Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "Retired general makes prediction about Putin's plan in Ukraine" video.

@saattlebrutaz You should expect World War One 2.0 -- a century later. FYI, WWI 1.0 was the first war utterly dominated by artillery -- even more than the machine gun. This was the war wherein indirect fire from howitzers totally changed the face of war. A LOT of young (artillery) officers made their bones in WWI -- so that they became the Top Brass in WWII. You'd be shocked as to the stats. Their brains went reeling when panzers rolled through artillery preparations, of course. WWI also featured a TOTAL disconnect between the generals on high and the men of battle. Kubrick high-lighted this in "Paths of Glory" -- a four-star film. I must recommend it. For then, you'll understand the Russian Army of today. Smart ATGMs, and all the rest, have totally up-ended WWII tactics. But the Russian Army is hide-bound to WWII tactics ! This tic is so pronounced that the Ukrainians are in the Russian mind so deep that they know what's coming -- even before the Russians can dream it up. Another reason for Kyiv's success: the UK and US. I'm speaking of military strategy and tactics. Kyiv not only has bright generals, it also has a back-bench of bright Western officers to bounce their ideas by. In contrast, Xi can offer Putin absolutely no military-intellectual aid.
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@rsmith6366 The West's intelligence services had Putin's plan nailed to the wall. I knew that Putin was certain to invade -- 2-18-22 -- because he gave a 'tell.' But the talking-heads missed the 'tell.'
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@rsmith6366 Yet, I was convinced. Putin gave away a 'tell.' It's an odd one that never fails. [I'm also the kid that thought Nixon was headed for doom -- in the Spring of 71. I was three-years ahead of reality. (I submitted a White Paper laying out Nixon's most probable destiny. Yeah, even I was stunned that every single thing I predicted came true, and in sequence.)] What did Putin do ? What was his 'tell' ? You're pretty smart, so I'm going to give you the floor. What did Putin do, in front of the whole world, that ALWAYS correlates to war, proximate? (Yet no talking-head ever focused on it, then, or later, ... not even now.) Another hint: his invasion was delayed by 48-hours. It was supposed to go off 22-2-22. Cute, no ? He had to settle for annexing the turf he conquered back in 2014 in a national speech. BTW, Putin's crew DID know about it, invasion imminent -- but was powerless to stop their owner. He held a confab to lay it all out -- and pre-blame them for his decision. Naturally, he had the rite video-taped. [Weirdly, he was merely repeating Adolf's confabs with his own generals, notably when he laid out why Poland just HAD to be absorbed.]
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@rsmith6366 BTW, the White House has been lying to the Press since at least FDR.
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@vg9137 The Soviets built atomic-war command super-bunkers all over the USSR. Moscow's is the largest; it's legendary. It has its own subway to the airport -- and very much more. The following cities ALL have Soviet super-bunkers: Kyiv, Odessa, Kharkiv, Mariupol, Minsk, Saratov, Volgograd, St. Petersburg... on and on the list goes. Zelenskyy is operating his government from its super-bunker. Like Churchill, he only comes up, from time to time. (Churchill's super-bunker complex has only been revealed on video 60-years after its use.) The West, largely, did not follow suit -- though the number of atomic bunkers in American cities was quite huge. They were not (usually) built to super-bunker standards. The Mariupol super-bunker was sited underneath the steel works -- since it already had a massive concrete floor -- and since no-one would notice weird new construction (dirt removed) for a plant that never stopped building. THIS is why Putin rides uneasy over Mariupol. His crew can't stop the Ukrainian Army from sallying forth from the command bunker. This bunker is not to be corn fused with the hovels that the civilians are crawling out from. The Soviets never designed their Bolshevik bunkers for the hoi polloi. The civilians, in their thousands, simply overwhelmed the super-bunker that the Soviets built for their elites. Yet so much food had been stored there that refugees are showing up with PETS in good health. In 1941-1942 -- all pets were eaten during Nazi sieges. Putin knows that any pretense that he's conquered Mariupol rings hollow within his own army. Like the SS in Warsaw, 79-years ago, they are afraid to enter. As for the refugees, they must feel like they're in a 'Matrix' sequel.
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@SaturnusDK Samsonite -- you're on target. Keep in mind that Putin has hundreds, if not thousands, of radioactively wounded troops. He had them trenching in 'The Red Forest.' (!!!) I am certain that the rumor mill has spread this tale far and wide inside the Russian Army. BTW, the Soviets built endless super-bunkers during the Cold War in anticipation of atomic bombardment. These were constructed on an epic scale not normally seen in the West. (Switzerland, Yugoslavia are exceptions. ) There is a super-bunker under the steel works, under Kyiv, under Odessa, under Kharkiv, under Moscow, under Minsk.... Big as the one in Mariupol is, it is not big enough to hold tens-of-thousands of ordinary folk. These are the people you see on video. But it does have: a power supply, water supply, a food stash, bunk-beds -- the works -- for the Bolshevik elites. These bunker assets are NOT being revealed to the International Press. Zelenskyy's government is being run from Kyiv's super-bunker, of course. (Churchill ran his government from a super-bunker that even extended under the Thames.)
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@caliph20 The Russians were a minor factor in Syria. The other players: FSA, Assad, ISIS, Iran, KSA, USA, Jordan, Turkey, Israel.... Putin showed up way late in Syria's civil war. It was the Iranians that led the fight. And Syria is STILL in flux.
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Spider seems to think that Putin can keep coming on -- while his (war) economy is destroyed... while his army is destroyed. Xi and the CCP are already peeling away from Putin. Zelenskyy already has a larger army than Putin -- for he declared levée en masse right from the start. Putin can't even keep his tank factories running -- for lack of German imports. Putin has a micro-chip crisis, too. His weapons are getting dumber every day.
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