Comments by "duncan smith" (@duncansmith7562) on "Battle for Bakhmut exposes divisions on both sides | DW News" video.

"if you watch Russian state media" oh, I would love to! But I live in the EU, where the democratic powers have eliminated freedom of speech, so I am prevented from tuning in to Russian broadcasts.
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More of the Hope strategy from DW's handlers. Just hoping Russia will run out of ammo, total focus on any hint of a difficulty on Russia's side, turning a blind eye to Ukraine's debacle.
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@ionnanskilliorus6877 the leader of the Wagners says many things, and he absolutely LOVES to shout about any deficiencies coming from Moscow. At least we get to hear about his complaints, as opposed to the total silence we get from what the Ukrainian generals really think!
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@ionnanskilliorus6877 rate of fire on the front has decreased from 7 to 1 ratio in Russia's favor, to 4 to 1 in Russia's favor. And this represents a huge victory in your deluded NATO/Ukronazi mind?:) how desperate are you|?
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@ionnanskilliorus6877 why the assumption the Wagners want to take the town? massacring the starving uktonazi cannon fodder as it limps along the one dirt road left open to them will be like shooting fish in a barrel. what a brilliant win this is for Zelensky!
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@CryptoRoast_0 who says they want to take Bakhmut? with hundreds of ukronazis dying every day there, the victory is seeing the ukronazi death toll sky rocket. roll on the next conscription of teenage boys and girls to take an early dirt nap!
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@CryptoRoast_0 wishful thinking. no evidence at all that Russian losses are enormous. it's the Russian decisions to vacate Kharkov and Kherson that enabled them to have the man power and weaponry to massacre so many Ukronazis in Donbass, and now with 300,000 trained reservists in the wings.
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@ionnanskilliorus6877 the humiliation is all on NATO and its puppet state Ukraine. sanctions failed, isolation failed, and now war is failing. most of the world is absolutely fine with Russia and has only disdain for the West
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@UnfollowYourDreams and your most reliable source for these numbers of Russian losses? let me guess, CNN? the channel that is still trying to prove Russian collusion?
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@thatlittlevoice6354 so suddenly you DO believe everything that the Wagners claim?
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@jamesdoe3713 the only narrative they have that brings hope is "Russia is running out of men and weapons". the reality of the situation is too shocking for them, so they desperately cling to the fiction of "Russia is running out of men and weapons"
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@CryptoRoast_0 confirmed by BBC/Medusa, who tried to prove some other astronomically high number, but couldn't, so had to agree with a number close to that offered by the Russian Defence Ministry a while back. what's your reliable source?
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@CryptoRoast_0 the winner of this war will not be the side that holds the most territory, but the side that doesn't run out of men, weapons and ammo and which achieves its objectives. Russia is much closer to that point than Ukraine/NATO
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@UnfollowYourDreams no one really cares if convicts, mercenaries and Syrians die. Russia is just fighting very clever, instead of allowing all its Russian nationals get wiped out. Ukraine just wishes it could do the same.
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@CryptoRoast_0 link to what? now you want me to do your homework for you? you can google, can't you?
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@ionnanskilliorus6877 no nerves hit, just always a pleasure to straighten out your deluded mind
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@ionnanskilliorus6877 conspicuous by its absence, little boy, is anything that refutes what I said with evidence! you got nothing!
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@ionnanskilliorus6877 just curious, do you still revere Stefan Bandera as a national hero of Ukraine?
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@ionnanskilliorus6877 what do you think the map proves?
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@ionnanskilliorus6877 just so funny you think that a dictator from Georgia that led the Soviet Union could possibly be an official national hero of the Russian Federation. Boy, are you dumb. I guess they changed the name of Stalingrad to Volgagrad in honour of , uh, national hero, Stalin, right? so very very dumb.
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@wtl912 no one is saying Russian media tells the truth all the time. we are just saying we thought, here in the West, we were free to choose to watch Russian media and then decide what we thought was true and what was false. But that right has been denied us. the West has become Russia, even worse.
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@wtl912 at least if you do have access to Russian media you can hear insightful questions about the Nordstream sabotage, which is not aired in the West. you can also see coverage of the anti NATO and anti war demonstrations happening across Europe, which Western MSM ignores and pretends isn't happening.
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@joaovitorino662 there are many things I can do to evade the consequences of Western censorship. But the fact remains, the Western "democracies" have chosen censorship. Let that sink in.
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@pansepot1490 but a Russian bot that speaks the truth and that annoys you.
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@trumpforever6706 you can tell who are the sheep in the discussion when the limit of their "thinking" is "pro Russian view = Russian bot". the notion that we Westerners can see the hypocrisy in play is beyond their comprehension, what little they have.
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@joaovitorino662 slavery was a restriction based on laws too, so what's your point?
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@joaovitorino662 no one is asking you to explain any laws. I am just asking you why the West's decision to censor media broadcast from Russia is such a wonderfully democratic and freedom-respecting law. If I choose to watch RT on my tv, why should the government have the right to ban that choice?
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@joaovitorino662 of the many countries you have lived and worked in, which country felt the most free and freedom loving?
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@joaovitorino662 once again, you are suggesting a way of getting around a law put in place to censor what information I receive. Like telling people in China, "there is no censorship in China, just change your vpn". you miss the point.
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@joaovitorino662 so explain how I used to be able to access the RT channel on my laptop in France, that I could access the RT channel on my laptop in Mexico, but then when returning to France, after the EU ban on RT broadcasts, I was unable to access the RT news service? when you say "it is not a priority"...not a priority for whom? It is a priority for RT to broadcast to the West, and it is my priority to receive that service. for whom is it not a priority?
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@joaovitorino662 "EU court confirms ban on Russia Today" how about you google that and tell me if it is a ban, or just a lack of priority.
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