Comments by "18rabbit" (@18_rabbit) on "The Telegraph" channel.

  1. yep he is absolutely a slavic version of Churchill, and it's the slavic angle that makes him quite different from churchill of course. zelen is amazing, his communication ability IS unprecedented in leadership history, going way way way back
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  2.  @johnny9092  no ru-bot! Past six months, Ru's economy started to shake severely finally, and UKR gained ability or wiling ness to hit all those gas/oil facilities aand other key assets including military core facilities includint today, an important co was hit. Ru is hurting seriously now
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  3.  @Nostradammuss  yeah right! Zelen is the most sophisticated mind and straight-shooter in modern political history, with an ability to communicate like NO ONE has had since Churchill. Your ignorance is pretty hilarious!
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  4. Except they only spoke russian (like quite a few ppl did in Ukr) , they aren't russian ethnically, and that land is the most valuable in Ukr for industrial power bcuz of minerals. Ukr was reasonable to want to at least try to recapture the land, given it did NOT seem logical that Russia would try very hard to keep it (though they did try hard after all)
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  5. wow! brava Meghan, and i will read your book for sure. Your explanations are vibrant and move me tremendously. I've no slavic background but am third gen immigrant on one side of my family here in US as well, and for a few reasons of that immigrant experience and my grandfather's young life in Eire, feel some affinity w/ the experience of trauma he endured quietly. And even other trauma on other side of my family, due to the Pacific War. Furthermore, i had the fortune to be taught a semester of russian by a ukr american whose own family had also been in the nationalist mvmt in ukr, so i learned first hand how barbaric and horrific the soviet opression and brutality was. Thank u again, and thank u Telegraph and hosts, u r an amazing resource of news and info.!
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  6. yep & that's also why we'll need a future international order, ie. official one, where latam countries and every other country on earth will be transparent about its connections to countries like russia.
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  7. i'm a yank and not for one day of my 53 yrs, have i taken my freedom for granted. I could feel the tentacles always creeping toward me, by some judgey fellow yanks who've always had authoritarian leanings and now are full blown fascists.
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  8.  @lovebutnosoilder  sorry, but mostly older ppl warned about this over the past eight years, and they're almost entirely centrists and left wing, in the west.
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  9. not just less willing to contribute, but defacto obfuscating or hesitating repeatedly since Spring, sending mixed messages within days in statements, etc. And doing this when it's the ONLY country that can readily make the spare parts, and repair these tanks that will need maintenance and repair. DE is holding nato, ukr and my country, the USofA, hostage, and it's ...starting to effing piss us off. And the leadership of DE is my age or older, and i have ties to DE/germany. This is unsustainable and something...is gonna ...give.
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  10. it is quite rare, tho not exactly unbelievably /level actually, but i also agree it's very seriously suspicious and needs deep investigation actually bcuz Knowles was very unique as is this show in the entire western world and thus world. Ru knows the power of this show, they understand it was the only multifaceted deeply thoughtful analytical classic-style news/strategic/analysis/historical, etc that reached the broadest audience, which IS the key issue for how Ru thinks about info, as it should. Gibraltar may have easily compromised security due to its special location, plus Spain itself has had terrible security over the past two decades, and has some pro russian elements, and a lot of international criminal elements.
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  11.  @robertsteele474  my view from the frontlines is that Ru is ignorantly attemping to push its magical thinking to some insane conclusion. Ru is going to implode
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  12. possibly they indicate that. Or like many things military, the error is to err on the side of conservative calls/takes, especially in a long standing policy (8 yrs running) of the west not really having taken the Ukr predicament seriously enough, not arming them nearly enough, and being reactive instead of strategic, and being too carefully docile toward Ru directly, e.g. USa removing naval ships in the year running up to the invasion. So, take the doc's with a lot of sea salt grains. (and Go Navy!)
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  13. If USa had not supplied UKR with mil support, UKR would have been finished. What are u talking about?:?
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  14. same for me! Yank here
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  15. while i entirely agree about the US admin's messaging, or mostly agree, the actions the US has taken were the initially most substantial in terms of the one who had the resources, only we yanks had the resources. However what most of us are not privy to is the actual US capacity-- i personally do not know what we can and cannot do effectively re providing weapons. It's actually top secret as to what exactly Ukr has spoken w/ US, UK about. Assumptions in this size and scale of a war are not like anything ppl r familiar with over the past 80 plus yrs. There's a lot to consider in terms of speed of assistance, and quantity of say , shells. Keep in mind that this war has been unprecented in the sense that the Ru's are shelling on an idustrial scale never seen on earth : in 515days they shot around 100M shells/rockets etc at Ukr!! It's very unimaginable and the ramifications are several which are way too much to get into here. Keep in mind that 100Million means nearly avg of 200K a day for 515 days. Imho, the US and allies have quietly been figuring out what the overall risks really are, and preparing for potential war on a scale never seen on earth: particularly never seen bcuz naturally we know that our only advantage is: overwhelming force. To do that takes knowledge, some of which we're gaining by seeing how the Ru's operate. And seeing how the Ukr's operate. But mostly by estimating how the Ru's operate, and allies/ukr's attempt to gain intell on Ru. ...... All that said, if i'm wrong, then yes, the US is woefully inadequate in the speed at getting the other systems and equip to Ukr as well what really matters, the ability to repair those which often will require westerners to go in person. I'm the type of westerner willing to put myself in harms to way to do such repairs, if i have that knowledge. (no comment on this further detail)
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  16.  @robertonly8439  not overlooking at all, even the opposite bcuz abiding by justice needed for our compatriots, and ppl of like-spirit who are victimized by medieval bullies. That's easy to see. UK's dark past is openly know and accounted for, unlike Russia's.
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  17. nope, he's perfect for the russian-ish interests though, if he were leader of Ukr. His authenticity of the past is gone in a flash as war end approaches hopefully
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  18.  @DDWRT88  abso-so-solutely going to become a european problem. Get your head straight!
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  19. u r not fooling anyone nor making a valid point! Only intimidated ppl would think of your banal stmt as having any meaning or tone at all! Ru invaded a sovereign people's state, which has never posed a threat to it (thus is definitionally the only war-monger in this war) and is engaged in a war of genocidal hyperagression , which ultimately will be quashed, if ncessary by a coalition of the willing defenders of free-people's of the world. That was what World War Two taught us and forged the institutional and personal memory-structures that are causing Ru to LOSE THIS WAR like it has NEVER lost before!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FACT! Get ready to lose worse than 1850's and 1905!!!!!!!!!
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  20. grandma, there's no missing money and Ukr has only received assets totalling about 120B or so, and most of that was our old equip. that we'd have had to spend a lot to dispose of!! U don't sound like a grandma, in fact your stmt is fishy sounding. We yanks are not sending much money at all to Ukr and the benefit to us for the price is incredibly great! U need to learn things before u form such solid opinions which u base on wrong info and disinfo from the ruskies.
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  21. indeed. he seems very tired or 'something.
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  22.  @stephenhill545  nyope, that won't do
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  23.  @harrya.4270  no, it was infinitely worse in the late '70's and early '80's IN FACT, by a longshot!
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  24.  @justingrundmann7962  but it is fairly obvious he uses classic standard-fare political speech and hedgebets facts with blurry vision like he just slickly tried to do wrt what DJT said about Ukr having responsibility for the war happening in the first place. I always like Goncharenko but he's slipping now into lala land, when he makes that blanket stmt that since Zelen originally only wanted to serve one term, he should now hold to that, even though he became the hero of Ukraine for many Ukrainians and is objectively one of the most clear-eyed strong leaders with negotiation skill on earth, due to this historic war. (keep in mind that worldwide, this war stands out along with only a tiny handful of wars in the past 500 years to be truly epic and historic for a number of reasons.)
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  25. more mundane mediocre writing by AI for the natsi Ruzziye
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  26.  @no_no_just_no  yep, and that's tragic ,truly
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  27.  @Rocky-xx2zg  everyone call tell u didn't pay attention in school (& that the maths of life is your weak suit)
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  28.  @martavdz4972 whoa! sorry for your loss as well! I'm an american and incredibly in my tiny social world, even someone i knew was in a mass shooting at a shopping mall thirty years ago! How far we've fallen.
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  29.  @brianmartin414  he was well off before, bcuz he created the first large entertainment co ever in Ukr!! your ignorance is pathetic
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  30. propaganda by Ru. Zelen was well off already
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  31. wars cannot ever be ended without regard to cost. That's nonsensical. If u want to live in un-freedom, u can, as an 'asiatic'.
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  32.  nomen.nescio-i  equivocating/blurring lines in fasttalking mealymouthed style like he just did here while sounding tired, is not realist, it's losing the battle
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  33. yeah perfect for the russians.
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  34. YES! I'd not have made it thru past two years in tact if not for him, and for the show Silicon Curtain.
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  35. not at all. Ukrainians have been Russia's victims for centuries, it's all been documented in depth aand then publicized over the past few years. Ukr's are the opposite personailties to russians who are passive and slavish to authority.
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  36. good point, but the fact is that it was a factor bcuz of how the war will be handled over time. i.e 'Tick...tock."
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  37. do u actually know something specific about it, or about operations in Ukr?  @davidmoody2562 
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  38. indeed! thank u for clarity! Gonch really is being a little shiesser here.
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  39. tha'ts not how negotiations work w/ russia, lol. Russia is not normal. Ru demands legal ownership of the stolen lands and even more it doesn't 'yet occupy'. lol And demands UKR demilitarize!! ie Ru wants actual total war, ie WITH the 'west'.
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  40. that's not the big deal: the big deal is Ru cannot afford to use even 1 nuke, bcuz of the negative ramfications in all ways. It's very obvious. They're basically not an organized -enough society nor disciplined enough, nor suicidal enough to do it. Even the muslim fanatics can't do it. ffs!
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  41. RU will be contained by demilitarization within 15 years
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  42. fantastic reportage! usa here
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  43. he did mealy mouthed equivocating slippery-ville classic politicking. Duh.
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  44.  @unlikeable8619  ru-bot!
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  45. and those points are literally ONLY believed by russians and russian-allies who are disinfo'd to mental oblivion/mania. The succesful nations of this planet are NOT going to keep tolerating russian nonsense!! get it!?!?!
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  46. AND ru will be contained, likely by demilitarization. There ARE no alternatives at this point
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  47. and that is nonsense. Middle east will not tolerate US operations any longer! duh! US troops would never be a large part of defending Taiwan. Are u ignorant entirely?
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  48.  @Her.Serene.Feline.Cuteness.  cut the crap. Learn some physiology, bcuz shots have nothing to do with someone dying of heart failure today like this.
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  49. ru will be demilitarized or there will be no world economies
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  50. yes! i've relied on his insights as well as tiny handful of others such as Silicon Curtain (Fink), Jake Broe (recently found him), Anna from Ukraine, and others
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