Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "Times Radio" channel.

  1.  @grantchallinor5263  The price has fallen to ~ $95/bbl. At 40% off -- that's ~ $60/bbl -- before transport expenses -- which have just exploded. For Putin ~ $60/bbl is painfully low. But, the REAL kicker for Putin is not revenue received -- it's those sanctioned (critical) imports -- think microchips. Not obtaining them has shut down his tank factories, his SU-57 production, .... It's even throttled his production of Renault knock-offs. (Russians now have to settle for castrated automobiles.) We're getting reports that non-critical expenditures ( ie non-foods ) have collapsed in sales. Putin has driven his society into poverty. That vector is only intensifying.
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  2.  @wessexdruid7598  Biden over-ruled his SecDef and the Pentagon. That's WHY the abandonment was so chaotic... very un-military. By why would anyone take a critique from an English pagan ? LOL. BTW, Trump tried to get out of Syria -- the US has as many guys there as Afghanistan. The Press never ever brought that up. The Pentagon and State Department were against getting out of Syria -- and simply LIED to Trump -- straight through his administration. Only at the end, days in front of the election (2020) did a die hard Democrat come public with how he'd absolutely F'd Trump -- lied to keep 2,500 troops in Syria. THIS is what Trump was talking about: the Deep State. Congress never authorized ANYTHING WRT to Syria -- just Iraq and Afghanistan. So, thank you 0bama. JV team, indeed.
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  3.  @mattdonna9677  So... Then Biden poisoned the well? The fact remains that the Pentagon was ALWAYS against withdrawal. It was hardly alone. MANY a career had been made blowing money in Afghanistan -- mission creep is the term. The Pentagon never took Trump's dead line seriously. If it had, then the Pentagon would HAVE TO HAVE begun pulling the boys out even before Trump left office. The Pentagon avoided pulling out of Syria, too. It had as many guys in Syria as it did in Afghanistan. Folks, these deployments become 'self-licking ice cream cones.' The Deep State feeds on them. The Federal budget is glutted with self-licking ice cream cones. Stuff that started out as a Grand Idea devolves into just a money hustle.
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  4.  @wessexdruid7598  Now THAT'S alternate reality. The Deep State fell into ranks to stop Trump. One is reminded of Andrew Jackson. The parallels are there -- much beyond red hair.
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  5.  @cardboardboxification  It's impossible to negotiate with Putin, Adolf or Napoleon. For all three: what's theirs is theirs -- what's yours is theirs. 'Nuff said.
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  6.  @cardboardboxification  You are not allowed to invent history. Ukraine had NO political independence under the USSR. There never was an anti-Stalinist Ukrainian army. Vlasov was a Bolshevik. However, Stalin hung him out to dry. Furious, Vlasov flipped sides. (A habit he could not shake, BTW.)
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  7.  @olafkunert3714  Wrong. Rail roads appear to be easy to destroy -- but WWII showed that such is not so. They can be repaired as fast as they can be destroyed. Then it gets down to cost: is destruction cheaper than repair. For Putin the answer is flatly NO. A precision guided missile is vastly more expensive than sleepers and track. Its construction uses highly trained and intelligent labor. Track repair requires virtually untrained grunt labor. Only a few foremen need do all of thinking. Your second paragraph is so nonsensical that I can't respond. Obviously, a de-industrialized Ukraine would be a nation dedicated to poverty. It's what Morgenthau intended for post-war Germany. BTW, the Russian Army is centered entirely around rail based logistics. Consequently, we are now witnessing a 'railroad war.' Both nations are going after each other's rail grid. Ukraine is using, largely, howitzers and trick ops. Putin is using deep strikes with missiles. Both are effective, but Putin's missile expenditure is costing him dearly. Olaf, study up. BTW, drop the whole 'land bridge' nonsense. Putin wants all the marbles -- period. He already had twin bridges into Crimea, rail and road. The 'land bridge' pitch is for the proles. Putin is simply not for 'turning.' This should be evident to the whole world -- by now.
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  8. George nailed it straight off. Nukes are a no-no for Putin -- because Xi does not them to be used -- neither does Modi. Putin REALLY crossed himself up. Finland + Sweden => NATO. Ukraine as a de facto NATO allied power. When the dust settles, Belarus will eject the Russian Empire -- it's no federation.
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  9.  @tommyodonovan3883  Bad dialogue from an overweight actor.
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  10. Biden & Coy delayed aid -- and have stalled EVERY last item from M-1 tanks to F-16 fighters. Biden delays occurred BEFORE the GOP attained the gavel. Speaker Johnson is the true reason that Zelenskyy has attack'ems -- long range -- even now. He wrote that provision into law. THIS is the reason that attack'ems are firing off so rapidly. Congress, not Biden, gave ALL of the old attack'ems to Zelenskyy.
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  11. Putin can't survive peace. It's that simple.
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  12.  @pauldean8638  WWI.
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  13. Look at his uniform. He is already a Marshal.
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  14.  @davidcurry4433  It needs money to fund its economy. Red China will sell -- IF PAID. It's quite astonishing how many items are on the shelf -- sourced from Red China. (Walmart does it, too.) Europe is STILL selling to Russia -- just not war goods -- or dual use goods. Stuff like medicine -- Putin will need plenty for his wounded troops. Putin still needs to pump Big Money to his cronies. BMWs and Mercedes are not sanctioned, AFAIK.
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  15.  @davidcurry4433  Tyrant is a nonsense term if ever applied to an elected politician. Fake elections, in this regard, don't count. So, Putin IS a tyrant. He's the guy who puts you in prison for 15-years if you state that Russia is at war -- tyranny -- open and shut. You are you currying favor with Putin ?
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  16.  @davidcurry4433  I'll let the courts decide. It's obvious that you've ALREADY tried him -- and found him innocent. AFAIK, he hasn't even been formally charged at court. Instead, mere warrants have been issued. Even a traffic citation is a warrant to appear. The government's case is shaky enough that a solid attorney may have the charges thrown out. Jullian has never answered yea or nay to the charges. Instead, Julian acts all the world like a man with a very guilty mind. But a defendants mental opinion can't convict him. It does say something that Obama wanted his person. He could've easily granted Julian a pardon without justification. Greenwald et. al have made the plea. Trump was just as insistent, as is Biden. Everything points to Julian getting American 'assets' murdered in the field. I'm sure that the government will contend that he abetted such a crime by way of reckless disregard for human life. The 'story' the exposé was more important to him. He's THAT narcissistic. I'd also say that he's figured all of the above out. In British, American and Australian law, manslaughter would be the charge -- and 25-years could be the sentence... depending upon aggravating factors. One factor: Julian has no track record of exposing Putin, his cronies, or the Kremlin. This absolutely kills his 'impartial media status.' Many of his exposés were cut-outs for Russian anti-American agitprop. A lot of the naughty stuff committed by contractors in Iraq could've been prosecuted. But not after Julian went global. He made legal pursuit impossible, for he had 'tried' the perps in the press. This legal standard is exactly why you always hear the Press declaring someone as an ALLEGED perp. Julian didn't adhere to THE conventional legal standard required of the Press: to not prejudice a case, ruin the rights of a defendant. Naturally, now JULIAN wants the right of the defendant protected -- because he's IT. Suddenly, he got religion. Greenwald, et. al defend Julian -- and ignore the body count -- which spans years. Because of Julian, no end of perps have been able to walk free. Instead, the blame for the violent misdeeds of the few are laid across the entire American polity -- if not culture. Moscow is thrilled. One can not doubt that Julian was warned off by the Kremlin lest he get any ideas about exposing its crime family. He obeyed. That harshes his defense.
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  17. Putin's situation is so dire he'll probably lose his throne before January 20. Ukraine now has strategic reach with its drones -- and Russia is a LARGE target-rich nation that has been repeatedly struck.
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  18. It's not Putin -- it's in the nature of Islam. Islam is driving the mullahs -- who ARE the significant voice in the ummah, not Putin.
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  19. Drone warfare has made ALL pre-2022 tanks, APCs, IFVs obsolete. That includes the West's best stuff. A $10,000,000 machine can be easily destroyed by a $2,500 drone and a kid playing a video game.
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  20. No. That's not it. The West can't afford to give Putin what he wants: a Russian crusade against NATO for national survival. For sure, that's how Putin would frame things. Washington, London, et. al have no say in what Kyiv does with its OWN weapons -- the stuff it manufactures. If you recall, Zelenskyy has already attacked Belgorod. (helicopter strike) Kyiv used its own stuff to great effect. Lastly, this war will be decided by Kremlin politics -- as in Putin will be sent packing. Dictators have glass jaws. Il Duce was done in by military reverses. The Tsar was done in by military fiascos. It's historically common. Saddam Hussein was exceptional. 1991 should've done him in.
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  21. Trump has already been president -- and things worked out very, very well. The Jan6 opera was staged by Pelosi. Speaker Johnson's releases are making that very clear.
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  22. Putler is just playing for time -- same as Adolf in 1944. Imagine sending wounded -- not healed -- troops back into the front line. (!!!!!) This is actually happening right now -- videos up on the Web.
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  23. Putin is as a narco-baron -- with plenty of cash -- but no-one will sell to him the stuff he wants. (Banknotes are piling up in his back bedroom.) Putin never bought weapons from the outside. Rather, Russia bought sub-components (microchips and microchip assemblies) to incorporate. His key supplier was Siemens -- and they have cut him off. The equation was simple: sell to America or Russia. What a touch decision that was! Everyone is wasting their energies WRT gas and oil. It's the sanctions -- EMBARGOES -- that are crippling Putin. He wants payment in rubles to force Europeans to begin selling stuff to him -- the stuff he really, really, really needs, of course. But, no European manufacturer is willing to trade away all of their NATO customers to obtain Putin's blessing. Putin's two big tank plants are on hiatus -- shut down -- probably semi-permanently. Their employees were STRONGLY encouraged to enlist in the ranks. (!)
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  24. You've missed the plot Carsten. Putin WANTS NATO to attack Russia. Putin WANTS to take his war all the way up the scale -- to nuclear confrontation with NATO. In such an event, BIDEN would be the key decision maker. (Putin regards France and Britain as atomic jokes. Yeah, he's that crazy.) Shudder at the thought.
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  25.  @timmiller6868  American inflation is largely due to Biden's zany economics. Turkey's insane inflation is entirely due to Erdogan's crazed economic policies. Putin's folly, his rampage, is but a trivial factor... essentially none for the American economy. At a global scale, today's inflation is a consequence of the CCP (bio-warfare) virus. (Yes, it killed its creators... and seems likely to destroy the CCP -- eventually.) [ This is called: 'blow-back.' ] Governments, everywhere, tried to paper over the catastrophe with fiat money. Doing so actually worked. Yet now, we have a global hang-over. All of that fiat floating around has shifted the price structure -- everywhere.
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  26. I don't know how Putin can survive through Christmas. The way things break -- is always faster than anyone can imagine. I give you the Berlin Wall and the end of the Iron Curtain. I give you the Russian Revolutions of 1917 and of 1991. While I did predict the latter -- to the day -- six-months prior -- such insight is rare.
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  27. Europe is too far north for 'renewables' -- her only shot is atomic power. Naturally, for religious purposes, this is the last thing Europeans can accept.
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  28.  @genghisthegreat2034  Totally untrue. Gates has seen the light: windpower is an economic black hole. PV can work -- IF the climate co-operates. But, Germany, et. al are too cloudy. PV is just too sketchy to be economic for Europe. Tidal is pretty consistent. It's just insufficient -- and it's not cheap -- not at all. It also is cyclic -- straight through the day. This will obviously, never change. It'd actually make more sense for Germany, et. al to establish huge solar power farms in North Africa -- and just import energy -- same as oil. Transmuting solar power into hydrogen gas -- if the cost could be made economic -- would be very scalable. Europe's real play is atomic power. The French had it right -- until Hollande opened his big yap. Macron is having to walk-back Hollande's folly... kicking and screaming every step of the way. This is what happens when you let (pagan) religion dictate economic policy. Putting Gaia first has a brutal cost.
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  29. Ukrainian soldiers are hardened, the Russians are in a state of rigor mortis.
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  30.  @rjjcms1 With Trump you're hearing electioneering blather. Famously, FDR ran on reversing Hoover's policies -- across the board. (1932) When in office, FDR double-downed on Hoover's policies. (1933) Popular histories utterly omit his flip -- and the dramatic turn of Democratic policies into Republican policies. Instead, the pop history still is that FDR changed things, which corrected the GOP. In 1932, Hoover was being harangued for spending TOO much Federal money -- for running a deficit. (!) And the primary accuser was FDR. Cute.
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  31.  @rjjcms1 Don't be surprised if it turns out that Trump orders Putin out of Ukraine -- de facto. In a year's time, the Russian army will have been de-fanged... by Putin. The heating crisis -- across all of Russia -- spells revolution come the Spring. Decades ago, I predicted a Soviet revolution in mid-August -- the moment the Gulf War ended. (1991) I predicted Nixon would be driven from office. (May, 1971) Strangely, both things happened. And, you're reading the short version of my spew.
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  32. You're making 'history' up. Please stop. Nixon ended the draft. Period. BTW, the US had MORE draft resistance during WWII than Vietnam. (General Hershey) He ran the system in BOTH wars, BTW. In WWII, resistors got NO publicity. In WWII -- the farm deferment was used and abused; in Vietnam -- the college deferment was used and abused.
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  33. Did she really say 40-generals died ? Last I heard, the count was ~ seven generals.
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  34. But what about Kofi Annan? Saddam bought him.
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  35. Boris Johnson gave Zelenskyy Harpoon missiles more than a month ago -- on paper. No news since. Denmark has given more harpoons, just the other day. Harpoon missiles are delivered from land, sea and air. To drive the Black Sea fleet back into port, the priority must be to modify Sukoi and Mig jets to carry same. Putin's surface fleet has no counter to the Harpoon. The primary ship designed to frustrate the Harpoon lies at the bottom of the Black Sea. I figure that the UNGA will get Turkey to stop Putin's grain exports, and all else, unless Ukraine's grain can transit, too. The straits will still be blocked against military and ordinary cargoes of Ukraine. Putin, with some arm-twisting, will be able to live with such a deal. Mega-starvation will not win him allies in the UNGA.
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  36.  @DragnisThe1st  I've never heard the good news: are they now operational ? If they are, one would think that Sevastopol would be out of business.
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  37. No, electric scooters have already appeared -- on the front line, no less.
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  38. ​ @pynn1000  The word is that Paris now wants ALL of its atomic plants up and running -- PDQ. One a week is too slow. Of course, inter-ties with Italy and Germany already exist. Every Watt France produces can be sold, wholesale or retail. Carbon dioxide is not pollution -- it's gaseous plant fertilizer. About 10% of global crop yields exist because of today's elevated carbon dioxide (partial pressure) in the atmosphere. This is easy to prove in a laboratory setting. NASA figured out the math sixty-years ago. Today's atmosphere is at nearly all time lows for carbon dioxide -- on a geological time scale. Most plant species have died out because they could not compete at today's low partial pressures. They only exist in the fossil record -- usually in coal seams. Carbon dioxide makes up the physicality of all plants. (It's the carbo in carbohydrates.) It is not the source of plant released oxygen. That comes exclusively from water. ( This has been known for seventy-years.) The West is not going to destroy the planet in the short space of time required to get past Putin.
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  39.  @AlessandroTheCynical  Nope. That's working out rather well. When Europe handled things -- look at centuries past -- disaster was at every step. The essence of NATO is that Europe CAN'T handle its own war affairs. The proofs are in history books.
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  40.  @TheDisinformationProjectNz  The invasion and conquest is a Russian project -- orchestrated by a serial murderer, war monger and imperialist-racist. It's played in the key of death.
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  41. She's wholly incorrect WRT North Koreans breaking a barrier. Iran sent ITS technician/officers to Crimea so as to train Russians WRT Shaheed drones... more than a year ago. They were also immediately taken out by long range, precision, strikes. She forgot about that event, obviously.
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  42. American MLRS will terminate Putin's latest battle tactics. They will remove Russian artillery from the battle space, PDQ.
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  43. Ukraine is winning, hands down, its independence from Moscow. As America, Canada, and India can say, independence is no small thing. Nations do rebuild, their populations do recover. At the end, the Russian Empire is destined to go into the dustbin of history. The center cannot hold. Red China will follow to the same end. Tibet, Mongolia, Xinjiang are NOT Han cultures. BTW, northeast Red China belongs in Korea. Have you ever wondered how North Koreans can hide in plain sight in northeast China? Both sides of the Han river speak the same language and are of the same ethnicity. DNA proves it so. Red China has THAT many tongues -- under one written language.
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  44. Rail roads make that distance evaporate. That's why rail roads are the logistical fulcrum of modern war. Putin's invasion is 'culminating.' He's having to slap together BTGs -- now at a fraction of their TO&E -- to get anything done -- at all. His Donbass campaign was supposed to move from Izyum towards the south. Now it's going east-west... the wrong way, really. What the maps don't show, can't show, is that Putin's crew is being bled white. That's why Syrians, Chechens, Wagner, et. al are in the soup.
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  45.  @JamesC785  Putin's crew breaks through -- and stops -- same as that of Stalin. This points to a crippled logistical arm. Now that Putin is crossing rivers aplenty, things can't get better. I have little doubt that the UA is not leaving any functioning rail bridges or switch yards. Of the latter, all seem to be battlefields. Putin has to destroy the very asset he's wanting. If the West were to up-grade Zelenskyy's air force with smart bombs, Putin would be in a world of hurt. He HAS TO supply his boys via rail: he has no where near enough trucks. The rail bridge at the Isthmus of Perekop is just begging for attention. (Forget the Kerch Bridges.)
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  46.  @JamesC785  There is a rail bridge there just begging to be dropped. There is no technical reason that the Migs that Zelenskyy has couldn't haul smart bombs to the target. Some of the latest don't even need cockpit instrumentation. Just preload the required GPS co-ordinates -- and drop. (The preload would be performed before take-off.) The latest stuff does not even require a pilot to fly all that close to the target. From altitude, the bomb will simply slide over -- and go boom. The West could supply Zelenskyy with self-homing air-to-air missiles. I can't believe that some sort of modification can't be engineered on the fly by the West. (Blue Tooth from Mig to missile ?)
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  47.  @JamesC785  There are two exits from Crimea heading north into Ukraine. The one to the east features a railroad bridge. The traditional route into Crimea is to the west. This is the one used during WWII by both Nazis and Bolsheviks. At its closest, it runs about 7kM wide. (from memory) The railroad bridge is pretty modern -- ie post WWII -- (IIRC) and was without a doubt what fed the RA during the first months down south. Once the UA gets close enough, howitzer fires at the Isthmus of Perekop would drive Putin nuts. To stop such a thing, the 58th CAA keeps getting reinforcements. Zelenskyy is also ramping up his troop numbers -- especially to the west of the lower Dnieper. Should Putin ever clear the Donbass, you just know that the Big Push will move to the 58th CAA. This can't happen if the rail grid to the east is systematically disrupted.
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  48. During WWII, Spits & FW190s constantly upped their specs. The dynamic is remarkable, even now. FPV drones are locked in the same tango. BTW, the boys at the front complain (Telegram) that EW defense emissions are in conflict friendly offensive FPV drones to such a degree that 85% are lost! There is simply no co-ordination between the defense and the offense. This situation is exactly why the Donbas is in peril. Now you know.
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  49. True enough. However, NATO is not stirring up Franco-phone Africa -- stealing gold -- and inciting military juntas at every turn.
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  50. Red China is in MORE debt trouble than any other power. Joe Blogs, China Uncensored goes into the facts. The numbers are terrifying.
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