Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "Russian forces claim victory in key eastern Ukraine city of Severodonetsk" video.

  1.  @philiphall4805  But with what army ? Putin has been stopped by Ukraine, not the US, not the UK. Napoleon and Adolf looked quite unstoppable. They were stopped. The world is looking at naked aggression. What are you looking at ?
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  2. Actually, Putin's invasion is falling apart even with the trickle of war goods that the West is pulling out of warehouses. Figure on America's stuff being largely flown across the Atlantic, landing west of Ukraine, to be train borne the rest of the way.
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  3. The mines don't last. They have an expiration date. This is deliberate. They float to the surface when they expire, making them easy peasy to deal with. Video has already been uploaded showing the UA doing exactly that. The early batches are now coming ashore at Odessa.
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  4. Politics has to be done in person. Duh.
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  5.  @jetblakink  Guilt tripping, not money, is her angle. The Press is her ally. A nation that resents Polish plumbers will tolerate women and children.
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  6. Whoops. The announcement has already been made. Figure on the American MLRS to be flown to Europe. I'd rather expect Boris to float a few over from Britain, too.
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  7.  @laurencesmith2199  Ammo has been making it to the front all along. WWII proved that it's practically impossible to knock out a railroad. Repairs happen so quickly. Ukraine's rail grid (that counts) is far outside the range of artillery -- even rocket artillery. Putin has to use the really expensive stuff to target deep into Ukraine. And such weapons are not in great supply. Closer to the front, the stuff is just moved around in everything from trucks to backpacks. You laugh, but in WWII, the Soviets famously forced every soldier to hump a 76mm artillery shell along with the rest of his kit as he marched to the front. Yes, this system worked. The scary thing about the US Army's MLRS is that it was designed from the ground up to destroy Soviet conventional tube artillery. It showed to the Iraqis, decades ago, that it sure does its job well. After the first volleys, the boys just fled, en masse -- officers, too. Within two-weeks, the RA will not be able to use most of its artillery. With no infantry, no tanks, no APCs, and no artillery -- Putin will no longer be able to push west. The UA will simply infiltrate at night, and then the RA will begin to crack.
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  8. Baron, put down the bong. Putin is the aggressor. Putin turned down all diplomacy.
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  9. Papito -- let's go with: Russia is being bleed white. Cut the silly 'Russia is winning' narrative.
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  10. Brandon, let's go, then.
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  11. US weapons need Biden's okay. He's not a fast thinker. It's as simple as that.
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  12. Putin has long listed his conditions for victory. They have ALL gone sideways. Victory is now IMPOSSIBLE for Putin. Napoleon and Adolf conquered large -- but absolutely no-one would surrender to them. Unending war can never be deemed victory. Putin is now fighting in Ukraine -- to simply stay in office in Russia. All other objectives are out the window.
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  13.  @holy3lions323  Good grief -- at all times -- all commanders always beg for more stuff. That doesn't stop just because the boys are winning, losing, or anything in between. Duh.
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  14.  @Backpacker8381  Utterly false and long disproved allegations. The whole Donbass dust-up was a KGB/FSB op from the first. It was so blatant that even the idiots in the MSM spotted it at the time -- and commented upon it. The scheme sprang out of the KGB manual. Heck, the Azov Battalion was launched by the KGB. Again, this gambit sprang from the KGB manual of dark arts. Central reasoned that it is most unwise to let your enemies organize opposition. It's much better for the KGB to organize the opposition -- so that Moscow has a puppet enemy. This gambit is exactly how the Reds defeated the Whites a century ago. The Bolsheviks had penetration agents high up inside every White anti-Communist grouping. Something like this was in the plot of Stalag 17. 'Security' (Price) was running the opposition to the Krauts from day one. So no-one ever questioned his bona fides. Today, no-one questions the origins of the Azov battalion and its over-the-top Nazi ethos. Well, any analyst knowing the KGB, would know that the Azov boys are its creature. They've been waiting all this time as a straw-enemy so that Putin can light them up. Darth Putin, Mr. KGB, has been running them all along, Sith style. The goons in the ranks are clueless about all of this. Were you?
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  15. Not really. There is not enough wheat to go around -- globally. THAT'S the problem.
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  16. @AOD_AnkGrooger Nope. Because of Putin's blockade. No mine field ever set lacks a door. But that transit point is kept top secret. See how that works? The mines only frustrated Putin's Black Sea fleet, never Ukraine's commercial shipping.
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  17. Zelenskyy DIDN'T go to war. War came to him. Duh.
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  18.  @Twister743  George Soros financed the Orange Revolution. How can you not know that? The CIA couldn't organize a church social -- with plenty of historical examples to prove that assertion. Soros has a hard-on for Moscow -- ever since he fled Hungary in 1956 -- right ahead of Soviet tanks. France and Germany blocked ANY possibility for Ukraine to enter NATO. Putin knew that every step of the way. They told him so. The idea that Ukrainians repressed Russian speakers is a BS propaganda line straight from Moscow. It's totally false.
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  19.  @fidelistq  You feed them, they will birth. Oxfam is a self-licking ice cream cone.
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  20. Egypt, et. al, are going to take their case to the UN. The UNGA is going to pressure Turkey to block Russian exports until Ukraine's exports flow, too. Grain exports have no bearing on the war -- its outcome -- even its financing. This is strictly a humanitarian issue.
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  21. A floating mine = an expired mine. It's a design feature. Floaters are expected. They are easy-peasy to disarm, BTW.
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  22. Portugal, and the others, have been supplying humanitarian aid; fire trucks -- ambulances -- the works. They have an empty cupboard when it comes to military aid. The associated publicity is not usually shown in the Big Countries.
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