most of us are all in. i have even seen strong support from conservatives. ukraine has the blessing of the usa and will not fall. even if it takes 20 years slowly bleeding russia dry. they will fall.

Straight up!!!

@@Acolis Russia is getting economically stronger as the US gets weaker so you’re only helping with your ignorance.

I agree; he is pure crystallised evil.

Okej Mr boot

Spot on.

Presumably, however, you are not proud of his prediction ability. The man has got it wrong over and over. In that respect he is useless. The Americans think he is a fool too, by the way.

Narrow, neurotic, deceitful. Wonderful culture.

He has no idea. Neither do u

Some day, Ukraine may add a line in its national anthem similar to what we have in our U.S. National Anthem "And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there..."

👍

This generation is probably experiencing what our forebears went through to secure and maintain democratic values. It's out turn to keep the torch burning until we have handed over to the next generation. This war makes some of us understand democracy and cherish its eternal benefits.

@@rizanz2108 Except Ukraine has nothing to do with democracy as it is no more democratic than Russian, if not less.

I agree. Don't stop dying for NATO!

LOL. The General lives in a unipolar fantasy world. What a liability he is for the American people. Can we get some ex military analysts who are grounded in reality, not sentimental nostalgia? Anywhere?

Not sure what this general said that wasn’t well explained and rational. I don’t think you would be happy with any general unless they just spouted what you want to hear.

@@singed8853 The General lives in a fantasy world. Just like you.

Not worried about Russia 🇷🇺 making it all the way to Ireland 🇮🇪 like Dugin wants 😉?

Thank you for your service 🇮🇪🇺🇦🌻🌾🔱

Thanks!

@Will Holden: Hey, that's good news. I'm glad to hear the people of Ukraine are feeling optimistic about their future! Even if it is guarded optimacy. They have been through a tough 6 months, but haven't lost faith. On another note, "Thank You" for helping them! It is encouraging to know there are people like you among us. SLAVA UKRAINE!

@@bobhamulak3646 The truth: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rdN3lKuT05ayqIk.html

Ukraine can easily win. They just need to get russian uniforms and declare themselves nova rossiyas

God bless Ukraine 🇺🇦

@@bryandimery6509 Knock Knock? Who’s there? HIMARS

Yes yes yes

@@Daily_Llama right except russias destroyed 6 of the 18sent and ukraines almost out of rockets. But ok

Απο το στόμα του και στου Θεού τ'αυτιά! Exactly what I was thinking… you, er, took the words right out of my mouth.

@@zealotestheaussie5880 I'm pretty sure God is first and formost on the side of peace. And since Putin started this war, killing 10s of thousands of innocent civilians, I don't see God favoring him or any Russians supporting him. That is why I pray to God on behalf of Ukrainians. They defend their nation and people, and would sooner have an end to this war. Furthermore, Putin has indicated wider ambitions for war. So it should be pretty obvious which side God would grace.

No such thing as God.....if there was, the war would never have started..... and millions of people would not be suffering right now..... and thousands would not be dead This war simply needs to stop and Ukrainians need to get lives back and to rebuild Ukraine

@@sanjayshah4372 why would war not start if God existed?

@@WestOfEarth IF yours or anyone's version of God existed, an all knowing, all seeing, compassionate God, then it has to be SUPER SADISTIC to allow wars...... knowing that millions of humans will be crying with pain, suffering, cold, miserable and helpless to protect their children and family from all the bloody ravages of war - And if survived the war, the mental trauma is likely to be debilitating and torturous, also impacting all those who close to you - Not even your worst enemy, or a really awful decrepid sick human, would put you and your family through this

More astute than the current Pentagon top brass, for sure.

yes he is so amazingly smart and correct, russian are on the brink of breakage and ukraine is making huge territorial gains, kherson offensive is successfully underway and russian fortifications in donbas are falling on weekly basis. We just need to send more money, poor ukrainian parlamentaries only got a 70% raise :(

This General Hodges said, back in March, that Russia had 10 days left before it would run out of ammunition. I remember it distinctly since he has the same surname. I have not trusted his judgement since. Found it for you - 14th March - video title 'Lt. Gen. Hodges: Russia May Be Forced To Stop Attack 'Within The Next 10 Days'

@@RichardTaylor1630 More detail please.

@@Hereford1642 TBF he did say may.

You need to stop reading fairy tells and grow up with your "evil".

There are more Russians in Ukraine than there are Scots in Great Britain.

Well ... fighting for the whole of western Europe. I see what you mean but the world is much more than just Europe.

The US taxpayers have done a lot.

100th like was mine. 😀

AGREED!

I've never seen real 'human' beings so brainwashed by propaganda before in my life.

@@PedroFerreira-ze5yp 👍🏆🇺🇦

Isn’t “democracy’s” mob rule?

Dear Russia: YTM

You mean Russians ran out of ammo back in March?

Kherson counter-offensive? Yeah right he's a genius. Cope

@@vasiliyshukshin7466 In March General Hodges predicted, virtually to the hour, when the Russian attempt to take Kiev would collapse. And in July he said that their offensive in the east would stall within months. Meaning now. Want me to go back and find his statements for you? I'll post a video on it.

@@claudiopereira9900 Everything right on plan for you, eh dude? That's quite a plan.

I find him and General Patraeus to be the most credible sources of information about this war. They both were at the top levels of command and intelligence not long ago

Welcome to the human race 😂

Reality - nobody deserves to win - it is effort and sacrifice - no signs of that from Ukraine. Kherson is a typical situation - all talk and nothing from Ukraine. 😃

@@cliveengel5744 Ok vlad

@@59jm24 stop throwing names around - debate the topics if you can

These billionaire Russian oligarchs are fed up with this war, And want to get back to business as usual.. and this woman and her father were fueling This continuation with their rhetoric... Everyone in the mob eventually swims with the fishes..🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲.. Send more long range missiles..

A criminal operation if ever there was one - still, Zelensky the coke head is profiting very well from the sacrifice of so many lives …

@@davideddy2672 He sure is healthy looking for Coke head... compared the trump junior, Or hunter now look at those 2.. They're definitely Coke heads...

Go where.....? 🤔

Yes so quickly solved I don’t buy it sorry

Possibly it was in retaliation for the killing of grain logistics tycoon and militia funder Oleksiy Vadatursky, who was killed 3weeks ago in a targeted missile attack on his mansion, shortly after the Russians had agreed to let the shipping of grain resume.

Dugin clearly killed his own daughter for propaganda purposes, Russian life is really cheap. The fact that he "switched cars" at the last minute and made sure everyone knew it, says it all.

@@sunnydisinfectant I suspect it is more of a retaliation for the killing of grain logistics tycoon and militia funder Oleksiy Vadatursky, who was killed 3weeks ago in a targeted missile attack on his mansion, shortly after the Russians had agreed to let the shipping of grain resume.

I thought the funniest bit in the video released by the FSB was where the alleged perp is filmed happily packing her car, ready to drive off to Estonia after the attack. Like you do, of course, just after carrying out an assassination. And it takes 10 hours to drive to Estonia from Moscow… with roadblocks roughy every 30km… Sometimes I wonder if some of the more intelligent FSB agents don't deliberately make their claims idiotic in the secret hope that someone out there in the great Russian TV-swallowing public will start to think for themselves.

This guy has degraded as a military man! The entire Russian-speaking segment of the Internet is filled with videos with appeals from Ukrainian military formations that they have become ordinary cannon fodder and requests to withdraw them from the front, as they are suffering huge losses. Video from captured Ukrainian positions with hundreds of decomposed corpses of Ukrainian soldiers only confirms this.

I'm guessing he's retired, so he can speak his mind now. But don't write down current command, they think same way.

He looks like he's better suited for reading greens

@@ToneLearnerGuy In your arm chair...do you read something...?....

So do I. So do you. So does my dog.

Ben Hodges tells it like it is

Has he? What, specifically, has he gotten right?

Who funds his optimism?

@@bryandimery6509 What has he gotten wrong?

I thought its totally reasonable not blowing smoke. Ukraine won't have to fight them all the way back to Russia. Its a misadventure the Russians don't want. Once they overthrow Putin/Stalin they will just leave. The whole things absolutely absurd

Has been always Russian, until mr. Khrushchev gave it to Ukraine. But the people were always the Russian majority. In 2014 After coup they had a Referendum, where a majority voted to become part of Russia, due to increasing violence and murders from Ukrainian radical militants. Read it, if you can find it, because of a large scale of propaganda.

Russia is moving forward. In this situation, Ukraine cannot dictate its terms. Either Ukraine agrees to stop at today's borders, or it will lose even more territory.

I do see it the same way.,,,,✊🇺🇦🇩🇪🇺🇲🎗️

@@desj2584 No, in Crimea the holiday season is in full swing. I would like to recall the tasks of the SMO: demilitarization and denazification. Russia performs these tasks with small forces. Western analysts say that Russia cannot take over Ukraine, and I will tell you that Russia does not want this. Russia does not need to take on the debts of Ukraine, this will remain for Zelensky and the western part of Ukraine. We eat popcorn and watch a movie about Ukraine.

@@kuyva5546 Russia is bleeding to death

Yes, and he's not just any general, he was commanding general of the US army in europe. I like your aleph.

I've been hearing since April that Russia is exhausted and running out of missiles. Yet it keeps taking territory using overwhelming firepower from its missiles.

@@johngotti4398 Nah that the artillery they are firing

@@Kaz590 Missiles are also artillery my friend. They fire in 10 days what takes the US entire year to produce. There is no way NATO can match that kind of firepower. What it supplies to Ukraine is a drop in the bucket of what is needed.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Glory to Mother Russia.

Poland?just "traitors "...

🤣🤣🤣

You can't have all those three. Either Glory, Victory and Heroes (destruction and killing), or Peace, Compromise and Harmony (creation and life).

....switch off those bloody lights, we've got a proxy war to pay for! 😷

Go where.....? 🤔

​@@markm4201 lol, you are one funny guy. 😂

Not the first time I've heard those exact words on this channel... Times seem to be carrying an agenda

Agreed. She should stick with interviewing and refrain from opinion pieces.

I agree completely as soon as I heard her say that I was yelling

Funny you should say that, given how many times Hodges uses words like “I believe” or “I think”. This whole piece is pretty much a pile of assumptions from both sides.

I so agree. It’s almost like the presenter wants Ukraine to fail. As Jake Broe comments, as long as governments stay the course it doesn’t matter if the general population moves on. Also, just because something isn’t in the headlines, it doesn’t mean people don’t care about it; it just means journalists and editors don’t care.

Lol. Bots are all sallyriding this idiot who has yet to win a war.

Hi General Hodges, nice to meet you

No, he doesn’t.

Nope he doesn't

@@vasiliyshukshin7466 …and who are you to judge a general? Are you the usual hairdresser improvised military expert on youtube?

Drug addicts do not win anything. Hired mercenaries do not win anything. Nazis do not win anything. Bunch of thugs given weapons for Hollywood drama so they can get killed and then offer funeral service for them.

And you assessed this how exactly? What you mean is that you like what he says.

@@neilcreamer8207 I've followed his analysis from the beginning of this war. He has been very accurate thus far.

@@jacqdanieles i hope so

@@jacqdanieles Be more specific.

@@kilianconn5091 go watch his previous analysis since the beginning of the war. It's all there.

Lol you are a part of the most propagandized and manipulated society ever and the fact you can not see it is testament to it’s prolific success

This General Hodges said, back in March, that Russia had 10 days left before it would run out of ammunition. I remember it distinctly since he has the same surname. I have not trusted his judgement since. Found it for you - 14th March - video title 'Lt. Gen. Hodges: Russia May Be Forced To Stop Attack 'Within The Next 10 Days'

Dugin clearly killed his own daughter for propaganda purposes, Russian life is really cheap. The fact that he "switched cars" at the last minute and made sure everyone knew it says it all.

@@Hereford1642 and he was basically correct, russia has seemingly exhausted its stockpile of smart weapons, it's relying on dumb artillery, they've made negligible gains in months while Ukraine bleeds them and degrades their logistics, all the while Ukraine has been growing stronger.

@@Hereford1642 The truth: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rdN3lKuT05ayqIk.html

Why should this general know anything given the destruction wrought on the world by the US and the West.

@@stevemitchell1454 I guess you just answered your own question then...?

And how foes he know exactly? Is the Kremlin discussing all their plans with him? At best it's an educated guess.....US military methodology is a long way from Russian methodology!

pootin . ~( : < o )

What if he is completely wrong? It wouldn't be the first time..

The thing about this is, even the best generals and military analysts thought 3 days and the war would go russias way. No matter what happens from this point on the Ukrainians have shown the world what their freedom means to them. They will never accept being slaves to Putin. They are not Chechen’s. Even if Putin occupies all of Ukraine the fight will go on, they are warriors. Slava Ukraine!

@@stephenkiss1175 To be fair to those generals and analysts - the data they had in the beginning was far more limited. Speculation, sporadic intelligence reports, unreliable Russian documentation about what their capabilities are, etc. It's a very different story when generals are able to analyze a conflict in progress and see the reality.

@@elysiumfields You're right - also believing the Putin's propaganda about the strength of his war machine.

@@elysiumfields Now To be fair,. All the military minds and Nato, and the US... Said Russia was the 2nd most powerful military In the world.. To find out they're the 2nd most powerful military in 🇺🇦 ..

Skill to talk utter nonsence and knowledge he obtained from propaganda :D

He's a dope and so are you.

yeah how about no. I'm gonna contact my representatives and tell them the opposite. You're brainwashed.

@@CugerBrant cope 🤣🤣🤣🤣

That is something we should all do. The more help Ukraine can get, the sooner we can find a way to peace. ☺

NATO countries don't want to send more military because Yermak is in power and they know Yermak was bribed by Putin to secretly work for Russia undermining the effort of Ukrainian army. Yermak must go and then Ukraine will get much much more military aid and will easily win the war.

Putin will use nuclear weapons.

You will live forever and will always be yound and healthy. Now thank me for me exprienced analysis. It is as good and fact based as the one in the video. WHAT analysis? Where do you see an analysis there? Where are sources? Where are maps? Where are reports from frontline? (BTW: You would be horrified if you read what Ukrianian soldier write.). It is not an anaylsis, it is just nonsence based on wishful thinking.

Dugin clearly killed his own daughter for propaganda purposes, Russian life is really cheap. The fact that he "switched cars" at the last minute and made sure everyone knew it says it all.

Talk talk gets you nowhere

He tells you what you want to hear, but his "insights" are flawed.

@@GolfNut867 How do you know this?

@@GolfNut867 hmm. So we should listen to you as opposed to a former three star commanding general of US Army Europe? What particular lack of insight examples were espoused?

@@jamesp8569 I try to get my information from a variety of military sources from many different countries. I put less reliance on sources that have clear political agendas and Ben Hodges has a political agenda.

@@LewLew49 Hodges has a history of getting it wrong and making overly optimistic pronouncements.

They will if we make them do so. I regularly write to the PM and my MP to ask, 'What have you done for Ukraine today?' - obviously the PM not so much in the last month.

Propaganda victim delux.

@@qewqeqeqwew3977 ruSSian troll deluxe

@@qewqeqeqwew3977 Look in the mirror, Pukin bot.

Every weapon we send to Ukraine will cause more Ukrainian deaths by prolonging this conflict. The war has already been lost. The outcome is known. We all are being propagandized (example: this above content) to not understand so and to prolong the conflict as long as possible to bleed the 2 nations directly involved. Ukraine is being used as cannon fodder with no respect to the lives of its soldiers. Of course, the western countries/media won't tell you that. Because this whole thing is something they triggered since 2014. I know its scary to think your own country is involved. But this realisation will open your eyes to many complex geopolitical events.

Jesus wept !

Idk about sanctions. I figure a partial reprieve on sanctions *after* Russia vacates the Ukraine could be helpful.

There is a very important #4 Russia has lost many of their best energy customers for good. Even if the war ends with an agreement. Europe has already decided to move away from Russian engery supply. It may not be 100% immediately but long term Russia will have lost their best paying customers. That will have a big impact on Russian economy. There is no way back. Europe will organize its energy in the future without Russia.

Sanctions should remain until! Russia starts and commits to reparations! To Ukraine and others.

Point 3 is wrong, greed always wins.

from an American ,Russia has and is in it's current from been the enemy scenes WWII .... .. out ... BRAVO Ukraine .

I’m sure you’re right,I see no value to Ukraine in her death. I hope you get the leaders you deserve, not the rulers you have.

Russian Declaration of an internal uprising begins: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f9mkgKd0u8Xed5c.html

Russia isn't popular at the moment - but It's good to see there are still freedom loving people there.

Lavrov next!

@@hmmcinerney Well said Sir.....

I definitely agree that had NATO responded on a "tank for tank" basis in eastern Poland as the Russians massed along Ukraine's eastern border, Putin would have slinked off declaring "it was all just an exercise." Now he's stuck and cannot figure how to save face.

Are you convinced that Putin will use Nuclear Weapons?

Ukraine is not in NATO, which means there is no justification for threatening Russia since NATO is a defensive organization. Article 5 isn't triggered. That said, any individual nation is free to respond as they see fit, as several countries have been doing since this started.

@@E3ECO very well said 👍

@@terrydanks or maybe putler is just so delusional he actually thinks his propoganda will gain support for his genocide.

In that case the Russians ran out of ammunition in april.

How you going to do that?

@@igotufoinformation9636 they are showing you, trolls. Open your freaking eyes

What battle in depth? They even scrapped the Kherson counteroffensive.

@@vasiliyshukshin7466 what do you call destroying the logistics, and airfields and command centres? That’s a counter offensive bozo

@@vasiliyshukshin7466 The internal opposing forces in Russia are exerting force against Putin. The beast got wounded in Ukraine. Ukraine already played their role by the book.

Разве их волнует целостность Украины? Вы уже не способны существовать без поддержки США, зато хорошо играете роль пушечного мяса, которое нанимать не надо

Thats what I think is coming fast, the overthrow of Putin regime, the Russian elite can see the writing on the wall and that the Russian economy is crumbling. Putin's big gamble has failed and he tried to double down rather than getting out when he had a chance in March and April. Something big is going to happen in Russia, what Putin started is now too big for Putin and the Putin regime

True. Bear in mind Russia and the USSR before it and the Russian Empire prior to that have never enjoyed one single moment of democratic governance. The people have had no say whatsoever in who governs them apart from joining the revolution which got rid of their Tsars and replaced them with Commisars. They are an unfortunate people indeed.

Everybody wants them out, but it is far better to take the time, to make sure when they leave, they don't have the strength to come back. Russia's military must be broken, for the entire regions stability.

or just dead is fine too.

Yes m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f9mkgKd0u8Xed5c.html

...if someone tells me that something is totally simple to comprehend...like they know all about how that works...I already know that they are at least partially wrong . I've never yet met someone who wasn't.

No one outside Russia believes anything the Russian government says anyway. We all know they are liars and cheats, not just to the rest of the world but even to their own people. What a way to run a country, doomed to failure in a modern world, like North Korea

One thing is simple: Dugina was killed because she was in the car instead of Dugin. Why "send a message" to a core philosophical advisor instead of eliminating that advisor?

Not sure if Putin can read that message. He will leverage the assassination to justify more civilian casualties in Ukraine. Putin, you might be next.

We'll all be eating crickets and losing our jobs when the economy crashes. And when that happens we won't be happy -- and we won't be able to help anyone. I think the main drivers of the UK's impending economic disaster are: the continuing escalation of the Ukraine war; the continuing escalation of sanctions against Russia; the woefully misguided battle against climate change; the national lack of determination to make Brexit work. And the complete and utter lack of leadership.

Could they build the necessary liquefaction plants with the current sanctions?

@@normanlazarus1836 Only if CChina funds it.

@@bwalla50 Hmmmm. I hear that China has its financial problems though.

@@normanlazarus1836 I don't think so, I think that the reality is that the hi tech bits and pieces all come from Western countries. The could build a pipeline to China, India and back BUT if they don't have access to the parts to make it work it's completely useless. Just like the the machinery to make silicon chips comes out of one company in the USA. If you are lucky enough to have this then you are good to go. These high technology pieces are impossible to duplicate IMO. If we devolve into a new world war, it won't take long for this to happen.

And they have to sell at a discount to india

Who's "we"?

reporting for racism. you are basically the racist that Russia talks about. People say there are no nazis yet here you are

So true 🇬🇧

Keep watching that map ?

You said it, pal.

@@samsungtap4183 Absolutely. Since I have VPN I can also watch the hilarious Russian propaganda channels like RT and Sputnik. So I have bookmarked the reports from 7 weeks ago where they said Russia now controlled 30% of Ukraine.. I have also bookmarked the reports from 2 days ago were they claimed that Russia controls 30% of Ukraine. So per Russian propaganda channels, Russia has gained exactly zero in the last 7 weeks. Every small gain they make is counteracted by a small gain that Ukraine makes so at the end of the day Russia is going exactly nowhere. I simply love using the opponents own words against them. :)

Particularly as the security cameras covering the parking where the car was had been disabled for two weeks, so no video of the bomb being planted. Someone very well connected is being very careful, and it is very unlikely to be this pre-packaged Ukrainian Jemima Bond story from the FSB.

The reason I mentioned the not wearing boots at one scene we found part of the memory card in a mobile phone which had been attached to the device. This tiny fragment could easily fit into the treads of your boots and be lost off scene. Instead we found data of all the operators commanders and colleagues leading to mass arrests. Then on their mobiles even more data but I digress.

@@phillee2814 yep, either an inner opposition or may be even more likely, a propaganda show with intention. Putin has proven several times he does not care a dime for lives of people.

Have someone drop off a pack of Lucky Strike 🤣🤣😂😂 (this never gets old)

The SBU probably had information about the MLRS ammo dump and vehicle park at Dzhonkoi thanks to a Ukrainian with a camera, who filmed all the mountains of ammunition and acres of vehicles whilst passing on a train; it's up there on KZfaq. That was a very definite, confirmed target, and is an example of what happens when you invade a country whose citizens don't want you there and actively work against you. NATO is probably watching other railway stations in occupied Ukraine and waiting to pass on co-ordinates to the Ukrainians. Who definitely do not have the ATACMS 200-mile version of HIMARS.

@@PsilocybinCocktail Yeah, you are right they stirred up a hornet's nest invading Ukraine. The Ukrainians probably have a lot of other equipment made in the West that they haven't even needed to use yet. Some weapons that Russia may know nothing about. Russia is at a minimum 10-15 years behind the West technologically and now they can't import parts. I don't know if Russia will survive as a nation. It will take Russia 30-40 years to recover from this debacle. They are practically bankrupt.

IFR, now they have an idea of what "I Fly Railroad" means. Translates to "I got lost ".

Except 2/3rds of the worlds population voted against sanctions. Only idiots in EU/UK signed up to suffer

I get what you're saying but, speaking only for myself, I don't hate Russia or Russians, just Putin and those Russians who act as his enablers. I've met some really nice Russians, both in real life and online - with good governance it could be an awesome place and a global contributor, it's the corruption and douchebaggery that has to go, not Russia itself.

The worlds a pretty big place and most nations don't seem to care one way or the other. Outside of the West you'll hear a very different take on the conflict if you go looking for it

Not quite the world. A large portion though. Its soon to be a failed state, then it will see who is their true friends.

@@tomf4087 Xi's rubbing his hands at the thought, non NATO, even the paper dragon could take a beleaguered Russia, now that would be ironic.

The irony is Putin makes tons of promises that he doesn't keep. Still waiting on those "lightning fast strikes" against any country that supplies weapons to Ukraine.

me thinks you are celebrating a little early, remember poor hillary and all those pathetic democrats that thought it was in the bag, they only won second time round by cheating. if china and iran help russia you won't see the outcome you are expecting...

Next his generals will ask for the delivery of his coffin

you make me laugh. Russia is our only hope but I see the MSM´s are very successfull in giving you the wrong information.

@@yvonnedrogt2010 another russian bot

Ben Hodges is very logical and knowledgeable. He is pretty good to listen to, but so is Petraeus.

Irony? What argument? Based on what?

You need to get out more ;)

@@matoko123 I totally agree with you. It is my intention to visit Sevastopol as soon as it has been liberated.

@@daveinromania I hope you're comfortable in your armchair.

@@matoko123 Comfortable and waiting news of the Bridge.