Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "Artur Rehi"
channel.
-
22
-
14
-
11
-
Putin craves a bigger empire because of his imperial self-conception. Just read his words. Put shortly, Putin contends that the fall of the Soviet empire in 1991 was the WORST event in the 20th Century. So, Just skip the end of the Russian Empire, 1917 -- WWI... WWII & The Great Patriotic War -- the fall of the Iron Curtain 1989, Spanish Flu (1917-1921) the Pacific War 1931-1945 the partition of India (1947-1948) the incredible sequence of wars in Africa -- nothing else was significant. Only Putin's dream-history counts.
Like Adolf, Stalin, Tojo, et al, this is all WAY beyond logic. So, stop using logic when discussing Putin's ambit.
It's not 'greed' as so commonly said. Like Adolf, it's a cross between coveting a dream and bitter resentment when that dream is ruined.
9
-
9
-
8
-
7
-
6
-
No nation actually paid back for LendLease aid. It was just too great.
They could only pay back with wildly inflated currencies -- Pounds or Rubbles.
The French didn't even make the attempt. ( de Gaulle )
Post-war inflation -- world-wide -- has been so great that modern readers can't scarcely comprehend its vastness.
In 1890, in the US, a day's wage for an adult man was $0.75. ( Farm country ) HARD/dangerous/talented wages ran all the way up to $1/day. (Cattle drives) Carnegie's Top Man earned $90 a month. (!) That was FAT money.
By 1913, Henry Ford was.paying $5/day for industrial assembly. That was double the previous norm.
By 1943, the US Army was paying GIs $22/month -- parachute troops got an extra $5/month! Glider troops got base pay, only. Death insurance, by the US government was $10,000. You could buy a couple of houses for that much, five homes in the countryside.
In the 1970s, a Good Wage could mean $22,000 a year -- for a top manager. By 1980s all of these figures tripled. (!)
Homes that sold for $50,000 in a nice neighborhood -- Santa Monica, (1971) -- sold for $1,500,000 by 2022. (!!!)
Modern girls figure that their beau ought to be earning $100,000 a year. (The national average is $60,000 a year.)
6
-
5
-
4
-
3
-
3
-
3
-
Artur, the priority will ALWAYS be to shoot down the trench lines, both ways, until the door is wide open.
The Russians can't mine their own trench line. So, if manning is low, Ukrainian progress will be rapid.
Russian reserves were brought in by road -- and are STILL (largely) pinned off to the west -- kilometers away.
There are remarkably few Russian reserves in the current direction of advance. Oops!
The Russian command simply did not expect the UA to vector off to the southeast. Period.
The UA sold the idea that they would shoot straight south, if not towards Tokmak, almost directly.
But, once the UA is through, they have entered a 'mine-free' zone that goes on for kilometers.
Tokmak is not essential. Merely getting down south, towards the Sea of Azove, screws Putin.
Destroying the Il-76s was a strategic move -- designed to stop Putin from air dropping supplies and men into the breach.
In this, the Il-76 replicates the capabilities of the C-141 of the USAF. (Retired in 2006 after forty-years.)
[Parachute drops/ cargo drops are possible for both, but not widely publicized, as in both cases, the boys would rather land and walk off.]
3
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
Autur -- RAIN explains the tempo.
Don't overlook the history of the KGB/FSB employing Chechens.
For half-a-century, the KGB used Chechens as their go-to assassins.
They were the 'out-of-town talent' that the target could not spot, yes, contract 'wet-work' was their Bolshevik role.
Hence, their current role as enforcers -- not as soldiers.
During the Great Patriotic War, the NKVD used 'barrier troops' -- the O-Os. (From the [Russian] initials -- so typical: NKVD, GRU, SS, FBI, CIA, ...)
(Hence Ian Flemings 00 7 -- licensed to kill. Fleming specifically mentioned that the O-Os inspired him. He learned of the O-Os even during WWII.)
(Note that James Bond is Double 'O' Seven -- not Double Zero Seven.)
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
@ The US never charged Winston for Purple Machines. (Japanese diplomatic code) Purple is how the UK knew what was going on in the Pacific. The US also, along with Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the Dutch East Indies provided the missing transmissions required to decode the FULL messages that Tokyo was bouncing off the Ionosphere. This tech has now been, largely, abandoned. With it, you could Ham radio -- planet wide. But, it wasn't always clear. So, to get the full transmission, you needed both repetition from the originator AND repeated reception which could occur all over the planet -- but especially well the closer to the origin. Australia has a sweet location in the Outback that can pick up signals from Hell and Heaven. It's amazing. Rhode Island had a receiver that could pick up Rommel in North Africa -- uniquely so. We gave said transmissions immediately over to Winston -- long before the US was in the soup. Naturally, Churchill lied to all and every about how he came to learn this or that. For quite a while, Enigma intercepts, etc, were labelled as coming from 'Mr. Brown,' our agent in Berlin. Heh.
This blew up. His generals REFUSED to act on timely intelligence. THEY were convinced by their staffs of yet other reasonings -- which always proved quite wrong. Winston had to keep firing generals because of this -- which historians have totally missed. The blame for these events was always ascribed to some battlefield reverses -- when the REAL reason was that they dis-obeyed Winston's 'advice.' Ultimately Winston gave in and had to come up with plan B. Not one general would ever act on the 'advice' coming from Winston -- the Gallipoli man.
Winston, Adolf and Stalin all had the same vice: they thought that they were brilliant generals. Whereas FDR, the ultimate lazy student, knew full well he was a fish out of water in military affairs. He did like boats, though. So the Pentagon ran the US war effort while allies and enemies had to suffer under delusional Big Brains.
1
-
1
-
1
-
1