Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Tension over Zaporozhzhye NPP Grows, Ukraine Demands NATO Entry; Russia Huge Tank Production" video.

@yuribeard5753 I can get on board with that. The "who's winning?" fades by comparison to the lives lost and lives damaged beyond repair.
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Yes. Zoomed-in accounts of a skirmish along the tree-line bordering a 10-acre wheat field is not very useful.
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Watching Ukraine's Offensive at 1 Month - Losing the War of Attrition. Thx for the title.
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@matthewnewell4517 No, but you can arrange for a pallet of tank ammo to 'fall off a truck,' never to be seen, again. U.S. officials admit they don't know where most of the money and materièl end up.
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@matthewnewell4517 The Ukrainian gov't's been skimming cash off low-interest-loan guarantees. $1 or $2 billion can make a lot of people rich at the top, without being noticed. I'm against government-to-government aid. Instant, widespread corruption and incompetence.
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You make 3 meals a day, every day. You brush your teeth every day. Alexander's just brushing his teeth. When your work is fun, all you do is play. That's the other piece of it. Saying "Alexander did an upload today" is like saying "Alexander put on a shirt, today.'
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Tough call on the opening moves of the SMO. The scale of the original build-up was enough to raise flags in the West, but I don't think it was enough for them to believe that the Russians would strike at all, let alone strike as hard as they did. Alexander pooh-poohed the idea that the Russians were readying for the attack. The feint at Kiev tied down a LOT of Ukrainian forces, at the cost of high losses in a relatively small number of heavily armed, elite Russian forces, whose value is in arriving before they're supposed to, and fighting like demons. They scoff, with sarcastic "3 days to capture Kiev and end the war," but it just seems to me that they achieved what they wanted, at relatively little cost. There wasn't a long, drawn-out struggle to bring their forces to the gates of the key cities, which they had enough power to grind down, while the more general mobilization got underway. They haven't had any problem slowing down and destroying the counteroffensive. I think the killed-and-wounded are much higher on the Ukrainian side. Even if they're not, the Russians can afford the trade; whereas, the Ukrainians cannot. I did not know, nor have I double-checked, the fate of the SU's that've been launching the guided air-to-ground missiles. If the 2-aircraft teams that are firing these salvos are being downed at anywhere close to Alexander's claimed 50% rate by Russian aircraft/missiles, that's very bad for the Ukrainians.
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Antonovsky Bridge: The bridgehead is celebrated like the Normandy landings of 1944. What was it? A crossing by 50 (or 70?) special forces? Is it just me, or are the actions of the counteroffensive massively over-reported? Chasing away a squad or platoon of infantry on video from a field in the middle of nowhere doesn't mean the Russians are in disarray. It means the Ukrainians have a local, temporary firepower advantage that's probably not worth more than the propaganda value, and likely came at great cost compared to its concrete value, strategically. I'm not discounting the hearts-and-minds aspect. But hearts and minds are not enough, when actual, concrete wherewithal of forces is utterly lacking. If you really wanted to win a war of attrition against the Russians, the best strategy would be what the USA's done over and over since WWII: Fund an insurgency, keep the American people in the dark, or better yet, convince them the insurgents are Democrat-ic freedom fighters, bravely resisting tyranny. Throw some economic sanctions their way, to make the public angry at their increasingly desperate and tyrannical government, et voila! An "organic" rise of "democracy." All it takes is some illegal covert aid, a bit of spin, It all has a limited shelf life. But as long as they can win TODAY, they don't care. If anything, the (un)intended consequences give even more reason for more extreme and more violent measures to "restore democracy" in the future.
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He's in an impossible situation, elected president of a nation hemmed in by oligarchs, secret police, and generals. Like Trump, he probably had the right idea, but was in over his head when it came to whom to fire, HOW to fire them, and whom to appoint in their place.
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@SuanLuang Boeing RC-135V looks like a 4-engine passenger plane, so some kind of AWACS?
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@kevinwaalker LOL! That seems likely! OTOH, you can probably get away with filming pretty easily if you don't act as though you are filming, with a phone, go-pro, or other small camera.
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@SuanLuang I'm pretty sure I've heard U.S. officials brag about building an army in Ukraine to defeat Russia. Not sure exactly when, but it's been between 2014 and present. Probably some throwaway line by Lindsey Graham when he was all flushed with aggression and righteousness.
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@ismaelamaro7728 They don't have to lose very many to exceed the replacement rate.
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@matthewnewell4517 A distinction without a difference. You see the NATO brand on the horse and quibble about who made the saddle blanket.
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I'm glad I'm not the only person who INSTANTLY saw the rhetorical groundwork being laid for WWIII via ZNPP. These people are INSANE, RUTHLESS, and have a perverse disregard for human life.
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It's hilarious! The Gen Z that the establishment trained and is trying to appeal to with wokeness, don't want to be soldiers and make terrible soldiers. The sons who would make good soldiers are all contenting themselves fixing their own cars, hunting, and spending time on the shooting range, and want nothing to do with either 'woke' or undeclared wars of regime change around the world. Their only solution would be a draft, but if they try to start up a draft, the whole country (USA) will be up in arms.
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@louise_rose Meh. They're in a war for survival. Very asymmetrical situation. Of course they will stoop to anything. Wouldn't you fight by every means available if YOUR neighbor just occupied a big chunk of your country? I don't fault Zelensky for that. I DO fault the Ukrainian government for succumbing to the tactics of Western subversion and regime change. One thing we don't talk about is the extent of Russian de-stabilization of Ukraine that gave the CIA such a strong wedge to overthrow the old and influence the new. II really couldn't tell you how much of the civil war is drummed up by Russia, or how much the regressive policies of the Ukrainian gov't are influenced by Russian provocations. I don't think their hands are entirely clean. My bottom line is the strategic and economic realities of the situation. I don't think there's much that NATO can do about it. They lack the economic wherewithal to win on the ground, conventionally. My biggest fear is NATO will go nuclear and bring about the end of the world as we know it. Just a few people in holes and a bunch of cockroaches.
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@yurichtube1162 They need a scapegoat and a unifying cause to justify their continued positions of power. If they can't blame the coming fecal storm on somebody else, they're dead. My guess is they're way ahead of me on this, and the coming perfect storm will argue for the Strong Man they will only too happily provide.
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@Sammyli99 Yes. General Millicent has many virtues and not a single cosmetic defect that can't be cured by a pound of foundation and a push-up bra.
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... and a long, blonde wig.
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