Comments by "John Walsh" (@johnwalsh4857) on "The Wall Street Journal" channel.

the USA already sent ATACMs with cluster munition warheads, very good at hitting Russian trenches, moving supply convoys, and also Russian artillery parks. this was why the Russian offensive in the east was a flop and very flow since the Russian logistics there got hit hard. Also in the south the Russians experienced artillery and ammo shortage due to ATACM clusters being used vs. Russian artillery parks. it was so bad a Russian general complained of artillery shortage in the south.
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the Russians already used cluster munition a lot in Ukraine, unfortunately for them, they were using mainly old Soviet stock cluster munitions and many failed to explode meanwhile the USA supplied one was much more effective.
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the star streak was very successful in shooting down many Russian aircraft, that is why the Russians like to attack from extreme range, then scoot back to base. this results int he Russian air support being useless. as Russians often miss at that range.
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@trevorsutherland5263 I mean much higher dud rate plus Russian weapons seem to be inaccurate,
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@Torbis its been used on many other places, yah they sent a dozen launchers, a good number of missles.
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@prizefighter8699 so so no???? LOL
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also NATO tank crews are a bit better trained than their Russian counterparts and more disciplined. Combine that with better crew comfort, user friendly handling, better electronics, better weapons designs. Also yah Javelins and NLAWs aka Tank breakeres(Twilight 2000 RPG) can massacre any tank type, for now the USA and NATO have it the Russians and Chinese dont. Russians are good NATO weapons test subjects, and ironically its their fellow Soviet republic Ukraine who is fighting for NATO. haha
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@graze1177 yep as for economy, yah Soviets had huge breadlines due to faltering economy due to the crash in oil prices in the 80s. the USSR economy was much dependent on the sale of oil and natural gas to Western Europe, Ironic as they were their enemies. The rest of the warsaw pact and Soviet allies were a big burden to the Soviet economy as the SOviets were supporting their allies economies and militaries. which really drained their economy even when the SOviets were exploiting their allies natural resources in exchange for aid and weapons. Also the communist centralized command economy really did not work. which led to the collapse of the USSR.
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@dragon.fromindia3235 sorry we dont support Russian meme coins.
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@Percival5 what did you put away in your dusty attacks from WW2 hahaah. that is why Russian weapons so ineffective. hahaaha
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@IndigowarriorMKII yet russia keeps on losing weird.
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Well Taiwan already has very good defenses vs. invasion, their beaches they have been preparing since 1949. Their beaches can easilly be festooned with tank traps and mined , lots of bunkers and emplacements all over the island, most Taiwan males of fighting age have some military training. Taiwanese army is well trained, have modern weapons esp. Javelins. tanks are 70s and 80s vintage , planes are US and French Mirage 2000s and F-16s. with latest upgrades. Navy wise well nothing compared to the Chinese navy . And it takes about 2 hours to reach Taiwan from the mainland by boat during that time the invasion fleet is getting hit by Taiwanese ASMs cruise missles, air strikes. if they manage to get to the beaches they are going to run into fortified beach emplacements. heavy fire from entrenched Taiwanese troops. Also the air and sea will be heavilly contested by the USN and Taiwanese navies and air forces. It will be a military disaster for China. even worse than the Sino Vietnam war of 1979. In fact I would say the Chinese military disaster would be comparable to their failed invasion of the Kinmen Islands in 1949. where a failed Chinese invasion of Kinmen islands resulted in 99 percent loss of the Chinese invasion force. the Chinese invasion force who manage to get back to the mainland managed to do so in a few boats and rafts. The same thing can happen if the Chinese invade. yah how can you go back to the mainland if all your ships are sunk. and your planes shot down. if you swim most likely you are kaput.
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@alanssshh I dont thnk so, Saddam tried to do that to Iran and the KUwaitis failures. Russians trying to do that to Ukraine just inspires them to fight harder,
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@alanssshh hahaha whatever, so many good, not even tested in combat yet. we shall see.
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@alanssshh LOL and China has to send tanks to crush civilians in Henan . how amusing.
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@Bon Soir Russian trolls are poorly paid liars they lie worse than the CIA.
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yah I remember the 70s and 80s where the T-72s was the terror of NATO and yah it was feared no NATO tank can match them. The T-72 fared well in the 1982 Lebanon war, being a match to the Merkava 1, both tanks were about equal in performance in the war, T-72 had the same armor protection better gun. Merkava had much better crew survivability, better optics electronics and better crew training. Both sides lost a bunch of T-72s and Merkavas . However teh T-72 was superior to the other IDF tanks namely the M-60 and M48s.
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Also the T-72 was also fielded in good numbers in Sri Lanka by the Indian army during its 90s intervention in Tamil Nadu, the Tamil Tigers destroyed a good number of T-72s using land mines. and the destroyed Indian T-72s suffered from the jack in the box effect, missing turrets. NOt widely known at the time .
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Interestingly the T-72 went up against the Chieftain sucessfully during the early stages of the Iran Iraq war where T-72s knocked out Iranian Chiefteins suffering no losses. This was due to very poor quality of Iranian tankers who were students just trained for a few days in tank handling. Later Iraqi T-72s went up against Kuwaiti Chieftains in the invasion of Kuwait destroying a unknown number of T-72s and suffering no losses. Many Chiefteins were abandoned after running out of ammo and fuel.
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I think the only western tank that was superior to the T-72 was teh UK Chieftain. in all aspects. In battlefield combat the Chieftein actualy withstood several hits from the 125mm rounds before going down.
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@graze1177 yep I remember that time when we feared the Soviet and warsaw pact tank hordes would sweep across the Fulda Gap. with T-72s and T-80s , we were really aware of the big tank gap NATO had vs. the USSR. and warsaw pact. The only consolation is that NATO air power was of better quality however we were aware the Soviets had large numbers of aircraft. So the use of tactical nukes to stem the tide of the Warsaw pact offensive is a huge possibility.
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I think war might not end in 2025 since the Russians think they are winning and the Ukrainians think they are still strong enough to hold out vs. the Russians. and inflict massive losses on them even though yes the Ukrainians are slowly being ground down. I think Trump will probably not be able to forge a armistice in 2025 so its doubtful that he will aid Ukraine however I do think in this case the Europeans in particular Ukraines allies in the EU , and UK, Canada, Australia will probably step in and dramatically step in and ramp up their support for Ukraine with the possiblity of sending military forces into Ukraine but not fighting the Russians directly, though I do think the Europeans might send in some of their airplanes with volunteer pilots to fight for Ukraine. I think a possible Euro expeditionary force consiting of French, UK, Polish, Italian , Spanish, troops as a special reserve force for UKraine, to prevent a Ukrainian battlefield collapse. which can be a special bargaining chip for Ukraine. also Trump allows Ukraine to purchase weapons and supplies from the USA directly using EU funds. Freezing the battlefield. and continuing the attritional war. What is prompting the Ukrainains to resist is the really odious demands from the Russians for peace which is practically a full surrender of Ukraine. I think Ukraine will fight on and yes the longer the war goes the worse for both sides. hitting the Ukrainians manpower issue making it worse, and hitting the Russians economically , along with the prospect that Russia may have to do a general mobilization will hit his political standing even more. So in this scenario, the Russians may actually say "win" this war by doing a Russian favorable armistice with capturing the Donbass which is Russia's minimum war objective and get to keep say 25 percent of Ukraine. and keep the Putin regime intact and still in power but I think the cost may be so massive that Russia will experience some sort of social economic and political destabilization after the war is over, Yes Russia can spin this one that they won the war, but it will feel that they did not win the war but more like lost the war. I can see the Russians by the time the war ends in this scenario the Russians get 1.5 to 2 million casualties, its military stocks severely depleted. its army despite winning has been humiliated. its economy dangerously in war mode, the Russian elites and population have mostly lost faith in Putin's ability to rule. and while sanctions have been lifted the Europeans are still hostile to the Russians and its not business as usual. Russia starts experiencing high crime rates and even rebellions due to poor economy which starts to hit the Russians hard post war, and hundreds of thousands of Russian war veterans returning to Russia. with high unemployment, more repressive Russian gov as putin starts to respond to instability with crackdowns. cost of rebuilding its conquered territories , cost of rebuilding its damaged industries. as well as rebuillding its economy and military. In short Moscow is not in any mood or stomach to do another war and focuses on rebuild. Ukraine on the other hand may have lost the war but it still has control of 75 percent of the country., and its being rebuilt with hundreds of billions of USD in aid from the Europeans and their allies. Also Ukraine gets security guarantees from UK France and other Euro nations. also the Ukrainians rapidly rebuild. with the view of round 2 with Russia in the future. The Ukrainians may have lost the war but will have performed well above expectations. and have managed to get out of this war with a stable gov. the Russians may have won the war but have gotten a growing SOcial economic and political instability post war. and while Putin may want to finish the job and still feels threatened with a possibly future resurgent Ukraine , he does not have the stomach to do so. and when Putin there might be destabilization in Russia . which may trigger a civli war.
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If I stake anything I only do it on binance and I keep my ears open, any signs of trouble I withdraw everything to my ledger or other wallets.
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and meanwhile the Ukr air force is still alive and fighting, and Ukrs are using storm shadows to hit ammo dumps, command posts. .
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@Torbis so they say.
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@hatchxable and the Russians are also commiting the most war crimes who cares huh
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@ITube4RealFun and the Russians are still struggling to fight 90s tech being sent to Ukraine how amusing.
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@GaelicSurfer in your nightmares, in reality Russia is losing, when you wake up , Russia is going to the time of troubles 2.0
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@Ksins1 sorry USA is much more economically stable than Russia, and Russia will have an economic collapse after the war is over, in fact, millions of Russians will run to the west to escape the horror that will come ot Russia after the war.
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@dennisyoung7363 dont be a buffoon look at the map
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@jbninjah1776 time to go to sleep ivan
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