Comments by "Antony Wooster" (@antonywooster6783) on "'F-16 No Game Changer': U.S. Air Force's big message as Ukraine awaits fighter jet transfer" video.

  1. It seems that reactionaries tend to put their faith in Wunderwaffen. The Germans did it in WW2. First they thought that the Blitzkrieg, would bring the UK to the negotiating table. It nearly did but they reckoned without the hatred they had stirred up. Then they thought that their superior Luftwaffe would destroy the RAF. Because the UK had a brilliant General in Dowding and brave and generous pilots, that did not happen. Then they thought that the V1 would bring the UK to its knees. It didn't. Then the V2 was going to do it. It didn't. They were using some of their best scientist to research flying saucers and thought transference. They still lost the war. They even declared war on the US! In Ukraine, the war was going to be decided by Javelins. (Some Ukrainians actually named their new-born children after this WW!) Then it was the Stinger. Then it was the Turkish Bayrackter Drone. Then the HYMARS. Now we have the Storm Shadow and the Patriot. After that comes the F-16. What the NATO forces really need is old fashioned artillery shells and this, it seems, is impossible to obtain in time. The Russians on the other hand have no Wunderwaffen. They have heavy, old fashioned, hardwearing artillery, masses of ammunition, masses of tough old fashioned tanks, masses of accurate guided missiles, masses of accurate guided bombs, masses of lethal drones and masses of observation drones and motivated soldiers and they are winning. None of the Wunderwaffen so far has helped to turn the tide of war, which the Russians have been "losing" all along. Strange that. Innit?
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  2.  @maxhugen  I have an explanation of why the Ukrainians think or at any rate thought that they had shot down 7 Kinzhals, The Kinzhal has an electronic system on board which makes it look to radar as though there are six other Kinzhals coming as well as the real one. The Patriot crew saw this and fired off a couple of dozen missiles and only one Kinzhal arrived, so, of course, they assumed that they "must have" destroyed all the rest! The Kinzhal is a powerful weapon, but it will not determine the course of the war. It just helps the Russians destroy some things more easily than they could without it.
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