Yeah, I really think these conversations are great, but when they do that with the snippet, and when they repost an entire 10 minute videos taken from a 25 minute video they also post, it means I'll be hearing/clicking on the same content like 4 times. Which I'm sure is nice for them, but really hurts the listening experience and could be solved pretty easily by better labeling. Also, when all videos are just people talking, it makes it pretty disorienting to jump-cut like that. Like, did I listen to this before, or is it just the same topic? Did I miss something or did they just to a prior part of the conversation? IDK, and I can't scan through the video to see because it will just be their faces the whole time. I have to listen for a minute or rewind to re-listen. Incredibly frustrating decisions in otherwise helpful insight/discussion.
It's particularly bad in this case, because the snippet is so long and comes from so early in the interview. So we watch the 30-second snippet, then 90s of new content, then the 30s snippet again.
Not really because you aren’t allowed to take aircraft carriers in the Black Sea. Even Russia. As matter of fact only ones allowed to go through the channel (whatever it’s called) to get to the Black Sea is the states that border the Black Sea and no aircraft carriers are allowed in their . Turkey controls the channel or straight and they have to allow you to pass but according to the agreement signed along time ago no aircraft carriers and only states allowed have to border the Black Sea. That’s why US doesn’t have an aircraft carrier in their now
There are very few Russians that live in Finland or Sweden. But if yoy did any research, you would know that in the last Ukrainian census (2001!), 8,334,100 people identified themselves as ethnic Russians (17.3% of the population). At the end of this conflict, nearly all of them and their territory, will be part of Russia.
@@Robert-Black At the current speed russia will complete its objective in about 3,200 years - if nothing going wrong for them. Except that at the current loss rate they'll completely run out of population in about 400 years. So they'll have to fight the last 2,800 years without any military, really without any population at all.
@@Cl0ckcl0ck "Turkey is on the way out of a _MILITARY alliance_ and into an _ECONOMIC union",_ is that what you're saying? Yes, that's what you said. How did you come up with that nonsense?
Yeah, we have air bases IN Alaska, which *actually* is on russia's doorstep. Ukraine is happy to have that new base their I'm sure- Russia just doesn't like this *extremely strong* signal that we are willing to support Ukraine for the long-term.
@@zane4218 If we count Eareckson Air Station (which isn't a huge air base), that's still around 500 km away from Russia. Mihail Kogalniceanu is around 400 km away from Sevastopol in Crimea, so the distances are comparable.
The Black Sea isn't theirs at all. Their Black Sea Flee had fled and can't operate there at all. The Bulgarians and Romanians are freely clearing mines in Ukraine's shipping lanes while the Orks are mining their own easternmost Black Sea ports to protect their remaining ships. Ukraine has won a huge victory with the battle for the Black Sea.
Putin miscalculated the reaction from Ukraine and the West - but mostly Ukraine. He thought they would be a pushover and just lay down before his conscript army and it'd be all done and over with his puppet in place inside a month at most. In fairness, much of the West possibly thought that too. He goofed bigtime! Or should we say bigly?
Did not mention 2 crucial things regarding the MK air base: - air defense: Romania bought *7 Patriot systems* - Romania's Parliament approved the purchase of *32 F-35 aircraft*
If Russia is crying about it, they can blame themselves. Russia decided to invade Ukraine and this base buildup in Romania is one of the consequences.🤷🏻
Romania is Nato since 2004 and Romania can build as many military bases as it wants in it's sovereign territory and can invite as many Nato partners as it desires in the construction and manning of said bases. This concept of ''sovereign territory'' and ''choice'' is a foreign concept to some .
Russia doesn't like Sovereign nations. It demands a 'zone of influence'. That means it has the right to approve the policy of nations and approve their Government and replace with an invasion as required. It's been in place since Soviet Times and before. When Putin demands "denazification' of Ukraine as a precondition to a cease fire what he demands is replacement of the Government. It's a code or propaganda term. Remove the government and replace with one they approve. A lot of fools fall for it. The Guadian for instance.
The Finnish dont have Typhoons but F-18s and they were in Romania for a joint exercise. Also Nato is not moving to the East as Romania has been Nato member for a long time. They have bought 32 F-16 from Norway and also the F-16 education for Ukraine is going on in Romania so they need some space for that of course. So the Black Sea is not a Russian sea with longest coast line, however Nato has the longest Black Sea coastline by Romania, Bulgaria and of course Türkiye. Would suggest that the commentator does his homework a lot more thoroughly! He seemed worried that the russians could be irritated, but who cares, the russians will be more than irritated, they will have more losses in the Black Sea.
Am I the only one laughing when after having 1/3 of their Black Sea fleet sunk (including the capital ship), being forced out of Sevastopol and- as a result- losing control of the western half of the Black Sea to a nation without a Navy…the Russian “feel the black sea is ‘their sphere of influence?’”. I mean, if you can’t even control the Black Sea despite Ukraine having no Navy and very little air power…how do you think you’re going to “influence” anything. How about accept that you are little better than a third world county with nuclear weapons and be happy that NATO will leave you alone after you leave Ukraine despite the fact that you will have no army left
Russia is not and has never been a naval power. The Black sea means very little to Putin , his only interest is in taking back those historically Russian areas that were ceded to Ukraine. And the reason is because under the agreements, Ukrainians were supposed to treat the predominantly Russian population as equals and with respect...but they harassed and ridiculed them and treated them like second class citizens. And deprived them of their rights. They complained to Putin...and he responded accordingly. Putin does not want to rule over eastern Europe or even Ukraine , at least from the many speeches he has made over the years that is what he said. He also said that when Stalin took over eastern Europe , it was a big mistake that he has no interest in repeating. He just wants Ukraine to be neutral...and if NATO and Zelensky persist in fast tracking NATO membership, Putin has said he will make sure that Ukraine will not join NATO because it will no longer exist.
Denmark has been training Ukrainian pilots for more than a year on F16s at Airbase Skrydstrup, we don't just put them in the planes and say "now fly them", they're being given proper training/conversion to the F16 - I read a report with an exclamation from an Ukrainian pilot who said that these are a very new and advanced way of flying, and that he loved it. :-)
Once Ukraine is in Nato they will put in a huge military base west of Kiev. Anyway, Ukraine has an almighty arsenal of militiry might now compare to a few years ago?
@@instantparty8856 yes, because it gave up the world's largest arsenal of nuclear warheads in the world and ironically is being bombed daily by the munitions Ukraine supplied the ussr 40/50/60 years ago. NATO isn't helping Ukraine, if it was then they would have closed the sky on day one and showed that they have a spine. Send NATO troops to go fight in eastern Ukraine and they wouldn't survive because they're not hard enough. It will be Ukrainians teaching NATO and not the other way around.
@@danl5592 lol, you just wait and see what is coming your way.... and before you start barking, this is all IN RESPONSE to what Russia is doing. We did not want this nor did we choose this. Russia did.
Every day, the Russians liberate more ethnic Russian territory. Soon there will be no NATO equipment or puppets in Donetsk or Luhansk. Maybe then the Russians will offer peace terms to Kiev, unless they decide to go for Odessa, which has always been a Russian city.
After WWII for decades folks in Romania were keeping hopes alive that Americans will come one day on their territory to confer freedom to Romania. Only great children of those are seeing that happening in real life.
Putin was secretly just trying to expand and strengthen NATO all along, honest. Seeing how Europe is more committed to collective defence than ever before, speaks of a job well done.
A logical step, Russia is not going to stop unless it is stopped. Romania welcomes the USA with open arms, not only for security, we actually like americans a lot.
Russia still has an imperialist mindset and thinks it has the right to control the foreign policy of all of its neighbours, which it thinks must be either allies or occupied vassals.
@@timonsolus Russia has no army anymore and is a complete and utter joke. If Russia cant even take 15% of Ukraine after losing 600,000 men, how are they going to fight any other country?🤣
Russia has nowhere to go now except economic pain and social dislocation. The trauma of so many KIA cannot be avoided. Russia will be ‘the sick man of Europe’ making them irrelevant. No country is going to bail them out.
Having a huge air base in Romania is important in multiple ways: - It allows much shorter transit time for recon missions over the Black Sea. - It demonstrates that Romania is firmly in NATO while it's neighbors Hungary and Turkey appear to be wavering. - It allows medical flights from South Asia or the Middle East to cut 1,000 miles (1,600 km) compared to Ramstein.
The west hasn't provided Ukraine with state-of-art weapons and equipment. It has all been obsolete weapons replaced in western militaries by new state-of-art gear.
‘Thousands’ is rather exaggeration. Russia has about 350 SU 30, 34 and 30 in total, seven A-50U an early warning and control aircrafts, 120 attack aircraft’s, and a few dozens of old ones.
@@attilamarics3374 Or there is an option to think closer to home and to contemplate about Hungary, which in large conflicts repeatedly has taken a wrong side. Eg. Voluntarily joined Hitler’s Germany, fought against the USSR and committed war crimes there. Outcome of choices in the first and second WWs - loss of 2/3 of territories. Let’s wait and see what would be a result of siding with Russia. Btw. Five countries were training Ukrainian pilots. Only in Denmark they trained 70.
That should benefit the economy and create protection for other countries. Being Ukraine neighbors is a bonus and hopefully can help maintain Ukraine F16 little fleet.
@CymruCelt01 you are kinda correct. Technically any military ship whose home port is in the black sea can enter. I don't know the designation for all the Russian vessels, but if a military ship is not part of the "black sea fleet" and has a home port in the black sea then it is permitted passage because that is how it is defined.
F-16s can be used to much more easily fire all kinds of NATO munitions. Even a few F-16s can make a huge difference there as they can fire Storm Shadow/SCALP and many other missiles much better than the Soviet planes.
The F-16s can use so many different weapons and can do so many different roles that the aging Soviet era planes Ukraine have used to now are not able to do at all. The F-16s will be a game changer for the Ukrainian air defense, even if there are not that many planes in Ukraine yet. As soon as Russian planes start dropping to the ground because of F-16s, there will be a huge change. Russian pilots that are already scared of flying anywhere close to Ukraine, and they will be totally terrified of doing so after that happens. And if they manage to take out much of the Russian ground to air defense, then they will have carte blanche to take out all sorts of Russian ground targets with all the different munitions the F-16s can use.
@@ionutonesim1919 Those are planes of NATO member states, not of NATO. Point I'm making is that NATO is not an independent entity or actor. NATO cannot decide to do with that airbase or planes whatever they want. This is not semantics or nitpicking, it's essential to combat false Kremlin rethoric.
Ukraine will have a specific strategy for the jets. Perhaps theyll use them for defense against missiles. They may or may not be going to use them in the way they have been previously used.
Look at a map. Zoom out. Pretty close. All relative. Since a modern fighter aircraft could travel that distance in 3 minutes, it's close. But if we're traveling by oxcart, then you're right.
@@joshthalheimer in no circumstance is 60 miles just ‘by’ another place. Yes, a fighter plane at Mach 2 can cover that distance quickly, but it’s still 60 miles. ‘Shall we get a bite to eat, there’s a new pizza place that’s just opened. Its just by the end of the street, just turn left, go 60 miles and it’s on the left’
@issimondias you are right. Still, do not think it is a big deal. Having the enemy 100 kms from the border is not a good thing. That means logistics, including troops and fighter jets, are between 5 minutes and 2 hours away. And let's not talk about missiles.
Ukrainian F-16s better not fly from that airbase or there will be very big trouble, it's close obviously for targetting Crimea and that's a huge 'red line'.
@@attilamarics3374 LOL! You don't get it. 1. Those air defense systems are garbage. 2. The garbage will be methodically wiped out. We know exactly what we're doing and we never lose.
It can probably be attacked by Russia if Ukraine use it as a base. But honestly I doubt Russia would dare to. They do not even attack shipments of ammo, missiles etc before it is crossing into Ukraine. It is time NATO stretches the limits, and not being the ones holding back.
With NATO and Romania being technically neutral, international law would require the internment of any troops, vehicles, aircraft, or ships present in neutral country bases.
Ukraine will for sure store the F-16s they don't use in one or more NATO countries and they will also get any F-16s that need repairs done in those countries as well. The BIG question is if they can operate from this airbase or any other NATO airbase when doing missions, and that is for now extremely unlikely. It might be a loophole if all personnel doing service and supplies on/for the F-16s are all Ukrainians and/or civilian volunteers on such an airbase, but I am not sure about the international laws and what NATO and specially the US think about that.
The narrator confuses bases for air forces, with bases for armies (or navies). They are quite different. An air force needs run ways for airplanes to land and take off. An army needs that too, but it really needs facilities for multiple army divisions of 7000 personnel each. An army base needs to be a small city, or at least it needs to be built near a city that can support several thousand army personnel. In order for an army division to move to a battle field, it needs transportation, such as railroads. So the army base needs one or more railroads that can connect it to battle fields that could be 1000 km away.
If Nato had begun some new Pilot training in F16s starting in 2015, Ukraine would have a base of pilots that had years of experience to become planning experts but now with less than a year of basic training in a the equivalent of a Formula 1 race car compared to an old soviet fast junker with non of the F16s advanced features or years of nato tactical training seems to little too late.
Not really. The base he's talking about is near the Black sea coastline and the Bassarabian gap starts ~200km north from that base. Anyway a 10.000 garrison doesn't close that gap in any way shape or form but can indeed help the Romanian army in holding that line.
The US president's military ineptness, his obviously declining faculties, and his excessive concern about antagonizing Russia have put Ukraine in a much weaker position. He who hesitates is lost.
The two F16s behind zelinksky were not airworthy and widely reported by the international community as replicas used in training of pilots and technicians. They have never been in the sky.
Article 1 of the treaty states that member parties "settle any international disputes in which they may be involved by peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and security, and justice, are not endangered, and to refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force..... way to go NATO in conducting international relations without the threat of force
@@boink800 www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR3000/RR3063/RAND_RR3063.pdf US game plan laid out for all to see..why don't you read it?
The US just retired 200 aircraft F16, F15 & A10 which could have been sent to Ukraine with contract pilots, instead the US would rather send them to the bone yard. Of course Jake Sullivan does not want to give Ukraine the resources to win.
To be fair, the issue isn’t the amount of planes but the amount of pilots. Several European countries have allocated F-16s to Ukraine. There are not enough pilots to fly these planes at the moment.
@@infostudy101 Which is why you use contract pilots, the Chinese and Russians during both Vietnam and Korean wars were using actual active military pilots to fly combat aircraft against the US and allies.
@@voggunn That won’t happen. I imagine also that although the plane design is quite old the actual missiles and surveillance system will be fairly advanced and only for Ukrainian use. The pilots will be using specific equipment that they were trained to use in their intensive training programs.
Unfortunately I don’t think helping Ukraine win was ever in the cards. I think the intention was to use them to bludgeon Russia as long as possible. Ukraine is being sacrificed IMHO.
All the N.A.T.O countries near the Russia border have N.A.T.O troops from different countries of N.A.T.O. France, U.K, U.S, Belgium, Spain and so on. Many other countries have helped like South Korea, Australia, Japan and other nations. Tanks, planes, radar systems, air defence systems ships submarines and much more. Russia is big and strong so N.A.T.O has ramped up military production just like they should have done six years ago when Trump told them to.
Well, this is nonsense. NATO is not moving eastwards. Some countries have joined NATO, that's true. But Russia is definitely moving westards, with force.
