Comments by "0x777" (@0x777) on "How Germany’s decision to send tanks to Ukraine will impact the conflict" video.

  1. Ukraine lost 6 times more tanks than they ever had? I wasn't aware that they managed to capture THAT many from Russia, that's mighty impressive. Or ... rather embarrassing for Russia, your choice.
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  2. Russia rebuilding at a high rate ... of one a month? Do we already reach that "high" output again? Russia is lacking anything remotely considered high tech. Not to mention money. What Russia can still produce is pathetic compared to what would be needed.
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  3. Bring it on. Dare ya to attack NATO. DARE YA, Puddin'.
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  4. Source: "Trust me, bro" department of the Russian MiniTru.
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  5. Bring it on, I always wanted to know what a world without Russia would look like.
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  6.  @user-vy8jc1js8i  Still put a smile on this face here. :)
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  7. It's a bit different this time. Actually, it's almost the exact mirror. Not Germany, but Russia, invaded a neighbor. Not Germany, but Russia, is alone against the rest of the world. The only thing that's still the same is that the German tanks are again a league ahead of the Russian counterparts, just that Russia can't pump out a slew of tanks to counter that difference in quality.
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  8. I'd like to have a cardinale. That's the Pizza order list, right?
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  9. They're sending Challengers and Leopards, not T-14s.
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  10. So they'll finally bring the T-14? Do they have enough wreckers to get it in and out of battle?
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  11. It's not exactly any wonder, those things aren't even in any way cutting edge. They're just pretty much what's needed for Ukraine to get back on the offensive.
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  12.  @anthonymitchell8893  Russia lacks any and all high tech industry. Russia's industry depends heavily on energy. Gas, oil, coal, to a degree uranium, as well as some heavy industry. What it's totally lacking is any kind of high tech industry. And the only country still willing to provide this to Russia is China. Who of course abuses this position as much as it can, having Russia pay through the nose for second rate chips with a failure rate nobody who actually had a choice would accept. But beggars can't be choosers... The problems Russia is currently facing in the production of anything more sophisticated than a dumb bomb can be seen in how its rocket assaults on infrastructures keep getting further and further apart. To actually disrupt the Ukrainian power grid on a strategic level, the attacks would have to happen way more often. In general, you want to attack while the enemy is still busy repairing them, so you not only knock out the infrastructure but also destroy its ability to repair them. What Russia can deliver, though, is far from that. So what Russia has to settle with is to destroy it with longer and longer pauses in between as the Russian capability to produce rockets is shrinking while at the same time Ukrainian air defense capabilities are growing and overwhelming those air defenses requires more and more rockets. We have already arrived at the point where those attacks are no longer really sensible. But hey, I'm the last one to stop Russia from trying to do some propaganda grandstanding and wasting their missiles, at least they can't use them for anything sensible in the meantime.
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  13. What now, save earth from a disaster or save humanity? You can't have both.
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  14.  @katechelten223  Before the war, Ukraine had just shy of 1000 tanks, of varying ages. Mostly T-64, back from Soviet times. If you have better information, present it. I even tried finding any source for that ghost army of 6000 tanks, but even Russian propaganda pages don't make that claim, so where the hell does that come from?
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  15.  @parts1982  Yeah, and if Russia actually gets desperately enough to become an insurgent army that tries to hide between the civilians so they can pop up with AT weapons at close range, I'll consider that a real threat. Please realize that this is not exactly comparable to an asymmetric war. Very different problem, very different setup. But don't take my word for it, just watch it unfold, ok?
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  16.  @anthonymitchell8893  Ok, I'll from now on try to avoid those complicated three syllable words so you can actually understand.
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  17.  @Anth0ny85  I have a great idea. Let's just watch the whole deal unfold. You want to believe what you want.
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  18.  @Anth0ny85  Ok, this I gotta see. Please tell me where that Russian propaganda piece is, I really could use a good laugh. I didn't really have one since that bonmot about us chopping boulevard trees for firewood. C'mon, where is that from?
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  19.  @omtdrvr42  Hey, give it time, we don't know how long Putin manages to keep his cronies at bay and where that war will end. :)
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  20. They'll just take it as reparations after the war.
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  21.  @anthonymitchell8893  The "end game"? Yeah, who'd need peace, prosperity and freedom when he can have ... whatever this is in Russia...
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  22.  @Twizzel100  dare ya I'm sick of empty threats. Put up or shut up. I call that bluff, let's go, I always wanted to see what Moscow looks like as a crater.
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  23. Call the moron in the Kremlin, he can instantly end it.
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  24.  @beachworkout6979  Well, lacking the Russian autoloaders, it's gonna be tricky, they don't try to reach escape velocity when hit.
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  25. If Russia really decides to use nukes, then the gloves come off. Because the fallout will almost invariably affect a NATO member, and then it's finally doomsday for the dunce in the Kremlin.
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  26.  MrEdwardJohn.  I'm tired of empty threats. I know that Russia doesn't want to use nukes anymore than anyone else. And everyone effin' knows that. My sergeant in the army told us one very important thing: If you use a threat, you have to be able and willing to go through with it. Threatening with a weapon and not being able or willing to use it is a bigger threat to you than your enemy.
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  27. Air defense is only relevant if the enemy has a relevant air power. And the Ukrainian air defense is by some margin stronger than the Russian air force. What matters is that these tanks need to be accompanied by infantry to protect them against enemy infantry. That's what cost Russia so many tanks, they had them operate without an infantry screen. And a lone tank is a dead tank, very susceptible to MANPADS and virtually blind without the reconnaissance that Russia lacked, too. I'm fairly sure that Ukraine has the recon, given that they get a lot of intel from their allies and they also mastered the art of drone recon. And they also won't copy the Russian idiocy of having tanks roll around alone.
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  28.  @anthonymitchell8893  Dude, stop frothing from the mouth for a moment, relax, take a deep breath, then type slowly enough to actually be coherent. I'd love to engage in a conversation, but I really need to be able to understand what the hell you're trying to say.
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  29. That can only happen if someone has the balls to remove Putin. Putin knows that his days are numbered when he folds. He'll be dragged to The Hague, and arriving there in one piece, or at all, would be a miracle and a half because his cronies are certainly worried what beans he'd spill there. He won't leave Russia alive. He'll drag this out as far and long as he can, throwing every single warm body in Russia between himself and the inevitable.
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  30. They can repay with the Russian reparations. Don't worry about that now.
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  31. I wouldn't exactly call Leopard 2s (first delivered 1979), Abrams (1980) "high-tech". Even the Challenger 2 is almost a quarter century old (1998). It's better characterized as "good enough for the job ahead".
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  32.  @lesterbeedell9725  Well, thank god the internet has such a clever person like you.
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  33.  @lesterbeedell9725  Ok, let's wait and see just like we did a year ago when the glorious Russian army fizzled out against what should've been a breakfast enemy. Please accept finally that your army is a really bad example of what happens when money that is supposed to go into a defense budget gets embezzled and misappropriated. If anything, it should be a warning to the rest of the world. That T90 may actually bea really good tank ... on paper. But seeing what happened so far in the war, I wouldn't be too surprised if the reaction armor was made of cardboard and the shells are duds because nobody thought that any of them would ever have to be fired, so why waste money on real ones.
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  34.  MrEdwardJohn.  I just prefer my news sourced, that's all.
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  35. Maybe as reparations, but I doubt the Germans would accept them for anything other than scrap. They don't have enough war museums to need a lot of that old junk to display.
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  36. Russia knows VERY well what it means when the US provide logistics. They had that back in WW2 before America joined the war proper. Russia got an enormous amount of war material, trucks, jeeps, weapons, intel and a lot more via Iran when Germany assaulted them. They know very, very well what it means when your war effort is fueled by the economic power of the US.
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  37. Well, ok, if that's all you got as reparations, we can talk about taking them as a deposit to the amount owed, but we only take it at scrap value, we only need one or two of them for museums.
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  38. Are you trying to scare people into opposing the war? Have you already forgotten what happened in the US when they headed for WW2? The 1930s were a time of a crippling recession, as soon as the war machinery started producing like mad the economy rebounded almost over night.
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