Comments by "Dale Crocker" (@dalecrocker3213) on "Ukraine will destroy Putin’s combat power with UK weapons | Tim Cross" video.

If the weapons and ammunition flowed as freely as the optimism, then Ukraine might have a chance. But even that is doubtful.
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@dpelpal These figures are as nonsensical as the claim that Russia thought it could take Kiev in three days. And nobody in their right mind laughs at the Russian army.
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@richardsanders.4624 Not as yet.
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@flowpipe Just let him have which is rightfully his.
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@flowpipe Not often. In any case Russian TV presenters seem as silly and as ill-informed as their Western counterparts, and should not be regarded as voicing official policy.
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Land is mainly important to Russians not for its own sake, but in terms of how many Ukrainians die on it.
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@johnnybrown689 War is no laughing matter. What will you be doing when Russia wins? Weeping?
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@richardsanders.4624 This is just silly. For a start you are assuming these figures to be accurate, when they are clearly inflated Ukrainian propaganda. You are also assuming that invasions advance at a regular rate when clearly they do not. There has been a stand-off on the southern front for months, which now appears to be over as the Russians are advancing steadily. This does not mean that the advance will continue at the same pace. It may go more quickly, or even more slowly, since gaining territory is not and never has been Russia's prime objective. They are more concerned with destroying Ukrainian capability.
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@flowpipe I read history and contemporary documents and they show that Putin has no interest in territories other than the mineral-rich Russian areas of Ukraine. Selling the idea that he is bent on world conquest is just a propaganda trick designed to get mugs to support this needless war.
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@flowpipe I do. There is no evidence that Putin wants anything other than the mineral-rich Russian areas of Ukraine, mistakenly included in that new country when it was created in the early 1990s.
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@robertscott961 I think it's you who falls into that category. Simple - and credulous to believe that Putin wants anything other than Russianised Crimea and Eastern Ukraine - or even that he has the capability to take more, even if he wanted to
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@robertscott961 Are you? I think you must be to believe silly propaganda.
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@flowpipe I do. And there is no reason to suppose that Putin wants any of these countries.
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@flowpipe There you are, yet again, completely wrong. News media in Russia has at least as much freedom as that in the West, in its own way. There are hawkish warmongers on the airwaves there, as there are here. If however, you have watched any interviews with Putin you will know that he rejects all such chauvinistic ambitions. Recreating the Russian empire is a fine and wonderful idea, he says - but it can't be done and even if it could, it would be more trouble than it's worth.
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@flowpipe We do not have a free press. As a journalist for many years I know the extent of legal restrictions, and these have been added to considerably in more recent times since newspapers and TV station have been taken over by monolithic financial institutions which do not countenance any opinions which might adversely affect their profits. In Russia, equally so, opinions which may adversely affect the balance of power can be silenced but there is really very little difference between the two systems in actual effect.
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@flowpipe Well, I'm retired now, but I assure you I laboured in that thankless vineyard for more than 40 years.
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@KuriosDiogenesJar He's got enough headaches without setting himself up as a world conqueror, I think!
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@flowpipe I live in Britain. Too wet to be thoroughly authoritarian.
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@flowpipe Gullible??! That's good coming from someone who appears to have swallowed every fairy tale about the Ukraine situation trotted out by the Western media!
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I think they've given up. These aid packages are mostly for show.
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@dpelpal The Ukrainians have fought very bravely, but without the billions of dollars of equipment donated by the West they wouldn't stand a chance. Have you ever wondered, by the way, why the West is financing this war to such an extent?
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@dpelpal A poor country with a large, foreign-equipped and trained army.
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@johnnybrown689 I don't think the world is laughing at Russia at all - or at least people who have the sense to analyse the situation aren't. There are, however, very many of you out there who believe a version of events fed to you by the Western media and who are cackling in a silly way. War is no laughing matter though.
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@Marcus_Aurelius_6 No. The West will make a load of fuss while it quietly gives in to the inevitable. The Ukrainian adventure is a failure.
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@Marcus_Aurelius_6 I think the West is chickening out. These aid packages are not really what they say on the tin.
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@Marcus_Aurelius_6 What was it buying the time for, exactly? To watch Ukraine lose?
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