This is how wrong he is. Hodges' commentary on foreign militaries, such as his assessment on the strategic weaknesses of Russia's armed forces, has been distributed by news agencies such as Times Radio.[37][38] In September 2022, he penned an op-ed for the British publication The Daily Telegraph in which he argued that Russia would lose in its war against Ukraine at a comprehensive level that will then be followed by the disintegration of the Russian Federation. He labeled the failures of governance under Russian leader Vladimir Putin as the trigger of a current "crisis of confidence" without an easy or simple outcome
This guy is huge fan of Ukraine. Great. Why is this called analysis, and not propaganda? And is there any place where you can see real truthful analysis of what's going on in Ukraine?
@@goranbabic9730 Unfortunately most channels are huge fans of one side or of the other. I say unfortunately because all you hear is propaganda from either side. I found very few sites that don’t glorify either: Aljazeera and ISW. Let us know if you find others. TIA
@@goranbabic9730 Unfortunately most channels are huge fans of one side or of the other. And all you hear is propaganda from one side or the other. I found very few sites that don’t glorify either: Aljazeera and ISW. Let us know if you find others. TIA
Thank you Sir, for your time. It doesn't seem as good possition to negotionation knowing who is at other side of the desk..having finger cross in pocket. Take care on your health, General. 👍🙋
@@dirkhouben9960from the Generals that brought us 20 years of Afghanistan and Iraq all agree that Ukraine is winnable. He seems to forget things that matter in attritional war, force generation and munitions production.
@@jasonschnelle110Ukraine is in a war. Afghanistan was an occupation, they aren’t the same. Prior to the withdrawal we hadn’t lost a troop in 19 months… does that sound like a war?
Because most comments are done by bots to push propaganda. Ukraine is wrecked . And nation is at the brini of destruction over blackrock (and similar) greed .
Hodges is putting the most positive spin on the current situation in Ukraine. Ukraine is still standing. The Kursk pocket is still holding. The negative spin: 1) Russia may have moved forward a theoretically small distance but that distance is straight through the 2014 fortified line, with Russia now having pierced it and soon to enter Dnipro oblast; 2) the Kursk salient has sucked scarce Ukrainian resources that might have prevented the loss of Vulhedar, Selidove and Kurakhove.
I like General Hodges, but I'm not sure that he's right when he says that the Russians lost Tartus - I think they've negotiated to keep that naval base with the new Syrian government. Agreed that Assad's fall was a major blow to Russia, though.
General Ben Hodges on Crimea in 2023: I believe that Ukraine is going to liberate Crimea by the end of August, so the end of this summer and I say that because we know from history that war is a test of Will and it's a test of logistics. Clearly Ukrainian soldiers and Ukrainian people have the superior will and the logistical situation for Ukraine gets a little bit better each week whereas the Russian logistics system is frail and it was never designed to support and sustain long-term land operations outside of Russia.
So, nothing really new here. I only wish Washington, Paris, Berlin, London and Brussels would pay attention to General Hodges analysis - he has got to be tired of repeating himself.
This guy is a joke! He lost all his credibility when he kept saying Ukraine will take the Crimea in the Summer . . . . . of 2023. And even know, he cannot accept the reality.
Russia, Ukraine got a critical manpower shortages. When you are sending in airforce technicians & cooks to frontline u know u in trouble. Plus mass desertion is occurring and only 1 week of training before entering combat if you are lucky. Right now Ukraine can hold line due to fortifications but Prostesk is the last line then it all flat open fields until Dniper river.
@@EdwardDunlap-h4x Crawling through wheatfields while you lose men and materiel and your economy slowly collapses, wrecking your country (russia)... is not the definition of winning.
When people talk about land gains in this war it feels like WW2 western front where both sides thought if only they would take Verdun or push through Somme then that momentum would lead the whole front to collapse. This does not reflect the reality on the ground back than and not now. The deciding factor is not land but manpower and Equipment, and the russians are loosing it big rn. Only question is: are ukrainian losses comparartively lower to get them closer to getting the upper hand.
the more land the russians are gaining the less natural ressources (esp. minerals) the ukrainians have. If the russian can keep their gains the ukrainians get shafted big time
Nothing official, but we can assume that Ukraine has about half to a third of russian losses. Simply because they have been on the defensive for pretty much the entire war.
@ All the data coming from the Ukraine General Staff is all made up propaganda; it is just impossible to have that many Russian casualties as they suggest and not be noticed in Russia. It is all made up, where are the KIA and where are the prisoners, and were are the wounded?
Both the UA and RF are losing. The winning countries are 1. India; 2. China; 3. NK; 4. Iran; 5. USA; 6. the countries on the SA peninsula who purchased Russian crude, refined it to products with a higher value and replaced Russia as the supplier of expensive refined oil products.
Ben “forgot” to tell that Ukrainians are now occupying approximately 440 sq. km of the Russian territory. This sounds a lot but it is just a 22x21 km box of land. Or, for the viewers from the US, a 13x13 miles box😂
@@Withnail1969and what about videos of rebels throwing rocks/shouting curses at leaving Russian convoys? Like at least 3-5 videos of that with different military convoys all leaving north, northwest. + videos of rebels capturing planes and so on on military bases.
“War is a test of wills and logistics. I assess the Russians will collapse by end of summer and UAF will go over to the offense, exploiting that collapse and drive back RF forces to 23 Feb line or more by September.” -General Ben Hodges (5/19/2022)
According to Major Ben Hodges, Russia is just losing, and Ukraine is consistently winning. However, he does place caveats in every move by saying, “ Adivika is so far in the east of Ukraine it does not matter.” If he were at Stalingrad, he would have told his Kommandant General in Berlin, “ We lost Stalingrad to the Soviets, though they lost a lot of soldiers. Don't worry; we are winning while we retreat from the city, and we will launch another counter-attack soon.” Ukraine pays General Hodges to place a spin on the conditions on the battlefield.
Nobody is winning this war, both sides have lost way to many soldiers, equipment. Ukraine is still mostly on its back foot in the south and southeast, Russia in Kurst. Both economies are in ruin, and many Ukrainian cities are destroyed. Russia still holds a lot of Ukrainian land, Ukraine holds a little bit of Russian land. Neither side seems able to push out the enemy off their land. So lose lose for both sides.
Biden slowed aid and Trump might increase it. Really? You've got a short memory. Just over a year ago, Trump's allies in Congress stopped funding of US aid to Ukraine for six months; that had a devastating effect on Ukraine. After funding was restored, Biden pushed the aid out as fast as he could. However, it took time to build back up again, and it's only recently that Ukraine's supplies from the US have recovered from what Trump's allies did. I wish Biden had done more, but he did do a lot. I wish Europe were doing more, but it's giving more aid than the US, both in amount and as a proportion of GDP. I hope Trump increases US aid, but pretending what he did a year ago wasn't a catastrophe for Ukraine is absurd.
Wrong! Biden pushed as much aid thru as those MAGA traitors tried to stall it. Trump won’t lift a finger to help Ukraine and has said so. You should read real news!
Its 4000 square kilometres. Behind the fortress cities that belt of Chasiv Yar, Pokrovsk, Toretsk, Bahkmut etc they don't have much. They built up these areas in advance hence why they are holding so well. No side is winning this war.
Ben's prediction depended on Ukraine getting all the weapons they needed, which didn't happen thanks to politicians who were hoodwinked by Putins empty threats of nuclear reaction.
Rose colored glasses. Everyone will be shocked and stunned when and how fast the collapse will occur. That’s war. Why all of our experts on war miss this stuff, I don’t know.
@@trqster General Hodges is paid by Ukraine to put on this charade. If Ukraine was winning there would be no need for his topics on the Kyiv post and Pravda
Kursk is a kill box for the Ukrainian troops. A home-made kill box. The Russians would have to be crazy to throw Ukraine out of Kursk. In this place they have a considerable number of Ukrainian troops crowded together in a small space. Of course the Russians noticed the Ukrainian troop build-up in the summer of 2024. In my opinion, however, they could not have imagined that the Ukrainians would be so stupid as to actually invade the Kurk Oblast.
This guy has been coping for about 2 years now. In the summer of 2022 he predicted Russia would collapse and now they are advancing at the fastest rate since early 2022.
So... what's appealing about being a troll? I mean, are you getting paid? You know how the Ruble is tanking, and the Duma is talking about requesting everyone's money. Does that worry you, or are you one of the cryptocurrency trolls?
When did Ben Hodges fight a mobile war? When did he lead a break through force into enemy's rear? This fantasy general know war only from TH-cam videos.
Hodges experience and ethics stun me with a constancy that I can't help but admire..Just his voice reassures me....
What experience? When did he ever lead an army into war? When did he ever lead a break through force into enemy's rear? This is a fantasy general
Wow. you're a douche.
And he is always wrong
This is how wrong he is. Hodges' commentary on foreign militaries, such as his assessment on the strategic weaknesses of Russia's armed forces, has been distributed by news agencies such as Times Radio.[37][38] In September 2022, he penned an op-ed for the British publication The Daily Telegraph in which he argued that Russia would lose in its war against Ukraine at a comprehensive level that will then be followed by the disintegration of the Russian Federation. He labeled the failures of governance under Russian leader Vladimir Putin as the trigger of a current "crisis of confidence" without an easy or simple outcome
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I have a great appreciation for General B. Hodges. It makes me feel proud that he has helped Ukraine..💙💛
@@dirkhouben9960”Wrong most of the time” perfectly describes McG !
@@Ismailia007 yeah, it describes both of them.
This guy is huge fan of Ukraine. Great. Why is this called analysis, and not propaganda? And is there any place where you can see real truthful analysis of what's going on in Ukraine?
@@goranbabic9730 Unfortunately most channels are huge fans of one side or of the other. I say unfortunately because all you hear is propaganda from either side.
I found very few sites that don’t glorify either: Aljazeera and ISW.
Let us know if you find others. TIA
@@goranbabic9730 Unfortunately most channels are huge fans of one side or of the other. And all you hear is propaganda from one side or the other.
I found very few sites that don’t glorify either: Aljazeera and ISW.
Let us know if you find others. TIA
Thanks General Hodges honest assessments.
I always look for General Hodges' commentary on the war since mainstream media gives less and less coverage.
And he provides only lies . So its worse.
@5tre55full huh? Are you Russian or something?
Thank you General for your sober analysis. 😊
Scary intelligent analysis from Mr Hodges, thank you!
Thank you Sir, for your time. It doesn't seem as good possition to negotionation knowing who is at other side of the desk..having finger cross in pocket.
Take care on your health, General. 👍🙋
Thanks.
Trump should call Ben and tell him: "fix the war!", and then give Ben whatever he asks for.
"Ben" never fixed a war in his entire career.
@@dirkhouben9960from the Generals that brought us 20 years of Afghanistan and Iraq all agree that Ukraine is winnable. He seems to forget things that matter in attritional war, force generation and munitions production.
@@dirkhouben9960 and therefore, what...?
tRUMP will more likely call Putin to "fix the war"
@@jasonschnelle110Ukraine is in a war. Afghanistan was an occupation, they aren’t the same. Prior to the withdrawal we hadn’t lost a troop in 19 months… does that sound like a war?
I have seen this before. Please enlighten the viewers about the date of the conversation.
23 Jan. !
Hodges has been consistently wrong since the conflict started. Why on earth would anyone listen to him?
You're the only person in the comment section that tells the truth.all of them believed ben hodges lies
Because most comments are done by bots to push propaganda. Ukraine is wrecked . And nation is at the brini of destruction over blackrock (and similar) greed .
Fairytale circus limps on
Hodges is putting the most positive spin on the current situation in Ukraine. Ukraine is still standing. The Kursk pocket is still holding. The negative spin: 1) Russia may have moved forward a theoretically small distance but that distance is straight through the 2014 fortified line, with Russia now having pierced it and soon to enter Dnipro oblast; 2) the Kursk salient has sucked scarce Ukrainian resources that might have prevented the loss of Vulhedar, Selidove and Kurakhove.
I like General Hodges, but I'm not sure that he's right when he says that the Russians lost Tartus - I think they've negotiated to keep that naval base with the new Syrian government. Agreed that Assad's fall was a major blow to Russia, though.
General Ben Hodges on Crimea in 2023:
I believe that Ukraine is going to liberate Crimea by the end of August, so the end of this summer and I say that because we know from history that war is a test of Will and it's a test of logistics.
Clearly Ukrainian soldiers and Ukrainian people have the superior will and the logistical situation for Ukraine gets a little bit better each week whereas the Russian logistics system is frail and it was never designed to support and sustain long-term land operations outside of Russia.
General B. Hodges is absolutely correct.
@@pacificcoltrane7652 Comrade General Hodges has be wrong in all cases, explain how you came to your conclusion that he is “absolutely correct”?
Clown Hodges 🤡
So, nothing really new here. I only wish Washington, Paris, Berlin, London and Brussels would pay attention to General Hodges analysis - he has got to be tired of repeating himself.
This guy is a joke! He lost all his credibility when he kept saying Ukraine will take the Crimea in the Summer . . . . . of 2023. And even know, he cannot accept the reality.
Good thing I didn't bet on his lottery predictions
4:19 "That's a little bit long. I apologize, but ..." Naw, Ben, you jus' fine ... Take your time.
So who's winning
It's about who is on the good side of what will become history.
Russia, Ukraine got a critical manpower shortages. When you are sending in airforce technicians & cooks to frontline u know u in trouble. Plus mass desertion is occurring and only 1 week of training before entering combat if you are lucky. Right now Ukraine can hold line due to fortifications but Prostesk is the last line then it all flat open fields until Dniper river.
@@andrewnelson1816 While russian economy collapses, among others issues I don't have time now to outline. They are not winning this.
Russia ! thats why N. KOREA wanted in on it !
@@EdwardDunlap-h4x Crawling through wheatfields while you lose men and materiel and your economy slowly collapses, wrecking your country (russia)... is not the definition of winning.
Nice to see you weren't planning on having a "Jackass" tattoo accos your forehead General! 😊
This guy has consistently been wrong and has never been in a real war, unless fighting medieval horseback Taliban in afghan counts
When people talk about land gains in this war it feels like WW2 western front where both sides thought if only they would take Verdun or push through Somme then that momentum would lead the whole front to collapse. This does not reflect the reality on the ground back than and not now.
The deciding factor is not land but manpower and Equipment, and the russians are loosing it big rn.
Only question is: are ukrainian losses comparartively lower to get them closer to getting the upper hand.
the more land the russians are gaining the less natural ressources (esp. minerals) the ukrainians have. If the russian can keep their gains the ukrainians get shafted big time
You mean WW1. But this time, the US is not coming to change the situation, they are leaving.
@@flaviusjustinianus Nonsense, Ukraine has suffered severe losses in manpower and equipment.
Nothing official, but we can assume that Ukraine has about half to a third of russian losses. Simply because they have been on the defensive for pretty much the entire war.
@ All the data coming from the Ukraine General Staff is all made up propaganda; it is just impossible to have that many Russian casualties as they suggest and not be noticed in Russia.
It is all made up, where are the KIA and where are the prisoners, and were are the wounded?
100% western propaganda 😅
Both the UA and RF are losing. The winning countries are 1. India; 2. China; 3. NK; 4. Iran; 5. USA; 6. the countries on the SA peninsula who purchased Russian crude, refined it to products with a higher value and replaced Russia as the supplier of expensive refined oil products.
Ben “forgot” to tell that Ukrainians are now occupying approximately 440 sq. km of the Russian territory. This sounds a lot but it is just a 22x21 km box of land. Or, for the viewers from the US, a 13x13 miles box😂
Where did the Russian soldiers go that were in Syria?
They havent left, Hodges is lying,
@@Withnail1969and what about videos of rebels throwing rocks/shouting curses at leaving Russian convoys? Like at least 3-5 videos of that with different military convoys all leaving north, northwest. + videos of rebels capturing planes and so on on military bases.
Well, Hodges is well know, but this interview was boring and redundant.
“War is a test of wills and logistics. I assess the Russians will collapse by end of summer and UAF will go over to the offense, exploiting that collapse and drive back RF forces to 23 Feb line or more by September.” -General Ben Hodges (5/19/2022)
"The Kerch bridge will not survive 2024" -General (Ret) Ben Hodges (Times Radio, Dec 13th, 2023)
😂
According to Major Ben Hodges, Russia is just losing, and Ukraine is consistently winning. However, he does place caveats in every move by saying, “ Adivika is so far in the east of Ukraine it does not matter.”
If he were at Stalingrad, he would have told his Kommandant General in Berlin, “ We lost Stalingrad to the Soviets, though they lost a lot of soldiers. Don't worry; we are winning while we retreat from the city, and we will launch another counter-attack soon.”
Ukraine pays General Hodges to place a spin on the conditions on the battlefield.
Nobody is winning this war, both sides have lost way to many soldiers, equipment. Ukraine is still mostly on its back foot in the south and southeast, Russia in Kurst. Both economies are in ruin, and many Ukrainian cities are destroyed. Russia still holds a lot of Ukrainian land, Ukraine holds a little bit of Russian land. Neither side seems able to push out the enemy off their land. So lose lose for both sides.
Ukraine holds about 2% of Kursk oblast. That oblast makes 0.2% of Russia.
Ben is the West's equivalent of the Nigerian prince.
more like of Baghdad Bob
Gen. Hodges is great. Biden has slowed aid. Hope Trump increases it. EU must do more.
What part of theres no ammo left to send is really so difficult to understand? Do we need to break out the crayons and contlstruction paper?
Maga stopped and under trumps orders.
I hope that trump increases it at least holds aid level
Biden slowed aid and Trump might increase it. Really? You've got a short memory.
Just over a year ago, Trump's allies in Congress stopped funding of US aid to Ukraine for six months; that had a devastating effect on Ukraine. After funding was restored, Biden pushed the aid out as fast as he could. However, it took time to build back up again, and it's only recently that Ukraine's supplies from the US have recovered from what Trump's allies did.
I wish Biden had done more, but he did do a lot.
I wish Europe were doing more, but it's giving more aid than the US, both in amount and as a proportion of GDP.
I hope Trump increases US aid, but pretending what he did a year ago wasn't a catastrophe for Ukraine is absurd.
The republicans slowed aid. Biden did not send enough, Trump will put tariffs on russian imports. No joke.
Wrong! Biden pushed as much aid thru as those MAGA traitors tried to stall it. Trump won’t lift a finger to help Ukraine and has said so. You should read real news!
I thought it was resolved last Tuesday😂
Same! I gave Trump the day after being sworn in to end the war.
🇺🇦 is TOAST! BRAVO RUSSIA.
Its 4000 square kilometres. Behind the fortress cities that belt of Chasiv Yar, Pokrovsk, Toretsk, Bahkmut etc they don't have much. They built up these areas in advance hence why they are holding so well. No side is winning this war.
Who told you the Russian military doctrine is based on your opinion?
Ben 'the optimistic' Hodges never disappoints! The man that predicted that Russia would lose Crimea by the summer of '23.
Ben's prediction depended on Ukraine getting all the weapons they needed, which didn't happen thanks to politicians who were hoodwinked by Putins empty threats of nuclear reaction.
@suemowat222 Ben Hodges predictions never seem to realize for whatever reasons...just saying.
Rose colored glasses. Everyone will be shocked and stunned when and how fast the collapse will occur. That’s war. Why all of our experts on war miss this stuff, I don’t know.
@@trqster General Hodges is paid by Ukraine to put on this charade.
If Ukraine was winning there would be no need for his topics on the Kyiv post and Pravda
Everybody looses.
Every day of freedom is a win
@@mikefallwell1301
Freedom to DIE...
( Sweden )
You missed the word "has". Everybody has losses. But every war has a winner, studying history.
Ben Hodges wins weapons contracts…that’s his game.
If ben hodges is your guiding star you might want to sit down and give your whole life a lot of thought...
Hodges is a buffoon, he’s living in an alternate universe…
Desp hundred of billions. Idiot stay retired. Russia did not fight ukraine but nato. Russia won
TV general and war for money monster...
The most dumb general and military analyst through out the conflict, it has never predicted anything or advice that work out , 😂😂😂
La la land
Kursk is a kill box for the Ukrainian troops. A home-made kill box.
The Russians would have to be crazy to throw Ukraine out of Kursk. In this place they have a considerable number of Ukrainian troops crowded together in a small space.
Of course the Russians noticed the Ukrainian troop build-up in the summer of 2024. In my opinion, however, they could not have imagined that the Ukrainians would be so stupid as to actually invade the Kurk Oblast.
This guy has been coping for about 2 years now. In the summer of 2022 he predicted Russia would collapse and now they are advancing at the fastest rate since early 2022.
Putin now is in a much weaker position than he was a year ago? Seriously? 😂 was there any prediction of Hodges that appeared to be true? ANY?
Nonsense. The question remains unanswered. Who is winning and who is losing.
What will happen in next 90 days
I am sorry but Ben Hodges has no credibility. He was predicting that Ukraine would retake Crimea about two years ago.
Hodges, we are living in 2025. The Kerch bridge is still there. Just another of your faulty predictions?
So... what's appealing about being a troll? I mean, are you getting paid? You know how the Ruble is tanking, and the Duma is talking about requesting everyone's money. Does that worry you, or are you one of the cryptocurrency trolls?
Settle down Dirky boy.
Yeah last time I checked Kiev is also still standing, stfu
@@emilioherrera6986 Last time I checked Free Speech was still a pillar of our free world... your "stfu" suggests otherwise.
When did Ben Hodges fight a mobile war? When did he lead a break through force into enemy's rear? This fantasy general know war only from TH-cam videos.
this dude is delusional
General? Make me laugh 😅