Comments by "Archangel M127" (@Archangelm127) on "Jake Broe" channel.

  1. On a big pile of Russian money, between his wife and his daughter.
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  2. The eternal catchphrase of Russian history is: "And then it got worse." 😕
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  3. This is a game of Civilization V, and we're deciding whether to declare Freedom or Autocracy as the world ideology. You can't make this shit up.
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  4. I'd rather have accurate data slowly than nonsense quickly. Keep taking your time, Jake. ❤
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  5. Giving in to a bully is a mistake.
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  6. Again. 😕
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  7. Fun fact: the F-16's engine puts out more thrust than the airplane actually weighs. This means it can do some very interesting things, like accelerate while going straight up. 😈
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  8. The sweater thing is Zelensky's whole visual brand. I must say, it synergizes with his actions wonderfully.
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  9. Yes, during the Chechen Wars.
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  10. Everyone can now see that the Bear is limping. Wounded. Dying. The wolves will gather, then strike.
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  11.  @MarkMark  Considering how he let Big Z walk all over him, clearly he does not know his business. 🤣
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  12. Considering the knock-on national security ramifications for the USA if Ukraine folds, I'm genuinely surprised that Johnson is still alive.
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  13.  @barrybrodin7085  Thank you, but just for the record I was just shitposting. I have no reason to think what I said is the literal truth. ;)
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  14. How is a guy that young making E-6 is what I want to know. He looks like a baby.
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  15. Well, he is the new czar.
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  16. Good point. Who's to say the FSB originated the attack; they could simply have chosen not to foil it. The presence of modern-variant AKs makes my ears perk up though. Very curious.
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  17.  @spxram4793  Well, he is a politician, so it's safe to assume BS by default. All I'll say is between Big Z and Tsar P, at least the former seems sane. ❤
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  18.  @Hiznogood  There's no such thing as "race" except as an artificial social construct.
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  19. You'd think such a "great businessman" would understand the massive reputational damage that comes with a blatant and public breach of contracts.
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  20.  @angelachouinard4581  I can think of a few other public-facing Americans I'd like to send Putin, provided they stay there.
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  21. Oh, I'll be there. Out of pure freaking spite.
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  22.  @BVasquezp  Touche.
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  23.  antonystringfellow5152  Two out of three here. Good enough. 🤣
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  24. I don't fucking blame them.
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  25. I think "aqua discotheque" means an aquatic nightclub, like the one from 'John Wick 1.'
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  26.  @puraLusa Red herring to blame Ukraine with?
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  27. 03:55 - Is that the same yellow tower crane from the earlier video, I wonder?
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  28. It doesn't matter what any of these cabinet appointees think. If they dare to push back against Trump on anything, they will be fired. We saw that during Trump's first term. The only thing that matters is what Trump thinks. That's not great.
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  29. How do you think I feel here in Massachusetts? FML.
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  30.  @andersjjensen  I was actually thinking the same thing. And speaking of postwar elections, remember that Churchill got the boot almost immediately after V-J. It'll be interesting to see who the Ukrainian people choose in that first postwar election. 😁 (I have no horse in that race. Not my circus, not my monkeys.)
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  31. My bet is that the Russian Med squadron moves to Libyan waters until they can get refueled. I think they still have ties there, right?
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  32. Same
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  33. I am legitimately looking forward to the Victory Day Parade this year. 😂
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  34. Yeah. How on earth did somebody that young make E-6?
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  35. I'll take just about anyone with a molecule of sanity and/or integrity at this point.
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  36. If you're a Pole of any avocation advocating for a return to Soviet rule, YOU NEED YOUR F*CKING HEAD EXAMINED.
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  37.  @tjampman  He does not look it, at least in those videos.
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  38. "People go bankrupt slowly, then rapidly." --Mark Twain
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  39. That Assad "palace" looks like the hotel room I stayed at last time I went to Vegas for a trade show.
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  40. Turns out that kidnapping and torturing people's fucking children makes them mad at you. Who knew?
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  41.  @miralande220  Oh I don't doubt that. But acquired how? I'd lay equal odds on official Russian sources vs the black market.
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  42. Jake: "Russian ships seem to be incredibly flammable." Me: "That reminds me, is the Admiral Kuznetzov on fire today?" 🤣🔥
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  43. It looks like we all overestimated the intelligence of our fellow Americans. Here we fucking go, boys and girls...
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  44.  @puraLusa  I concur.
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  45. 24:00 - Ol' Donny boy isn't looking too healthy or lucid in that clip, standing off to the side. Probably just bad lighting. 🤣
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  46. How adorable.
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  47. I for one welcome our new alien lizard allies.
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  48. I don't grab the popcorn for these updates. I grab the hand lotion. 😉
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  49. The phrase is to toe the line.
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  50.  @kuatojones6950  Luxury resources go for 7 gold per turn. No less.
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  51.  @MrGiselbart  I can absolutely see what you see. The USA is definitely giving its old equipment to Ukraine, massively upping their troop quality. 🤣
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  52. I note how the American flag on your wall indicates a state of general distress. Apropos.
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  53.  @kummer45  ...what?
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  54. Hi to Rep. Auchincloss from Chelmsford (next to Lowell). I like the things you say, but talk is cheap. Show the Commonwealth that you have the balls to say such things to the tyrants' faces. Be a pain in the ass. Don't be polite. Go full Masshole every minute you spend in DC from now on. Pull every lever, use every trick in the book, and RESIST. We are watching. ❤
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  55. I can't wait for the Putin interview. Unless somebody's managed to wrangle him and tell him what to say, it's going to be another epic mess like the Carlson interview. 😂
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  56. That reminds me: is the Admiral Kuznetzov on fire today? 😂🔥
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  57. I'm gonna steal that one!
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  58. "Treason" is very precisely defined in the Constitution, precisely to stop abuse of power.
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  59. At the macro level, Russia's actions are quite rational. Evil, but rational. Allow me to explain (noting first that I didn't figure any of this out for myself, but it passes my BS filters): 1. Russia wants the territory beyond Ukraine called the Bessarabian Gap, where it can fortify and realistically defend its core territories. Russia does not have the ability to conduct a mobile defense on the Eurasian Plain. This is one of several such chokepoints around the perimeter of Russian territory; these points are in fact why Russia is so physically large. 2. Russia's first choice would have been to dominate or assimilate the Ukrainian people. Much cheaper in resource terms. Hence the narrative about "Ukrainians actually being Russians," the kidnapping of children, et cetera. 3. When this mostly failed, it is better to displace a hostile population than have to control it. Therefore the goal has become depopulating Ukraine. 4. The attacks on civilian infrastructure are quite deliberate. The goal is to force the Ukrainian population to self-segregate. Those who cannot fight would be forced to leave, and are no longer a problem. Those who remain are by definition combatants and can be shot on sight. It's amazing how simple and logical the plan is if you can just make the mental leap of casting aside all decency, morality, and civility. 😕
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  60. Actual Russian saying (or so I've read in several places): there were two major newspapers in the USSR, Pravda ("truth") and Isvestia ("news"). Apparently the Soviet people used to quip that "In news there is no truth, and in truth there is no news."
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  61. There probably is.
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  62. Can somebody please teach Boris Johnson how to use a comb? It's embarrassing.
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  63. Russia doesn't sponsor terrorists. They are terrorists. ;)
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  64.  @alexturnbackthearmy1907  I do not remember this. When was it, so I can look it up?
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  65. Now all Zelensky has to do is live up to the hype. He's been doing a virtuoso job thus far.
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  66. Don't forget that disposing of the surplus equipment we've been giving Ukraine would have cost the DOD a significant amount of money.
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  67. Given that the consequences of inaction on the Ukraine issue include NUCLEAR WAR, I'm astonished that some nice people from somewhere in the depths of The Establishment haven't put the fear of God into Johnson and company. Or if that didn't work, that they haven't had "heart attacks" or something. Seriously. I'm not normally in favor of such things--at all--but when literal national survival is at issue, the rules change.
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  68. Foreign troops entering combat in Ukraine = Russia launches nukes sooner or later. That's why they aren't already there.
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  69. "THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated." --Thomas Paine, 'The Crisis,' 1776
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  70. Considering that the next step after Ukraine's fall is inevitable nuclear exchange between NATO and Russia, I continue to be astonished that Johnson is still alive.
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  71. Why? They're not in the business of power projection, and I don't think that will change even after they win the war.
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  72. "If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author. As a nation of free [people], we shall live forever--or die by suicide." --Abraham Lincoln
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  73. Mad respect to the Russian central banking people for holding this collapse off about 2.5 years longer than they should have been able to. A shame to see such talent serving an evil cause, but credit where it's due.
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  74. Were they really tortured, or was it just makeup? No bets either way. Edit: the word for this type of operation is "Maskirovka." I don't doubt these attackers were ISIS operatives, but they were most likely recruited/inspired/whatever by FSB or some similar organization within Russia.
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  75. "We do not encourage or support X" is a very polite way of saying "we don't give a shit if you do X; just leave us out of it."
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  76. Just to be fair to the Pope, I'm pretty sure he meant "raise the white flag" in the sense of officers approaching enemy lines under a flag of truce to negotiate with their opposite numbers. (And if the Russian government was in any way reasonable or trustworthy, I would agree with what I think he meant.) However, these words were VERY poorly chosen, since most people think of white flags only as instruments of battlefield surrender by soldiers.
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  77. I might have actually believed the crypto-mining thing a few years ago... before that industry collapsed.
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  78.  @bluemarlin8138  Yeah. Also Churchill was honestly a complete pain in the neck to everyone around him, and was wrong about more things than he was right about. 😂
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  79. Let the Russians try to retaliate against the US Military. Go on. Try it, you wusses.
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  80. I'm no fan of Vance, but from the actual anecdote as described I would not say he ever actually "thought he was gay." A child being confused by a preacher's sermon on things he didn't yet understand does not constitute a shift in identity. Unless there's more to the story, everyone please move on to the parts of his background and character that are relevant (and often objectionable).
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  81. I'll be writing-in a vote for Chewbacca.
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  82.  @waremblem8837  The important thing is to show up, even if you only cast a blank ballot.
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  83. Alright. Enough bullshit. What are we Americans actually going to DO to resolve this situation? We can't wait this one out.
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  84. Also, basically what happened is that Zelensky told Trump "you don't get the money until I get the stuff." And Trump was unable or unwilling to supply the stuff, and so pretended Zelensky reneged on the deal.
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  85. The DPRK special forces troopers are probably there both for propaganda, as you say, and also to guard the non-cannon-fodder. "Guard" in both senses of the word.
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  86. Please, please Jake. I can only get so aroused. 😂
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  87. I can't see Trump winning this coming election. His supporters are very loud, but they are the minority. And I think, in our quiet way, moderates like myself hate the man and his politics even more than vocal Democrats.
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  88. Never give up! Never surrender!
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  89. Also, Jake, DO NOT GO INTO POLITICS. The machine will eat you up and spit you out.
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  90. If Putin wants California, as far as I'm concerned he can have it. My only condition is that he doesn't allow all the liberals to flee into the USA. (The few sane Californians remaining are, of course, welcome.)
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  91. Musk is a threat. Trump is merely a clown.
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  92. Oh shit. We need to raise money through the Black Pants Legion to get Mr. Tex the tank he's always wanted! 🤣
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  93. USA's concern about oil prices is not about our domestic market. We are a net oil EXPORTER and have been for years. This is about our allies, primarily in Europe.
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  94.  @yurilytviak9066  When they have something we want, sure we are. ;)
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  95. Take your "logic" and get out of here, Jesse. 🤣
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  96. The Russian media idiots may be referring to the recorded instances of Harris laughing and smiling about using false evidence to convict innocent people during her time as a district attorney.
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  97. Maybe if Russia pays us back what we paid them for Alaska. At adjusted rates. Can they afford that? I doubt it.
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  98. To be more precise, Musk is about 30 years out of date. That argument about NATO held some water back when the Soviet Union had just collapsed and we had a chance to help Russia become a real, free country. We (the Free World) squandered that opportunity, and everyone (including ordinary Russians) is now paying the price for our sloth and hubris.
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  99. From a purely economic and logical point of view, it makes total sense for the various Canadian provinces to each join the USA as their own states. Each one does far more trade with the USA than they do with each other, primarily due to geography. That said, any such movement MUST BE INITIATED BY THE CANADIAN PEOPLE THEMSELVES. Which isn't going to happen for a whole host of reasons.
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  100. I don't think any American is pro-Biden. But about half of us are anti-Trump.
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  101. Jake: "Make this make sense for me." Me: They're all crazy, lying, or both. And you already know that, brother. ;)
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  102. We're not allowed to make fun of George W. Bush for saying dumb things anymore.
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  103. 07:15 - If I recall correctly, GIs in WW2 referred to this sort of loudspeaker broadcast as "hog calling." 🤣
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  104.  @MaxxTrajan  It's just hungry and big. And has never been civilized.
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  105. I actually agree with Trump (I can't believe I'm saying that) that the US and the West generally share some responsibility for not scaring Putin off from invading in the first place. Also not helping Ukraine and other Russian victims decades ago. We could have nipped this shit in the bud.
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  106. Please tell me you'll be holding watch parties for the Biden show, Jake! 😂
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  107. Watching the debate replay while drunk in an airport was... an experience.
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  108. Fair pay for Jake! 🤣
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  109. AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!!! :usa:
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  110. 23:00 - I think during the height of the "trust" era (as in industry-spanning monopolies, known as the "x trust" or the "y trust") business control of the Federal and many state governments was far more blatant. But this is getting to the same level.
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  111. Re: the submarine's anechoic tiles (the stuff peeling off): what you said about drag and more probably getting pulled off is true, but it also makes the sub much more vulnerable to detection, at least by active sonar. Whether that stuff matters at all for passive detectability (aside from the flow noise across the uneven hull, maybe?) I have no idea. Somebody ask Aaron over at Sub Brief.
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  112. Worst-case scenario, we can all join the French Foreign Legion.
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  113. Trillions for defense. Not one cent for tribute.
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  114. It's worth noting that South Korea has a history of military coups. Glad to see the populace actually standing up for themselves, unlike their forbearers.
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  115.  bimmebeau  More like a cynical PR exercise. Which might be the same thing? lol
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  116. Stay calm, Z. Don't punch him.
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  117. Removing Trump by, ah, 'unconventional' means sets a bad precedent and must not be allowed. But unelected traitors like Musk? Let's get creative. Very creative.
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  118. The fact that this kid is still alive and at liberty is definitive truth that he is doing God's work. :salute:
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  119. Don't meet your heroes, I guess. 🤣
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  120. The other noteworthy thing about Azerbaijan is that it's the home of Caspian Report! 😂
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  121. I remember Musk going to considerable expense to help Ukraine at the beginning, with the whole Starlink thing. So when did his position change? Why did it change? Does anybody know?
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