Comments by "Nicholas Conder" (@nicholasconder4703) on "Jake Broe" channel.

The Russians are committing Hostel takeovers. Or is it Hotel takeovers?
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I think Xi is deliberately snubbing Putin. By invading Ukraine, Putin has not only placed his own country in a situation where it will likely collapse either militarily, politically or economically in the next year. The Invasion also put the whole world on alert, and now most of the major players in the Pacific are eyeing China and keeping a close watch on what they are doing. I cannot remember the channel, but one youtuber said that Putin had torched 30 years of Chinese and Russian diplomacy with the invasion of Ukraine.
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18:20 The story was about the Ukrainians capturing a T-90 tank, but the vehicle in the image is a BMP troop carrier (not sure which version).
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@barryhamm3414 Here's a good video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHhgVrKJJoA
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I saw this was likely coming down the pipe because Zelensky didn't help Trump back in 2020. Trump has been nursing this personal grievance for 5 years now. It is not the Americans who let you down, it is the GOP. Remember that. Having said that, it is still a betrayal of trust. But then again, how do you trust someone who has thrown everyone else he can under the bus just so he can escape the consequences of his actions?
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@asdklfalskdjflaskdjf I think the Republicans have been moving in that direction since the days of Clinton. The formation of the Tea Party movement only made it worse. I commented at the lunch table once back when this clique formed in the Republican Party that I expected to see brown-shirted Republicans goose-stepping down the Mall in Washington in about 20 years. Given what has happened in recent years, it appears I wasn't far off.
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That is a very good point. I doubt most people (myself included) considered the fact that the bulk of the "Reservists" are actually part of the State security apparatus. And you are right, if he mobilizes these people it is likely that the lid will pop off and his regime would be in danger of total collapse.
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To be fair, the opening ceremonies in Paris were extremely odd, to say the least.
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That's the real Putin. I can tell by the way he walked into the office. Definitely not one of his body doubles.
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Russia decided to use the Luftwaffe strategy for defeating Britain - bomb London.
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Jake, would I like to visit Ukraine? Yes, I would like to return to the region (western Ukraine) I visited in the 1990s and see how it has changed in the past 30 years. Ukraine is a wonderful country with so much potential. I only hope the people there can fulfill that potential.
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Suchomimus youtube covered this issue. He indicated that the vast majority of evidence supports the fact that a Ukrainian AA missile went astray. "Missile Lands in Przewodow, Poland" Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgObpujYHFQ&t=8s
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Russia attacking NATO over Ukraine. That would be like trying to "cut off your nose to spite your face", and promptly slitting their own throat.
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Ah, yes. Alexander Mercouris. The British lawyer who was disbarred for forging correspondence and faking his own abduction. Obviously a trustworthy source! (sorry, my sarcasm is showing). I have looked up the backgrounds of most of these clowns and you are right, they either have criminal records or were thrown out of their positions for racism, bigotry and anti-semitism.
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Putin was traumatized by the images of Ghaddafi's death ... Obviously not enough, because he is committing worse crimes than Ghaddafi. He also forgot that Ghaddafi was killed by the people of Libya for his mistreatment of them. I guess Putin learned the wrong lesson from this episode of world history.
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I guess the cemetery COULD be considered a military target if soldiers from WW2 were buried there.🤔
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There is a major difference between mobilization in WW1 and WW2 and today. In the two World Wars there was an existential threat to Russia, but the war in Ukraine is an invasion. It is not defense of the Motherland, but naked aggression. It is not a war being fought for the survival of the nation. Thus, they have no motivation to fight this war.
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@tomas12912 France has a tendency to try to play both sides. It seems to have been a governmental policy since WW2 to avoid taking a stance that offends anyone (rather like India). This ignores the fact that by doing so you often offend everyone.
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@zyeet3243 More importantly, the current borders were remapped in cooperation with the governments of the newly formed nations, not imposed by force by external parties. This makes the current conflict a much greater breach of trust.
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Notice the lack of energy or elan in the people heading off to Ukraine. They just look like mental zombies.
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Jake, I should mention that I watched a program on the Russian nuclear power stations a few years ago, and it turns out that all the Soviet-built reactors are capable of being turned to weapons-grade materials. That is because, well, paranoid Communist USSR. So it wouldn't be that difficult for Ukraine to convert their reactors to producing weapons grade material.
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You should also check out Putin's "Mein Kampf", Dugin's "Foundations of Geopolitics". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics The two together paint a really ugly picture.
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@JakeBroe Don't forget that Trump is trying to siphon off election campaign money to pay his legal expenses.
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One positive I can see coming out of this war is the Ukraine, if they can survive, will get extremely modern infrastructure to replace their old Soviet era equipment. Not the way I would recommend, but Ukraine could end up having a post-war boom like West Germany and Japan did.
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I think the White House wanted to have something left to use as an escalation threat/bargaining chip. Given that Putin is a psycopath this was a flawed strategy. I think that Biden and Blinken want to have something left as a bargaining tool, but you cannot negotiate with Putin. Putin sees everyone in the world as a pawn for him to toy with, and the only way that one can deal with someone like that is remove them and their cronies from power.
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I disagree. Trump is a symptom, not the disease. The disease is their desire to get elected and take control of the government AT ANY COST. It also means that the GOP has no real policies or desire to help the country, and realize they don't have a platform for the 21st Century. They know all their traditional policies are bankrupt. So all they can do is fall in line behind a somewhat charismatic demagogue and hope they can control him while they strive to alter things so they can stay in power. Much like the politicians thought they could control Adolf Hitler after the 1932 elections. And we saw what that lead to ...
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Regarding the Pakistani T-80Us. Joe Blogs has said that Pakistan is getting close to financial collapse as well, so they are probably selling these tanks to Ukraine directly or indirectly to get some debt relief.
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@rahulkanthamenuni5446 Correction, the US and Britain may be member of NATO, but they are NOT NATO. Big difference. Also, according to what I have read the HMS Eagle's involvement is stated by the Russians, but I could see no other source referencing it. Basically it sounds like an unholy mess caused by the partition of India in 1947 and made worse by the meddling of Nixon and Kissinger, two people who have a record of bad policy decisions. After all, Nixon was only saved from impeachment for criminal activity by VP Ford's pardon. However, that has nothing to do with a Nazi dictatorship invading a proto-democracy that wants to westernize itself. You cannot use the "but they did this" argument to justify what Putin is doing. It's like saying that the Holocaust and murder of over 6 million people in cold blood is justified because the Allies bombed Germany. The two do not equate.
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Problem is that Putin is a psychopath like Hitler. Hitler figured that Germany would win WW2 even when the Red Army was in the streets of Berlin. Putin thinks the same way. How do you deal with someone like that? Putin isn't rational, and neither are his toadying sycophants.
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Jake, word is that the Ukrainians have already pulled out of that pocket near Prohres.
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I'm guessing that if there wasn't a Russian National Republican Army before, there probably will be now. Watch for more acts of sabotage and assassinations.
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@chetpomeroy1399 Nope, it was agreed upon in 1991 when Ukraine declared its independence.
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@jollyjackass That's rather like saying you cannot blame a robber for breaking into your house because the police didn't show up! It's a stupid argument.
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As I have said before, these massed attacks strike me being done more out of desperation than for any tactical or strategic purpose. Given the state of Russian finances, I wonder if the country is on the verge of economic collapse.
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