Comments by "duncan smith" (@duncansmith7562) on "euronews" channel.

  1. Neither Bakhmut nor Soledar is of any importance in itself. What is of great importance is how NATO deals with the shocking reality that, according to Western media, a bunch of convicts and mercenaries, low on morale and poorly equipped, just defeated Ukraine's battalions of NATO trained and NATO armed troops. Ukraine not going to ever retake Crimea if Russia's convicts and mercenaries can rout NATO trained and armed troops in little Soledar.
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  2. Yeah, Estonia heading down the path Ukraine took, discriminating against ethnic Russians and Russian speakers. We've seen this movie before and know how it ends. Tallinn, this will not end well for you!
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  3. you don't become Italian by being born there or living there or working there. it's much deeper than that. Euronews is confusing obtaining a certain nationality with actually being native AND culturally imbued with the nation. a dog born in a stable is still a dog, not a horse.
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  4. so the pro Russian candidate is imprisoned in Estonia? Looks like Estonia has ditched EU values and adopted the Russian values that saw Navalny put in prison.
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  5. nothing "far right" about Vox. Euronews definitely far left, however.
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  6. hmmm, no report on the Ukrainian losses. am guessing that means they were astronomically high.
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  7. massive demonstration.....strange no mention of this on BBC! I wonder why?
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  8. In Russia, a democratic country, men are free to leave the country if they so wish. and street protests happen regularly. In Ukraine, a dictatorship, men are compelled to remain in the country and forced to become cannon fodder, while no opposition party is allowed in parliament and no protests allowed. Azov Nazis rule in Kiev.
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  9. but you WOULD want to go to war for a good reason, like revenge for the 8 years of Azov Nazis shelling the Donbass, right?
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  10.  @gvidon300  Ukrainian bot are always care about foreign money and armies and not for their own.
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  11. Yet again, Ukraine targeting civilians who decide to move to Russian territory. They did the same in Kharkov oblast.
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  12.  @robburns2111  where is the proof Russia is responsible? Don't judge Russia by the standards that Ukraine follows regarding innocent civilians (read again the Amnesty International report on Ukraine using human shields)
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  13.  @bluecardholder  on the contrary, what I write is the truth as I see it and as I have experienced it in Ukraine. it is the truth you are not exposed to by Western media. Am happily retired and in no need of any cash from anyone, but my heart and soul are with the Donbass ethnic Russians and I hope they can finally break free from the tyrant Zelensky soon. Got it?
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  14.  @phucanhtran1980  as always, a detailed and analytical response from Phuc
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  15. every day i thank God for putting Russians on this planet to show us the meaning of "fight for what is right".
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  16. reservist call up is not mobilization. Peskov was right. lol reservist call ups were made for US and UK forces to go to Iraq and Afghanistan.
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  17.  @moiseshuerta3984  try thinking, not just reading
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  18.  @mediocresetup  what makes you think it was the Russian cannon fodder that died in massive numbers and not the Ukrainian cannon fodder?
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  19. EU sponsored trolls have arrived in comments ha ha
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  20. AFD is not far right. Euronews is far left.
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  21. Bad choice, Moldova. Side with Russia and get loads of cheap energy, or side with the EU and get limited supplies of bloody expensive energy. no brainer, but you went the wrong way and went with the sinking ship, EU.
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  22.  @conorwhite2066  exactly, this bizarre Alice in Wonderland view the media want us to believe. Russia is poised to invade all of Europe, while Russia is so weak it can't even defeat Ukraine after one year. which one is it?
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  23.  @ultonian63  thanks for the potato, Adolf. What are you going to snack on? something fresh from the Russian meatgrinder maybe?
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  24. Germany is going to have a horrific time this winter. Scholz won't survive
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  25.  @bluecardholder  now then, you tell me exactly what I said that was untrue and how you know it to be untrue.
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  26.  @joh22293  what's your point, Sherlock?
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  27.  @joh22293  keen to debate the issues? or just desperately looking at registration dates as a way to defend the Azov Nazis?
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  28.  @tryingtocorrect  your definition of a "small" aerial (local?) conflict would be different from mine. so give me a number. how many people would have to die for a "small" local conflict to become a big local conflict? in my book, once you are over 100 (and Donbass has seen thousands and thousands) deaths, it ain't "small". would you say the Germans setting up concentration camps for German Jews was a purely German conflict and we should have let Germany deal with it? After all, if Jews don't like living in Germany, they can move out. And if black people are discriminated against in France, they can just move out, right? let them all just move out. If Kosovars don't like life in Kosovo, move to Albania! ...except NATO decided to bomb Serbia for 78 days...in this case it was not a local conflict. see why so many people are confused by your "rules based system". it is horribly illogical and inconsistent.
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  29. "Liman is a supply hub for the region meaning Russian positions in Luhansk are now under threat" supplies enter Luhansk from Russia! Not Liman! Do these reporters know anything?
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  30. "if you don't give them jobs, offer them anything" there is the problem. the Left believe a job is simply a gift, to be handed to anyone who wants a salary. what is stopping him "giving" ten jobs as taxi driver to 10 immigrants?
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  31. Russia is the largest country on the planet. if it came to nukes, Russia has the best chance of surviving, as a country, of all nations. while all UK and France is covered by mushroom clouds and horrific nuclear fall-out, Putin and co are alive and well in Vladivostok.
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  32. such an abuser, the country that provided affordable and reliable energy to the point Germany got as much of it as it could.
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  33. big difference between "taken the town" and "poised to encircle it". BTW, how's the massive Kherson offensive going?
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  34.  @tryingtocorrect  maybe some think the West reports unbiasedly? when was the last time you heard Western media report on the shelling of Donetsk?
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  35. Western media report 6 million refugees outside Ukraine, 6 million displaced within Ukraine. Zelensky destroying his own country so easily. should have implemented Minsk accords
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  36.  @ok-vk9fv  so between 1991 and 2014, why did Russia do nothing about the Donbass? pretty amazing coincidence that Russia started problems in Donbass EXACTLY the same time there was an illegal coup in Kiev!
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  37.  @wellbi  good point, so to rephrase, the West is perfectly happy with the coup in 2014 which, by definition, was totally illegal, but are aghast at referenda which allows people to express their political opinions
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  38.  @ettoreatalan8303  in that case, how to explain all the opposition parties in the Duma, including the Communist party? Either you are ignorant or you are confusing Zelensky (no opposition parties allowed in the Rada) with Putin! Which is it?
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  39.  @RobLocksley  these days, no such journalist exists, so you have to get a taste of all sources and make your best judgement
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  40. so of the 3 men interviewed, not one of them said he was fleeing the mobilization order! absolutely fake news.
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  41. All the best to you, Russia. The only country in Europe to stand up to the Azov Nazi bullies and mass murdering nationalists so beloved by Zelensky
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  42. just wait til this pipeline is completed. Putin will discover ethnic Russians in Azerbaijan have been discriminated against and launch a special military operation, declared "successful" when the Azeri pipes have been turned off. EU walking into another Russian trap.
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  43. imposing a utilities cap just means the government pays the balance of the bill, which means governments will have to raise taxes to pay their share, or print money, causing more inflation, so the people will end up paying the full bill anyway. What fools our leaders were to reject Russian energy.
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  44. perfect way to unite Russians against its neighbors, and perfect portrayal that states like Georgia and the EU believe in russophobia and reject inclusion.
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  45. The EU is such a joke. So, now it's time to worry about importing terrorism, but under Merkel the importation of a million unvetted migrants was cause for celebration. Got it.
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  46. oh wow! HUNDREDS of demonstrators? 70,000 demonstrators took to the streets in Prague the other weekend to protest the sanctions against Russia. I think we can see which way this war is going.
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  47. oh ,the pleasure of writing dismissive comments about Putin from a keyboard outside of Ukraine. such a lovely war.
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  48.  Matias D.C  so true. King Horse Face and Elensky Coke Head are chatting about how their overseas properties have increased in value of late, I suspect
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  49.  The Idiot  safeguarding Russia because Russia, strange as this may sound to you, doesn't want a pro Nazi and rabidly russophobic NATO weaponized country on its border. (just like USA insisted Cuba would not have Soviet missiles on Cuba's soil). liberating Donbass because the people of the Donbass will be finally free from the derussification and discrimination from Kiev. Russian will be the language and culture of the ethnic Russians of Donbass! the pure evil comes from the likes of you, aptly named the Idiot, who so desperately want pro Nazi tyranny compelled upon the good people of Crimea and Donbass. Pure evil. BTW, do you passionately believe that the French speakers of Canada should be stripped of their rights to use French in schools and in all branches of government? yes or no?
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  50. @The Idiot talking of Nazi style ethnic cleansing, what do you think of the fact that Stefan Bandera is a national hero of Ukraine?
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  51. Putin is the one laughing His convicts and drunken mercenaries are currently massacring Ukraine's finest, NATO trained and armed, all along the front lines. Demilitarization moving on apace.
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  52.  @diffrentperspective-z7t  what evidence is there that Russia did it? 8 years of Ukraine targeting ethnic Russians, and in this case Ukrainian citizens opting to migrate to Russia territory would be prime target for the Azov Nazis.. Fits the pattern.
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  53. Cyprus decided to abandon its independence and join the corrupt, feckless EU. You now got what you said you wanted, freedom of movement for anyone to enter Cyprus! Enjoy!
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  54. 350,000 Russian reservists trained and ready, 100,000 dead Ukrainians to date, one more mega blitz on Ukraine's power grid and in we go lads. Moral of the story: Honor what you sign. Refusing to implement the Minsk Agreements was a BIG mistake.
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  55. by definition, if a 7th package of sanctions is being prepared, the first 6 didn't work. If whatever appears in the 7th package is going to work, why was it not included in the first package? EU is getting desperate with its lies about the failing Russian economy as a way to deflect from the disasters hitting the European economies. You know when Germany is forced to nationalize its energy companies that it has failed to deal with the crisis
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  56. so exports of goods used by the Russian military have NOT been sanctioned for these last 7 months? Remind me again, is the aim of the West to help or hinder the Russian military?
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  57.  @harryseldom6472  RIP Adolf, enjoy your new "I love the Azov Nazis" tattooed across your forehead
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  58.  @Christopher.W  everything I said is accurate. what you have been told by your sources is inaccurate and misleading! Tough to hear the truth, right?
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  59.  @Christopher.W  you dispute that in Russia men are free to leave the country? Then how to account for the hundreds of news reports that show Russian men leaving the country!? You are ignorant
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  60.  @anthonychin1873  true, Izium was not well protected. Also, would be interesting to know to what degree Lyman is a victory, i.e. how much cannon fodder did Ukraine throw into the meatgrinder? Glad you find it comical. Adolf.
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  61.  @anthonychin1873  it is quite common for people who don't grasp a certain reality to react with laughter, so no surprise you find my words comical. if you want to point out any inaccuracies in what I say, please do...but then again, that would demand understanding of what is happening in Ukraine.
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  62.  @verdebusterAP  ok, now the truth, in Boxing analogies. Russia has gone into this fight with NATO/Ukraine with flexibility and caution. NATO/Ukraine was distracted in round one with some big Russian punches that took away 20% of NATO/Ukraine's energy, and NATO/Ukraine was just relieved to get through the round, battered and bruised. From round two on Russia kept gradually wearing NATO/Ukraine down while minimizing expending energy, knowing that such tactics worked well in the last bout against Syria. Here in Round 8, despite a lot of shouting from NATO/Ukraine that a massive counter attack would happen, it hasn't. How Russia will decide to win the last 4 rounds is still up for debate, but it doesn't rely on some magic energy bar supplied by the corner, it has all the tools at its disposal to win. it is just a matter of when the NATO/Ukraine corner throws the towel in. In the previous round NATO/Ukraine threw all punches they could muster and landed one, that grazed the temple. Exhausted NATO/Ukraine now just begging for a miracle to survive the next 4 rounds....but even then the judges' decision will go against them.
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  63.  @usul573  when losses are low, Zelensky and co are happy to trumpet their losses. they announce losses regularly. it's Russia that doesn't mention losses.
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  64.  @ssglbc1875  could well have been a turkey shoot for Russian forces in retreat and for Russia's long range artillery. Gotta a feeling Ukrainian losses have been massive in all offensives.
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  65.  @jjoejones1  it is certainly hard work to try and make deluded fools who gobble up Western media reports to see the real big picture, but it's my passion to shine the light of truth on the situation in Ukraine. I have fond memories of the place, and some shocking ones too.
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  66.  @calisto2735  there was no running. the retreat started days before any Ukrainians started moving through Kharkov oblast. I can't help you if you can't grasp the notion of inflicting horrendous losses on an advancing army while withdrawing. Probably it is one of many concepts you are incapable of grasping.
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  67.  @jjoejones1  conspicuous by its absence, any explanation of why the Syrian analogy is a bad one.
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  68.  @jjoejones1  If you want a Western source on Ukraine's horrendous losses in these offensives, read what the WP said on the Kherson offensive
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  69.  @jjoejones1  I provided you with logic. There's a paucity of facts available to the public in war. Neither you nor I have any idea of the death count on either side. What you and I do have are Ukrainian pronouncements on the their death counts, off and on, throughout this conflict. The Ukrainian claims of death counts can be as high as a thousand a week (when they are desperate for more handouts from the West), and as "low" as about a hundred a week, when they want to convince the world things are going well. Lately, there has been a notable silence from Ukraine on its death counts from its counter offensives. Logic dictates that means its high. Washington Post and New York Times, both rabid supporters of the Ukraine cause, have printed articles on the startlingly high Ukrainian death count. On the other hand, talking of paucity, you have offered NOTHING at all to refute my logic. But, go ahead, where is my analysis wrong? am in no hurry
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  70.  @aroundseasia  Ukraine ceased to exist as a sovereign state when it ousted its democratically elected president with Western support in 2014. Donbass citizens chose to break from Kiev and Donbass is now Russian. Azov Nazis had no right to shell anywhere in Donbass over the last 8 years. Russians are there by invitation of the free people of Donbass, and any plane that violates Donbass air space can be expected to be shot down. Very simple. Got it?
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  71.  @ModernProspector  and now the facts. Ukrainian Nazi collaborator, Stefan Bandera, is a national hero in Ukraine. He is despised in Russia. Russians fought and triumphed over Nazi Germany. The swastika tattooed Azov Nazis were welcomed with open arms to join the Ukrainian defense force. they would never be admitted to any Russian unit, ever. Right Sektor, Tornado, Aydar are all Ukrainian Nazi groups. They are not allowed to exist in Russia. There you have the facts. If you remain unconvinced watch the BBC Newsnight special on Nazi forces in Ukraine. it's on youtube still. Got it? or you prefer to keep swallowing hook, line and sinker your deluded Western propaganda and lies?
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  72.  @joh22293  1) to get Medvedchuk safe and out of Ukraine 2) to let Ukraine's cannon fodder know that if they surrender they will not swing from a rope and may well be exchanged 3) the Azov Nazi generals will be in Turkey, not Ukraine, til war's end, so it is still a form of denazifying Ukraine. Keep in mind, many Russians are VERY angry about this arrangement, but Putin also wants to keep India, China, Turkey and Saudi Arabia on his side, so humanitarian gestures like this help in that effort. (even though I suspect Putin didn't want to do this swap)
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  73.  @Watcher4111  desperate words from a deluded soul who has been brainwashed into thinking Russia can be defeated by the failing Ukraine/NATO fiasco. How are the sanctions working for you?
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  74.  Russia is killing Ukrainians  everyone lies. but the West lies much more...Ghost of Kiev!
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  75.  @tryingtocorrect  i think if 8 years and thousands of dead, massacred by Azov Nazis is a "small local conflict" then Russia's staging just 4 referenda in a tiny piece of occupied territory is also a small local matter. No need for NATO or EU or anyone to get involved in small ethnic Russian matters.
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  76.  @tryingtocorrect  I give you nothing but facts. THOUSANDS died as a result of Azov Nazi shelling. You believe the word of an "official war inspector"? what was his name? why did he not include all the soldiers killed in this conflict? Are you even thinking? YOU GO AGAINST THE FACTS AND DENY THE TRUTH but that would be typical of a Nazi supporter. Denying the Nazi influence over Ukraine is confirmation you support bigotry, russophobia and hate. Thank God you lost the argument and the war. SLAVA ROSSIYI..you lost.
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  77.  @joh22293  never saw any answer!
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  78.  @bluecardholder  been to Ukraine, lived and worked there, in 2018, Not been to Donbass. Have a degree in Russian and speak it fluently. Currently have 2 Ukrainian online students, one Russian and one Kazak. so, let's hear your personal connection to Ukraine to see where you get your info from
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  79.  @joh22293  search carefully, i answered your question about the release of Azov prisoners and then asked you to let me know how you get your firsthand info from Ukraine
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  80.  @joh22293  1) to get Medvedchuk safe and out of Ukraine 2) to let Ukraine's cannon fodder know that if they surrender they will not swing from a rope and may well be exchanged 3) the Azov Nazi generals will be in Turkey, not Ukraine, til war's end, so it is still a form of denazifying Ukraine. Keep in mind, many Russians are VERY angry about this arrangement, but Putin also wants to keep India, China, Turkey and Saudi Arabia on his side, so humanitarian gestures like this help in that effort. (even though I suspect Putin didn't want to do this swap)
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  81.  @lfarrell6375  of course, someone who lived the truth of russophobia in Ukraine has to be laughed off. anything challenging your narrative of "Ukraine good, Russia bad" has to be dismissed, otherwise the house of cards of why this conflict is happening (Putin's aggression) just collapses. I was the teacher ordered not to use Russian as the class lingua franca, not you. i have that experience. not you. laugh on, fool.
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  82.  @cuibono7774  but if you were prohibited from using German in public and told that Goebels had been declared a national hero? In Donbass, Russian speakers were told everything public must be in Ukrainian and that Stefan Bandera was now a national hero. The Azov Nazis were admitted into Ukraine's defense force...would you be a pacifist if Nazi groups were admitted into the German army? Maybe, maybe still not worth fighting about. not easy to imagine.
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  83.  @caterine837  it is completely different from many countries! "there is ALWAYS ONE state language and everyone should use it" ok, what is the ONE state language of Belgium that EVERYONE should use? and what is the penalty for NOT using this ONE STATE language?
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  84.  @caterine837  looks like you can't answer my very simple question about the "ONE" official language of Belgium! Want to try again? What is the one official language of Belgium?
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  85.  @caterine837  not letting you escape from your most ignorant statement. you said quite clearly that countries always have one official language, and that everyone should use that official language. you clearly know nothing, but go ahead, show the world your wisdom. very simple question, third time of asking, what is the official language of Belgium that "everyone should use"?
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  86.  @caterine837  and the one official language of Canada?
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  87.  @caterine837  and the one official language of Switzerland?
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  88.  @caterine837  and the one official language of Spain?
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  89.  @caterine837  and the one official language of Wales? Welsh? All English speakers in Wales are compelled to have their entire education conducted in Welsh? No broadcasting of English allowed in Wales? The only language permitted in government entities would be Welsh, no English allowed? If such restrictions were implemented in Wales there would be a revolution. Now you understand why the Donbass revolted.
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  90.  @marksages1691  So all supplies coming from Belgorod can still be offloaded before the train gets to Liman, correct?:) and please tell, before Liman was captured, did the Ukrainians let Russian supplies go by rail through Ukrainian held territory to Donetsk city?,
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  91.  @marksages1691  from Belgorod to where?
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  92. so now it is "extreme right" to demand no more immigration? China, Poland, Japan, South Korea, Russia, Belarus, North Korea...all countries that shun immigration and value a homogenous society, so I guess they are all extreme right?
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  93. Price cap on energy = jump in energy prices - benefits to Russia, more suffering in Europe. Our leaders are so dumb.
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  94.  @mikegoodie7905  The same applies in reverse. So, what it comes down to is, would Putin be prepared to gamble that the West's response to one nuclear device used on Ukraine would NOT be a nuclear device launched against Russia? Is Ukraine worth a nuclear holocaust in the eyes of the West? One hell of a gamble for the West to assume Putin is all bluff.
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  95. as always, the politicians' solution is to keep expanding the Ponzi scheme of adding more and more immigrants to the work pool, instead of privatizing pensions and slashing social programs.
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  96. hard to believe that so many people would be furious their government can't even provide electricity and energy and would accept cash payments to go and protest!
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  97.  @ravgm7947  how about you try to rewrite that in English?
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  98.  @KaiserS0ZE  and for the Azov Nazis (Ukraine) no pay no winter uniform no more Western weapons no air force no navy no tax revenues no independence no hope, no gains, no future no return of the 7 million refugees no more cannon fodder to throw into the Russian meatgrinder fully fertilized crops next year no bloody fuel for the harvesters
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  99.  @eduardadhi110  still going well? how many thousands of Ukrainian cannon fodder have died in the Russian meatgrinder in Kherson oblast? please list all the towns recaptured! how much closer are Ukrainian forces to Kherson city now than they were a month ago? you and I may well have different definitions of "going well"! An offensive is NOT a fixing operation! If the aim of the Kherson offensive was to recapture no territory but to keep Russian troops in place, then it is a fixing operation, not an offensive! "offensive" means "moving forward"!
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  100.  @thejosh3855  that would depend on how many more thousands of Azov Nazi cannon fodder got chewed up in the Russian meatgrinder, right, Adolf?
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  101.  @thejosh3855  bit of a personal question for you, Adolf, but do you have a picture of Stefan Bandera in your room?
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  102.  @thejosh3855  Certainly do. Putin is the great defender of the rights of ethnic Russians the world over. He deserves support. Only the deluded, brainwashed or Nazi supporters would not see that and would not appreciate Putin's vision.
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  103. time to ship all those migrants to Brussels and veto every single EU vote and refuse to contribute anything to the EU.
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  104. Lower population is a good thing. This is just a load of woke propaganda.
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  105.  @martinskesteris8664  Given that a Latvian man was jailed for stomping on a Ukrainian flag, thank God I'm not Latvian! Freedom of speech now dead in the Chihuahua states (Baltic states)
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