Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "Sen. Mike Rounds: Russia ‘can't handle the Ukrainian armed forces’" video.

It's ironic: Mig-29s don't need air bases like an F-15 would. They were expressly designed to fly off of straight sections of paved highway. The Migs are a bad idea. ~30 Migs are not enough to change the flow of the fight. They are notorious Hangar Queens -- fighters that need lots of spares & maintenance. Since these were built in the USSR, who will be supplying spares? But the bigger reason why the Pentagon balks: Putin WANTS to re-frame his fiasco as a war against NATO. The average Ivan is primed to believe such propaganda. Indeed, the average Ivan, right now, does not accept that Russia is bombing Ukraine. Yup! When you tote all of the factors up, it makes absolutely no sense to put Migs into the fight. The Senator is correct: S-300s and their like is EXACTLY what the doctor ordered. Most Russian aircraft are actually not equipped to thwart (Russian) S-300s. They (Moscow) never figured that they'd be flying against them! S-300s -- given a (Western) software upgrade -- figure to be the end of Russian viability in the sky over Ukraine.
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@jackspring7709 Knock it off with your alternate history schtick. The antics in the Donbas were initiated by Putin. That was transparent even at the time. The so-called 'Nazis' in Ukraine only exist because of KGB/FSB support. They are a KGB 'asset' -- in the lingo of spooks. Yes, they were stood-up -- created -- by Moscow. Their primary purpose is to damage the reputation of any nation they slither in -- and to provide a pretext for Russian invasion/ 'intervention' at any time to suit Moscow. These exact same tactics, -- bogus injuries to Russians living in the 'near-abroad' -- have been initiated up in the Baltics and down in Georgia. Moscow has a storied history of false-flag, self-assaults. One is reminded of Adolf and the launch of his invasion of Poland. Lost to most moderns, the pretext centered on a false-flag op conducted by the SS. Yes, the SS attacked German border guards -- at night -- and then placed Dachau victims -- dressed as Poles -- behind so that the German border troops simply had to discover them. The op also included Nazis seizing a Polish radio station to broadcast a bogus call to arms -- etc. By dawn the Nazis were already invading Poland... with a fully mobilized army. Some timing, then ! In most pop histories, the Nazi false-flag op is skipped over. BTW, the German border guards nearly shot up the SS fakers. (They were on super alert due to Adolf's propaganda.)
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@thomasj6814 Putin sent in ~175,000 troops. The Ukrainian army has about 200,000 troops. The force imbalance is in equipment. Ukraine has essentially no navy. Ukraine has a very modest air force. Nothing like that of Russia. Ukraine has a modest tank fleet. Nothing like that of Russia. What the Russians fear is to leave their equipment and fight man to man in big cities. Putin has no Plan B. City fighting must come next. Mud season makes it impossible to encircle Kiev, and all the rest. And, mud has already arrived. It will get worse, and worse, until the Russians are totally paralyzed. Ask Napoleon and Adolf.
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@thomasj6814 For political reasons, Putin does not want to call up general mobilization. In contrast, Zelenskyy HAS called up general mobilization. It's amazing that Putin's generals didn't see this (predictable) force imbalance before they ever crossed the border. Adolf invaded the USSR on the premise that the Soviets would all drop their weapons -- or something like that. Putin invaded Ukraine on the premise that there would be no practical resistance. His open troop preparations were but a psychological preparation operation. (It did convince all Western generals, for sure.) He plainly expected a repeat of Crimea, 2014. Oops. Western intelligence has picked up indications that Putin has called up reserves from afar -- including Vladivostok. (!)
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@44excalibur Too late. They already did. And Adolf hadn't even been born.
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@ohdearearthlings1879 For a time, Putin will put on the stall. However, VPNs permit savvy Russians to get around the typical firewall. Moscow urbanites are admitting that they ARE getting the truth via no-end of international feeds. So, Putin is just not going to be able to keep a lid on his invasion. Some mothers are already complaining. They (reasonably) thought that their young son was in mere training exercises. By now they've discovered that their son is a piece of Putin's canon fodder. They are not happy. Putin's invasion is a war of choice -- his.
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@_bigbro Nazism died in 1945. Do the Russians have a time machine? As for countering drones, I doubt that any nation has that equation solved. They range in scale from toys to serious business. So... 'drones' is too broad a category. But, if you're on the level, you've just told the world that the S-300 is actually useless. Just maybe it is.
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@_bigbro Nazism died in 1945. There were German survivors. BTW, von Braun never signed party papers. He woke up one day and found that his boss had him entered into the SS. Indeed, all von Braun's buddies were inducted into the General SS at the same time. No-one appreciated the 'honor.' They were all apolitical. They all fled to the south -- and the American (Patton's) advance.
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@_bigbro Sure it can. Most religions that ever existed have died off. The Aztecs used to cut open captured victims - while alive - to offer hearts up to their god. No Aztecs now exist. Even their bloody rituals are lost to us. What happened to the Inca ? The KGB simply fell in love with 'fighting the Nazis.' Nazism is universally abhorred. Hence the mere existence of a KGB sponsored Nazi front (asset) is sufficient to manipulate public opinion to suit Moscow's fancy. The fact that the so-called Nazis have to shoot up some Russian citizens (to maintain the illusion that the movement is for real*) is the price Moscow is quite willing to pay. The rank and file dupes that fill out its ranks are, of course, mentally and ethically challenged. * Note that optics are Big with the so-called neo-Nazi movement. (KGB asset) So, there's always a cameraman around to record the KGB's dupes marching around in quasi-military garb. And, for such a low-brow crowd, the 'movement' never seems to have serious money troubles -- even though it has no significant popular support. Such movements don't even have quasi-proper fund raisers. The money to keep the scheme moving along always comes from Moscow -- via cut-outs. This is how the KGB/FSB operates. In the over all FSB budget, the expenditures required are peanuts to a great nation. Just repeat the KGB/FSB mantra: "New lies for old -- new lies for old -- new lies for old..."
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National versus local budgets. It's a fact: local governments divert all Federal aid for the homeless into their other priorities, IE their own budgets.
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@_bigbro Put down the bong. Hint: don't post while high.
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