Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "Russian Troop Buildup Near Ukraine: Putin Planning Invasion Or Sending Warning To US u0026 Allies?" video.

  1. USN destroyers don't carry strategic weapons -- merely tactical ones -- normally intended for the defense of an aircraft carrier task force. But alien subs and aircraft carriers are not allowed into the Black Sea. Heck, the dang thing is a LAKE. Putin is clearly a big fan of hybrid warfare -- hence the use of illegal immigrants by Minsk -- certainly with the tacit approval of Moscow. As to WHY Putin wanted Crimea ? Militarily his aggression made ZERO sense. The Crimea is an economic pit. It needs massive amounts of imported fresh water. Now that Ukraine is no longer delivering fresh water -- Putin has been compelled to spend large on a new pipeline across the Kerch strait. We're talking billions of USD. The naval base of Sevastopol is worthless in our modern age. It's THAT tiny. It was only ever big in the 19th Century. In the era of atomic weapons, a land invasion, by NATO, with tanks, is utterly out of the question -- and Putin knows it. We're looking at neo-Stalinist expansionism// hybrid aggression. What's strange: the lands Putin covets are economically DUDS. Further, he has managed to alienate Ukraine, a nation loaded with Russo-philes. At a fundamental level, Putin has not left 1945 behind. He's still fighting WWII// the Great Patriotic War. No wonder he funded the most recent spectacular history series to glorify the heroes of the USSR, 1941-45. Yeltsin, if he could speak, would remind his nominee that Stalin started WWII in Europe -- via his Contract for War -- aka the M-R Pact.
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