It is incredible to me that a professional from PBS has no clue that her microphone is sitting under a pile of blankets or something and that her voice is ruined for this show. Never was it more obvious that a sound test was needed before starting recording. For me, I am unable to watch this video as from around 9 minutes in. Maybe I will spin forward and see if it improves but otherwise am giving it a miss.
@@Video2Webb This non-native English speaker has solved the problem by turning on subs. I deem the point of view of personalities like Gen. Petraeus too important to be missed because of some kind of technical issue. That said, your point remains absolutely valid. 🙂
This is all American posturing. Petraeus talks about spinning plates. It won't be long until they're all broken. Maybe some of you have noticed by now that everything America touches gets wrecked. Petraeus is a gear in the wrecking machine....
Former CIA Director David Petraeus has agreed to plead guilty to mishandling classified information, with the retired four-star general admitting to giving eight "black books" full of such data to a military mistress who was writing his biography.
@@toby9999 troll. Classic "Pete & RePete" troll engagement tactic. I enjoy encouraging the trolls to find a job that would make their mothers proud. (I'll not reply that to them here, as a 2nd comment would further improve their personal "engagement metrics.")
"The headache today is tomorrow's problem..and fight on the beaches" This is my own quote and I objectively think it belongs to be in the all-time top 10 quote list. Always a pleasure to listen to people that know what they are talking about.
Similar to something I realized while listening here: _Permitting the crossing of a red line is only a problem if you don't want to deal with the consequences._
@@77thTrombone My simplified version " Don't you fucking give that red line bullcrap to me, because it's you that is the unwanted visitor in another country. I'd rather get a nuke in my face than see you succeed with your fantasy crusade"
Ali Rogin, the moderator.... is a correspondent with the PBS NewsHour and the author of "Beat Breast Cancer Like A Boss." Ali Rogin is a foreign affairs producer at the PBS NewsHour.
Yes lovely interview of the great General Betraeus. The brilliant mind that brought us Afghanistan and a failed Iraq occupation. If Betraeus says it is so - you will bet odds on it will be the opposite. Now that we know the General's opinion - we know the opposite will be true.
Ali Rogin, good content, but your Airpods don't sound very well in combination with your computer. Consider another headset for broadcasting or use your computer's built-in mic instead of the Airpods' mic.
We tend to be willing to spend good money on high quality headphones, we like listening to good music, but we're much less willing to spend money on good microphones. So in these conversations, we tend to end up to, with high fidelity, listen to each others crappy microphones.
Just go back and see what Petraeus said about a failed Zelenskyy offensive or what he said in March last year. You can trust Petraeus to be wrong about pretty much everything. He is an embodiment of a negative selection in the army.
The one thing you can reliably count on Patraeus for, he will provide whatever commentary and analysis gives him the best chances to continue collecting paychecks for appearances on cable news stations.
Interesting to listen to General David Petraeus, on Al-Jazeera, Saturday 25 November 2023., It is most interesting to hear his opinions, while I appreciate much of what he says, I condemned what Hamas did originally, but sadly, and that is why there is so much anger worldwide, Israel & it's IDF have gone too far this time, it is unforgivable, the loss of so much innocent life, especially children, he may not be aware, but the IDF are not as clean as he seems to think, not how they have shot/murdered many innocent young people, and also on RUclips and TikTok, there are videos young IDF have posted, celebrating & dancing, after murdering innocent Palestinians. The damage done to Gaza & The West Bank is also shameful, and for that reason, so they can Never occupy after this War Stops, it must be an Independent ruled, The UN? ISRAEL have gone too far, and they have damaged their standing in The World, for a long time to come,
@user-ut6ji8my2h The US military had yearly losses in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan in very similar numbers to the US military losses in accidents during peace time (in the prior years).
@@danoprea3066 My answer to this would be that we never should have been in Iraq or Afghanistan, or the war I fought in, Vietnam. War is about power and money. This year we will spend 940,000,000,000 on defense spending. Do you know how much good we could do here in the US with about a quarter of that amount? I would rather have a washing machine made in the USA than 700 bases all around the world. We have to stop being the world's police force and take care of our own people and infrastructure. The idiot in the white house does not even know that an EMP would completely take out our electric grid, and too many EV's plugged in at night would cause blackouts.
@@JamesAgans Your reply to my comment has nothing to do with the original point you've made about the US losses. You seem to have an axe to grind with the US foreign policy and I don't care about that discussion. Besides, your argument for an US isolationist policy is terribly crude. An isolationist policy will save some money on the short term, and cost a lot of money and lives in the long term - see what happened in the previous two world wars. Isolationism is not free money, as you seem to imply.
@@danoprea3066 No, my point is that war comes down to one mother grieving the loss of one son. Desk riders in Washington see numbers, not living men with dreams and families. I do not think we should be isolationist, but the fact is that we (the USA) only produces military hardware, and rips off the US taxpayer in amounts that are very hard to believe. I am a Vietnam Veteran, USAF . A fully equipped F-105 Fighter Bomber, the biggest single seat FB we ever built, cost 2.2 million delivered. An F35 costs around 104 Million. Just think what we could do with that money for our people.
Well, certainly no one will be willing to point out that if the Israeli's didn't continually treat the Palestinians like a lesser race of persons none of this would be happening now.
Who treats who like a lesser race , Israelis? Does that include Arab israelis, even those with the near identical blood than some of Palestine's Arabs? If no, who treats these Arabs like a lesser race? Sorry, how Israelis were treated ever since Arab theocracies rose to power? Not even like a lesser race, as vermin to be exterminated. That's the reason there is next to no Jews in Arab-controlled land. And few million Arabs in Israel, having same rights than not only Jewish Israelis, but orthodox jews. Half the neighbours have exterminated previously residing Jews to the last one. You dumdums pull the other one.
@@DardanellesBy108the mandate over those (Palestine/Transjordan) former Ottoman territories was given to the Brits by the League of Nations with the exact task of creating a Jewish state. Which the British spectacularly failed by doing literally nothing towards that goal for all those 30 or so years.
Interesting he mentioned Al-Fallujah. Putting aside that the whole campaign in Iraq was a waste of blood and treasure. But can't we say that was the beginning of the insurgency and made our entire effort more difficult?
A lot of people were killed in three Arab countries just as the dead and poisoned in the three southeast Asian countries and the misplaced killing of wedding parties in Afghanistan. Those days are over. The American public does not want this jingoism to bring back people in body bags.
Consider a Marshall Plan for Gaza after this war. After WWII the Marshall Plan implemented an occupation government in Germany until 1952. This prevented any reconstitution of Nazi power and saved the civilian population from a humanitarian disaster. Remember 98% of Germans voted for Adolph Hitler and denazification was essential. One giant mistake of the past was the 2005 Palestinian election which put Hamas in power and legitimized Hamas, a clear example of the failure of democracy. Palestinians had never in history experienced a democracy and elected a totalitarian Islamist governent that could not be removed democratically. The Marshall Plan for Gaza must focus on preparation of the hearts and minds of Palestinians for peace and prosperity.
I don't think you know what you are talking about. First of all, Hamas was originally non-militant, and it only developed a militant wing for the simple reason that the Palestinian people have a right to defend themselves. The occupation is illegal. The settlements are illegal. U.S. was involved with putting Israel on the map. Israel forced 870,00 peaceful Palestinians out of their home in the first three years with the intention of eventually replacing them all together. That is barbaric.
The Nazis won less than 44% of the last election in 1933 in a turnout of 89%. So only 39% of registered voters. A state of emergency was in place following the Reichstag Fire, and Hitler did a deal with the Catholics while some parties were banned from the parliament in a vote to allow him to rule by decree.
There were no No Attacks on civilians the 7th. Just collateral. 500/1200-1300 (they keep magically decreasing) were soldiers. Out of 769 names, 462 military (55 soldiers, 13 privates, 59 corporals, 200 sergeants of whom 45 are sergeants majors, 48 commanders, 32 lieutenants, 5 lieutenant colonels, 6 colonels, 13 captains, 37 officers, 10 inspectors, 6 intendents, 2 Lance Corp). It was a Military defeat, they are taking it out on the rest. Age range Number of people 0-9 2 10-19 14 20-29 318 30-39 161 C0-49 87 50-59 54 60-69 37 70-79 17 80-89 3 Unreported Age Adults 404 Data from haartz
For starters is the Atlantic Council objective and Neutral in its discussions? If so I would like to hear about the causes of the Ukraine war...in whose interest was the war, who provoked the Russians, why was he provoked, the rand report, why NATO kept pushing East and therefore ignoring the security interests of other Countries as though they don't deserve to have them...and finally why the super Duper counter offensive of the collective west failed to even take a small village of less than 480 people from the Russians despite the "fact" that the Russians are poorly trained, poorly fed, poorly equipped, poorly led,use shovels against the bradleys, stingers, javelins ,storm shadows, atacms,leopards, etc
Nato kept pushing East because the United States elites always viewed Russia and it's natural resources as their deserved victory prize for winning the cold war. And yes it's quite ironic how Russia's military is the most incompetent and incapable paper tiger on the planet while simultaneously being the greatest threat to democracy ready, capable, and willing to conquer all of the enlightened world.
Given the premise of all that “question” you just asked, I fail to see why Atlantic Council should be objective and neutral while you’re obviously only parroting milblog propaganda points. The start of the Ukrainian war stems from Russia’s desire to control the gaps around its land, so simply they want to restore the Soviet bloc and deny sovereignty to a multitude of countries and people that voted themselves to walk away from Russian influence and rule to be aligned with western democracy. Russia of course makes the point that you deny their culture and ethnicity’s and thus don’t deserve to be independent. It would be simple for Russia to “recall” it’s citizens home to mother Russia if you were really concerned about foreign oppression of Russian citizens that has never been proven outside of Russia, however instead you merely choose to invade and annex new lands and expand Russia. So the Ukrainian war is merely an expansionist war. Russia’s security concerns are no more valid than any European country’s security concerns, of which Russia seems to not care about either, so it’s an entirely moot point. Russia supposedly has nuclear weapons and likes to remind the West of that fact every day. So since nuclear conflict results in game over for every one, what other security concerns could Russia possibly have, since NATO could never and would never march on Moscow itself, and hasn’t since the fall of the USSR. The witness of history is on the side of NATO . The reason why NATO expands is simple. Russia invades sovereign countries to expand its land borders and barriers in some misguided vision that this somehow stops American nukes from hitting Moscow and St Petersburg, and wherever else you care about. The USA invites other nations into a security alliance of shared defense and then underwrites those countries security at great costs to itself while letting those countries experience the piece dividend as evidenced by the European model since ww2. Finland and Sweden joining NATO? NATO didn’t do that. Russia did that.
And another point, if you could please answer me this Russian bot, do Russian’s understand that the country most likely to actually invade and capture Russian lands are not NATO countries, but actually China, that would love to claw away your oil fields in Siberia?
I gave him 10 11:4011:43 minutes of my time, then I had to turn my attention to substance talkers, glad that he is a Former General & and Not a General as he is always introduced !!!
Forget what I said. He has the nerve to keep on talking about the barbaric October 7th attack (that Israeli intelligence probably allowed to happen so that they could continue with their genocidal program against the Palestinians which began in 1948). It was U.S. intelligence operatives who went to Palestine in the 40s to start engaging in operations that helped to setup the full invasion of Palestine by the ultra-Zionists which we supported from the beginning. That was barbaric, and were involved in it. And there have been many genocides that we had a hand in during our history, but I don't think General Petraeus has the political courage to talk about all of that. 870k Palestinians were forced out of their homeland in the first three years. Barbaric!
Pleasure to watch Gen David petraeus, I like his analysis and I enjoy too much, when ever he says Putin to convince he will not win, substantial and several plates spinning!!!??? Greeting Atlantic and Gen D. Petraeus keep repeating his impressive analysis, General has BIG Ideas, Thank you very much. 🙏
Quit asking softball questions. We all know the world is a mess. The question that needs to be asked is, with the wisdom of hindsight, if you could go back 20 years, what could have been done differently? Apart, of course, from Bush not invading Iraq, or not having an affair with a pretty broad.
A problem of being educated beyond their Intelligence. Human caused Global climate change is a 6,000 year old Religious scam. Humans have nothing to do with it.
You must keep in mind that as global warming increases, all those nasty and unwanted brown skinned people will be wanting to come north to cooler climates. True. that could make rented owned property much more profitable, but it also means that some of them might be living too close........oh.. .horror....
While Gen Petraeus gives an excellent analysis, he fails to understand a crucial element : both Israelis and Palestinians have an unquenchable animosity one for the other.
Realization upon hearing Gen P's remark about the consequences of permitting "red lines" to be crossed (early in the video.) One might say it's an error to permit a red line to be crossed; however, the error is permitting to develop a situation that you don't want to face. Many leaders conspired to develop the foreign policy *_debt_* that Putin called in Feb '22. Obama's Red Line was only one chunk of debt (a glaring chunk.) Afghanistan a second. All debt creation, very little debt payment over a very long term. I am sure Taiwan defense organizations are grateful for Putin's invasion. This made repayment of the "democratic foreign policy deficit" much more relevant to more countries than a Chinese invation of Taiwan would have. It is no secret that the biggest weakness of foreign policy of democratic countries is the short term view to which elections ultimately constrain them. 4 years, 5 years, 6 years.... none compare to 10+ years (XiXi 🐻) and 20+ years (VVPu) spans of totalitarian regimes.
@harukrentz435 Wonder those who find him ' brilliant' think of :Iraq, Afghanistan... all success. His personal scandal: a delight, the measure of a great man! All his predictions and takes on Ukraine, well .... what a successful "defense of democracy "... the counter offensive: such a great success. The supply chain ( ammo) : Well, Ukraine has all the weapons it needs, absolutely no shortage 😉 And the support is going on .... as long as it takes. . Some americans sounds like they want to hold on a faded dream ( that all is well and succesful with their military adventures)
This man cannot be trusted. He led the war against Iraq. Then much later on, in an interview, he stated that he knew all along there was no WMD in Iraq but the US did not want to listen. Trying to act innocent? He is despicable. The Nuremberg Trials made it clear a combatant can't get away with stupid excuses. He should have declined to lead the war. He would not have been shot, maybe just forget any promotion and be relegated to a desk job only.
It was the most successful futile gesture in the history of Afghanistan. Trump released the terrorists and invited them to Camp David, then closed out the program. Not P-man's doing.
David Petraeus is always impressive but here he is magisterial. He spoke fluently point by pint without notes and with a total command of his material. A very fine mind. I wonder what he and Gerald Templar would have had to say to each other.
Mh in 2023 you can expect a functioning internet connection if you interview a man who served. Otherwise thanks for the interview and giving the General a voice. Very important.
@jamoin4310 are you forgetting David was the clown who was in charge of Afghanistan during the surge which killed thousands of us troops for NOTHING. His Afghanistan strategy FAILED
@@htown148Afghanistan had an UN mandate what’s the crime here? So stfu you low life scum don’t get into military stuff if you just want to blame the people who served our great nation and secured us from further terrorist attacks. We already have enough of folks like you.
"Mh" ? I guess I'm old school. I'm fine with classic 10 kHz audio bandwidth (such as U.S. AM radio.) Who even needs video for talking heads? Clearly I'm missing the priorities.....
Big respect to General Petraeus. But, US reneged on its obligations under the UN charter, under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, and a lot more.. and now absolutely inadequate people in the administration watching the world burn. US has 2,500 M1 Abrams, why only give 31 to Ukraine? It has more than 1,000 F-16 rusting away, since the US has long moved to fifth gen F-32s and F-35s, why give 0? Do you understand? All this pontificating is besides the point..
Takes lots of Brainwashing of our youth to think we should cut food to seniors children and the poor while The Pentagon keeps getting bigger budgets and has failed 6 Audits
This was not a "conversation": she had prepared questions and didn't follow up or challenge with anything. And her saying Israel is "retaliating" in Gaza is mischaracterization. Israel is at war with strategic objective to destroy the enemy.😂
I nearly called this a "semi-dialogue" in another comment. I always enjoy the General's perspective, but I think a "conversation" should be called a conversation, and a "review" should be called a review. This is more a review. That said, I'm glad they "panned" to Ari rather than Fred. It made that half of the screen more pleasant. (I suspect they split-screened Ari as a cue to Gen P that she had questions -- i.e. Gen P should pause for a sip of water.)
Petraes is correct about strategic leadership and it’s continuing need for frequent reappraisal in a rapidly changing geostrategic landscape. The U.S. president and key military advisors are stymied in these efforts by Republicans like the “Freedom Caucus”that follow an isolationist undermining of the U.S. ability to project force and Senators like Tuberville (a Trump top choice) who knee cap America’s readiness to respond to emergent threats.
China is *not* currently the biggest plate, if by size, we mean threat relevance. The sun burning out is by far the biggest threat to life on Earth, but in distance of time is irrelevant. A terminally ill patient doesn't need to worry about global warming if his biggest threat is cancer, for example. It's Russia first, and China quite a long way off. The nation with the biggest threat from China, is not the U.S, but in fact it's Russia. Specifically Russian Manchuria followed by the whole of Russian North Asia (secure energy/water by land). When the shed is on fire next to the much bigger barn, be concerned about the barn, whilst focused on putting the *actual* fire out.
Two state for Ca'anan, northern part is Israel. Southern Ca'anan is Sainai. Palestine is being dissolved just like the Ukraine. Gaza will not be habitable after the conflict, and could be purchased from the Palestinean Authority. ... Sainai independence could be an interesting topic to discuss.
i’m not sure that Egypt wants to give up the Sinai! They were rather happy when Israel returned it to them! Even Egypt does not want any more Hamas on their land.
lost all respect for petraeus when he endorsed the enforcer youtube channel that combines incredibly ridiculous comments, with childish "scooby doo" impressions and constant laughter at the plight of war scenes and fleeing civilians.
26:10 I hear you, but how about kicking some butts at international humanitarian aid organizations… And specifically tell them that it is humanitarian aid, not undercover Hamas weapons and munitions convoys, not to interfere in the conflict but helping innocent civilians! It isn’t Israel’s responsibility to keep people in Gaza alive. That is for the leadership in Gaza. If there are any that doesn’t belong to Hamas that is.
And the US has quite a larger organization and budget for your campaigns. I think it is unfair and disrespectful to request Israel to provide humanitarian aid. To facilitate is one thing, which in this case will be to allow humanitarian aid convoys and humanitarian aid workers. But the the us has to back Israel 100%. As you probably are aware of during this ceasefire, Iran is going to try to resupply Hamas with weapons and munitions. They have a history of using international humanitarian aid convoys, ambulances etc - war crime in other words. They can’t have access to the humanitarian aid… Not a requirement according to international law and conventions
Brain-dead comment . . . First, There are not many high ranking generals that are "into" cooking and that's a "bar" of sorts not the kitchen. That little sink is not the kitchen sink. He has his swords there and some beer steins, wine cooler, an ice bucket and who knows what else. I see a desk with books on it and a fireplace so it's not even a kitchen but his home office.
He's keeping talking about Strategy, Strategic ideas..leadership....etc. Tell me one war you secured victory in it? and achieved its goals? you failed miserably in Iraq war.. you failed miserably in Vietnam , you failed miserably in Afghanistan... and the list is long. You only succeeded in innovating new destructive weapons that form huge threat to the world peace. Example: look at what's going on in Gaza with your weapon. Be fair and think about it.
@@gilianrampart8514 victory means you achieve the GOALS of the war declared. Nothing achieved! I’ll mention one example and leave the other for you to think. When US declared war against Afghanstan, the goal is to remove Talban completely! Now where’s Talban? All they’ve done is kill spend billions of taxpayer dollars and lost thousands of innocents and many soldiers killed!!! That’s what they ended up after 20 years! And now US is weaker and less safe than before these wars.
I think I started following this guy when he pacified Modul (?) 2004 when he commanded 101st Airborne. He was successful integrating civil and military efforts.
@@xena6894 the overall mission in Iraq was a disaster and it should never have happened in the first place. I agree with you there. However, look at the situation on the ground in Mosul following the initial invasion, 2003/04. The rest of the country was in total disarray and Mosul was quiet. That is the success he's referring to and it was real.
@joshuavaillancourt9877 I get what you're saying. However , note that the success of a military/civilian action is judged on a long term impact or at least a medium term impact . That's why the US is having so much difficulty now in the world to assert its military /political dominance. Afhanistan , Syria, Iraq have contributed to that. Almost like a self inflicetd wound but the world has to forget. Not even bringning Libya. Quick ground succes , like some says' surgical precision bombing ' ... well you know in which state Libya is now. Obama has expresses regrets but he has never extended those regrets to the wholeof Sahel region , by " chain effetct" that instability has caused. In summary , a successful expedition without careful planning of possible scenario in the 5 ot 10 years to come , is NOT a succesful one. That's clear. The economic , political , human consequences nnullify the very temporarly gains.
Threats threats threats, these guys create the threats - then come and tell us these are just mad man’s and we need to stop them so give us more funding 😂 complete jokes! Then they enrich themselves
Regarding General Patraeus’ being unsure climate change is THE greatest threat to humanity, maybe he places faith in the politically affected IPCC reports which estimate sea level rise that may be far less than what actually occurs. As someone who has done global modeling, the IPCC reports consistently report values substantially below the mean of model outputs. Add the uncertainties in some model variables and some assumptions that have been found unrepresentative over years of observations, basing our plans on an optimistic estimate is arguably imprudent. Nuclear war is obviously a catastrophic threat. It is also one over which humanity has control. Climate change is happening and is far more difficult to control, possibly beyond humanity’s capabilities.
It’s going to happen regardless humans have always get a wake up call by the Earth for hundreds of thousands of years this planet has regulated us and realizes we’re not the center of planet.
Zelensky had packed his clothes and were on his way. Naftali Bennet called Putin and he said he wount kill Zelensky. Then he unpacked his suitcases an took on his green shirt.
Why is the audio so poor?When you host a world leader, you should have world-class production values.
It is incredible to me that a professional from PBS has no clue that her microphone is sitting under a pile of blankets or something and that her voice is ruined for this show. Never was it more obvious that a sound test was needed before starting recording. For me, I am unable to watch this video as from around 9 minutes in. Maybe I will spin forward and see if it improves but otherwise am giving it a miss.
@@Video2Webb This non-native English speaker has solved the problem by turning on subs. I deem the point of view of personalities like Gen. Petraeus too important to be missed because of some kind of technical issue.
That said, your point remains absolutely valid. 🙂
@@lorenzcassidy3960 Good suggestion. Never thought of it. Thanks
@@Video2Webb Anytime.😅👍
This is all American posturing. Petraeus talks about spinning plates. It won't be long until they're all broken. Maybe some of you have noticed by now that everything America touches gets wrecked. Petraeus is a gear in the wrecking machine....
A leader with the intellectual understanding of both sides of the fence, a President that the US needs today
Thank you for a thorough evaluation on conflict, David Petraeus.
What a planet does Petreus live on.
A lot of people see the U.S more as the clown with the buckets of confetti.For the love of sanity.
especially chinese and russian trolls...
yes, the supporters of terrorism for sure
A dangerous one. With those confetti being endless amounts of weapons
Former CIA Director David Petraeus has agreed to plead guilty to mishandling classified information, with the retired four-star general admitting to giving eight "black books" full of such data to a military mistress who was writing his biography.
Plus his takes and predictions on Ukraine/ Russia since Feb 2022 have been all false
Troll?
I think you have mixed up the orange loser with someone who has actually done some good in the world LOL
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@@hawklord100 The orangeman is your next president. Besides, D.Petraeus is one of the ret mil laughing stocks even in allied countries.
@@toby9999 troll. Classic "Pete & RePete" troll engagement tactic.
I enjoy encouraging the trolls to find a job that would make their mothers proud.
(I'll not reply that to them here, as a 2nd comment would further improve their personal "engagement metrics.")
"The headache today is tomorrow's problem..and fight on the beaches"
This is my own quote and I objectively think it belongs to be in the all-time top 10 quote list.
Always a pleasure to listen to people that know what they are talking about.
Similar to something I realized while listening here: _Permitting the crossing of a red line is only a problem if you don't want to deal with the consequences._
@@77thTrombone My simplified version " Don't you fucking give that red line bullcrap to me, because it's you that is the unwanted visitor in another country. I'd rather get a nuke in my face than see you succeed with your fantasy crusade"
Ali Rogin, the moderator.... is a correspondent with the PBS NewsHour and the author of "Beat Breast Cancer Like A Boss."
Ali Rogin is a foreign affairs producer at the PBS NewsHour.
Yes lovely interview of the great General Betraeus. The brilliant mind that brought us Afghanistan and a failed Iraq occupation. If Betraeus says it is so - you will bet odds on it will be the opposite. Now that we know the General's opinion - we know the opposite will be true.
Ali Rogin, good content, but your Airpods don't sound very well in combination with your computer. Consider another headset for broadcasting or use your computer's built-in mic instead of the Airpods' mic.
I turned on the captions so I could be sure to understand her by reading them..
We tend to be willing to spend good money on high quality headphones, we like listening to good music, but we're much less willing to spend money on good microphones. So in these conversations, we tend to end up to, with high fidelity, listen to each others crappy microphones.
But these days everybody's somethin'
Writers, rappers, buyers, trappers
Audiophiles slidin' backwards
Hooked on the high-fidelity drug.. ;)
You can always count on Petraeus to talk sense.
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@@anderseckstrand7033 Don't hurt yourself there
Just go back and see what Petraeus said about a failed Zelenskyy offensive or what he said in March last year. You can trust Petraeus to be wrong about pretty much everything. He is an embodiment of a negative selection in the army.
He effed up Afghanistan from his failed surge also
They still think Russia is Iraq
The one thing you can reliably count on Patraeus for, he will provide whatever commentary and analysis gives him the best chances to continue collecting paychecks for appearances on cable news stations.
@@ah5836 He did the same thing in the army. He always said things that his superiors wanted to hear.
💯 Yup he’s political bureaucratic clown who never saw action selling out to the neocons 🤡
Interesting to listen to General David Petraeus, on Al-Jazeera, Saturday 25 November 2023., It is most interesting to hear his opinions, while I appreciate much of what he says, I condemned what Hamas did originally, but sadly, and that is why there is so much anger worldwide, Israel & it's IDF have gone too far this time, it is unforgivable, the loss of so much innocent life, especially children, he may not be aware, but the IDF are not as clean as he seems to think, not how they have shot/murdered many innocent young people, and also on RUclips and TikTok, there are videos young IDF have posted, celebrating & dancing, after murdering innocent Palestinians. The damage done to Gaza & The West Bank is also shameful, and for that reason, so they can Never occupy after this War Stops, it must be an Independent ruled, The UN? ISRAEL have gone too far, and they have damaged their standing in The World, for a long time to come,
Ali's audio is not good 😒
Turn the subtitles on and you can understand by reading the captions.
Paula Broadwell General ring a bell.
It amazes me when a general says " we won with a minimal loss of blood" when the blood is never their own.
@user-ut6ji8my2h The US military had yearly losses in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan in very similar numbers to the US military losses in accidents during peace time (in the prior years).
Adulterous warmonger
@@danoprea3066 My answer to this would be that we never should have been in Iraq or Afghanistan, or the war I fought in, Vietnam. War is about power and money. This year we will spend 940,000,000,000 on defense spending. Do you know how much good we could do here in the US with about a quarter of that amount? I would rather have a washing machine made in the USA than 700 bases all around the world. We have to stop being the world's police force and take care of our own people and infrastructure. The idiot in the white house does not even know that an EMP would completely take out our electric grid, and too many EV's plugged in at night would cause blackouts.
@@JamesAgans Your reply to my comment has nothing to do with the original point you've made about the US losses. You seem to have an axe to grind with the US foreign policy and I don't care about that discussion. Besides, your argument for an US isolationist policy is terribly crude. An isolationist policy will save some money on the short term, and cost a lot of money and lives in the long term - see what happened in the previous two world wars. Isolationism is not free money, as you seem to imply.
@@danoprea3066 No, my point is that war comes down to one mother grieving the loss of one son. Desk riders in Washington see numbers, not living men with dreams and families. I do not think we should be isolationist, but the fact is that we (the USA) only produces military hardware, and rips off the US taxpayer in amounts that are very hard to believe. I am a Vietnam Veteran, USAF . A fully equipped F-105 Fighter Bomber, the biggest single seat FB we ever built, cost 2.2 million delivered. An F35 costs around 104 Million. Just think what we could do with that money for our people.
This man is insane!
You sound like a real dick
Well, certainly no one will be willing to point out that if the Israeli's didn't continually treat the Palestinians like a lesser race of persons none of this would be happening now.
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@@DardanellesBy108 I will keep my reply quite simple. Follow the money......
Who treats who like a lesser race , Israelis? Does that include Arab israelis, even those with the near identical blood than some of Palestine's Arabs? If no, who treats these Arabs like a lesser race? Sorry, how Israelis were treated ever since Arab theocracies rose to power? Not even like a lesser race, as vermin to be exterminated. That's the reason there is next to no Jews in Arab-controlled land. And few million Arabs in Israel, having same rights than not only Jewish Israelis, but orthodox jews. Half the neighbours have exterminated previously residing Jews to the last one. You dumdums pull the other one.
@@DardanellesBy108the mandate over those (Palestine/Transjordan) former Ottoman territories was given to the Brits by the League of Nations with the exact task of creating a Jewish state. Which the British spectacularly failed by doing literally nothing towards that goal for all those 30 or so years.
Interesting he mentioned Al-Fallujah. Putting aside that the whole campaign in Iraq was a waste of blood and treasure. But can't we say that was the beginning of the insurgency and made our entire effort more difficult?
A lot of people were killed in three Arab countries just as the dead and poisoned in the three southeast Asian countries and the misplaced killing of wedding parties in Afghanistan. Those days are over. The American public does not want this jingoism to bring back people in body bags.
Mr. Petraeus NEVER betrayed us.
2035-2037.Rest u r will,uncle.
Very informative but the audio is terribly muddy.
I recommend turning on the caption so you can read what they are saying.
I would love to see Petraeus as Vice President. And a future president in time.
Consider a Marshall Plan for Gaza after this war. After WWII the Marshall Plan implemented an occupation government in Germany until 1952. This prevented any reconstitution of Nazi power and saved the civilian population from a humanitarian disaster. Remember 98% of Germans voted for Adolph Hitler and denazification was essential. One giant mistake of the past was the 2005 Palestinian election which put Hamas in power and legitimized Hamas, a clear example of the failure of democracy. Palestinians had never in history experienced a democracy and elected a totalitarian Islamist governent that could not be removed democratically. The Marshall Plan for Gaza must focus on preparation of the hearts and minds of Palestinians for peace and prosperity.
I don't think you know what you are talking about. First of all, Hamas was originally non-militant, and it only developed a militant wing for the simple reason that the Palestinian people have a right to defend themselves. The occupation is illegal. The settlements are illegal. U.S. was involved with putting Israel on the map. Israel forced 870,00 peaceful Palestinians out of their home in the first three years with the intention of eventually replacing them all together. That is barbaric.
The Nazis won less than 44% of the last election in 1933 in a turnout of 89%. So only 39% of registered voters. A state of emergency was in place following the Reichstag Fire, and Hitler did a deal with the Catholics while some parties were banned from the parliament in a vote to allow him to rule by decree.
There were no No Attacks on civilians the 7th. Just collateral. 500/1200-1300 (they keep magically decreasing) were soldiers. Out of 769 names, 462 military (55 soldiers, 13 privates, 59 corporals, 200 sergeants of whom 45 are sergeants majors, 48 commanders, 32 lieutenants, 5 lieutenant colonels, 6 colonels, 13 captains, 37 officers, 10 inspectors, 6 intendents, 2 Lance Corp). It was a Military defeat, they are taking it out on the rest.
Age range Number of people
0-9 2
10-19 14
20-29 318
30-39 161
C0-49 87
50-59 54
60-69 37
70-79 17
80-89 3
Unreported Age Adults 404
Data from haartz
I couldn't agree more with having a Marshall Plan for the Palastinians.
@ranro7371 ← is a NAZI terrorist bot. It's a carefully crafted but dumb lie. We'll get you, scum.
For starters is the Atlantic Council objective and Neutral in its discussions? If so I would like to hear about the causes of the Ukraine war...in whose interest was the war, who provoked the Russians, why was he provoked, the rand report, why NATO kept pushing East and therefore ignoring the security interests of other Countries as though they don't deserve to have them...and finally why the super Duper counter offensive of the collective west failed to even take a small village of less than 480 people from the Russians despite the "fact" that the Russians are poorly trained, poorly fed, poorly equipped, poorly led,use shovels against the bradleys, stingers, javelins ,storm shadows, atacms,leopards, etc
Nato kept pushing East because the United States elites always viewed Russia and it's natural resources as their deserved victory prize for winning the cold war. And yes it's quite ironic how Russia's military is the most incompetent and incapable paper tiger on the planet while simultaneously being the greatest threat to democracy ready, capable, and willing to conquer all of the enlightened world.
it was a media driven counter offensive. Ukraine has never had the basis of counter offensive ever. So how can it be super??
Given the premise of all that “question” you just asked, I fail to see why Atlantic Council should be objective and neutral while you’re obviously only parroting milblog propaganda points.
The start of the Ukrainian war stems from Russia’s desire to control the gaps around its land, so simply they want to restore the Soviet bloc and deny sovereignty to a multitude of countries and people that voted themselves to walk away from Russian influence and rule to be aligned with western democracy. Russia of course makes the point that you deny their culture and ethnicity’s and thus don’t deserve to be independent. It would be simple for Russia to “recall” it’s citizens home to mother Russia if you were really concerned about foreign oppression of Russian citizens that has never been proven outside of Russia, however instead you merely choose to invade and annex new lands and expand Russia. So the Ukrainian war is merely an expansionist war.
Russia’s security concerns are no more valid than any European country’s security concerns, of which Russia seems to not care about either, so it’s an entirely moot point. Russia supposedly has nuclear weapons and likes to remind the West of that fact every day. So since nuclear conflict results in game over for every one, what other security concerns could Russia possibly have, since NATO could never and would never march on Moscow itself, and hasn’t since the fall of the USSR. The witness of history is on the side of NATO .
The reason why NATO expands is simple. Russia invades sovereign countries to expand its land borders and barriers in some misguided vision that this somehow stops American nukes from hitting Moscow and St Petersburg, and wherever else you care about. The USA invites other nations into a security alliance of shared defense and then underwrites those countries security at great costs to itself while letting those countries experience the piece dividend as evidenced by the European model since ww2.
Finland and Sweden joining NATO? NATO didn’t do that. Russia did that.
And another point, if you could please answer me this Russian bot, do Russian’s understand that the country most likely to actually invade and capture Russian lands are not NATO countries, but actually China, that would love to claw away your oil fields in Siberia?
@@ashvandal5697 you literally know absolutely nothing beyond what western war profiteers have told you.
They don't call him Be Tray Us for Nothing!
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The General’s chair seems to be on fire. (And I own the book)
I am glad that the Ukrainians have been able to rise to the ability to defend their territory!
excellent! thank you.
I gave him 10 11:40 11:43 minutes of my time, then I had to turn my attention to substance talkers, glad that he is a Former General & and Not a General as he is always introduced !!!
Gosh, such a glowing introduction of petraeus.....yet not convincing!
No shame. “All In: The Education of General David Petraeus”.
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Tons of misinformation here .
12,000 people & 5,000 babies. You don’t mention. The are animals?????
Why do they always say "unprovoked" every time they speak?
Petraeus was just a 'yes' man for Baby Bush and his henchmen, after shopping around to trade 5 stars for integrity ...
You ain't gonna find any George Pattons in DC, my friend.
The book was good. This discussion was EXCELLENT!!
Petraeus doesn’t know his @ss from his elbow. Just another war profiteer. 😂
A warmonger, not a soldier 🕊️❤️🙏☘️
Forget what I said. He has the nerve to keep on talking about the barbaric October 7th attack (that Israeli intelligence probably allowed to happen so that they could continue with their genocidal program against the Palestinians which began in 1948). It was U.S. intelligence operatives who went to Palestine in the 40s to start engaging in operations that helped to setup the full invasion of Palestine by the ultra-Zionists which we supported from the beginning. That was barbaric, and were involved in it. And there have been many genocides that we had a hand in during our history, but I don't think General Petraeus has the political courage to talk about all of that. 870k Palestinians were forced out of their homeland in the first three years. Barbaric!
Thanks for an excellent interview
Betray us.
lol. Cucked by Media Matters? Poor dumb you!
This guy political bureaucrat that has never seen frontline combat action … talk to Col Douglas MacGregor
Yep. Go talk to a well known mouthpiece of ruzzia's propaganda machine. Good idea! 🙄
@@lorenzcassidy3960This machine is much more better than yours as the battleground shows.
Pleasure to watch Gen David petraeus, I like his analysis and I enjoy too much, when ever he says Putin to convince he will not win, substantial and several plates spinning!!!???
Greeting Atlantic and
Gen D. Petraeus keep repeating his impressive analysis, General has BIG Ideas, Thank you very much. 🙏
what do you expect from an American General. A peace angle. Sheesz
Quit asking softball questions. We all know the world is a mess. The question that needs to be asked is, with the wisdom of hindsight, if you could go back 20 years, what could have been done differently? Apart, of course, from Bush not invading Iraq, or not having an affair with a pretty broad.
Always surprising how intelligent elites view the climate change claims
A problem of being educated beyond their Intelligence. Human caused Global climate change is a 6,000 year old Religious scam. Humans have nothing to do with it.
You must keep in mind that as global warming increases, all those nasty and unwanted brown skinned people will be wanting to come north to cooler climates. True. that could make rented owned property much more profitable, but it also means that some of them might be living too close........oh.. .horror....
While Gen Petraeus gives an excellent analysis, he fails to understand a crucial element : both Israelis and Palestinians have an unquenchable animosity one for the other.
Hipocrisy
Realization upon hearing Gen P's remark about the consequences of permitting "red lines" to be crossed (early in the video.)
One might say it's an error to permit a red line to be crossed; however, the error is permitting to develop a situation that you don't want to face.
Many leaders conspired to develop the foreign policy *_debt_* that Putin called in Feb '22. Obama's Red Line was only one chunk of debt (a glaring chunk.) Afghanistan a second. All debt creation, very little debt payment over a very long term.
I am sure Taiwan defense organizations are grateful for Putin's invasion. This made repayment of the "democratic foreign policy deficit" much more relevant to more countries than a Chinese invation of Taiwan would have.
It is no secret that the biggest weakness of foreign policy of democratic countries is the short term view to which elections ultimately constrain them. 4 years, 5 years, 6 years.... none compare to 10+ years (XiXi 🐻) and 20+ years (VVPu) spans of totalitarian regimes.
Ugh Petraeus!? No, no....I see his lips moving. You know what that means right?
Rubbish talk
If you dont know your Bible you dont know the roots of war.. Gen 12:3
Duhh
“All In: The Education of General David Petraeus”
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The General Petraeus is just brilliant.
😂 Ahem... you haven't been following him since Ukraine war 2032Feb.
@@xena6894anyone who followed this man since 2000s knew he was and still is anything BUT brilliant.
@harukrentz435 Wonder those who find him ' brilliant' think of :Iraq, Afghanistan... all success. His personal scandal: a delight, the measure of a great man! All his predictions and takes on Ukraine, well .... what a successful "defense of democracy "... the counter offensive: such a great success. The supply chain ( ammo) : Well, Ukraine has all the weapons it needs, absolutely no shortage 😉 And the support is going on .... as long as it takes. . Some americans sounds like they want to hold on a faded dream ( that all is well and succesful with their military adventures)
Dave the zionist
Sir, Mr PatraeusSir! Please run for President! We desprately need a real man to run.
He screwed up his opportunity when he shared top secret information with that bimbo a few years back.
Not orange man then ?
General betryus 😅
This man cannot be trusted. He led the war against Iraq. Then much later on, in an interview, he stated that he knew all along there was no WMD in Iraq but the US did not want to listen. Trying to act innocent? He is despicable. The Nuremberg Trials made it clear a combatant can't get away with stupid excuses. He should have declined to lead the war. He would not have been shot, maybe just forget any promotion and be relegated to a desk job only.
Thanks, Atlantic Council.
AFTER AFGHANISTAN; HE IS THE LAST MAN I WOULD GET MILITARY ADVICE FROM.
partly fair point, but not really re Afghan operations, which were utterly impossible as we saw in the end.
It was the most successful futile gesture in the history of Afghanistan. Trump released the terrorists and invited them to Camp David, then closed out the program. Not P-man's doing.
An Afghanistan winner is speaking! Lmao!
David Petraeus is always impressive but here he is magisterial. He spoke fluently point by pint without notes and with a total command of his material. A very fine mind. I wonder what he and Gerald Templar would have had to say to each other.
What would cause NATO involvement in case China attacked Taiwan?
Nato owns Taiwan!
Time to replace your webcam, mike and sound card, Miss Allie.
Mh in 2023 you can expect a functioning internet connection if you interview a man who served. Otherwise thanks for the interview and giving the General a voice. Very important.
David is a felon lol
@@htown148Where are the charges? Where is the court he is sitting in? If you aren’t into military leave us pls.
@jamoin4310 are you forgetting David was the clown who was in charge of Afghanistan during the surge which killed thousands of us troops for NOTHING. His Afghanistan strategy FAILED
@@htown148Afghanistan had an UN mandate what’s the crime here? So stfu you low life scum don’t get into military stuff if you just want to blame the people who served our great nation and secured us from further terrorist attacks. We already have enough of folks like you.
"Mh" ?
I guess I'm old school. I'm fine with classic 10 kHz audio bandwidth (such as U.S. AM radio.) Who even needs video for talking heads? Clearly I'm missing the priorities.....
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Fatigued of Ukraine endless war
Afghanistan was America's Dunkirk
Not really, because we’re not going back!
Big respect to General Petraeus. But, US reneged on its obligations under the UN charter, under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, and a lot more.. and now absolutely inadequate people in the administration watching the world burn. US has 2,500 M1 Abrams, why only give 31 to Ukraine? It has more than 1,000 F-16 rusting away, since the US has long moved to fifth gen F-32s and F-35s, why give 0? Do you understand? All this pontificating is besides the point..
Except for Petraeus, the audio is atrocious. This series won't last unless you do some basic audio work.
General, I have up most respect for you. I hope you are under the control of lobbyists.
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@@fred_2021Spellin nasi!
@@gilianrampart8514 Nasi? Good one :)
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He has not won a war. Just did pure stupidity
“The brutal unprovoked invasion of Ukraine”. What a liar
David Petraeus excellent as usual.
Japan has been war-free from 1945 to the present.Please do that research as well.
Helpful, very helpful. I wonder how to train other men to think like he does, so this thought process is not lost to time.
Takes lots of Brainwashing of our youth to think we should cut food to seniors children and the poor while The Pentagon keeps getting bigger budgets and has failed 6 Audits
Just get them to watch Bugs Bunny.
@@tanl7756Is Petraeus Elmer Fudd or Yosemite Sam?
@@gmw3083 Bluto. Later Brutus.
This was not a "conversation": she had prepared questions and didn't follow up or challenge with anything. And her saying Israel is "retaliating" in Gaza is mischaracterization. Israel is at war with strategic objective to destroy the enemy.😂
I nearly called this a "semi-dialogue" in another comment. I always enjoy the General's perspective, but I think a "conversation" should be called a conversation, and a "review" should be called a review. This is more a review.
That said, I'm glad they "panned" to Ari rather than Fred. It made that half of the screen more pleasant.
(I suspect they split-screened Ari as a cue to Gen P that she had questions -- i.e. Gen P should pause for a sip of water.)
Petraes is correct about strategic leadership and it’s continuing need for frequent reappraisal in a rapidly changing geostrategic landscape. The U.S. president and key military advisors are stymied in these efforts by Republicans like the “Freedom Caucus”that follow an isolationist undermining of the U.S. ability to project force and Senators like Tuberville (a Trump top choice) who knee cap America’s readiness to respond to emergent threats.
I want to know more about this host. She is so pretty 😍
China is *not* currently the biggest plate, if by size, we mean threat relevance.
The sun burning out is by far the biggest threat to life on Earth, but in distance of time is irrelevant.
A terminally ill patient doesn't need to worry about global warming if his biggest threat is cancer, for example.
It's Russia first, and China quite a long way off. The nation with the biggest threat from China, is not the U.S, but in fact it's Russia.
Specifically Russian Manchuria followed by the whole of Russian North Asia (secure energy/water by land).
When the shed is on fire next to the much bigger barn, be concerned about the barn, whilst focused on putting the *actual* fire out.
Two state for Ca'anan, northern part is Israel. Southern Ca'anan is Sainai. Palestine is being dissolved just like the Ukraine. Gaza will not be habitable after the conflict, and could be purchased from the Palestinean Authority. ... Sainai independence could be an interesting topic to discuss.
i’m not sure that Egypt wants to give up the Sinai! They were rather happy when Israel returned it to them! Even Egypt does not want any more Hamas on their land.
I don’t know. It seems America has lost again in Ukraine. Blah blah blah.
lost all respect for petraeus when he endorsed the enforcer youtube channel that combines incredibly ridiculous comments, with childish "scooby doo" impressions and constant laughter at the plight of war scenes and fleeing civilians.
Terrible sound unfortunately.
26:10 I hear you, but how about kicking some butts at international humanitarian aid organizations…
And specifically tell them that it is humanitarian aid, not undercover Hamas weapons and munitions convoys, not to interfere in the conflict but helping innocent civilians!
It isn’t Israel’s responsibility to keep people in Gaza alive. That is for the leadership in Gaza.
If there are any that doesn’t belong to Hamas that is.
And the US has quite a larger organization and budget for your campaigns.
I think it is unfair and disrespectful to request Israel to provide humanitarian aid. To facilitate is one thing, which in this case will be to allow humanitarian aid convoys and humanitarian aid workers.
But the the us has to back Israel 100%.
As you probably are aware of during this ceasefire, Iran is going to try to resupply Hamas with weapons and munitions. They have a history of using international humanitarian aid convoys, ambulances etc - war crime in other words.
They can’t have access to the humanitarian aid…
Not a requirement according to international law and conventions
A guy with a rug in his kitchen can't be into cooking.
Brain-dead comment . . . First, There are not many high ranking generals that are "into" cooking and that's a "bar" of sorts not the kitchen. That little sink is not the kitchen sink. He has his swords there and some beer steins, wine cooler, an ice bucket and who knows what else. I see a desk with books on it and a fireplace so it's not even a kitchen but his home office.
It’s a wet bar for his office.
You must not have money. 🤑
Shouldn't a bar always be wet?@@romanmanner
Good that they are not trying on alien guinea pigs. Midget earth could face backlashes.
He's keeping talking about Strategy, Strategic ideas..leadership....etc. Tell me one war you secured victory in it? and achieved its goals? you failed miserably in Iraq war.. you failed miserably in Vietnam , you failed miserably in Afghanistan... and the list is long. You only succeeded in innovating new destructive weapons that form huge threat to the world peace. Example: look at what's going on in Gaza with your weapon. Be fair and think about it.
You don't understand their definition of win,thats all!
@@gilianrampart8514 victory means you achieve the GOALS of the war declared.
Nothing achieved! I’ll mention one example and leave the other for you to think.
When US declared war against Afghanstan, the goal is to remove Talban completely!
Now where’s Talban? All they’ve done is kill spend billions of taxpayer dollars and lost thousands of innocents and many soldiers killed!!! That’s what they ended up after 20 years! And now US is weaker and less safe than before these wars.
Can you Russians in the comments section actually say something intelligent for once? Everyone knows Moscow is superior to St. Petersburg.
I think I started following this guy when he pacified Modul (?) 2004 when he commanded 101st Airborne.
He was successful integrating civil and military efforts.
*Mosul 🙂
I was following him back then, too, but I think we mean very different things in saying that.
No one ever can say Iraq was a success! Which world do you live in ?
@@xena6894 the overall mission in Iraq was a disaster and it should never have happened in the first place. I agree with you there. However, look at the situation on the ground in Mosul following the initial invasion, 2003/04. The rest of the country was in total disarray and Mosul was quiet. That is the success he's referring to and it was real.
@joshuavaillancourt9877 I get what you're saying. However , note that the success of a military/civilian action is judged on a long term impact or at least a medium term impact . That's why the US is having so much difficulty now in the world to assert its military /political dominance. Afhanistan , Syria, Iraq have contributed to that. Almost like a self inflicetd wound but the world has to forget. Not even bringning Libya. Quick ground succes , like some says' surgical precision bombing ' ... well you know in which state Libya is now. Obama has expresses regrets but he has never extended those regrets to the wholeof Sahel region , by " chain effetct" that instability has caused. In summary , a successful expedition without careful planning of possible scenario in the 5 ot 10 years to come , is NOT a succesful one. That's clear. The economic , political , human consequences nnullify the very temporarly gains.
Tripe! This man has been wrong on just about everything. What a guilty swamp creature he is.
"Climatchange has to be deterred" what about a nuclear winter?😅
Threats threats threats, these guys create the threats - then come and tell us these are just mad man’s and we need to stop them so give us more funding 😂 complete jokes! Then they enrich themselves
Will take Petraeus over Ritter any day..
I guess you like liars.
And you like the worse one -Ritter@@tanl7756
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Regarding General Patraeus’ being unsure climate change is THE greatest threat to humanity, maybe he places faith in the politically affected IPCC reports which estimate sea level rise that may be far less than what actually occurs. As someone who has done global modeling, the IPCC reports consistently report values substantially below the mean of model outputs. Add the uncertainties in some model variables and some assumptions that have been found unrepresentative over years of observations, basing our plans on an optimistic estimate is arguably imprudent.
Nuclear war is obviously a catastrophic threat. It is also one over which humanity has control. Climate change is happening and is far more difficult to control, possibly beyond humanity’s capabilities.
It’s going to happen regardless humans have always get a wake up call by the Earth for hundreds of thousands of years this planet has regulated us and realizes we’re not the center of planet.
You're not gonna control the climate,and they have over predicted not under!
As what ret.col.douglas macgregor describe this guy a comedian always talks nonsense.it's better for him to join zelensky in a comedy play
Zelensky had packed his clothes and were on his way. Naftali Bennet called Putin and he said he wount kill Zelensky. Then he unpacked his suitcases an took on his green shirt.
The Genius that lost all the wars he led😂😂😂i