Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "Ukraine's Artillery Shortage Has a Simple Solution. Will the West Implement It?" video.

  1. Ukraine doesn't need soldiers. They have more than enough. It needs more weapons systems.
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  2. That still requires artillery shells. What the West has said with the F-16 training for Ukrainian pilots is this: we will support Ukraine for at least one more year at ever increasing weapons system efficiency. To Russian soldiers this means another cold winter in trenches without food and ammunition and under constant threat of drone and precision artillery strikes. Russia's military has nothing to contest either. By next summer its air defense systems will be so depleted that the F-16s will rule the sky and the ground. At the current level of hostilities Crimea will be cut off by then. If Russia decides to make a last stand there, its entire army in Crimea will be destroyed and captured. Senior officers know what that will mean to them, so all the fighting in Crimea will be left to junior officers and common soldier. ;-)
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  3. There is no need for Ukraine to join NATO right now. This isn't even possible with the current NATO treaty. What is possible is for NATO to support Ukraine until Russia is out of viable military options and withdraws. After that single NATO states can give security guarantees to Ukraine and the process of full NATO integration can begin. Russia will, of course, try to keep the conflict alive indefinitely to prevent a formal membership. What does that buy Russia? And endless war that it can't win. ;-)
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  4. My memory right now is that Putin began an idiotic war of choice in February 2022 that is threatening all of democratic Europe. That's enough for me to support the complete destruction of Russia. ;-)
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  5. Why would the Pentagon tell the Russians to stop fighting when the goal is to demilitarize Russia on the battle field? Dude... this is psyop 101. ;-)
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  6.  @Llewellyn2844  Russia made that mistake in the cold war, already. Look how that turned out. The US defense budget alone is half the size of Russia's entire GDP and the US can easily double it, if necessary. ;-)
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  7. The production of explosives is licensed in the Western world. A private corporation CAN NOT just make a million high explosive shells and put them in storage. What Ukraine needs isn't dumb shells, anyway. It needs cheap smart shells. Eventually they will produce them themselves. If this conflict goes on another two years, then Ukraine will become the world's number one arms producer and it will produce precision and long range weapons at unprecedented rate and cost. Russia is hopelessly outgunned economically here. :-)
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  8.  @AgentSmith911  Let's see how soon that is. It's fun watching Russia demilitarized by Ukraine. :-)
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  9.  @AgentSmith911  Far fewer than Russian soldiers have died for the purpose of retreating. ;-)
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  10. ​ @AgentSmith911 If Ukraine can trade ten percent of its population for its freedom then it will. So that's on the order of 4 million people. I kind of doubt that the Russian people are interested in giving that many lives or more for the conquest of what will be a mine-infested moonscape by the time they reach the Polish border... at which time they will be fighting with all of NATO and incur the next 40 million deaths. ;-) ​
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  11. Russia isn't at war, kid. According to its leaders they are conducting a three day special military operation that has failed for well over 500 days now. ;-)
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  12.  @avengerpz  Exactly, so why are you so upset? For Russia this seems more like a measure to reduce its male population by a million people while demilitarizing itself in addition. Ukraine is simply helping with that. What's wrong with a castrated Russia without heavy weapons? Absolutely nothing. ;-)
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  13. Dude, the nuclear card doesn't win. ;-)
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  14.  @ДенисШевченко-р6й  OK, kid. Let me give you some more attention. You are clearly very needy. ;-)
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