Putin's 'inability' exposed after Kharkiv push doesn't reach objectives | Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2024
- "Almost half a year and Russia was not able to really, exploit that in any meaningful way."
Russia's inability to drastically change the front line while US aid was held up will be a bad omen as Russian losses become "unsustainable", Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges tells Frontline on #timesradio
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Ben Hodges for November 2024!! 🗳️🇺🇲
From the UK, I agree, someone that is articulate and experienced.
I love this fuken guy
Secretary Of Defense
Ben hodges is the village idiot of this conflict.
The secret call up of eighteen year olds will commence in the Ukraine in a few months..
More of Ben please...really like listening to his calm sensible analysis
I wish Russia would just give up and go home ffs.
@@russellspeed1693 Russian troll, yuch.
Putin will have to take the blame, but he's desperate to dodge responsibility for his crimes (sound familiar?) I expect he'll be made an offer he can't refuse: go away and stay alive, or not. I like the idea of Putin sitting somewhere, wondering just how reliable the former promise really was.
@russellspeed1693 Russians and Ukrainians were, ethnically speaking, like brothers.
But Russia has always been like Cain. The Holodomor, serving Ukrainians up as meat shield in WW2, general exploitation...
Now Ukrainians will forever hate Russia. There's a whole new generation who had no memory of all the historic crimes Russia committed in Ukraine, that are now seeing the bloodthirst, sexual violence and thievery of the Russian people. This war will cost Russia it's future.
@@luminyam6145 they need to be stopped. We must protect our democracy.
@@russellspeed1693yes they are fighting with spuds and sticks 😂. Maybe if the west had kept their word. Spuds and sticks. Ukraine is such an honest place too, they didn't keep killing the Russian people , you know the people who call themselves Russian, a leftover idea from the USSR. Russia itself didn't help in WW2 either did they
Only the west is right
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I could listen to Ben all day, brilliant man.
Escapist dreaming....
@@classics39 two word slogan makes your comment facile.
if you think he is briliant then you have brought ign0rance & styupid!ty to a whle new level. UA are losing and losing bad, & so called experts like this never report it
Yea, he knows how to tell tales.
@@gfan83 just because someone says something that you don’t like doesn’t make them tales.
Love this guy ,talks for a majority of normal people who love freedom.
In contrast to you, normal people know that Ukraine is a military dictatorship.
What is the matter with those Russians? They are not being attacked; all they have to do is go home. They have the largest country in the world; why is that not enough?
Ego from Czarist and Soviet days. Russia considers Ukraine to be historic land and its post Cold War independence was an insult in their eyes. Putin wants to bring back the USSR regardless of human or financial cost.
They don't have a country. They have a police state controlled empire with no real civil society led by a corrupt greedy second rate KGB bureaucrat with no military experience. This is why empire keeps failing.
The problem is that Russia is flat and armies can move across it quickly so Russia is trying to plug two geographical choke points, the Bessarabian Gap and the Polish Plains, Ukraine is on the way to them both. Thanks to Russia’s impending demographic crisis, this is the last decade that they will have sufficient numbers of young men to attempt this so it’s now or never. Thanks to the institutionalised corruption inherent in the Russian system, the military has proven to not be up to the task, but they are learning lessons and adjusting tactics which results in the meatwaves of mobilised soldiers and convicts but that results in diminishing returns as the Ukrainian refine their countermeasures. So long as Ukraine can keep producing drones faster than Russia can produce soldiers, they will prevail.
What do all men of power want? More power.
lts putin not the people who want Ukraine.
Ruzzia is fighting an essentially immoral and illegal war whereas the ukranians are fighting for their culture for their families and their whole countrys future…THAT in the end will make all the difference
Yes, yes it will.
So the US is funding Ukraine to fight for their culture..? Why would they do that..?
B-but Mr. Putin said he's fighting a holy war against everything that is evil and for the glory of the best nation on the planet - his soviet sheeple. Surely it can't be illegal or god forbid immoral if the dearest & most stronkest leader himself masterminded it, can it?
It’s all so black and white is it?
Putin is fighting for his orc life
Excellent as ever from Hodges. Thanks.
In the beginning of the war Ben Hodges said our leadership must say we want Ukraine to win.
Now they are closer to saying that.
Thank you General Hodges.
Big respect to Ben Hodges 👍
Ben Hodges is a great thought leader.
I really appreciate Ben Hodges too.
I wonder what drugs he takes?
Always enjoy Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges's comments on the war in Ukraine
We will keep supporting our Ukrainian Heroes! 💙💛
we need true leaders with lotsa guts to do the right thing!!! maybe it's time to get a general again in the white house
Sadly the choice is Biden or Trump. What kind of a choice is that? I can’t vote for either one of them.
So we will expect you to zip it. People like you that can't deceminate situations in the least should not vote at all. They have no opinions.
not much into personal grief are you? 😂😂😂
We've learnt nothing since 1944!
Look at the state of the world!
We are a disgusting species.
Very true, we never learn
We are who we evolved to be. Our last common ancestor is much closer to Chimpanzees than Bonobos evolutionarily and behaviorally as well.
Europe has united and countries that have been enemies for centuries have become close friends in just a genertion or two.
It's sort of miraculous, really in light of the history of Europe.This Ukraine war is occurring along the edge of Europe where Ukraine wants to be European and the Rusians want to prevent them from joining the Pax Europa.
Bring back conscription maybe this World War we won't be caught unprepared!
Ben Hodges has been the guiding light of Ukraine war analysis.
Irreplaceable ❤
Always good to hear from Ben Hodges
I agree !! General Ben Hodges for President ! A man of his caliber is what is needed. He tells WHAT is needed to get this job done- Victory for Ukraine.
He is a man of ca-LIE-ba
God bless Ukrainian people
Ben Hodges knows what he is talking about.
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Russia should think about capitulation
They are expecting Ukraine/NATO to capitulate.
@@s0ycapitan meanwhile, ruzzian army reduces day by day until they use bicycles to raid Ukrainian trenches.
@@s0ycapitan That won't happen
Xi is the backdoor man, Putin will soon find this out.
Well, i dont know If that is really the Case, unfortunately.
Thank you General Hodges for your continued fight for what is right, even though many of your contemporaries are enjoying their retirement.
May God bless all your efforts. 😇
8:26 There it is. That's the essence of all the political talk we keep hearing. If only politicians babbled less and listened to real experts more...
General Ben Hodges for president
Informative
Air superiority is the Holy Grail of Ukraine.
Another Times Radio piece on Russia... wait, it's Ben Hodges. I'll click.
Always worth it.
Ben Hodges. Best interviewee in the space.
Hope that - when the F16’s arrive that:
1. They have trained SEAD - Suppresion of Enemy Air Defence
2. They have been provided with suitable weapons, including HARM and longer range alternatives
Thank you for this great report. Ben Hodges is always knowledgeable, articulate and sensible. It defies logic that the US administration doesn’t bring him in to the policy-making circle. A great resource being squandered. 🇨🇦
We need more Ben Hodgeses, in administration, army and in the general public opinion. Then this war would have been over.
Thank you General Hodges ? ❤from USA
Thanks for again bringing us Hodges analysis. The US and Europe was in good hands with military leaders like him in charge. We should all be thankful for the traditions of our militaries.
I admired how he said women and men as naturally as most of us say men and women
Ukraine says the KIA ratio is at least 7 to 1 in their favour.
You cant believe Ukraine claims on kia, Zelensky lied when he said UAF only lost 31k which is absurd
Could be considering the meatwall tachtic that Russia uses.
Yea and they also destroyed thousands of jets, tens of thousands of tanks, thousands of artillery, blabla.... Meanwhile the Russians claim the same thing about Ukraine, that Ukraine lost 10 times more everything than Russia.
Ever heard of Propaganda? Its extremely strong on both sides in this war.
@@mrjerzheel is it? USSR lost 250 KIA in 3.5 months in winter war with ration 10 dead soviet soldiers against one Finnish.
I wouldn’t trust KIA or casualty figures coming from either side. There have been independent investigations that put the casualty rate around 1.4-1.6 in favour of Ukraine. Causalities have been bad on both sides, and are only worse for Russians because of the ‘meat grinder’ tactics they use to take major towns and territory’s
Gen Hedges hits to close to the Krumblin; he always brings out their most subtle but pernicious trolls. Bravo🇺🇦
jeez i never use the word troll, but these warmongering trolls are fantasitic 🤣🤣🤣🤣
jeez i never use the word troll, but these warmongering trolls are fantasitic 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Kudos to this channel. Thank you, Gen. Hoghes for clearing our minds in the West. Ukraine must win. Be free, whole, independent and strong for our freedom and democracy to survive the onslaught of tyrant autocrats in this world we live.
never announce your plans to the world, just start doing crazy stuff, if it works out, you will be seen as a master strategist, and whenever your plans dont come to fruition and you lose, you can say it was never your plan to do what they thought you were attempting to do.
What lessons, no, only one lesson: You do not appease megalomaniacs and you do not listen to their hollow threats.
Its funny how all the idiots claiming “UKR is done for” last month are oddly silent after putin’s 3rd failed offensive. 🤣
Did you catch it near the end? We need to have "quality WOMEN and men." I suppose a woman can do everything a man can do....
Dam right they can
And a few things men cannot do!
As always I love listening to Ben Hodges. Great man.
Why is the Kersh bridge still up ??
The quality of the russians troops is very low.
Let’s go do what Ben says!
Excellent interview with the general.
Ukraine needs to be way more careful with their people!
I know it’s hard, but people are always your most valuable asset!
Don't forget that a million or two of the brightest and best educated Russians left Russia before mobilization.
That, with a high casualty rate plus a falling birth rate puts Russia into a demgraphic crisis, eventually.
Nice conversation
Excellent video, with good reporting.
That Kerch bridge is a goner!Thanks for your insights,general!Ukranians sure know their business.They just need the hardware!Best regards from Spain.
How many russians have left russia since 3 years .now putin is increasing Tax.
Showing Putin and the Z the only way to ensure total withdraw by Russia, the only obstacle is Putin
The best thing about this war is the endless Monday morning quarterbacking from analyst living in London and Washington. Every prediction wrong. Love that the NEO cons are so in vogue now. John Bolton? Really? Don't know which side is dumber. The Breedlove-Ben Hodges camp or the Col Macgregor-Scott Ritter camp.
The objective was to redirect Ukrainian forces into the Kharkiv area from other areas of the front and to create a buffer zone there not to take Kharkiv.
In which case, the whole campaign has been an utter failure because the Russians *haven’t* had any serious advances anywhere else and are getting pushed out of the North.
The Russians are *losing* and they know it.
Ben is always on the job, giving great snap shots of the enemies failures though his decades of battle field experiences . He is like an expert battlefield strategist I bet he is actually giving his two cents worth even now to the top brass on the battlefield .
I am sure he is and is being listened to
"Two million women and men", lol, I guess we can halve that.
The general would like us to make more ships and planes to defend what we love in America.
General: In a wider war, all important ships on both sides will be targeted and sunk. Ukraine has shown that obvious truth to the world.
Ships move slow and are easy targets. General: Build no more ships. But build lots of planes, rockets, and drones.
Who fell out of a window today?
Which will come first? Putler has a reunion with Prigozhin due to old age or Russia loses the war ?
Another sneak attack that petered out when met with staunch resistance. The ability to concede territory, with fighting withdrawals while organising a counter measure's is often a useful tactic.
How come?
Putin a bad strategist???😂😂😂😂😂
He especiizes in "special ops."
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Yes , agree, i spend alot of time in pattaya, thailand……there are so many young Russians here now ….escaping being sent to the front lines in Ukraine…i guess they dont share Putins logic for the war and are not prepared to put their life on the line purely for the dictators ego issues, sadly as you say…its the people who have money who can leave…..poor people go to the front lines☹️☹️😬😬😂😂
Drones not humans
Ben Hodges at least as the Defence Minister in the U K and the USA. It's all about the present facts and what has been learned about the past. "The facts are always friendly."
He would make a great US President.
The British military and the journalists who give them their oxygen and milk them for information, and the intellectual quality of both make British democracy a clear world reference, and the best thing in my opinion is the understanding that it is an alliance of dictatorships against the democracies again... let's remember Italy, Germany and Japan from the Second World War, or the 9th Austro-Hungarian Empire, Turkey and Germany, it is true that there has never been a dictatorship like the Chinese one with a workforce of more than a billion humanoids ... with love and respect from Galicia..
Hi
Doesn't reach or didn't reach?
FFS! Another repeat!
Please @Times radio can you title these short repeats as such!
UA-cam apparently loves what Russia is doing.
No conscription under 18 unless it's voluntary. Keep the future of Ukraine.
charitable ain't ya🤣🤣🤣🤣
Call out the republicans without saying it. Have a backbone and say it
500 $ million a day its costing russia
If only Putler had someone like Ben in his camp
There are people in Russia just as nuts as Ben Hodges.
The sanctions were designed to impact the ruling elite and oligarchs. We were specific about trying to not harm the everyday Russian.
Now we are talking about blowing up rail and industry infrastructure... what about modifying the sanctions?
If the goal is now to get ALL RUS to turn against Putin (who just got re-elected again) then we need to make life under his admin unlivable, but demonstrate that as a Putin problem, not a RUS-US problem. Unfortunately we have little to do w/ areas outside of the major cities and our support inside of St. Petersburg and Moscow have already fled for The West.
Sanctions don't have a good track record of working, especially if other countries enable work around (ie: China, Iran, N Korea, etc).
The idea was sanction the elites and they would change Purins mind but that didn't happen.
Now the ONLY choice is to make the whole economy crumble and cause the common Russian lots of pain and get THEM to change the regime.
Our leaders are idiots, no one who knows history or economics expected the sanctions to work, it boggles the mind that "Washington" ever thought so. Really inexplicable.
And the Biden administration has slow walked weapons deliveries waiting and waiting and waiting for the sanctions to work which has increased the Ukrainians death toll and drawn out the war. An example is, there should have been a dozen Ukraine pilots brought over for F-16 training along with the ground support crews in the FIRST MONTH of the war. And if they never got used at least they were there just in case. Instead the incompetent Biden administration waited until it was borderline too late just to start the training so now it'll be the end of this 3rd quarter or maybe 4th quarter before the pilots are ready. Probably 30% of the Ukrainians CIVILIAN and military casualties are from that mistake alone since the Russians have been launching cruse missiles at civilian infrastructure targets and the F-16s could have stopped most of it. The glide bombing of the Ukrainians front lines has also killed a lot of troups and again the F-16 should have been there a year ago to take out the Russians launch planes. Same with the anti-sir and artillery, Biden announced it as aid BUT it was shipped SLOW and IN SMALL QUANTITIES (when the US military logistics could have had it there in LESS THAN TWO WEEKS, but a lot promised last year hasn't hotter there yet, let alone what was approved this year, it's sitting in warehouses here in the US, not on transport to Ukraine.
As we know, the Ukraine is using NATO weapons it begs the question, why doesn’t the Ukraine higher or professional nato soldiers. Russia is already doing this by using Chinese soldiers and from other countries as well.
Stop uploading old interviews as if they are new.
Maybe time for an other new MoD, why not Steven Seagal?
Steven Segal is a Russian citizen now, literally.
At least as much experience as Gerasimov or their current bean counter
silly question but how would the russians know a ukrainian is flying the plane? even if they down the plane, there’s no way of knowing the nationality of the pilot 🤷🏻♀️
Ben hodge was flying the airplane
Err Planes have markings, profiles .. we aren't reliving WWII Pearl Harbour
Russians use SU. Ukraine is using Mig and attempting to integrate F-16.
I think Ben is a fantastic communicator and commentator- unfortunately all his predictions have been proven wrong because of western hesitation- if he could make all the decisions then the war would have been over last year
He buddy, wanna buy some gas and oil?
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Russia seems to be doing ok mr hodges
not sure we have lost confidence, we have lost the finaces from the rich as taxes to fund our deterence
So many of the same talking points on many of these guests.
Corporal Dobby of the house of elves and private bone spurs of the orange house couldn’t lead a dog.
We should reach out to the Russian population to win their hearts and minds by allowing them to travel. Move money overseas, get visas. There’s be a shortlist of people like oligarchs and military leaders that you could put on the no fly list the rest of need to be treated decently by the western world so they can see we are not the enemy, Vladimir Putin is the enemy
Another mash up of a video I watched yesterday
It's better for hodges to keep quiet and have people suspect that he's a clown, than to open his mouth and remove all doubt.
Let Gen Hodges explain what the West political and military objectives are. He should stop discussing tactics which is the responsibility of commanders in the battlefield. He talks about irrelevant issues that have nothing to do with the facts on the ground. He speaks like a corporal not like a general.
"Untanable Ben"
Well, we gotta stay realistic tho. "Kharkiv push doesn't reach objectives". But what was the objective? They definitely didn't plan to push to Kharkiv City on this offensive. They haven't used not nearly enough soldiers to even think of that.
Hard to imagine that this was the objective
This is just propaganda.
This is a repeat interview from yesterday - not new. Times Radio should be honest with its viewers and state the obvious that this interview first ran on June 5, 2024.
I didn't see it yesterday. For me it is new.
@@daydays12 Ditto.......
@@daydays12 You can see the full interview in the video list menu.
They should tell us it's a Repeat.
@@1faustus Thank you.
People who think that Ukraine is winning are living in denial. They seek comfort in subjective reality and ignore all the facts
hodges is your daily dose of copium.
Have to sit thru a Trump begging-for-money ad. Trump has 14-carat gold plated toilet seats at Mar-a-Lago. I know. Saw them on "Lifestyles Of the Rich And Famous" many years ago. So why does a billionaaire -- who said that he would finance his entire campaign and never beg for money -- beg for money?
Trump ads should be banned from channels that support Ukraine. It's actually comical. Doubt if he's pulled in much money from people who despise Putin.
Yet another TR repeat of content of a previous one. Why do you do this?
Putin seems to be doing ok. Russian economy too in st Petersburg
Why is it that no one ever talks about air superiority in Ukraine?! Without it you are cannot obtain your objectives.