Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "TLDR News EU" channel.

  1. You don't see smoke on missiles. Missiles leave a smoke trail when launched, and depending on the size the motor burns from 8 seconds to maybe half a minute. The rockets that fire for several minutes are meant for space flight. They remain unpowered and trade velocity for altitude. Once they reach the apex, they start diving down. This leaves no trail. One of the reasons V2 bombs were feared more than V1s was because V1s were essentially cruise missiles and the pulse jet engine buzzed so people knew they were coming. The V2s fell straight down from the sky at supersonic speeds, without warning.
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  2. And the 3:1 offensive advantage is localized. It doesn't matter if there's a million men in the frontline, if I pick a section with 10,000 enemies and I send 30,000 I am respecting the rule of thumb even though I may have less manpower in total.
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  3.  @locybapsi174  There is no similarity with Kosovo. Serbs were comitting genocide and got bombed until they accepted a peace deal and international peacekeepers. Then years later Kosovo declared independence. Another big difference is that Kosovars are an ethnic group, the so-called republics in Ukraine were not started by a true ethnic movement but by Russian nationals with no connection to the land like Igor Girkin (FSB agent).
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  4. ​ @billmoretz8718  Most military equipment gas some degree of EMP shielding.
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  5.  @harrybriscoe7948  The problem isn't how cold it gets, it's how bad winter conditions are in a frontline. Russian troops suffered frostbite in Ukraine in the early days. Russia might be colder. But bad/missing winter gear doesn't protect you like your heated home and winter clothing in civilian life.
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  6.  @dreamadventure8220  This was also said about Kharkiv and Kherson. Maybe stop saying it if you're pro-Russia. You might be jinxing it.
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  7.  @Baz.007  An air drop will get shot down by anti air systems. Airlift by helicopter would have to be done into Chornovaikava in the outskirts of Kherson - that airfield has been struck about 30 times so far and Russian equipment keeps getting destroyed there as a result.
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  8. Not just Bakhmut but Adiivka and the famous Vuhledar offensives. Bakhmut used up a lot of Wagner which were not mobilized men. Vulhedar used up units that required reconstitition with mobilized men.
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  9. ​ @valyshknee4203  the dragon's teeth which are rotting and have voids to make them cheaper? Not even buried into the ground?
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  10. It's true. They're using Iranian drones and S-300s to compensate. If you use bows and arrows, that means you're running out of bullets.
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  11. I talked to someone in Ukraine who fought in the early days as part of the defense militia. He's not mobilized because the AFU wants to have more professional soldiers rather than more conscripts.
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  12. Tochka-Us have a 50% chance of missing by over 100 meters. Those impacts hit precisely where the munitions storage spots where.
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  13.  @Eagles-Everywhere28  Glad to help!
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  14. Nice cope.
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  15. ​ @presleymeck You're purposefully confusing Kherson city with the oblast.
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  16. The offensive would then crash against a stronger Russian military. The bombed out city is protecting other cities from suffering the same fate. The months of fighting with defensive advantage meant the offensive will cut through a much weaker Russian army.
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  17. ​ @JayJay5244  It's self explanatory. Opposition forces are driven out, turned to casualties or surrender.
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  18. Last year IS also called for more terror in Israel. More like, ISIS has always been in the background, now a large number of angry people due to the Gaza situation can be radicalized.
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  19. They don't even control 2 of the oblasts they claimed to have annexed.
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  20. Putin says a lot of things. Start losing, make up new win conditions.
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  21. I still remember hearing this after Severodonetsk.
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  22. For about 6 months.
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  23.  @valyshknee4203  Some Ukrainians in a BMP filmed themselves drive into a dragon's teeth full speed, the vehicle jumped over it. The tank will not roll over. Either way, artillery shelling, using the tank's own gun, and even bulldozer blades on the front of the tank will deal with such cost-cutting obstacles.
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  24. ​ @tahoecamper5078  "tahoe camper 5078" is definitely an Ukrainian and not a Tucker-watching American shilling for the third rome.
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  25. And yet recent reports indicate Russia is sending in the reserves. Must be tiring to hold the wheel, because the surrounding force is spent.
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  26. ​ @galacticverse7694  What's the point of capturing Bakhmut instead of just encircling it? Oh wait, they tried that.
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  27. Russian MoD lol
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  28. ​@@milannikioo916Kharkiv was defended, Ukraine punched the thin front line and started slaughtering the rear echelons. Several towns were intended to stabilize the lines, UA surrounded them, and shelled the escape routes to massacre retreating Russians.
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  29. Russia is attacking...
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  30. Just in time for the Kerch bridge reopening.
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  31. 1. Every time Russia comes out with the General McF*cking Turbinator or some kind of scary name. In Syria the Russians were curbstomping a foe multiple times their inferior, and in fact Syria is part of the reason Russia thought they had a good military when they don't. Russia isn't moving slow, they're throwing meat at defensive positions. It's not some kind of careful tactical movement, it's an atrocity against mankind. 2. Russia started resorting to S-300s in ground attack mode and Iranian drones. This proves correct the claim that they are running out of missiles. If they weren't, they'd use their best missiles only.
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  32. Remember when Fox threw a fit after seeing an ISIS flag in a pride parade?
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  33. They didn't need to stage anything to move them to Belarus. Also, Wagner killed Russian pilots...
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  34. If Ukraine can't even hold Severodonetsk, how will they retake Kharkiv and Kherson? Oh wait...
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  35.  @Juho221  Kaliningrad's existence is in itself colonialism but it's not worth discussing it.
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  36. Not really. Russia's consolidation efforts are hindered by the fact that all their occupied territory is unsafe for military occupation. Every other day either an HQ or barracks was hit. When your officers keep dying, and soldiers are killed in the beds they sleep in, there's not much hope.
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  37. The Donbas militia was depleted by last summer. They're now using mobilized Russian men to staff the militia.
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  38. Anyone can do it. There's rifles and grenades everywhere thanks to war bringbacks.
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  39. Numbers from Russian MoD lol
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  40. False, it's Russian sources recycling old footage.
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  41. Refinery capacity was the issue last time I checked.
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  42.  @locybapsi174  If you had followed news, you'd have understood that Ukrainian officials themselves said that you wouldn't notice the counteroffensive as it was ongoing. All this time they were probing the lines, and we first heard of the breakthrough from the Russian side. But the offensive had been ongoing for a long time until it spilled over.
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  43.  @casbot71  They were greeted as liberators, I remember seeing the crowds cheering when the Saddam statue got toppled. It was the Ba'ath party and Iran-lead militias that decided that prolonging the war was a good idea.
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  44.  @prplt  But even those who dodge the conscription get called. You'd have to actually leave the country until the age limit lapses, because those who ask for deferment in case of health/education also are elegible for mobilization.
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  45. There's a difference between fighting a battle and credible advance thrusts.
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  46.  @caydcrow5161  to reclaim land they need offensive capabilities
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  47. That makes no sense. First, they would have trouble towing back a tank during active combat. They're having trouble towing their own damaged tanks. Second, things get lost in wars. Tanks were lost in Kherson. But the Russians fled with the tail between their legs. Sure, they destroyed a tank, but the collective number of tanks made them run. They're going to run empty handed back to Moscow and say the tanks are obsolete? Then they admit defeat versus obsolete tanks. Humiliating.
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  48. They're not "buying time" tools. They're "punch through the line and start wrecking the rear" tools. Think Kharkiv.
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  49. Which is why he's scared of a Russian loss, he doesn't want to be traded as part of a peace deal.
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  50. Jesus at least have some sense of self-preservation. Do you know what's out there in Ukraine? The enemy soldiers already gained experience taking out your best soldiers. You think that with two weeks training and a rusty AK they won't hesitate to get the drop on you before you even realize they're coming? You will not find anything worth dying for by going to Ukraine. Please preserve your life.
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  51. China doesn't want to support Russia's war over ethnic separatist republics because it would justify supporting Xinjiang, Hong Kong, etc fighting off the CCP and declaring independence.
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  52. Time is not on Russia's side. The longer it takes the more officers die in HQ explosions, the more their artillery barrels will explode (happened yesterday), the more ammo depots get turned into fiery infernos. The Russian MoD lies. Every single day they lie. They hit a building and claim it's HIMARS. So just assume the opposite happened.
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  53. Several areas that joined the RF are already under Ukrainian control.
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  54. Lmao Ukraine is cutting Kherson in half and the North is falling apart.
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  55. ​ @stonks7456 Germany and Japan in WW2 were destroyed to a much greater degree. They bounced back.
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  56. Uh, no? Try to pull this in China or Russia. All countries want to maintain secrecy, and there's legal technicalities to avoid.
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  57. You're wrong about the civil war too lmao
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  58. Big Suka Sukhoi strikes again!
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  59. Why did Russia mobilize 300k and request prisoners if 90% of the army is available?
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  60.  @joshuapaul2022  Still malding after six months? Six months and you can't let go of the ghost of kiev. Did he break your heart? You're obsessed.
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  61.  @joshuapaul2022  Slovak MiGs were retired yesterday. Lie. All you do is lie.
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  62. What exactly do you people think "neutral" is? Neutral isn't taking the extremes and splitting down the middle.
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  63.  @markdowding5737  But we didn't. We laid the terms for peacekeeping forces to enter the country and Milosevic started nitpicking as a delay tactic to continue the genocide. And what do you know, Russia was part of the peacekeeper force. Years later Kosovo declared independence. Crimea was seized by the Russian military. Crimea didn't leave Ukraine, Russia sent their armed forces to take over.
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  64. In terms of territorial gains, Ukraine has shown to be more efficient at it. Russia takes massive casualties in slow advances, then Ukraine counters and regains territory at a low cost.
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  65. The other way around, buddy. It's Russia who has a bullet lodged in the heart and still swinging a knife like crazy. Ukraine will receive a Marshall plan to rebuild. Russia will get nothing.
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  66. ​ @galacticverse7694  Bakhmut holds meaning that other cities are spared from the fighting. Russia burned through their offensive potential.
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  67. ​ @speedyv6247  Wagner is backed by the VDV. Remember when Wagner claimed to have captured Soledar and the Russian MoD said that was a lie? It's because the battered VDV has to lose men saving Wagner from doom.
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  68. How do I know Russia is getting punished? They're sending more bots.
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  69. ​ @JayJay5244  you're not going to war if you didn't sign up. Jesus stop crying.
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  70.  @JayJay5244  We heard the nuke threats for a decade. I'm the one who has a bridge to sell you, and it crosses the Kerch strait. Medvedev promised Armageddon if the bridge was hit, and when it exploded he went back to delete the post.
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  71. Russia is falling apart.
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  72. But the Northern front will be a greater massacre than Vuhledar. And it wasn't necesary to pretend to coup the government to move assets.
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  73. And the Russians fled from the frontlines.
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  74. Patriot is Shoigu's.
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  75. He was 7km away from the city center.
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  76. I remember when Russia hit a bridge pier with a missile and claimed to have hit a barge.
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  77. Creeping artillery barrages? We've already seen their barrels banana peel. Their weapons are exhausted and they can't get good barrel relining since 2014.
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  78.  @kundeer7078  it's parody
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  79. @@milannikioo916 They defended. And paid the full cost for their folly.
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  80. Russia is INVADING, mobilization is an admission they already lost.
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  81. The protests in favor are organized by factories and student organizations. You attend, or else...
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  82.  @bodiant5887  150 million. Half are women, half are elderly. Of the remaining numbers, there's obesity, alcoholism, drug use, HIV, TB, diabetes, etc.
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  83. Kek Russian forces are routing en masse
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  84.  @ForWater-m4s  Russia just struck power transformers and dams to cause floods.
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  85. Even if you account for it, the problem just gets worse and worse. Accounting for the problem just kicks the can down the road.
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  86. ​ @soulsphere9242  Jesus Christ, 10%???
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  87.  @bahadir7677  It's "easy" being a separatist when Mother Russia is handing out money and equipment like candy. Try being a separatist when all Russia has are cheap airsoft vests and rusty AKs.
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  88.  @bahadir7677  Whatever. They're free to take Russia's offer of passports and go live in their motherland. They don't want to be governed by Ukraine, maybe they shouldn't live on Ukrainian land that Russia stole. Or, they just just get mad for 5 minutes, touch grass, and leave peacefully because letting water go under the bridge is preferable than trying to hitch your wagon to the losing side. Russia started the war, got humiliated, and you want to live under them? That's masochist. "Its military" lmao it's Russian military, not Crimean military. They'll cross the Kerch strait. You really think a Crimean military force would have the supply lines to fight for itself after Russia calls it quits?
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  89.  @Jay...777  Mearsheimer is a loon, Scott Ritter is a p3d0, Patrick Lancaster desecrates dead bodies and moves them around to fake his reports, Chomsky is an "america bad" leftist, Oliver Stone is friends with Putin and was friends with Hugo Chavez, Russell Brand is a washed out celeb milking the Russian conspiracy train and Jimmy Dore is a comedian and former The Young Turks contributor.
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  90.  @steveosborne2297  Ammunition depots were struck, which means smaller craters can be explosives thrown around by the strike. Some missiles also have cluster munitions to spread the impact.
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  91. They cancelled the next wave of mobilization. Meanwhile Russians have spent their profsssional armed forces (not just army) and conscripted 300k. More like, Russia sacrificed the war for a city, and then lost the city anyway.
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  92.  @keithknechtel7460  I don't listen to Washington DC. Just look at the events.
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  93. We already got confirmation from Russian sources that the frontlines broke and soldiers fled the advance.
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  94.    They're not launching NLAWs. Did you not see Kharkiv and Kherson? Ukraine can defeat Russians with full combined arms assaults. That's not guerilla, that's full fledged maneuver warfare. In fact the Kharkiv offensive started very similarly with a flanking maneuver the Wehrmacht did against the Red Army.
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  95. In 2016 they had two shootings in Tel Aviv, and last year ISIS called for Arabs in Israel to start terror attacks.
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  96. Ukraine could push Russia to the Kamchata peninsula and you'd still do this.
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  97.  @PabloTBrave  First, the Wagner troops will obey the MoD. So who's to say they're going with Prigozhin? Second, Russia has kept a contingent in Belarus since last year. Why? To keep Ukrainian forces there. If an invasion through the northern axis were to happen, they'd have done it before.
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  98.  @twilightstar9973  Right. Kharkiv wasn't a battle, it was a massacre. The photos of the roads filled with disembodied limbs and torsos split open due to Ukrainian shelling of roads used for retreat pretty much beat all the gore you could find in 2000s internet. Kherson was just smart. Why fight, when your enemy can just give you what you want? Read Sun Tzu. The greatest victory is when you win without even fighting. Russia concentrated their forces elsewhere lol like in Vuhledar, where they got massacred as well. Bakhmut's strategic importance required Kharkiv oblast. There was an intent to use a northern and southern axis to pincer around Ukrainian defenses in the Donbas. The retreat from Kharkiv reduced the need for Bakhmut. Stomping ground? If Bakhmut took 9 months, Sloviansk and Kramatorsk will take two years.
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  99. That's why he's buying from Iran.
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  100.  @spacextsl7446  The US isn't running out of weapons, they buy whatever is good enough. Russia running out of their stuff and resorting to Iran is pathetic.
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  101. They also had Rovsgardia and SOBR special forces.
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  102.  @randyindvik1171  They were armed. But not trained to use heavy weapons. So they left behind the artillery and ammo for Ukraine to use. Oh well.
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  103.  @Raven_12345  he made it the f up
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  104.  @command_unit7792  The Soviet Union is not Russia. Russia doesn't have he demographics for a 10 million man army. Or the economy.
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  105.  @Jay...777  Kiev was of no use. Snake Island was of no use. Moskva was of no use. Kharkiv was of no use. Kherson was of no use. Getting kind of repetitive.
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  106. AK-74.
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  107. All bridges were hit.
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  108. Against the odds? Separatists in the Donbas have already complained about lack of support since BTGs were pulled to the south.
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  109.  @henrybn14ar  I've been hearing that for 6 months. How many sunk ships and obliterated air bases is it going to take? Russia was on good terms because their puppet Yanukovych was in power. He had protesters killed and dissidents arrested. The EU didn't do anything. Yanukovych pretended he was going to sign a deal with the EU and then rejected it at the last minute to deal with Russia. This is Putin's power game. And Ukrainians have had enough of him.
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  110. If they just moved the assets, it would be easier and faster. 7 aircraft shot down, 12 pilots dead. That's a significant degradation of Russia's air power in a single day.
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  111. The railway had two empty trains roll at 5 km/h for the cameras. Same was done with Antonovsky bridge. It's all cope.
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  112.  @MaN2Mega  The train tracks were bent and the bridge span was sagging due to the heat. The bomb didn't destroy the train tracks - the massive fires did.
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  113. Why did the terrorists drive towards Russian soldiers?
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  114. Why does the "global south" exclude Australia? Russia is the biggest country in the "global north".
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  115.  @jamesvalpuesta7495  EDIT: no worries.
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  116. No government justifies the war. The Ukrainian people do. They want revenge and their land back. You can dislike the war all you want, you will not stop them from fighting. The German government, with all due respect, does not have to choose because they have no choice in the matter. It's not their fight. If they want to cut support and indirectly kill Ukrainians by financing Putin's war, that's on their conscience. But Ukraine will still win.
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  117. Apparently Russians are abandoning positions in the Eastern side and Ukraine is doing crossings on the south.
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  118.  @ammarhaziq919  The 300k mobilization was a last minute measure to fill the manpower gaps. Many were sent to the front and killed within a week of mobilization starting, to the point Ukrainian and Russian social media started calling it "morgue-ilization". The preparation for the counter-offensive is the electronic mobilization. Which skips the legal requirement to physically present the notification to a citizen.
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  119. Ukraine isn't bombing "outgroups" they're fighting foreign invaders. The separatists in 2014 were Russians and FSB agents.
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  120. Another Z-boy
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  121. Heavy tanks were used in Kharkiv and Kherson. Air superiority is preferable, but not required. The air space is funnily enough not being contested. Russia also doesn't dare contesting it due to density of SAM and MANPADS present.
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  122. Damn Ukraine's army was destroyed so Russia is punching air right now. And losing.
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  123. They demolished the bridges on the way out. They have no intention of coming back, new bridge spans would have to be manufactured from scratch.
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  124.  @caydcrow5161  Yes. And the Ukrainian officials already explained: they will win, but at the cost of lives. They are asking for equipment because they don't want their soldiers to get killed.
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  125. You look at the Russians out of fuel and asking for directions, the trenches dug in Chernobyl, the cages welded on top of tanks, the 1.5 million missing winter uniforms and the rusty AKs and tell me this was planned.
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  126.  @Frunze91  They can't use the gas lines as leverage anymore. Could have been an attempt to tank stocks, a threat to the new pipeline from the north, or a way to avoid having to respect contract agreements.
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  127. Bakhmut is a concrete trench. Russia is forced to assault defenses at cost to engage the defenders.
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  128. They'd have to race the Poles or else they get there first.
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  129.  @maximus3178  Are you out of your mind? They're going to receive Bradleys. Those babies wrecked the Iraqis in 1991.
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  130. Except that the loss of Kharkiv will reduce them to 2014 borders at the very least in the Donbas, and they may lose Crimea. If not, at least the water access. So Russia threw it all away for nothing.
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  131. It's Russia vs Ukraine and access to western surplus stores. In no universe is Russia fighting 20 countries.
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  132.  @frank832  What grand scheme? Becoming a vassal state to China and India?
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  133. Ten times more equipment, half of it is rust and the other half stripped of parts.
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  134.  @GStream585  Yes, Ukrainians are so good they invaded Russia, dressed as Russians, filmed themselves and posted the videos in Russian pages. In fact, they're already inside the Kremlin.
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  135. You can't run across a field with a Javelin on your back and take over a city or town. Stingers were declared obsolete by the US and a replacement will be picked.
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  136. The only reliable EMP is a high altitude nuke.
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  137.  @henrybn14ar  Negotiations simply delay the next assault.
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  138. That's fine. Ukraine doesn't have to cross the narrow corridor until all the meat is tenderized with HIMARS. It's not easy to defend territory when all your stuff blows up every day.
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  139. Cope. Russia was involved in Vietnam. Did the USSR declare war on the US?
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  140. It's full of holes, though. Please strap yourself into a T-90 and try to cross.
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  141. The victim mentality is hilarious.
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  142. Yeah, videos of Russians running.
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  143.  @valyshknee4203  The US figured out how to mount RIM-7 Sea Sparrow missiles on 9K37 Buk launchers. It was based on an old Polish project to mount RIM-7 on the Kub launcher. NATO doesn't have a lot of ground air defense, but naval forces have a ton of air defense. So old naval missiles attached to a Soviet-era ground launcher allow the West to provide ammunition to reload Soviet systems.
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  144. It's just Ukraine with 30-40 year old hand me downs from European storage lmao
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  145. Light vehicles can cross it, there's a single lane still open.
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  146. ​ @franciscobermejo1779  They're gonna take Crimea like Kherson. Russians will cross the strait and go home.
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  147. Tell youtube to pay the content creators. You're paying youtube, but they run the hosting. The content creators have to make a living. Back in the good old days before demonetization and the adpocalypses creators didn't need to do as many ads and promos. Just saying. It's not the creator's fault you're paying money to youtube.
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  148.  @ErikGeurts  It doesn't matter that it's not because of you. They're underpaid and need outside income. You paid for youtube premium, so youtube won't show you ads. It doesn't matter to them that you've paid for youtube. I think you misunderstood the deal. Youtube never claimed that they'd protect you from creators inserting their own ads, if you don't like it take it up with them for having mislead you.
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  149.  @ErikGeurts  I actually doubt it. Then why are creators not punished? Google controls the platform.
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  150. Lay off the krokodil.
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  151.  @prunabluepepper  They're still reporting on Iran - specifically every time a protester is sentenced to death.
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  152. What lmao Ukrainians hate Kirill. He blessed sinners who die fighting in Ukraine.
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  153.  @nikosmosxos5856  It's not scorched earth - the vehicles are running or still in repairable state. The electrical and water facility were the usual smol pp strikes after Russian forces had crossed the border. Imponent rage, needs to strike civilians.
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  154. ​ @joshuapaul2022  Military experience is a joke. Men just spend a year in the barracks.
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  155. Abrams fixed the fuel issue, there's repair depots in Europe because Poland has purchased some and the US deploys to Europe, and there's a ton of old tanks to serve as donors.
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  156.  @advancedomega  Russia will simply leave. They simply left Kharkiv. They simply left Kherson city. Look the bully in the eye and beat him senseless. He'll back off.
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  157.  @advancedomega  In Putin's perspective, the US didn't even need to show up and he still got beat. Bakhmut has been close to falling for 6 months. You think this is a threat? Russia died at Bakhmut. The depopulation through conscription and human wave attacks will seal Russia's fate.
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  158.  @advancedomega  If they don't want Ukrainian land, they can leave. Retreat is permanent, if Russia can't advance.
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  159. They were attacked, their convoy was bombed by Russian aviation.
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  160. Two more weeks, Zisters!
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  161.  @KasperYakolev-j1h  pretty much you people: "America bad! Why can't Russia be even worse?"
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  162. No extra money was sent. Actually learn to read.
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  163.  @kaloyanrosenov2123  But they also don't know how to fight, so the Russians will have to die anyway.
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  164. They can't relax. It's the wait before the fight that eats you up.
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  165. Typical Ru-shill vatnik projection. Putin is his god-king so he assumes Zelensky is the ultimate controller of Ukraine's fate. He does not understand that if Zelensky was replaced tomorrow, Ukraine would still fight.
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  166. They're starting recruiting in Moscow, Ivan.
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  167.  @militaristaustrian  Sure, "Austrian". Tell you what Boris, why aren't you helping your brothers in the Donbas? Russia betrays all the useful idiots who work for them.
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  168.  @monberg1000  And if my aunt had a pair of balls she'd be my uncle.
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  169. Progress at the cost of depleting the force is not the winning move. Remember Severodonetsk? A victory like that bled Russia so hard they called an operational pause.
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  170.  @iitzkryy9599  Yes. But Kharkiv and Kherson aren't. Ukraine traded a city (or two if you want to count Lysychansk) to liberate the district around Kharkiv city (which also removed one of the pincers threatening to encircle Donbas) and the north bank of Kherson. While you touch yourself thinking about a single city, Ukraine will recover an oblast.
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  171. They're down to Iranian drones and prisoners. I think they're in a bad state.
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  172. In that case the guidance kits exist in lesser quantities than the bombs.
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  173.  @bodiant5887  That activates Article 5
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  174.  @presleymeck  You were talking about cities and then switched to oblast. Nobody was saying anything about what's bigger. You were talking about Russia's retreat from Kherson city and then you switched to oblast to pretend there was no retreat.
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  175. Gripens can't be upgraded. The Gripen E/F is physically larger than the C/D. It's like the Hornet and Super Hornet. Similar looks and name, but different.
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  176. Kosovo isn't the 51st state. Why doesn't Serbia ask for Croatia and Bosnia too? What's so special about Kosovo, an autonomous region in Yugoslavia, that they can't demand independence?
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  177.  @markdowding5737  It's not a violation of international law, genocide is a recognized valid reason for unilateral declaration of independence. That's exactly why Russia tried to use the genocide excuse. They know what they're doing. A cheap copy of things that have happened before. The bombing of Serbia was a response to a blatant violation of human rights, and also justifiable because Serbs have a history of taking peacekeeping forces hostage to continue their genocides. There were peacekeepers in the Balkans to preventing the conflict from escalating was reasonable. There would be no bigger military confrontations. Russia was there because it was an internationally agreed upon peacekeeping mission. Don't try to deny it, even Russia participated so don't try to come up with excuses. Russia started a conflict in Donbas. Serbia started a conflict in Kosovo. How is this hypocritical? Yes, Russia tries to do cheap copies of what the West has done. But they are purely cynical about it. They know they're lying and know we know they're lying. But we have to remain respectful and diplomatic even if the face of such evils.
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  178.  @Tugela60  They have boats. And they received an extra 40 boats through the foreign aid program.
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  179.  @Niitroxyde  Temporarily. Rusich has described the defensive positions. They were built by civilian contractors with no attention to military tactics.
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  180. "My Putin... Steinerovich..."
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  181. BS. FSB goon Igor Girkin and the little green men took over Crimea and oversaw a phoney referendum. There was repression of dissident voices like the Crimean Tatars.
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  182. It's JP-8, and Australia uses diesel in their Abrams.
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  183.  @speedyv6247  Yeah, it happened. Go back to the announcements being made at the time.
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  184.  @galacticverse7694  Being surrounded by three sides, but the encirclement failed when Ukraine reinforced the flanks. That means that Russia has to advance through the town, which is extremely costly for the attacker.
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  185. Historically they also suffered severe upset losses.
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  186. ​ @JayJay5244  They're embassy security staff. No point in sending anyone into combat.
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  187.  @christopherduke2477  BS. Not only is the Russian economy collapsing, the dissident right was pro-Russia from the start. Neocons are pro-Ukraine. Mind that Milley also said he'd warn China if the US was about to attack. I cannot imagine why he would ever admit that.
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  188. Embassy protection.
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  189. Expensive test. Wagner killed Russian pilots in this sh1tshow. They're hard to replace.
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  190. 14 Challengers from the UK, 14 Leo 2 from Germany, 28 Abrams from the US. So that's 4 months of ass kicking. Kharkiv took a week, Kherson about two months. How far will Russia retreat in 4?
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  191. The former president of Yemen who was removed by the Houthi rebellion is exiled in Saudi Arabia who want to put him back in power. The rebellion in Yemen is also an Iran proxy. All in all, Saudi Arabia can declare itself to be upholding order and technically be correct.
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  192.  @Scar626  They're not threatening territorial integrity, and not challenging Yemen's independence. Funnily enough, that evades the UN charter's characteristics for an illegal war. Technicalities are a beyatch.
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  193.  @Scar626  Saudi Arabia isn't annexing territory, Russia is. Houthis are Iranian proxies. Why should Iran have their proxies install a leader friendly to themselves and antagonists of Saudi Arabia?
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  194.  @Scar626  The criminal charge being raised is about ethnic cleansing through the kidnapping of children. Bypass what the Iraqi people wanted? And yet the Iraqi government had significant pro-Iran majority. Funny, the US installed a government that was friendly to a hostile country? Come on now...
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  195. Amazing how you've been spamming this comment for over a month and you have ONE instance of that happening.
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  196. It's a scripted segment to present to the population. A decision like that isn't made by presenting a powerpoint and the defense minister says "yes, I agree". The decision was probably made weeks ago, when they ordered the civil adminstrstion to leave.
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  197.  @circle7673  So Britain robbed but not Russia?
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  198. But they wouldn't have to fight their way there. They could just drive. North of Kiev is mined, and Ukrainians have a water reservoir that can be opened to create mud. If they try the North again, it will be a massacre for the invaders.
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  199. Going well with no medkits, rusty weapons, no training.
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  200. No, it was the year and a half where the economy was forced to halt in many sectors. That's the reason.
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  201. We are sparing Ukrainian blood. We're guilty of paying for Russian gas with their blood, it's only fair we give them what they need to limit losses.
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  202. And Ukrainians will remain static for the hour or two that takes to find a position and tell a jet to take off?
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  203. ​ @distrologic2925  The US produces more oil than Saudi Arabia.
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  204. Chinese internal consumption is hamstrung by years of real estate speculation and a demographics issue. Russia has always worked with non-Western nations.
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  205.  @kiritugeorge4684  How are they being pushed? What's viable and sustainable? Their failures now are the failures you will see for the next few decades. Undeniable? The consumption based economy will require that somehow consumer confidence won't be wiped out by the housing market, that somehow Chinese consumers will lose interest in imported goods. You can't overcome internal problems with hope. They should have started solving those issues a decade ago. And they don't seem to be reversing at all. You need an adult working population NOW, and they take 18-20 years to grow. Imagine having such a weak ego you come on the internet to claim "Western hegemony is broken". What hegemony? There's no hegemony. Everyone does whatever they want, it just so happens that being in good terms with the West is more financially productive. You dream of the la-la-land where somehow hindering your own economy is better. This is the hallmark of the copium dealers who have forgotten to explain why North Korea and Iran do not rule the world when they're already on the Western naughty list and thus should be stronger for it.
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  206. ​ @typhoon20724 AKs jam on the mud test lol
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  207. ​ @monkecontent8419 It's not a waste. This is the best investment in years.
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  208.  @typhoon20724  Chinese Type 56 AKs are regarded as being higher quality than Russian made.
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  209.  @typhoon20724  It's not a waste of money, and you're citing a fake news article with no source.
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  210. Britain is one of the countries that pledged to support Ukrainian territorial integrity in exchange for their nuclear stockpile. Also, Russia conscripted the Donbas people and used them as bullet sponges. That area will not be a problem, the deportations and press ganging have caused Russia to actually help Ukraine ensure that the area will be empty of Russia supporters.
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