Comments by "Pogo" (@pogo1140) on "DW News" channel.

  1. To be fair, the funny part would be if NATO nations did increase defense budgets but not one penny was spent on US munitions, aircraft or weapons. So instead of Lockheed Martin F-35's they buy South Korean, Japanese, SAAB and other EU manufacturers
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  2. 70-80% of the Russian Military is not deployed, so don't think that there is no one to put down a rebellion.
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  3. Belgium and Spain are increasing their purchases of Russian gas by 40% so the EU has increased the actual purchases.
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  4. Zelensky regularly shows up at the front line visiting the troops, has Putin even set foot in Ukraine since 2022
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  5. The difference between the US flights along the Chinese coast is that the US makes it a point to stay more than 12 nautical miles off the coast and thus stays in international airspace. The Chinese balloon, the 4th or 5th that the US has officially acknowledged was flying inside US airspace and they were doing so without China telling the US about them. Personally as far as I'm concerned the US should have brought it down while it was still over Alaska.
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  6. @rriorThe Russians already have troops in Transnistria
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  7.  @kentershackle1329  The majority of Luhansk and Donetsk actually voted to not join Russia when Ukraine opted to go it's own way when the USSR fell. And the majority of Luhansk and Donetsk that were not controlled by the Seperatists voted for Zelenskyy. In fact 80% of those who voted in Luhansk, voted for Zelenskyy. The only region that Zelenskyy did not get the majority of the vote was in Lviv. So News Flash, the only people in Luhansk and Donetsk who voted for Russia were the one's who had ties to the Russian backed separatists and they were less than 20% of the population of Luhansk and Donetsk.
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  8. The world will not "run out" of weapons. the volume used will just be less, and if the west (US) can get the contracts done properly Ukraine will have as much munitions as they can use and then some. It's just a question of sourcing it.
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  9.  @living_peace  Negotiation is easy, Russia GET OUT. OUT TO 2014 border
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  10. And at that altitude, those airliners are moving at over 500 knots. Not sure if their radar would even pick up a balloon
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  11. Same people who claim that the conman drained the swamp.
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  12. Bull, 1st use was Desert Storm when AH-64's destroyed close to 500 tanks, armored and unarmored vehicles for the loss of 1 AH-64
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  13.  @josephshields2922  The 2nd chechen war kicked off after a FSB false flag.
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  14. Might be cheaper to migrate all of the Ukrainian Starlink systems to the US military communications networks. At least they will be secure.
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  15. Who can blame not wanting Russia on their doorstep.
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  16.  @Meeko2689  US military planes flew Starlink hardware free of charge to Ukraine. The bandwidth was paid for out of the US aid to Ukraine.
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  17.  @brandenburg2388  Lets see, 15% in 2 months, so what, another 9 months? Russia has lost 6 years worth of tanks in a month, 10 months and it will have lost 60 more years of tank production, that's the entire T72/80/90 production and it's not building new tanks at anywhere near as fast as it's building them. The Ukrainians, they don't need to build tanks, NATO can fill their needs with Soviet era tanks while training new crews on the current NATO tanks and by the time those Soviet era tanks are gone, the NATO trained crews will be ready. Not to mention the near endless supply of ATGM's that can be carried by individual soldiers or mounted on 4x4's, The US and NATO have over a decade's worth of these that are nearing the end of their shelf life, so might as well give them to the Ukrainians to use.
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  18. Independent "journalists" paid by RT?
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  19.  @Nobodyfromnowhere42  Visiting the Russian troops. Something US Presidents have done since FDR.
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  20.  @sarahbrown5073  The private jet does not include his private residence, only the corporate address of the company that owns the jet, also the airport where the jet is.
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  21. Best ans probably the only PowerPoint presentation I've ever been able to sit through
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  22.  @cravingtuna1561  Serbia was not carpet bombed, you have no idea what that means.
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  23.  @LunaticTheCat  No it's not the beginning, he tried it before.
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  24.  duncansmith7562  Latvia is a NATO member. Unlike Ukraine, a SMO will trigger NATO article 5 and in fact, Latvia already has NATO troops and aircraft in country patrolling the air and land.
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  25. @P  how robust is it when at any time you can lose access because a rich man-child's whim?
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  26. Not in Alaska and not in winter
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  27. Can't launch an offensive when you don't have the needed number of tanks, artillery or air support.
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  28. If only Russia had not invaded in 2014
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  29. @mr derp  Elon did not exactly give it for free now did he? Seeing as the US transportation command provided free delivery service, the US aide office as well as various NATO governments paid up front at higher than commercial rates for it and then paid for additional service for their own uses despite the fact couple they had their own secure satellite communications system already. On top of that, they made additional purchases for SpaceX for a couple of billion dollars more.
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  30. @First • 15 years ago Sure, we can talk peace. While we are, I'll just take that piece of land of yours. Oh and lets meet again next month after I take another piece of land from you.
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  31. In Europe being used to train Ukrainian pilots and support crews
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  32.  @riseandshinemrfriman5925  Transdnistria or did you miss that?
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  33. Well, they are going to need that powerplant that is currently in Russian hands.
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  34.  @nooneking3959  The US Govt has a contract with starlink to provide those services
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  35. How many anti war news outlets are in Russia?
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  36.  @tonihil  Poland does not have soldiers fighting in Ukraine. There are Polish citizens, some of them former soldiers who are fighting for Ukraine in the Ukrainian Foreign Legion.
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  37.  @USAads2023  It's none of Russia's business who Ukraine is talking to. Ukraine is an independent state that when it had the opportunity to join Russia, said NOPE, and ran for the door. As far as Ukraine's relations with Russia post war, good luck, all Russia has done is reinforced the conviction that Ukrainians are Ukrainians and not Russians.
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  38. ​@PeterSedesse at one point they launched 120 per day. Now they don't launch missile attacks everyday
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  39.  @ElRabito  You can think what ever you want to think, unless you can back it up with something provable, it's just bull.
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  40. it was a couple of Russian aircraft maintainers who decided to take up smoking next to the jet fuel trucks.
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  41. You mean a military ship, used to carry military supplies is not a legitimate target?
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  42.  @michaelotieno6524  The US created that air superiority by using helicopters, stealth and non stealth (including B-52's and A-10's) to destroy the Iraqi Air Defense. That phase lasted longer than the ground war.
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  43.  @play_boy7543  Patriots did not arrive in Ukraine until late and mostly to deal with the missiles. The bulk of Ukraine's air defense was soviet era kit. Iraq was left mostly defense less because AH-64's, F-117's, F-4G's and their F-16 wingmen, hammered the Early Warning Radars, on the first strike. After most of the radars were gone, the WIld Weasels kept hammering anything that turned on their radar or shot a missile.
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  44.  @play_boy7543  The US did not get the Radar frequency from the USSR, they got them from the Iraqis. During the period when the US was building up it's forces, they would send aircraft of various types and numbers screaming towards Iraq and they would record the Iraqi response. This gave them a library of which frequencies the Iraqi defenses were using and the locations of fixed sites. On the Day 0, they turned those radars off, permanently
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  45.  @mistressfreezepeach  ahh yes, the Nevile Chamberlain "Peace in our time" policy
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  46.  13ased_American  Ahh you do realize that we were getting ready to fight not just Russia, but Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary and Romania?? And no Russia is not Serbia, it's not anywhere as strong as the USSR and the Warsaw Pact was.
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  47.  @Nuklear_Godzilla  Millions?? well maybe when we have a colony on Mars
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  48. Can you read a map? distance from Kyiv to Dnipro? Now look up the engagement range of a Patriot system.
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  49.  @peterclarke7240  Because it's the basic construction and manufacturing material. Every large building has steel, every car, has steel even your fancy EV's, Ships have steel, the larger the cargo ship the more efficient and the more steel it uses.
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  50.  @Newtwo_  riiight, just ignore the giant banners all over the place
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