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

  1. I sea 🌊 defeat in Russia’s future.
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  2. BTW, I remember those attacks, but thanks for pointing out the correlation, Kowboys.
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  3. 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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  4. I love how angry Jake is today. It is a deserved anger.
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  5. 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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  6. The New York Times barely made a peep about Russia’s barrage, but immediately reported on the Belgorod attack. 🤦‍♂️
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  7. It’s ironic the flooded city’s name is Orcs. Thank you, Denmark! 🇩🇰 🇺🇦 🇺🇸
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  8. Silly is not the right word when every single hour of delay literally, not theoretically, cost Ukrainian lives.
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  9. Slava Scandinavians!
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  10. Can you imagine how angry and humiliated this makes Putin feel? That’s the best of all.
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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 🇺🇦 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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  14. 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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  15. Sadly, South Africa has become a fully failed state.
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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. Do you really need an explanation?
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  19.  @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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. 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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  24. Amazing. Slava your daughter! Very proud of both of you.
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  25. 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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  26. 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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  27. 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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  28.  @Grundewalt  Wow, you are an inspiration! I must admit I haven’t cut myself from all unnecessary purchases.
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  29. 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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  30. 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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  31. 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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  32. 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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  33. United half of us stand on Ukraine indeed. Private US citizens are doing more for Ukraine than the government.
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  34. 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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  35.  @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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  36.  @misterserious3522  Ah, just remembered. Three Kings: https://youtu.be/3WHOap_2pRc
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  37.  @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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  38. 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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  39. Don’t thank France until their aid is delivered. They’ve been awful in their support.
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  40. 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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  41. And Egypt has 1,130 M1A1 Abrams MBTs 1,150 M60A1/ M60A3 MBTs
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  42.  @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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  43. 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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  44. YouTube censorship has gotten wild.
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  45. 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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  46. Exactly. Not only are they forgotten, but their deaths are actively hidden.
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  47. Donated $110 this morning. Let’s go!
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  48. 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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  49. Did you think Xi Jing Ping was the next Mandela too?
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  50. California Oblast too!
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