Comments by "N Velsen" (@nvelsen1975) on "Gas shortage and the war in Ukraine" video.

  1. Knowing British cuisine, that's one piece of Russian news that I instantly believed.
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  2. Uhm, at the start, Ukraine had stocks of Russian-calibre ammuntion, such as 152 mm artillery shells. One of the major problems Ukraine has is that Russian sent terrorists to destroy ammunition stocks throughout eastern Europe in a 2014-2021 terrorism campaign where Russian terrorists struck in Moldova and Bulgaria. So now most of their (Soviet) artillery is running out shells. The western artillery Ukraine has is advanced and better than what Russia has, but lower in numbers and uses the 155 mm. To my knowledge it's not possible to re-bore a 152 mm barrel into a 155 mm and fire NATO standard shells with it. This transition from Russian gear to NATO gear is still ongoing for Ukraine and greatly complicates their logistics situation.
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  3. "This is a bipartisan issue in the United States" Cough, cough, Republicans blatantly taking bribes from Putin to block support to Ukraine. Such as Rand Paul, who was blatantly purchased by Oleg Deripaska. This is not criticism of the video (which is excellent) but 'bipartisan' suggests both parties fully agree. While in reality the Qanon part of the Republicans is pretty much pro-Russia on this. It's clear the Republicans are slowly losing the battle for control over the GOP to the Qanon cult. Look at the battle between Liz Cheney and Marjorie Taylor-Greene over overt anti-semitism. Cheney the moderate actually lost and got sidetracked because she opposed anti-semitic conspiracy theories. It took a concentrated effort by moderate Republicans to also sideline Greene and regain control over even such a no-brainer issue as shouting insane racist conspiracy theories off the rooftops. The Qanon cult is winning, as it results in worrying levels of support for Putin among Republicans.
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  4. But the EU does not exist in a vacuum. Countries also pressure eachother. Germany started half pro-Russian because of putinist traitors within the Greens and SPD who love dictatorship and love Russian gas. Now they're backing Ukraine instead and extensively. It's well-known the Netherlands strongarmed Scholz into that after he first betrayed the Dutch by blocking their howitzers, leading the Dutch to schedule 'routine training' at the range in Germany where they 'accidentally' ran into some Ukrainian artillerymen who were there on 'holiday'. Meanwhile Dutch minister Ollongren was meeting with Scholz (where she presumably beat some sense into him) and after the meeting was over, the Dutch howitzers could go and Germany was sending some of their howitzers as well. And while Greek traitors happily ship Russian oil and stolen Ukrainian grain for Putin on their ships, the UK is so hardcore anti-Putin that they're nearly ready to board and detain Greek sanction-breakers. If any of them formally surrender, like Hungarian dictator Orban has done, they'll be forced back into line by others. Case in point: Poland has put huge pressure on Orban to behave. Both used to be anti-democratic friends, but Poland is hardcore pro-Ukraine and anti-Putin. Hungary needs Poland, so there's only so much sabotage Orban can afford.
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  5. Yes, they would. Even right now, Greek traitors are using Greek ships to transport stolen Ukrainian grain and oil from the Russians.
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  6. We've also seen this in Venezuela in 1999 when the dictator began randomly seizing assets. In the years that followed, whatever could possible leave, did leave and whatever could possibly be sold off to pro-regime sources, was sold off. Investment into Venezuela went to zero pretty much overnight. Turns out people don't like people who break their word, or steal their stuff. And if you can rewrite the law on the spot to say "But it's legal around here", everybody else still says "That's true, but I'm not giving you my money". Anyway, that's how Venezuela became an outcast Russian colony with a totalitarian dictator paying violent goons to stay in the saddle while a legitimate democratic government doesn't actually control most of the country, and the people starve and flee.
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  7. Remember months ago when your heat was cut off because the prices rose Sergei? Babushka has been nagging you about it hasn't she? ....If only you were a democratic country. You could have enough prosperity that your mother could afford her own appartment, and both of you could afford heating.
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  8. Why would Germany betray two allies to help a bitter enemy? Besides, Odessa comes down mainly to Turkey. If Turkey let's through a bunch of supply ships protected by a US fleet, Putin would be very wise not to intervene since the average US battlegroup can pretty much sink the Russian navy (as in: All of it, not just the Black Sea squadron). But if Turkey doesn't let them through, then nothing's getting through. Since Turkey has demilitarised the straights and refused to let through orc reinforcements, they would be taking a big risk if they play favourites and block the orcs, but do let through US and UK warships. Erdogan doesn't like Russia, but he's not quite ready to seal Turkey off from Russia as things stand.
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  9. Iran doesn't have that much oil and barely any gas.
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  10. No, you are wrong. Germany is in fact all of Europe. No other countries exist.
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