Comments by "Stephen Hill" (@stephenhill545) on "Kherson region plans referendum on joining Russia | Ukraine Update" video.

That's not really true. Russia doesn't have unlimited resources. In long drawnout conflicts it always collapses economically without huge support. (crimea wsr/ww 1). It doesn't have that support now, but the opponent does. It is also severely hampered by not being able to mobilise due to internal societal tensions. Putin won't take that risk, as we can see already. We also know that Russia will struggle to resupply itself with precision weapons and tanks due to sanctions. Ukraine, on the other hand, has access to NATO weapon stocks, and this supply can be increased of course. Russia is in a weak position actually, because the result of this war lies in the willingness of Western countries to supply ukraine with modern weapons, something over which russia has little control.
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@paulzx5034 I will not attack Ukraine is not perception. It is diametrically opposed to objective reality in which thousands of Russian tanks and soldiers crossed the Ukranian border and attempted to seize ukrsnian cities, towns and village by force.
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@mac-xk1ec excuse me, but he said russia wouldn't attack ukraine, and then Feb 24th happened.
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@kiz11a it isn't actually true. Russia has neither the economy nor the infrastructure to supply higher troop numbers abroad.
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@surjakantasingh4287 for that you should be very grateful.
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He won't live to see the end. The russian people will pay the price
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@steveot couldn't. You need to master negative forms or you risk saying the opposite of what you mean like Mr pootin.
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@kartikeyatiwari2502 it isn't though. Russia is vulnerable because its economy can't support its military for a long time. This mismatch will show eventually, as it did in ww1 and the crimea war. There is a reason countries with larger economies have smaller armies. They understand economics.
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@fresh6993 nobody is releasing casualty figures. The russian casualty figures are estimated to be around 20,000 killed, based on officer deaths. Ukraine will have suffered significant casualties due to the nature of the warfare, but as the defender its losses should be fewer due to its forces being less exposed. 15,000 dead wouldn't be a bad guess.
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@baroneleve1196 the second most powerful army in the world on a 65 billion budget fights a little army on a 5 billion budget, and takes two little towns nobody has ever heard of. The wehrmacht gained an area three times the size of Germany in the same time against a bigger army. Jokers.
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@ibrahimmuhammed6210 well.. They have zero out of 5,000,000 troops in Ukraine and zero out of 24,000 planes in ukraine, and zero out of 16 aircraft carriers there, but there are 8 out of around 900 long-range High precisuion multiple rocket launchers. How many do you think they would need to beat putins conscripts and 152 ml artillery barrages?
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Of course he's weak. Strong personalities don't need to try to impress others by bragging and boasting. He knows his army would have no chance against a professional army with air and sea power.
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@AFLnewsNtruthatstorytime the only way to stop a nuclear state is to wear it down and make sure it can't rebuild. Not very exciting, but rather effective.
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@rainbowrose2000 bit counterproductive though.
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@НиколайНиколай-п5к ooh. You're so scary for a second world country.
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@PlaYer-sn5or is this a game called name the terrorist state? I would add russia to that list. Be good.
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@jfryer485 they mostly voted to be free of Russia. Putin hates them too.
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@ebonytv3414 it was outnumbered 5 to 1, and 4000 km away from its bases. It won. Now that is what I call a professional army.
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@loks117 rubble for great material loss, great reputational loss, and the economic damage doesn't bear thinking about. I won't count the loss of life because russians don't care about human life.
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@paulpeter6138 you might die in a nuclear war. The west regards putin as psychologically damaged as a consequence of child abuse on the part of his father, hence he can only express himself through violence.
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@harmless6813 he already has. Stalin's really popular in Russia now, although to be fair, he doesn't emphasise that Stalin killed millions of russians.
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Frank. How much do you pay for English lessons? Do they give refunds?
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