Day 287.
Today, we discuss the updates from Ukraine and around the world, and with our History Correspondent Daniel Capurro, look at the invasion of Ukraine in the light of the Second World War.
Contributors:
David Knowles (Host). @DJKnowles22 on Twitter.
Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on Twitter.
Venetia Rainey (Assistant Foreign Editor). @VenetiaRainey on Twitter.
Daniel Capurro (History Correspondent & Senior Reporter). @CapurrodDaniel on Twitter.
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Awesome podcasts.
Excellent content, really good analysis.
System going well please send more meat
Was the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki worth it? We will never know for sure. War is always full of imponderables, or rather perhaps, questions for which there is no definitive answer. But the question always brings to my mind one of my favorite bumper stickers which reads 'If there had been no Pearl Harbor, there would have been no Hiroshima."
Russia must be stop. The EU and the west and Nato must Punish Russia. so they think twice about starting another War.
Please understand something, Putin has never shown strategic thinking in anything he has ever done. He has shown tactical thinking, not even really strong operational thinking. The myth created, the illusion of him being a strategic thinker, is a propaganda gimmick. As an aside it is often the case, in fact almost universally the case that a tactical thinker will beat a strategic thinker in the political arena simply because so much of what happens is at a what we would call personal or interpersonal level. But if a strategic thinker knows that and realizes he's fighting a tactical thinker they will bide their time. As such the next replacement for the leadership of Russia will in fact be a strategic thinker. None of the ones who are currently in the news and are in our faces are strategic thinkers. So start profiling the ones who are behind the scenes or are biding their time, essentially the quiet ones, or who have made very little waves in the last decade
I thought of the Dolittle Raid when I hear of the drone strikes, too.
34:10 Pure Bullshit about American ships that served in WW2 all being ordered before Pearl Harbor, as are his other nagativities about how long it takes to ramp up. Typical British timidity. The US built 99 escort carriers ALONE (never mind submarines, planes, tanks, and everything else) by the end of the war. All were ordered AFTER Pearl Harbor, and all were technically complex for the era. Sorry, but all of the recent politically agendized history distortion (especially in America) grates on one's nerves after a while.
I would disagree that the US did not bring any military ships online during WWII that were not ordered before 1941. One example would be the escort carriers that were liberty ships converted to aircraft carriers. These made a huge difference in the Pacific.
if they bomb a city it is a crime, if we bomb a city it is controversial. So British
Wouldn't it be a good idea for USA industry to expand and start new production NOW? Better now than too late!
What about the carpet bombing of Tokyo?
2 atomic bombs. What was the justification for the second atomic bomb?
Who blew up Nord Stream?
Good comment Francis!!!😢
The Russian is well and truly a primitive beast.
Wonderful channel
If I may take issue, I do not think the importance of this attack on Russian territory can be overemphasized. BFT. How the United States allows Saudi Arabia to use American weapons to slaughter Yemeni citizens, but won't allow Ukraine to strike even into Crimea is an example of the world kowtowing to Russia. Now Biden celebrates a prisoner exchange of a basketball player for a weapons dealer. Hopefully now Russia will stop using their S300's for killing civilians in Ukraine since they must defend their own territory.
Why Bakhmut? Is this a political objective for Prighozin – the Wagner leader? Is this VVP choosing a successor and making some sort of pact with Wagner? Tying their futures together. It's bizarre.
Like many viewers we've seen map after map, learned the geography of Ukraine. It's so odd that Bakhmut would be the place where Russia would try to break through or capture. Is Bakhmut a way to pin Ukrainian resources and prevent some sort of Ukrainian winter offensive? We don't see military brilliance from Russia, but we know they aren't as naive as some of the information makes them seem. Ukrainians are suffering heavy losses as well but it won't change the strategic picture if Russia throws away 10,000 soldiers.
Good comparisons made between the Doolittle Raid and Ukraine's strikes at the planes that have been taking out their infrastructure. I think we all agree Ukraine has the right. A state of war exists between the two countries.
Listening in from the west coast of Canada.
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Ads every two minutes!!!!
No American tax payer money for ukraine
Russian did not become stupid, they were born stupid.
Too many commercials and too long….
Ukraine on 🔥 Oliver Stone, RT Peter Lavelle Crosstalk. IEargrey with Eva Bartlett, The Duran, George Galloway MOATS with Scott Ritter-Richard Medhurst. CGTN Warmongerers Legacy, Residential Killings.
Correction to the intro. It is UK, EU and US sanctions and the blowing up Nord Stream gas pipelines that have 'destabilised energy markets', not Putins invasion of Ukraine.
EU and UK will get through the winter with existing gas supplies, as industries across the EU and UK are cutting back, or closing down as energy is now too expensive after EU and UK sanctions against the largest supplier of commodities on the planet. This means less jobs and more poverty for western Europe.
‘Single use’ is the way Russian commanders refer to mobilised soldiers at the front
Instead of comparing the Ukraine war to WWII, how about comparing it to the more recent and relevant to today's geopolitical situation Iraq war? The US and UK trumpeted 'Shock and Awe' bombing campaign was targetted at civilian infrastructure at the BEGINNING of the war. Iraq civilian infrastructure has not recovered to this day.
Lessons from the Vietnam War. Ukraine 2022 = South Vietnam 1970.
The lessons that Germans were given by Russia, has been lost on US Oligarchs attempts to exploit European Consumers with overpriced LNG?