Comments by "DasBubba" (@dasbubba841) on "Good Times Bad Times" channel.

  1.  @the11382  But there is also London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Tokyo.
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  2.  @djkuhl  Or other preferential treatment from the Chinese government, which will absolutely bend its rules for something it views as necessary.
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  3. Could probably add in the 7,000 as well. While most may just be captured (and theoretically recoverable via POW swaps), I'd reckon that at least a quarter to a third are dead. Regardless, 13+ thousand dead is the equivalent to an entire division being destroyed.
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  4. It's terribly ironic, it has to have been planned as a joke. Though knowing Russia, perhaps it wasn't.
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  5. Assuming it was even written somewhere.
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  6.  @Trubripes  A frozen conflict would suit no one. For Russia, a lack of a treaty would mean that sanctions would continue to degrade their economy. They NEED to bring Ukraine to the negotiating table. While Ukraine is complaining about munition shortages, the the fact is that they can replace their equipment with stuff from the West. Russia, on the meanwhile, cannot replace their equipment. Time works against them, and freezing the conflict would mean Ukraine would have time to recover and rearm. Ukraine would only benefit from a short term freeze (maybe a few weeks, to a couple of months), to keep Western interest high. Also, to keep the Russians on their toes, and to prevent them from digging in. The conflict won't freeze. It will go on until someone breaks.
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  7.  @Rocketsong  And drones are also easier to run. If you shoot down a MiG, you lose not only the plane, but usually the pilot as well (even if he doesn't die, he might have bailed out over Russian controlled territory, or is injured at the very least). If a drone is shot down, you just lose the drone. The "pilot" is still safe in base.
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  8.  @stafida8624  Of course. In the event of a Russian invasion of the Baltics, even if they could seize the Baltics, they would be thrown out pretty quickly. The invasion of Ukraine revealed to the world that the Russian military is seriously not up to scratch.
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  9. Somaliland has been de-facto independent since 1990, and gained it's independence completely on it's own. The DPR/LPR are basically client states, and are completely dependent on aid, both militarily and economic, from Moscow.
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  10. Lack of accountability, strong regional viceroys, nukes, and an immense stockpile of Soviet weaponry is a terrible combination.
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  11.  @DerLamer  How come Germany's defense ministers have never had ANY sort of military service as of late? For the past two decades, only like two people have had any sort of military service, and that was only the basic mandatory service.
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  12. I doubt it will. Russia needs to get something from this war, and the Ukrainian populace demands that no territory be ceded. If the war freezes, it won't be for long.
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  13.  @Trubripes  In that war, most of the fighting was done, at the end, by the US and China. South Korean and North Korea had, by then, largely lost their armies (North Korea's army had been destroyed in 1950). In this war, it is only Ukraine and Russia doing actual fighting. NATO is not expending lives, just weapons. The US has no incentive to have Ukraine lose, Ukraine, for obvious reasons, wants to fight until victory.
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  14.  @robvannNS  Why then is China building them then? Why is South Korea in the design phase for their own? Why does Russia bother to keep it's one carrier active then?
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  15.  @madensmith7014  Not necessarily. For one, due in part by "Wolf Warrior" diplomacy, China's trade power hasn't translated into diplomatic influence. And two, China's manufacturing and trade power is worthless without a potent navy. Sea transportation is very important for bulk commodities. China has also been moving to restrain it's market sector. The bureaucrat (Communist Party) fears business tycoons displacing their power. It also comes at a time where China's economy is cooling down (due to a multitude of factors).
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  16.  @aldindurakovic8828  When in doubt, blame the West (Crusaders, Zionists, etc.) instead of your own corrupt leadership that squanders your potential. Of course, Islamism is the solution to everything. What worked for Muhammad and Saladin will work today. The Quaran demands that you stay as a backwards tribe (it doesn't).
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  17. A pleasant break for Russia on the information sphere. Just goes to show how much Russia can benefit from a mistake made by its foes, even though its battlefield conditions haven't changed.
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  18.  @bonsirt7335  No clue what you're talking about, it's 3.55 here. Also, high gas prices had basically no impact on people's support for Ukraine.
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  19. They're defending their nation. Every man has the obligation and right to defend his nation and home from foreign invaders. Will crime become worse because of the distribution of weapons? Yes. However, that comes second to when invaders are driving down your street. Russia attacked Ukraine, not the other way around.
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  20.  @TuscanBrick  Russia can produce some seriously advanced weaponry. The problem is that they lack the resources (ahem, cash) to produce significant numbers of that. T-14 Armata? 20-ish built. Su-57? 14 I think. The T-90? 300 roughly.
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  21. Ask Mubarak how that went for him. Also, it would basically collapse Egypt. Millions would starve, and many more would migrate en masse.
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  22.  @dudemantype  I'm sure his oligarch allies are furious. Russia is cut off from the Western financial system, so probably a lot of their money is frozen. War, simply put, is bad for business.
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  23. At the national level sweaty, pay attention.
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  24.  @Maria_Erias  China is most assuredly rubbing their hands together with glee. Whereas before the Kremlin could boast of its military strength (in contrast to Russia's weak economic strength) in contrast the China, the debacle in Ukraine makes them look like buffoons. Russia now has less leverage against China, especially with sanctions biting. They are less of a partner to China and more of a sidekick. Thus, they can leverage more political and economic control over Russia, especially they oil and gas China covets. And Russia has no choice, because they've pissed off NATO, so they can't balance China out.
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  25.  @TheSwedishHistorian  I don't think I will.
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  26. So anything that doesn't parrot the RT line is propaganda? Russia isn't a superpower, and their war isn't just.
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  27.  @DerLamer  I see. The German military is pathetic for a country of an economy of that size. Perhaps the invasion of Ukraine will finally wake them up from having their heads buried in the sand.
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  28.  @StuffandThings_  Not trying to handwave away overpopulation. Egypt probably could actually decently feed its current population, and then some, with the right management and technology (desalination, proper infrastructure, using more efficient crops, etc.) but its corrupt and decadent elite actively kneecaps the country.
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  29.  @fromthefire4176  One of the main reasons why the military is strictly under the control of elected civilian leadership in most stable countries. Also why the military is usually kept outside the economy. In Egypt, however, the military is given massive control over large sections of the economy (including ownership of massive state enterprises, is guaranteed to win bids, etc.) mostly to keep the generals loyal (and too busy enriching themselves to challenge Sisi or his predecessor Mubarak).
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  30.  @lefroste6370  you are completely clueless
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  31.  @INSANESUICIDE  No, Ukraine gave up its nukes because it was broke. By 1996, its oligarchs had plundered the country, and were absolutely happy to hand over its nukes for basically nothing.
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  32.  @Trubripes  If the Russian leadership was smart, they'd trade their gains and the separatists for recognition of Crimea. Their separatist client states are basically on the verge of economic collapse, and have served as little more than cannon fodder in this war.
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  33.  @themule6032  Hungarians are suspicious of Russia, for obvious reasons (1956 Hungarian Revolution, for example). Orban is a sort of populist conservative, similar to the Polish government, but for some reason is friendly to Russia, instead of being expectedly hostile to it.
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  34.  @sinoroman  People say that, and have been saying that for over two months, but nothing has materialized. If Russia was actually going to win, they'd have won already. Every day that passes, every day that Russia can't get Ukraine to the negotiating table and get a peace treaty, is a day where Ukraine gets stronger and Russia gets weaker. People have this mythical view of Russia, that it is a great military power, a superpower who defeated the Nazis. Truth is, Russia is a decrepit, rotten, rusting remnant of a superstate that fell apart 30 years ago. Industries are plundered for their wealth by oligarchs, who then stash their money in Swiss banks. There is an epidemic of HIV/AIDS, infrastructure is crumbling, people are leaving for the West... Russia will lose, and Russia may not survive it. Perhaps that's a good thing, and maybe its people will take a hard look about the state of affairs that they put themselves in.
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  35.  @navajoguy8102  Who cares? Is Saddam still in power? Does the Ba'ath regime still control Iraq? In a few weeks, Iraq was dismantled by a country on the other side of the globe. Russia hasn't even beaten it's neighbor after six months.
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  36.  @samuelskinner7704  RT is the mouthpiece of the Russian government. How is it any different than the MSM in the US?
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  37.  @samuelskinner7704  RT blatantly lies all the time. It's not a reliable source.
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  38. It's war. People die in war.
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  39. I disagree on his perception of it, but he was ultimately ahead of his time.
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  40. The Iranians are a useful tool to keep the Israelis and Saudis in line, and prevent them from killing each other. Iran is a far more useful as a boogeyman to the Gulf states than what it might be without sanctions.
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  41. And extremely corrupt.
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  42. I'm not sure Lukashenko wanted this. I'm sure he was content to just sit this one out, but with Russian troops in his country, he has little choice. If Russia seriously loses the war, to the point where Russia as a viable entity is in doubt, Lukashenko would likely not survive. I'm sure Belarussian troops would perform even worse than Russian troops, given their worse equipment and likely even worse morale. Belarus doesn't have all that oil to bankroll a super modern army, and unlike Ukraine, largely lacks a domestic arms industry.
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  43.  @tylerw6438  Autocrats are willing to risk anything and everything to stay in power (usually, staying in power means staying alive).
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  44. It will also set off a nuclear arms race. Not only authoritarian countries like Iran or North Korea, but also any country that has its very existence threatened, like Taiwan. If Taiwan thought that the US would "puss out" over a Chinese invasion, because China has nukes, then the only logical solution to ensure Taiwan's survival becomes producing nuclear weapons. Which very well might spook China into war, and if they are too slow, a war against a nuclear-armed Taiwan.
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  45. The same reason that the Kremlin refuses to implement a general mobilization. No one cares if some impoverished Dagestani or Buryat from the edges of the Federation dies.
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  46. Probably not the really serious crimes. If you're an ex-soldier and you're only in for a year for theft, you're getting shipped to Kharkiv, whereas if you've committed double homicide, you're probably staying in there.
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  47.  @wunwong9251  Cool and all, but how does that help the average Chinese citizen, who is much poorer than their US counterparts? The USSR was more advanced than the US in some fields, but was still a far poorer country.
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  48.  @wunwong9251  I guess that's why consumer spending is so trash in China. FYI, housing prices in the big Chinese cities were going for NYC-tier rates, while the average resident was making sub-Mississippi wages. But, you know, birth rates are falling just because. Also massive youth unemployment, which you seem to ignore (just like the CCP). The US has been seeing dramatically increased Chinese immigration, especially since 2021. I wonder why... Also, China's GDP is obviously inflated. Even Hu Jintao admitted as much. That's what you get for building an economy on a property bubble. Say, I hope you didn't invest in real estate...
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  49.  @wunwong9251  lol wumao. Property prices are dropping even lower.
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  50. Russia's elite, and the rest of the population in general, have a sort of "bunker mentality" combined with the idea that their hardships have made them tougher and stronger. Combined with their disregard for life (which everyone else knows too) gives them the assumption that they can bluff their way out of problems. They do this under the assumption that the West, who value peace and the lives and wellbeing of their citizens, would rather just let Russia have what it wants instead of risking a war.
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