Comments by "" (@urrywest) on "Sky News" channel.

  1. The russian narrative is that Ukraine has been dug into the donbas by setting up command centers to control local russian ethnic populations as well as setting up ordenence postions in urban areas... Russian narratie is also that they have done their best to preserve civillians and civiallian infrastructure as well as opening up humanitarian coridors so that civillians can leave... Coridors that would be shelled by Ukrainian nationalists...
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  2. Many seem to be scratching our heads wondering if this is satire.
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  3.  @evechurchill424  Actually how profound the west lied about the Ukraine war is breath taking.... I suppose I should have gotten ready for this since the democrats insisted that trump was installed by the russians.... The lies in this case are just as weak.
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  4. Maybe it is good because it will train reciently unimployed fins...
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  5. Nato is attempting to expand to the south china sea... Is nato a defencive alinance?
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  6.  @evechurchill424  Sometimes there isn't really another 'side' sometimes there are carefully placed lies that are meant to croud out the truth... More reasonable narratives are biased as well. They are just biased toward the truth. They are doing their best to censor the truth as well.
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  7.  @johannjohann6523  Much evidence for some of these allegations have been published. Russia had the english PM Truss's personal phone hacked that suggested that the UK was involved in the pipeline destruction... I have not seen others, but russian intelligence will probably present some evidence for each of these allegations.
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  8. I thought it was a good interview... If there were edits they looked legit.
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  9.  @WinterXR7  Are either of these places of any stratigic significance?
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  10. It sounds funny in a way but the whole world is at war.... Many people all over the world will die becaus of foodstuff shortages.... It is fun for the US millatary industies to send wepons but Zeleski says he dosn't need any forign help... I am pretty sure US sending weopons is one of the primary resons for the war.
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  11.  @randomdude2832  That is exactly what I be thinking... I also be thinking that there is not a currency that can take over from dollar hegimony in the very near future.
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  12.  @octaviantimisoreanu5810  Try apeasing the russians by stopping slaugter of russian civillians and stop shelling russian army positions and perhaps they will be so kind as not to advance. That was the russian demands eight years into the conflict before russia invaded.
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  13.  @dvsfreek Advikka's civillian shelling capiabillties have been destroyed and the Russians are going back to their defesive doctrine where they are using it as a trash compactor. The sad thing is the quanity of Ukrainians that they threw at places like this. Now they are throwing women GIs at the wall.
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  14.  @paulbrady4579  100K dead is terrible news. We need to quit killing people... ... Somehow it has become vogue all around the world to kill people... It needs to stop.
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  15.  @edwardbernthal160  The Ukrainians arn't going into Kherson... They want to stay away from that caldron... Now a caldron but most of the population went east before hand.
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  16.  @Harrywilkinscornwall  Arguably the 'world community' could be pulling away from russia. That is the world community comprized of the five eyes. The one that the US had stubornly insisted that they are with us and not four russia before the invasion. The 'world community' comprised as well by 11% of the world's population. It is possibel that will be the the new 'western block' in the new cold war agaisnt russia and more importantly china. My understanding of what russia wants is that they want to enforce the minsk agreements signed in '15 and haven't backed down from that 'bright red line' ... The ‘special military operation’ [russia prefers the leagal definition as apposed to 'war'] is the enforcent of that agreement... Or at least that is my understanding. So.... If the war is about the economic clought with the west, where the west was trying hard to get russia to invade to strenthen, mostly to issolate europe AND NOT russia, is lost... Yes then europe is isolated... And EUROPE lost. If the plan was to weaken russia economically.... That would assume that US intelegence can't ballance a ledger at a candy store, whch is probable, then that STUPID plan didn't work.
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  17.  @gregorylouis617  It is not true that Russia is an artillary army more than the US exept in this case they decided not to burn Ukraine to the ground, but if they find consintrations of personel, feuel, armiments and amunion they will send in a rocket or two... Now the Russian millatary is increasiingly killing women on the front lines.
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  18.  @TheInfamousMrFox  The scuttle but says that russia thought that it would be popular in the Ukraine to join russia and institute the minsk agreements and all they had to do was knock on the door.... Putin fired like 150 millatry intelegence officers after those 'battles' If it were the US invading Iraq, Kieve and other western cities would be flattened... Russia has more than enogh assets to do such a thing.
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  19.  @nvelsen1975  I don't know that they can suffer ten times as many lives lost because the magnitude of lives lost in the millatary of Ukrain is 1/2 million.... Ten times is Five Mega deaths, which gets to look like world war two Jewish and Russian death toll.
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  20. @edgar zarate Yes.... Entirely unacepble.. Still too many russians dead... Was it in russia's interest to invade? Here scott ritter discusses that... youtube[DOT]com/watch?v=zsiXJcKnGO4
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  21. @edgar zarate Did russia win the economic war? Would the economic war be as virolent if the invasion hadn't happened? Who wins there? Odviously the west didn't have the capabillity to ballance a ledger in a candy store... US objectives were to liberalise the economies of russia, china, iran, venezuela... Their objective was to make those economies los, to break up their goverments and have their vendors take the rent and natural resources away from those economies... That didn't happen... Sadly Europe lost and willingly lost.
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  22. The west is out of weapons and amuntion as well.
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  23.  @xpact83  It is a sick exersise.... I am in Chicago and people think I am crazy when I say the war is lopsided.
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  24.  @shaunlovett1565  I think the right word is 'tip' because I think the russians have a clue.
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  25.  @dirremoire  I am not sure the weapons are meant to be ulitmately effective....
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  26.  @alexb6631  It is a difficult operation for the Russians.... They lost a huge number of men, perhaps 50K and they want to lose as few as they possibly can to the end of the millatary operation.... It should be over in about a month.
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  27. Granted, after the fact they seem to be able to throw up a relitively accurate map... The have no predictive value at all though.
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  28.  FC  Unguided when it exits the barrel but carefully targeted rounds...
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  29. My impression is that much of the 'russian occupation' is natives defending their teritory from the coup goverment of Ukraine.
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  30. Much of the so called trench systems that the russians are putting up are trenches then huge concrete blocks... They are in long lines and very effective in keeping vehicles from going through them. Trenches like the ones that Nato has been building for years are in zig zag patterns where if one part of the trench is hit by artillary the other parts are safe..
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  31. I know the Sky guy is an idiot which is nothing new, but did Mirandi have to be so belacose? He usually is more mild manored. In this case when Iran shows a definate advantage he could fall back on his mild demeanor.
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  32.  @roadent217  Yes...The russians may have to take westrn Ukraine.... And with the US shock and awe method... Which they have been reticent to emplloy.... The russians are being shelled from western Ukraine and the US is supplying weapons and training thousands of Ukraine and perahps others to use the integrated weopons systems that they are sending [at a rate more than russias yearly millatary budget] It is all very disaponiointing... The US economic goals, which is what it is about, won't even trickle down to the people of the US of which I am a member... .I think there is reason to believe that the accountents didn't look at the consequences of this conflict for the intersts that the US suports.
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  33.  @maw4734  Interesting.... It was speculated that russian intelligence was operating on the assumption that if russia showed military might, ukrain would surrender.... That offer to surrender was rebuffed and ukraine is claiming victory ever since. In football terms... It is like declaring a game won when the opposing team didn't execute an attempted touchdown on kickoff.... While it may have not been wise to attempt a touchdown on kickoff... The assertion IS that they lost because they didn't achieve that goal. It is innocent ukraine military's personnel that are paying the highest price... The sanctions on europe, planned by the US before russia's invasion of ukraine are also destroying europe. The sanctions against europe in the interests of US military contractors, monopolies including IT, banking. energy and pharma are going to destroy europe... The US is trying to be protectionist against industrial polices that can strengthen europe and make europe an economic rival of US hegemony.
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  34. The main part of the story is the sanctions aginst russia... The main target is keeping the EU in the US sphere of influence and have the EU buy from western cartells everything they need and to refinance everything.... These are tactics that can't win the economic war but can stop the advance that is slowly grinding on the west... The west would have to adopt some of the east's economic weapons, like capitalism, to stop it's decline independent of the east.
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  35.  @erivers71  It is kind of weird... They show a map where russia has almost entirely liberated the donbas, which was what the 'special opperation' was about then they say russia can't seem to do anything right.
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  36. As an american who sees glimpses of these state run news networks, I think they are equally misleading... Sky seems to be a bit less emotional. We also have a new 'minstry of truth' in the states. What I think is better about Sky is that it shows a map of Ukraine where the russians seem to have almost achieved their millatary objectives, althogught they don't have the outline of the DPR and LPR. But he characterizes everything they do as either evil or incopentent.
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  37. If he were in ecenomnics he would get a nobel prize.
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  38. Russians are cry babies... DPR, LPR and the russians are occupying 2/3 of the donbass region... That was their primary objective. Is it the russians who are crying or is it Sky news that thinks they should crush everything with mortar?
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  39.  @LornaC474  The russians clame to have intersepted an order to shoot on sight anyone surrendering in the plant. My impression is that there are people there that would embarass the Ukraininan operation, and that the order is real and that is was given to save Ukraine from some shame.
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  40.  @LornaC474  I am not sure.... These are the reports I have heard... I am not at all good at verifying sources. That leaves me with a group of impressions based on my biases... If the western media says it, to me they have impeached themselves over and over again with the most extreme whacky conspiracy theories that even I could never imagine... But they said it and now I think they are almost always lying.... So I do try and verify things that have given me an impression but I ain't all that. Needless to say, war is not fun and conditions are not the same "White flag means surrender" and "POWs will be treated with respect" and so on don't always apply...
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  41. Her comments suggest a strong unresonable bias like everyone I have seen do a recap of the evensts on the battle field... No significant advances along the Ukraine fortifide line [the attakc is going at relative lightning speed over a very big area] , Russians not sticking to the cese fire on the steal plant [after several cese fires, with humaintarian coridors I get the impression that no russian troops are watching the plant and farmed that out to local malicias], 10K people burried at this mass grave [digers on the ground show each grave with markers of who was burried in each sight, manitude maybe not even in the hudreds] Second phase of russian operation thoght to be an anexation [my impression is that is soon to tell]
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  42.  @boink800  It seems as if the west has taken over that kind of poetry.... Poetry out of a distopian science fiction novel or movie.... Example: In the US we have a 'minstry of truth' which was formerly headed by 'scary poppins' ... Nina Jankowicz who was part of mutliple teams who insisted that trump was installed by putin for six years... The tanks are only steel cofins for the Ukrainians... The west is in big troube because the mask is about to be lifted.
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  43.  @boink800  Here is some more poetry about lying by Nina Jankowitz: former head of Biden's 'minstry of truth' ... They had to walk back her as head because of public outcry but the minstry of truth still exists with no public face... youtube.com/watch?v=lNcEVYq2qUg
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  44. They fail upward, provided their nework in in operation.
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  45. Perhaps he should be more conserned with democratic processes in the EU.... Democracy might break out across europe...
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  46. ABT. Ukraine, he continually said how russia was losing and that they will be beaten back to the pre 2014 border, while showing maps of Ukraine that showed steady progress of russia through areas of Ukraine that had been fortified since 2014.
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  47. I get the impression that the shells will last a week... Do they have artillery pieces that can fire them?
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  48. Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, in russian controlled territory is being bombed by russia, just as they bombed the nord stream pipelines.... Biden threatening to bomb then just gave the russians cover to bomb the pipelines.
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  49.  @deriznohappehquite  In the past it was considered capitalism to support the population with housing, education, healthcare, education, transportation for free or at reduced prices... It lowered the cost of living in so that the workers were able to support industry... Now it is considered socialism but is it really? It was replaced with the idea that only things that are OWNED by atomized people made any economic value at all and that collective efforts were not adding any economic value at all. That model, touted by reagan in the reagan revolution, is known as neoliberalism. What it lead to is a return to the new gentry owning everything and keeping the rest of the economy in debt to them as well as deindustrialization. A break from this form of central planning in the 18'th century was thought of at the time as freeing the market.... A return to it is actually feudalism.... It is the east, as in the east in the new cold war, is actually industrializing. Again that is what was formerly known as capitalism. This is the clash of civilizations of our time
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  50. @dennislions1 Maybe we shouldn't make matters worse by sanctions.... And justify those sanctions by fighting to the last Ukrainian... Other than on the battle field where ukraine is getting severely splayed, what the US is doing don't make a lot of sense to me.
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