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

  1. Russia militarily threatening South Korea is adorable. South Korea’s military is HUGE and extremely advanced.
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  2. Just hit over $2,000 in donations to Ukraine today. Slava!
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  3. Even Trump’s own audience barely applauds when he talks about Ukraine. They know what a liar he is.
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  4. Our Ukraine aid is de facto free: 85% of it was stuff we were PAYING to dispose of and was paid for decades ago. And it’s brought in so many new arms customers.
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  5. Russia is suffering so many high profile losses right now, they don’t even know which to lie about first.
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  6. A question I have is why are both the White House + media doing such a bad job/not even trying to explain that US/tax payers are basically not spending anything on military aid to 🇺🇦 . We have primarily sent old arms that were paid for in the ‘80s + were either retired/close to or already being disposed of at huge cost to us. It’s cheaper in many cases sending them to Ukraine. The aid package are given essentially inflated, imaginary dollar values to make us look good and gain political capital. They’re valuing them as if they’re new and not explaining the $ values assigned to those aid packages is not our actual cost. Better yet, those arms were paid for a generation ago and were intended for use against Russian equipment. We’re wiping out the military capacity of a country whose closest allies are Iran and China for zero blood and at less than 1% of our annual DoD budget. DPICM, SDBs + MRAPS were being disposed by the tons at huge expense, the ATACMS sent so far had been pulled from service for being expired, we don’t put our troops in ancient M113s, M777s have about a 5% chance of ever being used in any of the potential conflicts the DoD is concerned about and so on.
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  7. Estonia, whose GDP is 207x smaller than the GDP of 🇫🇷, 🇪🇸, 🇮🇹 yet they’ve givne more military aid than them. That’s pathetic!
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  8. I love this, but a small part of me is just sick knowing that the Orange Menace can change all of this in a millisecond. If you live in a swing state, make sure to vote and convince someone who might not be voting wrong to change.
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  9. The ship 🛳 is really hitting the fan for Russia.
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  10. Grippen is by far the most appropriate plane for Ukraine for two reasons in particular: 1. It is hard to explain how vastly easier it is to maintain from both a manpower and equipment standpoint. 2. It is designed to land and take off from highways, short or damaged, unpaved strips w/extremely tough landing gear as well as engine intakes designed for those type of runways which are more likely to have FOD (foreign objects and debris). This is critical because Russia can hit runways anywhere in Ukraine. They can also get spotters to alert them of launches. Meanwhile, the F-16 requires long, smooth runways (easy targets) and take tons of personnel and complex equipment to maintain and arm. The only problem is that there aren’t that many Grippens in existence while there are countless F16s.
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  11. Russia may not even make it to Jan. 20th without falling apart.
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  12. The mobilization never stopped. Also, the point of the Crimean raid was that it was part of a diversion that allowed Ukraine to take over more than 30 oil platforms in the Black Sea.
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  13. Ukraine didn’t have a single blackout despite the barrage. Interception rates are over 90% recently (73% yesterday due to the volume).
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  14. And here comes Moscow Mike Johnson to Putin and Trump’s rescue!
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  15. You need “Reporting from Ukraine” too since you’ve already had Perun, Anders, etc. too. He is one of the best. He’s in Mykoliav, has access to the front lines, AFU sources and clearly either has officer training or went to a military sciences college.
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  16. And the media is like “we’ll take your word for it.”
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  17. Block 1 ATACMS given were expired too. So, they were basically free. Americans need to understand the low cost/massive ROI our support has been yielding since day 1 (it’s shown China that invading Taiwan might be suicide and even a month of China at war with Taiwan and the US would lead to economic fallout of unimaginable scale) and all with arms that are essentially free or even saving us disposal costs (MRAPS, DPICM, SDB, etc.) as they were paid for decades ago.
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  18. I will be sick with anxiety and nerves until the aid’s passage is set in stone.
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  19. Ben Hodges is constantly advocating for Ukraine 🇺🇦 and I love it. Cost is not an important factor in providing ATACMS because their plan has always been, that if they give them, they will only provide a handful for big strategic targets. Other than that, the factors you named are surely calculated into their decision.
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  20. Just seeing JD Vance’s name in print nauseates me let alone seeing and hearing him. And now he’s VP. Vance is so bad, I even prefer Trump to Vance.
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  21. Seeing a memorial for an LPR commander at a bar get hit by HIMARS or Vilkha M at the same time a major Melitipol base got struck was too delicious.
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  22. He’s a coward and a traitor.
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  23. You actually can rescue bird and animals covered in oil. It’s just a very hard process and no you can’t just rinse it off. There are solutions to clean them. It’s really sad though cause we know it won’t happen.
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  24. Yes. Germany has been underrated. They’ve done more than all of Western Europe combined. Scholz’ position on Taurus is sad though and it was the Germans who got rich of cheap Russian gas, made Russia rich and advocated for them to be brought into global organizations.
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  25. Also, people are vastly underestimating Russian incompetence. Multiple cops were seen running away when they heard the first shots.
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  26. Multiple cops were seen on video running away when the first shots were heard. I think people are vastly underestimating 🇷🇺 incompetence and cowardice.
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  27. The stories of unity and morale in Ukraine actually make me slightly jealous. Amongst the horror, they’ve excelled and continued to produce beauty everyday from a busker playing violin on a dark street in Kiev to a teen in Mykoliav building custom drones for the AFU. Amazing stuff.
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  28. Wasting Russia’s entire economy and future too.
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  29. We can keep Ukraine in the fight by continuing to donate to buy them what they need. Eventually, politicians will be pressured into giving them what they need.
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  30. Russia’s ability to regenerate arms is coming to an end. Specifically, IFVs, MBTs, APCs, SPGs, artillery barrels + much more. Perun’s video last week goes into depth how about close this is.
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  31. That rapper has huge balls. He even flat out says no when they ask him to make a video. They seem to have a lot of guests who backfire on them.
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  32. Trump and Mike Johnson might give it to them.
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  33. I initially thought false 🚩but it makes Putin look too silly + risks internal race riots which 🇷🇺 is terrified of. Also, 🇷🇺 will always blame 🇺🇦 and 🇺🇸 for any industrial accidents or attacks of this nature.
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  34. The GLSDB announcement makes sense. I was wondering why nothing seemingly came out of it. It’s about time Belgium and Spain did something. Anything.
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  35. Sadly, life expectancy is much longer for those who can good healthcare and have never had to hard manual labor.
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  36. Your fury and ulcer producing frustration is righteous, Jake. Righteous is not a word I ever use, but it’s the only one that works here.
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  37. That or they’ve told them what they’ll do to their friends and families being held in prison if they don’t toe the line the FSB has given them. Another sensible motivation is they’re already planning runs for office when VP falls and want to show Russians how they were trying to help their situation when they get back.
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  38. If 🇺🇦 gets 4 miles closer to Tokmak, the bottleneck at the Novobohdanivka rail junction will be in HIMARS (and especially GLSDB) range and they can easily starve out the Russians.
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  39. Just donated to Peter’s final fundraiser and to Project Konstantin itself because he was a foreign supporter, like most of us, but instead of just giving money or time, donated his life to helping Ukraine.
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  40. This one life alone, taken for zero reason except that dwarf’s ego, is reason enough to justify giving as many arms as possible to end this war as quickly as possible. 22 year olds who just finished medical school should not be dying cause of a madman.
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  41. The ruble is rubble.
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  42. Dems like AOC, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib will also NEVER sign the discharge petition because it includes aid for 🇮🇱. So, we need at least 5-6 Republicans with us.
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  43. It was very moving.
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  44. I like when Jake is full of righteous anger. More media should be. How Russian is conducting themselves is absolutely disgusting.
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  45. Trump and Mike Johnson might give it to them. TBH though, this is just Putin playing to a domestic audience.
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  46. He’s been financed by them since the 1980s and they must have endless kompromat on him considering he was partying w/underage girls during the ‘80s + some of the ‘90s.
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  47. It will deter China from a Taiwan invasion. That’s worth literally trillions alone. There are many reasons why Russia winning would cost so many billions too, but that’s a more in-depth topic.
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  48. 🇫🇷 has barely sent aid. They’ve sent a third of the aid Estonia despite a GDP of 3 trillion vs $37b and they’re blocking an initiative to buy non-EU shells. So, this threat is sadly a complete joke.
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  49. If I was terminally ill, Trump and Johnson would be in big trouble. I feel just like her. At this point I’m losing my mind.
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  50. Russia is like that psycho boyfriend. “If I can’t have you, nobody can!”
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  51. I sea 🌊 defeat in Russia’s future.
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  52. BTW, I remember those attacks, but thanks for pointing out the correlation, Kowboys.
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  53. And we’re barely spending anything. All those “billions” spent are just actually the cost of what we sent if bought new, but most of the arms we’re sending were paid for in the 1970s and 1980s and was already in the process of (and/or slated for) disposal or being mothballed. Even much of the newer stuff, like the MRAPS, were being thrown out.
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  54. I love how angry Jake is today. It is a deserved anger.
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  55. Everything Russian is in trouble. The smokescreen is for marine drones. Not missiles. In one unit, 🇷🇺 declared a legally blind man + one who just had a heart stent “fit for service.”
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  56. The New York Times barely made a peep about Russia’s barrage, but immediately reported on the Belgorod attack. 🤦‍♂️
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  57. It’s ironic the flooded city’s name is Orcs. Thank you, Denmark! 🇩🇰 🇺🇦 🇺🇸
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  58. Silly is not the right word when every single hour of delay literally, not theoretically, cost Ukrainian lives.
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  59. Slava Scandinavians!
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  60. Can you imagine how angry and humiliated this makes Putin feel? That’s the best of all.
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  61. The Storm Z battalions are NOT just made up of prisoners. Large parts are made up of troops who have complained (about any number of a million things), went AWOL, etc.
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  62. PS: Johnny is an amazing guy. He basically responds to anyone trying to help or ask questions related to Ukraine. He really puts in the time and effort. Just a super genuine man.
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  63. 🇺🇦 is doing great at using the minimum # of AFU servicemen + materiel in the most intensely contested villages/cities because they hope to keep back as many possible soldiers (all disciplines) for rest/healing or: -some to advanced training in Europe (be it tankers learning new MBTs or IFVs or GBAD operators to learn new GBAD systems) -AFU SoF for additional elite training in the Eu -the many new soldiers who are getting combined arms training in Europe as well. All of which is for the upcoming CAM offensives. The less they have to commit to these fights, the more powerful their next counteroffensive will be and starting from great points unless there’s some major collapse before they’re ready.
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  64. And thousand training in Buigaria too. They’ve gotten at least 40,000 soldiers through either basic training or advanced training since last summer. Don’t forget, thousands are trained in Ukraine itself too. Trident, a group founded by a single Brit AFTER the war began, has already trained more than 5,000 Ukrainians in basic combat.
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  65. Sadly, South Africa has become a fully failed state.
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  66. The craziest part is that the US was making money off this war: A. Replacing 🇷🇺 NG + oil in the 🇪🇺 energy market has been worth billions B. Prior to Hesgeth’s Munich speech, record orders/profits for US defense contractors via orders primarily from 🇪🇺 (for themselves + Kyiv) and C. The real world price tag on our aid to 🇺🇦 has been tiny (less than .001% of the US GDP) w/the majority arms given having been retired and/or soon to be retired stockpiles (some dating to the ‘60s) that was costing us billions to dispose of (e.g., DPICM, M113s, MRAPS, HMMWVs, M50 based engineering vehicles, etc.). Arms that weren’t surplus = replacing it w/new, update versions purchased from 🇺🇸 companies w/American labor. In the process recovering a big % of the cost via corporate/income taxes + unit cost savings due to high volume. Yet the media never brings this up despite being the one thing that could actually get the MAGA base to turn against DT’s Ukraine stance.
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  67. There are a lot of Ukraine YouTubers who raise money and spread important realities, but you’re right, there are many who are only lining their pockets and don’t provide any info (like Denys and what’s that dude’s name leafspring guy / edit: the enforcer).
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  68. Do you really need an explanation?
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  69.  @EEX97623 Yeah, if someone had immediately realized what was going on and they were all at the base already and for some reason already wearing a their gear. Really, if they were there, 20 minutes is a more realistic ETA.
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  70. No one’s been talking about this, but I am nearly certain 🇺🇦’s main offensive will be directly south of Kherson city in the desert + steppe whose terrain is actually better for tanks/armor when wet. There are no natural barriers, no towns or villages from which to form defensive positions, no natural choke points, etc. And forming dynamic, mobile defensive maneuvers is hard for a well trained army. So, basically impossible for the RFAF. Ukraine can do an absolute thunder run a la 🇺🇸 in Iraq. They’ve been given specialized pontoon bridges from US and other allies. There is also a route which doesn’t require going over the Dnipro as well. Penetrating this deep into Kherson also puts every naval base within easy range of Ukrainian weapons. So, Russia would be forced to move their ships out of Crimea, which would allow Ukraine to resume full scale export of grain. I’ve written an analysis of this option, which I’ve held back since it didn’t seem Russia was even considering this option seriously. Now it’s getting too late for them to really to do anything to majorly adjust to this. So, I’ll likely put it up this week.
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  71. It’s game over for Russia if 🇺🇦 can setup a pontoon bridge to get armor over the Dnipro as there’s no way to defend southern Kherson’s interior, which is all desert steppe w/no terrain features that can be used as defensive positions let alone points at which an enemy can be funneled into a choke point AND they’ll also be able to attack the Surovikin line from the rear or or bypass them all together rendering it useless. So, it’s just a thunder run all the way to the edge of Crimea. Even better, the steppe’s surface is all sandstone which only gets FIRMER when wet, making it a perfect natural highway for armored vehicles. Yes, it’s a big if, but remember it is being made feasible by: a) Ukraine crippling Russia’s lines of communications (you can’t defend if you don’t have munitions), b) almost zero defense in depth across the river, c) Russia won’t have the luxury of just sitting back and taking non-stop artillery shots as HIMARS outranges ALL Russian artillery + Ukraine will have GLSDB by Oct., which is going to be as nearly as big of a game changer as when Ukraine first got HIMARS and d) Russian troops in Kherson are purely mobiks in many areas, which is why Russia is trying to now rotate in experienced soldiers and rotation is a huge vulnerability itself and it will just weaken the Zaporizhzhia and Bakhmut fronts anyway. I think the beginning of the Thunder Run to the Crimean border will start in the fall.
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  72. Frankly, the primary reasons were domestic politics and personal legacy ambitions. Natural resources would have been just a side benefit. You don’t need a desire for NR to declare Putin/Russia monsters.
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  73. Like a swarm of fungus, the Russians and MAGA spread. I love he’s just constantly making up stuff off the cuff like “delinquent NATO customers” or that border actually would allow 5k in a day. His fans eat it up.
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  74. Amazing. Slava your daughter! Very proud of both of you.
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  75. OT Jake, but I think you hammering on this could make a real-world diff: Neither US media or POTUS explain the actual cost of arms given to 🇺🇦 is a fraction of the stated values. Most of those given were already paid for in the ‘80s & were mostly used, retired, retiring or being disposed of at huge expense. Examples: DPICM, SDBs, MRAPS and HMMWVs were all being scrapped + Avenger retired. The $ values placed on the packages are put at what these systems would cost new and bought today. Seems like they were thinking of foreign optics + political capital and forgot about domestic optics. They’ve also failed to mention how it’s paid for itself 20x over as US weapons performance so out shined Russia’s newest & best systems that our arms industry is getting huge orders from aero to artillery at the expense of 🇷🇺’s market share. All of which = jobs, revenue, etc. ps - I know you’ve briefly touched upon much of this but not in easily summarized way like this and I think it’s underestimated how important this issue is considering more than half of Americans are now saying we’re spending too much on Ukraine. Hammering this issue briefly every other day gives it a chance to go viral or start getting parroted by other media and content creators. If even 25% of Americans knew this, it could move the needle.
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  76. Denmark has been one of the few Western countries walking the walk rather than just talking the talk like France, Belgium and Germany (🇩🇪 people have been good, but support has been weak). The US, pound for pound has been disappointing, but France and Germany would have literally done nothing without the UK and US dragging them along. And obviously the Baltic countries have been fantastic.
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  77. Even GOP attendees at the convention were low key booing David Sachs’ lies about Ukraine. Anyway, RE: confiscating the money, the EU has been even more opposed to confiscation than the US.
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  78.  @Grundewalt  Wow, you are an inspiration! I must admit I haven’t cut myself from all unnecessary purchases.
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  79. The war in Ukraine is more important, but I think most in the West don’t even realize what’s gone on the past ten years or what Hamas did in October. Otherwise, i don’t think so many would be criticizing Israel.
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  80. w-ELL-come back my friendz! Heartbreaking video. Them going silent to listen for sounds of survivors is very emotional. So many attacks like this, it’s becoming just another day.
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  81. They’ve already left the center of Bakhmut, but Russian forces did exactly what Ukraine wanted in Bakhmut and Ukraine utterly smashed the Russians on their flanks today after rotating fresh troops onto their flanks today. Reporting from Ukraine’s report today has details on all this.
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  82. A perfect time for 🇺🇦 to sneak equipment over the Dnipro + it’s a sandy steppe so instead of mud, it just gets firmer. I’m sending ski gear over to 🇺🇦. Most of us have extra winter gear and should send it.
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  83. United half of us stand on Ukraine indeed. Private US citizens are doing more for Ukraine than the government.
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  84. So happy the retreat for the heroes worked out with help from our community. Makes me feel something besides rage inside temporarily.
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  85.  @misterserious3522  There’s a famous movie that shows this procedure, including an internal view. It was great. Trying to remember which one.
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  86.  @misterserious3522  Ah, just remembered. Three Kings: https://youtu.be/3WHOap_2pRc
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  87.  @khiem1939  Not true, but it doesn’t matter cause they’ve put themselves out of business via their catastrophic miscalculation. They’ve shut down most of their extraction fields because demand has been reduced so much.
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  88. Friedman did it because he knows it makes him $, gives him influence, etc. He didn’t have to, but he wanted to do it for himself.
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  89. Don’t thank France until their aid is delivered. They’ve been awful in their support.
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  90. The Russians stirred up a hornets nest and they’re getting stung to death. 🇷🇺 can mobilize as many soldiers as they want, but they can’t equip let alone train them.
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  91. And Egypt has 1,130 M1A1 Abrams MBTs 1,150 M60A1/ M60A3 MBTs
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  92.  @nathan859  lol, it was more than a year before he said anything negative about Trump and he only started saying it when it was unavoidable that it would look ridiculous. It doesn’t take a political expert to see that Trump is hurting both the US and Ukraine: -he single handedly stopped a bill that would both solve the border crisis by closing it and help Ukraine with a new aid package that cost taxpayers basically nothing since the majority of the arms aid = very old arms that have been retired and are costing us lots of $ to scrap and de-arm.
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  93. It’s amazing how many billions, we as an international community, have risen for Ukraine. It’s amazing to know there are millions of people around the world putting their own time, money and expertise toward helping Ukraine.
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  94. YouTube censorship has gotten wild.
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  95. Zaluzhny’s top aide just got assassinated. Russia’s first military target. Also, 🇺🇦 just got armor across the Dnipro. If they can cross it in numbers, they can attack all winter as the southern Kherson steppe is all sandstone rock with sandy soil that only gets firmer with rain/snow.
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  96. Exactly. Not only are they forgotten, but their deaths are actively hidden.
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  97. Donated $110 this morning. Let’s go!
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  98. German logistics companies should be thanking their lucky stars for the amount of US heavy metal coming into Germany. That will generate a lot of lucrative work.
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  99. Did you think Xi Jing Ping was the next Mandela too?
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  100. California Oblast too!
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  101. It doesn’t matter if the clueless public think 🇺🇦 can win. A negotiated peace is impossible. So, we need to just get on w/it & stop providing half-assed aid. The craziest aspect of the poll is they think a negotiated compromise will end the war. That shows they don’t understand the war.
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  102. What’s impressive is that individual donations have reached a larger amount than foreign aid.
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  103. Exactly. He’s uneducated and ever since banks realized he would default on all his loans, he’s been financed by Russia (since the ‘80s).
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  104. It’s amazing how Congress always seems to be on vacation.
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  105. They’re taking a week off again before any of this happens. So, no vote this week for sure. This GOP Congress is ALWAYS on vacation.
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  106. What are some of the most common non-combat volunteer roles Westerners in Ukraine are doing?
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  107. Along with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the Scandinavians have been Ukraine’s best allies.
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  108. Slava, JohnnyFD. The few thousand foreigners sharing Ukraine’s story have been critical in helping build support and helped lead to the many billions private donors have given.
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  109. A note on the casualties data: Ukrainian casualties are 65% more likely to survive than 🇷🇺 casualties. So, the % gap of KIA among casualties is large. This is due to a number of factors including the fact that Ukrainian soldiers have modern western medical packs and tourniquets, Ukrainian soldiers are much closer to medical service than Russians, Ukraine has more medics per soldier, Russian evac logistics are ATROCIOUS, Russian casualties are more likely to be abandoned and so on. Also, 🇷🇺 has an extreme number of MIAs, which would not be included in leaked data.
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  110. I don’t want them to negotiate, but I think Russia has been so truly weakened and Putin so terrified, if he was given some consolation concession to avoid regime change, I don’t think he’d dare try again. And even if he wanted to do, the elites wouldn’t let him let alone the economy. Again, I don’t think they should give him anything, but I no longer think this is a case of tricky Russia bidding for time.
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  111. Those of us who pay close attention to the conflict are aware of how much support the Baltic states + Poland have given. The aid given by Germany in comparison is literally shameful.
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  112. lol “props to her [Tusli]” says Hinckle. When your guest says “props to” you know you’ve got a serious geopolitical analyst on your show.
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  113. Putin is terrified to tell his citizens he’s a wanted criminal. It might give them a spark of hope.
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  114. They did show little gratitude, but I think Jake misunderstood their reasoning for saying what they said. Also, since Putin has a lot of his friends and family in prison, he could easily have said “campaign to lift sanctions or they’ll know pain you could never imagine.”
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  115. Impressive. I’ve got a JEEP that is basically a toy that I never use that I’m going to sell next. It’s one of those cool boxy XJ cherokees (92) with a monster lift and tires. It’s just costing me parking, insurance, etc. (I’m basically talking myself into selling it rather than giving u info u don’t care about lol).
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  116. That is fantastic to hear. I remember being about Claire Daly a lot. Maybe I had heard about Mick Wallace just forgotten his name.
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  117.  @PerunAU  You’ve got a completely different model. It’s the things you cover which lead to victory. The tactical reports indicate how those issues are manifesting on the battlefield.
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  118.  @stargazer-elite No one is checking YT comments for vague, comedic threats. lol There are thousands of actual threats made everyday.
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  119. MTG is not a human. So it has no rights or rights to last rites.
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  120. Yeah, but France has given less aid than almost any county in Europe despite being its 2nd biggest economy.
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  121. I’m sure Estonia, Latvia and Poland would be happy to take out the drones. It’s likely the 🇺🇸 + 🇩🇪 have pressured them not to.
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  122.  @Boxedclock She is now.
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  123. 🇷🇺 using 🇰🇵 missiles is actually an advantage for us. Our air defenses need to get real world data on how their trajectories, maneuverability, spoofing and EW sensitivity, etc. That’s priceless.
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  124.  @HarryF-tz5fo  Why is it most of the critics seem to have auto generated names...I wonder.
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  125.  @weasle2904  OK, bot. Also, no one said the US is evil. And no one is especially celebrating Japan. Each new package from all allies gets a thank. Also, by percentage of GDP, we’ve still given less than anyone else and what we have given has even actually cost us really since money since 80% of what we’ve given are retired or retiring arms and the aid package is almost solely spent at home buying new stuff for ourselves to buy brand new systems for our military. Only 10% of the $61b package is going to be spent directly on buying new US weapons and transferring them to Ukraine.
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  126. “The world’s most powerful country is thinking about electing this clown?”
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  127. But yeah, Scholz sucks too. Just not as bad as Macron.
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  128.  @retired_raspberry  100% agreed re: treatment of animals. Not surprisingly, China is the cruelest to animals by far.
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  129. Poor Putrid must be stamping his size 5s in furt after Zelensky goes right to the front line, destroying his entire macho image so carefully cultivated. 🍒 on top: he goes to DC to get more lethal aid than 🇷🇺’s entire DB. 😂😂
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  130.  @qZbGmYjS4QusYqv5 It was not founded by Mongol degree, but it is true that Ukraine is the actual origin of what Russian tried to claim is a civilization they invented.
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  131. lol, you watched that DW interview where the Brit they interviewed “Shilly Shally.” I knew Scholz would fall back on that faulty German public opinion poll when they ran out of the allied tank demands. Then they needed to look at the logistical feasibility today. Apparently, despite this being an issue for a year, Germany has no idea how many tanks or spares they have. How can Germany be in NATO when they haven’t even spent 1% of GDP in defense in their history let alone the required 2% of GDP by NATO.
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  132. Please permanently keep up this link for people. I think it’s also important to note in any message that if Russia is able to prevail our own security interests will be incredibly compromised.
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  133.  @Mehwhatevr  The fact he is not even mildly intelligent doesn’t help either. There are no standards anymore. Utter dolts are in positions of massive influence from Joe Rogan to Ben Shapiro and an equal number on the left wing side of punditry as well.
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  134.  @Goulmy86 Is Rik Smits in parliament? Everyone loved the Flying Dutchman.
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  135. 🇫🇷 has barely sent aid and Macron knows this will never happen. They’ve sent a third of the aid Estonia despite a GDP of 3 trillion vs $37b and they’re blocking an initiative to buy non-EU shells. So, this threat is sadly a complete joke.
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  136. Vance calls aid in modest quantities, which has actually saved us money, helped arms exports to allies skyrocket and protect our self-interests “unlimited aid.” These people can’t breathe w/out lying.
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  137. It won’t do that, but it will blow up any nukes they tried to transfer before Iran could use them. Two FYIs: 1. Destroying a nuke does not cause a nuclear explosion. 2. I doubt Iran even actually wants the nukes because the threat of acquiring nukes is the only leverage they have to get sanctions lifted and money they desperately need as if the economic situations continues worsening the number of people who want to overthrow them will rise from 73% of the population and go even higher + leave people with nothing to lose and the regime is barely holding on already.
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  138. Think you’re confused about what Kevin McCarthy agreed to. R house reps only have the ability to call for a vote of no confidence in McCarthy. A single congressman/woman cannot simply remove the Majority Speaker.
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  139. They treat them better than Russian treats its people in Kursk itself.
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  140. Cheers!
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  141. Japan is awesome. And despite what a weakling Scholz is, most of Ukraine’s ADS have come from Germany. They’ve providing a lot of capability.
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  142. Not counting Sweden’s Archers and CV90s, NATO countries have done huge work on the transfer of significant volumes of armored vehicles and ammunition: in total, since the beginning of 2023, it has been announced that the AFU will receive 890 units of infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers and BATs (this equipment will be enough to staff ~ 29 mechanized battalions), more than 1.5 million units of ammunition, more than 80 self-propelled guns and howitzers, as well as means of delivering deep operational strikes (GLSDB is a type of ammunition for the HIMARS system, which is built around a planning bomb). the Ukrainian armed forces have begun to form 3 army corps based on both strategic reserve brigades and personnel brigades that actively took part in hostilities, as well as units that are currently in the process of being formed. We are talking about creating a "shock fist" of 75 thousand military personnel, which is designed to do what was previously not possible to implement during the Kharkov-Izyum operation - to mass the forces and conduct a continuous high-intensity offensive, without being distracted by losses or rotations.
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  143. Just donated $110. Let’s go!
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  144. She shouldn’t have been pretty! She shouldn’t have said hello!
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  145. Luckily, people like me, my friends and millions of others are still donating billions per year for Ukraine to buy drones and other weapons to help bridge the shortage. I am also sending winter gear.
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  146. Digging is 90% of war. The fact the guy thinks that’s not preparing shows how little training or education these men have.
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  147.  @marcel84marcel Listen, Ivan, we’re PAYING to not give them weapons like DPICM which we continue to scrap by the ton at a cost of tens-of-millions of dollars. Most of what we gave was retired and therefore cost us nothing to provide.
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  148.  @darex0827  India only pays in rupees, which CANNOT be used outside of India and India doesn’t sell anything they want. They’re barely making money from China. So, no, they won’t always have a lot of $.
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  149. Yup, 90% of the fighting took place in Ukraine despite many ignorantly calling Soviet occupied blocs “Russia.” Leningrad was just a salient that was the final location of part of an already worn down German army. And, unlike Ukrainian cities, the city had months to prepare massive defenses.
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  150. Russia does use many conscripts, but he tends to keep the ones from the wealthier areas safe.
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  151.  @VIPMVPanyquestions  Cool story, Ivan.
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  152. I haven’t gotten to the Yellow Stone part yet, but if it’s to awaken the super volcano 🌋, that would kill them too. 🤦🏽
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  153.  @PerunAU  So, Perun/you, Reporting from Ukraine, Anders Nielsen, Justin Bronk (RUSI), The Eastern Border (pod), Ukraine the Latest (pod), Suchomimus, ISW + a few Russian Mil Bloggers combined will you give 98% of what you could possibly need.
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  154. Luckily, the life expectancy for men in Russia is about 42. So, not many should make it.
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  155. Bam!
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  156. Russia is happy as long as people debate what really happened instead of what Russia has been doing to civilians in Ukraine this week.
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  157. We just need 3 Republicans to join Democrats in throwing him out as speaker.
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  158.  @aaronajb8983 Ironically, Russia is literally formally partnered with the Taliban and have had envoys from Hamas. Also, the NFP is not in favor of immigration.
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  159. Notice the Lithuanian president had no lights on in unity with Ukraine 🇺🇦 . Beautiful touch.
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  160. It is the defense chiefs, not Sullivan behind these policies. One reporter said that and then everyone began repeating it.
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  161. FYI: The House is taking yet another week off before this vote is supposed to happen. So, no vote this week for sure and in order for the vote to be a simple majority he needs to clear a procedural vote requiring all GOP votes.
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  162.  @VajrahahaShunyata I’m glad “Micro Johnson” has caught on too.
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  163. Sadly, Putin could have said he hated Trump and would wipe us out and the interview was still going to work. Tucker interviewing Putin was simply a signal to the base: support Russia.
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  164.  @nathan859  No way. The MAGA crowd is bored by anyone besides Trump. They may get a kick out of his sidekicks for a day or so, but the movement will fall apart when he’s gone.
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  165. The send off for the football player brought tears to my eyes.
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  166.  @marresjepie1887  He wasn’t whining about anything. He literally said they thought they might not be able to afford the energy bill for a custom and how it didn’t happen. He wasn’t saying “oh we’ve got it so hard” or “we don’t like this war because of energy costs.” PAY ATTENTION.
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  167.  @mirkoritter1976  What’s the deal with Germany’s illogical opposition to nuclear energy? It’s our only realistic option for cutting carbon levels enough to begin reversing the damage that’s been done. It seems to be driven by real people (about 25% of the country) and politicians thinking only about the short term.
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  168.  @darex0827  I doubt he’ll be alive in ten years and more than 50% of Russians said their top wish was for the end of the war, only 6% said their top wish was victory, less than 1% Putin re-elected. So, I’ll be shocked if he can continue the war and hold on to to power for two years let alone one.
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  169. A good start, but the rail bridge is much more important. Get better, Roman.
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  170. I just can’t wait for GLSDB to arrive. It’s getting closer and closer. It will be one of the few actual game changing weapons to arrive.
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  171. Indeed. Jake is fantastic, but like most people, there are a number of issues Jake has only a tenuous grasp on.
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  172. I agree, but France has delivered almost nothing so far. Less than Estonia in fact despite a GDP 67x bigger.
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  173. France has given 36x less aid than Germany and less arms aid than counties like Estonia whose GDP is 67x smaller. BUT they seem to be having a big change of heart and have announced some good arms packages. If they come through and deliver even half the Caesars announced within 12 months, I’ll agree they’ll be back in the game and have my praise.
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  174. Well, they’re not pressuring them to negotiate. Broe detailed the reasons why appearing to be open to peace talks is more valuable to Ukraine than it is to Russia.
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  175.  @karinfend2980 Some EU countries are doing great (that’s why I named specific states), but EU states like 🇫🇷 donating literally less than .1% of their GDP is pathetic. Also, this is not a comparison saying the US is doing better. They’ve done worse than most European countries and almost as badly as France for its size.
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  176.  @jonaseggen2230 It’s not just MAGA voters who think we’re spending tons of money in Ukraine. And exposing the fact we’re not spending lots of money and that it’s helping our arms industry, deterring China from Taiwan, etc. would go a long way to getting the many who think we are spending big $ on board, make it easier to pass funding bills, make the media narrative more positive, expose GOP talking points, etc.
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  177. Do you have more information on your efforts? Are you over there or coordinating things to send over?
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  178. Biden is still blocking Ukraine from NATO, which makes Trump saying Biden was saying “Ukraine will join NATO before the war.” even more absurd.
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  179. 1,000% He’s a narcissist who both loves himself and is insanely insecure and needs attention and adoration constantly. Probably cause his dad was a cold sociopath. He doesn’t care about any of these issues one way or the other.
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  180. A note on the Bradleys: they’re all from PPS (pre-positioned stock), which are all located in Europe + ODS models. So, 🇺🇦 is getting one of the best versions + are getting the depleted uranium rounds.
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  181.  @larryo6874  lol, that was my first thought. BTW, the answer is necrosis of the brain.
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  182. And they’ve advanced a lot since your day. They can destroy enemy tanks at BVR without the enemy knowing you were ever there. They have a very advanced sensor suite, automated firing solutions and are damn fast.
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  183. God save the Australians!
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  184. He’s not right wing. He voted for McCain. He just doesn’t like DT.
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  185. Jake and many others seem unaware of how many munition depots + troop concentrations 🇺🇦 has wiped out in the rear w/storm shadow and GMLRS strikes during May/June + strategic victories like drawing tons of 🇷🇺 military resources to Belgorod using only a few trucks, a tank and two IFVs being operated by a few hundred 🇷🇺 volunteers. It also shows we’re still mainly in the shaping operations phase. Moreover, 🇺🇦 is well on its way to capturing the flanks of Bakhmut and encircling the city. As for Zaporizhzhia, people act like it will be one decisive battle. It’s a grind through the first three layers of defense in depths, which u can’t just blitzkrieg because besides the men, artillery, GRADS, etc., the ground is soaked with AP and AT landmines. It requires using MICLICS and mine rollers. This is a slow and dangerous process.
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  186. That Japanese guy is my hero.
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  187. You can’t be president when you can’t talk. Can you imagine listening to this guy for years?
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  188.  @riparianlife97701  To separate it means the bill has to start over again. Israel will get the aid one way or another. If it’s separate the GOP will vote it through and if DJT wins, which the odds are at least 50%, they’ll get the aid anyway.
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  189.  @karinfend2980 All these people, like you, who immediately feel like they need to defend EU or US aid are a big problem. It lets the many countries barely doing anything get away w/doing less than the bare minimum.
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  190. There was no indication jets are coming soon unfortunately. But he did get European leaders to commit to delivering previously pledged systems much more quickly.
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  191. I thought it’d take until mid-2025 for Russia to run out of armor. At this rate, it could happen by EOY. The problem with Europe saying Ukraine XYZ without restrictions is that it means nothing without US permission because 80% of those weapons require US permissions on how they’re used.
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  192. Seeing an actual human being murdered or raped is always going to be more disturbing than stats or stories.
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  193.  @AndrewBlucher How is your French, Butcher? Sorry, I mean Blucher. But, yeah, they do need to keep them out. Europe does. It’s why no one, even the far left parties, are in favor of open borders. Their policies are about making billionaires pay taxes, hire minimum wages, etc.
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  194. Like Hodges, my major beef w/Biden is his utter failure to explain the simplest reasons why this war is, forget right & wrong, so important from a selfish POV or the fact our aid has cost almost nothing because most of it was paid for in the ‘70s and ‘80s and was retired or being retired and many of them such as DPICM and HMMWVs, have been in the disposal phase which costs us hundreds of millions.
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  195.  @larryo6874 Sadly, they won’t because of our economic power. But it will cost us our ability to get countries to trust our commitments that are not treaty bound, which will cost us a lot.
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  196.  @georgek1234  It’s really frustrating that due to Biden’s age he hasn’t figured this messaging out for himself (if he had made these points in 2023 the “cost” issue would have never arose), his staff are clueless identity politics focused hacks and he has a VP who can’t pinch hit because she has no idea how to communicate and is insanely unlikeable (worst of all, she’s most unpopular with minority voters who they assumed would automatically support her - ironically racist IMO). Hell, when asked what she brings to the table for the re-election, she said she didn’t need to explain herself to voters or the media. What?!
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  197. Hey, NOW I am celebrating Lira’s fate after watching this.
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  198.  @arnesieper8332 My job is quite literally analyzing the war in Ukraine (and also Chinese global + domestic affairs) and I’ve yet to see ANYONE making this point clearly despite following hundreds of different sources. I’ve seen some mention different aspects like -the war is helping our arms industry and taking Russian market share -we’re giving away stuff we wouldn’t be using anymore -Or the part about deterring China But never all these aspects together and specifically about how these weapons are costing us very little. Jake started referencing it a bit after I posted this same comment in about 60 previous videos. Anyway, as I mentioned above. It’s not just MAGA who believes we’re spending too much. That’s why it’s important this fact becomes a mainstream talking point.
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  199. GOP doesn’t care. Europe’s support of Ukraine has been pretty weak though too aside from the Baltics, Poland and the U.K.
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  200. Just starting? You should have paid attention 3 years ago.
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  201.  @andersjjensen  And the 4th biggest economy in the EU.
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  202. RFK Jr. is crazier than a bag full of cats. It’s a totally justified tone. Speaking of tones, what happened to Jr.’s voice. Imagine listening to that for four years. 🤦🏽🙆‍♂️
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  203. The “drone” was actually a light aircraft the size of a Cessna 172 (a different make).
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  204. Great news? The US + Europe are going to start actually fulfilling their promises? Or Mike Johnson is going to grow a heart and brain? 🇩🇪 can’t even spend the $ you were excited about.
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  205. Yes. And the media never talks about how efficient Ukraine is being with their resources. Beyond, Ukraine is vastly exceeding economic expectations according to international debt lender scorecards.
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  206. The aid for 🇺🇦 was actually closer to $14b. Most of the $61b had nothing to do w/🇺🇦. It was $ for our own military. Even the $14b consisted mostly of stuff that was never going to be used.
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  207. It’s not easy to replace a rail bridge and that’s what enable GLOCS in volume. I agree that the restrictions will eventually lift, but only if everyone keeps making noise.
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  208. The EU and US have already setup big training programs. It just wasn’t publicized at all.
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  209. Not only does Trump adore Putin, Russia is the source of all his business financing. The Saudis too.
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  210.  @brianvogt8125 How does this apply to anything he said? Do you think he or anyone outside Ukraine has put that soldier there? No. Almost every Ukrainian soldier has volunteered to be there.
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  211. Yup. And many private citizens in America and across the West are doing the same. Private citizens are giving more support than the government. Private citizens have literally given tens-of-billions to Ukraine.
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  212. How Allied WWII service members have been lionized “as the greatest generation” is how Ukrainian service members will be remembered for many decades or more to come.
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  213. Only the media’s and politicians’ support or optimism is wavering. Ukrainian supporters are giving money, volunteering, raising money, etc. We won’t abandon Ukraine. We just don’t control gov and media support.
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  214. Japan’s PM did an amazing job of getting both parties to cheer loudly. He crafted his speech so perfectly even the GOP couldn’t find a way to get mad. Still, Johnson won’t do sh*t.
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  215.  @Silveirias  The problem with the world is that most people are quite dim. It’s amazingly sad how unsophisticated people are. Their comprehension skills are why most movies have a scene where they basically explain the plot in an exposition dump.
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  216. 3 Republicans need to display courage? Don’t hold your breath. Estonia and Lithuania have given around 3% of their ENTIRE GDP to Ukraine. France less than .0001%.
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  217. I wish Russia wasn’t being given this huge heads up. Seems intentional though.
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  218.  @1stCallipostle The Pentagon has guaranteed delivery by the Fall at latest.
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  219. Your analysis is off. Russia isn’t not using nukes because of restraint, but because they’re terrified of two possibilities: a) an overwhelming relation or b) their tactical nukes are defective or ineffective and the only thing that keeps them at the big boy table is lost.
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  220. If he is re-elected, his term will be for life / until KFC seizes up his heart.
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  221. Took a while to recover from the worst, most shameful moment in our country’s history, huh?
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  222. Putin promised not to let soldiers younger than 22 fight. Russia’s also kidnapping migrants and forcing them to fight.
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  223.  @chrislambaa7586  Yup, France, Spain and Italy are all big military arms exporters, especially France. Yet, they won’t even divert a bit of what they make to 🇺🇦 or give a decent amount of what they have in stock.
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  224.  @sprocket5526  They have joined NATO. Not sure if Turkey is still trying to extract more bribes to finalize the sign off, but no one is going to attack Sweden who has a joint defense treaty in existence with Norway and Finland. And the ask would be for likely 15-35. That’s not going to make any difference when if a war broke out requiring hundreds of places NATO would be leading it.
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  225.  @thestruggler3338  Six is not enough. Typically you have 50% in service and 50% in active service. The minimum to make any true difference would be about 15-20. RUSI estimates more, but I think they’re underestimating just how bad Russian pilots have gotten and how under serviced their aircraft are.
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  226. Exactly. Compartmentalization. An extremely common tactic to retain secrets. And, as Bob said, a great way to ensure you make no progress on the hardest questions scientists have ever faced.
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  227. North Koreans are actually sent to work in China and Russia all the time. So, NK citizens do see life outside NK, but they’re usually sent to very isolated areas. Sadly, I doubt they’ll figure out they’ll be safe if they defect.
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  228. I heard Zelensky is demanding to drag his balls against Putin’s face as part of any proposed peace settlement. Anyway, there was a .01% chance 🇷🇺 was going to try to go further let alone into NATO territory, but we don’t need any justification for anything the West is doing.
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  229.  @AbyssalMelody There is PLENTY more they can give in the mean time. It makes me laugh angrily when some of them act like they need to stay well stocked in case someone attacks them. Who is going to attack them? No one. They also continue to export nearly 100% of their arms industry production.
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  230.  @lostinfrance9830  LMAO
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  231. I’d bet my bottom dollar the shells are primarily coming from Bulgaria.
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  232. No worries. We raised over $1m. You just continue being a great dad.
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  233. Butsov is well known for disliking Zelensky’s party since before and after the war . The story sounded like a veiled criticism of the army commanders. It does seem they did a terrible job with Soledar. It was clear they needed to protect their flanks there and they didn’t do anything. But of course they’re not always going to make the right decisions.
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  234. Mike Johnson knows his time as someone of consequence will be short and he’s getting in every last group selfie he can with people who would otherwise never meet him.
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  235. Just donated!
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  236.  @Bob-kk2vg Yup. And lifting sanctions would be unbelievably damaging. Almost as bad as cutting off all arms support to Ukraine.
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  237.  @AndrewBlucher  Just a bit of fun.
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  238. Jake is pretty uninformed when it comes to the geopolitical area. Winston and Matt (Serpentenza and C-Milk) are great. What aren’t you finding out from them you would like to know?
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  239.  @Lucifer-qt9gh He’s obviously referring to Russian - Chinese and Ukrainian - Chinese relations. There’s a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes with China that may end up being a critical factor in how this conflict ends.
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  240. A Whitmer and Warnock ticket would guarantee us Michigan and Georgia, two of our toughest battleground states. We need Biden to face reality.
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  241. Paved over for a strip club parking lot. lolol
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  242. Don’t forget GLSDB can curve back around and hit a target from the rear.
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  243.  @edd8914  The dems knew nothing about Johnson. They had no idea he’d be 10x worse. He’ll get voted out likely too though. Doesn’t mean the house will be able to elect someone less crazy.
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  244. That ambassador could lie with a straight face cause he was legitimately not aware Putin had already decided to invade. I’m sure Snowden is being threatened with very bad things if he doesn’t tweet what they want. He didn’t choose to get stuck in Russia.
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  245. How is it a mystery? He’s a radical MAGA member. This is their entire MO. The mystery is how we have so much MAGA sc*m in this country.
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  246. While Johnson was blocking aid, private citizens gave TENS-OF-BILLIONS in drones and vehicles to keep them in the game. It’s why thing didn’t fall apart.
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  247. It’s the attitude or logic victimizers use. Victimizers just happen to also almost always be narcissists too.
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  248. I knew Kellogg was too good of a guy for Trump to stick with him for more than a week.
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  249. Guys like Macron are giving pathetic levels of support and would love an excuse to stop helping. The problem with Germany is just because they doubled their support budget for 🇺🇦 doesn’t mean they’ll spend it (they have really weird budgetary laws that don’t let them spend if there’s inflation).
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  250.  @stonem0013  Yup. They’re still moving at EU speed. What should take a month, takes the EU six.
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  251. It makes more sense to leave Russia with yolk of Kherson around their necks.
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  252.  @bekeneel Trump talked soooo much about now one more penny for Ukraine, the most we can expect is for him to give loans.
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  253. You misinterpreted that clip. They’re trying to stir up panic: “Every Russian in or outside Russia will be summarily arrested if we lose even if you’re innocent. So get on board!”
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  254. I would argue Putin didn’t know he was risking his life for Ukraine or that any of this would happen. He’s been extremely cautious in the past. This was just a terrible calculation on his part. In the past he’s only gone after extremely small targets like Chechnya, a slice of Georgia, Tranisteria, etc.
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  255. Oompa loompa doompa de Simonyan.
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  256. Hard to move tanks, IFVs, etc. without fuel.
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  257.  @Themilesrock  Lol
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  258. Your birthday campaign really was unbelievable. First of all, thank you so much to the community and second of all, thanks to Jake for bringing the community together.
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  259. Ditching Ukraine will cost us so much money, unlike the arms aid, which has been really cheap.
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  260. I think you meant to say “tanks you.”
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  261. The “they haven’t submitted the paperwork” is something I’ve hundreds of Russian bots saying.
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  262.  Christopher Webb  It already is shelled into nothingness.
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  263. 🇷🇺 ‘s problem is that 60%+ of their casualties die while no more than 10% of 🇺🇦’s die. This is cause 🇺🇦 has tons of battle medics, are closer to hospitals, have modern tourniquets and because they don’t use meat waves.
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  264. He looks decent here, Jake, because he’s able to use a teleprompter. If he had to think on his feet, he’d have looked the same. I say this as a Biden voter. Anyway, Blinken’s been great the entire war. He actually cares.
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  265. Will they be voted though? As an American, I can say I sadly doubt it. One of the reasons is because the democrats are doing a terrible job explaining what’s at stake or the GOP’s lies.
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  266. Jake Sullivan is probably one man who will never show his face in public in Ukraine. Anyway, Russia will likely just move their systems to nuclear sites, public airports, etc. if we put all these restrictions on Ukraine. Making permission useless.
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  267. The scopes don’t work great when it’s snowing. But when it’s cold and clear, they’ll be good. But they’re already useful in normal conditions anyway.
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  268. I think it’s a muskrat, but they do share dens with beavers.
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  269. Sadly, half of Europe is STILL not aware of that. Just look at 🇫🇷, EU’s 2nd biggest economy, and it’s still given 40% less than tiny, tiny 🇱🇹 Lithuania. In fact, 🇱🇹 has given as much as🇫🇷 and 🇪🇸 out together.
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  270. I love the man, but let’s not go crazy here. He stood up well under the IMMENSE pressure of speaking to all of congress and on national TV in a second language. So, purely from a rhetorical POV, it was never going to be a speech to compare with Lincoln, Churchill, MLK, JFK, etc. I think he wisely struck to a moderate. I think he missed some opportunities in his speech and during his stay, I think he made a couple minor optics mistakes. But, yeah, overall he did a really good job.
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  271. The front lines ARE stabilized, unless you consider Russia moving forward a few hundred feet every other day on a single front unstable. Waltz is a joke.
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  272. The IOC president is so dirty. He is very close w/Xi Jing Ping and aided him in deflecting about the Uighur genocide + helped disappeared Peng Shaui after she accussed a senior official of assaulting her. His decision is zero surprise.
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  273.  @pulsatingsausageboy2076  As I noted above, if you’re talking about the Donbas “conflict,” I agree that it was, in part, an energy related move. If you’re talking about 2022 as motivated by the energy/economic concerns, I find the argument possible but not probable. I wouldn’t it’s impossible because if the war had really lasted three days with minor blood shed, Germany would have found an excuse to keep using their cheap gas and minimize sanctions to the point of irrelevance.
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  274. I have very little sympathy for them, but I agree with you.
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  275.  @marcel84marcel  If you think we’ve given them close to “a lot” let alone “everything” you’re either ignorant as to what has been given or disingenuous. You probably saw absurd $ values assigned to our aid and thought that was what we were actually giving or its equivalent $ value in arms. Even had it been a true representation, it’s a tiny rounding error in terms of our defense budget let alone our national budget. You’re also not accounting for the fact that giving stuff was retired or retiring saves us hundreds-of-millions on scrapping costs (you can’t throw cluster bombs, rockets or mines in a garbage can) + cost of storage until there is capacity for its scrapping. You’re also not aware that due to the performance of just our old weaponry has lead to hundreds-of-billions in foreign arms orders, thousands of new jobs and subsidizes the expansion of our industrial base. Finally, not aiding Ukraine, could cost trillions over the next decade.
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  276. The Russian body bag shortage has been going on since the fall of 2022.
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  277. Scholz and his party were owned by Russian energy interests and they’ve always looked down on the Baltic countries. They’ve only slowly begun to realize NO ONE will accept them resuming business w/🇷🇺 after the war and that’s why they’ve slowly begun to provide weapons.
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  278.  @darthwiizius  I am aware of their anti-nuclear history. It extends even further back than Chernobyl and Fukushima. I just thought that Germans are generally well educated and would know by now that the Chernobyl disaster is literally impossible in other reactor designs and that with Fukushima, it’s almost as if they were TRYING to create the conditions for a nuclear disaster.
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  279. Good times!
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  280. Trump changes his mind everyday and says things to see the reactions. We have no idea what he’ll do yet whether good or bad (in terms of 🇺🇦 at least. Everything he does is selfish).
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  281. Trump is actually only help the BRICS currency idea by talking about. They had already given up on it and no one took it seriously.
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  282. And even Belarus hates Russia. Only their leader is allied with Putin.
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  283. Even though the mass attack on Ukraine was more deadly, ALL THE MEDIA is covering is the Moscow attack.
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  284. Ukraine will stop hitting the oil if the West actually gives Ukraine what it needs to get Russia out of its country.
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  285. Erdogan didn’t like Putin making a deal that he helped broker look worthless. So, he decided to make sure it held via naval force.
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  286. It would not be four more years as the mobilized are dying much more quickly. Also, they’ll run out of the capability to supply troops before they run out of men.
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  287.  @Sindrijo  Awesome! Recurring donations help these organizations plan better too. So, it’s doubly useful in that way.
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  288.  @Talinthis  Those bottle cap openers are expensive (as in cost a lot of donation). So, you sound like you’re giving a lot. That’s great.
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  289. The US needs to stop getting in the way of Sweden giving Gripens. Nothing the US will allow to be given will make anything close to the difference the Gripen would be, especially due to their ease of use, including simplicity of routine service, ability to land just about anywhere, maintenance, etc. It also has amazing ordnance options, especially the METEOR. Due to fears of a conflict with China, the US won’t allow any newer, long range missile to fall in the hands of Russia for fear China will get a hold of the tech which would make it much easier for them to defend against those missiles in the event of a war.
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  290.  @laars0001  I meant to imply that the very real possibility he was saying those things for domestic political reasons is an example that we shouldn’t expect Russians who are actually looking to get into office to have viewpoints we love. Navalny was sainted by the press after his death, but even he was far from some shining ideal. But he was an actual politician and not like a dreamer with no chance. So, I don’t blame him for adjusting to the reality of the Russian public. It does no good if someone publicly states all the perfect views, but has no support in Russia and therefore can’t make any changes.
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  291. Anti-Israeli propaganda had been ramping on Russian state TV in the run up to the incident, but the pogrom was an unintended consequence for the Kremlin. All war long 🇷🇺’s propaganda has been pushing citizens to become furious over a different traitor, a different Western country or institution, etc. The Jews were just supposed to be another enemy of the week. But they’re weren’t expecting viewers to do anything about it. That’s because the Kremlin is living a parallel existence where life has gone on as normal w/no friends or family lost. Yet Dagestan has lost so many sons to the war, they’re an open nerve: exhausted, scared and enraged and looking to vent. When they’re told who the enemy is, that was a release valve the Kremlin didn’t think about. Yet the masterminds are so detached they just think “what’s wrongwith you? The jews are only the enemy of the week!” This is not surprising as paradoxically, Russian leaders always assume their TV propaganda will work yet, at the same time, are constantly shocked by how easily the people are brainwashed by the TV. No doubt, this time they were thinking: “Hey, we’re at war to stop the Nazis, remember?”
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  292. Johnson is like maybe if I put enough flags behind me I won’t look like a Russian shill.
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  293.  @skipperclinton1087  Still doesn’t help France’s case and I’m going by dollar amount. So, while tech makes up for quantity, quantity also makes up for tech. Beyond even what, it’s also when at critical times like these. I’m going to give France the benefit of the doubt until I see otherwise though.
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  294. Every day they delay committing to the 30-day discharge petition process is just another day lost.
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  295. Macron should first rally his own country. 🇫🇷 has barely sent aid. They’ve sent a third of the aid Estonia has and they’re blocking an initiative to buy non-EU shells. So, this threat is sadly a complete joke.
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  296. Add to this, the election of the new, radically right wing speaker of the house in the U.S. and things are getting increasingly tenuous for Ukraine. (edit: I see Broe gets to this)
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  297. Once Trump is gone, MAGA will recede like a sewage flood.
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  298. Jake doesn’t have the geopolitical chops to answer questions in that category. Or any awareness of history if he’s saying a Chechen uprising wouldn’t have an impact. Russia got their clocks cleaned during the Chechen war. Jake is good at curating headlines and good common sense answers to questions from casual observers of the war. Ben Hodges is great, but he’s mostly focused on doing a good of spreading the message on what Ukraine needs, why Russian can’t be trusted and why this war is so important. He’s not that in tune with every layer of the conflict.
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  299. This won’t be a problem across the Dnipro. That’s why Ukraine is attacking there. Anyway, Ukraine has given its soldiers much better conditions and gear for the winter.
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  300. It’s surprising Jake thinks Ukraine is going to accept a huge immigration wave from Russia after getting invaded for having a large Russian speaking population.
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  301. Take comfort in the fact that Putin’s power structure and control is collapsing and being washed away just like the flood plains in Ukraine, BUT the flood will recede within 5-10 days while the chaos rises ever higher in Russia. Sadly, this won’t help the millions of animals that will die as a result of Russia’s destruction of the dam. We will be long dead before remediation of the damage done to the Impacted areas is even half way done.
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  302. These “insights” are common sense paired with a few mins of supplementary research. But so many people are woefully uninformed it is a valuable service to perform.
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  303.  @Pacifissimus  Or thx from 🇷🇺. First: Merkel let them in because she wanted cheap labor. That was 🇩🇪’s fault. Second: It was 🇩🇪 who pushed to basically not sanction 🇷🇺 for Crimea, which encouraged them to think this war would have zero consequences and 🇩🇪 laughed at warnings that being solely dependent on Russia for energy was dangerous yet were happy to become the world’s second most profitable economy by using all that cheap energy while at the same time spending absolutely nothing on defense. Fourth: Had Germany taken the war seriously from the start much of this could have been prevented Five: Don’t complain about the EU. It’s had tons of economic benefits and Germany was one of its main supporters. Five: Poland has way more refugees and while overall, I am sure it costs money, many Ukrainians have taxable skills and won’t be there permanently. Finally, do you have any idea how much the US spent on propping up the Duetsch Mark for decades, rebuilding Germany, the Berlin airlift, etc. Germany’s aid is still a relatively small part of its GDP and nothing at all compared to the hundreds of billions you’ve saved over the last few decades by not putting anything into your military. Europe oversll hasn’t even reached .2% of GDP in support.
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  304. This is about 75% Germany’s fault.
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  305. So, that’s why Biden dressed up as a huge mosquito 🦟 for Halloween!
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  306. Ukraine is now mirroring what Russia did in Donbas. They’re using a power vacuum to seed chaos in Belgorod. However, Poles openly talking about being in Belgorod only helps the Russian narrative. Imagine how bad the look would be if American volunteers were in Belgorod?
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  307.  @karinfend2980  I’ve counted that aid. It’s still pathetic. And any “secret aid” would total a few hundred million AT MOST and I doubt there’s much secret giving. If you’re openly giving SCALP, there’s not much worth keeping secret besides maybe some rather unique ISR tools.
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  308.  @roevhaal578  I never said they’d given more than them combined, but even so, it’ close. I based the calculation on the estimated 2023 GDP numbers, which are a lot bigger than 2021 and 2022.
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  309.  @Micha-qv5uf  It’s a crime the media isn’t taking 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇮🇹 🇧🇪 etc. to ask. $18b from 🇩🇪 vs $580m from🇫🇷 and 🇫🇷 freaked out when Scholz said some EU states needed to do more and wanted to see an actual list of aid delivered from each. He didn’t even name them. So, their spastic reaction is from a guilty conscious.
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  310.  @karinfend2980  These numbers are from the Kiel Institute, not “social media.” 🤦‍♂️
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  311. The vast, vast majority of the corruption accusations posted in social media and online in general are Kremlin bots posing as American taxpayers.
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  312. Iran’s government is basically holding its entire country hostage. There’s basically no one who lives there aside from the corrupt and some people and the highly rural areas that support Tehran. So like Putin, we’ve got a small group of bad apples Leading their countries into poverty and despair, and while yes, Putin has too much support very few Russians wanted this war.
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  313.  @aelopez6903  The rubles you people are paid. Even Russia admits they’re getting smashed and you still act like everything non-Russian sources say is propaganda. Pretty hilarious.
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  314. Germany has given $18.1 in aid to Ukraine. France: $580m. Even Estonia has given more. While it’s a shame that MAGA is blocking aid, 🇫🇷 is the worst of all. They’re blocking a Czech initiative to buy non-EU shells.
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  315.  @AstroGremlinAmerican  They’re great for America’s purposes. That’s because we can project airpower without runways and because we have tons of foreign bases with nice long runways and protected by highly advanced IADS.
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  316.  @sprocket5526  My entire post says there not getting Grippens and what are you talking about RE: NATO. They’ve applied and only Turkey ratifying them has delayed it formalizing, which I noted in my post. Also, did I ever say Sweden should send over every Grippen? You’re just making things up again. And actually, the more they send, the better it is for Sweden’s domestic aerospace industry because they’ll have to be replaced. Use common sense, buddy.
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  317.  @victorvandenbrink6851  Does anyone read full posts? I literally said this in my post.
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  318. Democracy and GOP’s obstruct everything beginning with Obama has rendered our promises worthless.
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  319. Especially Putin. Anyway, it’s sad you need to keep warning people you don’t have a Telegram account. People need to use their brains.
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  320. I doubt Iran even actually wants the nukes because the threat of acquiring nukes is the only leverage they have to get sanctions lifted and money they desperately need as if the economic situations continues worsening the number of people who want to overthrow them will rise from 73% of the population and go even higher + leave people with nothing to lose and the regime is barely holding on already.
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  321.  @CleoKawisha-sy5xt There’s nothing altruistic about our support. It’s annoying that people/bots like you try to frame it this way. We’re letting Ukraine shed its blood in a war that is wholly in our interest to win at a fairly minor cost. The vast majority of the military aid given to Ukraine thus far has been equipment that was paid for literally 40+ years ago and was expressly made to fight a war with the Russia. Much of its was already being decommissioned or already was decommissioned and destroyed and/or spares to be destroyed at major cost to us. Destruction of arms is extremely expensive.
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  322. Sent $110. Will do so again tomorrow to help close out the fundraiser. We started really strong and raised most of that in the first two days. I think most who could donate did immediately.
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  323. The pogrom was an accident. Israelis ansd Jew were just supposed to be the enemy of the day or week. They weren’t supposed to do anything about it. The Russian leaders are both always assuming their TV propaganda will work yet also constantly shocked by how easily the people are brainwashed by TV. Like “hey, we’re at war to stop the Nazis remember?” The North Causes have lost so many sons to the war, they’re an open nerve (exhausted, scared and enraged) and looking to vent. When they’re told who the enemy is, that was a release valve the Kremlin didn’t think about. Yet the masterminds are so detached they just think “what’s wrongwith you? The jews are only the enemy of the week!” Russia does have healthy levels of anti-semitism and with what was going on Israel, it was really predictable that the Kremlin’s propaganda would create fallout in a Muslim region.
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  324. Jake the Snake 🐍 Broeskin slamming down the truth again.
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  325. I doubt Assad ever lived in that dump. It’s probably just some random house.
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  326. No one is surprised by the Olympics. The IOC is most one of the most hilariously corrupt organizations on earth.
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  327. I love donkeys.
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  328. Jake, you misunderstand what Ukraine is trying to do. They’re doing a fighting withdrawal with reinforced flanks. They’re killing 7+ Russians for every Ukrainian. They want to bleed 🇷🇺 dry.
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  329. BRO-UVs.
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  330. Because the GOP lies and Biden is too senile to communicate the facts. I’d start by telling Americans about 80% of what we sent was set to be scrapped which is expensive and was paid for 40 years ago.
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  331. “Decades?” Easy. Russia couldn’t afford let alone survive a decades long war even with Ukraine and especially not NATO.
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  332.  @IrishSetter01 Same difference. Russian and Chinese propaganda are not working together.
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  333. There’s nothing amusing about MTG other than the size of her brain. We’ve got the patients running the asylum here.
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  334.  @ngcb-tu1qo  Germany gets a ton of 💩, but they’ve still given $15 billion more than France. However, it was primarily 🇩🇪 that got rich off cheap 🇷🇺 gas which in turn gives Russia tons of influence and revenue despite everyone warning them not to become overly dependent.
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  335.  @ashroskell  Not with British libel laws. He’d need iron clad proof.
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  336. Not a single MAQAT realizes Trump was lying about the 5k border thing. They’re all attacking Crenshaw (who supported the bill) in a fury. Not even one was aware of the truth.
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  337.  @enricogattone432 Which means Mr. Herded will be immediately labeled a “RINO traitor” and not listened to by any Republicans.
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  338.  @pjhgerlach  He already does. He thinks the Christian god is smiling down on him...the lunatic.
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  339. Bulgaria is quietly a very important ally. So, 🇺🇦 will not undermine that pipeline. And, overall, Turkey has been much more helpful to 🇺🇦 than 🇷🇺. So, they don’t want to upset them either.
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  340. Pasha!
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  341. lol. However, while I can’t believe I’m saying this, the rebels are actually even worse than the Assad faction.
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  342.  @philosopher2king lol, there are about 75,000 people who’ve used this line for the past 48 hours.
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  343. Do you have a source for this? I’d be interested to see how credible this assertion is. Though it sucks that it lowers the likelihood of an assassination, the upside is bigger. Basically, someone could basically take the Kremlin and it would be on Putin to take back the Kremlin. They could even use one of the body doubles to show him in chains than call the actual one an impostor if he tried to send a message out.
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  344. Code Pink is one or those idiotic organizations that think peace is best even it means allowing China to take over the US. Just don’t fight back because “all war is wrong.”
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  345. MICK-LICK/MICK-LICKS is how say the acronym MICLIC (Mine Clearing Line Charge).
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  346. It’s utterly crazy.
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  347.  @imoverhere8327 He doesn’t know how to make money. He inherited billions. Had he just stuck his inherited money in an index fund, he WOULD be a billionaire many times over. I inherited a lot of $ too. It doesn’t mean I’m a business genius. 🤦‍♂️
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  348.  @billwebb9643 Frank Zappa is the man.
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  349.  @maxwellbeer6757 Germany would have eventually taken out so much of the RAF that the UK’s navy would been sitting ducks, which would then have allowed them to invade. So, without US aid, Germany would’ve bombed the UK’s AF, industrial base, etc. into submission if they didn’t have massive aid and then direct intervention from the US.
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  350. Trump’s intentions are even scarier after Biden’s performance.
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  351. Sanctions have worked to weaken their economies, but nothing to stop them importing all the critical components they need. Exports to Russia-adjacent countries are up 6,000% in some cases.
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  352. Jake Sullivan is a hack or a mole.
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  353. So lame to do the “first!” Who cares. Write something of substance.
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  354.  @EspenShampoo25  I did. I left comments with actual new information in the main comments.
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  355. Biden better be instantly using his renewed draw down authority for 🇺🇦, especially if he doesn’t want oil facilities targeted. This is discretional DDA that doesn’t require congressional authorization.
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  356. I’ll add, a lot of Jews like myself don’t like AIPAC. I do support Israel now. I hate Bebe, but Hamas is disgusting and I’ve been amazed how many people who would be killed the second they stepped into Gaza are supporting Hamas.
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  357. Why do the worst leaders seem to live forever and never croak? They’re always living at least near 80 and sometimes in their 90s.
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  358. It’s Moscow Micro Johnson.
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  359. You must have missed about 50% of what Bob said. He specifically said they had complete compartmentalization. Each pair were only given access to one of the many parts of the ship. It’s also kind of laughable to believe you could know the motivations of alien life or that it makes no sense the aliens who left the science behind haven’t come back to take over our planet.
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  360. You, like most Westerners don’t understand Russian politics or the people. As much as I’d love it to be true, Putin’s regime collapsing just because he looked weak is wishful thinking. Unless someone else can bring a military force against Putin, he’ll survive. Next time though, he’ll make sure his security forces include armor, heavy weapons, etc. what is true, is that it’ll be much tougher to cling to power during the next election because of this humiliation combined with the state of the country.
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  361. This new load of weapons should easily push Ukraine over the top. People are just focusing on the Bradleys (and Marders + AMX from 🇩🇪 and 🇫🇷), but there is SO MUCH MORE in the list. Dozens more self-propelled howitzers, 100,000+ more shells, including thousands of precisions rounds which are each equivalent in value to about 25 dumb rounds, hundreds more M113s, HMMWVs, MRAPS, etc., etc. The M2 Bradley, just like a fighter jet, can destroy enemy tanks at BVR before the enemy even knows you’re there.
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  362. Majorie “Trailer Trash” Greene.
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  363. Majorie “Trailer Tr*sh” Greene. lol, YT literally censors the un-asterisked version. 🙄
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  364. Elections like Romania & the US is what happens when the West does nothing about the endless disinfo war our enemies wage exploiting our own freedoms against us to get us to vote against our own interests.
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  365. They’re subservient to Trump who is subservient to Putin.
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  366. They’re literally burying their heads in the sand.
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  367. Neither side has any intention of honoring these commitments.
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  368.  @tnndll4294 Well, of course. Only his buddies will benefit. He’s a very line of sight guy and we know he couldn’t care less about the masses.
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  369. They don’t want to get it. It’s not part of the agenda they’re interested in.
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  370. 65% agreeing/believing Russia is the aggressor sounds way too low. I know MAGATs don't care about Ukraine, but even among them, I've seen almost none claiming Ukraine was the aggressor. So, I'll have to double check what exactly the pew data actually/specifically said and asked.
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  371. We should not forgot well over 80% of Iranians hate the regime and their fundamentalism. Anyway, Hamas has doomed Palestine for generations. Hamas never thought they’d win militarily, but I don’t think they realized how badly will this impact even the slightest sympathy from the international community, who along with Israel, was responsible for all their food, power, etc.
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  372. Sadly, I doubt Moldova being at risk will provide much motivation to anyone. You’d think basic decency and the geopolitical stakes would be motivation enough.
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  373.  @rhuephus  And what reality is that? And thanks for capitalizing YOU and REALITY as well in quotes. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have detected your subtle sarcasm…
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  374.  @camrenwick  They’ll save themselves. They just need us to provide them the arms. That’s the most pathetic part. The West is like “better not anger the Russians!”
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  375. This really showed Putin’s mental decline. 10 years ago he would have nailed this interview and talked about cultural grievances like too many genders and outsourcing jobs to win huge support from MAGA. However, because none of what he said mattered, because Tucker interviewing MAGA was an open signal to support Russia.
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  376. The dude has a buddy app with his 17-yo son to monitor each other’s use of p*rn. He submitted a brief to SCOTUS advocating for the criminalization of same sex relationships. He’s nuts.
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  377.  @jayhill2193 haha, an ADV China / China Show viewer I see.
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  378. Hainan is so gross.
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  379.  @georgek1234  It’s really frustrating that due to Biden’s age he hasn’t figured this messaging out for himself (if he had made these points in 2023 the “cost” issue would have never arose), his staff are clueless identity politics focused hacks and he has a VP who can’t pinch hit because she has no idea how to communicate and is insanely unlikeable (worst of all, she’s most unpopular with minority voters who they assumed would automatically support her - ironically racist IMO). Hell, when asked what she brings to the table for the re-election, she said she didn’t need to explain herself to voters or the media. What?!
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  380.  @1justme  That’s another problem: for global optics they inflated the value of the arms packages* to make it look as if we were doing soooo much, which meant they could have given a lot more if they had used realistic pricing. *This is one item I could be wrong on: I’ve tried to figure out if there are formalized rules they must adhere to on how they value military aid which already has a set formula which means the figures were set in stone, but I doubt it.
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  381.  @1justme  That’s another problem: for global optics they inflated the value of the arms packages* to make it look as if we were doing soooo much, which meant they could have given a lot more if they had used realistic pricing. *This is one item I could be wrong on: I’ve tried to figure out if there are formalized rules they must adhere to on how they value military aid which already has a set formula which means the figures were set in stone, but I doubt it.
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  382.  @terjeoseberg990  Most likely it’s mostly about the attention and money, but that her sympathies run that way. It’s very rare for these scams to occur without the perpetrators not holding support or at least sympathies.
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  383. I like you Jake, but you’re clueless on Lukashenko’s relationship with Prigozhin. He doesn’t think Wagner is there for his people’s security. He thinks that he can leverage them to deter Putin from making him go to war and making other moves. Lukashenko hates Putin.
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  384. Musk knows who and what the guy was. All he cares about is helping the Republicans because he knows the Republicans will let him do whatever he wants in terms of his business dealings at home and with how he interacts with corrupt foreign dictatorships.
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  385. Many seem unaware of how many munition depots + troop concentrations 🇺🇦 has wiped out in the rear w/storm shadow and GMLRS strikes during May/June + strategic victories like drawing tons of 🇷🇺 military resources and men to Belgorod (one of the reasons 🇺🇦 has been able to hit so many concentrations of troops) using only a few trucks, a tank and two IFVs being operated by a few hundred 🇷🇺 volunteers to launch raids there. It also shows we’re still mainly in the shaping operations phase. Moreover, 🇺🇦 is well on its way to capturing the flanks of Bakhmut and encircling the city. As for Zaporizhzhia, people act like it will be one decisive battle. It’s a grind through the first three layers of defense in depths, which u can’t just blitzkrieg because besides the men, artillery, GRADS, etc., the ground is soaked with AP and AT landmines. It requires using MICLICS and mine rollers. This is a slow and dangerous process.
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  386. 21:22 😂 hahaha, that add in the top right. Putler is probably clicking that or sorry having someone else click it and then print it out for him. It feels great constantly donating to different fundraisers. So much good work to be done.
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  387.  Ukrainian__Patriot Steal away. I’m launching a channel with Oryx soon.
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  388.  @stevenr8606 What?
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  389.  @BuduLinek-pu4go Yes, in my full length version on this topic I note that fact. I also call our countries who are basically doing nothing like Belgium, which is especially disgraceful considering Brussels headquarters NATO.
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  390.  @kimpedersen4746 Europe has been doing both, but because, aside from Poland, they haven’t kept up with their defense spending obligations, their contribution is heavily leaning toward cash, which is critical to keeping Ukraine’s economy alive and buying weapons. We’re giving old stuff. Not crap. But we should be more honest about it in IMO of what the it’s costing us.
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  391.  @BuduLinek-pu4go  Another amazing factor that shows how much more people are getting behind Ukraine than governments is how much money and volunteering private citizens have given to Ukraine. From hundreds-of-millions raised from American individuals and NGOs to countries like Lithuania (whose entire pop. is less than Chicago’s) crowdfunding to buy Bayraktars, people are treating this was more seriously than the government.
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  392.  @jonaseggen2230  MAGA and woke are both immune to facts that don’t fit their worldview yes. But it’s not hard to convince the rest that the war hasn’t cost much. They don’t need detailed facts. Just an honestly calculated number.
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  393. Per the casualties, Ukrainian casualties are more than 65% more likely to survive than Russian casualties. So, the KIA proportion of casualties is nowhere close. Also, the Russians have an extreme number of MIAs, which would not be included in leaked data.
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  394. A small clarification: the soldier complaining about the $ had signed up before the big $ bump and was asking why those who had signed up earlier shouldn’t get raises. But I’m sure 🇷🇺is cheating many of these new recruits out of their $.
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  395.  @bekeneel  Sadly, 🇺🇦 is getting F-16s w/very old radars while 🇷🇺 jets have far more advanced radars/RWR (except the Su-24), but the F-16s won’t be tangling w/them. They’ll just be focused on air defense until they get more F-16s. At which point they’ll likely start doing some A2G sorties. They couldn’t try BVR against 🇷🇺 jets even if they wanted to because the US is only giving them extremely short range missiles. It’s a travesty. What they need is the Meteor, but I don’t think the F-16 is compatible with that yet.
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  396. Your explanation is nice and simple and nails the truth, but the right won’t ever hear this from their new sources. And, at this point, they wouldn’t accept it even if they did. It’s just “Joe did it!” China’s been having bank failures left and right and they’re a lot bigger than these US banks (2023).
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  397. The fact Zelensky’s still willing to visit Trump is a credit to his dedication to his people. He knows DT is owned by 🇷🇺 + all the things he says about him and the country, but he won’t put his pride above his job.
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  398. Hellfire and Tomahawk missiles are both amazing. I’d love to see them get both.
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  399. We should let them know we like any of their picks. It’ll just make them have second thoughts.
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  400. Ukrainians are being trained in Bulgaria in massive numbers too.
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  401. I do work that has required ferreting out symbiotic corruption between Western officials, financial services, industrialists, etc. and agree w/his all his conclusions except for the idea that Germany must de-industrialize if they can’t get dirt cheap gas and unfettered access to Chinese markets. It will definitely hurt and contract, but the future is adapting modern, well educated nations into economies that include modern manufacturing for both the profitability and national security.
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  402. Russian bloggers themselves said the Luhansk explosion was due to their own missiles.
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  403.  @jdreyes3745  Yup, a “macho” dictator to crush any who don’t share their political and ideological values + an “electoral system” that ensures only they wield power. And, yet, they call themselves “American patriots,” “guardians of the constitution” and “freedom fighters!” More like the freedom to crush their “enemies” (IE anyone who doesn’t agree with them).
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  404.  @franksims6452  You wanna know Mike Johnson’s worldview? “PICK UP A BIBLE!” [then quietly] “And… Art of the Deal. Use promo KISSTHERING.”
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  405.  @mitchrodee  If he needs the info, he can contact me for details, but I doubt he’ll see this due to the volume of comments. I’m an analyst for a consulting firm, providing in-depth updates & predictions re: emerging, ongoing or possible crises in Eastern European and China. I’ll tweet him and see if it cuts through the clutter.
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  406. The US notified Russia ahead of time Biden would be there so Russia could avoid any accidental strikes. Russia doesn’t want any part of a war with the US. (Edit: I see you mentioned that).
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  407. Viktor Blacksmith! Wow! Awesome spirit. Just donated!
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  408.  @ninemoonplanet  NATO dissolves entirely if he pulls out.
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  409. I wouldn’t worry, “arresting” Kallas would be seen as an act of war against Estonia and therefore NATO. This is just for domestic consumption.
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  410.  @shokwavxb  That, but I’ll be messaging my reps and even those outside to try and pile on a little extra pressure. Likely worth nothing, but who knows.
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  411. People were terrified of Stalin even when he was stroke paralyzed and pissing himself. I think it’s a fantasy that some Kremlin insider is going to take out Putin. Putin isn’t Stalin, but today’s Russians are far softer than they were then. So, their fear of Putin is likely similar. They can also be too close to the situation to see exactly how weak his situation has become.
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  412. Probably your best episode ever.
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  413.  user-yp2mw2ko9k lol, yeah, Ukrainian refugees are given posh cars AND aid. 🤦‍♂️ Nice try, Krembot.
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  414.  @paulmakinson1965  Exactly. Besides the climate, the biggest problem of our time and it only gets discussed by the very well educated and not by even a large % of them. Everyone should be required to read the book Moneyland. Global kleptocracy and tax evasion is the biggest threat to democracy and societal stability worldwide.
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  415. FYI: it’s not true that Russia hasn’t been going after Ukraine’s air defense systems. They have been going after them. They’ve been shooting anti-radiation missiles at them from bombers.
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  416. You’re misunderstanding Turkey. They want northern Syria for themselves. It’s part of his vision for rebuilding the Ottoman Empire. 🇹🇷 has also utilized the porous border to send fundamentalists to countries they want to destabilize.
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  417. Americans are just intellectually lazy. But the true blame belongs to the media for manufacturing narratives like “war fatigue” (a ridiculous concept when people aren’t even paying attention to begin with), not communicating the fact that the war is basically costing us nothing because 80% of the arms given were scheduled to be disposed or were already being scrapped), focusing on a regional flare up (Israel) that doesn’t effect the world at all, not explaining that resupplying arms is generating a lot of jobs in the US right now in highly skilled areas, why the outcome of the war will impact us generations to come, etc. (the White House shares the blame here too for all these narratives except fatigue).
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  418. As of November 7th of 2023, ”Russia has damaged 1,468 medical facilities in Ukraine during the 20 months of full-scale war, and another 193 facilities have been completely destroyed.”
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  419. Russia has already left Syria and HTS + the SNA are, amazingly, even more of monsters than Assad. They’re Al Qaeda and ISIS rebranded.
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  420. Friedman did it because he knows it makes him $, gives him influence, etc. He didn’t have to, but he wanted to do it for himself.
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  421. Lovelace for life! Thank you, Tanika.
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  422. So, please delete this comment. Macron is looking for an easy public relations win from something he knows he’ll never have to do.
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  423. Ukraine’s infrastructure maintenance workers and volunteers are heroes. It’s amazing how fast they get things back online. They’re also better prepared this year to quarantine service cuts and restore services more quickly.
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  424. That guy didn’t look like the real Putin. Muscovites don’t get mobilized. That’s another reason they’re indifferent.
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  425.  @karabenomar 47% of Russians want to end the war even if it means losing all annexed Crimean territory. Only 12% of Russians support continuing the war.
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  426.  @goenzoy They can buy from SK, the US, etc. and stop pretending like they need so much of their arsenal with America and NATO still protecting them.
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  427. True, but different motivations.
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  428. Jake Sullivan is probably one man who will never show his face in public in Ukraine.
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  429. If Ukraine did Nordstream, it was a good thing. It made Germany finally accept they couldn’t go back to the old order. I still don’t think it was them, but I don’t think it changes anything.
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  430.  @ruks345  Oddly, despite being the economic and political powerhouse of Europe, about half the population couldn’t stop seeing Russia as its big brother (the former East Germans) and the former West Germans had fully and naively bought into the idea of pacifism and the impossibility they could ever been on the other side of a military conflict with Russia. It’s why the Bundeswehr had been allowed to basically become de-militarized. I mean, their level of I don’t know what to call it exactly, even led them to shut down all their nuclear power plants overnight because one NP was hit and wrecked by a historic quake and tsunami after inexplicably sighted right along the ocean and had poor design.
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  431. Technically, Ukrainian forces do cross the border, but only SOF goes into Russia and only for very special infrastructure targets. Not to battle Russian soldiers, which would make zero sense.
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  432. You have to have Reporting From Ukraine. He has the definitive daily tactical report.
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  433. The main disinformation 🇷🇺 is trying to push right now = that the West has spent $1 trillion on Ukraine. It’d be hilarious if there weren’t so many gullible people out there.
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  434. 4:38 - Frodo Zelensky made me laugh so suddenly my dog got startled and barked at me. lol@believing Simonyan’s message was genuine. She’s Putin’s favorite stooge.
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  435. There were damaged planes in those hangars. In more high resolution satellite photos, they were clearly visible.
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  436. That would be Russia’s KIA rate if Ukraine still had all the arms and men they had before Johnson/Trump betrayed Ukraine.
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  437. The guy who mentioned Dresden wasn’t serious. He was mocking Solovyev. Anyway, Russia has so few operational nukes, their threats ring hollow even in their own ears. As for those censorship laws, they clearly don’t apply to any of those people on state TV. Cause they talk about all of those things.
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  438. Scholz’s mentor, ex-chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, is a god father to one of Putin’s children, a “close friend” in his own words, a former Gazprom board member and STILL refuses to condemn Putin. Scholz and the SPD are completely owned by Russia.
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  439. Too bad Biden telegraphed the whole thing and let Russia move many aircraft + dig revetments. We’ve also given them very few ATACMS. So typical of the West’s tragicomic.
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  440.  @roys4244 It very well could be. Or they’re MAGA groupies.
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  441. Tim Pool’s view counts show most of his followers are fake since someone with 1.3m should be getting 20x-plus more views than 11.5k views on his new video.
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  442.  @skipperclinton1087  I’d put my money on the USMC in M60A1s against Egyptian operated M1A1s (whose spec is mid-80s) any day.
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  443. He knows this. He’s said it himself.
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  444. @ LMAO
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  445. Those training levels are nothing new if you were paying close attention. Look at the numbers reported in Oct. - December of 2022 reported in Operation Interflex, Insight and Orbital.
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  446.  @kaitospin3944 That’s what Erdogan would have you believe at least.
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  447. Most of the people being polled about support to Ukraine simply have no idea what’s going on. Just we because we’re obsessed with the details, it seems like everybody must know. But they don’t. If they did know, support would be way higher.
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  448. Without Putin, Kadyrov is dead. So, that’s definitely not his plan. His own people despise him.
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  449. Russia’s military has already been crushed. They barely have enough munitions left for bare bones self defense let aggression. You’re right it’d be the optimal way to minimize the chances of a nuclear escalation, but it’d be a highly immoral approach that made Ukraine suffer badly and increase the cost of rebuilding it.
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  450. The IOC president is so corrupt:. He is very close w/Xi Jing Ping and aided him in deflecting about the Uighur genocide + helped disappeared Peng Shaui after she accussed a senior official of assaulting her. His decision is zero surprise.
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  451.  @Bruhman_16 ”The filth of Vladiman is washing away. Trees will come back to Isengard."
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  452.  @MrJC1  The interview was a disaster in that it was a huge missed opportunity to cement his popularity with more right wingers or fool some Americans and Westerners that a peace deal might actually be possibly. However, what I meant and what is true is that merely being interviewed by Tucker sent a signal to the base that was responded to strongly with tons of different GOP politicians posting stuff like “See, we can make peace with Putin. Warmongers in our own government are at fault!” and their fantastical base echoing them.
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  453.  @weareone2854  Russia DIDN’T EVEN EXIST then. It was the Kievan Rus. And let’s pretend it did. It would make absolutely no difference as to the merit of this conflict.
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  454.  @boskee  Is it?…when he’s literally getting women, children and men killed? Seems the opposite of disgusting. It’d be like saying it’s disgusting to wish a serial killer dead.
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  455.  @Stepbacktrey  Indeed. And even its own conduct of the war is a genocide on Russian minorities. Buryats, for example, are dying at 525x the rate of Muscovites. Russians don’t even fight their own wars.
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  456. It’s amazing how much evidence they needed. Their soldiers have r*ped infants for god’s sake! It’s also amazing how they had set a deadline of Sept. 1 at one point for capturing Bakhmut.
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  457. Notice how Putin made Shoigu and Surovikin carry the can for his fuck up? And Russians are so blind they’ll think “They never have TV meetings like this on national security decisions. Huh, weird…” “Anyway, Shoigu and Armageddon need to go! Putin has been so kind to them and look how they pay him back.”
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  458. No, he wouldn’t have been touched. That would have been the one thing to guarantee US support of Ukraine. You people have no brains.
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  459.  @PeterLawton Exaclty. Insane far right nutters who are pro-Russia have hijacked Congress. They’re only pro-Russia because Russia has Trump by the 🥜.
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  460. Russia is going to try to tie the false flag attack on the Crocus Concert Hall to the Freedom of Russian Legion (which Russia pretends to the public is all Ukrainian and NATO troops).
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  461. It’ll depend on how much cheating Republican states can get away with and how the GOP packed courts will basically ignore the law to help them.
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  462. Moscow might be 850+ years old, but the Russian state is centuries younger. Also, Kiev is much older than Moscow.
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  463. Musk is both a coward and just another megalomaniac who owes family money, the blood and sweat of an army of engineers and lucky timing to his inflated sense of self.
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  464. As a Jew, I can say that rabbi is not a great guy if you do some research into him.
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  465. Even if Trump supported 🇺🇦, he’s too big a coward to ever visit the front lines. Also, this a guy who called 🇺🇸soldiers “losers” + “suckers” for serving. MAGA’s supporting Trump’s personal vendetta.
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  466. My only worry is that we don’t want oil prices high in the last few months before the election. That’ll almost guarantee a Trump win and that’ll be the end of 🇺🇸 and 🇺🇦.
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  467.  @hughjazz64 Definitely listen to Trump because he’ll dare to do almost anything he says in public, but there’s still a difference: Trump says whatever he thinks people want to hear and the only thing he is truthful about is getting revenge on his opponents and critics. Meanwhile, Putin believes almost everything he says and he has NO ONE telling him how badly the war is truly going.
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  468. And Ukraine now is making missiles that go beyond the range of ATACMS. So, we don’t need even need to deal with that political hammer that Republicans would love to use against Ukraine.
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  469. I hope you’re in a swing state or a closely contested district.
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  470.  @ingorenner5210  Maybe the hundreds of CPD members who the Russians have kompromat on, the fact that the SPD are East Germans who identify closely with Russian values and above all by 100x, the hope that they will be able to resume friendly energy trading after the war.
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  471.  @1776stubborn  I mean that number is so absurdly low that they KNOW the West won’t believe it. It’s targeted for internal audiences, not us. Secondly, 500-600 were killed in a single strike on New Year’s day. So, 12,000 is hilarious. The report also seems credible because they report a huge amount of Ukrainian losses. Ukraine would never issue that number of losses. So, you know it’s not from some Western propaganda source.
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  472.  @geraldorford  Except to call him an architect or anything is giving him too much credit. Might more appropriate to say he’s like the short order cook of a recipe for disaster.
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  473. He’s basically a serial killer. And he’s following Trump’s order. The entire GOP is. Most of the party was neutral or positive toward Ukraine aid until Trump made his stance clear: block all aid.
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  474. Food is one of the few things they don’t need. They’re a bread basket and yes I’ve heard this directly from many, many Ukrainians. They need essentials like laundry detergent and other toiletries. They also need pooled donations for generators, electric blankets, etc. Not sure why the West always assumes every other country is starving if they need help.
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  475. They bought a one way vacation ticket to the resurrection.
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  476. They’re not worried about themselves. They’re trying to stir up panic: “Every Russian in or outside Russia will be summarily arrested if we lose even if you didn’t do anything. So you better get on board!”
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  477. Germany has given $18.1b in military aid to Ukraine. France has given $580m, which is 75% less than Estonia despite having an economy that 74x bigger. They’re blocking purchase of non-EU shells. Be sick of Macron. He is all talk.
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  478. Lukashenko was not involved in the mediation. The mediator was Alexander Dumin, Putin’s former bodyguard, who was made governor of Tula (which is exactly where Prigozhin was when he took a u-turn).
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  479. Any American who believes that likely also believes in Jewish space lasers and that “the elites” meet in Antarctica to discuss their plans for the NWO.
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  480. Many seem unaware of how many munition depots + troop concentrations 🇺🇦 has wiped out in the rear w/storm shadow and GMLRS strikes during May/June + strategic victories like drawing tons of 🇷🇺 military resources to Belgorod using only a few trucks, a tank and two IFVs being operated by a few hundred 🇷🇺 volunteers. It also shows we’re still mainly in the shaping operations phase. Moreover, 🇺🇦 is well on its way to capturing the flanks of Bakhmut and encircling the city. As for Zaporizhzhia, people act like it will be one decisive battle. It’s a grind through the first three layers of defense in depths, which u can’t just blitzkrieg because besides the men, artillery, GRADS, etc., the ground is soaked with AP and AT landmines. It requires using MICLICS and mine rollers. This is a slow and dangerous process.
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  481. These trucks are amazing. Who could have imagined just a few years ago civilians would be building trucks like this by the hundred.
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  482. $80 million in aid from Estonia is like $8 billion for us. Their population is smaller than Chicago’s.
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  483. The dogs that get left behind because elderly didn’t have a car to put them in and they couldn’t be fit in a van packed with refugees.
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  484. The Abrams message wasn’t for Ukraine. It was because it was a German demand to give tanks. Putin is committed to taking it all the way to maintain the current gains, not to taking all of Ukraine. It doesn’t matter though, he needs to be crushed in either scenario.
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  485. Amazingly, he brings up Beria, a guy famous for raping and killing little girls. It’s disgusting. Shocked you’ve never heard of him. The name is pronounced “berry-uh.”
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  486. Boom! That’s a lot of cheddar. Thank you. Sent $110 myself.
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  487. They’ve gotten tens-of-thousands killed already.
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  488.  @ruks345 Opposed did you mean? And, no, democrats have not blocked funding for Ukraine. Dems can’t allow the government to go into shut down. Allowing it won’t get a Ukraine bill passed. Their true fault is not explaining to Americans how cheap the Ukraine war has actually been. Traitors are holding the democrats hostage.
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  489. I actually enjoy giving speeches / public speaking, but I cannot imagine the pressure of giving a speech in a second language to Congress and an entire country in a situation like this.
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  490.  @alexsin4821  US public opinion doesn’t change let alone on one speech. Those who liked him found even more reason to like. Those who dislike found more petty reasons to dislike (e.g., Tucker Carlson ranting to his viewers about VZ not wearing a suit, portraying him as a bedfellow to their sworn enemies like Pelosi and so on). For those who don’t pay attention to the news or politics much (a majority of Americans), nothing changed. There may be tiny upticks and downticks based on changes in the stock market, news from the battlefield, etc., but basically count on opinions staying static overall. The only real variable and important question is when and if the minority GOP opposition will ever make a legislative move against Ukraine.
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  491. The IOT is one of the most evil organization. The head of the IOC is so buddy buddy with Xi that he helped cover up Peng Shui’s disappearance.
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  492. Lots of bots responding. They were supposed to lose EASILY. Now, it’s not enough for the West that they’re not regaining ground fast enough. What idiocy.
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  493. I was being facetious. I guess you need an /s to understand a joke. I know the traitors in the GOP won’t give Putin Alaska. Hell, Palin lives there. She’s an American hero.
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  494.  @TheSkyGuy77 About what specifically? Let us know. You’ll note I said I wasn’t being serious that DJT would actually give Putin Alaska.
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  495.  @yns222 ?
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  496.  @TheSkyGuy77 That’s what I thought. No specifics.
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  497. The Russians are meat assaulting each other.
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  498. A note on yesterday’s video: the WSJ reporter was arrested the journalist to gain a bargaining chip (like Whelan + Griner). Not cause they thought he was spying. A chip that be traded in case a 🇷🇺 diplomat, spy, etc. gets arrested in the US, better terms in any future negotiated peace, a chip to get some frozen bank account unfrozen, etc.
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  499. And, aside from the US held hostage by radicals, the EU pretending like they can’t empty their own stocks when there is zero threat of invasion besides the Baltics and continue to export 95% of their arms production.
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  500. Lmao. I love the Dr. Strangelove reference.
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  501. And France is mostly rhetoric. They’ve made some encouraging aid announcements like 79 Caesars, but until they’re delivered, I won’t credit them.
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  502. The Bashkir riots aren’t about the war. They’re about Russia destroying their local mountains and the arrest of their leader in resisting that destruction. Anyway, Johnson is hayseed religious fanatic given one of the most powerful offices in the US. It’s literal insanity.
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  503. We get it, Jake! You have friends and we don’t. You don’t need to rub it in! 😉
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  504. Listening to this intercept (https://youtu.be/96VwzpeWw8Q), how long before Putin’s house of cards falls? Among other debacles, the guy talks about how their own tank took out 17 of their own men at once.
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  505. It’s also not the F-15. The US is desperate to keep as many F-15s in service as they can in due to a delay on the block of F35s (its upgrades and refinements are proving more difficult than anticipated).
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  506. No breaks from the cold is what make is so horrible. It also makes it dangerous. After a while it breaks your entire system down.
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  507. Musk knows who and what the guy was. All he cares about is helping the Republicans because he knows the Republicans will let him do whatever he wants in terms of his business dealings at home and with how he interacts with corrupt foreign dictatorships.
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  508.  @MrToubrouk  No, he’s not doing it to get people on Twitter. He’s doing it for political clout with Republicans.
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  509. They wipe out the Donbas’ men and then come r*pe the women. Classic Russian move. They’ve been doing it since forever.
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  510. Slava Ragnar. Heroyam Slava! 🇺🇦
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  511. Prigozhin is looking for political capital. He knows the war is lost. So, he’d like to be the hero of Belgorod instead.
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  512. Not a great man, but imagine Joe McCarthy seeing all these GOP house reps shilling for Russia. He’d have a field day and/or an aneurysm.
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  513. I’d like to believe it, but I highly doubt Kim Jong Un is going to care about his slaves, I mean soldiers, taking heavy casualties.
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  514. It’s amazing what the West will call “winning” these days. We don’t do have to do anything and “our will” is being worn down. Pathetic.
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  515. I have given $1,000 and am selling a JEEP I love, but don’t use and am going to send the proceeds. It what must be done as long as domestic enemies like Johnson blocks aid + “leaders” like Macron give less than Estonia whose economy is 74x smaller.
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  516. I’ve been donating to many Ukrainian causes (around $1,000 so far) and I’m selling a truck I rarely use and giving all of it to 🇺🇦. Most of us spend on stuff we don’t need while there are people dying and who could be saved by a single donation. (hopefully this time my comment isn’t auto deleted)
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  517.  @paulfenton734  Thanks! Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦
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  518. Ukraine wanted the grain deal to end (Kerch timing was no accident) because within a few months they’ll be able to export grain without Russia slowing them down AND they’ll be able to import all types of other things. Russia’s navy doesn’t have the power to enforce a blockade.
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  519. They know he’s not a spy. They wanted a bargaining chip for everything from everything from trades in case one of their own diplomats, spies, etc. get arrested in the US to back channel agreements not to provide Ukraine some sort of weapon.
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  520.  @kparker2430  More like well done, Russia. Thanks for your dumb actions that provoked them to get more tanks than everyone else combined.
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  521. There is no good side in the Syrian civil war except for the Kurds and they just stick to their territory. They’re not involved in this push.
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  522. Probably more like 50 maximum, but that’d work out well since its main purpose will be hitting high value targets like ammo depots and troop concentrations.
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  523. The Reagan republicans would be a lot more heroic if they voted with dems than just resigned.
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  524. One problem is that the critical swing state of Michigan has 400,000+ Muslims (mostly Lebanese) and they’re angry at Biden over Palestine. But voting for the radically pro-Israeli Trump would be even crazier. But we have to worry about their turnout as the state was decided by only 10k votes and many of them said they would not vote at all.
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  525. Jake doesn’t have the geopolitical chops to answer questions in that category. Or any awareness of history is if he’s saying a Chechen uprising wouldn’t have an impact. Russia got their clocks cleaned during the Chechen war.
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  526. Crazier things have happened as we know.
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  527. Hey, you’re telling me. I have to live here.
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  528. No, Republicans have the ability to call for a vote of no confidence in McCarthy. A single congressman/woman cannot simply remove the Majority Speaker.
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  529. Yup, because 85% of Ukrainians (there is always a selfish slice anywhere) are fully mobilized, donating or volunteering, if they’re not fighting and basically no one in Russia is.
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  530. At least 60% of Russians are not like Danil. It’d be like taking a video of MAGA Republican saying this is who Americans are.
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  531. The difference between genuine joy and propaganda joy is pretty stark. It’s probably why Russia tends to go for anger in their staged scenes. When you’re already miserable, it’s easier to fake anger or misery.
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  532. Ukraine has deployed forces to Sudan, Syria and more to hit Wagner forces.
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  533.  @morstyrannis1951 Agreed, but I doubt those nations want that.
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  534.  @ClannCholmain  I am aware. But it’s been clear for a while. His frothing at the mouth base don’t care about anything he’s done as long as he “owns the libs.” That and he simply lies about everything and his base believe him (recent example: GOP senators drafted a strict border bill that would shut down the border once 5,000 encounters had been reached and all approximately 5,000 immigrants would be processed and deported the same day. Trump said the bill would allow in 5,000 immigrants per day and then shut down and 99.9% of Republicans believed him and went NUTS on the few Republicans who stood by the bill after Trump let it be known he wanted it killed). There’s no reasoning with them.
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  535.  @irishcanuck9489  Trudeau is a mess. It’s odd though that so many Canadians assume it works like this. liberal Trudeau bad [therefore] conservative Trump like politician good.
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  536.  @irishcanuck9489 Biden isn’t stupid. He’s senile. And, while he makes a mess of interviews and speeches, his admin’s actual results are very strong: economy is thriving w/moderate inflation being the only weakness in the economy, he’s passed more bills than Trump’s term and Obama’s last term did combined, including wide sweeping critical infrastructure projects that we’ve been trying to get done for 20 years, lower prescription costs for families, etc. Unemployment is at a 50-year low. Domestic manufacturing is really starting to take off. This was quickly done too before the GOP claimed the speakership and went into we won’t pass anything no matter how good for America it is if Trump doesn’t endorse it or a single democrat let alone Biden was involved in drafting it. So, yeah, all this “the sky is falling” is just noise produced by social media, the GOP and their media empire. It’s also due to the fact that because Biden has really started losing the plot, he hasn’t even bothered to remind Americans about what he’s passed, what was in it, etc.
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  537. It’s important to note the wives/mothers protesting do not want replacements sent for their husbands and sons. Anyway, I’m Jewish, but AIPAC isn’t answering my calls.
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  538. Them paying for oil with money Russia CAN’T USE as well as not putting any upward pressure on other sources of oil is helping the West and hurting Russia.
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  539. Incumbent parties are all losing, which doesn’t bode well for us in the US. I cannot believe the Democrats are so bad at politics (as in communications) that we’re highly likely to lose to the orange menace. If we can keep the major European countries from moving to pro-Russian parties, Ukraine should be able to weather the storm. However, I’m afraid DT will basically pull out of NATO and tell Russia that we won’t retaliate if they use nukes in Ukraine.
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  540. Peter Zeihan is fairly clueless and uninformed. The primary reasons to do this was to cut off a major potential avenue of approach for the Ukrainian CO, to delay the CO in other areas by drawing away resources from the avenues unaffected, to try to deter/scare Ukraine and the allies from trying to retake the occupied territories. They also want to change the demoralizing narrative of an upcoming, unstoppable CO and the collapse of their own territories.
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  541.  @dennisvogelius8602  Doubt you’re real, but Lithuania has given enough. About 3% of GDP or something crazy. France hasn’t even given .0003% of GDP. So, maybe you WTFU.
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  542.  @GARDENER42  Pretty sure I mentioned this above and I mention it everywhere. 80% of the stuff the US gave Ukraine wasn’t worth even 5% of the MSRP we slapped on it for optics, but ALL the countries did this. So the public thought they were spending loads despite almost all the weapons given by West were paid for decades ago AND most of the countries are getting paid back for the arms given or back filled with something much better. So, even a lot of the “donations” have really been a gift to themselves.
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  543.  @ChuckAmadi  They should have been carrying their weight, but we weren’t spending anything to help Ukraine (most of it was stuff we were paying to dispose of) and it’s not the time to teach Europe a lesson, but I’m 95% you’re a Krembot trying to sew dissent.
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  544. BTW, I remember the Marshall Plan being quite expensive. So was the Berlin Airlift. So was propping up the Deutsch Mark and rebuilding half of Western Europe. So, while the GOP is turning the US into a traitor, Europeans can’t pretending less money for leisure or even struggling to eat as much as they used to is anything like the sacrifice most of the world was going through in WWII.
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  545. It’s amazing how many tens-of-billions have been donated by Ukraine supporters on YouTube alone. It’s truly inspiring.
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  546. And they can’t afford to keep paying men who’ve never held a rifle before the equivalent of 6 years Russian average salary as a contract bonus. Sadly, because of the GOP blocking aid for so long, 🇺🇦 is very low on manpower too. However, Ukraine is actually training tens-of-thousands of men before they get sent out. But it’s going to be hard going for the men holding out until they finally get there.
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  547. The funny part is that post clip is Russian authorities approved. It is supposed to make them look good. Cause how many offices do you think aren’t immediately smashed and ransacked. Carefully keeping old posters in place. GTFO
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  548. Russia can’t survive storming the tiny of village of Vuhledar. So, no.
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  549. The women (and sadly little girls too)!of Belgorod better hide. We know how the Russian army behaves.
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  550.  @endurocrazy Insulting people’s intelligence while making basic grammar/punctuation errors is amusing.
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  551.  @sergeygalayda2931  So, your contention is that the Russia wanted a pipeline corridor to somewhere they can’t reach now? Your comment is extremely unclear.
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  552.  @pulsatingsausageboy2076  What good is trying to achieve a monopoly or block a small competitor when it cuts off all your access? If you told me that their reason for starting the Donbas conflict (which provided plausible deniability or more an excuse for Europe to look the other way) was to retain a monopoly, THAT makes sense. If you’re saying the 2022 invasion was for this reason, then that makes no sense.
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  553.  @pulsatingsausageboy2076  Prigozhin’s pronouncements support your theory.
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  554.  @riparianlife97701 Hopefully, but it’s not guaranteed.
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  555. Multiple pilots got Russian medals.
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  556. Oh, and the UK gave them thousands of planes and more as well. Beyond what Jake listed, the US also gave -1,977 Locomotives -11,075 Railway wagons -622,000 tons Railway Rails (91.1% of rail wagons & 36.1% of rails available to the USSR in WWII came from the 🇺🇸)
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  557. Here we go: Britain delivered to the USSR: 7,411 aircraft (>3,000 Hurricanes and >4,000 other aircraft) 27 naval vessels.
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  558.  @MrWiseGuy1974  lmao, meanwhile your “victory” is not losing territory that fast. Even more hilariously, 90% of the “captured” territory is made up of Crimea and the LNR/DPR. So, basically, Russia has ruined its army, any interest in its arms industry and its economy in perpetuity after facing off with just Ukraine. How MIGHTY Russia is! 🤣
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  559.  @vanettevanhuyssteen5548  He should, but I’ll start having videos on the subject soon. I was working and as an analyst on the war for a consulting firm and could not use my work while working for them. But that’s just ended. There’s so much many of these channels aren’t talking about.
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  560. Delete this comment. Macron is a hypocrite. 🇫🇷 has barely sent aid and Macron knows this will never happen. They’ve sent a third of the aid Estonia despite a GDP of 3 trillion vs $37b and they’re blocking an initiative to buy non-EU shells. So, this threat is sadly a complete joke.
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  561. It’s telling those soldiers (they look almost like reporters to me) on the river are not giving hardline answers like “today is just the beginning!” or some shit. And these guys are 100% there to make footage for Kremlin narrative handlers. And basically the message is: don’t expect us back unless the West betrays Ukraine and China loans us 700 billion USD.
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  562. Individual donors using their own time, money and expertise have done as much to support Ukraine as the governments of the free world. And this is yet another example.
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  563.  @christinemolner5097  ​ The SPD’s corruption is well known, but as for the people, Germany seems like America: divided. It seems like half of Germany want Ukraine to get what it needs and half the country are so paranoid about their own safety, they don’t want to get involved. I’ve seen that Swiss bunker sales have exploded because of Germany with more purchases every month since the war started than they averaged per year prior to the war. And many Germans were staying in those Swiss bunker hotels and talking about how they just want to stay out of it. As for the SPD, they know their days of cheap energy and sex tourism bribes [look it up] from Russia are over, but they’re still dragging their heels.
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  564.  @mirkoritter1976  I thought ALL Germans know every other German. 😉
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  565. 6:07 That’s actually the neatest + cleanest Russian trench I’ve seen during the war. Anyway, you ALWAYS lose equipment hitting fortifications. What did people expect? That Ukraine wouldn’t lose any Bradleys, Leopards, etc.?
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  566. Scholz’s mentor, ex-chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, is a god father to one of Putin’s children, a “close friend” in his own words, a former Gazprom board member and STILL refuses to condemn Putin. Scholz and the SPD are completely owned by Russia.
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  567. The NIP-6 (the Crimean 📡 station) was used to track ballistic missiles and for deep space communications, not for jets.
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  568. Sadly, the US will never give them any of their newer missiles because some will inevitably land somewhat intact in Russia, which will then get studied by China and Russia and would compromise US air power in the event of a conflict.
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  569. It seems a lot of PATRIOTS have been committed over the past three months and especially past 2-3 weeks. By a lot, it sounds like at least three more systems. Considering how much just two do, that should make a radical difference, especially when you consider they’re getting other types of ADS too.
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  570. 90% of the depositors are above the FDIC limit. They should not be made whole if that money is based on loans. Also, the inflation rate is actually lower than before the war started. All the blame on the war is absurd.
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  571. I find it funny Russians assume they’ll be the slave owner rather than the slave. 99.9% of the country have been slaves since time immemorial.
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  572. I’m so proud of humanity for contributing billions of dollars to Ukraine.
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  573. There is still another existing critical bridge in Melitopil. So, supplies are not yet cut off to Crimea. But it’s a start.
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  574. 🇹🇼 is definitely a sovereign nation. They’re no more part of the PRC than Ukraine is part of Russia. Distinct cultures and democracies that despise the bullies thirsting for their land.
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  575. It wasn’t a military coup. It was an attempted civilian coup which tried to enlist the military’s help and failed. Anyway, he needs to go to jail, but pretty good karaoke for another language.
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  576. 🇫🇷 knows if 🇷🇺 is defeated in 🇺🇦, they will lose any influence in central Africa. As for 🇬🇧 story, it depends where this war was, but 🇷🇺 could never land forces on its island.
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  577.  @Bic4Colours  Not sure what you’re saying. Were you saying the periodic table is complete as in no other element will ever be found?
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  578. RIP Peter. This is so tragic. I’ll remember you as long as I live. And yet another life snubbed out for absolutely no reason.
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  579. Can’t believe you’re just getting to Girkin.
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  580. Don’t forget, 🇺🇸 also gave 1,977 locomotives, 12k Railway wagons, 622k tons of rails (91.1% of the rail wagons & 36.1% of railway available to the USSR in WWII) and 🇬🇧 gave them 7,411 aircraft (including 3,000 Hurricanes) and 27 naval vessels.
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  581. Putin’s problem is that he still thinks Russia is a great power yet they’re a tiny economic power with no levers or influence to protect themselves besides nuclear sabre rattling.
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  582. I’ve been moved by many of the interviews with Finnish soldiers who are fighting or fought for Ukraine. It’s incredible he stayed the course since 2022. Even most Ukrainians are doing infantry duty for no more than six months before transferring to other duties such as drone operator.
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  583. If it was down to a popular vote, there would be nothing to worry about, but our electoral system enables a tyranny of the minority.
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  584.  @robertshiell887 We get it. Even to say what he’s saying is dangerous for global security because it offers an excuse for countries like Russia and China, but if you think it’s a danger to Canada you’re not living in reality. Do you think for a second Americans are going to tolerate a war against Canada? I’ll help you out. The answer is no.
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  585.  @darex0827  We’re constantly finding rich new fields while oil demand decreases. Hell, Venezuela is threatening to invade Guayana because it went from zero resources to some of the richest oil reserves overnight and the arctic is opening up and there’s tons of oil up there.
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  586. One of the better episodes of all the best Ukraine focused YouTube channels in the past few months.
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  587. Russia is a class act…
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  588. He was happy his daughter had been killed or otherwise she would have been being raped and tortured.
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  589. Some additional interesting facts on the deep rot: *Germany blocked NATO’s ascension to NATO in 2008, blocked a meaningful EU sanctions package on Russia in 2014 and the SPD has always viewed the Baltic states as not deserving of independence and an annoying impediment to its work with Russia. *News this month that the number of German soldiers declaring themselves conscientious objectors rose fivefold in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine created little more than a ripple in Germany. For many Germans it’s perfectly natural for members of the Bundeswehr, the army, to renege on the pledge they made to defend their country; if Germans themselves. don’t want to fight, why should their troops? Indeed, in Germany, a soldier isn’t a soldier but a “citizen in uniform.” It’s an apposite euphemism for a populace that has lived comfortably under the U.S. security umbrella for more than seven decades and goes a long way toward explaining how Germany became NATO’s problem child since the war in Ukraine began, delaying and frustrating the Western effort to get Ukraine the weaponry it needs to defend itself against an unprovoked Russian onslaught. *In the opening hours of the war, Germany’s finance minister laughed at the Ukrainian ambassador’s request for aid because ‘sending aid would be a waste of because your country will be done in hours.’ *Germany is STILL talking (as in this week) about their hope to restore normal relations and energy imports w/Russia once the war is “resolved.” *Germany’s allies, including Washington, often ascribe German recalcitrance to a knee-jerk pacifism born of the lessons learned from its “dark past.” In other words, the German strategy — do nothing, blame the Nazis — is working. Of course, Germany’s conscience doesn’t really drive its foreign policy, its corporations do. Gerhard Schroder was literally Scholz’s mentor and Putin is the god father to one of his children, he was on the gazprom board, STILL won’t condemn Putin. You don’t get more transparently corrupt.
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  590.  @kx4532  Germany’s allies, including Washington, often ascribe German recalcitrance to a knee-jerk pacifism born of the lessons learned from its “dark past.” In other words, the German strategy — do nothing, blame the Nazis — is working. Of course, Germany’s conscience doesn’t really drive its foreign policy, its corporations do. While it hangs back from supporting Ukraine in a fight to defend its democracy from invasion by a tyrant, it has no qualms about selling to authoritarian regimes, like those in the Middle East, where it does brisk business selling weapons to countries such as Egypt and Qatar. Despite everything that’s happened over the past year, Berlin is still holding out hope that Ukraine can somehow patch things up with Russia so that Germany can resume business as usual and switch the gas back on. Even if Germany ends up sending tanks to Ukraine — as many now anticipate — it will deliver as few as it can get away with and only after exhausting every possible option to delay.
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  591.  @paulgibbon5991  I mean he was part of the EG communist government. That wouldn’t be possible without being cozy to it.
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  592.  @kirgan1000  Putin could if he wanted to as they MAY have massive kompromat on him, but they 100% DO on a number of senior SPD members, but it’s equally likely he and the SPD just want to be able restore Russian gas ASAP and therefore doesn’t need blackmail. This is a quote from the journalist (I believe it’s Jake’s video/this one? Apologie, it’s hard to keep up all the different vids and comments sections straight): “In the last last 20 years the Russians invited EVERY male SPD politician to 🇷🇺 for conferences, events, m ceremonies, etc. and the Russians paid for it all... and all these SPD men got the same rooms in the same hotels and totally "by chance" met beautiful young women (or men), who adamantly insisted to have s*x w/these old SPD men in front of the mirror in these exact hotel rooms - naturally with the lights on.”
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  593. They mainly want to drain Ukraine’s anti-air missiles and ammunition.
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  594. Half the never Trumpers secretly vote for him anyway. They can’t help themselves.
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  595. Hopefully, but 75% of GOP voters don’t care and most “independents” and “liberals” barely know anything about what our support has actually cost: less than nothing, but in a fact profit due to giving weapons that were paid for in budgets passed 49 years ago and mostly giving weapons that were being scrapped and the ad for HIMARS and PATRIOT bringing in huge profits). But Biden is in a mental fog and it doesn’t occur to him to make these points and his staff seem more concerned with protesting Israel (against Biden’s wishes 🤦‍♂️). This is excluding the massive geopolitical benefits, deterrence against China, trust in our promises, etc.
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  596. 🇺🇦 volunteers and soldiers shouldn’t do any high risk evacuations for civilians that haven’t left yet and aren’t contributing to the war effort., unless there children and women under 50 (the latter will all be assaulted). You’d agree with me if you watched Brandon Mitchell’s interview with Lindy Beige (it was in the last of the 4 or 5 the interview was broken into).
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  597.  @playedout148 I despise Russia more than about anyone could other than someone who has lost their family to their war crimes, but I agree, you create things like the UN to keep communication open w/your enemies not your friends. Besides, China is up to equally awful things. Why should they remain?
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  598. Will YouTube censor you if you say the r word? The women were all r*ped before being killed, which is a more heinous crime than murder IMO.
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  599. It’s possible the US want the F-18s for themselves. They’re desperate to buy every F-15 they can as we’ve gone wayyy over the recommended lifespan (measured by flight hours) of many F-15 airframes due to less than 20% of the number of F-22s that were supposed to be made and delays in F35 production.
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  600. Also, Australia’s backing out of the F/A-18 buy back may have a lot to do with why Congress just ordered Boeing to extend F/A-18 production to 2025.
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  601.  @fluffypuppy1040  Wasn’t aware they were ancient ones, but like you said, it may just be just as much about the parts. For the F-15, it’s the airframes themselves we’re in desperate need of.
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  602. Private citizens have given more than all the Western governments combined. Well over $75b of aid. It shows how much more serious its actual citizens are than Western leaders.
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  603. I think the Pope just has zero clue about the details of the situation or are aware that Russia will only press harder if Ukraine tried to negotiate let alone surrender. That or Russia is blackmailing the Vatican somehow.
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  604. Germany’s handling of Ukraine isn’t a departure from the norm; it is the norm: Their allies, including Washington, often ascribe German recalcitrance to a knee-jerk pacifism born of the lessons learned from its “dark past.” In other words, the German strategy — do nothing, blame the Nazis — is working. Of course, Germany’s conscience doesn’t really drive its foreign policy, its corporations do. While it hangs back from supporting Ukraine in a fight to defend its democracy from invasion by a tyrant, it has no qualms about selling to authoritarian regimes, like those in the Middle East, where it does brisk business selling weapons to countries such as Egypt and Qatar. Despite everything that’s happened over the past year, Berlin is still holding out hope that Ukraine can somehow patch things up with Russia so that Germany can resume business as usual and switch the gas back on. Even if Germany ends up sending tanks to Ukraine — as many now anticipate — it will deliver as few as it can get away with and only after exhausting every possible option to delay.   Much attention in recent years has focused on Nord Stream 2, the ill-fated Russo-German natural gas project. Yet tensions between the U.S. and Germany over the latter’s entanglement with Russian energy interests date back to the late 1950s, when it first began supplying the Soviet Union with large-diameter piping. Throughout the Cold War, Germany’s involvement with NATO was driven by a strategy to take advantage of the protection the alliance afforded, delivering no more than the absolute minimum, while also expanding commercial relations with the Soviets. In 1955, the weekly Die Zeit described what it called the “fireside fantasy of West German industry” to normalize trade relations with the Soviet Union. Within years, that dream became a reality, driven in large measure by Chancellor Willy Brandt’s détente policies, known as Ostpolitik. That’s one reason the Germans so feared U.S. President Ronald Reagan and his hard line against the Soviets. Far from welcoming his “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall” demand, both the German public and industry were terrified by it, worried that Reagan would upset the apple cart and destroy their business in the east.   By the time the Berlin Wall fell a couple of years later, West German exports to the Soviet Union had reached nearly 12 billion deutsche mark, a record. That’s why Germany’s handling of Ukraine isn’t a departure from the norm; it is the norm. Germany’s dithering over aid to Ukraine is a logical extension of a strategy that has served its economy well from the Cold War to the decision to block Ukraine’s NATO accession in 2008 to Nord Stream. Just last week, as the Russians were raining terror on Dnipro, the minister president of Saxony, Michael Kretschmer, called for the repair of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which was blown up by unknown saboteurs last year, so that Germany “keeps the option” to purchase Russian gas after war ends. The money Germany has saved on defense has enabled it to finance one of the world’s most generous welfare states. When Germany was under pressure from allies a few years ago to finally meet NATO’s 2 percent of GDP spending target, then-Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel called the goal “absurd.” And from a German perspective, he was right; why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free? Of course, the Germans have had a lot of help milking, especially from the U.S. American presidents have been chastising Germany over its lackluster contribution to the Western alliance going as far back as Dwight D. Eisenhower, only to do nothing about it. The exception that proves the rule is Donald Trump, whose plan to withdraw most U.S. troops from Germany was thwarted by his election loss. Joe Biden, eager to reverse the diplomatic damage inflicted during the Trump years, reversed course and has gone out of his way to show his appreciation for all things German. Biden’s decision to court the Germans instead of castigating them for failing to meet their commitments taught Berlin that it merely needs to wait out crises in the transatlantic relationship and the problems will fix themselves. Under pressure from Trump to buy American liquefied natural gas, then-Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed in 2018 to support the construction of the necessary infrastructure. After Trump, those plans were put on ice, only to revive them amid the current energy crisis. By virtue of its size and geographical position at the center of Europe, Germany will always be important for the U.S., if not as a true ally, at least as an erstwhile partner and staging ground for the American military. Who cares that the Bundeswehr has become a punchline or that Germany remains years away from meeting its NATO spending targets? In Washington’s view, Germany might be a bad ally, but at least it’s America’s bad ally. And no one understands the benefits of that
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  605. YT will still be able to keep RT on the platform even if YT is banned in Russia. I don’t know why they would ban RT if they’re just about the news.
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  606. Macron will talk, but never spend. They’ve given half-as-much as Lithuania despite being 64 times bigger. Macron and Magic Mike Johnson would make a great pair.
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  607.  @enriqueperezarce5485  Basically.
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  608.  @DarkestAlice  Russia’s only claim to fame these days is that they’re only second worst these days since Hamas video taped themselves killing literal infants and raping and mutilating hundreds of women.
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  609. We’re basically PAYING to NOT HELP for Ukraine. Scraping DPICM and HMMWVs has cost us tens-of-millions of dollars. DT is the monster, but Biden has never explained to Americans why Ukraine is important to our self-interest.
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  610. It’s weird that Musk has more hair at 50 than he had at 25.
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  611. Actually, Russian mission/sortie planning is so primitive they don’t actually incorporate data from their AWACS into mission planning.
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  612. Are those reporters twins?
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  613.  @DeliciousDogMeat  Buy some vodka. It’s about the only thing they produce.
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  614.  @DeliciousDogMeat  That-a-boy.
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  615. Instead of agreeing on some new policy of covering Western Ukraine, Europe might as well just lend them more air defense systems to be located strictly in Western Ukraine.
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  616. Well, Seagal is a sexual predator too. So, Tucker has to up his game if he wants to achieve the same level of scummery.
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  617. If 57% admit to wanting peace talks, it’s probably more like 67%.
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  618.  @jasonk6321  It wasn’t up to America. It was up to Germany who had the majority of the traded prisoners. And we got back our Americans. So, for us, it was a good trade.
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  619. 🇷🇺 sold Alaska because they were losing $ on it. Not cause of the 🇬🇧. Oil resources hadn’t been found yet and there was no infrastructure to enable them to tax the fur traders.
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  620. Amazingly, the newspapers aren’t even treating this like front page news.
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  621. The other reason they haven’t collapsed yet is because, despite not submitting the required documents to support their economic claims since Q2 2022, the IMF is still republishing those numbers as real. The reality is that they’re doing a lot worse than the official public data shows.
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  622. We’d be waiting longer than 30 days for the GOP to vote in a new speaker. Anyway, I’ve been screaming for nearly two years that giving Ukraine aid is actually profitable for us and it’s taken that long for the DOD to even release a map of where in the US the $ goes.
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  623. I think that was the point. There’s no accent.
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  624. Jake just slaughtering the pronunciation of Opytne, which isn’t that tough to say.
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  625. Maybe they’ll get the F16 (I doubt before the war is over), but to me it makes no sense to send those instead of the Grippen. Talk about way more expensive and less useful in Ukraine.
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  626. Ukrainian combat mouse 🐭 is my favorite.
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  627. 🇷🇺‘s been trying to take Avdiivka for 10 years, not 4 months.
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  628. Look how miserable Orban and the EU rep are in that picture. Orban frowning because he just lost tons of seats, now is swallowing this defeat in his strategy to help Russia and the other guy is nauseous from having to touch Orban’s hand.
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  629.  @buffalo11919  Yeah, he’s covering for the guy he’s endlessly criticized for the last four years. Big brain stuff right there…
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  630. Pakistan 🇵🇰 couldn’t have sold the Grad missiles to Russia. The USA 🇺🇸 is one of their top military financiers.
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  631. A mail order bride 👰‍♀️?
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  632. The most suspicious thing is that they got taken alive. If they were hired by Russia they likely would have thought this wouldn’t happen. They would have taken their own lives if they thought they were really being arrested.
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  633.  @EEX97623  Yeah, 20 mins in an ideal situation assuming they were there because they also have to do at least 5 mins planning they were there. 45 mins is highly believable if u look at it like this. -remember 911 calls don’t go to Rosgvardiya. It’d be hard to call 911 while you’re running for your life. So, let’s say 10 mins including a call to police, police ask dumb questions and then they call Rosgvardiya. -Most are there, but some are outside smoking or in bathroom, etc. It takes 5 mins on phone to get the facts + 5 mins to find and assemble. -5 minutes to put gear on -5 minutes to do a quick once over of diagram over all ingress/egress to building + side streets -5 minutes to fully load up gear into trucks and get on -7.5 minutes to push thru the chaos of traffic outside That’s about 40 mins. And then when you factor in they don’t really care about these people, could have easily been another 15.
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  634.  @TotensBurntCorpse  Uvalde guys would hide at station. Here’s a sickening fact: two of the officers who were caught hiding outside got their jobs back + back pay… And that’s TX. Under every crime video, MAGA-ts are always saying “oh probably another criminal a California DA released.”
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  635. Summary execution with Zelensky using a Stugna P.
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  636. Biden’s doing a terrible job of communicating: he makes it sound like we’re donating OOP to Ukraine instead of talking about how the aid is actually GOOD for the economy. All we can do is keep donating ourselves so 🇺🇦 can buy arms.
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  637. @ Russian sympathizer much?
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  638.  @danielheckel2755  No captions?
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  639.  @timmommens901  I like “Insights,” but all those videos are already available elsewhere. War Translated actually dubs calls not yet translated by the SBU, translated Butsov Plus videos and a lot more. A good resource.
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  640.  @danielheckel2755  Thank you. I will begin listening to him then.
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  641. Unprofessionalism (but Fox doesn’t care about that, yes. Hit ratings though were great. I would not be surprised if part of Fox’s lawsuit settlement with Dominion include firing Tucker.
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  642. Elvira Nabiullina is the type of hyper competent official that Russia could have hundreds of if they weren’t an authoritarian state. The central bank is too important to allow a Putin crony clown to run. It’s why competent, non-corrupt people are in charge.
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  643. The one argument that’s wrong is that having the government be in charge of Starlink would be better. Maybe for now, but what if Trump is re-elected? I guess it wouldn’t matter then cause Musk would say he was ordered to turn it off or if the government was in charge they’d turn it off.
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  644. I get not wanting immigration from fundamentalist countries, but the newly elected party has gotten financing from Russia and opposes giving military aid to Ukraine.
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  645. BTW, to be clear, despite being a liberal, I wouldn’t want “those” people immigrating to my country. They don’t share their host countries’ values, but they’re happy to exploit their social welfare system and more importantly, the good will of their host countries. Of course they’re ruining philanthropic culture.
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  646. No matter how many civilians Putin kills, the media ignores it and focuses on Gaza, which is a cyclical conflict that doesn’t have even a tenth of the long term global security implications for us.
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  647. You’ll be the 52nd state. Greenland is 51st. 😉
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  648. Those bio mechanical arms are awesome. Not as good as the real thing yet, but light years ahead of what we’ve recently put up with. Thank you to the big brains who researched and developed them. And the rehabbers who mate them to our injured heroes.
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  649. Man’s best friend.
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  650. All it takes is Tucker interviewing him and that’s the cue for the base to know to support him cause somehow being against Putin now means “owning the libs.” 🤦‍♂️
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  651. Never has there been a war in which civilian donors and volunteers + volunteer trains and soldiers have made a bigger difference in the war. Very proud of the global community behind the thousands of efforts to defeat evil.
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  652. My post that I’d put it out with a crowbar was reported and deleted it. lol Is Micro Johnson reading replies?
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  653. lol@State TV pretending there are tons of migrants standing around the Kremlin. White Russians are the only Russians not being mobilized. BTW, South Korea activists balloon dropped Choco Pies into NK after they were banned.
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  654. The problem is the USA is awake, but the democrats are terrible explaining why this war is so important in terms of purely self-interest, the GOP are active traitors and most Americans support aid to Ukraine, but our electoral system is skewed toward small rural areas. An Idaho resident’s vote is worth roughly 16x more than a California voter in Congress and 8x in the presidential election.
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  655.  @mrboics  Yahoo News - 11/07/2023: Russian troops have damaged 1,468 medical facilities in Ukraine during the 20 months of full-scale war, and another 193 facilities have been completely destroyed.
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  656. 60% of Russians support peace on any terms. So, don’t believe the idea that Putin has a lot of support.
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  657. Putin is going to get coup’ed when his election results come back (they’ll say he won 90%, but the elite will know the true results and if they’re under 50-60%, he’s done).
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  658.  @KillerRabbit1975  SCALP is great, but it’s been given in small quantities. Besides that, they’ve given a decent number of the very good Caesar, but that’s about it besides the worthless AMX. 🇫🇷 is Europe’s 2nd biggest economy and they’ve given less than Lithuania, which is 64x smaller (€715m in arms vs France’s €433m). Germany meanwhile, despite its slow start, is approaching the €20b mark. So, just a cool 4,000% more.
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  659. The Ukrainians are a multi-talented people brimming with ingenuity. They’ll be an economic power house five years from now while Russia is suffering civil war and kleptocrats fleeing abroad.
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  660. Likeliest reasons for these 🇷🇺 ex-prisoners’ narratives are a) the FSB told them what they’ll do to friends + fam being held if they don’t toe the line b) these opp leaders are already planning their runs for office when VP falls and want to show Russians how they were trying to help their situation when they get back. And, like it or not, even most of Putin’s opponents have an imperialist mindset too. They’d just be unlikely to actually do something like invade Ukraine.
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  661. I don’t think Jake is aware of all the ground + tactical victories 🇺🇦 has made in the past month. They’re well on their way to encircling Bakhmut. As for the counter offensive. M There will be no decisive battle. It’s a grind through the first three layers of defense in depths, which u can’t just blitzkrieg because besides the men, artillery, GRADS, etc., the ground is soaked with AP and AT landmines. It requires using MICLICS and mine rollers. This is a slow and dangerous process.
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  662. This signals a break down in Russian-Israeli relations. Them hosting reps from the H-word probably didn’t help. We better hope the Israeli PATRIOTS get transferred this year because you know Trump will block them and six months is an incredibly short window.
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  663. They have every right to be disappointed with NATO. That said, the West is making big strides in support rather than sacrificing small countries in favor of self interest like they’ve done historically. PS: Slava 🇨🇴 Heroes!
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  664. ⁠The 🇬🇧 has been great, but many others are giving way more per capita + were willing to send tanks even earlier, but 🇩🇪 controlled the export rights to all of them and M1s didn’t and still don’t make sense. But 🇺🇸 had to send them first to placate 🇩🇪. Boris Johnson was critical in uniting the West again Russia. Wish Johnson and Ben Wallace were still in office. They were doing a much better job than Richie Snack Pack.
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  665.  @grantadamson3478  Of course. The GOP literally doesn’t even have a policy platform anymore. Half the fault lies w/a small, but well platformed demo of liberals who militantly began pushing what is now termed “woke” down the country’s throats and produced an inevitable backlash. When this demo didn’t ease off the throttle, this backlash became a solidified movement whose sole objective was “to own the…” [you know the final word].
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  666. They would sacrifice their own children if it meant “owning the libs.” It’s a sick level of hatred.
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  667.  @markgarcia5845 Thank you for your service is something Americans never used to say even after WWII. I appreciate our servicemen, but the hollow thank you for your service is not a healthy trend. It was an invention of the same people who try to claim they are automatically the patriotic party by wrapping themselves in the flag and never served themselves or cared about those serving. From our founding fathers to Ike Eisenhower, the great men and women of this country realized militarism is a not a healthy mentality for a democracy.
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  668. It shows how disconnected Putin is. Getting less troops killed would be more popular than taking a town most Russians aren’t aware exists.
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  669. He just has no idea what he’s talking about. He probably doesn’t even realize that offering negotiations would only make Russia attack harder. He likely doesn’t even know what Russia is doing to Ukraine. Don’t forget, Italy has its own MAGA party and I’m guessing most of the people around the pope are pretty conservative.
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  670. They’re remarkable
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