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I have every confidence they’ll find enough weaponry to destroy about everything under the sun. Destroying things is easy. Building stuff is hard. Wish they’d work on the latter.
For those who do not believe that Russia is fighting Nazism again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0JSUeXNQoc
The guest gets asked whether weapons will run low, and instead talks Russian propaganda lines like “to the last Ukrainian” (paraphrased) and “winter is coming”. Then suggests Ukraine needs to negotiate. Is this CNN or RT?
Phillip.
@Dmitry D 2014….
@robos frustrados mexico You are are saying that the more missiles you use, the less likely you are to run out? We know Russia is running out, we have very good intelligence. lol you think Russia can drain the entire military complex of 30 countries?
The map has changed. Ukraine has already recovered more than 50% of the land that Russia occupied. Map not changed? Izium? Lyman? Kherson? etc. You are in complete denial.
Phillip.
@Phillip Temple you cry while everyone see that russia is using 100s of missiles out of which many attacks ukraine dont not even report to the west. 😀😀😍
@Phillip Temple your profecy will be true when russians will throw stones and arrows but until now, they are easily using 100s of missiles. some sources say that russia has around 140000 missiles.
@Phillip Temple my guess is that putin is playing with you all, he probably is planning this from 10 years. while you guys had no idea about it. i am sure that this is gonna be a last man standing fight. and nato or americans do not have the stomach for it
I have the impression that Putin feels more emboldened with the recent remarks made by the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Thus, I think now is a good time for General Mark A Milley to retire because of his recent remarks can have a negative impact on the morale of the Ukrainian armed forces and on our allies and partners as well.
You have no allies. You havr colonies and proxies.
Agreed 💯
Russia is a nuclear power! fighting with a nuclear power is not the same as chasing Bedouins through the desert… Americans pray, we have nothing to lose, but you will have to die for Ukraine in a nuclear battle!!!!
I agree, anyone who says anything bad about Ukraine should be forced into retirement.
Is Russia the only Nuclear power? 80,000 Dead and injured Russians, the Bedouins has appear to have iflicted catastrophic losses on the rag tag so called Russian army. Russia uses Nuclear weapons, Moscow, St Petersburg and all other Russian shitholes will be reduced to radioactive ash within minutes.
They arent going to announce how much equipment is left so any announcement would be dubious
Largely these aren’t weapons for a conflict with China but for a land war with Russia which is now incapable of invading the US any time soon. Those weapons Milley wants to hold back for America’s defense were built primarily for use against Russia so now is not the time to be stingy to protect Milley’s empire. This is a geo-political issue outside Milley’s area of expertise.
Better be a lot of equipment, the US has sunken billions into this proxy war.
@V ulture you have hundreds of thousands of ukranians vigorously fighting the russians instead of your fellow americans and having momentum as well…. cutting down support now would be insanity
@Srambo I agree with the second part – support should continue and Austin & Blinken are doing a good job of that. Ukrainians are also doing a good job ripping into (mauling) the Russian military (which for geo-political reasons the US can’t do). I am not American, but have really good reasons to see Russia’s military decimated, their alliances disintegrated and Putin unceremoniously removed.
@Yakiv Popavich Since February armament costs have quadrupled+ and those US billions are going straight back into the US. Russia has sunk about 60 years of armament expenditure into this conflict but its weapon factories have stopped (sanctions hitting chip supplies, overseas repairs and parts for manufacturing equipment stopped etc.)
in one factory during ww2 a flying fortress was built every 64 minutes . we have been spending a trillion a year on defense so im thinking this is just wrong.
You are comparing defeating Nazi Germany to this? (Though I do support NATO’s involvement in the Russia-Poland conflict.)
@MollysMeow isn’t it a fair comparison? We have annexation of neighbouring countries, Vladolf preceded it with demands on countries to leave NATO and military build up. Peace in Europe was achieved by treaties which Vladolf has totally torn up including the UN charter. Massive propaganda is used to marshal support for the war, yet it’s a minority which are enthusiastic
The U.S no longer has a manufacturing base. One example of this is the 155mm Howitzer shell, it takes a year to produce 9,000 rounds, Ukraine are firing 6,000 rounds per day. To produce the stinger missiles it takes 18 to 24 months for 1,400 if they can get the parts.
@Sarah Brown It has some kinds of audits but not others. We certainly know where money is going, broadly speaking. We know it’s not being skimmed because the checks written to defense contractors are in broad agreement with the allocations. However the internal bookkeeping is pretty bad. I’ve done some accounting for banking and I can assure you that the press reports 6-8 years ago talking about “trillion dollar errors” are just the press trying to scare you to increase readership. In fact someone just putting too many zeros when inputting an expense can cause a trillion dollar error. Simply cutting and pasting–but pasting the number twice by accident–can make that size error in just one click. (Cut “1000000” from one document, and double-click ctrl-v to paste, and you get 10000001000000: over ten trillion.)
The US was at war. During World War II, it was required to mass produce goods and increased services to support the war effort, all financed with taxpayer dollars. America is not at war; Ukraine is… if we were to shift gears to mass produce weapons when our military annual budget is already close to 750 billion a year, hundreds of times more than any average nation, everyone and their mother would be calling their congressman. The American people would not allow it.
the problem with giving into a bully is, the bully will just come back again later. even if Ukraine gains back all its land, which is highly unlikely barring Putin being deposed, Russia will continue to be the threat right next door. if Putin isnt removed and Russia isnt made to pay reparations to Ukraine for everything theyve destroyed, every life theyve shattered, then nothing will have been accomplished to make sure this never happens again.
@Ivan Sekmatte complete nonsense. I’m not blaming the Russian people who have been victimized for 30 years by the same criminals attacking their neighbors in a desire for Empire.
I am not advocating war. I am advocating for the right of people to fight for themselves. I support Ukraine in DEFENDING ITSELF.
All those weapons we send–short range defensive capabilities. Stop attacking, you” stop dying.
I am not sure, it may be a lot deeper than just Putin. I don’t think that is going to change the strange mindset and point of view they have manipulated their population into.
@Nik Hayes as I understand it, Like the absolute Monarchs before him, there really is only one power in Russia: Vladimir Putin.
The deprogramming of the Russian people is another matter and way beyond me. I can’t even figure out how to deprogram my favorite Uncle’s devotion to Trump. What do you do with people to whom facts don’t matter?
@Michael Murphy Yep
@John Doe “The world maintaining sanctions”…The US, UK, and EU are not “the world”. Russia has the BRICS trading alliance, and it’s expanding into BRICS+. Many more countries are submitting applications to join. They’re also a part of the Shanghai economic Co-op. We’ve basically killed the Petrol dollar by ruining our relationship with Saudi Arabia, and they’ve begun selling oil for Yuan. India trades with Russia using a rupee-yuan-ruble trade, no dollars necessary. Russia doesn’t care what the US does, anymore. All of our “sanctions” are completely useless.
Sincerely on my knees praying to the whole world to help end the suffering of people in Ukraine….imagine the coming winter…. the people have no wrong to deserve this
@Huang Po Glory to Ukraine!!
Pray to God, not man. It’s a fallen world. You will be let down nearly every time.
@Sean Eastman pray to the mighty electron.
@Sean Eastman 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
They are doing this deliberately and for money.
Jim, I guess we’ll just have to give them back some nukes that they were made to give up it return for security guarantees. ☢️
For those who do not believe that Russia is fighting Nazism again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0JSUeXNQoc
Or just give Ukraine planes, tomahawks and whtever they need to strike Putin’s military inside Russia.
@Dmitry D YES!
The Polish incident was a great opportunity for the West to declare no-fly zone over western Ukraine and help protecting it’s airspace from cruise missiles and kamikaze drones that attack purely civilian infrastructure nowadays. It would be in line with the West’s war against terror policy. Alternatively Give Ukraine ATACMS and let them start taking out Russian infrastructure. A power plant for a power plant is a perfectly fair deal that nobody can call an escalation. Besides after taking out a few of them, Russia would think twice about attacking more knowing that Ukraine can reciprocate in kind.
@Vaino Vaino we’ve seen how dangerous russia is, alright. only thing left for russia is fearmongering with it’s nuclear weapons (at least half of which probably not functioning due to lack of maintenance and corruption).
@Roman Vasylenko you are stereotyped to believe like that just like Zelesky. Only your leaders who know the truth.
@Vaino Vaino which leaders?
@Roman Vasylenko western leaders whose ancestors slaughtered Africans during colonialism
@Vaino Vaino and how do you know they know the truth? have they come to you and told you?
Stay Strong Ukraine💙💛 You’ve got this💯
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Bahahahahahaha
@GT500 ?
Russia is a nuclear power! fighting with a nuclear power is not the same as chasing Bedouins through the desert… Americans pray, we have nothing to lose, but you will have to die for Ukraine in a nuclear battle!!!!
Lmao. Thats a nice joke XD
Our greatest fighter General Milley, …to the front lines with a Kalashnikova and a moped…gett’er done Sir
3:47 Look at the size of that crater. You mean to tell me THAT was from a SAM?! All while Ukraine is insisting that the Poland strike wasn’t them (lying about it would damage their cause more than help it) and even professor Michael Clarke has expressed his doubts that a crater that large was caused by a Ukrainian SAM alone, then talk publicly about our stockpiles being low as if we would ever be honest about our stockpiles publicly, then seemingly start to pressure Ukraine to negotiate…that draws me to conclusions that make me leery of and very disappointed in our leadership both here in the US and with our NATO allies because I don’t think they’re being honest or acting in good faith at the moment simply because they want to move on and don’t want to get further involved. Kicking the can down the road out of war fatigue for lack of a better term doesn’t make problems go away, just compounds them as time goes on and it sure appears that’s what we’re ultimately doing here…
If zelenski is telling the truth he needs to understand that It is preferable for 1 Man to be made into a Liar than Billions dying in a Nuclear World War.
@Melckezedeck Jodeph I get what you’re saying but one thing I will say in response is that A) the idea that engagement between the US (or NATO) with Russian forces inside of Ukraine would bring about certain World War just simply isn’t accurate B) The idea that if World War began that it would be a nuclear war is more unlikely than people realize (because everyone loses a nuclear war and that’s not acceptable even for our adversaries simply over the fact that they aren’t going to win a war) and C) if engagement between nuclear powers has to be avoided no matter what, then disband NATO now because it’s existence is more for show than effect and that alone empowers Russia and their allies to continue their current ambitions and even engage NATO eventually because we’re so scared of the shear prospect of nukes to do anything about it. In other words, that would mean Russia already won WWIII by simply playing “a game of chicken”. That’s just unacceptable. Whether we want this or not, it’s knocking on our door. Of course this is all assuming that there in fact was more than just a Ukrainian SAM that hit Poland.
Yes, and during time of war both sides are really going to let each other know they are running out of amo 🤦♂️
You do not take into account the weapons that Canada has to cover over half of the reported shortage, not to mention the lack of info on current production for replacement of stockpile. We probably have ramped up production for the last 9;months, which also will help. Saudi Arabia and Israel have spare missiles ..and Japan.
remember these nations still need to remain have enough weapons to defend themselves in case they are attacked, that’s why they just can’t send out everything
It would take years for the U.S to increase its manufacturing base.
@karl harrison yup…that’s exactly what they said in 2007…And 2008, and 2009, and 2010, and 2011, ……..etc.
We have a great opportunity to correct a lot of manufacturing shortfalls today ….
If our politicians would stop all their infighting, and refocus on America, they could accomplish something great!
Along the border with Mexico, Create a new industrial zone, From steel and aluminum plants, to washing machines, glass products, and plastic recycling.
Textiles, oilfield equipment. Farms machines. Electric cars, solar and wind machinery.
Not only will it employ millions of Americans, it will help hundred of thousands of migrant workers across the border, and help lift our southern neighbors out of poverty. The special zone tax breaks, and laws will keep U.S. corporations from putting the businesses inside Mexico to evade taxes, while giving them the lower labor costs
12+h without electricity a day, in a winter clothes , dead inside. Thank you for “concerns”
up to now I never heard the term Domino Effect. Strange. Because having Ukrain and Transnistria, Putin would move on west to the rest of the former Sovjet countries. My guess is that Ukrain was never the end goal. If realizing that the western European countries would be more helpfull to Ukrain. Because it is that western Europe Putin is aiming for.
If Ukraine would’ve been given the appropriate long-range missiles to begin with, even giving them the HIMARS a couple months earlier, things would certainly be looking different.
It’s a little late for us to be saying, “Oh gee – Ukraine is going to have a hard time with the winter, aren’t they?”
We push the Ukrainians to peace at our own peril. They are fighting for us and we need to help them. Clearly we can produce the weapons we need to protect our own security.