Wake up: Russia is Already at War with us
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- čas přidán 10. 05. 2024
- Gen. Ben Hodges argues that those who fear "escalation" with Russia, if Putin were to be challenged by the West, are dead wrong. Rather by parading weakness and indecision, the US is provoking Putin to launch further aggression against Ukraine and eventually against America and its allies. If Russia were to triumph in Ukraine, the results would be horrific for not only Ukraine, but all of its allies. The winners, in the scenario of a Russian victory, would be China, Iran, and North Korea. It is critical that the West wakes-up to the danger-at-hand and takes immediate action to assist Ukraine in liberating its territory to their internationally-recognized 1991 borders.
The West's collective inaction, emboldening Putin and his dictator-allies, is putting the security of America and Europe in peril. A Russian victory would carry an unimaginable and incalculable cost to not only our wealth, but eventually the lives of our citizens. For those interested in a peaceful resolution of the war in Ukraine, that would guarantee a peace in the greater West, the best thing that can be done, right now, is to arm Ukraine to the fullest to show that we will not tolerate rogue dictators' aggression.
Gen. Hodges explicitly condemns the Republicans in Congress who are blocking aid for Ukraine and gives his views on the Trump Administration. However, in this interview, Hodges gives new insight into the challenges he himself faced in working with senior national security officials in the Obama Administration - many of whom are now occupying lofty positions in the Biden Administration. It was precisely these officials, with their perennial fear of "escalating" the situation with Russia, that led other decision-makers to erroneously believe that backing Ukraine would "provoke" a nuclear war.
General Ben Hodges, who commanded the US Army in Europe from 2014 until 2017, says that Western policymakers need to open their eyes to a hard truth: Russia is already at war with us.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:15 A victory for Russia would be a triumph for China, Iran, and North Korea: Here's why it matters.
02:04 This is why helping Ukraine is the best deal taxpayers will ever get.
03:27 Would Putin really invade a NATO country?
07:11 Speaker Johnson stopping aid to Ukraine.
09:25 Russia is at war with us.
14:27 If Gen. Hodges was in the White House this is what he would do.
Putin is provoked by our stupidity
Putin is so confident in his complete impunity because All the Main US Laws Guarantee immunity to the Putin Regime in Russia. Through a Strict Prohibition by US Laws on Any Reasonable (forceful) opposition in Russia. This is the Guarantee of the Eternal Existence of the Putin Regime. Pass this on from me to Gen. Ben Hodges and he will become at least 1 million times smarter.
Putin is so confident in his complete impunity because All the Main US Laws Guarantee immunity to the Putin Regime in the Russian Federation. Through a Strict Prohibition by US Laws on Any Reasonable (forcefull) opposition in the Russia. This is the Guarantee of the Eternal Existence of the Putin Regime
yeah..the west is stupid just like ben who never won a war in the 3world....
Agree. And the Americans mainly owe this to their "Jewish Masters" in the States. Ben is one of them. Like Newman, Kissinger and the biggest villain at the moment is your Anthony Blinken. He completely unnecessarily had the Middle East destroyed under Obama . Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize. All window dressing. A black man in power is good for the image of America. Forget that God blesses America, I think it's more like the Devil. greetings from the Netherlands
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💯💯💯 true
Thank you, General Hodges, and for this interview.
Let’s get on this, people.
GRT UKRAINE DOUBLE EVERYTHING THEY NEED NOW!!
The carnage is unacceptable - the global threat to democracy way too out of hand.
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Brilliant by General Hodges. He seems like the only one who gets it. Other Americans are either slow on the uptake or just don't care.
Ben hodges for president you have my vote 🇬🇧
Why doesn't the US have a presidential candidate of the calibre of *Ben Hodges?*
Because they have an old fool, and a russian asset running for President.
Because US Democracy is dying.
Ben Hodges isn't a politician and won't mince his words or actions so that means some of his decisions would not be popular with certain voters. The last thing politicians want is a straight talker and particularly someone as eloquent and plain speaking as him.
Because these types are too smart to be stupid enough to be a President.😉
Because the political and social climate of Washington DC fosters pathological minds, meaning... the top players are always going to be pathological narcissists or psychopaths.
Ben Hodges is one of the few commentators with a clear vision of what is tot come if the US continue to fail Ukraine.
I totally disagree with Ben Hodges. I ask him if he has read the book "On Thermonuclear War" by Herman Kahn? Why didn't we show strength against the Soviets during their 56 takeover of Hungry or their 68 takeover of Czech? The vast majority of those who rise in the US are nothing more than sycophants in my opinion and don't understand the realities of war. You really have to talk to someone like Professor John Mearsheimer in order to understand military philosophy and geopolitics in this situation. Professor Mearsheimer has devoted his life to understanding military philosophy and geopolitics, he hasn't devoted it to currying political favor.
@@TheCrackupboom The problem is and comes from the fact that some within the US leadership see things from what things "OUGHT" to be, vs. what it "IS" and that is from a national security perspective.
a clear vision only to Nato surrogates.
@@TheCrackupboom lol...ruSSia eill never risk, its all bluff and bla bla. And if not, its the end of ruSSia...
@@cherchezlesoir7166 Talking like this is crazy ! US stay at home and let Europe and the world live in peace!
Real talk by Hodges! He understands Europe and can see it from our angle too. Hats off!
Thank you Mr. Smart, Thank you General Hodges 🙏🏻The USA needs Patriots like you Right NOW! Strong Americans with loud voices to push our dysfunctional politics into supporting Ukraine. USA is pissing their pants in front of the world.
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦🔱🇺🇸🦅
He knows what he is talking about!! Listen and DO what he says....!
Nothing but a failed 3-star general with his head in the gravey trough...can you understand he is making money sprouting this pro war diatribe ?
he is a warmonger...US policy is just to creating wars, when people open their eyes ? its US main economy to create proxy wars...what else they have, just military complex. Ukraine could live in peace, if US stay away and dont put their fingers in other countries governments...
US stay at home and let Europe and the world live in peace!
Do what he says, you got to be kidding me ?
Having started a war with aRussia in201 the US seems to be believing their own propaganda now and don’t realise what they have done. Like a cheater rearranging its dirty deeds. The stench spreads across the world. It’s ok for tbem to threaten Russia but not ok to Russia to threaten them back.
Gen. Hodges makes we wish he was still in office as part of the cabinet or something. He seems to see the problem and responds in an authentic way. I really appreciate that these days. So sick of Putin apologists, and this man sees what is going on.
Putin is a cancer.
Yes. He is ready to tackle Pooter, which is deep in the minds of Republicans!
Hodges IS a lunatic -- Hodges is a lunatic.
I know what you mean. Putin is discouraging the children who want to change their sex. Your man, Joe, disagrees!
So sick of dum people who only have tube vision
Gen. Hodges' comments on Susan Rice are revealing. I had some brief interactions with her in Washington and found her to be highly ambitious and unpleasant to deal with. Rude and abrasive toward anyone she saw as beneath her rank; she burned a lot of bridges behind her and I was not surprised she never got to be Secretary of State, a job she lusted after in the most obvious way. Gen. Hodges' perceptions about her and the situation in the Ukraine are spot-on right.
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Thanks for informing us 👍👍👍
Most of them are the same 😂
They live under the same Big W House
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Lenin said 'You probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push. If you find steel, you withdraw' . I think this applies now, we need to show strength and resolve.
Krushchev ' You don't have to attack America you can do it from within'
@@nigelslade5276 Krushchev was so smart. Also lenine was a western Stooge he always lacked the balls to put the West in it´s place. Stalin almost paid with his life when Nazis came to Moscow but he learned it well.
Lemmings have incredibly strong resolve despite clear data showing danger ahead.
No, this means the USA met steal and should withdraw!
You show strength the way you want with all the strengthens of your mind and body. But not with my taxes. And not in my name.
This is THE secretary og deffence the usa needs so badly
He’ll never get work outta Team Biden. Trump would use him but he’s blown that
Never mind secretary of defense. He should be president.
Run for president, Ben!!
You must be crazy...Jewish Hawk
If only!
One is almost tempted to say that, if the Pax Americana is to survive, it needs a Cincinnatus or Marcus Aurelius or Diocletian and Hodges certainly seems to fit the bill.
Ben Hodges is obviously too young to run for POTUS position...
Ben Hodges is 100 percent correct.
What makes me angry that politicians in all these countries seemed to forgotten World War 2 and how the countries back then procrastinated the same as they are doing now.
Why the hell don't they learn about history?
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If they learn History, shouldn't they avoid Wars ⁉️
Instead they push for it .
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@@thienkim1754 You mistook the West for Ruzzia🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@rk4138 🤣🤣🤣
No mistake at all 🤣🤣🤣
Global colonization is done by whom 🤣🤣🤣
Just ask Africa, Australia, North America, India, China
South East Asia. 🤣🤣🤣
Please learn your History
@@rk4138 🤣🤣🤣
Just Let Jeffrey Sachs an American Diplomat and professor tell you the real History 🤣🤣🤣
From the Soviets Era till today .
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Europe is paying more than the US to support Ukraine. Only working together will the disaster in Ukraine be stopped
Are you comparing a continent with a country? Very smart.
General Hodges has a great grasp to the realities of the Kremlin. It's really hard for me to listen to the likes of Speaker Johnson and Ex-President Donald Trump.
I don't bother listening to Trump.
For the life of me I cannot understand how he got to be the President of the US.
A real mystery.
There! This is a man who has the sheepskin and the experience to back up what he said. He just told all of us the truth. Could we stop now? Can we act like the Allies of WWII and take pride in our work to secure our friends and deal with our enemies with an appropriate response to their acts of aggression? Do you need to be told again? Wake up and get to work! Slava Ukrayini!
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He just told of all of us what is not the truth. What is the truth? It is something you like to hear, nothing else. If you think one country is the only one in the world that can set all of it, then, yes, all of what he is saying is truth. But universe does not work that way. Luckily, there are other multimedia generals, that will say everything completely different compared to what THIS one is saying. His thinking is not responsible.
Wake up and stop WW3!
No he didn’t. Col. McGregor, Scott Ritter, Noam Chomsky, Chris. Hedges have been telling the truth and you don’t want to hear it.
You act like you didnt already do that.
Youre having the aid bill debate still ongoing, because your political elite is smart enough to drag this discussion out so there isnt any light shed on the fact that you literally ran out of stocks to supply Ukraine with.
If your government thought this wasnt a lost cause at least since the complete failure of the so called counter-offensive in 2023, they would support Ukraine like they did in 2022.
They arent so its either there is none to send over or they dont believe in Ukraine anymore.
Maybe both, but pick one
General is the only talking head that knows what he is saying on all these shows.⭕
He does not know the word Peace ! 👎
@@eddastrohmayer251 Or compromise, or how to not constantly poke the bear, or what "Red-Lines" actually mean to Russia with regards to NATO encroachment, what the various accords mean, the history of the region, that it is not acceptable to overthrow elections in other countries, that it is not acceptable to support Na zi's on Russia border, that it is no acceptable to violently persecute ethnically Russian people in third countries etc.
@@eddastrohmayer251 no? how so? do tell
@@ADB-zf5zr na zi's?? show me one
We would be in a totally different place now with a man like Hodges in the White House. What a pity we just have weak cowards in so many influential positions. 😡
As it has often been said, General Hodges would make an outstanding presidential candidate. Look at his use of reason, his grasp of the issues, and his breadth of education. This is the kind of person that Washington needs.
@JamesAdams-ev6fc
As a European, and pro America , I totally agree with your assessment and analogy. But unfortunately the General is not interested in politics. Such a pity !!
Look what’s in offer at your next presidential elections . Two men who are way past their sell by date, (and should be in care homes )are running for the most powerful job in the world . That alone should make us very frightened. Either one will probably die on the job ( from old age) before their end of term
@@user-dw6wd9ko4h I agree with you completely, and I have never seen such political failure in my country during my 78 years of life.
Yeah he fits perfectly in the world of delusion the hill lives in
Totally agree. He has a complete understanding of the overall situation.
@@NachttiSchlampE65 The Delusion is Trumps MAGA traitors that Russia is the good guy.
Ben Hodges for the head of NATO!
Head of NATO becomes not a military but a politician - and that is good so!
Will you enlist then?
And politician is the only profession that anyone can become, without degrees or proven knowledge, even sTrumpfs. For an educated man like Hodges, this is peanuts, perhaps even beneath his dignity. But as head of NATO I'm sure he would do a damn good job.
OH PSHAW! Hodges for the new captain of the Titanic.
Founding Fathers of USA warned us of European wars.
Involving us in foreign wars is bankrupting America.
@@patrickclaessen8114 He would do everything to make WW3 ! Because he is driven by friend-enemy thinking like most military men. We do not need such one-eyed men in responsible functions, neither in politics nor in NATO !
General Hodges is a man of clear mind, correct principles and strong will. Thank you for your voice of wisdom in this corrupt world.
I agree with you Gen. Hodges.
Thank you for hosting Retired General Hodges. I follow the General accross the web.
He is a clear and informed speaker. No one is better informed on Europe and Ukraine in the U.S.
It's really too bad he's not interested in politics.
Hodges is just another talker from the west thinking Russia is Iraq or Libya he is not in charge of anything but his talk talk is cheap.
The problem is that Washington swamp does not want him. They didn't want Wesley Clark either. There is so much money going through Washington that certainly does not want a legitimate Supreme Court or legitimate officials in ANY BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT. And the takeover of our government has been total, in all 3 branches. It was clear as day to me when the groundswell support for Bernie was so strong and legit but the whole machinery in Washington controlling the media and the advertising and parties totally blocked him. Why were there no riots in the street?? It is difficult when people are brainwashed and comfortable. Poor Bernie and poor us!! We are no different than the Russian society accepting all manner of crapola.
He does not know the word Peace ! 👎
It's precisely because he's so intelligent that he's not interested in politics. He has been close enough to really understand how the process works and doesn't want to sacrifice his integrity, basically.
@@eddastrohmayer251 _"He does not know the word Peace"_
I would strongly disagree with that assertion.
It all depends on the context. It would surely have been a grave and dangerous error to propose Peace to Hitler in 1939 or even, for that matter, in 1944. I see today's situation with Putin in precisely the same way.
this video should be posted EVERYWHERE !!!
here in the Global South we do not entertain warmongers like this moron analyst.
May Ukraines Swords Chip and Shatter!
Uraaaaaa
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Russia 🇷🇺
For what? There is already too much warmongering in the world !!!
To show that it is almost impossible for an American to face facts and tell the truth. Col. McGregor, Scott Ritter, Noam Chomsky, Chris. Hedges etc. rely the facts. Prof. Wolff, Whitney Webb. To name a few.
@@MarineScoutSniper 'We have no army, we have a horde of slaves
cowed by discipline, ordered about by thieves
and slave traders.
This horde is not an army because it possesses
neither any real loyalty to faith, Tsar and
fatherland - words that have been so much
misused! - nor valour, nor military dignity.
All it possesses are, on the one hand, passive
patience and repressed discontent, and on the
other' cruelty, servitude and corruption.'
Leo Tolstoy
YOU ARE NOT OR EVER HAVE BEEN A MARINE
Ben Hodges for sure understands how Russia needs to be treated!
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How ⁉️ Treat them like Cuba ⁉️
Wouldn't Like it when they bite back lol
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However we decide to treat Russia, Russia could treat us worse. Can we sustain a greater pain than what we inflict on Russia.
We forbade Germany to buy cheap Russian. They now buy very expensive gas.
Yes, that requires evil asshole proxies. And they were found!
Absolutely, Putin needs to be taught a lesson.
Ben Hodges needs to be asked to advise in US Defence Dept. His analysis and decision making is what Biden's administration should be implementing. This is what defence leadership should look like. If US doesn't want him I would suggest Australia approach him to advise our country. Australia will have problems with China soon enough if the US don't start showing strength. US can't be counted on as an allie the way things are at the moment.
General Ben for president!!
Imagine if he was .I'm afraid he's to decent and honourable for that crowd
of ukraine?
Much better then trump 👍🏻🫡🇳🇴
He should replace Austin.
a warmonger that celebrate the mass killing of babies in Gaza could only be a president to clowns together with corrupt zelensky.
There is always money to solve a problem. There is never money to prevent a problem.
Amen
Or the will.
@@Tomas.X time to negotiate
@@user-gf3lw5pi4t Negotiate what? You just want to give Putin what he wants and think he will stop. Epitome of stupid.
What a sentence bro!!
Always good to hear Ben Hodges. Shame he is not the American president ..,.. Slava Ukraini ..,..
Consistently right about everything. Marjorie Taylor Greene and speaker Johnson have blood on their hands.
Marjorie Traitor Greene and Moscow Mike Johnson if they should take a trip or holiday to a NATO country they would not be welcomed.
Ben Hodges for President
More like for a comfy old people's home
General Benson & Hedges he's *smoking* 🚬 🚬 🚬
@@VictorBonello has it taken him 2 years to be able to ignore the US coup of Ukrainian election in 2014. Has he heard of
Minsk 1 & 2? Did he not hear Trump saying that he was aware of the areas that wanted to be part of Russia. Does he think if he ignores the facts that they will go away. ? A person in his position knows those facts very well. He is just another liar who is angling for NUCLEAR WAR.
Why would you vote in favour of war?
@@o3tg2w35t because "Si vis pacem, para bellum"
Stay strong and never give up 🇪🇺🇺🇦🏴🇺🇦🏴🇺🇦🇬🇧
Yep. Putin will not give up against the woke west and I don’t blame him
go and fight for Ukraine then!!
U.S.: SEND IT. Even if it's an old scrap Gatling. UA WILL fix/USE it. Trusty even if rusty. Neglected F-22? That too!
"There is nothing that we do that provokes [Russia] except our weakness." Amen, Brother Hodges! Amen!
This was successfully predicted by John McCain in 2014, 8 years before the main invasion.
czcams.com/video/HLAzeHnNgR8/video.html
Yes, that and putting nukes on their boarder. It may be you who has the same weakness as Ben and the host have and it called stupid. Wake up these guys are warmongers.
Wrong, time for Peace 🕊️ .
No more US warmongering for weapon companies 😊.
@@skibidi.G Please, lay out your plan.
@@grandlotus1 it's pretty simple, no more pointless antagonisms.
Thank you Ben Hodges for your insightful analysis! If you were to run for US President you would get my vote!
Ya mine too
Actually Ben Hodges provides very little analysis. He regurgitates the same set of points regardless of situation in the Ukraine
@@golmgolm nah
hodges is a globalist tool
@@golmgolmstill more then being done now
Ben for President
And Ww3
He is, ahahah.
The public broadcasts are not designed for the delivery of the military strategic plans.
Though, the majority of viewers expect the delivery of Gen. Ben Hodges "U.S. will make step 1, than step 2, etc. And the French Macron must not say "Nato is brain dead".
I did not understand the meaning of that speach of president Macron also. Most probably, president Macron was angry on his one political ally due to the impossibility of the military advisers of president Macron to find the solution in the "ancient" African country, where French military were comfortable untill summer 2023.
"Ukraine is our best place for our military investment", according to senator Leslie Graham (R-SC).
The Biden administraion did not find the better opposite oppinion.
The problem is in the diffrent undesrtandings of the political approch in US.
The explanations of Leslie Graham for the Pentagon represent one word only - the replacement.
The explantions for the American voters might be given by president Bident.
But president Biden plays with dalls for the american voters, according to the Fox news TV channel
So, American voters do not undesrtand, why American senators send the arms and ammunition of the Pentagon - to Ukraine completely.
Leslie Graham is highly educated person, but he expect the same level of undesranding from the American voters.
Senator Leslie Graham might shot the world map every Sunday for the American voters:-
this is Ukraine at the map in year 2014,
this was Russia at the Russian world map till February 19, 2014,
this is the Russian map of Russian Fedration in the April 2024,
and this is the Nato countries at the world map in April 2024.
and this is our amdassdor to UN.
The other misundesrtanding of the nessecity of the military assitance for Ukarine is inside Nato.
The world loved to look at the Nato exersises when the number of the oint forced exeeded 40000 in 2017 (?).
40000 is a hude number for the military exersised joint forces of diffrent level of training , General Hodges knows beter than anyone else today.
But the constant policy of Nato is a bi-annual "exchange" of the military forces inside Nato ranging from 170 till 2500 officers in one country. This Nato policy is behind public eyes.
Till the March fall of the politics of Isreal against the Hamas, the Biden administration could refer to the military assitance to Israel for the advocating the assitanse for Ukraine in the American TV.
But current Israeli Cabinet did not take correct steps for the own minister of defence, for the own director of Mosshad.
As a result of the speculative rethorics of the prime minister , the Isreali voters belive the director of Moisshad is an idiot, the minister of defence is child in the world military sciense.
The mlitary mishap with the Isreali hostages, with American, Briish, Austrlian hostages in the Gaza strip led to the agressive demands of Isrealies to make a practical steps by the Isreali Cabinet.
Natanyahu managed to verbally attack the Britishers, than American jewish due to own economical planning of the declared war against Hamas.
Of course, American Jewish, German Jewish and British Jewish do not undesrtand the own president in Isreal amid the number of the deaths from both sides.
The Arab world look at Isreali current cabinet as on the team of armed gang wich do not want to fulfill the casual promisses in the human rights area from October 8, 2023.
So, Amercan Senators can not justify the military assistance to the unpredicted Natnyahu, who uses IDF in own economical interests.
IDF conduct milirary operations daily . But IDF is unable to report on bealf of the prime mister, which stage they are at in the undefined efforts to defeat the dangerous Hamas organizaton in just 70 km from the border.
Now Biden can not refer to Isreal as the most wanted and reliable frind in the Estern Medeterian.
The light hope for Israelies, in March the Moshad found that Iranians are behind the Hamas.
The Isreali Cabinet discussed seriously, the Qatari TV channel that hold 20 journalis in Isreal, is danger to the natinal security.
Of course, the Isreali voters, American Jewish, German Jewish need to find the domestic solution in the interets of Jewish and the neibghors irrespective of the IDF faults from October 8.
@@shafts2447 Putler is dragging Russia down the drain.
@@invision169
I would cancel an interview with you after 30 seconds.
I did not understand the meaning of your epistle either. Pure nonsense without coherence.
Do you ever reread what you write? A cat cannot find her young in there.
I assume you just want to make yourself important, or get on people's nerves in the hope that they won't read any further (positive) comments.
An attack on our intelligence.
@@invision169Whew! Reading (and deciphering), your comments was an exercise in futility.
Always excellent to hear from General Hodges, thank you, Sir; thanks to Jason for this interview. ❤
I love listening to Ben Hodges. He's so knowledgeable about war related problems.
I've not seen him so mad about what his country is not doing.
He knows the cheapest way to stop the killing and the war is NOW.
Hodges for the Oval Office!
Ben Hodges is right and all Western politicians should listen to him.
I really appreciate the valuable comments of Gen Ben Hodges. Mn tks for your time General.
Love General Ben! I wish more of the current US administration would listen to him.
Arlington is full of them. And plenty more soon.
@@niburu1508 Я думаю, вы имеете в виду всех российских генералов, которые сейчас на 2 метра ближе к аду, где им самое место.
@@niburu1508
Are the reptilians finally coming?
I heard they love trolls, especially "grillé, à la russe", an ukro-cyborgs speciality.
Not too bad, trolls and ruSSians never get in Arlington as @Ronlawhouston already said.
He does not know the word Peace 👎
@@eddastrohmayer251 do you?
General Hodges you are the best! If you want to run for president you'll have my vote! God bless America and Slava Ukraini
Ben Hodges needs to run for President!!!!
Ben Hodges for President, a real leader.
Ben for president 👍
Looking forward to that EU becomes self-reliant in regards to defence - as the US can’t be trusted.
hahahahaha that will be a long wait. They will sell out to putin before they man up
the US has given hundreds of billions for EU defense and you are always ungrateful. disgusting.
@david7384 The US has also made billions, not just in the sale of weapons to all NATO partners, but also in ensuring the freedom to trade and influence Europe. Freedoms paid for in the blood of Allies in two successive World Wars. The cost of which, we the UK, only stopped paying back to the US in 2006. Sacrifices have been made not just by the US, but by all NATO partners. It wasn't just the US that fought and won the Cold War. Quite frankly, your hostility towards your European allies is ignorant at best and repugnant at worst. Your defence is our defence. Were it not for a free, democratic Europe, as much as the US, you would have our mutual enemies at your borders, not ours. Of course we all need to do more. Now is not the time to squabble about who pays most. Try telling that to Eastern NATO allies who have seen hundreds of thousands slaughtered by Russia in the defence of Freedoms we ALL enjoy.
@@david7384 That is true David, however people in Europe are looking at your speaker and the undemocratic and unpatriotic way he is pandering to Putin and placing Ukraine in grave danger.
@@david7384 Europe spent lives and billions in Iraq and Afghanistan. The defence industry has benefitted from Europe. Europe is supposed to support the US agenda concerning geo politics. You can call Europeans for stupid but not ungrateful.
General Hodges is the only person making any sense and speaking the truth. We need this message amplified.
Thank you General, sir.
Imagine a scenario where a presidential candidate in the US wants to pull out of Ukraine support within 2 weeks, combined with an acting president who can't see a gain in winning the war in Ukraine for his campaign to be re-elected.......Our problem is: This scenario is reality ! I think I know what causes this schizophrenic set up and one could detect a strategy in this bipartisan initiative. Ultimately the US will act, but profit desires have not yet been fulfilled. I am German and if I was to judge on massive US economic investments in France and Germany across the past years, one realizes that those who roll the dices in the US, know exactly what they are doing. We can debate forever and a day - nothing will stopp the plans of global elites. As Clinton once said: 'It is economy that matters, stupid.' or phrased differently: Business is war - and vice versa !
Good leadership is not macho, but reflective of the alternative and consequences of inaction. As a Vietnam veteran, I can say that we lost the war when Harriman convinced Presidents Kennedy and Johnson not to extend the DMZ into Laos to Tchepone thus enabling North Vietnam to create the Ho Chi Minh trail sanctuary to resupply their operations in the south. Bombing the trail only began after the supply route sanctuary was established - naive moral sentiments don't end violence, only makes it worse because naive moral sentiments never evaluates the consequences of inaction.
And why were you in Vietnam? To stop the domino effect? Or to spread democracy into the jungle?
Well, you didn't.
And what happened?
Nothing...absolutely nothing.
Apart from the profits. And victims..
Sir, as a Vietnam veteran you should be wondering why America fought like crazy for 20 years for a small Asian country that was never committed to join the free world (not least because as a French colony Vietnam had learned the hard way what the free world was about, back then) and is not even willing to consider arming an European country committed to democracy as it is being crushed by RuZZia under our very eyes
@@ingoditrust7784 I see your point. And you are right. Well, terms like "free world" and "democracy" are pretty loose and always filled with the Zeit-Geist meaning of the predominant political agenda.
There is more or less personal freedoms, guaranteed by the law of the land and if we look at what the ancient greeks had in mind in the term "democracy" - and what is now conceived - it is night and day.
@@sizif717 I am not a critic of our Western civilization. I'm just so frustrated with how careless we have allowed ourselves to become in the face of the worst possible form of authoritarianism. If Vietnam was worth fighting for, which I'm not sure, as I was barely a kid by the time of the fall of Saigon, then why on Earth are we allowing the insanity taking place right under our eyes? If I were a cynic, I might remark America will never be taken from without (from within... that's a different story, though), whether parts of Europe fall under the rule of RuZZia or not (especially in the East...) However, I think nations have (collective) "souls" too: if America allows itself to be bullied out of Europe and thus internationally humiliated by Putin, as it apparently has accepted to be for now, then I'm afraid its psyche will eventually become depressed to a level not seen since the worst days of the Vietnam era. All US veterans should speak up, loud and clear. Their collective sacrifice for the cause of freedom, civilization and peace shall not be invalidated by RuZZian propaganda, Trump-ism and global indifference. The world needs a strong America and the American nation should reflect on what evils have produced such a level of infighting. I'm not sure Vietnam was worth fighting over, but I'm convinced Ukraine certainly is.
Gen Hodges always has the best and clear comments to make.
General Ben Hodges, high five from a Belgian pacifist. You are one of the only ones talking sense
I like his strategic thinking. Also Sarah Paine, I think these two would agree with each other.
If Olaf Scholz would not only listen, but, realise how his "prudence" - as he pronounces his fear - in fact leads to more and more escalation ⚠❗
There is a need for more prudence in the world ! Noone needs frustrated retired Generals crying for blood on the cosy sofa !
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Carry on with your prudence, and you will never have children.
If Adam and Eve had been so prudent, humanity would never have existed.
@@patrickclaessen8114 Do you have children? Do you want to send them for dying in senseless wars ? Try to be a little less "warfriendly"...
@@eddastrohmayer251it isn't senseless to defeat tyrants.
@@stephenhill545 It's a US-proxy war and not our war !
Every interview with Ben Hodges has been a welcome moment of common sense for me for years.
Common sense for brains diluted by cocaine.😂😂😂
@@user-oy5mm3pb2g indeed. War is a scam that makes money for the military industrial complex . But the sheep keep buying the B S 😔
You need to tell your audience to have their representatives sign the discharge petition so the bill to support UKRAINE would get a vote on the house floor.
The US needs a president of this caliber.
Wrong
Ben Hodges please please go talk and educate your politicians you speak so much sense. Wish you was in a position of power to control this all
and educate our politicians as well
Russia go home and fix your failing country...
That's what we're trying to do in America too
@@johnbabylon7626that doesn’t make the politicians or the MIC enough money. War is far more profitable.
@johnbabylon7626 The US has the highest GDP in the world, it's not like they're suffering. Maybe they need to fix inequality.
@@johnbabylon7626 The only thing the US is failing at is not supporting Ukraine due to a radical political party who favors Pootin and not our national security.. In addition, any countries the US may be in, are welcomed there for their own National Security, including the Middle East.. G'day..
@lakeliving2013
clown, are you serious? get out of Syria, no one invited you all there
Gen Hodges should be president of USA! He’s got the brains and lots of knowledge about how it should be done! 👌
How can a democracy have such a fatal flaw that allows the Speaker to have unaccountable veto over the (likely) majority will of the nation. And the other politicians too concerned about their careers to do the right thing by signing a discharge petition. Frankly, the President should have the ability to unblock a bill for a vote.
Your pretty worry about a army armed with shovels
If biden really wants and has the guts , afcourse he’ll find a way to deliver the weapons his frieds and allies ask him for.
He also nowadays delivers large quantities if heavy weapons the israel… maybe a bit less there and to ukraine/ europe more and quicker ?
The alternative is that after the kurds( twice), the swamp-arabs in iraq etcetc now the usa leaves it’s nato partners /europe standing in the cold when it really matters . That means the usa finishes the period in history where it is on top of its influence and partnerships . The world will survive, the usa will be lonely , china is the next to exploit this weakness. The war inofficially is already kristalizing with the opec not on the western site i’m afraid( also thanks to ultrarightwing israels behaviour) .
It’s called Separation of powers
@@user-gf3lw5pi4t it’s called not being able to defend you democracy against fascists and organized crime . Sorry
Because you are truly not a democracy.2 party .majority don't rule but the electoral college pick the president.so as in other democracies the candidate with the most votes.one man one vote wins..not in United states
The general populations of countries do not profit from wars - shareholders in big commercial corporations, political 'elites' and their enablers make profits out of such disasters and always have done. So who is profiting from the conduct of those making decisions that are dragging out this war by hamstringing Ukraine!
Interesting
USA’s military defense industries want Russia to remain as a threat to the USA and the USA’s fossil fuel industry want contracts with Putin to drill in Russia’s Artic region. And the USAs Evangelicals want Russia as the USAs closest Allie because they’re fascists and White.
Do you ask the same question to the oligarchs?
How much has Ben Hodges net worth increased over the last 2 years?
Wow what a speech❤❤❤
What a brilliant speaker General Ben Hodges is! I never get tired of watching his interviews!!
General Hodges insights are actually not just crystal clear, logically coherent and a voice of reason, but as such pretty simple and straight forward. And that’s the unfortunate side of this whole debate: while the problem at hand isn’t complex whatsoever, but rather clearly definable, we in the West treat it as the exact opposite and are mapping it with unnecessary complexity and fuzzy solutions. Simple and straightforward doesn’t mean it’s easy, it just means there are a defined set of solutions which can and should be applied. But instead we are doing almost anything else. And General Hodges reminds us in a broken record type of way, that this doesn’t need to be the case. I am sure, it’s a very frustrating exercise for General Hodges.
Exactly, to the comment below. He is spot on every single time I hear him. And I'm jolly glad you put the interview right General Hodges about who is supporting Ukraine. For info, you could watch Artur Rehi today (March 10)..who has analysed Putin's public contradictions. Amusing and again, spot on.
I'd vote for Hodges for president several times! Slava Ukraine
Learn how to spell that
I admire Gen. Ben Hodges's commitment in supporting Ukraine. All he says is common sense and reasonable judgement.
Gen. Ben Hodges for President! My goodness! A leader with a backbone!
I try not to miss any opportunity to hear gen. Hodges thoughts.
Here's a guest I respect who sees Putin for who he is really is, and tells it straight without any frills ! Slava Ukraini! (Rather than the "namby pamby" message that the White House spells out for Kremlin consumption, which is not helping our side)
Ukraine will win. I am praying every day to Jesus for Ukraine Victory and it will come.🙏💪
You mean Putin as an alpha male right? And not the weak pathetic gender confused west?
@@markwatkins100ify 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Why do you support Naz i's.?
The general is always on the mark... Brillianr insights... Thanks Ben
No nonsense expert analysis, thank goodness for Ben Hodges
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😂 Every single word he said was nonsense...Or a lie... To keep it short
@@dudedude4034 thank goodness to those who had the foresight to make sure that you could live in an area where the marijuana is legal to smoke and apparently mightily abundant
@@alacazaba Not taking any drugs at all and can give you ( and him as well ) free class on topic dude... So that ( hysterical comment without any connection to topic ) was best of you...? I,m afraid yes
@@dudedude4034 I was operating with some doubt, that your inability to make a reasoned argument was probably due to mind altering substances. Maybe I was wrong.
"We need to rediscover our strategic spine..." Exactly.
Gosh I love to hear someone with sense everything you say is true 👍
He is a total joker. Incompetent.
Just the best Gen Hodges.
You have so right
Well said General, you have said it perfectly I keep saying ukraine has been betrayed by there so called Allies
Ben Hodges. Superb as always.
Brilliant man! He's spot on!
General Hodges never disappoints
Hodges for US President
LOTS OF WAAAAAAARRRRRRSSSSSS
@@NathansHVAC Putin's HVAC troll on the job
Again, I 100% agree. It's like I'm hearing myself speak. It's as obvious as can be that a very, very clear message needs to be conveyed to Russia that they have crossed an essential line and that they have no business in Ukraine at all. It is simply not their country and any disputes within that country need to be addressed by them, not the Russians. The Donbass used to be a wealthy area, which is why they wanted more self rule. Now it's all dereliction without any future, because Russia doesn't really need it. They have more than enough of those resources from other area's.
Putin has opened the box of Pandora and he won't be able to close it again. Eventually it will cost him his life.
It will cost Russia far more than putin can ever pay. It is even likely that Russia itself will cease to exist.
That's exactly why you are disliked in the world. You think it's right to warn someone, to give instructions. Who did you ask when you bombed Belgrade and destroyed Yugoslavia? The phenomenon of Putin is that he doesn't care about your warnings. He is pursuing his own policy. And the Russians are not afraid of you. I hope you have the sense not to experience by example how the Russians are fighting..
Well said Ben Hodges!!!!!!!!!!
Ben Hodges is spot on. Unfortunately for the US, the future Defense spending of Europe will be done in Europe instead from an untrustworthy “partner”
US should behave like North Korea, to keep them worried and in fear.
Who would believe that? Wake up Russians are Russians not stupid!
I think the word you're looking for is encouraged. Putin was never provoked. He's desirous of reuniting the former Soviet Union and that was not out of provocation.
Agree.
He said it in 1999, that the demise of the Soviet Union was a mistake that needed to be 'corrected'. All his actions ever since should be seen in that light. For some weird reason we chose to stick our heads in the sand and let him pull the wool over our eyes.
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To reunite ex Soviet States is good but not ex Warsaw Pact states is fatal
Ukraine will win. I am praying every day to Jesus for Ukraine Victory and it will come.🙏💪
The only thing that has kept Russia inside Ukraine is their masterful manipulation of the information space (maskerovka). Until we learn to interrupt/nullify this, the US is going to continue the same course, unfortunately. While General Hodges can logically show how this reality is playing out, it cannot undo decades of mindless 8 second blips, tweets, replies, etc. Our military/government needs to find a way to sway people's opinions! And that's a tricky thing to do in a democratic space.
Maskerova is a myth, lack of political will is fact!!....
Yeh but many people in the west hate their own governments and believe that Putin was provoked by NATO,Ukrainian nazis etc. How do you convince Trumpists and the far right in Europe?
General Hodges should be in the white house thank you sir love from Ireland ❤
"What's missing more than anything is that it's our strategic objective that Ukraine defeats Russia... when you compare the cost of failed deterrence this is like the best bargain the American taxpayers are ever going to get"
And that's so true that the only thing that provokes Putin is weakness - Richard Shireff talks about this so clearly too
US has 700 overseas bases and a 34 billion debt... to do what ?
34 trillion debt. Impossible to pay off.
Actually more than 800 military bases...
@@user-zu6qn9ux9n Fake debt. Just another piece of paper like dollars except it pays a little interest.
What an incredibly smart guy. Why in hell don't the Americans listen to him. This man would be a brilliant preesident.
He is a great military general and tactician, that does not make for a great politician...He is absolutely a far left Democrat on economic and domestic policies and would not fair well in office...
@@user-id8jn3sx3s can you smell that? Your gaslighting? No?😂
@@user-id8jn3sx3swhat are you on about?? General Hodges was a Republican who changed to Independent after the RNC said ‘Jan 6 was a legitimate political discourse’. He also said DJT & his enablers are not real conservatives and have caused so much damage to the party that it would take decades to repair. So in your view, like in maga’s view, if you don’t agree & blindly follow Trump then you’re a crazy far leftist??
Can't be worse than what we've had previously. People are responding to how he's actually coherent. @@user-id8jn3sx3s
He would need an entire new House & Senate in place with the political will to back him 100 % . The US has become as one says ; Too many Chiefs and not enough braves .
We are doing everything driven by our fears and speculation. When does it stop.
Seems like the whole world 🌎 is a threat to us
Apparently, the man who later become Mahatma Gandhi was a stretcher bearer at the battle of Spion Kop in the 2nd Boer War. It's not clear whether it was he or a Boer who asked a British officer who was directing the collection of the British dead whether the waste was worth it and when it would stop. The British officer replied "You understand that for us, it is always like this". The point being that, maintenance of an empire or extensive overseas interests (one might say "Making America Great"), requires the continuous commitment of resources, including lives. If the USA really does not want to play that part (which has seen unrivalled prosperity at home and, by and large, generally good security worldwide), it should say so unequivocally. If it did, the next 100 years would not be pretty.
It still sounds like elites being pissy while the average citizen of either side doesn't want any of this shit.
Make Ben US president he has more intellectual capability than any president of the past 50 years !
He needs to be heard by the politicians! Failed deterrence is always more costly in the end.
And for those who say we provoke Ruzzia.... How do you provoke a bully? By looking away, y apologizing, by backing off. Bullies operate on fear.
Trump and mike will not do 💩 anyway ,they are all lies lies ✌🏻🫡🇳🇴
Ukraine will win. I am praying every day to Jesus for Ukraine Victory and it will come.🙏💪
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@@markwatkins100ify1941 to 9th May 1945 , Nazi Western Europe murdered 25 million Russian / Ukrainian people .for Russian / Ukrainian natural resources. You praying for Western Nazi European countries with former Russian / Ukrainian America 🇺🇸 & Great Britain 🇬🇧 Allies backstabbing Russian 🇷🇺/ Ukrainian people now . And you praying for total murder of innocent Russian 🇷🇺/ Ukrainian citizens for their own country for their natural recourses?? Go take a look in the mirror , what do you see ?? A good Catholic Nazi ??? . Andrej Kondisenko Cairns Australia 🇦🇺
@@markwatkins100ifywhy ?? What difference would it make to you ?? Do tell why colonisation of a country is so important to you ?? Do tell Andrej Kondisenko Cairns Australia 🇦🇺
I agree with general hodges.thank you sir for sharing your perspective