Comments by "Sean Cidy" (@seancidy6008) on "HistoryLegends" channel.

@callumaan No surprise they are slow to get even their brutish mass effect act together, It took them 4 years to get back what the Germans took in 4 months.
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Yevgeny Prigozhin was coked out of his skull in Bakhmut. The president of Belarus said as much.
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Taiwan does not claim to be independent of China, which has said if- Taiwan makes a unilateral declaration of independence then it will be invaded. So it is up to Taiwan what happens.
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The centre of gravity of Russia's attack is flitting unpredictably along the front. Meanwhile Ukraine's best equipped mobile units are ensconced in the forests of Kursk.
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The German air force failed to destroy or even target in a determined way the mole in Dunkirk harbour that the bulk of the Expeditionary Force embarked from. This was because Germans failed to understand its importance. In the Battle of Britain, the Germans failed to comprehend the importance of the radar masts which were very vulnerable. The Germans had a unit of fighters with 1000lb bombs trained for precision strikes. They also had drop tanks that would have enabled them reach many of the masts and destroy the whole system. Most of the pilot losses During the Battle of Britain were lost on attacks of the invasion barges in the Channel ports. I agree that the Hitler was mainly concerned with conquering Russia and for that he needed to fool Stalin that Britain was Germany's priority. I'd go so far as to say the Battle of Britain was largely a deception operation. People forget that after Hallifax declined the premiership, effective choosing Churchill to lead the country, Chamberlain still had the allegiance of most Tory MPs and in Cabinet under Churchill, Chamberlain was extremely bellicose toward Germany.
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If I remember rightly, quite late in the video the Mail's guy did differentiate between Wagner's trained soldiers and their raw convicts. He said the convicts (being expendable) were sent first to draw fire, thereby enabling pinpointing of Ukrainian strongpoints for artillery strikes, presumably by recce drones. Actual Wagner troops moved forward afterward. It is surely unlikely that the convicts who had about a month of training mainly devoted to acclimatizing them to being outside 24/7, could be considered useful as replacements for a casualty in a squad of seasoned combat infantry. Many jobs in a squad a s rather specialised I understand this is part 1 of a reaction video but what the Mail says later about the way the convicts were utilized makes sense.
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Prigozhin in Ukraine went the way of Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, except Kurtz was not coked out of his skull. Lukashenko's account of the conversation with Prigozhin before he ended the mutiny makes it clear, to me at least, he was high. And so were Prigozhin minions (Wagnerian commanders). The excons who died in their tens of thousands in Bakhmut were moveing as iff in molasses wile under shellfire, so likely given drugs be fore going 'over the top', in much the same way as in the WW1 British army a tot of super alcoholic Navy rum was issued
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Four years later things suddenly changed as German soldiers became convinced that victory was impossible and decided they were not willing to continue fighting an a lost cause. Troops advancing get a a tremendous morale boost that makes them valiant in attack.
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The Russian command are not trying for maneuver breakthroughs, or to close pincers on a caldron. No, they are 100% attritionist; moving at the speed artillery and its requisite ammunition can be moved forward.
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It is a greenscreen, he is in a luxury Dubai penthouse..
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Too much of Special Forces fanfaronade. Battle hardened tends to mean less naïvely obeying orders. The US and it European minions could not keep giving at the rate they were in July if they wanted a stalemate, which they do want. They stop Ukraine collapsing, but supplying the wherewithal to drive Russia back to the Feb 23 start point would be extremely risky. Russia is unlikely to accept it had to stay conventional in those circumstances, and Ukrainian concentrations for offensives would be a tempting target for a battlefield nuke.
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Russia is a superpower essentially equivalent to the US in thermonuclear ICBMs. That is why NATO are scared they may help Ukraine too much. Russia giving up is the US objective.
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The cost of the war to the West is not much because Ukraine is being given barely enough to keep them in it. Peace with reconstruction of Ukraine and policing the demiliterised zone will be extortionate.
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Maneuver warfare's bold operational advances just do not work when the the opponent is omniscient due to US surveillance capabilities. Back to WW1 stormtroop style tactical snail's pace advances that do not count on surprise.
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12:21 Those are heavily ethnic Russian Ukrainian units soaking up the mines and drawing fire to locate defences. They are the equivalent of Wagner's convicts. For Ukraine the death of ethnic Russians is a feature not a bug.
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Special forces are old but real war as is being fought in Ukraine is not about the that kind of thing, and some SF veterans went to Ukraine and realised they did not want to be in that type of danger without the glamour. Old geezers all right for sitting in a foxhole , but young men are more willing to bravely attack, and die. That and energy are needed for success in high tempo attack.
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The main military mistake or miscalculation by Ukraine was in assuming the Russians would build what was for them the standard depth minefields even where they knew from the publicity the main attack would fall. Instead of what was anticipated, Ukrainian spearheads found themselves in minefields that seemed to go on for ever.
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Incredibly costly to mount the suggested type of combined arms mobile warfare offensive against a prepared peer opponent nowadays. The Western trainers have not done it and no one knows if it can work against a Kursk style defensive array in depth. Are the Ukrainians going to engage in motorized suicide? I think not.
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@manuelmachado9284 "Reconnaissance in force" as practiced by the Russians is completely unlike how Western armies' recce missions are supposed to go. What happened in Bakhmut seems to have been an extremely bloody form of a distinctively Russian tactic
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@manuelmachado9284 It almost sounds like you think lack of stealth makes for a good recon mission, but I can't help wondering how the information got back if the guys were unalive.. It works with drones _and _ a source of expendable manpower but both those together are completely novel.
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@manuelmachado9284 That must be why to join the WW2 Reconnaissance Corps units of the British army soldiers had to pass an IQ test, because only the intelligent would understand the necessity of them becoming casualties.
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@ That is exactly my point the convicts were to advance and be fired on so the drones could get the info on where enemy positions were for artillery's pinpoint hitting them. The Reconnaissance Corps in WW2 British army used quality personnel who were often trained for more than one specialized role. Russian convicts were used to soak up firepower, thereby enabling drones' locating where it was coming from.
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Colonel Reisner says the Ukrainians have realised that using Nato tactics is playing into Russia's hands.
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I really did LOL
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The AMX tanks are death traps that don't protect from even artillery fragments.
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The days of breakthrough tank drives are over.
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Z Storm America advancing at the speed the heavy artillery could be moved up to blast the Germans out their new entrenchments. The bulk of the US infantry were not convicts but barely valued because they were ill educated Southerners.
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@d-rush1219 If someone is exultant, every other word is an obscenity, and they are monomaniacal, as Lukashenko said Prigozhim was, then that is as good as saying they are coked out of their skull. Lukashenko said he could hear Prigozhin's minions in the background and they were the same.
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@d-rush1219 It was implicit in what Lukashenko said about how Prigozhin and his sidekicks sounded in the phone calls.
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Well you are right that the losses of one side are meaningless unless related to those of the other, But then again the losses were the only metric in a stalemate, which this no longer is.
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Tunnels in Iwo Jima didn't work too good for countless Japs who were emolliated and entombed in them without getting to fire a shot. All Israel has to do is demolish every building then the exits will be buried under tones of reinforced concrete. Coming out in the open from a new tunnel exit away from rubble will make them a sitting duck as it will be a free fire zone in which anything moving will be targeted.
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Funny. True.
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Everyone is willing to be a drone operator. No one willingly joins the infantry in Ukraine: its a one way ticket to the front line without rotation until becoming a casualty. Ukraine has the men to draft but the capable energetic people perceive being a footsoldier as something only those completely without resources do. If they forced young men into the infantry there would be an exodus abroad.
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Infantry clearing mines can be surreptitious. Mine clearing by armour is a give away. I don't know how it will work in the defence lines proper though. And how to rotate?
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18:00 Absolutely, no one has.
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America will stop a Ukrainian offensive if it looks like breaking the Russian command and control and turning into a rout. General Bernard Rogers the US Nato commander in Europe said in the 80 he would have requested use of nuclear weapons with hours of a Warsaw Pact attack. Hodges would have too. Ditto Russian generals; Russia is not going to accept the kind of victory Ukraine is aspiring to relegating Russia to a third rate power. There would be rage and what would the US do after the Ukrainian army got vaporized. Surely no one really thinks the US would risk retaliation even by conventional attack on a country that had already crossed the nuclear Rubicon. I think use of a nuclear weapon would concentrate minds in the West.
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