GUEST: Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges – Retired United States Army officer
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Compilation of four interviews with Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, one of the strongest and most experienced voices advocating for a Ukrainian victory in its defensive war against Russia.
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DATTALION is home to the largest free, independent, open-source database of Ukraine war footage. In addition to compiling footage from across Ukrainian and russian-occupied territories, Dattalion hosts a database of verified eyewitness accounts of russian aggression, war crimes and acts of genocide in Ukraine – https://dattalion.com/
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SPEAKER:
Ben Hodges is a retired United States Army officer, who became commander of United States Army Europe in November 2014, and held that position for three years until retiring from the United States Army in January 2018. He has been Senior Advisor to Human Rights First since June 2022 and also serves as NATO Senior Mentor for Logistics. Until recently was the Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies, at the Centre for European Policy Analysis, specialising in NATO, the Transatlantic relationship and international security.
#benhodges #usarmy #ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda
#war #disinformation #hybridwarfare #foreignpolicy #communism #sovietunion #postsoviet
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Sir Richard Shirreff
Operator Starsky
Anders Puck Nielsen
Ben Hodges
John Spencer
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CHAPTERS:
00:00:00 Ben Hodges: Interview from 1st October 2022
00:00:01 Ben Hodges: Russian in violation of international law. Using force to change borders.
00:27:05 Ben Hodges: Interview from 23rd November 2022
00:56:31 Ben Hodges: Interview from 21st March 2023
01:33:02 Ben Hodges: Interview from 27th June 2023
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How I echo the words below and those of General Hodges. Unless the West ENSURES Ukraine wins hands down, Russia will be a plague to the whole world with its evil intent on every front. I have feared for more than a year that the "West" in general has behaved like a frightened coward. European countries have been in Putin's pocket for years. Putin is a total liar about it being NATO's fault. My parents generation fought and died so that we didn't have to live under the jackboot. But this is what is threatened by Putin on Ukraine. General Hodges don't stop speaking out. Jane Soole, Grandmother, Dorset, England.
For being comprehensively well informed about the whole perspective of the Russian Ukraine war this is the place to listen. Ben Hodges, how can the Americans afford to have him retired?
"…sicicon curtain have now killed ²⁶ ⁰⁰⁰ukrainians better actors than alex waldin and ⁴⁷ ⁰⁰⁰russians better actors than boris johnsson
This didn’t age well…
What a pity Ben Hodges isn't President of the USA!
Good stuff Ben! Slava Ukraine !..Ulster Northern Ireland U.Kingdom ❤ Thankyou for USA support. Regards Jonathan.
The US has been great assisting Ukraine. Typically, a regime in trouble goes to war.
Over time, nobody invades / attacks Russia ,terrible waste of. Life and Money.
Totally forgot that Ben Hodges called the Wagner Mutiny possibility months before it happened. His analysis is next level.
The hardest thing when trying to install new ideas in someone's head is removing the old ones. Russia is going to lose…period.
PLEASE READ, AND COMMENT: The majority of people in the USA support Ukraine 100%. It is those deluded by Rupert Murdoch's FOX media network that seem to be intent on completely destroying America, and installing a Trump family dictatorship. Murdoch, and the Republican party created a monster of untruth in their attempt to divide, and subvert the population, and then they lost control of the hatreds, and divisions they created, and thought they owned to a Donald Trump who spotted, then took over control of their Frankenstein monster. What all this is really about is a class war scam wherein the Republicans serve their rich patrons (because money is free speech, and corporations are people) providing them with irrational tax cuts which have created a massive national debt which these same rich have bought up in the form of treasury bills, Why? Because these treasuries pay interest, and we are a captive victim to their having sold us into unpayable, interest only, eternal debt slavery. We need to return our tax code to what it was between 1945, and 1964, or there will be unrest in this country like you have not seen since the French revolution. This situation is coming to a head with many in the Republican party thinking it is time for total enslavement of the people to a dictatorship which will squeeze the remaining middle class into full poverty. They must do this before the people they have brainwashed realize it is not the Mexican mowing the local Trump golf course, or the long haired junior college student, or the gay baby whale who stole their lives, and dreams from them. In the meantime the Republicans want their people to buy up lots of AR-15's, and their god given 10,000 rounds of ammunition so that when they fully destabilize the country to excuse another grab at dictatorial power their followers will have killed off all the sensible people that actually care about others lives, and wellbeing. This is where it stands. I welcome debate.
No child should be born in a country (this world) already owing the rich $77,000, and that dollar amount growing larger every single day, instead every child born should have waiting for them a share of this great land set aside for them long before their birth to be a secure resource, and refuge throughout their lives. If not, let them eat cake.
🤣🇷🇺🧟🧠s' Institutionalized Corruption is their UNDOING🤣🇺🇦✌️💙💛🌻
#Російські орки програють!
#elonmusk: Compromised or #insane, or just getting a lot of #blood #money from 🇷🇺?
Naz¡🇷🇺🧟🧠s 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝑳𝑶𝑺𝑰𝑵𝑮!
#NeverAgain #RussiaIsANaziState
#Свободу #Україні!
Свободу #Білорусі!
Свобода #російському народу!
🇷🇺🧟🧠s 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝑳𝑶𝑺𝑰𝑵𝑮!
Продовжуйте наполягати на #орках!
🇺🇦✌️🌻
#СлаваУкраїні! #героям слава!
🇺🇦✌️🌻
🤣TikTokBoyKadyroff&$on's are 🇷🇺🧟🧟🧠💩t¡И'sPuppets!
#Слава #Україні! #героям слава!
#Crimea is 🇺🇦!Eastern🇺🇦Is🇺🇦!
#UN SecurityCouncilSeat0ccupied by naz¡StatetErroristStateBelongs2Failed TotalitarianDictatorshipUSSR
#Росія терористична держава!
#Россия
#elonmusk: Compromised or #insane, or just getting a lot of #blood #money from 🇷🇺?
🇷🇺🧟🧠
Свободу Україні!
Свободу Білорусі!
Свобода російському народу!
There's no 'stalemate', 🇷🇺🧟🧠's ARE LOSING! The West needs to STOP 🤮🇷🇺🧟🧠 Propaganda!
🇺🇦✌️
#donate #donatetoday
👑💩tin🇷🇺🧟🧠
🇺🇦✌️
#Boycott ALL Countries, Corporations, & Companies Supporting 🇷🇺 GENOCIDE Against 🇺🇦! Boycott #Kelloggs who own #Pringles; #Kashi; #RXBar; & #ParatiGroup (a food conglomerate), & #TolaramGroup Diversified Food Products, for #supporting #russia's #genocide against #Ukraine.
🇷🇺&PRC(China), have always stated their long-term goals: Take over the entire world. Just like Pinky & The Brain=🇷🇺🧟🧠.🤣
🇺🇦✌️
🇺🇦𝙀𝘷𝘦ⲅ𝛄𝑡𝓱𝓲𝒏𝗴 Ꮃ𝒾ו𝖑 𐊡𝝔 𝖀𝒌ⲅ𝒂𝘪𝗇𝚎🇺🇦 𝑮𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝑼𝒌𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒆🇺🇦𝑮𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒆𝒔!
Свободу Україні!
Свободу Білорусі!
Свобода російському народу!
🇺🇦✌️
Crimea is 🇺🇦!
Eastern 🇺🇦 is 🇺🇦!
No part of 🇺🇦 belongs to 🇷🇺🧟🧠💩tin!
Свободу Україні!
Свободу Білорусі!
Свобода російському народу!
The reason behind the move to Belarus? Bc their long range launching systems have been looted of all critical components. If Tyrant💩💩 tin uses ☢️s, he will be responsible for the destruction of 🇷🇺, not NATO & The West.
🇷🇺🧟🧠
Свободу Україні!
Свободу Білорусі!
Свобода російському народу!
There's no 'stalemate', 🇷🇺🧟🧠's ARE LOSING! The West needs to STOP 🤮🇷🇺🧟🧠 Propaganda!
Any so-called 'peace negotiations' with 🇷🇺will end up like TheChef's plane "accident". Of course Путn, is responsible for TheChef's & scarylookingUtk¡ns' demise.
Also, there's still Vegacy Mercenary Group (Strategic Services), & Legat-Corp (those are the ones that I know of) they're still around.
🎉 Everything is Ukraine🇺🇦
#FreeДom!
🇺🇦HAS EVERY RIGHT TO Bring 🇷🇺's War of Genocide on 🇺🇦, TO 🇷🇺🧟🧠!
🇺🇦is close to✌️, 🇷🇺is close to complete Collapse, China is close to financial Collapse – 🇷🇺 & China are SCARED!
Crimea is Ukraine🇺🇦Eastern Ukraine is Ukraine🇺🇦. There is NO part of Ukraine 🇺🇦 that belongs to 🇷🇺🧟🧠💩tin, not now, not ever.
ruSSiaIsAtErroristStateruSSiaIsAtErroristStateРоссия – террористическая страна!
ruSSiaIsAtErroristState
Росія – терористична держава!ruSSiaIsAtErroristState
#Україна #незламна!
Снести Керченский мост!
Destroy the Kerch Bridge!
Glory to #Azov #A3OB Glory to #Ukraine Glory to the #Nation Glory to the #Heroes!
#Россия БУДЕТ СВОБОДНА от путинского КГБ и потомков советской элиты!
#Русский военный корабль иди на хуй!
#Російський військовий корабель іди до біса!
До біса Путін!
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Genocide.
Stolen children, stolen languages, stolen identities.
Genocide.
Murdered children.
Genocide.
Children indoctrinated with their aggressors' disinformation.
Genocide.
Children stolen from their parents, their community, their culture.
Genocide.
©MLN2023
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Bravo!
wish he'd run for president.
988 please us that number if needed in the coming months. I know it has helped me trough this failure of a counter offensive. Slavi Ukraini Slavi Bandera Slavi Nazis Slavi Heroi.
Outstanding, Jonathan. Thank you for all the work you do🙏
IT HAS BEEN A GREAT PLEASURE TO LISTEN TO HONORABLE GENERAL BEN HODGES. I HAVE LEARNED A LOT ABOUT WAR: IN PARTICULAR, WHAT MEANS COMBINED OPERATIONS, LOGISTICS AND TACTICS OPERATIONS, HOW IMPORTANT IS MILITARY TRAINING, DESCENTRALIZATION OF DECISION MAKING AND SO FOR. THANK YOU FOR ALL. SLAVA UKRAINE.🥰🇺🇦🇺🇦🇬🇧🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇸
Many thanks to Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, and to you Jonathan, for taking the time to create this video compilation. Every single thing discussed by Ben, was extremely interesting and his wisdom is remarkable, which of course it would be, given his career. But also because of his excellent sense of reasoning and logic. Dad used to say, in war – know your enemy well. Ukraine has a very long history of its enemy russia. And, it has had many lifetimes to understand the mindset of russians. I'm convinced that helps. On the other hand, russia fails to understand that which it "considers" to be its enemy. It has an over-exaggerated false perception of Ukraine and Ukrainians. In my opinion, russia failed to understand what it is dealing with, not only in its attack on Ukraine, but in its hybrid attack on the civilised world in the 21st century…
This is why we in the civilised world acknowledge the past and don't try to cover it up, or act as though we had no part in it. In his teachings to his nation, putin has disadvantaged his own, by gifting them with ignorance… and, contrary to the idiom, in this case for russia, ignorance is not bliss.
People in far flung areas of russia, will wise up to the fact that their own leadership is committing genocide against its own population… Tuva, and many parts of the current russia, had it correct in the beginning. This is what they were saying at the start.
It seems for decades since their oppression to be part of that large nation of russia, many areas of russia were promised the moon, and didn't even get the stars, they got a trickle of empty promises, still do… and right now those ethnic minorities in russia are protecting the rich city-dwellers of moscow and st. petersberg from being sent to fight and die for russia…
There is a red line… and it's being stepped over internally in russia, so far over 270,000 dead russian soldiers – Though the russians won't belive that until after the war when they count the numbers of which men never came back…
Thank you Jonathan for interviewing General Benjamin Hodges. He has brought to this pod cast, another informative update of the war between Russia and Ukraine. His realization of humanity and logistics shows without a shadow of doubt the most efficient and life-saving ways of ending this war sooner than later. Thank you General Hodges for always sharing and giving of your time.🇱🇷
It becomes more and more obvious that we in the US have to redouble our efforts to contact our representatives and senators to continue to support Ukraine to the fullest. 🇺🇦🇺🇸✌️
How many times does Ret. Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges need to spell out that Ukraine needs long range weapons NOW?
If only, if only Gen. Hodges, Gen. Shirreff, Gen. Breedlove, Gen Buehler and other people with understanding Russian intentions had been heeded by over-fed and over-scared western politicians early enough.
And there still are those, who refuse to take off "golden blindfolds" and realize we are facing the same, the very same evil we faced in maniac from Corsica and maniac from Braunau.
Peter pan General bl.a. bl.a. bl.a. 🙄 how Will Ukraine win against russia what do Ukraine need and so on ! What about Ukraine offensive failiure or succes ! Facts please not Psudo millitary talk 👊
Vilnius ended in exactly the way he predicted. So disappointing.
An 102 year old Ukrainian Babusia (grandma) was helping at making camoflage nets, she was telling workers and soldiers, that this is the third time the Russians are killing her family members, in her lifetime! (Most media cut, where she told the UA. soldiers to kill lots of Russians!)
Great interview. Yes, being US President is a massive challenge. All the good men may be too smart to take it on. The question is: Who will stand up for the future and make history, or who will simply watch history unfold in a negative and life-changing way for thousands of innocent people?
Thank you so much for putting all of these interviews from General Hodges together. I am a huge huge fan of his because he is so practical and so honest. I wish he was the Defense Secretary because we need someone in that position to persuade the rest of the administration to do what needs to be done to make sure you Ukraine wins this war. And wins sooner rather than later before more of their brave soldiers are killed or maimed. It's criminal that we are dragging this out the way we are. If our troops were on the ground getting slaughtered the way the Ukrainians are, you can be sure this war would have been over a while ago.
@KremlinRussia_E
Kneel down & Pray with me Vladimir. Good news, 160,000 newly mobilised Russian faces to appear on my favourite Wildlife program TVP World.
Humanity is not liked,
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Great respect to Gen. Hodges. And many thanks to Jonathan for the priceless work.
Is McGregor a General? Ben Hodges has generally been correct. He has a lot of credibility when it comes to his assessment since he has been pretty good. He predicted Russia would pretty much be defeated by the end of this year, so we’ll have to see how Oct turns out…
America could never go to war with Russia because of nuclear weapons. Why not pay Ukraine in weapons to do it for us. Russia took the bait, it was a trap all along.
Thank you Jonathan for this lovely podcast. And double thank you for not putting adverts in, much appreciated. I am working on a project and appreciate not having to reach over to end an advert every couple of minutes.
Love your videos but international law means nothing to Russia. Killing civilians is just them fighting a war.