Comments by "Far Centrist" (@far_centrist) on "Combat training for Russian civilian recruits as they join Moscow’s forces in Ukraine" video.

That's a very interesting statement. During iraqi war, the US also called reservists in the forms of national guards, not the US marines. I guess they failed too huh? Oh wait, they did! Meanwhile ukraine has been on its 7th conscription rounds, what does that make them? A success? Lol
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@USER i didn't change topic, the topic is mobilization, which the US also did. failed how? It's still ongoing lol
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@jay-wh5kn if you can't differentiate a conscription and a mobilization, go back to studying before putting out an argument. What russia did is not conscription, it's a mobilization of reservists. Unlike ukraine.
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@TK-zb6jx maybe you should study the history of this war first before asking that question, otherwise you wouldn't have asked. A democratically elected government was overthrown by a western backed coup in 2014. In it's place, a pro western, anti russian leader was installed (there's a leaked call from nuland deciding who should lead). Many in the eastern and southern ukr didn't approve of the coup, to which they held a referendum. Crimea asked to join russia, while donbas is asking for autonomy. In response, poroshenko government sent in the military to suppress the "dissenters", which led to civil war. Minsk agreement was signed, and giving donbas an autonomy was part of the deal. A deal that ukraine continuously violated. Then de-russification took place, where russian as a language was removed from the country with a huge russian speaking population. Curriculum about russia, soviet history, culture, and anything russia was incriminated. Right wing brainwashing summer camp for youth was erected, while the west kept training more and more racist, white supremacists and russian hating paramilitaries like the aidar, azov, the right sector, kraken battalion, etc. Then poroshenko talked about hosting a nuclear weapon and joining nato. That's a huge security threat. Remember cuban missile crisis and how much it is a threat to the US. In light of the suppression and oppression of the russian speaking/identifying citizen, as well as a nuclear threat that poroshenko proposed, russia moved in. Have you even heard of the peace deal during early days of war that goes smoothly, then BoJo came along and suddenly the peace agreement fell apart? Ukraine pravda reported it. Lots of people are saying that if they identify themselves as russian they should move to russia. That's equivalent to saying african american should move back to africa if they identify themselves as an african. Besides, if people tell you to move away from your home because you didn't like the government, would you do it?
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@lokisg3 your point being? Because it was a while ago it's no longer relevant? Lol. The point is that it's not an absurd idea to deploy reservists. The US did it, now russia did too. It does not prove anything.
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@Tabula_Rasa1 US/NATO sitting back is the what has been happening throughout this whole saga. I am not sure what you mean by disaster. Russian economy is doing fine, while the west is crumbling. Russia has gained grounds, support for putin is at an all time high, dedollarization is ongoing, opec+ just cuts production by 2 million barrels, putting even more pressure on the west. Russian fiscal reports on energy exports are actually increasing significantly this year, compared to the peaceful ones last year. Overall look for russia is incredible, not only on energy security but also stable price for locally produced goods. While the west is struggling with energy cost and the cost of living as well as goods. If that's not winning, i dont know what is.
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"civilian recruit" is an interesting way to spin it. They are reservists, meaning they had prior training that lasted 3-4 months at minimum. In russia it usually lasted a year or two. These are the memory refreshment training, not THE training. Interesting take by a taiwanese media that's backed by the US that used to post dogs and cat videos. I guess fleeing hong kong is not enough huh? Lol
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@aether3697 neither does russian reservist. Most of the fighting was done by the LPR/DPR forces. Russia provided equipment and artillery as well as air support.
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@limsk9839 it has nothing to do with math. In fact, your comment shows your clear lack of understanding on the logistics of war. Ru deployed 200k soldiers in ukr, and this number had to be rotated every few months with a fresh army, you don't just send troops to an active war zone for a long or indefinite period of time because it may damage the troops psychology permanently, which is in contrast of how ukr deployed it's green conscripts, which is deployed indefinitely till they died of artillery fire. Ru controlled over 20% of the country of almost 700sq miles and 200k is clearly not enough to plug every gap on every front. Mobilization helps fix this issue while allowing Ru to retain troops for rotation.
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@Andy-P you forgot about the hundreds of million who stayed.
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@clueless5803 successful in the outskirts of kharkov? The place is not part of donbas, thus it's not an objective. Krasniy lyman? Yeah i guess. It's a small region tho. Got bogged down and lost a lot with almost no gain in kherson, or everywhere else really. And remember russia still control over 20% of the country. That's 1/5th. All the ukr gains will be reverted before even the end of this year. Kinda like how phyrrus when battling the romans. Won the battle, but lost the war. Remember that they are throwing everything for these "offensives". Once the reservist arrives, ukr numerical superiority will be gone.
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@unculturedswine1871 60+ billion. Most of them go to the US military industrial complex, not to ukr. And guess what, they still failed to kick russia out for 7 months now. Whole world? Country that supported ukr made up of 15% of the world's population. The global south which is either in support of russia, or taken no sides, made up 85% of the global population. That's not "the whole world", not even close.
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@zerohours. The US MIC is technologically advanced in some regards, such as stealth tech, some improved sensor tech for military purpose, tho not as much as the media tried to sell it. Russian missile tech, for example, are much more advanced. And the new generation radar is getting better at tracking stealth coated jets. The current artillery munition round in the US stood at a mere 14k a month which they promised to raise as much as 36k a month. In contrast, ukr fires over 6k round a day, which means after the increase, it will only last 6 days. Compare this to rus firing at a rate of 40-60k rounds each day. and missiles like those of the himars are also at critical stock. There is an interesting article in RUSI (no, not that rusi. It stands for the Royal United Service Institute, UK based think tank) titled "the return of industrial warfare" which should give some rough ideas on rus vs US military industrial production capabilities.
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@zerohours. also military contractors/mercs are not part of the military industrial complex, which refers to the weapons/arms producers. And yes, I'm well aware of the blackwater group as well as the event leading to their disbandment.
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@FranOfBattle that military ranking has never been reliable. Iraq, while militarily strong, is also corrupt and used outdated equipment. Ukr was supplied with lots of western "game changer" yet still cant kick out the russian. Before the feb 22 event they are deemed the strongest military in europe by it's infantry quality and numbers, as well as stockpiles of equipment such as thousands of tanks, hundreds of grad launcher, lots of fighter jets, and they've been supported by almost every western country, in contrary to iraq which nobody came to help. Even the western media acknowledged that US and EU military hardware and munition is "critically low and may take years to replenish" after sending them to ukr.
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@natetheskate6325 you're making it as if EVERYONE fled. There's less than 100k people that left russia out of fear for mobilization, which is partly the paper pushers fault, but remember russia had over 140 million citizens, 25 millions of which is combat ready. So the people that fled are less than one percent of the combat ready people, and compared to the total population, it's a grain of salt. And let's not forget that there's also 70k people that insist on going as volunteers on top of the required 300k that was mobilized. So it's not as much of an issue as what the mainstream media says. Yes, iraq is a US failure. Look at it now, weak, constant infighting, barely heard from. Not as bad as libya, which is pretty much a civil war battle royale. Which is also the US fault. The territory that's recently been integrated, or annexed, if you prefer, has been through a rebuilding process. Even the western media reported it, where russia brought in construction workers from NK, to rebuild the integrated area. A huge contrast to what the US did in syria, libya, iraq, and serbia, which left nothing but rubble and suffering.
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@natetheskate6325 the protest was done by Navalny sympathisers, pretty much the USA puppet that's been incarcerated for collusion with CIA agent to tear russia apart into easily captured zone (divide and conquer tactics). Its the very same people that's not going to be mobilized anyway. Most of them are women, too.
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@vincentlagrange2329 how so? It's not even over yet. The iraq saga has long been finished, ukrane saga is still midway. It'll be over before winter, i am sure, then you can go back here and tell me if they failed or not. All i know is that the AFU are running out of equipment and men after the whole kherson/kharkov chapter and have been begging its western backers for more, who themselves are struggling with the economic crisis and unlikely to give any. ABC news stated that the western stock of arms is "critically low and may take years to replenish" so there's that.
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@norman4588 i saw this argument several times, so im going to say this again: Imagine being backed by the number 1 military superpower as well as the world's biggest military alliance of over 30+ nations, but still cant push the russian out 🤡🤡🤡
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@rithyheng6634 read the full comment. it was based in hong kong before hong kong was returned to china, to which SCMP immediately left and moved to taiwan. Funny you accuse me of lacking simple information when you didn't even know about that.
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