Comments by "Dale Crocker" (@dalecrocker3213) on "DW News" channel.

  1.  @asynchronicity  DPA War and Weeb Union mainly.
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  2.  @asynchronicity  At the moment Russia seems to be occupying most of the territory in which it declared an interest and is slowly accumulating the whole set. How is this losing?
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  3.  @asynchronicity  Russia regards Crimea and Donbass as Russian. Historically this is correct. They are being reclaimed - not stolen.
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  4.  @sababugs1125  Kherson on the right bank of the Dnieper was of no value to Russia, and not worth wasting resources on keeping - for now.
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  5. Why stop when you're winning?
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  6. Zelensky is becoming an utter liability.
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  7.  @unworthy42  Not working out too well for Ukraine though, is it?
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  8. ​ @appletree6741 More fools them.
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  9. That's because vaccinations are far from fully effective and long lasting. Herd immunity needs as many people as possible to become infected and to recover.
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  10. Why do you believe they want Ukraine?
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  11. So many Western "experts" still seem to hold the view that Russia wants to conquer Ukraine. This has never been the case. Thusfar the operation has been designed to reduce Ukrainian forces as much as possible before taking Donbass and other south -eastern territories which protect land access to Crimea. And this is exactly what they are now doing.
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  12. Unfortunately for your argument the highest death levels in Sweden by far have occurred among the very elderly (90 plus in many cases) who has been living in large community care homes.
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  13.  @johannageissler  I agree that comparing ANY two countries must be an inexact procedure. It remains a fact, however, that it doesn't matter so much how you get infected as the condition you are in when you do. Covid 19 is essentially a culling disease. Sweden and the UK have both had large populations of very elderly people who have survived previous flu seasons; "dry tinder" is the term which is used. Many of them have not survived Covid 19. Far more care should have been taken to isolate such people instead of wasting energy on the impossible and useless task of preventing healthy younger people from becoming infected.
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  14.  @GrandmasterFU666  For how much longer though?
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  15.  @bretedwards2899  Utterly ridiculous. Russia is a prosperous, well-fed nation. Its people are now doing better than at any time in their history.
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  16.  @petersouthernboy6327  Why should the Germans - or anyone else -be expected to suffer in order to help crush America's enemies? It's bad enough the poor bloody Ukrainians having to do it.
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  17.  @КристинаЙорданова-р8л  There's a chance that when this is all over the Germans can save their crumbling economy by buying gas from Russia again. Selling tanks in a futile attempt to defeat Russia would be a very foolish thing to do.
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  18. ​ @petersouthernboy6327  They don't even want all of Ukraine! It is you who is naive - or perhaps I should say brainwashed. Do you think that after twenty years Putin woke up one morning and decided to head west? His army in an army of defence, not of aggression which is why he has had to bring in mercenaries. He only want what he believes are rightly his - those parts of Ukraine inhabited by Russians and which owe their wealth to Russian sweat and Russian investment. It is America worming its way into Ukraine which has caused this war.
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  19. Who says sovereign ?
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  20. ​@mauritsvanoranje6725It just means the Americans offer bigger bribes.
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  21.  @AGAMetah  The 'civilised world' will be very different place once this is over.
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  22.  @t34r  That's what the Russians said more than thirty years ago when they abandoned Communism.
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  23.  @t34r  But scarcely anybody's red any more. There are probably more Communists in US universities than there are in Russia.
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  24.  @DrMcMoist  You have been misinformed. All the evidence -including on the spot testimony from civilians under attack - points to the Ukrainians carrying out these atrocities. The fact that the Russians HAVE been reluctant to incur civilian casualties has meant that the Ukrainians have been keen to keep civilians in areas under attack to use as human shields. They have even kept civilians bottled up in cellars and bomb shelters, using snipers to shoot anyone who ventures out for food and water. In at least one instance a group of elderly people in Mariupol were actually cemented into a cellar and their cries of distress broadcast on loudspeakers to dissuade Russian-allied troops from advancing. I have archived videos of all the above, but of course Western censorship prevents me from sharing them with you. Some may be found on Patrick Lancaster's channel. or pro-Russian channels tom and anonymous, among others.
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  25.  @ВадимСтецюра-й7о  Noble sentiments. But the death of thousands is surely a high price to pay to have your country run by America instead of in partnership with Russia.
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  26.  @ВадимСтецюра-й7о  I really don't think Russia wants to rule Ukraine. It would be letting itself for years of civil strife. It will be content with Donbass and Crimea where at least a good portion of the population are of Russian ancestry and prefer to look to Moscow than Kiev for support and governance. I think you are naive if you don't realise that this war is of America's doing. Your country, like Russia, has been in the hands of oligarchs ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Some have formed alliances with Russia, and some with America. Ukraine is a honeypot for both of these evil empires and America has, I think, gone too far in both pushing for membership of NATO and in supporting the war against the Donbass separatists. Many American crooks and politicians (often the same thing) have huge financial interests in your country and alliances with your own crooks and politicians. Zelensky himself is (or was) the creature of Kolomoisky who cleverly engineered his election and who launders his ill-gotten gains in the US and who has several very prominent American politicians in his pocket. Ukraine's entirely understandable desire to escape its often unhappy past and become a liberal democracy, with less corruption, has been harnessed by dark forces whose motives are entirely financial. This is the way of the world, but none of this is sufficient to plunge a country into a bloody and destructive war. Compromise is possible. It needn't necessarily mean Ukraine becoming another Belarus either. Putin is eminently pragmatic and I am sure he would be content with Donbass as a buffer state while allowing Ukraine to go its own way as long as it stays out of NATO.
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  27. He's not far wrong by all accounts, is he though? Still, you never know.Things may pick up soon.
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  28.  @thomasherrin6798  It seems to be doing what it intended to do -retaining Crimea and much of Eastern Ukraine while crippling the Ukrainian army sufficiently to prevent them retaking these essentially Russian territories.
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  29. Full vaccination in Indonesia rose from 3.9% of the population at the start of the Delta spike in June and rose to 5.9% in mid to late July when the spike peaked and then dropped rapidly. Whatever caused the dramatic drop I doubt it had anything much to do with vaccinations.
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  30.  @harukrentz435  Ivermectin at all, legal or smuggled in from India?
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  31. @Quote Leading to escalation and much, much more death and destruction. Giving in to Russia's entirely reasonable demands would be a preferable solution, don't you think?
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  32.  @matsmith5800  Followed immediately by a nuke on Washington. Their paths might even cross!
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  33. There is not one single scrap of evidence that any of these events are related to so-called man-made climate change. (which doesn't exist anyway) Be careful Africa. You are being colonised again. Carbon futures traders are on the way to buy your allocations for a handful of beads and some nails. They will appear on the markets next day priced at millions.
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  34. Hosni Mubarak Careful. We have before in a previous existence.
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  35.  @ceasar8679  NATO was planning an attack on separatist Donbass, which is under Russian protection. The SMO was to forestall this.
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  36.  @epicmonkeydrunk  Because its taking place on Ukrainian territory and Ukrainian forces are getting destroyed before they can enter Crimea and Donbass,
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  37.  @morstyrannis1951  This would perhaps be true if the Russian Federation was the Soviet Union, or that it actually wanted Ukraine. Neither is the case. When it comes to corruption and state brutality there is little to choose between Ukraine and Russia. Both are oligarchies and corrupt to the core. Russia only wants to retain access to the vast mineral wealth of Donbass and Crimea to which it feels entitled since it is Russia and Russians who have been taking it out of the ground for over two hundred years. The oligarchs of Ukraine have done deals with the Americans to sell them this multi-trillion dollar resource, and Russia isn't having this. This is the reason for the war, and the idea that Ukraine is fighting for freedom and democracy and the avoidance of tyranny is romantic twaddle, I'm afraid, designed for the consumption of credulous fools.
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  38.  @putte2164  Multiple verifiable sources. Is there anything in particular you would like further information about?
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  39.  @bonnie7898  NATO members, predominately America, spent around $100billion on providing Ukraine with an army. It was this proxy army which was commissioned to regain Donbass and Crimea. Why else would it have been created?
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  40. You lot are just as bad.
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  41. Ukraine has been attacking civilians in Donbass for eight years. Thousands have died.
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  42.  @sergeyb8  There has been a continual exchange of fire along a moving frontline in Donbass, certainly. But both sides are equally to blame for civilian casualties.
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  43.  @sergeyb8  Oh far fewer. The bulk of the deaths happened in the first two years, but the separatist armies fought back and until recently I think deaths were running at as few as 50/60 a year. Now though it's all changed and civilian death rate is mounting again.
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  44.  @sergeyb8  I continue with that final assertion. Diplomatic solutions were possible but they would invariably involve concessions to Russian interests. Lets face it, this is a war between two sets of gangsters the Ukrainian, American facing oligarchs and the Ukrainian Russian-facing oligarchs. Things has quietened down in Donbass before 2022 but it was clear that things were about to hot up again. America wasn't going to spend billions on training and equipping a large Ukrainian army without seeing a return. In December 2021 Putin offered an entirely reasonable peace deal, but it was scornfully rejected. What Russia either had to invade or skulk away defeated. That it could not do. Ukraine's responsibility lies in the lack of judgement of its leadership, both with Zelensky and with Poroshenko, whose efforts to crush the rebellion only succeeded in strengthening it, and under whose regime the majority of civilian deaths occurred.
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  45.  @sergeyb8  I repeat that Ukraine must take its share of blame, for reasons already stated. Russia was provoked - and over a long period too. Ukraine may not end up with any choice. That's what wars are for. Nothing changes, let alone from the Middle Ages, but for thousands of years before. Interests clash. Weapons are rattled. Bribery is attempted. Talks take place. Talks fail . War results . It was ever thus. As I say, Ukraine may end up not having any choice in the matter of the annexation of Crimea and Donbass. Denying choice to your opponents is an essential feature of war. If Ukraine chooses to fight on it has be very sure that it has the resources to continue to do so. Otherwise things will only get worse. Tell me more about the Russians trying to extend their territory in Crimea. I am not familiar with this.
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  46. Before the missiles arrive and the Ukrainians are trained to use them, the country will be pounded to dust.
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  47.  @hochmeisterr  I think that's just the start. Soledor makes a good rear base for the eventual front line along the Donbass border. We can anticipate invasions from both the north and the east in perhaps just a few days. Ukraine will probably have to move troops out of Donbass to defend Kiev, leaving the Russians to fulfil their military objectives in the south.
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  48.  @ThatGuy-bz2in  It has had to be heavily adapted, I believe and does not enjoy much of a reputation. I am no expert in these matters but I gather it is pretty useless on narrow roads and built-up areas. But all that's fairly irrelevant. The whole picture will change before they arrive on the scene.
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  49.  @ThatGuy-bz2in  I just wonder though what stage things will be at by the time they all arrive and crews are trained to operate them. If over the next few weeks Russia succeeds in taking Donbass while the Ukrainians are protecting Kiev, then tanks will be fairly irrelevant since the whole industrial region is relatively built up. The infantry movements we have seen in Soledar and Bakhmut will be the way things go, not the tank battles out in the open fields. I suppose a good benchmark would be if Russia can take Kramatorsk before the tanks arrive.
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  50.  @ThatGuy-bz2in  Russia doesn't want Ukraine. It just wants Donbass mainly, and it already has three quarters of it. Ukraine is putting up a magnificent fight, but it is exhausting all its resources in the process - which has been Russia's plan throughout. Russia has an extra half million men ready for Phase Two, and some of them are as battle-hardened as the Wagners, and have hardly been used at all so far. It could go either way, but if the recent recruits come in from the north and east, and the Chechen, the Syrians and the DPA and the LPA push up to the Donbass border the Ukrainians will be hard put to fight on all three fronts. This is what the Russians do. They don't worry about losses. They don't worry about keeping ground they don't need. They just keep pounding away till the enemy breaks and then they move in for the kill.
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