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

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While everyone is tracking who's winning or losing, I just see a city turned to rubble, and wonder what happened to the people who once lived there.
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Tanks are only part of combined arms. If the enemy controls the skies, tanks are just targets.
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@historylegends Yes. I made that comment midway through your video. It seems that the enforcement end is hopelessly corrupt and ineffectual, so deserting isn't as scary as it would otherwise be. About what you would expect from a corrupt government getting all its policies and money from corrupt U.S. politicians.
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Ukraine was OVERTHROWN by NATO and the current regime is stuck between angry Russia and insane NATO.
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@ВладиславНиколаев-ч5щ What you say is perfectly reasonable, except for one thing: Ukraine has violated every agreement made with Russia. Russia has the overwhelming advantage and the momentum. What guarantees would Russia have that the puppet regime in Kiev wouldn't go right back to the same behavior? Each of the last couple cease-fires have only given Kiev breathing room to build up forces and go right back to bombing what's left of the Donbass. There's no self-reflection about their ethnic cleansing efforts. I feel bad for Ukraine, because it's always been a country divided, because of the very large ethnic Russian population. If you want a good, strong country, you need one common language. If ethnic Russians refuse to assimilate, Ukraine can't have a unified nation. Maybe they were doomed from the start. It seems to me, though, that they could put together a one-nation, one-culture plan that didn't involve bombing the expletive-deleted out of their own people. But since they were overthrown in 2014, they've been run by western neocons, who are always stirring up trouble, especially where they lack the real wherewithal to impose their will by force. So, like all empires before them, they resort to dirty tricks, like regime change.
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Air ops and larger armored attacks tell us the state of Ukraine's air defenses. Russians couldn't fly over Ukraine territory, like that, before.
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The Grayzone's Telegram admin was un-al1ved? At the end of last month, Grayzone got a huge scoop that exposed/embarrassed National Endowment for Democracy and its parent, USAID, and has heads rolling at the organization. The Grayzone's a bunch of honest progressives who report the facts, in spite of their economic illiteracy. They're considered a "far left" organization, but when you break things down, issue by issue, Democrats would probably classify them as "far right" like they do with Jimmy Dore, who's also a pretty left-progressive, himself.
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@notsaying543 Russia builds 150 tanks per month. Over 20 months, that's 3,000 new tanks. You're admitting Russian tank forces are newer and more numerous than at the start of the conflict. Personally, I think tanks are highly overrated in modern warfare. I think most of the battle is preparing the ground for their "proper" use. I also think Russia's production lead is so great, and the supply situation (men and equipment) is so dire on the Ukrainian side, that risking a few tanks and/or armored vehicles per day or week just to test enemy strength and/or give them targets for counter-battery fire, is well worth it. The cumulative effect of the conflict is great, but it's barely a pin-prick compared to the massive mobilization taking place on the Russian side. They will have growing pains, but don't let that blind you to the fact that they are growing by leaps and bounds. $talin faced similar growing pains, because of how fast the build-up was. The impact of his purges are greatly exaggerated. The shortage of commissioned officers was inevitable due to the sheer scale of the build-up.
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That's very sad, considering what a trickle the other 80% is compared to the river of need extant.
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Ukrainians are trying to push their air defenses forward as quickly as possible, but they're not keeping up with their deepest penetrations. But they're still pretty far forward. Short term, Russia's putting more aircraft in jeopardy, blunting the Ukrainian charge being more important than the loss of said aircraft. What I'd like to know is the progress of the fortifications between Kursk and the Ukrainian salient. I only saw one little blurb suggesting massive fortifications being built well ahead of the deepest penetration by Ukraine. We know how fast Russia can dig trenches and throw down dragon's teeth (Very fast). Unless Ukraine is doing something to hamper that, it will go pretty much as things are going in Donbass, and I'm guessing they already got a big chunk of it done in the first few days. Russia will systematically build up and slowly crush the forces on Russian soil. I don't think Ukraine has the same rate of fortification building. I don't think the token few thousand men and few hundred armored and other vehicles mounting this 2nd campaign in the North have the men or the equipment to actually do much in the way of fortifying any of their gains. I fear they will be decimated and pushed back, rather easily, except insofar as the towns, themselves, are big enough to constitute "instant fortifications."
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Will watch this with interest.
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@mcnuffin1208 Was the outcome in Chechnya ever in any doubt? I think calling it a "worst nightmare" was over the top, but Russian Army is gaining combat experience, and has adapted very quickly. I think it can be deceptive, watching green Russian troops do as they're told and high-tail it out of trouble. I think it's easy to underestimate the enemy, especially when you are winning skirmish after skirmish, when to the enemy, the skirmishes are the best training for the survivors, both officers and enlisted. The skirmishes are less about winning and more about forcing their opponent to respond, expending human and material resources they can ill afford to lose. You very quickly sort out leaders from followers and incompetents. It might be the least costly in men and equipment over the long haul, the same way that their absolute "Do not negotiate with terrorists" stance. "20 gunmen have taken 100 moviegoers hostage and they're in a stand-off with local police." You know what happens. They sing the death songs of the hostages, assemble overwhelming forces, and they storm the theater. Hostages may die, but terrorists definitely die. That kind of next-level ruthlessness saves many Russian lives. Would-be hostage takers know how it will end. I think we're reaching the point where Ukrainian front line will collapse. It remains an open question how Putin will respond, but my guess is he'll be open to negotiations. Ukraine stands to lose Odessa if this continues, and could potentially regain more territory by being reasonable and ending the genocide on ethnic Russians within its borders.
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@MissingThe90s That's hard to say. He picked a neocon for VP, which is not a good sign for his State Department and intel appointments. But after RussiaGate, he has no love for the security state and the foreign-policy brain trust currently in office. Who knows what compromises Russia might accept, if their security requirements are met? There was and is no way Russia is going to accept a hostile neighbor on its doorstep, building a huge army and rattling its saber, with the approval and encouragement of feckless NATO (U.S.) officials. Right now, the Russians are winning hearts and minds around the world, for the way they handle their business and how the USA and Europe handle theirs. Africa and the Far East are fed up with America's regime-change foreign policy. They're nervous about who might be next on the USA's hit list, and they see America's might being legitimately challenged around the world. Russia has oil and gas for sale. The west is actually planning on moving away from fossil fuels by 2030, and has nothing but poverty on offer. American economic hegemony is coming to an end, but it refuses to accept that it is no longer first among equals.
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Much better information than the daily map game everybody else plays. You try to put it in perspective and be objective.
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@Влад-ч8ь1с It's hard not to sound pro-Russian if you're being objective. There just isn't a whole lot positive to report for the Ukrainian side, but when there is, for instance, when he's criticizing Russia's tactics in the past. In fact, I was going to jump in and say, the current emphasis on maneuver is more the product of the destruction/counter-measures of/to Ukrainian artillery pieces, artillery ammo, air defenses and FPV drones. I think that a year ago, the Russians were obliged to push ahead in a heavily fortified, slowly moving line. Any Russian advances along a particular line created salients that were vulnerable to attack. So anyway, I'm not sure that the Russians are necessarily changing tactics because they got better at maneuver warfare or because there are more and more opportunities to penetrate the front lines and survive it. For instance, they took on Bakhmut head-on, when I thought they would be wiser to bypass it and threaten to encircle it, creating a cauldron for forces trying to reinforce it, forcing the retreat out of Bakhmut. But in hindsight, maybe the Ukrainians were much better at thwarting those kinds of maneuvers. Also, I don't think their purpose was to conquer Ukraine so much as win a war of attrition, and they destroyed a lot of Ukraine's fighting forces in the slug-fest.
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I don't do any notifications. I watch what I choose. "Click the bell" is not a service for you. It's to trick you into letting social media take over your life even more than it already has. I say "you," but I spend way too much time on social media. A lot of it is positive. A lot of it is just a distraction.
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Russia's never been afraid to send small armored probes. But the increased activity by Russian armor suggests they're growing more confident. Maybe they think that Ukraine is close to the breaking point. Could it be worth the price in armored vehicles to locate Ukrainian artillery and command-and-control? NATO's running out of resources. Now they're considering liquidating Russian assets of around $300 billion and sending it to Ukraine. It would definitely hurt Russia in the short term to do that, but it will sour most of the Southern hemisphere and much of the Northern hemisphere against USA and its allies. I think India sits at the fulcrum of the world's balance of power, and I don't think they would ever betray Russia when it came down to it. India doesn't have to like China for both China and India to be very pragmatic in their dealings with Russia. That means trade agreements the so-called "West" can't really disrupt.
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