Comments by "Emir" (@irongron) on "Is US Global Power Becoming Overstretched? | @Justin_Taylor" video.

  1. Mr Taylor summed up something succinctly, that relates to a comment I made on a previous show about how his colleague Chris poorly articulated the "aid" we get here (paraphrasing), "why should we send them billions of dollars when we have so many problems sin America". Well Mr. Taylor hit the nail on the head, the Bradleys we get are old models that they are going to get rid of anyway and cost money to store. Sending them here saves the US taxpayer money! Imagine that. It's just the value of the old stuff! It's not cash or new money. But very rarely is this articulated correctly (Frederick Kagan, Jake Broe, General Hodges the rare few). Lastly, you touched on a very important point Pyotr, why give them so little if it makes no difference, let's use the 31 Abrams as the example, that you brought up. General Zaluzhnyi asked for 500 Abrams tanks, he got 31. I always used to say - "WTF are we going to do with 31 ABrams tanks ? You can't even defend my small home town of Pokrovsk, with 31 tanks, let alone a 1,000 km front!". Because of that folly, it's too late now for my home town of Pokrovsk and that lack of equipment has cost us victory. :(
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