Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "Sky News" channel.

  1. Europe has the right to protect indigenous European people and culture (or not) as its people vote.
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  2. This career USAF veteran of many deployments calls bullshit. While it takes most of a year to train an F-16 maintainer (I was one for two decades) and longer for a pilot, other equipment doesn't require slow leaking. Ordnance, vehicles etc are far easier to pull out of storage, that being the point of the way they're stored. ATGW and MANPADS are especially quick to learn.
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  3. In other news the ocean is wet and the sun reliably rises in the east.
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  4. Only an idiot would believe a tiny warhead or few at that height was a credible attempt at assassination, but most of humanity are of low intellect and that's who propaganda targets.
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  5. The war needs to continue to do as much demographic damage to Russia as practical or it will just respawn then attack Ukraine again and do better next time. Russia is not a nation with an enemy government, and it is not European. Russia is an ontological enemy of civilization which at best its ruling class apes badly. Russian history is nothing but attacks on its neighbors in eastern Europe from Finland to the Med, and outside Europe if we count Turkey as we should. Russian culture produces its monstrous governments and its people gladly wage its wars. Ordinary Russians are murdering their way through Ukraine today as they did before as Soviets. The few decent Russians are promptly exiled, imprisoned or worse by the real Russians. Russia is not a race and is quite ethnically diverse, but its culture is uniformly toxic, self-destructive and destructive of its neighbors tens of millions of whom Russians starved, shot, exiled and oppressed. Russia cannot reform because no Russians who matter have ever wanted that nor can enough matter to want that. What can be done is continue peaceful pressure of sanctions and containment so like the incompetent Soviet Union Putin's NeoSoviet Federation will implode of its own weight while contained by the collective courage of Europe.
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  6. What is your professional military experience and command history?
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  7. Glavset shills are out in force I see. Russia is noted for inducting minorities to spare Putin's Muscovite base inconvenience before the coming election and to preserve domestic peace. Their military (including PMCs) is utterly unprofessional by Western standards and even by USSR/Warsaw Pact standards. The Russian Federation couldn't invade their dirt poor next door neighbor despite decades to reform their armed forces. While the UK hates its troops and starves its defense their services do maintain a professional core however tiny.
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  8. Considering how Afghanistan worked out for the US that's not a compliment since H.R. McMaster did not succeed there. His reputation was build on a very different war in Iraq. Later in his career he became a very different person. That's been remarked on more than once by professional observers. The 2017 McMaster-engineered surge was ineffective. The US Army senior leadership failed in their duties as a class yet unlike WWII career consequences were few. There has been no military reform or accountability because those interfere with the Army being a self-licking ice cream cone. McMaster's book Dereliction of Duty was a masterpiece yet he and the rest of the Army demonstrated they thought those lessons did not apply to them. Progress reports bullshitted politicians and public alike while the troops on the ground knew (see videos of the era) the ANA and Kabul government were inept, corrupt and worthless. The US Army had free reign over their mission for two decades. They were not stabbed in the back. Gerasimov is situationally constrained by the internal decay of the Russian military where reforms were halted and no serious effort made to professionalize the service. Devoting resources to PMCs is fine for coup-proofing but debilitates the most important career professional military organizations. Russia lack the professional NCO core which preserves and transmits knowledge and skills to new troops, and as importantly keeps the junior officer class grounded in reality. Wise 2LTs seek both officer and NCO mentors. Gerasimov has no direct intimate control of Wagner etc. Continuity of command is damaged by relying on non-professional convict bullet sponges because modern combined arms warfare is far more complex than WWI/WWII. He has no time to reform his armed forces and few resources (Russian Federation GDP is less than California's). Gerasimov is an interesting fellow but has no opportunity to fully implement the "Gerasimov doctrine". The preference for using the army as a dumping ground for the economically disadvantaged, criminals and uneducated rustics far from Moscow doesn't help professionalize the force but the opposite. The officer class in particular should be drawn from the best educated Russians by paying them well, then they should have been truly nurtured at service academies and other professional schools. Sending a Chief of Staff to directly command the operation is not a promotion or even a lateral move but may permit the military to assert full control over the operation. In a sensibly organized operation PMCs would be unnecessary not jockeying for power. Letting Prigozhin get too big for his boots was a mistake.
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  9. Haitian society chooses this again and again. No invader is making these decisions. Haiti is incapable of competent self-government.
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  10. The US does attempt meritocracy and not incidentally I've served with many Filipinos during my long USAF career. NOT ONE was the slightest disciplinary problem, they were great bros and all did well in their careers. Please send more. This old white guy is fine with it. I wish more native-born Americans had Filipino determination and cheerful work ethic and am delighted serving in our armed forces enabled them to do well for themselves.
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