Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "This changes EVERYTHING in Ukraine as Russia closes in | Redacted with Clayton Morris" video.

It's an ancient diplomatic quote. Why bring up Kissinger ?
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Nastro Adhesivo Stop. Stop. Stop. Both sides were shelling each other -- rather constantly. The propaganda idea that Ukraine was shelling -- solo -- is false -- and absurd to even pitch in the Internet.
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@olympia5758 Ukraine was never part of Russia. Even under Stalin and the Tsar, it was its own turf. The Tsar and the Bolsheviks ran an EMPIRE. Today, it's known as the Russian Federation. The heart of Russia is the Volga corridor. The heart of Ukraine is the Dnieper corridor. If it hadn't been for the Mongols, Moscow would never have come out on top over Kyiv. The heart of Poland is the Vistula corridor. For Germany it is the Oder and the Rhine. For France it is the Seine and Rhone. For America it is the Ohio-Mississippi. You get the idea. Cultures are river-centric.
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@olympia5758 You've got who was on top totally corn fused. Kyiv was BIG when Moscow wasn't even a hut. The Mongols -- in a back-handed way -- made Moscow, Moscow. They were two separate Slavic cultures back then -- and that never changed. Conquering a people to put in your basket does NOT make them non-existent. Genocide would be required.
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@olympia5758 You still have it flipped. When the USSR was the USSR, Moscow sent in the diggers, and discovered that Kyiv was Big when Moscow was small. They also discovered that the Norse (Swedes/Vikings/Rus) were the founding culture. They married local women -- and then went native. Their burial goods were a riot of Nordic runes and themes. These were dug-up and shipped to Moscow... to the museum. Moscow dates centuries younger than Kyiv. It's perhaps a coincidence, but Moscow sits atop the source of the Volga -- almost exactly. Kyiv sits atop the source of the Dnieper -- almost exactly. (Think in river navigational terms -- not like a cartographer.) Kyiv became a node in the Nordic trade corridor with the Black Sea because there were rapids in the river -- right there. The Norse started employing local men to help haul their water craft up and around the rapids. This task has been long rendered into folk song. (Song of the Volga Boatmen) [You must get the irony, boatmen were hardly ever needed on the Volga because it has no rapids... and the Norse didn't use the Volga, as far as we know.* They were a fixture on the Dnieper. Until modern engineering, it had rapids, one after another, from the Black Sea to Kyiv. Plainly, the Russians hy-jacked Ukrainian river lore a very long time ago.] * Perhaps they did -- and were headed to the gold fields of the Caucus, famous even in Roman times.
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The pitch is absurd. The Black Sea fleet stopped the flow of commercial shipping right from the first. Have IQs plunged to single digits ? I'd say so.
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Putin has lost his war. He listed what his war aims were -- all the way back. And every last one has gone sideways. He is now fighting just to keep fighting. To acknowledge defeat in the field would be suicide for Putin. As for Zelenskyy, he's in the weird position of being able to 'retreat to victory.' Putin's tank factories are on hiatus. (!) [ No bearings; no microchips. ] He can sell -- but he can't buy -- not the stuff he really wants: industrial and war goods... not the stuff that shows up at retail. He can't get Western ships to even deliver goods up in the Baltic. Their tempo is still winding down. His civilian air fleet is going to wind down -- as he can't obtain replacement parts. Zelenskyy has by far the larger army. It's just short on: weapons, ammo, uniforms, boots, helmets, -- and training. The West is changing everything, PDQ. Biden has just opened the flood-gates.
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@frankrosebrock4424 You don't follow events, I gather that. In the beginning, before the US Army scaled up, the troops marched with sticks instead of guns, and cosplay tanks. (1940) Adolf found the film footage quite amusing. America had to build everything. Ukraine merely needs to train on existing free weapons. It took about five-days to put M777 howitzers to good use. With Lend-Lease, Kyiv is in a position to buy a hundred howitzers at a crack. ( M198 are ready to ship. They're so heavy that they'll come by water. )
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