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

  1.  @xiaogangdasha  Because improvements in human rights are better for businesses. Being involved in countries that just make up bogus crimes to get rid of people or seize property without just cause can negate billions in investment.
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  2.  @nicholaswhite7351  Nobody is banned from speaking any language in this case either.
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  3. ​ @memback  but still a wolf appeared at the end of the story of the boy who cried wolf You may not care about the threat, but it's there
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  4.  @nicholaswhite7351  It's not been officially banned for the last 2-3 years. You are not fined for speaking it. You've already moved goalposts. All you have to do is post the law here so we can read. I already know what it says, but I know you don't. That's why I want you to post it.
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  5. Youtube automatically deletes a lot of comments. When people reply to me half the time they're hidden.
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  6.  @Sujay95  lol almost no energy needs were satisfied by Iraq, when most oil consumed in the US is domestic, Canadian, Saudi, etc.
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  7. All you people post the same stuff over and over.
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  8.  @stevenmike1878  "so island nations like the UK can have great quality hospitals everywhere" - Even small countries have major issues with rural access to healthcare. Doctors and nurses don't want to "live in the middle of nowhere" and governments are forced to rely on incentives to get people to agree to work in rural healthcare.
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  9.  @stevenmike1878  "you can sell each barrel for more" - But American energy policy in the 2010s actually caused prices to drop... The reason to have "barely enough to go around" is due to OPEC agreeing on production quotas to stabilize prices. In fact, Saddam invaded Kuwait because they accused them to producing too much oil and dropping prices while they had to rely on oil income to pay off the Iran-Iraq war debt!
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  10. Geothermal isn't a silver bullet.
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  11. @Mist If they don't like other countries telling them to play nice, they deserve to remain the way they are. I feel bad for the people, but don't send them to my country as refugees because their country has deteriorated their living conditions.
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  12. They've suffered a lot of modern tank losses, what are you talking about?
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  13.  @Lemosa3414  Many military microchips, because they need reliability over raw computing power, are manufactured in smaller fabs in the West. If you want to play the latest games, you get Taiwanese. If you want to shoot down an aircraft, you get Texas Instruments.
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  14. Azerbaijan is much closer to Turkey and they both would love to take a swing at Iran. There's a reason why Armenians flew Iranian flags when Russia abandoned them.
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  15. Kherson didn't fail. Kharkiv includes the Kupiansk rail hub, which opens the door for Luhansk and it makes resupply harder for Russisn troops in the northeast frontline.
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  16. It's just not feasible. It would piss off leaders. It would create openings for ISIS offshoots. A lot of work in Africa is designed to "teach a man to fish" but it's difficult to get government institutions to remove the training wheels with all the instability.
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  17. Your country about to be affected by food shortages? Don't forget to subscribe to Hello Fresh.
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  18.  @Crick1952  Ripper cheated in the exercise by making the simulation allow swarms of small ships carry several tons of missiles and launching systems they could not carry in real life, and the initial blow to Bluefor was done when the simulation "teleported" ships into combat without Bluefor being ready and too close to react. Their defenses were also turned down because the Navy only had a small shipping lane available to them and if the defenses were turned on they would start locking onto civilian targets in the shore or in other lanes. A reset is natural, if you have a certain number of days you scheduled to perform exercises and you lose in the first hours, you reset and continue to make use of the days you scheduled. The reason Ripper was told to follow certain rules was because he was purposefully sabotaging the exercises. At one point one of the generals involved cited the example that they only had 36 hours to use transport airplanes for a troop drop exercise. But Ripper wanted to use chemical weapons to make sure the exercise wouldn't happen. The Bluefor generals said that if they had the time, they would have allowed the chemical weapons to be used, waited for the simulation to allow for the dispersion of the chemicals and then do the drop. But they didn't have enough time, they could only use the airplanes according to schedule and had to restrict Ripper's moves or else he'd fuck up the exercise by not actually allowing anyone to train.
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  19.  @johnkraft7461  "the US did it 80 years ago so everyone can do it, but worse" is the worst take anyone can come up with
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  20.  @Sceptonic  Yes, and completely squander it away because murder, false imprisonment, etc is more important. What happens when those taking Chinese money stop paying but also refuse the concessions?
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  21.  @Sceptonic  If we decrease corruption, not really. You lose the most when you hand over the money and don't make sure the people you're dealing with respect human rights. If they don't respect human rights, why would they respect a deal?
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  22. Ukraine has acted towards Russia? They never did anything to Russia.
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  23. Two issues - the resources in Siberia are difficult to reach, and they're not necessarily trying to steal resources from Ukraine. They just don't want Ukraine to sell to the EU.
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  24.  @Ghastly_Grinner  Buddy it doesn't matter how much the Ruble is worth, they're still bleeding billions per day. Ethnic Russians are not a hivemind.
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  25. ​ @tobene  Economies are never zero sum. Outcomes are outcomes, not justified. Infinite growth isn't required. Capitalism doesn't need to be kept alive, it's the natural state of things - the core concepts of capitalism will exist even after humanity is extinct.
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  26. Hydroelectric has limits, so does geothermal, hydrogen is a pipe dream.
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  27. ​ @John-wg9mb  It's not illegal to attack military objects. Protected structures (schools, mosques, churches, etc) lose their protection once they become military in purpose. Embassies and consulates are protected if they are embassies and consulates. You can't use them as time-out zones to hide a military HQ.
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  28. Blackwater was babysitting CEOs and standing guard in corporate buildings and infrastructure. They were an actual security company, not an army.
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  29. Solar panels are virtually maintenance free, but wind turbines are mechanical. Nothing free about massive spinning blades connected to a gearbox.
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  30.  @nicholaswhite7351  Russian is not banned in services.
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  31. And what goals are being achieved exactly?
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  32. A RT presenter quit live on air in 2014. They can say they allow press freedom, then not hold their end of the bargain once the contract is signed.
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  33. Time is not on Russia's side. They are losing money every day they need to support an invasion. Rotate fresh troops? Where are they going to get another 200k? The civilians will break and welcome the invader who made them live in misery?
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  34.  @Ghastly_Grinner  There's no human shields if nobody's shooting in the first place.
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  35.  @Ghastly_Grinner  They didn't "decide" anything, there's no cover except the cities. Are you also going to chastise the Russians for Stalingrad? You're still pretending that the bullet just appeared in mid air. Someone pulled the trigger. And you pretend they are innocent.
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  36.  @JewTube001  But we easily create more than we consume.
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  37.  @tobene  Economies aren't zero sum because human activity adds growth. Humans can take "nothing" and make it into something. Outcomes don't need a justification, you can't make poverty illegal.
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  38. You don't understand strategic defeat by looking at maps. Strategic defeat means you can "win" the war militarily, but you lose everything you achieved. Like the US winning the Vietnam war by getting the North to sign a peace treaty, then losing strategically when the North broke the peace accords and took over South Vietnam.
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  39.  @jackyao9061  The US had to contain North Vietnam. They got North Vietnam to agree to stop. They signed the peace deal. So the US won. But then the North invaded and Saigon fell. Militarily, the US beat the North. The VC were decimated during Tet. But they lost the strategic objective. You're the one who's blind. The US was fighting with one hand tied behind their back and still beat the North into a bloody pulp. And like Russia, at one point the enemy refusing to stay down is enough to let it go and just accept strategic defeat. Russia can beat Ukraine into a bloody pulp. But Russia will leave. And once they turn their back, are they going to do anything when Ukraine gets up again?
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  40.  @The_Custos  The US won. Vietnam signed the peace treaty. In Afghanistan the US also defeated the Taliban militarily. In both cases military victory did mot secure strategic victory because the enemy simply took over once the US left. That's STRATEGIC DEFEAT. The US was defeated STRATEGICALLY as they couldn't be defeated militarily. So both North Vietnam and the Taliban went back on the deals made knowing the US would not come back. You people are insane. The same thing is happening to Russia, but you believe Russia is immune to the same situation. Delusional. Russia will leave after winning. And then they will be STRATEGICALLY DEFEATED as just like the US their military wins did not secure their strategic goals. Please think. Please inform youself. Please read. Then think again. You're here denying that the North Vietnam agreed to peace in the Paris accords. Learn some history.
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  41.  @The_Custos  Exactly, thanks for admitting you have nothing to say. No need to waste my time pinging me, there's better ways to get attention.
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  42.  @The_Custos  Leaving a fight that isn't yours isn't a military loss. The US had troops stationed in Vietnam and Afghanistan, and they left because it wasn't their conflict anymore. The UK was also defeated in the Revolutionary War, they're still around. Germany lost two world wars, they're still around. Did you just claim that to be defeated, an organization or country has to cease to exist?
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  43.  @The_Custos  Yes. Very simple. When you leave a bar because a fight breaks out inside, it doesn't mean you got beat. What would I have to accept? You're punching air. You're trying to fight a ghost, possibly the Ghost of Kiev, by bringing up unrelated things I'm not arguing for. Stop imagining enemies that don't exist in your head. They can't take it right now. They cannot keep it. The size of the occupying army is simply insufficient for the purpose.
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  44.  @The_Custos  If my friend gets into trouble, refuses to learn how to handle his affairs, and had me fight his battles for years... at some point I have to realize this is a bad friend. Why am I bleeding in fights that end up not benefitting either of us? I know it's fiction. Thanks for explaining to me how I'm mocking you. Because the joke wouldn't make sense if it was real. The US also "turned" most of Afghanistan. The Taliban quickly "turned" those areas back as soon as the US turned their backs. Russia will turn their backs.
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  45.  @The_Custos  You can bleed and still win. Ever seen a boxing match or a UFC fight? Stop acting insane. There's no backstabbing, first of all the Afghan government backstabbed the US for refusing to stand on its own footing. They stole all the money instead of building up their country. This is not a friend. This is someone who uses and manipulates others. Yes, all is fair in war. The US left Vietnam and Afghanistan because they were not longer at war. The complacency wasn't coming from the Americans. Yes, Russia isn't the US. It's losing a lot more equipment and men compared to the US. How are they going to have staying power when they're wrecking their military and economy for minimal gains and actively unifying Ukrainians against Russia? The US lost strategically. Russia will lose strategically. They may actually lose militarily. I'll save my good day wishes for the Russian fathers and mothers losing their sons.
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  46.  @The_Custos  The Soviets won WWII because Germany was occupied and the nation rebuilt by the occupying nations. The bear can't take a long beating anymore. They're not pumping out kids like they were back then. Their economy can't make up for the lost materiel. You've been told already. There is military defeat and strategic defeat. You bring up American strategic defeats while denying the military victory, and then refuse to concede that Russia can suffer a strategic defeat despite YOU explaining how easy it is to suffer one. The Taliban did not strike when the US was weak. They started winning the country back when Americans had left. The last soldiers were not "driven out". They were simply covering for the people leaving, and left when there was nobody else they could bring.
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  47.  @The_Custos  How is the US weak? Staying power? What does that mean? After 20 years of a useless and unpopular war, deals were made to end it. You wanted the US to stay there for more 20 years? My soldiers? What do you mean? They were not repelling attacks, they were not participants in the fight. So Russia is throwing a tantrum and destroying things because they can't win. Children. Thanks for admitting how infantile the Russian leadership is. Pressure on the Ukrainian forces? The pressure on the Russian forces has essentially gutted them for the next decade. Settlements they've taken, can they hold them?
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  48.  @The_Custos  The US was fighting a professional army, the NVA, which was being supplied by the Soviets with high tech equipment. The "rice farmers" were massacred by the ARVN during the Tet Offensive, the VC were almost wiped out and had to be replaced by NVA regulars. South Vietnam killed so many VC in 1968 that they stopped being able to recruit in the villages.
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  49.  @The_Custos  I can't believe I'm giving history lessons for free. The guerrillas - Mujaheddin - that fought the Soviets were later caught up in a civil war, and the Taliban was the organization that ended up putting the hammer down and fighting those guerrillas. They came from regions in Pakistan. They didn't have bio-weapons labs, they had bio-labs. Which exist all over the world. Amazing how Russia made these claims about bioweapons and then presented absolutely no evidence of weapons. It's the Iraq WMDs all over again.
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  50. Why is it fantasy?
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