Comments by "The Zero Line" (@The_ZeroLine) on "The Telegraph" channel.

  1.  @h2didenkov  Did they go to any of those to take territory? No. One was to stop a genocide. One was to remove a dictator who had blown up a dozen civilian planes. Iraq was, no doubt, an awful mistake. But, again, they didn’t go there annex territory.
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  2. Just as the battlefield / logistics area of the war is going really well for Ukraine the political aspect is falling apart in the US, France, etc. (Russia is nearly stalled out or falling back in most areas + out of IFVs and APCs to be honest recondition). Macron’s snap decision to dissolve parliament is one of the biggest, inexplicable blunders ever. And the DNC is unwilling to accept the common sense that he needs to go. And Jill Biden is a huge problem.
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  3. If anyone’s irrational, it’s the West for questioning why Putin thought he thought he could do this despite the fact it did nothing in 2008 (Georgia), 2013 (the redline) and 2014 (Russia was hardly even sanctioned). Why would he expect us to get serious now? Putin is not irrational, he simply has zero conscious. Luckily, he doesn’t want to die or his legacy to be the end of Russia. But he’ll keep saber rattling as it’s been highly effective. Look at how weak Western aid has been and all the hand wringing about if it’s too much.
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  4.  @user-vn1di4oq4w  hahaha 😂. OK, that’s what your lot have been saying since two weeks into the war. Russia has NO long game. What’s their long game? They can’t produce enough to replace their losses. They’ve had to literally increase signing bonuses by 15,000% percent from the start of the war. Nothing they’re doing is sustainable. If Russia was just staying on the defensive in Ukraine they’d be playing the long game. But they’re wasting thousands of men and vehicles relentlessly attacking in exchange for tiny gains.
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  5. And this was just a propaganda video. This never gets done IRL.
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  6. The ones who do the work AND document it are considered vital to their brothers in arms or brothers in service because they typically bring in so much money as well as awareness. So this “idiots with selfie sticks” is a dumb, reductionist argument. The people there just for self-aggrandizement quickly get ostracized and ejected by the Ukrainians. As many have said, the Ukrainians are very wary of what foreigners are there for and until they prove themselves, they are kept at arms length.
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  7. It’s likely the FSB just grabbed the first migrant laborers they came across and then…did what they did.
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  8.  @RyanBrown-nx8dw  Your reply made no sense. Also, I’m not Ukrainian.
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  9.  @Rohan123-b9t  Considering the US has never had a base in Finland, your ignorance is proving just as robust as your delusions.
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  10. Pretty shocking that a man who has depended on Russian financing since the 1980s is afraid to cross the Kremlin. They likely have tons of kompromat on him too.
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  11. Ukraine still had massive public support. And before Trump started telling his base not to support Ukraine, around 85% of the GOP strongly favored Ukraine. Since when did Americans have their opinions determined by politicians is the better question.
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  12. They’d be shocked by the “presents” Trump gets. Billions in investment and “loans.” BTW, was it really necessary to bust through her door?
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  13. The presenter often talks about how he actually volunteers his time to be a strike breaker. He loves unfair wages.
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  14.  @theragingben5393  Stockpiles useful for the opening stage of the war, but now useless without any available supplies of bloc ammo.
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  15. The fact that this only has 7.5k views should be a fact the English (and to a lesser extent the French) should be ashamed of. This is the sort of video that should be a mandatory intro to French politics for students and politicians who don’t know anything (which is many).
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  16.  @h3w45  Cool story, bro.
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  17. He was firing a M104 from the HUMVEE, but that was in Kherson. He seemed like a pretty inexperienced gunner, but brave.
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  18. Me too. But what’s ironic is that I listened to the entire speech it came from and the interpreter was actually very bad. So, it was quite awkward. However, that one line came out so powerfully.
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  19. I also like how quickly they dropped the Liz Truss audio bites and went back to the Boris Johnson ones, which sounded so much better.
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  20. It’s a huge task if they’re continued to be given resources piece meal and extremely late. They could expel Russia fully in less than six months if they were just give 50 more HIMARS (the US has more than 2,000 while Ukraine has 38), more shells, 1,000 ATACMS and about 10 more air defense of the PATRIOT, NASMS and IRIS-T caliber. That’s not even a big ask.
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  21. They literally say exactly that in the podcast.
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  22. Germany 🇩🇪 has provided Ukraine $18b in military aid. Meanwhile, France 🇫🇷 has given $580m in aid, which is 3x less than Estonian whose economy is 67x smaller. 🇪🇸 = just $340m.
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  23. I’d like to see some politician make equivocations after hearing her in front of others.
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  24. Pilot error. This was made decades before any quality control issues arose.
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  25. Two episodes published within one hour?! Our cup runneth over.
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  26. Ironically, I wrote a post about the UK’s Probability Yardstick a few months ago. Anyway, Putin is not a learning president luckily for us. After a full year, he still doesn’t get his sweep demands and goals never succeed.
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  27. Italy and Spain import especially huge amounts of Russian grain and other agricultural products. They’re responsible for angry EU farmers.
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  28.  @underepix4843 Not $. Materiel. And most of the arms given were literally being scrapped at a cost of more than $1b (e.g., DPICM & HMMWVs) and is cheaper to send them to 🇺🇦 and others are retired or soon to be retired (M113s, MRAPS, M60-based engineering vehicles, expired ATACMS, HAWK, Avenger, etc.).
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  29. It’s sad, but he’s not in a zoo. He’s in a refuge for illegally owned pets. Hopefully, there are other macaques there because they’re even more social than humans.
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  30.  @mrprosser843  Good point. His Parkinson’s mean he’s even shaking in the face of an angry toddler.
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  31. Tulsi Gabbard doesn’t even have US security interests in mind. She’s a hilariously obvious Russian plant. Putin didn’t convince Trump. He either paid him off or threatened him w/kompromat.
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  32.  GeleNikolov  Greed and steeling money from murder victims are balls in your book. Good to know.
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  33. I’ve never heard the Russians so whiny before. Getting their teeth kicked in has really rattled their little thief in chief.
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  34. They started allowing comments surprisingly from about 5+ episodes ago.
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  35. Uh, look at any of the last 30 episodes for the answer. A daily ground update is utterly pointless, unless something major happened. Russia inches forward while losing massive amounts of armor.
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  36. Proud of 🇩🇪 from going to essentially moving from obstructionist in the fight against 🇷🇺 to being a leader that provided $18b in military aid vs France’s $633m (Macron is still trying to talk Putin “back from the ledge”). It’s given 9 billion more in economic and humanitarian aid too.
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  37.  @WangAiHua  That is true and I knew it, but I’m not immune to a little info selection’ism and the number of M1s that have the diesel APU upgrade are limited (technically, every M1 every M1 ever can run on diesel, but the new upgraded ones are realistically efficient). Upgrades began in limited numbers in 2017 and I am guessing these are tanks the US feels they need for themselves (personally, I doubt we’ll ever need tanks in large numbers again).
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  38.  @hmmcinerney  Technically, they can literally run on anything flammable. From Bacardi 101 to butane, which would be helpful in a pinch. But supplying the amount of fuel it needs requires logistics I doubt Ukraine can sustain. If they can, it will be glorious to see the M1 go ballistic. It’s a truly next level machine.
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  39. No. The rapidity of YT upload times just varies widely. These episodes first debut at about 3AM PST on Twitter and are usually available on podcast apps at least 10 hours before they show up on YouTube. There was a period when YT uploads had fallen days behind the show.
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  40. I think the polls reveal less “wishful thinking” and more Ukrainians being smart and voting in a way to prevent division and to retain unity. People know their opinion polls will be published and they know there’s no space for political division.
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  41. If Scholz and Biden hadn’t restricted Ukraine from striking the sources of attacks across the border, they would never had a need to switch it up like this.
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  42. It’s mind boggling that individual donors have contributed FAR more $ to Ukraine than Western governments. I also don’t get the EU’s rationale for backfilling modern systems in exchange for members sending utter junk to Ukraine instead of simply sending the good systems to 🇺🇦. I guess that was the price of getting all the votes on EU packages.
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  43. They’ve been happening since day 1.
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  44. @ What terrorists are we talking about?
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  45. Before they were in NATO, maybe they’d have dared to invade a tiny Baltic state, but now? It’s delusional to think they’ll try to invade anyone to the west in the next decade.
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  46. Schuster includes just enough seemingly complimentary about Ukraine and Zelensky to hide that it’s a hit job on Ukraine. And even the compliments can often easily be spun negatively. Thought Francis knew better.
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  47. Yeah, trying to get elected officials illegally change the results of the US presidential election is no biggie. It should just be like a parking ticket...
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  48. ⁠ @Kukura001 😂
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  49. Certainly, there’s been no excuse for the West not getting Ukraine comprehensive air defense faster. However, while I’d love to see Moscow turned to glass, I believe if it looked like everything was going to come crashing down all at once for Putin, he’d try to use nukes. So, as awful as it’s been, steadily eroding Putin’s support among both the people and his own circle so that if and when he tries to do something crazy his chain of command will break. Giving Ukraine F-16s, tomahawk missiles, ATACMS, etc. would see Putin running out of options in mere hours and he’d try something crazy. And there are still enough crazy generals that it might be allowed to happen.
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  50. Two primary reasons: Germany has become a timid, “pacifist” country and there are a lot of strongly pro-Russians Germans left over from East Germany and many cynically pro-Russians due to getting rich off of Russian energy deals and/or hydro bribes.
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