Comments by "David Ford" (@davidford3115) on "Times Radio" channel.

  1. Sun Yat-Sen's Kuomintang unity government. More commonly remembered as Chaing Kai-Shek's nationalist Party.
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  2.  @jdw-616  Hypersonic gliders? Now you are just engaging in word salad to try and sound smart. Oh, and the patriot batteries sent to Ukraine shot down the Kinzhal missiles, so the threat of hypersonic weapons is overblown.
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  3.  @danielgarner1959  As George Bernard Shaw once said, "two people divided by a common language".
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  4. And yet he was also correct about Europe's over dependence on Russian Energy. He was also correct about the economic woes if the Democrats took back power. You underestimate the man at your own peril.
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  5. I look at the historic coinage. Kievan Rus coins have the trident of Ukraine. The coins of ancient Moscow have the symbol of the Golden Horde of Mongolia. That tells much.
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  6.  @dpelpal  You have never met an American in person have you? You are making the exact same mistakes that Trump critics made in 2016.
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  7.  @SiLoMixMaster  Who assaulted Kiev? Who sent their troops into the Donbas? It is cute that you think that the bully can pretend to be a victim. But then that is typical of ideologies. Even the Nazis claimed to be victims of the Jews despite zero evidence supporting that myth.
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  8. While they are getting outflanked on the sides. Yeah, grandstand over rubble while you get surrounded. Not a wise move.
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  9. How just two Neptune missiles took out the Moskva does NOT speak well for Russian military's advanced systems.
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  10. Two flagships are already pretending to be submarines, so it may only be a matter of time.
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  11.  @michaelmazowiecki9195  And yet Putin has chosen NOT to call NATO's bluff on Article 5.
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  12. Indeed. Outer Manchuria is an easier target to take than Taiwan.
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  13. Except he was also correct on Europe overdependence on Russian energy. You underestimate the man at your own peril.
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  14. Russian nukes are more likely to detonate in the silo rather than actually launch.
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  15. Yeah, China choses to cherry pick which ones they follow and which they ignore. It is only hypocritical if you are pushing an anti-West agenda. Incidentally, Korea is not one country but two. And the two Chinese populations have been divided far longer than the Koreans have.
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  16. Had they been honest in the beginning about uncertainty and lack of data rather than pretend to know everything, they would have been more credible. The fact that they lie from the start is what killed their credibility and created the distrust today.
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  17.  @PerceivedREALITY999  "Fact checked" by whom? Verified independently by who? You can claim whatever OPINION you want, but that doesn't make it true. And considering that such reliable sources as SOVIET PRAVDA use "fact checkers", that shows how insincere you are.
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  18. IN two years, Russia has had ALL the advantages from numbers, to technology, to air superiority. The fact that Ukraine has fought to a draw against overwhelming disadvantage is itself a victory for Ukraine and a net loss for Russia.
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  19. The Russian Bear is geriatric.
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  20. Not really. Most Ukrainian built munitions have significantly different components than NATO equipment. That was how they could identify the missile that landed in Poland.
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  21. Typical of the French. They cut and run at the first sign of trouble.
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  22. The Brits held the line while Americans procrastinated. But as Chruchill said, America will eventually do the right thing, even if we first attempt everything else.
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  23.  @jonkisby4871  So the drive to Kiev was simply a feint? Nice after the fact goal post moving. When the Ukrainians captured parade uniforms from the retreating Russians, it was clear they were expecting to do a victory march through Kiev. When even the nominally neutral Indians and Swiss don't believe your story, you have lost the plot.
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  24. Especially when people can't tell the difference. George Orwell described people like you perfectly. Probably because he saw it firsthand during the Spanish Civil War.
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  25. Amen. When I was in Korea, I warned folks that visiting Hawaii or California was NOT visiting ACTUAL America. I encouraged them to visit Missouri, Indiana, Tennessee, and many other places in the Heartland rather than on the coast.
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  26. "Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway," -John Wayne.
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  27. When was the last time NATO invaded a former Soviet Republic? Never? Then sit down and let the adults talk.
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  28. Indeed. Conflict in the Pacific needs to be viewed with the history of WW2 Pacific Campaign. The US with Warplan Orange expected to steam all the way across the Pacific and wanted to establish forward positions (Truk for example). Many of the same basic assumptions are still true today despite the increase in range and precision of weapons.
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  29. Yeah, but one has to remember that the UN resolution was signed by Chang-Kai Shek's Kuomintang government when Taiwan still held the official seat on the UN security council. Nixon and Kissinger in Beijing changes all of that.
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  30. How is Ukraine facing annihilation when they are infliction 7 to 1 casualties on the Russians?
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  31.  @dalecrocker3213  Don't conflate OPINIONS with facts. Facts don't care about your feelings. "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” ― John Adams
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  32. The same thing was said in 2016. Guess what happened next.
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  33. If your claim is true, then why did the citizens of Kiev welcome the Russians with Molotov Cocktails instead of flower garlands?
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  34. The Russian Bear is geriatric!
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  35.  @robertscott961  Don't conflate fog of war with lying. Or Maskirovka for that matter, which IS lying.
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  36. Kiev still stands after one year. 1st Guards Tank Army and the 155th Naval Infantry, both the pride of Russia are no more.
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  37. Tell that to Mr. Chappaquiddick.
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  38. Marxism glorifies MAN. Christianity glorifies an almighty deity. Christianity looks at the flawed and imperfect nature of man. Marxism is predicated on the idea that man is perfect and without flaw. So, with just those two points, can you really claim that they are the same.
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  39. Shows how out of touch you are with the American electorate.
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  40. He never had you in the first place, so what are you complaining about except to grandstand and clout chase?
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  41.  @TheAmazingAdventuresOfMiles  Judges have ALWAYS been political animals. You just chose to be ignorant of your own history. Who appointed the judges to the Admiralty Courts in the 1700-1800s? Those were POLITICAL appointments. And nothing has changed in the British system since that time. "A Judge is a lawyer who once knew a politician, " -English proverb.
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  42. Because no government office in the world is nonpartisan. Pretending there is no politics in law is refusing to acknowledge the blatantly obvious.
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  43. Nelson Mandela was in jail before becoming the president of South Africa.
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  44. Yeah, funny how those same countries criminalize political opposition. How is this any different than Alexander Lukashenko did in Belarus?
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  45. "Wisdom seems like madness to the fool" -attributed to Confucius. Infantilizing people you disagree by calling them insane with doesn't make you correct; it only discredits your own argument because you refuse to debate the merits.
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  46.  @DXD2004-  Ah, but the Taliban the US fought, and the Mujahadeen the Soviets fought were two different animals. The Muscovites lost far more men in Afghanistan than the US did.
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  47. Russian paid troll.
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  48. Well, and for almost 50 years, the US had a defense treaty with Taipei. This is clearly seen with Dean Acheson's infamous "Pacific Defense Perimeter" which INCLUDED Taiwan but not South Korea. Only with the recognition of Beijing as "official China" has the position changed to ambiguity.
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  49. I tend to agree. Ukraine is something of a trail run for the defense and logistics of Taiwan.
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  50.  @noahway13  Don't forget Vietnam. The US was there for just shy of 20 years and the locals also refused to fight for their own country. And much like Afghanistan, the local government was more interested in settling petty feuds than actually fighting the real threat. Now contrast that to the Koreans who DID fight for their nation.
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