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

  1. how dumb us this b***h? "other cities in Russia"...Baikonur is in Kazakhstan! You got the wrong country! Russia is recruiting mercenaries. So what? What do you think the Mozart Group was?
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  2. well, if you are not sure if it is the counter offensive, that means either the counter offensive is failing, or your expectations of what Ukraine can do as a counter offensive are incredibly low. speaks volumes.
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  3. No serious analyst thinks Ukraine will win this war. It's just a question of how and when the Western leaders, and therefore Western media, will admit that it failed and that Ukraine is defeated.
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  4. "respect the sovereignty of all nations".....so, Jake, was the sovereignty of Irak, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Serbia all respected by USA and NATO? The answer is "no". So, stop being a weasel and a hypocrite.
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  5. Tweedledum and Tweedledee these two. Neutral nations now see Ukraine as the party that rejected a peace offer, so China and India even more on Russia's side now. Russia is not "on the back foot", check out what is happening in Soledar and Bakhmut. NATO is unable to send what Ukraine needs. The drip drip of scraping the barrel weapons shows that Putin is close to demilitarizing NATO. These 2 have no clue.
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  6.  @Katoshi_Takagumi  Russian rules would be much more beneficial to much more ordinary people, unless you love it that your children are being taught that a man can become a woman and that white babies are born racist.
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  7. keep in mind Putin hasn't brought sanctions against the West, to talk about. Patience. You may find out what escalation means soon.
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  8.  @NothingIsKnown00  yep, could be. let's see how France does without uranium.
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  9.  @rogerwilco5918  not allowed to move the goalposts. you said "feel free to prove ANY part of that nonsense is truth". so, I get to choose which part to establish as "truth", as you offered me ANY part. so, either learn what the word "ANY" means, or proceed with what you asked me to do. Western media have reported that the Wagners have been using released convicts. true, or false?
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  10.  @RussiasSufferingInUkraine  if those aren't Ukraine's finest, that would mean you know where Ukraine's finest are, and can prove it. so, go ahead.
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  11. just hilarious that there are so many fools who think it is a really good idea for NATO/Ukraine to fight a war of attrition with Russia. Slowly, they are learning the truth. also funny that the counter offensive has "slowed". No, it has stopped. and it never really moved forward. Russia is demilitarizing both NATO and Ukraine. "More cluster bombs" do i hear Biden say?
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  12.  @sekseemarcuskidd  if by "he" you mean Biden, of course he will, but the bigger question is whether his handlers can pump him up with enough meds and Red Bull to avoid his descending into bumbling mutterings.
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  13. the aim of the sanctions was to deny Putin the revenues needed to wage war, not to just weaken the Russian economy so that waging war is more difficult. the sanctions have failed. there is no hint of regime change in Moscow, the war of attrition is going Russia's way, and it is Ukraine/NATO now begging places like South Korea for artillery that will keep Ukraine in the conflict. Janet Yellen is the genius that said the inflation plaguing the West was just "transitory". she is either dumb or a liar.
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  14. evil is cheering Nazi collaborator and mass murderer, Stefan Bandera, as a national hero. Ukraine is a cesspit of evil, Nazi nationalism, Russophobia, corruption and hypocrisy. The sooner it surrenders the better. Slava Rossiyi
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  15.  @scurra1163  cheerleading the Azov nazis is as low as it gets, no lectures needed from someone cheering on the Azov Nazi battalion. Big fan of Bandera yourself are you? Ukraine is receiving totally insufficient aid, you dope, hence it does nothing but beg, beg, beg. winners don't beg. Zhaluzny says he needs 300 tanks. no one in NATO got that in storage and ready to go, do they? Only a few people in the Kremlin know how many men Russia is losing, and one of them is not you, so stop pretending your crystal ball works. news for you. most of the planet doesn't care what happens in Ukraine, but they do care that Russian energy is still exported, they do care Russian grain is exported, they do care to work and trade with Russia. ONLY the deluded Western bubble talks of Russia as a pariah. Get out of the bubble and see the reality, just once! Russia is winning and everyone knows it. those in denial, like you, make up dumb stuff about sinking economy and heavy losses, ignoring the fact that Ukraine is bankrupt and begging. Take a dose of reality and regain your senses.
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  16. @Jar of Mikeys you know nothing. Ukraine started this war with an amazing fleet of tanks, built up over 8 years as NATO prepared for this. Ukraine was awash with weapons. They all got destroyed. Any other tanks sent in to Ukraine will get destroyed. NATO the slowest kid in the class. they don't get it that Ukraine can't win this, and emptying the arms depots and sending everything available is just an invitation to Russia to reduce NATO to zero.
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  17.  @albatros12  traitor to whom?
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  18.  @ronaldcole7415  oh, so Ronald, suddenly you want to pivot from my explanation of what a war of attrition entails to ....rank? profession? authority? truly pathetic. let's see how an expert like you argues the points made, not rank etc. in my focus on a war of attrition so far, what did I say that is demonstrably incorrect? newsflash for you, smug Ronald. You have no monopoly on analyzing war. so get off your high horse, and debate the issues. no one is impressed with your claims of authority, prove your self by debating the matter, not preening yourself in a mirror. Ye Gods, now | see why the US has lost so badly in recent decades with types like you leading the way.
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  19.  @ronaldcole7415  by the way, US Navy tactical officer and war historian, the word is "regale", not "regal". Consult me, please, for any other tips on improving your writing skills.
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  20.  @ronaldcole7415  then, clearly, it will be easy for such an expert as yourself to tear apart my very uncredentialled analysis. So just read what I have posted so far, and correct me. By the way, what credentials did Einstein have when he started writing on relativity?
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  21.  @edwardgiovannelli5191  unless the Ukrainians run out of men, and the front collapses.
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  22.  @ИванМартыненко-и3б  Ronald doesn't have to do that, because Ronald knows far more than people like Ritter, as Ronald is a historian (even though he confuses "regale" with "regal") and as a retired officer has all the credentials to ignore uncredentialled people like Ritter and Douglas MacGregor.
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  23.  @dutchdna  learn the difference between USSR and Russian Federation, then rejoin the debate. BTW, USSR at the time of the invasion of Afghanistan was led by a Ukrainian warmonger, Leonid Brezhnev, surprise surprise!
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  24.  @trillmoney263  Ronald is a retired officer and historian, he doesn't need any input from you! What you said makes perfect sense, but given only Ronald has credentials to comment, you are wasting your breath!
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  25.  @jrobertgrack9342  brilliantly said! reality.
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  26.  @edwardgiovannelli5191  yet another Azov nazi lover account. Is throwing teenage cannon fodder up against the Chechens and Wagners your plan to win the war, Adolf?
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  27.  @edwardgiovannelli5191  Nah, you failed. Nazi Germany was committing genocide on the Jewish people, not on a neighboring state. I mean if Nazi Germany was trying to eliminate every French person, they did a really rotten job! so, back to the drawing board with that dumb analogy! But it is curious that Ukraine is the only country to accept, willingly, happily and joyously, a Nazi battalion into its national defence force. at least the Russians pushed the Nazis into a private group and didn't welcome them as part of Russia's national force. By the way, which other country in the world do you think would recognize, as a national hero, a Nazi collaborator who led a pogrom that killed 4000 Jews? Agree with me, that only Ukraine would stoop so low? Projection, indeed. Go get another swastika tattoo, Adolf.
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  28.  @davidsnedeker8098  one fact that really matters, dear 6th grader, is the difference between the USSR and the Russian Federation. Russian Federation has never been in Afghanistan! The USSR has, and when the USSR invaded Afghanistan, USSR was led by a war-mongering Ukrainian, surprise surprise, called Leonid Brezhnev! so, do your homework and get back to me when you have learnt the basics.
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  29.  @davidsnedeker8098  just curious, this clash between Russian and American forces, did it happen before the US debacle of 2021's evacuation from Kabul, when the flip flop wearing goat herders called the Taliban waltzed into town, killed 13 American soldiers, seized all your abandoned weaponry and then kicked you out of the airport? or did it happen before US forces started hiring high school dropouts with the iq of moron level? or before equity and diversity classes became part of basic training? or before NATO embarked on its electric tanks project? hmmm
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  30.  @davidsnedeker8098  when Douglas MacGregor says that the US has not the forces and preparation needed to engage Russia in a ground war, do you believe him, or do you think he has got it all wrong? and Brian Berletic? he is completely wrong too?
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  31.  @ronaldcole7415  or rather, you assume I have none. at the moment, you are arguing from a position of total ignorance.
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  32. Crimea was annexed legally, after a vote by the Cromean Parliament and a subsequent referendum. Shocking as this will be to CNN viewers, Crimea wanted no part of the illegal coup that happened in Kiev in 2014. We should be supporting Russia.
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  33. and you are 100 times happier to cheer on the war when the aim is to weaken Russia, and the Ukrainians are the fools who will sacrifice themselves for that aim.
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  34.  @Nagroddy  not to me. if Ukraine had implemented the Minsk Accords it signed, this would not have happened.
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  35.  @mortenrobinson5421  what about the 78-0 vote in 2014 in the Crimean Parliament for separation from Ukraine and for union with the Russian Federation? Forgot about that? And it was the USSR, led by a warmonger Ukrainian, Brezhnev, that invaded Afghanistan, not Russia!
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  36.  @PaulBeet  procrastination? it's realization, that this war is unwinnable for Ukraine. EU slowly figuring out they need an off ramp, and reducing arms supplies to a trickle is just a way to play for time.
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  37.  @HereWeAre__01  who was the main culprit of shelling the Donbass relentlessly for 8 years?
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  38.  @timeames2509  according to which law?
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  39.  @bonnie7898  so invading a sovereign country is just fine, as long as Bonnie characterizes the ruling regime as "brutal"? source and evidence of the poll that said 75% of Libyans approved the removal of Gaddafi AND all the deaths of Libyans who were victims of NATO's bombings? invading sovereign countries is ok IF, like Afghanistan, billions are spent on training and if the invasion is done "on behalf of the general population"? oooh, some gray areas in these very vague terms I would say. the West's "rules based order" looks pretty unclear to me
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  40.  @timeames2509  didn't you say the US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan were legal? according to which law?
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  41.  @timeames2509  so, back to your point, by which law was the US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan legal?
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  42.  @jeraldkozey6095  because NATO is powerless. NATO has no air defence system to prevent this. they just can't admit it.
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  43.  @CatManOfTaste  how many civilians died in Crimea as a result of Putin's invasion? I forget, but I do remember the Crimean Parliament voted 78-0 for annexation.
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  44.  @bonnie7898  so, supporting the separatists in Kosovo is good, because the International Court of Bonnie ruled Serbia's aims were for genocide of the Kosovars, but supporting the separatists in Donbass is bad, absolutely terrible, because the International Court of Bonnie ruled that Ukraine's aims were NOT genocide of the Donbass ethnic Russians. I guess we all understand the crystal clear "rules based order" of the West now.
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  45.  @timeames2509  sending American troops to Ukraine would result in hundreds and then thousands of body bags of US soldiers flown back to DC. The blubbery, woke, masses would beg the president to sue for peace within days.
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  46.  @timeames2509  "very good reason" doesn't pass the smell test. that's your opinion, not a legal case. UN Security Council approved both US invasions of Iraq, and the invasion of Afghanistan? you are sure of that?
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  47.  @timeames2509  you are sure that China and Russia voted for the US invasion of Iraq? Are you sure that there was a vote on the invasion of Iraq?
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  48.  @timeames2509  correct. Russia and China didn't vote for the US invasion of Afghanistan. So, when you said the Security Council voted for the invasion of Afghanistan you lied. right?
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  49.  @timeames2509  except you just said the Security council never approved the US invasion of Afghanistan. so which is it?
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  50.  @timeames2509  10% for the big guy
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