Comments by "David Ford" (@davidford3115) on "Why France is Being Forced into Conflict With Russia" video.

The Poles have been the real unsung heroes, facilitating the logistics so that Ukraine can focus on the fight.
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THAT is why Macro is so gungho over Ukraine.
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Exactly!
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French used to be the language of the English court before the British Royals were kicked out of Normandy.
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@ceejay1353 On paper means "in theory" ie, perfect conditions. Russia's Army looked impressive when looking at the numbers, but when actually used, they were less than effective. And using the Russian Military as an analogy, I am saying that the Russian economy is analogous to the Russian Army.
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@daviekingipotiki8918 Experience is no replacement for technology. Japanese aviation proved that in WW2; they started out with the edge in both experience and tech, but quickly lost both.
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On paper or in reality? On paper, the Russia economy have never looked better. In practice, it is as effective as the Russian Army was during the battle of Kiev.
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@patriktoth6258 Parroting Kremlin talking points doesn't make you smart, it reveals you to be Pavlov's Dog.
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@Paint-brigade1776 The Bourbons supported the US during its revolution. Then the French people killed them and also threatened to execute The Marquis de Lafayette. Fast forward to the 1965-66 and De Gaulle drags the US into Vietnam. While at the same time ordered all US troops out of France prompting Dwight Eisenhower to cynically ask if the war dead buried in France should also leave. Some friendship.
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@jesukxd8494 They could still have been dismantled for the components. Do keep in mind that codes were part of US developed technology given to the Soviets in the wake of a few attempts by the KGB to use nukes without oversight by the Central Planning Committee.
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Did NATO invade Ukraine? No, that was Russia. Did NATO force Poland, the Baltic States, Slovakia, Czecia, Hungary, and former Yugoslav states to join? No, it was Soviet Russia that forced them to be part of the Warsaw Pact. Stop victim blaming.
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@Odah_ Phillipe Petain really did a number on France's military power in WW1 behaving much like a Russian general does today. I don't know how you can call that a victory for France.
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@Pangora2 Which battle of Kiev are you talking about? As far as pauses in conflict, that is actually quite common after a major engagement. Gettysburg in the US Civil War was followed by a long pause. Battle of the Bulge was also followed by a pause before the allies resumed the drive on Berlin.
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@weirdo1060 Not really. The Russians have been too busy in Ukraine to bother with the Azeri-Armenian conflict. And in that vacuum, Azerbaijan acted proving the CSTO to be completely worthless.
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@NameRiioz Considering that Azerbaijan is effectively in NATO's camp, the ultimatum to Armenia was that if they wanted protection, they had to give up on Nagorno-Karabakh. Only then would NATO consider them from membership.
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Only if you are "good enough". Failure to achieve even that means numbers are meaningless. The Persians found that out the hard way at Thermopylae.
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@MikJames-d1g Tell that to the MiG pilots in the Korean war.
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@MikJames-d1g You completely missed the point. At the start, the MiG-15 was more advanced than anything the UN forces could field, acting with impunity in the air. Then the F-86 Sabre showed up and drastically turned the tables on the war. So, yeah, the analogy is very much appropriate.
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@MikJames-d1g "Those who refuse to remember their history are doomed to repeat it," -George Santayana "War never changes, it's exactly the same, no matter which era it happens upon," -USS Enterprise, Azur Lane the Animation. Congratulations, you just engaged in the logical fallacy of chronological snobbery. The fact that the War in Ukraine resembles WW1 trench Warfare despite advances in technology shows that your contempt for events from over 50 years ago is completely short sighted. "To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to forever remain a child," -Marcus Tullius Cicero.
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@MikJames-d1g More logical fallacies by someone with zero experience. "Peace at any cost" was the mantra of Nevil Chamberlain at Munich in 1938. JFK understood that in 1963 with the Cuban missile crisis. Appeasement NEVER works, and peace treaties only exist if there are weapons to back them up. That is why the Budapest Memorandum failed; the Russians were not punished for violating their agreements. Peace is impossible if one side refuses.
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@MikJames-d1g The Munich Conference of 1938 proves you wrong. "Peace in our time" is exactly what you are advocating. It failed then and it fails now. But I guess that is expected of a spoiled child of the First World who has never actually had to experience the horrors of conflict and why your "peace at any cost" mentality actually makes armed conflict more likely.
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@MikJames-d1g Funny, because your argument is exactly the same one used by Nevil Chamberlain at Munich in 1938. Peace at any cost only makes war inevitable. You have been spoiled living in the modern west only experiencing First World Problems. You haven't had to struggle to survive.
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Putin is a old school Soviet. So to him, an Armenian is just another Soviet citizen.
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There was an opportunity for that under Boris Yeltsin. But then Putin came to power.
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@DrDoomsd So Ukraine doesn't have any say in its own destiny? How SOVIET of you to assume that they belong to the Kremlin.
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@nobutseriously764 It is because Europe is too immature to act responsibility. Every major war since the 1700s has been due to Europe's childish behavior.
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@nobutseriously764 In the 230 years of US history, we have accomplished more than Europe did since the Fall of the Roman Empire. First nation to set foot on the moon, a dream of Europeans since antiquity. Age means nothing.
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@robertjamesonmusic Says the democrat shill. The fact that Biden is being replaced on the ballot only shows that America has truly had enough of the DNC.
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@JohnRebel-k4j That basically is an act of war. To enforce it requires shooting down Russian aircraft, which WILL provoke a response. That is the problem with you people, you have zero understanding of how these things work. You try way too hard to "sanitize" war and blur the line between peace and declared hostilities.
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Napoleon is not the same as De Gaulle's modern France.
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That would have been in violation of the NATO Charter.
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