Comments by "David Ford" (@davidford3115) on "Russia 'will lose big time' in air war | Maj. Gen. Chip Chapman" video.

  1.  @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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  2. 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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  3.  @michaelmazowiecki9195  And yet Putin has chosen NOT to call NATO's bluff on Article 5.
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  4. Two flagships are already pretending to be submarines, so it may only be a matter of time.
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  5. How just two Neptune missiles took out the Moskva does NOT speak well for Russian military's advanced systems.
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  6. While they are getting outflanked on the sides. Yeah, grandstand over rubble while you get surrounded. Not a wise move.
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  7. 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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  8. The Russian Bear is geriatric.
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  9.  @robertscott961  Don't conflate fog of war with lying. Or Maskirovka for that matter, which IS lying.
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  10.  @douglastaggart9360  Russians flew Egyptian aircraft during both their wars with Israel. That was simply a continuation of the practice started in Korea.
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  11.  @michaelmazowiecki9195  I agree with you on all of that. Going forward, the best situation would be a partitioning of the Russian Federation. Several smaller national boundaries would help to quell violence and animosity between the local populations. Chechnya and Dagestan should be a single Republic. Tuva should be a separate country. Yakutia should be independent. And several more could be listed as well.
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  12. Or as Teddy Roosevelt said, "speak softly, but carry a big stick".
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  13. I take claims of Russians destroying Patriot batteries as seriously as I take their reports of destroyed HIMARs and Bradleys.
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  14. The euphemisms were originally Russia making excuses. The Ukrainians adopted it to mock and disparage them.
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  15.  @TheBandit7613  Putin has been given NUMEROUS off-ramps. He has rejected all of them. Stop trying to appease a bully. The 1938 Munich Conference should make it abundantly clear that such actions only embolden the aggressive.
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  16.  @michaelmazowiecki9195  I never directly said it was a bluff. Only that Putin has chosen not to call it as if it was one. What happens in Poker when you call someone's bluff, and it turns out they were not bluffing?
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  17.  @hb9145  Yeah, so did Lyndon Banes Johnson. He called his "jumbo" and claimed that was why the US was in Vietnam.
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  18. The AI is only as smart as the people who program it. Ask Colonel Stanislav Petrov how reliable such missile identification programs are.
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  19. Russian nukes are more likely to detonate in the silo like they did on K-129. The sinking of the Moskva calls into question the legitimacy of the Russian nuclear threat.
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  20. Explain to me why Putin stole Crimea when Biden was running Obama's foreign policy. Explain why Putin didn't invade Ukraine until AFTER Biden took the Oval office. Trump's boast about threatening to nuke Moscow may have had truth.
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  21. Azov is an inland sea. Russia is in Ukraine because the Donbas has gas and coal deposits that would make Europe energy independent from Russia. Same goes for the oil deposits off the coast of Crimea.
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