Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Times Radio" channel.

  1. The problem isn't if tactical nukes are practical or impractical its a matter of will Putin use them.
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  2. Yeah - that's a much better way of describing it.
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  3. Yes just like the American, British, European, Australian, Canadian and all the other baby boomers.
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  4. Here's the crazier aspect to this. Even if the Ukrainians could get 10 Chally 2s and be properly trained and have their support teams properly trained, they'd be up against several 1000 Russian tanks. Yes they are mostly older lesser tank variants, BUT. I remember a documentary comparing the Sherman and Tiger tanks. It even included interviews with WW2 vets from BOTH SIDES. Typically if they didn't send at least 7 Shermans after each Tiger it wasn't a contest. Not until the Shermans got the more powerful main gun where they capable against Tigers. BUT THEY CONCLUDED the Sherman was more effective because they could bring so many that they could OVERWHELM the Tigers. YES there is a giant question as to how many tanks the Russians can actually deploy, BUT According to Wikipedia 447 Chally 2s have been built and about 3,600 Leopard 2s while the Russians have: 800 T62s with 1,200 in reserve 2,030 T72s with 7,000 in reserve 480 T80s with 3,000 in reserve 417 T90s with 200 in reserve And maybe 100 T14 Armatas And that's before we get to the more than 10,000 BMPs the Russians have as well as over 6,000 artillery pieces and over 6,000 self propelled artillery units. The real question is how much can the Russians actually bring to the fight and how quickly using the Western supplied hardware can the Ukrainians knock stuff out.
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  5. if you go look up the film "the Battle of Britain" there's a discussion about 25 minutes in where Sir Lawrence Olivier tells the minister "But the essential arithmetic is that our young men will have to shoot down their young men at the rate of four to one if we're to keep pace at all." Russia is nation with over 147 million people. Ukraine has about 41 million at the moment. This isn't a war about tanks or artillery or guns or even bullets its about arithmetic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmsXyJgzk-8
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  6.  @michael_mack  You are quite right about the psychological difference between invaders and defenders. Invaders can always go home. Defenders are home.
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  7. For anyone wondering check your history and note what happened during the 1950s.
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  8. Peter Zeihan in an answer about a question regarding part of what John Mearsheimer has said noted that those countries total 300 million people. Its actually a bit over 268 million. Here's that interview and the question is at 53:44 -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdP01go8wdQ He lists 17 countries totalling over 262 million. If you add in Finland its just over 268 million. And before anyone asks I got the population data from Wikipedia.
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  9.  @MrKh4O  NO to what? NO Putin wont lose his mind and do something drastic? OR NO Putin will show restraint? Because he wasn't restrained in invading Ukraine. We now know he let Wagner Group go into prisons to recruit for the front line.
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  10.  @lwilton  Have you seen Peter Zeihan's take on this subject? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH-UtO9clvc
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