Comments by "joe bloggs" (@joebloggs430) on "He Stormed Mariupol and Met the Enemy Face to Face" video.

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  8.  @godfreydebouillon8807  Sorry bud but you're way off there. 300+ Wagner troops attacked a small number of US troops in Syria and it was total slaughter but not for the US who had no losses. Also in various parts of Africa Wagner troops, the best Russia has to offer, have performed poorly and Wagner + Russia lost a lot of reputation. They were even kicked out in some places because they could even handle the ragtag local insurgent rebels they were up against. As for the invasion of Ukraine, Russia has used artillery, artilllery, artillery ... and artillery to make progress. Their tactics were to move forward until they made contact, then pull back a few km and use massive artillery to pound the site of contact into oblivion and then move forward again until they made contact and repeat. It's been clear since the beginning that Ukraine lacked firepower and range, but where the troops made contact Ukraine was mauling the Russian side. Wagner were the only ones making significant progress in contact situations, and they were the best equipped, most heavily armed troops and their edge was their ability and experience in combined arms operations, wich is what Nato trains. So the only situations where Russian trops were defeating Ukraine troops in direct contact was where Ukr was facing troops with the same kind of combined arms ability but 10x the experience in urban combat especially. Just look at Mariupol and Bakhmut, do they scream 'superior Russian troops winning hand to hand' or 'utter annihaltion from artillery bombardment' ? Azovstal was a prime example. It was the only place where the Russian artillery and even direct air assault could not wipe their targets out and in the end the defenders surrendered after several months of holding out. So the fact is that Russia never defeated the defenders of Azovstal / Mariupol. That might sound like splitting hairs when you consider the 'defeat' of Russian in Kherson but in this case it is true. Russia was not able to defeat the defenders by arms so they laid siege to them and eventually they surrendered after running out of ammo, food and medical supplies. Without the Russian 10x advantage in artillery this invasion would have ended with their defeat in Kyiv.
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  9. @@marietsuki ? So let me get this straight, the real problem is not hundreds and hundreds of years of Rusisan Imperialism but instead the problem is the attitude of the Ukrainians, who think they are better than everyone else, including the people of the 'Russian Empire' ? So the Grand Duke of Moscow suddenly declared that the was the King of everyone and Everythign and took the name of the 'Rus' even though Moscow has no historical connection with the Russ, and declared that the Duchy Of Moscow was now the 'Russian Empire', and put everyone East of Moscow to the sword, but the problem is the attitued of the Ukrainian people trying to pretend that they are different to Russians, even though Ukrainian came first, and has nothing to do with Russian and never actually did ? Is it possible to get any more delusional ? The 'Russians are fake Rus' thing is a historical fact, not something invented by 'Ukrainian Nationalists'.. It seems that the real problem is that the existence of Ukraine just makes it impossible to ignore the false claims and inventions of the 'Russian Empire' and now Putin has drawn the attention of the entire world onto this fact. The proof for all of this was recognised in Russia a long time ago, because it is all a matter of fact, so there was no reason to hide it or try to deny it. Now Putin's Nationalism has backfired and the world has researched the issue and discovered the true facts. Russia is a historical deception and Putin is the man responsible for bringing this to the attention of the world.
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  10.  @slavcity406  So you do know that all Ukrainians are also Russian speakers right ? Since the 1930s when the Soviet Union replaced Ukrian with Russian as the language taught in schools in Ukraine. Zelensky is a native Russian Speaker. Russian is the most commonly spoken language in Kyiv, and always has been. So now everyone in USA is English becuase they are native English speakers ? Azov was created to fight the Russian invasion that Prigozhyn just admitted happened in Donbas in 2014, he also admitted that Ukriane did not attack civlians but only attacked the secret Russian positions. There are fake videos all over the internet of 'Ukrainians' crucifying 'Russian speakers' and burnign them alive and so on, but they have all been debunked as fakes, just like the documentaries about the Ukrainian snipers at Maidan ... So yes, Azov 'shellign and persecuting Ethnic Russians is BS. If you don't believe me then look up the BBC interview with Lavrov in Moscow last year. The head of BBC Moscow confronted Lavrov with the UN OHCHR Report into deaths in Donbas since 2014 and it proves that 'Shelling Donbas fo rthe last 8 years is BS' .. and Lavrov admitted that the report was accurate. There was also no increase in shelling by Ukraine forces in Donbas on Feb 24 2022, in fact the opposite is true and 17 Ukrainian 'settlements' were shelled by Russian forces in that period. There was no 'Ukraine / Nato' force ready to 'invade Donbas' either, that was more BS Russian propaganda, according to the observers the biggest movements and build ups were all on the Russian controlled side and several Observers had been illegally detained by Russian proxy forces and they were prevented from carrying out their observer duties by Russian proxy militias who were seen to be moving heavy weapons around and building up fortified positions.
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