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

  1.  @start3215  You can't argue the merits so you attack the Messager. Typical response from an unsophisticated troll pushing ideology rather than truth. You wouldn't know truth if it bit you on the nose.
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  2.  @start3215  Pot meet kettle. Accuse your critics of the very things you are doing to cause confusion. Also known as psychological projection. I aggregate data points from various sources and then run it through logic and reason. You chose to cherry pick your information and filter it through emotions. Which one cleaves closer to the truth?
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  3.  @start3215  "To be ignorant of the past is to remain always a child” – Marcus Tullius Cicero And with that, your claim that only personal experience is the only truth is debunked. "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest." -Confucius, author of "The Analects"
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  4.  @start3215  Yeah, quoting yourself doesn't count in debate. For one, it is blatant hubris and narcissism. But thank you for admitting that you can't defend your position and instead resort to self-aggrandizement.
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  5.  @start3215  Learn to debate. Quoting a well-known source is the HIGHEST virtue in debate and is practically unassailable. But you, however, chose to upend the table and throw a hissy fit like a child because you are losing. You have lost the plot.
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  6.  @start3215  Dudem you keep digging yourself into a deeper hole. Some people don't feel a need to feed your narcissism.
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  7. Lebanon seized a Russia ship suspected of carrying stolen Ukrainian grain. You don't think that ALL Russian shipments would not also be impounded?
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  8. The US has supported Israel since its founding in 1948. The idea that the US's standing in the Middle East will suffer because of support of Israel blatantly ignores that historical fact. As far as accusations of genocide, the Indians sent in investigators, and they failed to find any evidence of those claims. Also, it was the US that pressured the South African government through sanctions to release Nelson Mandela and end Apartheid. Your rewriting of history shows you have no clue about what you are talking about.
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  9. Indeed. A number of the minefields may now be rendered inert because of the flooding.
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  10. Milley should be court-martialed and sent to Leavenworth for his gross incompetence. Worse, he has sabotaged the combat readiness of the military by playing woke games.
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  11.  @commiemeth  How about you actually make a relevant rebuttal?
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  12.  @elliekwong3180  Pure delusional psychotic fantasy. But hey, if that helps you sleep at night, that is your problem.
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  13. HIMARS can only pockmark the dam, not structurally damage it. This was caused by Demolition charges.
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  14.  @timber750  You are grasping at straws. HIMARS cannot do that kind of damage. Only directed charges from demolition explosives can do that.
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  15. So you are saying that the Russian Army is so blind as to not see or stop Frogmen from placing demolition charges?
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  16. Indeed. By blowing the Damn, they have written off Crimea.
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  17. The problem with Fukushima was not the reactor core but the cooling pools. Same with Zaporizhya. It is the pools to store the waste that pose the biggest threat.
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  18. Pure delusion. Those 300k "fresh troops" are just barely trained conscripts in no way equal to a six-month trained Ukrainian. Slaves and non-volunteers make for poor soliders.
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  19. "True evidence" of Iraqi chemical weapons? You do realize that Saddam used Sarin gas on both the Kurds and the Sunnis? You do realize it was France under Jacque Chirac who sold Saddam those weapons on orders from the White House? Then there is the Sarin Gas shells used on American Troops during the Battle of Bagdad. There is also the convoy that famously fled the capital for Syria the night of the invasion. The US Air Force was ordered to stand down and NOT attack it despite surveillance showing it WAS the trucks Collin Power described at the UN. Finally, where did Assad get his chemical weapons used in the Syrian Civil War? Both Saddam and Assad were Baathists. Their public spat was a spectacle for the international audience.
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  20.  @tusk3260  France won WW2? Have you forgotten that German Tanks rolled through Paris in only six weeks? And as a military power, France NEVER recovered from it. If they did, the US and UK would not have been the ones carrying their lazy butts during most of the Cold War (Dien Bien Phu).
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  21.  @tusk3260  Wow, you are clearly triggered so you engage in a Gish gallop (logical fallacy) rather than actually acknowledge historical facts. France was SHATTERED by WW2 and the bitter animosity between Vichy and DeGaulle's forces are evidence of that.
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  22. Indeed. They are just wishful thinking and fail to consider that Ukraine's line may be nothing less than all of the occupied territories, while Russia's line may be all of Ukraine.
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  23. Just like the Checka/NKVD/KGB before them. They don't exist to protect the state, they exist to protect the leadership cabal, much like the Praetorian Guard of Rome.
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  24. "Smoking accidents".
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  25. Fortunately, most of the reactors have been in cold shutdown for months. You cannot just start one up without days to get it in standby mode. Only one Reactor is in a state to create a prompt critical situation.
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  26. But why wait till now? Further, are you implying that the Russian Army is so blind as to not see Ukrainian Frogmen place demolition charges?
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  27. @Aditya Chavarkar Land wise, yes. Population wise, not so much. The bigger issue is the legacy of the old Soviet Union.
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  28. She was less popular than Biden before the announcement. And people are not going to like that the first candidate to drop out before the Iowa Caucus in 2020 is being coronated without having won the primary.
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  29.  @GaryGraham-sx4pm  Not while Russia is in bed with Iran. Try as hard they have, the Israelis can't stay out of the Russo-Ukraine conflict BECAUSE of the Iranians. and their logistical support to Russia
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  30.  @nomanor7987  Is that what the Kremlin has told you? IF YOUR claims were true, then Russia should have overran Dnipro last week. The lack of much movement shows that the Russians are shattering themselves on Ukrainian defenses much like Pickett's charge shattered itself on Cemetary Hill at Gettysburg.
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  31.  @nomanor7987  You keep telling yourself that Private Conscriptovich. The complete and utter defeat of the 1st Army Tank Guards, the Pride of Moscow, shows who is really winning the battle of attrition.
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  32. Sure, blame the victim (Ukraine). Even the IAEA during its visit disproved the claims that Ukraine was shelling the plant. The rockets changing direction 180 degrees at the last minute is too preposterous.
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  33.  @dexgrease5820  Anti-Zionism is nothing more than repackaged antisemitism. Holding Israel to a completely different standard than anyone else isn't virtuous, it is bigoted.
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  34. The Indians have gone into Gaza and have not found any evidence substantiating the claims of Genocide. And of course, the IDF doesn't tell the full story because you NEVER tell your opponent what you are up to if you intend to win.
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  35. In the heart of winter, tanks are actually MORE effective than they are in summer. The Soviet Red Army had some of its best tank battles during the winter counter-offensive.
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  36. That is probably the best explanation I have heard which fits the data points. And it is one that neither the Ukraine shills, nor the Russian Bots want to acknowledge.
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  37.  @oohhboy-funhouse  Agreed. All things being equal, 3 to 1 is the norm. But the US NEVER relies on things being equal, choosing to leverage FORCE MULTIPLIERS. Training and Tactics coupled with technology and equipment can go a LONG way towards tilting the battlespace.
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  38.  @GaryGraham-sx4pm  Yeah, that will not solve the issues of "From the River to the Sea" and "Drive Israel INTO the Sea". The leadership of the Palestinians have time and again called for the total annihilation of Israel. As for the Golan Heights, that is a strategic issue. Syria had previously used them as high ground to shell Israel. That won't happen again while Israel controls them. Further, the Druze population in the Heights WANT to remain under Israeli jurisdiction. The Knesset has given the residents of the Heights all of the benefits of citizenship, so why would they turn down those entitlements?
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  39.  @kain0m  Yeah, I think the Russians failing to cross the Severodonetsk River while the Ukrainians could proves that it advantages Ukraine.
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  40. Then how do you explain that the DoD is a very accurate cross-section of the US population at large? The whole "blacks make up the military" is a myth from the 1970s that wasn't true then and isn't true now.
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  41. How? Turkey under the Montreux Convention had already limited both Russia and non-Black Sea powers as to how many ships of military purpose could travel into and out of the Black Sea. Only members of NATO WITH a Black Sea Coast could have conceivably enforced such a blockade.
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  42. Indeed. Angela Merkel was a member of the East Germany Communist Youth League. Once a Commie, always a commie.
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  43.  @pennyhardaway7491  Venezuela is a resource rich nation yet it is also a failed state. The problem goes down to the fact that strongmen (ie dictators and despots) tend to ruin their nations either through war or gross mismanagement. And while Putin was initially a good manager, since the start of the invasion, he has proven to the West that it was simply a shiny facade.
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  44. I think you got that bass ackwards. Much of the Arab world was willing to engage with the Houthis after Saudi Arabia decided they were not succeeding in Yemen. Now, the Houthis have managed to piss off the Arab world, especially the Arab Oil states who are directly threatened by Houthi actions. And the Houthis have been indiscriminate in their targeting.
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  45.  @maryginger4877  Not, cope, reality. Ukraine has been given TRUCKS, something the Russians have NOT invested in. Unlike the Russians, the Ukrainians know how vulnerable Rail is as the primary logistical supply line. Ask yourself how the Ukrainians were able to resupply when they cut their own rails to prevent the Russians from being able to use them? Ukraine is having problems redeploying their forces? That sounds more like gossip and rumor mongering by pro-Russian shills than actual reality.
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  46. BINGO!
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  47. I think Winston Chruchill said it best: " I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped inside a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest." -Radio broadcast, 1 October 1939
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  48.  @ckm-mkc  Isolationism had nothing to do with the cause of the Great Depression. That had more to do with fractional banking, bad credit policy, and disastrous monetary policy. Add to that, DC trying to overregulate the agricultural sector. What is causing today's economic problems? Many of the same things.
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  49.  @unduloid  Russian Collusion was proven to be a Hoax. Do keep in mind that it was Trump who sent Javelins and Stingers to Ukraine while Obama and Biden only sent blankets. Also, Putin Stole Crime while Biden was directing Obama's foreign policy. He waited until Biden was in the Oval Office to invade Ukraine.
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  50.  @unduloid  Russian collusion was proven to be a hoax.
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