Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "Is modern Russian Army stuck in time?" video.

For a premier atomic power, the emphasis given to fighting The Great Patriotic War 2.0 is entirely misplaced. Absolutely no-one in NATO is ever going to roll into Mother Russia -- EVER. Russian military procurement seems to be the grift and graft engine for Russian politicians. In our era of smart, precision, air-launched weapons, big self-propelled artillery, etc. seems to be militarily stupid. Air dropped glide weapons can be launched from many kilometers away. This gambit has been repeatedly used by the IDF over Syria. The latter's forces have been reduced to being a punching bag. ( Plus those of Iran. ) It would seem that an air-launched anything can out-range any artillery// anti-aircraft asset -- and be made stealthy, too -- and on the cheap. Putin is basically blowing Russia's wealth on his project to be Stalin 2.0 -- the Crimea and Donbas are money-pits. The Crimea is a tourist mecca -- without tourists. It's dying of thirst, too. (Ukraine has cut off its river.) Its naval base always belonged to Moscow. The Donbas is the traditional resource bastion where no industrialist dares invest. Its met coal mines have been exhausted. It's access to the Black Sea has been crippled -- by Putin, himself. What Big Brain is running the store ?
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CreedOfHeresy I strongly suspect that Putin is antagonizing the West so as to look Big and Strong to Xi. He is "killing the chicken to scare the monkey" as the Chinese would put it. Actually, he's flat terrified of the CCP... and Xi. The latter appears to be Hitler, Stalin and Mao 2.0. The big difference being that he'll have to take on the whole world at the same instant in our atomic age. Most unwise. Plan B is obviously to wholly corrupt our political class, media clowns, and academe. Plan C is obviously to degrade our entire society with the CCP virus. (Wuhan was their biological warfare laboratory, of course.) This is an instance of accidental warfare -- a common occurrence, historically. The loss of life within Red China must be immense... so the CCP is denying same.
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But that capability is useless in our atomic age. What Big Brain is running Moscow ?
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Moscow hates the Turk -- and has done so for centuries. Syria is all about surrounding the Turk. It's why Erdogan is also involved in Syria. For those with short memories, the entire Black Sea coast used to Ottoman// Turkish turf. (Crimean War, anyone?) The Turks and Slavs normally hate each other -- and with good reason.
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@макслюлюкин WWI ... the Mongols ... the Huns.
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@StofStuiver The USA is the ultimate anti-empire. It's merely a super-power. But it does not follow ANY of the economic logic of an empire. Red China and Russia, do.
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@urdnotwrex6969 US cruise missiles sure hit their targets in 1991 -- as the world watched. Your stats seem contrived.
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@urdnotwrex6969 Nope. Red China and Russia have found American stealth a nightmare to replicate. Above all, it's not cheap to replicate.
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@cabezadepija7318 No-one has countered gunpowder -- yet. Hotspur bitterly declaimed it in Shakespeare's day.
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@Hero.Lone-Wolf And trigger an atomic exchange -- so, nothing to worry about.
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@StofStuiver The political definition of empire is that of a political state which extracts wealth from without to enhance the center. Rome exploited every land from Egypt to Britain to Spain to the economic advantage of the center: Rome, itself. Britain exploited the entire Commonwealth so as to enhance the economic wealth of England -- London, especially. France, Spain, Portugal, et. al all functioned this way. And each, in turn, lavished spending on its capital city... funded by rigged trade such that the periphery elevated the capital metropolis. The USA is the inverse, the anti-empire. It extracts wealth from the 'Lower 48' to the advantage of Hawaii, Alaska, Guam and Puerto Rico -- and a slew of dependencies. No matter how its pitched, Puerto Rico simply refuses to become independent, no matter how many votes are taken. This phenomena is unique to the USA. Now when you look at Russia and Red China, they absolutely fit the imperial economic model. The fact that their capital cities are head and shoulders above all other conurbations is no coincidence. In contrast, Washington DC is not head and shoulders above New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago -- etc. In Paris, Rome, London, Moscow, Beijing, Tokyo... you see the same picture; dang near ANYTHING of national importance is right there in the capital. The heft of capital city politicians towers above that of all others. To not be in the capital city is to be politically exiled. From Cuba to the Philippines, to Okinawa and Iwo Jima -- the USA keeps kicking loose turf that is not the USA. This behavior is totally unlike that of an empire. Even the conquest of Afghanistan and Iraq never translated for one-second into the zany notion that the USA actually wanted to possess such lands. Both were punishment campaigns -- against international pariahs. By now the Taliban are right back to their usual schtick: utter barbarism. They do expect the West to pay for their old school fanatical activities, of course.
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@StofStuiver Well then... That settles it. Such insight. Well done.
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@StofStuiver The USA permits, de facto, unlimited immigration. So, yeah, it's multi-ethnic in DNA composition. BUT, it's just one polity. It does not have separate nations within its domain -- native Americans being the obvious exception. The USA has DESTROYED all of the classic empires of European control -- save Russia -- which is still an empire. ( And Putin & Coy still have imperial ambitions and work to the imperial model.) Red China is blatantly an empire, too. Xi has put Red China into an expansionary mode so profound that the world is imperiled. The USA triggered the liberation of India from Britain by granting independence to the Philippines, July 4, 1946. Riots broke out -- in India -- within weeks -- once the news from Manila spread across India. In most (British) tellings, this triggering event is omitted. London ran out of excuses. BTW, you don't seem to know what a 'hissy fit' is. If the USA was an empire, then it should've simply conquered the entire planet after WWII when it held a monopoly on atomic weapons and had the world dominating navy and central bank. Instead, it spent its energies breaking up the British, French, Dutch, Belgian, and Portuguese empires over the next thirty-years. It also frustrated the Bolsheviks from expanding their empire world-wide -- which was the essence of the Cold War. Empire means something very specific: the Strong taking advantage of the Weak. The US created the UN -- and of its essence is the protection of the Weak from the Strong. If Putin and Xi had their ways, the world would soon see most nations gobbled up by these vast atomic powers. THAT'S empire.
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@bogdanbogdanoff5164 Atomics destroy entire cities, nations and factories. They are not intended against land armies, except at bottlenecks -- and as a signal as to what comes next.
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@bogdanbogdanoff5164 Your trolling is but a sign of You Tube. Instead of commenting on topic, you spew ad hominem. "...a good sign for you it's time to stop writing bullshit online." Just so.
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@bogdanbogdanoff5164 An internet troll has flunked me out of class. Should the world accept his supreme authority and judgment? It's a difficult question.
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@bogdanbogdanoff5164 You are angry. Instead of slurs and condemnations -- just stay on-topic. International policies are more important than your hurt. No-one else can feel your pain, anyway.
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