Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "Anti Tank Guided Missiles, Possibly Ukraine's Last Hope to Stop Russia" video.

  1. The Javelin does not need much human guidance. It's a fire-and-forget missile. THIS is any tanker's nightmare. Look at the missile damage in the Middle East. The Israelis were punished by Russian ATGMs -- years ago. And OTWG missiles have proved their worth fifty-years after their original design in Syria. (Optically Tracked Wire Guided) NATO has thousands of these puppies now sitting in warehouses. Putin's latest pressure figures to open up the floodgates for these defensive weapons. I chuckle that Russians are now terming ManPADS as offensive weapons. Sheesh, look at their range and altitude limitations. ManPADS only threaten the low and slow: helicopters, airmobile troops, Su-25s, etc. I suspect that Stingers are reconned to ruin Putin's Plan A against Kiev, itself. What's telling is that Moscow is pulling out ITS diplomats from Kiev -- right after getting the very bad news from London. The blather from France and Germany is now entirely discounted by Putin. And yes, this is Putin's war. He intends to Salami Ukraine -- at the least -- or go for Kiev at first blow. It's looking like the latter. The chatter is that NATO is being made hip by 'non-overhead' assets. That figures. The Soviets/Russians are absolute masters of visual deception, signals deception. At the strategic level, I'd say that Putin has boxed himself in. He dares not back down. (Take an 'off-ramp' in MSM jargon.) He's furious to learn that London and Washington have no 'give' in them. The dynamic duo realize that -- in the longer run -- they must keep the door to NATO open -- for Russia, itself. For it's plain as day that Moscow's real threat lies to the southeast: the CCP. It truly covets Siberia. That's what hypersonic weapons are all about. They are wholly unnecessary against the West. Old fashioned ICBMs, traveling at Mach 27, are already entirely terrifying to NATO. There is no counter to them. And Russia has plenty of them. She can destroy the entire planet in one go. The other tip that Putin is boxed in: his rhetoric... talk of atomic warfare... which is totally premature given the diplomacy underway. One is reminded of Cleavon Little aiming his revolver at his own head, spewing threats to all assembled. (Blazing Saddles) NATO is tame; Red China is out of control -- and Putin is throwing Napalm on the embers. Not such a smart guy.
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