Comments by "jorge luis barrios mur" (@jorgebarriosmur) on "HistoryLegends" channel.

  1.  @leesaunders1930  I know I would. There si no way on earth that I just stayed there awainting to get bulldozed by the front.... No thanks.....
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  2. "moustache-man" followers......
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  3. The problem for the ukranian side rigth now is that they need to control 100% of the road to able to use it. All what the russian need is to seize control at ONE POINT of the road, and the other 99,9% is useless as supply-line........
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  4. Ukraine should retreat and left the Donbass and Lugansk to Rusia. This would shorten the front, and perhaps, the militias of Lugansk and Donbass would be less willing to fight in other parts of Ukraine, once they have achieved their goals , depriving the russian army of a much needed support of motivated and expierienced troops....... If this is not the case, they should use the Dnieper as defense, and concentrate their best troops in the Kherson zone, where the russian are already west the Dnieper......
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  5. Ukraine should aim for a "Tet-offensive" style of battle. One that is not necesarelly victorious on the terrain, but convinces the enemy that the cost of victory is to high.........or even that it will be impossible to win the war....... But yeah! The russian army having air and artillery superiority (and having learned how to use them efectively) is a big issue........
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  6.  @aidanmacdougall9250  They probably don`t expect them to last that long, and the canned food they leave behind when they "depart" will be wauting there for the next wave of cannon-fodder shiped over the river......
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  7.  @istinagy5835  Imagine what it must be beeing rotated after your time in the trenches is due, and you know you have to cross the Dnieper, beeing exposed to be targeted by russian artillery. The surely WANT to leave the front, but they probably fear the journey more than staying where they are......
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  8. Welcome to the NATO and the West. Althoug it could be worse. At least they let us handle our internal affairs (to a certain point) as long as we behave and support them in the rest of matters. We can count ourselves lcky to be "perioikos" of the actuall Sparta, instead of "helots"
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  9.  @FishMan1nsk  Forcing refugees to go back to their country to fight, is LITERALLY a war crime. Sure, they will try to shame them, make some pressure on them, and even offer rewards besides a proper training (perhaps an european pasport for them and their families after the war) But, if they don`t want to go and are ready to face the (relatively minor) consequences of this decision, nobody can force them to go.........
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  10. Don`t come to Spain..... people here are going nuts.....
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  11. The russians are ALWAYS preparing something......
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  12. Keep your heads down, and don`t die for other people to become rich.
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  13.  @jsharp9735  Au contraire my friend. MY answer to this scenario, would be to lift the sanctions as fast as posible and promote trade with Russia, perhaps in exchange for minor concesions, Russia would not mind to make. This could potentially create a scenario in wich the russian counterpart could actuallty have any interest at all in mantaining peace. If we don`t lift the sanctions after the war (regardless of its outcome) we are practically FORCING them to go into the next conflict, just to keep their economy running.....
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  14.  @BIGDADDUI  The ukranians are now fighting the war the russians want them to. In the open field, at the range of their artillery. Surely they had no other option, I mean, if they simply stayed in fortified , urban enviroments, they rusian army would cut them of one after another......
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  15.  @sid2112  Generally speaking, almost all attempted invasions of Russia that had its origin in the west, failed miserably (I think there was a Polish-Lituanian invasion that obliterated the state of Moscovia once, but I don`t recall another one). I just don`t see how opening another front, when you have shortage of combat ready troops is of any use, and more, if we take in acount, that INSIDE undisputed russian territory, Putin can resort to regular russian troops, and is not reduced to use only the ones that have signed a contract to fight in Ukraine. Yeah, SOME supplies ment for Ukraine will have to be diverted to counter this offensive and re-conquer the lost territoy, but it will cost Ukraine troops that it simply can`t afford to loose....... It just looks like a greater version of that st*pid PR-stunt that was the ukranian crossing of the Dnieper......
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  16. In my country, average salary is around 1.500-2.000 euros...........I am shure, A LOT of people earning less than that (perhaps 800 or 900 a month) would consider joining a war if offered 6 times the average salary (8.000 euros) a month, plus an engagement bonus enough to make a big payment onto their own house.......... perhaps even I would have been tempted when I was younger....... at least you would be fighting for something tangible and worth it, and not for some douchebag getting rich at your expense (that would STILL happen, but at least you ALSO get something from it.....) Russia is offering basically the same that rome offered to their legionaires.......a way to ensure their future families wellbeeing.......
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  17. Indeed, ukranian instructors should be training NATO-troops.....They have been operating a lot of our (not top-tier) stuff, and know what works, and what is just BS.......
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  18.  @JohnWilson-i7c  For beeing conscripst? Surprisingly well! I expected them to drop their weapons and flee masivelly. Yet, they are mostly holding their positions, till they get outmanouvered and have no more amunition (wich is their commanders fault, not that of an 18 yo boy who fullfilled his duty). Already forgotten about the village held by clerks and cooks?
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  19. What will happen with the western public opinion if the ukranian counter-offensive is not as succesfull as it is expectect to be? The hype created around this event could harm western morale, if it is not met with results. Probably the most realistic aim of this offensive should be to show the russians that despite all their efforts, they are not one inch nearer the victory than before. Something similar to the Tet-offensive in Vietnam, wich was a military tactical defeat for the vietcong an the north-vietnamise army, but a strategic victory for them, because it made the USA public opinion believe that they were not able to win the war........ Any other expetations, could make western morale colpase, if they are no met..........
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  20. The video of the ukranian soldiers telling they got their ass kicked again is heartbreaking.
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  21.  @Sayid-al-Furat  Resolution 181 of 1947 states that a state under arab control is to exist in the territory of Paelstine. How about we implement this first, and later we tend to the resolution 1559? Just saying!
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  22.  @angloirishcad  an unknown, but certainly important percentage of this artillery, is not even making it to the front. Even if it is deployed in the front, it will not last very much, unless it motorized artillery. And even so, given the air and artillery superiority of the russian army , I would not wish to be one of the soldiers serving with this pieces....... Reportidely, desertions have being rising in the ukrainian army, as conscripts with only 2 weeks of military training have been informed that they are heading to the Donbass front. Given that time is on ukranian side, I do not understand why the don´t just retreat back the Dnieper, and show the russians the middlefinger. Right know, they are fighting the war the russians want them to.........
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  23.  @jamesgornall5731  I can`t even imagine beeing in a place with -40 C.......must be quiet an expirience......
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  24.  @jantjarks7946  It has apeard in spanish media. There are news about the Donbass authirities claming that Ukraine has used chemical weapons.......
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  25. The ucranian army should just retrat through the Dnieper and blow all bridges. So they can buy the time they need to reinforce themselves and train their territorial defense units to use their "new" gear. They have already lost 10.000, or more of their battle-hardened profesional troops in Mariupul. In Donbass 40.000 more are facing the same fate. Sure, there are more profesional and well trained forces, mostly defending Odessa and Kiev, but if they loose this 40.000 men, will they be able to continue war with poorly trained and equipied troops, that had no expirience in battle?
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  26. I do
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  27. That ukranian "NKVD"-officeer seems very nice. He wasn´t shooting at anyody, but was trying to convince them WITH WORDS. Either way, if it is true that this seven soldiers is all what is left from 100 man, I think it is totally understandable that they have no intention of returning into the meat-grinder....... At this point, hiding in a cellar till the battle ends, and then enjoying some hollidays in Siberia (paid by Putin), looks like a good plan to me....... If Zelensky is so eager to keep on defending Bahkmout, he can always do it personally. He, his staff, his oligarchs, and their families.......
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  28. If Ukraine had a WWI-type of defense (a continuous line of trenches, manned with infantery, and suported by machineguns, wired positions and artillery), charging on motorcicles would be suicidal. But, the modern front lines (both russian and ukranian) seem to involve the defense of key-positions (strongholds and comunication-hubs), with the space between them defended mostly by sparsed infantery units, relying on artilery and drones to harras any enemy detected in the gaps between this thin line of, basically, entrenched observation points. In THIS scenario, motorcycles have proved to be very effective.
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  29. Just at this very moment, men are forced to fight and die in Ukraine, whether they want it or not (and kudos to all the volunteers, but there are people that would prefer NOT to fight, for whatsoever reason) while there female counterparts get VIP-refugee treatment in Europe,and get to join the fight ONLY IF THEY WANT. This has come to a point where our judges are DENYING refugee-status to young men fleeing from Ukraine, and sending them back to their country, to face prision, or death in battlefield (again: meanwhile, women=VIP refugee status). I am willing to accept EVERY bet you want to make, that, when the war is over, and they release some scenario about the conflict, the ucranian army will be composed almost exclusively by brave, stunning and independent woman, fighting the misoginistc and brutal male russian invader. Wanna bet?
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  30. Congratulations, have a nice day
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  31. Perhaps some military base in the farest corner of Sibera, where in winter there are -40 C temperature, is in dire need of a lutienent-general comander. Imagine beeing a russian soldier in Ukraine, and getting this guy as your new commander..........
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  32.  @mikaels6009  Dude, open a history book. Rome conquest of Iberia was 800 years before islam was even born, and 1000 years before the islamic conquest of the visigothic kingdom of Hispania (wich included also parts of southern Galia). They romanized extensivley the indegenous population (at least the ones who weren`t killed or enslaved), and built entire cities and military colonys from the scratch, to provide land for their soldiers to settle when they finished their service ( again, after killing and enslaving a good chunck of the native population, to make place for the roman colonists) AND PART OF ROMANIZATION WAS THE BUILDING MANTENIANCE AND USE OF PUBLIC ROMAN TERMS....... This said, dude, MY ISLAMIC ANCESTORS made Al-Andalus a beacon of knowledge, poetry, philosophy, science and art, defended by some of the greatest warriors the world has ever seen, a lost paradise that even today, musmlim people sigh about when they speak about it, while yours were probably sitll wearing hides and using stone-tools....... So, what are trying to shame us about?
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  33. Yep. I thought he would do worse....
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  34.  @danielbwest  Ukraine could give up the eastern territories and crimea in exchange for beeing allowed to join the NATO the same day of the peace treaty. THAT would secure their new frontiers. Later, they could join the UE, and use UE-founds to become a new "Germany". In 50 or 60 years, the sons and daughters of the same people who are fighting now for Russia would kindly ask if they were allowed to re-join Ukraine.....more or less like Cyprus, where it is now THE NORTH the one that wants to reunite, while the southern (and european) part, is fine with the actuall status, sees the northern part as hell of a costly adquisition, and would allow reunification only under their own terms........
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  35.  @danielbwest  Lets just say they have learned and implemented some costly adquired lessons, geared up their military production and keep their public opinion motivated and at bay. Russia is STILL fighting with one hand tied to their back. Meanwihile Ukraine is on the way to loose an entire generation, the best and most motivated soldiers are either dead, wounded, or in dire need of some rest, ukranian civilians are actively trying to opose recruitment, and the western support is dwindeling. In an attrition war (and this has become one) the conquest of territory is only an excuse. It`s about who gets his resources and manpower drained in the first place.......and that will most probably be Ukraine. Russia could loose 10 soldiers for every ukrainian one and still win, and the WHOLE WEST is unable to provide the same amount of artillery amunition that Russia is able to produce on its own....... Ukraines only realistic chance is to demoralize russians public opinion, so that they opose the war, and cause enough trouble at home, to make the russian goverment re-think about their priorities.......and it dosen`t look like this is going to happen soon..... not before the last ukranian soldier dies on the battlefield......
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  36.  @KoT_3JIoBpEg  WWII began in 1936, when Germany and Italy backed a coup against the legal spanish goverment, and helped them with supplies and troops, while the democracys of the time cowarldy abandoned the democratic-electec goverment.....
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  37.  @melfito7673  I don`t think that there are many pro-Ukranian civilians left in that territories. But truth is, even before the revolt against the ukranian authrities after the "orange revolution" (or coup, IDK) these regions voted mostly for parties that wanted to align with russian interests.
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  38. Indeed, we (the west) should not be training ukranian troops.....they shoul be training US! They know, firsthand, what works and what not in an all out conventional war........ A smart man learns from his mistakes, a wise one, form the mistakes of others........
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  39. They actually seem to value the life of their sodiers more than the ukranian side.........
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  40. Me neither.
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  41. So, you are recruited, get 2 days of training, and then they throw you infront of a russian cannon........ no wonder they surrendered almost inmidiately.......
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  42.  @chaptermasterpedrokantor1623  In my country (Spain) our supreme court has already denied refugee status to an ukranian man in military-age, and agreed to turn him over to the ukranian authorities because "his citizen-duty has priority over his theorical rights as refugee from a war-zone". Many of us, regard this LITERALLY as a war-crime, because you CAN`T send a refugee back into a combat zone, but our authorities fix this problem by simply denying young ukranian men in military age the refugee-status. Our goverment behaves as if we were at war with Russia, in all aspects but a formal declaration of war, and sending boots on the ground (we leave that to the average ukranian dude) Meanwhile, any russian man in military age that proclaims he is fleeing from russian draft, is welcomed with open arms (wich is fine with me, I just would like to see ukranian men getting the same treatment). Guess their "citizen-duty"has NOT priority over their rights as refugee.........
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  43.  @chaptermasterpedrokantor1623  It should, but for "reasons" this only apllies to Ukranian men in military age.
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  44. People should not get help based on their skin-colour or their ancestors. They should get help based on their needs.........
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  45. Wasn`t there a gentelmen with moustache who said something similar about another certain group of people? Yeah, you know, the tall blond and blue-eyed guys in fashion uniform made by Hugo Boss.......... What happend to them? I don`t remember..........
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  46. What a fate! Beeing send back, only to die in the front. Probably, the ukranian goverement does this (sending them back to the front) in order to not incentivate surrenders. Unless I was a firm patriot (wich I am not), or I was mistreated I would really try not get send back......
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  47. and boots, and food, and amunition, and shovels........
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  48.  @johnatangloud2609  Land? It`s not about land, it`s about the control of the gas-fields discovered in 2014 in eastern Ukraine, capable of supllying Europe for decades....
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  49. What? There are russians that think that Putin has NOT gone far enough? What do they expect him to do? Flatten the country and kill 350.000 civilians like the USA did in Irak? Use nuclear weapons? They can call it whatever they want, this is war, and when you wage war, there are certain rules you should not break, because if you do so, you will regret it, sooner o later...... Sooner or later russians and ukranians will have to meet at peace talks, and if certain limits are traspased, this will be much more dificult. Even in the case of a total rusian victory on the battlefield, this kind of behaviour could inflamate a resistance (or terrorist) movement that could harras them for decades......its just not worth it.......
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  50. Brazilians are also latinos, and they speak portugese........just saying. Indeed, our portugese neighbours tend to get a little bit anoyed every time we spaniards ignore their contribution to the latin world......
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