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

  1.  @AstroGremlinAmerican  Don't forget Izyum.
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  2. Jake, I think I know why Russia continues to attack. They know their army cannot respond well to attacks, and so they need to keep Ukraine on the defensive so they don't suffer a massive defeat from a Ukrainian counterattack. As long as they attack, in spite of the losses, they feel they can keep Ukraine on the back foot.
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  3. Basically it shows that Putin will try just about anything to win. He doesn't care about the human cost, as long as he stays in power and can dominate people.
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  4. Jake, I am not surprised with what happened. Trump is a malignant narcissist, and anyone who doesn't bow and scrape to him, or crosses him, or gets him into trouble, is his personal enemy. Full stop. Zelensky is the reason why Trump was impeached for the first time back in 2020, and I doubt Trump has forgiven Zelensky or forgotten about it. Trump has just been waiting to drop the hammer, like the petulant bully he is. Zelensky not selling half his country to Trump, when Trump figured he had the upper hand, was probably the last straw. Someone with a spine to stand up to him is something that Trump hates more than anything. If he wasn't going to do something against Ukraine, why did he pick J.D. Vance as VP?
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  5.  @knightofblood8855  Problem with that is that Trump and Elon aren't trying to spread a false religion. So they are not anti-Christ. Unlike Hitler and Napoleon, both of whom are considered potential anti-Christs.
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  6. Truth to tell, I think Ukraine has a couple of somethings up its sleeves that most people haven't even thought of. I will be interested to see if I am right. If Ukraine does what I think they might, things could get really wild pretty soon, and open up some really big mobile battles.
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  7. Jake, what effect do you think the general mobilization will have on the Russian economy? I know you said a while back that the war could only last about a year before Russia runs out of money. But what about now? They have lost over 100,000 wage earners fleeing the country, and tossed another 300,000-1,000,000 into uniforms. So how is losing this large a chunk of your workforce going to impact the economy? Will this accelerate the decline to bankruptcy?
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  8. 20:30 Big problem is that according to a family member who served in the RCAF and dealt with training, it will take TRAINED pilots around 6 months to a year to transition to a new fighter. So, unless the Ukrainian pilots have been training since last April on F-16s or other jets, Ukraine will have to wait for a whole year before the planes can be used. Mind you, I suspect there has probably been an ongoing training program, and the only thing stopping the transfer of jets to Ukraine is that the pilots are still not ready yet. Same with the A-10s.
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  9. Jake, if you look at FiveThirtyEight under their pollster ratings, you find that the company (SSRS) that conducted this poll for CNN is rated as C+, which is average at best. In other words, over the last 10 years, their polls have been right a little above 50% of the time. So, not a great source.
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  10. Great, send nukes to Iran. Russia is obviously reading the book, "How to P*** off Your Potential Middle-Eastern Allies in One Easy Lesson".
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  11. 9:30 One problem people have, Jake, is that evil often wears a friendly face. Most politicians and individuals don't know or cannot recognize evil when they see it. Psychopaths like Putin know how to mimic human emotion. They themselves lack any semblance of real emotions, so they mirror what people hope or expect to see. They know how to lie with their eyes and words, and con people into thinking they can't possibly be that bad. It's how Jeffrey Dalmers and Ted Bundys work. Also, most people want to avoid a war, knowing its cost. A psychopath like Putin doesn't care, because he considers everyone around him to be a tool to promote his own ambitions. They are people whom most of us cannot fathom because we actually care for others, and I think this is one reason why most politicians have no idea how to handle a Putin or a Xi Xiping - it is rather hard to know how hard to push a madman with a nuclear arsenal.
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  12. What's really funny when discussing these trolls is that they don't acknowledge that Russia is throwing more and more units into offensives that have more and more limited objectives. It's the military version of Zeno's Achilles and the tortoise paradox. The fact that Russia is throwing at least 20 BTGs (about one-fifth to one-quarter) of their remaining military strength to gain ONE CITY says a lot about their current capabilities. Added to this is the evidence that Russia is sending T-64s to the front, and you have a military that is truly scraping the bottom of the barrel. It's almost the equivalent of Britain starting WW2 with Centurion tanks, and within 2-3 years be shipping Shermans and Matildas, and finally sending Vickers light tanks to the front lines.
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  13.  @static2223  I find they often do, but they just keep spouting the same nonsense over and over again.
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  14. 8:30 So, you have a choice to get mobilized now, or wait until September to get mobilized. At least Henry Ford gave you a GOOD choice.
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  15.  @KevinAndaLocuaz-df9nz  You mean you won't vote for the president who over the last 4 years kept the US out of a recession (which both the UK and Germany suffered from), who created 500,000 jobs, who is honest, who isn't an indicted criminal? Seriously?
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  16. Russia can have a ceasefire anytime it wants, as soon as their troops leave Ukraine and restore its 1991 borders.
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  17. Staff Sgt. Black is the epitome of P.T. Barnum's statement about one being born every minute.
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  18. What, we don't believe Putin when he says Russia has no more territorial demands?
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  19. Children digging trenches - guess we are seeing the recreation of the Hitler/Putin Youth.
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  20.  @mayaram2411  I suspect that she probably has a fragile ego, and didn't like being called to task for DUI.
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  21. Ukraine wants mobile warfare, because they excel at it and can destroy Russian units at a much higher rate than when they can when the Russians occupy static defenses. It also enables Ukraine to destroy a lot of Russia's remaining armored forces and artillery. Russia is gradually degenerating to a 3rd world military, or worse. Russia is losing equipment faster than they can produce it or refurbish it.
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  22. The Russians in Toretsk are clearing city blocks. They are clearing out of the city at this time, and have cleared out of about half the apartment blocks they formerly occupied.
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  23. 14:00 Given that Putin has openly stated that Russia will not give up any of the occupied territory shows that peace talks would be fruitless. Putin wants all of Ukraine, and plans to hold onto any part of it for as long as he can.
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  24. Jake, just remember that the Great Lakes have tides. Not big tides, but they have tides.
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  25. I heard that the Wagner Group may have taken around 65% casualties taking Soledar. A couple of sources have indicated that the ex-prisoners who have been assigned to the Wagner Group have a 7% chance of surviving their 6 month contract. Makes me think that Putin is using the Wagner Group as a way to clear out his prisons, take territory in Ukraine without any regard for the lives of these people, and save some money at the same time. Pretty sick. Then again, as I said elsewhere, Putin and his cronies are all psychopaths anyway.
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  26. Ministry of Happiness. Sounds like that old saying, "The floggings will continue until morale improves".
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  27. Jake, watched an interesting video where the presenter figures that Russia is about 12 months away from a total economic collapse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er4Xs5fa5sI
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  28.  @felixungar2301  First, I did say "based on Zelensky's comments", so I am taking that with a grain of salt. Second, considering the amateurish way the Russians have been advancing, some of the intercepted cell phone transcripts, the documented armor losses, etc., I tend to think Russian losses are probably higher than the NATO estimates. Remember, those number represent their trained military, and conscripts, not untrained civilians. It also does not reflect the fact you need to double that number to include soldiers who have been injured so severely that they can no longer fight (based on WW2 statistics). The limited scale and scope of the recent Russian attacks also suggests that the Russian casualties are higher than NATO estimates as well. If they had lost only about one-eighth of their army, as the high end NATO numbers suggest, they would still be able to conduct much larger operations than they have been.
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  29. 7:45 Jake, Russian supporters do have an excuse for what is happening in the Kherson Oblast north of the Dneiper. It's very simple, Putin put his troops into a trap. The Ukrainians closed the door on the trap by blowing all the bridges and now the Russians are running out of supplies and cannot fight. It's simple, just blame Putin. In fact, you can do that for a whole bunch of stuff: Why haven't the Russians developed a good weapons system in the last 10 years? Just blame Putin. Why is the Russian army lead by a bunch of toadying sycophants who couldn't fight their way out of a wet paper bag? Just blame Putin. Why has the conscription gone so badly? Just blame Putin. Why are the conscripts so badly equipped? Just blame Putin. See, it works for everything.
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  30. Jake, just remember that anthrax is also called "foot in mouth disease" ... I mean foot and mouth disease.
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  31. I heard that a missile hit in the area of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Since Russia has placed missile systems near the power plant, I suspect that one of the missiles did what others have done, tried to return to sender. Rather like the one did near Belgorod.
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  32. Gotta love those new Russian "Bullet proof vests". Not only do they allow you to get shot, but you get wood splinters as well.
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  33.  @ericgrace9995  However, the Ukrainians want to free the people of Kherson, so it is not the same as the Courland Pocket. Leaving the Russians alone presents two problems: 1) If not pressured, the Russians won't use up their ammunition and fuel, so will be able to sit there as long as they want, and 2) If no movement is made, it might tempt the Russians to hold their referendum.
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  34. If they changed the horse he uses, would he be having hippo-replacement?
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  35. Well Jake, as far as lowering the enlistment age goes, just remember there were 12-year-old German soldiers who defended Berlin in the Hitler Youth in 1945.
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  36. Jake, I suspect he also wants to take Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro and Albania because they contain Serbs. And he wants Istanbul as well, as that would open the Bosphorus.
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  37. Well, since Russia seized the assets of Deutsch Bank inside Russia, why shouldn't the West do the same with Russian assets and use them for Ukraine?
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  38. I wonder how much these strikes will affect Russian trade through the Black Sea. The Black Sea is now the primary route for Russia to ship its oil to customers overseas. How many neutral shippers will decline sending their vessels to Russia now, either out of concern that they might lose their ships, and how much insurance for any ships transiting the Black Sea will increase?
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  39. It is difficult to know the mettle of a man until he is tested by fire. Zelenskyy has passed that test with flying colors and risen to the challenge. He is a man worthy of respect.
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  40. Jake, according to YouTube's policy, you cannot show the Parthenon in Athens. It was blown up when the gunpowder stored there was hit by an artillery shell.
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  41. Jake, I wouldn't be surprised if Ukraine launches an offensive this winter. The ground will be hard enough to support tanks, and Ukraine will have several advantages: 1) Ukraine has great winter gear courtesy of NATO, Russian's winter gear is, based on video evidence, bad. This will tend to keep the Russians in the villages and other buildings, while Ukraine will be able to easily move around the countryside, encircling and isolating said villages, 2) The nights are longer. Ukraine has night vision gear, while Russia does not. This means that Ukraine can launch night attacks of longer duration (up to 15 hours night, 10 of which is actual nighttime and a further 3 is considered "nautical twilight"), 3) Ukraine should be getting more heavy equipment, if it is not already in Ukraine, and 4) Russian losses means more conscripts, and more poorly trained men. In addition, the de-modernization of the Russian army means that Ukrainian attacks should be more effective. It should also be remembered that two of the most important Russian offensives during WW2 occurred during winter, the Battle of Moscow in 1941 and battles around Stalingrad (Operations Uranus, Little Saturn and the Voronezh-Kharkov offensives) in winter of 1942-1943. In both cases these battles started around November or December, and wrapped up around February.
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  42. Sadly there are too many "intellectuals" like Stian Jenssen out there who live in their own fantasy worlds filled with pink fluffy clouds and flying unicorns. Their biggest problem is they cannot understand reality, rearrange reality internally to conform to their fantasy world, turn away from reality any time someone points out that the real world is a nasty place that contains psychopaths and that appeasing dictators only makes them want more. The problem we have is that too many people listen to the Stian Jenssens of the world and take their advice, with catastrophic results. The line from the 1960s hit from The Seekers - "A World of our Own" , "And I know you will find there'll be peace of mind When we live in a world of our own" fits them to a "T".
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  43. It's really funny that Putin hates western economics and liberal democracy so much, yet is comparing himself to the Tsar who tried to westernize all of Russian society, Peter the Great. His comparison is even more ludicrous because he has been quoted as disliking Lenin because of his westernization, but admires Stalin. Of course, the fact that Stalin is one of his idols should come as no surprise.
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  44.  @davidcpugh8743  Conversely, I visited the ABC islands back in the 1980s. Many of the beaches were coated with asphalt (mixed oil and sand). Pretty awful.
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  45. Ah, yes. Using your cash reserves to buy your own currency. Isn't that similar to what happened with FTX, buying up its own FTT Bitcoin?
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  46. There is not much point in mobilizing 18-25-year-olds if there are no uniforms, no weapons and not enough logistics to keep them supplied! Is Ukraine going to use these people for meat wave attacks like the Russians do?
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  47. Jake, shame on you. That Duma member is using the same technique that Neslon used when attacking the Danish Fleet at Copenhagen (holding a telescope up to his blind eye and saying, "Signal? I don't see any signal!"). Except Nelson was only blind in one eye.
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  48. Hardly surprising, since Ritter is a convicted sex offender and MacGregor is someone who likes Nazi ideology and has appeared on Russia TV (a state-run propaganda station). Both seem to have lost most of their marbles. Reading their bios on Wikipedia makes me wonder about the screening process for American military officers.
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  49. He IS an angry child. Putin is a psychopath, and the people he considers to be pawns aren't doing what he thinks they should. So, like Adolf Hitler, Putin is throwing a fit.
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  50. Jake, this leak basically shows that the US REALLY needs to improve their handling of classified information. This was highlighted by the classified documents found in Donald Trump's, Joe Biden's and Mike Pence's residences. Why were they there? Who was responsible for ensuring that they were returned to secure locations? This is the real issue - a lack of understanding on how to handle sensitive information by ALL levels of government and the armed forces of the US.
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