Comments by "David Ford" (@davidford3115) on "Times Radio" channel.

  1. Quantity only has merit if it meets minimum quality requirements. 10 million flintlock guns are not going to be of much use against 1,000 M1 Grands.
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  2.  @abrakadavra3193  Agreed. When the leadership of the US starts acting like the very autocrats, they accuse Trump of being, you know they are terrified of losing power, just like in those dictatorships.
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  3. Abraham Lincoln was removed from the ballot in the state that would later rebel as the Confederacy and still won the election. You don't think that history might just repeat itself?
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  4.  @PerceivedREALITY999  Wow, got under your skin did I? Also, you seem to forget that Putin himself violated the terms of Minsk, assuming that they had any legitimacy (and they didn't because NOBODY actually ratified them).
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  5.  @TonyM540  Then why didn't Putin attack Ukraine while Trump was in office? If they were buddies, why did Putin wait until AFTER Trump left office to attack Ukraine? And don't go into that copium argument about "losing influence". He stole Crimea while Biden was Obama's Vice.
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  6. If Trump is Putin's ally, then why did Putin not invade Ukraine while Trump was in office? Why did he steal Crimea while Biden was directing Obama's Foreign Policy? Why did he wait until Biden was in the White House to invade?
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  7. Russia can produce shells but not at the rate of consumption. THAT is why they are begging for ammo from North Korea. Compare munitions expenditures from the first year of the war to now and it has dropped to less than a third.
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  8.  @Jeromeeb  So basically it was PENCE, not Trump that said it. Considering that Pence was to Trump what Grima Wormtongue was to King Theoden of Rohan in Lord of the Rings, that tells you how credible Pence is. And explains why NOBODY in the GOP likes him anymore.
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  9. And yet, Putin stole Crimea while Biden was directing Obama's foreign policy. Putin waited until Joe Bite-Me was in the White House before he invaded Ukraine. If Trump was Putin's agent, then why didn't Putin do ANY of that while Trump was in the White House? You don't have a rational answer that.
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  10. The media doesn't actually want to report that American opinion on Ukraine is nuanced. Most don't oppose sending OLD and soon to be retired equipment. What they are absolutely adamant about is putting boots on the ground in Ukraine. And most Americans are skeptical about sending cash, whereas medical supplies are much harder to launder.
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  11.  @michaeldunham3385  Because that General is being dishonest. Under NATO doctrine, there is absolutely NOT distinction between the use of artillery delivered nukes and ICBMs. ANY use of nukes is a strategic escalation with a reciprocal response, meaning a "tactical" nuke is answered with Trident ICBMs. Your "expert" is using his rank to act as an authority on the matter (logical fallacy), while he is misleading you by intentionally giving false information.
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  12. Azov is an inland sea. Russia is in Ukraine because the Donbas has gas and coal deposits that would make Europe energy independent from Russia. Same goes for the oil deposits off the coast of Crimea.
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  13. Explain to me why Putin stole Crimea when Biden was running Obama's foreign policy. Explain why Putin didn't invade Ukraine until AFTER Biden took the Oval office. Trump's boast about threatening to nuke Moscow may have had truth.
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  14. Russian nukes are more likely to detonate in the silo like they did on K-129. The sinking of the Moskva calls into question the legitimacy of the Russian nuclear threat.
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  15. The AI is only as smart as the people who program it. Ask Colonel Stanislav Petrov how reliable such missile identification programs are.
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  16.  @hb9145  Yeah, so did Lyndon Banes Johnson. He called his "jumbo" and claimed that was why the US was in Vietnam.
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  17.  @michaelmazowiecki9195  I never directly said it was a bluff. Only that Putin has chosen not to call it as if it was one. What happens in Poker when you call someone's bluff, and it turns out they were not bluffing?
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  18.  @TheBandit7613  Putin has been given NUMEROUS off-ramps. He has rejected all of them. Stop trying to appease a bully. The 1938 Munich Conference should make it abundantly clear that such actions only embolden the aggressive.
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  19. Yeah, those balloons carried incendiary bombs which started a few forest fires. If you were trying to make a point, you basically proved the counter-position.
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  20. Look up Japan's Fu-Go balloon bombs from WW2. China just perfected that weapon. And with the tacit assistance of New Zealand, no less.
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  21. NORAD's job is to protect the North American airspace from unauthorized entry. They failed in their mission spectacularly. "99 red balloons Floating in the summer sky Panic bells, it's red alert There's something here from somewhere else The war machine springs to life Opens up one eager eye Focusing it on the sky The 99 red balloons go by" -99 Luftballons by Nena.
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  22. Breaking it out of spite, or revealing that it was a Ponzi scheme from the start? That the ONLY reason why it was even solvent was because the CIA was propping it up.
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  23. The people running twitter before Elon WERE the vigilantes metting out justice as they saw fit. It is only now that they are behind held accountable for their actions.
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  24.  @Jack-e5t  Your are projecting. That is what leftists in the media do. You are projecting your own flaws onto the right. There is a very good reason why nobody in media actually wants to debate actual Trump supporters and instead bring in fake conservatives like Billy Kristol, Liz Cheney, or Chris Hayes. They want controlled opposition they can dance around. Anytime the left foolishly brings on someone like Ben Shapiro, Bill Whittle, or Matt Taibi, they get their butts handed to them. There is a reason for that and Bill Whittle explains it: the left have bad ideas that are indefensible and they cannot win on the merits. They resort to screaming racism because they need to discredit the messenger in a vain attempt to discredit the message. "We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien concepts and competitive values. For a nation afraid to let its people judge truth from falsehood in an open market of ideas is a nation afraid of its own people," -President John F. Kennedy.
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  25. There are really only three people who have a good understanding of the Dragon known as China: Michael Pilsbury, Gordon Chang, and Richard Murdock. All three have played as team Gold in Pentagon War games, and much like Erich Marcks in "The Longest Day", they ALWAYS win.
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  26.  @Balenza345  I guess you have not heard of mutually assure destruction? If a NATO capital is nuked, you can bet that Moscow will become a radioactive crater.
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  27.  @ajaykumarsingh702  And yet on the ground more and more they are self-identifying as Taiwanese. It is only among the over 50 population that has a majority who consider themselves Chinese.
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  28.  @dpelpal  F-35s? No, they can't carry enough ordinance. A-10 Warthogs? Absolutely!
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  29. Seems like a counter-intelligence operation much like Operation: Mincemeat.
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  30.  @SterileNeutrino  The US Navy is specifically designed to project power across the Pacific. It is how we won WW2 against the Japanese.
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  31.  @praetoriancorps  You clearly don't understand nuclear doctrine, particularly the how, when where, and why factors. Both examples are NOT justifiable employments of weapons, not even on a tactical level. Nukes first and foremost are an area denial weapon. Ideally, they also "salt the soil" as it were.
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  32.  @praetoriancorps  Nukes are overblown. And to use them in Taiwan is self-defeating for both sides.
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  33.  @TheSandkastenverbot  It isn't just WW2. Dien Bien Phu. The French were embarrassingly pathetic in Vietnam showing how much of a paper Tiger they truly were. Getting back to WW2, there is NO excuse for the French leaving the Ardennes undefended. Guderian was able to flank around the French because he had successfully marched a unit through the area in WW1. Further, the French put so much stock in the Maginot line, that ley left the low countries woefully undefended. The Dyle River Plan was spectacularly bad in that they overcommitted with no reserve.
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  34. "Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated," -Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain. Yeah, i think people like you said the same thing in 2016. How did that go? Underestimate the man at your own peril.
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  35. Have people so quickly forgotten that Nelson Mandela served time in Jail? So did the President of Brazil. These European Elitists have zero understanding of anything outside the borders of their own country clubs and gated communities.
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  36.  @XTSu-sl1bb  Indeed. It was Trump that got the ball rolling on NATO STARTING to ramp up their defense spending. Putin's invasion simply gave them the kick in the pants to pick up the pace.
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  37.  @Stanley-px3bt  You are basically cheering for the destruction of the Western World then. Under Trump the WORLD experienced the best economic conditions since WW2. Your outburst just proves you are unhinged and completely divorced from reality and fact. You are exactly what George Orwell described when he wrote his dystopian novel.
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  38.  @Stanley-px3bt  Yeah, you have the perspective of a coastal elite who has never visited "flyover country" (namely the Midwest). The whole Bud Light Debacle over Dylan Mulveni is but one symptom of that elitist tone-deaf mentality.
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  39. Agreed. I am all for encouraging the Chinese students to defect to the West. But to do that something needs to be done about the CIs. So long as they operate with impunity, it will be impossible for the dissidents to live without having to watch their backs.
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  40.  @quadq6598  Learn the lessons of the 1939 Munich conference. The Brits have vowed never to repeat Chamberlain's blunder again.
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  41. And he didn't lose a single 2016 nor 2020 voter. Biden on the other hand has buyer's remorse among his voters.
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  42. You realize that it will be a referendum on Biden and the 2020 election? Last time such a rematch occurred was the election between Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleaveland. Guess how that turned out.
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  43. Yeah, even Alan Dershowitz has explained why those 34 charges are complete hogwash.
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  44.  @danstrayer111  You forget 2016, dude. Trump is going to repeat Grover Cleaveland's feat of being defeated in a midterm only to return to the White House the following cycle.
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  45. "Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated," -Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain. I remember you people saying the same thing in 2016. How did that turn out?
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  46. Democrats HAVE done the same thing and nothing happens. Chappaquiddick ring a bell?
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  47.  @hmq9052  Yeah, and when Trump supporters do protest, you people call in an insurrection to overthrow the US government. Your hypocrisy is showing.
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  48.  @barrywhitley7492  Yeah, bother were wrongfully prosecuted by a corrupt government. It is just as shame you people don't realize that this just gives Trump street credit among the black community.
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  49. Yeah, Biden is lower now than he was when he was declared the winner in 2020. Trump hasn't lost a single voter from either 2016 or 2020 while Biden HAS lost voters over the abominable economy. Further, the way the 2020 election was held means that a Biden vs. Trump showdown will be a referendum on Biden and the electoral process. Last time such a showdown occurred was the rematch between Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleaveland. Guess how that rematch turned out?
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  50. Indeed. Trump's solution would likely infuriate BOTH sides. The hacks at Time Radio fall into the false choice dilemma to make people assume that if you do not agree with one side, that automatically puts you on the other. There is ALWAYS a third option.
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