Comments by "Stephen Hill" (@stephenhill545) on "Putin 'doesn't believe he can secure Ukraine' as Kharkiv could be last offensive|Maj. Gen. Tim Cross" video.

  1. Tsar Nicholas II, Emperor Franz-Josef and Wilhelm II.are better comparisons. Each fought to maintain the internal social cohesion of their states, in the face of societal, and ethnic tensions in Austro-Hungary's case, by going to war. They failed, because war could only distract from, not solve the underlying problems.
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  2. ​ @juljos9343 nobody thought he would destroy his economic links with the west, we underestimated his hatred of us.
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  3. Cruise missiles can travel over 3,000.
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  4. ​ @EstOptimusNobis correct, artilary range is a key factor.
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  5. Putin's Verdun moment? After Verdun, France's allies had to send ground troops in force to the front.
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  6. ​ @blader2999 expand, collapse, expand collapse, Russian history. You will lose it all, again. And you will live to see it.
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  7. ​ @artistforfreedom he wants to stop ideas spreading into Russia.
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  8. And not caring.
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  9. NATO membership would suffice.
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  10. It was a mistake to start it. The Finns and Swedes have made the Baltic Sea a NATO lake, and Ukraine will be Russia's new Afghanistan, imperial hubris broken on the wheel of cold, economic realities.
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  11. ​ @AVH-z9m where are you from?
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  12. Well, Scholz isn't producing Taurus missiles, the defense contractor has received no order to manufacture them. That's why.
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  13. ​ @claudinefiona9698 the tsar in his golden palace does not negotiate with mortal men.
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  14. It"s got a population of 140 million, around the same as Japan, big compared to the Netherlands, but small compared to the USA, China etc.
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  15. The USSR kept going for a while with 25% of its budget going on defense. How else can Russia claim to be a great power? It has a relatively small population and a small economy. It has to overspend, which will, as before, lead to collapse, and then, feeling humiliated, the whole process will begin anew. Russia has to re-evauate its claim to being a great power, but how can that happen where public discourse is impossible? I see no hope, except that each new reincarnation is weaker than the last, because the nations it sees as its rivals are mostly investing that money in their economic development.
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