Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "T-14 Armata Main Battle Tank - Good Or Bad Tank?" video.

@V_for_Vovin The problem with the Su-57 is the Russian economy. They just can't afford its expense. Russia has an economy that is a trivial fraction of Red China or the USA. They needed/ still need Indian funding -- and New Delhi is backing away. Last I looked, India is buying French fighters to thwart Red China.
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@V_for_Vovin You clearly don't understand the international monetary system -- and America's role as the issuer of International Money. It's with great irony that the WORLD depends upon US government debt to back their currencies. This reality drives Putin and Xi crazy. They are trying their best to stop this reality. But their opinions count for NOTHING to the players that crave US government debt. BTW, most US debt is held within the USA. BTW, the international monetary system DOES NOT use basic economics. The US government is totally unlike other economic characters in society BECAUSE it issues the currency AND the rules of the game.
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@greatdude7279 You don't understand Bretton Woods. Go back to class. There is no such thing as the Petrodollar. Oil trading is a TRIVIAL fraction of global trade. Yet, EVERYONE wants to settle all of their trades in the US dollar or with hard currencies that freely trade against the US dollar. The Ruble and the Yuan are OUT. The Petrodollar is a Moscow generated meme. You can bathe in it over at ZeroHedge. In reality, EVERYTHING everywhere is trading versus the US dollar. Not just petroleum sold by Arabs. Plainly you have NEVER traded foreign exchange in the real world. Rent a Bloomberg screen and wake up.
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@abhishekkulkarni9120 Saddam was breaking down the UNSC via his food-for-oil scam. In the 1930s Japan destroyed the League of Nations by scoffing at it. The LoN had NO enforcement capabilities at all. Within no time, the LoN was a nullity. And with that, Adolf Hitler massively re-armed Germany, Japan launched WWII -- in Asia -- years before Stalin and Adolf launched WWII in Europe. Hell soon followed. By destroying the 'spanking arm' of the UNSC so utterly (via bribes) Saddam was entirely replicating the destruction of the LoN at the turn of the century. This motivation to 'get' Saddam never made the front page. It was, and remains, too complex for the MSM. It also is not the narrative that the MSM wants, as it makes crushing Saddam essential for global security. This is bad because it makes Bush look good. The dollar is the dollar because the US is the focal point of the financial world -- because of Bretton Woods. That's what you need to study up on. I can't give you an MBA in international finance in one post. You have a lot of reading to do. That you even use the trashy term petro-dollar indicates that you've been reading stuff off of ZeroHedge or its ilk. The writers there hail from the Bolshevik zone, and are widely considered unregistered foreign agents by many. I know of no site more loaded with petro-dollar 'logic.' It's spurious, of course. ALL international trade everywhere uses dollar crosses. It's the benchmark. EG, yen trades against pounds based upon how yen trades against dollars and how pounds trades against dollars. They are then 'crossed' -- traded electronically -- yen to pounds based on the above math. THAT'S why OPEC uses the US dollar as its benchmark. PERIOD. Forget the petro BS. There is no other nation that can supplant the USA. Red China's so-called currency is NOT something that can be traded in size internationally. Beijing rigs its value -- versus the US dollar. Yup. And its courts are wholly corrupt. It's illegal for the CCP to lose a court case. Yup. So it never does. There are only two nations whose courts routinely adjudicate international commercial disputes: America and Britain. That's why the pound and the dollar have their legacy. There is the Anglo-American system and then their is the abyss. Lastly, International Money can only ever exist when issued by the leading naval power -- as such trade issues are oceanic realities. Hence the RN and USN back-stop their respective currencies.
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As ever, tanks of any type, can't survive smart missiles. That's why the US is only tweaking up the Abrams. A full-on tank battle between the Russians and NATO will never happen. It'll go atomic PDQ. So it's no wonder that Putin is only cranking out a trivial number of Armata tanks. WWII is just not going to be repeated. If Red China is any indication, WWV will be bio-economic war... and the CCP has a staggering head start -- donated to them by NATO. Bio-economic warfare will wipe out Russia right along with the West. So there's nothing to worry about on that score. The CCP is still desperately trying to conjure up a racially specific virus. THAT'S what their focus is on: racial targeting. Hence, they make Adolf look small potatoes.
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@abhishekkulkarni9120 You've reduced yourself to ridicule. In popular parlance, you've "jumped the shark." You're not entitled to your own 'facts.' "...Any different from what Hitler did" parodies itself. Analyst in parenthesis ? You MIGHT gain self-insight by reading Eric Hoffer's "True Believer." But don't bet the rent money.
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@abhishekkulkarni9120 Iraqi oil was never controlled by the USA. It went onto the open market -- where NON-American firms scooped it all up. The US outfits actually weren't even considered in the bidding -- due to the politics of it. (See your own blather.) The American firms also had no taste for the sabotage certain to occur if they actually were crazy enough to invest in Iraqi oil infrastructure. So, your thesis is truly fact-free BS.
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@abhishekkulkarni9120 BTW, the USA NEVER has to assert that it has an awesome military capability via open warfare. It's a rarity if the DoD even holds a military parade. Every player knows who Godzilla is. Yeah, it's the USAF. Just for your information: Godzilla as a myth was crafted in post-war Tokyo by an uncle to explain to the neighborhood kids why the fire-bombing of that city would not recur. Godzilla had been 'sent away' -- back into the oceanic depths. His tall tale expanded into a children's book -- and this was then brought to film. The rest is film history, see IMDB.
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@abhishekkulkarni9120 The True Believer is utterly WITHOUT propaganda. Indeed, it's anti-propaganda. But then, you know what it is without prior contact of any kind. You're no scholar -- not by a long shot. So -- admit it.
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@abhishekkulkarni9120 It's a made up number... by the KGB// FSB. You need to read a LOT more -- and not propaganda -- this time. A tyrant tells you what to do. America says -- essentially -- will you please STOP doing that? America is the primal anti-colonial, anti-tyrannical nation. We put tyrants out of business: Hitler, Saddam... others we merely try and contain: Xi, Mao .... Tyranny is Red China and Putin's Russia and Kim's prison and the mullah's Iran. They KILL you.
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@abhishekkulkarni9120 No, I'm not offended. It's obvious that you ARE a True Believer. That's your trap. The facts that you hold true are actually either extreme or unsubstantiated ... and normally both. True Believers hold that they've got everything 'dialed in' -- when nothing is ever so certain. The petro-dollar concept is agitprop nonsense... going away. It's a Moscow meme, pure and simple. You hold true other KGB//FSB nostrums. They are a source of laughter and ridicule, of course. They are childish, designed to ensnare rubes -- and True Believers. Cute.
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Russia has simply adopted the previously Western grand design approach: build fewer MUCH better machines. With modern computer controlled machining, the Russians can now build tanks as elegant as anything in the West. Moscow now sees that complex armor and sophisticated electronics are ESSENTIAL for armored fighting vehicles -- of all types. The most radical think about the T-14 is its modest crew of three tankers. Moving them out of the turret is truly radical, too. The Soviets/Russians always had some pretty clever tank designs -- it was their actual production quality that suppressed their combat performances. ( Check out the terrible degrees of vision in the T-34c. For the tank commander, it was almost as if looking through a straw. ) The big wonder is whether Smart Weapons have negated the value of heavy armor. In the larger scheme of things, the T-14 has been designed to win the Cold War -- and is no longer money well spent for Moscow. Russia doesn't have any peer competitors around it. NATO is NEVER going to head east. That scale of fighting is going to be decided by economics and missiles -- with a tweak of cyber warfare. The T-14 is also pretty useless against Red China, too. So you've got a great tank that has no-one to fight or deter... the West is already deterred.
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