@xrcassassin3544 Nearly crippled? Lmfao! America has sent soldiers, its not being widely acknowledged but there have been casualties, and I am not talking about volunteers I am talking about special forces.
Long story short, what the General is really saying is we thought Russia was going to fight like the militaries of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Bosnia, and Yemen, boy were we wrong!
@@YayaToure1247 when we invaded Afghanistan the taliban had an airforce of over 100 aircraft including fighter jets dude. They had hundreds of t series tanks. Stop pretending the US only fights cavemen.
@@xrcassassin3544 Damn? So the taliban were using tanks In heavily mountainous and rough terrain? The Taliban never had an air force They’re fighters were not even trained to use artillery
@@YayaToure1247 wow. You just have absolutely no idea what you're talking about 🤣🤣🤣🤣 they had migs and su fighters dude 🤣🤣🤣🤣 anything Russia left behind from their failed invasion they were using in Afghanistan. Even some during the gulf War Era too. Stop pretending that the entire country of Afghanistan is just mountains dude. Yes of course they had tanks and heavy armor. I mean if you bothered doing even the slightest amount of research into the wars in the middle east you would understand it wasn't us against cavemen with aks. They were an organized military. Maybe not as organized as most first world countries but organized none the less.
@@tclanjtopsom4846no it’s both sides. The majority of both sides armies are conscripts. Ukraine mobilized 700,000 the start of the war. Russia mobilized 300,000 and recently contracted 165,000 more thousand with only 50,000 of being volunteers and the rest being most likely forcefully contracted to fight in the war
And that explains why you never see Russian units making videos saying that they are being used as canon fodder, or are short of ammunition and have no support........ oh, except we have seen hundreds of such videos 😂😂😂
I think he explained very well that you can have all the tools and advantages of manpower; but all that cant defeat and man standing on his homeland willing to die and fight for his land, women and children. That must have flown over your head.
@@Prometheus7272 firepower doesnt matter when you dont have the will and morals to fight. Russia may have will to fight but they don't have the justification why they did it to Ukraine. Its all lies and propaganda.
People of Ukraine are protecting homeland from russian invasion. Do you think you would just let people kill you without fighting if someone came to your house with ideas to sell everything and leave??
It should not be expected of the US to take care of them forever. US Troops died there teaching then to be independent and fight for themselves. They became to dependent on Americans protecting them. Americans paid financially and with American lives to help them- they should have been Ready to Fight for their families and their land. Bless their souls. They have been fighting a Civil war for centuries.
Whenever a general talks about combined arms he is practically 30 years behind in modern warfare!!! I don’t understand how he became a general!!! I guess if u talk nonsense that will do it… It will go 2 the last Ukrainian 🎊
This the first army we’ve backed in 73 years that showed the competence and willpower to succeed. The South Koreans were awful in the beginning. The Vietnamese were largely apathetic. The Iraqis and the Afghanis? Heh. So here we have the Ukrainians…brave and capable…and we DRIBBLE support to them so as not to overly anger Russia.
The Afghans had the will to fight, the Ukrainian s have the will to fight. Both are victorious ! Listen to this guy. He’s a professional warrior, he’s saying what really matters is this will. This is about war fighting not politics. Slava Ukainie!
They were there for 20 years preparing them for this day educating them building their military and they couldn't do it on their own it cannot fall back on the US. This is where Trump and Biden were in agreement. US leaving was not a secret.
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Lose the war? Didn't they occupy Afghanistan for 20 years? Every invader has to withdraw eventually and the Americans did. Had they wished to continue the occupation for another 20 years, I am sure the Taliban would still be fighting a guerilla war. You lose a war when you cannot conquer a country. The Americans invaded Afghanistan, conquered it and occupied it for 20 years. Did you want them to annex Afghanistan or to make it a colony?
Google how many Ukrainian servicemen there are, add the cost of NATO equipment lost in battle, and the cost of equipment supplied to Ukraine in the future + the cost of mercenaries, they get twice as much as the Ukrainian military! And all this is at the expense of American taxpayers! At the same time, there is no social, adequate support for the American population, which has the first economy in the world
Poker bluff Russia all in Ukrineien with collateral of 30 plus countries. Never thought Russia was all in with nuclear collateral against 30 pluse countries in place. Lesson learn. It is still not too late for ❤PEACE.❤
The “Palestinians” have never negotiated in good faith or sought a compromise with Israel. The have only sought destruction. Most people do not realize how brutal the their leadership is. When Israel decided to try for peace by giving Gaza to the refugees, elections were held to determine how Gaza would be governed. Hamas won and immediately murdered all of their political rivals.
It's why we're so willing to send so much money. To prove our thought process in Afghanistan was spot on. The execution was the issue. Well Ukraine is executing the plan with extreme precision. Exactly how they are supposed to.
26 million Russians died defeating the Germans in WW2. Americans came in when the war was almost over. And to think that these guys in Tinker Bell uniforms could defeat the Russians? Just ask the Afghani Taliban in Toyota Pick-ups and Sandals! 🤣🤣🤣
Remember the part where you got pushed back halfway into your country and Stalin begged America to supply the red army while he was rebuilding the industrial base you lost to the Germans? You don't yeah that's right because history in Russia is Blyat Russia stronk no one beats 35 year old Russian tank
Afghanistan won't have any modern warfare ...still the USA lost war in Afghanistan ...you won't need to be expert in anything except your love for mother land and will power to kill..... whatever happen in Ukraine is not lesson for USA rather what was happen in Afganistan is a big encyclopedia for USA
Russia invaded Ukraine. Ukraine had almost no western weapons at the start of this war. How did 'We" create this crisis. Use you brain. Ptuin is trying to restore the Soviet/Tsarists empire.
Testing and learning ground for western arms companies and armies. That’s all. Who is dying both enemies I.e. Ex Soviet states. 😢 when will Ukrainians learn that they are victims
@@sababugs1125 Crimea was annexed in 2014 only after after US announcement of inviting Ukraine to NATO im 2008, after that 6 years of warning by Russia, but nothing. Ukraine was getting the largest Defence assistance from US. Please check the facts
I'm very sad of the talk of this gentleman how he describes how to destroy Ukraine sad how the country is going to look when this stupid is over if we're not having ww3.
And yet their is a segment of the extreme right in Congress and the senate right now who believe that Russian values should be our values, too, and they could give a damn about the the heroic Ukrainians will to fight for freedom, a love of freedom I would argue, is not unlike the love of freedom that gave birth to this nation of ours
He couldn’t defeat the Taliban or the Al-Sadr militia without paying them 😂, why are we listening to the American army on anything, put out your awesome recruiting commercials some more 😂😂😂
maybe you should vote to cut down 766B you spend on the military and you can live a little better? plus what your giving is nothing new it already been build except ammo so you aren't losing a dime really.
Whatever happened in helping the people from the U.S.A.? YOU'RE spending all of our Tax dollars to help everyone in Ukrainian but what about those who need help here in the United States? Help us who are in need of medical treatment Dental Care housing and everything else that we need food. You can put all the generals you want to talk BS but that's not helping the people who are needing the United States especially the soldiers who served in Vietnam and every other war that you can think of they're not even getting their benefits, but you got 65 billion dollars another 35 billion dollars right to send to new Christian who don't care about us at all
I meant to say ukrainian not christians. I can go on and on and on but are government is not doing good at all for this country and the people? Who. Are living in this country who are truly americans who fought for this country and everything.
@michael I have already done my part in fighting three wars, what have you done? Why don't you do something to help the Vet's who are disabled and stop talking garbage, the truth hurts , "Vote", Vote for what to let all these Liars do what they want to do once they are in the office? That's like putting a gun in my head I'm pulling the trigger they are all liars and you back them up!....
@@randyhumphries2573 well considering he's released every single one of his financial records since taking the office of vice president I think it's definitely safe to say he never was. But you people can just keep pretending he is without any evidence. Using the same program we did with England who just paid off their debt in 2020 from world War 2. I wish you guys could do even the smallest amount of research possible.
We couldn't win because our military was held back. You turn the full power of the American military loose it would be ugly but femine leaders doe not have the balls to win!
The west didn't take into account the problems Afghanistan has had in the past. Where as the west believe in education for females, what has happened in the past females have been getting educated, getting better jobs then the men. And females become more work oriented, and less married and family oriented. The Taliban knows this problem well.
You have no fundamental understanding of military campaigns, the strategy or execution thereof. US military, is the greatest fighting force this spinning rock has ever seen.
Baloney. Russia is a fascist, revisionist imperialist state trying to rebuild the Soviet and Tsarist Empire. They want to steal the land of other and crush their ethnic identity. West kept Ukraine disarmed from 1994 through to 2022 almost to the point of the invasion. Never, ever trust Russia. Rusky Mir ideology is fascism.
No 😂😂😂😂 they definitely aren't fighting nato sweetie. The vast majority of nato assets haven't come near Ukraine. The US alone has 1200 f22s and f35s. 15000 military aircraft. UAVs. Millions of highly trained troops. Ukraine has only gotten 90s gulf War Era Abrams and leopards and Bradley's. Ukraine has recieved less than 10 percent of natos annual budget and you still think Russia is fighting nato 😂😂😂😂😂 you can't imagine how badly Russia would be doing if nato was actually involved.
@@xrcassassin3544 so blind sweetie.... your mind is in a prison you don't know it's in sweetie... you are very naive sweetie... open your mind and do the proper educated research.... stop thinking literally.... I did not say the Russians are fighting them directly! IDIOT!
these people have completely lost the plot; all the 'will to fight' amounts to nothing if there is no possible way the two sides can reconcile until either the complete destruction of Ukraine or an escalation to full scale war for Russia. Just like Afghanistan and every other American-made disaster, US foreign policy has demonstrated an infantile understanding of global geopolitics despite the millions poured into think-tanks and NED programs.
Afghanistan had American feet on the ground that was withdrawn. Ukraine has Ukrainian feet on the ground. Where are they going to withdraw to? Ukraine. Put your brain in gear.
its funny how he says will to fight when zulensky rounded them up and forced them to fight or do u all forget men from the age of 18 to 60 weren't allowed to leve Ukraine and 300 hundred thousand plush killed so far according to the leaked pentagon papers but its OK zulensky did say till the last Ukrainian him and his family are safe thats what matters to him collateral damage 😂😂😂😂😂😂
