Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "TV Rain Newsroom" channel.

As someone who has never served in the military and someone living 2,000 kilometers from Kiev and my parents coming from Finland and Norway, what I see happening on the front lines are some of the finest fighting troops ever to grace our planet. Lt. General (Ret.) Ben Hodges is for me America's greatest living general and were he in charge of military support from his country, there would be Ukrainian boots on the ground in Crimea instead of Russian. What everyone seems to not understand about counteroffensive---and I of course don't mean General Hodges---but another American (Ret.) general, General David Petraeus said that before American troops would be allowed to go on a counteroffensive in the Donbas for example, the first thing the Americans would do would be to have air superiority, then they would send in B1 bombers to clear out the minefields, then they would send in Apache attack helicopters to take care of artillery batteries and then they would send in Warthog ground support aircraft with their 50 mm canons that terrify enemy forces. G-9 bulldozers would be sent in to get rid of dragons' teeth and then troops would be allowed to go across enemy lines. Is anyone following what I am saying? Ukraine was given the green light to go on the counteroffensive against the 2nd most powerful military force in the world literally with one hand tied behind its back. The Ukrainians are doing an astounding job on a shoestring budget and severe lack of weapons and long-range missiles and the like. We should salute them and get them the ammunition and matériel they need as quick as we can. Lastly, the lack of funding that the US is on the fence about is actually doing a very good thing: it shows where the Russians have their most firepower because they are coming out of the woodwork knowing they can attack the Ukrainians while they are under-armed.
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