⚠️General Ben Hodges: Is it still possible for Ukraine to win? / Interview
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- Lieutenant General (Retired) #BenHodges, the former Commanding General of #USArmy Europe, granted an #interview to #Belsat TV host #SiarheiPelesa.
00:00 What are possible scenarios for #Ukraine after receiving aid packages from the allies?
01:36 Is the #USA prepared to fulfill the role of the world leader?
03:51 Is it still possible for Ukraine to win the #war?
05:48 About Ukraine's lack of ammunition
07:13 #Belarus and Ukraine are the same battlefield
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00:00 What are possible scenarios for #Ukraine after receiving aid packages from the allies?
01:36 Is the #USA prepared to fulfill the role of the world leader?
03:51 Is it still possible for Ukraine to win the #war?
05:48 About Ukraine's lack of ammunition
07:13 #Belarus and Ukraine are the same battlefield
Ben Hodges were making false assumptions about conflict in Ukraine during last 2 years. Is this new asumption is an exception?
@@gfan83 He is singing a new tune. Maybe Putin cut his allowance.
Who has voted for the usa to be world leader no one.The usa are the ones trying to control the world with 800MILITARY BASES around the 11 nuclear powered aircraft carriers all for thier global corporate interests of the usa .not for the well being of the world's people
The only factor determining if Ukraine wins or doesn’t is how much assistance they receive. So if Ukraine falls the only people we have to blame after the Russians is ourselves
I thought it depended a lot on the number of soldiers mobilised...
That's not the very least true. Ukraine will win in either case, but we can help them win fast and decisively. And we must. Else this will turn out to a very long and very bloody war that involves many European countries besides Ukraine. But Ukraine will win no matter what.
@@rursus8354
Ukraine will lose .The only win it might be able to claim is the entire Ukraine was not taken over .The Ukraine , Nato , American plan was to just hold and contain and not to win . This is a costly mistake and not even a decent military plan but one for failure .The plan was never to win this from the start and is a failure form the start . 2 years and still the cry is for MORE MORE MORE .Never ending until the money flow stops to Ukraine .Then the agreement will be made and Russia will keep its enclaves and more . This is how this will end . Ukraine will claim we have won but the reality is they have lost .They lost territory period . In the End Ukraine will have lost just more than territory but losses of hundreds of thousands of men and mass devastation of there lands . Do not be fooled my media and the lie Ukraine is winning as it will make you look really really bad when the truth gets to those that continue to believe the lies . The
United States and Nato will have learned a bad lesson here , the same in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq . The military industrial complex is alive and very productive with business now . Others deaths make them grow even more !
Europe has been enjoying protection via our tax dollars for too long. Europe has to stand up and help shoulder the load
All the blame is on Ukraine civil and military leadership incompetence.
8 months unforgivable
100,000 DEAD from Fentanyl, 4-6 MILLION over the border, Inflation, thats unforgivable. NATO having not complied with its obligations for 50 years, UNFORGIVABLE. Try working on that stuff.
They shouldn't be getting anything at all.
Why should we foot the bill for a war on a different continent when the wheels are falling off in our own countries?
I see so many homeless people around lately, house prices are TWICE what they were a couple years back, our own military is lacking the funding to be adequate and yet we're funding someone else's military instead ? 🤔
There's growing radical sects within our society from BLM to Pro-h*mas fundementalists to communists threatening to overthrow the rich and turn us into an autocratic freedomless dictatorship 🤷
We started this, we then added fuel to the fire.
Many young men and many civilians are dead because of it.
The least we can do now is seek out peace negotiations and admit we were wrong.
Of course the political class won't do that as to back down would confirm that they wasted peoples lives for nothing, all in vain...and that would be the end of their careers 😐
They can't be seen taking a backwards step, and neither can Russians or Israelis or Palestinians.
So much bravado.
There’s a sizeable number of Republicans who were straight up bought off by Russia.
Yeah. Thanks, Johnson.
@@E3ECO What does Johnson have to do with this?
-i only wish we had followed what Ben Hodges had been saying all along (ATACMS should have been given long ago)
-God Bless Him
I love this Man! So intelligent , I wish he was in charge of the fight against USSR!
Typical retired US General that has been hired by the Mainstream Media to lie. There is a shortage of men in Ukraine, more than half of million of its citizens have been killed so that the US Military Industrial Complex can make huge profits. Most people are not ware of the real reason why Russia invaded Ukraine, all they wanted was for Ukraine not to be part of NATO. The US wouldn't like to have Russia or Chinese military bases on the other side of its southern border in Mexico. Stop this madness.
he is heavily financed by the conplex mate. he even laid it out
@@cedricvogt2576 but look at all the russians neutralized since we gave Ukraine atacms!!!! 😎
@@tvwatcher1883 hailed by Western media as the game changer but statistically speaking they dont really make a difference. I highly doubt that they are effective, especially as Russia has become stronger than they ever were through this war and it adapts. It by now has neutralized most of the atacams that were shot over crimea the last days… really dont be fooled by western media.. they want u believe ukraine stands a chance.. the only thing that happens is that Ukrainian people wont survive as long as we deliver weapons and we also risk a bigger escalation. Suuper stupid. Also, the US told Ukraine not to attack Russian oil fields anymore.. everyone is pro ukraine until their own pockets beginn to bleed.
Let's not confuse the audience - let's call a spade a spade. It wasn't Congress delaying the Ukraine deal, it was the repuglicans side not passing the vote. They were doing the orange Mussolini bidding.
Absolutely, and now even Johnson is pretending to support Ukraine….where was this support 7mos ago?
@@GeraldBeagan-ee6seJohnson gets it finally. Just like Kevin.
I'm so over the American system of government at the moment. And how someone who isn't even a currently elected representative is controlling a big slice of the government.
@@geradkavanagh8240 Maybe it is time to change the government from a Federal system to a Parliamentary system.
No it was about securing Southern border which Biden refuses to do
The proxy war is lost !!
I like listening to Ben - i haven’t heard much about the kidnapped children - I’m glad he mentioned them . I do not want them end up to be forgotten ! ❤
My thoughts EXACTLY!
Nobody ever mentions them!
That was bull crap, no children were kidnapped in Ukraine, it was a total lie. That is why you do not hear about it anymore.
They weren’t kidnapped they were moved to safe area. During WW2 Britain moved children from London which was being bombed to safe areas, but was described as kidnapped
Moved far from war. Is good!
@@johnm7267 FYI the worst type of person on this planet is a stupid confident one.
Well said, Lieutenant General Ben Hodges.
Disillusioned Western Warmonger
How it became to be what it is
Zionist-US Empire and complete NAVO underestimated Russia
Seems the self declared chosen ones cannot accept after all whole humanity despite them
To be an enemy of American can be dangerous , but to be a friend is fatal. Kissinger
South Vietnam learned that being a friend of Kissinger was fatal. Peace with honor and here you go Ho.
Afghan government also learnt that
@@abhinavdeepsinha3036 the whole word needs to learn that
So what's the alternative? Be a friend of Russia and China and fall prey to authoritaniasm, forget about individual freedoms, lose a hundred years of progress?
In a world where even war criminals are given Nobel prizes: what do you expect?
I always enjoy listening to this man.
He is always to the point, and clarifies complex situations
As a child I used to love hearing bed time fairytales . Looks like you still believe in fairytales so that explains why you love listening to this clown.😂
Thank you Gen. Hodges.
Slava Ukraine from Hungary. Glory to the heroes of Ukraine. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
They are fighting for our freedom too.
Freedom? lol They are fighting for Western degeneracy & filth! Russia is fighting for traditional Western values.
Typical retired US General that has been hired by the Mainstream Media to lie. There is a shortage of men in Ukraine, more than half of million of its citizens have been killed so that the US Military Industrial Complex can make huge profits. Most people are not ware of the real reason why Russia invaded Ukraine, all they wanted was for Ukraine not to be part of NATO. The US wouldn't like to have Russia or Chinese military bases on the other side of its southern border in Mexico. Stop this madness.
Bollocks
Yes you need to be on guard vs your putinist prime minister😢
Well the enemy sits in Budapest also
I am with the Canadian Major on this one, and I will critique Gen Hodges. The answer to Ukraine is to a large extent not Crimea, as he says. It is in fact Belarus. It should already be under more political economic and military pressure, provisionally for it's actions in direct support of the invasion of Ukraine, and since, and should be declared a party to the conflict. In that context, much larger forces should be moved to the NATO borders with Belarus, or pointed in those directions, specifically the Baltic borders and the Polish border, as a purely strategic move, given that those borders are the analog of what the Donbas and Crimea are to Ukraine. The purpose would be to make the Lukashenko regime sweat out their Russian alliance, and for our part make a visual sign of support for Belarusian people's aspiration's, what ever they maybe (possibly just a free and fair election they have been denied for so long). In other words stick it to Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko. I would say also that our goal is not just that Ukraine win, it is the reform of the Russian Federation as an instrument of a military politico-economic colonial power that is Russia and that affects all of the entrapped nations from Belarus to Manchuria. Russia must start the reform ... as part of any comprehensive solution.
This is a thought that has not been part of the discourse and should be. Belarus has been given too much of a pass for what is active participation with Putin's schemes.
@williamlavallee8916 Well stated. I contacted the ISW and presented some "opinions" on what russia was doing in Belarus. In one of my assessments I gave too much credit to russia in the intelligence dept in thinking the rift between putin and his "chef" was simply a setup/ruse and his "chef" was actually gong to Belarus to start another front to go south, I was wrong.
Still, my assessments that Belarus is a russian step off point to eventually push south is still valid.
i don't know if opening new fronts is such a good idea.. ukraine just did that recently after sending in those sketchy russian freedom legion dudes to carry out raids across the border into russia for a second time in less than a year, and other than just some propaganda nonsense and a few headlines here and there and a bunch of doggy brigade people on the internet talking about "belgorod people's republic" and showing off, ukraine just ended up getting themselves a new axis of attack from the russians. in a place where they attacked without even bothering to first build defensive positions because the money that was supposed to go towards installing dragon's teeth and mines and digging trenches was pocketed by some local officials that are probably now enjoying a new yacht or some mansion in florida courtesy of our tax dollars. there's been plenty of interviews with ukrainian soldiers talking about how those crooks and their incompetent commanders totally betrayed them and how they ended up having to dig trenches themselves by hand with their own shovels while simultaneously fighting the russians because corrupt officials supposedly forgot to build those defenses or dug the trenches in random locations that had absolutely nothing to do with the terrain or any geographical features that would make the area easier to defend. officials that signed off on the fortifications as supposedly being solid, including zelensky that had tons of propaganda pieces filmed of himself being shown supposedly "personally inspecting" the defenses and talking about how great they were, only for everyone to find out that it was made up and that they didn't even exist. heck, i even remember within probably the last month he had an interview with one of the western mainstream media organizations where they sat down for the interview right next to one of those supposedly newly-built trenches that were supposed to be part of a network of over 1000 miles of fortifications..
so yeah, big big problems with corruption in ukraine and with manpower shortages and everything. so i don't think escalating with belarus would be a very smart move here. remember, the border with belarus is currently totally quiet, just like the border with russia was in northern ukraine before these latest adventures by those sketchy russian freedom legion people that ukraine sent in to "deny putin the victory before the election" or whatever nonsense and generally just push into random unknown russian villages and attempt to sow chaos in russia in order to mess with vlad's elections. and now the corrupt officials are complaining about how supposedly nearly two years wasn't enough to build defensive lines and how they couldn't get close enough to the border to build proper defenses because russia was shelling them. but russia didn't have a large force out there until last summer when they were forced to redeploy troops out there after the first russian freedom legion adventure that came right on the heels of the ukrainian offensive, so they basically caused the situation out there. they're the reason that russia has a large presence in the area. the northern border with russia wasn't heavily militarized and filled with a huge defensive line on the russian side until ukraine decided to send those guys in to attack out there.
and now we're suggesting that our western troops should be moved to escalate things even further and start stuff with belarus? why? belarus hasn't been involved, they've stayed out of this war since the beginning and the only troops that russia has out there are involved in training the military in belarus and that kind of stuff. they're not shelling ukraine from belarus or launching raids across the border from belarus.. but what do you think happens if we start playing tough and attempting to mess with belarus? russia is just gonna send troops out there, and it's gonna give the dictator from belarus an excuse to align himself with russia even more closely and perhaps even get his military involved in the war.. so why open up a new front and add another few hundred miles to the front when ukraine is currently struggling and can barely handle the already-existing front? just doesn't make sense to me.. it seems like the total opposite, that people should be praying that belarus stays out of it and continues their policy of not getting involved in the conflict..
I think Putin is waiting for the US Election. If trumps wins, Putin wins.
stop dreaming. Russia is always with Belarus and with Russia in Belarus, nato won't dare
I love listening & being inspired by Gen. Hodges. He is correct-boils down to political will.
political idiots or just bought totally with money, U.S. is number one terrorist country in the world
General, and BTW I'm a retired Petty Officer, it seems to me that the BEE in Congress's bonnet is "How to do this without getting any on us?"
Which is kind of too late. Do we, or Do we NOT live up to our promised obligations? And yet, Ukraine is doing excellent work in advanced weapons, I have an impression that their home grown military technology is going to be more impressive than anyone else's some day (and soon). They have already pushed the boundaries of UAV tech all the way to the frontier and beyond with land, sea, and air ROV's including supply and EVAC vehicles. I 💝 Ukraine
Do you really believe this
Most of Ukraine UAV are
"Made in China"
There is not any Fab near Ukraine
I've been quietly watching the Ukrainian use of small drone warfare. They are the undisputable leaders in it now. Unfortunately, the Russians are starting to catch up.
No, you don’t live up to your promises. Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, Syria, Kurds, etc, etc. With friends like the USA countries don’t need enemies.
@@user-xo5ul1kg8y Well... They will learn this...
@@user-xo5ul1kg8y Random account name, only 5 month old, no country of origin = 99,99% a troll account! You Ruzzkis is getting lazy! 😂
I'm afraid this, not just UA but world history, will depend on what happens in November. Incredible situation.
Not necessarily. We have been through worse. The worst thing would be if trump wins and the US turns its back on democracy and embraces authoritarianism and then sends help to Russia.
If the US sides with Russia then things are dire.
@@marisabenson1222 I don't think Trump could directly help Russia, but he could stop help to Ukraine. To support Russia he would have to do lots of authoritarian adjustments back home. Which I think he is more than willing to do, but it would take time
No chance of that happening.
you mean the guy who lost last time?
@@marisabenson1222 Why should US send help to Russia ? Never. Trump would end the war as to call Zelensky to the negotiation table - that's it !
Hes right on so many levels.
The USA n germany etc need clarity of vision a common self interest in how to defeat russia unilaterally comprehensively with a clearly defined endgame/goal shared with ukraine.
keep dreaming buddy. no one is defeating Russia
Another intellectually challenged war monger, and no doubt thousands of miles from the front.
Disillusioned Western Warmonger
How it became to be what it is
Zionist-US Empire and complete NAVO underestimated Russia
Seems the self declared chosen ones cannot accept after all whole humanity despite them
@@russiandude6454The biggest threat facing Russia is the Russian government themselves. It doesn't take a scholarly mind to view Russia's past military 'sucesses' as what they are: Russian ineptitude in fighting wars. The Russian military; due to a multitude of factors including basic geography, has never been able to sucessfully defend the russian homeland without incurring thousands of losses. The entire military history of Russia was to retreat and overextend their enemies supply lines and wait for winter to set in. Russia has never relied on indigenous industrial capacity, even during the soviet union; Russia still relied on Ukraine to develop and produce their equipment.
1856 Crimean War, Russia faced a coalition and lost, 1908 Russo Japanese War, Russia faced Japan and got decimated, 1914 Tsarist Russia Militarily collapsed and Germanic Lenin caused a revolution. 1944 Soviets losing 20,000,000+ troops only able to get to Berlin because of American Lend Lease giving Soviets, 600,000+ trucks, entire factories, entire trains, tanks, and planes.
2024 Russia is absolutely no different, expect the majority of russians have drug resistant tuberculosis, has the higest rates of abortion in the world (13 babies killed for every 10 born) the average age of skilled labour is 55. Russia is on it's way out, and even if Russia captured Ukraine it wouldn't be anything resembling a victory.
You saw what happened when America inherited Iraq after destroying it's government and rebuilding it's nation, it did not go well and that was with America's strength. Russia has never done what america has in it's entire history. Russia does not have the logistical bandwidth to rebuild the territory it already has captured let alone the entirety of Ukraine.
There is a famous song from the 1850s called MacDermott's war song, in it there are some relevant lyrics to this day:
"The Dogs of War" are loose and the rugged Russian Bear,
Full bent on blood and robbery, has crawl'd out of his lair;
It seems a thrashing now and then, will never help to tame
That brute, and so he's out upon the "same old game."
The Lion did his best to find him some excuse
To crawl back to his den again, all efforts were no use;
He hunger'd for his victim, he's pleased when blood is shed,
But let us hope his crimes may all recoil on his own head.
We don't want to fight but by jingo if we do,
We've got the ships, we've got the men, and got the money too!
We've fought the Bear before and while we're Britons true
The Russians shall not have Constantinople.
Change the last line to 'The Russians shall not the land of Ukraine!'
clarity of vision and follow through ! indeed.
Thank you for this interview! Gen. (Ret) Ben Hodges is amazing!
Thank you for watching!
needs to run for prez
In fact, he is deluded.
And he’s a democrat
@@AstroSardaukarsays a Kremlin troll 🥔
Putin just made an unscheduled flight to Belarus after deposing a general in his military involved with Belarus. Something is coming to a head there right now as we speak, and yes, russian tanks have been observed massing on the Belarusian border.
If protests were to break out in Georgia at the same time as protests by the people of Belarus, russia would be spread too thinly to cope. But the Soviet legacy + alcohol + putin’s kgb violent brutality has made people abject and passive.
Can they kick it?
Don't worry. Putin is winning.
They have no other choice.
Sounds like cope
How do you know it was unscheduled?
European leaders are the dumbest leaders of all in this planet.
They always believe russia will not and never wage war against Europe even if such war has long been started. Fool EU leaders.
FYI - Belsat is a TV channel funded by Govt of Poland and it is broadcasting from Warsaw. It is the only real information lifeline being broadcast into Belarus.
It's propaganda, like every other channel on both sides
It is difficult to find unvarnished information on conventional platforms. @@PatRiarchy-qw6cp
@@PatRiarchy-qw6cp If we accept both are to some degree propaganda, which one do you think is closer to the truth?
@@PatRiarchy-qw6cp no it is nor
Lt Gen Ben Hodges is an insightful, articulate and balanced observer who tells it like it is. I hope the White House listens to him and more importantly, acts on it! Well said sir 🫡
Whoa, are you saying Joe Biden isn't the brightest international strategist we have, because he would stubbornly disagree. He's stubborn and wants America to speak Spanish.
😅😅😅. If you listen some previous interviews he gave, ukrainians should be parading in red square by now.
Great Interview Siarhei! Thanks! Always look forward listening to General Ben Hodges logical reasoning.
Keep speaking the truth General someone has to !😊
I very much doubt that European leaders think Belarus is of no consequence in this conflict. Indeed, so far they have managed to scare Lukashenko into sitting on his hands, apart from allowing Russian forces to transit his country in the initial invasion.
Ukraine certainly understands that Belarus could be a conduit for Russian troops again, or even use their own forces to support Russia.
Just because there are no headlines doesn't mean no one is making plans.
Another delusion, Lukashenko has no option because they have obligation based on the CSTO(Collective Security Treaty Organization).
Run for president!
Well you already have one dumb sh@t in there at the minute. Swapping like 4 like seems like a plan
It was pleasure to hear your opinion on actual situation in Ukraine and arround. Thank you for your time. Take care and take some rest. 👍💗
It is less dangerous if Ukraine fights with Russia than NATO.
This conflict must stay in Ukraine and the western allies must give all support it needs.
People seem to be mistaken Ukraine buys these weapons on loan so the longer the allies make the war last the more money they make including America
Thanks for repeating a complete bullshit propaganda point, mr. Bot.
@@TaiganTundra As if they would spend billions of dollars in research to argue with you
@@James-kv6kb I know the bots never reply, the comment is meant for real people.
@@TaiganTundra you wouldn't know if you're talking to Mary Poppins the king of England or R2D2 lol generation s are so excited about robots out to get them grow up , which is something a robot wouldn't say because they're trying to dumb you down .
🇺🇦❤💪🇬🇧👍💪❤🇺🇦
Who is this genius peddling this twaddle???
It's foolish to underestimate the self-serving mindset of China & India. The world's most populous nations are also among the poorest, and both will readily abandon any attempts at international cooperation if opportunity presents.
Neither can be regarded as a reliable partner.
They both also get 70-80 of their export income from trade with the west. They are rational and do not want to endanger that.
Everybody is self serving. Ukraine is being supported for european security interests and to deter china in taiwan. No righteous charity being done by the west. Same rights are available to other countries also.
At least they don't blow up their partner's pipelines.
It’s foolish to underestimate the self-serving mindset of retired generals who are dependent upon the future employment prospect of the neocon forever war establishment and their buddies in the military industrial complex to supplement their military pension…
India and China AMONG THE POOREST? Are you completely disconnected from reality? China ranks 1st in GDP and India 3rd...
The neighbouring nations should be able to negate incoming aerial hazards into Ukraine from Russia. When Ukrainian skies are safer Ukrainians can fight and more people will join. It may also be possible to have a contingency from nations united of troops that can provide medical assistance and training which will also increase confidence in the Ukrainian soldiers.
Duh
If only leaders had the will. But they don't. Too busy looking for personal and party advantage to care about freedom and democracy.
Never happen
Bro...
Who will join? You?
The hypocrisy is astounding
US remember the Budapest Agreement. Thank you Mr. Hodges for your comments and please talk some sense to President Biden about these unfair restrictions for Ukraine to use their weapons inside Russia. Run for President 🙏🇺🇦💙💛💕❤️🇨🇦
It was a memo signed by Bill Clinton. It had no teeth.
baloney, lovers of more deaths reside here
Unfair? Not to anyone who doesn't want WW3
Apologies for appearing picky but it was called the *Budapest Memorandum.* Then President Clinton had the wording watered down to where it wouldn't be such a binding commitment hence the name. I agree with the rest of your comment. 👍👍
The Budapest agreement was made nullified when ukraine removed nuetrality from thier constitution was it usa pressure that made them do it
Much respect to you Ben.
Cda.
Listening to this makes me seriously concerned because the demonstrated lack of realism is shocking. The Ukraine finds itself in this unpleasant situation because of the unwillingness of the West to negotiate a new European peace order with Russia for almost 3 decades! And so the West continued to expand its sphere of influence and security at the cost of its Russian partner. Secondly, Ukraine hasn't got the weapons quickly enough, apparently because of slow decision making processes in the West, but I argue, it was because of non-availability as simply the Western military industrial complex couldn't keep up with the demand, not being used to high intensity wars of attrition. Latter is actually the final nail into the coffin for the Western expansion plans, as there's no way to defeat Russia with the lack of industrial potential that was exposed throughout the past two years. It will take years for the West (for Europe) to catch up, by the way a project that is doomed to fail already now with Europe being cut-off from major commodities suppliers with Russia in first place and Africa/Middle-East second, where one country after the other is turning its back to the West (anyone surprised after all these centuries of exploitation?). And even IF somehow, by a miracle, the West could turn the tides in conventional military warfare (and this is really only hypothetical), people like Hodges and the intellectual high-flyers in Europe seem to forget they are at war with the greatest nuclear power on the planet. There's absolutely no way for a military victory. For Europe and Russia it's a lose/lose scenario in every way imaginable. The US however, has made trillions out of this and now having a new bitch called Europe, that is being milked as if there was no tomorrow. And to really secure its European quasi monopoly, the US has blown up the Nordstream pipelines. The biggest loser really is the European so called "elite" that was take on a ride by the US. Actually the behavior and policy of most of the European govs is completely incomprehensible.
General Ben has got to be one of the best generals/commentators, anywhere
I find it hilarious Americans are so good at talking about war but not actually winning them
Lol it doesn’t say much for the rest of the generals then. This guy is a talking head for the neocon establishment and their buddies in the industrial military complex because that’s where his future employment is going to come from.
@@James-kv6kb ...You do realize America has never lost a war, right? Not even the conflicts that weren't declared war. The closest would be Vietnam, but the US actually did win that. All goals achieved, got a treaty restoring the borders and ending the fighting. The only reason the US left was that the South Vietnamese government demanded it and was invaded again two years later. And that is despite the fact that, in every conflict, the government has tied the military's hands and heavily restrained what it's allowed to do and use and when and where.
The Georgian Dream has become a nightmare.
.Nov '23 - progressing smoothly to EU accession \\
May'24 - Ivanishvili & other poliiticians turn into russian zombies either by russian corruption or economic self-interest
----- yep that is a zombie apocalypse nightmare
its the other way around.. and in a slightly longer timeline, now the dream still has elements of nightmares, but its getting better still.
Nightmare is their whole history under influence of russia imperialism .
Nightmare for whom?
The US and the EU should be placing a tender for 10 million artillery shells each to the arms manufacturers of the world at a guaranteed price per shell. This would give industry the certainty to invest in new plant facilities and factories, reduce unemployment, reduce inflation, and strengthen the respective currencies of any country that chose to participate. It would convince Putin to sue for peace, as his whole bet is on the west giving up support of Ukraine from war fatigue. Once he realises the west is planning on 20 million shells a year to be supplied indefinitely by western manufacturers, that's game over. Plus I would love to see the look on his face when China bids for a part of the tender.
I wish Ben would have been president for the last 8 years...
This would not have happened this way..
I can smell the uranium on his breath.
He has never been right in this war. A year ago he was, unlike Mark Milley, a strong believer in the Summer Offensive, a year before he believed the Russians would run out of ammunition soon. Underestimating the enemy in war is not something I want to see from a professional soldier, much less a president.
No things wouldn't have happened this way.
Instead we would have been living in a radioactive paradise.
@@Pierluigi_Di_Lorenzo Milley made predictions based on his own inaction and failure to supply Ukraine with the weapons the American boys get.
Trump was president in 4 of the last 8 years and no new wars on his watch. Bring him back.
General Ben Hodges should be brought into the Whitehouse as a special advisor and given the job of whipping the Capitol into doing what is right.
The Capitol is long past shame or embarrassment. This isn't their first crooked rodeo.
No thanks. I prefer not to start WW3
He is delusional.
Its America that doesn't realize what it is poking
Right you are, America and Europe should just lean back and enjoy the show. Russia is about to ruin themselves without any help from outside anyway🙄
Great Video Ben, thanks for sharing
Nicely said Ben, a good Video Belsat.
Thank you for watching!
The U. S. needs politicians like this man .
He needs to sell his soul to sponsors first, to take part in system in place in US.
They would never get past the primaries. To win in politics one needs money, and to get money one has to make deals with donors that aren't good for the nation but good for the donors.
No thanks. He's a warmonger
I wish he would stand for Congress.
Politicians have a broader perspective and broader interests than military men like Hodges.
He is powerful online General ,though detached from the reality on the ground,powerful online analysis.
I disagree with the general. I feel like he is either out of touch or disingenuous of the situation on the ground.
Always good to hear from Mr Hodges.
Many times throughout more recent History dictatorships and "oligarchyships" have accused "foreign agents" of being the culprits for social unrest in their countries. Some times it was true, most of the times it was not. However, if there's a country where "foreign agents" should be operating at the moment, that country is Belarus.
Russiagate?
First time see Belsat talking to Ben Hodges. Жыве Беларусь!
Great interview. Very informative. Thank you.
America's greatest living general, General (Ret.) Ben Hodges is a voice the west needs to hear.
No we don't need to hear from the Americans every time there's a war because they just make them last longer . The international community would rather you just stay home you don't run the world despite the fact that you keep telling us you do
your love for hundreds of thousands dead, uh no thanks
He's been consistently wrong, though. He claimed the Ukrainian offensive last summer would quickly break through the Russian lines
@@PatRiarchy-qw6cp Exactly. If Hodges is "America's greatest living general" then America is in hell of a lot of trouble.
Hodges is a doofus.
The Generals prejudice of Russia is clouding his ability to honestly assess this war.
Your love of Putins ass is clouding your judgment
Apologies - my previous comment was in reference to the associated car paint scratch repair ad, not the Hodges interview.
Had Ben Hodges been President in 2016 Russia would likely not have invaded.
No and it never was. The only silver lining of all this is to know that such an incompetent general is not active anymore (beyond commanding his army of fellow couch generals)
Hi Ivan 👋
A very astute man!
My question are same. ..
We are willing to accept new world and defend freedom?
Ukraine is taking volunteers. Are you ready to go fight?
Has Hodges been correct about anything regarding this conflict?
Ummm...... let me think...... oh wait...... yeah, I got nothing
Never.
Just because General Hodges doesn't talk about it doesn't mean he doesn't know. He's went to West Point, did you? Here's a quote for you" Never interfere with your enemy's ability to defeat himself." Now, who said it.
Has Putin?
No. Always wrong.
Retired General Hodges ahould be hired aa a Consultant by the Ukrainians. He can do his job via online.
he is already
Possible? Of course, but several things need to happen which no-one can predict.
Thank you
My hope is tat Ukraine is laying industrial foundations and know how through their drone industry to emerge at the triumphant conclusion of the war (in their favour) as country with strong if not strongest position in this expanding market.
In addition they are making large amounts of friends and allies due to the support in humanitarian and military aid hopefully giving them enough access to market. That is fantastic and i hope it leads to their golden era of peace and prosperity.
Tho as some observers stated the Russian aggression was one of the best motivators to get NATO expanded, EU strengthening its infrastructure because of this and overall looks like it is in itself making everyone more united... in opposition to them. so yeah as someone who dose not understand economics nor politics i see that Russia kinda undermined their stated goals by their disturbing methods.
"The West is serious about defending international rule based order" - and how that "international rule based" order worked out in Yugoslavia? And what's happening in Kosovo now? And how did it work out in Iraq? And in Syria? And in Afghanistan?
It’s going shitty in those places.
Also, it’s shitty in the places where the west didn’t intervene.
The west got big into intervention after a few genecides occurred.
Literally damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
The west is not perfect. So what's your alternative, Ivan? Russki Mir? We've seen what a graveyard that is. Pax Sinica? The entire world turned into a giant open air prison... Think hard and long on what you pick
@@bernardvc5820 You must be misinformed. Russia is the freest country on Earth for regular people.
Makes sense. US held the aid package until Zelensky announced total mobilisation. This is the last large aid package, Ukraine is running out of men.
Ben Hodges is the G.O.A.T.
Hat der General irgendwelche Kamf gewonnen..???
Я русский, живу в Самаре. Вы знаете, что мы не можем выиграть эту войну.
Куда пропали плакаты? Мы не можем победить. Останавливаться.
Ты кому ьаки забиваешь?
The rumor of Belarus contributing conscripted troops would be News.
Mr. Hodges is a strong and Important Voice in the Media!he is absolutely right: Ukraine will only loose, when the West allows it by quitting the Support! I am deeply disturbed by the Defaetism out there. If you want Freedom (and an international rulebased Order), you have to fight for it!
He's been totally wrong in his predictions so far
Whose International rules based order are you talking about ? Ukraine will finally lose when Russia decides. At the moment they are not only dissarming and de Nazifying Ukraine but also rendering Nato impotent.
If you want Freedom you must fight against that Rule Based International Order.
stabilize the front !!!! what??? when?
Already!
Disillusioned Western Warmonger
How it became to be what it is
Zionist-US Empire and complete NAVO underestimated Russia
Seems the self declared chosen ones cannot accept after all whole humanity despite them
My hope is Belarus, Ukraine and Georgia become independent and free.
they are free...
@@buravan1512 They can only be free if they act as we see fit.
Georgia is now trying to get free but the Western governments don't like that.
One of the brightest and most knowledgeable military leaders of his generation..we need people like Ben Hodges back within the mainstream leadership of any future US administration..and quickly.
Ben Hodges.. the ray of common sense.
The General is a lunatic , spreading American and Brittish propaganda. His arguments are ridiculous. 😂😂😂
There we go
Fully agree.
After 8 months of delays, why wasn’t the aid package increased?
I would, as US citizen, love to see LT General Hodges on the ballot. But, in his current position, outside of politics and living outside of the States, he’s in a much better position to be able to speak truthfully, with out being obliged to parrot “outside interests propaganda”.
Whether he's on the ballot or not, I'm writing in General Ben Hodges on my ballot in November. He is a true American with common sense and gravitas. Think General Dwight D. Eisenhower reincarnated. (I like Ike!) . . . Otherwise, since I live in California, my vote won't count anyway, so why not vote what I really believe instead of choosing between two clowns, neither of whom is either competent or worthy?
Keep talking about Ukraine running out of ammunition when in fact US sent ammunition almost a month ago!
Thank you. In March. Yes.
I've posted this a hundred times over the last 2 months.
Crickets.
How did this man make it to 3-star general?
Can someone please tell me one prediction he got right?
Disillusioned Western Warmonger
How it became to be what it is
Zionist-US Empire and complete NAVO underestimated Russia
Seems the self declared chosen ones cannot accept after all whole humanity despite them
He just told to his supperiors what they wanted to hear. Exactly as he does in this and other interviews.
This is the one 👌 that I have been working with in the past
"Hundreds of thousands of young Georgians that are out marching in the streets because they reject what is a Georgia government is trying to do there" - Oh, general Hodges, will you stop lying? It's not about Georgian government. It's about Georgian parliament adopting a law about "foreign influence" which says that if the Georgian company gets more than 20% of its funding from abroad then such company has to publicly specify this fact. As simple as that.
You can compare it with similar US FARA law (Foreign Agents Registration Act).
What???
The General that got wrong every single prediction he made about Ukraine WRONG 🤡
What are YOURE credentials?
Example please.
I'm surprised they still interview him. He's overhyped. Seems the bar to be a General in the US army is very lowered, however I have listened to some good ones though
@@heathermccall8015 He predicted strongly that ukraine was going to take crimea more than 2 years ago and every year he repeats it together with other hideous predictions. sometimes i wonder if he's a real general
@@michaelfaraday8391 Why can't Blagojevich answer, why do you have to step in? Are you together??
Hodges think this is Iraq or Afghanistan war. He has no clue as to how to win this war
Nope! You are wrong. This is not comparable at all and you are completely unable to see what he was saying. What are you trolls being taught at the KGB today? Apparently not much... If Stalin only knew that...
@@hermanheunes7803 They followed the Russian example... The difference is, the US, stayed there for 20 years and the Russians only 10. And the Yanks had only a third of the Russian casualities, in the double time...
I appreciate gen. Hodges' views. But Armenia situation is not exactly an example of a happy turn of events for their people.
Ben Hodges is making a fortune on these interviews! I joke because I love the smartest strategic analyst in the Ukraine conflict who makes his time available to diverse outlets for free.
The population of NATO countries is roughly 6 times that of Russia.With collective small increases in production there should be no problem to supply Ukraine with all the kit they need to push Russia back and make it clear there is zero tolerance for violation of the boarder.
After that, admit Ukraine into NATO if not before.
Russia needs to learn how to play nice with their neighbors.
And over time that plucky little band can survive and . . . wait no they don't have time.
Your assumptions are flawed. Ukraine can't continue to muster armies indefinitely. Sure they could use more equipment but theres more to it than equipment.
Well the Reagan Gorbatchev 1 inch to the east border fell in the water.
The root cause of this war is ukraine trying to join nato
Putin will have the same problem the US has had in Vietnam. Russian workers, peasants and students will tire of dying for a privledged ruling class.
They are paying very well it is said
@@wolfgangwiesinger9502 They are using conscription and maybe some third world mercenaries.
International law should not have been defended in iraq and afghanistan too?
Not turn the back on Ukraine 🇺🇦? Wait until trump gets into the White House 🏡.
Trump will be in prison
Trump will do the right thing and stop the war.l
@@AstroSardaukar he'll do the wrong thing and cut and run, like he did w/ his unipoloar 'negotiations in Afghanistan w/ the Taliban --- he has the 'in' w/ his bud Putin
trump's turned his back on anyone if they can't put money in his pocket --- let's not let the grifter back into the White House.
Yep - he'll turn his back on Ukraie. Keep the white house trump-free; don't want to have to fumigate it --- again.
Turn the volume up. If it's to loud I can turn it down. I have a volume control. Thanks
Turn it up if it's too quiet then
What payroll the General is on?
Greetings to USA, Genral Hodges. Hope you are fine and save. While Europe fights, bleeds and dies for US victory.
Great Interview. He should candidate as president USA
"Is it still possible for Ukraine to win?" - No, and never was.
Well, I think they can mobilize much easier since their troops are so close to the front lines, to Minsk for example.
But a deeper question following up on that is, how do we exploit fault lines within Belarus, between those who are open to the West, and those who are for Russia?
How can we reliably get a message into Belarus? What infrastructure to disseminate that message? What avenues online can be exploited?
Have been listening to Ben Hodges since the start of the war. He's a great guy and good speaker but: Pretty much nothing he has predicted has come to pass. Don't shoot the messenger, just look back at his interviews.
you all did the honours of sanctioning yourselves
General i agree totally! 😂😂❤❤❤
I hear so much copium in those words!
I subscribed because I found general Hodges here. Thank you for supporting Ukraine!
West Virginia USA
putin knew he forked up the second day when he failed to reach Kiev. putin knows there is no scenario where he prevails in Ukraine.
Oh, im sure, Russia realizes...