Comments by "Aristocles Athenaioi" (@aristoclesathenaioi4939) on "" video.

  1. I watched an analysis by the Austrian Military Academy of the Ukrainian retreat from Sevierodonetsk and they described it as a text book implementation of a tactical retreat which would serve as an example of an excellently executed retreat. A tactical retreat is very difficult as the instructor in the Austrian Army explained and the Ukrainian Army did it close to perfectly. My point is that a well trained and well commanded army can do a tactical retreat without suffering casualties that destroy the combat effectiveness of those troops. It is far more stupid to try to maintain a position in the face of larger numbers of opposing troops. That will lead the destruction of an army, but a retreat allows an army to "live to see another day" as the saying goes.
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  2. Although highly speculative, if Belarus attacks Ukraine from the North then Poland might enter the war with troops. Poland can enter a war and remain part of NATO. All the NATO treaty commits its members to do is to defend an attack on one member as an attack on all members. NATO truly is defensive and does nothing to prevent a member from attacking some non-NATO country. That is exactly what the US did in the Iraq Gulf War and in the Afghan war. While it is true that some NATO countries such as Canada and Romania and the Baltic countries sent troops to assist the US, and eventhough people have represented the US wars in the Middle East or even the Yugoslavian War as NATO actions it really was not under the NATO treaty and the NATO countries that allied with the US in the Yugoslavian War and the Middle Eastern Wars was really about the US looking on those NATO with favor. Note that neither France nor Germany although NATO countries never participated in those wars with the US. The point is that Poland could enter the Russo-Ukrainian War on the side of Ukraine without violating the NATO treaty or requiring that other NATO countries from joining. Another consideration in favor of Poland joining Ukraine is historical given that Ukraine, especially Western Ukraine was part of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth which lasted from 1563 to 1795 which is comparable to the age of the US now. At the height of the Polish Lithuanian Commonweath it extended from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea. The Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth was a major counterweight to the expanding Russian Empire, and it was Catherine the Great who dealt the death blow to the Polish Lithunian Commonwealth when Catherine annexed the area of the Black Sea from Russia to Odessa as well as whatwe consider Ukraine today. Sound familiar. Poland wants to avoid that today and would prefer an independent Ukraine to a Ukraine dominated by Russia. It is also worth noting that part of the reason why Ukrainian is a different language from Russia is because of influence and incorporation of parts of Polish into Ukrainian. However that is a story for a different comment.
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