one would be surprised if America pulled out but they are smart enough to realise that Europe and the rest of the world would no longer be listening/trading with them the same.
@@colabear1529 Todays world is shaped by the global trade and the dependency on other nations, trading would no doubt occur in some degree even during a full scale war.
It would probably be the opposite: When you're in a war, you do not exactly care where your weapons and ammunition comes from, just that you get it. The first part of WW2 and the majority of WW1, the US was considered an ally to various degrees to various countries, but did little more than sell weapons, ammunition, loans, and other products to Europe. The U.S. will probably do the same until forced to put troops on the ground. Vietnam, Korea, and the middle east are still very fresh on memories here, fighting for countries that had no meaningful effect on us, with what was basically the US vs the USSR and Russia. Also, this is what Europe has done historically, squabble over pointless things every 10 minutes. Like mentioned in the video, Europe isn't really arming either. That isn't a way to sell an ally, an ally who complained loudly and was laughed at when they brought up the fact that basically no one was meeting their NATO requirements, that you're preparing. That's telling your ally that you're depending on them to die for you. The same ally talked about not relying on your now enemy too, with the pipeline, but that was also ignored. The only exception here is Poland. Poland throws a wrench in these predictions as when was the last time a country asked to host the US military and its weapons, including nuclear weapons, while reaming and building its military?
It will all be pointless when civilization is in ruins and most of humanity has been fried with fire, radiation, disease and starvation. How can one be happy after such a "win"?
It was the government who signed this not American citizens. Things have changed alot in the past 30 years and we are tired of wars and living pay check to pay check . We focus to much on the world and not ourselves. This is Europe's problem not ours
Definitely if you live in Britain. Humiliated government, humiliated military and BS journalism. Not much to look forward to economically. Self-inflicted hardship. The world is now laughing at you - the looters.
@kingof206 Since you are so happy, that you decided to tell the world about it, could you please elaborate on your disclosure and tell us more specifically ‐ what are you so happy about and also what is your IQ, please.
Will you continue laughing when Russia has the backing of North Korea, China and Iran as well? If Europe cannot count on US help, then it is a sitting duck.
The effectiveness of NATO weapons used by NATO trained professional career soldiers brought to bear in a multi-domain digital battlespace is considerably greater than NATO weapons used by Ukrainian forces in a war of attrition fought in the trenches typical of the Great Wars of the 20th century.
Well, i wouldnt say the west gave the best weapons not anything with the numbers ukraine would have pushed russia back…way back….lets face it….the whole world dragged their feet to the tune of a catipillar
@@chrisallen3741 The West is committed to not allowing Ukraine to lose, whilst also not giving it the necessary support to enable it to win. The Western response has been painfully slow and has resulted directly in unnecessary loss of life in this war. Ukraine needed tanks and fighter jets 2 years ago, before the Russian army started massing on his border. Yet here we are almost in 2024 and the West is still dragging its feet and not providing Ukraine with the tools it needs. Yes, the West has provided support. However it hasn't been anywhere near enough. It's been like watching bystanders to a mugging attempt to intervene through the use of harsh language and throwing empty soda cans at the assailants.
or could it be that cheap, easy to fix and mass produce equipment is more effective in a REAL WAR compared to fancy game changing wunderwaffes? I'll let the German tank crews on the eastern front be the judge of that. perhaps ME-262 pilots could weigh in as well
Well not for ww1 annnnnd ww2. The US, it seems to let people get attacked, then come in saying here’s some weapons but in turn you will owe us for the 80 years 😂
That IS funny. What's even funnier is all the Americans that died fighting for your country. But the funniest of all is that you never paid for the 80 years😂😂😂😂😂😂
In November, the Americans will almost certainly elect a criminal and Russian agent to be their president again, and that president has and will actively continue to support Russian attacks on Europe. The obese, stupid Americans are not friends with any Europeans. Each European nation is on its own, and must arm and prepare
@@ClarkyMalarky Lend Lease to the UK, Canada and other allies was free! You are moaning about a post war reconstruction loan at ludicrously low interest rates. You also forgot to mention the $70billion Marshall Plan gift that the UK and others received. Whingeing Pom!
NATO should enter Ukraine and create a defensive line from Kyiv down to Odessa and that would make a safety zone of Western Ukraine . This would allow Ukraine to secure a place to receive goods and weapons , set up manufacturing and protect the refugees from the occupied areas . Also stop Russia from taking all of Ukraine which will seriously threaten NATO countries . I don't understand why NATO is so hung up on a signed membership when they refused to let Ukraine in way before the war or separatist movement started and Russia winning would be a real threat to existing NATO borders .
There is no way Russia will win a war over NATO when it's been 2 years in a war with Ukraine (3 times smaller population, no air force, no navy, no ballistic missiles, far smaller economy and industry) and hasn't manage to conquer even the whole of Donbass, literally on the doorstep of Russia and with much of its population being Russians. Russia is literally struggling for months to win a few kilometers of empty fields here and there and to take a couple of destroyed villages, with huge losses. This analysis is probably sponsored by Putin himself.
You might be right, because that's what Russians do and every one knows it, but they're just not saying it out loud. This could actually be made to make cracks in alliance, or make some countries to lean towards Russia. One no need to be very smart to understand that west have to hold together .
The EU is not one comunity. Among the serious players, only Poland understands the seriousness of the situation, but it is at least 5 years late with armaments (although currently they are impressive on a global scale). Unfortunately, America is in no hurry to provide military aid to Ukraine. Comparing Lend-Lease to Russia in 1941 with what Ukraine gets 80 years later is simply mockery. I understand why this is happening, but such a policy actually incites the expansion and expansion of the conflict and undermines American credibility as a global security stabilizer.
Totally agree. America, for better or worse, IS the world hegemon. It's refusal to muscularly guard the world order it created and largely benefits from over the last 10 years is what is leading to so much instability in the world. Ukraine, Israel, Venezuela, Taiwan, have all become hot spots for conflicts that have huge potential for wider economic and military chaos because of the US's hesitance to assert the status quo. Crimea was the first domino to tip and it seems like other belligerent actors are seeing US hesitance as an opportunity to return to the might-is-right foreign policy of yester-year.
This is because the US has dumb leaders and dumber people since then. Since Obama did not want anything to do with Syria directly, the US has lost the name of 'police man' on the globe.
I am European, from Italy. And to be really honest, I think that US should just stay out from the scenario. I think that should TOTALLY be our problem (the europeans) to actually face that we, for many years, did not spend money on armed forces investment, weird immigration policies and that we should focus more in an real union, for a common enemy and taking ourselves our own responsabilities, without relying on the US. The older generations are the one that are always defending ''sovereignity'' blocking every kind of progress that could make the EU a trully bloc and not just some nations trading with each others. Every time looks like we are blaming someone else (in many cases Germany, for example) for something that we should have all done, as Europeans.
As a Pole I highly disagree about Americans staying out of Europe's problems. While I'd like Europe to be entirely self-sufficient one day, I have no intention of having my country pillaged to the ground by orks, simply because western Europe neglected their own defense.
@@sowiwiody3681 Very nice, me neither. But we have to face the reality that there is no sense of waiting for someone to babysit us. During the 2008 crisis, instead of austerity policies, the EU countries, especially the PIIGS ones, should have moved the money in production and manifacturing areas, where, for many years we relied on outsider for imports, something that was really resolvable to be honest. Of course I DO NOT want a war in Europe, but we have to face the reality that US does NOT have any obligation with us. There were many ideas of making one unique EU armies, especially from France and Ursula Von Der Leyen, but every time there is someone against. So we should move on and make the EU one unique political country and solve our own problems
thats a myth, nuclear war likely wont be too devastating, the only problem will be world wide panic and isolation, but world and people are not going anywhere even if we drop all the bombs, which is unlikely they will all avoid using nukes as long as they can because they are simply not effective way of winning a war and its not easy to replace them(make new ones), plus people would realize how insignificant they are in the bigger picture
Less than the number paying extra gas and fuel prices, who also vote, so maybe the reason we support Ukraine is because Russia is in the wrong, and unlike the US we don't do everything based on profits?
@m1leswilliams profits? Who sends you the guns and money? We're profiting? Maybe Lockheed is but yall haven't paid your dues. That means America is paying for your lunch. Not a solid profitable business model hey genious. Weird a capitalist society looks at cost vs benefit. We're paying for your defense? Not if we can vote about it. My breakfast tastes the same if Poland ceases to exist. Make sense? We do not care about your derelict military. That is your fault. Don't try to shame me because I would worry about my son before yours. When will you worry about your own? Is it my duty to pay with money? Blood? Kiss my American ass. The way Europe whines, putin gains support. You think the cuck leftists that you all laude is your salvation? It's red blood red necks and trumpers that are the fearsome warriors... your cuck lefties dye their hair pink and need safe spaces. They will carry signs at protests but cannot run across a battlefield with an m60. Cheer for your cucks. We "deplorables" care not about European children. We will not shed blood for your derelict countries. Time to start buying weapons. Training real men to war for you. Stop counting on American money. We're so greedy? Youre a greedy little cuckold punk. 😂
When the USSR fell, we all believed in peace "forever". But who could imagine a Putin. We must stop Putin now with or without the US. Can the US really break its promise to NATO?
let your sugar daddy US break it's promise and see yourself speaking russian. You pricks will pay for everything you did anyway. many people want a foreign legion in Russia atleast
Probably not,they've barely conquer ukraine.polands army is a far cry from the days in ww2,when they went to war with horse and carts.and rolled over.poland are stronger than Ukraine's military.
After decades of degrading European cultural identities, how are we supposed to feel ANY sense of patriotism and need to defend our countries. Here's a message for the elite, if you're expecting us to die in the million fighting your wars, don't spend all your time and effort demoralising us so you can get rich quick. We'll not fight, evem at the expense of our own national security. We've undermined our own-footing in the world and now we're expected to take a firm stance, it's idiocy of the highest caliber. Unbelievable.
it’s not natos equipment that’s the issue. It’s that russia literally can just send wave after wave and can throw away their soldiers lives. like navy seals are not weak at all but if they were fighting infinite waves of being severely outnumbered they will eventually fail, even though they are superior.
Not only putin determining russian politic. In Russia a lot of imperialists and also putin can easily reach one hundred years old. The current medicine will allow him to reach.
Putin is system not individual west is salivating to go away. It is not going away. Every century Hances , Boleks and Bills are bent down and are walked away like that from Russian soil back to Warsaw and Berlin. Since west never won against Russia with rifles how the heck you gona win against Sarmat and Hypersonic technology you do not have? Wild man and woman of the west pls answer me. Watch videos how defeated Nazis crawled the banks of Elbe river 1945. Gorbachev allowed Germany to reunite only to face Leopard tanks on Eastern front again? Swedish PM in 1945 liked Stalin's boots for forgiveness collaboration with Nazis. NATO article 5 lovers, do you think US will fight Russia for you? Putin treats Ukraine with love, just look at Jews in Palestine for comparison. Do you think Vladimir will be merciful for you?
Where there is usa, there is no need of other evil.usa wants to subjuagte russia by taking nato in ukrain.russia has 2000 km border with ukrain.from ukrain withing hours tank can reach moscow.
I dont understand how the Uk, france, germany and benelux with a population of 65 million, 65, 90 and 40 million with better equipment and way more money would lose to russia with a quickly declining population with a low fertility rate and population of 120 million
That would be a hypocritical move by the USA 🇺🇸 which currently politically and economically supports Taiwan 🇹🇼 Taiwan 🇹🇼 is the center of American geopolitics and likely influences most American geopolitical decisions today. Taiwan is a critically important country for both China and the USA because Taiwan is where most of the world computer chips are made.
Taiwan is not a disputed claim between russia and china. I was referring to the Bolshoi Ussuriysky Island . Let China and Russia pick each other apart, better for Ukraine better for us. Taiwan is democratic and an allied country, the other two are commi douche bags.
This amused me greatly. Russia to invade Europe ! ? There is nothing in Europe that would be of use to Russia. They will not waste any time or money on such a course. As for NATO it is hopeless. Russia would batter NATO all over the park.
The Ukrainian war is a proxy war with NATO. Russia is winning this war because NATO countries do not have the manufacturing capacity to supply the Ukrainian army with munitions.
@@chadbrad8100😂😂😂 nah they can't not even America who have never won any war . They only won the second World war with the help of Russia and Europe JUST THAT WAR and from there they have never won again😂😂🚮
The problem is that the eu backstabs NATO everytime they can, look at Turkey, a power house and santioned by the eu forced to look for alternatives regarding import and export.
@@monicahasselgren9342And yet Sweden already has US military personnel on the ground, the US has also always used Sweden to spy on Russia. You’re already in the NATO camp doesn’t matter if you like it or not.
If you want to have your house or place where you are living to have in peace amd harmony you need also to have normal relationships with your neighbours. The neighbours of Europe are Russia, Turkey, Midle East, North Africa. Europe needs to keep them in harmony and peace and not to blimd follow the USA what they tell them or what Murica is doing !
Romania was never part of the russian Empire or anything related to it(not to be confused with Warsaw Pact which was the NATO equivalent of the Eastern Bloc, mostly imposed on the satellite countries). On the other hand, Moldova was but you failed to include it in putin's plans for reasons beyond my comprehension.
@@lamodification Romania was't part of the Soviet Union. Romania was a separate state dependent only on the Soviet Union, as well as, for example, Hungary, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, etc.
Agreed! They don’t need the USA, they WANT the USA, just like at Ukraine pleading the USA for more military aid 😂 Europe is perfectly capable of defending themselves.
I can't help but laugh at referring to Russia's 'defense' budget as "Even bigger in GDP terms than the US". While certainly technically true, the US spends seven to eight times more money on its military while only consuming around three percent of its total budget. Spending a whopping FORTY percent of your national budget on the military is practically begging for overwhelming economic and infrastructural problems in the near future. Moreover, seeing that Russia had its hands full with Ukraine before the west even decided to intervene leads me to believe that Russia couldn't even go toe-to-toe with a country like Germany alone. This video genuinely just comes off as fearmongering for the sake of views.
This is off. First of all, there are no accurate sources at all for what percent of military spending consumes Russia's total national budget. Russia has increased their military budget by 40% relative to last year, but no way to know it accounts of 40% of their total budget. Russia does not release that information like the US does. Second) the US defense budget consumes 12% of our entire federal budget, not 3%.... AND 50% of our defense budget alone goes to paying our service members & their families very nice salaries/benefits while Russia pays dirt for their servicemen & equipment production labor costs. it's a bit more comparable than you're leading on since US labor costs are vastly higher than Russia
They put in all that extra spending into their military so that when they abandon their mission in defeat, leaving all the millions in weapons behind doesn't seem as much a loss lol
i hope nato will not be aggressive ... don´t go to east anymore. this is provocation for russia. they said it many times. i don´t want ukraine in nato.
"Russia can't even conquer Ukraine"
"Anyway, Russia will attack NATO"
Yeah, makes total sense, nothing contradictory.
Ukraine got funded since 2014 so I'm not that surprised
"Russia can't even conquer Ukraine."
Russia has achieved the objectives they set out to do, they occupy the Russian speaking Donbas region. At the start of the conflict in Russia was on the outskirts of Kiev which brought Ukraine to the negotiating table and an peace agreement was on the verge of been signed but the US sent its lapdog Boris Johnson to Kiev to persuade Zelensky to walk away from the talks, which he did. Now the result is that Ukraine has lost hundreds of thousands of their young men.
Russia can’t take Ukraine right now. However, if The West abandons Ukraine, Russia will box it up and rebuild their military for another bigger attack.
Its because you are stupid and cannot see past next week.
It’s propaganda for the smooth brains. Last year Russia was on the brink of collapse now Russia has become the Soviet Union again and is able to conquer Europe.
Nope, Russia is not going to invade Nato for the same reason Nato has not put boots on the ground in Ukraine...Nuclear weapons
NATO has been involved i Ukraine since 2014.
Correct, who needs stinking Warsaw and berlin
@@niarlatotepbasset no it hasnt
Americans need to start their industry, after their decision to move facilities to China. Now, to start a new production, they must clear market for their goods. Germany is competitor, now it's closing/relocating plants to USA/China. Win Win for USA and China.
We the people will not allow it. Bread and butter for US taxpayer is more important than Polaks fighting Russia. Kapish? This is why US Congress told F++you to Zelenski@@ZARuslan
I get really worried about the media actively spreading conspiracy theories like this article.
thank u ..bang on
They want to distract us and try to save face, then whenever UA falls to RU, EU can say that they actually won and saved EU against RU invasion
Well it was said first by Poland and Germany's governments
How's this even a conspiracy? It's called realism. You're either lying to yourselves to comfort yourselves or are straight up naive. As much as we'd wish, Russia is not losing the war in Ukraine.
What conspiracy
The world is insane.Humanity didn't learn from history apparently.
Nato wants to start world War III or something
Not humanity, you mean Europeans have this evil complex.
@@rdeleeuw4408 it has never been like this. this time we are closer to the great reset than ever before. in other name: ww3
Want to bet...?!@@scoper7897
Capitalism never change
Lockheed martin are getting creative with their commericals
They have to get creative when the US only seems to want to fund only one regional war at a time. They were hoping for a bumper year in 2024, with three wars, but now they are behind schedule.
Russia has no intention to attack Europe.... It's ridiculous.
The Zelenskey regimen should have honoured the minsk accords and we wouldnt have a war now. Thanks to Boris and Angela
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Always been like this
Unfortunately some people benefit from every war, war is an interest for a handful of people who don't fight it themselves... Russia has been slowly and steadily winning in Ukraine for some time now, Bakhmut fell, now Avdiivka is gonna fall for sure, and some smaller settlements, but we have to remember...Ukraine was the underdog from the start, Russia couldn't even capture Kyiv and was repelled, they couldn't hold their own against some counteroffensives in 2022, Khakrhiv, Kherson, Izium, Krasny Liman.... and people think they're gonna attack Poland? No way, Russia is overestimated hard, it can only make empty threats like against Finland joining NATO. We should stop China potentially attacking Taiwan, that's a bigger issue and China must be stopped and prevented.
It is true that better gear is no guarantee of victory, but in large part the poor success of the Ukrainian counteroffensive was due to other factors. 1) shortages of modern equipment, 2) inadequate training, 3) being postponed too long allowing the Russians to build the fortifications that proved impossible to break through, and last, but not least 4) lack of air support and air supremacy, or even air superiority as the opposite was true with the Russians having it instead.
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GOP Blocked it as they did in 1941 when the Nazis threatened Britain & GOP Turned down Churchills please, so she on the right will & destroying democracy , having done in in the USA now threatening Ukraines democracy.
Are you still visiting your psychiatrist? Keeping overestimated your real possibility and underestimated Russians, you will got surprised, Ukraine alone with all support will loose, nothing will stop that, if NATO join to war is going to be WW3 , and nuclear strikes, keep that in mind.
Funny. Didn't according to our media the "ghost of Kiev" and the "goat of Kiev" destroy the Russian air fleet? Where are the hundreds of Ukrainian fighter jets? Why after being so gloriously victorious are they now denying the ground forces any support?
And why is the glorious, victorious Ukrainian army "inadequatly trained"?
Stoltenberg and Merkel have all said clearly that Minsk II was a sham and that they have trained the Ukrainian army since 2014. Why is 9 years of training not enough?
Could it be that our media and regimes are LIARS and that the alternative media and the Russian MOD speak the truth and they really have eliminated TWO Ukrainian armies along with all of Ukrainian ex Soviet military equipment including the entire air force and that the reports that the Ukrainians are so desparate to kidnap even minors and older men from the streets, and now even women, to put them into uniforms and throw them on the front without any training?
@@donzell1945 The consensus among western defense analysts and experts points to the inevitability of a war between Putin's Russia and Nato within the next three to six years if Ukraine loses this war, and by losing I mean fails to liberate their territories and is forced to sue for peace.
Counter to this bleak reality, the western support to Ukraine is dwindling, and it never was adequate to begin with. At this point we are on a trajectory which will lead to the inevitable ruzzian victory over Ukraine, with the war to follow, unless NATO steps in and becomes a direct party to this conflict.
In other words, the west will be in a war against Putin unless they radically and quickly step up their military and financial aid to Ukraine. I'm not talking about millions here, I'm talking about billions of US dollars every month.
Absolute nonsense. Corporate media really is finished, in the modern age of freely available information.
Where do you get your information? Vlads speeches?
@@Bigbosssss780 From Fortnite
@@Madej16x lmao
@@Bigbosssss780 And yours ? from TV ?
Exactly! That's why they're desperate to censor the internet.
The UK is a disgrace, one point in time we had the strongest army in the world. Now we couldn’t even sell out Wembley.
That's scary when you think that's not an exaggeration!
Send your royals don't yall worship a king and queen send harry
@@jamesgilbert4152 it's funny when they've done more than most politicians, the Princes would be more effective in combat than many 🤷♂️
NATO would be correct to assume the US won't be around to help out forever. Isolationism is creeping back as a policy by lots of US politicians. It's just that the US will find it will have vastly reduced leverage after doing so. US Diplomats will start getting the middle finger from all sorts of countries that previously bowed to US demands. Europe best get real about removing the bureaucracy that's hamstringing their weapons manufacturing, and the US better start ramping up for China.
nope you guys only fight your own people in usa and western europe and they tried to advocate for taking my gun rights away in europe so eff them
Bang on, Bro!
bang on mate.. and guess usa would be the first to come to europe to ask for help when china and usa start over tiawan but turning ya back on europe is wrong idea from them
@@dazzer7961 How many times has the USA funded Europe's salvation?
@@dudelebowski8629 Without France you wouldn't even exist.
The problem was lack of equipment not the equipment itself.
Exactly, I thought that was weird when they said "western weapons were less powerful than expected" A 155mm shell is a 155mm shell, it's just as powerful as you would expect. Giving Ukraine a few hundred vehicles and half a million shells won't win the war for them.
Additionally, US/Western equipment is meant to be used as part of a larger military force that assumes far more air support than Ukraine can manage. If Russia were to try and invade Europe (even without US backing) that wouldn't be the case there. Ukraine has done a great job at limiting the air operations of Russia, but doesn't have what it needs to project force the way European forces would.
And lack of the right type of equipment.
Even the F-16s they shall be getting too late, are the older models from European oeprators, not more modern ones the US has plenty of in storage.
The problem was both.
@@truth959 How so?
This is the first time I've ever heard someone try and claim NATO weapons are proving to be less powerful than expected lmao
It's a fact. NATO weaponry is being destroyed by old Soviet-era equipment. Russia has rarely used its modern equipment due to there rarely being a need for it.
@@AnnedolfFrankler911 We understood that you're a Russian bot already so shut it plz.
You don't like facts, I see.
Wrong
@@AnnedolfFrankler911 What weaponry are you speaking of? The stuff developed and purchased in the 60s?
war propaganda at its finest
Exactly
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Dont be scared when it happens . 😱
Born in 1989, growing up I always thought wars in europe was a thing of the past. It feels so weird and horrifying to have been proven wrong.
There was a war in Europe in Europe in the 90's
@@hrvsmartthese people are actively ignorant don’t bother
@@NeostormXLMAX How much did u watch the news while under the age of 10??
nazi usa is playing cards with youir lives..... wake up eurosavages!!!
All it took was the WW2 generation dying off before the cycle repeats itself.
What crap for last year plus all we heard is how uselss is Russia and how crappy they are and the pathetic Rusiian military hardware, training, soldiers are and now suddenly " they are a threat" So which is it, are they useless or are they powerful
They are powerful, especially with the backing of its eastern allies like Iran, North Korea, China, Syria, Hezbollah and Lebanon, many African nations, states of Latin America hating Yankees, Gulf states, you name them.
Classic. The enemy is always strong and weak at the same time
Russia was supposed to have 2000 Armata tanks by 2022. They have under 15.
@@Michael-ss7pc That's a shame
Its what we tell you slave boy.
Those same 2014 war games analysts would've predicted Russia to take Kiev in 72 hours as well...
shh shhhh just 2 more weeks
But i thought they only had shovels left?
If Russia ever had the goal of conquering Ukraine - then it would have done so in a week at most.
@@AnnedolfFrankler911 Ofc they totally planned to lose 300k soldiers and thousands of tanks. Big brain strategy right there.
@@AnnedolfFrankler911 Just 2 more weeks!!!!
American weapons have NOT under performed. They have far surpassed any and all expectations. The issue is quantity, not quality
As a Norwegian I know a lot of polish... Their mindset is never again
the poles really are the go to experts on russia
It should be mindset of all europeans, not only poles and baltic states citizens, if you are rich somebody will envy and come for your riches. Easy to grasp
@@jenifferschmitz8618 Apart from Russians. Sting wrote a song many years ago. If the Russians love their children too.
There are many families in Russia that have lost their children the last 2 years.
Add to that the tradegy in Israel/Palestine. It is mindboggeling how some leaders send thousands to die.
That's funny, because that's Russian mindset too. Ukrainian Nazis tried to exterminate them 80 years ago.
I think people are comparing todays Russia with the 80s USSR. These are very different countries, to include the amount of soldiers they would have on hand to conduct military operations.
I have a really hard time seeing Russian Soldiers rolling through western Europe. I dont think they have the capabilities to do so.
As for NATO, they do have the integrated combined arms warfare, but the amount of war stocks have been allowed to shrink compared to what was on hand in the 80s.
Drone warfare is a huge thing, countries should be concentrating on anti-drone tech to counter drone swarms.
NATO was made for the USSR. No more USSR, yet still NATO 🤔
Bro this is a plot US wants Europe vs Russia in order to save its economy.
Not even that, Russia invading Europe is like punching your best client. Europe feeds Russia’s economy and even though its hostile to Russia, Russia still does trade with Europe in the hundreds of billions every year
Russia never had any intention of invading Europe. It was Europe that always wanted to invade Russia in order to capture its resources.
Hahahahaaaaa
Why are the number of tanks even seriously considered when it was already proven that tank on tank engagements have become very uncommon on the battlefield? A more realistic comparison would be in terms of Air Power which has proved to be one of if not the most decisive aspect of modern warfare.
It also depends on anti-aircraft systems quality. Excellent AA can annihilate any possibility of using aviation at battlefield (except drones)
When was it proven? If there is a conflict between Russia/EU( or NATO), and then possibly China and the US are pulled in, it will look nothing like any of the conflicts that have occurred in the twenty-first century so far.
@@dunnohow2live997 Yes, which is why SEAD operations are important.
AFAIK Tank on tank engagements were never the biggest thing anyway, that's a myth. E.g. In ww2 they were generally infantry support with a smattering of upgunned tanks for when they needed to meet other tanks.
@FallNorth i think it was a quite big thing in desert storm no?
As an American my southern border is more important than ukraines
Exactly, that is the reason why Ukraine has struggled so much due to these naive views.
Whys is this even a discussion? We can't attack Russia through fear of nuclear retaliation but they can attack NATO, who also have nukes? Either the Nukes are a problem or they are not, which is it?
I seriously doubt nukes matter. NATO will not use them first and I seriously Russia would. IMO nukes are only public opinion scare.
It's not. The media as always have blown everything out of proportion to create fear and panic. They're spreading dangerous lies..
@@jacekpliszka5326 not public opinion but they ensure a country will never be fully destroyed or invaded (as in Russia will not become another Iraq or Germany in ww2). it might also be a possibility for Russia to use nukes on non-Nato countries but it's not very likely.
@@jacekpliszka5326 nato would use them if russia were winning so it wouldnt make sense for russia to attack nato anyway
we do not know who has better ANTINUKE defense. If Nato has secret new technology "radars" and "antimissile weapons" placed all over the world, and if the Russian Secret Service fails to obtain this information, then NATO can win a nuclear war because no or less nukes will fall on its soil. there is ALWAYS way to outsmart and defeat the enemy. so do not underestimate russia either
Ukraine didn’t get “cutting edge” weapons, rather they got second tier or de-rated ones.
No cutting-edge, but still better than the average Russian weapons.
@@和平和平-c4i all the same
Got the same ones we carried in Iraq.
@@和平和平-c4i and you know this how? Mass media said so? poor guy
@@Unknown_Web_Userthere literally videos and pictures Russia and Ukraine are using old weapons some from ww2
Whenever commentators talk about defence in the UK they always talk about the army. A land war in Europe should be defended primarily by central European powers (Poland has already taken on this mantle). The UK is a maritime power and we should prioritise the Royal Navy with an additional emphasis on deployable air power.
You are right this is true however our military standards are slacking
Our navy might be smaller than before but its well trained with a lot of real world experience and it's also technically advanced two air craft carriers a third being built also the most devastating battle ship ever made, nuclear submarines anything as great as the Americans can build. People also forget about these key features like we and the Americans are the only true blue water navy whereas we can put our forces anywhere around the world and keep them supplied in feul, weapons and fed think Afghanistan and Iraq two wars thousands of miles apart oh and of course the Falklands 8000 miles in the South Atlantic rough seas. Russia on on the other hand had trouble supplying their troops by road next door to Russia! Better food, better logistics, better medical care, better military equipment, better training, better reconicense (MI6, GCHQ), better navy, better Air force. Russia could not win against the UK or the UK and EU. 🇬🇧🤝👍
Правильно. Отсидитесь за проливом, как обычно, а полякам набьют морду как всегда 👊💥🤕
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What navy?
In Tuker Carlson’s interview with Putin he said Russia achieved its historical borders when the Russian Empire hit its peak. Still gives the same point but is really interesting that he is trying to push this on western viewers
The Russian Empire did not include Romania. It was Finland and Moldova.
Also, do not forget Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan as well as all the 'stans. They used to be part of the Empire.
those poor countries with arabs that trow rocks yes very scary compared to nato
For some reason they don't consider us as russian opposite. We also don't like Russia as they have destroyed Azerbaijan for 200 years
@@elmarmammadov8349 yeah we all know Azeri used to launch rockets into space 500 years ago before those pesky Russians woke you up from opioid induced fever 😂
@@elmarmammadov8349 do you really know the history well , boy ... in what way Russia destroyed you
@@AndrewKoff I can write whole book about it. In short: In 1804 invaded Azerbaijan and from that time on took all natural wealth. Mainly Baku oil. Banned mother language from schools, to make people forget origin. In 1918 invaded again and created Armenia in Yeravan. In 1937 killed all enlightening people. Deported people from own cities to cental asia and moved Armenians there. In 1991 killed innocent people in streets: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_January . In 1994 helped Armenia to invade Azerbaijan and took all golds from Kabajar (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sotk_gold_mine#After_2020_Nagorno-Karabakh_war). And still trying to do something here.
Its worth noting that the underwhelming Ukranian gains in the offensive was attempted with no air superiority (something that the west would never do, but Ukraine was forced to), and agaisnt a very well prepared defense in deph. Even the tactics that they would've been using agiasnt the defensive line had air superiority in mind. NATO has no problem with air superiority, and its pretty impossible to evaluate how the west would fare by comparing them to Ukraine while we have been withholding crucial equipment that Ukraine needs to win this war
Fr, so tired of the bs.. send them literally hundreds of f16s f18s a10s and f15s ffs
@@kevincorrigan1754Like you don't send Ukraine a lot of planes.
@@kevincorrigan1754 the issue is we can't send the pilots and mechanics alongside the planes, so we have to rely on the few existing Ukrainian pilots and train them to newer planes. Also the logistical chain for keeping the planes combat ready after each sorty is complicated and the reason why the west sends few planes.
Russia also is not using air force
Why? Because they are easy targets for air defence
European air force is worthless and so is Russian
Exactly.
I think it's easy to underestimate how much stronger the support from other nations in Europe would be in Ukraine if there was war within their own borders.
Right now the general populations of those nations are supportive but not passionate.
If their own people were dying in war the fires of passion would grow very strong very fast, and I don't think that effect can be gauged very easily by the current tea time support for Ukraine by average families and formal support for Ukraine by leaders.
It'd be a fire.
@albertkirilov6921 I live in Europe. Norway.
"Do you reckon family life is any better with the conflict going?"
It sounds like you are implying that it's the defenders side that is causing the conflict to keep going.
Russia has no intention of stopping. Fighting back and winning is the shortest least destructive path to ending the conflict, which was your point.
Not fighting back, losing, and letting Russia expand, is the path to create broader and longer conflict.
It also sounds alien to me to evaluate political opinion from the perspective of 'how does it benefit my family'.
How would anyone ever fight for their nations freedom in history if that was the line of thinking?
Our view here is that the west isn't instigating, Russia is currently like a criminal who is shooting at a person under cover and we are trying to hand the poor guy ammo to fight back.
People opposed to that are saying
"Hey you should both try to step back."
while people trying to give the gun *correctly know* that the attacker has no intention of stopping shooting no matter what.
Give an inch and a mile will be taken is the accurate assessment of the situation.
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Your reference to Socialism and Capitalism strikes me as a very American like view.
I've always lived with 3-4 left parties and 3-4 right parties.
The republicans are slightly to the right of our most right leaning party while the democrats are to the center over here.
The thing is that here, if the rightmost party does something crazy they lose votes to the other parties on the right cause conservative voters don't need to sell their soul to the left.
They have other conservative options.
Same for the left.
By only having two parties in America it leads to people more often than is natural 'seeing their own parties views' since there are no options. The party forming the people rather than the opposite.
The two main reasons we have multiple parties here is that we have a voting system were we vote for parties in bunch.
All votes are then tallied and if the green party gets 6% of the votes they get 6% of parliament.
In America you would need the green party to get 40-ish % of the votes in 6 % of the congressional districts since you vote for every candidates rather than for party.
This makes it so that it's practically impossible for smaller parties to get representation because in spite of having 6% of the vote in every state they never get a candidate.
I think conservatives as well as liberals could benefit from more parties in the US as they would see that they don't have as much support for their causes as it appears they have and that they need to fully convince the population of their views rather than enact policies before the public is truly convinced.
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@albertkirilov6921 Socialists from the east were to a large extent dictatorships and the unhappiness stems from that.
Free nations tend to choose some of the socialist policies but not all out ban the market.
It's always been a part of American propaganda that the Socialism rather than the Dictatorship was the problem.
Very transparent to me since we've always had socialist parties getting some of their policies through and it didn't destroy our nation, the problem is authoritarianism and in some cases totalitarianism.
The free nations where the people can elect socialists sometimes and not at other times we simply don't vote for socialist party next election if it goes abit too far.
More than 50% in my country would just let the russians pass so they can go where they actually want to go. People here dont care about if the rich people who have power here are pro usa or pro russia. I say let them pass so they can go to uk and america. Their real enemies....
@@cyberneticbutterfly8506 I agree on Ukraine, but I will note that your idea that "we've always had socialist parties getting policies through and it didn't destroy our nation" is predicated on short-sightedness. Socialism is barely 100 years old. That's nothing at a state level. Things like dysgenic fertility can utterly destroy nations and even entire species, but often require decades to actually manifest, and centuries to take full effect. Norway is very lucky in this sense, but take one look at modern-day Sweden, and its fertility trends, and it is easy to appreciate how seemingly-benign policies can have unintended, and potentially catastrophic, long-term consequences. And of course Sweden not being an isolated example, but one out of many, corroborates this point further.
@@VVayVVard I agree that any policy might have unforeseen long term consequences.
Why would socialism be special here if it's unforeseen?
Wouldn't capitalist policies also have unforeseeable consequences?
Isn't that the whole reason why people are critical of it these days?
I am uncertain what you are saying with the Swedish fertility example.
I don't think NATO's weapons are ineffective, it's just that there is less of a supply from NATO.
there was a big deal made about the tanks. they weren't nearly as effective in practice.
The "funny thing" is that Russia is buying chips for rockets/boms from USA. Not only that, but from who all scared EU country's are buying military equipment from😅 USA is racking in big time
NATO equipment is meant to be combined with massive air power. Something Ukraine doesn't have much of. The destroyed rate would not equate to the same equipment being used by NATO forces.
I think it needs to be pointed out that NATO have only sent smaller arms to Ukraine as they don't want Ukraine using weapons to cross the Russian border. If people think we are sending our best weapons to Ukraine think again. We've sent our older weapons to Ukraine hence why people think that they are less effective.
@@jdiluigi NATO needs to understand that russia got anti air defense.
Germany, the UK and France mentioned. It is really a bit funny, that the latest NATO member Finland has in its war time troops and reserves roughly as many trained soldiers as Germany, the UK and France combined... No, actually you must add Italy to the three to get even.
That's disgraceful Finland population is only 5 million
Findland hasn’t fought in 100 years. Stop overestimating Findland. The last time Russia and Findland fought, they lost 9 percent of their land
@@kingwata1 A nation of 180 million failed to conquer a country of 3,5 million. But my point is that the armies of the big European countries are ridiculously small, not that the Finnish Defense Forces were extremely strong.
not really, they fought the soviets off and then later on lost territory to the soviet army, so ukranian, belarusian, baltic, polish, kasachic etc troops combines with the russians. Remember Russia isnt the soviet union, its only half that population which is old, sick and with a low life expectency. The european states should be able to beat back Russia and work towards that. We cant rely on the Americans to save the continent again. The capabilities are there, the money, the people, the tech. Its just that everyone here needs to wake df up and prepare for a war in a few years. Its doable@@kingwata1
these countries are a joke
All those migrants in Europe Im sure will be more than willing to fight for their new countries lol.
give us your new mexicans
@@yberaithey’re getting deported to Columbia sorry 😂
They are .
@@adwaitnaravane5285sure 😂😂😂😂😂
thats my plan!
I cannot understand why Britain is is getting so involved with the ukrainan problem when they are people over here who is finding it hard to survive daily.
we don't want war
pray for peace
I wonder what could go wrong if almost 50 european countries started militarising and building massive armies right next to eachother :) . It seems these days we have loads of ''smart'' people but fewer and fewer wise people.
No need to wonder, their brains were replaced by media long time ago, just accept this fact and try to survive in this madness, among the masses of brainwashed idiots.
Some might get greedy and take other peoples pie. Haha i see the point.
germans are re arming watch out poland
We should have a combined EU military.
@@adwaitnaravane5285 It would save you all so much money in the long run. Your combined military would be much more efficient and likely as strong as the US' military after 5-10 years of reorganizing.
"Quantity has a quality in its own"
yeah, we will see for how long... :) They don't have the infinitive amount of resources to make quantity infinitive, it is finite and that limit is closer day by day. After that limit, there is a collapse.
@@Hury209 Sadlt not if they are producing 2100 tanks in 12 months. Whats need is for the manufacturing hubs to be taken out.
@@rufanuf1 Russia had a 10 times larger airforce and 10 times more artillery than Ukraine as well as a 5 times larger armored force, yet they can’t even gain more than a couple kilometers after a 2 month offensive on Avdiivka.
Despite its numerical advantage, Russia is in a stalemate against Ukraine. And the small amounts of western equipment Ukraine has gotten has been essential to Ukraine matching Russia head to head. And Ukraine was only given several hundred pieces of western heavy equipment, most of which is stuff like Leopard 2A4 and Bradley M2A2 which are both over 30 years old. Ukraine is not getting the newest western kit like M1A2 Sep V3 or Leopard 2A7 or Bradley M2A4
@@rufanuf1Russia is producing about 20 tanks per month. And they have use older optics and electronic equipment due to a lack of western parts. Before sanctions, Russia was using French commercially available thermals on their tank optics as well as many American electronics in missiles and tanks and aircraft
Most of Russia’s tanks going in to service now are old T-62M tanks, T-72B tanks as well as some T-80’s and T-55’s. These tanks would be completely obsolete against a Nato army like Poland
tell that to the 4th largest military that only lasted 3 days of land warfare lol
There is no way Russia would even think of invading NATO
They would. The US will be fighting China over Taiwan. Europe will have to face Russia alone and he is already in the Arctic and western Africa. Europe is nearly surrounded.
you can watch watch Russian TV shows. They are preparing their population and threatening the Baltic countries. Don't be naive
Romania and Poland were never part of the USSR. The whole validity of this video went up in flames when you said that. How is it possible to make such a huge mistake?
They were member of Warsaw Pact and although independent countries on paper where on reality the Soviets were in control.
@@XIIItanrelevant.... Poland and Romania were separate countries NOT part of ussr. Like yugoslavia there for dynamic were totally different.
and the soviets could have easily taken Romania but they did not, they had a mutual understanding and similar traditions. I am not sold on this video.
at first 01:30 it is said Romania and Poland territories were part of the old Russian Empire, not the USSR. did you get it wrong from the video, or are you manipulating?
The Russian empire was a separate entity than the ussr. It basically just had a tiny bit of Romania and the majority of Poland with all of the USSR’s borders.
The weapon systems worked famously. The lack of quantity in our stockpiles is the problem
Reliance on GPS handicapped a lot of NATO guided munitions, given the level of electronic warfare Russia engages in.
US hypersonic famously failed
The WESTERN COWARDICE towards Hitl... I mean Putler is infuriating!!
Half a million Ukrainians have died. Russia is winning you fool. It's not equipment they need they need men.
Do you have any evidence that the weapons systems have been successful? I am asking a serious question not trolling. All my research online seems to suggest the Russian weaoons are mire advanced
Am i the only one contemplating that overreliance on technology might be similar to frances over reliance on the maginot line?
I say this as an American, after the wars in Iraq, Afgan and all over, this is probably the smartest comment on I unironically have seen on TH-cam. That is the danger of a major continental war or world war. Reliance on technology can be a death nail because technologies you become dependent on can become obsolete overnight in something as competitive as a large scale war, never mind one side purposely abandoning technologies(ie a digital grid) to gain an advantage on a 'superior' technological opponent. From Afghanistan to Vietnam, you can feel over confident when winning a quick battle and a war (iraq, shock and awe) and lose the long wars because of jungle fighters and cave dwellers over a war of attrition. Technological advantages matter less as a war goes on, see America in Vietnam or Afganistan, Germany vs Soviet Union in WW2 and so on.
@LewtenantZen Wtf you are talking about. French lost 74k soldiers and 240k wounded, with more than 1,5mil POW just in the initial invasion alone.
cringe
Yeah overreliance on tech in general is a bad idea one emp and anything electrical is toast
@FantomMisfit yea there's a reason militaries shield equipment from emp events.
America also knows, no matter the president, that their biggest trade partner so far is and will be Europe, so yes they might ignore Ukraine. But im extremely sceptical towards the idea of US leaving Europe to Russia. No superpower with military bases in Europe would want the whole cold war era again.
Yeah I don’t think people fully grasp the complexity of American thought around NATO and Europe
i feel like it depends on the president a lot
@@mharley3791Especially when this US thought relies on a brain splitted into a right brain and left brain that can no longer communicate.
Wrong, The top five purchasers of U.S. goods exports in 2022 were: Canada ($356.5 billion), Mexico ($324.3 billion), China ($150.4 billion), Japan ($80.2 billion), and the United Kingdom ($76.2 billion). Everything that Europe sells to the US we can get at better price points elsewhere. Europe is on it's own sooner or later.
NATO is a military alliance and only the President can declare ware or deploy forces.@@HARRAWISH
Time to ditch Europe and move to Argentina
Thank you for this stark warning. Definitely appropriate for everyone to stare at, with mouths open, and take on board. But WHY did you ignore the absolutely crucial factor of NO AIR DEFENCE support for Ukraine? And there was no reference to air defence comparisons between Russia and NATO. It is well concluded that the failure of the counter-offensive in Ukraine is largely down to 1) no provision, from the get go, of long range missiles capable of destroying the supply lines of Russia. 2) no provision of fighter jets capable, equally, of destroying the supply lines of Russia. And this report also needs to mention that the Ukraine counter-offensive was doomed by the LACK of speedy provision of weaponry. Every decision has been taking far too long = bad consequences for Ukraine and for Europe. Minefields everywhere and a LOT of trenches...Next time please acknowledge the empirical facts relating to Ukraine's dismal position of fighting FOR the West WITHOUT sufficient and appropriate WEAPONRY in all sectors.
I don't think it's down to the UK to fight a ground war with our tanks in continental Europe, and we're highly unlikely to fight a ground war with tanks on UK soil anytime soon, so I'm not surprised our tank numbers are that low. It's just priorities.
It's obvious that you know nothing about history like WWII when a madman decided he wanted to take over the world. What happened to the UK the last time a person like that existed. The UK at the time Hitler came to power thought the same way you are now and what happened. Maybe learn about the Battle of Britain. Look at pictures of what happened to London during that time.
Priorities change.
@@TonyM540 "Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it". Sad people will have to repeat history because of ignorance.
Yup, the UK (being an island country) is primarily an aeronaval power rather than a land power.
We need more men and equipment. In the current climate, even if nothing at all ever happens, it'd be sensible to have it. Plus being an island means we can pick and choose where we help if any major conflict breaks out, that's the other benefit. You are correct in that we could invest in our naval and air assets again instead, but we need to be prepared either way.
I don’t know where to start, the outfit of this reporter or the wild imaginary scenario that Russia will attack NATO.
They ask Europeans to pay for the war US/UK have started.
What does russia have to gain?
Putin isnt stupid
One does not simply launch a counter offensive without air supremacy.
Hence the suggestion Ukraine can win this one is a bit of a joke
Which would mean that NAFO would never launch any offensives since their air assets would be swatted down like a fly
@@RNA0ROGER Russia also is failing to achieve air superiority. Both countries have fairly capable air defense systems; while both also lack modern aircraft.
@@elijah4685Russia is a tier 1 military and they have vastly more aircraft than Ukraine. Some of which are modern
@@RNA0ROGER tier 1 no longer. this war has devolved into something comparable to corrupt arab armies fighting one another. yea, iran might have had the f14, and the ukrainians have the m1 abrams, but doing better than either of those countries means you're barely tier 3
We have planes, Ukraine doesn't, its not a fair comparison!
And the West sent Ukraine scraps and hand-me downs - plus we did not give Ukraine the yields they asked for. Ukraine only had moderate success and is currently suffering because the West did not step up + several US congressmen were compromised by Russian intel.
Ukraine has a air force and Russia does not even have air superiority it is contested
@@nickg7015 has better fighter planes than us you dmb boi 😂
@@icjorii are you saying russias are better
@@icjorii then how have they not won the air battle then?
OK, it is Russia who wants to create an empire, it is not Nato who expands continually towards Russia..... My eyes and my ears fooled me.
NATO is an organisation with an agreement….it’s not a country that has any land mass. To say that an agreement has ambitions of an empire is farcical, so yes your eyes and ears fooled you. But your not the only fool in russia.
Nah Europe is not loosing to a guy who can’t even invade Ukraine
The western weapons systems were designed to work in conjunction with air power. Ukraine does not have anywhere near the kind of air power that NATO has. NATO’s air power and training will multiply the of those Western weapon systems.
How long air power lasts against air defences which are so numerous that you will be seeing fighter jets getting shot down every day just like how tanks are getting destroyed left and right with FPV drones and shells. How long will the air power remain before it turns back to same trench warfare we see in Ukraine? You can't manufacture enough shells to keep up with war. Forget about building aircrafts at this rate. This is not middle east warfare.
One other thing to consider is that the whole NATO military doctrine is designed around overwhelming airpower, which would not work if NATO's adversary had capability to shoot down aircraft, including stealth, and sink the aircraft carriers.
Fair enough but how would NATO react to a limited war in for example Estonia or Latvia ? There is likely to be some NATO countries ie Poland and Germany that are for going to war but then there will be other countries that want to stay out of it. So when it comes down to it yes NATO has air superiority….on paper. Let’s not even go there….the time to defeat putin is here and now. Give Ukraine the weapons and means to do it.
Western Weapons were designed to fight third world peasants.
@@Nick_S0 No, it was designed around the US babysitting these countries.
No one would be surprised if America pulled out but they are smart enough to realise that Europe and the rest of the world would no longer be listening/trading with them the same.
The US isn't smart enough.
@@colabear1529 Todays world is shaped by the global trade and the dependency on other nations, trading would no doubt occur in some degree even during a full scale war.
Americans are stupid enough to think that the rest of the world doesn't matter.
@@colabear1529 100%
It would probably be the opposite: When you're in a war, you do not exactly care where your weapons and ammunition comes from, just that you get it. The first part of WW2 and the majority of WW1, the US was considered an ally to various degrees to various countries, but did little more than sell weapons, ammunition, loans, and other products to Europe.
The U.S. will probably do the same until forced to put troops on the ground. Vietnam, Korea, and the middle east are still very fresh on memories here, fighting for countries that had no meaningful effect on us, with what was basically the US vs the USSR and Russia. Also, this is what Europe has done historically, squabble over pointless things every 10 minutes.
Like mentioned in the video, Europe isn't really arming either. That isn't a way to sell an ally, an ally who complained loudly and was laughed at when they brought up the fact that basically no one was meeting their NATO requirements, that you're preparing. That's telling your ally that you're depending on them to die for you. The same ally talked about not relying on your now enemy too, with the pipeline, but that was also ignored.
The only exception here is Poland. Poland throws a wrench in these predictions as when was the last time a country asked to host the US military and its weapons, including nuclear weapons, while reaming and building its military?
No matter what happens the military industrial complex is going to be happy.
I guess Putin loves the military industrial complex
It will all be pointless when civilization is in ruins and most of humanity has been fried with fire, radiation, disease and starvation. How can one be happy after such a "win"?
Fr business is booming
Romania and Poland were never part of the USSR.
Yet they helped the naxi kill jews 😂
He said the Russian Empire. Half of Poland and Romania were part of it. Also all of Finland btw
@@romko4496 Romania was never part of the Russian Empire tf?
@@kennethroth6757 yeah the sacrafices for jews and the 60k saved by Poles doesnt count
@@barb1493 moldova and a large portion of romania was part of the russian empire, maybe actually check before commenting something this stupid
So the US started this and maybe they don't want finish it,like most places they get involved in start then do a runner.
It was the government who signed this not American citizens. Things have changed alot in the past 30 years and we are tired of wars and living pay check to pay check . We focus to much on the world and not ourselves. This is Europe's problem not ours
That tends to happen when we find out we have been lied to for decades. Every war has been predicated on a lies
such credible sources! pls (**&^ off with your juvenile articles
A crazy world, even more crazier. Something to look forward to, I think not.
Crazy world it is if all got along
War is what happens when U-kraine is busy waiting for other planes.
Definitely if you live in Britain. Humiliated government, humiliated military and BS journalism. Not much to look forward to economically. Self-inflicted hardship. The world is now laughing at you - the looters.
I’m happy I’m American. Long live America 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💪🏻
@kingof206 Since you are so happy, that you decided to tell the world about it, could you please elaborate on your disclosure and tell us more specifically ‐ what are you so happy about and also what is your IQ, please.
Almost died laughing watching this
Will you continue laughing when Russia has the backing of North Korea, China and Iran as well? If Europe cannot count on US help, then it is a sitting duck.
@@HawkGirl0561boo hoo it is Europes problem
@@HawkGirl0561 take more risks 😂😂😂 not like we will survive anyway
@@HawkGirl0561 it won't happen
The effectiveness of NATO weapons used by NATO trained professional career soldiers brought to bear in a multi-domain digital battlespace is considerably greater than NATO weapons used by Ukrainian forces in a war of attrition fought in the trenches typical of the Great Wars of the 20th century.
Well, i wouldnt say the west gave the best weapons not anything with the numbers ukraine would have pushed russia back…way back….lets face it….the whole world dragged their feet to the tune of a catipillar
@@chrisallen3741 The West is committed to not allowing Ukraine to lose, whilst also not giving it the necessary support to enable it to win. The Western response has been painfully slow and has resulted directly in unnecessary loss of life in this war.
Ukraine needed tanks and fighter jets 2 years ago, before the Russian army started massing on his border. Yet here we are almost in 2024 and the West is still dragging its feet and not providing Ukraine with the tools it needs.
Yes, the West has provided support. However it hasn't been anywhere near enough. It's been like watching bystanders to a mugging attempt to intervene through the use of harsh language and throwing empty soda cans at the assailants.
You miss one point. Is that those digital weapons are expensive in LARGE numbers
It's simply that Wars fought in Europe involve mass amounts of armaments because the layout of the land
or could it be that cheap, easy to fix and mass produce equipment is more effective in a REAL WAR compared to fancy game changing wunderwaffes? I'll let the German tank crews on the eastern front be the judge of that. perhaps ME-262 pilots could weigh in as well
The British army yes is professional but considering how small it is… it’s an absolute joke
In the mean time european leaders struggle to decide how many genders there are
Europe's dependency on America will be it's mistake.
Well not for ww1 annnnnd ww2. The US, it seems to let people get attacked, then come in saying here’s some weapons but in turn you will owe us for the 80 years 😂
That IS funny. What's even funnier is all the Americans that died fighting for your country. But the funniest of all is that you never paid for the 80 years😂😂😂😂😂😂
Not will be but reliance on US is it's mistake.
In November, the Americans will almost certainly elect a criminal and Russian agent to be their president again, and that president has and will actively continue to support Russian attacks on Europe. The obese, stupid Americans are not friends with any Europeans. Each European nation is on its own, and must arm and prepare
@@ClarkyMalarky Lend Lease to the UK, Canada and other allies was free! You are moaning about a post war reconstruction loan at ludicrously low interest rates. You also forgot to mention the $70billion Marshall Plan gift that the UK and others received. Whingeing Pom!
50 countries and USA proxy Ukraine against Russia and they lost 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lol Russian bot
@@matthewsill748 yeah, there are a lot of them, on every video.
@bioxid No surprise just look all the propaganda they push on there own people
Well we lost against 500 goat herders in Afghanistan so. 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Funny how they were laughing at Russia's army and now they are in hysterics.
Who is "they", is guy is an idiot... this video is stupid...
yeah according to demented Joe Putin has lost the war! Go figure.
If world leaders were serious about hurting or stopping Russia, they would become oil independent of Russia.
I agree. India and Turkey do not agree.
What difference does it make whether you speak Russian or English?)))))
Has US gotten weak that it needs world to stop russia
Cmon US hasnt fallen or are you saying it is
The West are working towards it.
@@southparklionAnd what about China 😂😂
NATO should enter Ukraine and create a defensive line from Kyiv down to Odessa and that would make a safety zone of Western Ukraine . This would allow Ukraine to secure a place to receive goods and weapons , set up manufacturing and protect the refugees from the occupied areas . Also stop Russia from taking all of Ukraine which will seriously threaten NATO countries . I don't understand why NATO is so hung up on a signed membership when they refused to let Ukraine in way before the war or separatist movement started and Russia winning would be a real threat to existing NATO borders .
There is no way Russia will win a war over NATO when it's been 2 years in a war with Ukraine (3 times smaller population, no air force, no navy, no ballistic missiles, far smaller economy and industry) and hasn't manage to conquer even the whole of Donbass, literally on the doorstep of Russia and with much of its population being Russians. Russia is literally struggling for months to win a few kilometers of empty fields here and there and to take a couple of destroyed villages, with huge losses. This analysis is probably sponsored by Putin himself.
You might be right, because that's what Russians do and every one knows it, but they're just not saying it out loud. This could actually be made to make cracks in alliance, or make some countries to lean towards Russia.
One no need to be very smart to understand that west have to hold together .
you're too idiot to understand that putin is playing the long game, to drain the waste out of money and resources
The EU is not one comunity. Among the serious players, only Poland understands the seriousness of the situation, but it is at least 5 years late with armaments (although currently they are impressive on a global scale). Unfortunately, America is in no hurry to provide military aid to Ukraine. Comparing Lend-Lease to Russia in 1941 with what Ukraine gets 80 years later is simply mockery. I understand why this is happening, but such a policy actually incites the expansion and expansion of the conflict and undermines American credibility as a global security stabilizer.
Totally agree. America, for better or worse, IS the world hegemon. It's refusal to muscularly guard the world order it created and largely benefits from over the last 10 years is what is leading to so much instability in the world. Ukraine, Israel, Venezuela, Taiwan, have all become hot spots for conflicts that have huge potential for wider economic and military chaos because of the US's hesitance to assert the status quo. Crimea was the first domino to tip and it seems like other belligerent actors are seeing US hesitance as an opportunity to return to the might-is-right foreign policy of yester-year.
This is because the US has dumb leaders and dumber people since then.
Since Obama did not want anything to do with Syria directly, the US has lost the name of 'police man' on the globe.
Funny, more than 2/3 of the countries think america is the number one unstabilizer agent in this planet 🤣🫵🏼
I agree , only Poland is wise. Need to listen to them otherwise we are in trouble.
Then maybe it is time for European countries to take responcibility for securing peace in Europe?
I am European, from Italy. And to be really honest, I think that US should just stay out from the scenario. I think that should TOTALLY be our problem (the europeans) to actually face that we, for many years, did not spend money on armed forces investment, weird immigration policies and that we should focus more in an real union, for a common enemy and taking ourselves our own responsabilities, without relying on the US.
The older generations are the one that are always defending ''sovereignity'' blocking every kind of progress that could make the EU a trully bloc and not just some nations trading with each others.
Every time looks like we are blaming someone else (in many cases Germany, for example) for something that we should have all done, as Europeans.
u think u ready for this?
You have a point, but if you guys fight Russia it'll be the non nuclear nato members fighting Russia.
@@Ncloud You seem to have confused me with your nazi friends😅 Im on the other side)
As a Pole I highly disagree about Americans staying out of Europe's problems. While I'd like Europe to be entirely self-sufficient one day, I have no intention of having my country pillaged to the ground by orks, simply because western Europe neglected their own defense.
@@sowiwiody3681 Very nice, me neither. But we have to face the reality that there is no sense of waiting for someone to babysit us. During the 2008 crisis, instead of austerity policies, the EU countries, especially the PIIGS ones, should have moved the money in production and manifacturing areas, where, for many years we relied on outsider for imports, something that was really resolvable to be honest. Of course I DO NOT want a war in Europe, but we have to face the reality that US does NOT have any obligation with us.
There were many ideas of making one unique EU armies, especially from France and Ursula Von Der Leyen, but every time there is someone against.
So we should move on and make the EU one unique political country and solve our own problems
I would rather listen to Russian propaganda because at least they don't try to make it subtle like Western ones
Let's be honest, for those yearning for a war, NATO v Russia will be a Nuclear war... no one wins.
Peace talks and de-escalation is the best choice.
never trust the russians, because they don't trust each other. ~ otto von bismarck
we are not going to invade. ~ vladimir pootin, 02/21/2022
thats a myth, nuclear war likely wont be too devastating, the only problem will be world wide panic and isolation, but world and people are not going anywhere even if we drop all the bombs, which is unlikely
they will all avoid using nukes as long as they can because they are simply not effective way of winning a war and its not easy to replace them(make new ones), plus people would realize how insignificant they are in the bigger picture
I wonder how many people in the governments of Germany and Poland have a vested interest in multi billion dollar defence contracts?
Less than the number paying extra gas and fuel prices, who also vote, so maybe the reason we support Ukraine is because Russia is in the wrong, and unlike the US we don't do everything based on profits?
@m1leswilliams profits? Who sends you the guns and money? We're profiting? Maybe Lockheed is but yall haven't paid your dues. That means America is paying for your lunch. Not a solid profitable business model hey genious. Weird a capitalist society looks at cost vs benefit. We're paying for your defense? Not if we can vote about it. My breakfast tastes the same if Poland ceases to exist. Make sense? We do not care about your derelict military. That is your fault. Don't try to shame me because I would worry about my son before yours. When will you worry about your own? Is it my duty to pay with money? Blood? Kiss my American ass. The way Europe whines, putin gains support. You think the cuck leftists that you all laude is your salvation? It's red blood red necks and trumpers that are the fearsome warriors... your cuck lefties dye their hair pink and need safe spaces. They will carry signs at protests but cannot run across a battlefield with an m60. Cheer for your cucks. We "deplorables" care not about European children. We will not shed blood for your derelict countries. Time to start buying weapons. Training real men to war for you. Stop counting on American money. We're so greedy? Youre a greedy little cuckold punk. 😂
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Why dont you keep your dumbass baseless conspiracy theories to yourself, how about that?
What about stopping nato? Maybe we don’t want nato on our doorstep
When the USSR fell, we all believed in peace "forever". But who could imagine a Putin. We must stop Putin now with or without the US. Can the US really break its promise to NATO?
let your sugar daddy US break it's promise and see yourself speaking russian. You pricks will pay for everything you did anyway. many people want a foreign legion in Russia atleast
UN without the USA? Does that make sense to anyone?
Yes
Yes let’s leave the UN 😍 we already don’t recognize the criminal courts so why not.
Russia never occupied Poland alone. During the times of the Russian Empire, Poland was divided between 3 countries...
It was a puppet state during ussr times, in it's current borders.
Haha, are you trying to somehow suggest that the USSR or today's Russia could not conquer Poland alone? Just look at the numbers.
@@AnnedolfFrankler911 no, he says that Poland was never part of Russia in its entiriety, unlike for example Baltic states.
Probably not,they've barely conquer ukraine.polands army is a far cry from the days in ww2,when they went to war with horse and carts.and rolled over.poland are stronger than Ukraine's military.
@@pewienczlowiekag3111 That's not what he is saying.
After decades of degrading European cultural identities, how are we supposed to feel ANY sense of patriotism and need to defend our countries. Here's a message for the elite, if you're expecting us to die in the million fighting your wars, don't spend all your time and effort demoralising us so you can get rich quick. We'll not fight, evem at the expense of our own national security. We've undermined our own-footing in the world and now we're expected to take a firm stance, it's idiocy of the highest caliber. Unbelievable.
it’s not natos equipment that’s the issue. It’s that russia literally can just send wave after wave and can throw away their soldiers lives. like navy seals are not weak at all but if they were fighting infinite waves of being severely outnumbered they will eventually fail, even though they are superior.
Assuming Putin will live that long...
I've offered to shorten his term here....
You think it put inside fault? You belive that Russians will forgive you for this after he dies..You are complete moron
Not only putin determining russian politic. In Russia a lot of imperialists and also putin can easily reach one hundred years old. The current medicine will allow him to reach.
Putin is system not individual west is salivating to go away. It is not going away. Every century Hances , Boleks and Bills are bent down and are walked away like that from Russian soil back to Warsaw and Berlin. Since west never won against Russia with rifles how the heck you gona win against Sarmat and Hypersonic technology you do not have? Wild man and woman of the west pls answer me. Watch videos how defeated Nazis crawled the banks of Elbe river 1945. Gorbachev allowed Germany to reunite only to face Leopard tanks on Eastern front again? Swedish PM in 1945 liked Stalin's boots for forgiveness collaboration with Nazis. NATO article 5 lovers, do you think US will fight Russia for you? Putin treats Ukraine with love, just look at Jews in Palestine for comparison. Do you think Vladimir will be merciful for you?
most of his funds are allocated to this very purpose. Don't hold your breath !!
Very worrying times we live in.
Where there is usa, there is no need of other evil.usa wants to subjuagte russia by taking nato in ukrain.russia has 2000 km border with ukrain.from ukrain withing hours tank can reach moscow.
Not really. I don't worry.
@@TheRealBillBobwell you will soon
like an ordinary jew people maybe said on the train.. @@TheRealBillBob
@@Givemeproofkidfrom what ?
I dont understand how the Uk, france, germany and benelux with a population of 65 million, 65, 90 and 40 million with better equipment and way more money would lose to russia with a quickly declining population with a low fertility rate and population of 120 million
@@dagerry in 1812 the meat was the French. Moreover, in a literal sense, they were food for their own soldiers
Rheinmetall Marketing team is getting a raise for this one
LOL indeed.
KF-51 Panther needs more costumers.
@@8LegoVogel8 probable they forget what russians did to their fathers during ww2
If The whole European countries do not join together and support each other , then, they will fall deep into a hole which they will never get out of .
NATO needs to support Chinas claim on the disputed Russian territories.
That would be a hypocritical move by the USA 🇺🇸 which currently politically and economically supports Taiwan 🇹🇼
Taiwan 🇹🇼 is the center of American geopolitics and likely influences most American geopolitical decisions today. Taiwan is a critically important country for both China and the USA because Taiwan is where most of the world computer chips are made.
Taiwan is not a disputed claim between russia and china. I was referring to the Bolshoi Ussuriysky Island . Let China and Russia pick each other apart, better for Ukraine better for us. Taiwan is democratic and an allied country, the other two are commi douche bags.
ruussian chinese territorial disputes have been settled
have they? might want to look at china's newest map, china seems to be claiming a lot of territory it has no right to, including a Russian island.
This amused me greatly. Russia to invade Europe ! ? There is nothing in Europe that would be of use to Russia. They will not waste any time or money on such a course. As for NATO it is hopeless. Russia would batter NATO all over the park.
After Ukraine I doubt Russia could beat Finland or Poland ALONE, let alone all NATO
But it might be hard without USA
We need an European army
The Ukrainian war is a proxy war with NATO. Russia is winning this war because NATO countries do not have the manufacturing capacity to supply the Ukrainian army with munitions.
There can’t be any winners in an all out war.
Looks like half of russian sofa army sitting here in comments😅
Nah, most comments are against Russia and in support of Ukraine.
trolls paid from russia itself
That's because they turned off AI and the support for Ukraine dropped by half.
No. Just anti-NATO anti-West enthusiasts.
One little problem … NATO is not able to win any war.
pretty sure they are
@@chadbrad8100😂😂😂 nah they can't not even America who have never won any war . They only won the second World war with the help of Russia and Europe JUST THAT WAR and from there they have never won again😂😂🚮
British media banging the drum of war. What a surprise.
Sure lmao
The problem is that the eu backstabs NATO everytime they can, look at Turkey, a power house and santioned by the eu forced to look for alternatives regarding import and export.
In Sweden the majority of us dont want to join NATO so we hope it never will happen 🇸🇪⚔️💔
@@monicahasselgren9342you will when Russia comes knocking.
@@monicahasselgren9342And yet Sweden already has US military personnel on the ground, the US has also always used Sweden to spy on Russia. You’re already in the NATO camp doesn’t matter if you like it or not.
@@monicahasselgren9342Freeloader alert.
But nnobody does anything!. The United States and Europe have not realized that leaving Ukraine alone in the long run means letting invader king win.!
To the King, the liberator of the native Russian lands
Correct
The Nato never let Putin win in Europe.@@S.v.a.r.o.g...
If you want to have your house or place where you are living to have in peace amd harmony you need also to have normal relationships with your neighbours. The neighbours of Europe are Russia, Turkey, Midle East, North Africa. Europe needs to keep them in harmony and peace and not to blimd follow the USA what they tell them or what Murica is doing !
Us in West Europe is too thick to understand that.
Romania was never part of the russian Empire or anything related to it(not to be confused with Warsaw Pact which was the NATO equivalent of the Eastern Bloc, mostly imposed on the satellite countries). On the other hand, Moldova was but you failed to include it in putin's plans for reasons beyond my comprehension.
Romania was part of the Soviet Union
@@lamodificationI rest my case
@@lamodification Romania was't part of the Soviet Union. Romania was a separate state dependent only on the Soviet Union, as well as, for example, Hungary, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, etc.
Romania is part of the EU
They are absurd assumptions about Russia's or Putin's plans anyway.
If Europe can't muster enough of a defense to deter Russia, that's no body's fault but their own
Agreed! They don’t need the USA, they WANT the USA, just like at Ukraine pleading the USA for more military aid 😂
Europe is perfectly capable of defending themselves.
Western leaders need to WAKE UP to this reality !!
I really hope so. But we don't have the stomach for a war... let alone defence.. just sad.
@@TalentSpotter83 well, if we want to retain any other body parts... I suggest we grow a stomach and FAST !
@DacianRider a pair of balls too would help 😄.
@@TalentSpotter83 ⚾⚾
@DacianRider lol, that'll do! Take care man.
Rubbish propaganda boooooooooo
The key is in the division of NATO. If the countries do not stand shoulder to shoulder. They will be defeated.
We are united more than ever. With Finland and Sweden two strong Armies joined. The EU itself is more united than before (Forget Orban)
@@badpussycatjust because two countries join does not mean it's "stronger". Any nation can veto NATO decisions cos they all have diff agendas.
we don't want any part of your war
Correct.
@@theloniuspunk383 we don't want any part of you, vatnik.
I don't think the United States would ever abandoned Europe
I can't help but laugh at referring to Russia's 'defense' budget as "Even bigger in GDP terms than the US". While certainly technically true, the US spends seven to eight times more money on its military while only consuming around three percent of its total budget. Spending a whopping FORTY percent of your national budget on the military is practically begging for overwhelming economic and infrastructural problems in the near future.
Moreover, seeing that Russia had its hands full with Ukraine before the west even decided to intervene leads me to believe that Russia couldn't even go toe-to-toe with a country like Germany alone. This video genuinely just comes off as fearmongering for the sake of views.
This is off. First of all, there are no accurate sources at all for what percent of military spending consumes Russia's total national budget. Russia has increased their military budget by 40% relative to last year, but no way to know it accounts of 40% of their total budget. Russia does not release that information like the US does.
Second) the US defense budget consumes 12% of our entire federal budget, not 3%.... AND 50% of our defense budget alone goes to paying our service members & their families very nice salaries/benefits while Russia pays dirt for their servicemen & equipment production labor costs. it's a bit more comparable than you're leading on since US labor costs are vastly higher than Russia
Exactly
They put in all that extra spending into their military so that when they abandon their mission in defeat, leaving all the millions in weapons behind doesn't seem as much a loss lol
i hope nato will not be aggressive ... don´t go to east anymore. this is provocation for russia. they said it many times. i don´t want ukraine in nato.
Sounds like Europe better start spending some major $ on defense finally. Like ASAP. Imagine that.
Naah, we first need to discuss it ...