Comments by "wheelmanstan" (@wheelmanstan) on "Jake Broe" channel.

  1. I was a little worried, I mean that they just kept driving, haha. But yeah, surrendering with a tank is great appreciated. :) There's actually a Russian soldier who surrendered (likely quite a few) who is now driving tank for the Ukrainian forces. He hopes to eventually live in Ukraine. I can't imagine my country being so terrible that I'd do such a thing..but that's Russia for ya. Oh and the training he got...THREE WEEKS. He said all he could really do was drive forward and backwards and the maintenance they learned was learned on their way to Ukraine as the tanks were constantly breaking down.
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  2. Wow, that's 161 dollars per man, woman and child! For each working American it would be double that...but of course many Americans have families and so the families are hit with this. 20 bucks a month for each person or 40 bucks a month for each working American. If the war is worth it though, then it's just something that has to happen. Germany and France sure as hell aren't doing their part though..
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  3. Congratulations, you've won an antique 1891 rifle! You just have to pick it up in Ukraine. Bullets not included.
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  4. they're trying to make the Russian people believe that NATO troops are fighting in Ukraine, their soldiers believe this and I've heard regular Russian citizens bring up "Americans and Poles are fighting there", it's more cult behavior "the NATO troops are invading us and so we all have to fight to the death"
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  5. Honestly, the grave digging competition looks fun. I'm pretty good at digging since I garden etc and have always wondered if I could dig a legit 6ft grave and how long it would take me. I see people in film do it, like within a night and I know in real like they couldn't. I mean that soil would need to be so soft and empty of roots. It could be great to a team of teenagers try and do it..or it would also be a great punishment. I'm surprised Russians aren't digging trenches in preparation of the NATO invasion, actually. haha
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  6. JAKE ROE IS KILLING IT! Bravo Zulu!
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  7. Just to be clear, saving a people from annihilation is worth the money, but our country can't be expected to all the people of the world. I think when this is over, it'll be an investment that will be repaid through trade and possibly/hopefully through a more cooperative Russia once Putin gets out. What really worries me is the price to rebuild Ukraine and who will be paying for that. Russia better pay for it.
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  8. it's just games the media plays and politicians play, no one is supporting russia, people just don't want the government wasting their money (because it's damn good at it) and we worry about this leading to WW3.. it could, but who knows, neither argument is really wrong, in hindsight we'll know what the best choice would have been, our government has checks and balances and this is it in action, plenty of conservatives went to Ukraine to help
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  9. America will always support Ukraine, we just want to keep a better eye on spending and ensure the packages are what's best for all of us.
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  10. The mosquito thing is odd because a couple days ago I told someone the Russians might set infected Russian soldiers up for capture and they'll infect the Ukrainians..because Russia will do anything to win...
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  11. Hahaha, of course you quoted Strangelove. I'm about to rewatch "fail safe"..both great intense and terrifying films..
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  12. Haha, that dude went on TV and said the words "we need to start hurting them on U.S. and UK territory"? OMG. Talk about a deathwish. Fine then, let's get this over with real quick.
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  13. 3 square meals and proper winter footwear, the Russians lack it, they can't do anything without either, they're done, now Ukraine will have to play babysitter
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  14. Russia is getting beaten up in such an embarrassing manner that's it's scary. Scary because if I beat you up in front of all your friends, pulled your pants down and laughed at you, you probably wouldn't let it end there. You might come back and shoot me with a gun. Does anyone think Putin can accept this embarrassing butt whoopin'? I don't think so.
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  15. Remember, the U.S. saved Russia in WW2 with all the trucks they sent...300,000!
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  16. Kadyrov just told the world that if he's ever caught...well he's not getting a light sentence. He's a doofus.
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  17. I just saw news that an American and an Australian died fighting in Ukraine. RIP to those HEROES.
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  18. all the grain being wasted..it's gonna be a rough winter for everyone
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  19. I think one thing people need to realize it that because of this war, technology is going to advance BIG TIME, not just military tech but the tech we'll be using in our daily lives. World Wars force these things to happen and this war is no different...albeit not to say Russian tech is as advanced as German tech was back then, but Russia is a world power. Russians will force the allies to adapt and create at a very expedited rate. We're going to see some crazy stuff. So..if anything, that will be interesting to see.
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  20. I can't imagine putting my trust in my Commander in Chief and superiors and they put my men and I in a situation where we can just be rained down upon by enemy fire while we sit around target practicing.. I can't imagine being a parent and knowing this happened, losing a child because the Army you believe in and respected is led by morons or even by men who don't even treat them like humans. What's the opposite of pride in one's country called? When you think of war you like to imagine a well trained soldier is making his way to your position and you cut him down in a courageous firefighter between two warriors..not this. You want the enemy to be at a disadvantage..but not fish in a barrel. But this is war. You almost want to root for the Russians at times, well at least root for the grunts to take out the top brass and save their own skin. It's just sad. If we could only broadcast the truth to the Russian people so they could see what's really going on. If only the parents etc of these men and all the wounded survivors would organize and protest..
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  21. M117 is Howitzer, the M1117 is the Armored vehicle. They wrote that wrong.
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  22. It looked like, from a screen shot I saw, that the open lane was sagging. I mean..who heck would want to risk even touching that bridge at this point. THAT imo is why Russia was quick to say it was a truck bomb..a one-off. You can prevent more truck bombs but if it's missiles or set charges or suicidal drones that Ukrainians used then no one's gonna dare try to cross that bridge. I just can't figure out what it was..I'm thinking missiles..but why wouldn't they hit it again to sink it fully? If set charges then why didn't they set them on the train bridge columns and more uniform? If a suicide boat drone in the water under the bridge..how did the blast reach the train? Maybe it was a combo of truck and train bomb. Truck bomb triggered when it was in proximity to train? I don't know. It seems like a truck bomb, but not Ukrainian-planned. But hey, maybe the point of this is to make it appear as anyone could have done it.
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  23. It's just so sad to see so much money spent on destroying lives when it should be used to enrich lives.. You're living in poverty while your leader is spending the money that would take you out of poverty on killing kids in another country for no reason. Countries really gotta refrain from ever letting a world leader stay in power 10 or so years or..indefinitely. Once they're in long enough this stuff is just bound to happen. They become cult leaders and we all know what happens to cults. Gotta take Crimea back, sink the Kerch bridge and his ships.
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  24. It's gonna be cold for Ukrainians but a lot colder for Russian forces.
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  25. wow, pallets? who'd a thunk it
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  26. Yeah but what the heck is going on in the UK? 5 leaders in 6 years?! Woah.
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  27.  @thesweatleaf  nope
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  28. Imagine handing over a warship.
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  29. Yeah, as an American...I'm really starting to get annoyed with so many Russians saying the U.S. is trying to destroy them after we saved their asses in WW2. We saved them like we're saving Ukraine FROM THEM...crazy F'ing world. The Russians were getting frostbit back in March/Spring and their tires/vehicles were falling apart...these men are gonna be slaughtered and freeze to death..they'll have to surrender in mass. Imagine what happens when your truck breaks down or is stuck/blocked/out of fuel in another lemming train like we've seen before in freezing temps. How long can you last? Do you think they'll saw trees down and build a cabin and live off the land? haha You're sitting in a tin can in the middle of empty fields to the sides of you, the enemy in front of you, and your fellow Russian soldiers behind you ready to shoot you if you retreat... I have more faith in the Russian soldiers ending this war than the protesting mothers, wives, sisters, as sad as that sounds. Hitler destroyed everything and his people NEVER stopped him. Putin is seen like another Hitler by many of his people. I doubt they'll remove him or his health will end him. I think that's a pipe dream.
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  30. These countries should really make these Russian flee'ers do everything they can to stop the war. Quite a few Russian youtubers made it out, but only because of their supporters. The price for tickets is extraordinary. There's not many that have stayed, even most of the female youtubers have left.
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  31. I remember that show! Yeah it looks neat and like a mini-Utopia until it rains. Russia has tons of empty buildings yet they got people sleeping on the floor INSIDE buildings and on beds OUTSIDE. WTF is this? This just looks like Putin trying to rid his country of undesirables...how on Earth does this supposed to help him win a war? Rain and freezing weather, weak people with summer clothing and rusted rifles being told to bring tampons to plug wounds. They should all escape in the night.
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  32. yeah it would be negotiating with terrorists basically, but ukraine will get f-16s soon, those sea drones are going to raze that kerch bridge, ukraine will work their way further into crimea and maybe sink a couple ships..and then retake crimea and when that happens then putin will be properly fkd, well that's me being optimistic but I think it's inevitable (here's a prediction, in 2022 General Hodges said Ukraine would liberate Crimea by "next summer", and we're now in next summer)
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  33. America is basically funding another NASA. That Kerch bridge and the Russian navy need to sink now.
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  34.  @path1024  me too, I'm not interested the silly games politicians and our news media are playing
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  35.  @kylemccormack1785  I understand what you're saying but he didn't disable comments..like you see MSM channels do often. That's a problem. This is a channel that he runs by himself, no moderators. It's time consuming, especially when it's political arguments that are really never simple discussions. This is a finance and Russia-Ukraine war channel from what I understand. There's nothing dirtier than politics and it's a deep dark can of worms. No one is saying something on youtube and winning over a voter. haha, though we certainly do try to educate each other about candidates..endlessly. And youtube debates never end..they drag on until the comment section is wiped clean by Youtube in 50 years or something. He just doesn't want arguments/fights. Twitter is better for arguments. 40 character posts and you can share links/vids/photos etc..and block each other if you have to.
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  36. This is so weird..what the heck is Putin really up to?
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  37. It's a shame that basically, really our news networks are at best just entertainment networks..at worst they're just straight up the best propaganda Hollywood could ever offer. Russia has some great propaganda but it's nowhere near as good as ours, it's just all they are allowed to see. I went off topic there, but I don't care. Freedom speech, baby! Oh and yeah, I wish people realized how obvious it is that Putin and his "ministry of propaganda" don't even have to control any politicians..all they have to do is agree with them on ANYTHING and show that they agree with them on their state TV and our media will show a snippet of that and caption it in a way that makes it appear that we have Putin puppets and sympathizers among us. The news networks have their owners and those owners have their party alliances and they're so against each other that they'll divide this country at the sake of better ratings or more votes or more money. It's all one big information war. The people have the power but one man can steer those people off a cliff if he's the one giving out directions. Anyway, you only need to hang mean bstrds but mean bstrds you need to hang. : )
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  38. There's no hope for Russia. They'll always be this way. Putin says "let them eat cake" and they say "no thanks, an empty plate is just fine".
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  39. BS, Elon is awesome.
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  40. Drones with pamphlets and loudspeakers. I mean there's gotta be some way to convince these cannon fodder to surrender and that it's safe to surrender. No doubt Putin doesn't give a damn about these people and sees them as just a burden to his country that he can ship to Ukraine. The problem is if they all die then that's going to help convince Russians that extreme measures are needed to handle Ukraine. If they're captured then it just looks more like a failure for Putin while making Ukraine look a lot less like the monsters he claims they are. Capturing his army is domination. Sun Tzu said something about this.
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  41. In these wars there's always these quests for the biggest gun, missile, bomb, tank, ship...and what is ALWAYS found out? What's found out is bigger just ends up costing more. The big gun takes longer to load, the bigger bomb just digs a deeper hole, the expensive lone missile gets shot down or if it misses it's target then you're screwed, the large tank is just a giant target, the large machine gun is a giant target and harder to carry, the giant state of the art ship gets taken out by dozens of old tech warplanes ERGO the Bismarck being taken out by 15 WW1 Swordfish. Wonder weapons are overrated! The nukes didn't even force the Japanese to surrender, it was a combination of many things, and look at what those bombs cost to make. Hitler's V2's were a total waste. Stalin mass produced T-34's and no German super tanks could defeat them, not 80,000 tanks. Russia is like a giant drunken brawler fighting a small UFC fighter. Just swinging away hoping for that lucky punch KO until he gets winded and the little guy defeats on the ground.
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  42. Woman gets on bus and says "we're with you". THE FK YOU ARE!!
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  43. Man I can't wait to hear the intercepted calls from these poor guys. This also looks quite a bit like Putin is seeing this as an opportunity to rid his country of the handicap and "undesirables". It doesn't even look like they're attempting to win this war anymore. How would you utilize these other than use them as decoys? It's so cruel and ridiculous that I just can't see these men defending themselves let alone capturing territory. I'm guessing they can't flee or they'll be shot, and possibly won't have the ability to even surrender but I'm pretty certain they won't be in any way effective on the battlefield and I pity their fate. They're going to burn or freeze to death. I really hope they don't give up on the protests. I hope those who made it out don't just stay silent. I hope the countries they're in don't allow them to stay silent. I hope those who couldn't escape will protest rather than just give in to conscription. I think those people actually have access to the actual news, so they're probably very aware of the hell that will await them if they enter Ukraine.
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  44. 1.2million men, that's a lot of targets. I hope Ukraine has enough bullets or fenced in areas to hold all those POW's.
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  45. Just an FYI guys...back in the early days of the cold war, up into the 60's, the U.S. was constantly flying with nukes on board their bombers. Multi-thousand pound bombs 250x more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb, 17miles of vaporizing power, and due to malfunctions and in-air collisions...14 times we accidentally dropped nukes! Either the bombs don't detonate because they're designed not to unless fully triggered, either there's a messy clean up, or there's a detonation. 1 very nearly detonated one in South Carolina. So yeah, the VERY worrying thing about Putin and his nukes that people aren't mentioning IMO, is the fact that Russia could have no intentions of using nukes but due to the state of their aircraft and maintenance, the stress and paranoia..the sabotage and corruption etc..there could be accidents. They might nuke themselves, and you know who they'd blame if they did. By the way, ya gotta watch that old 60's film called Fail Safe. Hopefully Putin's seen it.
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  46. This is the second or third time some Russians or Chechnyans got blown up after stupidly showing where they were on social media.
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  47. Wow...not even museums are off limits to Russians..disgusting.
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  48. Our elections are a disaster. Anyone here remember that video of Biden saying "we've put together the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics"?
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  49. So once the borders close and alllll those people trying to flee suddenly can't, are we going to see them form massive protests or are they just gonna let some cops drag them onto a bus? Would they rather do nothing and HOPE they don't get drafted? Is that safer than protesting which might draw attention and actually get them pulled onto an army bus? It seems like an opportunity to protest in mass...but will they do it? If they already got their papers then they'd have no choice but to mass protest. If they have the mindset to flee during a war then they should have the mindset to protest that war. I'm pretty sure at this point their reasoning is to save their own skin rather than to not harm in Ukraine..which should mean they'll do anything to not get on that army bus. It's just easier to kill an armed stranger for your country than it is to allow your country to kill you and I'm sure most young men KNOW that's what their country is doing by sending them there. The photos of bbq'd Russian men in tanks+APC's have been online for 7 months.
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  50. wow, they destroyed a really nice house
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