that explains a lot. His predictions are all wrong, he explicitly said Crimea would be retaken by Ukraine in August 2023. He helped lose every war he was involved in. Only someone who doesn't listen to him and just wants to fellate people wearing a US army uniform would like him
You don't know what you're talking about. Hodges is a cheer leading Ukrainian propagandist. Just look at his record over the course of this war. Look at what he's been saying. Every single one of his predictions from the off, has been completely and utterly wrong Hodges is a warmonger, whose desire for war will drag us all into World War Three and mindlessly get us all killed. His own military experience was not very impressive. Hodges was beaten by a bunch of illiterate goat herders, armed with little more than rusty AK47s and WWII era rifles. Yet rather astonishingly, despite being beaten by the Afghans, he now thinks he has the correct strategy to beat the Russians. The man's a complete idiot.
Bless Ben - from the start, he has been a voice of the values America is supposed to stand for, and privately, I'm sure pushing for ways the military can support Ukraine until the politicians stop coddling Putin for reasons beyond comprehension.
Not really. Putin was pro-west and still is a touchy president, not a hardcore one. Of course it is possible that sooner or later he must give up his strategy for Russian hardcore's. Sooner is better for Russia.
@@TenylegMinekez-uc7co know what any better? Are you one of those Kremlin bots? I said that anyone worse than Putin would already be in power and you replied with some nonsensical word salad. Stop saying things.
@@marcus_ohreallyus Your starting points are not based. Putin has a solid power, but it does not mean that others in Russia and the Russian people themselves does not feel sometimes that Putin is not tough enough. As an example Medvedev plays the 'bad cop' in the game, but Putin gots heavy critics overall for not going to be more hardcore. Medvedev would be probably more worse at the moment as a leader. But as the position of Putin is solid at the moment, he is not threatened by inner coup realistically. On the other hand Putin is old and technically could die even accidentally. Then there could be a worse situation related to the war again.
Gen. Ben Hodges is one of the most clear-sighted around, we should listen well to him. I recommend all to watch the full interview of 5th May 2024 - _General Hodges on Retaking Crimea, NATO in Ukraine and Russian Collapse | Ep. 21 Gen. Ben Hodges_
Ben Hodges should seriously consider entering politics and perhaps aiming for Presidency. Sensible and honourable. The Orc Bots hate him, so that is a great recommendation.
I agree. Someone with a history of failure and defeat should continue to lead the US into failure after failure in its foreign policy, without a single result to show in nearly 30 years of retreat, defeat and irrelevance
goenzoy - Sad to say but this is the fault of the MAGA blockade in our Congress, and the reluctance of Western Europe to take up the slack. We’re still a bit slow on delivery of promised supplies. 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦✌️🚩
@@kathleenmann7311 But thats nonsense MAGA blockade never stopped Ukraine mobilisation Plus this blockade did happen during winter would have not made much difference
you have your language mixed up, a typical russian mistake. Why are the west/US still so afraid and shaking with fear about putler? Nobody is afraid of putler. Except maybe russians ... if putin did something really stupid, did really launch nuclear weapons, within a month the rest of the world would see to it that not one single russian was left alive. Putler is your fault, not ours.
@@user-xq4do7mx3q Why would anyone care about BRICS? The financial meltdown in Russia showed what a joke this "end of the Dollar's hegemony" narrative is. As usual, Russians who can are buying Dollars, not Yen. BRICS is a nest of vipers. India and China are sworn enemies, South Africa are run by corrupt wannabe Marxist millionaires and billionaires. Russia and China are classic frenemies and Brazil are their own animal. When it really matters India and Brazil will align with the US.
@@tariredom7615but it really isn’t. Korea has no planes. They can be smashed in a matter of days. China is literally watching Russia fail over and over again. China is a regional superpower. Russia has become a pawn for them. North Korea is so powerful. They don’t even have electricity. The United States and the west should be terrified 😂
Moscow horde´s war record :- 1856 defeated by Britain and France 1905 defeated by Japan 1917 defeated by Germany 1920 defeated by Poland, Finland, Estonia and all Baltic states 1939 defeated by Finland 1969 defeated by China 1989 defeated by Afghanistan 1989 defeated in the Cold War. 1996 defeated by Chechnya 2022 defeated by Ukraine WW2 won USA/Britain , meanwhile Stalin's officers were shot or sent to the Gulags. Millions went to the Gulags, including Solzhenitsyn Moscow's only victories come from invading smaller countries :- a) Hungary 1956 b) Czechoslovakia 1968 c) Moldova 1992 d) Georgia 2008.
Even going back to Napoleon, the Russians merely outlasted the French until they retreated due to logistics. WW2 they held up but got a ton of support from the west.
@@cantrell0817 The biggest Russian contribution to WW2 was to die in huge numbers and how many of them were Ukrainians anyway. Their own leaders killed almost as many as their enemy did. Where, other than on Russian land and the nations they wished to subjugate did Russia even contribute to the allied war effort. Their naval activity was around about zero, their aircraft never left Russian airspace. Meanwhile the British Empire/Commonwealth forces were fighting on land sea and air in all theatres. Later the US came and took that heat off us. So, just what did Russia do - they didn't even declare war on Japan until the last couple of weeks and even then only so they had an excuse to invade a few Japanese Islands. Their propaganda sells us a load of bullshit about their exploits but all they did was die and now looking at how they continue to wage war in Ukraine it is easy to see how that happend,
I agree. We should absolutely be making plans for the case putin's regime collapses and also even for the case russia disintegrates. That will be a point in history where we can also affect how the future will be, and it would be a complete waste of that opportunity if we're not prepared for it.
The saying is “better the devil you know than the devil you don’t”, but I think that Russia and the West would agree that once Putin is gone they are willing to take that chance.
@@jennysue601 There is no USSR. Putin's regime if far from collapsing. A collapsing nuclear power is one of the most dangerous things, even if in the case of the USSR we were lucky. And most importantly in Russia Putin is the good guy toward the West warmonger politicians.
Care of your own country. Europe maybe will not be your buffer zone anymore. We know what you think. We know you will not help if it's not for your own benefits
Are those yellow and reddish books on the right behind him of Reclam editor?? If so, I'm even more impressed by his educated mind since that would mean he regularly reads German
When the Berlin Wall came down I wrote Gen Powell (he had been an instructor at Ft Benning in '67 when I was an OCS Candidate and a Bn Cmdr in the 2d Division in '73 when I was an S-3 of a neighboring Bn), and suggested that we needed a plan to put Russia on the Road to membership in the EU and membership in NATO if it meet certain criteria. He wrote me back and told me that they would it give it proper consideration. By now Russia should have learned that Peace and Commerce is a much better idea than sending your young men off to die. I don't think our leftist State Department will do it right this time either. The American or the Ukranian Infantryman can do everything right to win the war and our leadership at Defense and State will screw it up, every time, in my lifetime. Why have we not won the peace since WWII? I think it is the commies and State Department; I don't e3xpect them to do better this time.
The idea of ‘its better the devil you know’, is 1970’s pop music level of thinking. It was a dated mindless cliche when Kylie Minogue was singing about it.
Yet The small country of Ukraine is still beating back the big bad bear , plus what is left of Ukraine is material but what counts is the heart of the people of Ukraine who are embarrassing the bear.@@brianlowe3529
The real nightmare for the West is that China (which manufactures as much as the entire Free World) will put its awesome industrial base behind Russia's war effort.
@@johnnylind973Puno slušaš BBC i CNN😂 ruclips.net/user/shorts_6XRr4o5RIQ?si=e698AU78PeDj9ePs Ruska ekonomija četvrta na svijetu, prestigla Njemačku i Japan.😂
A regime change has pretty much only positives. 1. The new leader would have the ability to end the Ukraine war, even leaving, and just blame Putin. 2. A new leader would need troops and the military internally, hence needing to end the Ukraine war, or pull troops from it. 3. A new leader could take years, possibly a decade to solidify power. 4. A regime change could easily see brush wars, regions breaking away, internal strife, etc. all which take Russia's time. 5. A new leader would have to negotiate with the west on getting sanctions removed and the west can start asking for military reductions or limits. 6. Even if it's bloody, or breaks out into civil war, its still directing it's forces internally.
regarding the nukes.... those warheads have a Maximum shelf life of 12 yearsm If they are maintained. So that stockpile of working heads is Much smaller. And when russia collapses, there won't be new ones either. don't be afrained of nukes
It is very unlikely that all nukes from the USSR and the nukes they got from Ukraine/ Kazhastan in the 1990s are functional. But very likely Russia has build new ones or retrofitted older ones over the last 20years. My guess is they themself have no clue how many of their nukes actualy work.
Lets put this into perspective. Russia is a corrupt society and insanely so. This corruption affects every part of russian society including the military. some people think that somehow this corruption wont affect their nuclear arsenal but I am less the convinced on this. I am not convinced because imagine for an instance you are a Russian general in charge of maintaining the arsenal. Every year putin gives you billions of roubles to maintain them but here is the thing in your estimation you don't think Putin will ever have need to fire them, as long as putin can claim he has them it doesn't matter if they actually work or not so instead you pocket 80% of the money. spend it on your dacha or whatever and the rest you spend to maintain appearances. its the perfect crime because you don't think you will ever be found out and everyone steals money anyway. So the net result of all this is that their nukes are not as maintained as we think they are. To which you might say well only 1% need to work. That may well be true but what this neglects here is the problem from Putins pov. Putin has a good idea that russia nuclear weapons might not work. He knows this because his government is corrupt and the corruption is even in the military but the problem is he doesn't know which if any of the nuclear weapons will work and which wont. Nobody in the nuclear division will admit to stealing funds and everyone will lie rather than admit it because to do so would be to admit to treason. so if he fires a nuclear weapon it could be that it will work as expected but it could just well be it blows up in the silo. Its a terrible game of russian roulette but what he does know is that American and European nukes will probably work as expected. This puts him in a massive disadvantage so his plan has always been to make western countries think he might use a nuclear weapon without using a nuclear weapon because he doesn't want to be in the position of finding out how bad his cards are on this
@@ANTAGONIST_2.0 no not really, it's physics. N warheads deteriorate in 12 years max. and that is IF they maintain them. And they can't. At least not all, by a long mile. takes 15 million per year, and materials they don't make anymore, and specialists needing many hours per warhead. So logistically it's also impossible. some more technical reasons i won't type here, but i am not losing a minute of sleep over this.
Why we should be scared if an Stalin putler system collapse? Why? Russian enough capable or shitty ins all next dictatorship? 🙏 for russia getting some normal leaders, if not why its our problem?
It will take a new monster-to-be to consolidate power in the kremlin. This is the russian way. And until they get that power, they will be very pliable.
Gen. Hodges has distinct historical and military knowledge. If they launch a nuke, then article 5 is a go and the U.N. will pass a resolution for equal actions.
Russia's long in-storage nuclear weapons may be nothing more than an asset on paper. Should Russia risk using a tactical nuclear weapon on Kiev, Kiev could take out a number of Russia's nuclear power stations a create another Chernobyl disaster. To be specific, Leningrad I and II around Saint Petersburg, Kola near Murmansk, Kalinin east of Moscow, Smolensk west of Moscow on the Belarus border, and Rostov in the south are exposed like oil refineries and depots. The Russian energy grid is completely dependent on these power stations. The precise targeting of these critical sites could pin-point the generators and transmission facilities and leave reactors untouched and isolated. Their demise, using conventional warhead weapons, would terminate Russia's industry capacity and ability to conduct war.
The horrifying thing is, that this monster has an acces to nuclear power. A solution should come from inside; dismantle the power; almost like an 007 operation...
@@martinogold …..2 years ago Ben Hodges says things like , Russia is gonna run out of missiles , they’re fighting with shovels , they’re economy is fucked, well that’s all bullshit and quite frankly I’m sick of all the lies from the mainstream media and British generals they’re all full of fucking shit
@@sergeipetrov_rzn I wonder if he actually believes this. This war was provoked by NATO expansion. US almost went to war over Soviet missiles in Cuba, yet it is ok to place our military along Russia's borders wit Russia knowing that the West, with its collapsing financial system, is salivating over potentially taking over Russia's natural resources if they can successfully install a client regime the way they did in Kiev.
@@larssoderstrom1666 How is the successful counteroffensive predicted by him? Are they on their way back from Moscow?🤣 I know their equipment made it there as trophies...
Which is exactly why Russia is now going down the tubes, militarily, economically and morally. Any individual or party having too much power for too long corrupts inevitably.
Exactly. Complete dictator. Has turned ruSSia into a complete shithole and it’s people will be trying to repair it for generations to come. Either that, or they will all end up speaking Chinese when Xi invades..
@@Onwrikbaar Down the tubes… Militarily no, not now, it's the inverse. Economically it has been a (slow) rollercoaster since the Soviet split, but right now is not a dip, but war _is_ costly, but also generates some (though 'broken window' does apply), so let's see. Corruption, yeah. (Though to be fair that's alike in the other country.) Oh, morally. That depends. Moral as in fighting moral (tubes, really)? World moral? :)
Yes. That's called a dictatorship....when the people have no choice who their president is, and voting is a worthless waste of time because putin would stay in power no matter what.
@@CyberBeep_kenshi in the damned USSR there were 53 million Ukrainians suffering from the Muscovite yoke, with American friendship there will be zero Ukrainians left!
I see Ben Hodges, I click it, and like it!
Same.
that explains a lot. His predictions are all wrong, he explicitly said Crimea would be retaken by Ukraine in August 2023. He helped lose every war he was involved in. Only someone who doesn't listen to him and just wants to fellate people wearing a US army uniform would like him
me too
Ask him then about his predictions about the successful big Ukrainian counteroffensive. 🤣
Delusional "general" on top of being demented?
Always good to hear this guy speak 😊
Imagine if he was saying not propaganda.
@@TenylegMinekez-uc7co A true bs'er.
@@Dddd-zb3ui He predicted the success of Ukrainian counteroffensive 😂
You don't know what you're talking about. Hodges is a cheer leading Ukrainian propagandist. Just look at his record over the course of this war. Look at what he's been saying. Every single one of his predictions from the off, has been completely and utterly wrong
Hodges is a warmonger, whose desire for war will drag us all into World War Three and mindlessly get us all killed. His own military experience was not very impressive. Hodges was beaten by a bunch of illiterate goat herders, armed with little more than rusty AK47s and WWII era rifles. Yet rather astonishingly, despite being beaten by the Afghans, he now thinks he has the correct strategy to beat the Russians. The man's a complete idiot.
Delusional "general" on top of being demented?
Short and to the point!
Thank you General.
Thanks you Dominik!
Bless Ben - from the start, he has been a voice of the values America is supposed to stand for, and privately, I'm sure pushing for ways the military can support Ukraine until the politicians stop coddling Putin for reasons beyond comprehension.
Delusional "general" on top of being demented?
Ben Hodges is a legend! I vote 1 "Ben Hodges" for President.
Legend of failed predictions.
Delusional "general" on top of being demented?
@@TenylegMinekez-uc7co he is also an idiot
He's a laughing stock among real experts.
hodges is an america last deep state shill and WEF globalist tool
Well said Mr Hodges 👍
If there was a Russian worse than Putin, he would have already moved Putin out of the way (to put it delicately).
Not really. Putin was pro-west and still is a touchy president, not a hardcore one. Of course it is possible that sooner or later he must give up his strategy for Russian hardcore's. Sooner is better for Russia.
@@TenylegMinekez-uc7co I dare you to make less sense
@@marcus_ohreallyus Do you know any better?
@@TenylegMinekez-uc7co know what any better? Are you one of those Kremlin bots? I said that anyone worse than Putin would already be in power and you replied with some nonsensical word salad. Stop saying things.
@@marcus_ohreallyus Your starting points are not based. Putin has a solid power, but it does not mean that others in Russia and the Russian people themselves does not feel sometimes that Putin is not tough enough. As an example Medvedev plays the 'bad cop' in the game, but Putin gots heavy critics overall for not going to be more hardcore. Medvedev would be probably more worse at the moment as a leader. But as the position of Putin is solid at the moment, he is not threatened by inner coup realistically. On the other hand Putin is old and technically could die even accidentally. Then there could be a worse situation related to the war again.
Gen. Ben Hodges is one of the most clear-sighted around, we should listen well to him. I recommend all to watch the full interview of 5th May 2024 - _General Hodges on Retaking Crimea, NATO in Ukraine and Russian Collapse | Ep. 21 Gen. Ben Hodges_
Collapse it, now! Ben Hodges, why for god's sake don't YOU run for president? We need a leader like you.
Probably too late for this year, but if he starts now he could win in 2028
No. You need leaders who know what they're talking about
He would never get elected: He tells the truth and knows what he is talking about.
Ben Hodges should seriously consider entering politics and perhaps aiming for Presidency. Sensible and honourable. The Orc Bots hate him, so that is a great recommendation.
Idk, politics is about lying into people's faces. You have to be trained in that or like Trump a natural.
I agree. Someone with a history of failure and defeat should continue to lead the US into failure after failure in its foreign policy, without a single result to show in nearly 30 years of retreat, defeat and irrelevance
He just talks nonsense
According to him Ukraine should have taken Crimea by September 2023. It's June 2024 now and they are not even close
goenzoy - Sad to say but this is the fault of the MAGA blockade in our Congress, and the reluctance of Western Europe to take up the slack. We’re still a bit slow on delivery of promised supplies. 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦✌️🚩
@@kathleenmann7311 But thats nonsense MAGA blockade never stopped Ukraine mobilisation
Plus this blockade did happen during winter would have not made much difference
I couldn't agree more but that leads me to my usual question: Why is the West/US still so afraid and shaking of fear about putler?!
God knows
you have your language mixed up, a typical russian mistake. Why are the west/US still so afraid and shaking with fear about putler?
Nobody is afraid of putler. Except maybe russians ... if putin did something really stupid, did really launch nuclear weapons, within a month the rest of the world would see to it that not one single russian was left alive. Putler is your fault, not ours.
@@sallywilton2236 BRICS ?
@@user-xq4do7mx3q lol
@@user-xq4do7mx3q Why would anyone care about BRICS? The financial meltdown in Russia showed what a joke this "end of the Dollar's hegemony" narrative is. As usual, Russians who can are buying Dollars, not Yen. BRICS is a nest of vipers. India and China are sworn enemies, South Africa are run by corrupt wannabe Marxist millionaires and billionaires. Russia and China are classic frenemies and Brazil are their own animal. When it really matters India and Brazil will align with the US.
What could be worse than what Ruzzia is now?
ever been to Russia?
North Korea ????
Most countries in Africa?
Može i biće još gore za zapad.Rusija-Sjeverna Koreja,a uskoro i Kina.
Noćna mora zapada.
😂😂😂😂
@@tariredom7615but it really isn’t. Korea has no planes. They can be smashed in a matter of days. China is literally watching Russia fail over and over again. China is a regional superpower. Russia has become a pawn for them. North Korea is so powerful. They don’t even have electricity. The United States and the west should be terrified 😂
The only voice needed on Ukraine is Mr Hodges. He's had strategy and resolve since day 1
He's been wrong on every single one of his predictions. The man is a paid cheerleader for Ukraine. Nothing he says can be taken as gospel.
Love the books on Gen. Hodges’ shelves, especially Vermeer.
Moscow horde´s war record :-
1856 defeated by Britain and France
1905 defeated by Japan
1917 defeated by Germany
1920 defeated by Poland, Finland, Estonia and all Baltic states
1939 defeated by Finland
1969 defeated by China
1989 defeated by Afghanistan
1989 defeated in the Cold War.
1996 defeated by Chechnya
2022 defeated by Ukraine
WW2 won USA/Britain , meanwhile Stalin's officers were shot or sent to the Gulags. Millions went to the Gulags, including Solzhenitsyn
Moscow's only victories come from invading smaller countries :-
a) Hungary 1956
b) Czechoslovakia 1968
c) Moldova 1992
d) Georgia 2008.
Even going back to Napoleon, the Russians merely outlasted the French until they retreated due to logistics. WW2 they held up but got a ton of support from the west.
@@cantrell0817 20 millions dead to win the germans in ww2 and they think they are great
A na kraju Rusija uvijek pobijedi.😂
Ko se sukobi sa Rusijom proći će kao Napoleon i Hitler.
Poland-Lithuania occupied moscow for three years in the 17th century. Or in russian: they had liberated it.
@@cantrell0817 The biggest Russian contribution to WW2 was to die in huge numbers and how many of them were Ukrainians anyway. Their own leaders killed almost as many as their enemy did. Where, other than on Russian land and the nations they wished to subjugate did Russia even contribute to the allied war effort. Their naval activity was around about zero, their aircraft never left Russian airspace. Meanwhile the British Empire/Commonwealth forces were fighting on land sea and air in all theatres. Later the US came and took that heat off us. So, just what did Russia do - they didn't even declare war on Japan until the last couple of weeks and even then only so they had an excuse to invade a few Japanese Islands. Their propaganda sells us a load of bullshit about their exploits but all they did was die and now looking at how they continue to wage war in Ukraine it is easy to see how that happend,
I agree. We should absolutely be making plans for the case putin's regime collapses and also even for the case russia disintegrates. That will be a point in history where we can also affect how the future will be, and it would be a complete waste of that opportunity if we're not prepared for it.
Precisely, well put
Thanks for your insights Ben. Wish you were on the Joint Chiefs.
Yeah--he is as stupid as they are
Is there even any Government in Russia at the moment? *"All about Carpool Karoke in Korea now!"?* What does that even mean?
Week said and happy to see your a lover of great art as well !!!
Ben Hodges, the voice of reason.
Pootin wanted to be remembered like Czar Peter the Great. Hopefully, he will be remembered like Nicholas II
Or Gaddafi
Hopefully he will be utterly forgotten. He doesn’t deserve to be remembered.
He will be as infamous as Stalin.
10's of thousands at Putins hands? Dont you mean millions?
Delusional "general" on top of being demented?
Ben is a smart man ❤❤
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Reconstruction of Russia?
I don't think they deserve a "Marshall Plan".
When general grow old, they really grow old
The saying is “better the devil you know than the devil you don’t”, but I think that Russia and the West would agree that once Putin is gone they are willing to take that chance.
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Agreed. Shouldn't fear. It's not gonna happen. That's why.
You mean like Ussr would never collapse?
@@jennysue601 There is no USSR. Putin's regime if far from collapsing. A collapsing nuclear power is one of the most dangerous things, even if in the case of the USSR we were lucky. And most importantly in Russia Putin is the good guy toward the West warmonger politicians.
During Putin's speech in Vietnam he said: "The end is near!"
Care of your own country. Europe maybe will not be your buffer zone anymore. We know what you think. We know you will not help if it's not for your own benefits
❤👍
I think this guy would be one of the best presidents USA could have
Are those yellow and reddish books on the right behind him of Reclam editor?? If so, I'm even more impressed by his educated mind since that would mean he regularly reads German
He is currently living in Germany.
Ben Hodges currently lives in Germany.
When the Berlin Wall came down I wrote Gen Powell (he had been an instructor at Ft Benning in '67 when I was an OCS Candidate and a Bn Cmdr in the 2d Division in '73 when I was an S-3 of a neighboring Bn), and suggested that we needed a plan to put Russia on the Road to membership in the EU and membership in NATO if it meet certain criteria. He wrote me back and told me that they would it give it proper consideration. By now Russia should have learned that Peace and Commerce is a much better idea than sending your young men off to die. I don't think our leftist State Department will do it right this time either. The American or the Ukranian Infantryman can do everything right to win the war and our leadership at Defense and State will screw it up, every time, in my lifetime. Why have we not won the peace since WWII? I think it is the commies and State Department; I don't e3xpect them to do better this time.
You keep forgetting one golden rule. There is always someone worse. You just don’t have the imagination to understand it.
I agree.
The idea of ‘its better the devil you know’, is 1970’s pop music level of thinking.
It was a dated mindless cliche when Kylie Minogue was singing about it.
Ukraine couldn't careless about Russia or its weapons
What’s left of Ukraine you mean .
@@brianlowe3529: 80% of Ukraine is still in Ukrainian hands and the rest is being looked after by the Russians for Ukraine 🇺🇦….youll see !!!
"Careless" - that they are.
Yet The small country of Ukraine is still beating back the big bad bear , plus what is left of Ukraine is material but what counts is the heart of the people of Ukraine who are embarrassing the bear.@@brianlowe3529
And the US couldn't care less about Ukraine.
It's kind of funny to listen all this talk about Putin's replacement. Like they say Never fry a fish till it's caught.
things can always get worse
For Russia. Russia is fighting western resources, which account for 40% of the world's GDP.
The real nightmare for the West is that China (which manufactures as much as the entire Free World) will put its awesome industrial base behind Russia's war effort.
Better the devil you know I think is the phrase the interviewer was painfully trying to explain
It's a long way from collapsing ! It'll just have more North Korean influences going forward !!
Its not that far away , their economy is collapsing and Putin him self is worryed of it might collapse .
@@johnnylind973Puno slušaš BBC i CNN😂
ruclips.net/user/shorts_6XRr4o5RIQ?si=e698AU78PeDj9ePs
Ruska ekonomija četvrta na svijetu, prestigla Njemačku i Japan.😂
A regime change has pretty much only positives.
1. The new leader would have the ability to end the Ukraine war, even leaving, and just blame Putin.
2. A new leader would need troops and the military internally, hence needing to end the Ukraine war, or pull troops from it.
3. A new leader could take years, possibly a decade to solidify power.
4. A regime change could easily see brush wars, regions breaking away, internal strife, etc. all which take Russia's time.
5. A new leader would have to negotiate with the west on getting sanctions removed and the west can start asking for military reductions or limits.
6. Even if it's bloody, or breaks out into civil war, its still directing it's forces internally.
Fear it I can’t wait I am giddy with I am giddy with the prospect of this happening!
Bla Bla Bla
Only 3 min ? :(
yes.. a chaotic country with 6000 nukes... what could go wrong mr. "expert"?
I wish Gen. Hodges was in charge somehow.
Ben Hodges... When, Ben, when???
regarding the nukes.... those warheads have a Maximum shelf life of 12 yearsm If they are maintained. So that stockpile of working heads is Much smaller. And when russia collapses, there won't be new ones either.
don't be afrained of nukes
It is very unlikely that all nukes from the USSR and the nukes they got from Ukraine/ Kazhastan in the 1990s are functional.
But very likely Russia has build new ones or retrofitted older ones over the last 20years.
My guess is they themself have no clue how many of their nukes actualy work.
That is a very big IF. As the saying goes assumption is the mother of all fuckups.
Lets put this into perspective. Russia is a corrupt society and insanely so. This corruption affects every part of russian society including the military. some people think that somehow this corruption wont affect their nuclear arsenal but I am less the convinced on this.
I am not convinced because imagine for an instance you are a Russian general in charge of maintaining the arsenal. Every year putin gives you billions of roubles to maintain them but here is the thing in your estimation you don't think Putin will ever have need to fire them, as long as putin can claim he has them it doesn't matter if they actually work or not so instead you pocket 80% of the money. spend it on your dacha or whatever and the rest you spend to maintain appearances. its the perfect crime because you don't think you will ever be found out and everyone steals money anyway.
So the net result of all this is that their nukes are not as maintained as we think they are. To which you might say well only 1% need to work. That may well be true but what this neglects here is the problem from Putins pov.
Putin has a good idea that russia nuclear weapons might not work. He knows this because his government is corrupt and the corruption is even in the military but the problem is he doesn't know which if any of the nuclear weapons will work and which wont. Nobody in the nuclear division will admit to stealing funds and everyone will lie rather than admit it because to do so would be to admit to treason. so if he fires a nuclear weapon it could be that it will work as expected but it could just well be it blows up in the silo. Its a terrible game of russian roulette but what he does know is that American and European nukes will probably work as expected. This puts him in a massive disadvantage so his plan has always been to make western countries think he might use a nuclear weapon without using a nuclear weapon because he doesn't want to be in the position of finding out how bad his cards are on this
@@ANTAGONIST_2.0 no not really, it's physics. N warheads deteriorate in 12 years max. and that is IF they maintain them. And they can't. At least not all, by a long mile. takes 15 million per year, and materials they don't make anymore, and specialists needing many hours per warhead. So logistically it's also impossible.
some more technical reasons i won't type here, but i am not losing a minute of sleep over this.
To assume the order to launch would ever reach the silos whether the warhead is working or not, is a massive stretch of the imagination.
Why we should be scared if an Stalin putler system collapse?
Why?
Russian enough capable or shitty ins all next dictatorship?
🙏 for russia getting some normal leaders, if not why its our problem?
It does no good to fear it. It seems like it is inescapable at this point, but maybe Russia will just replace one Czar with a new one. smh
It will take a new monster-to-be to consolidate power in the kremlin. This is the russian way. And until they get that power, they will be very pliable.
Gen. Hodges has distinct historical and military knowledge. If they launch a nuke, then article 5 is a go and the U.N. will pass a resolution for equal actions.
Sure, sure. Excepts that he usually talks nonsense and not supported on the battlefield.
Ben for president
Good to hear the fall of Putin as the subject of a Hodges report.
Even it has nothing to do with reality... 😂
Ben Hodges is never right in his prefictions. How he managed to reach rge rank of general is a total mystery to me.
Russia's long in-storage nuclear weapons may be nothing more than an asset on paper. Should Russia risk using a tactical nuclear weapon on Kiev, Kiev could take out a number of Russia's nuclear power stations a create another Chernobyl disaster. To be specific, Leningrad I and II around Saint Petersburg, Kola near Murmansk, Kalinin east of Moscow, Smolensk west of Moscow on the Belarus border, and Rostov in the south are exposed like oil refineries and depots. The Russian energy grid is completely dependent on these power stations. The precise targeting of these critical sites could pin-point the generators and transmission facilities and leave reactors untouched and isolated. Their demise, using conventional warhead weapons, would terminate Russia's industry capacity and ability to conduct war.
The horrifying thing is, that this monster has an acces to nuclear power. A solution should come from inside; dismantle the power; almost like an 007 operation...
This monster is a kindergarden teacher compared to Anglo-Saxons.
@@TenylegMinekez-uc7co They do have a way wider world scope.
Hodges talks sense.
Yea nonsense !
🤣
Ukraine is winning !!
General Hodges speaks sense. I have agreed with everything I have heard him say.
Why Biden is so afraid?
My puppy was once afraid of puppy chow. Now he dogs it🐕
If trump was president he would be licking Putin's arse and doing whatever Putin asked of him.
Сто тысяч душ российского солдата
Отдал Путло за расширенье НАТО 🙂
Ben Hodges, president of the USA please!
A man with common sense.
Putin The Failure!
The UK can’t even deal with the Houthis , give us a break
What do you mean?
@@martinogold …..2 years ago Ben Hodges says things like , Russia is gonna run out of missiles , they’re fighting with shovels , they’re economy is fucked, well that’s all bullshit and quite frankly I’m sick of all the lies from the mainstream media and British generals they’re all full of fucking shit
Bonkers Ben is straight out of Dr Strangelove
with all his precious bodily fluids
@@sergeipetrov_rzn I wonder if he actually believes this. This war was provoked by NATO expansion. US almost went to war over Soviet missiles in Cuba, yet it is ok to place our military along Russia's borders wit Russia knowing that the West, with its collapsing financial system, is salivating over potentially taking over Russia's natural resources if they can successfully install a client regime the way they did in Kiev.
Hi Ivan….how’s Ruzzzzia?
Delusional
Adam Schiff for president. Ben Hodges for vice president. Jamie Raskin for Speaker.
Ben Hodges, the man who has never met a war that he didn't like. Warmonger for 30yrs running
We shouldn't fear smth that won't happen 🤣 what a clown
I fear seeing pictures of Putin and Kim naked together on Tinder
This guy is completely delusional!
OK Gospodin
Hi Ivan…How’s Moscow?
@@larssoderstrom1666 How is the successful counteroffensive predicted by him? Are they on their way back from Moscow?🤣 I know their equipment made it there as trophies...
@@larssoderstrom1666 Need some brain,loser?
More bollox
Hi Ivan…How’s Moscow?
How many western leaders came and gone . Putin is still there . 😂
Which is exactly why Russia is now going down the tubes, militarily, economically and morally. Any individual or party having too much power for too long corrupts inevitably.
You laugh at the whole point of democracy, the purpose of which is the peaceful transition of power, as if that is a bad thing... you absolute Muppet.
Exactly. Complete dictator.
Has turned ruSSia into a complete shithole and it’s people will be trying to repair it for generations to come. Either that, or they will all end up speaking Chinese when Xi invades..
@@Onwrikbaar Down the tubes… Militarily no, not now, it's the inverse. Economically it has been a (slow) rollercoaster since the Soviet split, but right now is not a dip, but war _is_ costly, but also generates some (though 'broken window' does apply), so let's see. Corruption, yeah. (Though to be fair that's alike in the other country.) Oh, morally. That depends. Moral as in fighting moral (tubes, really)? World moral? :)
Yes.
That's called a dictatorship....when the people have no choice who their president is, and voting is a worthless waste of time because putin would stay in power no matter what.
so strong ukropium
Kyiv in 3 days
@@weirdwanderer Donezk in 2 hours
you are defending terrorism.....
why?
And do you notice how it's getting stronger, as Ukraines prospects deteriorate.
@@CyberBeep_kenshi in the damned USSR there were 53 million Ukrainians suffering from the Muscovite yoke, with American friendship there will be zero Ukrainians left!
😂😂😂 lies what about America 😊
Time and money, something is in short supply in Ruzzia.
Ben Hodges how much have you invested in the INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, when is your greed going to stop?🇺🇸🇺🇸
Reverse it. How much the military. Industrial complex invested in Ben Hodges...