Comments by "David Ford" (@davidford3115) on "Sky News" channel.

  1. 100 years? The state of Israel only came into existence in 1948 and has been fighting for its very survival against Arab aggression that entire time.
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  2. Israel doesn't control Gaza's border with Egypt. If they can't leave via that route, then whose fault is it really?
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  3.  @fking66  He was right to be condescending because she was being completely unprofessional. All she did was ask loaded questions (logical fallacy).
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  4. Would not surprise me. One of the stipulations for membership is not having ongoing territorial disputes. That is what put the Georgian admission on indefinite suspension after the 2008 invasion.
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  5. The Arabs who call themselves Palestinian already HAVE a state. It is called Gaza. And what have they done with it since the IDF left in 2005?
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  6.  @thedstorm8922  Not at the time they were admitted. The dispute is a recent development encouraged by Erdogan and the Turkish Nationalists looking to deflect attention from the failing domestic policies.
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  7.  @Charlie0l9  Ah yes, the infamous Molotov "bread baskets". The Finns answered with cocktails.
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  8.  @andrewnorris5415  Ukraine has captured in one week more territory than Russia took in over a year. Cope harder.
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  9. No tank is invincible. Do keep in mind that the crews of those Challenger tanks are alive and well unlike the crew of the turret tossing Soviet Tanks.
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  10.  @ArsenAl-zorK  Armenia already had clearly defined borders. Why did they need to go into Azerbaijani territory? The "ancestral homeland" doesn't hold water when there is already a sovereign Armenia state. Yours is the ridiculous take.
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  11.  @Balenza345  And what did Russia do in that same period? Get their clocks cleaned by the Chechyans way worse.
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  12. "To prepare for peace, arm for war" -Roman saying. "War is the continuation of politics by other means," -Carl von Clausewitz.
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  13. The destruction of historical buildings and monuments constitutes at minimum War Crime. Could be argued that this rises to the level of crime against humanity with how pervasive, methodical, and institutionalized the destruction is.
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  14.  @engliterra355  And pray tell, how is the Moskva going to defend your internal sea?
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  15. Your "best and brightest" couldn't even find Gaza on a map. Your "Best and brightest" are creatures of pure emotion who would never survive if they actually had to live in Gaza.
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  16. From the Russian side of the damn? It is so easy to poke holes into your claims.
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  17.  @maestro6458  Other than bargaining chips at the negotiation table. The return of Kursk Oblast for the return of Kherson and Zaphoresia Oblasts.
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  18.  @alvinhang8721  Cost benefit. Those missiles were cheaper than the ships. It is like trying to shoot down a quad-copter drone with a patriot missle.
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  19. What a disgrace to ignore Hamas' own war crimes.
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  20.  @TheCrazyMoparDude68  Yes Egypt lost the Gaza. But Israel also agreed to vacate Gaza for peace, which is why these calls for Palestinian Statehood are insincere as are the calls of "land for peace".
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  21.  @Blackcat-k9e  ONE missile hit the sub, the other hit the amphibious landing ship. That lease one missile unaccounted for. And that assumes that 10 missiles were fired. Russia has a habit of exaggerating the numbers to make themselves look good. There is a word for that: Varenyo.
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  22. Taqiyya, Tawriya, Muruna and Kitman.
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  23.  @miamianz  Let us hope they scrap them. They could end up salvaged like the Mahan Class-Destroyers, USS Downes and USS Casin were after the Pearl Harbor Attack.
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  24. A lot of the strife can be directed at Joseph Stalin who PURPOSLY put Azeri SSR and Armenian SSR territory within the other's area. Naxçıvan in particular was his doing.
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  25.  @mrweb2009  Funny, because the UN has also said since 1948 that Israel has a right to exist, something that the Arabs calling themselves Palestinian have refused to accept.
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  26. Put down the vodka Russia bot.
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  27. Standard procedure. Look at how they acted in Grozny.
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  28. Tora! Tora! Tora! is so much better than that garbage movie.
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  29. Weather balloons don't usually have gondolas the size of three city busses.
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  30. Then why the gondola the size of three city buses?
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  31. Indeed. Japan's Fu-Go balloon bomb from WW2 has been proven as a viable weapon by the Chinese.
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  32.  @alexnik1181  That is hyperbolae. Yes, Ukraine is taking lots of prisoners, but there is no need to make absurdist claims.
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  33.  @aceman0000099  Actually, Kaiser Germany defeated Russia during the winter in Operation Faustschlag.
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  34. From the Russian side of the river?
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  35. Imagine putting bombs on a balloon and sending it towards the US. Oh, wait, the Japanese did just that starting a number of forest fires during WW2.
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  36.  @borgri9125  I agree. Take the restrictions off the weapons and allow Ukraine to target military facilities on Russian soil.
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  37. It has only been a month and a half. The Normandy Campaign in WW2 was 5 months. Blitzkreig is an aberration, not the norm.
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  38. Nice apples to oranges false analogy.
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  39. Well, don't forget that Canada and Norway have been sending cold weather gear since August. The Russians are not even properly equipped with summer combat gear.
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  40. The Azeris are mostly Muslim. The Armenian genocide was perpetrated by the Young Turks who were Islamo-nationalists. Hence the deeps distrust.
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  41. That is a total Operation Mincemeat move. I approve!
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  42.  @trussmonkey5910  The Romans deported them from JUDEA in 73 AD after the Roman sacking of Jerusalem during the Jewish-Roman war. They then made up the name "Palestina" in an attempt to erase the history of JUDEA. The Jewish population was really only allowed to return to the region during the British Mandate period after WW1. The return only happened in earnest during WW2 and the period afterwards when Stalin started quietly persecuting Jews.
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  43. Why did the US evacuate Kabul? Why did the US evacuate Saigon? Use your head.
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  44.  @thetaexali9550  So how does Russia evacuating Kherson make any difference? What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
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  45. Wishful thinking. The tide has turned against Russia. The fall of Isyum and the complete route of the First Army Tank Guards, the pride of Moscow is proof of that.
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  46.  @MrB1923  Yeah, the retreat of the Russian Army in Kharkiv speaks for itself. The Russian Bear is Geriatric.
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  47. As opposed to the invalid currently in the White House?
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  48. Anglophobes never fail to disappoint me.
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  49. All four are alive and well. Can't say the same for a turret tossing T-72.
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  50. It does constitute a War Crime under the Geneva and Hauge conventions. But good luck getting the UN to enforce those statutes.
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  51. Hunter had business dealings in China. This is a known fact that the media would have your forget.
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  52. What for? The Prosecution has failed to even state what the crime is, a violating of 6th amendment due process.
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  53. Apologizing for Joseph Stalin, are we? Ask Eisenhower what he thought of Marshal Zhukov's human wave assaults. The Soviet Red Army was handing out medals for acts of brutality against German women.
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  54.  @anton9002  Descendants of Ishamel as Muslims claim are HAMITIC, not Semitic. Ishamel was born to Egyptian Hagar. Ishamel's 12 sons were also born to Egyptian women. That makes them Hamites, not Semites.
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  55.  @sammymcfone8281  Funny, because Biden hasn't taken a single question from any audience since 2020.
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  56. Wagner was complaining that MOD troops were shelling their own forces. This is actually par the course for Russian "friendly fire".
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  57. A Day late and a dollar short.
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  58. How has Russia been threatened? The only wars Russia has been involved in are the ones that the Kremlin started. Georgia and Ukraine were and are no threat to Russia. Japan is no threat either.
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  59.  @stevedenis8292  Fidel's illegitimate son is effectively in President Poohbear's pocket.
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  60. Anyone who doesn't believe Beijing has designs and ambitions for "Outer Manchuria" doesn't understand that China plays the long game.
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  61. Seems like even Marshall Mud will not stop Ukraine.
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  62. They tried that when they attacked Israel in 1948, rejecting the UN two-state solution. They tried again in 1967 and 1973, failing both times. The problem isn't that Israel doesn't want to live in peace, it is that the Arabs, particularly the Arabs who call themselves "Palestinian" who refuse to live in peace.
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  63. The great restraint and scrupulousness of the Ukrainians in attack Russian targets shows that NATO SHOULD let them start using NATO weapons against military targets in Russia.
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  64. The problem is that Bejing will not let it happen. They want to use North Korea much like how the Soviet used Poland after WW2.
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  65. Not with Moscow and Petrograd's air defenses dismantled and sent to Ukraine. Why leave himself vulnerable like that if he plans on using nukes?
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  66. Because the word fits the situation.
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  67. Loiter time over the target. Also, the resolution is much better from 60,000 feet.
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  68. Except that they are the breadbasket of the world. Most of the grain they produce goes to feed Africa and the Middle East.
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  69. With the Moscow and Petrograd air defenses having been completely removed and sent to Ukraine? Why leave himself exposed like that if he is going to use a nuke?
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  70. I also find myself asking why the Canadians didn't shoot it down either. Then I remember that pretty boy Trudick is also in China's pocket.
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  71. One Western tank while losing over 2,000 of theirs. Not the victory people are making it out to be.
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  72. I'm guessing that like the Zeppelin, the balloon actually has several separate gas bags so that if the exterior is punctured, the whole thing doesn't come down at once.
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  73. Yes. It actually has better loiter time than the U-2 Dragon Lady.
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  74. The battle of Kiev says otherwise. So does the collapse as Izyum. And the evacuation of Kherson City.
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  75.  @zelenskyy-the-blackmailerh5920  HIMARS doesn't create large holes. Look at the Antinovski Bridge.
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  76. They still made pushes in Kherson, it was just slower and more methodical. Too many people expect a Blitzkrieg when war is usually a slow slog.
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  77.  @ltipst2962  The SR-71 was replaced with.....the U-2 Dragon Lady. No joke, the plane that the SR-71 was supposed to replace has since replaced it!
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  78. The Russian Bear is Geriatric. They should have captured Kiev in just three days. It has been six months, and at the rate they are going, it will be next century before they return to the gates of Ukraine's capital.
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  79. My guess is that Western Logistics has been a factor in their planning of this. While the Soviet system heavily relied on rail (as we have seen with Russia), the Ukrainians have been depending more on wheeled and tracked vehicles to deliver supplies (the M113 battle taxi can deliver supplies just as easily as troops.)
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  80. Except, Ukraine ISN"T targeting civilians in Russia. Putin's buddies are doing false flag attacks to promote sympathy. Except, it isn't working.
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  81. The Japanese did the same thing in WW2. The incendiary bombs started a number of forest fires.
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  82.  @annviolet4727  How? Specifics. I seriously doubt that Egypt allows Israel to dictate their border policies.
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  83.  @a564-c3q  No joke. Most of them remember what the Palestinians did to Lebanon in the 1980s. And the Jordan before that in 1970. They are terrible house guests.
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  84. Antonovski Bridge says otherwise. THAT is the extent of the damage HIMARS could deliver to the dam.
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  85. With the air defenses around Moscow and Petrograd completely dismantled and sent to Ukraine? Why would he do so while he is vulnerable like that?
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  86.  @augustinemadukwe9335  Like what? Didn't they waste Iksander Missiles going after the power grid in response to the first Kerch Bridge attack. I think the Ukrainians know what to expect.
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  87. On what charge? The Georgia case is imploding under prosecutorial misconduct.
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  88. That dam is what ensures water gets to Crimea. They would be shooting themselves in the foot if they did.
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  89. This time Russia doesn't have the US and UK providing them supplies to fight that battle like they did in WW2.
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  90. How is Russia going to escalate? They already have been lobbing missiles at the power grid since the first Kerch Bridge attack.
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  91.  @Hereford1642  Putting crap out of your rear end? The Kremin doesn't get to dictate to Ukraine whom they can associate with. They are not slaves of the Russians.
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  92. Because there is not logic behind it. They are acting purely on emotion because they want to be part of the "in crowd". This is exactly how the German Nationalist Worker's party came to power.
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  93. Japanese send bombs to the US via balloons in WW2. Started several forest fires.
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  94.  @Lezzyboy87  Words are cheap. Actions speak louder.
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  95. Name one. Specifics, not generalities.
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  96. Yes it is. It is hate by proxy. Fashionable anti-Jewish hate.
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  97.  @tbird4a  Prove it. The burden of proof is on those accusing Ukraine because the preponderance of evidence implicates Russia.
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  98. It is called a land-swap. Russia gets back Kursk while Ukraine gets back Kherson, Zaphoresia, Luhansk, and Donesk.
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  99. State the crime. Even Merrick Garland chose to pass on prosecuting Trump.
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  100.  @ishakkyusuf8784  Cleaner. We don't just butcher people on a whim. Kimmy had been known to do that. So has Putin, particularly with Polonium.
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  101. The problem is the launch location. Would have to send it from Europe. But something tells me that Russia's central Asian allies would intercept it first.
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  102. Because people are fooled by poorly disguised Soviet propaganda plagiarized from the Third Reich. The origin of antizionism is found in the antisemitism of Joseph Stalin.
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  103. @Kale White Antinovski Bridge says otherwise.
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  104. The Temple mount predates Islam. How can Israelis occupy the land they owned since antiquity?
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  105.  @annviolet4727  What invasion? Jew were NOT permitted to settle in JUDEA by the Ottoman Turks. It wasn't until after the British Mandate post-WW1 that Jews were allowed to settle in the area.
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  106. At this point the GOP and the Tories are exactly the same: big government hacks with no spine who regularly lie to their constituents just to maintain power.
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  107. As opposed to the dementia patient currently in the White House?
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  108.  @thetaexali9550  Russia doesn't actually care about the civilians. Them reducing Sevrodonetsk to rubble is proof of that. IF Kherson is to be flattened, they will use their artillery, not a nuke.
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  109. Consider this: the anti-air defenses around both Moscow and Petrograd have been completely stripped down and sent to Ukraine. If Putin were to use a nuke, his proverbial pants are down leaving him exposed to a conventional counterstrike.
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  110.  @r6573  Hamas is essentially a theocracy.
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  111. Cope hard Private Conscriptovich.
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  112. Agreed. Ukraine "welcomed" Russia with Molotov Cocktails. The Russian citizens of Kursk Oblast have not.
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  113.  @davidjohn8889  Drunkenski isn't just a trope, it seems to be a common defining feature of Russia and Shills for Russia.
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  114.  @margaretha907  Operation Faustschlag says otherwise.
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  115. Because the Russians have been using civilian vehicles to move around troops.
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  116. Did blacks have representation in the Apartheid South African Government? Muslim Arabs have no fewer than FIVE elected members of the Knesset. Your argument has no merit.
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  117.  @switchhit3774  Test NORAD's response to blatant violation of American airspace. Observe the American populace's response to such provocation. Judge whether the White House has the balls to actually take action. Pray for Taiwan because the message is clear: the US is a paper Tiger.
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  118. This is what war looks like, unlike your sanitized Hollyweird fantasies. General William Sherman was right: War is Hell!
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  119. Fu-Go balloon bombs are no laughing matter dude. They caused a number of forest fires.
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  120.  @gregorylayne9044  Japan sent incendiary bombs to the US during WW2. Look it up. China just proved that it is still a viable vector of attack.
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  121. Potemkin Village. The systemic and targeted destruction of historical buildings is a crime against humanity.
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  122.  @leslie-annmills-gomez8763  There were no Palestinians before 1948. There were ARABS who welcomed Jews. "Palestinian" as a word was coined in 1948 to describe the ARABS living in the British Mandate. Culturally and genetically, the "Palestinians" are indistinguishable from the Jordanians, Syrians, Lebanese, and Saudis.
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  123. @mraza497 And those that stayed in 1948 and refused to obey Gamal Abdel Nasser's order to evacuate are STILL there. The ones who fled did so fully expecting to take possession of what the Israelis built. They chose their fate.
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  124.  @JonySmith-bb4gx  I fail to see what being Chinese-American has to do with the topic. My wife is Chinese-American. As for Unit 731, most of them were captured by the Soviet Red Army. While their flag officers were convicted at the Tokyo Trials for crimes against Humanity, the men who actually carried out the experiments were never handed over by the Soviets to face trial. More than likely, they were sent to some Gulag in Central Asia.
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  125. I don't think Ukraine could annex Kursk. But they COULD help them to form a "Volga Republic" in opposition to Putin's "Russian Federation".
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  126. Just like Occupy walls street was correct? Blatantly ignoring the rapes that occurred in the "women's tents".
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  127. Weather balloons don't usually carry a gondola the size of three city buses.
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  128. Indeed. it should have been shot down as soon as it entered the US economic zone. The remote Alaska wilds would have been another safe place to bring it down.
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  129. A man seemingly with a Napoleon complex.
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  130.  @tbird4a  That is what Russia keeps doing.
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  131. Unlikely when the air defenses around Moscow and Petrograd have been removed and sent to Ukraine. Putin's proverbial pants are down.
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  132. Wagner is Kaput without Utkin leading them in combat.
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  133. Not really. It is the vultures, jackals, and other carrion eaters that benefit from the carnage of war.
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  134. Annyo haseyo!
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  135. Ukraine is not so stupid as to shell a nuclear power plant. Unlike the Russians, they will NOT use it as an ammunition dump.
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  136. Apples to oranges. Farming is not as intensive as munitions production. And Russia does have lots of land to farm.
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  137. NORAD learned NOTHING from Japan's Fu-Go balloon bombs.
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  138. Don't forget Stalin's hand in the situation. The exclave of Naxçıvan was specifically his creation.
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  139. Yet the Kaiser's army under Hindenberg humiliated both Tsarist Russia AND Soviet Russia. Putin's leadership is as effective as The Soviet Red Army was under Leon Trotsky.
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  140.  @csharpe5787  Why is that? Is it because Hamas once they took power refused to let go of it or hold new elections? Elections have consequences as Barak Obama infamously said.
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  141.  @paulgibbon5991  Indeed. And Vranyo is a word that EVEYRONE in the world should become familiar with. For my own opinion, I think if Russia tried to launch nukes, they would detonate in the silo just like they did on K-129.
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  142. Israel hasn't occupied Gaza since 2005. And Palestinians refuse to accept Israel's right to exist.
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  143. People have forgotten that the Japanese used balloons to send bombs to the US during WW2.
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  144.  @stevedenis8292  Indeed. I am less worried about such a balloon crashing in remote Alaska than I am about it going over the ICBM silos. The Pentagon's cowardice has only emboldened China to move forward with its plans to invade Taiwan.
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  145. Name one SPECIFIC thing he was wrong. Generalities don't count.
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  146. They blew up other dams after their retreat from Kherson city.
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  147. As opposed to Weekend at Bernie's in the White House?
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  148. No, but to accept blatant lies against Israel at face value without looking deeper IS antisemitic. Antizionism is simply fashionable antisemitism.
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  149. The reason is that those ridged airships has several separate gas bags so if it was punctured, it would not catastrophically fail. The reason why the German ones exploded was because they used Hydrogen rather than Helium.
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  150. Japan sent bombs to the US via balloons in WW2. Started a number of forest fires.
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  151.  @theshimario253  On what charge? The Georgia case against him is imploding under the weight of the prosecution's own corruption and malfesance.
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  152. And yet Hiroshima was rebuilt in less than 30 years. The fears about radiation are overblown. The danger is real, but greatly exaggerated.
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  153. Sad that the Chinese succeeded where Japan failed. Fu-Go balloon bombs are now a viable threat.
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  154.  @yelenashishkina8804  The only enemy of the Russian people is the Kremlin. Under Yeltsin, there was reproachment and a possible new future between Russia and the West. Putin slammed that door shut.
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  155. "Reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated," -Smauel Clemens, aka Mark Twain. "Don't count your eggs before they have hatched," -old proverb. "I have not yet begun to fight," -John Paul Jones, father of the US Navy.
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  156. Fu-Go balloon bombs are no laughing matter.
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  157. Then why not shoot it down over Alaska where there is nobody around for miles? Or over Kansas or Nebraska which are also sparsely populated. Don't make excuses for incompetence.
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  158. The problem is that the ARABS claiming to be Palestinian have NEVER negotiated in good faith. They have ALWAYS violated the peace terms they agreed to. much like Putin.
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  159. Considering the number of fraudulent investigations and court cases against Trump, I'd say his concerns are justified.
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  160. Russia is sending its oil to China and India while getting ripped off at the Pump. Not even OPEC can save Russia's energy industry.
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  161. Semper Fi, Der Teufel Hunden!
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  162. What aggression? NOTHING justifies what Hamas did. NOTHING justified the 1948 invasion of Israel. Nothing Justified the 1967 and 1973 wars which were all a result of ARAB aggression. Stop blaming the victim.
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  163.  @syedaslam2780  LIBERATE JUDEA from ARAB-MUSLIM OPPRESSION!
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  164. Weather balloons don't usually carry a gondola the size of three city buses.
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  165. Japan sent bombs to the US via balloons in WW2. Started a number of forest fires. This is not a joke.
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  166. Fu-Go balloon bombs. Look them up.
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  167.  @jonye7511 They have been doing that since the first attack on the Kerch Bridge. What more can the Russians do beyond the attacks on civilians they have already done?
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  168. Taiwan should be worried. The Chinese just proved that the US is a paper Tiger.
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  169. How about the damn the Russians destroyed just months prior? The blew up a few after the retreat from Kherson.
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  170.  @zelenskyy-the-blackmailerh5920  Antinovski Bridge says otherwise.
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  171.  @kanedNunable  He is speaking to the lowest common denominator. Politicians HAVE to if they want to win a large portion of the electorate.
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  172. Fu-Go balloon bombs are no laughing matter. Besides, weather balloons don't carry gondolas the size of three city buses.
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  173. How long did the Normandy invasion take? Six months? Blitzkrieg is not the norm but rather an aberration.
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  174. And yet he is a retired general. Western Generals have to at least be competent, unlike Russian generals.
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  175. Only one man is responsible for this war and he is in the Kremlin. Make no mistake, it Putin gave up his ambitions, this would be over before the end of the month. Don't blame the people who are fighting back against an aggressor.
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  176. Stop shilling for Russia. Truth doesn't care about your feelings.
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  177. The classic throw down between the free peoples of the West (Greeks then, Ukrainians now) vs. the slave armies of the East (Persia then, Russia now).
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  178. The US still uses the U-2 Dragon Lady to gather intelligence. A balloon has longer loiter time over the target than a satellite. Better resolution too.
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  179.  @johnmcevoy3598  The Georgia case is imploding. Keep dreaming buddy.
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  180.  @IronskullGM  It is a diesel-electric, not a nuclear powered.
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  181. Japan used "Weather balloons" in WW2 to deliver bombs to the West Coast. Started a number of forest fires.
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  182. Considering how many civilians they killed with their artillery shelling, I don't think civilian casualties matter to the Russian Army.
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  183. Georgians Soviet Officers were pretty effective too. Funny how the best leadership in the USSR wasn't the Russians themselves.
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  184.  @Mogadypopz  Wrong. He was cutting through her propagandistic prejudice and cutting to the heart of the issue. If anyone was making strawman arguments it was the political activist pretending to be a journalist.
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  185. Most media hates Donald Trump. Consider that factor.
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  186.  @Jon962-h4i  True. I just wanted to point out that the media doesn't like to give the man a victory even when he earned one. Crossing unguarded into a hostile nation where they could have easily snatched him was significant.
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  187.  @liambowbrick3917  The 1948 invasion and rejection of the UN Partition.
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  188. Georgia case against him is imploding under the corruption and malfeasance on the part of the prosecution.
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  189. The Murdock sons are flaming liberals who destroyed their father's marriage to Wendy Deng. Do YOUR homework.
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  190. Then why wasn't the Antonovski bridge destroyed to the same degree?
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  191. The Japanese used balloons to deliver bombs to the US during WW2.
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  192. Considering that the anti-air defenses around both Moscow and Petrograd have been completely removed and sent to Ukraine, that leaves Putin open for an unopposed counterstrike. Tell me, why would he use a nuke when his proverbial pants are down?
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  193. Liberate JUDEA!
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  194.  @s0ycapitan  "Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated," -Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain. "Sir, I have not yet begun to fight!" -John Paul Jones, father of the US Navy.
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  195. The Japanese sent hundreds during WW2. Started many forest fires.
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  196. Operation Faustschlag says that Russia CAN be defeated in the winter. And that was the SECOND time the Imperial Kaiser's Army defeated Russia.
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  197. Trump Derangement Syndrome is toxic.
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  198. The problems Russia had reinforcing Zaphoresia and Kherson says that they can't so quickly redeploy forces to Kursk.
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  199. And I suspect that like a Zeppelin, there are several gas bags so if a few are punctured, it does not catastrophically fall to the ground.
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  200. Why? The world was safer under Trump. As Osama Bin Laden said, the world respects a strong horse, and Biden is a weak horse.
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  201. Not with the anti-air defenses around Moscow and Petrograd stripped bare and sent to Ukraine. Putin's proverbial pants are down.
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  202. Weather balloons don't carry gondolas the size of three city buses.
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  203. Operation Faustschlag says otherwise. Russia CAN be defeated in winter. And that was actually the SECOND time the Imperial Germans owned the Russians.
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  204. 60,000 feet is well above the operating height of a drone.
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  205. North Korea isn't going to mess with China's balloon. Neither would Russia. As long as it remained West of Japan as it traveled north with the Jet Stream, it can get to the US without crossing hostile territory.
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  206. And it is about to get worse with the Crimean Bridge out of commission.
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  207. Japan sent bomb balloons towards the US in WW2.
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  208.  @mrjerzheel  Because the US doesn't manufacture Soviet caliber munitions. The US doesn't make replacement parts for Warsaw Pact equipment. Try to keep up.
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  209.  @CaballusKnight  Yeah, wikipedia has been caught red handed laundering opinion pieces as if they were objective facts. Just look at their treatment of Santorum or Tim Pool.
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  210. Equipment, training, terrain, and morale will act as force multipliers that make those greater numbers meaningless. Particularly in winter when the Russians are not properly equipped for cold weather combat.
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  211. Indeed. Operation Faustschlag and the Battle of the Bulge both occurred in winter.
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  212. Then why were they not there in Kursk to being with? Putin got caught with his pants down!
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  213.  @georgesibley7152  It would appear that Putin ended up out playing himself. He tried to pull a Patton Fake Army complete with inflatable tanks in Kursk only for Ukraine to take it so seriously, they went on the offense in a preemptive strike.
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  214.  @jp1431  Funny, because Palestinians are just Arabs no different from the Syrians, Jordanians, or the rest. And not even their Arab brothers like them anymore.
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  215.  @jp1431  Wishful thinking. Bibi has been the most consistent leader in Israel aside form Ariel Sharon. The opposition that ousted him couldn't survive long enough to keep him out of office.
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  216. Most people using them to describe him don't know what they mean. BTW, many people called Joseph Stalin a Fascist despite him being the leader of a communist country.
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  217. Still too little too late. A Day late and a dollar short.
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  218. And all the nevertrumpers are showing their derangement for all to see.
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  219. The Wagner monsters certainly are Orcs. But allow those surrendering the dignity of being the Sergeant Shultz of "Hogan's Heroes".
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  220.  @lukilladog  Violence is in human nature. Refusal to accept that is to deny reality. Yes, even the great physicists can be wrong. Pure pacifism is to accept the fate of the Dodo Bird as your own.
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  221. Fu-Go balloon bombs are no laughing matter.
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  222. Because there is an intrinsic connection between the two. While not all Hebrews are Jewish, ALL Jews are Hebrews. The portion of non-Jewish Hebrews is painfully small compared to the number of Jews.
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  223. Only one man can stop this war, and he refuses.
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  224. Liberate JUDEA!
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  225. Name one specific. Generalities don't count.
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  226. Or the cowardice of American leadership.
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  227. Should have shot it down over Alaska.
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  228. Also proved that Fu-Go balloon bombs are still viable.
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  229. Yeah, but HAMAS using human shields. By taking civilians hostage. By using hospitals and schools as ammunition warehouses. Stop making excuses for Jihadism.
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  230.  @billywatts4689  False reports will only get yourself banned from Google/youtube. Don't waste their time or they WILL waste yours.
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  231. Seems like the US learned nothing from Japan's Fu-Go balloon bomb.
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  232. Indeed. I think Putin's bluff was just called.
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  233.  @stewartkingsley  Putin didn't invade Ukraine under Trump, he waited until Joe Bite-Me was in office. If anyone has started WW3, it is the Biden team because of their fecklessness.
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  234. Loiter time. Balloons can hover over the target longer than a Satellite. Better resolution as well.
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  235. Not likely with the Moscow and Petrograd air defenses having been dismantled and sent to Ukraine.
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  236. Considering that the two countries having enclaves and exclaves in each other's territory is a direct result of Stalin, it is fair to say that the Russians do hold some of the blame. And while Stalin was ethnic Georgian, he was the head of the Russian dominated Soviet Empire.
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  237. Anti-Zionism is simply fashionable antisemitism. Don't pretend the roots of anti-Zionism are not found in Soviet propaganda which simply repackaged the very same hate that Gobbels spread.
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  238. I kind of agree with this. I also think he SHOULD hold elections and step aside. If he didn't have such as contentious relationship with the mayor of Kiev, I would think Vitali Klitschko would have been the natural successor, with Zelensky taking a step back to be a mover and shaker behind the throne.
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  239. Funny, because ALL news agencies are by definition propaganda. Some are just more overt than others.
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  240. Dictators don't step down from power like he did in 2020. Try again genius.
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  241. Blitzkrieg is an aberration, not the norm. It took the Allies six months to advance beyond Normandy in WW2.
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  242. Fu-Go balloon bombs are not absurd. That is why this is a big deal.
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  243. The world is a truly ugly place. And it takes good men willing to pay the highest price to keep monsters like them in check.
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  244.  @sasobrume6866  Apples to oranges dude. When was the last time Bush killed someone with Polonium? Or when did Blair execute someone by using them for artillery practice?
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  245. US presence in the Philippines? Not since they kicked us out after Pinatubo and closed down both Clark AB and Subic Bay Naval Station.
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  246. Students emulating the German Nationalist Worker's party in the 1930s.
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  247. It was doubtful Russia was even observing them in the first place.
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  248. They are. NATO forced them to clean up their behavior during the first two months. Then the Ukrainians realized it was an opportunity to demoralize the enemy by feeding them and then letting them call home to momma.
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  249. Exactly. Just like every person fired by Trump, they have an axe to grind.
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  250. The Russian Bear is GERIATRIC!
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  251. Everyone but the most obvious suspect. Occam's Razor refutes your claims.
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  252.  lolikbolik4818  Angolphobe.
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  253. The Chinese were testing the theory behind Japan's Fu-Go balloon bombs.
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  254.  @ltipst2962  Stealth aircraft can still be seen on air traffic control radar. The significance of Stealth technology is NOT that it can't be seen, but that its signature is too weak to get an effective weapons lock on it.
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  255. Compared to Russian tanks acting like Roman Candle fireworks when their ammo cooks off, the Western tank is far and away better.
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  256. There is an off-ramp for Moscow, it is just that the man who occupies that building refuses to take it.
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  257. Japan already beat them with Fu-Go balloon bombs.
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  258.  @steveb796  After it has already dropped its payload. Seriously, look up the Japanese incendiary Fu-Go balloon bomb. The Chinese just proved that it is still a viable weapon.
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  259. The power of nukes is mostly in the threat. Once they are used, they lose much of that power. And enemy unfazed by threats of use will not be stopped once they are used.
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  260. So explain to me my the Antinovski bridge was not destroyed in a similar fashion?
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  261.  @s0ycapitan  He is saying that the power mongers will try to have him assassinated. Too bad that will just make him a martyr just like Jullius Caesar was for Octavian.
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  262.  @WastdTrashPanda  No they don't. Congress and the Pentagon specifically denied anyone from purchasing the F-22. The F-35 is basically the cheap version of the F-22, so there isn't really any new technology since the 22.
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  263. India doesn't like being bunched in with them. They are particularly irritated with how Russia is failing to meet its obligations. And the aircraft carrier has been a complete disappointment.
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  264. Loiter time over the target. Satellites only have a short window, even with multiple vehicles moving over the target
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  265.  @UncleEbenezer77  Trump never actually said that. The media lied about that just like they lied about Nick Sandman and the Covington Catholic students, like they lied about Kyle Rittenhouse. like they lies about Jussie Smolette. Soviet Pravda has more credibility than the legacy media.
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  266. Loiter time over the target. Also, resolution is higher at lower altitude.
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  267. Liberate JUDEA! Palestine is a word invented by the Romans in 74AD in their attempt to erase Jewish history.
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  268. Liberate JUDEA!
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  269. Communist dictatorships always claim to be the "People's Republic". It is so cliche that it is a trope in fiction.
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  270.  @silverx_1848  Yeah, and how many Jews in Germany supported the Nationalist Worker's party before it turned on them?
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  271. Cope harder Private Conscriptovich.
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  272. Moscow and Petrograd's anti-air defenses have been completely removed and sent to Ukraine. Why would he use a nuke if his proverbial pants are down leaving him exposed to a counterstrike?
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  273.  @alexanderpepkin4110  "Ethnic Russians"? From 2014-2022 a grand total of 5 civilians were killed per month. Since the invasion, the number of civilian deaths in the Donbas increased by 155%. Under "Russian protection", MORE people have been killed. Even the Indians don't believe the myth of Ukrainian oppression of Russians.
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  274. Remains to be seen. Ukraine caught Russia with its pants down.
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  275.  @taz09216  More blood libels? Hamas was created in opposition to Israel genius.
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  276. Ever heard of the U-2 Dragon Lady? Spy vehicles don't need to be undetectable to still be effective.
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  277. Communist Dictatorships LOVE to claim they are the "People's Republic" when they are anything but. It has become so cliche that it is now a trope in fiction.
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  278. More like Paul von Hindenburg. Russia HAS lost before. TWICE to the Kaiser's Army.
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  279. With the Petrograd and Moscow air defenses having been stripped and sent to Ukraine? Why would Putin use nukes when he is vulnerable like that?
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  280. Considering Capitol Hill is a nest of preening Peacocks, that is a low bar to overcome.
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  281. Fu-Go balloon bombs are no laughing matter. The Chinese just proved their viability.
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  282. Then why didn't they do so at the start? Why does Kiev still stand? The Russian Bear is geriatric.
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  283.  @MrJonathanainsworth  Finland and Sweden joining NATO means that goal is an abject failure. Those nations had zero reason to join until AFTER Russia invaded. NATO wasn't deterred, it was expanded.
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  284.  @johnmcevoy3598  Troll.
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  285. That pretty much describes ALL politicians.
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  286. Consumption rates. Are the Russians using artillery the same as they were 9 months ago? That alone speaks volumes.
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  287. More like the Ukrainians scuttled their own to prevent its capture. Much like the German Fleet at Scapa Flow, the Scuttling of the Peruvian Fleet at Callao or the French Fleet at Toulon.
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  288. From your mouth to Putin's ear. Only one man can stop this and he refuses.
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  289.  @lewiselliott9038  Everyone has bias. The issue is whether they admit it. Most of the West will acknowledge they are rooting for Ukraine. Simply acknowledging that means the bias is neutralized.
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  290.  @UncleEbenezer77  Nelson Mandela served time in prison. So did the president of Brazil.
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  291. Maybe not in his pants because Ukraine caught him with his pants DOWN.
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  292.  @yelenashishkina8804  Yugoslavia was never really a viable country, simply a collection of mutually antagonistic ethnic groups kept together under the bootheel of Jozef Tito. And comparing Gaza under Hamas to Ukraine is apples to oranges false analogy, typical of propagandists being intellectually dishonest. Keep coping Private Conscriptovich.
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  293. With Moscow and Petrograd's air defenses having been removed and sent to Ukraine? Why would they drop a nuke when they are vulnerable like that?
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  294. Only one man is insisting on this conflict continuing. Blaming everyone BUT the Kremlin shows either gross naivety on your part of outright shilling for Putin.
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  295.  @kiprotichngetich8490  Nowhere near as long.
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  296. I know of another delivery system that a former hostile power considered. Look up the Fu-Go balloon bomb.
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  297. The Russian Bear is Geriatric! Spread that meme around.
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  298. Or incendiaries like the Fu-Go balloon bomb.
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  299. They are, it is just buried in the replies.
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  300.  @canadaphil6068  The ones that remain have been more or less co-opted by the Kremlin connected groups such as Shogu's outfit.
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  301. Yeah, American "news" is in the tank for the Davos power mongers.
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  302. I think most Americans are embarred by the government's lack of response.
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  303. The Hanja script written all over it.
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  304. Because if he does use them, even Red China will turn against him.
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  305. Not with the Petrograd and Moscow air defenses having been removed and sent to Ukraine. Why use nukes when Putin is vulnerable like that?
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  306. Don't forget that the Japanese put bombs on balloons during WW2. Started a number of forest fires with them.
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  307. Apples to oranges false equivocation. Nice try.
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  308. The Japanese used balloons to send incendiary bombs towards the US in WW2.
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  309.  @jimjones9239  Or incendiaries like the Japanese tried with their Fu-Go balloon bomb.
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  310. Fu-Go balloon bombs are no laughing matter.
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  311. With the air defenses around both Moscow and Petrograd removed and sent to Ukraine, why would Putin use a nuke while exposed to counterattack like that?
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  312.  @levikaysan6150  Liberate JUDEA. Palestine is a word the Romans made up in 74 AD to try and erase Jewish history.
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  313. Weather balloons don't carry gondolas that large.
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  314. Polls are crap. The 2016 election proved that beyond a reasonable doubt.
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  315.  @AndyM_323YYY  And then there is the Biden voters who can't even locate Ukraine on a map of Europe. Keep your pissing match to yourself. There are low information voters on both sides of the aisle. The career political class counts on the serfs being too dumb to walk off the plantation.
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  316. The Japanese did it in WW2. Wasn't very effective then, but the technology has gotten better.
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  317. Generally, yes. But in this case, Putin left his entire frontier in Bryansk and Kursk undefended. Ukraine went for the soft underbelly.
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  318.  @ransertu7630  That is half of Ukraine. It is not a serious proposal.
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  319.  @georgesibley7152  If the Russians knew Ukraine was coming, why have they failed to stop the incursion? Why is Ukraine easily 40km inside Russian territory? Your claims only beg larger and more embarrassing questions.
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  320.  @georgesibley7152  Cope harder. Stop making excuses (rationalization fallacy)
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  321.  @RomanHistoryFan476AD  Cope harder private Drunkenski.
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  322.  @kcccc5682  The prosecution has failed to prove that. Hell, even the FBI and the DOJ refused to even pursue that charge. Even Fareed Zakaria has acknowledged this as a farce.
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  323. The US still uses the U-2 Dragon Lady to gather intelligence. Loiter time over the target is greater with a plane or balloon than with a satellite. Resolution is better as well.
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