Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "Russian forces close in on Kyiv as Ukraine prepares for all-out assault" video.

  1.  Earth Extremities  Absurd. The Russians are using very long range weapons. The fight is occurring entirely outside the range of most small arms... for obvious reasons.
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  2.  @usaisnojoke  Putin has announced that he's on track to rebuild the USSR -- complete. To do so he'll have to invade NATO nations. Wake up.
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  3. But they are doing terribly. Mud is now at hand. This will terminate all military mobility -- other than infantry.
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  4.  @IvanPlayStation4LiFe  No. The footage was, and remains, 'geo-located.' It's the real deal. The Ukrainian Army shot up the regimental commander -- killed him. THAT'S why the troops turned around. The footage all came from a drone with a TV camera -- in perfect position and weather. This footage has gone worldwide. You're obviously the last to know the truth.
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  5.  @commonsense8632  Kiev openly admits that they can't get info from Mariupol. Losses there must be stiff. As a general policy, Kiev has NEVER released its own casualty stats. So where in the world did you conjure up the idea that "...only 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died?" For Ukraine, the pain is hugely from civilian fatalities. Putin is deliberately attacking residential high rise towers. These are EMOTIONAL attacks designed to bait Western politicians into jumping into 'Putin's stew.' Putin is desperate to re-frame his invasion as Russia versus NATO. He WANTS NATO intervention to unify Russians behind his folly. The emotionally laden attacks/ atrocities are designed with this intent. To KGB man, attacking a maternity hospital thus makes absolutely perfect sense. He is NOT allowing reality to reach the average Ivan.
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  6.  @Zinger3030  The defenders do not want to concentrate their troops -- which would then trigger massed Russian artillery fires. Putin's boys are destined to suffer ten-thousand cuts. Some of the Ukrainian ambushes don't figure to involve more than a squad or two. The Russians are romping around -- punching air.
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  7.  @markscouler2534  He has very, very, very few supersonic bombers. Every one is tasked with atomic warfare.
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  8.  @IvanPlayStation4LiFe  Red China will lose oceanic access if the CCP crosses the line. Inevitable mass starvation will cause the CCP to be overthrown. For a Russian, that figures to be a good thing.
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  9.  @IvanPlayStation4LiFe  Without the world ocean? Nope.
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  10.  @commonsense8632  12,000 KIA seems high. Maybe a rotten translation is to blame. I estimate that 25,000 Russian troops have been lost to all causes: KIA Wounded MIA Desertion Lost Captured... etc. I'm figuring that desertions are much higher than most -- because they, the deserters, don't want to be counted/ discovered. But any army loaded with conscripts is going to have a lot of desertions. In the American Civil War, entire battalions deserted... more than once. In American histories of the war, these naughty details are omitted in popular accounts. My estimate is based on the historical norm: 1% per day for troops committed to active offensive operations. And this invasion would rate as 100% active in the eyes of military statisticians. (The Russians are not digging fox holes... whereas the Ukrainians are.) 1% per day would be deemed light casualties, BTW. I now hear that Putin has canned eight generals -- and that the Ukrainians have killed three generals leading at the front. (snipers) Generals only go to the tip of the spear to fix critical problems. To lose three in such a short period of time is raising eyebrows in the West.
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  11.  @foreveralone4588  Ukraine was never Russia. Ukraine is actually the mother country of the Slavs, Kiev its ancient capital. Moscow is a young pup by comparison. For centuries, Moscow was where the hicks lived. It was during the Mongol period that Kiev was repressed// largely destroyed permitting Moscow to rise in importance. (Back in the day, the Dnieper was far more important to trade than the Volga. The Norse sent their boats down that river, and others, so that the Baltic Sea coast could trade with Constantinople. It was they that named the land 'Rus' -- in a back-handed way. They, themselves, were the 'Rus' -- and they married into the Slavic bloodline, establishing the first polity at the Kiev rapids of the Dnieper. The locals then termed it the land of the Rus, of course. Their burial goods have been researched by Moscow professors -- and all the rest. )
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  12.  @thepulseofuniverse  But Putin's government is the source of this news. Now what ?
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  13. Putin is desperate to re-frame his war as that against America, against NATO. He hopes that the average Ivan will buy it. He keeps selling it, too. The talking heads/ idiots can't seem to grasp this.
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  14. About the Migs. Everyone is talking around the essence. Putin is desperate to have his invasion of choice to be re-framed as Russia fighting off NATO. THAT'S what transferring Migs would permit. Their impact on the flow of the fight (~30 machines) figures to be trivial. Mig 29s are also an OFFENSIVE weapon. That's why they were ever designed. Air defense is a secondary role for them. (Mig 29s are the Soviet version of America's F-15 Eagle.)
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