Comments by "Guinness" (@GuinessOriginal) on "NATO's Rapid Response Force Problems" video.

So basically they wanted you to die? That doesn’t fill me with confidence about the level of training they gave you
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@CrackedCandy basically like turning the red light to green while you’re on your bike just as an 18 wheeler is passing through, just so they can say see I told you we need a bypass here when you die 😭 they were that concerned that NATO members wouldn’t abide by the defence pact?
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@Palora01 yeah well thank God it’s Russia invading in the 20s and not the ussr in the 80s. Although tbh history has shown they were more worried about an invasion from NATO then European NATO members were about an invasion from them. Something that should have been considered more carefully when pushing NATO borders so close to them. This war is going to rumble on for decades all the time increasing the risk of it going nuclear
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@thodan467 I thought that was what nato meant, I didn’t realise we needed a sacrificial lamb to send the message
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@thodan467 yeah a NATO country wasn’t being invaded or attacked though, a bunch of terrorist fanatics who the us had funded trained and armed committed an atrocity, awful I know but the day before 72000 people died in a an earthquake in Turkey and no one gave a flying duck. So they are probably a bit pissed off about that. And let’s not forget, hamburg customs officials stopped the terrorists 3 times and warned the fbi repeatedly about them but were told to let them travel. And the guy who took the flight simulator training to take off and fly round New York but not to land was under fbi surveillance. And the day after every member of bin Ladin and the Saudi royal families were quietly flown out of America without a mention of it to the public. And the wmd claim about Iraq was completely false, and Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with 911. So I can kind of understand Turkey’s reluctance tbh
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@TheRealRedRooster that’s pretty amazing. Seems strange to say, but the 80s and 90s seem like happier times. Do you look back with fondness at you time with them? Did you ever think you’d be deployed? Must have been an eerie feeling thinking you’d be the first troops fighting in potentially the third world war
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@tomriley5790 right... so what you’re saying is send people to fight that you want to die just to ensure NATO members keep their mutual defence pledge ? If you made them too effective and they didn’t all die but were successful that might mean some NATO members would duck out of the fight?
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@thodan467 yes well chambers didn’t exist Hitler to invade Poland, Stalin didn’t expect him to invade Russia either and apparently Zelensky didn’t expect Putin to invade Ukraine
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@carbonara2144 I agree. However, it would be more important IMO to send an effective combat unit. The impression I’m getting is that the idea behind this was that they would die and every NATO country would have dead soldiers and so a stake in the game.
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@thodan467 did they? How do?
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@thodan467 ha ha ha well said. Although tbh I’m quite apprehensive about Germany rearming, just as nationalism is on the rise across Europe. This German government might not be acting to worry about but in ten or twenty years when H Germany will have by far the best army of Europe, who knows what the government will be like? No offence btw, I love Germans and Germany, but I fear for the future, that’s assuming we get there of course
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@thodan467 I do think the Russian threat is being massively over exaggerated in order to boost arms sales, if they can’t even occupy and secure territory and supply lines 100km from their own border against Ukraine’s dilapidated, outdated military what hope have they got against a NATO force who will have far greater numbers, better training, far more hardware, the latest weapons and air superiority? The Russians would get annihilated and they know it, which is why they’re so keen to flash their nukes. There’s currently 440 000 NATO troops in the eastern border, along with I think 7 aircraft carriers in the area. Kind of looks like an invasion force tbh
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@thodan467 yeah, the he didn’t have much bother going the other way though, and they weren’t too far off taking Moscow. There’s a strong danger of history repeating itself, again
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@lordgarion514 think your comment has been shadow banned pal. YouTube is really nefarious
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@Redmanticore do you think a conventional attack by Russia on a nato state is any more probable now? Considering they can’t occupy and secure territory and supply lines 100km from their border into Ukraine, I find it difficult to believe that they would ever try against NATO. I don’t think Russia would last very long in a conventional war against NATO and they know it. Russia isn’t this great military power we keep being told it is, it doesn’t have the economy to have a massive military and keep it well trained and maintained, and we’re seeing that with our own eyes. If Ukraine can inflict this damage on them they’re really going to struggle against a NATO force. And knowing that is probably the reason for this war, because in their mind it’s either face Ukraine now or face the possibility of being invaded by NATO in a war they cannot win.
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