Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "DW News" channel.

  1. General Hodges, you are doing the Ukrainians, the world community and your country a great service by your analyses and thoughts and criticisms about the war in Ukraine. War is something I have never known; in fact, I've never been in the military, but I can tell you that by listening to your take on what is going down in the Ukrainian/Russian war, it is great to know there are people with the expertise and experience like you on the side of the allies. What we all need to realize is that war is the most serious business of all and every day 20 Ukrainian soldiers on average are getting killed and as many or more on the other side. Innocent people and civilians are dying as well which is why we all have to stay focused on getting a solid win for the Ukrainians.
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  2. Let's be real: We, in the west have urged the Ukrainians to go ahead with their counter-offensive in a way no western country would ever do. The militaries of today’s world would only attempt a counter-offensive with Bombers to carpet bomb the mine fields, Warthogs to strafe enemy trenches and take out tanks, G-9 Bulldozers to plow through dragon's teeth and hidden mine fields and trenches, Attack Helicopters to mow down advancing enemy forces and take out ground support vehicles and artillery emplacements and finally fighter planes to take out missile loaders far behind enemy lines and keep the enemy's choppers and fighter planes at bay. Boys and girls, we have asked the Ukrainian military to do something none of our countries in the west would even attempt to do and we have the gall to posit why progress is slow. Defense Secretary Austin along with the defense secretaries of all NATO member countries have known since Russia took Crimea that this war was going to happen and yet they have failed in getting the Ukrainian military up-to-speed for the crucial counter-offensive needed to push Russia back to its borders. They all must resign and let capable military specialists take over.
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  3. The whole world is suffering from Ukraine fatigue, but for one fundamental reason: we are waiting to see the Russians retreating. What's the solution? How about trusting the Ukrainian military command with weapons to make the war end sooner than later?
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  4. Lt. General (Ret.) Ben Hodges speaks truth to power like no one else and his message is always a resounding 'Yes' Ukraine can win its war against Russia. What would be great to see would be General Hodges sitting down with former President Donald J. Trump and letting them both talk about the Ukraine war.
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  5. Determination on one side of the conflict demands equal determination on the other side. When I was in high school, a friend of mine's dad worked for a car company as an executive. When my friend turned 16 he decided to ask his dad for a Mustang. "Dad," he said, "I want a Mustang". His dad kept a straight face and looked back at his son and said "It's nice to want things". Here we have Russia throwing all its might and missiles and howitzer shells and just about everything else it can muster at a sovereign nation. In effect, they're saying to Ukraine. "We want your country". I think the only response that the Ukraine and the western countries and NATO can give President Putin and Russia is "It's nice to want things".
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  6. Let's be real: Recently, retired General David Petraeus, the former architect of the Iraq war said that before American troops would go on a counteroffensive if American troops were in the place of the Ukrainian troops against Russia, that first B1 Bombers would carpet bomb the trenches and minefields. G9 Bulldozers would finish the job. Warthog ground-support fighters with 50 caliber cannons would make hamburger out of retreating Russian forces and take out troop carriers and tanks and artillery guns. Apache attack helicopters would take out hidden artillery batteries and cover advancing forces, F-16s would be crisscrossing the Russian lines dropping bombs on tanks and firing at fleeing soldiers and keeping Russian jets at bay. The Ukraine does not have bombers, G9 bulldozers, Warthog ground-support fighters, Apache attack helicopters or F16s covering the troops and having air superiority. Does anyone see what I am saying here? Ukraine has gone into a counteroffensive with one hand tied behind its back against the 2nd Superpower on the planet. Asking ourselves questions like "how is it possible that the Ukrainians have made such little progress?" is absurd. We have to give them the weapons they need to win the war. Period.
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  7. Can we also point out that the Ukraine's counter offensive is the first in modern history without the offensive forces going in with air superiority. The Ukrainians are literally fighting with one hand tied behind their backs while Russians have the edge on air power. Fighter planes and bombers would have made mincemeat of Russian troops in the trenches and mine fields would have been strafed and the like. I am not a military analyst and I am only repeating what professional military analysts like Mr Martin have said and which explains why it is so hard for the Ukrainians to pierce the Russian front-line defenses. This is why the highly controversial cluster munitions should be something the Ukrainians can use to better even up the odds.
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  8. At only 12:52 into this extraordinary interview with retired British Army General Sir Richard Shirreff, the master of the provocative question, Tim Sebastien, shows us why his interviews stand above the rest like proud sentinels in the world of televised broadcasting. What is clear to me about the Ukrainian war is that what matters most is the mindset of a nation and especially for its political class. Britain has the mindset of a superpower and that is why it really has become a superpower at a time where having all the kit in the world is only secondary. What President Putin has shown us is a mindset that is a mockery of good soldiering. Russian commanders have shown themselves to be inept and incompetent with poor leadership skills. Russia still has a WW I training-manual state of military mind and their lack of concern for the life of their fighting men is appalling. The troubling factor of course, with 'Putin's war' as Chancellor Scholz called it, is that Putin alone decides for his entire nation and he knows he cannot stop the war in Ukraine, because if he does his life will become expendable. What General Shirreff chillingly spells out though, is that complacency has begun settling in like gangrene in our western nations the more the war drags on. The Russians are smiling with glee as their famous and formidable friend, the winter god, is once again going to be a workhorse for them in wearing down the Ukrainian armed forces while the west twiddles its thumbs and gives pro-Ukrainian politicians the finger. We would be fools to refuse to heed Sir Richard's words of wisdom and this is why we must do everything in our power to give the Ukrainians the weopons they need to win their independence.
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  9. There is nothing that strikes one in the heart and soul more than seeing Mother Nature on the run.
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  10. Prigozhin has shown to the Russian people that they have the power in their own hands to have the kind of leadership they deserve. For twenty years, stovepipe governmental rule has meant that everyone must bow and obey, obey and bow, never question and never take the initiative. Remember, one of the first things Putin did was to take away the Russian people's right to elect governors of their provinces or regions. Suddenly, all the people who were running the districts were hand-picked by Putin. It has never stopped and Prigozhin is giving them the instruction manual in how to overthrow a regime. The question of course is if there is a spark of courage left in the Russian masses...
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  11. It's incredible the number of children in poverty-stricken homes in Columbia who are suffering from food insecurity among other things. What we are seeing in South America is the pandemic in control.
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  12. What I see as someone who has now had two doses of the Pfizer vaccine is that I no longer think it's wise to think I'm in the clear. I'm on the continent and the Indian variant has been detected here, like where you are and 40 some other countries if not more. My worry is the if the B 1716.2 variant is a step above the Kent variant, then we're far from out of the woods, because we'd be naïve to think there won't be another, more potent and more deady variant coming down the line sooner or later.
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  13. It is always informative to tune in to DW News and one thing that is impossible for me to understand is how the Wagner Chief, who has experience only as a bank robber, prisoner and a catering chef, was put in charge of ill-equipped, poorly trained, morally bankrupt soldiers who were fighting against a formidable foe? What on Earth is going on in Russia to have such incompetent and frankly ignorant people in command of troops that have been lost in the tens of thousands from battle plans that Alexander the Great would have laughed at? We talk of the loss of 20,000 troops like as if they were slaughtered hogs. These were fine young men who were coerced into fighting on the front lines and many times ordered to attack in waves simple to draw enemy fire to determine where Ukraine's artillery units were hiding. Who could order hundreds of men a day to certain death and call himself a military commander? It is appalling and so careless and cruel with such utter disregard for human life and how in the world Putin is backing this charlatan soldier is beyond belief. Lastly, seeing how the Wagner Chief can stand in the blown-out and completely destroyed city of Bakhmut and claim victory is the most blatant example of a military farce the world has ever seen.
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  14. What I have learned from DW News and its colleagues in the news business is that telling it like it is makes for the best way to present the news and DW News does a fine job of doing just that. As far as what is the most appalling and the most distressing and the absolute hardest thing for me to understand from the Ukrainian / Russian conflict is how the Wagner Chief was allowed to direct military operations in the first place. We will one day undoubtedly have some sort of ball park figure of how many untrained, ill-equipped and poorly motivated Russian soldiers were sent to their untimely deaths in wave after wave in a large part to draw out Ukrainian artillery units and pinpoint enemy strategic positions. Cannon fodder is what even Russian soldiers were calling themselves. A lot of us reading this were once 19 or 20 years old and if we remember a little, it was a marvelous life out there waiting to be lived to the fullest, but not by the Russian conscripts and former prisoners that the Wagner Chief carelessly and cruelly sent to their early deaths to take a city that had very little strategic value. It's heartbreaking and unimaginable to think a world superpower would have commanders who had no business running battalions, let alone being in charge of military operations with no experience in the military like Prigozhin himself. Pathetic
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  15. Hats off to the DW News team and reporters. You are all doing a great job. This war is not yet 365 days old, but I know that DW News and your colleagues and sister news organizations have brought us all up-to-speed on numerous occasions. We know that reports like this brave lady will never get over some of the atrocities she and her colleagues have seen. Death scenes never erase from our minds. What we all have to realize is that the Russian regime has taken invading a foreign country to a new level. Liberated villages, towns and cities from the Russians in the Ukraine are revealing war crimes and atrocities that makes even the most battle-hardened people wince. Bravo and be safe---
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  16. You do excellent analyses and interviews. How important it is to have people study war and military tactics. I have always wondered why people study war, why there are war colleges and now we know. We will be forever in their debt, these analysts like Mike Martin and his colleagues for being able to show ordinary people by dissecting the events of what war is. Mr Martin said in this interview that Putin attacking civilian tactics does nothing to increase his war effort; one would have thought the contrary. But now I see his point, nothing militarily has been gained by the Russians to shell civilians. It's bits of knowledge like that that enable us watching from the comfort of our homes---in our case 2,000 kilometers from Kiev---just what the war in Ukraine is all about. It also allows us to move out of our comfort-zones and realize more than 5 million people have had to leave their 'comfortable' flats and homes because they were invaded.
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  17. Excellent reporting. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has become an international leader of universal esteem in what can only be said is a testament to his capabilities to lead Germany and be a resounding voice in the free world. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is also becoming the man for the times. With Scholz and Kishida one feels a lot safer and grateful to have voices of reason and leaders who are willing to stand up to superpowers.
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  18. Julia Kiryanova touches every heart in the human community and her love of country surpasses anything that tries to destroy the Urkainian people.
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  19. We have to send a bouquet of symbolic flowers of solidarity to the brave and courageous people of Ukraine. If neighboring France had amassed tens of thousands of troops on the border of our country, I know for one it would be constantly on our minds. We would be constantly asking: what is going on? Are they going to attack us? What have we done to deserve this?
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  20. With all due respect for the climate change scientists and environmental activists, but we must be real; as long as China is a coal-burning nation among a host of others, we can't expect our sacrifices will do any good. One half of the world doing everything it can to bring down CO2 levels and the other half doing the opposite is the reality we all have to face up to.
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  21. What I don't understand is why aren't the Russian artillery batteries being targeted? Of course, some must be getting taken out of action, but it is maddening to think that the only reason the Ukraine cannot fight back is because the long-range howitzers are still not in place.
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  22. While the US gets through doing their thing and getting government back up and running, why doesn't DW News focus on showcasing some or all of the 54 countries contributing to the war effort in Ukraine. I am sure people would be happy to know if a small country is only contributing mittens and strawberry jam. By doing this it would give the big donors time to reset their clocks after nearly 600 days of providing non-stop help and aid and weapons and give them time to catch their breath for the next round of fighting in the Ukrainian war.
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  23. There is no one to blame for Ukraine's counteroffensive gains or losses. General David Petraeus, America's favorite retired general, was asked what a counteroffensive would look like if American troops were on the front lines against the Russians in eastern Ukraine. First, he of all he said before one soldier was allowed to make one step into enemy territory, B1 bombers would carpet bomb the minefields. G-9 Bulldozers would be sent in to clean up the kilometers of dragons' teeth. Ground support aircraft like the feared Apache attack helicopters and Warthog fighter planes with 50 mm cannon would Straif the trenches and retreating troops. Back behind enemy lines F16s would take out hidden artillery batteries, everything that moves or drives or rolls on the battlefield or back roads like support vehicles or troop transporters would be annihilated and destroyed. The Ukrainians have tanks, and Himars, but there would be Tacams that could take out military installations far behind enemy lines. Does anyone see where I am going here? We have criticized the Ukrainians for going on a counteroffensive that the most powerful army in the world would not attempt without all the forementioned kit and gear and equipment. Let's be real: the Ukrainians would be able to puncture enemy lines and take back Crimea in mere days if they only had the weapons.
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  24. Excellent reporting on what could happen to any of us. Can anyone really imagine what it must be like to come back to your flat or home and have it not there anymore? It's made life stop in many ways. I am an artist, but I can only paint now at the end of the day and I have to force myself to put brush to canvas. My prediction is that at Easter 2023, all of Ukraine will be back in Ukrainian hands---Crimea and the strip of land annexed in 2014 as well. Russia will be forced to abandon its siege warfare on Ukraine and retreat back to its territory. But we all know if the Russians lose Ukraine, they will not allow themselves to lose face in front of their allies and the west. That is my biggest worry.
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  25. At 22:32 into this revealing and extraordinary videocast, the American Lt. General (Ret.) Ben Hodges spells out what the Ukrainian war is all about. Our western leaders must accept that the Urkainians must win this war and that we will help them in every way we can.
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  26. It's been an informative interview with top quality questions that have engendered excellent answers like from former tank commander Justin Crump. His analyses of the nuts and bolts of the Challenger and Leopard II tanks show us that the Ukraine is getting some real firepower this time round. What I have never imagined is to be hearing about tanks being necessary for the war after seeing Russia and the Ukraine lose literally tens of their own tanks to anti-tank rockets, but I guess this is the price you have to be willing to pay in 21st century warfare. You're going to lose a lot of crews to modern anti-tank weapons. The tanks do one thing that I heard a Ukrainian tank commander say that I also never thought about before and that is that apparently the infantry feel much more secure when they accompany tanks are on the battlefield. There are battles ahead, many battles are lost and we hope the tanks help get Crimea back in Ukrainian hands asap.
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  27. Great work Ben and to your colleagues as well who bring dignity to reporting the news and the cold, hard truth to our doorsteps every single day. First, may we wish you all a very Happy Holiday Season in spite of the terrible loss of life in Ukraine and other hot spots around the world today and raise a glass to Germans and to your great country in these dangerous and more and more often, impossible times to understand and deal with. War rages on, practically touching down at your borders and how hard it must be for you to announce on this 29th day and over 650 days where war has raged in Ukraine and so many innocent civilians have paid the price for empire-expanssion cum agression by Ukraine's now hated neighbor; Russia. I have no idea how it must be to go to work and say to the world that bombs and missiles have once again targeted civilians and infra-structure in a country that has paid ten times the price of most other countries simply to exist and live in peace. Slava Ukraine and glory to Germany and peace on earth.
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  28. What we have to realize is that there is going to be a sort of 'Zelensky's Law' coming into play in the next six months. What do I mean by Zelensky's Law, it's just a made-up name to copy Moore's Law which stated that technological progress with double every 18 months, but I think we are going to see war-making technology upgrade itself every month in the Ukraine war. Already, it's impossible to hide anything, even in forests and there is nowhere to run or get away. What we have to realize is that every nation worth its salt across the world are inventing new hardware, upgrading weapons and especially bringing drones up to stratospheric levels. Missiles will be even more deadly and accurate as the weeks grind on. I predict we will also begin seeing laser-guns used to saw through armored vehicles and bring down hypersonic missiles. There is no stopping the war unless one side or the other is brought to its knees by a heretofore unknown weapons system that has no equal. We can expect to see even more mind-boggling drones used as FOs, bombers and rocket launchers combined. Nothing and nowhere is safe anymore.
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  29. I don't think I have ever felt such apprehension about a threat to human society in my lifetime. You would almost think that we have been invaded by an invisible, contageous, deadly organism---in this case Covid-19 variants Delta and Omicron---but there is an eerie feeling in the air. We're neighbors with France and to hear that 218,000 thousand people got infected in one day is quite literally off-the-charts. Can anyone put this puzzle together, because this virus doesn't seem to be like anything we've ever heard of before. The Spanish Flu Epidemic killed millions so it must have been very contageous too, but what I don't see is a light at the end of the tunnel. With most of the worlds' population unvaccinated, aren't we looking at the real possibility that a variant coming down the line will be able to overcome our vaccines? Lastly, we send our warmest Season's Greetings to health workers around the world and a bouquet of thanks to journalists and reporters and news people for keeping the world informed and we wish you all safe passage through the pandemic.
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  30. What a time we live in with the Covid-19 pandemic continuing to send thousands of people into ICU's across Europe and the rest of the world. We have got to stop being a world of countries and become a world of one human family. We see now how one country can make life very difficult for another country and what I am really saying is that people who are already struggling to put food on the table will have to suffer even more. We have got to become one people and think of ourselves as the human family.
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  31. There is a proverb in military jargon that goes something like this: try to imagine what the enemy thinks you are going to do and do the opposite. The Nord Stream gas pipeline fits into this paradigm. Whomever committed this act is the best at getting everyone to look one way while they go about doing what no one in the world would think they would do. Ukraine is the obvious guilty nation. But that's just it: it's too obvious...
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  32. What would Alexander the Great be doing if his army was the encircled Ukrainian forces in Mariupol? Just knowing briefly his military tactics, I would bet that he would drive a wedge through the Russian eastern flank and circle round to come at the Russian forces from behind. It would take the Russians off-guard. The Ukrainian forces can only win back the demolished city by going on the offense.
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  33. Never in my life have I seen anything like what is happening around the world and especially in India with so many losing their life because of lack of hospital beds and medical supplies. Our hearts and prayers go out to our Indian brothers and sisters in their darkest hour. Nevertheless; it's not the time to point fingers at who's to blame and show anger, but to follow the people who are helping each other, for example. Everyone must do what they can do to get precious oxygen to patients unable to breathe correctly. This is a time for all of us to remember we are all a part of the human family and that every one deserves the chance to recieve needed medical care and supplies and above all oxygen. India's Prime Minister Modi is doing everything in his power to get supplies to the people in need, but I think no one realizes the logistics in getting supplies to such a vast number of people. It's understandable people are upset, but it's no good now to criticize the Indian government with a crisis of such epic proportions. India will survive the pandemic and show the world what a great people they are.
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  34. What on Earth is going on that the poorest of Afghanistan's people are being left to starve to death.
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  35. There is no one to blame in Germany for this because there have been political winds blowing six ways from Sunday for the German government to do more to fight polution for decades. Politicians wanting to have reliable energy sources were shouted down by the environmentalists who only see energy as something that must not pollute. That being said, we've got to look at this as a window of opportunity and leave our emotions at the door. Like in days of old when there was a miserly king and the peasants were left to starve and suffer at the whim of the crusty old man with the crown on his head, President Putin has replaced the king. He is a very smart man and he has used his brilliant mind to construct a ruling class that is obedient only to him. Russian people tell us that they don't even allow themselves to think of anything else than what Putin says is the truth. Imagine what effect this has on young people growing up and needing to take responsibility for their lives? A man from Russia visiting our city told me that Russian people need to be told what to do. They have no incentive to try anything new that might bring on a reply from the government. This is what Germany is dealing with and this is why Germany will suffer through this winter perhaps, but Chancellor Sholz is a very smart man and he's going to create an energy system that will allow Germany to never again be subject to blackmail.
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  36. What is important is for Kosovo to continue to implement the new rules but to do with grace. You can get people to understand things by being persuasive and understanding and to just keep saying that this is how it will be from now on, but that people can live freely as always. To recap: you say to the people: here are the new rules. You keep repeating with a smile.
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  37. Eliot Cohen's analysis of the Ukrainian war and Russian competence is mind boggling and surreal. What we had grown up believing was that the Russian war machine was unstoppable and could out-fight any western army. What Mr Cohen points out is exactly the oppposite. I've never been in the military, but what we see on our television screens is the Russian army unable to fight in combat. They seem disoriented and poorly trained. Their way of fighting is slash and burn, bomb and send in missiles. More than 70 hospitals have been attacked. What on Earth is going on here to have doctors and health workers targeted and hospitals full of patients getting bombed? This shows us once and for all that authoritarian regimes are toxic for the human community and have no place in the world.
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  38.  @VladislavDoroshuk  GGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. We need to hear from all sides of an argument to make sense of the situtation at hand. We must remember that under international law that was signed by Moscow, all the treaties say that sovereign countries get to choose what alliances sovereign countries belong to. Treaties like the UN Charter was signed by Russia. The 1975 Helsinki agreement was signed by the Soviet Union. The 1990 Charter of Paris for a new Europe was also signed by the Soviet Union. The 1997 NATO Russia Founding Act was equally signed by the Russian Government. All those documents were signed by either the Soviet Regime or the Russian regime, which is the legally recognized international inheritor i.e., successor of the Soviet State. The fact is those agreements are still in place and they clearly state that sovereign countries can freely choose their foreign policy and what alliances they want to join.
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  39. Emily Sherman does an excellent job explaining the Russian losses. What Emily may not know is that the liver spots or dark spots on her nose and cheeks and neck can easily be removed by a dermatologist. The technology is finally here to remove blemishes and since Emily is on global TV, she might want to take advantage of being able to have a clear complexion.
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  40. It makes no sense to see the extent of the lockdowns in China unless we aren't seeing things the way we should be. Maybe there is an ulterior motive to the lockdowns in that they are being used to deliberately derail the global economy by using Covid-19 and therefore Chinese officials will not being able to be criticised or blamed for the meltdown it's having on the entire world?
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  41. The solution is masks. Everyone should wear a mask through the winter.
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  42. No; the UK is not spiraling into chaos, it is chiraling into spaos! These are exciting times to be a leader of country. What people don't get is that everything looks bad if we look at the world through last years spectacles. Boys and girls, it's a whole new world out there and it's a great place to be if you are up-to-date.
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  43. No one can give an interview like Tim Conway. Former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov is a master at not revealing crucial information, but we all know how he has to cover his tracks and the information he does give is very helpful in giving us a fuller picture of political life in an autocratic regime, so it's been a postive listening experience. His portrait of Putin is ghostly however; it's as if we have no meat on the bones of who and what Vladimir Putin really is like as a person. The red flag is that Mr Kasyanov paints a picture of a man in a business suit who does his job and that's it. No one works with someone without some very interesting insights into what makes the person tick.
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  44. Ines Pohl has given was has to be General (et.) David Petaeus' finest interview. The questions were sizzling hot and every response from General Pataeus was crystal clear and factual and realistic.
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  45. What I take out of this very good interview by DW News with military analyst Marina Miron is that the only way we can look at the current situation in the world is that for all practical purposes, the world is on the brink of another world war! We're talking about beefing up ammunition production, tank production---everything is about increasing military spending and that Russia is always in the forefront of any discussion as to why the west has to do more to support Ukraine. The west and Russia is not in a cold war situation like before; it's in fact a hot war on hold. We're days, weeks, months and maybe a year away from the Ukraine war breaking out of its borders and this is where the prospect of a tactical nuclear war is starting to come into focus, because how else will Russia fight its foes with so many of its military troops either dead or out of commission along with all the kit and armor destroyed already and needed to fight an extended war?
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  46.  @sweetedoutsweetmachines9188  GGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. That kid is now a Ph.D with a practice in psychology. He was one of those people who never let anything get in his way of becoming a success.
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  47. Excellent videocast and we are all sitting on pins and needles as the Ukrainian war moves forward. What is striking is how calm and jovial President Putin is during ceremonies with young entrepreneurs, for example. We now know the Ukrainian war is all about Empire and this means Europe is in for some street fighting.
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  48. I am going to give what I think is what could allow Barcelona and reservoirs in Catalonia to be re-supplied. I am an artist and an inventor. My idea is not new: aqueducts were used by the Romans. My idea for our time is to put piping---underground aqueducts---under roads and railway tracks and give transportation systems a duel purpose. Water is abundant in some regions of Spain and Europe and it could be sent via underground aqueducts to cities like Barcelona which is experiencing a 3-year-old drought. Of course, it's probably going to be very expensive to begin re-puposing our infrastructure, but we must think of a future with more and more extreme weather conditions. What we see now in the present is that our climate is not something we can count on to have enough water for people in regions where there is severe drought. The jet streams have been altered according to climate scientists and this is why there are these ultra-dry conditions. Piping under roads and railway systems as aqueducts is doable.
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  49.  @GreenIsTheWayForward  GGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. I have sent this idea to places around the world from Australia to India to the Governor of California. I think water circulating under the roads could also be used to 'cool down' cities like Athens, Greece where the ashphalt melts in summer in the cities and becomes an oven at night. It doesn't rain any more, it's more like water bombs where a whole year of rain falls in hours. This water could be sent straight away to reservoirs and drought-stricken regions.
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  50. It has to be said that Olaf Scholz, who has only been in the Chancellor's office for mere months is already coming across as an astute and very wise world leader. On the other hand, he is coming to the office of the Chancellor of Germany with probably out-dated ideas on what President Putin is capable of doing. One thing Chancellor Sholz may believe is that Putin would actually use nuclear weapons and therefore it would be better not to call his bluff. Recently, I saw a panel of experts debating the topic of Putin using nuclear weapons, and the gentleman from Russia said that we have to fight for the freedom of the Ukraine no matter what weapons Putin uses. We can't let Putin's threats of using nuclear bombs deter us from helping the Ukrainians win their country back. They need long-range artillery weapons and cruize missiles and long-range rocket systems: let's get those weapons over to Zalensky's troops in the badlands of the Ukraine by using the legal channels available to us and not worry about what President Putin may or may not do in retaliation.
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