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

  1.  @MrDanisve  Agreed with one point: F-35A CPFH is more like $11,000. Norway said theirs run at 110,000 Krone per hour.
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  2.  @MrDanisve  The Norwegian Air Force Logistics Chief, Air Chief, and Defense Minister all said on separate occasions that F-35A CPFH was 110,000 Krone, including fuel, maintenance, spares, and personnel salaries. F-16A is a lot lighter, so the thrust-to-weight ratio is excellent, and they overhauled into the F100-PW-220E. Nobody flies with the original PW-200 motors among the MSIP partner nations (Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Denmark). 56 of Norway's 74 F-16s were upgraded to MLU, so they got a lot of Block 50 avionics with most of the increased weapons and sensor capabilities. (We were on the F-16 program so I'm intimately familiar with it.)
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  3.  @MrDanisve  The newer motors cost less to operate because there are less parts and they have FADEC, plus the hot core turbine blades are more robust by a significant margin. Biggest cost factors for maintenance are Radar and engine, followed by hydraulics, EPU, FLCS actuators, brakes, tires, cockpit, anti-corrosion work, inspections and depot-level work. The F-16 is a very easy aircraft to maintain. The F-35A is even easier, with a much lower break-rate, higher reliability.
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  4.  @scrambaba  User name checks out...
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  5.  @johnkology9599  I’ve been following Zeihan since STARTFOR in the 2000s. I would read or watch a lot of the presentations and then say, “What?” Then go research their points and find out that their premises and assessments were extremely well-founded. Since I have been to so many of these places they talk about, I would often react incredulously because I hadn’t heard it before, but it turned out to be accurate. Their analysis of the United States was the biggest wake-up for me, because I have lived in 8 different Sates across most of the regions, driven across them untold times, and thought I understood US geography really well. Turns out I had so much more to learn just about the basics, that aren’t covered in university or high school.
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  6. He’s the only US President who sold hundreds of millions of dollars worth of weapons to Ukraine, and Ukraine paid for them. He did it right after annihilating Russian forces in Syria at the battle of Khasham in Feb 2018. FMS to Ukraine was authorized March 1, 2018, just to send the message to Putin loud and clear. Neither “side” reports about these facts.
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  7. Welfare state has ballooned in the US and Europe.
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  8. ​ @easyrebel  Governments pilfer social security and pensions. Politicians are thieves in suits who run their mouths a lot to distract from the crimes they commit, and those who finance them.
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  9. ​ @16dutch16  Scandinavian/Nordic countries have their biggest defense programs financed by the US and bigger NATO partners, and the bigger NATO partners have much of their defense financed by the US. Same for their Healthcare infrastructure. The US carries an enormous bill for Europe and has done so continually since 1940.
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  10.  @mikesaundersnyc5200  The best Social Security is investing in your family, not accounts run by utterly corrupt politicians in DC.
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  11. Russians fear internal chaos more than anything, and idolize strong men to enforce order. When someone who appears louder than Putin who has proven himself as a real battlefield leader calls out Putin's boyars like Shoigu, it unsettles them.
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  12. Allow me to translate for everyone: “Die Russlandisch pipen ist sticken upf meinen arsch. If wier gibst waffen tsum die Ukraina, zen weir im die scheisseholen, verstehen sie?"
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  13. ​ @Alec-jo7ic North Korea just announced yesterday they are sending combat engineers to Ukraine to help Russia. 😅😅
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  14.  @tharnganbenedict24  The soldiers have to make it back. Have you ever seen what an ATACMS does to truckloads of soldiers or troops in the open? It spits 950 bomblets over a 206m circle, each bomblet weighing .59kg. Sure would suck for the NorKs to eat a few of those missiles upon arrival. ATACMS can reach 165-300km.
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  15.  @letranger6750  Probably the same reason Russian Navy chained Somalis to their "fishing boats", then used them for target practice, then burned them alive.
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  16. No, our actual classified documents being purchased by our enemies are located in at least 4 different Biden residences and libraries, with Hunter and James Biden transferring those documents to China, Russia, Pakistan, Iran, etc. That's where the Biden family gets its money. They have no talent or products to sell, so they sell out the US to our enemies. Biden has been doing that since 1973.
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  17. It was false flags after Putin lost his puppet, Yanukovych. Yanukivych ran like a little girl back to Russia in Feb 2014 when the Ukrainians protested him for 4 months, after he signed onto Putin’s CIS-Eurasian economic pact. Ukraine wanted to trade with the Eurozone, which Putin couldn’t allow to happen because Ukraine would become more successful than Russia.
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  18.  @u.p.1038  French people are very passionate and proud of their culture. When they see people allowed to immigrate there and toss French culture aside, bringing their own culture to replace it, the French get very defensive, but since they have aborted their future children, they don’t get much of a say anymore. Same thing has happened in the UK, Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland. I have seen it firsthand, since I have been living in Europe on-and-off since 1979.
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  19.  @robinlillian9471  Putin was good for stability, but he repeated the same cycle the Czars and Communists did with military build-up followed by invading neighbors. This is the curse of Russia.
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  20. Russia is actually the worst offender in that regard, and the numbers aren’t even close.
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  21. These bombers won't fly anywhere near Ukrainian cities. Only their cruise missiles will. Cruise missiles use on board guidance, not any sensors that can be interfered with. The bombers need to be destroyed before they get into weapons parameters.
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  22.  @SteveandLizDonaldson  Not since later generation IADS with lowered Radar network coverage. US tried it in Desert Storm and quickly adjusted to medium altitude profiles due to proliferation of low altitude systems.
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  23.  @SteveandLizDonaldson  Tu-95s and Tu-160s especially don't fly in the low altitude bands. They copy US B-52 & B-1B stand-off cruise missile profiles.
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  24. Are you talking about Biden's garage, Penn State library wing, beach house, or residence? You know the ones where foreign nationals have had access for years, or Hunter and James Biden being paid millions by China, Putin, and Burisma? Hunter and John Kerry's stepson received $3.5m in Feb 2014 with their shell company, Rosemont Seneca. That was from the former first Lady of Moscow. Trump's family is totally clean if you look at their revenue streams. They don't take foreign payments from Russia and China in exchange for classified documents.
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  25.  @babblo1389  Which regional currency do you think is more stable? (Hint: There isn't one.)
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  26.  @lovly2cu725  🤣 Notice how Biden's first move was do undo US energy independence? That lifted the price of oil/NG for Putin. Russia paid for much of Biden's hopeless campaign in 1972 to get him into the Senate using an environmentalist front group called The Council for a Livable World.
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  27.  @dosa2990  Neither India nor China have the tooling or specialized petroleum engineers able to conduct drilling through the permafrost in Sibersk. That's a very exclusive skill and equipment set to the US and Canada.
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  28.  @nickngunjiri4282  I know. Russia and China entered into 30yr and 25yr energy deals 2013-2014. The Gazprom deal was $400 Billion. Rosneft deal was $270 Billion. This increased Russian Oil/NG as a % of Chinese imports from 11% in 2011 to 14.6% in 2019. Haliburton and Slumberger provided the tooling and expertise for these projects to drill through the permafrost. You can look up the Gazprom-Haliburton deal from 2013 to confirm. Haliburton and Slumberger just pulled out operations on the Sibersk fields due to sanctions. Russia and China don't have a clue how to solve permafrost drilling.
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  29.  @user-ov8qv3hp9d  I'm citing Russian sources from University of Moscow Economics, study on Soviet economy from 1950-1991. Engineers from Finland, Sweden, and Yugoslavia oversaw major construction projects. US and Canadian petroleum engineers manage permafrost drilling and extraction that Russia can't do by themselves, never have been able to.
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  30. ​ @christopherlees1134  Russia can attack with whatever weapons while Ukraine can't, but Russian can't use Iranian or North Korean weapons....oh wait. Those lines were crossed years ago. So this is a war between Iran, North Korea, and Ukraine, right?
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  31. No, Biden, Obama, Clinton, and the Bushes continue to endanger us by selling secrets and materials to Putin, the mullahs, China, Pakistan, Saudis, etc. All of the above families have been engaged in actual treason for decades now. Trump never took a dime from any of US's enemies because billionaires don't need to betray their country.
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  32. Guess which US President authorized the sale of $150 million with of Javelin anti-tank missiles and Command Launch Units (CLUs) to Ukraine while every other US President denied them before Feb 2022?
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  33.  @pinkstardiamond  US and UK gave security guarantees if Ukraine promised to hand over its nukes to Russia. Clinton & Obama helped Russia disarm Ukraine in the 90s and 20teens.
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  34.  @firebolt100  De-population is already built into the future due to fertility rates tanking. Climate change on earth doesn't explain why we see rising temps on the other planets in the solar system.
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  35.  @firebolt100  Multiple space probes and orbiters in the solar system record surface and atmospheric temps of the planets they fly by.
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  36. There are 500 million mouths to feed in Europe, and most of Western Europe + Scandinavia grow their base food products.
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  37.  @bradfordkossmann1296  CIA was co-opted by Russia when it formed. Kievan Rus and Muskovite princes have been at each other for over 800 years. US just hasn't been present or interested much in Ukraine, whereas control over Ukraine is seen as an imperative for Russia.
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  38.  @tasreasfatemsa8266  My contacts into the Russian Foreign Ministry were bragging about plans for invading Ukraine, Poland, Baltics, and Finland since the 2000s, after Putin was handed the presidency. Nobody wanted to believe it because it was too painful. "Those are just old-timer cold war guys. Europe is at peace now and Russia will be a peaceful democracy. Putin has to play by the rules now."
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  39. @This Ain't My Name War in Ukraine has nothing to do with NATO, and everything to do with Russian imperatives. Russia ceases to exist if she doesn't control Ukraine. Ukraine ousted Russia's puppet president, Yanukovych, in Feb 2014. Look at the timeline.
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  40.  @tasreasfatemsa8266  Nobody wants war with Russia. Russian leadership feels the need to start wars to gain buffer zones with the neighbors.
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  41.  @tasreasfatemsa8266  When a bear lives next door to you and you keep your distance, but it eventually starts walking into your yard, it’s important for the bear to feels some pain if he starts attacking you.
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  42.  @tasreasfatemsa8266  Sounds like your rabid cursed bear needs to be put down.
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  43. Chinese moved in for the minerals. EU needed the opium profits to bail out ECB. US was used as the muscle since nobody else could do it. China laughs all the way to the bank.
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  44.  @John-hu9qg  Permafrost isn't going anywhere. Climate change is cyclical throughout history, used as a political tool to manipulate people who were trained to behave as slaves in public school for 13 years. Russia relied on foreign petroleum engineers and technicians throughout the Soviet times once they started exploring more for oil/NG, and those PEs managed critical drilling projects from the 1950s-1991. Russia never invested in these skill sets themselves, and has only gotten dumber and dumber over 8 major brain drains from 1914-present. Russian energy will be screwed going forward, since Halliburton, ExxonMobil, and Canada pulled out.
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  45.  @basila33  Source: University of Moscow, Economic History of the Soviet Union
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  46.  @Прекрасныйнезнакомец-п7ю  Why do you think some other state actor didn't do it?
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  47. Meanwhile there's an actual money trail between Russia, China, Iran, Pakistan, Saudis and Putin with the Bushes, Clintons, Obamas, and Bidens dating back to the 1970s. Trump's a billionaire already. He doesn't need a dime from anyone. Think critically.
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  48.  @M_O_G  Trump doesn't need to sell out his Country to make money. The prior Presidents do because they have no value added to society, no talent for business, no talent in anything but lying and selling out.
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  49. ​ @6789uiop  Corporate media hate Donald Trump because he got elected without their help. Corporate media are owned by the top 20 industries in the US who couldn't control him like they do normal sellout political prostitutes.
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  50.  @nikolacalija2361  10% were celebrating what? Sorry. I can’t see the context to your post.
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