Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Hindustan Times" channel.

  1. Sounds like Prigozhin is inviting more hapless Ukrainian troops back into the meat grinder.
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  2. Armor without air defense is just a target.
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  3. Russia and India have strong bonds, and I think it's a good thing.
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  4. Interesting, if true. Wagner forces were and probably still are better-trained and more experienced than regular Russian troops. The gap is probably narrowing, but they will continue to use Wagner forces for the bloodiest ground fighting. The Russians have spared their own and Wagner troops heavy losses by pounding the ground ahead with artillery. If they're fighting building-to-building in residential areas, then I bet Prigozhin wants the apartment complexes leveled before sending his men in. Who knows if this is a smokescreen? If I'm the Russians, enjoying local escalation dominance, with a goal of eroding Kiev's and its allies' manpower and resources, I would "help" the Ukrainians detect a weak spot or believe there's an impending weak spot, to encourage an offensive, and lure the Ukrainians into yet another meat grinder. Create an objective they think is going to regain a lot of territory or a strategic target (Zaporozhye) for them, and invite them in for more horrific losses.
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  5. It's so depressing to see my country go down the drain like it has for the last 50 years. We could ALL be better off if the political class in the USA weren't so malignant and greedy. There's plenty for everyone, if the politicians would quit taking a $hit on everything good.
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  6. I think they'd be better served manufacturing munitions and cheap mobile platforms. Still, Ukraine and NATO can't catch up or keep up on either ammo or tanks. Ukrainians are holding their own in the current, low-level, tit-for-tat fighting, using a trickle of NATO arms to match strike for strike. I don't think Russia is very happy about it, and will escalate. They will take heavy losses, but quickly gobble up all of Ukraine with overwhelming firepower. I think for the first year-plus, attriting Ukrainian military at low cost to Russia, was satisfactory. But the pinpricks deep behind the lines are going to make Russia push the lines a hundred miles farther west.
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  7.  @radio9730  Not a Putin fan-boy. But at least Putin's a realist. Western leaders pursue fantasies.
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  8. "We are best for the world; therefore, what is best for us is best for the world."
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  9.  @kastnoka1274  Considering their great success with shovels, they could conquer the world with one tank.
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  10.  @JMARTIN1947  What's wrong with you?
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  11. Why enter into an agreement with people who won't abide by it?
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  12. Patriot's very expensive. I think every missile costs something like $4 million. Each launcher is something like $10 million. And a battery of launchers is hundreds of millions. Ukraine firing 30 Patriots is $120 million in a matter of seconds. I think the Russians could run Kiev out of anti-aircraft capability with steady barrages of pretty cheap missiles. This is just bleeding Ukraine and the erstwhile Allies from WW II dry to no purpose.
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  13. We're getting dribs and drabs of skirmishes and the odd artillery strike. I don't think any of the dailies are particularly helpful. Tanks are deathtraps, with the proliferation of tank killers on the ground and in the sky. If you see the 2 tanks ahead of you - or worse - ahead and behind you go up in a fireball, you probably SHOULD get your butt out of the big, obsolete and expensive target. I also hear reports of Russian tank concentrations being targeted by stand-off weapons. I don't think it's all one-sided. But the Ukrainians can't afford tit-for-tat losses, and they are more willing to give up lives for minor territorial gains, where the Russians appear to be trying to minimize their casualties. Both sides have stand-off weapons that can destroy tanks. Both sides flee when the odds are against them. Both sides use artillery on troop and armor concentrations. Both sides have guided munitions. The Russians have more helicopters and planes, so they can rush more ordnance to hot spots, and attack from out of range of Ukrainian anti-aircraft defenses. But swooping in with manned aircraft over enemy territory is a very risky business for both sides. In the Iraq War(s), NATO forces had no problem knocking out Iraqi SAM sites. Russia is not Iraq.
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  14. I was just going to say the same thing. EU's on the brink of economic collapse and its political leadership is insane.
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  15. Ukrainian side doesn't have good enough air defense to use helicopters in combat like the Russians are able to do. This allows them to frustrate attacks in the gray zone in front of their fortified positions. They can move tank-busting ordnance to where it's needed, at a moment's notice.
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  16.  @kaspertube512  More target practice would be my guess.
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  17.  @kaspertube512  Taking out a pair of Leopard 2's represented 1/9 of all Leopard 2's sent. The total amount of NATO aid delivered to the battle lines in Ukraine can be described as "token, at best." The equipment arriving - let alone the crews to operate them - are not equal to the task. What's more, the tanks themselves are useless if they can be destroyed by stand-off weapons before ever arriving at the front lines. The Russians can see them coming for miles. Meanwhile, Ukraine as a country is a rump state. The American government is not your friend.
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  18. Oligarchs inside and outside the government.
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  19. Don't be a science denier! The science changed! Follow the science. Forget everything we said last week.
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  20. Russia doesn't have a monopoly on precision-guided weapons. As the number of long-range missile strikes increases. Russia may be forced to accelerate the pace, rather than standing back with a sword for Ukrainians to thrust themselves upon. These infrastructure strikes from a distance raise the stakes for the Russians. I think the escalation will compel the Russians to push the front lines of the security zone forward much more rapidly.
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  21. How do you engage 74 hostiles in 114 places?
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  22.  @chrisgrossedout6914  They're blaming the USA for provoking Russia into this war. There's a difference.
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  23. I'm not sure, but I know a lot of people are very worried in USA about chemtrails in the sky, for ANY purpose. They sure ain't tellin' us!
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  24. They always shit where they sleep.
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  25. " 'Tis but a flesh wound." - Zelensky
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  26. Russia gave up all claim to Ukraine based on assurances that NATO would do the same, and never expand East. Then NATO went back on its commitment and expanded Eastward. Nothing Russia asked for was unreasonable. Now they are securing a buffer by force. I can't say that I blame them.
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  27. International Law frowns on Nazism and ethnic cleansing.
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  28. Put him on the front line and he would start crying "Can't we all just get along?" He's a viper.
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  29. Ukraine has a nuclear attack sub fleet? R U kidding?
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  30.  @theshadyspot9932  Russia is losing? I think we're seeing the rise of a new world order that is not going to be to western globalists' liking. Everything they try is blowing back on them, horribly.
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  31. Macron's not a good leader. But even a stopped clock is right once (or twice) a day.
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  32.  @jeffsoltis9864  The elephant in this discussion is the amount of aid is not strategically significant, and the industrial capacity of the West is less than that of Russia and its allies. This is not a sleeping giant in the USA. It's a doddering old fool who still thinks the girls think he's sexy.
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  33.  @AntonGermanReal  NATO agreed not to expand Eastward. It's expanding Eastward. Russia wanted to talk about it and reminded NATO of its prior undertaking. NATO scoffed at Russia. Russia had to accept the expansion or resort to force. It is not accepting the expansion.
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  34. Manned aircraft without anti-aircraft suppression are dead meat. NATO can't support a war of attrition against a great power that has been planning for years, while NATO countries blithely cut their own throats, economically. They can't make Chinese and Russian production.
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  35.  @Johnjohn-vc9db  Carpet bombing means obliterating huge swaths by "carpeting" the area with munitions. Carpet bombing isn't specifically targeted. Just give a general area to be carpeted with destruction.
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  36. How long before EU are arming immigrants to go fight?
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  37. We're at a tipping point. I don't think China's sustainable, but I know the American economy's been hollowed-out by China and robber barons in the USA. The difference between China's and USA's unsustainability is that the CCP is utterly ruthless about maintaining top-down control, and if that means millions must die, the CCP's OK with that. The U.S. government would fall if it tried the same thing.
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  38. :o) In the idiom: "You couldn't pay me a million dollars to be in the front line..." All ways of dying in battle are horrific. Some are more merciful and quick, but it's all bloody.
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  39.  ВОВОЧКА  Don't hold back. Tell us what you really think. The American people are waking up to the lies and outright blunders of our elected and unelected public officials. The disconnect between power elites and the common people has never been greater. Europe's strategy, for centuries, has been to hold Russia down. The USA picked up the encirclement where Europe left off. The American people believe the USA is a great power that doesn't behave like all other great powers before. In OUR hearts, we would love to trade and don't believe in taking ANYthing by force. But our pubic officials, once in power, made all the same mistakes as other empires. Our need for something is NOT greater than the needs of those who OWN it.
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  40. If they can't keep Ukraine in the fold, they forfeit the billions they LENT to Ukraine.
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  41. "First step towards understanding reality."
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  42. Never fuck with Russians armed with shovels.
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  43. NATO and its proxy Ukraine are getting an up-close encounter with "Fuck around and find out."
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  44. We fuck around in their back yards...
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  45. Platoon-level skirmish international news.
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  46. The USA is run by incompetent megalomaniacs. India is wise. The American people are very skeptical of NATO's "mission creep." NATO can't win a war in Europe, which is the purpose of NATO. But it can bring down governments and crush weaker nations at will, and government officials will it so. I'm ashamed.
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  47. American leadership is operating on assumptions that are no longer operative. Plus they're 4th-generation "We always get our way by hook or crook" elites, pulling the same levers their predecessors pulled, only the machinery's rusting and they're pulling more levers than ever before. Their narratives are falling apart at home and fell apart long ago in 2/3 of the work. The biggest danger is that their delusions will leave them with nothing but a lot of weaponry. I pray they don't burn it all down on THEIR way down.
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  48.  @RolandWilson-dr5gw  You forget all the products that will NOT be made because the War Machine is sucking up all the resources.
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  49. I don't think it's BECAUSE of weapons manufacturers. I think MIC is definitely benefiting, but what's driving it are the 4th-generation postwar eggheads in government who think they can rule the world with the same old tricks and make the rest of the world go along. They're losing their grip on the people at home as well as their stranglehold on world economies and resources.
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  50. So he held out until he got a little grease for Hungary's palm.
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