Comments by "seneca983" (@seneca983) on "Russia Approaches Remaining Roads in Bakhmut, Ukraine Offensive Fails in Kremennaya, Makeyevka 89" video.

"The HIMARS were US-provided. The revenge will be served cold to those who made the decision to send HIMARS" How do you suppose Russia could wreak vengeance on the US? That doesn't sound realistic.
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"The russians showed they can just go around these places and the enemy has to stay put." No, they can't just go around because Bakhmut is just a part of a fortified line rather than some kind of single strong point. Going around also means assaulting fortified positions.
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@rosszografov614 "We must remember that none of the 89 killed, ever fired a single shot." They likely would have been firing shots eventually. Russia has also fired cruise missiles into barracks. This is nothing new.
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@rosszografov614 "Which barracks did Russia bomb?" As an example, Russia bombed the Yavoriv military base with Kalibr missiles on March 13th, i.e. less than 3 weeks after the invasion began. There might be also more of these kinds of attacks as I've not kept account of all the strikes so there might be others that I'm not aware of or don't remember "How many new soldiers did it kill? None." Russia claimed "up to 180" killed in that attack; Ukraine said 61 were killed. Were are you getting that "none" from? What's your source? Are you just making stuff up? "the point was that they hadn't killed anyone yet" Russia is hardly refraining from killing Ukrainian soldiers who haven't killed anyone yet.
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@rosszografov614 "Western mercenaries are criminals, outsiders like you. It's a very different case to bombing legitimate support troops who hadn't fired a shot." It's not criminal to be a foreign volunteer. Also, regular soldiers if anything are a perfectly normal military target. That they hadn't yet taken part in combat operations doesn't make them a less legitimate target. There is no law of war that you have to wait until the enemy shoots you first. Shooting at them is not any more terror than any military action is terror. If that's terror then Russia's military campaign is also at least as much terror.
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@rosszografov614 It doesn't take a genius to know that shooting enemy soldiers in a war with artillery is not "terror"; or else the whole Russian invasion of Ukraine is "terror" by the same logic.
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dražen CRO Which groups are you thinking about?
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@pvanb2 The US doesn't have open borders.
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@pvanb2 People crossing the southern border illegally often have to spend a lot of money and take some serious risks (like dying in the desert). The border is far from open.
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@pvanb2 "If it was that costly and dangerous, millions would not clamour to make such a "dangerous" journey." Of course they would because many can make a lot more money in the US. That's a powerful motivator. Of course, most Mexicans don't attempt something like that but enough do such that the absolute numbers are still large.
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@pvanb2 In any case, saying that Russia would wreak vengeance on the US by giving illegal immigrants weapons in the US sounds a bit far-fetched. It wouldn't be easy to do on a large scale and the effect wouldn't be that large.
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