Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Preston Stewart " channel.

  1. ​ @Fusi_lier  Blackwater drove around in trucks. Wagner had artillery, aircraft, tanks, etc which could only be obtained by being part of the military. Wagner training ranges are located inside Russian military bases.
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  2. A PMC lead by a convict who happened to use a catering business to grift off government rubles, who was Russia's lifeline to avoid official Army casualties, who had to cry and beg for ammunition the real army needed elsewhere, and needed VDV assistance anyway, managed to get wiped out and send the "chef" back to Africa to protect gold mines and warlords. The Ukrainians used TDF and National Guard and plenty of rotations while training 11 offensive brigades. The fall of Bakhmut was reported probably 10 times already. Including the "legally captured" claim by Prigozhin like two months ago or whatever. Ever heard of the boy who cried wolf? Bakhmut has been captured too many times for people to care.
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  3. ​ @Fusi_lier  Those 3000 people aren't the same as 10 years ago.
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  4. The Kherson offensive was hyped a lot more.
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  5. Because the US pledged to. Next question.
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  6. "Mobilized eight or nine times" that's a purposeful misunderstanding. They set batches to be sent for training because you can't just train everyone at the same time. Remember the pictures of when Russia tried to mobilize "once"? There were men making tents out of cellophane or living in delapidated buildings because there was no capacity to train eveyone at the same time.
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  7. Subbed to Hakim and Defense Politics Asia lmao fix your life broski
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  8. ​ @Sceptre1-1  How is it copium? We knew from day one that instead of defense in depth Russia was throwing reserves at the grey zone.
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  9. @SnorriTheLlama Yeah they switched it up. They started using S300s on surface to surface mode and Shaheds. They had something like 10,000 S300 tubes in storage so although accuracy is low and the warhead is made to hit aircraft with fragmentation it still depletes interceptors and does damage on the receiving end.
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  10. ​ @GeneralGiffel  the militias are gone, since 2023 they're staffed by Russian mobilized troops. By late 2022 Murz had reported the DPR and LPR were scraping the bottom of the barrel.
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  11. And when boxers see the opponent keep their hands up, they go for the stomach or liver. Yeah, Ukraine is only succeeding because they're using a successful strategy! Those scheming Ukrainians, using good tactics... don't they know that's unfair?
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  12. ​ @amorelus  there's the additional factor of Russia setting off the separatism in Donbas. If China supports independence movements breaking away from Ukraine, that would make them hypocritical on Xinjiang and Hong Kong.
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  13. ​ @littlegreenman2014  A disadvantageous point of entry becomes advantageous if the entrance is wide open. The border is not strategically significant, but the Kola peninsula is.
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  14. ​ @MultiTasker888  Russia has whined in a year more than the US does in a decade.
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  15. False dichotomy. What problems are solved by hoarding 30 year old military hardware in warehouses?
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  16. ​ @Sceptre1-1 So it's not a breakthrough because small unit tactics were used? Holy pedantry Batman!
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  17. The US snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. After battering the PAVN it forced them to sign for peace and they waited a couple years. Thanks to Muscovite propaganda and Watergate the US was not in position to aid South Vietnam when North Vietnam broke the Paris Accords. This was the worst possible example you could have picked because the Second Indochina War started from a precarious position for the US but the South Vietnamese forces increased their effectiveness while the PAVN started racking up losses. But the USSR had maintained the perception that the US was losing among the US populace.
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  18. How do you take 30 Abrams and a bunch of Bradleys and spend them on Healthcare or Education? Plus isn't Trump defunding education anyway?
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  19. ​ @Capt_Wupass  so if any country had intel on 9/11 they should ignore it?
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  20. ​ @mikyas392  Buddy you can get coordinates from maps. You can get coordinates from your phone. You meant satellite imagery?
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  21. ​ @danmorgan3685  BS. Only a few tens of thousand received foreign training, and it's not equivalent to full training. Look up cross training exercises within NATO, it's only a few weeks. Many people are not lifers in the military and end up leaving. Meaning that once returning to the military they need to refresh their skills, and may actually be put under the command of officers who never cross trained with NATO so they're forced to use Soviet tactics anyway.
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  22.  @Aureliiian  While Wagner was busy utterly destroying a city, the Russian army was shredded in Vuhledar. So yes, Wagner didn't lack ammunition. But the people Prigozhin took the ammo from did lack it.
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  23. Cope. ISIS was defeated in a joint effort by assisting Iraq, Kurdish fighters, etc. Russia stepped in to save Assad. Nothing more.
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  24. Before jammers the FPVs lost signal too. That's just the ground clutter causing signal loss. Signal is generally line of sight, with diffraction helping gain a little more range. But once you're close to the ground you lose signal. You can tell it's not jamming when they dive, lose signal, bring the drone up to take another look and then dive again. The wavelength for the controls is still able to reach while the video feed can't. A jammer would lock the controls.
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  25. And had Mentos in his battle rattle.
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  26.  @markgonczy8293  Yeah, the people advancing into machine gun fire and mortars suffered less losses than the entrenched defenders. Sure.
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  27. ​​ @mkb2420  But that's irrelevant. Air superiority is defined by the ability to conduct air operations with little concern for enemy air forces. If your only concern is surface-to-air, you have air superiority. The Coalition established air superiority over Iraq in 1991 even though it was one of the most defended air spaces in terms of missiles and AAA.
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  28. ​ @WarDaddyUSA  If the Patriot was destroyed why isn't Russia flying strategic bombers over Kiev and Lviv? What are they afraid of?
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  29. Military equipment gathering dust in storage isn't "billions" you get to spend on other projects.
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  30. By that logic why should cops stop crime? If they see someone getting attacked, they shouldn't pick sides.
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  31. The situation has changed over time and not all information has travelled at the same speed everywhere.
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  32. Napoleon didn't have cruise missiles
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  33. They'll have to backfill what was lost. Say you are under contract to make 50 sandwiches. You finish them and send them for delivery. You take your next contract for another 50 sandwhiches. Your delivery guy drives off a cliff. You now need to make 100 sandwiches and people are hungry.
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  34. How do you take care of people with 30 year old missiles about to expire? It costs more to demill equipment than sending it to Ukraine.
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  35. Transponders aren't a magic shield. Any malfunction or miscommunication can render IFF nearly useless. And they're clearly not immune considering how many of their own aircraft they shot down in prior incidents.
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  36. ​ @Jamicaman516  I think it was a reference to Wolf Warrior Diplomacy (named after the action movies). Their diplomats pissed off a lot of countries and the CCP had to tell them to cut it out.
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  37.  @trg78lji43r  "YoU dOn'T SoUnD NeUtRaL" buddy what's your obsession with neutrality? Anyone who doesn't parrot Ru MoD updates isn't neutral?
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  38. ​ @silaslong-js8ps  Do I bring the hacksaw?
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  39. Russia doesn't need the UN's seat either. It belonged to the USSR.
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  40. ​ @YorkshireFlea  The crisis is worse by not addressing the issue in Ukraine. We had ties to Russia and our cheap gas was paid for in blood. Russia specifically used grain as a weapon. Increasing food prices in developing countries by restricting Ukrainian exports would worsen our situation. You can run away from your problems all you want, but you'll have to face them sooner or later.
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  41. Okay. Do those advances mean they win or just that they keep losing more men and materiel?
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  42. ​ @uknwarrior7980  200 a day only happened for a couple of weeks in Severodonetsk.
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  43. Men in sandals have shown more fight than Russians. The well armed polar bear is bogged down within walking distance of the pre-2014 borders.
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  44. ​ @legendarydn3804  The button that launches a Hellfire doesn't care about the pilot/gunner orientation.
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  45. ​ @aarishgendor8786  Instead of talking populations we could talk high ground and road accesses, which is more important in a war than census data.
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  46. But it's not similar. Russian tanks were running out of fuel, getting blown up into the stratosphere. These losses are quite normal for an offensive. I think Azerbaijan lost like 50 tanks in 2020 and the Armenians started mocking them. Then they broke the line. Losing vehicles in combat is just reality. Having the tank crew ejected into space on a consistent basis? That's just a disgrace.
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  47. The fact that they're less scary is why they're in theory more likely to be used.
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  48. ​ @Khronogi  yeah but the point was the gangs. The 1%.
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  49. That's not how the world works.
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  50. ​​ @FoogleBoogle  Putin said he didn't care about NATO.
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