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

@ThatGuy-bz2in Your information doesn't coincide with mine. I'm afraid. While Putin, in a famous essay, describes the Ukrainians and Russians as "one people " he knows full well that many have been seduced into Western attitudes and anything like a militarily imposed regime would result in an endless and costly civil war. A Russian-leaning regime would have to be the result of some sort of electoral process (inasmuch as such things exist) and Russian troops on the streets would never do. And he's not that bothered. Donbass is where the real money is. I can't see there's much of a percentage any longer in "drip feeding" armaments to Ukraine. The investment isn't paying off. Russia, on the other hand appears to have a very healthy munitions industry, and can buy in extras on the arms market anyway. It's got gas and oil to swap. Ukraine has virtually nothing. Even Western observers admit that Russia has this number of men waiting in the wings.. Don't forget that the majority of Russian men undergo compulsory military training of between two and four years, and before the war Russia had a reserve army of two million. The number of men of military age is about 33 million. Russian tactics are always to secure the field with trained troops who then retire to the rear while disposable units with old equipment bear the brunt of the response. The troops at the rear also shoot any of the newcomers who try to retreat. Wagner has been doing this with its released prisoners, but the elite are highly trained and experienced. Many have fought in Syria, as have battalions of regular Russian troops who appear not to have been much used yet. Neither have the Chechen mercenaries who were so instrumental in capturing Mariupol. I think there may be a whole Chechen army standing by. I don't think the Russians were "smashed" in Kharkiv or Kherson or anywhere else. They used the tactics outlined above to drain Ukrainian forces before withdrawing to the south, preparatory to the new three-pronged assault which it is about to commence.
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@StreetsOfRage2 I think you fancy me.
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@Stan_the_Belgian Why would Russia want Kherson other than to protect Crimea-for which the southern side of the Dneiper is all that is needed? You and many others are playing the wrong game. Russia doesn't want Ukraine - only Donbass and Crimea. If you were any good at chess you would realise that it isn't about retaining pieces, it's about tactics.
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@Mark-Haddow No. It's Keeeeev.
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@@SegFault69 Probably two-thirds less. Even if you're right it doesn't much matter, since Russia can afford far greater losses.
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@kevinmathis1278 Looking at your profile pic I'm pretty sure I have had carnal knowledge of your wife.
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Dead parrot.
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The Ukrainians did the same thing in Donetsk a couple of weeks ago. Didn't get reported much for some reason.
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Omicron will save the world! Everyone will get it, no one will die and we'll all be immune! (Great gnashing of teeth from Pfizer, AstraZeneca Johnson & Johnson etc)
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@wyringen It has some very good modern weapons of its own -plus those supplied by N Korea, Iran and others. Ukraine just seems to be getting the West's castoffs so far.
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@wyringen But the sanctions aren't working. These components are reaching Russia via an number of routes.
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@harmless6813 Try thinking about it. A year ago Ukraine had a huge, well-equipped army ready to retake Donbass and Crimea. Now it hasn't.
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@wyringen I doubt it will be enough.
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@harmless6813 This is not true. The US and NATO spent the years between 2015 and 2022 providing equipment and training to Ukraine costing anything between $60 billion and $120billion. That army has now gone. A further $30-$40 billion has been invested to replenish losses. This may be enough for Ukraine to hold the Russians off for a while, but the chances of anything like a major offensive in the near future are pretty slim. Having said that - war is full of surprises!
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@harmless6813 Opinion is divided.
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@jonasmelander It is no lie. It is well documented.
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@jonasmelander I wouldn't disagree. Many civilians were caught in the crossfire, however, and there is no doubt that Ukraine instigated a campaign of torture and intimidation against separatist sympathisers - or indeed anyone they caught even speaking Russian. I wouldn't disagree either that the separatists have responded in kind, and that Ukrainian sympathisers are now treated in a similar fashion.
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@jonasmelander I'm not disputing that Russia sowed the seeds of the Donbass rebellions - but those seeds fell on fertile ground. Let's face it: Ukraine and Russia are both oligarchies and its people have to decide which set of oligarchs they prefer. In the case of Donbass I think a substantial number of people there, given their ethnicity and heritage, favour the Russians. They may have just cause, since the economy and wages have dropped considerably since Kiev took over. The root of the problem is, of course, the vast mineral wealth of the region and who has the most right to benefit from it.
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@wom_Bat They'll have electricity. The Ukrainians won't.
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People tragically die in wars. They get buried -unless they are scattered about for PR purposes, which seems a favourite Ukrainian trick at the moment.
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@jacqdanieles If you bother to go through the videos I sent you , you will see that they all involve Ukrainians fighting one another. This missile attack on the railway station is just the latest incident in a civil war between Ukrainians which has been going on since 2014.
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While they can. If the cold weather arrives in the next fortnight they'll have plenty to think about, sad to say.
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Russia eyeing up Ukraine. China eyeing up Taiwan. Weak and incompetent US government. Anyone see the connections?
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A rather unfortunate mis-spelling in the thumbnail!
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You are being suckered - and so is everyone who has approved your comment.
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@Kaesemesser0815 Unlike Zelensky who rules a happy and peaceful nation with none of its young men dead and not in any way in debt to America for the next hundred years.
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This is a clear illustration of what happens when governments try to hold an epidemic back with restrictions which are impossible to maintain.The disease breaks through in a killer flood. We all need to learn from this. Masks and lockdowns etc kill more people than they save.
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They deny it - because they didn't do it. The Ukrainians did.
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Strategic value is no longer a major consideration. The foolish attack on the bridge has given Russia the excuse to launch a blitzkrieg.
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@slappyfun Right the second time. These advantages are very small and make no difference in the general run of things, but if say, a lockdown is introduced, than a variant which perhaps survives for a little longer, or reproduces more quickly and efficiently, will get to those victims who are available and so the variations which enable it to do so will be passed on to succeeding generations.
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The UK variant has developed as a direct result of lockdowns. It has evolved to combat them. There are certainly vaccine-resistant variants out there. Unless herd immunity is reached pretty damned quickly we are in serious trouble.
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@El Chupacabra I am fully aware that viruses are not sentient. They do, however, exist in such astronomical numbers that even at a low rate of mutation a variant will inevitably occur which is marginally more swift and efficient than other strains. When there is a readily available pool of subjects this does not bring any special advantage. When the pool of subjects is reduced - via lockdowns - there is competition and the slightly more efficient strain gets in first, reproduces more quickly and so grows in number to become the dominant strain. Therefore the UK variant has developed as a direct result of lockdowns. It has evolved to combat them.
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@xponen Interesting. I was under the impression that the variant was one of many tens of thousands of random mutations, but one in which a slight alteration to the protein of the spikes made them more swift and efficient in the business of penetrating cells. In the normal course of events this brought no particular advantage but when the pool of available subjects was reduced due to lockdowns it enabled this variant to come to the fore. I find it hard to imagine how a virus can "learn" anything while infecting cells, but there must be something in it. I will look it up. Thankyou.
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@El Chupacabra I hear what you are saying but I would contend that the numbers of the viruses are so incomprehensibly vast that practically all physically possible mutations must already exist. Where there is no competition such mutations gain no particular advantage, There's plenty of territory to go round, as it were. When the territory is reduced -via lockdowns - this small advantage is sufficient for the slightly more efficient strain to establish dominance. This strikes me as a clear illustration of evolution at work. Those organisms which adapt most readily to altered circumstances are the ones which survive and breed. In such a situation attempting to reduce the number of potentially harmful mutations by restricting the number of transmissions strikes me as something of a fool's errand. The mutations are already out there. They only need an altered circumstance in order for their particular characteristic to bring them advantage.
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@El Chupacabra Because there's plenty to go round. The rather crude analogy I use is to imagine a vast rolling plain packed with zebras. There are lions and cheetahs about but both do equally well because all they have to do is pop out for a few minutes to nab a zebra. Suddenly the god of the zebras removes most of the zebras, just leaving a few small groups to wander around the vast rolling plain. All at once the cheetahs have an advantage. They are faster than lions and even faster than the zebras when it comes to that all-important final burst. They get their dinner and the lion doesn't.
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@cloudpoint0 Thanks for the information. You obviously know what you're talking about. Until now I've been led to believe that immunity meant just that ie if your vaccination has been successful or you have had the disease and recovered from it then it would be very exceptional for you to fall victim. And herd immunity means that if sufficient immune people exist then the virus can find few routes to non-immune subjects and thus nearly dies out. So if a vaccine resistant (or natural immunity resistant) variant exists, then there would be very little we could do to prevent it from spreading. Is this indeed the case?
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@El Chupacabra Thankyou. It has been an interesting conversation. Obviously we are in disagreement on a number of points and will remain so - but that is only natural. Sleep well!
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Instead of blaming industries we should blame the scientists. They have been wrong about everything, despite the billions they spend. A properly financed independent inquiry into the climate alarmists' methodology and assumptions is long overdue.
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What they have in common is a strong desire to crush America as soon as possible.
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