Comments by "Antony Wooster" (@antonywooster6783) on "Ukraine Terrible Day: Missiles Rock Kiev, South Avdeyevka Lost,18 Tanks Lost; NYT US-Iran War Coming" video.

  1. 1:24:12 Isn't this all like an ancient Greek tradgedy? The way to avoid the disaster is obvious to the audience, but the actors, although aware of the looming trouble, seem quite unable to follow the route to save themselves from inevitable destruction.
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  2.  @gingerfox7143  Thanks.
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  3. 32:51 I heard a somewhat similar story from two men who fought in the Resistance in WW2 in Belgium. There was a coal mine which had all its machinery driven by compressed air to avoid sparks that might cause explosions and to provide ventiliation at the same time. This mine was particularly important, because the coal was suitable for producing fuel for Jet Fighters. The Resistance was given orders from London, to destroy the functioning of the mine , but in a way that would not permanently disable it, "As the owners of the mine, who were in London would not allow that" (!). The compressed air was produced by a turbo-compressor, driven by an electric motor and it was housed in a small building near the entrance to the mine. The entrance to the mine and the compressor house, were inside an electrified barbed wire fence guarded by a unit of the Gestapo. The Resistance men did their research and found that the electricity that supplied the compressor, went from the sub-station for the mine to the compressor house by a tunnel which was blocked at both ends. They gambled that the Gestapo did not know of the existence of the tunnel and to make sure that the great majority of the guards would be watching the fence they distributed leaflets announcing that they were planning a mass attack on the mine on the night they were planning to attack it. On the night in question, about five men IIRC, went along the tunnel and lifted the manhole cover that gave access to the inside of the compressor house and overpowered the two men looking after the compressor. They then put 1kg explosive charges on both ends of the compressor and another on the exposed bearing of the electric motor and two more inside the crates containing the spare compressor. (The owners of the mine had contacted the Swiss firm that made the compressor to ensure that no spare would be supplied before the end of the war.) They then set time fuses and left the same way they had come, taking the two mechanics they had captured with them. When the explosives went off, the turbine disintegrated and the flying turbine blades killed a large number of the Gestapo guards. One of the men telling me this story said: "And one of the most satisfying things about it was, that when I went later with an American unit, to Aachen we passed dozens of Messerschmitt 262s in hangars on the roadside, that had not been used, that could not be used, because there was no fuel for them."
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