I just finished reading Chernow's book on Grant. In the past, I have read the books by Bruce Catton, on the Civil War,. and, one thing that stands out, is that wars are not won by half measures. Lincoln struggled for the first three years with Generals who did not push hard enough or long enough. Fianally he put Grant in command, and, along with Sherman they put rlentless pressure on the Confederacy. This is a different war, but, the principle must remain the same. The war will not be won by half measures, and, if you are going to iinvest a dime, you might as well invest a dollar.
Excellent post Kieth. Also i am glad you are reading works by very thourough and competent authors. I agree and this slow and incrimental upswing in lethal aid in my opinion will take place sooner rather than later. Maybe as soon as March 9th. But it concerns me that the lag time between stating additional matierials(fighter aircraft) and actual battlefield implementation is not in Ukraines best interest or ours(the west)
Keith You Tube The United States Is Corrupted, The Russia Ukraine war explained There is an amazing exchange between a reporter and general Petraeus. I think you will find it very very interesting.
Yess when grant decided not to have a parade in Vicksburg. Cas that was jus pomp. That he would pursue the Confederate army and destroy it. Grant proved that decisive action wins wars.
I imagine Ben is getting a decent following with his even-toned, well-thought-out analysis of the conflict. He is getting more air time and god bless him.
Even Boris Johnson (historically I've disagreed with on almost everything) said that if we gave EVERYTHING right at the start, they would be a year ahead of where we are right now.
people forget russia has nuclear weapons. if they started talking about solving some of the disagreements we could have avoid a war in the first place. long range weapons are dangerous. the risks of hitting russia territories and nuclear war. all these pinheads can talk about escalation and more weapons.
@@hiddeninthewires2308 What a stupid comment. Russia's nuclear weapons are the ONLY reason the creatures haven't be slaughtered from the air by NATO in Ukraine already. Their ritualistic lying makes any kind of negotiations impossible. They're thrives, rapist's and vile killers; they're dead from now on as a country. Their only future is as a tool of China.
Reminds me of all the people I have heard say they are gonna try and quit smoking. The only ones that actually quit are the ones who "I am gonna quit. I have quit" . I have not smoked for three days does not cut it. There is no way to win if you don't decide to do it.
A Russian controlled Crimea is not only a gun pointed at Ukraine, controlling the viability of all of Ukraine's Black Sea ports, but it is also a gun pointed at Moldova, and two NATO countries of Romania and Bulgaria. The West, including the U.S. of course, needs to get on a war footing, by this I mean the entire WEST needed to begin doubling its munitions manufacturing capacity for every item and article for war: tanks, rifles, airplanes, bullets, missiles, drones, boots, fatigues, and so on beginning last January when it was becoming clear that Putin was getting ready to invade Ukraine, and okay, they didn't do that, then at least since February 24, 2022. Because if Putin succeeded in taking Ukraine then that's just the beginning, what Poland was for Hitler. You can't have people exercising the primitive notion of exercising raw power and violence without a response to severely contain and reverse it. The longer it drags out the more expensive it is. Face this decisively and China will not think twice about invading Taiwan. Now if the war dies down and we never need to use that capacity we created, then we can thank God for it and go back to watching youtube videos of German Sheppard's playing with Kittens.
@@kaneinkansas en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Sevastopol Sevastopol has always been Russian naval base since 1783. So I am not sure why you think this would change. Also either Russia is so powerful that it can attack Poland and other Europe nations, or it is so weak that it can't even take more than a small part of Eastern Ukraine. So is Russia weak or strong? you can't have it both ways. Don't worry, China can't invade Taiwan because Taiwan is part of China. Like USA can't invade Texas or Florida or Long Island, since that is part of USA. Also it is good idea to go to war with Russia and China. Someone has to start world war 3 someday, right?
@@alexdiamantopoulos6614 Yes, that's what happened when Putin invaded Ukraine, in reality it is what happened when he invaded Crimea. The future cannot tollerate the lawlessness of primitive "might makes right" aggression. That Putin couldn't foresee this travesty is a travesty. But eventually everyone will realize it. This happened before in 1930s. The casualties of WWI made war seem unthinkable. Thus Hitler caught the peaceful world 'wrong footed' and invaded Rhineland, Austria, Czechoslavakia, Poland, Norway, by May 1940 he had the expertise and resources to swallow Europe as a whole. It took millions of lives, billions of dollars in treasure and weapons, and unthinkable violence that left Europe a smoldering ruin, to liberate Europe. People haven't cognized the total repercussions of Putin's actions. Naked agression cannot be tollerated in the future any more than it was tollerated in the past. The consequences are nihilistic ruin. That is the logic of Putin's invasion. The age old problem in civics is and has been: "what to do about the psychopath & his ambition." Either you give the psychopath what he wants, or he destroys everything you hold dear. The West & Ukraine is giving Russia & Putin lots of time to reverse course from his high risk gamble. If he doesn't back track, all mayhem is possible. My guess is that China waits until Russia is further reduced, then invades Mongolia - using the same pretext that Russia used in Ukraine: historical association. Russia, which had created modern Mongolia, will be able to do nothing. Then China will turn Kazakhstan into a Chinese satelite. Then China will grab everything east of the Yenissei River, which is 2/3rds of Russia's current territory, but has less than 8 million Russians living there while China has 1.5 billion resource starved people living just to the south of Siberia. Putin's obsession with Russia's western frontiers is misplaced. Russia has never been successfully invaded from the West, despite many attempts. The only time Russia has been successfully invaded was from the East. The Mongols held Russia as a fief for 240 years. Putin in trying to rebuild Russia into the Soviet Union is likely to set Russia back over 500 years. Once he let the genie of naked agression out of the bottle, he open the case for China to take over as much of Siberia as it wants, when it wants to. Very possible that Russia in 20 years will be begging to be let into NATO to protect Russia's frontiers from Chinese aggression. None of this is inevitable - Putin still has time to retreat back into his own borders and restore international norms against naked aggression, but that window is closing soon. It probably will not go any better for Russia, and the world, than it went for Hitler, Germany and the world 85 years ago.
Very insightful interview indeed! The good ambassador and the good general are correct. The west (and countries with like-minded values) should provide Ukraine the tools it needs to win yesterday, not for a drawn-out fight of months or years. This hesitation and dilly-dallying up and down the administrative chain is costing lives every minute on the battlefield. If F-16's, HIMARS, M777 howitzers, Javelins, NLAWS, ATACMS, main battle tanks, and IFV's were sent at the outset of this aggression, this conflict between Ukraine and Russia would have already been a distant memory (with Ukraine winning, of course). So, what's the hold up? Putin's red lines? They have been crossed so many times. Aggressors like Russia and China only understand one thing - brute force and the balls to win. Quick, decisive, and overwhelming force of action will be the blueprint for future conflicts. The world should show such dictators that their visions are not part of a 21st century world. Watching with love from Taipei, Taiwan. :)
So you think the US and nato should go to war with Russia... you do realize we haven't won a war in 80 years right... so you're going to get the whole world in a nuclear conflict with Russia for what reason?
Amen! The hold up is politics, fear, stupidity, lack of values we say we have, ect, the list could go on though it shouldn't. In the US there is also a lot of unrealistic doubt after pumping trillions into Afghanistan + Iraq quagmires, (as well as thousands of lives), not to mention the serious divide in the US and the Russian propaganda that has been expertly applied to the US for decades.
This just comes across as parroting propaganda. You bring up armaments like the F-16 which are a media talking point, but won't do anything to close the skies over Ukraine. According to Kyivpost Ukraine lost half it's air force, logically along with many of their best pilots. If Ukrainians can't manage the more maneuverable Mig-29 in their own skies, how can they manage F-16's over Russian controlled airspace? I mean Javelins were supplied during the Trump administration..... well before the actual invasion of Ukraine. It's frustrating to watch people be ignorant mouthpieces for the media instead of doing any research that can help them understand this conflict better.
Good luck, there will be no blue prints or the west if they don't pay attention to Putin closely. Ukraine is Russia and Russia has been very patient with the childish west.
You Tube The United States is corrupted The True story of the Ukraine Russia war. There is an excellent exchange between a news reporter and General Petraeus. i think you will find it to be an eye opener
I am Canadian (Je suis canadien) and understand what the democratic peoples of this planet want for them to be heard. The country of Ukraine is suffering for our rights. They need our support even if we are unwilling to give our own to their cause. I believe that Canadians should show that we believe in democracy. Let us send our women and men to Ukraine to support their people. Let us show the world that we are behind the people of Ukraine with are bodies as well. We have been a country of peace but we must show that we are a county of conviction.
"Let us send our women and men to Ukraine' That;s a moment when you realize that your entire world is a lie. No Canadian wants to go to die ( except couple of dozen of psychos) in foreign countries.. everybody in Canada just wants the good living at the expense of the rest of the world as a vassal of the US empire.
So you want to go to war with a nuclear power. Good move Einstein. Ukraine is not fighting for your rights either. Very few Canadians will fight for their own rights let alone anyone else’s. Ukrainians are dying for Joe Biden’s money laundering operation.
Yeah, send Candian women and men against their will to die in Ukraine to make you feel better about yourself. Genius Left move. 1. You feel better 2. Someone else does the work and feels the pain. 3. You get to force someone to do something against their will. 4. Deaths of others is involved. You are regular Karl Marx. In the US military you're known as the Blue Falcon.
It's not even true. It's just an excuse. We don't in reality have the manufacturing capacity to produce and send new weapons. We can only send stuff from warehouses we already have.
I had mixed feelings my self but then i watched alot of Volodymyr Zolkin videos with english subtitles. They talk to the captives of the russia army.. and what i learned from that is putins russia so brainwashed and even so afraid to speak up and say anything about how they are being forced to join .. EVERYONE in EU is at risk if putin wins.. so we must stay strong together and help ukraine and let the good people of russia fight the regime within their borders.. this is a fight for freedom and freedom is for everyone.. we has to continue our support to ukraine untill they have kicked ou every single one of the russian who invaded their land and deastroyed their city. The war for freedom ends when we all have freedom. Denmark is with Ukraine and the good people in Russia ❤💛💙
In EU we have all interest in Russia winning. Only idiots cannot see this. There is no point in aligning with the US which has been shown to be terrible and unreliable business partner over many decades, Asian countries are much more promising.
Ironically, there is forced mobilisation in ukraine and ukrainian men are not allowed to leave the country, there are many Videos on ukrainian social media of how men get stopped by soldiers and forced to join the military. So your comment does not make much sense. It does not really sound like freedom 😁
Said brainwashed 😂 Shell paid ukraine $300billion in 2017 to drill the yuzviska gas field in the Donbas even tho that shiet is literally russian land only russians live their because thats where russia started in the 800s so you know how the war is in the donbas right? Since 2014 theirs been war their non stop and now the war is only in the donbas and then down south by crimea, in 2010 ukraine discovered mad gas fields which equalled to the 2nd most in Europe, which is why in 2010 nato randomly started trying to get ukraine to break their deal with russia and join nato
@@joselup We either live within a rules based international order that we have taken for granted over the past 80 years or so, or we perpetually live in a dangerous world dominated by authoritarianism. Ukraine and Taiwan are the frontiers of democracy today. No one wants ww3, but if it’s impossible to protect democratic principles without a world war, then we need to decide whether we roll over and allow China and Russia to dominate by means of nuclear blackmail and invasions into sovereign territories, or fully commit and possibly fight if necessary. That is the decision that Russia and China is forcing upon us. Halfway measures will give Russia a slow and painful victory while depleting international stockpiles to prevent China from following up with Taiwan.
@@joselup and that’s a no response that sidesteps the reality of the issue entirely 🥱 It sounds like your rationale is to allow Ukraine to lose if it avoids WW3, without understanding the geopolitical context that would force a WW3 if Ukraine does indeed lose.
you choose to listen to generals who echo easy talking points. general mark Miller was at least honest saying this war will only end when both sides decide to have peace.
If Ukraine stops fighting their country is done if Russia stops fighting they go home. NATO has only been arming Ukraine with enough weapons to not loose if they decided to give Ukraine what it needs to win. ....the war would be over this year.
War is too important to be left in the hands of generals. They have dealt with nuclear planning all their life and look at it as being an option. They have become hardened on the question of massive destructions. For them victory is the ultimate goal even if it comes on a pile of ashes that can be seen from the moon. What the Biden administration is trying to do is by all means avoid a nuclear war. And their view is that this is a worthy goal, no matter how long it takes. Hwo is right, do you think?
5 weeks was enough time for brave Ukrainians to stop Russian unpopular Z 40 mile long horror convoy, smash it hard the miraculous way the international community has not seen or even heard of before !
Don't deceive yourself. The 42 mile long Russian convoy did not attack the ukrainians in Kiev. If this tanks have decided start firing at ukrainians when they were close to Kiev ukrainians by now would have known what the war is all about.
Wasn't it the mud that stopped the Russians? Anyway when Zelensky wasn't allowed by the West to negotiate, there was no point in encircling Kiev. The retreated and focused on taking the Donbas.
What a brilliant and great pair of specialists assembled here to helps us to navigate to the current situation and keep an informed and clear view of what’s going on and whats about to come! Thank you MSNBC for sharing it!
I voted for Joe Biden in Nov of 2020 and I am glad Biden won the White House and is the 46th American president. I am glad that Pres Biden is sending military equipment to help the brave heros of the Ukrainian army.
Yeah that's awful good of them especially since Biden is the one that started the war.... And this world will not end for the ukrainians until Biden says it ends .... You're 46 president is going to get everyone killed.....
If Putin loses, why he does not let the whole world lose together? I don't think the chance is slim. If you, the western people, want die, go to Ukraine to help them personally. respect you. We, living in Asia, this FXXXing war is none of our business. Don't drag us into the destruction.
Okay, Sir: Just remember your promise to Ben and the ambassador. On Sunday, you must push Jake Sullivan on what he and his colleagues are doing to get more ammunition, more long range capabilities, etc in the hands of the Ukrainians FASTER.
Question? You do understand that America's been sending Ukraine so much money and so fast that there's been no discretion or oversight, 113 billion dollars in cash and then 87 billion in military equipment and then the rebuilding of Ukraine, lets face it, it will come out being built back better than it ever was on "US TAXPAYERS MONEY" Now maybe this wouldn't be as big of a problem if BIDEN PROTECTED OUR AMERICAN BORDER! Then there's the facts, lets be honest Ukraines one of the most corrupt countries in the world, it's 120 out of 180, so what's not to say that most of that money won't end up on some Oligarchs yacht? Watchdogs reports have asked for 60 detailed reports of money and weapons and only one's come back, found that there's significant risk of misuse and diversion given the volume and speed of assistance, also raised concerns that the defense department isn't able to monitor weapons in part because american troops aren't allowed there! Lastly no offence but 95% of Americans never even heard of Ukraine before last year, their not in the Eu and honestly aren't that trustworthy, their president comes here to America demanding stuff dressed in a tracksuit! Why is this An American problem? and why does America always have to pay for all of Europe's endless wars?In the end even thought most all of the EU has donated to Ukraine it's only based upon America giving them all new America best of the best military equipment, when you give something it should be on the merits of not expecting something in return, Poland gave 29 Su 27's but inreturn wants 29 F 16's block 70/ 72's which is only built for export but are even better then our F 16's, they also will replace all their tanks with M1a2sep3's which is the best tanks in the world, so as little as the EU gave 13 billion dollars it pales in comparison to what America will give! 20 years in Afghanistan cost America 148 billion for the war, but in less then a year we've given Ukraine 200 billion dollars! Then America gave 600 billion to rebuild Afghanistan deserts???? What will it cost US to rebuild UKraine? I'm not saying not to help but people are crazy thinking we're not, and demanding it faster, while most Americans are struggling and can't pay their electric bills that have gone up 3x and paying $8 dollars for a carton of eggs, with the highest inflation, AND no one protects our border????
Crimea (called the Tauric Peninsula until the early modern period) has historically been at the boundary between the classical world and the steppe. Greeks colonized its southern fringe and were absorbed by the Roman and Byzantine Empires and successor states while remaining culturally Greek. Some cities became trading colonies of Genoa, until conquered by the Ottoman Empire. Throughout this time the interior was occupied by a changing cast of steppe nomads. In the 14th century, it became part of the Golden Horde; the Crimean Khanate emerged as a successor state. In the 15th century, the Khanate became a dependency of the Ottoman Empire. Lands controlled by Russia and Poland-Lithuania were often the target of slave raids during this period. In 1783, the Russian Empire annexed Crimea after an earlier war with Turkey. Crimea's strategic position led to the 1854 Crimean War and many short lived regimes following the 1917 Russian Revolution. When the Bolsheviks secured Crimea it became an autonomous soviet republic within Russia. During World War II, Crimea was downgraded to an oblast. In 1944, Crimean Tatars were ethnically cleansed and deported under the orders of Joseph Stalin, in what has been described as a cultural genocide. The USSR transferred Crimea to Ukraine on the 300th anniversary of the Pereyaslav Treaty in 1954. After Ukrainian independence in 1991, the central government and Crimea clashed, with the region being granted more autonomy. The Soviet fleet in Crimea was also in contention, but a 1997 treaty allowed Russia to continue basing its fleet in Sevastopol. In 2014, the Russians occupied the peninsula and organized an illegal referendum in support of Russian annexation, but most countries recognize Crimea as Ukrainian territory.
@@williamjackson5942 It's accurate and accuracy is always welcomed by me. Nevertheless, I think Crimea is now Ukraine for one practical reason and other reasons political. Ukraine controls the water supply to Crimea, there is enough water in Crimea to have tourists and military installations but not enough for a thriving civilian population.
Great interview. Two guys talking total sense. The 50 countries supporting Ukraine need to grow a pair of balls and give them everything they need to kick Russia out of their country.
Everyone in the whole world should be grateful EVERY day that the US is doing so much to help Ukraine! Putin should withdraw all his cannon fodder ASAP before it gets worse ..
Having the Ambassador and General on the same program is a great combination. Both (especially General Hodges) have long advocated moving from incrementally increasing weaponry, to one providing the capability for Ukraine to decisively win. I also heard this expressed in the recent 'Munich Agreement'. If those attending follow through on their words (including Mitch McConnell), then General Hodges espoused 'precision beats mass' principle will be prevail. I think General Hodges was subtly suggesting that providing land based GLSDB, ATACM, more HIMARS, tanks (hello, Abrams!), armored personnel carriers, Javelins, NLAWS, AT4, etc., might obviate the need for fighter jets and the requisite, very complex logistics that goes with them.
@@BM-ms3gr it's not that the maintenance is high, it's that it's so different and more technically challenging for a ground force. Besides, since they have to deconstruct the tank exterior to remove the DU armor, it's going to be probably a year before that unit even sees Ukrainian soil.
I think it’s important to remember that before the first war in the Middle East in the 1990’s we had a large portion of our military’s equipment in Europe and now we have to get all that back there to really get behind aiding Ukraine for the win.
People in Ukraine report 6 strikes today at 150km range. Donetsk and Mariupol. GLSDB is on the field. HiMARS has a shorter range and has driven supply lines and storage back. This only closes the loop. Making the occupied territory untenable. 🕊 Talks in Turkiye have proven useful 👌. 1200+ POW swapped.
What we have not explained very well Is the learning curve required to master the equipment that they are asking for from the West. Ukraine has been sending soldiers here to study and learn how to handle this equipment and use it to its best and forest degree Possible. And they're doing it in extremely short order. The progress that the Ukrainians have made and mastering This wide variety of equipment is awe Inspiring. The fact that Ukrainians have got the Russians pushed all the way back to their Eastern border is amazing and shows a great deal of courage and hard work. The main thing to remember is that we have to build-up a cadre of training personnel so that when they go back to Ukraine They will be able to train the bulk of their Ukrainian military and how to handle all of this equipment.
@@samb2052 And it took the Ukrainians about 2-3 weeks to recover 12,000sq km. How many sq km did Russia take in 3 months? By summer the Russian rail lines that bring ammo and supplies to the occupied territories will be in range of GLSDB's. These are rocket launched bombs that can hit a moving target from 100km
Who's Training the Ukrainian Soldiers on our weapons? Ukrainian speaking Americans or translators being used? It'll be great if (forgot his rank. Was it Colonel?) Alexander Vindman Training the Ukrainian Soldiers. That'll be AWESOME.
@@pogo1140 The hard truth is these GLSDB won’t be a magic bullet that would help win this war for Ukraine, just like HIMARS didn’t win this war either.
@@andreyd8116 HIMARS is the reason why Kherson and the west bank of the Dnipro is in Ukrainan control and why the Russian artillery rate of fire is 25-50% less than what it was in the first couple of months of 2022. Push the supply depot past 150km to the front and you halve the supply truck deliveries. If your manual says you use 600 rounds of arty to eliminate 1 infantry platoon, and moving the depot back 75km and dispursing them resulted in your deliveries being halved, and now they will be halved again. Your going to burn through 3-4 days worth of deliveries on each anti platoon fire mission. When that ukrainan push comes, a lot of people are going to be screaming for artillery that will never respond, just like at Kharkiv and Lyman.
How about NATO stick to the agreement of not encroaching on Russian territory and pushing their missile sites closer and closer to Moscow? How about the Americans admit to taking out the gas pipeline which was declaring war on Germany
It's always a great relief to watch you guys. I guess the Americans are the only ones who have a sober mind and the means to win, together with Ukraine of course.
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Everybody 💯 needs to help 🇺🇦 win the war as fast as possible so they can join NATO then we can worry about everything else the longer the war drags on the more help there going to need everybody's going to suffer around the 🌍🌎🌏 plus 🇺🇦 already made up their mind they want all their land back 🇷🇺 soldiers to leave war will be OVER simple as that 😱🤔 they're saying as long as it takes they got the material to help them out since 2014 they should have been training them for all this since 🇷🇺 did what it did
@@filipsuljevic1585 NATO*😂🤣 but I understand what you're saying they didn't do anything worng 🇷🇺 killing civilians and everything NATO wants peace not war that's why all of Europe's helping 🇺🇦 & not 🇷🇺
To take Crimea, they need to get everyone on Russia's side out of Donetsk. It's not enough to rush in and retake Mariupol, they've got to control the region. They've got to have a solid flank.
No se puede tener las dos opciones presionar y expulsar a los Rusos y al mismo tiempo seguridad hacia todos los Países que pueden tener el mismo destino que Ucrania...A estas alturas se necesita apoyar más que nunca a Ucrania . Si los Rusos ya tienen en su bandeja el que se le pide a Ucrania el terminar la guerra.. Los Ucranianos están en un punto donde han pagado un precio en vidas por ser libres y que se les debe de seguir apoyando hasta el final sino nada del apoyo destinado a Ucrania servirá de nada ...terminará en el origen donde estaban...invadidos por Rusia... Los Rusos en Rusia que nadie los ha llamado ni los necesita ningún País para ser liberados.
A-10 warhog plane's with the tanks and the himars is a great fit for Ukraine to push for total grounds gains and liberation of east Ukraine and Crimea region no less
The first act of the Ukraine war was the invasion of Crimea, which enabled the move into Southern Ukraine and a linkage to the Eastern incursions. Crimea must be the first priority for Ukraine. Otherwise the chances of Ukraine getting rid of Russians in the South is zero, and from the East much reduced, probably to zero.
Wouldnt exactly call it an invasion. They were already there for 200 years. They just took back control of administration and built power plants bridge roads. Ukraine was so crooked they never spent anything to fix the place up because they knew it was Russian.
Canada sent 4 Leopard 2 tanks which are combat ready for Ukraine with spare parts, ammunition and Canadian military to train they have been in Poland for a few weeks or so. Plus Canada announced are going to be sending four more.
@@mirandahotspring4019 so did poland 4 L2's. I was referring to latest news here in Europe. They have been talking alot about L1's lately, checking and maintenance before shipping. I was wrong i admit that.
Teo. Gen Hodges is terrific!!! I watch him everywhere he appears on RUclips 😊 He’s a star already!!! I really hope to see him acting himself in the first movie about Ukraine war 😂
Texas is slightly bigger in square miles than Ukraine. Crimea is slightly bigger than the State of Vermont. The Russian military is having difficult time trying to defeat Ukraine, the size of Texas.
Putin is unpredictable! and just like you said the size of these countries are very small.Ukraine touches 7 other EU countries, and there could and would be collateral damages done to some if an all out war broke loose and ww3 if those other countries got involved! I don't question the facts that America is much more advanced than Russia, because it's America's war by proxy! BUT how long can america sustain a war in Ukraine before it really starts to affect americans ways of living? Plus have you ever thought that China's happy that we're tied into a war? Yes wasting our resources while China mass builds there's to take Taiwan, who's always been an American allie unlike the most corrupted Ukraine, that's not part of the EU and has never been any help towards America or the Eu! Ukraine borders all Eastern Europe countries not ours! And how long will all the Americans want to pay for this war, when our president won't defend our border? Russia although nowhere as advanced as America, but has a surplus of ww2 ammunitions much more than Americas! America needs to take all it's factories back from China, remember our 3M masks during the Covid? We couldn't get them in America!
@@onemassage9260 I promise the profit in Ukraine WILL drop as soon as they start rebuilding the country. And Russia just broke rn they gettin weapons from Iran. Which is basically North Korea in the desert
We cannot defeat the people with sheer military power, just land can be taken. Unfortunately, this would be a long lasting problem. See all the conflict in the world. Better to withdraw and use more brain less muscle.
@@onemassage9260 You are a fool, Ukraine is losing its sons and its industrial base. Russia needs this over before Putin's little Reich falls! So it is to neither sides interest to drag this out!
Crimea must be on the table. Teach Russia not to screw around with Ukrainians. Russia was being a pig by taking Crimea, but yet tried to take Ukraine too. Glory to Ukraine 🇺🇦 🇨🇦
Only one way to deal with a tyrant facing an existential threat if he fails. You have to go all in, right away. Anything else and you're playing his game.
Crimea is a peninsula in Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, that has been occupied by Russia since 2014. It has a population of 2.4 million. The peninsula is almost entirely surrounded by the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov. The Isthmus of Perekop connects the peninsula to Kherson Oblast in mainland Ukraine. To the east, the Crimean Bridge, constructed in 2018, spans the Strait of Kerch, linking the peninsula with Krasnodar Krai in Russia. The Arabat Spit, located to the northeast, is a narrow strip of land that separates the Sivash lagoons from the Sea of Azov. Across the Black Sea to the west lies Romania and to the south is Turkey.
Not necessarily, in fact with long-range precision weapons it may look more like Kherson offensive, when russians just withdrew under unbearable pressure to their command points, ammo drops, and personnel hubs.
Basically Crimea would be easy to isolate so that Russia could`nt supply it ,long range weapons wipe out the naval base in Sevastopol and they would be inclined to think about retreating again just a backyard analysis you know.
What Hodges is outlining is the same scenario that the Ukrainians used to take back Kherson. Without the ability to resupply their troops they’ll just have to leave.
This was a fantastic and enlightening discussion with surprising clarity in points. I wish politicians spoke with such clarity. Bring more interviews and excellent questions from the host like this more often. I usually find the news dull, repetitive and obvious, this broadcast was the opposite.
We need to give Ukraine the weapons ASAP to win the war they have not got the Manpower to keep up with all of their losses if there is no more Ukrainian people to fight then what happens does NATO sending the troops
You will see it happen, pretty soon...they get constantly supplied by Russia with old (here and there a T-90M as well, like a few days ago), but fresh tanks, lol. The problem for Crimea is, that there is only the Kerch bridge and the single road at the coast line of the Azov Sea. Once blocked, the troops are trapped.
@@martinmatte1518 A handful of F-16’s snd and a few Leopard tanks won’t be able to even make it 40 miles before they’re destroyed. I wish it wasn’t true but sadly Ukraine cannot win this. Peace is the only option.
That's correct.The Ukrainiens know that time isn't on their side and that they need to win soon.I said it before,Ukraine needs to take it to the russian soldiers on their homeland.They need all the proper weapons especially long range weapons.Forget about putin and his saber rattling.Putin is not that stupid to use tactical nukes because he knows that everyone that he fires,theres two firing back at the russian mainland.
If you remember that Russia and the United States were security garentor for ukraine nuclear weapons to be removed. Russia attacks, and the United States honored this agreement. No one mentioned this
Excellent point. "As long as it takes" is not the same thing as "until Ukraine wins." Just as - and I've said this on previous comments - supplying enough weapons so that Ukraine doesn't lose is not the same thing as supplying enough for them to win. The US and the West must stop vacillating about this and send a clear message to Putin.
What??? Russia has been raining down missikes on the heads of Ukrainians and otherwise carrying out a "brutal attack", including raping, torturing, and executing non-combatants in Ukraine for an entire effing year!
They launched 60 cruise missiles just yesterday, I think, attempting to destroy civilian infrastructure. That's a war crime. What do you consider to be a "brutal attack"? Anyway, Ukraine needs long range missiles to hit Russian arms depots in occupied UKRAINIAN territory. The so-called "long range" missiles in question couldn't make it to Moscow or St. Petersburg. The only Russian targets even conceivably in range would be border towns where Russians are storing weapons.
@@willmont8258 I doubt it and the threat has all but stopped working. The west will not be cowed. For months now Putin has been walking around with his fly unzipped trying to get somebody, ANYBODY, to look at his nuclear weapon. Zip it Putin, nobody cares.
@@willmont8258 I don't think we should give him any choice. I don't want the west to live under constant threat by Moscow. I don't want Rus to be the apple of the eye of one conquer after another for the next thousand years like it has for the last thousand years. I don't want future generations of westerners to have to pay for a never ending cold war. And I do want the west to meet China's belt and road policy somewhere east of England!
@@MarkM001 The West might be playing with fire by thinking it can humiliate Putin and Russia right on Russia's western border. Might be better to push for a cease fire and a negotiated settlement. Maybe Ukraine agrees to stay neutral and not join NATO, and in return Russia gives back all or some of the eastern parts of Ukraine it now occupies.
I thought Vietnam taught USA a lesson about trying to fight an armed conflict with one arm tied behind your back?. Maybe I was wrong to make that assumption. Some things never change.
7:00 Putin has to realize what American always been doing we're in It ✌️ Win It! But we just got to take Putin on the side and ask them who's picking on u man. Did zielinski take your turbo Man doll or 🗣️Whaaaaaaaaat?
Ukraine should be declared a neutral zone without admitting to NATO. That will be win win. That should have decided way back before this skirmish started. But that would have avoided war; which would disappoint the weapons industry!!!!😢
Ukraine being "technically" neutral is what emboldened Russia to invade. Better to let Ukraine into NATO after the war and let Russia seethe and cope from within its borders. I mean what are they gonna do? Attack NATO? lol.
Not enough X Russia. Putin consider Ukraine part of Russia, so your assumptions are wrong. Before the invasion Ukraine was not part of NATO and was basically a neutral zone. They were only fighting the invasores in Donbass, up to a year ago.
As far as I know Ukraine WAS neutral and WAS NOT in NATO before this war started ...... unless of course you believe the Russian propaganda/misinformation
No because that's not what ukrainians want, we run under an International System ,the westphalian system, every country is supposed to be free to choose what happens within its own borders with its own citizens and how it interacts with other nations so it should be up to Ukrainian citizens if they want to join NATO, not Russia or the UN
What a load of ruzzian troll BS. 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Ukraine hadn't and wasn't even applying for membership (and neither was Sweden or Finland). You pathetic mouthpieces for poo-tin should just look forward to your time on the front with your homies. Gonna be short but EXCITING!😂😂😂😂😂😂
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I just finished reading Chernow's book on Grant. In the past, I have read the books by Bruce Catton, on the Civil War,. and, one thing that stands out, is that wars are not won by half measures. Lincoln struggled for the first three years with Generals who did not push hard enough or long enough. Fianally he put Grant in command, and, along with Sherman they put rlentless pressure on the Confederacy. This is a different war, but, the principle must remain the same. The war will not be won by half measures, and, if you are going to iinvest a dime, you might as well invest a dollar.
Excellent! I agree!
Spy satellite have won this war and it all started last March. Lincoln used balloons but did not have enough of them.
Excellent post Kieth. Also i am glad you are reading works by very thourough and competent authors. I agree and this slow and incrimental upswing in lethal aid in my opinion will take place sooner rather than later. Maybe as soon as March 9th. But it concerns me that the lag time between stating additional matierials(fighter aircraft) and actual battlefield implementation is not in Ukraines best interest or ours(the west)
Keith You Tube The United States Is Corrupted, The Russia Ukraine war explained There is an amazing exchange between a reporter and general Petraeus. I think you will find it very very interesting.
Yess when grant decided not to have a parade in Vicksburg. Cas that was jus pomp. That he would pursue the Confederate army and destroy it. Grant proved that decisive action wins wars.
I imagine Ben is getting a decent following with his even-toned, well-thought-out analysis of the conflict. He is getting more air time and god bless him.
Love all the advocacy for Ukraine from the general. Support in this war is bargain bin prices for weakening the Russians long term.
Agree.
General Hodges is the best advocate for Ukraine, hands down. Let's start a movement to draft him for President!
Tv generals
@@lyingdogfaceponysoldier5003 Internet critics.
Even Boris Johnson (historically I've disagreed with on almost everything) said that if we gave EVERYTHING right at the start, they would be a year ahead of where we are right now.
He was absolutely right (wrong about everything else, but hey)
I AGREE RESPECT TO BORIS ON THE UKRAINE THING WHATEVER ELSE ABOUT HIM TO BE FAIR
people forget russia has nuclear weapons. if they started talking about solving some of the disagreements we could have avoid a war in the first place.
long range weapons are dangerous. the risks of hitting russia territories and nuclear war.
all these pinheads can talk about escalation and more weapons.
@@hiddeninthewires2308 how's that talking with Putin working out for you?
@@hiddeninthewires2308 What a stupid comment. Russia's nuclear weapons are the ONLY reason the creatures haven't be slaughtered from the air by NATO in Ukraine already. Their ritualistic lying makes any kind of negotiations impossible. They're thrives, rapist's and vile killers; they're dead from now on as a country. Their only future is as a tool of China.
Love Ben Hodges. So sane and realistic.
Hodges is an NPC
Reminds me of all the people I have heard say they are gonna try and quit smoking. The only ones that actually quit are the ones who "I am gonna quit. I have quit" . I have not smoked for three days does not cut it. There is no way to win if you don't decide to do it.
The west can not win the war in Ukraine.
Another excellent piece if reporting. Gen. Hodges calls it like it is.
I agree too, and imagine things Ukrainians would do if USA gave them "full control" of USA nuclear arsenal.
A Russian controlled Crimea is not only a gun pointed at Ukraine, controlling the viability of all of Ukraine's Black Sea ports, but it is also a gun pointed at Moldova, and two NATO countries of Romania and Bulgaria.
The West, including the U.S. of course, needs to get on a war footing, by this I mean the entire WEST needed to begin doubling its munitions manufacturing capacity for every item and article for war: tanks, rifles, airplanes, bullets, missiles, drones, boots, fatigues, and so on beginning last January when it was becoming clear that Putin was getting ready to invade Ukraine, and okay, they didn't do that, then at least since February 24, 2022. Because if Putin succeeded in taking Ukraine then that's just the beginning, what Poland was for Hitler. You can't have people exercising the primitive notion of exercising raw power and violence without a response to severely contain and reverse it. The longer it drags out the more expensive it is. Face this decisively and China will not think twice about invading Taiwan. Now if the war dies down and we never need to use that capacity we created, then we can thank God for it and go back to watching youtube videos of German Sheppard's playing with Kittens.
@@kaneinkansas en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Sevastopol
Sevastopol has always been Russian naval base since 1783.
So I am not sure why you think this would change.
Also either Russia is so powerful that it can attack Poland and other Europe nations, or it is so weak that it can't even take more than a small part of Eastern Ukraine.
So is Russia weak or strong? you can't have it both ways.
Don't worry, China can't invade Taiwan because Taiwan is part of China.
Like USA can't invade Texas or Florida or Long Island, since that is part of USA.
Also it is good idea to go to war with Russia and China.
Someone has to start world war 3 someday, right?
Hope everyone is prepared for a nuclear fallout
@@alexdiamantopoulos6614 Yes, that's what happened when Putin invaded Ukraine, in reality it is what happened when he invaded Crimea.
The future cannot tollerate the lawlessness of primitive "might makes right" aggression.
That Putin couldn't foresee this travesty is a travesty. But eventually everyone will realize it. This happened before in 1930s. The casualties of WWI made war seem unthinkable. Thus Hitler caught the peaceful world 'wrong footed' and invaded Rhineland, Austria, Czechoslavakia, Poland, Norway, by May 1940 he had the expertise and resources to swallow Europe as a whole. It took millions of lives, billions of dollars in treasure and weapons, and unthinkable violence that left Europe a smoldering ruin, to liberate Europe.
People haven't cognized the total repercussions of Putin's actions. Naked agression cannot be tollerated in the future any more than it was tollerated in the past. The consequences are nihilistic ruin. That is the logic of Putin's invasion.
The age old problem in civics is and has been: "what to do about the psychopath & his ambition." Either you give the psychopath what he wants, or he destroys everything you hold dear. The West & Ukraine is giving Russia & Putin lots of time to reverse course from his high risk gamble. If he doesn't back track, all mayhem is possible.
My guess is that China waits until Russia is further reduced, then invades Mongolia - using the same pretext that Russia used in Ukraine: historical association. Russia, which had created modern Mongolia, will be able to do nothing. Then China will turn Kazakhstan into a Chinese satelite. Then China will grab everything east of the Yenissei River, which is 2/3rds of Russia's current territory, but has less than 8 million Russians living there while China has 1.5 billion resource starved people living just to the south of Siberia.
Putin's obsession with Russia's western frontiers is misplaced. Russia has never been successfully invaded from the West, despite many attempts. The only time Russia has been successfully invaded was from the East. The Mongols held Russia as a fief for 240 years.
Putin in trying to rebuild Russia into the Soviet Union is likely to set Russia back over 500 years. Once he let the genie of naked agression out of the bottle, he open the case for China to take over as much of Siberia as it wants, when it wants to. Very possible that Russia in 20 years will be begging to be let into NATO to protect Russia's frontiers from Chinese aggression.
None of this is inevitable - Putin still has time to retreat back into his own borders and restore international norms against naked aggression, but that window is closing soon. It probably will not go any better for Russia, and the world, than it went for Hitler, Germany and the world 85 years ago.
Very insightful interview indeed! The good ambassador and the good general are correct. The west (and countries with like-minded values) should provide Ukraine the tools it needs to win yesterday, not for a drawn-out fight of months or years. This hesitation and dilly-dallying up and down the administrative chain is costing lives every minute on the battlefield. If F-16's, HIMARS, M777 howitzers, Javelins, NLAWS, ATACMS, main battle tanks, and IFV's were sent at the outset of this aggression, this conflict between Ukraine and Russia would have already been a distant memory (with Ukraine winning, of course). So, what's the hold up? Putin's red lines? They have been crossed so many times. Aggressors like Russia and China only understand one thing - brute force and the balls to win. Quick, decisive, and overwhelming force of action will be the blueprint for future conflicts. The world should show such dictators that their visions are not part of a 21st century world. Watching with love from Taipei, Taiwan. :)
So you think the US and nato should go to war with Russia... you do realize we haven't won a war in 80 years right... so you're going to get the whole world in a nuclear conflict with Russia for what reason?
Amen! The hold up is politics, fear, stupidity, lack of values we say we have, ect, the list could go on though it shouldn't. In the US there is also a lot of unrealistic doubt after pumping trillions into Afghanistan + Iraq quagmires, (as well as thousands of lives), not to mention the serious divide in the US and the Russian propaganda that has been expertly applied to the US for decades.
This just comes across as parroting propaganda. You bring up armaments like the F-16 which are a media talking point, but won't do anything to close the skies over Ukraine.
According to Kyivpost Ukraine lost half it's air force, logically along with many of their best pilots.
If Ukrainians can't manage the more maneuverable Mig-29 in their own skies, how can they manage F-16's over Russian controlled airspace?
I mean Javelins were supplied during the Trump administration..... well before the actual invasion of Ukraine.
It's frustrating to watch people be ignorant mouthpieces for the media instead of doing any research that can help them understand this conflict better.
At this point. I will go fight. Give me the means to win. Remember, there are some America's fighting now. They need the right tools.
Good luck, there will be no blue prints or the west if they don't pay attention to Putin closely. Ukraine is Russia and Russia has been very patient with the childish west.
Getting off their land and giving back their people sounds like reasonable terms, in my opinion. We would want the same.
You Tube The United States is corrupted The True story of the Ukraine Russia war. There is an excellent exchange between a news reporter and General Petraeus. i think you will find it to be an eye opener
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Keep dreaming
@@ivaxAx not truth
And giving back the children they have stolen
I am Canadian (Je suis canadien) and understand what the democratic peoples of this planet want for them to be heard. The country of Ukraine is suffering for our rights. They need our support even if we are unwilling to give our own to their cause. I believe that Canadians should show that we believe in democracy. Let us send our women and men to Ukraine to support their people. Let us show the world that we are behind the people of Ukraine with are bodies as well. We have been a country of peace but we must show that we are a county of conviction.
"Let us send our women and men to Ukraine' That;s a moment when you realize that your entire world is a lie. No Canadian wants to go to die ( except couple of dozen of psychos) in foreign countries.. everybody in Canada just wants the good living at the expense of the rest of the world as a vassal of the US empire.
So you want to go to war with a nuclear power. Good move Einstein. Ukraine is not fighting for your rights either. Very few Canadians will fight for their own rights let alone anyone else’s. Ukrainians are dying for Joe Biden’s money laundering operation.
Make your passport ready I will make sure you will get to ukraine for free straight to bakhmut first row. You ready let me know.
Please do, I doubt you guys will have any appetite for war
Yeah, send Candian women and men against their will to die in Ukraine to make you feel better about yourself.
Genius Left move.
1. You feel better
2. Someone else does the work and feels the pain.
3. You get to force someone to do something against their will.
4. Deaths of others is involved.
You are regular Karl Marx.
In the US military you're known as the Blue Falcon.
I'm sick to death of hearing about the fear of escalation. God that's a stupid strategy or tactic.
I'm not because the risk is real of a miscalculation
Well what do you suggest than? Frank? You there?
It's not even true. It's just an excuse. We don't in reality have the manufacturing capacity to produce and send new weapons. We can only send stuff from warehouses we already have.
Gen. Hodges provides brilliant, insightful commentary all the time.
We need to sanction Swiss banks for supporting Russia!
I had mixed feelings my self but then i watched alot of Volodymyr Zolkin videos with english subtitles. They talk to the captives of the russia army.. and what i learned from that is putins russia so brainwashed and even so afraid to speak up and say anything about how they are being forced to join .. EVERYONE in EU is at risk if putin wins.. so we must stay strong together and help ukraine and let the good people of russia fight the regime within their borders.. this is a fight for freedom and freedom is for everyone.. we has to continue our support to ukraine untill they have kicked ou every single one of the russian who invaded their land and deastroyed their city. The war for freedom ends when we all have freedom. Denmark is with Ukraine and the good people in Russia ❤💛💙
In EU we have all interest in Russia winning. Only idiots cannot see this. There is no point in aligning with the US which has been shown to be terrible and unreliable business partner over many decades, Asian countries are much more promising.
Russia has the right to take the 4 regions and crimea read a book
Ironically, there is forced mobilisation in ukraine and ukrainian men are not allowed to leave the country, there are many Videos on ukrainian social media of how men get stopped by soldiers and forced to join the military. So your comment does not make much sense. It does not really sound like freedom 😁
Said brainwashed 😂 Shell paid ukraine $300billion in 2017 to drill the yuzviska gas field in the Donbas even tho that shiet is literally russian land only russians live their because thats where russia started in the 800s so you know how the war is in the donbas right? Since 2014 theirs been war their non stop and now the war is only in the donbas and then down south by crimea, in 2010 ukraine discovered mad gas fields which equalled to the 2nd most in Europe, which is why in 2010 nato randomly started trying to get ukraine to break their deal with russia and join nato
What risk do EUROPEANS face?
I’ve already written my congressman demanding an explanation as to why we aren’t providing these long range weapons. Zero response of course
Cause we ain't tying to start ww3 my guy.🤨
Because your a fool,,and he is a buzzy man
@@joselup We either live within a rules based international order that we have taken for granted over the past 80 years or so, or we perpetually live in a dangerous world dominated by authoritarianism. Ukraine and Taiwan are the frontiers of democracy today. No one wants ww3, but if it’s impossible to protect democratic principles without a world war, then we need to decide whether we roll over and allow China and Russia to dominate by means of nuclear blackmail and invasions into sovereign territories, or fully commit and possibly fight if necessary. That is the decision that Russia and China is forcing upon us. Halfway measures will give Russia a slow and painful victory while depleting international stockpiles to prevent China from following up with Taiwan.
@@zinktomas8251 that's a long winded comment just to say you are a warhawk. 🥱
@@joselup and that’s a no response that sidesteps the reality of the issue entirely 🥱
It sounds like your rationale is to allow Ukraine to lose if it avoids WW3, without understanding the geopolitical context that would force a WW3 if Ukraine does indeed lose.
Great conversations!
The difference between politicians and the great generals is clear. Hesitation is always a problem for most politicians.
you choose to listen to generals who echo easy talking points. general mark Miller was at least honest saying this war will only end when both sides decide to have peace.
If Ukraine stops fighting their country is done if Russia stops fighting they go home. NATO has only been arming Ukraine with enough weapons to not loose if they decided to give Ukraine what it needs to win. ....the war would be over this year.
agree should not hesitate. Politician hesitate because they are afraid of their opponent , democrat afraid of republican
Caused by that persistent "How will that affect the latest poll?", which generals are usually above.
War is too important to be left in the hands of generals. They have dealt with nuclear planning all their life and look at it as being an option. They have become hardened on the question of massive destructions. For them victory is the ultimate goal even if it comes on a pile of ashes that can be seen from the moon. What the Biden administration is trying to do is by all means avoid a nuclear war. And their view is that this is a worthy goal, no matter how long it takes. Hwo is right, do you think?
5 weeks was enough time for brave Ukrainians to stop Russian unpopular Z 40 mile long horror convoy, smash it hard the miraculous way the international community has not seen or even heard of before !
It was miraculous because they had to it the primitive way if they would have had the weapons they have now it may have only taken a week.
Don't deceive yourself.
The 42 mile long Russian convoy did not attack the ukrainians in Kiev.
If this tanks have decided start firing at ukrainians when they were close to Kiev ukrainians by now would have known what the war is all about.
Wasn't it the mud that stopped the Russians? Anyway when Zelensky wasn't allowed by the West to negotiate, there was no point in encircling Kiev. The retreated and focused on taking the Donbas.
Oh ffs. The Russians didn’t take Kiev because they couldn’t. Period.
when did they smash that long convoy? Ive seen that they destroyed multiple small convoys but when did they ever smash the long one? 😂
What a brilliant and great pair of specialists assembled here to helps us to navigate to the current situation and keep an informed and clear view of what’s going on and whats about to come!
Thank you MSNBC for sharing it!
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Ben Hodges is a genius.
I voted for Joe Biden in Nov of 2020 and I am glad Biden won the White House and is the 46th American president.
I am glad that Pres Biden is sending military equipment to help the brave heros of the Ukrainian army.
So you mean that talks for peace are out of the table? It’s easier to just continue a war instead of finding a solution?
*military They also have a small air force.
Yeah that's awful good of them especially since Biden is the one that started the war.... And this world will not end for the ukrainians until Biden says it ends .... You're 46 president is going to get everyone killed.....
If Putin loses, why he does not let the whole world lose together? I don't think the chance is slim. If you, the western people, want die, go to Ukraine to help them personally. respect you. We, living in Asia, this FXXXing war is none of our business. Don't drag us into the destruction.
Biden is weak He's Hesitant in sending weapons to Ukraine
Okay, Sir: Just remember your promise to Ben and the ambassador. On Sunday, you must push Jake Sullivan on what he and his colleagues are doing to get more ammunition, more long range capabilities, etc in the hands of the Ukrainians FASTER.
Question? You do understand that America's been sending Ukraine so much money and so fast that there's been no discretion or oversight, 113 billion dollars in cash and then 87 billion in military equipment and then the rebuilding of Ukraine, lets face it, it will come out being built back better than it ever was on "US TAXPAYERS MONEY" Now maybe this wouldn't be as big of a problem if BIDEN PROTECTED OUR AMERICAN BORDER! Then there's the facts, lets be honest Ukraines one of the most corrupt countries in the world, it's 120 out of 180, so what's not to say that most of that money won't end up on some Oligarchs yacht? Watchdogs reports have asked for 60 detailed reports of money and weapons and only one's come back, found that there's significant risk of misuse and diversion given the volume and speed of assistance, also raised concerns that the defense department isn't able to monitor weapons in part because american troops aren't allowed there! Lastly no offence but 95% of Americans never even heard of Ukraine before last year, their not in the Eu and honestly aren't that trustworthy, their president comes here to America demanding stuff dressed in a tracksuit! Why is this An American problem? and why does America always have to pay for all of Europe's endless wars?In the end even thought most all of the EU has donated to Ukraine it's only based upon America giving them all new America best of the best military equipment, when you give something it should be on the merits of not expecting something in return, Poland gave 29 Su 27's but inreturn wants 29 F 16's block 70/ 72's which is only built for export but are even better then our F 16's, they also will replace all their tanks with M1a2sep3's which is the best tanks in the world, so as little as the EU gave 13 billion dollars it pales in comparison to what America will give! 20 years in Afghanistan cost America 148 billion for the war, but in less then a year we've given Ukraine 200 billion dollars! Then America gave 600 billion to rebuild Afghanistan deserts???? What will it cost US to rebuild UKraine? I'm not saying not to help but people are crazy thinking we're not, and demanding it faster, while most Americans are struggling and can't pay their electric bills that have gone up 3x and paying $8 dollars for a carton of eggs, with the highest inflation, AND no one protects our border????
Crimea (called the Tauric Peninsula until the early modern period) has historically been at the boundary between the classical world and the steppe.
Greeks colonized its southern fringe and were absorbed by the Roman and Byzantine Empires and successor states while remaining culturally Greek.
Some cities became trading colonies of Genoa, until conquered by the Ottoman Empire.
Throughout this time the interior was occupied by a changing cast of steppe nomads.
In the 14th century, it became part of the Golden Horde; the Crimean Khanate emerged as a successor state.
In the 15th century, the Khanate became a dependency of the Ottoman Empire.
Lands controlled by Russia and Poland-Lithuania were often the target of slave raids during this period.
In 1783, the Russian Empire annexed Crimea after an earlier war with Turkey.
Crimea's strategic position led to the 1854 Crimean War and many short lived regimes following the 1917 Russian Revolution.
When the Bolsheviks secured Crimea it became an autonomous soviet republic within Russia.
During World War II, Crimea was downgraded to an oblast.
In 1944, Crimean Tatars were ethnically cleansed and deported under the orders of Joseph Stalin, in what has been described as a cultural genocide.
The USSR transferred Crimea to Ukraine on the 300th anniversary of the Pereyaslav Treaty in 1954.
After Ukrainian independence in 1991, the central government and Crimea clashed, with the region being granted more autonomy.
The Soviet fleet in Crimea was also in contention, but a 1997 treaty allowed Russia to continue basing its fleet in Sevastopol.
In 2014, the Russians occupied the peninsula and organized an illegal referendum in support of Russian annexation, but most countries recognize Crimea as Ukrainian territory.
chat gpt wrote this didn’t it lol
Lol
@@5lanediver As if it mattered, this is truth!
@@williamjackson5942 It's accurate and accuracy is always welcomed by me. Nevertheless, I think Crimea is now Ukraine for one practical reason and other reasons political. Ukraine controls the water supply to Crimea, there is enough water in Crimea to have tourists and military installations but not enough for a thriving civilian population.
@@williamjackson5942 fully agree!! wasn’t meant as a criticism of the facts. it is just obvious lol.
Great interview. Two guys talking total sense. The 50 countries supporting Ukraine need to grow a pair of balls and give them everything they need to kick Russia out of their country.
This war began with Russia invading and annexing Crimea in February March 2014 while the West did nothing.
Everyone in the whole world should be grateful EVERY day that the US is doing so much to help Ukraine! Putin should withdraw all his cannon fodder ASAP before it gets worse ..
Let Ukrainians decide on what and when to negotiate for peace. Restore total sovereignty of Ukraine.
I think USA has been doing excellent job Uniting all countries around this invasion.
CRIMEA IS UKRANE,, GLORY TO UKRAINE 💪💪🇺🇦🇺🇦💪💪
Having the Ambassador and General on the same program is a great combination. Both (especially General Hodges) have long advocated moving from incrementally increasing weaponry, to one providing the capability for Ukraine to decisively win. I also heard this expressed in the recent 'Munich Agreement'. If those attending follow through on their words (including Mitch McConnell), then General Hodges espoused 'precision beats mass' principle will be prevail. I think General Hodges was subtly suggesting that providing land based GLSDB, ATACM, more HIMARS, tanks (hello, Abrams!), armored personnel carriers, Javelins, NLAWS, AT4, etc., might obviate the need for fighter jets and the requisite, very complex logistics that goes with them.
Slava Ukraine!
Well said, Greg
Agreed except for the Abrams, to high maintenance, give them the Leopard II
@@BM-ms3gr it's not that the maintenance is high, it's that it's so different and more technically challenging for a ground force. Besides, since they have to deconstruct the tank exterior to remove the DU armor, it's going to be probably a year before that unit even sees Ukrainian soil.
It's a very weird day when I agree with everything said in an MSBNC segment.
I think it’s important to remember that before the first war in the Middle East in the 1990’s we had a large portion of our military’s equipment in Europe and now we have to get all that back there to really get behind aiding Ukraine for the win.
I love our Generals and Ambassadors..smart,learned people.
BIG liars and propagandists considering the horrific decimation of Ukrainian servicemen in Bahmut right now, they talk Crimea?
People in Ukraine report 6 strikes today at 150km range. Donetsk and Mariupol. GLSDB is on the field. HiMARS has a shorter range and has driven supply lines and storage back. This only closes the loop. Making the occupied territory untenable. 🕊 Talks in Turkiye have proven useful 👌. 1200+ POW swapped.
We in Ukraine hope that it was glsdb but more believed it was our vilkha
GLSDB doesn't even exist yet.
@@Withnail1969 exists and has been fielded.
Meant field tested.
@@anthonykaiser974 it hasnt been manufactured. The company has not received a contract.
General Hodges ❤love hearing his experience
Ben Hodges is one of the most insightful and enjoyable commentators on this topic. We need more of his commentary and more people listening to him.
One thing we need to do is undo the conversions we did to the Himars and let them have their full range again.
Yes. Agree.
I understand it was not a conversion, but the limited type of rockets they supplied.
@@mirandahotspring4019 Yes the conversion story sounded like a lie.
Give them jets now !
Send Ukraine all that it needs to win. Never again!
What we have not explained very well Is the learning curve required to master the equipment that they are asking for from the West. Ukraine has been sending soldiers here to study and learn how to handle this equipment and use it to its best and forest degree Possible. And they're doing it in extremely short order. The progress that the Ukrainians have made and mastering This wide variety of equipment is awe Inspiring. The fact that Ukrainians have got the Russians pushed all the way back to their Eastern border is amazing and shows a great deal of courage and hard work. The main thing to remember is that we have to build-up a cadre of training personnel so that when they go back to Ukraine They will be able to train the bulk of their Ukrainian military and how to handle all of this equipment.
Have you looked at the front lines over the last 3 months? The movement has all been one way and it’s not towards Moscow.
@@samb2052 And it took the Ukrainians about 2-3 weeks to recover 12,000sq km. How many sq km did Russia take in 3 months? By summer the Russian rail lines that bring ammo and supplies to the occupied territories will be in range of GLSDB's. These are rocket launched bombs that can hit a moving target from 100km
Who's Training the Ukrainian Soldiers on our weapons? Ukrainian speaking Americans or translators being used? It'll be great if (forgot his rank. Was it Colonel?) Alexander Vindman Training the Ukrainian Soldiers. That'll be AWESOME.
@@pogo1140 The hard truth is these GLSDB won’t be a magic bullet that would help win this war for Ukraine, just like HIMARS didn’t win this war either.
@@andreyd8116 HIMARS is the reason why Kherson and the west bank of the Dnipro is in Ukrainan control and why the Russian artillery rate of fire is 25-50% less than what it was in the first couple of months of 2022. Push the supply depot past 150km to the front and you halve the supply truck deliveries. If your manual says you use 600 rounds of arty to eliminate 1 infantry platoon, and moving the depot back 75km and dispursing them resulted in your deliveries being halved, and now they will be halved again. Your going to burn through 3-4 days worth of deliveries on each anti platoon fire mission. When that ukrainan push comes, a lot of people are going to be screaming for artillery that will never respond, just like at Kharkiv and Lyman.
Why does the host keep interrupting before his knowledgeable guests say their piece?
Because he feels that he must prove that he is smart too.
Ukraine getting Crimea back is a pipedream.
Ben Hodges is the go-to man to get the job done in Ukraine. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
How about NATO stick to the agreement of not encroaching on Russian territory and pushing their missile sites closer and closer to Moscow? How about the Americans admit to taking out the gas pipeline which was declaring war on Germany
It's always a great relief to watch you guys. I guess the Americans are the only ones who have a sober mind and the means to win, together with Ukraine of course.
Crimea is sovereign Ukraine territory. When Putin pulls his military out of there and the Donbass region then there can be peace
Like the 'peace' Kiev imposed on the Donbass and Crimea from 2014 to 2022? Like the Odessa massacre and the 18,000 dead in the Donbass? Got it.
Ukraine has to take back Crimea.
😂🤣😂
lol it will have no leadership by then
That's up to Ukraine, but I sure wouldn't blame them if they have decided they want to kick the Russians all the effing way out of Ukraine.
Have to? I don't know what that means. It would probably end Putin's career though.
The Russians will never back down unless they're beaten and beaten well. Cheers to a full decisive victory to Ukraine!
Terrific guests
Hot discussion
Listen to these excellent invited speakers
Keep America intimately involved in this conflict as the Americans are reliable
RS. Canada
Predators have unlimited range. And they are unmanned.
Stop bringing these retired generals to the shows.
What we need is negotiation to end this and not escalation.
All of us are suffering due to this.
Tell that to the Ukrainians.
I'm British and we are fully behind Ukraine , you can't put a price on freedom.
Awesome reporting 😊
When the US procrastinate, good democratic countries get devastate.
The US needs to support Ukraine to win!
No? Really?
As if we haven't been since day 1 🙄
@@lindseymiller7090 I meant to say that the US needs to support Ukraine to win not just survive.
excellent, thank you!
In war, you have to be decisive and brutal, can't be wishy-washy, war has no forgive and forget :(
Ukraine has nothing to do with crimea you should study war before you form opinions on it
Yeah like we did in Vietnam and Afghanistan yeah right
The war started at crimea and it will end at crimea 💪victory to freedom victory to Ukrainian people 🙏
Ukraine needs air support, give them planes that will help alot
Drones & GLSDB
May be nuclear submarines too?
@@efrosvovelu9076 They had drones, they got shot down.
@@andreyd8116 something tells me you don’t want to be alive anymore.
While I sympathize with the Ukrainian reaction, saying "as long as it takes" is not a message to Ukraine, it's a message to Putin.
And to Americans
Ben Hodges for President!
Finally, this two generals speak the truth.
Thank you very much for this report.
Everybody 💯 needs to help 🇺🇦 win the war as fast as possible so they can join NATO then we can worry about everything else the longer the war drags on the more help there going to need everybody's going to suffer around the 🌍🌎🌏 plus 🇺🇦 already made up their mind they want all their land back 🇷🇺 soldiers to leave war will be OVER simple as that 😱🤔 they're saying as long as it takes they got the material to help them out since 2014 they should have been training them for all this since 🇷🇺 did what it did
Ukraine is Russia
Dude speak for yourself Nato should stop don’t go to Russia backyard that’s not good if someone come to your house to try to do something
@@jimperkins6073 doesn't seem like 🇺🇦 want to be a part of 🇷🇺🤣🤔😂🤣
@@filipsuljevic1585 NATO*😂🤣 but I understand what you're saying they didn't do anything worng 🇷🇺 killing civilians and everything NATO wants peace not war that's why all of Europe's helping 🇺🇦 & not 🇷🇺
Just because I'm just speaking my mind look how everyone acting 😂🤣💯
To take Crimea, they need to get everyone on Russia's side out of Donetsk. It's not enough to rush in and retake Mariupol, they've got to control the region. They've got to have a solid flank.
Drive down an armed convoy to Sea of Azov
Actually it IS enough to retake Mariupol. All they have to do is cut off Crimea from resupply.
No se puede tener las dos opciones presionar y expulsar a los Rusos y al mismo tiempo seguridad hacia todos los Países que pueden tener el mismo destino que Ucrania...A estas alturas se necesita apoyar más que nunca a Ucrania .
Si los Rusos ya tienen en su bandeja el que se le pide a Ucrania el terminar la guerra..
Los Ucranianos están en un punto donde han pagado un precio en vidas por ser libres y que se les debe de seguir apoyando hasta el final sino nada del apoyo destinado a Ucrania servirá de nada ...terminará en el origen donde estaban...invadidos por Rusia...
Los Rusos en Rusia que nadie los ha llamado ni los necesita ningún País para ser liberados.
A-10 warhog plane's with the tanks and the himars is a great fit for Ukraine to push for total grounds gains and liberation of east Ukraine and Crimea region no less
The first act of the Ukraine war was the invasion of Crimea, which enabled the move into Southern Ukraine and a linkage to the Eastern incursions. Crimea must be the first priority for Ukraine. Otherwise the chances of Ukraine getting rid of Russians in the South is zero, and from the East much reduced, probably to zero.
Wouldnt exactly call it an invasion. They were already there for 200 years. They just took back control of administration and built power plants bridge roads. Ukraine was so crooked they never spent anything to fix the place up because they knew it was Russian.
Very good news! Ukrainian government confirmed that Poland has already delivered its first Polish Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine!
Then Poland might be the only one's sending Leopard2's, the rest of europe are pulling out and checking Leopard1's before sending them to Ukraine
Canada sent 4 Leopard 2 tanks which are combat ready for Ukraine with spare parts, ammunition and Canadian military to train they have been in Poland for a few weeks or so. Plus Canada announced are going to be sending four more.
@@AahFukIt Strange, Germany just announced they are sending 18 Leopard 2 instead of the 14 promised.
@@mirandahotspring4019 so did poland 4 L2's. I was referring to latest news here in Europe. They have been talking alot about L1's lately, checking and maintenance before shipping. I was wrong i admit that.
@@AahFukIt That's cool.
Ben Hodges always make such great sense.
Teo. Gen Hodges is terrific!!! I watch him everywhere he appears on RUclips 😊
He’s a star already!!!
I really hope to see him acting himself in the first movie about Ukraine war 😂
He seems like a demented crazy guy 😂😂😂
---- > Western Allies need to provide fighter jets.
Texas is slightly bigger in square miles than Ukraine. Crimea is slightly bigger than the State of Vermont. The Russian military is having difficult time trying to defeat Ukraine, the size of Texas.
Putin is unpredictable! and just like you said the size of these countries are very small.Ukraine touches 7 other EU countries, and there could and would be collateral damages done to some if an all out war broke loose and ww3 if those other countries got involved! I don't question the facts that America is much more advanced than Russia, because it's America's war by proxy! BUT how long can america sustain a war in Ukraine before it really starts to affect americans ways of living? Plus have you ever thought that China's happy that we're tied into a war? Yes wasting our resources while China mass builds there's to take Taiwan, who's always been an American allie unlike the most corrupted Ukraine, that's not part of the EU and has never been any help towards America or the Eu! Ukraine borders all Eastern Europe countries not ours! And how long will all the Americans want to pay for this war, when our president won't defend our border? Russia although nowhere as advanced as America, but has a surplus of ww2 ammunitions much more than Americas! America needs to take all it's factories back from China, remember our 3M masks during the Covid? We couldn't get them in America!
@@onemassage9260 I promise the profit in Ukraine WILL drop as soon as they start rebuilding the country. And Russia just broke rn they gettin weapons from Iran. Which is basically North Korea in the desert
A country of over 30 million people is supposed to be easy to defeat??? And what about USA fighting 20 years in Afghanistan and running away?
We cannot defeat the people with sheer military power, just land can be taken. Unfortunately, this would be a long lasting problem. See all the conflict in the world. Better to withdraw and use more brain less muscle.
@@onemassage9260 You are a fool, Ukraine is losing its sons and its industrial base. Russia needs this over before Putin's little Reich falls! So it is to neither sides interest to drag this out!
The west is acting very slowly and inefficient. Ukraine need many many leopard 1, leopard 2, amx 56 leclerk.
NO CRIME
Regardless of US posturing, Ukraine will cutoff all Russian supply lines to Crimea and take the peninsula by year end. Peace negotiations can follow.
Crimea must be on the table. Teach Russia not to screw around with Ukrainians. Russia was being a pig by taking Crimea, but yet tried to take Ukraine too. Glory to Ukraine 🇺🇦 🇨🇦
Only one way to deal with a tyrant facing an existential threat if he fails. You have to go all in, right away. Anything else and you're playing his game.
Albert Speer once said “I knew the War was lost when the glorious victories got closer and closer to Berlin”
That is an incredible stupid quote that should have been lost to history.
@@RonBerg1 more of a fabrication.
Give them what they need to take Crimea!!! Now!
I am prepared to send comments on youtube, but NO MORE.
If 67% of the population of Crimea are ethnic Russians, and 24 % are Ukrainians, what makes you think Russia will just give it up without a major war?
Crimea is a peninsula in Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, that has been occupied by Russia since 2014.
It has a population of 2.4 million.
The peninsula is almost entirely surrounded by the Black Sea and the smaller Sea of Azov.
The Isthmus of Perekop connects the peninsula to Kherson Oblast in mainland Ukraine.
To the east, the Crimean Bridge, constructed in 2018, spans the Strait of Kerch, linking the peninsula with Krasnodar Krai in Russia.
The Arabat Spit, located to the northeast, is a narrow strip of land that separates the Sivash lagoons from the Sea of Azov.
Across the Black Sea to the west lies Romania and to the south is Turkey.
crimea is russia
@@briant5685 No, it isn't. Legally Crimea is still a part of Ukraine. Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea was totally illegal.
You sound like an AI
@@briant5685 If Crimean is the rashists, then Moscow and St Petersburg belong to Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
@@greeneyedlady5580 crimea was illegally annexed to ukraine by krushchcev its russia its inhabitants have always been russian so cry me a bucket
Thank you for inviting Ben Hodges and Bill Taylor!
The battle for Crimea is going to be big. It'll make Stalingrad look like Saturday Night Live.
Not necessarily, in fact with long-range precision weapons it may look more like Kherson offensive, when russians just withdrew under unbearable pressure to their command points, ammo drops, and personnel hubs.
In a war where prisoner exchange numbers to 100 and 600 dead in a day is a big news. Lol you must not know the magnitude of the battle of Stalingrad
Basically Crimea would be easy to isolate so that Russia could`nt supply it ,long range weapons wipe out the naval base in Sevastopol and they would be inclined to think about retreating again just a backyard analysis you know.
What Hodges is outlining is the same scenario that the Ukrainians used to take back Kherson. Without the ability to resupply their troops they’ll just have to leave.
Zelenskyy needs to make a peace deal or there wont be a Ukraine left.
Excellent discussion. Victory for Ukraine means all of their land recovered with security guarantees and war crimes punishment for Russia
Here here, Give Ukraine enough to win, not just withstand Russia.
I really love General Hodgers! This guy is very professional
This was a fantastic and enlightening discussion with surprising clarity in points. I wish politicians spoke with such clarity. Bring more interviews and excellent questions from the host like this more often. I usually find the news dull, repetitive and obvious, this broadcast was the opposite.
We need to give Ukraine the weapons ASAP to win the war they have not got the Manpower to keep up with all of their losses if there is no more Ukrainian people to fight then what happens does NATO sending the troops
How ridiculous. As if Ukraine could push Russia out of Crimea with a few tanks 😂
You will see it happen, pretty soon...they get constantly supplied by Russia with old (here and there a T-90M as well, like a few days ago), but fresh tanks, lol. The problem for Crimea is, that there is only the Kerch bridge and the single road at the coast line of the Azov Sea. Once blocked, the troops are trapped.
You in panic mode now Sergei???😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@martinmatte1518 With practically no air support? Russia will wipe them out. 😂
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A handful of F-16’s snd and a few Leopard tanks won’t be able to even make it 40 miles before they’re destroyed. I wish it wasn’t true but sadly Ukraine cannot win this. Peace is the only option.
@bj mac Our generals are not there. Do you remember Afghanistan? 😂
Give them all they need to win.
That's correct.The Ukrainiens know that time isn't on their side and that they need to win soon.I said it before,Ukraine needs to take it to the russian soldiers on their homeland.They need all the proper weapons especially long range weapons.Forget about putin and his saber rattling.Putin is not that stupid to use tactical nukes because he knows that everyone that he fires,theres two firing back at the russian mainland.
If you remember that Russia and the United States were security garentor for ukraine nuclear weapons to be removed. Russia attacks, and the United States honored this agreement. No one mentioned this
I agree with the Ambassador and the General. Biden needs to push all his chips into the pot. Go big or go home.
Don't tell me how hard you work...tell me what you get done.
Excellent point. "As long as it takes" is not the same thing as "until Ukraine wins." Just as - and I've said this on previous comments - supplying enough weapons so that Ukraine doesn't lose is not the same thing as supplying enough for them to win. The US and the West must stop vacillating about this and send a clear message to Putin.
Easier said than done
When Ukraine starts to launch long range precision missiles/rockets to Russia - what would prevent Russia to respond with a brutal attack to Ukraine ?
What??? Russia has been raining down missikes on the heads of Ukrainians and otherwise carrying out a "brutal attack", including raping, torturing, and executing non-combatants in Ukraine for an entire effing year!
@bj mac Crimea is Russia. Ukraine is Russia. This wouldn't be happening if it wasn't
@bj mac 67% of the population of Crimea are ethnic Russians. Do you think Russia will just give it up without a major war to keep it?
What! A brutal attack on Ukraine? No surely they wouldn’t 😳😂
They launched 60 cruise missiles just yesterday, I think, attempting to destroy civilian infrastructure. That's a war crime. What do you consider to be a "brutal attack"? Anyway, Ukraine needs long range missiles to hit Russian arms depots in occupied UKRAINIAN territory. The so-called "long range" missiles in question couldn't make it to Moscow or St. Petersburg. The only Russian targets even conceivably in range would be border towns where Russians are storing weapons.
Mr Bill Taylor is off his rocker
To not deliver a crushing, humiliating, defeat to Moscow would be a serious error.
Putin might use nukes before that happens.
@@willmont8258 I doubt it and the threat has all but stopped working. The west will not be cowed. For months now Putin has been walking around with his fly unzipped trying to get somebody, ANYBODY, to look at his nuclear weapon. Zip it Putin, nobody cares.
@@MarkM001 Do you think Putin would accept a "crushing, humiliating defeat" right on his front doorstep?
@@willmont8258 I don't think we should give him any choice. I don't want the west to live under constant threat by Moscow. I don't want Rus to be the apple of the eye of one conquer after another for the next thousand years like it has for the last thousand years. I don't want future generations of westerners to have to pay for a never ending cold war. And I do want the west to meet China's belt and road policy somewhere east of England!
@@MarkM001 The West might be playing with fire by thinking it can humiliate Putin and Russia right on Russia's western border. Might be better to push for a cease fire and a negotiated settlement. Maybe Ukraine agrees to stay neutral and not join NATO, and in return Russia gives back all or some of the eastern parts of Ukraine it now occupies.
I thought Vietnam taught USA a lesson about trying to fight an armed conflict with one arm tied behind your back?. Maybe I was wrong to make that assumption. Some things never change.
7:00 Putin has to realize what American always been doing we're in It ✌️ Win It! But we just got to take Putin on the side and ask them who's picking on u man. Did zielinski take your turbo Man doll or 🗣️Whaaaaaaaaat?
We must support Ukraine now!
Ukraine should be declared a neutral zone without admitting to NATO.
That will be win win.
That should have decided way back before this skirmish started.
But that would have avoided war; which would disappoint the weapons industry!!!!😢
Ukraine being "technically" neutral is what emboldened Russia to invade. Better to let Ukraine into NATO after the war and let Russia seethe and cope from within its borders. I mean what are they gonna do? Attack NATO? lol.
Not enough X Russia. Putin consider Ukraine part of Russia, so your assumptions are wrong. Before the invasion Ukraine was not part of NATO and was basically a neutral zone. They were only fighting the invasores in Donbass, up to a year ago.
As far as I know Ukraine WAS neutral and WAS NOT in NATO before this war started ...... unless of course you believe the Russian propaganda/misinformation
No because that's not what ukrainians want, we run under an International System ,the westphalian system, every country is supposed to be free to choose what happens within its own borders with its own citizens and how it interacts with other nations so it should be up to Ukrainian citizens if they want to join NATO, not Russia or the UN
What a load of ruzzian troll BS. 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Ukraine hadn't and wasn't even applying for membership (and neither was Sweden or Finland). You pathetic mouthpieces for poo-tin should just look forward to your time on the front with your homies. Gonna be short but EXCITING!😂😂😂😂😂😂