Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "DW News" channel.

  1. Did they mention food shortages in this piece? Food shortages are driving protests in Iran more than anything, because Iran relies heavily on wheat from Russia and Kazakhstan.
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  2. He's been threatening nuclear war from the start.
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  3.  @natalieturko4808  Russians don’t look on other human beings with a sense of empathy or humanity though, because they are so used to living in squalor and poverty, constant misery in the extreme cold, cut off from most of the important trade routes in history. They are proud to be low self-esteemed, which is kind of odd in the world. A low lot in life does not accompany humility with them in general, but pride. They still have a sense that they are conquerors, an empire, destined to rule over others when they can’t even maintain their own roads.
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  4.  @Sombody123  Sanna was a stain on Finland’s history. Her incompetence and aloof attitude towards Finland’s defense are qualities to be shunned, which Finland finally did.
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  5. 13:10 Now explain how China will get Russian Oil/NG without US and Canadian experts providing the Sibersk extraction support services. Russia doesn’t have that capability. They relied on foreign experts in these fields even in the Soviet Times.
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  6.  @RememberAuroraColoradoUSA  I’ve been tracking the big picture of Russia and Europe since the 1970s since my mom is from Finland. I have lived all over Europe and Russia, and my contacts in the Russian Foreign Ministry were boasting about taking back Russian former territories now that Putin is there back in the 2000s. I kinda wanted to ignore them, but stayed cautiously suspicious and aware. Georgia was on the list, so when Russia invaded Georgie in 2008 while I was in Estonia, I remembered what they claimed and thought, “Looks like Putin’s plans are going forward.” Doug MacGregor has been wrong every month of the war so far. I looked at each of his main statements he puts out, along with his interviews. Every one is wrong so far. Seymour Hersh, an expert? Ha ha!
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  7. Yup. F-16’s nose gear is fragile but the mains are robust. F-16 is also hard to land even for pilots with 1000hrs. It doesn’t like to be put down on a runway.
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  8.  @adammarcinkowski-ko3el  Yup. F/A-18s make more sense for Ukraine because they have actually been developed over the years to conduct SEAD, strike missions, as well as A2A. Finland, Spain, USMC, RCAF, RAAF, Kuwait, and Switzerland are also candidates. They could avoid any connections by sending their soon-to-be-replaced samples through an overhaul program in the US.
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  9. You don’t have a clue what your’e talking about. All of your assertions are incorrect.
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  10. ​ @Baianoh  The US has been helping nations around the world develop with a standard of living revolution since 1945, including China. US saved China from Japan during WWII, then opened up China for trade in the 1970s.
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  11. ​ @cks7709 Russia has never sold S-400 to Iran. FMS sales to ABCIT: Algeria Belorussia China India Turkey Russia sold S-300 to Iran and assisted with integrating Iranian legacy SAM systems with S-300 into an IADS network. Upon completion, Israel flew into Iranian air space with F-35Is without being detected. The Iranian Air Defense chief General was later fired when the Mullahs found out about it through back channels.
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  12.  @throughput6674  Knight Wolves and Wagner mercenaries in Donbas began attacks on Ukrainians after Ukraine threw out the Russian puppet, Yanukovych. Putin could not afford to lose control over Ukraine, which is why attacks began from pro-Putin Russian nationalists, not Ukraine attacking Donbas out of the blue.
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  13.  @tomi-Q  The question was brought up more in the public light as more Somalis kept immigrating into Finland. It was being discussed more in the 2000s.
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  14.  @Offllife  Who is the only US president that authorized hundreds of millions of dollars worth of weapons to Ukraine before 2022?
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  15. The foresight into Germany shutting down their very successful nuclear energy industry was crystal clear, and yet they still did it. Why?
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  16.  @thomervin7450  Post-WWI US foreign policy was to win as many nations into favor with the US, in exchange for the US securing the global trade routes. After the Soviet collapse, the US quickly became disinterested in this because of the "peace dividend". Neocon and Neolib war hawks have been left out of most foreign policy decisions since, while remaining united on combating terrorism in the wake of 9/11. But not a single winning Presidential campaign since 1992 has had a foreign policy focus.
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  17. Unfortunately, European demographic decline (low birth rates) means none of this is likely. Population collapse is baked into the recipe, unless Europe is ready to become more African. France refuses to collect or publish demographic data, while Germany and Italy have suffered very low birth rates for decades now.
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  18.  @solconcordia4315  US is a leader in technological revolutions because of geographic richness of connected rivers and coastal waterways, temperate weather, relatively small government, with a business-friendly environment economically, tons of universities, high technical literacy, and a huge population that isn't densely constricted.
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  19. Multirole fighters are anything but obsolete. MANPADs have very limited range and reach altitude-wise. Modern IADS like the S-300 with SAMs have the reach and WEZ to engage most fighters. Modern IADS platforms are also vulnerable to strike aircraft and cruise missiles.
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  20. The most stable and secure monetary unit is the US Dollar. The reasons for this have far more to do with market sectors other than Oil/NG, the main one being the US’s protection from any nearby regional threats. Regional threats create instability, so money flees from them at times of crisis. Then the fact that the US has the largest economy because of its geography, climate, population, resources, and pioneering of most cutting edge technologies, places the US in a position in history that is unparalleled.
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  21.  @musiconabudget3712  Guess where the ME OPEC nations get their security from? Bread? Where do they invest the most?
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  22. ​ @Alarios711  Who taught you that it's good to punish people who take greater risks to hopefully earn enough to finance their retirement and family demands?
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  23. How much oil is the US getting? US is a huge exporter of oil, with more refining capacity than any other nation. Who actually benefits? China, EU
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  24.  Easternperspective  How much oil is the US getting from Afghanistan? I'll wait.
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  25.  @u.p.1038  Germany enjoys some of the best geography in Europe, with an alliance with the biggest economic and military powers in history since WWII, with huge industrial bases located on rivers that have quick access to the Baltic and trade routes between Central Europe and the UK. Even with all that, Germany is in decline demographically and will fade out over the next several decades. Birth rates are too low. Same for Russia and China. France birth rates are from Middle Easterners and Africans, not French people. Even with all the immigration, France and Germany are still in decline. Too few young people, too many old.
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  26. What pipelines will Russia be using to transfer oil/NG to friendly countries? The technical expertise and tooling just pulled out, so Russia will have an interesting time trying to maintain the flow of its energy that it doesn't know how to extract, especially in Sibersk.
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  27. "Trust the science!"
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  28. Imagine a Middle Eastern country blocking a European country from joining NATO.
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  29. We see right in this piece that land fills and localized pollution are causing literal mountains of trash to catch fire because of the chemicals contained in them, but then talk about global warming and how it’s caused by everyone else. Maybe if India had managed trash, sewage, and conservation of its lands they wouldn’t have these problems. I know it’s easier said than done since India is over 1.3 billion people with endemic localized corruption, built on centuries of code-void construction by peasants.
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  30. Iranian claims about casualties are total BS. I checked.
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  31.  @omallakas4156  US and Canadian firms (the only other nations who drill through permafrost) helped Russia establish those drill points with private sector petroleum companies. I've been following this for quite some time, to include all the back-and-forth negotiations, Russia sabotaging the deals with their typical mongoloid behavior, and the drawn-out process that never seemed like it would happen. It's much easier to build a rocket and put satellites in space than it is to develop and manufacture the advanced drill bits and drill rig machinery required to drill and extract through the permafrost.
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  32.  @omallakas4156  Nobody that has even rudimentary studied the energy sector overestimated Europe's reliance on Russian NG and oil. Russia is a huge exporter of oil/NG. They just can't re-start many of their drilling heads if they stop pumping, which means they have to find a way to relieve their own supply pressure in a market that's trying to boycott them.
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  33.  @omallakas4156  Part of my direct family is from Finland, and I have lived throughout Europe on-and-off since the 1970s, so my finger has been on that pulse for a very long time. I'm not convinced the US did this, since the attack points are so close to the Norway-Poland line. That seems like a message. US has been very active in Estonia, so if we were going to damage the lines, I think it would make more sense to do it in the Eastern Baltic upstream. It's an escalatory measure though that does nothing to help with economic stability, especially in the wake of the British Pound taking a dive. It also could fracture the US-German relationship and push them closer to Russia, since tons of supply flows through Ukraine to Poland and Germany. This incentivizes Germany to pressure Ukraine to negotiate for some type of peace settlement on Russian terms.
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  34.  @katimboallan4605  2/3 of Iraq celebrated when Saddam was ousted. They were tearing down statues of him and defacing his murals in a giant party.
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  35. The moment Russia engages in attacks on civilian ships in international waters, the Russian Navy and any flagged vessel for Russia becomes fair game. Not a good strategy.
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  36.  @alainmcin  Europe makes most of its own food. The Middle East relies on Russian and Ukrainian wheat/grains. That's where the food disruption has already begun. Egypt and Lebanon are the canaries in the mine for the African and Asian famine.
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  37. I think there was a plan with Biden, where Biden would send aircraft to evacuate Zelensky and his family, opening the door for Putin to take Kiev. Zelensky didn't play along, and inspired Ukraine to defend their nation. The whole thing blew up in their faces.
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  38.  @Ea-pb2tu  Gripen has ZERO SEAD capability though, and limited strike, limited payload, limited range, requires long take off distance compared to any other modern fighter, but has easy to use pilot interface.
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  39.  @dexterplameras3249  Sweden hasn’t built much native other than the airframes. They rely on the US and UK for all the critical systems like the engines, landing gear, fuel pumps, hydraulics, servos, Radar, etc. Gripen is a very low-capability lightweight fighter with no SEAD capability.
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  40.  @dexterplameras3249  The 2020 AIM-120D3 when fired at optimum kinematic state from an F-15C+ exceeded the range of the 1990s AIM-54C fired from optimum kinematic state from the F-14A. Had the AIM-54 series remained in inventory along with the F-14, it would have undergone the same types of upgrades in propellant and guidance resulting in incremental improvements to WEZ and NEZ parameters. AIM-120C5 can't reach AIM-54C effective range, for example. AIM-120D3 fired from a Hornet or Super Hornet will never achieve what it can from the F-15C+, Typhoon, or Raptor. This gets more complex as you get into the missile model and series, plus the separation aircraft altitude and speed. We were working on AIM-120 integration on the Block 30 & 40 F-16C/D back in the late 1980s, so I'm coming from a place of intimacy with the subject. A huge factor in BVR is IFF against Non-Cooperative Targets. You have to have PID, otherwise you could be blasting an airliner out of the sky like the Russians have done multiple times, and USN did in the Persian Gulf in 1988. Precious few fighters/interceptors have the Radar detection, tracking, and PID range to employ the latest AIM-120D3 to its maximum WEZ potential. R-33 & R-37 series have the propellant mass capacity for more burn time, which results in significant WEZ/NEZ parameters. When used in conjunction with the huge Zaslon or Irbis-E PESA Radars on MiG-31BM and Su-35S, there is a long-look/long-reach problem for smaller fighters that isn't solved merely by giving them a longer WEZ AAM.
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  41.  @dexterplameras3249  There are IFF features introduced with solid state electronics Radars already in the 1970s that work strictly in the RF spectrum. They really showed up first on the F-15A with its APG-63, and it was significantly upgraded starting in 1978 with a Digital Signals Processor that was standard on the F-15C/D models, then back-filled into the A/Bs even as we pushed them into AFRES and ANG units. F-16A benefitted greatly from the F-15's Radar developments, but it has a much smaller antenna and less volume for back-end amplifiers, waveform generators, filters, and analog-to-digital converters. F-16C Block 25 got a new APG-68 Radar that has been upgraded until (V)9 through the late Block F-16s (40, 42, 50, 52), which are now being replaced by AESAs with the PoBIT program. F/A-18 benefitted from a lot of the lessons and improvements on the F-15 and has also undergone a series of Radar and avionics upgrades throughout its service life. It had multiple upgrades to the APG-65, then got the APG-73 and now APG-79 AESA. The F/A-18C had at least 2 NCTR parameter capabilities the F-14A/B didn't have, which allowed them to face-shoot MiGs in Desert Storm. The US teen series have mostly been limited to RF spectrum detection, tracking, and PID without relying on IRST like we had on F-101B, F-102A, F-106A, F-8G, F-4B/C/D/J, and some F-14s with TCS. What you'll notice is those Electro-Optical sensors were primarily used on interceptors who commonly encountered strategic bombers that had very powerful jammers to render their Radars useless. IRST is totally passive, so they could use them to maintain sensor tracks for firing solutions for IR-guided missiles. For fighters vs fighters, the US and NATO shifted into aircraft with very user-friendly multi-mode Radars, working in conjunction with AWACS. The F-15s in particular would operate in 4 ships in tactical spread abreast of each other, covering large sectors of airspace getting first-look, first-shoot. If they closed into visual range after multiple AIM-7M shots failed to kill the threat fighters, they would still face-shoot with the AIM-9L/M, which had all-aspect capability. F-22A and F-35s play a different game. So I mentioned the F/A-18C had at least 2 NCTR parameters in 1991. F-35 had 638 in 2016, covering multiple bands in RF spectrum, LW IR, Mid IR, short IR spectrums, with a huge threat library where each target has a multi-spectral profile set. Focal Plane Array seekers don't care about flares because they are locked onto the specific image of their target and its constant location/presentation. Chaff is designed to confuse and distract Radars and Radar missiles from their targets. Without going into details, you can imagine that there are counter-countermeasures for chaff and notching. AESA Radars operate much differently than legacy Mechanically-Steered Array Radars. 2 Fighters with AESAs and Line of Sight LPI data links can maintain track on fighters trying to use common 4th Gen tactics of Radar evasion (notching in clutter while dispensing chaff). 1 Fighter with an AESA and IRST can also maintain track if a threat fighter is close enough, even if it notches against surface clutter. Threat fighter emissions also compromise their location, especially with MSA and PESA Radars vs AESA-equipped fighters.
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  42.  @dexterplameras3249  The Israelis had the best dual-mode and IR seekers in the 1980s with the Python 4 for AAMs. Imaging IR was incorporated into the AGM-65 Maverick G model if I recall. For IR spectrum AAMs, digital focal plane arrays are a newer technology that started emerging in the 1990s, not to be confused with older IR seekers like we had in the legacy AIM-9 series or K-13 Soviet copies. Flare Rejection has always been a driving design factor in IR seekers for AAMs since the 1970s. The Soviets relied on moles within the US and European sectors to provide materials samples and technical drawings to counter our IR counter-countermeasures, so they made flares that attracted the IR seekers that had been attenuated to reject prior flares. It’s a cat and mouse game that involves a lot of treason, scientific breakthroughs, counters, counter-counters, subterfuge, etc. We have programmable seekers that can avoid a lot of this at the unit-level with updates loaded into the missile seekers by ordnance crews, as well as multi-spectral targeting that fuses TGT tracks based on multiple aircraft and missile seekers.
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  43. ME oil primarily goes to China and Japan. Russian and North African Oil go to Europe.
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  44.  @dpelpal  The fins didn’t deploy on a UMPK FAB-500M62 glide bomb that was dropped from a Su-34 strike fighter. The Su-34 was headed south towards Kharkiv. Belgorod is right over the border from Kharkiv.
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  45. Yugoslavia was a UN coalition intervention that included nations outside of NATO. It had nothing to do with NATO's charter or specific NATO mutual defense, and everything to do with the genocide plus the fact that Europe hadn't seen war since 1945. Yugoslavia was the break in 50 years of peace in Europe.
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  46. The math is easy to compare shipping rates vs trucking and rail built by Chinese workers through warlord-infested mountains, valleys, and deserts. Why would I pay 10-40x more for the same product to be moved on Belt and Road, when I can just have it shipped instead?
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  47.  @GardeningZ  Rail and trucking will never be more efficient than shipping. With shipping, you don't need to expend any energy trying to climb hills and your freight capacity is huge with heavy displacement vessels. BRI is a failure to understand basic physics in freight transportation, let alone regional insecurity and an inability to enforce protection of goods along those warlord-infested routes in extreme poverty nations.
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  48.  @senoalamsyah7481  The number of petroleum engineers in the world outside the US and Canada that have the knowledge and skills to do permafrost extraction is basically zero. Name me another country in the world that has land in the arctic and sub-arctic with oil fields. There are only these: Canada US Russia Norway is all offshore drilling. Russia has used foreigners since the Soviet Times for this work. They have suffered/self-inflicted multiple brain-drains, so their limited engineers and technical experts are dedicated to aerospace and nuclear power. The tooling alone for drilling through the permafrost is inaccessible to their current industry. The skill and expertise in using that tooling on the drill rigs is something else as well, not an overnight process. Both of these critical aspects of permafrost drilling do not exist in Russia or anywhere else besides the US and Canada.
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  49.  @senoalamsyah7481  No other nations have even been able to figure out how to make durable high pressure turbine blades for jet engines other than the US, UK, Russia, Germany, and France. Russians are the least-durable of those, and they got decades of technical data and materials samples from the US to reach the point they’re at now, which is at least 34 years behind the US. The Chinese don’t have permafrost over oil fields, nor do the Japanese, Koreans, Iranians, or especially Australians. They don’t have the environment to learn how to address this problem, and their institutions do not kick out petroleum engineers from a knowledge base that has been solving the problem for decades. If you do a detailed study of these limitations, you will see why they exist.
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  50.  @senoalamsyah7481  Turks just copied Israeli drones. They didn’t develop the technology themselves. Israelis copied US drones. US has been developing and making drones since WWII. Russia and China aren’t even in the top 10 nations for well-compensated petroleum engineers. China has petroleum engineering university programs dating back to the 1950s, but they still have never needed to address the permafrost drilling problem. An even more difficult technology is high pressure/high temp jet turbine blades. China has thrown billions of dollars at that, while embedding spies in Pratt & Whitney, Rolls Royce, and GE in attempts to gain access to the secrets of HPHT turbine blades, and still is failing to make a competent, durable jet engine. Their fighter engines explode on a regular basis, whether they be Russian or Chinese-made. The investment it would take to try to develop the tooling and expertise in permafrost drilling is a significant barrier to entry in that space. They certainly can’t produce it now in the middle of an energy and food crisis.
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