Ben Hodges on why 2024 will be the decisive year of the Ukraine War and Ukrainian Army’s new command
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- čas přidán 11. 05. 2024
- Ben Hodges, retired Lieutenant General of the US Armed Forces in Europe, in conversation with TV Rain's Ekaterina Kotrikadze discussed the different scenarios of the future for Ukraine, the US elections, as well as how to reach the Russian audience and help them understand that this war is detrimental to Russia.
0:00 - How will the new Commander in Chief of the Ukrainian army change the situation on the battlefield?
1:20 - What is expected of Oleksandr Syrskyi?
3:13 - Why Gen. Hodges says 2024 will be the decisive year of the Ukraine war?
6:09 - How to reach average Russian people?
7:35 - Did Zaluzhnyi make any mistakes as the Commander in Chief of the Ukrainian army?
9:33 - Does Donald Trump really want Russia to attack NATO?
12:37 - Can the Ukraine war end in 2024?
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We love General Hodges!!! You stand tall!!! You will be remembered!!!
@@whoisme678😂😮
By who, just another person cashing on on this conflict. Making money. A man with zero battle experience... the big expert we are all sitting on deck chairs in Crimea...big fraudster.
He may be a Presidential Advisor @@whoisme678
@@whoisme678 Yup!!! Not like Gerasimov!!!!😊
It's a 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
I think general Zalushny just needed a rest after working 24/7 for a very long time
zelensky will delete him within the nest 6 months
Ha ha. This is not ruzzia!
Happy Birtday Sir and all the best!
If you are US, urge your Representative, Biden, and Hakeem Jeffries to work with sensible Republicans to REPLACE Speaker Mike Johnson with a Republican who will allow a vote on Ukraine aid.
Though the Republicans in deed need to get off their asses and step it up. What really concerns me ids this peace meal approach by the Biden administration. The USA has the capability. Give them what they need and level that dam Kerch bridge. Logistics is the key to sucess, not the slugfest that's going on currently. Crimea is untenable without logistical support.
@@ivanojeda1691. More than $330 million was sent to Hawaii. As of last week more than 445 Federal personnel remain on the ground in Hawaiʻi, 232 of whom are on Maui.
ukraine is a EU problem............
@hardheadjarhead BIDEN did not send the United States Navy to assist in rescue operations. As usual, the contracts go to the same people. I know how things work. Numbers on a page look good. When you look at the human condition on the ground, nothing adds up. People are still living in the hotels .
Time is running out. Most people will never return home.
@@hardheadjarhead HOW MUCH WAS SENT TO UKRAINE.
Thank you, General Hodges. It is always nice to hear your views. My admiration to you.
Fraud
Great interview with the general. A very objective and professional assessment of the situation in this war and the capabilities of Ukrainian troops in the future. Thank you Katerina
what a dirty stupid warmonger
Thank you General Hodges!
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Always worthwhile hearing from Ben Hodges to get an up-to-date perspective 👍
Sorry, I prefer Douglas McGrgor and Scott Ritter.
General Hodges is a superb analyst
General Hodges telling it like it is!
Thank you for always making yourself available for interviews General Hodges. Wish you were still active duty ❤💙💛 I would disagree about Ruzzians not wanting to join the battle however, I watch a lot of Russian interviews and there is still a large pool of brainwashed patriotic or very poor men willing to sign up and fight. Best bet is get UA all it needs cz Ruzzia's not running out of men anytime soon. Thank you TV Rain for your excellent content ❤.
a man of honor
Where are you writing from?
C'est un de général de merde made in otan , il raconte des conneries !!!! . Je suis un français et je connais la géopolitique des profondeurs !!!!!!
Paradoxically, the USA is the only member of NATO that has taken profit of article 5 a couple of times. For instance after 9/11 in 2001.
@msvergara
It's not paradoxical if you'd followed what was happening along the buildup to the attacks on Columbia.
Thank you for interviewing Gen Hodges regularly! The world needs voices like his clear, precise and to the point arguments. The 50 nations that support Ukraine are 40 times richer that the z's kingdom of Butler so...democratic western leaders, do fully take action and send all the necessary tools so that brave Ukrainians can win!
Ben Hodges For President ! ❤ Please Ben , run in the elections ! We need a sain strong man to lead us out of this indecisive BS & onto Democratic Victory . ✌️ . SLAVA UKRAINI 👍 HEROYAM SLAVA ❤❤❤
Politics, as we can see from Trump and Johnson, would not be his strong point. It takes a special kind of lunatic to get involved in that kind of mess, and I don't think Ben has the patience for it. Can you imagine having to deal with Loren Boebert and Marjorie Traitor Green on a daily basis.
Hodges is a boob.
Always great to hear from GBH!
Genl Hodges, like French general Michel Yakovlev, is an absolute beacon of clearsightedness in this conflict. But i think he's over-optimistic about Russian public opinion. Please, Russians, prove me wrong! TV Дождь is doing its bit, but there are still millions of self-identifying Russians outside of Russia who really don't seem that bothered.
He is suffering from rampant TDS and is covering up for China Joe. Don’t get me wrong, I’m fully supporting Ukraine and therefore Trumo because he was the one who always supported Ukraine unlike Biden and the democrats.
I think he is right about Russian public. He have a point. Why did Russian fled when they could. the ones that cannot are stuck..
He probably hasn't lived under an authoritarian regime before.
The ones who could see and act left Russia. Others who couldn't, stayed for the meat grinder's maceration.
Ben rules
in an Orwellian world of words.
What are you doing here? Get back in your troll cave immediately!@@zetristan4525
Excellent comment on (King) Trump toward the end of the interview. 👏
Thanks to TV rain for this interesting interview ❤🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦❤.
We all thought the Cold War was over when the Soviet Union collapsed. Who could blame us?
I didn't think so. Russia declined to join NATO. Then Secretary of State James Baker III suggested that idea to the Russians.
NATO from inception, has never wanted Russia as a member.
thanks for posting
Always great to hear from general Teddy Bear Hodges. Thank you.🐻 🧸
Trump saying "blame me" oh well you asked for it "sir"
Trump adressed as "Sir" by European leaders: Are you kidding SIR. Are you delusional? Or your followers? Or both?.
Sir, hmm not sure I would call him " sir" ...and I can't say what I'd like to call him but it begins with 'W' and ends with ' R' ...
Thank you for your leadership General Hodges! Slava Ukraini 🌿
heading Is wrong.. Ben Hodges said that 2025 will be will be the decisive year. This year will be a year of rearmament, everyone is producing and improving right now..
Different faze…I am really scared and worried about my country’s fate …So many of the best representatives of my nation have already perished …❤️💙💛🇺🇦
"This is the Last winter " all his predictions were wrong
Predictions should be made for the highly predictable things. For the others, predict *OFTEN* what, how, when, where, who, and why but *NEVER* ever more than three of the five. Being humble about what one can know and do know helps with accuracy.
As new facts emerge, predictions need to be amended. The real value of predictions lies in whether one can do something about them. It doesn't matter how accurately they are if we can't do anything about the possible outcomes.
The sun 🌞 is dying off. In another five billion years, it will reach its end stage cataclysm. This prediction isn't worth much to us.
Of course! To be fair he did say the Ukrainians needed better planes , long range missiles , and more equipment.. I think the Ukrainians are doing a great with what they have ..
He always said "IF" ukraine got long range missles and jets.
As a. Life long republican I agree with Ben Hodges 💯
Hodges is the man
Totally true
Donito Trumpolini loves Vladolph Putler 😂
And Biden baby is a virgin.He bomb my country sith uranium.Children are dieing from radiation!!!!
Ben Hodges for president!
Ben Hodges on why 2024 will be the decisive year of the Ukraine War. He said the same things in 2023.
In my opinion.....bcoz the new General Chief Commander has
knew more about the Russian
geographical for the new plan
and strategy. Of course he also
had been joint army in Russia
a long time ago.
Why is ben not calling on EU nations to encourage young EU men to go to ukraine and fight with the AFU?
No NATO troops on the battlefields of Ukraine is essentially the policy of the dominant NATO leaders. Besides, EU isn't a military organization at all.
You know you've hit a nerve when the Russian trolls and bots start to swarm the comments.
Although I realize that many people may disagree, I believe that the error that NATO has made with Russia in regard
to Ukraine, has been in not being anywhere near aggressive enough. I believe that deterrence is very important. I think that
great efforts should be made to either stop bad things from happening or to stop them from getting worse.
I think that a major motivator for Putin's actions in regard to Ukraine starting with the 2014 invasion and annexation
of Crimea, has been his belief that the West is indecisive and scared and that he could get away with doing pretty
much anything that he wanted to.
I believe that the primary reason for the inadequate reaction of NATO has been fear of a nuclear conflict. Basically,
I believe that through nonsensical bluffs and the West's own independent fear, Putin and his cronies have succeeded
in cowing the NATO alliance into allowing Russia to seize Crimea in 2014 and begin a new invasion in 2022 that could
result in Ukraine's eventual defeat.
I believe that the chances of Russia's using nuclear weapons in Ukraine is miniscule at best. If Putin/Russia used nuclear weapons,
I am sure they realize that they could easily be "signing their own death warrant" which I very much doubt they have much interest in
doing. I strongly believe that corrupt government officials and oligarchs who spend billions of dollars of stolen money on colossal yachts
and mansions have very little interest in committing suicide in attempts to keep stolen lands in Ukraine. People who are very interested in
worldly goods of great luxury, are expressing a strong desire to go on living.
When Russia seized Crimea in 2014, I believe that the U.S. and the rest of NATO should have told Putin in "no uncertain terms", that if
Russian forces did not immediately leave Crimea, they would send their military into Crimea and destroy the Russian forces
that were present there. If Russia had not complied with that demand, then NATO should have made that threat a reality. These actions
almost surely would have prevented the 2022 Ukraine war from happening and could have saved hundreds of thousands of Ukranian
lives.
In 2022 when U.S. intelligence predicted that Russia was about to invade Ukraine, the U.S. and the rest of NATO should have warned
Putin/Russia, that if they go ahead with their invasion, then the combined NATO forces would enter Ukraine and destroy the Russian
military that was present. Again, I think that that this action could have very possibly stopped the Russian invasion before it happened.
I still believe that the U.S. and the rest of NATO should take direct and aggressive action now in the war in Ukraine. I believe that the combined
NATO forces should send into Ukraine a very large military force and destroy the Russian military that is present there. Russia is no longer
a super-power and has not been one since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russia has demonstrated in Ukraine for all to see, that it does
not have a great military. The Russians are well aware that they cannot possibly successfully stand up to the U.S. alone or to the combined
forces of NATO. The only real danger that Russia has is a large nuclear arsenal that I would strongly suggest that they dare not use. Confronting
Russia on a Ukrainian battlefield would in fact not create "World War III". - This is a myth. The 32 countries that make up NATO versus Russian forces that
are present in Ukraine, is not a World War. It is the total destruction of those Russian forces that have invaded Ukraine. NATO needs to "grow a backbone".
China, North Korea and Iran are not sending armies to Ukraine to fight "shoulder to shoulder" with Russia. - This is not going to happen. This threat of
World War III is little more than nonsense that Russian would dearly love for the West to believe.
Russia should be forced to give back to Ukraine, every inch of land that they have illegally seized including Crimea. After all Ukrainian lands have been
returned, Russia should be compelled to pay backbreaking reparations to rebuild all of Ukraine that they have destroyed.
A stern message needs to be sent to all aggressor nations that all they will receive for their actions is military defeat, isolation and economic collapse.
Haha, you better get it into your head NATO will never be parking it's self in Ukraine without a nuclear war.
Great interview, thank you!
Spot on! The bots are raging! Go Ukraine!
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Love you Gen! Slava Ukrajni!
Ни дождётесь!
most of Bens analysis and pridictions have been proven wrong when it comes to reality
Ben has never had an original thought
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Decisive year????
All needs to end love. Wasting resources is my concern. What will be left for all.
The destruction, death and life in general is concerning.
How many wars can we cover
There's already a lot of steel left on the battlefields in Ukraine. Recycling it will be the resource for the future.
I've probably driven cars built with the steel which went from the U.S.A. to Vietnam, got exploded there, recycled to Japan, and made into cars running the U.S.A.
Love, if you are worried about the resources, do a math how much will cost your short sighted opinion that it is cheaper to lose to Russia
Brought to you by the same guy that told you Ukraine will take Crimea in three months 😂
kindergarten level analysis.
😂😂ben been wrong on every prediction...remember he said party on the sea of azov 2023😂😂
He said on the condition ukraine gets everything they ask for. They did not
It's time for the Free & Independent World to help build a 500,000 person Foreign Legion capable of land, sea, & air Operations.
Building this Foreign Legion will require Sustained funding, training, & Equipping such a Force.
This Foreign Legion will be used to protect Ukraine & all of the Free countries bordering the Russian Federation. This Foreign Legion's Primary Objective is to Defend the Eastern Free nations of Europe.
And got nuked.
Think about why Russia hasn't used nuclear weapons in the battlefields in Ukraine yet.
Ukraine knows very well that Russia can nuke.
@@solconcordia4315 Remember that Ukrainians helped develop these nukes and had some of them in their Ukrainian silos.
General Hodges is one of my favorite analysts. He is spot on
Why wasn't he spot on in Afghanistan?
@@ivanojeda1691 why? Where was he wrong? Lol
@@joeperkowski They were all wrong.
@joeperkowski So if Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. They can not blame 20/20 Hindsight! Nation building and permanent boots on the ground were never the way.
specifically sir @@ivanojeda1691
Ben Hodges must be smoking some good stuff, he really seems to be in his own virtual reality.
I think you are projecting you own sins onto him. Best take a look in the mirror.
Last 2 years, I'm hearing, UKRAINE IS WINNING, UKRAINE IS WINNING🤣. Why they need to change the face of this war? 🤔🤣
Well said Ben Hodges, about STUPID trump.
great Gen. Hodges
I also see 2024 as a decisive time in this conflict and I also see 2024 as a decisive time for Putin and his government. Putin's propaganda machine is difficult to overcome.
Thank you, Lt.. General Hodges for your powerful analysis.
deGenerat Hodges😄🤡 This is the truth that you deserve😉
Insuficient information, nothing new, only wishes
Would appreciate an assessment of the Ukrainian situation, that is, their current troop level and current recruitment success with women and older people to backfill troops levels. What is the likelihood that NATO troops will see boots-on-the-ground action in Ukraine within the next year or two? If there has been a problem since Truman about members not paying their share into NATO, I believe Hodges is misinformed about the growing unwillingness for Americans to pay for the security of Europe, while they have the financial resources to carry their share of the burden. Remember, the U.S. has a $34 trillion and growing debt and it has grown by 70% over the past two administration in an eight year period. Good grief, we can't even protect our own southern border, where our true first line of defense exists. Lt Gen. Hodges, with all due respects for your service, I believe you see yourself as an ex-military leader still fighting the Cold War.
Not being able to defend our southern border is our politicians' own choice to maximize the votes for their re-elections.
It has absolutely *NOTHING* to do with Columbia's ability to pay.
Take a look at every Columbian coin and every dollar-currency bill, you'll see this phrase etched or printed: "IN GOD WE TRUST." Why isn't this phrase: "IN GOLD WE TRUST?" Columbia is being truthful ! 😂
MAGA? All NATO countries have increased their budgets, some of them trippled. That Trump bs is ridiculous. And also costly for US, some of you are so delusional that you think there wont be consequences for fing over EU. Trump already cost you future weapons sales (literally American jobs Trump promised to create). You are on a special level of stup1d.
if russia wrecks Europe your debt bubble pops and you'll be pushing wheelbarrows full of cash to buy bread. Your system is deeply interconnected to Europe.
The US-UK Alliance will teach Ukrops how to lose Wars - They have lots of experience.
🇷🇺🇺🇦 Battle for Avdiivka:
Ukrainian Command Surrenders the City
Situation as of 05:00, February 17, 2024
🔻Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Alexander Syrsky, announced that the decision to leave Avdiivka was made by the Ukrainian command in order to protect the lives of Ukrainian military personnel and to secure more advantageous defense positions.
Advivka for itself is no Indicator for result of Endingen this war. Russia can Start some conflicts but we see they cant Finished it for a tusdia victory😊
And? War has ended? What was the cost for it? How many Russians?
@@the_g371 actually 400.000 russians were elimininate and every year 200.000 additionally. How many years World the russian citizens accept that ?
A ludicrous discussion 🤣🤣🤣
This colonel knows nothing about Russian power. He does not know that Russia is using 5% of its military power. A naive explanation!!
Sure he will be right now like with everything else he has predicted so far. General who has never been in a battle not to mention winning one.
definitely not an eisenhour or washington or patton.
Red China's PLA hasn't been in a war since 1979, some 45 years ago. What do you think how battle-hardened the PLA tasked with repatriating Taiwan really is ?
🤡🤡🤡🤡Alert
The interview is pathetic, not researched
Pauvre type
Gal Ben Hodges….the général that has been wrong from day one.
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Could you not find a more delousional General ?
All that noise introduced as a result of translation from one language to English has made the Video unwatchable in spite of its excellent interview with Gen Hodges. Translating this way does not make the original language audible or discernible. The only way then is to use subtitles and switch off sound.
EXCELLENT SUMMATION INTERVIEW!
Hope this guy has all his Covid 19 jabs 👌😂
A10 jets solve SO MANY of these issues! Zelenskyy MUST PAY ATTENTION AND DEMAND THESE JETS ALONG WITH THEIR MUNITIONS! I AM SO ANGRY ABOUT HOW ANTI-AMERICAN THE HOUSE SPEAKER HAS BECOME!! HE NEEDS TO BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE!!! CONGRESSMUST PASS THE AID PACKAGE!!!
How the f#@k did this guy attain the rank of General, he has been wrong about EVERYTHING ?
Shame on you Ben for that pro genocidal anti Slav talk...
General's wishes😂😂 incompetent
"I think Ukraine can win the war, but not in twenty twenty-four", says crazy Ben, he is at it again ( Shakespeare i think ).
Hodges has been wrong consistently
Офис президента Украины чужой для литералов России и никого на улицу звать не могут и не имеет права
General Hodges has been vocally consistent in supporting Ukraine, but unfortunately his take reads ever more like wishful thinking. His intentions are good, but Hodges argues like someone used to commanding forces within limited situations, complacent from always having a massive advantage in strength over the adversary.
There is very obviously a limit to how much the West will actually fund the defence of a brave maybe, but also corrupt, uncompromising Ukraine. Ukraine in reality can only really work as a neutral buffer state. (There is a history just preceding the Russian invasion that the Western liberal block always ignores..) Despite the show of bonhomie, the West will not fund Ukraine enough to fully beat off the resource rich and desperate Russians. At best this will regrettably end with a frozen conflict dividing Ukraine.
Two thirds of European countries are not even paying the minimum asked for NATO membership. That this freeloading has gone on for many US presidencies, does not make it right. Why should the US always be expected to disproportionately pick up the tab? The US has to focus on containing China and perhaps the Middle East, less so pushing what was a neutral buffer state, towards being a Western bulwark in Russia's face.
Boorishly dismissing Trump out of hand as a 'Fascist' for his position, does not add any weight to General Hodges argument. Rather it betrays Hodges own inability to provide better answers, like a sulking child who's been a bit spoiled but has to grow up as that tack no longer works. Putin is a war monger who needs containing for sure, but so is Xi, the Ayatollahs, Kim Jong Un and so on ...and resources and interests have to be prioritised.
In reality, the power of nation states ultimately top alliance organisations and always will. General Hodges blind optimism for a full EU/NATO member Ukraine and rubbishing of Trump's realpolitik, reads ever more like wishful thinking, rather than an accurate analysis of reality.
Well, some thought provoking material in this comment anyway.
Time will tell us more. Comparing Hodges to a spoiled child is kind of a giveaway though. Ad hominym argument begs the issue.
Trump knows how to tear things down and stick the debris field and damages to others. He's proven to be a Loser. We've been babysitting him long enough.
We don't want to watch constantly an attention-deficit baby 🐥 sucking 🍼 in the maximum security prison in Leavenworth, Kansas.
What about the 99% of crimea that doesn't want to be liberated?
Ukraine is one of the poorest if not the poorest countries in Europe but it still does better than much of the Russian Federation.
That was probably a major reason why Poo-tin had to mess up Ukraine *right next door* . His soldiers looting in Ukraine proved their economically deprived conditions.
I just hope that they aren't as culturally deprived as some foreign tourists in Japan who washed their fruits in the bidét before eating them. 😂
I was culturally deprived, too, about the bidét, but God used it for a holy purpose, on me, a well-dressed kid attending a wedding banquet ! 🌊 It was just too much hospitality offered to me.
A big lier he acts like expected !
You need elaborate in your comments. Fairly poor for trolling. I'd cut your pay immediately for that comment. Back to school for you, " lier ' 😮
"It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world."
George Washington SEPTEMBER 19, 1796
Ben has failed in every prediction re situation in Ukraine and has proven to be out of sense. Why this claiming respectability channel decided to present to the audience this retired person? Just because he is available? Get someone who is able to talk sensibly about how to get out of the nightmare which descended on the country, not a war monger. This may increase the audience for the channel.
Deluded!!!!
General Hodges should be the US president.
🇺🇸🗽the war is lost and yrt they trade in bullshit😂🏳️🕯️⚰️🥂
Hilarious!!!!!
When Ltn. General (Ret.) Hodges talks, people listen. (Or they _should_ listen.)
Long range just means Russia will have to take more territory includind Odessa !
Perhaps it is what this guy secretly wants
This General with IQ 86
*NO 155mm SHELLS....NO MORE WAR...LOLOLOL!!!!*
No matter, Europe is still sending. Plenty of drones under manufacture and since this was has been identified as a DRONE WAR, then just means more drones being assembled and the UK has ramped up its production. Oh, I forgot, was it 155 shells sank the latest paddle steamer in the black sea ? 🤔
hodges is delusional. in his delusion, ukraine is winning😂
He is for cterririst action ,in his obsession for Crimea He has made ukrine a graveyard
When Ukraine going to get back crimea and all their land if Russia so bad ??
Ok usa go away from europe. We don t need putins friend trump.
Hold on this the same guy said the Ukraine's where winning since 2022 why hasn't they advance yet and talking about recruiting something doesn't smell right
Ukraine is running out of chairs in the last interview Syrsky sits on three wood pallets,situation is serious
*I CAN'T EVEN WATCH THIS CLOWN ANYMORE...HE'S LIKE SGT. SHULTZ..."HE KNOWS NOTHING"...SMH*
Is it cold in Moscow?
Good we have your wisdom, dear.
No need, plenty of others who will. Bye bye ...close the door on way out
@@retorenfer8702 if your Nekkid, then yes.. advised to wrap up warm in winter or everything falls off. I heard.
@@whoisme678 *YUP...THERE'S NEVER A SHORTAGE OF MENTAL MIDGETS IN THESE COMMENT SECTIONS....LOL!!!*
Well I refuse to even read this as your past declarations of Putin and Russia only appeared as BS. But you the educated GENERAL. Instead of saying sumtin about TRUMP to the public so to speak why not make your voice heard directly by him and then decide.
Hodges and British and American and European can't beat the big Russian army. Nobidy
😂. You keep believing that. You probably thought Moskva couldn't travel under water also now Moskva converted to submarine. Straight down.😂😂😂 sooooo sad.....NOT !!🤣🤣🤣
You keep believing in Ukraine, 500,000 young men dead and going for another 500,000. You are a sucker for the USA Ukraine must like being used to weaked a super power like Russia!!!
The bots are busy again from Russia. Get a job