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

  1. Jake, I cannot see you running for Congress. You are too HONEST!
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  2. Jake, you work as an economist, so you should be seeing signs that the US economy is likely going to crash into a recession or depression soon, courtesy of the American government under Trump. this might be a good thing, as the people who are likely to be hardest hit are MAGA supporters. Will they still support Trump when they are going hungry, lose their farms, have family members deported? The GOP right now is so stupid they are likely to destroy the US economy.
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  3. 3:45 Jake, the dark smudge at Vulhedar is the one section of the town (across the road from the high rises) that the Russians actually captured and held at great cost for about a day or two before the Ukrainians drove them back down the hill.
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  4.  @oldernu1250  However, neither Charlemagne nor the Hapsburgs were Orthodox. That is why Russia claims the title, as they consider themselves the heirs to the Orthodox church.
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  5.  @GCarty80  But that was rather like Queen Victoria being called "Empress of India".
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  6. The other way to solve the problem is to improve living standards in Mexico and Central America. If poverty levels drop in those areas, and governments become stable and cease being oppressive, the issue would go away. People would not be fleeing those areas for economic and political regions.
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  7. The GLSDB has the same sized warhead as the GMLRS, but can deliver that further. I can see it doing the same amount of damage to the Kerch Strait Bridge as the GMLRS did to the Antonovsky Bridge. Should do a real number on Russian logistics.
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  8. 4:15 I see that the soldier was hugging a liberated Kherson watermelon. Those watermelons are supposed to be really nice, and famous around Ukraine for their flavor. Someone must have kept that hidden from the occupying. After all, you don't want to toss melons before swine.
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  9. Problem is that Europe closed most of its arms factories. It will take 3-5 years to rebuild that industrial capacity. Until then, who else will you buy from? China? Russia? India?
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  10. What got me from the little I saw of this interview is that Fridman kept going back to this "I have this dream" comment over and over again. Frankly, it made him sound like a twit. At least when Martin Luther King uttered the statement, MLK was looking towards a better future based on peace and understanding, not to attempted negotiations with a psychopath. At best what Fridman seemed to be doing was seeing the world through rose colored spectacles (or rose coloured blinders). Like the people who thought they could negotiate with Adolf Hitler in 1938 and 1939. Or he is acting as a Russian shill.
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  11. The other reason why the Russians are targeting the Ukrainian power grid is because their smart munitions lack the accuracy to hit targets like bridges. So they have to hit large targets where precision is not as important as just getting close to the target.
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  12.  @DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER  According to Ukrainian GHQ, we should see something starting around mid-June to mid-July.
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  13. Sadly, I'm not surprised. If you read enough history you see these types of people showing up time and again. The really sad thing is that people fall for it time and again. Although I will say Putin did a fairly good job of hiding his real personality for 20+ years.
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  14. Jake, regarding the FAB500 in the last video segment. The combat engineers in northern France and Belgium are still destroying tons of ordinance from WW1 and WW2. France destroys about 900 tons of the stuff every year, while Belgium is till destroying 200 tons of unexploded ordinance per year. And that is, in many cases, over 100 years after it was buried in the ground.
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  15.  @canyonroots  Not fully. Remember that there are no US bases in Ukraine, so the US would have needed support from several NATO countries in order to move troops into Ukraine and keep them supplied with ammo and reinforcements, or the Turk's permission to send a fleet into the Black Sea. Sadly, I don't see either of those happening in 2014. It was the same issue in 2008 in Georgia. Without European support, it was always going to be a no-go. It is only because the US kept warning people for around 3 months that Russia was going to invade Ukraine that Europe finally listened.
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  16. I wonder if Edward Snowden has ended up on the front lines as well?
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  17. The Soviet Union tried for 80 years to convince Ukrainians they were part of Russia. It didn't work. Obviously Putin hasn't learned from history.
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  18. Jake, the real issue with tanks is not that they are susceptible to AT missiles (although that is part of it). The biggest issue for Russia is that they don't know how to use tanks as part of a combined arms army. When one watches videos of Russian wargames, it becomes apparent that their tank forces are being used like showpieces. There is no coordination amongst the various arms (tanks, infantry, artillery). What is happening is reminiscent of the British Army in the Western Desert in 1941 and first half of 1942. For both armies, the tanks were treated like cavalry units, charging into the enemy ranks and defeating them. This is not how tanks are supposed to be used. The Germans demonstrated this quite well during the first half of WW2, as did the US in Iraq. Tanks are part of a team, not solo players. And without infantry and artillery support, they will get picked off by NLAWs and Javelins en masse.
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  19. I like how the Kremlin told Jan Rachinsky to turn down the Nobel Peace Prize. Hardly surprising when Putin wants to emulate Josef Stalin.
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  20. Ironically, the increase in arms manufacturing created by the war in Ukraine may actually help stave off or lessen the effects of the recession that a lot of economists are predicting. Factories will ramp up production, re-open or start up to supply/restock all the weapons and ammo being used, so more people will be employed at well-paying jobs. Not that I particularly like this Russian-created method for averting recession because of the cost in lives. I only hope that the Russian economy crashes in the near future, and we can start fighting a recession by rebuilding Ukraine.
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  21. There other benefit these attacks have is reducing the domestic production of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. This will not only negatively affect Russia's foreign trade (and hence their economy, which is already suffering), but also threaten Russia's ability to fuel its war machine. After all, without these refineries and the products they produce, many of Russia's trains, and all their cars, trucks, tanks, IFVs, self-propelled artillery and aircraft are just heavy, expensive paperweights. Lack of fuel is one thing that killed the Wehrmacht in WW2, and it could do the same thing in Ukraine.
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  22.  @aaronbaker2186  You forgot to mention fully fueled and armed aircraft also make a nice Hollywood "Boom" when hit by high explosives.
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  23.  @MrJimtimslim  Jake did. And you should care about those who put their lives on the line for your freedom that you seem to take for granted.
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  24. Is it possible that Solovyov wants to nuke the UK BECAUSE his bisexual son lives there?
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  25. When I was in Ukraine back in the mid-1990s, the family I was staying with were saving to buy a flush toilet. They still has an outdoor commode.
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  26. Trump obviously doesn't realize that the Russian Empire LOST to JAPAN in 1905. Ukraine can win, and will win if we continue to support them.
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  27. Ukrainian sources seem to put that figure at around 120,000, if you use the WW2 math that one fatality is matched by one critical injury rendering soldier incapable of fighting.
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  28. Jake, I look at this like Ukraine's version of the 2nd Battle of El Alamein. We have had the end of the break-in phase, now is the crumbling phase. Eventually we will see the breakout phase. It's how Montgomery won 2nd Alamein, how he won the Battle of Normandy. And now Ukraine is doing this to Russia. What we need now is patience.
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  29.  @kidshelleen51  Alexander might have been a better general (maybe), but he fought far fewer battles than Caesar (8 versus 22 or more), so making a comparison is rather difficult.
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  30.  @scotttyson8661  Rather I would say, "Spiraling debt, possible bankruptcy, must show I am still a world superpower".
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  31. I see the Russian canal network is functioning well. Where are the gondolas?
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  32.  @teufelnabsterbennie8826  Trump cannot be a fascist, because he is not a socialist. Putin, on the other hand, is a socialist and ultra-nationalist, which makes Putin a Nazi (National Socialist). Don't believe me? Read the Wikipedia entry on Dugin's "Foundations of Geopolitics". Most of Putin's stance on Ukraine comes straight from that book.
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  33. Jake, you did get one thing wrong. Putin is not a fascist. He is a Nazi, a National Socialist. If you look at Russian economics nowadays, Putin's government is gradually taking control of all commerce and industry, a sure sign of hardline socialism. You can determine this quickly by looking at who owns the major shares of companies in Russia, and the megacorporations that own them. For example, a quick check of the aviation industry shows that all aircraft manufacturers are subsidiaries of United Aircraft Corporation, which, surprise surprise, currently has the current Russian Minister of Trade and Industry as Chairman, and the company President is the former Minister of Trade and Industry. The Kremlin government believes in "Russkiy Mir" and Russification, which is a nationalistic policy much like that held by Nazi Germany. They believe in the racial superiority of the Slavs, and that the Russians are the top Slavs. The also believe in cultural (if not actual) genocide. The sooner people realize that Putin and his cronies are Nazis, the more likely people will realize the huge threat they represent.
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  34. 12:30 You know, Putin's 90 minute rambling speech sounds like Hitler's final rant (sorry, "last will and testament") that he dictated to his secretary. In other words, just regurgitating the same old garbage.
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  35. It is rather interesting that everything Putin has done has strengthened the Ukrainian sense of nationhood, even amongst the Russian speakers. Putin is creating a united Ukraine.
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  36. Jake, quick question. Has anyone done an analysis on how much rolling stock the Ukrainians may have destroyed in the last 6 months of the war? Russia can no longer make the bogeys for their rail cars, they were getting them from Germany. If Ukraine is targeting the rail cars as they are unloading ammunition, Russia could be losing their ability to transport freight at an alarming rate. Has anyone investigated this, and how it will affect both the prosecution of the war and the Russian economy?
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  37.  @sabbasdsouza  Doesn't change the fact that Russia is no longer making their own.
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  38. In my opinion, the best target for ATACMS would be all the rail bridges that lead into Ukraine. Cutting off the Russian army from its major supply routes would do a real number on Russian logistics and offensive capabilities.
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  39. One of the questions I have is, "What does China think now that the Patriot system has shown that it can intercept hypersonic missiles?" After all, it now appears they have spent billions of dollars building a system that can be swatted out of the sky by US AA missiles. Wonder if this might make Xi sit back and rethink his Taiwan policy.
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  40. 3:30 Jake, you are partially right about the company grade commanders, but not completely. It is not that these officers lack the initiative or are incapable of making decisions. Rather, like the Red Army in 1939-1941, individual initiative is suppressed and is actually a chargeable offense. Company grade officers HAVE to follow the orders given by their superiors or they are guilty of insubordination. They have no flexibility or ability to carry out the overall objective of the attack while changing the details of how they do it. There is also a systemic culture of lying in the Russian military. Perun did a great video on this. "How lies destroy armies - Lies, coverups, and Russian failures in Ukraine" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz59GWeTIik&t=2s
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  41. Jake, did you see Marjorie Traitor Greene giving a thumbs down to the vote? She's dead centre in the image, walking towards the camera, at the 0:59 mark. In contrast, there is a member of the GOP in the far right waving a Ukrainian flag.
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  42. Bet it was the Iranian attack that tipped him in favor of the vote. I think he suddenly realized that playing politics with Ukrainian aid was endangering the entire free world.
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  43. I like the question, "Is the US sending F-16s to Ukraine?" Biden says no, but that doesn't rule out backfilling other NATO countries' stocks of aircraft with F-16s, having NATO Allies sending F-16s, etc. And, as you said, this stance may change shortly. It is possible that the details haven't been ironed out yet, so the answer would still be "No."
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  44. I suspect the drone might have been flown by the "Freedom of Russia Legion" or "Russian Volunteer Corps". This fits the facts better fit than it being a Ukrainian operation. it would be great advertising for the anti-Putin forces.
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  45. Sounds like the Russian offensive got stopped when it approached or hit the first line of Ukrainian fortifications. After all, you don't put your fortification lines right on the border, but rather some way back along defensible geographic features like rivers, lines of hills or ridges. The region between the border and the line of fortifications then becomes a kill zone, because there is little or no cover for the invading soldiers. This is exactly what we are now seeing at Kharkiv. The Russians have advanced into an area with no fortifications (trenches or pillboxes), and being out in the open are being systematically wiped out. Let's not forget that the Russian general in command of this region is General Lapin, the same one who lost the whole region from Balakliya and Kupiyansk in September 2022.
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  46. Izyum and Kupyansk have both been liberated. They have raised their flags in both cities. Lyman may have been liberated as well. A twitter post suggests Ukraine is liberating (or has liberated) Vovchansk near the Russian border, and are possibly approaching Severodonetsk and Lysychansk. Appears the whole front line has collapsed. Plus the Russians have helped resupply the Ukrainians as a "goodwill gesture". This will certainly help resolve some of their logistics issues.
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  47. I love the fact that Putin said that Russia will start sending weapons to The West's enemies. As you rightly said, Jake, isn't that what Russia has been doing since 1945?
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  48. 4:50 Jake, this is nothing new. The press and many officers kept complaining about Montgomery's leadership over ALL Allied forces (American, British and Canadian) and the pace of Allied advances after June 7th. They kept complaining and bad-mouthing Montgomery, and Monty even had Churchill and Eisenhower coming to France to discuss the progress of the liberation of France and decide whether to relieve him or not. Indeed, this continued until the Americans broke through at Avranches at the end of July (which was according to the plan that Eisenhower, Bradley and Montgomery agreed to). Everybody expected a quick victory, and when it wasn't delivered in the time frame they figured it should be, they groused and complained. So, nothing has changed since 1944.
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  49. They are talking about nuking Alaska. But don't they consider Alaska as their territory? Haven't there been calls to take Alaska back from the US? Doesn't that mean that Russia wants to nuke its own territories? 🤔
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  50. Nice to see you on "The Enforcer" last night. Glad you decided to sit in on the live stream. Last year in February I had my doubts that Russia would invade Ukraine, mostly because I didn't think Putin was THAT STUPID! Obviously, one year of war has proven that Putin IS that stupid. Having watched shows like "The Caspian Report" and "Good Times Bad Times" I have come to the conclusion that Putin felt he HAD TO take Ukraine for multiple reasons, mostly economic with some imperialistic geopolitics thrown in for good measure. I think Putin has always dreamed of recreating an imperial Russia that occupies the same borders as the USSR, or perhaps even including the Slavic Warsaw Pact nations as well. He has been working towards this by fostering discontent, infiltrating agents to sow misinformation and distrust, and propping up puppets in places like Belarus and Ukraine. Everything was going fairly well, in spite of the westward leanings of Belarus and Ukraine, because he had corrupt pro-Russian rulers in both places (Lukashenko and Yanukovych). All the plans for a gradual takeover of Ukraine then flew out the window when large oil and gas reserves were discovered in Ukraine in 2012. Suddenly there was another country right next door with enormous hydrocarbon reserves that could sell these products to the EU that Putin did not directly control. Development of these reserves would do two things: 1) create a large dent in Russia's oil and gas revenues, threatening the Russian economy, and 2) undercut the political leverage that Putin figured he was obtaining by getting the EU hooked on Russian oil and gas supplies. Also, gaining these reserves would mean Russia would have access to hydrocarbons that were easier and cheaper to extract than their own reserves. At this point Putin may have panicked, especially because Ukraine was developing closer ties to the EU. He put pressure on Yanukovych to drop association with the EU, only to have the Euromaidan Revolution throw his puppet out of power. Now Putin really panicked, and went all in to gain control of Crimea and Donbass (where the bulk of these reserves are located). Unfortunately for Putin, he didn't have any real war plans concocted, and the operation appears to have been more improvised than planned. However, because Ukraine was still in turmoil politically and militarily, the insurgents were able to seize Donbass and the Russian special forces captured Crimea. Although Ukraine was able to stabilize the situation, they could not effectively counter it, especially because of the lukewarm reaction of Europe and, to a certain extent, the US. However, this did not resolve Putin's problem. He now sat on top of what he considered the biggest threat to Russia's economic future, but he had a major problem. In the course of their planning Putin and his generals had overlooked something that threatened to undermine their invasion of Crimea, the North Crimea Canal. As you probably know, this canal runs from the Dnipro River from just behind the Nova Khakovka Dam to reservoirs and irrigation ditches in Crimea. According to Wikipedia, "A 2015 study found that the canal had been providing 85% of Crimea's water ... 72% went to agriculture and 10% to industry, while water for drinking and other public uses made up 18%." Well, after Russia stole Crimea, the Ukrainians blocked this canal, leading to severe water shortages in the region. Putin went ahead and built up the military infrastructure so Russia could dominate the northern Black Sea Region, only to realize that everything would turn to naught because there was insufficient water. Ukraine had Russia over a barrel, a water barrel. Between 2014 and 2022, even with severe water rationing, the reservoir capacities in Crimea went from 100% to just 7% in January 2022. All attempts to create work-arounds for this problem failed. So Putin decided he must secure the water supply for Crimea from Ukraine, and to prevent this from happening again, install a puppet regime in Kyiv or just annex the country. This may also explain why he made a big fuss about annexing those regions back into Russia. Besides, I suspect part of the reason for this invasion in because Ukraine has had the temerity to stand up to Putin for 8 years. It must hurt his psychopathic ego.
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