Comments by "Stephen Hill" (@stephenhill545) on "Putin panics as NATO hints at troops in Ukraine | Operator Starsky" video.

  1. ​ @TheRussianFelon  we remember the French armies which fought in ww1 and the crimean war, and the great French victories at austerlitz, jena, valmy and Friedland too. The French army has historically performed very well.
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  2. The EU has 50 billion "in the pipeline"
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  3. With France on its side, ukraine would win.
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  4. ​​ @user1qaz2wsx3edc napoleon defeated the russian army many times, austerlitz, friedland, smolensk,borodino etc, However, he couldn't defeat typhus and cholera.
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  5. It will happen. A Trump reelection will leave Europe open, and putin will try his luck. I live in russia, and the society is soaked in cynicism, brutality and nihilism.
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  6. Actually, we're not. Living in slavery is not life.
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  7. ​ @Withnail1969 they have a more modern army than ukraine, nuclear weapons, and a modern airforce. Their economy is larger than russia's, and thet have 65 million people.
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  8. No income from exploding shells snd tanks. The principle is to sell what you produce. Therein lies the little flaw.
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  9. He does. France has a professional army with modern weapons.
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  10. ​ @SebastianLarsen and the masterstroke named Austerlitz.
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  11. Escalate? Defending a sovereign state is not escalation, it is defending the right to self-determination.
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  12. Russia, the US and the UK guaranteed its borders.
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  13. You are missing reports from the front.
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  14. Then you don't know your history. France had the strongest military in Europe for hundreds of years. Read about Austerlitz and Valmy or something.
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  15. ​ @stringer-ik1pc France had a million casualties. They fought bravely against an army decades ahead in military strategy.
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  16. You underestimate China's economic ties with the west, and western willingness to hit Iran very hard, given a good excuse.
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  17. They do have a combined population of 180 million, a combined GDP 4x the size of Russia, 260k professional soldiers, modern aircraft carriers etc.,so you would think so.
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  18. France is a serious player. Putin has never attacked anyone he thought could fight back.
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  19. They didn't run. They were hit by dive bombers. Soviet tanks also experienced this tactic.
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  20. ​ @Blake4014 the ICC arrest warrant bothers him. It should. He will be tried on day.
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  21. You know he's a germophobe, right.
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  22. Austerlitz.
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  23. ​ @PraneshSacher he wasn't born until 1954. The siege of leningrad was in 1941-43
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  24. They should try not annexing and invading their neighbors. It would inspire trust.
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