Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "The Wall Street Journal" channel.

  1. Notice at how Russia throws men at obstacles at Vuhledar, and Ukraine adjusted their offensive to secure a win. Russian artillery losses are happening at a rate of twice the war's average. Ukrainians clearly have a plan. The best way to not get punched is to take a scapel and cut the opponent's tendons. You may have a hand, but without tendons you can't make a fist.
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  2. If I refuse to buy from your store that's not a law, that's choice.
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  3. Ukrainian troops themselves are saying the Bradley is superior to Soviet IFVs. They speak of surviving deadly anti-tank missile attacks that would have killed them in BMPs/BTRs and will never ride in a Soviet IFV again. Seems like Western tech is indeed superior. Ukrainian troops live to fight another day despite the vehicles being hit, Russian troops don't because their vehicles don't prioritize crew survival.
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  4. Yeah when you spend 20 years bragging about your armed forces and threatning nukes you should be able to overcome geography and weather.
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  5. The atmosphere scatters the beam. Missiles have longer range.
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  6. Yeah, don't look up trypophobia. I mean, now you're probably inclined to do it, but it's the name the internet gave to feeling disgust at clusters of holes and you probably shouldn't if it makes your skin crawl, but I just wanted to say that it's definitely a common trigger for disgust/nausea.
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  7. ​ @Sergei__v  Russian economy is only growing according to Rosstat figures. Literally nobody else can get number on the Russian economy as the Russian goveremt clamped down.
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  8. ​ @artemdzh2836  Job well done, tell that to the families of every Russian soldier killed on camera in Vuhledar. It was a massacre, people killed for "straining resources". Ukraine can easily trade away resources for Russian lives. You can get gifted resources and even buy some with the little money they have. People are lost forever. This war will wreck Russia, it's nationwide suicide. But it cost Ukraine resources. Job well done.
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  9. They're not stuck, they're capturing terrain.
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  10. Yet one of the biggest complaints in the Ukrainian army is that mobilization brought back Soviet-trained officers who are considered incompetent compared to post-2014 officers. The Ukrainian soldiers themselves state that NATO training is great and the Soviet-era Ukrainians are getting them killed because they were taught under Moscow rule.
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  11.  @spartanrating8210  COPE. They didn't withdraw from Kharkiv, you can see the pictures. They were massacred. The roads in Kharkiv were littered in body parts.
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  12. ​ @stinyg  Ka-52s fly under the AD umbrella. Radar is physically blocked by the horizon (Earth is round). Helicopters don't need to destroy the AD to fly inside their own terrain and lob a 10km range missile. The Vikhr missile has greater range than MANPADS. Remember the helicopters brought down inside Russia? Ukrainian AD brought them down. They thought they were safe so they flew relatively high. They only survive by hugging the ground. Which meas AD is active.
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  13. ​ @tariqreid1866  Russia's supply chain is based on road and rail networks. Severing them nullifies the supplies. That's why in the Kharkiv offensive Ukraine went after Kupiansk and Russia is fighting to get it back. Losing a rail hub town devastates supplies.
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  14. ​ @gugulethuzangwa8358  Libya was not ivaded. Arab League asked for intervention, the UN declared a no fly zone.
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  15.  @supermarno1980  There's trainers who got calls and messages from Ukrainian fighters who thanked them for the training. Prior to training they'd have 50% of their wounded die. Now they can save the lives of the wounded. The training worked.
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  16. And they were right. HIMARS stopped the Russian advances last summer by targeting the artillery food, Patriots saved Kiev, Storm Shadow has deleted command posts and ammo dumps outside HIMARS range.
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  17. The 15 game changers that did change the game. The nation with the big scary tank army had them throw turrets into space. The nation with the big scary artillery had to put the ammo 80km away.
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  18.  @olekscap4620  Russians bragged non stop about their manly army. Cope, seethe, etc. The Russians say "Kiev junta" or "Zelensky regime". Pot calling the kettle black.
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  19. ​ @gordonbennet3753  I mean Russians bragged about MH17, Kramatorsk and the dam and then deleted the posts once they realized that they had messed up. Seems like a pattern. If we have receipts of someone bragging about crimes and then deleting the posts when the community gets angry that's beyond suspicious.
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  20. The Javelins changed the game. Slaughtered Russian tanks. HIMARS changed the game. It forced artillery ammo to be placed 80km away from the artillery. The pattern is clearly seen. Russia's tendons are being cut one by one.
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  21.  @fabianpillay860  Russia's loss will lead you to drug addiction.
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  22. Not the Russian ones, otherwise they wouldn't need to steal.
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  23.  @divoulos5758  Russia bombed the runways in the first day of the war. So what? Half the missiles missed, craters can be filled.
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  24. There are fabs in the US.
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  25.  @hericobailas6258  you pay for the pavement flattening and the windshield dragster, then.
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  26.  @realnapster1522  Israel flew F-35s over Iran. The US struck targets in Syria protected by Syrian S-300 and Russian S-400s with B-1s.
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  27. ​ @hawaiian529  Putin is one man. Russia has hundred-something million people. They could easily defeat Putin, the mob could tear him apart. There's hundreds of thousands, most likely over a million in the police forces and national guard who could just step aside and let the people give the leader the Gaddafi treatment. They're all to blame.
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  28. The defensive network is worthless without people. Because of the ego of Putin and his military generals, they can't lose territory in the "security zone". It's preferable for Ukraine to fight in the security zone. Winning there means that Russia is forced to throw reserves at the line of contact to avoid the loss of territory. Fight the reserves in the "security zone", by the time you get to the defensive line it will be lacking in manpower. Defenses last 5 minutes if nobody is shooting back.
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  29.  @marktsvetanov6038  No need to push when you can starve them out.
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  30. Javelins stopped the tank onslaught. Bayraktar punished the stalled convoys while air defense was down. HIMARS obliterated ammo dumps, forcing Russians to drive 80km to get shells for their artillery pieces.
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  31. HIMARS changed the face of the war. Russian artillery was well fed and supplies. HIMARS starved it, now ammo dumps have to be 80km away.
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  32.  @HKim0072  Someone tell John Hoehn and William Courtney that American F-16s landed in Ukrainian air bases during joint training.
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  33.  @Wen6543  If F-16s are too delicate, why have they been flown in Ukraine during joint exercises?
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  34.  @hb1338  You can literally see the satellite pictures of the craters, half of their missiles MISSED the airfields. And airfield repairs take a day or two.
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  35. ​ @exodia9012  They already figured it out.
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  36. ​ @ericp1139  The Russian defensive effort has clearly begun, they throw reserves at the line of contact rather than saving them for the main defensive line. If Russia continues like this they'll have no soldiers to man the defensive line.
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  37. Okay, that one is funny.
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  38.  @jonnie2bad  But Ukraine can't buy active seeker missiles from Russia. Their only option is firing AMRAAMs from F-16s. Because their enemy won't sell them the good missiles. "then shut off it's own radar" - This is never done because the missiles need mid-course updates before going active. If you shut down radar the missiles will lose track before the active seeker goes online.
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  39.  @kallindar123  Russians prefer the grind thing. They ground themselves down. Wagner is going back to Africa, now Russia's casualties will no longer be prisoners. They'll be Russian men and boys with families that will miss them. Not convicts.
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  40. Everyone has that right. When you go to the store, see things are more expensive than somewhere else, you leave and go there. There's your price cap. You have all the right to do that.
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  41.  @dr_UiD  Igor Girkin has addressed this multiple times, in livestreamed debates even. They had guns held to politicians' heads, they put their stooges in power, they paid people to stage protests to make their "revolution" seem legit. It all crumbled under its own weight and the people in charge begged for the Russian army to cross the border. Funnily enough, Vice was there for when the insurgents had to retreat and the Ukrainian army reached towns where people kept pointing the finger at each other because they had supported the DPR and LPR out of fear that they'd be mistreated by the Russian forces once they arrived.
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  42.  @targetingmolecule5816  Yet quality trunced quantity. Russia is pulling T-55s out of storage. Their tanks are mostly inoperable.
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  43.  @targetingmolecule5816  Russia had 15,000 tanks? You mean tank hulls. Actual photos of them show they're rust buckets, exposed to snow and rain for decades.
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  44. Then lose sovereignty to whatever country issues your new currency.
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  45. They did change the game. Javelin changed the game from a tank rush to a slow artillery grind because all the Russian tanks were popping off. Then HIMARS starved the Russian artillery by forcing all the ammo dumps 80km away.
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  46.  @leoschmain  Even a F-16A made in 1979 most likely received the MLU. That means it can interface with missiles that weren't available in the 80s.
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