Comments by "Anders Juel Jensen" (@andersjjensen) on "Russia's Black Sea Fleet HQ DESTROYED!" video.

I'm a former artilleryman of the Royal Danish Army with 17 years of service under my belt. I retired as a Senior Sargeant (the highest NCO rank in Denmark). I fought in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. I have images in my brain that will leave most people sleepless, and for a number of years those people included me. I'm going to say something controversial, and I want you to listen to why: "I don't care if Ukraine wins. I just want Russia to lose!". Yes, that was a meme reference, but there is method to the madness. I'm not trying to be edgy here. This is just how I see it. Please allow me to elaborate: In the mid to late 90s I had the good fortune to train Estonian lads as part of the NB8 (Nordic-Baltic 8) Mutual Security Pact. These were GOOD lads. The Estonians didn't sent us no rutter of the lit conscripts. They sent us their best career soldiers. Of cause they did. They wanted to make a good impression on their new partners who were also their "meal ticket" to NATO membership. They were 100% prepared to send their lads (and ladies) to the conflict in the Balkans, with all that entails, to show "the west" that they were ready to pull their own weight should a shakedown with Russia ever happen. This is the context: The Danish army is, compared to many other armies, a very professional place. We run "the show" very much like you'd run any professional production facility. That is, conscripts and professional privates are likened to apprentices and journeymen. In short, we train "thinking soldiers". We're a small country, and we can't afford to have stupid Joes running around screwing things up the second they aren't supervised. We want a unit to be 90% combat effective without their Sergeant. We train for "This is the objective. Reach it!" rather than "Obey your superiors to reach the objective". And this is why I hate Russia with every fiber in my body: One random Tuesday morning, about 10 days in to the training of the first batch of Estonians, I made the biggest fucking blunder without knowing it. One of the Estonian lads did precisely the wrong thing that the exercise was designed to provoke, and in typical Danish fashion I stopped him and asked "What do you think you did wrong there?". Normally, with Danes, I would get a response like "Uh? Was it wrong? I dunno... maybe I should have done it like XYZ instead?". What I got was an Estonian lad who froze to the spot and turned pale as paper. Like, I instantly realized that something went completely wrong. I shit you not, dude looked like I had pointed a loaded weapon at his face. I tried a little back and forth, but the poor sod kept regurgitating halt-sentences from the instruction part of the session. After a while I realized that things had gone absolutely pear-shaped and that something needed to be done so I just yelled "TRAINING SESSION OVER. TIME FOR DEBRIEF". That didn't particularly help this guy, but his friends seemed a little more willing to engage in conversation. After a whole lot of confusion, and talking back and forth, I learned that "What did you do wrong?" was "Russian speak" for "You're about to get humiliated and punished for hours and hours and hours no matter WHAT you say or do".... These guys were used to an army where you had no hope, what so ever, of ever advancing beyond Sergeant unless you were an ethnic Russian. And as ethnic Estonians they were expected to just accept that these "superior Russians" were right no matter what. No amount of psychological or physical abuse is was too much. The Russians were just "right" and were there to "up-class inferior Soviet people". South African apartheid in the 80s had absolutely nothing on these assholes. After a lot of beers, at the local watering hole, I finally manged to get it across to them that we were not just "the new Russians", but that we actually wanted them to become thinking professional soldiers... And they proved that they understood the message in ex.Yugoslavia. No doubt about that! I will fight alongside these lads in ANY conflict, without checking my backside, so help me god. So the takeaway is: NEVER EVER forget that the only willing "member" of the USSR was Russia. Everything they touch turns to poison. They have an absolute inferiority complex with Nazi Germany. They are running their playbook 1:1 only with (slightly) different rhetoric. Ukraine is just the next country on the chopping block. Moldova, Georgia, Chechnya (1 & 2) and Armenia went before them AFTER the fall of the Berlin wall. More countries than I bother to count went before, but after WWII we were too spent to do anything about it. Doesn't change the fact that we let MILLIONS of people down. While my heart bleeds, now, for the Ukrainians, this was never about Ukraine. We let down SO MANY countries because they weren't rich in natural resources or important to "our interests". This was ALWAYS about Russia. Russia is a sickness. A lethal virus. It's latest victim should not be the narrative. The sickness itself should be the narrative. The only viable cure is raw unadulterated force. It's the only language Russia speaks. It's the only language Russia understands. Call me a romantic. Call me an idealist. Call me whatever you want. I'm retired with PTSD after "a blast incident" in Afghanistan (the wrong war fought for the right idealistic reasons). If my ass wasn't over the hill, and my brain wasn't in perpetual overdrive, I would have gone to Ukraine to join The Foreign Legion. Not because I like Ukrainians. Honestly, I didn't give a fuck about them until 2014. But because I hate Russia. I hate Russia, and their fundamentally corrupt and fascist system, with every fiber in my body because I've seen, in the eyes of stand up men I respected and cared about, exactly what Russia is. A sickness. Capable of horrors that makes Ebola look like the common flu. Ret. Snr. Sergeant AJ out.
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@kathynj6479 Exactly. Until Russia gets a pounding like Germany and Japan AND gets offered a realistic and viable path towards a good society, Russia will remain a sickness. But we are just sooo far away from the "path towards a good society"-part. Currently the Ukrainians are more than willing to bleed for the pounding part. And yes, we need to give them what they need, when they need it, in the amounts they need it, right freaking now. If we do that then in 2-3 decades the Russian youth will be thankful that the Ukrainians laid down the law that got the Russian oligarchy burned at the stake. And by then Ukraine will be an integral part of the EU and NATO.
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