Retired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling tells CNN's John Vause why Russian forces are dealing with shortages of crucial supplies and explains the impact of US military aid given to Ukraine.
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Retired general says Russia showing ‘real dysfunction’
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@EDUARDO you are in a cult, or a mental home
@kara bool ?
Congrats, you made a comment, ttying to be funny, maybe you suceeded, but its not true
@Zarko Zimonjic not for russians or their serbian puppets
@EDUARDO It’s not cool when the Libs inject Trump into the discussion for no reason.
It’s not cool when (I assume you’re conservative?) injects Trump into the discussion for no reason.
This war has precious little to do with Trump.
Or Texas for that matter.
This was very enlightening. Especially how terrific the U.S. return on investment is in supporting Ukraine. Such a small amount in comparison to our Defense budget and such a huge return for the world on containing Putin’s murderous megalomaniacal ambitions and when Ukraine wins because of it’s huge resources (not the least of whoch is its people and their love of democracy). Our investment in Europe and Japan after WWII paid off in huge ways. This is very smart long term thinking. Meanwhile Putin completely ignores the needs of his country and it’s people or locks them up or ki11s them much as every crazy dictator does.
@Jay Kellett I thought Joe gave them all to the Taliban?
@emmawang1999 Not really, the biggest issue for russia, is it cant make anything new, their down to sending 60 year old tech to the front lines… they cant give their soldiers basic items like body armour and medkits… they even struggle with logistics… russia has lost more people, then they did in ten years of anouther war… their economy is on life, russia before the war had a lower gdp then italy, their a economic rump state… while the west, even if they commit like 0.1% if their gdp, its like 0.6 Trillion dollars… This will only end one way, the only two countries that theorretically could bail out Russia is China, and India, and they wont fr economic reasons…
@emmawang1999 Not really, the biggest issue for russia, is it cant make anything new, their down to sending 60 year old tech to the front lines… they cant give their soldiers basic items like body armour and medkits… they even struggle with logistics… russia has lost more people, then they did in ten years of anouther war… their economy is on life support, russia before the war had a lower gdp then italy, their a economic rump state… while the west, even if they commit like 0.1% of their combined gdp, its like 0.6 Trillion dollars… This will only end one way, the only two countries that theoretically could bail out Russia is China, and India, and they wont for economic reasons…
Putin was counting on Trump helping him, when Biden crushed Trump Putin was screwed
Fully worth the investment US is poring.Give them Patriot air defence system to protect the Ukranians .
Putin the brute war manic has gone pissed mad to attack civil people.
It frightens me to see resident flats been totally recklessly destroyed by this crazy idiot.
This war is the most cost effective thing the US has ever supported since WW2. Even there it was questionable to extend a Lend Lease to one dictator (Stalin) to defeat another. So yeah this is the geo. political investment bang for the buck deal of a lifetime.
Agreed. I love it when the Russians off themselves, by crashing planes and smoking near ammo depots.
Even if the US never sees a dime of that money back, it is worth it.
a. The Russian threat is being destroyed.
b. US weapons are being tested out against actual Russian troops. This normally costs many billions of taxpayer dollars to simulate. Now we’re getting real-deal weapons testing for a fraction of that. There could be no better real world test.
80% of all German military deaths occurred on the Eastern Front
Helping Stalin, although distasteful was better than not supporting him
If it comes down to it with the Republicans, Biden should offer to hit Pause on new NASA projects and operations in favor of diverting all that $$ to Ukraine. Democracy > space science.
Imagine if Russia had managed to take Ukraine over. I shudder to think.
Russia doesn’t intend on taking Ukraine over, it intends on capturing predominantly Russian speaking and ethnic Russian areas of Ukraine and depose the US puppet government of Ukraine to ensure it is no longer a security risk to Russia.
Zelensky is a hero.
@Todd Mackett Zelensky is an actor who regularly pretends to be in downtown Kyiv while he is really in a television studio behind a screen, the whole thing is a show to convince idiots like you, look it up if you don’t believe me, type Zelensky green screen into Google!
@Garrett Tobin one hell of a green screen walking through Izium, you brainwashed fool.
@Garrett Tobin you must somehow be smarter than the entirety of the free world. Ooooo.
This guy needs his own show
And send him to Europe, please…
NO!
He definitely doesn’t!
You TV watchers in the USA are hilarious to watch spouting the nonsense you get told each day on the media channel of your choice.
The USA tried to weaken Russia’s economy and weaken the Ruble…but Russia’s economy and the Russian Ruble are both doing just fine…while the USA & western Europe’s economy are now tanking …and neo-fascists are coming to power in European countries Italy and Sweden.
You watch too much TV…and you don’t have enough skepticism about what you’re being told.
Are all these retired Generals/ Political annalyst actualy going to ukraine and seeing combat to make these assesments? They kind of lose some credibility if they are on CNN payroll.
@John Smith of killing muslims.. and civilians. 🤦🏻
United States is worthy of respect from the heart, they have shown leadership is not transactional
As someone from the US I will say we are definitely on the right side this time, but we haven’t always been.
@Kolgax I don’t even like Joe Biden, but on this one issue I support what he is doing.
@Proto Rhinocerator You know I’ve not been a fan of us funding our military as much as we have been, but this whole situation is kinda a counterpoint.
We have used about 3.6 percent of our military budget to actually help defeat 25 percent of the Russian military. The investment is a large amount but the return is fantastic. This was with older type weapons that we don’t use and are not likely to us d in a modern war.
We have a significant “mothball fleet” of ships, aircraft and rotorcraft as well as weapons of infantry. . We will not likely ever use them. We can provide a part of them to help defeat Russia’s aggressions. It will be no real loss to us but a great benefit to us and the freedom of Europe.
Please send our older A10s and older as weapons that are 15+ years old to the Ukraine.
@Proto Rhinocerator yes theyr mig29 are allready using agm88 harm missiles
You TV watchers are hilarious to watch spouting the nonsense you get told each day on the media of your choice.
The US tried to weaken Russia’s economy and the Ruble…but Russia’s economy and the Russian Ruble are doing just fine…while the USA & western Europe’s economy are tanking …and neo-fascists are coming to power in places like Italy and Sweden.
Too much TV…not enough skepticism.
A10’s would fall from the skies like flies in Ukraine. They can only operate when they’re under air supremacy and an uncontested sky. SAM’s and MANPADs are everywhere these days. They also take a lot of highly-trained and equipped people to keep them working.
wrong premise – 25 percent of the Russian military is not defeated
It’s nice to see a strategic,logical American with a smart comment. This is how I look at it as well.
Aside from the supply issues that they discussed as one reason why the “3 attackers to 1 defender” rule of thumb might not apply here, that rule assumed a 3-to-1 ratio of soldiers on an equal level. If it’s true that the Russians stuffed their Kherson garrison with new conscripts, then it’s not going to be of that much help to the remaining veterans in the group.
Ukraine attack 8-12 to 1. Let see how much of their soldiers will survive
Putin is giving his army mice to fight an alligator.
That is such a good point: The old adage about the required attacker/defender ratio of 3/1 is not true in this case. The Ukrainians are a vastly more capable fighting force, and the Russkies are wasting a not insignificant number of men as rearguards watching their own men in the first and second lines in case they decide to run away. Russian lines are about to collapse on a wide front.
Let’s hope they all surrender to Ukraine army
@Kathleen Mann Ideally yes. The other way, just as well.
Glory to Ukraine 🇺🇦
That’s right! Slava Ukraine! 🇺🇦 Let’s just hope that Kherson is an easy win, but I believe that is where Putin will use his WMD.
@K C I have a feeling a response is waiting if they do. If he does that the war goes global and Russia is now vulnerable to attack. Putin may be emotional and desperate but he’s not stupid. And considering the Russian armed forces couldn’t fight their way out of an outhouse and now the world knows it, Putin really doesn’t want that
Ukraine is not worth ww3. F Ukraine
Recent intercepted phone calls reveal that the Orcs do not have food and supplies and are very desperate. They also mentioned that all the prisoners recruited were sent directly to the front and being wiped out.
Orcs are busy exterminating Ukranazi roaches.
Pootin spent billions on shiny new gear (which corruption turned into shiny new yachts in the Med), and a much smaller amount on quality of life for his “professional” soldiers (which corruption turned into shiny new yachts in the Med), which is why they have no NCO corps. Nobody would willingly live like that unless there was no other choice. In such an “army”, the focus is not on the mission, it is on getting money any way you can so that you might have a decent life. Active operations makes it obvious that all the money was siphoned off. Using the word “dysfunction” to describe this is almost a euphemism!
General Hertling has a great point of view, very informative.
Glory to Ukraine 🇺🇦 and glory to the heroes 🏴
Great interview guys. Hopefully the Russians won’t see the winter out !
God bless Ukraine 🇺🇦
The investment to stop an invading Army, good. The investment in learning how equipment actually works or not is good. The investment for helping humans priceless.
I’m always learning something new every time that guy is taking about the Russo-Ukranian war.
As a non-military guy, I find the most interesting part was the 3 to 1 ratio is only applicable for forces of equal strength.
Or equal ability, equal footing, etc.
10 Spartans would lay waste to 1000 Athenian philosophers holding swords.
Russian soldiers are NOT the equal of Ukrainian soldiers.
This guy needs to be on for an hour, not a crummy 5 minutes. I hang on every word; awesome information and insightfulness.
General has so much knowledge about warfare. A real military genius.