Yes we need to have started producing ammunition yesterday but thanks to being a democracy it'll be the 12th of never by the time our governments pull their fingers out.
I think, that we just did not realise that until this war broke out. And we should have known that. Actually Putler was quite frank with his plans since 2007.
The West is finding out the hard way that conventional warfare still is the mainstay of land invasions. For years the West has gravitated to high tech warfare instead of artillery warfare. Now, the West doesn't want to send these high tech weapons to Ukraine due to the fear of upsetting Russia. In the case of the Ukraine war these weapons are totally useless due to the fact they wouldn't be shipped to them. The warehouses these weapons are stored in a person can say are very well protected by thousands of milssiles..The Democrats are afraid of Putin and don't want to be perceived as too aggressive and upset him. The Republicans don't want to support the war. A dire situation for Ukraine to say the least.
A Sad Indictment. For too long, we have basked in the sunshine of relative Peace and Stability. During those years, most of us lost our manufacturing industries, having shipped them to the 'World's Factory', China and are now hooked on a supply of inexpensive commodities and products ranging from clothing to electronics and much, much more. There was cheap and plentiful energy from Russia and we were lulled into investing less and less in our Defence Forces as the prospect of Kinetic War was quelled by the enduring prosperity and peace albeit punctuated by the WOMD Iraq war and chasing down Binladen and the Taliban in Afghanistan.
A Foretaste. We've had a taste of what might come to be. Russia occupied Crimea and we did little about it, it really didn't affect us much at all, but we levied some ineffectual sanctions and it was back to business as usual. Then Russia went to Syria to help Assad. We saw pretty much a demonstration of the standard Russian Military strategy of obliterating civilian infrastructure and its civilians, which we have seen in Ukraine over the last two years.
Then China unleashed Covid on our unsuspecting clearly ill-prepared World. This was a deliberate act of aggression for which China has never been held accountable.
Iran has resumed enriching uranium far beyond what is required for nuclear power generation and no doubt has weapons grade material available for weapons production. Its support of terrorist groups around the world is well known, and ideologically, is no fan of the West and has avowed to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth and still harbours the desire for revenge on the US for the 'demilitarisation' of Soleimani.
North Korea....is what happens when you don't finish a war properly (isn't hindsight wonderful??)? Rocket man is on a high, he is now important on the World stage. A Statesman, (in absolute control of a population who are barely eking out an existence), he is seeking missile and space technology to further his military ambitions, is heavily sanctioned, hates us all and his NK’s involvement in cybercrime is well known.
The Gathering Storm. Russia, China, Iran, North Korea (RCINK) a Quartet born of Hell.
In no uncertain terms, all nefarious, Kleptocratic/Autocratic mal-actors with significant abilities in Hybrid Warfare and definitely anti-Western. Proponents of a multipolar World in which the US and its Allies (Democracies in general) become less influential in maintaining the World Order, based on International Law.
Russia spreads its tentacles into Africa, feeding off the thirst for power of corrupt warlords happy to gift access to resources, ultimately enriching Putler and the Kleptocratic OligOrcs and funding the Russian War Machine. Now courting the UAE and Saudi Arabia, the indicted War Criminal is becoming something of a jetsetter, whilst his State's mal-actors stoke trouble at every opportunity, meddle in Democratic Elections around the Globe and push propaganda and lies that are so farcical they're almost "Pythonesque" and would be a laugh except so many people accept them as truth. The Chinese Communist Party showed its True Face with its 'Wolf Warrior Arrogance' during the Covid Pandemic. They continue to infiltrate Western Educational Facilities stealing Intellectual Property, coercing Politicians, Business leaders, Community Groups and ensnaring States (in the Asia Pacific) with the poverty trap of the Belt and Road Initiative. They have made no attempt to disguise their desires to take back Taiwan and many of us are still crucially dependant on China's manufacturing ability. China is supplying equipment to Russia for its war on Ukraine and potentially has supplied munitions to North Korea to be passed on to Russia. We have all but forgotten what they did in Tibet, what they are doing to the Uyghurs and we failed to prevent their usurpation of the South China Sea.
Iran is arming Russia for its war on the civilians of Ukraine with drones in exchange for SU 35s and assistance with Nuclear Weapons Technology to further its military aims and ideological goals in the Middle East and anywhere else its malign influence can spread the hatred of its twisted ideology.
Like Iran, North Korea is supplying arms to Russia to be used in Ukraine and no doubt in any conflict the RCINK choose to start.
Russia, NK and China have armies in the millions of personnel that, as we see in Ukraine can make a difference in any conflict of attrition especially if numerous conflicts are started simultaneously in multiple regions of the World.
No good will come from this Union, and if Putler is allowed to win in Ukraine via some worthless peace agreement, the Quartet from Hell will only be further emboldened. The time to act is now, pull out all stops and for God's sake and ours, get to manufacturing and stocking the materiel Ukraine needs to WIN, and the collective West needs to restock it's war deterrents chests.
Well stated. I disagree with very little that you stated, but would like to add my two cents, if I may. While there is yet to be credible evidence of China actually engineering that virus, that is not totally outside the realm of possibility, and even if that was not the case, their lack of transparency and effort to curtail its spread through travel is culpability enough.
There are plenty of countries around the world that would love to take over for China as the free world's producers of product, and spreading that capability out over generally stable and Western friendlier locations would be beneficial strategically, for us and them, and if China lost it's free world export income, it would be back to wood and rice paper dwellings in no time. Every time we see this sort of country show hints of warming to the world, they ultimately again turn to hostile adversaries.
I actually had hope for Russia during glasnost/perestroika, but alas, a few dopes and a drunken POOTie picker later and they are headed right back into USSR territory. It crumbled due to interior rot the last time and will do so again, if they succeed, and we'd damn sure better not let that happen.
IMO Iraq I was righteous, well implemented and achieved. Iraq II was entered under mostly nonsensical pretenses, initially well executed, and then a total and complete cluster**** thereafter. Politicians are idiots. We did ourselves no favors, and we made a far worse mess for the Iraqi's than even brutal Hussein was able to impose.
I totally agree that Ukraine is a result of our ho hum attitude during the Crimea/Donbass annexations, and even before that, Georgia and others. We should have put our foot down IMMEDIATELY, as soon as Russian aggression/expansion reinitiated. All of the NATO/Nazi and whatever begging "N" and other excuses Putin has floated are nonsense. He has been writing about the fact that previously held Soviet countries have no sovereignty or even identity other than satellites/conquests of Russia, and his intent to reassert that state of existence for them openly, for decades. Soviet era constitutions of many (all?) of those countries at least in words, guaranteed their right to secede, though obviously that wasn't an option before its fall. Ukraine was gifted Crimea, and its sovereignty was fully recognized by Russia per its signature on the Budapest Memorandum, case closed and Pootler be damned, for return of Russian nukes and neutrality.
Our politicians allowing NK to achieve nuclear and ICBM delivery capabilities was insane, literally. We had a president that even kissed the guy's ass, in public, like a 12 year old fan girl, and Putin's as well. WTH is this nation coming to?
Yes, Russian PropTV, with its Solvyovs and Margies and other pathetic slime balls is laughable and pathetic. They don't even ATTEMPT to make any effort at creating believable propaganda, and yet, as you say ...
There was the ID card with the three straight cuts through the hair of the pic of the "Ukrainian spy and saboteur" that ended that dipshiite's daughter, the wrong truck in the xray of the Kerch bridge vehicle, shoulder patches in 'current' Zelenskyy meetings that were of units long disbanded, on and on, ad infinitum. And the threats of world domination...please spare me. I would propose negating the word 'almost' as a modifier of Pythonesque. It was out of place, it is PURELY and completely Pythonesque.
I did some design for some 'out there' weapons, and if you ever see some of that stuff come up against SU35s and the like, that part of the NK equation is going to worry you a lot less. :-) Other than nukes, NK is practically a no-op, IMO, and Russia is quickly headed that way. China, I expect, when push comes to shove, is going to be even more ineffective as a combat force than even Russia. Remember that Russians have been fighting CONSTANTLY, and the Chinese, in more recent history, have SUCKED at prosecuting war. Japan was kicking their asses all over hell and back until we intervened. Their numbers are concerning, and while their tech, in every area, is not close to US/Western capability, they definitely have Russia stomped in that area. At least they can make an IC, but not Western weapons level stuff, not remotely. Their cars suck, their infrastructure sucks, their phone sucks, and pretty much all the tech they have is gained through espionage of one sort or another.
What you are seeing in Ukraine, with respect to attrition, is WITHOUT any form of air superiority, which the US would gain in a VERY short time. Most of the CCC in Iraq was gone in a few hours, and the air was totally ours in about a week or two, as I understand it. I remember seeing non public video of Apaches going in and clearing out one of those installations a few days after that war began, and it was brutal. You can now find that same video on YT, and what the guy said that showed it to us then was that we needed to realize that those fields those guys were running through to try to escape (none succeeded) were mined.
TAIWAN CANNOT FALL. My guess is that if the Chinese did get to the point where they were about to acquire those facilities, militarily, we would deny them that opportunity, by any means necessary, including destroying those plants.
"In his inaugural speech to parliament, Tusk also called on Poland’s fractious political class to unite, saying it cannot afford divisions while Russia is waging a war of aggression across the border, a conflict many fear could spread if Moscow prevails." - But he wants to close down TVP world and Michal is one of the named anchors to go. There is an inconsistency with what he said and his attitude to our favourite TVP world investigator. I don't understand why Tusk is so anti-TVP, when really anyone who said the things he did, for the "West to Mobilise" against Russia, would not see TVP world as a valuable projection of these same attitudes!
Ok after watching the latest "Will the new Polish government adopt the German policy towards Russia? | Rock Rachon". I get it, Tusk was just telling us all what we wanted to hear - but behind the scenes.....South Korea deal under "review". btw the South Koreans make GOOD tanks, we need them!
Indeed, it seems so, I am up to the 4th in this expose (Bucharest – Road To War | Reset - episode 4 | TVP World) Michal did during tusks first term back then. afaik there is 7 or more and I recommend everyone watch this expose series as a I am!
In the Soviet days it was General Jaruzelski & Yuri Andropov (KGB chief who became leader of the USSR), now it's Donald Tusk & Vladolf Putler (KGB "Colonel" who runs gangster state Russia).
Justin Bronc is great. I don't know if you found him on your own or through my TVP comments on your show, but he is a very competent and insightful resource. I first saw him on Ward Caroll's YT channel, and was immediately impressed. His interview there about going up against AI in a dog fight simulator is quite enlightening, for those with interest in that area. He said there is no human pilot that can EVER win over one, anymore.
Yes we need to have started producing ammunition yesterday but thanks to being a democracy it'll be the 12th of never by the time our governments pull their fingers out.
I think, that we just did not realise that until this war broke out. And we should have known that. Actually Putler was quite frank with his plans since 2007.
The West is finding out the hard way that conventional warfare still is the mainstay of land invasions. For years the West has gravitated to high tech warfare instead of artillery warfare. Now, the West doesn't want to send these high tech weapons to Ukraine due to the fear of upsetting Russia. In the case of the Ukraine war these weapons are totally useless due to the fact they wouldn't be shipped to them. The warehouses these weapons are stored in a person can say are very well protected by thousands of milssiles..The Democrats are afraid of Putin and don't want to be perceived as too aggressive and upset him. The Republicans don't want to support the war. A dire situation for Ukraine to say the least.
A Sad Indictment. For too long, we have basked in the sunshine of relative Peace and Stability. During those years, most of us lost our manufacturing industries, having shipped them to the 'World's Factory', China and are now hooked on a supply of inexpensive commodities and products ranging from clothing to electronics and much, much more. There was cheap and plentiful energy from Russia and we were lulled into investing less and less in our Defence Forces as the prospect of Kinetic War was quelled by the enduring prosperity and peace albeit punctuated by the WOMD Iraq war and chasing down Binladen and the Taliban in Afghanistan.
A Foretaste. We've had a taste of what might come to be. Russia occupied Crimea and we did little about it, it really didn't affect us much at all, but we levied some ineffectual sanctions and it was back to business as usual. Then Russia went to Syria to help Assad. We saw pretty much a demonstration of the standard Russian Military strategy of obliterating civilian infrastructure and its civilians, which we have seen in Ukraine over the last two years.
Then China unleashed Covid on our unsuspecting clearly ill-prepared World. This was a deliberate act of aggression for which China has never been held accountable.
Iran has resumed enriching uranium far beyond what is required for nuclear power generation and no doubt has weapons grade material available for weapons production. Its support of terrorist groups around the world is well known, and ideologically, is no fan of the West and has avowed to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth and still harbours the desire for revenge on the US for the 'demilitarisation' of Soleimani.
North Korea....is what happens when you don't finish a war properly (isn't hindsight wonderful??)? Rocket man is on a high, he is now important on the World stage. A Statesman, (in absolute control of a population who are barely eking out an existence), he is seeking missile and space technology to further his military ambitions, is heavily sanctioned, hates us all and his NK’s involvement in cybercrime is well known.
The Gathering Storm. Russia, China, Iran, North Korea (RCINK) a Quartet born of Hell.
In no uncertain terms, all nefarious, Kleptocratic/Autocratic mal-actors with significant abilities in Hybrid Warfare and definitely anti-Western. Proponents of a multipolar World in which the US and its Allies (Democracies in general) become less influential in maintaining the World Order, based on International Law.
Russia spreads its tentacles into Africa, feeding off the thirst for power of corrupt warlords happy to gift access to resources, ultimately enriching Putler and the Kleptocratic OligOrcs and funding the Russian War Machine. Now courting the UAE and Saudi Arabia, the indicted War Criminal is becoming something of a jetsetter, whilst his State's mal-actors stoke trouble at every opportunity, meddle in Democratic Elections around the Globe and push propaganda and lies that are so farcical they're almost "Pythonesque" and would be a laugh except so many people accept them as truth. The Chinese Communist Party showed its True Face with its 'Wolf Warrior Arrogance' during the Covid Pandemic. They continue to infiltrate Western Educational Facilities stealing Intellectual Property, coercing Politicians, Business leaders, Community Groups and ensnaring States (in the Asia Pacific) with the poverty trap of the Belt and Road Initiative. They have made no attempt to disguise their desires to take back Taiwan and many of us are still crucially dependant on China's manufacturing ability. China is supplying equipment to Russia for its war on Ukraine and potentially has supplied munitions to North Korea to be passed on to Russia. We have all but forgotten what they did in Tibet, what they are doing to the Uyghurs and we failed to prevent their usurpation of the South China Sea.
Iran is arming Russia for its war on the civilians of Ukraine with drones in exchange for SU 35s and assistance with Nuclear Weapons Technology to further its military aims and ideological goals in the Middle East and anywhere else its malign influence can spread the hatred of its twisted ideology.
Like Iran, North Korea is supplying arms to Russia to be used in Ukraine and no doubt in any conflict the RCINK choose to start.
Russia, NK and China have armies in the millions of personnel that, as we see in Ukraine can make a difference in any conflict of attrition especially if numerous conflicts are started simultaneously in multiple regions of the World.
No good will come from this Union, and if Putler is allowed to win in Ukraine via some worthless peace agreement, the Quartet from Hell will only be further emboldened. The time to act is now, pull out all stops and for God's sake and ours, get to manufacturing and stocking the materiel Ukraine needs to WIN, and the collective West needs to restock it's war deterrents chests.
Well stated. I disagree with very little that you stated, but would like to add my two cents, if I may. While there is yet to be credible evidence of China actually engineering that virus, that is not totally outside the realm of possibility, and even if that was not the case, their lack of transparency and effort to curtail its spread through travel is culpability enough.
There are plenty of countries around the world that would love to take over for China as the free world's producers of product, and spreading that capability out over generally stable and Western friendlier locations would be beneficial strategically, for us and them, and if China lost it's free world export income, it would be back to wood and rice paper dwellings in no time. Every time we see this sort of country show hints of warming to the world, they ultimately again turn to hostile adversaries.
I actually had hope for Russia during glasnost/perestroika, but alas, a few dopes and a drunken POOTie picker later and they are headed right back into USSR territory. It crumbled due to interior rot the last time and will do so again, if they succeed, and we'd damn sure better not let that happen.
IMO Iraq I was righteous, well implemented and achieved. Iraq II was entered under mostly nonsensical pretenses, initially well executed, and then a total and complete cluster**** thereafter. Politicians are idiots. We did ourselves no favors, and we made a far worse mess for the Iraqi's than even brutal Hussein was able to impose.
I totally agree that Ukraine is a result of our ho hum attitude during the Crimea/Donbass annexations, and even before that, Georgia and others. We should have put our foot down IMMEDIATELY, as soon as Russian aggression/expansion reinitiated. All of the NATO/Nazi and whatever begging "N" and other excuses Putin has floated are nonsense. He has been writing about the fact that previously held Soviet countries have no sovereignty or even identity other than satellites/conquests of Russia, and his intent to reassert that state of existence for them openly, for decades. Soviet era constitutions of many (all?) of those countries at least in words, guaranteed their right to secede, though obviously that wasn't an option before its fall. Ukraine was gifted Crimea, and its sovereignty was fully recognized by Russia per its signature on the Budapest Memorandum, case closed and Pootler be damned, for return of Russian nukes and neutrality.
Our politicians allowing NK to achieve nuclear and ICBM delivery capabilities was insane, literally. We had a president that even kissed the guy's ass, in public, like a 12 year old fan girl, and Putin's as well. WTH is this nation coming to?
Yes, Russian PropTV, with its Solvyovs and Margies and other pathetic slime balls is laughable and pathetic. They don't even ATTEMPT to make any effort at creating believable propaganda, and yet, as you say ...
There was the ID card with the three straight cuts through the hair of the pic of the "Ukrainian spy and saboteur" that ended that dipshiite's daughter, the wrong truck in the xray of the Kerch bridge vehicle, shoulder patches in 'current' Zelenskyy meetings that were of units long disbanded, on and on, ad infinitum. And the threats of world domination...please spare me. I would propose negating the word 'almost' as a modifier of Pythonesque. It was out of place, it is PURELY and completely Pythonesque.
I did some design for some 'out there' weapons, and if you ever see some of that stuff come up against SU35s and the like, that part of the NK equation is going to worry you a lot less. :-) Other than nukes, NK is practically a no-op, IMO, and Russia is quickly headed that way. China, I expect, when push comes to shove, is going to be even more ineffective as a combat force than even Russia. Remember that Russians have been fighting CONSTANTLY, and the Chinese, in more recent history, have SUCKED at prosecuting war. Japan was kicking their asses all over hell and back until we intervened. Their numbers are concerning, and while their tech, in every area, is not close to US/Western capability, they definitely have Russia stomped in that area. At least they can make an IC, but not Western weapons level stuff, not remotely. Their cars suck, their infrastructure sucks, their phone sucks, and pretty much all the tech they have is gained through espionage of one sort or another.
What you are seeing in Ukraine, with respect to attrition, is WITHOUT any form of air superiority, which the US would gain in a VERY short time. Most of the CCC in Iraq was gone in a few hours, and the air was totally ours in about a week or two, as I understand it. I remember seeing non public video of Apaches going in and clearing out one of those installations a few days after that war began, and it was brutal. You can now find that same video on YT, and what the guy said that showed it to us then was that we needed to realize that those fields those guys were running through to try to escape (none succeeded) were mined.
TAIWAN CANNOT FALL. My guess is that if the Chinese did get to the point where they were about to acquire those facilities, militarily, we would deny them that opportunity, by any means necessary, including destroying those plants.
you are doing a great job
"In his inaugural speech to parliament, Tusk also called on Poland’s fractious political class to unite, saying it cannot afford divisions while Russia is waging a war of aggression across the border, a conflict many fear could spread if Moscow prevails." - But he wants to close down TVP world and Michal is one of the named anchors to go. There is an inconsistency with what he said and his attitude to our favourite TVP world investigator. I don't understand why Tusk is so anti-TVP, when really anyone who said the things he did, for the "West to Mobilise" against Russia, would not see TVP world as a valuable projection of these same attitudes!
Ok after watching the latest "Will the new Polish government adopt the German policy towards Russia? | Rock Rachon". I get it, Tusk was just telling us all what we wanted to hear - but behind the scenes.....South Korea deal under "review". btw the South Koreans make GOOD tanks, we need them!
I gather there’s history between them in Tusk’s previous time in office and journalist Michal in his true style, reporting it as it really was?...
Indeed, it seems so, I am up to the 4th in this expose (Bucharest – Road To War | Reset - episode 4 | TVP World) Michal did during tusks first term back then. afaik there is 7 or more and I recommend everyone watch this expose series as a I am!
In the Soviet days it was General Jaruzelski & Yuri Andropov (KGB chief who became leader of the USSR), now it's Donald Tusk & Vladolf Putler (KGB "Colonel" who runs gangster state Russia).
Justin Bronc is great. I don't know if you found him on your own or through my TVP comments on your show, but he is a very competent and insightful resource. I first saw him on Ward Caroll's YT channel, and was immediately impressed. His interview there about going up against AI in a dog fight simulator is quite enlightening, for those with interest in that area. He said there is no human pilot that can EVER win over one, anymore.