Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Kyiv Post" channel.

Even with those tactics, the VC were wiped out in Tet of '68 and the NVA were almost entirely annihilated that same year. North Vietnamese called for negotiations then once they had been crushed. The US had the ability to end Vietnam in 2 weeks of bombing Hanoi and Haiphong, but LBJ and Kissinger drew out the war for years, costing 58,000 US lives and untold losses to Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Laotians. We wasted thousands of aircraft and war material in the process as well, while Congressmen laughed to the bank.
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Here’s a basic idea about Chinese banking: Imagine a world where Chinamen don’t pilfer the banks they have charge over even if everything else was doing well. What are the real numbers? Who does the auditing?
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@magikclown The US never wanted this war. Putin planned to take any historic Russian territories as soon as he was in office, but kept very quiet about these plans, other than to some foreign ministry officers and close associates. That's how I learned about them in 2006 while I was in Finland.
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@joshhall1468 When you look at which US Presidents actively worked to disarm Ukraine versus the only US president who sent weapons to Ukraine prior to February 22, everything gets flipped on its head.
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Who was the only US president who sent weapons to Ukraine before February 2022? What Presidents actually worked against Ukraine to disarm them since the 1990s? Why? Answer those questions and things will become much more clear.
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@ncacia8 Foreign wife.
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His description of the European NATO F-16s does not match a Block 50 Viper for A2G capes. The European F-16AM MLU birds were primarily upgraded with A2A capes of Block 50, not the D/SEAD capes of F-16CM Block 50/52+.
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@Ikkeligeglad The combined air forces of the Baltic region can shut down all Chicom and Russian vessel travel alone, using anti-ship missiles. Until Chicoms and Russians can behave, they should just be banned from shipping there
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@thor9563 I would love to talk with Col MacGregor and ask him what he would do if a subordinate leader started out with encirclement of an objective with over 3:1 force ratio, initially seized a bunch of terrain, then lost it and experienced multiple sub element attrition and complete turnover of unit strength, while losing the key terrain initially taken. What would he do with that leadership and would he call it "winning"? Because in the US Army, a commander like that would have been relieved and charged with false reporting.
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@davedevonlad7402 It's really impossible to get context and know what questions to ask without experience. Civilians with snippets blow those snippets out of proportion as a rule, in the vacuum of inexperience. Even for those with a career of experience, once they step outside of their career field, they make a lot of major mistakes. For example, in this interview, he incorrectly described the European F-16AM MLU fighters as equivalents to Block 50 Vipers with the D/SEAD capes of F-16CM+.
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 @paulhargreaves1497 Did you miss the battle for Speakership and everything McCarthy had to agree to?
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We should have ramped-up Defense spending during the “peace dividend” and been in a position to sell even more from our previous generation weapons to defenders, while pushing even more blistering technology for our own deterrent forces.
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@kastnoka1274 Pitin had his puppet Yanukovych in Kiev and was robbing Ukraine of her revenue, with the help of Obama, Clintons, Biden, and John Kerry. Ukraine has more resources than Poland, yet Poland has grown its economy sixfold since 1991 while Putin held his hands on the scale against Ukraine.
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 @kastnoka1274 Have you heard of Victor Yanukovych? He was Putin's puppet in Kiev in the presidency from the pro-Russia Regions Party. They were robbing Ukraine blind for years.
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. Trump is the only US President who sent hundreds of millions worth of weapons to Ukraine prior to Feb 2022, right after he had US forces annihilate Russian forces in Syria when they attacked the US.
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Trump isn't like that at all. Trump often bypasses those around him and likes to talk to people in the trenches. On his construction projects, he would go down to the workers and ask how things were going, were they doing their best work. He has attention to detail from a management perspective that no President has ever had, since they've all been politicians. Comparing him to Putin misses the mark across the board, and is based on misplaced partisan hate, for a guy who really isn't a partisan.
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@B.D.E. Yup, though I would argue there is no such thing as an expert. To support your statement, he incorrectly attributed. D/SEAD capabilities of Block 50 F-16CM+ with F-16AM MLU Vipers from the MSIP partner nations in Europe. This is a critical set of details with strategic implications for the discussion, because those F-16AM MLU birds don't have the D/SEAD systems or weapons interface. F-16AM MLU program did add most of the A2A capes with AIFF, AIM-120C5 and C7, newer Radar, color MFDs, GPS, and other systems to support NATO Air Policing and Intercept missions, but to my knowledge, they are not HARM Targeting System Pod capable. This is an important distinction for obvious reasons.
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@terjeoseberg990 No, Biden is and has been a traitor to the US his entire political career. The money trail to Biden family shell companies has spilled out into the open, with direct payments from Putin's oligarchs and Xi's CCP spy fronts. FBI, NSA, and other agencies have been tracking all this for decades, with whistleblowers punished, and Biden crime family running unmolested.
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@Wavy_Gravy Trump leaned on private intelligence from retired intel people because the Soviets and Chinese took over US intelligence and packed it with moles. It's one of the reasons why CIA & FBI hate him and recognize him as an existential threat to their bureaucracies.
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@davedevonlad7402 Yes, we were involved with the weapons and systems capabilities expansion on the F-16 CTF at Edwards, so it's something I've tracked in great detail. Most of the information isn't well-known or even understood by aviation geeks, let alone interested viewers. Short story is there are big differences between an F-16AM MLU and a late Block CM model Viper that has gone through CCIP 1 & 2. Most of it isn't OSINT. F-16AM is highly-capable in the Air-to-Air role though. Su-30 & Su-35 have much larger PESA Radars that should give earlier detection and tracking, and they fly faster/higher profiles with pretty long stick BVRAAMs that would make life hard for any Viper, minus Block 70. If coordinated with SAMBushes, the F-16AM would be more survivable and lethal, but it really lacks the anti-SAM site capabilities that the US F-16CM+ Vipers have with HARM & HTS. It might increase the sortie rates for launching VLO cruise missiles though if they configure F-16AMs for that, as they have done to the Su-24M. They have also configured MiG-29s to launch HARMs, so maybe there is work being done to at least rig F-16AMs to launch it as well. The biggest missing pieces are the HTS and training for D/SEAD, which is extremely difficult for a single seat fighter.
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@davedevonlad7402 I went and reviewed the initial program specs for the F-16AM MLU and it did list integration of the HTS and HARM, but I’ve never seen it implemented or any of the operational MSIP partner nations carrying HTS or HARMs on their F-16AMs. They do carry the FLIR pod on station 5R frequently, but I don’t think HTS/HARM was ever integrated. In contrast, you do see the Greek Air Force F-16C Block 52s with HTS and HARMs. If Ukraine gets F-16AM MLUs with the provisions for HTS and the HARM anti-radar missile, and this is what is taking them so long, then it could actually be a game-changer for temporary thrusts of SEAD missions that allow strikers to reach a little deeper when taking out critical targets. If they equip them with anti-ship missiles, which was always a focus for some of the European F-16A operators even in the early 1980s, that could also be a game-changer to attrit Russian Black Sea Fleet vessels basically at Ukraine’s pleasure, especially with coordinated boat drone attacks.
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Trump is not like that. His public image is very crafted. He's much more reserved and quiet during meetings, very measured.
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@karlschmied6218 Do you want to change your life and outlook for the better? Read a book about Trump pre-2016, or anything dispassionate from people who actually worked in the WH around him. He brings in people that disagree on many things and asks for them to "Hit me with it straight." especially if it's uncomfortable. All Presidents and famous leaders have had a cultivated and crafted public image, and their real demeanor left for private. Obama is an absentee lazy guy who felt entitled, too above the job, simply couldn't be bothered with most of WH affairs. Didn't consult with Dems in Congress on much of anything, was hard to reach, didn't give inner city black leaders the time of day. He harnessed the desire of the Nation to put a cap on healing of any residual racial tension for political gain, then tore open the old wounds with agitation and vengeance. George W. Bush is a crack-up who is a social butterfly, loves getting people together to stir up conversations and debate. He's probably the most well-read US President of the last 100 years, very sharp, former F-102A pilot, used to party a lot including booze and cocaine. In public, he sounds like a slow, rural Texan and a clumsy public speaker. He said specifically he didn't want to come off like a know-it-all like Newt Gingrich and academics, because it alienates voters. Clinton will literally beeline straight for your wife in front of you. He grew up in a big buick dealership family who adopted him after his mom married into them. Grandpa Clinton taught him and drilled him on memory training skills. He had a convertible Buick at age 16 in Arkansas and got used to women chasing him until it was boring, then got into edgier behavior. Huge drug abuser to include a lot of pot and cocaine, overdosed after losing reelection as Governor in 1980. George H.W. Bush was very calculated, a carpetbagger from CT, Bonesman at Yale. Moved to Texas to work with guys in the oil business as part of his CIA cover after the war. He was still in US Navy service until 1955, even though he got out Sept 1945. He went into the oil industry in Texas and went quickly from salesman to CEO of his own oil drilling company. He also liked to sound like a Texan, but was very calculated behind the scenes, very disciplined. He was the last US President with a foreign policy focus. Find people you dislike politically, and read a wide range of books on them. It will expand your thoughts and point of view greatly.
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@roylidstone3678 Who sent weapons to Ukraine prior to Feb 2022? Who actively worked to disarm Ukraine since the 1990s? Who thwarted Ukrainian investigations into Russian malfeasance under Yanukovych's puppet regime, then bragged about it? Whose son received $3.5 million in bribes in just one day from Putin's oligarch, Elena Baturina, then was placed on the board of one of the main money-laundering vehicles in Ukraine that was managed by another Russian puppet, Zlochevsky? Answer those questions and reality will smack you hard in the face.
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