Comments by "Lars Ronæs" (@larsrons7937) on "Targeting Crimea is the key to ending the war with Russia | Lieutenant General Ben Hodges" video.

  1. 10:51 - Zaluzhny meant "deadlock", not "stalemate" (acc. to Ben Hodges). I had that feeling. I agree with Hodges. Clearsighted, factual, and should-be-eye-opening words from Ben Hodges, as always. Thanks for inviting him. Cheers from Denmark.
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  2.  @xena6894  "say these things..." - none of you mentioned "which things". Have you noticed that you are wrong neither way? - But you earned your 3 rubbles. As an example among many DW News interviewed Ben Hodges just a couple of weeks ago.
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  3.  @bryandimery6509  No, Ukraine was not. Ukraine has been promised only a franction of what they asked for, and a lot of what was promised hasn't even arrived. Ukraine has not been given the tools they asked for.
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  4. The same here. Ben Hodges is among the most clear sighted people with deep military understanding to be found
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  5.  @xena6894  You earned your 3 rubbles, hurry check your bank account.
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  6. @danieljames2015 Another Dane agrees here, a like from me too.
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  7.  @bryandimery6509  Hodges: "IF Ukraine is given the tools for it." You take it out of context.
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  8.  @marthas.4456  Actually Putin has earlier said "2 days". ""If I wanted, in two days I could have Russian troops not only in Kyiv, but also in Riga, Vilnius, Tallinn, Warsaw and Bucharest." (Putin, 12th Sept. 2014)
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  9.  @bryandimery6509  Just as examples: Over a year ago they asked for 800 modern western tanks, they only got a couple of hundred. They asked for artillery shells in huge numbers, were promised (actually very little) one million in 2023 but right now they've only received 300,000. I doubt suddenly 700,000 more shells will be found and delivered before new year. They asked for long range attack capabilities in vast numbers. 1½ year later we've just started on medium range missiles like Storm Shadows and now the shorter range ATACMS, only in small numbers and not the long range Ukraine asked for. But the list is long.
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  10. 10:50
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  11.  @marthas.4456  Opponents have an independent opinion. russian bots aren't opponents, they are bots promoting Kremlin propaganda for money, without morale with no or despite any opinion.
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  12.  @xena6894  +3 rubbles more. You're getting rich.
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  13.  @oneshothunter9877  Those 3 days were very very long. Especially since the best elite forces of the russian forces got their own teeth kicked in by reservists and office workers of Ukraine's national guard in the first hours of the battle of Hostomel airport. It must be one of the most embarassing moments in the history of russia's military, and a testimony to how russia's military is utterly incompetent.
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  14.  @bryandimery6509  They asked their western partners for 800 "tanks". That's sufficient to make them have to be "western", since the old Soviet tanks with western countries had already been given.
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  15.  @marthas.4456  "Two days" - sources, for these two articles, browser search: VERSIYA Two days away from World War III: Putin promises to take Europe in two days 18-09-2014 12:20 Politics NAVINY BELSAT 2014.09.18 12:16 naviny belsat eu ru news putin rossijskim vojskam potrebuetsya 2 dnya chtoby byt v varshave rige i buhareste [Edit] "..still didn't tell me the source" - That's because you didn't ask me before now, this one time. Or if you did the comment was removed, as I can't see it.
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  16.  @bryandimery6509  Many tanks they got only now within the last months, or half a year a.t.m. It was last autumn that they said "800 modern tanks" for their next offensive that people expected to start in the spring. But it's hard to conduct an offensive without the equipment needed. These tanks did not arrive last winter when they were needed in order to complete training, they arrived from may and has been coming drip-dropping since then. Like I said, Ukraine is getting way too little and too late compared to what they ask for. 800 tanks a year ago is not the same as 800 tanks now, because now the situation is different.
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  17.  @marthas.4456  Read the articles. They are from 2014. How can I be lying when I am reading the articles right now, and anyone can do that. I think you are talking about something completely different.
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