Comments by "Manick N" (@manickn6819) on "Ukraine RETREATS in Toretsk Smashed by Superior Russian Tactics" video.

But Ukraine isn't a small guy in this war. A war requires money, intelligence, equipment and personnel. All Ukraine provides is personnel and they have a sizeable population. Everything else is provided by NATO and friends and they are much bigger than Russia. From that standpoint Russia might be the small guy in the ring.
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@larrycable1948 I am not disputing that Ukraine has a much lower population than Russia but its still a significant population and largely the number of combatants on both sides have been close enough. Ukraine is definitely struggling now with the old guys and people rebelling openly against conscription. A lot of those financial figures are fudged. They US finds and extra billion here and there when they fudge over those numbers. Those don't take into account the intelligence that Ukraine gets. There is a high cost to Starlink, military grade photos, drone reconnaissance etc. Russia has to pay for all of that on its dime. Ukraine gets all of that free from a much wealthier backing group. And we haven't gotten to the famous umpteen financial sanctions and cut off from markets that were relied upon since the fall of the Soviet empire. So the way I see it Ukraine is not the small guy in the room.
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@larrycable1948 It does seem like Ukraine's goose is being slowly cooked. Moral of the story is don't fight a war based on begging for weapons instead of producing them yourself. You would think that would be common sense.
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@larrycable1948 I thought a nation that was once part of the Soviet Empire would understand their mindset and understand they were never going to come out of this better. Still can't see how they cannot grasp this.
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Military Summary had a nice theory. Its being done deliberately to push the Western powers for more money, weapons and permission to fire into Russia with long range weapons. Zelensky and his bully tactics again.
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