Comments by "duncan smith" (@duncansmith7562) on "Western fighter jets for Ukraine? "We are at a decisive moment in the war." • FRANCE 24 English" video.

the only hope is Russia totally flattens Kiev with conventional weapons and USA decides to talk peace rather than retaliate with nukes.
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when was the last time NATO found out how effective Russian air defence systems are?
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@sarfaraz.hosseini Ukraine's air force "still operable" = their 3 surviving planes take off occasionally. so, let's see your numbers. how many Russian fighters were shot down over the last 2 months, and reveal your source for such info. or are you just full of bs? Russian fighters don't fly freely because Russia chooses not to let them fly freely. Demilitarizing a country doesn't work from the air, U.S. style. Demilitarization is killing every enemy by artillery and in street battles. that's why it takes years, but it works (as in Chechnya and Syria). The U.S. style of shock and awe from the air, so that the enemy hides in a cave for 20 years and then emerges victorious, is not the Russian style.
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@johanselander7708 low on morale, poorly equipped, poorly trained, poorly led drunken mercenaries and convicts just routed Ukraine's NATO trained finest battalions in Soledar! Looks like Ukraine already lost, hence the panic to get tanks ASAP...I mean, if Russia is on the back foot, why the haste to get any tanks? why the talk of "turning the ride" if Russia already lost?
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I agree, let's send NATO pilots and troops and naval forces to war with Russia and watch all the body bags come home and then see where the chips lie before the nukes start flying. makes perfect sense.
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@johncraig4820 What makes you think Russia has no air superiority over Ukraine?
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@Roman-po8yc certainly does. Russia has no idea what might happen if its air force flies over NATO territory in combat. But then again, it's not Russia that is looking to do that. It's NATO toying with the idea of entering the lion's den and seeing how its fighters would do in the air over Ukraine and over Russian controlled areas.
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@johncraig4820 that may be so, but Russia chooses not to use air power, overall. air power doesn't demilitarize a country, as the U.S. has found out. air power just disperses the enemy into a cave for 20 years, thence to emerge victorious. Demilitarization is killing every enemy soldier and destroying all weapons. it takes years of massive artillery attacks and street fighting. but that is what Russia does...see Chechnya and Syria. NATO simply has no idea what it will find when it starts flying over Ukrainian or Russian controlled air space. None. NATO won't find the experience akin to Iraq or Afghanistan or Syria. Nothing NATO has tried so far has worked. F16's won't work either.
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@fantasy9917 yeah, I know, we can't possibly allow free and independent sovereign nations gravitate towards China and Russia, they must all be stopped, by force, right?
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@barrylane1055 no matter the cost to ourselves
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@gregorydawson5126 any chance this could all end in an exchange of nukes?
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and so the escalation goes.....sanctions failed, isolating Russia failed, stingers failed, javelins failed, M777s failed, himars failed, tanks from ex Warsaw Pact countries failed, now Western tanks will fail, and when F16s get shot down by Russian air defence systems, we then arrive at nukes. so, how about we just go straight to the end of the escalator and have a nuclear war to see who wins?
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