Comments by "Tom Riley" (@tomriley5790) on "Russo-Ukraine War: What the West Doesn't Understand EP 3! (Royal Marine Reacts)" video.

  1. Given the level of competence shown so far - some soldiers did, some definitely didn't.
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  2. The people you can't lie to are the logistics, they actually do need to know what needs to be where and not. If the guys doing the logistics don't like what's going on then stuff starts to take a long time to get places, go to the wrong place and an army slows down and runs out of food, fuel etc. which all seems to be happening now... you can listen to russian radio over a website - it's still not encrypted, presumably they don't have enough. Once again it was never about NATO (only in so much as if Ukraine was in NATO Russia couldn't attack it) it was never about "uniting two peoples" it's simply about controlling Ukraines oil and gas (to protect Russia's European monopoly) regaining control over the Dneiper to supply fresh water to Crimea (which was running out of water). Either way I feel that the Russians are not moving as fast as they want to and they're not making the progress they expected to and I expect them to move but even so it's a huge logistical challenge to supply MLRS (each salvo from a TOS-1 needs a truck load to resupply). Incidentally the Russians are arresting protestors. There's a new law with a 15 year sentance for sharing something on Social media that's not from an official source and every school in Russia has given a special lesson "Ukrainian people are intimidated by their government. The country is ruled by nazis. They lie to them and kill all of the Russian speaking people there. All of the European countries lied to Ukraine and they don't take any refugees. While Russia already accepted millions of refugees" if all was going to plan I don't think Putin would be going to these lengths... You have to make light of things that are horrendous otherwise it's so fucking awful you couldn't survive... The chances are if they're Russians in the west they're more anti Putin than we do. That said the reasons for invading Ukraine are minimal (unless your economy depends on oil and gas exports - precisely why Russia hasn't turned off gas to Europe despite all of this... and wont). I disagree that its "Russian" perspective that we'd try to overthrow authoritarian rule in Russia - it's Putin's (most Russians would be perfectly happy to get rid of Putin and his cronies although that may change with the stuff that's going on now. The degree of propaganda that we're getting is far less than they will be.).
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