Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "Russian missiles strike 'safe haven' in Lviv | Breaking" video.

All male citizens have been drafted into the Ukrainian defense... even if they have no weapon. These are the guys filling sand bags, etc. Prisoners of whom? If you mean convicts released/ impressed into (hazardous) military service -- say so.
4
@JollyPirateAhoy The US Army found out in WWII, Korea and Vietnam -- officers give themselves away by their actions and orders. In "Forest Gump" the Lt has to order Gump to stop saluting himself. The Russian generals forgot to issue such orders. (There is no getting around the hub-bub that surrounds an army general -- in any army.) Oops. Famously, O'Connor ( North Africa, 1941) was caught because his troops reflexively saluted him -- even when he was out of uniform. He'd switched to that of a doctor's. This was re-used in "Master and Commander" as a plot element. Movie goers were not told of the history of this ruse.
2
The UN only records bodies that its own people have bagged and tagged. The UN does not tally any other way. Those dead in Mariupol are not in the UN stats, etc.
2
America will bury Putin in paperwork.
2
@donnawoods8039 The metrics required for invasion success are not happening for Putin. It really is that simple. As 1941 showed, a defender can lose a LOT (Kiev pocket) and then keep on fighting. As Stalingrad showed, an invader can not lose big (6th Army) and ultimately prevail.
2
@aiverneverminder Helicopters would pick them off, then. But the real key is that Russian troops are entirely outside the range of small arms. Drones have entirely replaced troops atop buildings as the eyes of modern militaries. You're stuck in the 20th Century.
2
Put down the bong.
1
At this point, Putin has a new strategy: staying alive.
1
NATO membership is, as ever, a non-issue. Zelenskyy has abandoned the idea -- quite some time back. When Putin pitched his war to Russia, he never brought NATO up. Instead. he pitched the idea that Ukraine doesn't really exist as a nation. Lenin created it out of whole cloth, Putin asserted.
1
Buddy, Ukraine was invaded by Putin. There's no spinning that truth. What a lame try.
1
He's set the stage for the end of Putin -- with no small help from Putin, himself. As the defending army, Putin must come to Zelenskyy. Moscow is not being bombed, shelled. That's not even in the cards. Everyone can see that but Putinistas.
1
Putin is down four generals at last count. Snipers picked off some of them.
1
DU are less radioactive than natural uranium, itself pretty harmless. You have to EAT the stuff to suffer. It's an alpha emitter. Your skin or a piece of paper stops alpha particles. So, you're an idiot.
1
@adamfernandez3701 Putin rubbled Syria. Period. Afghanistan and Iraq simply never were rubbled. Period. Afghanistan, Iraq ==> no air force city bombing. Mosul, etc., were cleared by infantry and Marines... house to house. The enemy did manage to blow up a lot of stuff, I'll grant you that.
1
He's usually filmed walking the streets of Kyiv. Work on your propaganda.
1
The only army hiring mercenaries is that of Putin. Kyiv can't afford them. Kyiv can't even equip its volunteers and draftees.
1
@chronosschiron Way up from nothing as far as Kyiv goes. Mercs require a wealthy patron. Kyiv is certainly not well heeled. When Zelenskyy comes into money -- he soon spends it on munitions. Bodies, he's got.
1
Donbass was grabbed by Putin's proxy army in 2014. Both sides have been tossing bullets ever since.
1
@daveh322 There is no such thing as the petro-dollar. Decades ago the US made a deal with KSA to allow that kingdom to deposit their winnings/ sales proceeds in vast amounts into the US Treasury market -- WITHOUT having their assets exposed to the world. The fact that international oil sales have been long priced in International Money is still true and will remain true. The ONLY change that KSA might make is if the kingdom decides to accumulate Red China's debt instruments instead of those of America, Britain, Germany (Euro) and Japan. It is totally unnecessary to use US dollars to buy Saudia Oil. The trading desk will merely use the current value of this or that currency versus the US dollar to come up with such an exchange. Then, in an instant, the other currency is swapped -- electronically -- into US dollars and the deal is done. KSA wants its cash to be held in US dollars -- and not much else. These can always be exchanged into any other currency without paying much of a haircut. As weak as the US dollar is, it's still stronger than most of the world's fiat currencies. Further, for the volumes involved, the US dollar barely moves even with huge transactions. That's simply not the case with other currencies. Such is the real nature of markets, of financial reality. For Red China to emit yuan it must accept massive commodities imports. Oil would certainly qualify. But, on the whole, Beijing is NOT interested in issuing a reserve currency. To do so, Red China must be willing to see a strong rise in unemployment. Spit those words out. A rise in unemployment is taboo in Red China. It imperils the CCP's mandate of governance. KSA would have to accept a currency that is managed in the market by the CCP. It would have to accept Communist court judgments. The CCP could zero-out KSA's assets at a stroke -- to suit the Party. You might note that no nation is willing to accept Red Chinese debt as 'good money.' All trade with Red China has to be collaterallized by real money. That's why Red China has accumulated so much US Treasury debt. It's become pledge money to sustain Red Chinese exports -- and IMPORTS.
1
@Matthew_85k It, the conversion, happens every second of every trading day. I didn't emphasize the Big Deal in Nixon's day. All ordinary holders of US Treasury debt are subject to exposure, per US regs. Nixon -- with his authority -- cut the Kingdom's holdings out of this regulation. No Congressman or Big Media mouth can obtain the Kingdom's US Treasury position. Period. THAT'S the provision that has talking idiots babbling on about the petro-dollar. The King, in his day, decided that the USA, and its debt, were the only suitable place to park his kingdom's wealth. Early in, his US Treasury purchases were epic. Gradually, the Kingdom obtained top flight financial counsel... and started spending and investing with considerable sophistication. When oil prices dropped, the Kingdom's immense stash of US Treasuries certainly came in handy. Red China simply does not manufacture the kind of high tech// leading edge stuff that the West does. Now imagine the hair-cut that the Kingdom would have to pay when they move to liquidate yuan to buy industrial anythings from the West. Red China doesn't produce ANYTHING for oil production. America really has a quasi-monopoly across the entire field. Still. (America invented the oil industry.)
1
@yan2503 No. From history. Putin's invasion force is about 20% of the size required by historical norms. It's short on infantry trained in urban warfare... in a major way. That's why Mariupol has turned into a fiasco. For its defenders, each building is an Alamo.
1
@lfreeman7124 An invasion is an invasion. Period. Putin's gone Adolf. He burned down diplomacy. The Free World has cut him off financially and commercially, and not without reason. That takes some sinning.
1
@EmperorFist323 Active war zones are unworkable for arms merchants. Everything changes after a war. Arms dealers need to buy cheap and sell dear. Free weapons from the West have ruined sales to Kyiv. It's impossible to buy weapons from a citizenry at war. That much should be obvious to even a True Believer such as yourself.
1
@vivianp5962 No military force in history desires a hospital as a fortress. Try again. And then, what of the weeping mothers ? Try again.
1
Would YOU leave all of your possessions ? I didn't think so. Why did Putin aim his army at single family homes ? The Ukrainians are not using SFH as forts. They have no military utility whatsoever. You won't find soldiers attacking tanks from a house. ATGMs have to be fired while outside a building -- any and all buildings.
1
@plotni4ek No, that's what the Russians have been filmed doing. Russians have even shot down civilian guys with their hands up.
1
@balabay77 The US Army never directed mass artillery fires into Baghdad. Knock it off with your alternate history.
1
@olliefoxx7165 Putin wants NATO; Putin needs escalation. That's why Biden is so wary. Putin is desperate for his war to be re-framed as Russia versus NATO. But, the West won't bite.
1
@olliefoxx7165 Putin believes in escalating to de-escalate. He's done so forever. He has 'read' Biden and figures that ol' Joe will surely blink at the atomic level. That's where Putin figures to take all of us. Biden is a reasoning (calculating) politician. Trump was not. That's why Putin stayed away from crossing swords with Trump. Ol' Joe is a dream come true for Putin. Kabul told Putin exactly what he wanted to believe.
1
@bobjones-bt9bh No stats from Mariupol. UN stats only cover what UN inspectors have explicitly seen and then counted. The suffering, all the way around, is far above the stats now kicking around the Internet.
1
It's a wartime expedient. Ukrainians -- even if Russian is their first language -- can speak Ukrainian. Russian soldiers but rarely can speak Ukrainian. So the edict is a sweet way of identifying invading saboteurs. And such players ARE being caught all of the time. The Soviets famously sent deep recon troops to fight the Nazis in WWII. Their role was to radio back with intel about German military dispositions. The Russians are still working this gambit... and the Ukrainians know all about it. They were in WWII, too.
1