Comments by "David Ford" (@davidford3115) on "William Spaniel" channel.

  1. Only because Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer went at him figuratively like Brutus and Cassius did Jullius. "Et tu, Brute?"
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  2. That is the dirty little detail that most pundits have blatantly ignored. Even during the 2023 summer offense, Ukraine rapidly changed and adapted their tactics as the situation progressed. People chastise Ukraine for failing to make gains, but they ignore the dirty details which show how Ukraine went from massed mobility attacks which were ineffective to "bit and hold" of WW1 which while slow, were far less devastating in combat losses than meat wave attacks.
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  3. Agreed. Perun's analysis of Russia's military production indicates that it is that legacy equipment that is sustaining this war. When it run out, Russia is up a creek without a paddle.
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  4. How did the attackers during the previous Moscow terrorist attacks behave? Or how about the Belsan school bombing?
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  5. Or, only now is it actually a viable option. Before, the Russians could have outflanked the Ukrainian position while still occupying the Northwest side of the Dnipro. Now that the river acts as a natural obstruction to Russian advances in that direction, Ukraine can redeploy those forces to the Zaporizhian front.
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  6. "Iran is the protagonist". This is a villain-protagonist story? Nice change of pace. PS, there WERE chemical weapons in Iraq. US Troops going into Baghdad were hit by sarin gas shells. This was well documented, but the media refused to ever report on it.
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  7. Put down the vodka, you are drunk.
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  8.  @TP-nv7zz  Put down the vodka comrade. Finland's ascension into NATO is effectively a done deal. Getting Hungary and Turkey's consent is but a mere formality at this point.
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  9. This will not end by Christmas. The Soviet Red Army made its greatest gains against the Wehrmacht during the winter season. Considering that Canada and Norway have been sending cold weather gear since August and the Russians are having trouble with gear for even summer operations, this has the makings of a VERY RED Christmas (aka an ass kicking Christmas).
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  10.  @MN-vz8qm  You are giving France credit for the wars in which the participated with OTHER nations. Those other nations did the work. As far as demographic advantage, Germany has NEVER had it against France. Pre-ww1, France was the 4th largest nation by population. And marshal Petain (Vichy France's Fascist leader and willful collaborator with the Third Reich) got them slaughtered in a fashion very similar to what Marshal Zhukov would do on the Eastern Front.
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  11. In its own mind. Superpowers have blue water Navies. The Russian fleet can barely stay at sea, and the Black Sea Fleet is cowering in Rostov-on-Don.
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  12. Agreed. Appeasement NEVER WORKS. That was the lesson of Munich that people have since forgotten.
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  13. Ukraine can cross rivers, Russians cannot. How many failed crossings of the Donesk River did the Russian's attempt and fail?
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  14.  @Tadicuslegion78  No kidding. Ph.D. Presidents like Woodrow Wilson were complete disasters.
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  15. Was it a direct chain or were they simply playing a game? The Houthis are on Iran's leash.
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  16. Putin doesn't care about Ukrainian lives. If he did, he would not be specifically targeting civilian infrastructure. Also, the butchery of Bucha proves beyond a reasonable doubt that your claims is hogwash.
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  17.  @dmitriyalaasniy8442  HIMARS are a precision weapon that would only leave pockmarks on the dam. This was done by demolition explosives. Unless you are telling me the Russian Army is so blind as to not see Ukrainian Frogmen place those only the Russians had access to the location to detonate such explosives.
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  18. I think you missed the whole part about the oil deposits offshore of Crimea for which Shell signed deals for before the Crimea Annexation. Or the gas and coal deposits in the Donbas. Taken together those energy resources would have made Ukraine the third largest oil and gas producer and second overall energy producer for Europe. With that context, the Russian invasion has more to do with Putin's attempt to preserve his energy monopoly on Europe (which obviously failed spectacularly).
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  19.  @jonassunden9382  Operation Ketsu-Go proves you claim about them intending to surrender to bed. The Imperial Japanese Army had every intention of continuing the war whether the Emperor wanted the war to end or not. Ketsu-Go would have made any Allies invasion of the home Islands take at least a year if the Okinawa and Iwo Jima landings are any measure.
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  20.  @Mike-ec2xi  Wrong. Japan's actions on Saipan, Guam, Okinawa, and Iwo Jima showed that starvation was NOT a viable option in any way shape or form. Typical of armchair quarterbacks, you lack any understanding of what it requires to sustain an embargo and siege on such a massive scale.
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  21.  @Kay2kGer  That may have been the claim, but the "customer" on the other end isn't buying it anymore. That changes the equation.
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  22. Using nukes is NOT an automatic win. Most geopolitical analysis treat it as an automatic loss for all sides. In Putin's case, he stripped the air defenses around Moscow and Petrograd, sending them to Ukraine. Using nukes now with that kind of vulnerability to a counter-strike is literally suicidal.
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  23.  @Nightss  At what cost? How much combat power was irrecoverably lost taking Bakhmut and Advika? Ukraine quickly adapted in Zaphoresia to minimize losses. Russia just keeps grinding forward heedless of the losses. That is called a Pyrrhic victory, which is actually a loss.
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  24. And that key detail gets overlooked. Had Zelensky fled, Kiev would have fallen that day. He stayed and that emboldened the people of Ukraine.
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  25. If Pyrrhic victory is your idea of winning, I hate to see what your definition of losing is.
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  26. People don't seem to realize that gridlock was purposeful. The American founder had already seen what a compliant Parlaiment under King George would do when it simply rubber-stamped the King's desires.
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  27. Indeed. Better equipment has shown to be a HUGE force multiplier against Russia's greater numbers.
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  28. Antisemitism is not a good look.
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  29. Have you seen how Russia treats areas it considers their territory? In capturing Sevrodonesk, they reduced it to rubble. And they have been trying to do the same to Bakmut. Scorched Earth is standard operating procedure for Russia.
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  30.  @u2beuser714  The analogy used is sitting at a restaurant and realizing you left your credit card at home and don't have enough cash on hand. Rather than tell the management of the problem and work out a solution, the person simply keeps ordering more in the hopes that the bill is never brought out. Only, the restaurant WILL close eventually.
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  31. And if they get to the coast just south of Melitopol, then the HIMARS can target the Kerch bridge directly.
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  32. You might try Perun's channel. He focuses on defense logistics and did a few videos on War production capabilities for various nations including Russia and Ukraine.
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  33.  @Taletad  Bargain for what? Ukraine has already declared it will retake Crimea.
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  34.  @Taletad  That is like asking the Iranians or the Nazis to only kill half the Jews and calling it a "compromise". Don't make excuses.
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  35.  @dmitriyalaasniy8442  You are doing quite a bit yourself with your trolling private Conscriptovich.
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  36.  @Arcaryon  yeah, she had options, but one must also consider her history with the East German Communist Youth League. Much like Putin, she saw the fall of the Eastern Soviet Bloc to be a geopolitical disaster.
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  37. You sell the Ukrainian effort short. Equpment is great, but as Afghanistan proves, it doesn't mean you automatically win. It is the Ukrainians who are actually fighting the fight.
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  38. Indeed. Appeasement NEVER works. It failed at Munich, it will fail here.
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  39. So you are saying that the Russian Army is so blind and powerless it could not stop Ukrainian Frogmen from placing demolition charges? Cope Harder dude.
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  40.  @waltergro9102  You are making a distinction WITOUT a difference. And no, it was never approved by NATO. Again, you are engaging appeasement of the Kremin. STOP ACTING LIKE NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN.
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  41. The Soviet Union recovered from its disastrous defeats at the hands of the Wehrmacht because US supplies that were sent via the Northern Route to Murmansk. For almost 30 years after WW2, the trucks used in the yearly May Day parades were American built. Russia today does NOT have that production supply; Ukraine is who benefits from it.
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  42. Yeah, spreading 30million deaths over 500 years is easier than the same number over just 5 years during WW2. I think that context is being lost.
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  43. Actually, I think you are correct that Putin thinks like Joe Stalin. The parallels are striking.
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  44. GDP includes governemnt spending. When military spending is more than 50% of your GDP like it is for North Korea (and now Russia), that isn't growth, that is simply a reflection of government increases in spending.
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  45. @tekinfomedi Make excuses all you want. Stalin was signaling to Hitler for YEARS that he wanted Polan annihilated. The signed treaty was simply formalization of the already agreed on premise.
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  46.  @nomanor7987  Maybe, but the casualties to Russia are far higher. Ukraine has the fortune that most of their "losses" are recoverable meaning that the injured can return to the fight a few days later.
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  47. NovoRussiya speech proves you wrong.
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  48. China benefits most, but India also benefits greatly. I am glad to see the Indians are stepping up to the plate to fight piracy.
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  49.  @chrimony  If they have repaired the Antinovski Bridge then that doesn't become much of a problem once the Ukrainians drive Russian Artillery out of range of the bridge.
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  50.  @jamesng7320  First, the land is called JUDEA, not Palestine. The British simply used the name the Romans made up to erase Jewish history after the Revolt of 71 AD. As for the US, what did the natives actually do with the land? Cahokia was the high-water mark for North America's indigenous population.
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