Comments by "John Walsh" (@johnwalsh4857) on "The Cold War" channel.

this is probalby the most humiliating time for the Russian army and Russia itself, yah while you have low points like the Russian defeat in the 1904 to 1905 Russo Japanese war, early parts of barbarossa, WW1 1st chechen war, the difference is that this war is by far the most filmed, most social mediad war in history. and Russian military incompetence , the brutality of its police and military is plain for all to see. It just amplifies the humiliation of Russia as its army is seen as homer simpson level incompetence,
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goes to show you how crazy Mao was.
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yah cause the ROK actually fought hard for and loved their country and had much more better leadership than South Vietnam. Also the South Korean dictator Park Chung Hee, is a tough very wise and progressive man. He is the reason why South Korea is one of the richest countries in the world. You can see this by his demeanor like the time when someone tried to assasinate him and ended up killing the wife in front of him, while the wife was being carried away dead, he just kept on giving his speech and did not stop, holy fuck , that is the epitome of TOUGH.
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the USSR had a massive nuke advantage over China, China in 1969 , the Soviets had a big nuke missle force, the Chinese tested their first IRBMs in 1969. Chinese did not have a lot of nukes , probably around 50. and they were bomber based and nuclear mines. the Chinese had a small bomber fleet, which could reach not far into the USSR while the USSR can reach all of china wiht its bombers and missles, if war broke out and turned nuclear, the Chinese would be hit very hard by Soviet nukes. I can see the collapse of the Chinese gov and china going into civil war. The Soviets would get hit but will easilly manage the destruction. Mao was just simply insane to attempt war with the USSR.
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Singapore and Malaysia turned out later to be much richer and better run states than Indonesia.
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Argentina military like the Russian military of 2022, corrupt , poorly managed , officers who are good at stealing poor at leadership and fighting and like to treat Argentine conscripts like garbage. (very similiar to the Russian army of 2022), the only branch of the Argentine military that performed well was the air force. as the Argentine pilots of those French made Etendard were the cream of the crop well trained. and Argie pilots are for the most part well trained. The Argentine army was a mess. and its funny that the Argentine officers were making excuses for losing like the UK gurkhas woulid committ war crimes when in reality, according to the Gurkhas they were not able to kill anyone with their Kukris since the Argie soldiers all ran away .
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If Putin watched this video, he might be saying hmmm. If I lost the Ukraine invasion like how the argies lost it back in 82, I would be out of power. ....and its looking like the Russians might be losing the Ukraine war of 2022
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I admire Park Chung Hee very much , he in my opinion as on par with Lee Kwan Yew. A tougher version of Lee Kwan Yew.
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yes the Ukr army is heavily advised by NATO officers, and the Ukr military high command is very flexible and adaptable. Russian the complete opposite.
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the Ukrainians are fighting as hard as teh chechens and Finns, very hard . Russians as usual dove right into a meatgrinder.
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@andrewlim7751 stalemate, war started at the 38th parallel ended at the 38th parallel, I can say UN won, in fact, South Korea got a little bigger than the start of hte war.
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Also add Chile under Pinochet as a progressive dictatorship.
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@BlackHawkBallistic and yes both Mao and Chiang were aholes to the ninth degree in their own rights but Chiang Kai shek would have been much palatable than Mao.
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my view war will probably end in summer of this year. Russia siimply does not have the standing reserves of soldiers to continue this war, and Putin cant do a draft mobilization of his reserves since the war is really unpopular in Russia and might induce a revolt. Also even if Russian manages to scrap anothe 100K men to right in Ukraine, they will have worse quality than the army that he sent in there a month ago. worse quality, even more poorly trained and even more unmotivated to fight. Also the Russain economy simply cannot support the war with all the sanctions and from FSB estimates the Russian economy cannot support the war by around Summer of 2022. Also Russian logistics is really horrible a really bad joke, very poorly mismanaged, 60 percent of Russian missles are duds,90 percent of Russian AFVs in storage do not work since they were cannibalized for spare parts and poor maintenance while in storage. Ukraine on the other hand, still has millions of able bodied men and women in its reserves very motivated to fight , high morale well armed with billions of USD of NATO weapons adn equipment flowing into the country, Ukraine economy is supported by billions of USD of funds from EU and USA. thousands of foreign volunteers going to Ukraine to fight. The Russians are also fielding thousands of Chechen , African, Syrian, Armenian and maybe even North Korean mercenarires to fight and supposedly they have better motivation to fight than the Russian conscripts but still not enough to win the wart in Ukraine. The Russsians not only cannot win in Ukraine but cant fight an attritional war there too. So how will it end. I think negotiated peace. Russia withdraws all troops from Ukraine keeps the Donabass,Ukraine joins the EU, but not NATO. Donbass and Crimea are both annexed into Russia. most sanctions are lifted from Russia. back to business as usual, Putin remains in power but dies in the next 5-10 years.
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wait until these psycho damaged angry conscripts who are military trained and hates the Russian gov. going back to a bankrupt economy in political chaos after the war. then the fun begins.
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premiere fighting force haahaha, I think the Russian army will be defeated if it attacks Kazakhstan , Russian army of 2022 is at its weakest point right now.
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Argentina army only good at killing their own students in their dirty war but poor at fighting real soldiers. Falklands proved that. The Argies should make PM Thatcher a national hero with her own statue in Centro Buenos Aires for giving the Argies freedom and democracy, since if it were not for the British and the defeat of the Argies in the Falklands, the Argies would not have risen up and overthrown their inept, corrupt comical brutal military dictatorship .
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@drmaulana2600 yah Indonesia is a larger version of the Philippines
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no opposition since 1. Wagner planned this to open on friday late night saturday early morning when many Russian police and soldiers are dead drunk. 2. the Russians were caught by surprise did not expect thsi to happen. 3. 95 percent of the Russian army was in Ukraine. 4. the only units opposing him were a few thousands military police and National guard units. ...the column was huge, 400 AFVs , trucks, cars, 10-25K men protected by Pansir air defence vehicles. I think they stopped since 1. the Russian gov threatened to kill the loved ones of prigozhin and his troops. 2. Most of the Russian mlitary sided with Putin. 3. Kadyrov's Chechens contested Rostov his main base of Logistics. 4. surmised even if he took Moscow, Putin would direct military forces against him from another location he would be kaput, 5. the Russian people did not rise up and support him.
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@riceball4u172 True but the Soviets also have a simliar mentality to the Chiense in the value of human life. but the difference between the USSR army in late 60s and the US army of the1950s is that the Soviet troops were all armed with fully automatic weapons with a massive artillery and air support, and had lots of ammo to expend.
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yah thesse concripts are even worse quality than the front line Russian troops. yep you just get masses or poor quality dupes in Ukraine I think a Russian loss will be a great mess. Russian troops abandoned in Ukraine.
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@6688ya at least US army not using tampons as bandages or our troops drunk on duty all the time, Russian army very embarassing mr. bean homer simpson level.
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yah the Chinese were super brainwashed at the time, to North Korea levels, Many Red Guard thought that their little red mao books would make them bullet proof, it was that crazy back then. Good thing Mao died, and his wife got put in jail and more saner Chinese leadership took over.
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@andrewlim7751 Mao did not win in fact it was a stalemate.
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Yah I found Putin back then to be a excellent leader, under Putin's leadership Russian economy boomed, its military was reformed and significantly strengthened. now he just threw everything he accomplisehd into the garbage, his entire legacy gone.
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I think Prigozhin will not be eliminated until he opens his big mouth in exile. he essentially lost all control on his company. and military units. and probably most of his money. he is at the mercy of the Russian gov. Putin will kill him later . Interestingly Igor Girkin is still alive, rumors are FSB is protecting him.
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The scary part, current Chinese Pres. Xinping is trying to be Mao 2.0, China is going to get more crazy and erase all the progress it did in the past 40 years.
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@Silver_Prussian hahahaah yah the Russians have not used their bombers since they probalby arfe in a state of disrepair maybe afriad of getting shot down , the whole Russian armed forces is in a state of disrepair. incompetence , corruption and severe micromanagement from the Kremlin, horrible.
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UK military treated the Argie dead soldiers with much more respect than the Argies themselves.
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@zeitgeistx5239 more like the Chinese stalin, murdered more people than Stalin.
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@jerryc5743 Yep the ahole Mao even thanked the Japanese PM in the 1960s for invading China since without the war with Japan, Mao would not have been leader.
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@HellishPestilence yah he did,
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@BlackHawkBallistic well Chiang Kai Shek or his son Chang Ching Kuo leaders of the KMT the guys who ran to Taiwan would have been a bit better than the CCP, China would have opened up to the west a lot earlier, a strong ally vs. the USSR during the cold war. and in the war against japan, the KMT was at the fore front fighting, the CCP was hiding most of the time.
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@C929卡布 Hey I never said Chiang Kai shek was stupid , I personally think Chiang was very smart, and was very good at playing political games, in the KMT , however he got outmaneuvered by Mao. He almost destroyed the CCP but was interrupted and really weakened by the Japanese. Chiang and Mao were both very smart but Mao was better at self advertising and propoganda and he smartly let Chiang fight the Japanese most of the time while Mao and the CCP hid and strengthened. Also Mao understood the Chinese peasantry well which at the time was 90 percent of hte population, Chiang being the elite 1 percent only understood the upper class 10 percent. in the end Mao won, but interestingly I posit, the China now is more of the vision of Chiang than Mao, the CCP looks more like the KMT of the 1930s. Sincve the CCP is not communist but authoritarian capitalist just like the KMT. Heck the CCP is helping the KMT in Taiwan but funding it during elections. since the KMT and are in a 3rd united front vs. the Taiwanese independence movement. AND I KNOW MY CHINESE HISTORY VERY MUCH SUPERIOR QUALITY
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If you believe the rumors, Putin died in Oct 2023, has been debiliitated since Dec 2022. and Patrushev and Shoigu have been ruling in his place through his doubles. the rumor is that Putin went crazy and was really ordering the use of a tac nuke on Ukraine, he was poisoned by the FSB. Now the Russians are wait and seeing on who wind the USA presidential electons, if Biden wins, well we shall see end of the war in mid to late 2025 with a complete Russian withdrawal from Ukraine including the crimea. in return for complete lifting of all sanctions and business as usual normalized relations with the west, Putin will be blamed for everything. Probably annouce his death in 2025.
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@anggastapratama2370 Indonesia is corrupt as hell, more corrupt than the Philippines
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its not only T-62s, there are reports that T-55s are being pressed into service, hahaah, yah the Russians have deep supplies but many of those are broken, very poor management , the Russian head guys stole the maintenance fund.
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If the Russians were competent in Urban warfare they would have already conquered Kiev nope they suck at urban warfare. they obviously forgot or never learned their earlier lessons.
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@mkvenner2 true but his goal was for the Russian people to join him to the Kremlin, so looks like that typical Russian attitude when it comes to these things, did not see anything, I dont know nuthin. I have no comment.
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@rickrozen2341 yep lots of meat to feed the meatgrinder. the question is how much meat can the Russians tolerate to throw in the chopper.before the Russians revolt
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@rickrozen2341 yah they did revolt like in 1917, and these days the Russians will revolt easier than their ancestors.
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tne deal is they dont kill his family and his soldiers and family of his soldiers. in short prigozhin became a martyr
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Meloni has pledged to fully support NATO. and Ukraine. and has stated that a win for Putin in Ukraine is a win for China, Meloni is shifting her pro Russia stance from the past to a anti China stance with support for Taiwan hahahaha. very amusing.
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I think Putin was quite surprised that Prigozhin did what he did. but amusingly the US intel services already predicted a week before that something big will happen, since they noticed wagner was gathering a lot of men and vehicles at Rostov. very funny the Russians did not notice this. Russian gov miltiary and intel services is a BIG MESS. this can only mean disaster.
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I have a amusing thought that in the future Prigozhin might defect to the Ukrs in return for a pardon and immunity from war crimes charges and given his own youtube channel to rant against Putin.
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@hello_world704 how can mao even drop nukes on the USA, in 1969 the Chinese did not have missles to reach the USA. , drop nukes on US forces in Vietnam , maybe , and if that happened, USA would nuake the crap out of China and divide the ruins between USSR and USA. Mao is crazy.
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South Korea , Taiwan, and you can say even Singapore and Malaysia had the right kinds of dictatorships, looks at those countries today they are some of the richest countries in the world due to their good forward thinking progressive dictatorships, on the other hand look at North Korea, Philippines , Cambodia, Indoneisa, suck head non progrssive shit dictatorships in Asia, and the resulting poverty stricken state of these countries in 2022.
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@johnl.7754 LOL also Im not surprsied the Syrians are also advising hahahah
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YOu know that the war is lost when Russian recruits are told to beg their wives and GFs for tampons to replace bandages since its good at paching up wounds hahahaah, the recruits were told they had to bring their own medicine and bandages hahahaah. also lots of Russian fleeing the draft, 60 year old sick grandpas getting drafted , deaf blind, disabled men being drafted. and in the background Putin is ratting his nuke saber threatening to nuke the west and Ukraine. along with force mobilizing 1 million men despite for the last 7 months saying on 5K Russians have been made casualties in the war. Im not surprised if the Russians lost 150 to 200K casualties in teh war so far.
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