Comments by "Tx240" (@Texas240) on "ATACMS Strike Inside Russia Destroys Airfield" video.

Time to either officially rename it the Rubble or switch words with Russian for "toilet paper".
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11:15 it's IMPOSSIBLE for the DEFENDER to ESCALATE. By default, the defender can be expected to do everything possible to DEFEND themselves and their homes. Ironically, Russia, with its history of being invaded and current societal level of fear of invasion, know this as well as any country.
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@SpaceCat545 you're inadvertently arguing that any country with nukes is entitled to commit nuclear terrorism by threatening nukes if they aren't allowed to do whatever they want with conventional forces. Even without nukes, the estimated death toll of WWII is up to 80 million, plus however many more tens of millions injured (and hundreds of millions displaced or left homeless). The 2 nuclear bombs dropped at the end of the war are actually insignificant in casualties compared to the total of the war.
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Human memory is only about 60 to 80 years long, about one generation, despite the history being recorded, available for perusal, and even taught in schools. We've forgotten all about how World War 2 started. "I just need this little bit more territory, that's rightfully mine, to feel safe from invasion." -Putin, 2022
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@jintsuubest9331 Perun channel did an excellent presentation on "escalation management" and what has amounted to a fallacy of such. Putin has been all in, fully escalated, since day 4 of the "3 day special military operation."
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We, NATO countries, had trainers there since the 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine but not in significant numbers.
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@bodasactra the business of helping Ukraine is an excellent way to phrase it. Helping Ukraine fight for their independence against a geopolitical enemy of the United States is good for American defense companies and good for the employees working there and good for the states and federal government taxing those companies. 90% of "aid to Ukraine" from the US is spent in the US. As an added bonus, stopping Russia and unequivocally telling Putin, "no you can't reclaim Soviet Union territory that you consider part of Russia's sphere of influence and rightfully Russian territory" is actually how a nuclear WWIII is prevented. Not helping Ukraine is telling Putin to continue reclaiming such territory. Many such countries are now NATO members. Putin testing NATO commitment to its smaller members, like Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia are exactly how WWIII could start.
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@martinsweeney7633 you should read a history book or 2. Seriously. You'll notice repeating patterns.
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I'm not active on social media, so I subscribed to Jake on patreon to show my support for him making the effort to fight for Ukraine in that information space.
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I hope NATO and the West realize that appeasement is NOT how you placate a belligerent and aggressive country with imperial designs, like Russia. Self deterring, showing weakness and fear are only green lights for more bad behavior from a narcissistic megalomaniac dictator like Putin.
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Haha, even Turkey, who ordered the S400 because of its superior performance, has had 2nd thoughts on the system being worth getting thrown out of the F35 program over.
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@Tristan-42069 although, Germany is doing everything they can to avoid doing what they should if they want to see the current Russian invasion of Europe stopped and reversed.
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@dfloper actually Russia's "booming" economy is entirely due to the Russian government spending money it doesn't have on war related expenses. All that expenditure, which Russia has no way to afford and can't sustain, is figured into the GDP or economic output figures. It's because of this that it's been said that Putin actually can't afford to win the war, which would cause that "booming" economy to instantly crash as war related spending (which is propping up the economy) would cease. As for the private sector, in order to have access to foreign currency to prop up the value of the Ruble during 2022 and 2023 by buying up Rubles with foreign currency reserves, Russia implemented policies that have hurt non government and non war related industries by such things as forcing profit repatriation. In other words, if a Russian business earned profit outside of Russia, they must buy Rubles from the government with that foreign currency profit. If you look into real economic news that reports more than the basic GDP, you'll learn this sort of detail about WHY the Russian economy, based GDP is "booming". You could also look at the current value of the Ruble, which Putin instructed his central bank to maintain at least a 100 Ruble to 1 USD ratio prior to his "reelection", and how the Ruble fallen below that threshold (currently 105 Ruble are required to buy 1 USD or the Ruble is worth $0.0095 instead of $0.0100 as required by Putin) as Russian foreign currency reserves dwindle and it's petroleum exports are further hampered by tougher sanctions further reducing the access to any foreign currency to prop up the Ruble (as well as generally, the government having less revenue whilst spending more on boosting that "booming" GDP). Cheers.
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NATO won't want to directly destroy Russian missiles or drones. Several times such have violated NATO airspace and even impacted and exploded in NATO territory with NATO doing nothing more than shrugging, looking the other way, and desperately hoping Putin doesn't continue using NATO airspace to attack Ukraine... Or smaller NATO countries.
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@bodasactra nothing short of firing a nuclear weapon at Russia would start a nuclear war. Why? Because Russia is engaged in an offensive, belligerent, and aggressive war of choice. ANYTHING done to defend Ukraine against such aggression, which is actually an invasion of Europe by Russia, is reasonable short of firing a nuclear weapon at Russia. You are succumbing to the "we'll nuke you" propaganda. By your logic, we also don't need to defend Alaska which is also "rightfully Russian territory" according to Russian talking heads and the megalomaniac dictator Putin.
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If you read the document which isn't very long, the Budapest Memorandum, you'll see that Ukraine wasn't actually promised ANYTHING other than that Ukraine could complain to the UN if another nation used nuclear weapons against Ukraine. That's it. There are a lot of other words that give the document the spirit of Ukraine having protections for its territorial integrity. However, zero promises. I'm sure this will affect Zalensky or any Ukrainian leadership when it comes to modern "security assurances" related to the ending of the current war of survival for Ukraine and its people.
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@hippocrazy4214 Hitler, dictator of Germany, needed "just this little bit of territory that's rightfully mine anyways" (same reasoning as Putin) and the world turned a blind eye in hopes that appeasement would prevent Germany from pushing further into Europe or rest of the world for they matter (nearly the same response from the world).
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 @Bluejay495 never will... See my comment about human memory being only about 60 to 80 years long
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@Bluejay495 right. I was just saying that we, humanity, are always doomed to repeat history since our societal memory is only 1 generation long...even if the history is recorded and available. Putin saying that he needs "just a little bit of territory and that's it" and many politicians don't remember from their history books in school that Hitler made the same statement right before going on a world domination run. The fact that people like German chancellor Scholz, who doesn't have 2 oceans protecting him from Russia, is even more "head in the sand and all will be fine" than my broken US Republican Party politicians is mind blowing as is the fact that Europe hasn't realized that Russia has invaded Europe. Ironically, it's because Ukraine is willing to spend the blood that the rest of Europe, former Soviet republics, haven't also felt Putin's touch. A bit of a rant there, but it's a perfect example of history repeating.
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13:26 OR, there could be a new, reasonable and pragmatic government in Russia that isn't bent on world domination or resurrecting the "greatness of the Soviet Union" and negotiations for the peaceful withdrawal of Russian and Ukrainian forces from occupied territory of both countries and return to the 1992 borders could commence.
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