How Putin united Europe to push him out of power | Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges
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- Опубліковано 17 бер 2024
- "It is Vladimir Putin who has got people interested in defence spending not Donald Trump."
Trump's threat to abandon NATO rings hollow to retired US General and senior NATO figure Ben Hodges on #TimesRadio as he reacts to Ben Wallace's comments on US support.
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Always love to listen to Ben Hodges! Thank you!
You are deluded. I live in Ireland and we will not fight Russia. Biden is senile.
Voice of sanity in a post-truth world.
Same here
Go beg for more money's
Bens an embarrassment of a man and general, hes been wrong about everything and his idiocy has helped thousands of ukrainians to an early death.
Yes! Ben Hodges always makes sense. Brilliant!
Thank you from Ukrainian diaspora in Canada.
Yeah - we witness how united they are daily 🤡🤢🤡😂🤡😂🥱🥱
When Ukraine is so desperate for
fighting aged men and women
WHY
do Ukrainians safely living outside Ukraine
advertise they are doing so ?
When Ukrainians FLOOD respective comment
sections with their blue and yellow flag
usually accompanied with a DEMAND
for yet even MORE money..
WHY are they not FIGHTING for their
Homeland ?
NO shame !
@@niburu1508 We also witness how only dictators like Kim and Iran want to help Russia. We also witness how with 1/4 of the resources, Russia can't move forward on the front line from their invasion of 2/22. We also witness how Russian ships are getting destroyed at an alarming rate when Ukraine DOESN"T EVEN HAVE A NAVY. Should I go on?
Gentle Ben Hodges is a tiger when it comes to defense narratives. Love his demeanor and absolute knowledge.
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FFS..... who's paying you to spout this sycophantic BS
Gentle Ben? Like the bear?
@@Enkarashaddam why not fight then
@@thalentekhuluse2829 You child! Good luck with the Vampire for another 6 years, your country is doomed and will constantly be at war because of him. “Nukes, nukes” yes we have them too. Wipe that smile off of your face Krembot 2829. How’s your oil refineries? Any more gone up in smoke 😂😂😂😂😂
Sincere respect for gen. Hodges.
Great guy Gen.Hodges - thank you for the interview.
If only Hodges were a major political player in the US. Sorely needed right now.
He is brilliant. And I saw a comment from addier that once served under him in the middle east; he is the only general they never made jokes about. Ben Hodges for president would sit very well with me.
@@torehaaland6921 His focus doesn’t allow any tomfoolery. It’s democracy or not.
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He ran once yrs ago... but did not make it past primaries. Rough business....but in these times of instability across the globe sure appreciate his experience/voice right now. So mortified by the bad actor electeds currently in US obfuscating support of Ukraine & allies while dancing with Orbán & Putin.
There are so many attractive potential candidates, yet we are literally given the worst two.
Always good to hear Ben's thoughts.
Ben Hodges as President 👍
Of what
Moder earth 🌍
eat ze buggzzzz
Ben Hodges is a mad person
In our day, hearing someone with some sense and a backbone is surprisingly refreshing (that goes for both Bens)
Will you take part in the war that is coming?
Is that supposed to be some sort of threat?@@ValMartinIreland
@@user-nz8zj3hp6zAsk Ben. Just watched the video of "rotation" forces that surrendered. Reason? They lost 10 man before even coming to the point, when they arrived they didn't find nobody to relief, all dead or injured. They surrendered with request not to be exchanged as POW. That is situation on 2km front of 1500km long one. They are out of man willing to fight so it's fair question; Are you ready to replace 👠 with 👢 and join the war? I would give you the link but my comment would be deleted. It's easy to find ZOV channel and video has 12 views last time I checked. If the situation is other way around it would have 12m views and jumping out of every screen of MSM.
@@ValMartinIrelandi think it is quite intersting to threaten with something like World war as Putin does too just because he doesnt get what he wants .
So if we dont want World war just praise the New King and back down ?
Every bully does that too - if you dont want to get beaten do as i say . How long does that work ?
@@ValMartinIrelandAre you unwell or are you a paid Kremlinbot? Your videos suggest the former... No need to be so afraid of the world, just have a beer and relax. Imagine what life was like when Ireland was fighting (still fighting, God bless 'em in the north) for their independence from their colonial overlords, the English. Would you want Ukraine to be tramped and starved and shot as your country was by a larger enemy - and to face the enemy alone when we can help? Empathy is a good thing to have. Don't disparage support for Ukraine just because you feel depressed and want to never have hope lest it fail you in the end. We will win (even in the rare chance we/Ukraine lose) because we have fought & advocated for their & by extension, our, freedoms. That is something anyone should be proud of, no matter the outcome.
Lt General Ben Hodges is an excellent analyst & communicator.
Thank you.
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Ben Hodges is A waspMORON@@jamesgreen1116
Russian trolls are clowns!! 😂😂
As usual, smart comments that are on point from Ben Hodges
The Ukraine war is already lost. ua-cam.com/video/QjlYKSUmAZc/v-deo.html
Hodges for President!!
Hodges is a wasteman shut up 🤡🤡🤡
And Wallace for PM!
@@josimpson7999There goes N. Ireland (Reform Club), instead: Great?
He's an nut case
keep it all open don't give putin an inch
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Million inches of Ukraine taken by Russia 😂😂😂😂
Million inches of Ukraine taken by Russia 😂😂😂😂
Keyboard & Mic heros 😂😂😂😂😂
@@eyaklen4804 silly, try it in metrics, Ivan
This General has my utmost respect as he states reality. Macron did the right thing and it scares Putin that MAYBE NATO boots could be sent in, not that they will but an option is viable.
Same tactics as Putin does about scaring the West. Its time the west stood up to this dictator and murderer
But when the US kills in Middle East it’s justified right ? You all are bunch of fools….US is the beast…us is no saint.
Its not that Put doesn't know already that there are NATO boots pretending not to be.why would the west be telling Putin that those in Ukraine are not really boots?so Putin would not target them or something else?
@@chrisviking7807 calculate the troop numbers of every NATO member state and that number falls very very short of Russias current troop numbers (Russias troops all have combat experience now too ;) )
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@@dannythomson5239 Can i sell you some stuff? Because i love the way you count! Don't know where you learned to count but the total number of military personal of Russia in 2023 was 1,33 million, Nato has 3,38 million active military personal and with active reserves it is 5,8 million. And that was even without Sweden and Finland that now are also part of Nato thanks to Putin and his special military blunder!
@@peterkralt2478 Russia has battle hardened troops whereas NATO has men who have trained on 'exercises' no contest mate
Interesting and reassuring we need more voices like this in the world telling us facts not propaganda.
You mean more voices telling you what you want to hear, not the truth?
Living in front of Russian TV? We understand.@@cooldad7297
A big problem is Scholz and the bunch of pacifists with him in the SPDparty
I wouldn't call them pacifists...just sissies.
They aren’t pacifists. They’re Putin’s cronies. A lot of SPD politicians have strong ties to Russia
And the Kerch Bridge stands there waiting to take a swim.......
All western countries are in the end pacifist. A pacifist doesnt choose violence to resolve a conflict. But they do defend themselves. So don't confuse pacifist with Scholz attitude. He is passive because he doesnt want to escalate. He fails to understand that this can't escalate more. It is in essence a war between Europe and north america vs Russia. With Ukraine as our champion. Being passive only hurt our cause. Our defense.
Yeah, while politicians from the german greens (founded by pacifists and hippies) and the german liberals finally face the reality, and demand Scholz to do more, because realities have changed their views. Crazy. But it gives you hope to see, that there still are sane people in our government, able to face the facts, despite their own ideologies. Because they finally got that peace only works, if you are willing to defend the peace. However, I'm very disappointed by Scholz so far. He's so passive and quiet and a bad communicator. But he was even before the war. He always was.
Thank you, General Ben Hodges.
I'm overwhelmed with Gratitude by the Amazing Support from all the Countries assisting Ukraine which is Unprecedented. However Nato needs to take a more serious approach and instead of sending Military Aid (Piecemeal), they need to supply better, more Substantial weapons now ....I'm very proud that my Country (UK) is part of this help and it must continue however long it takes..Victory to Ukraine
There are no weapons left to send, and even if there were it wouldn’t change the outcome. NATO can’t and won’t save Ukraine.
there is no any possibility of victory in ?Ukraine,.
You can go to war in Ukraine, let's see how in a couple of months you will think the same way
Nonsense youre follower of US hegenomy like Viktoria Nuland. Youre yo dumb not seeing this.
But the war btwn Russia and ukrain is non of uk'a business .Putin is teaching a lesson to the group of gangsters and thieves I hope you understand.As wonderful as you may not believe Putin shall win
The first rule in the Korean art of war is to never tell your enemy what you are planning to do.
Ben Hodges and Ben Wallace are on a different level to most Politicians in power.
Gen Hodges is a wonderful speaker and strategist & tactician.
can take the rag out of the grease but u can’t get the grease out of the rags, I don’t know if this pertains to anything specifically
it is true none the less
I’m always happy to hear Gen. Hodges
Thank you for this report. Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges is a very wise man.
Right On.
Amen Gen
Well said! You would think our leaders would be smart enough to know better.
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Exactly my thoughts but sadly we are living out that movie idiocracy at the moment.
The USA needs Hodges
please rescue DC
'Strategically illiterate' may be the best description of trump and the republicans' entire world view that I have ever heard.
Europe needs to take care of its own Defence now. Regardless of Trump or someone else. That’s the real Zeitenwende!
Will you still believe that when US cities start disappearing? We need to stop Putin in Ukraine for the entire world including the US. Small price to pay now to prevent a world war.
It is happening!!!
It's sad so many people died
Yes, Putin will swing for that
All because of Putin.
Especially when there was a peace deal on the table and it was scuppered by Johnson.
Depopulation, and it happens every decades
@alphabetaxenonzzzcat Wannabe FSB guy right here; failed intelligence test, tho
Thanks for this.
There is every chance Trump will win.
why do we keep commenting and advertising what we intend to do,every time we comment on what we might do we are telling Putin,why dont Nato discuss thing between themselves in private and stop giving Putin an edge that way putin will be clueless.
Shhh 😂😂😂😂
Because it’s all just fantasy - exactly like the title as well.
NATO needs to stop “discussing”, quibbling, arguing, negotiating, nitpicking and quarreling within themselves. This is democracy’s weakness and putin will exploit it. Shut up and get the job done. Bullies love pearl clutchers and Europeans who act “reasonable” by procrastinating and delaying bold moves. This is a smokescreen for weakness and nobody outside of Europe is fooled. NATO looks like they’re just killing time, waiting for Uncle Sam to pony up with expensive weapons and save their bacon. Man up and defend your countries! USA doesn’t have national health and paid maternity leave so Europe can take a month off in summer; 2% on NATO defense is the least you can do.
Because it's a form of propaganda used to keep the enemy guessing what you're going to do next. The way Putin is always bringing up the nuclear option,knowing he has no intention of committing what would be MAD. 😠
@@dmfitzsimyou're fantasizing.
Good point Ben
Great voice of military reason and what a wonderful advisor Ben Hodges would be! Been following him since 2/24/22…
Thank you
Another superb report General..
US shall be proud of having such wise general as gen. Hodges.
Gen Ben Hodges please give us an update on the battle field. What is the situation in Marinka,Advidka etc ? Is it true the Russians have been defeated in those towns by Western weapons
This is troll factory manager. I really like comment. Keep up good work, tovarish! You skip bread line today.
Putin is not laughing at Macron, unfortunately he is laughing at most other western leaders,
Scandinavia and Finland have allocated $10 billion euros of military aid for 2022-2023 to Ukraine. Population / economy size is the same as Australia, which has donated a mere $500 million euros of military aid (and New Zealand even less, barely $50 million euros).
The UK and Ukraine need to send their diplomatic heavy hitters to Canada, Australia, New Zealand for $15 billion / $10 billion / $2 billion euro military aid back-payments from each of these countries.
Also UK should request $2 billion back-payment of military aid for Ukraine from Portugal under the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance signed in 1386 AD (640 years ago).
Australia and New Zealand are practically at the antipodes of Ukraine. Of course their problem is much the same as ours in Europe, a temporarily insane USA and a nearby aggressor, China instead of Russia. Now China is much more constructive than Russia, but also more powerful. Russia apart from fossil fuels and an oversized military got nothing.
Anyway, while I think Oceania can understand our plight, I think it is better to appreciate what they have done and are doing for Ukraine rather than go to them for a shakedown.
Essentially, the American plan is to watch from the sidelines as the EU and Russia go at it. Genius!
I don't think this bunch we have in Washington is quite that sophisticated in their thinking. You might be giving them a "little",shall we say,too much credit. Not capable of that kind of high minded thinking.
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You may be referring to the Washington democratic machine that elects new leaders every few years. Here we are talking about the ever-present military that spans across democratic time periods and they have been doing it since the 1950s.
It has been the EU that funded the russian military for the past 40 years.,.... seems like an EU problem.
I think the plan is to pull out. Our sanctions war, isolation of Russia efforts and now the military war. Fail, fail and fail again.
It's a big problem for the EU. They played to win. It doesn't look like they thought about the consequences of losing at all. Which is strange to me as I couldn't see any way for Ukraine to win.
It doesn't really affect America.
But look at the unsustainable government debt of the empire. It will backfire in a few years time
Great great US general Ben Hodges. You give us hope. Slava Ukraini❤❤🇪🇺🇪🇺🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
I value Lt. Gen. Hodges’ input. Our family will be voting for Joe Biden again! 💙
I’m also voting for President Biden again.
Thanks guys!!!! ❤️🇺🇦
Gen. Hodges predicted that Ukraine would take back Crimea a year ago....because Russia was weak military and out of ammo. Not the best record in my book...
Wisdom facts
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Stuff will happen, like that last leadership change. Yeltsin was the golden boy but failing fast... they looked hastily for a replacement (that the oligarchs agreed too) and Putin seemed the very best of all worlds. Something similar will happen this time round... great haste and no time to choose wisely, someone palatable will appear, oligarchs will give their seal and they will get a breather, a success of sorts, in time for the midterms that will last for a couple of years like last time.
😂 stop being so deluded.
"Ukraine will take back Crimea by August 2023" - Ben Hodges
Russia will take Ukraine in 3 days
Ben is a midwit.
2023? Maybe 2024.
But no one saw USA stumbling like that.
@@vincenthigginbotham8729said CNN?BBC?ALJAZEERA?etc
Now quote the entire interview with the relevant context this time. Oh that's right, it doesn't suit your biased agenda to do that does it?. Do better next time.
I'd gladly trade half a year's salary for Ben Hodges to replace Jake Sullivan as National Security Advisor. He's always on point.
Dunno about that, Mark. I've been watching, reading and listening to Hodges since the invasion.
He seems to have no idea about Russia's military. Or Ukraine's. And he comes up with absolutely bizarre strategies.
His fixation on the bridge for instance.
He's straight up said that knocking the bridge down will directly lead to an end to the war.
Ridiculous!
It's amazing that he was head of NATO Europe but his understanding of Russia's military, economy and MIC capabilities is way off mark.
He doesn't even seem to have basic knowledge of Russia's weapons.
It's really strange to me. Is he misinforming us to have us believe things that aren't true?
Or is he simply wrong. Over and over and over again.
Sullivan is the same.
No you're %100 wrong about European countries not paying for defense
As we have come to expect, this is an excellent interview with Gen. Hodges
An adequate place for Putin to be now is a courtroom in "The International Court of The Hague" for Human Rights
Thank Heavens for men like General Hodges.
Could listen to that accent all day, so chilled.
Hodges and Graham should get a room.
The uncertainty of what the US will do regarding Ukraine had made Europe to get hands on
In part this has helped the more obtuse countries get a move on, but the major shift is that Putin picked full war instead of the hybrid invasions he did before.
That invalidated the low-impact scenarios, and we have to contend with a Russia that won't stop until stopped.
Poison. In.is.food
NATOs mistake before the war started was to say NATO soldiers wouldn't fight with Ukraine. It might have just stopped Russia invading.
Maybe, but part of the strategy was to nudge Putin away from actually invading. It's also been a policy for NATO not to attack Russia or the Russian military, but rather to support Ukraine "for as long as it takes". Painfully slow that narrative is changing into the more useful "Ukraine must win", but it is formally important that this is support of Ukraine, not an attack on Russia (e.g. regime change and the like).
@@jaxvoice718 Just threatening with economic sanctions and telling him everything we wouldn't do was a huge mistake. Having said that, Putin's invasion was also a huge mistake in itself.
Well said Ben 👍👍👍
"The USA wants Europe to be safe and prosperous"
That must be why they have stopped Germany using cheap Russian gas.
So not a cold war not a hot war but a warm war?
Yes there is
it,s easy to see how he got to be a Lt.Gen.
Agree 100% with ben hodges and Ben Wallace 👍
Listening to our General's is a good ideal people!
It is, but they don't all advocate for the destruction of humanity. Be careful.
Yes please, put him out of power!
Perhaps it is time that the UK and France stood on their own to defend democracy. They relied on the US, Canada, Australia and other Commonwealth countries during WW 1 and 2, then Korea and Vietnam. The US has a big enough fight with their southern border.
Lt. Gen Ben Hodges for president! He is smarter than every trumper politician combined.
How abt electing ben hodges as us president? He is the perfect choice for us interests
We already had neocon Nikki Haley as the choice and she was rejected.
There are , basically, 3 types of Military Strategy ...1/ Obvious..2/ Wrong...3/ Very Complicated (but in the end useless) ........Hodges always points out the OBVIOUS
Ambiguity! Yes, new mighty weapon (or tactics)!!!
I wish someone would do a comedy channle about Putin. Putin's Hillbilly Empire LOL Cartoon ofcourse.
How making psychotropic medication highly addictive is chemically disconnecting people from reality.
Good Man!
"Not because I want it, but because I believe it." What exactly is that supposed to mean ? Clearly he doesn't want the alternative.
Although I agree that the security and prosperity of Europe is of vital importance to the United States, however it is quite unhealthy and ultimately irresponsible for Europeans not to participate financially in that ends.
„Chance of using nuclear weapons is zero, but we have to take it seriously…“. Now, yes or no ?
Someone who utters a statement like this gives you very solid grounds to doubt their intellectual abilities.
He said “about zero.” Don’t go into politics.
Europe has a population of 741 million and 448 million in the EU alone, we should be able to defend ourselves.
but we can't. Europe is undefendable due to its interconnectivity. Everything is connected with everything.
@@winfriedbij684 Of course we can defend ourselves.
Quite a big task for Czech Republik. At the moment the only active country to organize help for Ukraine.
Not exactly. They have spearheaded this project, shopping for shells, on their own initiative, and that is important, but this is just one of many activities going on simultaneously.
Gen Hodges should run for president
Yes of dumbfuckville. He would win in a landslide.
Dream on.
Why are you not running, General Hodges?
Gen hodges is right
europe cant even stop hutis
Silliest comment of the week
Europe can‘t stop you from taking a dump. So?
They had to blow up Norse stream pipeline because Germany wouldn't shut off Russian oil.
That's nonsense because Russia already stopped the gas supply before someone blew it up. Educate yourself before going online and posting something....
Great interview 😊
Europe is united in his own lunchtime.
Hodges is a military genius!
Azov sea by fall hodges is a midwit.
Benny telling us that he's voting for biden... What an unintelligent thing to say.
Nonsense - Seems you are the unintelligent one here - or you vote for the fascist tRump!?
Why is Russia evil for annexing Crimea, but NATO country Turkiye is not, although it has annexed Northern Cyprus?
Estiona or any of NATO even compared $. I thought I think the Baltic States do what they can.
A US president may not be able to formally pull the US out of a defence treaty like NATO, but he can still throw a big enough spanner in the works to make a treaty ineffective. How a country responds to an attack is still up to each to decide individually.
NATO played an important role in the defense of overseas USA-interests. If the USA pulles out, NATO will probably have other priorities.
This Guy always seem to get everything wrong.😂
I think you get everything wrong comrade russian troll!!! 😂
Yeah because your buddy Putin has got everything right. lol.
I don’t understand pro Putin westerners. Russian escaping from a dictatorship why would you support it.
He did predict that Ukraine would prevail some time ago. And he casually says Biden will likely be re-elected and he might. But if he were to take a cognitive test, a majority probably would not want his re-election.
Yeah! I think so too. It's amazing that he was head of NATO In Europe but seems to have zero understanding of Russia's military.
And his strategies and predictions are way off.
It is incongruous to frame the problem of virtually no one in NATO pulling their share of the weight as a problem with American politicians complaining about it! Political complaints from the US about other NATO countries financial and military slovenliness is not irrational! I'm not even an American but Times Radio needs to up their game and think these issues through. And Ben Hodges needs to learn to side step these sorts of issues and questions and recognize them for what they are--just an attempt to shift responsibility for NATO funding and manpower to the Americans all over again. If the various governments of Europe and Canada (I am a Canadian) won't get off their lazy derrieres and become responsible adults then they deserve to be left out in the cold.
Many, many Canadians feel the same and see the current Liberal party of Canada as the most radical and irresponsible in the country's history. Period.
Biden. Not because I want it. It’s because I believe it. ME TOO🎉.
When im bored of serious factual stuff ,i turn to this podcast for some circus comedy
Listening to this guy makes Biden look smart
Tactful words fron an intelligent man.
Talk about sanctions and diplomacy at the same time from only one government is: you are allowed to do all
Ben Hoeges is always wrong. Do the opposite what he suggests.
100% wrong. Putin is always wrong. Ben is on point 95% of the time. Putin has made horrible blunders and looks like a fool. He pays trolls to support him like you and we see through it.
NATO panicking 🤣
Nonsense! pUtin's fascist regime is panicking! NATO is much to strong for the little worm pUtin 😂😂😂
Russian trolls are clowns! Putin is panicking just because Macron talked about sending troops to Ukraine!! 😂😂😂
Not really)) they just chilling
It is Putin who is making threats of IIIWW and nukes... that shows Putin is in panic.