Comments by "Valen Ron" (@valenrn8657) on "Putin's 'incompetent' Russian Air Force could run out of pilots - this is how | Ukraine Russia" video.

@ransertu7630 >USA losing to goatherders In terms of military conflict, the USA won against Taliban. It's the Afghanistan military that lost against the Taliban.
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@ransertu7630 The difference, the Soviet-Afgan war was a major cause for USSR's breakup while the US loses interest in Afgan. Ghani's Afghan army was only trained for heavily armed police roles i.e. no US main battle tanks, no US supersonic fighter jets, no US heavy attack helicopters, no US HIMARS, no US M270 MLRS, no US PAC3s, no US Javlins, no US Stringers, no US Bradleys, no US M109 howitzers and 'etc'.
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@ransertu7630 > I would like to think that it's not likely the truth. The main reason for USSR was likely Gorbachev's introduction of democratic reform. False. USSR's economy was already stagnated before Gorbachev's perestroika and glasnost reforms.
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@Наденька-в4е FALSE. You can't handle the truth when the Afgan war broke USSR's camel's back and broke apart.
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@ransertu7630 The Pentagon confirmed the head of US Central Command in Qatar, General Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., met Taliban leaders based in Qatar's capital Doha. The Taliban officials agreed to terms set by McKenzie for refugees to flee using Kabul Airport. On 23 August, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), William J. Burns, held a secret meeting in Kabul with Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar, who returned to Afghanistan from exile in Qatar, to discuss the 31 August deadline. Abdul Ghani Baradar was part of Afghan mujahideen which was armed by the US CIA.
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@jdw-616 The US doesn't lose wars, it only loses interest.
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@peterlangan1181 Ukraine's S300 are being displaced by PAC2/GEM+ . The US has PAC3.
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@snowleopard4203 Ukrainian Air Force (2023) Current Active Inventory: 271 Aircraft. Article date Apr 11, 2023 via Forbes So when Russian missiles rained down on Ukrainian airfields, a barrage the Kremlin hoped would eliminate Kyiv’s air power, they struck ... practically nothing of significance. A year later, we finally can see Ukrainian fighters—Mikoyan MiG-29s and Sukhoi Su-27s—operating from their highway airstrips. Continuing to avoid Russian attacks. The first-ever video of these operations depicts 16-ton, twin-engine MiG-29s and 25-ton Su-27s, also with two engines, taking off from roadways as soldiers keep guard.
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@ransertu7630 Saddam's Iraq invaded Kuwait and Iran. Ukraine did NOT invade another country.
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@mouradbelkas598 US did NOT provide US military hardware for Saddam. Saddam's military hardware is mostly Soviet and a minority from China and France.
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@adrien5834 For the 1st gulf war, the US provided most of the firepower.
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@adrien5834 39 countries argument is without context.
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@mouradbelkas598 False. The Second Battle of Fallujah, codenamed Operation al-Fajr and Operation Phantom Fury, was an American-led offensive of the Iraq War that lasted roughly six weeks, starting 7 November 2004.
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@rumpstatefiasco The US, UK and Russia signed Ukraine's Budapest Memorandum that traded Ukraine's nuclear weapons for security assurances. Russia has exited Ukraine's Budapest Memorandum. France and China have signed a watered-down Budapest Memorandum. Budapest Memorandum's complete failure will reinforce arguments for independent nuclear weapons for smaller countries. US EXIT from Ukraine's Budapest Memorandum has a negative outcome for any US allies being in the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
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@mouradbelkas598 Date: March 2017 Kurdistan’s Interior Minister said on Tuesday the Regional Government (since its formation) had demanded from the federal government to pay compensation to the families of Kurdish victims who suffered genocide, killing, and displacement from the former Iraqi regime. Rebar Ahmed stressed during the Parliament session that in 2014 “we decided to announce Halabja as a governorate,… but perhaps the big problem facing Halabja is that Iraq is not yet ready to recognize it as a governorate. Therefore, the federal government did not allocate a financial budget for it.” Ahmed continued that when the first Kurdish delegation went to Baghdad, it delivered the Prime Minister a request to compensate the victims of the people of Kurdistan with 380 billion dollars for the crimes committed by Saddam Hussein's regime in Halabja, Anfal and to Barzanis, Faili Kurds, and all victims of Baath crimes. The Halabja chemical attack, also known as the Halabja Massacre or Bloody Friday was a massacre of Kurdish people that took place on 16 March 1988, during the closing days of the Iran–Iraq War in the Kurdish city of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan. The attack was part of the Al-Anfal Campaign in Kurdistan, as well as part of the Iraqi Army's attempt to repel the Iranian Operation Zafar 7. It took place 48 hours after the capture of the town by the Iranian Army. A United Nations (UN) medical investigation concluded that mustard gas was used in the attack, along with unidentified nerve agents. The incident was the largest chemical weapons attack directed against a civilian-populated area in history, killing between 3,200 and 5,000 people and injuring 7,000 to 10,000 more, most of them civilians. Preliminary results from surveys of the affected region showed an increased rate of cancer and birth defects in the years afterward. The Halabja attack has been officially defined by the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal as a genocidal massacre against the Kurdish people in Iraq. -------------- Again, Iraq invaded Kuwait and Iran i.e. those who live by the sword will die by the sword. Ukraine did NOT invade another country.
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@ransertu7630 South Africa did a similar racist targeting against white farmers and the CANZUK group and the Netherlands responded by increasing targeted refugee intake. Australia caused a diplomatic incident when it responded with targeted refugee intake against the South African government's action against white farmers.
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@ransertu7630 Sheikhdom of Kuwait BEFORE WW1! Kuwait was founded in 1613 AD as a fishing village known as Grane (Kureyn). The region soon came under the rule of the Bani Khalid Emirate in 1670 after the expulsion of the Ottomans from Eastern Arabia (Lahsa Eyalet) by Barrack bin Ghurayr, Emir of the Bani Khalid, who successfully besieged the Ottoman governor Umar Pasha who surrendered and gave up his rule as the fourth Ottoman governor of al-Hasa. In 1752, Kuwait became independent after an agreement between the Sheikh of Kuwait and the Emir of Bani Khalid in which Bani Khalid recognised Sabah I bin Jaber's independent rule over Kuwait and in exchange Kuwait would not ally itself or support the enemies of Bani Khalid or interfere in the internal affairs of Bani Khalid in any way. ---- Iraq invaded Kuwait.
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@ransertu7630 In July, Saddam accused Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates of breaking with Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) production quotas and over-producing crude oil for export, which depressed prices, depriving Iraq of critical oil revenues. The difference, UAE has US military base. Feelings are useless without firepower. Saddam's oil-stealing argument against Kuwait and UAE is unproven.
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@mouradbelkas598 Against Saddam's argument on Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates stealing oil from Iraq. American drillers denied that Kuwait would need to incorporate this technology saying, “Oil flows easily from the Rumalia field [to the Ratqa field] without any need for these techniques.” Lastly, it should be noted that a, “Senior vice president of OGE Drilling Inc., a Houston company that provided oilfield supervisors and workers for Kuwait in the same area, said he was ‘positive’ all of the weeks his employees drilled and operated ran vertically down to the Rumalia pay zone. ‘That field crosses the border in north Kuwait,’ he added. ‘Iraqis were drilling on one side, and Kuwaitis on the other side.’” Now of course no company would come out and say they were stealing from Iraq so this information should be looked at with a healthy skepticism. Due to Saddam's imperialist actions, Saddam deserves to be removed. Despite Iraq's imperialist actions against Kuwait, the US preserved Iraq's territorial integrity. After WW2, the US follows France/UK's post-WW1 Middle East border divisions that were imposed on WW1 loser Ottoman Empire. Russia does NOT preserve Ukraine's territorial integrity.
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@mouradbelkas598 Before Euromaidan, Russia started a trade war against Ukraine, forcing Yanukovych to sign a base rental extension agreement that breached Ukraine Constitution 1996, Article 17 disallows foreign military bases after 2017. Read the Ukraine Constitution 1996, Article 17 which disallows foreign military bases after 2017. CONSTITUTION OF UKRAINE Adopted at the Fifth Session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on 28 June 1996 Article 17 The location of foreign military bases shall not be permitted on the territory of Ukraine. Yanukovych breached the Ukraine Constitution 1996, Article 17. After 2017, Ukraine's constitution is incompatible with foreign military bases hosting either NATO or CSTO. If Yanukovych didn't sign the military base rental extension, Russia would be kicked out of Crimea. Putin's narrative is FALSE. Putin's pressure caused Yanukovych to make a mistake. Pro-Ukraine political parties exploited Yanukovych's constitutional mistake.
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@mouradbelkas598 Investigating the Iraqi WMD program implicates European companies and the US has backed off from this. Let the Europeans investigate the Iraqi WMD program and arrest the individuals who materially aided Saddam's WMDs.
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@ransertu7630 >. Proof is nice but even then you could say the proof was invented Again, Date: December 25, 2005 from Taipeitimes A Dutch businessman was given 15 years in jail for his role in supplying the chemicals used to create the poison gas which killed 5,000 kurds in Iraq In the first trial involving the mass killing of Iraqi Kurds with chemical weapons, a Dutch court on Friday sentenced a supplier of the weapon ingredients to 15 years in jail. The judges convicted Frans van Anraat, 63, a Dutch businessman, of complicity in war crimes because they said he had known that the materials he sold to Iraq during the rule of former president Saddam Hussein could be used to make lethal poison gas. ----- The Iraqi WMD question is still ongoing and the European courts will deal with it.
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@ransertu7630 Most border disputes are minor.
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@ransertu7630 Unlike the Russians or Iraqis, the US and Mexico have a civilized Boundary Treaty of 1970. The Boundary Treaty of 1970 is a treaty between the United States and Mexico that settled all outstanding boundary disputes and uncertainties related to the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte) border between them. The Boundary Treaty of 1970's framework enables US and Mexico to exchange interests and minor land territories in a civilized and peaceful manner.
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@ransertu7630 Date: March 2017 Kurdistan’s Interior Minister said on Tuesday the Regional Government (since its formation) had demanded from the federal government to pay compensation to the families of Kurdish victims who suffered genocide, killing, and displacement from the former Iraqi regime. Rebar Ahmed stressed during the Parliament session that in 2014 “we decided to announce Halabja as a governorate,… but perhaps the big problem facing Halabja is that Iraq is not yet ready to recognize it as a governorate. Therefore, the federal government did not allocate a financial budget for it.” Ahmed continued that when the first Kurdish delegation went to Baghdad, it delivered the Prime Minister a request to compensate the victims of the people of Kurdistan with 380 billion dollars for the crimes committed by Saddam Hussein's regime in Halabja, Anfal and to Barzanis, Faili Kurds, and all victims of Baath crimes. The Halabja chemical attack, also known as the Halabja Massacre or Bloody Friday was a massacre of Kurdish people that took place on 16 March 1988, during the closing days of the Iran–Iraq War in the Kurdish city of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan. The attack was part of the Al-Anfal Campaign in Kurdistan, as well as part of the Iraqi Army's attempt to repel the Iranian Operation Zafar 7. It took place 48 hours after the capture of the town by the Iranian Army. A United Nations (UN) medical investigation concluded that mustard gas was used in the attack, along with unidentified nerve agents. The incident was the largest chemical weapons attack directed against a civilian-populated area in history, killing between 3,200 and 5,000 people and injuring 7,000 to 10,000 more, most of them civilians. Preliminary results from surveys of the affected region showed an increased rate of cancer and birth defects in the years afterward. The Halabja attack has been officially defined by the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal as a genocidal massacre against the Kurdish people in Iraq
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@ransertu7630 Again, despite Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and Iran, the US maintained Iraq's territorial integrity. You can't say the same for Russia's land grabbing of five oblasts from Ukraine.
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@paulmakinson1965 Russia fights like the Iraq military.
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@JiandiP Remember, PAC3 has been superceded by hypersonic PAAC4.
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@ransertu7630 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the decision was made in order to refocus resources on countering China i.e. US only lose interest.
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@jdw-616 Rules of Engagement are not total war. If the RoE was total war, it's mass killing and they will surrender.
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@jdw-616 Against extreme Islamic idealogy, the Spanish Inquisition's implementation will be required and will it's a very messy business. Leftist's godless socialist woke ideology will not work in Afghanistan just as Soviet Union's godless communism will not work in Afghanistan. In conventional warfare, the US has defeated the Taliban.
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@ransertu7630 False. The attack and destruction of the world trade center was a declaration of war.
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@peterlangan1181 > The Ukrainian Air force was to all extents wiped out in the first days False. Most Eastern European countries don't operate SU-27s and Ukraine still has SU-27s. The US has returned the Ukrainian SU-27s that were purchased in the 1990s. >Let NATO send all its aircraft against Russia in East Ukraine Tell Putin to remove the nuclear 1st strike for NATO intervention.
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@halycon404 >No NATO nation has fought anything like this since WWII FALSE. The US was carpet bombing during the Vietnam War. US's Vietnam war was compromised by Russian spies like John Anthony Walker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS6rFAxgt7g&t=952s Without the Walker factor, the results are different from US CIA supporting the Afghanistan war against Russians.
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@umbro12 Russia is part of NAZI's WW2 firestarter i.e. Molotov Ribbentrop pact. 😁😆😅🤣
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@jesoby False.
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@mitchyoung93 The Russian Federation succeeded to the Soviet Union's seat, including its permanent membership on the Security Council in the United Nations after the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union, which originally co-founded the UN in 1945. The succession was supported by the USSR's former members and was not objected to by the UN membership; Russia accounted for 75% of the Soviet Union's economy, the majority of its population, and 75% of its land mass; in addition, the history of the Soviet Union began in Russia with the October Revolution in 1917 in Petrograd. If there was to be a successor to the Soviet seat on the Security Council among the former Soviet republics, these factors made Russia seem a logical choice.
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@adrien5834 What facts? be specific.
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@midasali793 The equipment left behind is old crap and non-US made e.g. BRICs India HAL, Brazil's A-29. 😆😅🤣 Taliban does not have Patriots, THAADs, HIMARS, M270 MRLS, M1 Abrams MBTs, Apache attack helicopters, M2 Bradleys, M109, US supersonic jets, Oshkosh L-ATV and 'etc'. US Army is replacing Humvees with Oshkosh L-ATVs and Afghanistan was used as a dumping ground. The US is also dumping Humvees in Ukraine. 😁😅🤣 US Army is replacing M113 APCs with AMPVs and a dumping ground is needed.😆😅🤣
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@adrien5834 "39 countries argument" is meaningless without who delivered the most firepower. Fukwit.
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@frankpienkosky5688 The target was supposed to be Osama bin Laden and his group. Afghan adventure turning into a woke and affirmative action crusade. Showing gay pride in Afghanistan was LOL.
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@johnnyrvf Russian aircraft are also being shot down by their own side's SAMs.
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@mouradbelkas598 Depleted uranium has less radioactive than naturally occurring uranium as it contains less of the fissionable material U-235 i.e. note the word "depleted". ----- Date: December 25, 2005 from Taipeitimes A Dutch businessman was given 15 years in jail for his role in supplying the chemicals used to create the poison gas which killed 5,000 kurds in Iraq In the first trial involving the mass killing of Iraqi Kurds with chemical weapons, a Dutch court on Friday sentenced a supplier of the weapon ingredients to 15 years in jail. The judges convicted Frans van Anraat, 63, a Dutch businessman, of complicity in war crimes because they said he had known that the materials he sold to Iraq during the rule of former president Saddam Hussein could be used to make lethal poison gas. -----
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@ransertu7630 False narrarive. The US ambassador stated that the US wouldn't be involved in a minor border skirmish.
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@ransertu7630 In a now famous interview with the Iraqi leader, U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie told Saddam, ‘[W]e have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait.’ The US assumed Iraq wouldn't invade Kuwait.
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@ransertu7630 From Prakken d'Oliveira (human rights lawyers) ---- Date: 25 April 2013 On 24 April 2013, the district court of The Hague sentenced Dutch businessman Frans van Anraat to payment of damages to the victims of mustard-gas attacks in Iraq and Iran in the 1980s. The district court declared Iranian and Iraqi law applicable to the claims. It found one of the claims filed by an Iraqi plaintiff to inadmissible due to prescription. The court granted the sixteen other claims, and awarded the plaintiffs Euro 25.000,00 each for immaterial damages suffered. During the Saddam Hussein-regime, Van Anraat supplied the Iraqi military industry with large quantities of thiodiglycol (‘TDG’). The Iraqi regime then used that material to produce mustard gas, which was subsequently processed in bombs. The Iraqi regime then used those bombs against civilians in the mid-eighties. The civilians suffered serious, lasting damage (to their health) as a result. The seventeen plaintiffs in this case were victims of these chemical attacks. The criminal involvement of Van Anraat with these war crimes was confirmed in a final judgment by a three-judge chamber of the Appeals Court of The Hague. However, the chamber referred the claims filed by the victims as ‘injured party’ to the civil court. For that reason, plaintiffs subpoenaed Van Anraat in a civil suit on 14 December 2009, respectively 7 July 2010. Lawyer Liesbeth Zegveld represented the victims in both the criminal case and the civil procedure. ----- The Iraqi WMD question is still ongoing and the European courts will deal with it.
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@ransertu7630 >However, I can well believe Kuwait was stealing. Prove it. American drillers denied that Kuwait would need to incorporate this technology saying, “Oil flows easily from the Rumalia field [to the Ratqa field] without any need for these techniques.” Lastly, it should be noted that a, “Senior vice president of OGE Drilling Inc., a Houston company that provided oilfield supervisors and workers for Kuwait in the same area, said he was ‘positive’ all of the weeks his employees drilled and operated ran vertically down to the Rumalia pay zone. ‘That field crosses the border in north Kuwait,’ he added. ‘Iraqis were drilling on one side, and Kuwaitis on the other side.’” Now of course no company would come out and say they were stealing from Iraq so this information should be looked at with a healthy skepticism. Kuwait has the same rights to drill for oil as any other Middle East country. The main reason for Iraq's existence is due to the UK-France border creation after the Ottoman Empire's WW1 loss and Turkey's demand for no establishment of an independent state of Kurdistan.
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@ransertu7630 From Independent UK. German involvement outstripped that of all the other countries put together, the paper said. During the period to 1991, the German authoritiespermitted weapons co-operation with Iraq and in some cases "actively encouraged" it, according to the newspaper which cited German assistance allegedly given to Iraq for the development of poison gas used in the 1988 massacre of Kurds in northern Iraq. It said that after the massacre America reduced its military co-operation with Iraq but German firms continued their activities until the Gulf War. ---- Be specific.
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@ransertu7630 "No WMD were found right before or after the 2003 invasion" As stated by pedophile Scott Ritter. The Iraqi Kurds are suing European companies that were involved with Saddam's WMD programs.
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