Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "The Cipher Brief" channel.

This is what happens when you watch and consume corporate media. You end up with a totally skewed and opposite view of reality, exactly as they want. US and NATO large Force exercises continue to go on schedule. Article 5 is still in Force. Nothing has changed in that space. What has changed is the wake-up call to Europe, which it should have given itself: That more self-funding is necessary for its defense.
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A lot of Europeans don’t understand that the US actually cares deeply about Europe, because that’s where we come from. Strategically, the US doesn’t want to have to face a continent taken over by Russia, so the US has very high interest in maintaining European security. The vast majority of our defense programs are designed and engineered around European theater of operations metrics, weather, terrain, and threats. W e have spent trillions of dollars over the decades on European defense, while Europeans have grown more and more critical of the US for our defense spending. It shows how the Soviets were able to successfully hijack European media and flood it with anti-US sentiment, as part of their preparation for making Europe more reliant on Russian oil and NG. This included convincing the Germans to shut down their excellent nuclear reactors, and to cut defense-spending to alarmingly-low levels.
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Vance's speech was one of the best wake-up calls to Europe, and it needed to be said. Europe has been run by idiots for generations now, since the real men were largely wiped out during The Great War and WWII. I've lived all over Europe and have seen it first-hand since the 1970s. My mom is from Finland, and we lived in West Germany from 1980-1982. I've been to most European countries and have tracked the population decline, economies, and defense sector for 50 years there. Only Finland and Poland took their defense security seriously since the 1990s. Germany cut so many of its programs and force structure as if the future was full of rainbows and fairy dust.
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@mononoke27 Funny how many European ministers of defense and generals are happy to hear somebody with a voice echoing their cries, because their own parliaments have been neglecting them and abusing them for generations.
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@edvsilas8281 Ukraine has fought for decades for its own independence. Russia managed that fight by installing puppets when it could into Kiev, but lost their puppet Yanukovych in March 2014. Then Putin invaded Under pretext of a false flag operation in Donbas.
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@ONETimothy2.12-14 Petraeus is definitely not a spokesperson for the MIC. He seems totally unfamiliar with US unmanned aerial systems, which out-class everything else in the world.
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@cheesekake1841 And then Russia invaded Chechnya twice, Georgia, occupied Transnistria, invaded Donbas in 2014, and the greater Ukraine in 2022. The Generals who persisted in asking their weak parliaments for more serious funding were absolutely correct, and the parliaments were wrong.
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He's way off the mark on technology. Army generals are often clueless about technology because they're not in the aerospace sector. They eventually are exposed to advanced aerospace systems much later on in their careers after having been cemented in lower technologies in one of the least critical branches and force structures in all of DOD. If an Army General came from Aviation, Intel, or Long Range Fires, they will be more Up to speed with some of the advanced technologies in DOD, but still nowhere near the cutting edge. To really illustrate how brutal the reality is and how far away Petraeus is in his understanding of it, the USAF ATF program had 4 different 5th Generation propulsion systems available for the prime contractors to select from in 1989-1991. They had two advanced avionics & sensor suites to choose from, and 4 Prototype Air Vehicles. Not only do none of the European prime contractors have any airframes comparable to that place in time in 1991, but none of the subcontractors have the subsystems comparable to that 1991 technology. This especially includes propulsion. Meanwhile, the US moved on to 5.5 and 6th Gen propulsion, avionics, sensors, data links, airframes, and flight control technologies. Europe is behind by 30 years in many respects, because they never funded the RDT&E. They still haven't even put an AESA Radar in the Typhoon in Germany and the UK. Meanwhile, the US has built or retrofitted over 2600 fighters with AESA Radars, and is moving into a new Multi-Function Array generation away from "legacy" AESAs.
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@MakeEverythingDIY Believe me, no US Defense contractor with billions in sales to NATO partners is unaware of these contracts. The whole reason we were stationed in West Germany was a scientific exchange program where we were working with NATO partners on their new future fighter program (which became the EF2000/Typhoon). Europe hasn't invested in a new fighter since that time, besides joint ventures with the US-led F-35 program.
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@FidermanX The accidental empire that doesn't colonize or demand tribute.
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He's incompetent in this space and demonstrably so. The Army branch doesn't produce generals who are exposed to US unmanned aerial systems, unmanned sub surface systems, and unmanned space systems, with a few exceptions. If he thinks Ukraine's drone programs are more advanced than the US, he is either lying, or just doesn't know.
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In this interview he demonstrated utter incompetence and unfamiliarity with the basic US force structures in this area. The US drone production and drone programs date back to World War 2. There are layers of drone programs in the US that go from semi- autonomous orbital satellite deployers to subsurface AUTONOMOUS craft. High altitude long endurance jet power drones, Weaponized drones of all sizes, Pocket-sized drones for reconnaiscence and ISR, decoy missile drones fired from aircraft/ launched from the ground/ launched from ships, Advanced cruise missiles with multi sensor targeting and task-shifting capabilities, and things he's never heard of. Army generals are usually totally unaware and incompetent in this space, because it's not in their domain from their career field early days. They get briefings on a fraction of these systems much later in their careers, but just don't understand them. US Air Force Generals and US Navy Admirals don't usually talk about them that much because of the sensitivity of the programs.
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@Nico-uit-brabant The US has not chosen to step out of NATO. The US is calling for NATO to be stronger. Without the US, there is no NATO of substance. Most of the NATO partner nation critical defense systems are made in the US.
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@thomaskihr329 There would be no free Europe without the US. Europe also enjoys a $200 Billion trade surplus with the US. US international aid programs have been used to funnel billions of dollars to Europe for generations. What thanks does the US get? Critiques from illiterate peasants crying about how bad America is to them.
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@mendesjosr4438 Canada's government is so inept and treasonous that they haven't even invested in maintaining the Royal Canadian Air Force. RCAF had to buy old F/A-18s from the US Marines because Trudeau delayed RCAF's commitment to the F-35 program. RCAF can't even defend itself without the US, let alone force-project as part of a NATO expeditionary mission. Canada relies on US transport capacity just to move its Outdated military equipment as part of coalition forces. One of the biggest complaints of RCAF pilots is that their systems are not up to date with US and other NATO systems. Prepare for statehood...
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@mendesjosr4438 Trump is the only US president in history that authorized US forces to annihilate Russian forces. They did it at the battle of Kasham in February 2018. Just in case punk little Putin didn't get the message, Trump authorized the sale of a 150 million dollars worth of Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine the next month (March 1, 2018). You people need to stop watching corporate news. It has literally rotted your minds.
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@bobccadillac6994 Chuckles in Canadian truckers and seizure of bank accounts, while empowering Indian sectarian groups within Canada to war with each other.
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@szlevi Name me a US colony or where tribute is demanded for the Emperor.
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@ThePoppinger Our coalition partners are more reliant on the US militarily than at any time since 1945. Leftist Euro politicians are simply clueless about how defenseless they are. Only Finland & Poland took defense seriously since 1995, if you look at their acquisitions and readiness. They are some of the only ones who didn't forget history. Demand and massive acquisitions of US weapons are at all-time highs.
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@NoName-eu4sz Trump has been on a mission to crush Russia economically like no other President in history. He also is the only President who sent weapons to Ukraine prior to 2022, right after he authorized US forces to decimate Russians in Syria at the Battle of Khasham in Feb 2018. Stop reading and watching legacy media.
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@Wicky173 Now you're left having to explain the $200 Billion trade deficit between Europe and the US, in Europe's favor.
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@ Europe is already increasing orders of US military equipment and supplies because Europe has shut down many of its defense industries and disarmed its own people. It’s so bad that many European nations have been ordering small arms and ammunition from the US for many years now, including the UK. The latest contracts for new small arms for the UK have been awarded to US companies. The contract awards for new fighters in Europe have all been awarded to Lockheed Martin, both for new F-35s and new F-16s.
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@ $200 billion trade deficit is negligible? Then Europe won’t notice when it’s adjusted with tariffs.
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@terintiaflavius3349 When Germany’s first female Minister of Defence wanted to go visit the troops in Afghanistan, they couldn’t even cough up a transport aircraft for her, that’s how well Germany’s parliament financed the Bundeswehr. When the US is supplying boat-loads of C-17A flights, who cares? Right? "Let the stupid Americans fund everything!” Afghanistan was to save the opium poppy crops, which proceeds were then used to bail out European Banks, because the banks were so poorly-managed. They made the US Federal Reserve with its 14% minimum reserve requirements look like old codgers, when ECB was down to 3-4.5% MRRs. It was astonishing at how stupid European leadership was across the board: Finance, defense, immigration, and social programs consumed by non-contributing immigrants.
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It's a tactic to get Europe to defend itself. Trump is expressing more interest in European security than Europe's stupid members of Parliament, who have neglected it for generations. He's literally echoing the same thing defense ministers and European generals have said for all my life, and we were stationed in West Germany from 1980 to '82. I've been regularly traveling to Europe since the 19th 70s.
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@mike747436 Abortion is at the root of European problems. Especially after WWII, the last thing Europe could afford to do was legalize infanticide, strictly from a population growth perspective. Germany especially had to import all kinds of labor from Italy, Turkey, and other countries who are not and never will be real Germans. Prime age males had been wiped-out wholesale in 2 World Wars. Europe went in the exact opposite direction with self-murder of its future by exterminating infants before they ever had a chance to build Europe's future. Now Europe is unrecognizable, barely aware of its history and culture because of systemic infanticide and uncontrolled immigration of people who hate Europe. So someone has to lecture Europe on their colossal failures of preserving and advancing a once-great civilization before it's too late. It might already be past the point of no return.
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@mathijszwier6026 Trump is the only US President who sent weapons to Ukraine prior to Feb 2022, hundreds of millions of dollars worth of weapons. Every US President prior to that refused or ignored Ukraine's requests for US and NATO weapons.
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@wuffy68 Do you realize every single assertion you made is opposite of reality? Greenland wants independence. We learned Panama had secretly agreed to be part of China's belt & road. Demand for US refining capacity is only increasing. Low price per barrel benefits the US economy, while crushing the Russians, etc. You need new sources for information, because yours has been corrupted.
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@RonaldvandenBerg0411 Historically most US politicians are absolutely terrible at communicating effectively with voters. European politicians are the same. They don't give a rip about the people.
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@CHHickory Why don't you see it as a catalyst for enhancing European security though?
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@mike747436 What imbecilic news sources are telling you that the US is giving away territory and NATO membership? Trump’s strategic territorial expansion is a nightmare scenario for both Russia and China, and designed to secure the US and Canada from Russian and Chinese expansion and strategic attacks.
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😂😂😂😂 Europe has been on a path of multi-generational self-destruction for the past 111 years, through 2 World Wars, putting idiots in Parliaments, infanticide, mass immigration of never-Europeans, and restrictive production policies on the private sectors.
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Guess who was the first US President to authorize hundred of millions of dollars of weapons sales to Ukraine?
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@msjannd4 Ethnic Russians were slaughtered by other ethnic Russians in Donbas as part of a false flag operation in 2014. The whole reason for that was because Putin lost his puppet, Yanukovych.
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@jean-michelvanpruyssen936 Trump is not pro Putin. He's the only US president that authorized US forces to destroy, with extreme prejudice, Russian mercenaries in Syria in February 2018. The next month, he authorized the sale of a $150 million worth of Javelins to Ukraine, just in case the little dog didn't get the message. You would never know any of this consuming corporate or European media.
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@RyanBrown-w4n After Yanukovych, it was Poroshenko, who was democratically elected, as was Zelensky. Yanukovych was rigged election done by Putin.
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