Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "CRUX" channel.

  1.  @stefanbuban1122  Educate yourself before you comment. Finland has never been a heavy user of natural gas. It's used for industrial purposes, not domestic.
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  2. Yeah, by flooding the ballast tanks. Here, the Russians flooded the whole interior. Oopsie!
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  3. The Middle East unrest predates the EU, wisenheimer.
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  4. What exactly are you trying to prove? If anything, Russia's military adventure in Ukraine is proving to be a mistake of catastrophic proportions. It could very well spell the end of the Russian Federation.
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  5. It's not the same as membership. Sweden has no decision-making powers within NATO, and only part of NATO's capabilities can be brought to bear on Russian attackers. With assets up close, it will be up to its Nordic neighbours to come to Sweden's aid.
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  6.  @williamzk9083  I believe him. A bathtub with all them little Russian ships at the bottom.
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  7.  @item6931  If we let our guard down, Russia will be back. They got thoroughly humiliated by the Chechens, but it wasn't to last. But you're right about the apartment buildings. Ironically, Putin had to blow up apartment buildings inside Russia to bring the Chechens to heel. Let's see if he'll try the same in Belgorod.
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  8.  @marcusmiller9176  We've been prepared since 1944, sport.
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  9. More like a spoiled child demanding that daddy come and help after the brat angered the neighbourhood kids.
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  10.  @samjepsen8165  It's not a biggie to salvage the wreck from such a shallow depth, but the sub is scrap metal now. Russia had better safe itself some trouble and build a whole new toy.
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  11.  @zankou5611  He's refusing payment in rubles. Potatoes are the bots' favoured currency. Not only do they keep the hunger pangs away, but also, in a pinch, they can be turned into vodka.
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  12. Nope, Russia's Lada class has yet to see air-independent propulsion, which even according to optimistic estimates (and they always are) will only appear in the middle of this decennium. Your precious Ladas can run but not hide.
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  13. Rather, Russia has to make a decision how much it wants to spend on war reparations to Ukraine, because the sum grows larger by the day. And Russia will either pay or cry and pay.
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  14. Rosgvardiya, Russia's national guard, are like a cross between riot police and military police. They don't fare so well in combat, as has been demonstrated in Ukraine, where they casually tried to enter towns, only to be beaten back bloodily by Ukraine's real national guard. Rosgvardiya is ideal for quelling internal unrest within Russia and neighbouring client states. Combat, not so.
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  15.  @sisenor4091  It's just doubling as an artifical reef.
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  16.  @nerzhul2455  There, in your troll factory in St. Petersburg, as well.
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  17. I don't think Sweden is sufficiently infantile for tit-for-tat games.
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  18.  @Bill-ed1hr  Stop playing silly buggers. And Ukraine is not out for territorial conquest in good old imperialist Russian tradition. Russia is.
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  19. Let's see, Sea King as in the Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King is US in origin. The Aérospatiale SA 330 Puma is decidedly French. The first operational jet fighter was obviously the Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe., not the Gloster Meteor.
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  20.  @marcusmiller9176  You've got it backwards. When the USSR invaded Finland, it was aligned with Hitler. Hitler took a lot of flak for supporting the Soviets in the Winter War, even from his most ardent followers. I suggest you take your historical revisionism elsewhere.
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  21. It's practically a done deal. NATO's wayward members, Hungary and Turkey, just need to be convinced there'll be no more bargaining for concessions.
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  22. Or Medvedev's favourite duck could become president. There wouldn't be a discernible difference.
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  23. You Germans were telling yourselves that Russia couldn't start a war of aggression -- and an energy war against Germany -- because that would amount to Russia cutting off its nose to spite its face, as the expression goes. Asinine Russia did it anyway.
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  24. So have Dutch subs and French ones. It says more about aircraft carriers than subs.
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  25. Ouch. They must've lowered the bar for recruiting wumaos.
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  26.  @maxhugen  South Africa has ignored an ICC arrest warrants before, in the case Sudan's Omar Al Bashir. Vlad the Invader does have a dilemma on his hands, though. Will his luck hold? Likely, he won't chance it.
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  27. You have a death wish. You need to talk to a therapist.
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  28. So, Russia will immediately turn a conventional war into a nuclear one and invite nuclear apocalypse upon itself, too? Have you been diagnosed with suicidal sociopathy yet? If not, you should get diagnosed. That way, you'll get help.
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  29.  @benktlofgren4710  Actually, Russia can get warships from the Baltic Sea to the Barents Sea through rivers, lakes and canals. Not very big ones, but warships all the same.
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  30.  @nerzhul2455  You're anachronism. Killing in the name of God went down well in the Middle Ages, with the Crusades and all. Say, have you been be diagnosed with psychopathy yet?
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  31.  @soccer9199  So India has a huge Putin fan club? One wonders why...
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  32. Russia should put a stop to such flagrant war profiteering. It has the means to do so overnight: simply by withdrawing from Ukraine. No more war, no more war profiteering.
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  33. Sweden has done extremely well in simulated combat against the US Navy, who wanted to spar with the best. The Americans did their best, too, but it wasn't enough. The Swedes bested them time after time.
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  34.  @marksnyder8022  Are you arguing my case or do you have one of your own? If it's the former, thanks a bundle. The Swedish sub Gotland had its way with USS Ronald Reagan in 2005, but in 2015, the French nuclear-powered Saphir did same against USS Theodore Roosevelt.
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  35.  @Илья-у1ю  Let the USA also remember that it was never at war with Finland. In actual fact, Finnish troops only advanced across the Soviet border as far as it was necessary to set up advantageous defensive positions. There was no fighting "all over Europe" involving Finnish troops -- only in and around Finland's borders.
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  36.  @stefanbuban1122  Actually, after the disastrous Winter War, the Soviets pleaded with then-ally Germany for a rematch with Finland. Hitler didn't warm up to the idea. It shucks for you revisionists that the Germans were such meticulous notetakers.
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  37.  @samokazem2211  Don't you wish you were as good militarily as you're at coping?
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  38.  @samokazem2211  Define your mum, bore.
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  39. Maybe media access is a problem for you in Sri Lanka, but you should know that the EU is not uncritical towards Israel. Some EU members are considered downright hostile by Israel owing to their outspoken support for Palestinian statehood. We're a case in point.
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  40.  @LightHD8792  It is about the F-16s and it's about Erdogan wanting to portray himself as a strongman in the eyes of the less developed Turks, who think they need a strongman for a leader, despite Erdogan's appalling economic record. Anyhoo, the election is over and done with, so Erdogan can let sense prevail. Let's get ready for the next quarrel that Erdogan is whipping up.
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  41. Russia should ban smoking for its own good.
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  42.  @johnreagal8671  Boys, boys, boys. Like the Baltic Sea, the Mediterranean Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean. The equator splits the Atlantic Ocean into the North Atlantic and the South Atlantic. Turkey and the Med are well north of the equator. That makes Turkey's shoreline 'North Atlantic' as well. Your geography teachers would tut-tut you both.
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  43. Is MAD a foreign concept to you?
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  44.  @pachuco1815  You're still not making any sense. However you feel about them doesn't cancel out MAD.
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  45. ISAF/RS was NATO-led all right, but the number of participating countries came from far and wide, from inside and outside of NATO, including even countries that are militarily allied with Russia. In fact, Russia -- and China -- gave their blessing to ISAF at the UN Security Council time and again. There comes a time when a country that's at war with itself stands on its own two feet again, which is something that Afghanistan failed at, and continues to fail at. Russia can attest that Afghanistan is a mission impossible, since it has been defeated thrice in Afghanistan. To put matters in context, Britain has suffered the same ignominy twice, but not thrice.
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  46. Which language is that? Google Translate fails to recognise it.
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  47. ​ @tony18662  None of that solves the problems I flagged. Let's not pretend that there isn't a problem with Sweden remaining outside of NATO.
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  48.  @thotmorgana  In my book "pretty sure" isn't quite good enough.
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  49.  @Bill-ed1hr  Cop-out detected.
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  50. Back to reality. Russia's Baltic Fleet has one(!) submarine left, an old and creaky Kilo-class diesel-electric 1970s design. If it were to come to blows, the ultra-quiet Swedish and German subs would stage an interland and use it for a soccer ball.
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  51.  @arupmallick3923  It will be hilarious to watch India curry favour with the same American "slaveholder". India needs US weapons to replace the Russian ones. Russia can't deliver, and China is busily arming itself to the teeth. Leave your self-respect at the door before you enter.
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  52.  @alexanderinsubordinate1861  You're talking to a silly conspiracy theorist.
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  53. Big-ass nuclear subs are far from ideal for the Baltic Sea. The Swedes know it, the Russians know it, but you don't.
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  54.  @darkmatter6714  Don't flatter yourself. I didn't fall into any traps. Rather, it seems you tripped over your own cleverness and tumbled head-first into your own trap. Actually, the Meteor first flew on 5 March 1943. The Gloster E.28/39 demonstrator made its maiden flight on 15 May 1941. It's painfully clear that the two designs are very different. I added "operational" to set the real fighters apart from the experimental ones, where the Germans also scored a first. I'll leave you to speculate about the reasons behind Britain falling behind in jet engine technology despite an early lead. Oh, and naming foreign kit is not a great accomplishment.
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  55.  @darkmatter6714  Don't be sorry on my account. The Heinkel He 178 was the first jet to fly, on 27 August 1939. Neither the He 178 nor the Gloster E.28/39 were armed, so it's a bit of stretch to call them fighters.
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  56.  @darkmatter6714  You're losing track. The question was whether or not the Meteor was the first jet fighter. The answer is a resolute "no". The Me 262 flew before the Meteor did. Even if you were to claim that the Gloster E.28/35 did qualify as a jet fighter, there was the Heinkel He 280 fighter prototype, which, likewise, wasn't mass-produced. The He 280 first flew on 22 September 1940, so well before the Gloster. I'm not German and I don't own shares in German aircraft engine manufacturers. Hence, it's inconsequential to me how things stand now in terms of market share. You were applauding pioneering British work on jet engines and you insinuated that it gave Britain a lead in getting jet aircraft off the drawing board, but no, Germany did it first. My factual observation seems to make you unhappy.
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  57.  @darkmatter6714  You're unable to admit that you've lost the argument. That's stubborness, and it won't stand you in good stead. I have no problem admitting that Frank Whittle invented the jet engine. Yet it is interesting that the Brits proved laggards in applying jet engine technology when compared to the Germans. For reasons unknown, you can't admit the fact, despite crystal clear evidence to the contrary. I can't help noticing that you edited your earlier comment to include the He 280 and Caproni -- after I had mentioned the He 280. Don't you know YouTube sends notifications of a new replies by email? I can see your original comment, which makes no mention of the He 280 or the Caproni. Not only are you stubborn as a mule, but also, you're a charlatan.
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