Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "ATACMS Are Soon Coming to Ukraine" video.

You are still keeping me and mine sane. I would encourage everyone, especially if you live in Europe, to write to your representatives and demand that stern warnings are issued to Russia, by NATO, about the Zaporizhzhia power station, with concrete statements of action that WILL occur should it leak or blow up, for any reason! Believe me, having lived through the Chernobyl disaster in the UK, when weather reports became the most watched shows on TV world wide, as we tracked a radioactive cloud across the northern hemisphere, you really DON’T want to live through an experience like that, but 64 times more lethal to us all. The mere threat of it was life destroying for many, souring all things, depressions risings everywhere, and being unable to escape even into entertainment, let alone from the weather.
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@TheMadricks : None that matters when it’s deliberate sabotage. That stuff only counts when people are trying to contain any problems and prevent leaks, meltdowns, explosions, etc. For all we know, Putin might have a nuke sitting in a cellar next to the reactors. All of the safety features are only relevant when you have sane people in charge.
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@aaronmicalowe : I was out collecting for Cancer Research when I heard. One of our subscribers invited us into her house and made us tea while we watched events unfold on her TV. I remember how my mum cried, how weather reports were all that people talked about. I heard a story about a guy who refused to let his own kids into the house after they got caught in a rainstorm, but I always hoped that was apocryphal. I remember the anxiety that pervaded all things, though I hope you were protected from that to some extent? It was a shit time to be alive. But it was an accident. Criminally negligent and worsened by corruption and a slow political system that was unfit for purpose, but an accident, nonetheless. I do not want to live to see the first act of nuclear terrorism and I just pray that NATO, if they are being so quiet about this, that’s because they are using their back door access to Putin’s diplomats, to spell out the swift invasion Russia and how India and China will be assisting NATO should nuclear weapons become the issue? Russia with access to nukes is like an upset chimp with a machine gun. Funny in a video (from a different planet, maybe?) but you don’t want to be in the same room.
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@netdragon256 : He probably is doing that now. But from a different location, off shore. Or maybe still setting them up somewhere? The atmosphere must be changing in Russia if you can call Putin a, “worm,” and a, “coward,” on a popular incel podcast without fear of reprisal?
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@greghuey6639 : 🥁 Bah dum dum, tsss! 🥁 . . . Pretty funny 😄👍
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@doogssmee9742 : There won’t be an attack from the north. Jake gave his reasoning in his previous video. But we could always hope they’re that dumb, I guess? As to the power plant, a blast from there would destroy as much Russian territory as Ukrainian, which Putin would gladly sacrifice to, “save face.” But a leak would suffice to do the same level of collateral harm, so long as they have the prevailing winds on their side, with a reliable forecast for the next few days at least. That, we SHOULD be worried about. Yes, Putin gets to back down without having to admit Ukraine defeated him, whilst all of the border territory becomes uninhabitable and thus moot. I think this is why NATO has been relatively quiet about it? So as not to fuel Putin’s narratives? And, we need to be straight about this. The mere act of mining the power station is a terrorist threat to the entire world. It should be addressed and called out as such. The radiation cloud will be at least 64 times more lethal than Chernobyl’s. And Russia will be seeing that disaster as their practice run, relying on the data they collected from that to war game this scenario. We should not be tolerating this.
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@aaronmicalowe : Fortunate for you, I suppose. Not everyone took it in or followed it closely. It really was one of those times when it paid to be dumb or out of touch. The smarter people were, the more troubled they were. It blackened the hearts and memories of some. And there was a lot of anger and resentment at Russia, from all around the world: some at being at the mercy of a foreigner’s incompetence, some at having the atomic energy commissions of the UN and NATO suddenly step up their demands, presence and expenses in borderline hostile countries. It goes a long way toward explaining why Germany has so little nuclear energy reliance to this day (for good or ill, that’s another conversation) and changed a great deal about international politics. If losing the war in Afghanistan was the cause of Soviet Russia’s fall, the Chernobyl disaster was the catalyst; the first domino to fall, which set events in motion. There’s a complex story to tell, which I won’t bore you with now, about how the overestimates of the harm in the immediate blast area caused more psychological and imagined harm than real. But that cloud was as real as it gets, until it dissipated. And 64 times the lethality would cause devastation across Europe. Factoid footnote: the fall of the Soviet Union being precipitated by Chernobyl, and the fate of two journalists accused of spying by the Russians, was the inspiration for the plot of the movie Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. And it’s actually a pretty damned good movie, if you like Star Trek? 🇺🇦✌️🇬🇧
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@Loki1191 : Actually, something like that crossed my mind. They could be simply dumping each fresh recruit on the front lines of Ukraine? A double whammy? Rooting out and, “punishing,” the troublemakers whilst shoring up their flagging defences? Still a desperately weak play on Putin’s part. All Russians see is that these, “mutineers,” and, “traitors,” cannot be stopped at any level. Either way, ruse or not, Putin is clearly much weaker than he was this time last week.
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@Walterwaltraud : It’s the round, black, Acme ones, with the word, “BOMB,” printed on them that you have to watch out for. Don’t light the fuses on those suckers. 😉✌️
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@greghuey6639 : The FSB, or people inside the FSB, have been playing both ends of the field since before the war began. It was their Intel leaks that alerted Zelensky to more than one assassination attempt. That was solid Intel. As was other information that helped block the invasion plan. I would bet real money that Prigozhin’s little mutiny stopped only when the FSB decided which side they would flop on and told him it wasn’t going to be his. And before anyone says, “But wait! The FSB was Putin’s creation. His hand picked people.” 23 years ago it was, and even then it was made up of ex-KGB and mafia hoods co-opted into positions of power. But, as Putin will know more than most, they were always trained to play both sides, to eschew all, “ideology,” and to be willing to betray anybody. Putin made them that way. Just as he made Wagner from a bunch of literal tattooed Nazis and criminals, who only win battles because they recruit cannon fodder, expressly there to die in battle or be shot for retreating (often whilst retreating), so this is the world he has made for himself. What makes me laugh is that there are still people out there who think Putin is in some way, “smart.” All the hard evidence is to the contrary.
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@@MPK2112 : The problem with that analysis is that you are not there. You cannot, “see,” anything. But, to prove my point I’ll risk a prediction: By the end of the year, (perhaps early 2024?) Ukraine will have taken back areas they did not have control over last year when the war started. And Russia will be begging for peace talks. I can’t say whether this will happen over Putin’s dead body or not. But it will happen.
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