Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Civ Div" channel.

  1. ​ @ayushman1590  now try that again but with proper English
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  2. Mind that a lot of the "oldschool" tankies are very illiberal. I wouldn't call them socially conservative, but they do call a lot of stuff like LGBT a "bourgeois distraction". Also, Russia talks out of the both sides of their mouth. They like to court the right wing in the West but their message is different in other places. Russia Today ran pro-trans stories in Latin America while doing the opposite in the English version.
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  3. Because Russia can equip these small expeditionary forces. They also serve as propaganda that tells their own people they have a modern army. When the initial invasion of Ukraine went sideways they all to call a ton of reservists and troops from non-combat units and the equipment wasn't all high speed.
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  4. 5000 confirmed armored losses, Podolsky. Why aren't you signing up for tanker duty? I heard they have shortages.
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  5. ​ @vistakay  Based on what?
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  6. Why? We signed an agreement that we'd offer them security guarantees in exchange for their nukes.
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  7.  @YorkerEli  "murikkkan" really showing the bias there, Vlad
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  8. Kherson is the city and the oblast. Ukrainian troops are inside the district but not in the city. They're not going to assault the city head on.
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  9. ​ @BLMVDV  Wrong. Igor Girkin, FSB agent and a Russian national, started taking over Ukrainian government buildings before any hostilities had started.
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  10. ​ @bigbake132  Because Ukrainian people are fluent in the languages spoken there. And because they're Ukrainian, there's an expectation that they'll fight for Ukraine. If you show up there, waste their time by getting trained, then run to the border the first time you hear a shell whistling past you, might as well not bother.
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  11. CivDiv: "they were having their vehicle repaired" Some dude in the comments: "MoSt oF tHe UkRaInIaN aRmY iS rEcOn In FoRcE"
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  12. Meanwhile, Russia actually fired Grads from behind supermarkets in Donetsk to bait counter-artillery into civilian areas 2014-2021. Russia's overwhelming artillery superiority, which is dependent on filming videos to beg the MoD for shells.
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  13.  @KVarghese49  That's a lie and you know it.
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  14. ​ @jruedew  NLAWs are smart weapons though, they exist precisely to avoid requiring suppression. You don't need to suppress what is dead.
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  15. The problem is the indiscriminate use of cluster munitions. There's just no way to pick targets, you're gonna splash people you didn't intend to hit and then the duds remain for years to come.
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  16. They weren't taking protection, can't you read?
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  17. When the 2014 invasion kicked off there were far right extremists from Europe joining Ukraine and far left extremists joining the separatists. Who fought side by side with Sparta Battalion, a far right unit of the separatists, and on the same side as Wagner, Rusich, etc which have Neo-Nazi ties. The Kurd units a foreigner could join always were nominally socialist.
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  18. ​ @vasilijevukadinovic6843  Social circles are around 100-150 people. "Everyone knows someone" doesn't mean 1 out of 2 people died, it means that the war affects everyone.
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  19. ​ @Elzimbabwe.  Name the units.
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  20. ​ @sportsfangofootball  CivDiv fought in wars with the US military and then as a volunteer in Kurdistan. So he has the resume to back it up.
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  21. ​ @kaysekaze  the US objected to humanitarian lines AND ceasefire. The point of the ceasefire would be for Hamas to catch a breather and be "saved by the bell". The US's stance is that they'll support humanitarian lines as long as Israel gets to rip the bandaid and end this BS instead of letting it drag for another seven decades.
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  22. Now try that again but in English
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  23. Wagner has found itself with severe manpower shortage.
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  24. As stated there's multiple rocket variants so he may have been trained on a different one.
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  25. Did you get your draft papers, boy?
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  26. Space Force
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  27. They did exist, but not like the movie Enemy at the Gates. They didn't shoot soldiers after failed assaults. They detained those who fled defensive positions after being ordered to hold the strategic point, and forced them to serve under penal battalions as punishment. Yes people were executed by blocking troops but not entire companies mowed down by machine gun.
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  28.  @rassenkrieg9615  Or just tired of blowing money on replacements.
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  29. ​ @TheJadedWolfLad  I know people who have prior mil service and combat deployments. The Ukrainian embassy will not respond. Take that as you will.
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  30.  @bigbake132  Which is why Western volunteers aren't in high demand and Ukraine turns away most of them...
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  31. Look at Bucha. How many lives were "saved" by giving Russians control of a small town? Imagine how many dead if large cities are taken over. Ukraine is taking land, not losing.
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  32. ​ @artyparty_av  Support roles have a target on their backs too. Support is the foundation, without support the frontline guys can't fight.
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  33. Cope and seethe.
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  34. Take your meds.
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  35. ​ @NotMustacheMan  It's literally not. If I give you my old furniture that doesn't mean I spent X dollars upgrading your home. I just gave away old stuff.
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  36. What a non-statement. You know governments can do more than one thing at a time?
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  37. ​ @Borat480  Russia recruited from prisons and created specific penal units, Ukrained allowed early release of some prisoners who had combat experience. The prison population in Russia decreased significantly as a result.
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  38. ​ @Bluis5445  The people saying that aren't in the frontlines either. Did you pay attention to the video? It's about those living regular lives away from the danger zone.
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  39. ​ @BennyBsolo  No, they didn't.
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  40. So Ukraine is losing ground or retreats rarely, which is it? Pick a narrative, Ivan.
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  41. This is so full of mistakes it's actually incredible, even the Maidan year is wrong
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  42. ​ @Learn-more610  Ukraine isn't in NATO and many of their officers were only trained in Soviet doctrine.
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  43. It proves nothing. Just like the South Ossetia battalion that got wiped out the other day by Ukrainians doesn't mean Ukraine is fighting Georgia. People from all over the world join fights. It happens.
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  44. I think the assumption is that gunshots and explosions would be chaotic and the shouting would be necessary to even talk to people next to you.
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  45.  @spudlord8841  The Ukrainian government does evacuate civilians. The problem is that there's holdouts, and the government using force often leads nowhere. There's also delusional civilians who do want to join Russia, and then get killed by Russian shells. Can't help them. However, many people have nowhere else to go. All your belongings and memories are in one place, and you can maybe take a suitcase with you. You have conviction in your opinion, but it was made in a vacuum. In the real world, things aren't that black and white. Desperate times are precisely when you respect the rules. If the rules can be thrown out at any sign of trouble, then the rules do no exist. Your freedoms and your rights exist precisely for when they're about to be violated, not when you're just having a normal day.
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  46. Right, they should live in the woods and repair their vehicles in the open plains.
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  47.  @TakaTakaaaaaaaaaaaaa  It's literally their MO. Making cities unlivable makes it easier for them. They also attacked civilian infrastructure in Syria and claimed to be terrorist facilities. The point is to break a siege by terrorizing the population. Why have they attacked Kiev, which is not at the frontlines? Why did they try to freeze Ukrainians? To them it makes sense. Their accuracy, targeting and intelligence isn't good enough to go after the military so they go after the civilian populace because its largely fixed.
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  48. Some are normal arrests. The Russian shills like to pretend that uniformed men pick you out from the crowd and just take you. Usually you'd receive a summons and if you refuse to go that's like missing a court date, the police will detain you if they find you. If Russia the mobilization is done by knocking on the door and handing the summons by hand, if someone else opens the door you're technically not evading them.
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  49. A lot of people seem to think a city takes a day to capture. They're not even in the city yet. They're trying to cut off areas and degrade the fighting power to trap the Russians against the river with no way to ressuply. Assaulting the city directly is suicide. They want the Russians out of fuel and ammo.
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  50. ​ @Spetsnaz-kw3d  Are those volunteers with high morale the ones caught in the Avdiivka footage? Because that morale doesn't seem to help them.
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  51. Okay? The US is allied with Portugal and JFK still forbid American weapons for European defense to be used in Africa for the colonial war. Having an alliance doesn't mean supporting all the bad things a country does.
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  52.  @va5715  the manufacturers don't count. Iraq had Roland missiles and the Kari system for integrating anti air defenses. Does that mean the US fought France in Desert Storm? Did Iraq fight Germany because Iran had HK G3s?
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  53. If you send a camera to every workplace you'll also get hundreds of videos of workers complaining about it. War is considerably worse than working retail. Of course people will always want more support, more ammo, etc. American soldiers fighting against the Taliban complained if you sent a fast jet with 15 minutes on station instead of an A-10 which can loiter for hours. Imagine that! A jet! It's a miracle of logistics to be able to send a jet to Afghanistan but soldiers say "noooo 15 minutes isn't enough to take care of a guy in sandals". So imagine what Ukrainian soldiers who can't even call in a jet are saying.
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  54. Wrong. They fought poinlessly for Kherson while the Eggman general convinced Putin to withdraw. If they wanted to save troops, they'd have sensed Kherson was a trap and fled. Instead, they moved troops from Kharkiv to defend Kherson, leading to their brothers in the North to get mowed down. The sunk cost fallacy now demanded fighting fo Kherson despite the Antonovsky bridge and Nova Khakovka attacks leading to supplies being constrained by ferry.
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  55. Nah, it's not "unfortunate" it's deliberate. They did the same in Syria. Those hundreds of thousands are misattributed to the US. Most of those deaths were from internal conflict, not US troops. It's not "bad intel" - it's deliberate destruction and terror tactics.
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  56. Bet you complained about the bombing of Donbas for 8 years when it was Russia using Donetsk city as a firing platform for MLRS so that counter-battery hit civilians for propaganda. Literal Hamas tactics.
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  57. This guy spent most of his adult life in conflict zones. Are those problems gonna get solved by sending him to do what he does best in American soil?
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  58. It wouldn't make that much sense unless they're deep undercover. Russia fought attempts at establishing Islamic emirates in Chechnya and Syria. Their MoD also claims the Ukrainians learned how to make "technicals" from ISIS, as a way to scare Russians into thinking Ukrainians are terrorists.
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  59. Russia is advancing backwards.
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  60. Dude makes a video to answer a question that he gets asked on a daily basis, and starts the video off by saying he doesn't recommend coming to Ukraine, and you reply like you got offended at a job offer.
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  61.  @hutsongamble5086  It's Billion with a B. The US federal budget for a year is lile 4.7 T, no way 70 B fit in there. And where is the money going? Look at the map. That's what the money is doing.
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  62.  @hutsongamble5086  It's Billion with a B. The US federal budget for a year is like 4.7 T, no way 70 B fit in there. And where is the money going? Look at the map. That's what the money is doing.
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  63. They weren't.
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  64.  @infcap5348  That doesn't even make sense. You're a literal bot, you can't even think and just reply off a script.
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  65. The empty ERA blocks were real. They had the "egg carton" spacers but no explosives. Units got the order to invade after thinking they were on exercise, so they didn't have live explosives on the bags. Also, we have video published by Russian forces of them enacting physical punishment on deserters and refuseniks, plus mothers and wives of soldiers complaining about torture at the hands of Chechen barrier troops. Is all of Russian speaking internet an Ukrainian psyop?
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  66.  @vasilijevukadinovic6843  So now you trust the newspapers? What size are the families? Just parents and children? Do cousins count?
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  67. ​ @RupertBundem  the Vietcong were defeated during the Tet Offensive. North Vietnam sent PAVN regulars to reconstitute VC numbers. Like Russia did to the LPR and DPR - use Russian men to mask the LPR and DPR losses.
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  68. Russia basically hinted that Azov guys detained in the DPR/LPR would get a show trial and execution (Russia proper has a moratorium on the death penalty). But then after Putin traded them for Medvedchuk and a few other Russian soldiers, many hardliners complained about betrayal. If they release more then the pro-war faction will whine about how the people in charge are spitting in the face of Russians.
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  69. He's an instructor. Plus rent must be quite low in a war zone.
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  70. Probably negative money. He has to buy equipment to sustain himself and his team mates.
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  71. ​@deltaphaseplutonium-ho8nh take your meds
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  72. NATO can't dictate geographical or climatic conditions. Nothing wrong with slow combat if it suits you.
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  73. ​ @kaysekaze  That's the thing. You remember how in the Simpsons they helped Krusty get a law redirecting airliner traffic passed through congress by tacking it onto another law giving aid to orphans? The ceasefire was included in the humanitarian lines resolution. If you want to vote no on the law about air traffic you have to be the guy voting against aid for orphans. That's politics for you.
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  74. The hell does that mean? The geosynchronous orbit is like 36,000 km away from Earth, you can't detect thermal signatures from that far away. The satellites that could in theory track heat signatures only take a snapshot every 12 minutes so you'd need people spending entire days trying to analize just 12 minute gaps to have any worthwhile intelligence.
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  75.  @BosphorusFloods  YBS is a Yazidi militia. By saying "straight to" this means he went from serving in the YBS under threat of Turkish drones and immediately went to Ukraine.
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  76. Because it's indirect fire, the sound flies in a straight line to you, but the shell has to climb and then dive.
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  77. ​ @JAnx01 how rigid a receiver is, lockup consistency, etc absolutely influences accuracy.
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  78. He's looking good for a corpse
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  79.  @Jvk1166z  I've seen the claim that Ukrainians are aware and they have a firmware patch that disables tracking
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  80. Buying a Sig Romeo or Holosun is one thing, buying 700.000 of them is another.
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  81. Because the US profits from the post WW2 status quo. Also, false dichotomy.
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  82. Putin doesn't have 5 years.
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  83. Not true. The invasion of Iraq was much cleaner. Syria was Russia's doing.
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  84. Can you explain how your paycheck wasn't stolen from the people by your own logic, Mr 0331?
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  85.  @bingbong6127  Russia already went over US numbers months ago.
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  86.  @KVarghese49  Stop giving yourself 2 upvotes, bot.
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  87. Not in the slightest. For one simple reason - Russia can pump out 4 or 6 times more propaganda because of chaging narratives. Whenever something happens Russia says: 1. It didn't happen. 2. It was faked. 3. They did it to themselves. 4. Actually we did it and they deserved it. So right there Russia can beat Ukraine 4x over the baseline. And Russia does have a higher baseline but I don't feel the need to prove it.
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  88. ​ @tricksterjoy9740  The DPR/LPR flew a ton of Antifa flags. You should watch the 2014-2022 events instead of applying your American politics brain to stuff you don't understand.
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  89. ​ @sugma3475  it didn't really switch around, it's just that a ton of the Antifa bros are no longer among the living. And some quit lol there was a Brazilian antifa guy who showed up to the Donbas to fight Azov and gave up because of the racism.
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  90. 3.8 billion years ago, when the Earth began to cool....
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  91. Weight is not negligible, there's a reason the XM250 is a big deal. Dropping MG weight is one of the most efficient ways of gaining carrying capacity for ammo or other equipment at a collective level.
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  92.  @hutsongamble5086  You wouldn't need to wonder if you just looked at the results.
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  93. False flag means you are posing as a different country.
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  94. Clear optics are expensive and heavy, you need a larger drone. There's a reason why targeting pods are a million dollars.
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  95. "WhErE iS tHe MoNeY gOiNg?" do you know how large the frontline is? What elite school? There's several training facilities in Europe where Ukrainian servicemen are being sent to train. These are the guys who didn't get to go. They have an army, a national guard, they have territorial defense forces and even militias who are semi-independent.
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  96. The US didn't take Iraqi oil. Russia has hurt ten thousand times more people than Abu Ghraib. False equivalence. You want Russia to be powerful, you deserve what you'll get when Russia cones for you. Have you read what Wagner is doing for gold in Africa? You see Ukrainians as terrorists? You're awful.
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  97. They have enlistment offices but you should contact their embassy first. You may get rejected there so it's a trip wasted. Also some countries strip you of citizenship if you are caught fighting for another nation so find out if you'll be in trouble.
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  98.  @aykay1303  Yeah they seemed to have made the process as boring as possible to filter people out. I guess asking around online is really the only way, having a contact is always better if you're making the trip.
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  99.  @AlexLawable  Only 5k because Russia doesn't have 50k working armored vehicles. Go on, strap yourself to one of those vehicles and go against the western weapons you claim aren't effective.
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  100. This was used in 2018 to attack tyhe Russian air base in Syria. The drones were not under human control and just flew into the base to drop bombs.
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  101.  @ngood888  TL;DR russians staged massive street battles and now it's the Ukrainian government's fault that violence happened
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  102.  @nikolajk5330  Nah it just detected your wording and tone.
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  103.  @ngood888  holy crap you're paid to spam this?
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  104. Millenials are like 35-36 now.
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  105. Imagine trying to get to a country in conflict with full battle rattle. Not only you're risking stuff getting lost in transit if you're flying but actually getting stopped because intelligence agencies have noticed you are trying to get to a conflict zone. How do they determine you're not trying to join ISIS or Wagner?
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  106. ​ @mannymejia4339  the universe has a sick sense of humor because it seems Russia watched all of Western media about the Soviets and decided to adopt the comic book tier villainy even when it's not historically accurate. To paraphrase Warlockracy, we live in a simulation programmed by American boomers and we're all NPCs.
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