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Here is a longer clip with subtitles. Khodaryonok is a retired Colonel who never drank the kool-aid. He's a frequent military expert commentator on channel one. He's pretty blunt in his comments, surprising it was aired.
This is a translation of a piece he wrote before the invasion called "The Forecasts of Bloodthirsty Pundits". Subtitled "On triumphant hawks and hasty cuckoos".
"But we have to admit the following: if before 2014 the Ukrainian armed forces were a splinter of the Soviet army, then in the last seven years Ukraine has developed a substantively different army, based on a completely different
ideological foundation and in many ways up to the standards of NATO. And entirely modern weaponry and technology is today arriving, and continuing to arrive in Ukraine from many countries of the North Atlantic alliance.
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Now let us consider the assertion that Western countries won’t send a single soldier to die in Ukraine.
It’s important to note that this is likely the case.
However this does not exclude, in the event of an invasion by the Russian federation, of huge amounts of assistance to the Ukrainian armed forces from the side of the West in the form of a huge variety of military arms and technology and war materials. In this respect the West has demonstrated a previously unprecedented level of unity, which it seems like Moscow did not anticipate.
There is no reason to doubt that the USA and NATO Countries will launch some reincarnation of the Lend-Lease program based on the World War II model. We also can’t exclude the flow of volunteers from the West, of which there could be many."
Poootin seriously underestimated the Ukrainian military. With the help from western nations, Ukraine may win this war and even attempt to retake Crimea. It may certainly be in the cards. Your opinion?I was a Combat Engineer at Fort Bragg with the 82nd Airborne when the wall fell. Shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union we welcomed our new friends to exchange officers for mutual information exchange.
I still remember the Russian Captain. He was a Russian Paratrooper. He watched us do some training and quietly asked several of us how many Officers were disguised as Enlisted.
This Russian found it hard to believe we would train our basic Privates in how to read maps. Most of the skills a Private has to learn to graduate basic training were classified in the Soviet Army. Map reading. Setting up and using a radio. Learning how to call for artillery support.
The Soviet/Russian model is for unskilled soldiers to be viewed as little more than robots. Go where you are told. Shoot anyone you see.
We knew this of course. It is why we were trained to shoot the Enemy Officers first. The Russian Soldiers without leadership were not effective.
Putin is a true believer in the wisdom of the Soviet. He had to be to get picked for the KGB. If you train soldiers on how and why things work they may start thinking. And thinking is bad for any totalitarian society. Because you can’t control what the people are thinking.
The downside of this is that Officers will need their troops tightly gathered. They can’t control what they can’t see. There is no way to know where Private Boris is or what he is doing if the Officer can’t see him.
That is the result. The unit is attacked with Artillery. The unit is destroyed in detail.
It is painfully obvious that the Russians are still using the old Soviet model. Quantity over Quality. Mass over technology.
It remains painfully obvious that this just doesn’t work on the modern battlefield.
It's not the case obviously but those captured by Russia will be sworn to denial of representing their countries. This is another violation of the mutually agreed upon rules for this war.....
Now let us consider the assertion that Western countries won’t send a single soldier to die in Ukraine.
It’s important to note that this is likely the case.
Poootin seriously underestimated the Ukrainian military. With the help from western nations, Ukraine may win this war and even attempt to retake Crimea. It may certainly be in the cards. Your opinion?
Mostly everything you're trying to say is wrong and that's based on your first paragraph being wrong, and only an attempt to find some reason to reject the facts of the present situation.Honestly. Russia will go to Nukes to keep Crimea. Their largest Naval Base on the Black Sea is on the Crimean Peninsula. Losing that would be akin to losing San Diego. Russia won’t lose it. They can’t. The effect would be catastrophic. So they’ll go all out to defend it.
Russia had that deal. They broke it in 2014 when they annexed Crimea.What should have happened is Russia negotiated a deal like Guantanamo Bay.
No deal will be made with Putin because Putin has proved to the world that he cannot be trusted to abide by it. If Ukraine did make a deal with Russia, it would mean the end of sanctions and the end of weapons from the US and Europe, and that would mean that Putin would invade again once the Russian economy had recovered.Mostly everything you're trying to say is wrong and that's based on your first paragraph being wrong, and only an attempt to find some reason to reject the facts of the present situation.
You've tried to create a comfortable situation in which Russia can accept defeat but still claim a win with the Crimea. Let's establish that for an opener!
That doesn't take into account Russia's reason for drawing the line on US encroachment on their territory and neither does it acknowledge that this is America's war against Russia and America is not going to accept such a paltry gain of Ukrainian territory secured. That is not the reason for the war and that will never suffice.
here's Russia's bottom line: Taking of the Donbass and holding the Crimea. And that's being conservative.
Rather than attempt to debate all your talking points, that would be too time consuming, addressing your motive in your first paragraph is all that is needed.
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Back to the thread, I think the good Colonel got a "talking to" from the Kremlin.
The next day he was talking about how the US Howitzers would quickly be dispatched, and used the footage of the miss released by the MoD. Video clip is in the tweet.
Vladimir Putin exposed on Russian state TV 'Extremely rare moment'
VLADIMIR Putin's grand plans for the war in Ukraine have been exposed on Russian TV in an "extremely rare moment of candour," according to a BBC Russia journalist.
You can see his fellow associates at the desk are very weary. I suppose they are afraid that they will also be targeted by Putin for saying anything negative about his war. Is this a crack in the Russia wall of lies?
Vladimir Putin exposed on Russian state TV 'Extremely rare moment'
VLADIMIR Putin's grand plans for the war in Ukraine have been exposed on Russian TV in an "extremely rare moment of candour," according to a BBC Russia journalist.
You can see his fellow associates at the desk are very weary. I suppose they are afraid that they will also be targeted by Putin for saying anything negative about his war. Is this a crack in the Russia wall of lies?
Vladimir Putin exposed on Russian state TV 'Extremely rare moment'
VLADIMIR Putin's grand plans for the war in Ukraine have been exposed on Russian TV in an "extremely rare moment of candour," according to a BBC Russia journalist.
You can see his fellow associates at the desk are very weary. I suppose they are afraid that they will also be targeted by Putin for saying anything negative about his war. Is this a crack in the Russia wall of lies?
