Comments by "Solo Renegade" (@SoloRenegade) on "Real Reporter" channel.

  1.  @marcuswardle3180  Most Ukrainians fighting today, were not serving in the military in 2014. Most have less than 1yr of total experience, assuming all of it was spent in combat and little to none in training. US soldiers by contrast typically have years of training before seeing combat, and even the few who do not get years fo training their first time, are in a unit full of people with decades of combined experience and training. The depth of experience through the ranks spans multiple wars, multiple decades. Ukraine lacks both combat experience in its forces, lacks the skills and experience within its forces (namely with leadership, command and control, coordination, combined arms tactics, etc.). it takes decades for a military to get to that level of competency, assuming it has time to train people properly. But when you just throw barely trained troops into a fight with advanced equipment that takes years to master, and requires lots of practice with teamwork to utilize that equipment to its full potential, they will never perform properly. We do not see Ukraine using the equipment the way it was meant/designed to be used. And thus it doesn't work the way it could/would were it in the hands of US troops. Believe it or not, the US has been using kamikaze drones in combat since WW2. We used them in WW2 against Japan, in Vietnam, and we also used drones in Desert Storm, Iraq, Afghanistan, and more places for decades. The US invented and was first to use many of the capabilities you see being used in Ukraine today, decades ago. The Byraktar drone capability for example, is something the US has had and used since the late 1980s. Yet the US fought for over 2 decades against unconventional forces and suffered far fewer losses. Yes, we lost many Abrams tanks, but not nearly the levels of losses Ukraine/Russia are taking. Becasue we employed them properly, and dealt with the unconventional threats properly. We had proper functional jamming equipment and other defenses that make the use of small drones less effective. And the US also fights in a manner that makes deploying small drones nearly impossible to be effective. And we also have methods for tracking where a drone took off from. Capabilities Ukraine lacks. The biggest difference is the US has overwhelming air power, making every target within reach, and anytime an enemy pops his head up to attack, we destroy him. You can track a drone back to its operator, if you have the ability to detect, triangulate, and strike his position.
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  2.  @catocall7323  "no air superiority is the new reality of war, if your tactics depend on this, your tactics are wrong." And what, pray tell, is your strategy for winning in Ukraine without air support? Modern weapons are at play, unlike wars past. Which tactics would help Ukraine win?
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  3.  @jmass4207  "But “we can defeat Ukraine despite NATO aid” surely is not." that is way overblown. Ukraine has gotten a handful of HIMARS rocket artillery, a handful of tanks, some missiles, a patriot battery.....and Russia is still struggling to win after losing nearly 500k people and thousands of tanks, hundreds of jets, bombers, AWACs, cargo planes, helicopters, lost a large portion of its Black Sea Fleet...... Mostly to lesser russian gear, and cobbled together weapons. If Ukraine actually got serious NATO support, the war would be even worse for Russia. Most russian soldier prior to Ukraine got no more than 2yrs experience, and they had no real NCO personnel with decades of experience like the US. their Spetznaz get less training than an average US private in the infantry. Anyone trying to claim Russian military training is comparable in the slightest to the US is on drugs. I know you were not making that claim, quite the opposite.
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  4. anyone claiming that a mere tank is a game changer doesn't have a clue about military matters
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  5.  @badddkattt  wow, a Democrat Leftists using racist slurs, who would have guessed. And a war mongering Leftist Democrat to boot, never would have seen that coming either. How is that war in Syria you Leftists started going? Why didn't you send enough forces to end that conflict? We could send Ukraine thousnads of tanks and it wouldn't make a difference, if the Ukrainians lack the skill and coordination to use them properly and just throw them at the Russians, same as the Russians throw stuff at teh Ukrainians. Ukrainians won't value nor conserve something if they know they will get an "unlimited" supply. And that will cost the US dearly. Meanwhile, Democrats also won't even lift a finger to secure our national borders, nor punish violent criminals, yet want to lecture us on wars. The war in Ukraine never would have even happened if a Republican had been in office. Notice how it didn't happen until weak Biden took office.
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  6. and that doesn't even account for the lack of unit level training and tactics, nor higher level combined arms coordination.
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  7.  @Leo.0328  what experienced tank commanders? What tank combat experience did any Ukrainian have prior to Russia invading? and none of them had combined arms experience with tanks. and none fo them had ever manned a tank as advaofed as an M1 before. Many tankers in Ukraine had no prior military service more than 3months prior to being thrown into a US supplied tank.
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  8.  @Leo.0328  Ukraine was fighting for 2yrs before the abrams showed up. many experienced tankers were dead already. Many of the videos we see now are untrained crews. the Bradley that famously took out a tank with its cannon was crewed by guys who'd gotten a few weeks crash course in the Bradley, and had no prior military service. these are not experienced crews nor commanders. They were drafted. Ukraine had how many tanks at the start of this war? a few hundred? and they've lost tens of thousands of soldiers at least, some estimates claim hundreds of thousands dead already. most Ukrainian tankers are dead and were never trained in complex tank tactics, tank formations, mutual support tactics, nor combined arms with tanks. We don't see ANY videos of Ukraine performing Any complex tank tactics, nor performing any serious combined arms operations. they lack the understanding and experience to pull that off. that requires high levels of training, coordination, leadership, and discipline which requires decades of built up experience and practice.
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  9.  @Leo.0328  "And the reason you don't see Ukraine performing complex tank tactics or serious combined arms operations is pretty fucking clear. They don't have the resources of NATO. They don't have air superiority. " And they lack the experience and know-how. "They don't have millions of precision artillery rounds, they don't have thousands of artillery pieces to fire those rounds." you don't need such rounds. Even the US relies mostly on standard artillery rounds. Ukraine proved how accurate standard rounds could be when fired properly. "They don't have tens of thousands of missiles to use." We largely didn't rely upon that many missiles either. You don't need tons of missiles for combined arms warfare. You need, engineers, mechanics, Medics, Infantry, Tanks, artillery, any amount of air support, etc. It's having the ability to coordinate in teh face of changing circumstances, and having unit level competence and understanding so that they can adjust on the fly to meet the intent of their orders in proper sequence even if things don't go to plan. "you're not worth debating." Yet here you are, debating me. You're such a liar.
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