Ukraine DESTROYS Russian Radar-Why is US FURIOUS??

Ukraine DESTROYS Russian Radar-Why is US FURIOUS??

why is the US so upset that Ukraine is hitting Russia’s most prestigious and expensive radar sites plus is Russia continuing their advances to nowhere I’m Paul US Army Combat veteran let’s talk about all of it okay so I did want to do a Frontline update just because I haven’t done it in a couple of days um the biggest notes are just kind of continued Russian you might call Ply advances uh you can see here outside uh to the north of of uh Bachman Russian forces advancing through again an open field um moving into well a little bit of this Windbreak uh intersection here no near solovova uh but again this is likely in line with Russian tactics or Ukrainian tactics of allowing Russians to advance across low value terrain uh in order to inflict the maximum number of casualties uh we also see a similar tactic play out near Seka you can see here Russian forces again advancing uh across Open Fields but clearly on a route to Nowhere um this is just I mean you you you feel for these soldiers because it’s completely insane um to have to make these advances for really no reason at all you can see here again this this is advancing literally into a giant open field uh with no cover especially in in the South so yeah I guess Russia’s seizing territory and even their defense minister is out here uh uh touting proudly that they’ve they’ve Advanced 880 Square kilm in the last in 2024 for perspective uh you could walk the perimeter of uh 80 Square kilm in a day if you were uh brisk enough uh so this isn’t like a these aren’t like stunning numbers they’re putting up and with the exception of the city of Av Diva basically all of those advances uh have been into either tiny tiny hamlets that have been destroyed or terrain like this okay this is in a forest this is actually uh tactically significant right it’s increasing Russian penetration into chiv Yar and we know that that Russian forces once they get into these forested regions and into these urban areas uh are actually it can be quite effective um I suspect Ukraine may be trying to use this sort of uh Canal here as kind of a delineation they might be conducting defense in depth up into this point um but credit or credits due this is a real advance that actually moves Russia towards achieving an operational objective in the seizure of ch ofar um but every other one of these sites we’ve looked at has been in the service of of no tactical objective or it’s been tactical gains in the service of no discernable objective um which again makes sense when you look at the fact that let’s see if I can find it here um it’s cited way down here here we go uh Russian defense minister uh Andre Bellis SUV uh remember this guy’s an economist right and so um even isw thinks he’s overestimating Russian advances since 2024 but he claims Russian forces have seized about 880 square kilm and again for perspective guys uh that you could walk the perimeter of in oh let’s see uh 10 and 10 and we will do 17 okay okay uh that’s that’s about 37 kilomet uh is that you could walk uh let me see if I can give you that in miles I know we have a lot of you guys um in the United States uh that’s that’s 22 miles guys so basically if you’ve ever run a marathon you can run the perimeter of uh Russia’s total 2024 advances which bear in mind guys it’s costing them about a thousand lives a day um this is not something I would brag about but this is an interesting Insight because this tells us what Russia considers one of its most important metrics for success and that is aggregate square kilometers seized and we know that at least in the Vagner era and in some of these other storm Z units that for a Time Russia was actually paying them based on square kilometers um uh Advanced so that’s why I think you’re seeing Russia continue to make these these surges to nowhere um I think it’s likely a function of the fact that that’s the metric that the Kremlin uses for success and this is a a classic conundrum among even tech companies where when you target a metric instead of the actual end State um the you begin to optimize for the metric instead of optimizing for the actual end state so if you tell people listen our goal let’s say you’re let’s say you’re uber and you say listen our goal is to get more rides to have more customers in rides well then you have these instead of being like we want to make more money right well then you have this incentive to be like well you you should do a buy one ride get a ride free right so you lose money but you’re achieving your metric right uh so that kind of gamesmanship I think is what we’re seeing in Russia here where subordinate commanders are told listen your objective is to increase the total uh area seized and when Ukraine sits there and goes listen we’re only going to conduct limited Tactical attacks and instead our focus is going to be on inflicting massive casualties into Russian forces you end up with this sort of Perfect Storm where Russia throws Personnel into a a meat grinder and Ukraine runs the grinder um it’s it sounds Grizzly because frankly it it is um and this is again Russia believes that it is effectively at trting russan Ukrainian forces and it believes that by seizing territory regardless of where it is um it’s going seize territory is unlikely to change hands therefore they are they believe they’re strengthening their negotiating position um but ultimately if you don’t like that’s that’s kind of true but not all territories considered equal again seizing empty farmland or destroyed Villages is one thing seizing economically valuable mines again credit where credits due F Diva right with its Coke plant was actually a place of industrial meaningful heavy industry Bachman was was similar not anymore but you see how these kind of fights uh you know you sees real cities real terrain real value um economically from a country it’s not the same as seizing an empty farm field I I don’t know how else to put it um now before we talk about why 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early warning radar system um but they also a another deep strike radar system in the last couple days why is Washington so worried about this well the answer is that the US official says listen these early warning Radars are not really helpful uh at detecting the weapon systems that Ukraine uses um but the fear is twofold right the first is that the US says listen these are radars on Russian facilities that house what they say strategic dur deterrent capabilities right and Russia may say listen you are targeting our strategic deterrent by the way guys is code for uh icbms Nu is code for nuclear weapons um strategic nuclear weapons specifically so Russia could say hey the Ukraine through via it’s you know R the United States Russia could believe through its Ukrainian proxies are targeting our nuclear weapon sites right and it could undermine Russia’s ability to maintain nuclear deterrence against the United States essentially remember nuclear deterrence has some components to it right the first component is is you have a nuclear Arsenal that’s ready at the drop of a hat with pre-planned targets but the other part of it is you have to have a process for what to do if the enemy launches their nuclear Arsenal at you first a first strike a first strike response and that first strike response right can be uh launching your own nuclear weapons but there’s a problem there’s sort of a conundrum is that if one side believes that they can behead so to speak the enemy right that they say listen we’re going to use our nuclear weapons but we’re going to Target let’s say the Pentagon and all radar communication systems all the communication systems imagine it’s the 1950s and and nobody’s got cell phones the Russians may say listen if we can get the president and the Pentagon and a couple of other key generals who have the authority to make decisions and we Communications we can hit the US and they won’t be able to give the order to respond right we can we can freeze their command long enough to destroy them we can also for example they say uh Target nuclear missile bases and destroy the missiles before they ever get off the ground those are two things that were a real serious issue in the ‘ 50s because again if you sit there and go hey the US nuclear Arsenal let’s say Russia goes listen I think we can take out 90% of their nuclear missile sites stop them from ever launching that’s enough to sit there and go we might win a nuclear exchange and so the solution then is to is to invest in early warning detection early warning Radars like this one that are going to alert high level commanders when they see a true nuclear First Strike right and it’s not something you’ll be able to miss because a nuclear strike a nuclear first strike is going to be powerful enough to destroy large portions of the enemy’s infrastructure so it’s going to be hundreds of missiles in the air thousands likely of icbms launched at once so it’s easy to detect as long as you have sophisticated sensitive Radars right these are still have to detect a ballistic missile launched across the world right flying through the sky so yeah even if it detects even if it only detects 85% they know that a first strike is going to have thousands of RA of of warheads right so here’s the problem the whole deterrent system relies on these Radars working because it gives the other side confidence that they see the truth they see reality right imagine if you were in a gunfight right and you but you knew that they had guns you had guns you could see them and you said listen if they shoot me I’m going to shoot them back right so as long as you both see each other right you see listen this guy’s got his his his his six shooter holstered I’ve got my six shooter holstered as long as we can see each other and we see neither of us are reaching for our weapons we’ll stay in deterrence the problem is imagine somebody comes up and pulls that your Cowboy had over your eyes now the other person you say they know they know I’m blind they know that they have an advantage now I don’t know if they are pulling if they’re unholstering their weapon so what choice do I have I can either know that I’m vulnerable and just hope my opponent does the right thing or I can do what I absolutely have to to protect myself which is draw and fire blind right and the fear is that we don’t want Russia to feel like they have to make that decision we don’t want to feel like to have Russia say hey the United States pulled the cowboy hat over our eyes are they getting ready to unholster and take out Russia once and for all you know or are they just going to sit by and chill right we don’t know and we don’t want Russia to have to make this kind of decision so we are trying to tell Ukraine listen stop hitting these radars you don’t want to again the US I’m always a skeptic a lot of haters a lot of like pro-russian love to cry escalation they go striking Russian territory is an escalation I’m like no dude opening a new front in reinvading Ukraine that was the escalation this is that is a logical response but sometimes there is actually a fear of escalation and this is an example of that right and I think that’s probably possibly why the US said listen Okay Ukraine listen we will let you well no actually this Theory no this ignore that because Ukraine hit these targets after they already had permission to strike in harke so yeah Russia like Ukraine really needs to not do this again credit where credits do and and the US is like listen we don’t even think these sites are being used right the US officials like we don’t think these facilities are supporting Russia’s war against Ukraine again Ukraine doesn’t have icbms they are not going to be detected by these Radars that’s not what these Radars do so it could have been an accident it could have been Ukraine uh intelligence misunderstanding the purpose of these Radars it could just be Ukraine trying to send a message to Russia that says we can hit you anywhere we want right and that there’s not that many sites for them to Target right this is a military site it’s static it’s big and if you’re going to reach deep into Russia this is a site to do it on but again you’re pulling the cowboy hat over the dude’s eyes you don’t want them to be in that situation anyway guys that’s all I had hopefully you got some insight from this and uh thanks to all the colonel here members of comit news.com we are going to be revamping the site here but you’re still getting two videos a week from me that’s not going to change um but hopefully the next month or so we should have a plan for to roll out a a redo and then we’re going to expand the benefits especially for these for you guys lieutenant and Colonel tiers that that really are the ones who enable me to do this every day thanks so much cheers

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