Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "The Telegraph" channel.

  1. There was something seriously wrong with the plane. A crop-duster shouldn't shed a wing like this. They're built like tractors.
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  2. I don't see a problem. The Milky Way is a galaxy and our planet is part of it. The company is not called Virgin Intergalactic. The mesosphere is 'near space', so SpaceShipTwo is appropriate, too.
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  3.  @briancarno8837  Ukraine has launched three successful counter-offensives and is currently holding its own, no matter what the Russians are throwing against them. I should think Western aid has found its way into the right hands, or none of that would be possible.
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  4. ...to those who earned their bribes.
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  5.  @Omni_Shambles  Which war was that? Don't tell me that Ruscist historical revisionism is extending now into the future as well.
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  6. Gerasimov certainly soiled his underpants. Initially, he didn't dare tell Putin of the incursion. I'd hate to be in his shoes.
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  7. @@user-jt4pk8ii4z The loss of the Il-22M has been compared to Russia losing 150 main battle tanks. Not that Russia can replace its MBTs, but this one will prove irreplaceable for the duration of this war, if not longer.
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  8. Not Western supplied ones, and occupied Crimea and Donbas count as Ukrainian territory.
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  9.  @AkenValle  There's no evidence of an Ukrainian rout, but the defending Russians have definitely been routed. Try to keep up with the news.
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  10. They could also start advertising royal toilet paper on HSN. Dignity be damned.
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  11. I see very few Ukrainian men around these here parts. Russian men of fighting age, however, are plentiful. Some have taken to wearing both Russian and Ukrainian flags on their sleeves, to make it clear where their sympathies do not lie.
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  12. No, Russia just wanted to admire Kyiv's suburbs from up close, after suffering disproportionate losses to get there.
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  13. Pakistan loves Bollywood.
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  14. I don't know about the hilarity. My late Finnish granddad was clearly disturbed by the carnage he caused as a machine gunner in the Winter War. Rumour had it their adversaries had enjoyed a generous serving of vodka before launching their human wave attacks.
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  15. It's a pity Macron, a true leader, has to take time out to entertain a mere figurehead.
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  16.  @yo2trader539  "Most Russians" have no business letting or not letting Ukraine join alliances of its own choosing. Putin can form whatever spheres of influence in his head, but real life is another matter altogether. Russia needs to know its place once and for all.
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  17. Russia is spelled R-U-S-S-I-A, not A-M-E-R-I-C-A.
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  18.  @varionbranzuela6894  Ukraine can attain peace the moment Russia decides to comply with UN resolutions and withdraws from Ukraine.
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  19. Not just maybe.
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  20. Baldrick: "I have a very cunning plan. Let's sacrifice seven military aircraft and their crews -- including an irreplaceable airborne command centre -- so that we can redeploy Wagner to Belarus, from where they'll reopen a front against Ukraine and bring sweet victory to Russia."
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  21. France is the world's top tourist destination. So, no wonder foreign pickpockets make a beeline for Paris.
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  22.  @rickschroth9869  Be that as it may about Brits all(?) driving German cars, but in this day and age, Germany is deemed the more democratic of the two. Sadly, the US has fallen behind both. Lend-Lease was a success, I guess. Germany and Britain ought to give some back, so that the US can catch up.
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  23. These crop-dusters should be able to hang off their propeller. It's not like it was carrying a heavy load either.
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  24. India's space agency should outfit subsequent landers with a 4G smartphone, so they can stream better video back to Earth. I'm waiting for your (hopefully educated) response with bated breath.
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  25.  @azmagaref  Russia's casualty figures dwarf those of Ukraine. Cope, bot, cope.
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  26.  @michaelmontagu3979  I misread yours as Mightily Butthurt.
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  27.  @Robsheph  Never been to war? In Holland, the Canadians are rightfully honoured for liberating the country in WW2. They rolled up the German defences very efficiently, despite the Germans doing their utmost to stop them. Canada hasn't received enough credit for that feat.
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  28. Yeah, the stuffing may come out. The teddy bear has seen better days.
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  29. Industrial target, bud.
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  30. Krembots ought to love your idea. It would totally wrongfoot "warmongering" NATO.
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  31. Western MBTs are more survivable. Cope.
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  32. Lukashenko may be disappointed to learn that Wagner's tactics amount to sending out the convicts first. When the enemy has run out of ammo, they send in the regulars. I wonder if Belarus has enough convicted criminals to implement such tactics. Political prisoners, plentiful and brave as they may be, make poor cannon fodder.
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  33. Prepare yourself for a long wait.
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  34.  @nkydn  In the civilised world, we call your 'celebration money' a bribe, too.
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  35.  @dancahill9585  Brexit?
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  36.  @barryc733  We're dealing with a commando raid here (you'd better look up "raid"). Commando raids used to drive one Herr Gitler up the wall, so much so that he ordered all captured commandos to be executed in contravention of the Geneva Conventions. Expect the same behaviour from Gospodin Putler.
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  37. Or maybe prisons? Wait...
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  38.  @srijanme  Interesting statement. Your Arjun tank is heavily influenced by the Challenger series, up to the rifled gun and obsolescent HESH ammo, which the Brits are now wisely replacing on the Challenger 3. Glass houses and stones...
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  39.  @orest7026  A war of attrition is above all a war between economies. Isolated Russia is not winning that one. In the past two years, Russia has seen half of its sovereign wealth fund go up in smoke -- literally -- in Ukraine. In another two years, it's off the cliff for Pootie & the Boys.
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  40. It's not such a big deal. The aircraft just needs to tell the missile "GO!" and it takes it from there. The Storm Shadow is pre-programmed on the ground.
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  41.  @abrahamdozer6273  In the Winter War, the Red Army pushed barely trained conscripts across snow-covered fields, without skies or snowsuits. In granddad's words, the charging troops made no effort to take cover and barely fired their rifles. It was, as he described it, tantamount to mass murder. Fresh troops, perhaps, but professional, my foot.
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  42.  @christinamoxon  Thanks for confirming my point. Charles is no political leader. He's a figurehead.
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  43.  @abuseofmainstreammediacanh5713  Russia is threatening with nuclear winter, not NATO.
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  44.  @StevenSmith-mk5fg  Apart from that, I've never understood why the silly Putin trolls go on and on about the Tsar Bomba. The sole remaining example was dismantled decades ago.
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  45. Don't flatter yourself. This is pure NATO, but in a different sense: No Action, Talk Only.
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  46.  @chrisrobert5252  We've had Finnish instructors training Ukrainians in the UK for some months now. It's somewhat challenging to teach proper winter warfare in the UK, however. There's more to it than camouflage.
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  47.  @Rohan123-b9t  The old "in Soviet Russia" reversal jokes were funny, but your adaption is just meh.
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  48. "Antagonizing a war"... come again? Google Translate made a boo-boo there.
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  49. World leaders will mock Trump again when he makes president, but with more finesse.
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  50. Arrou, Meuse, Pagny-sur-Moselle, Croisilles and anything in between. Information is literally at your fingertips, sport.
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  51.  @thomasshone2488  Lazy much?
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  52.  @sz5263  A clownish king is like an incurable disease. A clownish president, however, is a temporary condition.
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  53.  @park1776  Let's ask the UN. Oh wait, we did already. What was the outcome again? 141 UN members said no, 5 (including Russia) said yes. The resolution that told Russia to get the hell out of dodge passed with flying colours.
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  54. The fun part is that Russia loses three times as many men as draft dodgers as it manages to bring under arms.
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  55. The problem is that the Russians living along the Finnish border in what was previously Finland would love to become Finnish nationals. It would, however, be prohibitively expensive for Finnish taxpayers to raise them up to the same standard of living -- even if that were possible. Poor and backward doesn't begin to describe the conditions there.
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  56. Trump himself is chronically in arrears on his bills. What should we do to him? Let Russian debt collectors have a go at him? Will the Secret Service still protect him?
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  57.  @sammiller6631  No kidding. Putin already fashions himself Peter the Great.
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  58.  @samsungtap4183  They're called pilots.
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  59.  @darrellpowell6042  There's little to "translate". The Storm Shadow is pre-programmed on the ground. Ukraine's Sukhois (not MiGs -- they don't have the capacity to carry a weapon that heavy) just need to send it on its way.
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  60.  @kwaii_gamer  The Il-76? Not true. The Sukhoi Superjet is affected, but not the Il-76.
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  61.  @brotherlestat305  "Almost completely Russian" as in any-day-now-really-soon-we-promise?
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  62. ​ @Szminsky  These type of mines are designed to break a tank track for a mobility kill. There are other types of AT mines, with hollow charges and tilt-rod fuses, that achieve catastrophic skills with tossed turrets and all that.
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  63. Russia will lose many, many troops evicting the Ukrainians. What's classic is that once again, Russia will bear the brunt in terms of casualties.
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  64. That was the idea behind Virgin Orbit and its LauncherOne rocket. The company went bankrupt a month or so ago.
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  65. Russia reaps what it sows.
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  66. Maintenance. The wings on the crop-dusters don't come off like that unless there's serious neglect.
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  67. Marders are IFVs, not tanks. And why not? The gloves are off.
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  68. Does it really matter? Russia's missiles aren't making a dent in Ukraine's resolve. What's for sure is that Russia is out of ideas.
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  69.  @browiking318  No, it just means Russia is pissing away its troops. When it runs short, Russia just pours in some more mobiks wielding rusty AK-47s and pockets full of tampons.
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  70.  @AbuBawa-sw1ut  Sociopaths posture with nuclear weapons.
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  71. Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland have to put up with him, too.
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  72. BoJo is a minor TV celebrity now, why?
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  73.  @burritosls  Perhaps we should ask the UN, as in its General Assembly, what it thinks about Russia annexing the Donbas and Crimea. Oh, we did already, in late 2022. The result was a resounding "no go", as expressed by 143 countries vs. 5. Out of those 5 ne'er-do-wells (including Russia of course), two evidently regretted their decision, because they still haven't diplomatically recognised the territories as Russian.
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  74.  @DarthRaven2077  Ah, a copycat. Try something original.
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  75. More of the same, in other words. Sigh.
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  76.  @rogerclemmons8652  In the future, Russians can go and visit a rebuilt Bakhmut in Ukraine -- rebuilt with their money, that is -- and marvel at what their crumbling home town in Russia might have been like, if their former president, Putin, hadn't squandered their wealth on ruinous military adventurism.
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  77.  @robertjones2811  Second most powerful only because they neutralised Wagner.
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  78.  @BadBoy-cp9lp  As a sovereign country, Ukraine can join alliances as it sees fit. It's none of Russia's beeswax, in other words.
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  79. An elected clown and a hereditary clown. I think I prefer the former.
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  80.  @rbb.828  Because Orban has his snout deep inside the EU trough.
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  81. My take is that China cynically favours a prolonged war. The weaker Russia becomes, the more dependent it is on China. The more dependent Russia is on China, the easier it is for China to exploit. Soon enough, Russia is China's jewel in the crown.
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  82.  @samsungtap4183  China isn't free to transship Western chips or even ship its own if they contain Western IP. Actually, we don't need to tell them; Chinese companies are keenly aware of the rules, so as not to risk sanctions themselves.
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  83. In what scale? 1:35?
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  84. Who poked whom first? As I recall, Russia set pro-Russian separatists loose on Ukraine in 2014. Now, 9 years later, Ukraine has finally returned the favour. The boot is on the other foot and your teddy bear is having a temper tantrum.
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  85. Yes please, teach us about bribes and corruption.
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  86. Retaliation would imply that Russia hasn't let loose with stand-off weapons on Ukraine already. That ship has sailed more than two years ago.
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  87. Indeed, it does suggest that India has overtaken Russia in the space race.
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  88. There's still a small chance that Putin bombastically decides to pull out all the stops to save Russia from a crippling civil war (read: ensure his continued monopoly on power). The price will be a full withdrawal from Ukraine. He may believe that will save him and his political career.
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  89. Putin can end the war overnight. All he has to do is issue a withdrawal order.
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  90.  @nandishhegde9025  No 5G, but very soon, 4G on the moon.
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  91. Landverraaiers.
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  92. It appears that for a long time, the Ukrainians had been racking their brains how to bring down the Il-22M in question. Little did they know Wagner would prove immensely useful in this respect.
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  93. The usual drama queenery on your part, that's what's afoot.
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  94.  @dancahill9585  No, the EU didn't boot the UK. The UK was indeed behind the fateful decision. But the divorce arrangements haven been rehearsed now.
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  95. Rats trying to board a non-sinking ship. Makes sense.
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  96. Or Inner Mongolia. He's going to ride horsey there for the rest of his days, bare-chested of course.
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  97.  @donhue4546  NATO's Article 5 was not invoked on account of Yugoslavia (read: Serbia). Participation was voluntary.
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  98.  @anthonymitchell8893  The Americans say that there's a sucker born every minute. In your case, it's a Chamberlain.
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  99. So, out of spite, Russia's unrealistic demands became even more unrealistic. Boo-hoo.
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  100. There's some of that, but an awful lot of Cold War-era weapons and near-end-of-life ammunition have been sent to assist Ukraine. A lot of the weaponry is Soviet in origin, too. If these weapons were conscious, they'd rejoice. The Western ones get to fulfil their destiny. The Soviet ones can draw solace from the fact that like their forebears, they're fighting Fascism.
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  101. They spend it quickly. Turks always run from an ATM to the grocery store.
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  102. Oh, Troll Factory No. 1 in Saint Petersburg is doing performance evaluations. They're determining whose pen is mightier than the sword. The dullards get their call-up papers. Of course they're in a flap.
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  103.  @UNIVERSAL-UR  Try to keep up with the news, Wolfsangel.
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  104. Isn't supposed hypocrisy part and parcel of whataboutism?
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  105. For your info, the Russian Empire has been gone for more than a century, and what came after it, the USSR, is also gone. I wouldn't be surprised if the third iteration, the Russian Federation, will soon join its predecessors on the scrapheap of history.
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  106.  @whatfreedom7  I doesn't have to be that violent. I expect Prigozhin will suffer a heart attack, and for good measure, 6 of his bodyguards, too.
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  107. By any chance, did "all your friend" use the exact words "trust me, bro"?
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  108. I thought the same about the Soviet Union. My granddad saw Russia sorted twice in his lifetime. I may yet get lucky, too.
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  109.  @КомандаЛеви  Who's us exactly? The UK? That I believe.
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  110.  @Spearca  I mentioned near space. I made no mention of galactic space.
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  111. These are old Soviet crapola.
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  112. Because Trump once hired him. It's uncanny how many of Trump's ex-staffers have turned against him.
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  113.  @Salamis.-330  I'm certain president Biden wasn't invited to ex-president Trump's lair.
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  114.  @edelgyn2699  Usual? Of all US presidents, only Grover Cleveland ever succeeded in regaining the presidency after losing it, and that was in 1892. Statistics don't favour Trump.
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  115.  thomas paine  Deemed by the Brits, in fact. Check out the Democracy Index.
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  116.  @Anonymous-411  Erdogan must be purdy dumb then.
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  117.  @peka2478  Obviously.
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  118.  @frankshailes3205  The Soviets/Russians have always been on the border. Finland never let its guard down.
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  119. Allah/Yahwe/God must be really confused because his "chosen people" are the ones being targeted. Abrahamic religions recycle their gods.
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  120. We can also speculate if the US meets its commitment. US defence spending stands at 3.5% of GDP, but US military doctrine prescribes that its armed forces prepare for a two-war scenario. The US demonstrably has extensive military assets in and around the Pacific. Do they count as contributions to NATO? After all, NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization. There's no mention of the Pacific.
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  121.  @enkig2624  Royals are of mixed ancestry. Inbred mixed ancestry.
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  122. @ChrobregoPoznan I haven't forgotten what I learned in uni. Try this for size: "the king reigns, but does not rule". Macron does.
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  123. Don't delude yourself. There's too much cabling to protect, railways or no railways.
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  124. It's a mystery how republics get by without a crown prince and princess.
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  125. Simple-pimple. North Korea, Iran and China are enabling a military aggressor that was condemned as such by the UN's General Assembly.
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