Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Daniel Davis / Deep Dive" channel.

@snuffle2269 If NATO F-35s were let off-leash, Russia would have no flyable fighters or SAM sites near any of the borders. The fact that Russia couldn't even establish air superiority over Ukraine, who had outdated 1970s & 1980s-era Soviet trash, is the primary military embarrassment of this whole debacle.
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 @DanielDavisDeepDive You guys need to bring on counterpoint to MacGregor. Something is way off with him.
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No, these guys are delusional Russian apologists. You really need to look in the mirror and figure out where it all went wrong if you're a Russian apologist in the 1980s. In 2025, there might not be help.
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Zelensky would have hopped on traitor Biden's escape flight in Feb 2022 if he didn't care about Ukraine.
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Because instead of moving towards a peace plan, Putin is trying to take advantage of the political situation by pushing for more territorial conquest. That's a sign of bad actor intent, not peace. Of course, the reason for this is Putin can't be seen as taking directions from Trump, so now Trump will have to carefully rub Putin's nose in his own dog excrement, because he's the one that created this mess. Remember Trump is the only US President who sent weapons to Ukraine prior to Feb 2022.
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@roynotoy9596 No, I've been watching Russia's actions since the 1970s, to include living all over Europe and even in Russia. Precious few people who have chosen opposing sides of this issue know anything about the history leading into it. Westerners don't understand Russia, and Russia doesn't understand anyone outside her borders either. That said, one of Putin's own foreign ministry secretaries already told us in the 2000s that Russia would be expanding again under Putin's strategic vision. It didn't matter who was in power anywhere, he was going into Ukraine.
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@piotrweydmann3345 Keating Five McStain? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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@brettvogel8418 The majority of equipment given to Ukraine is old stock that we were going to destroy. I live near one of the main depots in the United States that disposes of munitions. Normally we hear explosions going off throughout the week that shake the garage doors, the windows. That all stopped about the summer of 2022. It's actually cheaper for the US to ship those to Europe than to go through the demilling process. A lot of the stuff that NATO Partners sent was old stock as well. Trump sent new Javelins back from 2018 to 2019 and some of the HIMARS and M777 were new, but most equipment and munitions is our old trash. If you don't know this by now in the war, who isn't the bright one here?
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Senator Kennedy is one of the best Statesmen the US has ever had.
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@ctrlaltdebug Let's assume that senator Kennedy is a shill for Israel. What does that have to do with Ukraine? Did the Israelis orchestrate this whole thing and for what purpose? If so, was Putin too stupid to see that happening? The truth is, Putin had this planned out since the early 2000s. I already knew about it before 2007, in addition to his plans to invade Georgia. I was already told this information by a secretary within the Russian foreign ministry. He was literally bragging about it before they shut him up.
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That would be one of the biggest mistakes he could make just on messaging. MacGregor has been copy-pasting Russian talking points every month since Putin invaded Ukraine.
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@braxxian I salivate at the opportunity to debate Douglas MacGregor. I would really love for him to talk me through how he would handle his subordinate leaders if they started from a position of encirclement of an objective, and ended up losing ground while hemorrhaging multiple 100% casualty rates of all their key elements. He calls this winning?
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@albatross8361 MacGregor is incompetent, like most Army officers. He's a frustrated General who only made Colonel. You can see how incompetent he is when he starts talking about US military Force structures and munitions manufacturing priority. In his world, tanks and artillery are the dominant weapons systems. That hasn't been true since 1939. He is painfully unaware of the actual combat power focal areas in the US military. A senior officer should not be this incompetent, but it is the norm in the Army. He would be more at home in the Russian army. He's an embarrassment.
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@albatross8361 Artillery is historically the primary mechanism of infantry casualties in more open terrain fought by primitive armies. The US doesn’t fight with Infantry and Artillery though as even Terry considerations for the fight. We deploy air power and annihilate all the key nodes to shut down any enemy combat power, Suppress & destroy his Air Defense, eliminate his POL and weapons facilities, crater his runways and aircraft storage locations, find/fix/kill his armor, and bludgeon him into submission and capitulation quickly. Notice that the US Army itself doesn’t have much of a role in the above. They have to fight for a piece of the pie even with Army Aviation (mainly Apaches) and Long Range Fires (Artillery has moved more to missiles and PGM artillery that is well outside of the combat radii of Air Force strike aircraft). So yeah, I would love to debate Col MacGregor on this topic. He needs to dress down his understanding of Army systems as being an afterthought in US FSCO and MDO. They barely even rate symbols in those operational overlays.
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@albatross8361 Iraq had better Air Defense than Russia because they had a combo of French & Russian SAMs, some of which were manned by East Germans. The US skull-drug through Iraqi Air Defense quite well. Nowadays, our D/SEAD platforms are Stealth with better Precision Munitions and multiple ways to bust SAM sites and Radars that didn’t exist in ODS ’91. Late model Russian S-300 and S-400 have been overflown already for years by modern US systems as if we owned the airspace in Syria and Iran, and the Israelis overflew Iran right after Russia integrated their IHAWK and S-300 systems. The situation in Ukraine would be an utter and brutal defeat for all of Russia’s AD and Air Assets if someone with F-35s decided to enter the fray. It would be over very quickly, and Russia would just pray that they didn’t decide to conduct an anti-ship campaign as well. Literally nothing they could do about it.
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@albatross8361 One of the reasons Putin shut down the Kerch Strait during Trump’s first term was because we acquired S-300 mobile Radar systems from Ukraine, as Ukraine was instrumental in the manufacture of many of the critical subsystems and components for S-300. Ukraine was also instrumental in the production of R77 and RVV-AE Air-to-Air missiles (Slav AMRAAMSKI copies with less range and capabilities). F-35 hasn’t even been in production for 20 years. First F-35A of the original 6 LRIP birds didn’t fly until Dec 2006, and the aircraft have undergone numerous modernization programs since that time. F-35A wasn’t operational until August of 2016. Just using stand-off weapons that have already been provided to Ukraine by UK and France, Russian Air Defense have not been able to intercept them or even low-tech single engine drones with very large RCS values. Russian Air Defense has the impossible job of guarding such a vast perimeter, where there are always vulnerabilities, and Russian AD units are not well-trained or disciplined to maintain and operate their IADS nodal systems with the proficiency necessary to even protect against legacy 3rd Gen strike fighters like the F-111F or FB-111A. We are witnessing the demise of the Russian Federation in terms of military industrial and operational capacity.
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Putin is the bully. Nobody made him commence the murder of hundreds of thousands of people.
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No, Kennedy is spot-on as usual, and he has access to briefings most people don't. Putin chose to escalate the war at a time when Trump is demanding he move towards peace. Putin is stuck between a rock and a hard place because in the Russian psyche, they believe that their president is the supreme leader out of all the world leaders and that nobody compares to him. He can't be seen as taking orders from Trump. But he has to eventually. Trump is trying to set up an off-ramp for Putin, but he stepped on the gas instead, so now the spike strip will be thrown out.
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As opposed to the genius military strategists in.....which country again?
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