Comments by "Tx240" (@Texas240) on "Jake Broe" channel.

  1. 9:59 in America, we like to confuse "expired" and "best if used by". It results in a lot of edible food going to waste. I'm sure the Russians on the receiving end of those "expired" ATACMS would admit that they seemed fresh enough to do the job.
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  2. ​ @eyaklen4804 even China and India no longer support Russia's imperial ambitions. Also, the "collective West" is where most of the world's prosperity is. So, yeah, not a bad place to be and certainly not a good insult.
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  3. ​ @matthewgaines10 - lol, Marines and army guys have commented the exact opposite of what you say. You need to understand that you can't quickly clear a minefield that has artillery dialed in on it. The minesweeping vehicles get destroyed or immobilized and no more clearing can be done until those minesweepers, now called roadblocks, are recovered (still under artillery fire which will break the recovery vehicles) or a new vector is chosen and the process repeats. Before the minefields can be reasonably cleared, the artillery needs to be knocked out. As you say, America could do this quicker. BUT, only because we have all the tools in our toolkit. We aren't limited by artillery battery, ammo, or counter battery radar equipment. So, the statement that no NATO nation could do better under the circumstances Ukraine is working with is true. They ARE limited in equipment. Limit the US troops the same way and they'd be just as slow unless you think there's a lot of suicidal servicemen who would volunteer to work in a minefield under artillery fire.
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  4. Never mind his hacker kiddies (aka "20 year old engineers") accessing classified information without security clearance and with outside thumb drives...
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  5. 11:15 it's IMPOSSIBLE for the DEFENDER to ESCALATE. By default, the defender can be expected to do everything possible to DEFEND themselves and their homes. Ironically, Russia, with its history of being invaded and current societal level of fear of invasion, know this as well as any country.
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  6. Worse than laughing, it's encouraging him to think he can invade Estonia. Our inaction in 2014, in light of the Budapest Memorandum, is what led to the 2022 invasion.
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  7. ​ @wickedguppy3715 Russia is fully escalated and fully committed. Ukraine is being forced to fight with 1 hand tied behind their back.
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  8. I recently just re-watched the Fallout series. It's like the surface guy when he's captured by a vault, given medical care, introduced to the phrase "hot shower", and tasting caviar and popcorn for the first time...
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  9. 9:00 100% True. He did not SEE any violations in the voting.
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  10. That landing ship was just undergoing an upgrade. It received the Kuznetsov propulsion package.
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  11. The "luxury" dog meat care packages must've run out...
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  12. I'm not a fan of Trump. However, any real Republicans know that Russia isn't a friend. There's a few key points on the Ukraine war. First, Ukraine is fighting the exact same war that the American Colonies were fighting in 1775. In our effort to gain independence from England, we had help from the French and that help was not trivial or insignificant. If France hadn't helped the colonists, America might not be a thing. Second, related to the above point, Ukraine is more different than Russia in terms of language and culture than the American Colonies were different from England! I have a Russian speaking friend living in Ukraine, one of the people who Putin was allegedly "helping". She had to flee a city in the Donbas during the 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Since February 2022, she's denounced her Russian heritage and says she can't understand what's wrong with Russians in Russia that they allow or support Putin in the bombardment of Russian speaking areas of Ukraine. I had learned Russian and was surprised how different Ukrainian is from Russian when she started learning Ukrainian. I can't understand any of it. My point here is that Ukraine is not "part of Russia", not culturally or linguistically or historically. Kyiv existed as a city long before Moscow or Russia. Third, the war in Ukraine is actually a fight to PREVENT WWIII. Our inaction and failure to fulfill our obligation under the Budapest Memorandum to guarantee Ukraine's territorial integrity in exchange for giving up its nuclear deterrent. Our inaction in 2014 was the exact same thing as giving Putin a green light to continue his invasion and ultimately his efforts to rebuild the Russian Empire. After listening to julia ioffe interview on PBS (available on YouTube), it's clear that Putin really thinks it's Russia's right to re-acquire territory that Putin thinks should be within the Russian sphere of influence. This territory includes Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Poland. All are NATO members. Not stopping Russia in Ukraine and aiding Ukraine until Russia withdraws from all areas of Ukraine would lead to invasion of NATO countries that were formerly Soviet states. Ukraine is spending blood to prevent WWIII in addition to fighting for their own independence. Any real Republican remembers or knows of Ronald Reagan. In his words: "Simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly." And "There is no safety, no security in the appeasement of evil." Evil and bullies don't need provocation to do evil deeds. Inaction never stopped a bully's next beating. He needs to be stopped, just as Putin does. Finally, as regards cost, allowing Ukraine to spend the blood to stop a US and NATO adversary is a bargain. In a more direct sense, money spent helping Ukraine is also a bargain compared to what it would cost when Putin invades a NATO country that he views as "Russian territory". And, if Putin isn't stopped in Ukraine it is guaranteed that he will enter other former Soviet states that are now NATO members. Incidentally, in the ioffe interview, she pointed out how Putin thinks every American president, including Trump, was a rube and not his equal. Putin specifically brought young, attractive translators to meetings with Trump to distract Trump. Most Russians look down on blacks and Putin thought Obama was just a stupid black. So, Putin was anti America, regardless of who was in the White House.
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  13. America lost a lot of respect when we didn't uphold our responsibility under the Budapest Memorandum to protect Ukraine's territorial integrity by allowing Russia to invade in 2014. The Memorandum guaranteed Ukrainian sovereignty in exchange for Ukraine giving up its Soviet era nuclear deterrent. Yeah. Our word is worth a lot. Now, we as Americans, are collectively seriously considering not even bothering to send equipment to help the Ukrainians protect themselves in light of our failing to do so after tricking them.
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  14. ​ @andreas5563 - No, they don't. He's just Trump's guy and there wasn't anyone who disliked him because he's such a junior House member (he hadn't been there long enough to make enemies). The fact that a junior congressman is 2nd in the line of succession to the presidency (Vice president then Speaker of the House) is absolutely insane.
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  15. The bigger issue for the party is why is it so susceptible to loud, fringe elements. First it was the Teabaggers, then the Trumpians.
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  16. Still nothing about "let's gtfo Ukraine so the horror stops!"
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  17. Leadership in the Do Nothing Republican party is so lacking that they made a junior politician the most powerful in the congress? Yikes
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  18. The most shocking thing out of all this was the Johnson tweet admitting Ukraine is fighting a war against "Russian aggression". That must've been an aide that typed that in. The entire time Johnson has been speaker, he's been parroting Russian propaganda lies that Russia is the victim of Ukrainian aggression.
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  19.  @jounik  that's true. For "Russians" or proper Russians, "Russia" is just Moscow and St Petersburg. Really, that ought to be all Russia ends up with when the other regions that Russia has subjugated and taken advantage of finally realize it and get fed up.
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  20. Yup, everyone in Ukraine is more war fatigued than Mike Johnson. Mike Johnson is a joke. Have Shaheeds and cruise missiles flying over and into your town (or their debris) nearly every night (as happens in many Ukrainian cities) and then talk about fatigue. What a tool.
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  21. People say he's an actor so he's just acting. Well, if he's just acting, he's giving a damn fine performance.
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  22. It's the geopolitical issues and repercussions that "secure the border", "America first", "no aid to Ukraine" (even if "aid to Ukraine is 90% spent in the USA) don't realize is that it's going to have to be dealt with eventually. It's much cheaper and doesn't risk American troops if we deal with it now while Ukraine is able to supply the blood and all we need is to supply equipment.
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  23. ​ @JakeBroe - Perun did a really good presentation on the politics and risks of escalation. Russia is the first nuclear power to start a war and then threaten nuclear weapons once they realized their plan was woefully insufficient. Yes, I've seen your vid on why Russia won't use nuclear weapons, however the fact remains that if Russia was crazy enough to attack a near-peer European neighbor, the possibility exists that Putin, delusional as he is, might do something crazier. Then, there's the suspicion that the West is drawing it out to keep Russia hooked long enough to more fully demolish Russia's military capacity than if overwhelming aid had been immediately given to Ukraine and Russia was forced to withdraw earlier. Ironically, while horrible for Ukraine in the short term (and I have a friend there, now), this provides greater security for Ukraine and Europe in the longer term. If there is any truth to this, then Europe and NATO absolutely owe Ukraine everything thrust need to fight and rebuild, since they are spending the blood to fight for the security of all of Europe.
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  24. 11:49 Poland operates the Abrams. As long as that cooperation continues, the logistics of supporting Abrams in Ukraine isn't any more complicated than the Leos already being used.
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  25.  @DoloresJNurss  there's a meme that popped up when Ukraine began its special military operation in Kursk. Aide: Vladimir Vladimirovich, Russia has been invaded! What should we do?? Putin: Do what we did last time Russia was invaded, ask the Americans for military aid and have the Ukrainians fight off the invaders! (alluding to the significant aid the US sent to Russia and the Ukrainians fighting off the Germans during WWII)
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  26.  @teddy.d174  - Well, every NATO country is relying on the US nuclear deterrent to protect them. Unfortunately, what we're showing Putin, starting in 2014 when the US and UK didn't fulfill our obligations under the Budapest Memorandum to protect Ukraine's territorial integrity, is that we're weak. We're so weak we're debating sending equipment. If we had to send troops to protect a NATO member, Putin is figuring that we wouldn't.
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  27. Yup, 9 years past due
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  28. Money. Orban benefitted nothing from being contrarian, the way Trump tries to (by taking a position that's just the opposite of what the other party, or the rest of Europe does in Orban's case). If we still had investigative journalists, someone would find a money trail.
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  29. Professor Gerdes Explains channel went over the Budapest Memorandum (it's not very long if you want to read it yourself). In the Budapest Memorandum, the US, UK, and Russia agreed to protect the territorial integrity of Ukraine in exchange for Ukraine giving up its Soviet era nuclear deterrent. The agreement provided no method or requirement of enforcing the provisions other than Ukraine could complain to the UN if nuclear weapons were used against Ukraine. Once President Clinton, who led the effort, left office there was no guarantee the US would assist Ukraine. It gets worse. All along, NATO was telling Ukraine that "someday" they'd be allowed to apply for NATO membership. At the same time, there were unofficial assurances, as appeasement, to Russia that NATO wouldn't accept Ukraine as a member. The bottom line is that the Ukraine war is the fault of the the US making false or worthless assurances of protection to Ukraine and Ukraine giving up its deterrent.
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  30. Russian generals scratching their heads as to how Ukraine can advance into towns without flattening them with artillery first?
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  31. No agreement Russia has made regarding Ukraine, since 199, has been worth the paper written on...maybe worth a few Rubles, though.
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  32. Athletics is a problem because schools are not being held normally since schools are targets for Russian missile strikes. A single mother friend in Ukraine assures me that her and her daughter get enough exercise by walking most places and doing yoga. Cars are much rarer than in the US and probably most Western countries.
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  33. "And my own country is falling apart." Your comment was missing that.
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  34. Soviet "negotiating". Ask for everything and if you get anything, it's a victory.
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  35. Russia doesn't control the skies. Both sides have proliferated ground based air defenses (GBAD) that prevent the other side from safely operating aircraft. Russian air superiority jets stay over Russian controlled territory, protected by their GBAD and lob R37 long range missiles at Ukranian aircraft when they are detected by Russian AWACS over the black sea or Russian territory or ground based radar. These long range attacks are mainly to make the Ukrainians evade and stop trying to do whatever they're trying to do. The R37 was designed to hit B52 stratofortress bombers, not fighters and while very fast, isn't maneuverable. Unfortunately, the F-16 offers no safe counter to either the Russian GBAD or the Russian R37 vollies. The R37 has a range of up to 200 km. The US AIM 120 AMRAAM that the F-16 will carry has a range of about 60km. The F-16s will never get in range to attack Russian aircraft. The Russians will simply fly away from the F-16s and encourage the F-16s to fly over Russian GBAD to snack on a few missiles. The F-16s will decline the offer and the Russian jets will turn around and pop off a couple more R 37s. That's modern air combat. Air to air battles aren't "dogfights" and the F-16 brings nothing valuable to the Ukrainian air superiority situation. Where the F-16 could be effective and where it will have to be effective if air superiority is the goal is SEAD or suppression of enemy defenses. The Ukrainians have already dabbled in firing Western HARM anti radiation (anti radar) missiles from Mig 29s. The F-16 will offer better integration of these missiles as well as other guided missiles like the AGM 65 maverick and various unguided munitions (bombs and rockets) which can all be valuable for elimination of Russian GBAD. The problem is that Ukraine will lose jets and pilots doing this, hunting the things designed to shoot them down. The Russian PANTSIR system can integrate multiple launchers into each other's radar so that "dark" launchers can still fire at Ukrainians hunting the units with active radar. Think Iraq 1, where the US blitzed Saddam's GBAD and where we (the US) lost aircraft and had pilots paraded on Iraqi TV. Then turn that up to 11 and you have what Ukraine is facing in trying to deal with Russian GBAD. The F-16 will be similar to the Leopard, except even less significant. Ukraine operates the Mig 29. It's the functional equivalent of the F-16 in flight performance, munitions carrying ability, and mission profiles. The F-16 doesn't bring much to Ukraine that the Mig 29 doesn't already give them... Except more airframes that can be sacrificed in Ukraine's fight for independence, ultimately, from Russia. What Ukraine REALLY needs is the Swedish Gripen. First, this jet can use the British Meteor, which the F-16 currently doesn't. This is a longe range air to air missile that would give rough parody to Russia's R37. It's a little shorter but designed to hit fighters and so, more of a threat than the R37. The Gripen can also carry the Storm Shadow missile which the F-16 doesn't. Ukraine is currently using aging and few Su 24 aircraft to carry and launch the Storm Shadow. Having Gripen would ease the burden on the Su24s and allow Ukraine to continue using such long range missiles as the Soviet era jets wear out. Gripen for long range air to air and Storm Shadow missions with F-16 for SEAD, close air support and locking down the Black Sea with AGM 84 Harpoon missiles in addition to combined use of ATACMS, decoys, S200s, etc would be an ideal combination to enable Ukraine to blitz Russian GBAD. The problem arises as Ukraine closes distance to Russia. The ground launched anti air missiles can be inside Russian territory which means they're safe from Western or US weapons and free to shoot down F-16s over Ukraine. The F-16 alone will be less of a game changer than Leopard tanks were. It's ironic that one of the best dog fighters ever built will see it's most significant use in the ground attack role in Ukraine and virtually no air to air combat (unless helicopters count).
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  36. But, it's fun to use sarcasm and throw Putin's own words back at them.
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  37. 0:30 Jake! A CORRECTION. Give credit where it's due! Those Russians aren't being destroyed by Ukrainian artillery. They are being destroyed by Ukrainian 4th tank brigade. This is an important fact because they are using Leopard 2 tanks. So, Western equipment in action. The Russians probably never saw who was shooting at them. I watched the vid and there was a bmp that drove off, away from the other vehicles when they started taking effective fire, and it also got popped. No way artillery could've done that. Then googling the unit name listed in the vid points us to the 4th tank brigade and an article about how they were running out of tanks until they were reconstituted with Leopard 2AV. So, we're actually witnessing a modern tank battle. The Russians just, apparently, didn't realize the battle had started, were polite enough to not shoot back, or were out of ammo. Regardless, it was a turkey shoot for Leopards! Thanks to Germany for allowing the transfer and all countries who sent Leopards to Ukraine.
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  38. 19:39 his son is in Moscow and he would have dinner with him at a public restaurant, except his son is feeling ill at the moment. Something about someone's cousin's best friend's brother seeing the young man pass out at 31 Flavors...or something. I hope he's feeling better soon. Edit, haha just saw the part where "nobody has phoned him (in Moscow) and so, of course, he has made no comment."
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  39. It's been argued that the only reason the bridge is still up is because Putin keeps sending valuable air defense systems there from the far reaches of Russia and Ukraine can destroy them. That makes life safer for Ukrainian aviation when Ukraine gets aggressive with it.
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  40. Brits who don't recall their own struggle against an enemy who thought they shouldn't exist except maybe as slaves is mind blowing. I suppose the US shouldn't have helped Britain against the Nazis. I mean, all that did was prolong the conflict. Maybe, without help, when the Nazis landed on British soil, the rest of the world could've told them to cede parts of England to settle a peace.
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  41. The fact that the Russian civilian is just like, "ok" is crazy.
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  42.  @SgtBeltfed  - Hey, that's a great point that both Patriot and AMRAAM toting F-16s will be on Russian pilots' minds after recent high profile losses.
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  43. When aviation's comment popped up and I reread this thread, my comment isn't visible. Apparently, the YouTube thought police removed my comment pointing out that the only thing Johnson cared about was the Biden ban on LNG exporting because there's such a plant under construction in Johnson's state of Louisiana.
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  44.  @aqueenslander  - the problem is that nukes are a "nuclear solution". That saying means you're blowing everything up, including yourself. If, as the OP suggested, Japan invaded islands that it perceives are Japanese territory and Russia responded by a nuclear attack against Japan, Japan's allies would respond in kind to Russia and instead of Russia losing the islands, the whole world loses everything including Russia losing Moscow and St Petersburg.
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  45. Actually, it's worse than that. If the US quits supporting Ukraine, Ukraine will be forced to start attacking targets inside Russia, especially civilian targets like heat and electricity, that they so far have been avoiding because it would cause a loss of Western support. Perun channel recently did a presentation that indicates a large part of Putin being able to continue is the lack of effect or cost of the war on most Russian's everyday lives. If Ukraine was able to place a cost on the war for ordinary Russians (say, not having heat or electricity during winter) then the tacit support for Putin's war could dry up and leave Putin with larger concerns at home. Remember, if Western aid stops, Ukraine ends up in a desperate fight for survival alone and means they'll have lost the reason to take the high road and will need to take whatever action they see necessary to ensure their survival. Ironically, the US halting military aid to Ukraine could actually cause the as yet merely threatened nuclear escalation. Putin and his upper echelon already believe this is a war between Russia and the United States or NATO and that we are (somehow) forcing Ukraine to fight when Ukraine really just wants to give up and be part of Russia. If US aid dries up and Ukraine is forced to start attacking infrastructure inside Russia in order to place a cost on the war for average Russians and try to cause backlash against Putin inside Russia, Russia will view these attacks as COMING FROM (or at the instruction of THE UNITED STATES. Juila ioffe, an expert on Russia has suggested that it would be better if Russians were purple. As it is they look like us, European (most Americans are of European descent) but they absolutely don't think like us. Because they look similar, it's easy to forget that they very much aren't similar. So, with that in mind, our purple Russians will interpret the consequences of US halting aid to Ukraine as escalation by the United States and an attack by the United States directly on Russia proper. So, by halting aid to Ukraine, the United States will both lose any influence over Ukraine's war activities AND be escalating the war in the mind of Russia's leaders.
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  46. ​ @planet-karma and how most Ukrainian pow are tortured and starved.
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  47. 14:12 Mr President, are we going to give Alaska back to Russia to prevent Russia from invading the USA??
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  48. Russian military and political leaders known that Russia doesn't need a buffer zone because they know that nobody has any intention of invading Russia. The border in the Belgorod region is nearly completely unguarded DURING A WAR. If Russia thought they were at risk of being invaded, of needing a buffer zone, they wouldn't leave the border unguarded.
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  49. It's theoretically possible it was a 2 ship flight if F-16s, but unlikely. It would've been at the maximum of their ferry range to fly a route avoiding where Russia would be expecting Ukrainian aircraft and return home. That said, losing a pair of F-16 to ditching in the sea near turkey would be entirely worth it to knock out an A50. The F-16 could fly without radar, guided to the target by ground based radar and AIM 12O could've been fired from a data link targeting with a NATO AWACS aircraft, which was bound to also be over the Black Sea, or possibly from ground radar if Ukraine integrated the software.
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  50. For those not aware, Nevill Chamberlain was a fool and tried to appease Hitler. Winston Churchill stated "You (Chamberlain) were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour, and you will have war."
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