Comments by "Gaza is not Amalek" (@Ass_of_Amalek) on "The True Cost Of Arming Ukraine To Fight The Russian Invasion | True Cost" video.

  1. John L. well the javelins are crazy expensive (I think like 600k), but all the other anti-tank missiles and manpads ukraine is getting are much cheaper than russian tanks and aircraft. of course they will also sometimes be used against less valuable targets. I saw a video once where kurdish fighters I believe in syria blew up an ISIS car bomb (truck with armor welded on) with a javelin, that was a pretty uneven match up. there was a guy with an RPG who celebrated and claimed credit despite the video clearly showing the missile hitting from above, that was pretty funny.
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  2. that's not a relevant reason. the only reason why NATO doesn't want a no fly zone is that a no fly zone isn't when NATO says "no flying" and then the russians don't fly, but rather it's when NATO attacks russia's airforce and air defenses, aka NATO goes to war against russia. "no fly zone" is just a peaceful sounding way of talking about NATO joining ukraine in the war against russia. which I'm personally not necessarily opposed to since I think we're already at war with russia, but it's a rather dishonest way of talking about it. I don't really like though how much NATO and its constituent countries keep declaring that they're not going to escalate and ruling out this and that. I don't see the value in making putin feel so secure.
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  3. yes. weapons sales are often done with resale restrictions, and one of the baltic states in particular was asking germany for permission to transfer originally east german artillery to ukraine. theoretically, germany is very serious about controlling who gets german-made weapons, though practically of course we're arming some of the worst dictators. saudi arabia and the UAE are top buyers, and germany's no. 1 arms customer in recent years has been egypt, whose renewed military dictatorship solidified its power with the biggest massacre of demonstrators since at least the tiananmen square massacre - they killed over 1000 in one night with a military assault including tanks, and they took the corpses to a mosque and a field hospital that they then burned down to get rid of the evidence. one year later, field marshal sisi got legitimized as egypt's president through a state visit with merkel in berlin.
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  4. Skanderbro sure... do you know btw. if the azov battalion are still as fascist as they were originally? I think I vaguely recall reports of that ideology subsiding somewhat among them years ago. I think the azov battalion and other far right ukrainian anti-russia and anti-yanukovich groups were originally formed largely out of football hooligan groups (nazi hooligans are very common in many countries including in russia). I think the nazi ideology may have gotten diluted by more moderate ukrainian nationalism as the whole country united to fight against russia. how nazi can they really still be if they're fighting for zelensky? though even if that is the case, I'd still say that integrating the azov battalion into the national guard and providing them all sorts of heavy weaponry even after the ukrainian military had been strengthened was a highly questionable decision.
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  5. Skanderbro yeah I've heard that manpads in particular are very highly sought after on the black market and normally very difficult to get. imagine how much drug cartels would pay for those manpads and ATGMs that ukraine is getting...
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  6. 3:51 oh, is that why the russians blew up that kyiv mall? xD
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  7. Blank but telling putin that we won't escalate doesn't make us safer, it makes us LESS safe. it evidently doesn't keep putin from escalating, rather it makes him feel safe in deciding to escalate because he knows that he alone can decide how far he wants to escalate since we'll not respond by escalating further. we are empowering putin by announcing how peaceful and reasonable we are.
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