Comments by "Pogo" (@pogo1140) on "HistoryLegends" channel.

  1.  @brookman9779  It's to bleed your enemy.
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  2. Why join the US army when you get paid better in the civillian world? This is the norm for the US during periods of peacetime and low unemployment (3.8%, 5% is considered full employment) since it went to an all volunteer system.
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  3. ​ @pedrokantor3997  let me guess, you still believe that the US had bio-weapons labs in ukraine?
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  4. Russian don't fight any better than the Ukrainians in winter. If anything the Ukrainians are better equipped than the Russians are.
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  5.  @b.k.3280  Russia seems to be abandoning Assad. They can't send troops or equipment, they are stuck fighting the Ukrainians
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  6.  @jasonkerbs806  per US recruiters half of the available aplicants are rejected, mostly for obesity, medical conditions or criminal records
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  7. Funny, last week they started burying the folks who were mobilized. I guess they were chopping vegetables when the Ukrainians moved the front line past their kitchen?
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  8. If the t90 can operate in ukraine so can the m1a2. The M1's weight only comes into play when crossing bridges. On the road or in open field, it's ground pressure that is the limiting factor, and the m1's ground pressure is almost the same as a t-90
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  9.  @roshicrajasekar8668  around 370 sq km, half of what Russia gained in all of 2023 so far.
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  10. @Ktaurus26  800 sq mile was what the Russians gained in the last winter offensive that ran from November 2022 to May 2023.
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  11.  @0-B1  The leader of Wagner was complaining that he had lost so many men that soon Wagner would not exist
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  12.  @1DrBar  Russia proved early this year that winter may no longer be their time of the year.
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  13.  @gumtroll4812  At the average rate of Russian advance, the Russian MOD will be announcing the glorious advance of the Russian army into Crimea.
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  14.  @ЕвгенийБулыгин-д6ч  Germany absorbed the East German population into their society, so yeah the EU can handle carrying Ukraine until their economy recovered. It's not like Ukraine did not have anything to offer. It was already making quite a bit of stuff for the EU and exporting gas and electricity.
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  15.  @gattonero2915  It actually costs about 1/8 but somebody had to pay for the dacha.
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  16. It tracks. Ukrainian casualties go up and down, They were high in Feb through April, then went down with spikes where Russians were attacking, they go up again in september but their worst were during Feb through April. It's harder to track casualties among soldiers as the official numbers don't get released by either side though you can get a rough baseline from the social and news media obituaries. Easier to track the equipment losses as they leave a visible evidence weeks after. But to give and indication, Ukraine is losing 1 IFV/Tank for ever 4-5 that the Russians lose. Half the tanks/IFV's the Russians lost happened in the 4 months after September while most of the Ukrainian losses were between February and July.
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  17.  Cultured Anime Waifu [Russian Waifu]  Those Ukrainian "cannon fodder" mauled the 1st Guards Tank Regiment for a second time costing them half their T-80 and T-72 tanks. Ukrainian "cannon fodder" 2, 1st Guards Tank Regiment 0.
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  18. Robotyne and the area around it brings logistics hub of Tokmak inside mobile artillery range.
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  19.  @Hawktheattractiveking  Lol, Oh wait, you're serious??? ok bub, these guys will do what the elite VDV couldn't.
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  20.  @Mortablunt  Russian artillery accuracy is not exactly good or quick. A Bradley is likely to be gone from the area before the artillery can even fire their gun for a ranging shot.
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  21.  @EbonyPope  Attack Helicopter Pilots are considered "front line" there are female helicopter pilots who fly AH-1's and AH-64's. On a similar vain truck drivers and supply personnel are not "front line" troops but some of them have seen more combat than some "front line" troops in the past 20 years.
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  22.  @DarkFox2232  It was always Kyiv, Russia spells it Kiev and Russia routinely erases the history that it finds contradicts it narrative.
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  23.  @Bass_attack7755  OK, now I know you've drunk deeply and continually from Putin's coolaid
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  24. Belarus has a limited window, now before the mud season starts, then deep winter when the mud and slush freeze which will last til late Feb, then it's mud season again and they are stuck in place till late march.
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  25. Btw, that vid of the Tu that said, it was dropping cruise missiles at 4:37, it was actually dropping unguided bombs, ala ww2 bombs, Cruise missiles have a different tail section and they have a different body shape.
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  26.  @EbonyPope  It's easier to carry it than to lift it. once it's on your back, your legs and back take up the weight. It becomes a question of the mass of the load, how it's packed (weight distribution) and how it's carried. This will likely require a different backpack frame for women just as they needed to design combat boots specifically for women. Something they did have they found that the men's boots that they were issuing to female soldiers and Marines were the cause of many of their leg and foot injuries.
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  27.  @AlmightyNOG  400k casualties (WIA, KIA),
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  28.  @Kaldigiz  So you admit that Kyiv was used before Russification
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  29.  @Kaldigiz  Kiev was the Russian spelling since the 1800's when they were actively suppress everything not Russian. This continued through the USSR times as they did not want any challenges to the state. When the USSR fell, Ukraine opted not to join Russia's new whatever they wanted to call it, and the Ukrainian government re-asserted it's Ukrainian spelling in an effort to re-establish their old identity separate from the one imposed by the Russian Czars and later the USSR.
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  30. @zeffy._440  the first mention of Ukraina was in 1180's, Russia in the 1400's.
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  31.  @Exchiefboy  Traditionally the attacker has more losses than the defender and that's been borne out by open source observers like oryx who have noted that they were able to confirm both Ukrainian and Russian equipment losses during this war.
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  32.  @67wouter  That's a Russian army thing, they'll sell you the diesel from their own tank.
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  33.  @TheDinofan2  Afghanistan was not a "military" failure but a political one.
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  34.  @Nooraksi  Mobilization started Sept 21, Pro War Russian bloggers started reporting the deaths among the newly mobilized men 3 weeks later. The Moscow Times reported that one draftee was drafted 3 days after Putin's announcement and was killed in Ukraine 10 days later. The deputy editorial director at RT reported that Aleksey Martynov, 28, the head of a department within the Moscow city government, was reportedly mobilized on September 23 and killed on October 10. dude the local news outlets and pro war bloggers are reporting them, and yet here you are saying NO NO NO that can't be happening. Wake up, it's happening.
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  35. Is the US at war? Last I checked the US was coming off from a 20 year war with an economy with fairly low unemployment. good luck trying to meet recruitment and retention with those factors in play.
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  36. @valeremkin5188  Do the Russian troops have a full set of that armor they were supposed to have 10 years ago? The one that every Russian infantryman is supposed to have? is that why Russian arms sales at a near zero?? I mean not even Iran is lining up for the Su-57, heck the Turks, who got kicked out of the F-35 list, opted to build their own stealth fighter rather than buy Russian
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  37.  @Bendis.  A tank, though the Bradley can kill one using it's TOW missiles, it has a twin launcher on the side of it's turret and a couple of reloads in the infantry compartment.
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  38.  @willbass2869  True, a grunt with a TOW can kill a tank, but the tank with it's IR and multi power optics and heavy machine guns and cannon can kill the infantryman as he tries line up that shot. A number of Ukrainians AGTM teams died when the cannon rounds from the BMP's and BTR that they were trying to kill reached them before they could launch their own missile. Then there is the infantry squad that is supposed to be traveling with the tank providing an infantry screen, their job is to find the ATGM team and kill them or at least warn the tank and their IFV
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  39. ​ @MikeyisNinja  so 12 leopards , and 1 challenger is all???
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  40. ​@DarkDragonRus 8 times??? I take it you are counting everyone including the nurses, secretaries, people who retired , reserves I. That number? In the real world on Feb 28 2022 Ukraine had less than 200k personel (army, navy and air force) with about 100k paramilitary. Half it's planes were grounded due to lack of spare parts. It's tanks were in a similar state of disrepair.
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  41. ​​ @357_SWAGNUM_MAGA_X  yeah the primary services need to figure out its human resource issues. Still one of the leading recruiting problem is the near full unemployment rate in the civilian market. The services need to find ways to retain their people. Stop forcing them out because they don't want to take a staff job or to be promoted to be a glorified gofer to a flag officer. Some pilots just want to be pilots.
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  42.  @MrRono19  and the problem with that is??? Only 20% of the army is combat coded and the tanks, helicopters, air defense don't care if you are a straight man.
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  43.  @moiseshuerta3984  Does that include using shrinkwarp as tents?
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  44.  @moiseshuerta3984  He's talking about the fact that 75% of the Russian population live in cities with heat while in Ukraine about 69% of the population live in cities.
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  45.  @bjornborg4849  casualties not KIA
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  46. @bjornborg4849  she like you gave the numbers for casualties not kia.
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  47.  @HorusTortoise  Yeah last analysis I saw was that the Russian army has only 1/2 the support staffing they need in peacetime and only 1/4 to 1/3 of what they needed in actual combat based on their current (march 2022 to now) experience
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  48.  @Sneedmire  Exchange ratio of 2.45 Russians killed for every Ukrainian lost. Decent kill ratio, could be better
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  49. Considering that the Russians seem to have lost more armor than the Ukrainians have charging though open fields littered with mines? I'm guessing no.
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  50.  @henryc7548  Raised the Russian Ruble, true, artificially.
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