Comments by "Grenade Tennis" (@hughjass1044) on "DW News" channel.

Such a refreshing and welcome change from the tripe that passes for news in the US.
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I sure hope you're right, especially as regards Germany since there's not a leader anywhere in Western Europe that I trust less than Scholz. Maybe I'm reading the guy all wrong but he very much gives me the impression that he's only doing what he's doing because he's being pressured and shamed into doing so. I get the feeling that he'd give Putin anything he wanted if he could and that he'd be at Putin's feet groveling and begging for oil and gas within hours of a ceasefire. Another important point to remember.... There have been countless times throughout history when "a clear majority" of a population group supported or wanted something and it still didn't happen.
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He should avoid tall buildings.
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People on both sides are taking a look at the youngsters and saying..... NOPE!
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You are indeed correct. Russia was every bit as much a colonial empire as any of the other big European powers and, to a considerable degree, they still are today. It's just that most of their colonies just happened to be adjacent to their own territory instead of across the seas. The whole of NE Asia is conquered territory. @considerthis9007
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I hate to say it but I don't believe that Germany has the slightest intention of following through on any of its commitments to revitalize its armed forces. I don't care what they've promised. Politicians throw promises around all the time and not only do they not keep them, in many cases, they never have any intention of keeping them. For one, the political class as well as a very sizable chunk of the citizenry simply does not believe in maintaining a strong, competent military. There is a not insignificant proportion of German policy makers who want to completely and permanently eliminate any form of military capability and Scholz, being both a socialist and a committed "peace at any cost" pacifist, is at the head of that class. Secondly, actions speak louder than words. This money was promised over a year ago and practically nothing has been done. Also, you can't convince me that any country which was so late, so hesitant and which had to be arm-twisted so badly to send its equipment (not even its troops) places any real priority on a strong military. Finally, there is just so, so, SO much to do and it would take an efficiently run country decades and tens of trillions to catch up but with a country that moves at the speed of frozen molasses like Germany, they'll lose interest long before anything meaningful happens.
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Why would Al-Sisi attempt something like this? Because he can. Because he knows he can get away with it. Because he knows there are zero consequences. Middle Eastern countries have been playing the US for fools for decades and the US knows it and they let them.
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Points to consider - 1) Putin is into this thing WAY over his head. He's now well past the point of no return. There is NO turning back now. He couldn't quit now even if he wanted to. He'd be dead in a week. 2) There is now no way for him to achieve an outright victory on the battlefield so what's left? What advantages does he have and what can he use? The answer - numbers. And he has those in abundance! 3) When you don't care about cost, when you're prepared to throw away a million lives if that's what it takes, and when you see that your enemies' allies are only giving them penny packets of weaponry and are fussing and fretting about even doing that much and have to be arm-twisted and badgered into every single arms shipment because they're stark, raving terrified of you and collectively soil their clothes whenever anyone says the word... gasp!... escalation!... what do you do? How do you leverage that fear and turn it in your favor? 4) You wear them down, that's what you do. You send wave after wave of bodies and wave after wave of vehicles. Yes, the bodies are barely trained and even worse equipped and the vehicles are complete junk but they all make the Ukrainians use up ammo to defeat them and make the west have to supply more. It's called attrition and the Russians can keep this going practically indefinitely. 5) I've been saying it for a year and I'll keep saying it. Russia WILL drag this out as long as they have to UNLESS we in the west stop pissing around, step in and put an end to this thing, once and for all!
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Let 'em have it, Ukraine!
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This is why I've always said that sanctions are basically useless. They'll get you so far but no more. If a rogue nation or person is determined to follow a certain course of action, and you want it stopped, you have to demonstrate that you are more determined than he is and that means the use of force.
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Peddle fear, suspicion, hate; otherize minority groups, tell people their problems are all someone else's fault and generally feed and nurture every base instinct they have and you'll never suffer for an audience nor will you ever go bankrupt. It's always been based on the premise that people will believe what they want to believe and search for any way to rationalize it. Of course, it doesn't help when traditional media... you know, the kind we're continually told we HAVE to trust.... continues to incinerate their own credibility on the alter of ratings and ad revenue.
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"Even the Labour Party has ruled that out." Why? Politicians are such craven cowards.
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@Crashed131963 Two entirely different weapons systems for two entirely different jobs, my friend. One is artillery, the other is armor. And it's not an either / or situation. You don't win by using just one, you need both.
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German chancellor - "Russia will not win this war!" Well, neither will Ukraine unless you and your pals get off your butts and start sending something a little stronger than encouraging words.
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I'm sure that "strong condemnation" she speaks of will have Putin soiling himself. Add in a "UN resolution" and that would just about finish him.
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Yes.
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An attack on the Suwalki Gap is an attack on NATO. 50 years worth of Soviet leaders were smart enough to know what that would've meant and their army was many times stronger then. It seems today's Russian army isn't capable of much other than smashing civilian targets and having their own equipment destroyed. I'd be prepared but not terribly concerned.
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Understand that what you just watched was a compilation of clips from actual live TV news broadcasts and not a made for internet product. The live TV format is always time sensitive unfortunately. They can be a little bit flexible but not much.
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In fairness, I think they had a lousy internet connection with a long delay. They were cutting each other off and I don't believe either one was intending to do so.
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"Russia is getting ready for a long war...." This is exactly what I've been warning about. Way too many people have been doing victory dances thinking this thing is over or near over. IT IS NOT!! Russia is essentially one very big North Korea at this point and North Korea has been under sanctions since Christ wore short pants. Has it slowed them down? Altered their behavior? NO! Putin doesn't care about sanctions, he doesn't care about his economy, he doesn't care about lives; anyone's lives, he doesn't care about reputation, he doesn't even care about the future of Russia. All he cares about is himself and his own power and he won't hesitate to do whatever it takes to hold onto both. He will co-opt every citizen, every industry and every scrap of raw material he needs to to prosecute this war. He's running out of advanced munitions, true enough, but he's got limitless amounts of old stuff and limitless capacity to produce as much as he needs. There's nothing high tech about a howitzer and the shells that go into them don't need microchips. Even if Ukraine drives every last Russian out of their country, Putin still has the capacity to reduce it to rubble from his own territory and he certainly has the will to do so too. He hasn't got many friends or allies but he has enough to keep himself going indefinitely and he can still sell all the oil and gas he can produce. At reduced prices, yes, but he doesn't care about that. This war will NOT end until NATO steps in and ends it.
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And long live Vietnam!
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@krollpeter "Sometimes weakness is a strength in the end." That's the most ridiculous statement ever made!
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Societal breakdown, institutional collapse, inability to keep a roof overhead or food on the table, crushing debt levels, corruption, greed, polarization, political paralysis, being shoved aside in favor of illegals, told you're every kind of evil imaginable..... Why are people unhappy? Gosh, beats me.
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This war will not end as long as Putin is alive. I hate to be that blunt but it's unavoidable. That's just the reality. They said at the end that Putin's strategic goals haven't changed and they're right, they haven't changed.... power... at ALL costs... at ANY costs! He doesn't care about lives; Russian, Ukrainian or any other kind. He doesn't care about how poor or cold or destitute his people are, he doesn't care about cost because he's got plenty of money in his own banks that sanctions can't touch and he's selling more oil than ever so he's as flush with cash as he ever was. He cannot possibly prevail on the battlefield as long as the west is supplying weapons to Ukraine so what he needs to do is cut off that supply and as wars by tyrants throughout history have shown us, the best, most sure fire way to do that is to exhaust their patience which is what these missile strikes are designed to do. Everything he's using are just old fashioned "dumb" bombs and he has literally millions of those in his stockpiles so he can keep this up indefinitely. The ONLY way you stop this is to eliminate Putin.
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@dunzhen Then don't hang around. No one here will miss you.
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The main reason why the allied powers demanded unconditional surrender from the Germans and the Japanese in WWII was because they knew exactly what kind of people they were dealing with and anything less than an absolute defeat followed by an unconditional surrender would guarantee a resumption of hostilities at a later date once they recovered and rearmed. There was absolutely zero chance of anything good or positive ever getting the chance to take hold in either country until every last fragment of the old regimes had been exterminated. The same holds true for today's Russia. I've read many times that Russians all throughout the last century craved nothing more than to live normal lives in a normal country. They will never get that chance until every single fragment of Putin's regime is dragged out of the Kremlin, locked and welded into a cage or hoisted onto the scaffold. It's going to be painful and expensive to accomplish but it MUST be done. Putin's government, and every single person associated or affiliated with it must be destroyed or else they'll be back to do this all over again.
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