Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Willy OAM" channel.

Fiber optics on the battlefield, but still no fiber-optic Internet close to where I live.
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Putin will negotiate, but only from a position of strength, and only with the ability to enforce the terms by force, if necessary. If we wanted Putin to be nice, we should have kept our promises.
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He's doing the same things he's done from the beginning. Beg. Shame. Whistle past the graveyard.
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@EricWheaton-f1b LOL! I wonder how much it has to do with Internet access and information. Maybe it's harder to keep their info sources on lock-down when they're out-of-country.
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@TencentAsu1945 Yes. "Chairborne Rangers" is hilarious!
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It's becoming a class thing, much as I hate to say it. You have the political class or ruling class. Then you have the actual people. Uni-Party: Massive social spending plus forever war. We need less of the former and none of the latter.
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He would lay out exactly what his position was and they would respond with non sequiturs.
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PR is very much a priority. But yeah. They don't need to or want to trumpet skirmish-level victories as "game changers," the way Kiev does. That kind of PR only lasts so long. Eventually it loses its effectiveness, because it is so often out of alignment with reality.
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And you, also. And may we both be kind and generous to others, all year long.
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It's a very big war on a huge front, which translates to a large number of skirmish-level battles, for the most part. I don't know of anyone who gives a good overview. You have to try to piece it together. Daily updates teach little or nothing. It's like trying to understand Planet Earth by zooming in on one ant-hill.
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Germany's to blame for making promises of support it hasn't the wherewithal to provide. Same for the whole of Europe. Even giving everything they have to give, the need far exceeds the supply.
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@riveteye93 Tribalism is bad. But when another tribe is aggressive, what does your tribe do?
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People say Russia wasn't prepared for the war, but what I saw was their attack in February, 2022 made tremendous territorial gains with relatively few forces. I don't think they could've obtained those gains if they had mobilized in a more conventional way. I think that surprise and the feint at Kiev were keys to achieving their goals in the south.
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Not if you control all information sources. And that's what western leadership has relied upon for decades. Even as that control is lost, they can't help themselves. They still do the same things and tell the same people what The Message is, expecting that that's all they need to do because it's all they've EVER done, and it ALWAYS WORKED! Until recently. Think about how atrophied their other abilities have become, by steamrolling the public with easy propaganda blitzes, using legacy media and newly-minted Big Tech platforms, where truth may not be spoken. They had it all, just like Andy Gibb (Little brother of the Bee Gees, who had everything handed to him on a silver platter, and died at age 30 from drug abuse).
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Could be a lot of reasons for less reporting of FAB munitions. One of the misleading things about reporting on the "progress" for either side in the conflict is the war of attrition. Battle lines may remain the same for long stretches, but the cost of keeping things static, geographically, can - and usually does - come at greater cost to one side than the other. Ukraine is fighting for its national soil. Russia is fighting to destroy Ukraine's ability to wage war.
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@DonJupp321 It must be a living hell for those recruits.
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Any metal will glow when heated. Tungsten was used in light bulbs because it would glow without burning up as fast as other metals.
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Yes. In America, common sense is a conspiracy theory.
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@EugeneBos He's been loud and shrill for years. But I get what you're saying.
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@thorfinnravenfeeder There's a pro-Russian bias, there, for sure, but also a sincere effort to piece together the actual truth. The only thing they got wrong - horribly wrong - was their certainty that Russia couldn't possibly be planning an invasion back in Jan/Feb 2022. Even that mistake was based on the best info available to civilians. They fell for Maskirova.
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They didn't let victory slip through their fingers. This was lopsided from the very beginning, with or without NATO assistance. They didn't give enough because there wasn't enough to give.
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BIG bada boom!
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@Mordalo Kinetic energy = 0.5*mass*velocity^2
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@Mordalo I'm just trying to add some info to the conversation. You know some basics (although you can't spell "basics."). What's the point of insulting someone for providing some basics? Is it to dunk on someone?
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I always felt like volunteering to fight for another country is kind of your own business, as long as you're not signing-up to fight against your own country, which has a right to deter that sort of behavior by citizens. There are always people who will do this kind of thing. I'd rather see that than see our government meddling in conflicts around the world.
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Token wins at great cost in equipment and most of all, Ukrainians. Those men are irreplaceable, and the backbone of Ukraine, which is breaking them for the whims and egos of a very small group of people who don't care about anyone but themselves. It's a sorry chapter in history, and I have a hard time seeing Russia as the bad guy. The U$A would freak out if a Russian-backed military aimed at the U$A was built in Mexico. Does no one remember history? Does anyone really think Russia's paranoid, after Napoleon and Hitler? Every 80 or 100 years, incestuous West goes crazy and invades.
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@OO7sMom I think they probably meant what they said to the Indians at the time, but there was no stopping the westward expansion. Also, renegades on both sides made conflict inevitable, even with good will on both sides. One massacre beget many another massacre. Neither "side" had any real control over the worst kinds of people on the frontier. What were the natives to do? Execute all their renegades? It didn't work like that. The Chief led by consent, and anyone not a party to the agreement didn't consider themselves bound by it. On the other side, you had masses of settlers, prospectors, profiteers, who didn't give a fig for the treaties signed. They just moved where they wanted and fought to take and defend it. The U.S. Gov't fully intended to leave the Black Hills to the natives. Then one guy discovered gold, there. The government didn't send armies of miners to the hills. They sent themselves, against the wishes of the government.
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@dannydanny2789 The "column attacks" we're seeing, now, are more probing attacks than big, intimidating, combined-arms attacks. But maybe Tony and you are talking about two entirely different things. I think we understand the mathematics of restoring order after smashing enemy forces. It takes a lot more men than anybody really has. It's one thing, in Donbass, where the majority probably welcome Russian advances. It's an entirely different thing to "conquer Ukraine." Oh, they could probably wipe out Ukraine if they wanted, but they couldn't very easily establish and maintain order, with the native population absolutely against them. We saw this in Iraq, where the Allied (basically U.S.) forces could easily destroy the enemy, but could never restore order and maintain it. Same in Afghanistan. I think Russia will be content with Donbass and areas already ethnic Russian. Of course, Ukraine could've declared itself neutral a long time ago, and stopped bombing its own people, like it promised to do and then did not.
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Hang in there, my friend!
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@festekj I don't see it that way. But I agree that some western think-tankers see it that way. We've gotta knock some of these zero-sum think-tanker types off their pedestals. They're not our oracles. They're our doom.
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@Hereford1642 It's a prime piece of real estate. Permaculture has come a long way, too. Greenhouses in the snow, baby!
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@kyalokamina6497 Both sides learn every day. Nature of the beast. The big difference that I see, is there's part of the world that sees industry as its present and future, and another part of the world that's abandoning industry and manufacture. This can end in only one way, the same as Hitler's situation was similarly hopeless. Too much industrial might aligned against it.
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@harryflashman4542 I think there are a lot of reasons for the U.S. establishment to push the conflict. You suggest a few, but I don't think you scratched the surface of the corrupt ties between U.S. and Ukrainian oligarchs
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Define "defeat." The people prosecuting the war on the Ukraine side are making big bucks and have undoubtedly been planning their personal exit strategy since 2022 or before, imho.
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@deborahhoffman3941 Without U.S. hegemony, Euros won't be able to exploit the 3rd World like they have for centuries. Their empires failed in the 19th Century, and everything since has been trying to hold on to what they had, by having the USA act as their proxy. The USA, for its part, has used Europe to create the illusion that the rest of the world backs its play. I don't think this arrangement has been good for us or our supposed adversaries, let alone our allies. I feel the same way about Israel. USA and Israel think they benefit each other greatly with the current arrangement, but they're dragging each other down.
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As an American, I assure you that the main strategy of the political class in the USA is to project its own sins and inadequacies on its opponents, foreign and domestic. "You're a Nazi" means "I'm a Nazi." "You're stretched too thin" means "We're stretched too thin." "You're a crook" means "We're all crooks."
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@marcbjorg4823 I'll buy that. I just wasn't buying "It's glowing white, which means it's tungsten."
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I don't think the Kursk incursion was any more insane than everything else that's been done. Also, the fact that they were being defeated on the main battlefield made the Kursk incursion seem like a way to possibly break out. It would have been just as insane to just keep fighting as they had been. We're just splitting hairs on degrees of insanity.
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It's a self-inflicted wound for the West, which has systematically eliminated every sane effort to produce cheap, clean energy. Our leaders see the world as a zero-sum game, when it isn't and it never was.
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Way back in 2017, Trump was pointing out EU hypocrisy, expecting billions in military support to defend against Russia, while they were buying Russian oil and gas. As a U.S. citizen, I don't see what's bad about voluntary transactions between people or nations. But yes. If you expect billions of dollars of military support against The Bear, then you're a total hypocrite to buy vital oil and gas from The Bear. I just think it's OK for nations to trade peacefully, and that it makes total sense to trade with Russia, and grow into the future, together, instead of bickering over everything.
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Western political class projects its failings and flaws on everyone and everything but themselves. That, to me, is the lesson of the last 50 years, and especially the last 16, and ESPECIALLY the last one. Let's hope we finally clean out all the Obama and Biden taint. These people worship power and despise basic American values and highest principles. To them, the constitution is an inconvenience, an obstacle, between them and how they would wield absolute power.
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I see it the opposite way. Russia gained much ground with a small force, and give up ground rather than sacrifice troops. "Meat grinder" describes Ukrainian efforts to regain territory, for propaganda victories. Russia seems more willing to spend lives as mobilization continues and Ukrainian forces grow more brittle. Ukraine's economy is in tatters. Russia's is growing. Ukraine's lost half its population, down from 40 million to 20 million. Corruption and foreign influence and interference (2014 coup has "CIA" written all over it) have already been the undoing of Ukraine as a viable, sovereign state. Without U4A $$$, Ukraine government operations grind to a halt. A very small number of people in Ukraine and U$A got really rich from all this, and everyone else in U$A and Ukraine suffered.
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You have to understand that Americans have no natural defense against government propaganda. They spent their whole lives believing our government wouldn't and can't control the media. That makes it much more effective than in an outwardly totalitarian state. As an "immune," let me say I never had a gripe with the Russian people, clear back to the Cold War days. I was never a fan of the USSR, but in the '70s and '80s, I had no conception of how corrupt my own (American) government was, and how it poisons our minds - mostly with fear - to manufacture consent for very bad policies, here at home and abroad. Anyway, any Americans who treated you badly also treat fellow Americans badly.
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Pretty much the same in the USA, although there are cracks showing. People who want to know what's really going on have alternatives, but people who just take what the tv says as "truth" are totally brainwashed.
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These attacks deep in Russian territory only confirm the security concerns behind Russian aggression. Ukraine is only hardening Russian resolve and aggression. Every successful strike in Crimea only makes Russia want a bigger buffer zone.
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Ukraine was taken over by the USA and American interests in the Maidan Coup. If not Zelensky, then whoever ended up as president probably would have responded to all the pressures and promises in like fashion, and been plunged into war in like fashion.
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Meh. I don't see attritional warfare as a doctrine. I see a clear intention of winning, and an understanding that attrition is always a part of it. They made and they continue to make the calculation based on both sides' ability to fight. They are passive and "cowardly" when they can't afford to make a fight of it. They make the "affordability" calculation for both sides before they take the next step, especially when they switch to the offensive, and they don't make moves that hurt them more than they hurt the opponent. I think they have more manufacturing capacity than the West, at present, and for the foreseeable. The West is on the brink of financial and industrial collapse. The East and the Global South are on the cusp of a golden age of economic prosperity. I just wish we could stop fighting each other, and learn from our mistakes in previous industrial revolutions. Clean, safe, atomic power - the one thing the West doesn't want to share - seems like a very logical strategy. Fossil fuels are the obvious intermediate step, and for rural areas, should probably stay with us, forever. In congested metropolitan areas, not so much. Before the federal government stuck its nose in, there were a lot of for-profit light rail systems competing with each other in cities around the world.
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