Comments by "Tx240" (@Texas240) on "Ukrainian u0026 Wagner Troops BOTH Make Videos Begging for Weapons!" video.

Wagner is a private military company. They should be able to source their own equipment and ammo. Otherwise, Prigozhin should go back to catering.
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Re, MRAPS, despite their usefulness in the Middle East, the DoD wants to get rid of them
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@danielbrink9475 - he's probably just been getting paid for the work while getting ammo free. The guy didn't actually have to run it like a business. Now that he has to, he doesn't know how or have any other connections for supplies.
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@yurij8039 - I've seen this covered a few places and it's pretty much "no" at least on the Russian tally. Russia doesn't count deaths or injured from Wagner OR the DNR and LNR forces (both because they are not part of the Russian military structure and because Russian leadership basically looks at them as Ukrainian casualties). Ukraine, and most Western intelligence counts WAGNER, DNR, and LNR as "Russian" casualties.
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@niksandy7125 - haha! And, with that corruption being normal, much less likely for a window to get him than if he keeps trying to vie for power in Russia.
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@robertmichalic4500 - I'm just saying, Prigozhin likes to act like a big man because he's running this large PMC. He then tries to vie for power as though he could run a country. He can't even run the PMC once the silver spoon of free supplies is removed. I'm amazed that this guy has any support from the war hawks in Russia. He's as incompetent as Putin. Although, it's difficult to be competent at a high level without good advisors and that's something that doesn't fit into the dictator or oligarch model of leadership.
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@jrwood88 - I have a friend in Ukraine and every "cruise missile day" is stressful, especially if the internet or cell service is bad or out with the power outages and I can't make sure they're OK. I do wish the Russian civilians could experience the terror that Ukrainian civilians are having to deal with. Things like, "They blew up the gas station," shouldn't be a normal part of conversation in a city that isn't even near the fighting. Hopefully all that cargo 200 makes a dent in the psyche of the dense Russian sheep.
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@ThisHandleWasTheOnly1Available - the Wagner soldiers don't need to be non Russian to be mercenaries. "Mercenary" has nothing to do with nationality. Indicates a non governmental soldier for hire. Wagner is a mercenary company. It just so happens that most of Wagner's people are Russian.
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@bcluett1697 - Exactly. That's why I suggested that if Prigozhin wasn't capable of running a PMC during an actual war that he could go back to what he did before playing general, which was run a catering business.
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@Алексей-ч2ф9л - What I was pointing out is that Prigozhin was living easy with free supplies and huge profit. If he can't find someone else to supply what he needs to run a private military company, he can go back to the catering business.
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@vaterunser3879 - Prigozhin was in the catering business before deciding that experience qualified him to run a PMC. Apparently, as a reward for serving the Russian government through the catering business, he was able to set up the PMC to do things the Russian government didn't want to take responsibility for. So, my comment and analysis, did provide something actionable. If Prigozhin can't figure out how to run his PMC now that he actually has to, he should go back to the catering business that he was successful in.
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@Slavic_Goblin - f and d contradict each other. Regardless, Wagner troops match every criteria there except d.
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@thomaslacornette1282 - it's even more ironic because Wagner group, a private military company, is illegal under Russian law.
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@robertmichalic4500 - Well, "more soundly organized hierarchy" maybe if officers shooting someone on the spot who refuses an order, to set an example, is reasonable. Or, if officers shooting returned prisoners and prisoners who survive a failed battle, again, to set the example that you fight to the death even if injured to avoid capture, is reasonable leadership.
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@yurij8039 - I think you mean "mobilization". Conscription is a normal part of Russian military recruiting and is constantly ongoing. By early summer, Russia had mobilized all its reserve military personnel. Then, in the fall, Russia began the general partial mobilization. As far as "non Russian" mercenaries go, I think some Syrians, Iranians and Belarusians were acting as mercenaries on the Russian side, maybe some brake Afghanis who couldn't be bothered to fight the Taliban, too.
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@yurij8039 - Actually, the guy is right about F-16s, or other jets, except possibly as a platform to launch the British 200km cruise missiles. There's so much anti aircraft coverage on both sides that an F-16 would be thrown away, basically. Ukraine needs longer range weapons that can reach out to over 300km to hit Russian long range SAM radar and launchers and hit airfields. US has been so devastating in our invasioneering because we haven't had to face credible anti aircraft or air threats. Giving Ukraine more planes than Russia to give superiority in numbers isn't practical because planes need pilots. No point giving them more planes than they have pilots to train on them. Even in Iraq 1 when there was AA, it was only there a few days because that's the main thing targeted in the opening...and, they didn't have as much or covering as wide an area as Russia does. The other guy mentioned IEDs and mines. Both are a good value if Ukraine keeps fighting the Fabian defense, with Russia continuing to advance at huge cost (instead of hunkering in trenches and making Ukraine push them out) while Ukrainians fall back to the next defense. There's also a cluster munition that they've been asking for. But, you know IEDs, we're traumatized after 20 years dying to them while helping ingrates who never had any intention of fighting to defend themselves (apologies to all 5 Afghanis who did resist the Taliban). And supplying cluster munitions take us off the moral high ground.
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