It's unfortunate that Dr Postol, several times, has to apologize for his expert opinion because of the fear that it might appear to be "pro-Putin". This is where we are now -- if you render an opinion contrary to a power structure, you automatically are classified in some enemy camp and you are advocating for that team. There is little room for clear-eyed analysis.
Ukraine is "losing this war badly and suffering the loss of 2,000 military personnel per day?" If that were true, the Russians would have reached the western border of Ukraine by now. It sounds more than a bit disingenuous.
The corollary to this psychotic set-up is that, if these well-documented , quite insane provocations by the West that Dr. Postol cites lead to a news-making retaliation by Putin (American advisors targeted and KIA in Ukraine, etc), the effing media will back up the admin's inevitable Blame Russia First/Only mentality ("See? THIS is who we're confronting here! Monster!"), and most Americans will fall the mf in line. Again.
The consequential significance of a nuclear war initiated by either side is existential obliteration. I would LOVE to see Saagar and Krystal have an interview with Annie Jacobson, author of Nuclear War. She has arguably the best data from former and current experts on this and paints a very real picture. The lack of comprehension around the risks to ALL Americans and the world as we know it needs to be brought to the forefront of your viewers eyes. Thank you for covering this.
How grossly exaggerated for dramatic effect. The problem with the world today. Please stop overstating things. From the middle of nowhere in USA mojave desert, Ivins UT. I'm pretty sure it's mainstream in America? Why would you lie like that? Don't do that.
@@middle-agedmacdonald2965I actually don’t think that they’re too far off. Exaggerating the fact that not enough people are informed could actually be helpful and encourage people to share this type of information with friends and family more. The American people are confused because we’ve been lied to left and right for about a hundred years straight
BP is exactly like 'don't look up' when it comes to Trump. All they do is pump out stories that distract from Trump - the biggest threat to the planet at the moment. This video is just one more distraction.
that and also the few that are in power that are listening are legit believers that if it comes to nuclear war they can win it, so they are fine with an nuclear exchange
I don’t want to ever hear another word from people who say they’re upset with Biden when it comes to Israel or Russia and all they’ll do is vote for him anyway… yeah it seems like you were real upset with him to begin with…
@@andrewhooper7603actions speak a lot louder than words. Not saying you have to vote for Trump, but don’t tell me that you’re upset with someone and you vote for the same person.
Y'all realize that we are currently on a conveyor belt heading toward the furnace being controlled by the 1% and all we seem to do is complain who is currently pushing the button... We could literally get ourselves off the conveyor belt and take control of situation or at the very least call them both out for wanting to kill us all...
Homie finna die in office if he get re-elected and launch the strikes with his last breath, but people really wanna vote him in *again* because “orange man badL
America pushed to expand NATO and let Ukraine believe that they could join; that is what started this. We would be ending the world over an American policy blunder.
It was never about Ukraine. The western bankers want Russia, the largest, most resource-rich country in the world. Pure greed, pure evil. The same entities that created the Federal Reserve in 1931, then dragged the US into WW1 in exchange for Palestine. All of the worst acts of the past century have been as a direct result of these entities. Ukraine has only ever been an expendable pawn.
Thanks for having Dr. Postol on. This is a very important perspective missing from Western corporate media. Hoping for a peace in this horrendous war ASAP.
All the mature adults are in Russia, and they've been trying to find a way to resolve this problem without resorting to military force for the last 20+years. The problem is that all their counterparts in the West are intellectually infantile imbeciles who are incapable of being realistic, let alone reasonable. It's *OUR* leaders that have deliberately engineered this situation, and it's them who refuse to tolerate any kind of peaceful resolution.
Im into my 60's now and it always astounded me how a few nuclear powered nations believe they have the right to lay waste to the planet. The ultimate privilege
Nobody else thinks they have the right to do so - that's why they've been trying to find literally any other way to resolve this problem for decades now. They don't think they have the right to interfere in other's affairs - let alone to lay waste to the entire planet - but they've been methodically & systematically painted into a corner where their hand may be forced to deploy their only defence. Literally nobody on the planet wanted or wants this - *ONLY* the Neocons & their EU sycophants.
I really doubt it. You dont mess around with that sort of thing and probably is against various policies that are intended to ensure we have a planet to live on.
It is truly sad how mainstream media under playing this until blows in our faces. Few arrogant people stupidity will ends the whole world at anytime 🤷♂️
Finally an intelligent analysis of what is going on. No need to apologize for being "pro-Putin". It's only the absurd level of censorship in this era that even makes anyone feel it's necessary to clarify such a FACTUAL analysis. Give this guy MORE AIR TIME!
I think it's because he realized at some point that him and Krystal should probably have backed off a little about Israel/Gaza and put a wee bit more (not all) into this. Although China/NK are probably sitting on the sidelines giggling
@@marge3157Oh right- definitely should cut back on exposing a US sponsored genocide. Not important .Or maybe Ryan is realizing that he can’t justify defending Team Blue because it is quite clear that it is highly unlikely that Putin would have attacked if Trump was President, and even if he did, Trump would likely have found a way to end the conflict quickly, even if it meant Ukraine would have to make major concessions.
This is why billionaires have quietly been building bunkers in far remote places like in the New Zealand mtn areas. They know something and they know the kinds of people around them.
Don’t those underground bunkers have to bring in clean air? Or are they using nuclear scrubbers like a submarine? What’s to stop a poisonous gas from getting in?
@@jimosborne2it’s largely assumed that New Zealand would be one of the few places untouched by nuclear war because even though they are US aligned their military is so small and conventionally armed not to mention pretty much all based in New Zealand to more or less be caught out of the way plus the literal remoteness, now of Australia got hit it may carry fallout across the sea to NZ but the scrubbers these bunkers use are generally considered to be to spec to handle radioactive fallout
@@zachhoward9099 well, every system has a flaw and while they might be able to filter out radioactive fallout, they can’t filter out all know toxins ( e.g., bacterial or viral) and there’s bound to be so pissed off Road Warriors interested in seeing them perish. I would assume. Road warriors versus billionaires: Sounds like a good movie!
What I hate is that we can’t do anything. Civilians all over the world are pawns. I’ll tell you one thing, though: prayer works. And that’s what I’ll be doing. People may not cooperate with the grace from prayer, but prayer is the only thing I can think of doing.
Ted Zpostel does an exemplary job of explaining with clear images of what happens when a nuclear bomb goes off. What happens in first few minutes, the temperature (hotter than surface of the Sun) and the quick and disastrous aftermath. It’s not pleasant but US government is treating this situation far too lightly.
Prof Postol is a regular on Daniel Davis Deep Dive TH-cam channel. He generously makes the power points he uses for the show available to viewers who request them.
No one talks about the wish washy relationship with Turkey. One Coupe away from having our strategic nukes being taken away and used against us. Just food for thought.
Wish more folks would see this type of news coverage. The public discourse would be very different if folks had a wider perspective on what is happening around the world. First world privilege I suppose. At least y'all are doing it, appreciate breaking points for making this kind of coverage! The work you guys do is truly invaluable
The escalation into all out nuclear war from some goofy series of events is exactly what that popular 80's song "99 Luft Balloons" is about. A bunch of kids balloons get released and appear like spacecraft on the enemy's radar and so they send jets out to investigate and through a series of unforseen foolishness ends up destroying civilization.
Worse than you think, much of the Russian arsenal could come under Dead Hand. Which is a program and a protocol. That once the Rocket Forces of Russia lose contact with civilian authority or lose telemetry coming from the air and near space. They have to assume the worse, and they will send commands to every nuclear node. Those commands with be to launch according to the launch mission packet sent. The soldiers or whatever only have to do is get the rockets in launch position, turn keys and then hit the launch button or type in the launch code. Then hit enter.
The US must have known that Ukraine was targeting Russian nuclear attack radar, because as we been told over and over by experts, Ukrainians are not able to program the rockets and control systems in order to hit target without assistance, direct immediate assistance from US experts.
Why would we really think they dont have good satelite imagery? Russia was the sole provider of NASA astronauts to the ISS for nearly a decade (2011-2020). You'd think they might know a thing or two about getting things to orbit...
i remember in the cold war people used to say the best place on earth to be at if the soviet union and america ever went to war was bolivia, paraguay. it would get the least fallout.
Every one of this guy’s talking points has been getting hammered since June of 2022. If Ukraine was taking 5X losses this whole timed the war would have ended by now.
I think you misinformed. I think you referring to the story on the 2 A50 that got hit. One was Ukraine propaganda (no confirmation on this story) and the second only got superficial damage that forced it to return to base for reparations. And this was months ago. And having air control does not mean you never get hit. What he means by air control is that Russia has air superiority, they outnumber Ukraine in fighter jets, if there are any left, and have reduced air defence system to a meaningless few. Fact to back this up is that they are bombing everything to smithereens along the frontline and on all military bases and warehouses around Ukraine. FYI there is no airbase left intact for the future F-16 so they will likely will have to fly from neighbouring NATO country with all the consequences that brings.
It does not matter, people don't care. They have eyes but do not see. They have ears but do not listen. They have tongues but do not talk. The world is run by fools. What is that you put on my burger ?.
We helped facilitate the use of cluster munitions shot during daytime toward a crowded summer beach on a holiday in Russia and our response by state dept spox was basically ‘f u Russia’. Not ‘we’re investigating what went wrong in this unfortunate event and we’re saddened by the loss of any civilian life on either side of the conflict’.
Yes. Accurate. They are conscripting people from as afar as Columbia. You can watch videos online. Russian soldier took our a whole troop singlehandedly a few weeks ago. It is very graphic though, so be mindful.
I want explain why the death level is so high, because top militaries are learning institutions. Also they are building all the time more permanent facilities, that is airfield, barracks, rear area training facilities, radar and rocket nodes etc.
@@jpnewman1688 it seems to be about money for the war industry and its cronies, like Biden et al. But it also seems to be about provoking Russia into the first nuclear strike. And if all that isn't incomprehensible enough, there's the complicity of the Western public.
You can’t even say Vladimir. That’s how you know someone is disingenuous to a conversation: when they deliberately refuse to address the elephant in the room.
It's crazy still how much divide there is about it. I recently spoke with some Dutch veterans (went to Bosnia and Iraq etc.), one half thinks like i do, which is also what Dr. Postol thinks like, and the other half is willing to die for the "fatherland". Which of the countries that are involved in the conflicts are our fatherland? Should that not be the country that we actually live in and are born and raised in (the Netherlands)? Shouldn't loyalty be warranted? It's like sticking up for a friend that goes around fighting with everyone. At some point you'd have to think about why exactly this is a friend, and why exactly should you always side with them? (i mean, i still remember the failed 2016 referendum, they were deemed too poor and corrupt, yet now they are saints, while also stealing billions but okay. Not to mention the disproportional response from that country in the newer conflict.) But to be fair, most of the "die hard" vets are mostly just doing it for the money, and bragging rights, or blind faith. Because it seems almost impossible to have a discussion with them about it, they shoot first, and talk later, and most of that talking consists of broad claims and empty words. It's good to have them to carry out the orders, but not having them give out the orders. Russia is not out to kill us, and i am certainly not going over there to kill them. I'm not on any side, we're not getting anywhere if it _has_ to be one or the other, there should be a middle road, what is wrong about peace, truce, diplomacy? This is more about the resources and business, than it is about the people on that land, many of which are living in hotels here now anyway. I mean, the past decades sucked anyway, why would we want to make it even worse? The out of touch politicians will remain to be out of touch. We shouldn't be listening to them anymore either, there will be someone out there that will want to do the right thing.
10:18 not an accident unless a US operator worked the software to fire the attcms rockets…while simultaneously using Ukrainian hands to do it! No. US keyed in the location …the military base nearby wasn’t really that close. Makes me pissed more because cluster ammo which is supposedly illegal was used!
Thank god someone else noticed, I started to think I was going nuts lol Could be some kind of AI filter on the recording/conference software that's constantly glitching and correcting because of his glasses?
This is the best episode of Breaking Points I can remember. The guest was outstanding! Knowledgeable and truthful, without the spin. I could’ve listened to him for another hour. Please invite him back …, and soon!
Very informative interview, mainstream SHOULD be doing more interviews like this. I’ve spoken about the issue of getting in a proxy war with a nuclear power since the beginning of the war, but we have an affinity in this country of accusing anyone that looks at the issue in a nuanced manner as being a “Putin puppet”.
I might be pushing against the grain here, but I'm not sure about SOME of this guy's information. His guess around the Russian to Ukranian casualties seems very off. 5:1 death ratio favoring the Russians? Anyone in the military could tell you that the attacking side can often take 3:1 in death ratio or worse. Do your own research and watch somebody like @Civ Div who is an American who has spent time on the frontlines to get a more accurate picture. Not saying America should support the war, but I am saying we should be critical how we think about it.
The scary thing about all this will be the normalization of tactical nuclear weapons as opposed to to the use of strategic nuclear weapons. With that said, the former will inevitably lead to the latter
It's unfortunate that Dr Postol, several times, has to apologize for his expert opinion because of the fear that it might appear to be "pro-Putin". This is where we are now -- if you render an opinion contrary to a power structure, you automatically are classified in some enemy camp and you are advocating for that team. There is little room for clear-eyed analysis.
He does not apologize for his analysis or his opinion but rather apologizes because he sometimes talks over Ryan or Emily (because of the delay).
Labels work on cult members 🤷🏽♂️
Ukraine is "losing this war badly and suffering the loss of 2,000 military personnel per day?" If that were true, the Russians would have reached the western border of Ukraine by now. It sounds more than a bit disingenuous.
Welcome to NeoMcCarthyism
The corollary to this psychotic set-up is that, if these well-documented , quite insane provocations by the West that Dr. Postol cites lead to a news-making retaliation by Putin (American advisors targeted and KIA in Ukraine, etc), the effing media will back up the admin's inevitable Blame Russia First/Only mentality ("See? THIS is who we're confronting here! Monster!"), and most Americans will fall the mf in line. Again.
It’s getting harder and harder to make fun of preppers.
Deadass
well when the crazies and preppers call every crisis as the ONE, sooner or later they are going to get it right
Preppers won't survive nuclear war either.
@@Methyllwell you're still dumb
@@Methyll Well they only need to be correct once to be justified.
Quote from Annie Jacobsen, Those who survive will envy the dead. Chilling
Jacobsen was quoting Nikita Khruschev, who said it in light of the Cuban Missile crisis. I was around at the time, late teenager.
The consequential significance of a nuclear war initiated by either side is existential obliteration. I would LOVE to see Saagar and Krystal have an interview with Annie Jacobson, author of Nuclear War. She has arguably the best data from former and current experts on this and paints a very real picture. The lack of comprehension around the risks to ALL Americans and the world as we know it needs to be brought to the forefront of your viewers eyes. Thank you for covering this.
She is great at explaining how it’ll all go down! I second having Annie interviewed on Counter Points!
Wow. Hearing her tell the story is captivating and terrifying!
This guy and not John Bolton should be in charge.
No he shouldn't be
John Bolton ? Is no where near Bidens group of incompetent clowns. John Bolton was the Trump clown...until Trump dumped him.
@@rebelmango2141 Again. Meaningless comments from an unknown actor. Who are you and why do you matter?
@@ScottHeritage why do you care
@@ScottHeritage Wa-wa-wa..
$60 billion directly into the trash, imagine the benefits 60 billion dollars could have done at home.
They'd find a way to squander it and shift it into the pockets of other donors.
Are you willing to fight for the almighty Federal Reserve GODS?? 💵💵😂😂😂
Naive to think that cash could ever be used for anything beyond the military industrial complex or tax cuts for billionaires
Good bot.
@@Ikit1ClawYou're a good bot also
Its too bad the entire US population won't see this interview.
How grossly exaggerated for dramatic effect. The problem with the world today. Please stop overstating things. From the middle of nowhere in USA mojave desert, Ivins UT. I'm pretty sure it's mainstream in America? Why would you lie like that? Don't do that.
I get the feeling it won't hurt anything if they miss it.
@@middle-agedmacdonald2965I actually don’t think that they’re too far off. Exaggerating the fact that not enough people are informed could actually be helpful and encourage people to share this type of information with friends and family more. The American people are confused because we’ve been lied to left and right for about a hundred years straight
haha . . . for most people its TikTok, Fox News, CNN, or some other brain eating source of information.
Forget US population, it's European populations would be the first victim!!
Spent decades avoiding WW3 now we’re skipping towards it , Madness
Actually causally walking into it +++
Thank Joe Biden at the polls this November
we have the good Ol US of A to thank for it. fucking maniacs couldnt share the earth with anyone.
LGB 😑
@@patrickn8355Joe Biden didn't send troops into Ukraine, that was Putin who started this shit.
This feels like that Leonardo DiCaprio movie where he tells everyone a giant earth ending meteor is coming, and no one listens to him.
BP is exactly like 'don't look up' when it comes to Trump. All they do is pump out stories that distract from Trump - the biggest threat to the planet at the moment. This video is just one more distraction.
that and also the few that are in power that are listening are legit believers that if it comes to nuclear war they can win it, so they are fine with an nuclear exchange
@@Methyll The professor is full of crap
@@peterstafford4426
Liberals don’t respect education.
The good news is we have two excellent presidential candidates that we can have faith in to handle a crisis like this competently.
Remember to take your selfie with the mushroom cloud it will be your last
Won’t be able to cause of the emp that’s generated
Human blast shadow selfie.
@@zachhoward9099Good ol' film camera inside a blast shield will still work.
damn... that's bleak but really put's this into perspective.
I don’t want to ever hear another word from people who say they’re upset with Biden when it comes to Israel or Russia and all they’ll do is vote for him anyway… yeah it seems like you were real upset with him to begin with…
Welcome to the duopoly. We will be voting against your candidate until a more advanced system is implemented.
@@andrewhooper7603 Play the long game and vote 3rd party, otherwise, you will forever be stuck with this duopoly you all profess to hate.
@@andrewhooper7603actions speak a lot louder than words. Not saying you have to vote for Trump, but don’t tell me that you’re upset with someone and you vote for the same person.
Ted Postol is the guy who helped to debunk lies about Syrian gas attacks. He is a serious scientist.
and he debunked the Patriot's "97%" interception rate during the first gulf war
So he spread Assad propaganda gotcha
@@rebelmango2141derrrp. CIA clown here
@@rebelmango2141 your words are meaningless.
@@Bastikovski99 CIA is when disagreement
It is incomprehensible to talk about nuclear war nonchalantly.
I grew up around it cuz my mom's major was nuclear politics. I drew like a power ranger's team but each character was a different type of missile
@@banquetoftheleviathan1404 RIP Thuy & Jason
It has only been going on for nearly 80 years. Where have you been?
@@banquetoftheleviathan1404 That sounds like an interesting major. From what university?
Putin basically uses the rhetoric of nukes to keep the uneducated scared. It works very well.
Don't worry guys, surely the "adults" got a plan for nuclear war
They do, they have bunkers but only for the 1%
Sure they do. For themselves and their immediate families.
Not for you or I though. Sorry :/
The adults are back in the room. The room happens to be a hardened bunker under Cheyenne Mountain or Raven Rock, but it's a room.
Y'all realize that we are currently on a conveyor belt heading toward the furnace being controlled by the 1% and all we seem to do is complain who is currently pushing the button...
We could literally get ourselves off the conveyor belt and take control of situation or at the very least call them both out for wanting to kill us all...
@@roscojenkins7451What’s your plan? I’ve been telling people not to pay their taxes. How do we organize a response big enough to make a difference?
We're on autopilot to Armageddon and our cadaver in chief has the launch codes....
Homie finna die in office if he get re-elected and launch the strikes with his last breath, but people really wanna vote him in *again* because “orange man badL
Orange man good@@patrickn8355
Mummy for President! 👏
Muffin for VP!
Agree, but I don’t see how Trump would do things better as well… I think we’re stuck between a rock and a hard place
wow!! an expert and not a blabbling stooge like on every other news media channel
Provocation of a massive nuclear arsenal is insane.
The CIA and Democrats are utterly incompetent.
This guy is obviously a Putin apologist who wrongly claims Ukraine is losing the war & Breaking Points doesn't bother to correct him.
@@MyMomSaysImKeen That is the dumbest thing I or anyone will read today.
Ukraine is losing.. you've been listening to the wrong people@MyMomSaysImKeen
@@MarcIverson I'm assuming it was sarcasm..........
Ending the world over Ukraine is crazy
Most Cold War apocalypse films had the world being blown up over Berlin or West Germany, sadly not that far fetched
When losers rule you this is what happens.
@@zachhoward9099_By Dawn's Early Light_ began with a nuke det over Soviet Donetsk, missile appearing to have been launched from Turkey.
America pushed to expand NATO and let Ukraine believe that they could join; that is what started this. We would be ending the world over an American policy blunder.
It was never about Ukraine. The western bankers want Russia, the largest, most resource-rich country in the world. Pure greed, pure evil. The same entities that created the Federal Reserve in 1931, then dragged the US into WW1 in exchange for Palestine.
All of the worst acts of the past century have been as a direct result of these entities.
Ukraine has only ever been an expendable pawn.
Thanks for having Dr. Postol on. This is a very important perspective missing from Western corporate media. Hoping for a peace in this horrendous war ASAP.
And a whole what, 75 thousand maybe have seen this? How many watched it all? Still a drop in the bucket getting the word out.
We need to hear more from this guy. Thanks for letting him speak.
How difficult can it be for so many mature adults to find peace?
None of them are mature
Very difficult if the ones with the most power are psychopaths (looking at you, western leaders).
All the mature adults are in Russia, and they've been trying to find a way to resolve this problem without resorting to military force for the last 20+years. The problem is that all their counterparts in the West are intellectually infantile imbeciles who are incapable of being realistic, let alone reasonable. It's *OUR* leaders that have deliberately engineered this situation, and it's them who refuse to tolerate any kind of peaceful resolution.
Peace is bad for business, dummy.
They're not normal humans, they're narcissistic psychopaths.
Im into my 60's now and it always astounded me how a few nuclear powered nations believe they have the right to lay waste to the planet. The ultimate privilege
It’s really only the US.
Nobody else thinks they have the right to do so - that's why they've been trying to find literally any other way to resolve this problem for decades now. They don't think they have the right to interfere in other's affairs - let alone to lay waste to the entire planet - but they've been methodically & systematically painted into a corner where their hand may be forced to deploy their only defence.
Literally nobody on the planet wanted or wants this - *ONLY* the Neocons & their EU sycophants.
@Gman-h7g yeah, US is the one always provoking. So easy to see once you understand US is not the good guys. We're actually the bad guys.
That man just said it all.
People like this should speak often. The news media ignoring the threats of a nuclear war could harm us all. Our civilisation is at risk.
Pleas give this man a weekly spot on your show!
100% This gentleman is spot on!
Please tell this to MIC - we, the people, do not matter. The US looking for a reset
The U.S. isn't concerned. They authorized it.
I don't suppose you have some evidence to show that?
Exactly, proxy war at it's fines!
I really doubt it. You dont mess around with that sort of thing and probably is against various policies that are intended to ensure we have a planet to live on.
Why is Russia allowed to bomb ukranian cities 24/7, but Ukraine is not allowed to destroy Russian air bases on Ukrainian territory?
How do they not understand we all die, everyone in nuclear war..and the way they live id be worried about about the next life.
Best episode I’ve ever seen on Breaking Points hands down.
Amen that.
It is truly sad how mainstream media under playing this until blows in our faces. Few arrogant people stupidity will ends the whole world at anytime 🤷♂️
Thank you Breaking Point for bringing this scientist. This is real journalism!
I'm guessing i won't have to worry about my carbon footprint as that will be all that's left of me.
Finally an intelligent analysis of what is going on. No need to apologize for being "pro-Putin". It's only the absurd level of censorship in this era that even makes anyone feel it's necessary to clarify such a FACTUAL analysis. Give this guy MORE AIR TIME!
Gawd how come these sensible people will not be aired to the ignorant US public
I am sensing so much stress off of Ryan. Yikes! Good show.
He's so handsome hummina hummina
I don’t think he was expecting to get this much truth dropped on him all at once.
I think it's because he realized at some point that him and Krystal should probably have backed off a little about Israel/Gaza and put a wee bit more (not all) into this. Although China/NK are probably sitting on the sidelines giggling
@@marge3157Oh right- definitely should cut back on exposing a US sponsored genocide. Not important .Or maybe Ryan is realizing that he can’t justify defending Team Blue because it is quite clear that it is highly unlikely that Putin would have attacked if Trump was President, and even if he did, Trump would likely have found a way to end the conflict quickly, even if it meant Ukraine would have to make major concessions.
Far beyond the incompetence of President Carter resides in Washington D.C. right now.
The difference is that Carter was not evil
This is why billionaires have quietly been building bunkers in far remote places like in the New Zealand mtn areas. They know something and they know the kinds of people around them.
Don’t those underground bunkers have to bring in clean air? Or are they using nuclear scrubbers like a submarine? What’s to stop a poisonous gas from getting in?
@@jimosborne2 that’s beyond my expertise but there’s lots of videos that go over what consists of the bunkers
@@jimosborne2it’s largely assumed that New Zealand would be one of the few places untouched by nuclear war because even though they are US aligned their military is so small and conventionally armed not to mention pretty much all based in New Zealand to more or less be caught out of the way plus the literal remoteness, now of Australia got hit it may carry fallout across the sea to NZ but the scrubbers these bunkers use are generally considered to be to spec to handle radioactive fallout
@@zachhoward9099 well, every system has a flaw and while they might be able to filter out radioactive fallout, they can’t filter out all know toxins ( e.g., bacterial or viral) and there’s bound to be so pissed off Road Warriors interested in seeing them perish. I would assume. Road warriors versus billionaires: Sounds like a good movie!
So we just need to watch the celebrities movements?? Paparazzi finally could be useful!
Great job interviewing. Guest was experienced, lucid and coherent and on point. Thank you for letting him state his case uninterrupted.
It is about time this was said on this podcast!
What I hate is that we can’t do anything. Civilians all over the world are pawns. I’ll tell you one thing, though: prayer works. And that’s what I’ll be doing. People may not cooperate with the grace from prayer, but prayer is the only thing I can think of doing.
Ted Postol is a big deal, his speeches and lectures are some of the best content I have ever consumed.
BRILLIANT.
Ted Zpostel does an exemplary job of explaining with clear images of what happens when a nuclear bomb goes off. What happens in first few minutes, the temperature (hotter than surface of the Sun) and the quick and disastrous aftermath. It’s not pleasant but US government is treating this situation far too lightly.
There are a lot of highly educated people running our country-ivy league and all. Unfortunately, colleges can't teach common sense.
Great guest, thanks for having him on. He should go on Judge Napolitano. We need the truth.
Prof Postol is a regular on Daniel Davis Deep Dive TH-cam channel. He generously makes the power points he uses for the show available to viewers who request them.
Thank you for the coverage!
Well done, very important interview.
No one talks about the wish washy relationship with Turkey. One Coupe away from having our strategic nukes being taken away and used against us. Just food for thought.
Why didn't you all give this guy more time to speak. I wanted to hear more of his analysis.
Wish more folks would see this type of news coverage. The public discourse would be very different if folks had a wider perspective on what is happening around the world. First world privilege I suppose. At least y'all are doing it, appreciate breaking points for making this kind of coverage! The work you guys do is truly invaluable
The escalation into all out nuclear war from some goofy series of events is exactly what that popular 80's song "99 Luft Balloons" is about. A bunch of kids balloons get released and appear like spacecraft on the enemy's radar and so they send jets out to investigate and through a series of unforseen foolishness ends up destroying civilization.
Worse than you think, much of the Russian arsenal could come under Dead Hand. Which is a program and a protocol. That once the Rocket Forces of Russia lose contact with civilian authority or lose telemetry coming from the air and near space. They have to assume the worse, and they will send commands to every nuclear node. Those commands with be to launch according to the launch mission packet sent. The soldiers or whatever only have to do is get the rockets in launch position, turn keys and then hit the launch button or type in the launch code. Then hit enter.
"Tremendously disturbed"
I laughed way too hard at that line.
The US must have known that Ukraine was targeting Russian nuclear attack radar, because as we been told over and over by experts, Ukrainians are not able to program the rockets and control systems in order to hit target without assistance, direct immediate assistance from US experts.
Why would we really think they dont have good satelite imagery? Russia was the sole provider of NASA astronauts to the ISS for nearly a decade (2011-2020). You'd think they might know a thing or two about getting things to orbit...
Getting things into orbit isn’t that hard just basic physics, having them stay there in communication and not breaking down is the tricky part
United States has 4 511 satellites. Russia has 177 satellites.
They don’t have satellites that can detect missile launches. Remember, their economy is smaller than Italys.
Because the West is stuck in 1997.
@@Dung_Bernardso does that mean that Russia is stuck in 1972?
Brilliant - all of you! Thank you so much
If the last few years has taught me anything, it’s that there is no floor.
Any dystopian future is possible
Thank you, insightful and sobering.
Corporate media will have John Bolton on constantly. But never guys like this.
Excellent segment. Thank you. Great job. Enjoy and look forward to BP on Wednesdays.
i remember in the cold war people used to say the best place on earth to be at if the soviet union and america ever went to war was bolivia, paraguay. it would get the least fallout.
Excellent video! When Ted Postal is concerned, we all need to pay attention and act!
I agree but how do we act?
Every one of this guy’s talking points has been getting hammered since June of 2022. If Ukraine was taking 5X losses this whole timed the war would have ended by now.
Russian control of the airspace? Wow this guy is off his rocker insane. The Russian A-50 pilots don’t agree that Russians control the airspace.
I think you misinformed. I think you referring to the story on the 2 A50 that got hit. One was Ukraine propaganda (no confirmation on this story) and the second only got superficial damage that forced it to return to base for reparations. And this was months ago. And having air control does not mean you never get hit. What he means by air control is that Russia has air superiority, they outnumber Ukraine in fighter jets, if there are any left, and have reduced air defence system to a meaningless few. Fact to back this up is that they are bombing everything to smithereens along the frontline and on all military bases and warehouses around Ukraine. FYI there is no airbase left intact for the future F-16 so they will likely will have to fly from neighbouring NATO country with all the consequences that brings.
Wow, that was eyeopening and scary. To answer your question on why this administration is doing this I believe it's simply incompetence. 😢
Hubris and pride. Massive, dangerous levels of pride.
Kennedy and myself would like to know what happened to the two Minsk Accords agreements 0:22
Ask Britain and the US.
What if we all (young men) refused to fight for anybody that wasn’t a great young man from their country
Krystal and Saagar need to have him on Breaking Points to get a larger audience
It does not matter, people don't care. They have eyes but do not see. They have ears but do not listen. They have tongues but do not talk. The world is run by fools. What is that you put on my burger ?.
At least Russia looked back at the US and sincerely wouldn't it cool down the US a bit getting a taste of accountability?
The west would rather die than lose face to the Russians....so somehow I doubt they'd take the hint and just double down instead..
We helped facilitate the use of cluster munitions shot during daytime toward a crowded summer beach on a holiday in Russia and our response by state dept spox was basically ‘f u Russia’. Not ‘we’re investigating what went wrong in this unfortunate event and we’re saddened by the loss of any civilian life on either side of the conflict’.
Travel advisors tend to warn against vacationing in a warzone.
@@andrewhooper7603Crimea is not in warzone. You got something wrong. It is far away from combat zone
We need to pray for peace.
Did he say 2k Ukrainian casualties a day? 11:48
Heard that figure earlier today, Russia started using FAB-3000’s
Yes. Accurate. They are conscripting people from as afar as Columbia. You can watch videos online. Russian soldier took our a whole troop singlehandedly a few weeks ago. It is very graphic though, so be mindful.
@@Pomeray8Whole troop? What’s that mean
Happened once... Ukraine is not lost.
When the avalanche starts, it will be too late for the pebbles to vote.
Thank you!
Great reporting!
I want explain why the death level is so high, because top militaries are learning institutions. Also they are building all the time more permanent facilities, that is airfield, barracks, rear area training facilities, radar and rocket nodes etc.
All you Americans willing to die to determine who rules Eastern Ukraine, stand up! Anyone? Thought not.
Apparently you don't know fuck all about how America works. It's hilarious you think we have any power over our politicians.
Yet everyone gets blamed for everything even their craziest politicians do.
That's the most incomprehensible part of all this
@@katarinahinsey3931so you don't know what the 🇺🇦 war is really about?? 😂😂😂
@@jpnewman1688 it seems to be about money for the war industry and its cronies, like Biden et al. But it also seems to be about provoking Russia into the first nuclear strike. And if all that isn't incomprehensible enough, there's the complicity of the Western public.
You can’t even say Vladimir.
That’s how you know someone is disingenuous to a conversation: when they deliberately refuse to address the elephant in the room.
It's crazy still how much divide there is about it.
I recently spoke with some Dutch veterans (went to Bosnia and Iraq etc.), one half thinks like i do, which is also what Dr. Postol thinks like, and the other half is willing to die for the "fatherland".
Which of the countries that are involved in the conflicts are our fatherland?
Should that not be the country that we actually live in and are born and raised in (the Netherlands)?
Shouldn't loyalty be warranted? It's like sticking up for a friend that goes around fighting with everyone.
At some point you'd have to think about why exactly this is a friend, and why exactly should you always side with them?
(i mean, i still remember the failed 2016 referendum, they were deemed too poor and corrupt, yet now they are saints, while also stealing billions but okay. Not to mention the disproportional response from that country in the newer conflict.)
But to be fair, most of the "die hard" vets are mostly just doing it for the money, and bragging rights, or blind faith.
Because it seems almost impossible to have a discussion with them about it, they shoot first, and talk later, and most of that talking consists of broad claims and empty words.
It's good to have them to carry out the orders, but not having them give out the orders.
Russia is not out to kill us, and i am certainly not going over there to kill them.
I'm not on any side, we're not getting anywhere if it _has_ to be one or the other, there should be a middle road, what is wrong about peace, truce, diplomacy?
This is more about the resources and business, than it is about the people on that land, many of which are living in hotels here now anyway.
I mean, the past decades sucked anyway, why would we want to make it even worse?
The out of touch politicians will remain to be out of touch.
We shouldn't be listening to them anymore either, there will be someone out there that will want to do the right thing.
Glad someone is awake in Europe.
makes total sense. That's the very last thing you want out of commission. unless a nuvlear war is what you really want.. 🤔👀
Scott Ritter been saying this tooo
so where are Krystal and Saagar?
in the bunker, where would you be?
10:18 not an accident unless a US operator worked the software to fire the attcms rockets…while simultaneously using Ukrainian hands to do it!
No. US keyed in the location …the military base nearby wasn’t really that close.
Makes me pissed more because cluster ammo which is supposedly illegal was used!
What is going on with his eyes?
Thank god someone else noticed, I started to think I was going nuts lol Could be some kind of AI filter on the recording/conference software that's constantly glitching and correcting because of his glasses?
Might just be old age 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅 saying that as someone who had that retina detached your eye ain’t gonna be the same
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This is the best episode of Breaking Points I can remember. The guest was outstanding! Knowledgeable and truthful, without the spin. I could’ve listened to him for another hour. Please invite him back …, and soon!
Anyone else notice his eyes twitching? It looks like theres a face filter or something
"Begun, the Third Wold War has."
A powerful Russian communications station in Crimea is almost certainly military in ita utility.
Shut it down!
This is the truth
I dont think there’s even an outside chance this happens
People said that also when Russia bring army on Ukraine border. "They are bluffing"
@@JeZZGroyou when the US started talking about NATO in Ukraine.
@@SunTingWong what?
Wish this conversation was longer
This was very good...
Very informative interview, mainstream SHOULD be doing more interviews like this. I’ve spoken about the issue of getting in a proxy war with a nuclear power since the beginning of the war, but we have an affinity in this country of accusing anyone that looks at the issue in a nuanced manner as being a “Putin puppet”.
Is the expert Postol...
Let it be Postol.
🤞🏾
You got your wish!
Terrific convo!
This guy for President !
I might be pushing against the grain here, but I'm not sure about SOME of this guy's information. His guess around the Russian to Ukranian casualties seems very off. 5:1 death ratio favoring the Russians? Anyone in the military could tell you that the attacking side can often take 3:1 in death ratio or worse.
Do your own research and watch somebody like @Civ Div who is an American who has spent time on the frontlines to get a more accurate picture. Not saying America should support the war, but I am saying we should be critical how we think about it.
This was really interesting.
I love this show and we don't hate the MSM enough.
The scary thing about all this will be the normalization of tactical nuclear weapons as opposed to to the use of strategic nuclear weapons. With that said, the former will inevitably lead to the latter