Comments by "Walter Bailey" (@walterbailey2950) on "True state of Ukraine's military today" video.

Russia can probably win this but probably more like the way they were eventually able to subdue Finland: long bloody and full of catastrophe for Russia. Russia clearly wasn’t ready for this
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@РемиБоняшки Ukraine is acting more like Greece or Finland at the beginning of the war. And that means thousands of Russian body bags coming back.
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Perhaps not so many cameras and less willingness to reveal capabilities publicly
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@РемиБоняшки Both countries preserved most of their territory at the end of the war and their sovereignty. The invasions clearly weren’t worth the invaders’ losses. Today Finland is once again a thorn in Russia’s side and will probably be part of NATO soon. In the long run this latest invasion isn’t going to make Russia stronger. It’s going to turn Russia into an international pariah and make Europe more unified against it.
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@РемиБоняшки Interesting how quick you are to disclaim Russian nationality. I would too even if it wasn’t true under the circumstances, Which brings us back to my point: If Russia is willing to sink enough blood and treasure in this over enough time they can probably achieve some kind of victory but will it be worth the cost in men, money and in becoming an international outcast? That’s pretty doubtful.
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@arty5876 Well I don’t suppose anyone here has as much information as do Russian and Ukrainian field commanders. But just what information has been released suggests this is not going according to Putin’s plan. US intelligence reporting that some Russian troops refused to even fight is shocking as are the stalling of Russian vehicles because they ran out of gas, and the high casualties of the Russians have already taken. The Ukrainians are showing no signs of laying down their weapons. This conjures up the image of a boy who stumbled into a hornets nest. The boy appears to be Putin.
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@ivanbadaev6621 Which cities have actually been taken or even completely cut off like Leningrad during World War II? That sounds like propagandistic exaggeration to me.
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@РемиБоняшки I suppose whether or not Europe will be United depends on how you define Europe. But I would say that if you leave russia out you’re going to see a lot more unity now and going forward than you did before
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@РемиБоняшки 30,000 in all of 1939. How many more did they lose by the end of the war? Russia’s already lost more troops than we did in our entire occupation of Afghanistan. Oh so you’re ethnic Russian, you just don’t live in Russia? Yeah I wouldn’t be admitting Russian nationality either. I think there’s a special place in hell reserved for people who suffered something that they then mete out on someone else, an unprovoked invasion in this case.
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@ivanbadaev6621 None of those cities have been confirmed under Russian control by the Ukrainian government. And the way the Russian regime lies there’s absolutely no reason for anyone to take their claims at face value. The only thing you should take at face value from a Russian is if he tells you he’s going to die. That is indeed happening a lot right now.
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@ivanbadaev6621 With the perspective of an intelligence officer, combat commander and Historian, our general Petraeus gets it right: https://youtu.be/_mDgH3dTR4w
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@РемиБоняшки How would you know what our losses were in Afghanistan? I wouldn’t question them. Our military is less dominated by propaganda. Our society doesn’t allow hiding or falsely reporting death tolls so easily. US military medical care and the value that we place on human life is also totally different from that of Russia.
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@РемиБоняшки How would you know what our losses were in Afghanistan? I wouldn’t question them. Our military is less dominated by propaganda. Our society doesn’t allow hiding or falsely reporting death tolls so easily. US military medical care and the value that we place on human life is also totally different from that of Russia.
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@РемиБоняшки It’s true that an unusually large number of Americans have bought into propaganda from a demagogue gangster and that has cheapened and damaged our political discourse. We are at a relative low point in Americans knowledge of and confidence in the truth. But we’re still a far cry from the nonstop state propaganda and oppression that comes from the Russian government. At least we don’t have a thoroughly institutionalized regime of nothing but propaganda in our government, the way Russia does. And we all know what happens to people who say things against the Regime in Russia. No wonder: the Russian president is a professional liar with no moral compass and no compunction about killing anyone who gets in his way.
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@РемиБоняшки You always kill civilians when you use AirPower. We didn’t intentionally target civilians. No I don’t just go by what mainstream media says. I read more specialized media and also books and I have an MA in history
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@РемиБоняшки I don’t think that it’s quite right to call the American government a “regime.” We still have a semblance of a republic.
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