Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "Why Ukrainian officials are confident they can defeat Russia" video.

@alhambrabiker1476 : We all knew that financial sanctions would take 3 or 4 years to take full effect, because Putin had managed to hoard all that gold and cleared up national debt before he started. But the effects have actually been way more rapid than most financial institutions and economists were predicting. Russia is already defaulting on payments and their main crutch, China, is currently facing a financial retraction bigger than any they’ve seen in over 50 years. This is only in part due to the fact that Putin’s armed services turned out to be way more financially corrupted than even Putin realised, with huge chunks of equipment and infrastructure that appeared on paper never having been procured, but there’s a lot of Russian Generals and Admirals with really cool looking yachts and houses in the west. To put it bluntly. Russia is f*cked. Even if peace broke out today and all sanctions were lifted, it would take Russia AT LEAST 20 years just to get back to square one. They’re SO f*cked Putin can’t sit down without bursting into tears! 😁
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@goldsilvervscrisiscollapse4320 : Maybe this is what passes for, “irony,” in Russia? We know Putin is just like trump in that you can tell what he’s done wrong and what he’s about to do wrong by what he accuses others of. Which is why humor was banned in Russia, right? Because no one could tell when Putin was being ironic. 🤣
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@OPIXdotWORLD : Suck it up, Putin. Do your own homework and stop trying to change the subject. Sucks to be a Putinista, right? 🙄
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@chinthakaruwan4786 : That was kinda’ the point, son. 🙄 Why else do you think the comment was about democracies needing to stick together? 🤷‍♂️ If they were, “the whole world,” there would be no need, genius. 🤦‍♂️
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@TRE45ON.is.Bat5hit.Crazy.U.S.G : True. One soldier defending their home is worth 20 conscripts, which is what I was saying at the outset of this war when it looked like Putin was going to win. I said then, he might take Kyiv, but he’ll never keep it.
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Absolutely everything about modern Russia screams cowardice! Mass murders, mass bombings of the defenceless, stealing, looting, murdering, torturing, raping only those who have no defences. Faced with actual Ukrainian soldiers the Russian, “army,” flees! And all those cheering at home are now fleeing the draft! And Putin DAREN’T seal his borders in case the fighting age men and veterans feel forced to confront the authorities on the streets of Moscow, preferring 15 years in a gulag to a permanent death in the meat grinder. What country would want these cowards pouring in by their thousands? The same Russians who’s political inactivity has made them create this mess! Morally absent, politically vacuous, inhuman cowards are pouring into the west when Europe should be turning them ALL back with a rifle and a map to the Kremlin, saying, “Go sort your own mess out!”
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I hope you are right. But I have my doubts. What I would like to see is for the whole of Europe to turn away fleeing Russians and to send back all of the draft dodgers they have now, with a rifle and a map to the Kremlin and the injunction, “Go sort out your own mess.” What is happening to the Russian people is the direct consequence of political absenteeism. Pretending you’re not political IS POLITICAL. Even if all it is adds up to the statement, “My government can do what it likes.” Look how that worked out for them?
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@goldsilvervscrisiscollapse4320 : Wow! You Putinistas really live on a different planet! 😆 Still, your stupidity is reassuringly consistent with your losses in the real world. Even you can’t pretend that Putin would have started this fight if he’d seen this coming. That’s how dangerously out of touch with reality he is. But that shouldn’t matter much to you, right? Seeing as how you can tell yourself whatever you need to hear from behind your keyboard and pretend to believe it. Sucks to be you. ☺️
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Dark Brandon. : Yeah, good idea. 😂👍 On their way into Russia they’ll pass all the hundreds of thousands of fighting aged men and veterans, fleeing Putin’s draft! It’ll be like the opening scenes from the movie Platoon. They’d all be drafted at the airport and be on the front lines before sundown. And in their body bags by the following day. Wait, what am I thinking? Russians don’t stay long enough to collect their dead and dying. They just leave them for the Ukrainian army to clean up. That way they know there’s more chance of their families being informed. ✌️
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Very true. This was actually the start of World War Three, Putin’s miscalculated attack on NATO, which he thought would crumble and fracture under the pressure. Not even Putinistas can pretend that he would have started this war if he’d known this would be the outcome. It’s about damned time he was put back in his box.
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