Retired colonel says this factor gives an advantage to Russia

Retired US Air Force Col. Cedric Leighton explains the factors that could be contributing to advantages for Russia in the war in Ukraine. #CNN #News

[admir]

Someone is forgetting that NATO has been training and equipping Ukraine from 2014, until today.

[uptowndisco]

All this training could have started a year ago in anticipation of future needs ?

[donsullivan]

Could it be that behind the scenes. We’ve already been training the Ukrainian pilots for awhile. In War time deception is a key element. Is that even possible now days?

[GrigVan]

The war in Yugoslavia in the 90s, the war in Iraq in the 2000s. Wars in Africa. The US has been constantly at war in its history. And why didn't the world impose sanctions? Double standards!

[williamgatheist]

How does the world declare this war as" Crimes Against Humanity" and not get directly involved? My guess would be, we are all now committing crimes against humanity by allowing this to continue!

[thepatriot]

Beware do not feed the trolls in comments section.

[pal]

"the longer the war goes on, the.greater the advantage to Russia".
Announcer: "Let me ask you a question.. Does a longer war benefit Vladimir Putin ? "

Journalists are becoming increasingly more perceptive

[crypto-dog]

In switching from the M60 to the M1 Abrams back in the early 1990’s, we initially took Three weeks of intensive training for functionality and implementation of the weapons system. As well the maintenance side also took an initial Three weeks. I came from being a light wheel vehicle mechanic to being a recovery and maintenance specialist on the M1 in the same amount of time. From a maintenance standpoint, if you have basic mechanical knowledge and can read it’s a non-issue.

[jaygibson]

Literally not one word of this actually happened.

[epuchildren]

Hindsight is 20/20, but what we have now is a sticky situation for Russia with no way forward or backward.

[lamina]

I just reviewed videos of the arrival of A10 Warthogs (US combat military support aircraft) for NATO in Poland. Why not start training Ukrainian pilots on this platform with the longer term objective of training them to fly/use F15's?

[unifiedvision]

I love how somehow these Republicans suddenly are getting all hawkish, where were they months ago?

[RamblinJer]

Training Ukrainians on F16's now is the only thing I've ever agreed with Lindsey Graham about. We should train them on every piece of equipment which could potentially be sent.

[Cohowarren]

Sounds like committee meetings I used to go to... ok follow up next week....ok lets look at that next week... we have a person coming in next week.. oh its 2 weeks.... ok next week...

[jeffjr]

Time is the most precious tangible resource on the battlefield.. right up there with information..

[timothykatende]

What happened to the himars that were game changers?

[josephhuether]

As I listen to this stuff I think, people really need to be realistic. Training, airfields, logistics…this stuff doesn’t happen overnight and that doesn’t even include development of offensive war plans that cannot be realistically be done until you know what recourses (equipment) you will have. I foresee Ukraine running a painful holding action against Russia throughout 2023 while they prepare for a full offensive is year from now at which time Europe will be near-100% off Russian fossil fuels.
It is worth noting that while the USSR was being utterly hammered by Germany from June 1941 until the tide started to really turn in February 1943, Stalin was understandably clamoring for USA and Great Britain to invade France to open a true Western front and relieve pressure on the East. They just weren’t ready. Of course USSR wasn’t “ready” either but this was an existential crisis and they had no choice but to hurl millions of soldiers into the Eastern front maelstrom. Stalin thought Churchill and Roosevelt should respond in kind in the West… not realizing that the USA and Great Britain were nominal democracies and that committing millions of casualties in an ill-fated invasion would be political suicide.
My point is that there is a political side to this that must be acknowledged.

[alanccvoo]

How long you need to poke the bear before it decides mauling is the only solution

[Chexsum]

we need to push the line to whole of russia and make them know putin to blame

[logisticssupportunit]

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