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

Someone was clearly smoking crack when they posted that range figure. MiG-29 is a very short-legged platform meant for point defense like a MiG-23 or MiG-21.
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Russia can throw a lot of armor, long range fires, artillery, air power, and theater ballistic missiles at phased campaigns in Ukraine. It's a mistake to see this with short-term blinders on I think.
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@dragons_hook NATO is a mutual defense pact to defend against Russia, not oriented or structured to attack and take Russian terrain. Russians see everyone on their borders (they stole land from) as adversaries who need to be kept in-check and more land stolen from.
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@sanjeevn4515 Putin was going to invade no matter what. It has been part of his strategic vision since the early 2000s. It has nothing to do with bullsh*t excuses and distractions, and everything to do with keeping Ukraine under Russian control.
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@wk3669 China has one of the most vulnerable currencies and markets in the world. Investors don't want to be holding Yuan when the global recession/depression hits. China has cavernous structural problems with food, energy, retirement age people as the majority, almost half the country in extreme poverty, 45 million excess males 0-49, and now high costs of labor. China is going to be the biggest collapse of a civilization we have ever seen in history, with a terrible civil war caused by the famine.
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@nxtktube Interest rate increase tamps off inflation.
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@divya_212 Canada has huge reserves that Russia has suppressed with puppets like Trudeau and Biden. Trudeau and Biden won't be able to stop the flow now. Between the US, Canada, Norty Africa,, and Norway, all of Europe's Oil/NG demand can be met. This is one of the reasons why Russia and China threw everything at rigging the US and Canadian elections in-favor of their puppets. They succeeded with Trudeau, failed in 2016 with Hillary, but succeeded in 2020 ousting Trump-their biggest adversary and obstacle. This is why Biden killed Keystone. Keystone would have allowed Canada to throw in their huge mid-grade crude into the US shale mix, requiring less energy to refine as a whole. US/Canadian exports combined would have encroached into the Russian sphere of customers. Imagine Keystone open when this crisis hit. Russia tries to hold Europe hostage. US/Canada says no problem, we have endless light sweet and LNG we can send at low cost. World events will make sense in this context.
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@famborealyouths1936 On the following list of priorities, which do you think were highest for Ukraine: 1. Improve their economy by getting on favorable trade status with EU 2. Curtail corruption 3. Get out of the direct influence of Russian puppet regimes 4. Begin exploration and extraction of the close offshore oil fields 5. Join NATO Now on the Russian list according to Putin, which do you think were top priority: 1. Join Russian economy with Ukrainian economy with CIS-Eurasian Union 2. Maintain control through puppet presidents via rigged elections 3. Stop Ukrainian exploration and extraction of oil off the coast of Odessa 4. Reduce Ukrainian defense forces, war material, and munitions 5. Prevent Ukraine from obtaining Western weapons and training
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This is just getting started I'm afraid. 300,000 soldiers are being mobilized for a coming winter offensive. They'll throw bodies at this until they get their way.
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 @chillxxx241 Germany has gone from $1 Trillion GDP in 1985 to over $4 Trillion by 2021. There was a slight decline in GDP after 1995 to 2000, then it climbed since then.
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 @noidontthinksolol EU Army? Who would be in charge? What language would they use? Germany, UK, and France couldn't even agree on workshare or design for the ECA/EFA fighter aircraft.
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@scratchy996 Trump helped strengthen NATO, while being the only President to allow US Forces to bomb and artillery Russian forces for 6 hours in Syria. Trump Russia is not a thing. It was projection from Putin Hillary, Putin Obama, Putin Biden, Putin Kerry. You can literally see the millions sent into Clinton, Biden, and Kerry/Heinz front companies owned by them and their adult children.
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Every President has WH files they take when they transition out. The difference here is Trump is the only one NOT to sell secrets to our enemies, and the former Presidents hate him for it because they are all guilty.
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@dexterplameras3249 Saab is serious but Riksdag wasn’t in the 1980s-2000s. That’s why they mandated a new fighter to do all 3 mission sets of JAS, hence the JAS-39. If Saab didn’t agree, they would have been out of the fighter business forever.
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@Ea-pb2tu Gripens have significantly reduced range once you load them with mission-relevant stores. Whatever sources you're using for performance metrics, they're way off. F-35A has dramatically-better range than the Gripen E or F-16C. Most of the payload on 4th Gen fighters is external fuel, not weapons. When we talk about SEAD, we're discussing the ability to geolocate SAM and AAA threat guidance Radars, while countering and evading SAMs and AAA, and employing weapons against those Radars and AA weapon sites. Gripens do not have the emitter locator sensors, nor do they have any anti-Radar missiles, nor do any Gripen operators train for this mission set. The F/A-18C has been doing the SEAD mission profile since the late 1980s, and was an instrumental platform for executing it during many real-world missions with the HARM and MALD in Desert Storm over 30 years ago. F-16CJ and now F-16CM Late Block Vipers are specifically equipped for the D/SEAD mission profile with the HARM Targeting System pod on station 5L, full HARM capability, LITENING or SNIPER advanced targeting FLIR pod, and pilot interface through the MFDs and HUD to execute SEAD mission sets. Gripen Cs not only have none of that, but have never been advertised as being able to do it.
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@idawulan6789 Not sure where you got 50km effective range for AGM-65 but that isn't correct. There are different variants of AGM-65 with different seekers and 2 different warheads. One warhead is 125lbs, the other is 300lbs. It's a very close range missile meant for busting tanks, not something with stand-off for reaching into IADS nodes.
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@dexterplameras3249 R-77 is the joint Russian SSR/Ukrainian SSR response to the AIM-120. R-37 is much bigger with longer range, like a modernized Phoenix.
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@hb1338 Yup, though Finland has 62 operational Hornets in very high state of readiness, extremely-well maintained. USMC and USN have boatloads of F/A-18Cs in Reserves or retired.
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@Ea-pb2tu US has trained and equipped for this type of war in USAFE for generations. Dispersed basing, hot-rearming/refueling, planning, contingencies, logistics, force structure, OCA, DCA, Strike, SEAD, CSAR, EW, etc. are all core mission sets for USAFE.
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@realnapster1522 And yet every time the MiG-29 has faced teen fighters, it turns to scrap metal.
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@dexterplameras3249 He was one of the few caught. He sold the F-14A/AIM-7F weapons employment manual to the Soviets. When he was caught, it was right there on his bed.
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@pecellele8696 Better pilots in MiG-29s have faced US and NATO pilots in F-16s. In every single one of those engagements, the MiG-29s have been shot down.
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@surelyyoujokemeinfailure7531 Another would fill-in in his place after so many years of a weak president. Russian people hunger for a strong singular leader to protect them from all their neighbors, who they have had territorial disputes with for 1100 years.
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@kevinklockzin5280 Your analogy is backwards. It’s more like the hospital hanging the IV lines. Another provider comes along and puts their IV in the patient’s arm. Russia cuts their line and holds the scissors over the other line and says, “What? Don’t you like our service?” It’s very Russian in its fingerprints.
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@Банкивасограбят Yes, I am well aware. My family is from Finland and I have lived there many times. I have also lived all over Russia.
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@Crashed131963 Russian SSR was one of the biggest exporters in the world by the 1970s. They turned oil exports back on in the 1950s, and then increased dramatically year-to-year. Russia also used its massive profits from oil to hide structural cracks in the system, by importing grain, heavy machinery, foreign goods, and foreign technical expertise from Finland, Sweden, and Yugoslavia to do construction and repairs on major projects. Russian agricultural modernization would never have happened without tractors and other heavy machinery from the West from the 1930s-1980s. There are some good Russian Economics University studies on this subject documenting exactly how much oil/NG was exported each year during the Soviet Times.
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Biden has classified documents at 4 different residences and libraries that foreign nationals frequent to gain access to them. Hunter and James Biden have been running that for decades, since Joe became VP and was under more spotlight. Trump doesn't need to sell US secrets. He's been a billionaire for many years before ever setting foot in the WH. They're accusing him of what they are guilty of, nothing more.
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Most Russians support Putin though. Western media highlights ideas favorable to them, without looking at the totality of Russian state control over media and public opinions.
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@chloris6349 The popular opposition leaders have been thrown in prison, poisoned, or both. There is nobody to challenge Putin that anyone can rally behind.
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@jamsedakhtar4275 The British made China invade Tibet?
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@theotheleo6830 I was responding to the claims that all this money being sent was actual cash being spent on beach property. Also, a lot of the aid is value assigned to obsolete (by US standards) weapons and munitions. I live right near a depot where old munitions are destroyed explosively on a regular basis. We haven't heard any of that since last summer.
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Billions spent, and yet where are the munitions? Seems like Biden WH is slowly trickling things along. If you knew that Biden has been on Soviet payroll since 1972, it all makes sense. Who tried to get Zelensky out quickly so Putin could take Kiev?
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@alfisti93 Yes, they came out in the open and admitted it even. They don’t want the people thinking they were attacked by Ukrainians with that large of a bomb. They’re lucky they didn’t kill a bunch of their own people.
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Manas Kumar China will not benefit from this. Critical skills and tooling companies have shut down their Oil/NG operations in Russian Sibersk region, which is where China got 15% of Oil/NG. This is at a time when China is experiencing huge trends in more automobile ownership and an aging population structure. The disruptions to food and energy in China could very well trigger a Chinese revolution/civil war.
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Nobody is going to benefit from these disruptions to markets at a national level. Everyone will suffer, billions of people like they haven't suffered before.
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@jesterjames7633 100% incorrect. Ukraine was attacked when they ousted Yanukovych, Putin's puppet in Feb 2014. It had nothing to do with NATO.
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