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

duncan smith Putin has declared that he wants the Russian Empire back.
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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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Lord Dannatt is nuts. The war will continue until Putin is GONE. There is no negotiating with Putin. Same as was true for Napoleon and Adolf. Putin is NOT for stopping. As for pulling out: Kyiv has already told the world that an ordered withdrawal has been ordered.
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Russia is not a 'terrorist state.' It's a BARBARIAN state. In its original, (French Revolutionary meaning) 'terrorism' was practiced by Napoleon and Coy against French civilians. It's NOT a creation of anarchist, non-state, actors. Putin, Adolf, Stalin, et al, practice BARBARIANISM. They drive totally degenerate societies that are utterly lawless -- which carries on beyond their nationally recognized borders, infamously so.
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Bill is -- fundamentally -- wrong. Russia is folding up -- as I type -- due to real world sanctions -- not financial sanctions. 1) The Russian national railroad has lost 20% of its rolling stock because sanctions have thwarted routine maintenance. 2) Putin has been forced to re-engineer -- backwards -- to 1970s military tech -- because he can't get imported chips. This is underway, currently. 3) The micro-chip sanctions mean that Putin can't replace the smart weapons (Kalibur) when they are used. Putin's (still huge) war chest means that financial sanctions will not have any meaningful effect for twelve-months. He only needs (Western) money if he's trading with the West. Sanctions by the West mean that his money hunger has evaporated. Now, Putin only needs money to feed Red China... by far his largest counter-trading partner. Internally, Putin can crank out fiat currency to suit demand -- mostly -- his. The ruble is disconnected with all hard currencies, already.
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Russia coughs up Putin's so-called gains when Putin is demoted. The geopolitical 'logic' advanced in this video belongs in the 19th Century. Russia is losing its tuchas -- strategically. Moscow is becoming a vassal of Beijing by way of Putin's project. Napoleon and Adolf proved that you can conquer astounding amounts of turf -- and not hang on to any of it. Putin is in a bind: he dares not call up levée en masse. That would end his regime. His deceptions would be exposed. Right now, Putin's resorted down to tricking Russians into volunteering. That gambit can't really scale up -- well. For a polity in demographic free-fall, Russia can't afford any casualties -- at all. As for equipment, Putin is putting 60-year old tanks (T-62s) back into military service. (!!!)
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Heads-up: the M-R Pact was a contract for war... nothing like what Putin & Xi had in mind. Yeltsin gave the game away: He, in front of the whole world's press, coughed up the documents. The ENTIRE idea sprang from the Bolsheviks: They would induce the idiot to attack west -- while they would scoop up the east. Finland, Poland -- ( just pieces) the Baltics, and more, all fell into Stalin's hands -- well before Adolf moved west. Remember? Adolf was supposed to burn himself out -- WW1 2.0 -- and then Stalin was supposed to waltz in the back door... All the way to Portugal, in fact. But in 1940, France & Coy collapsed. So, by 1941, Adolf swung east, using no END of French military gear, BTW. Oops. ( Start with trucks & trains. )
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Lie4052 -- NATO members have standardized their ammo -- going way back -- because of logistics. The 'training' pitch is just a political whitewash. Everything from HIMARS on over is EASIER to use than ever. Example: three centuries ago, a musket required over forty-steps to reload. Today, one throws in a clip. This type of advance occurs across the board in EVERY weapon system. HIMARS uses touch screens to aim and fire -- from the cab. It's reloaded by the 'clip' -- ie pod. Caesar and the others use tiny crews. Sophistication is only required by the repair crews -- not the warrior crews. As I type, the UA is gutting Putin's ammo dumps... spectacularly so. The USA is spooling up its idled ammo plants. These are enormous -- and the US has dozens. Their shells must travel by ship.
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The terror is INTERNAL revolution.
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The boys so 'mobilized' will be given chit tasks in the army. For them, the RA will be a prison without walls... a total nightmare.
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Because it wouldn't stop there -- and because a military reverse is quite likely to be the end of Putin.
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@eugenmalatov5470 Diplomatic pressure will resolve grain shipments. Putin is infuriating the entire 3rd World. Kyiv doesn't need the money. America has its back, billions in general government to government aid mean that Zelenskyy is solvent without shipping a kernel. The losers are those hoping to eat this Winter. Ukraine can't possibly exhaust its manpower. Zelenskyy has a 5:1 manpower edge -- right now. And he's just getting started. His problem is not men -- it still is equipment. He needs so much that it HAS to come by ship -- from America. No other power on Earth has the amounts (with quality) that Zelenskyy needs. If Trump were president - everything would be flowing like a river. But Biden is a go-along guy. Putin knows this -- everyone knows it. It's WHY Putin attacked. Putin is counting on Biden to flake out like Scholz and Macron -- certified flakes -- both of them. Putin's problem is that he has gotten everything wrong. The Pentagon is now in charge. Congress has ALREADY opened the flood-gate with Lend-Lease. Biden is just going to step back and go with the flow -- same as he's always done. Biden is a 'reasoning' politician -- read that to mean 'calculating' politician. This is EXACTLY the kind of pol that Putin loves to play with. Trump was, and remains, quite unpredictable -- and un-bribe-able -- just too damn rich. No wonder the Beltway hates his guts. It's also why Putin was afraid of Trump. One thing you can predict: the GOP will impeach Biden in 2023 -- if nothing else -- to return the insults visited upon Trump. Am I the only one to note the revolving doors at the top of the G7? If Putin could do it -- he would be doing it.
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Where in the world have you been hearing THAT ? I haven't heard anyone predicting imminent collapse -- except Western generals WRT Ukraine. Boy, were they wrong !
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@Irishprice1 Nope. You're out of date. Further, Kyiv high command is in constant communication with London and Washington. Half of all GMLRS coordinates are coming down from satellites... the rest from partisan finks. The West now acknowledges Ukrainian artillery to be at the front rank of professionalism... teaching even the Pentagon some tricks. The Ukrainians are also world-class 'drone artists.' Their Soviet era kit is being burned out by usage... replaced by NATO standard heavy weapons. This is what happened during the Kharkiv Counter-Offensive.
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Xi's role has been that of backdoor chips.
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@a.brekkan4965 It's PUTIN who guarantees victory -- for Ukraine -- he's THAT bad. Like Adolf, he's calling the big shots.
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Another non-scientist blathering on about atomic reactors and what can go wrong.
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@keithroy9217 Yep. That stuff must be ancient.
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@peace-now Putin still has totally unrealistic -- and rather unlimited -- goals. He still can't bear to negotiate with Zelenskyy as, ipso facto, he'd be recognizing Ukraine as a nation state. THAT'S why Putin can't negotiate... can't pick-up Zelenskyy's phone call. Putin has cornered himself in a diplomatic box of his own making. We're not looking at a stalemate. Instead, a 'whimpering culmination' is directly at hand. BTW, as the war goes on, Putin is losing his spies and agents within Ukraine -- at an alarming tempo to Putin. Some of these traitors must have the IQ of a bread box. They've been using their cell phones to link to their masters. Such dolts don't even need interrogation. Their phone records are damning -- and proof of treason.
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@khiem1939 Follow the news. He didn't. The trick missiles were never part of the deal. The basic package is going ahead, of course. The word is that the first machines have already arrived in theater.
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