Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "The Fall of Mariupol?" video.

They lost far too many men and materiel for it to be a feint. How confident would you be if you were a soldier in the Russian armed forces, and you were told to capture X and not know if you were the real attacker or the feint, about to die for nothing?
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@LastOne155 Cope. This is mental gymnastics. All you're telling me is that the invasion was a planning failure, but now you're trying to twist yourself into a pretzel to make sense of how idiotic the plan was. If they did not expect to take the city, why did they send Rosgvardiya/OMON units? There's footage taken by Ukrainians of bodies piled up with their riot shields. Why was the VDV tasked with an air assault on Hostomel airfield? You know what was also put out publicly? An article that was posted accidentally by Russia state media declaring victory over Ukraine.
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This is less than a consolation prize. Ukraine is still militarized, still lead by the not-sees, and it's getting NATO assistance. The Russian Armed Forces suffered significant losses, which they many not recover from within a decade, in their march to Kiev. If he didn't care, he abused his men by throwing them to the meat grinder and every soldier deserves to know how he'll be treated so that next time he may re-think the direction in which the guns are pointed. Hundreds of suspected assassinations attempts against officers occurred among American troops in Vietnam. Just saying.
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Any industrialized country has "chemical" weapons. If you destroy Sarin stockpiles, you can still get chlorine.
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@jackhawthorn4799 I agree, it's just that "chemical weapon" is pretty broad and everyone assumes nerve agent.
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@LastOne155 What do you mean the Western ways? Gravity doesn't work differently in the East. Particle physics don't work differently in the East. The sun shines during the day in the East. Many things are true and independent of perspective. Yes, what you're saying is a cope. Russia failed at its objectives, and so save face tells itself those were never the real objectives. I'm not saying you support Russia. I'm saying you're buying into their narrative. Russia is not unhinged. But it is fallible. Russia may have reasons to do things. But it can be unreasonable. One can be rational. And still commit baffling mistakes. If you take rational decisions based on flawed data and untested assumptions, you look no better.
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@LastOne155 The tying up resources line doesn't make any sense. The territorial defense units and the mobilization ensured that the Southeast would still be defended by a sufficient number of army units. Basically, the feint was completely worthless as it didn't save the Southeast from the slugfest we've seen. Secret plan? It was painfully obvious. The shock and awe of the initial strike was meant to decapitate the political and military command and control, and an air bridge to Hostomel was supposed to have been available right in the opening hours. Thanks to misses and dud rates, the Ukrainian military actually managed to stay alive and react, and the territorial defense unit that came face to face with the VDV at Hostomel managed to repel their attack until the Russians reinforced, by which point the airfield was too damaged to be useful. It's completely transparent to anyone paying attention to what was actually being attempted in the first night. I think it's amazing how you people operate. You believe in the Kiev Feint because Russians use deception in their warfare, but then act like they're brutally honest in their assessments. That's weird and cynical. Russia is not Western, but their first night showed an attempt to mimic the shock and awe of American opening salvos.
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@LastOne155 The point is that gains and losses are measurable. The Russian military crippled itself with that tactic. That's not the "Russian way of war", that's called a "mistake". Mistakes are understandable. Having tactics that cause as much losses as a mistake but bring no measurable gain is just insanity.
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Changing road signs was used by the Czech Republic. It's a historical tactic against Russian troops who are not familiar with the Socialist Republics they were sent to.
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China is willing to maintain the status quo with Taiwan. One country, two systems is preferable to war.
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@yomomz3921 But they don't. Their history is mostly not rocking the boat. They don't have people to spare. They're staring down the barrel of population collapse, they abolished the one child policy and replaced it by the two child policy, to only then introduce the three child policy just a few years later because they've realized there's not enough kids. In fact, most of the hypothetical PLA invasion would be only sons dues to the previous one child policy. In China, the son is tasked with taking care of his elderly parents. If China sends them in a suicide mission, many people in their 40s-50s will lose their minds as the male offspring are their retirement plan. This would actually divide China because you'd see patriotism go up in smoke as soon as people realize that saber rattling is going to send their kids to the grave.
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