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

  1. And it wlll take at least one season for that to happen with how large the area is. I predict this war will go on for at least another year.
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  2.  @vez3834  The Russian Bear is GERIATRIC!
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  3.  @u2beuser714  Actually, it is a VERY accurate analogy. Because it DOES quantify unknows such as the unpredictability of irrational human behaviors. I failed to see you provide a counter-example which means than my point still stands. Try using an ACTUAL argument instead of emotional outbursts.
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  4. I agree with all except for the testing part. Hiroshima was the location of an Army barracks used to train newly conscripted soldiers making it a valid target under the Law of Armed Conflict. Further, Nagasaki was the primary munitions production site, with ALL of the torpedoes used by the IJN and most of the artillery shells having been produced there. Munitions production is also a legitimate military target under LOAC.
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  5.  @karineroumache9124  Your questions are an example of presentism (chronological fallacy). You are judging their actions based on today's standards which is an inappropriate way to analyze that situation. By the laws in place for that time (both American and international), it was absolutely justified. And yes, they did test the trinity device before they dropped it on Nagasaki.
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  6.  @karineroumache9124  Nothing wrong with asking questions with the purpose of gaining a better understanding. I applaud that. Sadly, most discussions of American use of nuclear weapons degenerates into insipid recriminations and loaded questions rife with anachronistic claims. To your first question, the US had already used large scale incendiary weapons in Tokyo. Compared to that, the use of nuke was actually LESS destructive than the firebombing. As for legislation, there was none specifically regulating the use of nukes and so their use actually fell under the auspices of the local commanders. They just happened to choose to defer to the POTUS, setting the standard by which modern nuclear use doctrine follows.
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  7. Russia lost two of their A-50s (Soviet AWACS). The Russian air fleet is going in blind, not knowing if there are interceptors lying in wait.
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  8. Put down the vodka, private conscriptovich. You are so drunk you are hallucinating.
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  9.  @rjfaber1991  Indeed. While this makes the reconnaissance in force beachheads on the south untenable, they were merely landings of opportunity to begin with.
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  10. They are throwing anything and everything at the wall and see what sticks. It is an unhinged derangement.
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  11. India is getting irritated with Russia's failure to deliver on its weapons deals.
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  12. Which is ironic considering that NATO has not sent any troops into the area. Putin is jumping at a figment of his imagination. Nato's expansion is a result of his own paranoia driving the former Warsaw Pact into the Western camp.
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  13. Al Qaeda attacked the US in 9/11 from Afghanistan. Checkmate.
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  14. There is some merit to those points aside from the "unintentionally provoking Russia". The whole bit about NATO expansion (not your argument, but the one often made) fails to consider that FInland, Sweden, Poland, Slovakia, Croatia, Czechia, and the Baltic States all have agency of their own and would choose to join of their own free will. One has to ask why both historically neutral countries as well as former Warsaw Pact nations would choose to join.
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  15. I don't believe the claim about Crimean Reservoirs. It takes YEARS to fill them up. And if it only took one year to fill up, it would not last a full year.
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  16.  @bigmoe9856  Does it? Russia never used nukes in Afghanistan when they lost badly to the Mujahadeen. Also, the US chose not to use nukes in Vietnam so your claim that a nuclear power will never lose is historically ignorant.
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  17.  @bigmoe9856  You are moving the goal posts to justify your position which is undercut by objective fact. Your argument is lost and now you are flailing to justify yourself.
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  18. Only one country is fighting Russia, and that is Ukraine. If NATO actually joined the fight, it would be over in a week. The entire might of the West is NOT engaged in Ukraine. Put down the Vodka.
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  19. Your rebuttal is cope for the Russia is winning crowd. Put down the Vodka, you are drunk.
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  20.  @shueyk2320  The fact that the Russian Black Fleet has fled Novorossiysk for the safety of Rostov-on-Don, completely abandoning the Black Sea to a country with NO active Navy, yeah that IS winning.
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  21.  @TheDotBot  Except, her family were West German visitors connected with the embassy staff, NOT permanent residents. THAT is where your "everyone did it" argument falls apart. She joined for ideological reasons.
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  22.  @truckwarrior5944  I don't think you have actually read the documents. But alas, you are shilling for her which is to be expected by people who will cherry pick and cast things in the most optimistic light rather than look at it through realpolitik and Machiavellism. Occam's Razor still sides with my analysis.
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  23.  @hooo12121  As if Russian and Chinese agencies don't also engage in such black ops activity. Spare me your moral grandstanding.
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  24. Putting the cart before the horse. The USSR didn't join the war until TWO DAYS AFTER HIROSHIMA and one day before Nagasaki. You are engaging in an anachronistic fallacy. If anything, the Japanese wanted the Russians to act as mediators between them and the Allies. Stalin only declared war because he knew the war would end before he could claim war spoils.
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  25. Agreed. Mr. Spaniel thinks he can rationalize a settlement using numbers and statistics when wars are just as much about morale and emotions.
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  26. The Russian Bear is Geriatric.
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  27.  @nerdyali4154  Usually it does. However, Europe is less democratic and more hereditary Republic which differs from feudalism mostly in name. Aristocratic nobility of a different kind.
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  28.  @Roger_Gadd  I agree on both counts. Oh, and those they consider Russian are likely the collaborators. Those who consider themselves Ukrainians are likely staying because they don't want to be under Russia's authority.
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  29. Jason Borune and James Bond are not realistic. That is not how spies and assassins operate; too flashy and too obvious.
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  30.  @juicebox86  Then you don't believe in treaty negotiations. History has shown time and again that you DO have to sit at the table with an aggressor to officially end hostilities. The only question is, do you have the stronger position or do they?
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  31.  @juicebox86  As George S. Patton famously said, "you are not defeated until you admit defeat". Ukraine refuses to admit defeat and why should they? The fact that they fought a numerically superior foe to an effective draw show that Russia is NOT in a very strong position. The author of the video is wrong about wars only lasting a few months. MOST wars actually last for at least THREE years. The Ukrainians are barely six months into this war. As many have pointed out, all of Ukraine was overrun by the Germans in less than six months during Operation: Barbarossa. The Soviets stopped them at the tractor factory in Stalingrad. And a little more than two years after that, the Third Reich fell. Try looking at the battle maps of WW2 in that part of the world. The Ukrainians today have defended a number of cities using almost the exact same strategies as the defenders did in WW2. In many cases, they have been MORE successful than in WW2. So, no. You are counting your eggs before they have hatched. This war is FAR from over and you need to open your mind beyond your flawed preconceived notions.
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  32. Indeed. I am glad he pointed out the fuel and waste storage pools. Fukushima's leak came for those and NOT the reactors as the sensationalist falsely claim.
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  33.  @shaneb315  From the Kremlin no doubt.
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  34.  @patclark2186  Yeah, if only those same wargamers would pay attention to the warning by Michael Pilsbury about China. Much like how Erich Marcks played the Americans in Wehrmacht wargames and correctly predicted the Normandy invasion (and was ignored by German High Command), when Pilsbury plays Team Gold/Red (China) how the Chinese actually operate and behave, he NEVER loses. I fear American war planners have grossly mis-judged the Chinese almost as bad as Putin misjudged the Ukrainians.
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  35. Doesn't follow typical actions of western governments. It DOES comport with jihadi modus operendi.
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  36.  @kartikeyatiwari2502  How far away is Kursk City from the Ukrainian border? That was a big ask and not very practical. What they HAVE achieved IS comparable to the Kharkiv breakout in which Izyum fell and 1st Guard Tank Army, the Pride of Moscow was humiliated.
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  37.  @kartikeyatiwari2502  Ukraine never stated that their goal was to take the City of Kursk. That is the Kremlin talking point you are regurgitating on cue like Palov's Dog.
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  38. If that were true, Kiev would have welcomed the Russians with flowers instead of Molotov Cocktails.
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  39. US Military vessels were not in the Gulf of Aden before the Houthis started harassing ships. In that you are putting the cart before the horse. I do agree with you that there is no point wasting treasure and blood in Yemen. It is the Egyptians who should be invading Yemen, not the US.
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  40. Makes you wonder about some of the other militaries. Namely the North Koreans and Chinese. Don't underestimate them, but don't overestimate either.
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  41.  @RoshanKumar-br6op  Religious zealots often start out as revolutionaries. Iran for example was under the Shah until religious revolutionaries under Khomeini overthrew the government and instituted its theocracy backed by, yes, THE IRANIAN REVOLUTIONARY GUARD. Iran today doesn't just support anyone. The specifically back ISLAMIC resistance moments. So, while your contentions on the surface may be logical, they are predicated on false assumptions that blatantly ignore critical details and miss the bigger picture.
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  42. There are a number of jokes out there regarding the sized of his kahonas. One joke has a plane crew removing him from the flight because they (his balls) put the vehicle over its weight threshold.
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  43.  @balaclavabob001  I think he prefers Vodka.
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  44.  @mitri5389  Useless fronts? The fact that Ukraine has managed to fight a numerically superior foe to an effective draw show that their actions are anything but useless. If anything, Russia is the one dividing its forces making them weaker overall.
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  45.  @arty5876  "Volunteeers"? I guess you missed the mass FORECED mobilization back in September of 2022. Conversely, Ukraine was so overwhelmed with volunteers in 2022 they had to send many of them back home. Put down the Vodka Private Conscriptovich, you are so drunk you are hallucinating.
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  46. Yeah, DeGaulle and company have been ungrateful jerks since the ANGLO (US, UK, and the commonwealth nations) world rescued them.
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  47. A bigger issue is if Ukraine choose to even let those areas go. They many not and may instead opt to fight for six or seven years in an attritional battle to gain them back. That is where the author miscalculates with his fancy lines on a map. Ukraine's yellow line may be at the original Russian-Ukrainian border. On another tangent, if their offensive in Kherson is successful, they may turn south to Crimea rather than north to Donesk. From a strategic point, Crimea gives Ukraine more strategic options than simply pushing into Donbas.
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  48.  @kevinmoffatt  Which is sad because as an American, I had high hopes for the QEs to be conventional back-up for our nuclear Carriers.
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  49. I agree that they should move to Zaporizhya and cut down to Melitopol to divide Russian forces in two and cut the land bridge.
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  50. General Frost has favored Russia in the winter. And the Soviet Red Army made its greatest gains against the Wehrmacht in the winter. Do bear in mind that Canada and Norway have been sending cold weather gear to Ukraine since August. Russia is having trouble equipping for summer combat operations. I agree with your assessment about Russia's gambit and strategy. But I think Putin will find that much like with the initial invasion and the subsequent "partial mobilization", he has grossly miscalculated.
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