Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "Daily Mail World" channel.

  1.  @tygik7383  You're making it up. Prisoners have intel value and are needed for prisoner exchanges.
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  2. Let me guess, the afterburner didn't burn 'after' enough.
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  3.  @quanganhvu6791  I was about to comment the same. Copium is copiously used by our resident Krembots.
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  4. To perk up his sagging spirits, Putin joins a meeting of his fanclub.
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  5. I'm not sure if the Russians feel invaded or liberated.
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  6.  @Samb0o0o0  If Wagner are the second best army in Ukraine, that makes them the best army in Russia. It's not much, but it's enough.
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  7. Nope. You lose.
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  8. Russia is invincible... in the turret tossing contest.
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  9. So your point is that Russia hasn't made any progress in tank design during the last 70 years? OK.
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  10. Ukraine would be daft to launch a head-on attack, Russian-style. They'll go around Bakhmut and wait for the encircled defenders to surrender. That is, if the Russians haven't made another goodwill gesture (read: ran for their lives).
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  11. A RIB is pretty susceptible to small arms fire.
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  12. Inaction in the face of aggression poses a much bigger risk. Did you have your backbone surgically removed or is your condition congenital?
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  13. I heard the pilot had forgotten to take along Nicorette, but he found a pack of smokes in the cockpit. The rest, including his Su-35, is history.
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  14. That'll do, Ivan. Try something else for a change.
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  15. Nah, the pilot was high on coke and got careless with hand grenades. What, everyone believed Prigozhin met his end that way.
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  16.  @yarnickgoovaerts  I thought I made it clear that I have had military training and how it was demonstrated to me that older tanks are more vulnerable to modern anti-tank weapons than more recent ones. Of course tanks are scary, but as an infrantryman you arm yourself accordingly. We trained extensively with anti-tank mines and rocket launchers, some of which were becoming increasingly ineffective as tanks grew more resilient. For example, we had to stack two 10 kg AT mines to score a mobility kill against a T-72, while with the T-54/55 one sufficed. Likewise, a single LAW hit could destroy a T-54, but for the T-72 it was estimated that four hits were needed. Progress, in other words.
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  17. In the olden days, they would've stamped your service record with "lack of moral fibre".
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  18.  @mammothmotouk  Well, thank you, but you should know my overseas tours offered little in terms of excitement. I could count the firefights and the shelling on the fingers of one hand. A piece of advice: don't flaunt your cowardice. It's generally frowned upon.
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  19. My grandfather took part in the so-called Sausage War, which had them perform a bayonet charge. He said it was the craziest thing he did in a series of crazy battles. If he were still alive, I'm sure he would very much advise against bayonet charges, no matter how heroic.
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  20. Don't say that. I have a hunch they're relieved at making it out of this war in one piece.
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  21.  @pantherheartthedruid4134  Does it surprise you that Russia fully supported NATO's Afghan mission, ISAF, in which Ukraine participated -- in mostly a medical capacity?
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  22. ​ @pantherheartthedruid4134  I specifically mentioned that Russia backed ISAF. Now you want to move the goal posts, because you suddenly realised that I was right all along.
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  23.  @JohnDoe-jt5lb  You're awfully quick to jump to conclusions.
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  24. We? Those are Russians who've acquired Finnish nationality in addition to their original Russian nationality.
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  25. As a UN peacekeeper, I saw some of the carnage that ensued when Israel struck Hezbollah targets -- or targets they claimed were Hezbollah -- in Lebanon. It was gory, not glory. Unless you're a psychopath, there's nothing comforting or enjoyable about seeing broken bodies.
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  26.  @yarnickgoovaerts  Let me guess, you lack military training altogether. I had the privilege of taking a practice shot at a T-34 with a LAW. The shot went through and through. A T-72 would merely suffer a scratch.
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  27. Oopsie or infighting?
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  28.  @robertenglish3921  You're a bit late to the game.
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  29.  @Marc-js8rx  AT missiles don't rely on a blast effect, but rather, they squirt out a thin jet of molten metal that makes a neat hole in the armour. So, the guy on top may very well have made it. In the end, his mates may be worse off, having been splattered by metal particles inside the BMP. They may have bled out in the field.
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  30. Has Russia ever heard of winning hearts and minds?
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  31. Traffic accidents would skyrocket due to collisions with elks (that's moose for Anglos). Bears, wolves and wolverines would move in and snack on the occasional human as well, to say nothing of livestock, which would go extinct in no time.
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  32.  @not_a_human_being  What a hoot you are. Ukraine should be demilitarized so Russia's inept military stands a chance of capturing Kyiv the second time around? Let's have referendums inside the Russian Federation to see if any of the republics fancies independence. Not that it matters, since I believe Russia will break apart as a result of this war, just like the Soviet Union did after the Soviet-Afghan War.
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  33. Wagner expended their convicts. But ex-criminal holds true at least for Prigozhin himself.
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  34. There's Rosgvardiya, Putin's life guard and riot police, but indeed, they're at their best when clubbing protestors.
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  35.  @yarnickgoovaerts  Sure thing. As UN peacekeepers, we were caught in a crossfire several times. It was part of the job description.
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  36. Believe it or not, but the BMPs has fuel tanks inside the rear doors. That's why they're burning.
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  37. @Jayhawksfan I suggest you look up the difficult words that I used.
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  38. ⬆Another Krembot pleading for peace... on Putler's terms. Yeah, Peace in Our Time.
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  39.  @jeffhoward1222  Actually, it was the French who led the Yanks to victory in WW1.
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  40.  @jeffhoward1222  The Hundred Days Offensive clinched the deal. Most historians, including German ones, concur. The Second Battle of Cambrai -- part of the Hundred Days Offensive -- was the final clincher.
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  41.  @FunkySpaceLord  A defensive victory is a victory all the same. Ukraine, unlike Russia, is not bent on world domination. Besides, the Russians still congratulate themselves with ousting Napoleon from Russia, which is considered the Frenchman's worst defeat. Russia never set foot on French territory in defeating Napoleon.
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  42.  @Наденька-в4е  You'll have to conquer the world before you can start posting here in Russian.
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  43.  @Наденька-в4е  Don't pretend that Russian enjoys an international reputation as a lingua franca. That ship has sailed a long time ago. I have a Chinese godchild whose parents studied and met in Moscow. To their chagrin, her top school in Shanghai let go of its Russian teacher. The ever so practical Chinese have decided it's a waste of time.
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  44.  @Наденька-в4е  I know a bit of both, plus four more languages. You? Monolingual much?
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  45. That's cultural appropriation. Don't do it.
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  46.  @TrOgaN_  That's not the issue. The question is, would you, by your inaction, enable aggressors? I'm inclined to believe you would.
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  47.  @TrOgaN_  It seems like you've grown a moral fibre after all, since you deleted your latest defeatist comment. Did the ghost of Churchill pay you a visit last night?
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  48. We all know how tatty and threadbare your bear is.
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  49.  @pleaseignore3055  He was referring to the absurdity of being expected to skewer fellow human beings like a medieval pikeman. My grandfather was a machine gunner, which meant that his team accounted for a lot of Soviets, but in that respect his foremost concern was their immense ammunition expenditure, him being a shopkeeper in civilian life. Getting up close and eye-to-eye with someone you're going to kill is something else still. Cold-blooded murder, he called it.
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  50.  @supertuscans9512  Accepting a new member that is under attack by a foreign power would auto-trigger NATO's Article 5. It would be tantamount to NATO declaring war on Russia. That's a legal conundrum, because strictly speaking, there's no valid casus foederis.
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