Comments by "Trevor Sutherland" (@trevorsutherland5263) on "HistoryLegends" channel.

  1. There is an article in todays Washington Post that says Kursk fell due to "overwhelming numbers of North Korean troops". Not a single mention of the pipeline op. I'm not joking. 🙂
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  2. One of the greatest benefits of your channel is information like you gave in the first half of the vid. As a born and raised American, we typically learn NOTHING about modern Russian society and civilian life. I've learned a great deal about both this year just from watching you as NO MEDIA OUTLET IN THE US HAS EVER OR WILL EVER run "close ups" about Russian citizen soldiers and patriotism. All we are (still) told about Russian army is "they are drunk, poorly-trained, poorly-led conscripts". I am 100% sure our ignorance (at the highest levels including the Oval Office) about Russia contributes to our policy relative to them.
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  3. My favorite aspect of your updates is the deep historical context you give whenever RU soldiers identify their units. This is something unique to your channel; NO other channel does this and it is more than just fluff for history nerds; it makes a difference. For example, when Avdiivka fell, CNN/BBC were still on the "RU conscripts don't want to fight" narrative. Yet, in your summary of the battle, you clearly showed Russian soldiers from freaking Siberia proudly displaying their battle flags. Along with the DPR troops we knew were there, it showed that the RU Army is made up of many different men from all over Russia's vast multi-ethnic interior and they all share pride in their country. We haven't seen that "poorly led conscripts" narrative from the West now in two months...
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  4. No matter the time, no matter the place, no matter the situation; nobody wants to be the last man to die on the last day of the war.
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  5. If Russia saw the buildup of forces days before, why did they do nothing about it? Not even move up more units to shore up an area that you call "lightly defended"? Russia has any number of Iskanders to use and endless supplies of Tornado-S which could easily reach Sumy from the safety of Kursk. No bombardment of this grouping? Mines conveniently missing from this area? I don't know.... My first thought was RU didn't appreciate the threat because NATO did not allow the obviously NATO gear to enter Russia (why worry about a Challenger 2 near the border that it cannot cross for political reasons?). However, RU has State-level intel and I'm 99% sure they would have known about this policy decision as soon as NATO leadership made it. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say RU wanted Ukraine to strike through here for one reason: to force the army to expose itself so their superior firepower can destroy it. RU is long known to be willing to give up territory to achieve a military objective. Maskirovka is a game that can be played by more than one person at a time..."
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  6. That vid of the four AFU in the pickup was ice......you really could see the fatigue on the guys face and the fact none of them even raised their arms to cover their faces before the drone hit. All these young guys are dying for nothing. They are fighting for an artificial "cause" and not even having a hope of winning.
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  7. Man, in 20 minutes you answered EVERY question I had about this most recent situation. All we get is what is in Forbes, NYT, and WSJ; they leave out the most important parts. For example, I know Iran is Shia and was scratching my head how they were "supporting" Iraq because I still associate Iraq with Sunni as Saddam was Sunni. Boom! Ignorance cleared! Keep up the awesome work my man! (Oh, and that meme about "what are you doing?" was funny AF!!!) 😂
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  8. Me too. On Russo-Ukraine vids, I can only typically get one word comments to remain after I post.
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  9. I posted just a few hours ago on another military channel that 2022-2025 is going to be a repeat of 1942-1945 and YT deleted it...." 🤣
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  10. If you look at the units in Kursk, that is like over half of Ukraine's NATO-equipped brigades. This means they have chosen to give up Donetsk and just do fighting retreats there. However in Kursk they just reinforced ; which means that is where Zelensky's priority is. Other than the optical benefit ("...we are on Russian land!"..) what could be worth such enormous sacrifice? Ukraine's leaders are openly chewing up virtually all their NATO supplied hardware and highly motivated men in Kursk. When the units get reduced, they take them out, reconstitute them, then send them right back to Kursk . They aren't moving an inch; they just go there, hide in the forests, and hold on. What is the purpose??
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  11. Scott Ritter just WENT to Russia last week. He was interviewed today about strength of Ukraine for the offensive and he said "nine to twelve brigades"; that is what 40K to 60K soldiers? Lines up well with what is said here.
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  12. oh the End is near....
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  13. LOL. I posted "RU has to take as much as it can as fast as it can" before all this stuff arrives and YT deleted it as "hate speech" 🤣
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  14. What else could they do? Sit there and be destroyed? Surrender? Pull back and live to fight another day (to what logical purpose I cannot begin to imagine).
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  15. I have zero enmity for Ukraine; most Americans could not find Ukraine on a map before 2014. I have enmity for Joe Biden and this disastrous attempt to "teach Russia a lesson" on the cheap using Ukrainian lives. I have enmity for Zelensky who went along with this once Austin/Milley/Nuland/Blinken convinced him they could give him enough weapons to beat Russia. Beat Russia. The country that defeated two of the largest armies in history in Napoleon and Hitler. After watching your entire summary, I just feel sadness for all these Ukrainian guys being ground to dust under the Russian steamroller; the photo of women and children only being allowed to leave, and all these grandpas trying to stop Storm-Z. That Zelensky-----I hope he gets his just rewards Mussolini style by his own people's hands.
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  16. I said over a year ago that this war would produce ten potential "Saving Private Ryan" quality movies, and probably over 100 "Rambo 14" type movies. Never happen tho.....sad....would make some great war movies.
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  17. no one knows but those AFU at HQ are clearly irrational at this point.
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  18. I have watched HL for six months, and i have never seen this much complaining by pro Ukraine comments. Even after Bradley Square when the whole world saw Ukraine embarras itself there waa not this much whining.
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  19. I want a Storm-Z T-shirt.
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  20. I've been skeptical all along of North Korean troops actually being deployed to fight, but I'm a believer now. I saw a vid of a railcar full of at least a dozen monster M-1978 170mm SPGs entering Russia. Only NK operates that and I doubt Russia would spend the time to train their artillery brigades on a weapon so different from anything they've used. To me that means NK is there and they are there to fight.
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  21. Israel is in a tough spot. They MUST do something or they'll appear weak and if their enemies sense blood in the water they'll come 10 x harder than they did last week. Yet, if they try to bulldoze Hamas, they WILL take thousands of casualties.
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  22. In 2010 to be "woke" was to just be aware of history and its impact on those living today. Just be "aware" that the guy next to you may have advantages (or disadvantages) not of his own doing; things that happened to his family or people like him before you all were born. Essentially "don't judge a book by its cover". Now, "woke" has become turned into something no one would recognize. A man can get pregnant. A woman can have a penis. All Religions are "bad". Just a gallery of insanity now; the term has become meaningless.
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  23. Every Western Media outlet this week is running the "Look how many losses Russia has! They will run out of men. They will run out of tanks!" I'm not kidding; an analyst on a Western news program said "at this rate Russia will run out of tanks". There is no good news from Ukraine to report for the Summit, so they are going with "Russia is winning but at what cost?" narrative.
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  24. Thanks!!! That other channel Binkov had a similar military summary up a few days ago for India-Pakistan, but they lied so much about NATO-Russia the past three years I don't trust ANYTHING they'd say. I didn't even watch their program.
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  25. It is impossible for Ukraine to "win". We are now in YEAR THREE of the PEOPLE of Crimea and the annexed regions VOTING to be Russia. If Zelensky thinks he can somehow rebuild and try again to take it all back in 2025, he is insane----by then they'll be celebrating the fifth anniversary of them being Russia. They just celebrated "Unification Day" a few months ago; CNN and BBC will never report it, but NATO leadership knows this. Every day those people move into new apartments, build new homes, start new jobs, etc.; entrenching their "Russian-ness". Going back to 1991 borders is a fantasy idea that simply ignores reality: not even worth discussion.
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  26. Washington Post today: "Trump is going easy on Putin just as Russias advantage is getting weaker" 😂
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  27. Western Media all agree to talk only about Nalvany today.
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  28. Can someone please explain to me why the top officers of AFU suck so bad? They are the worst military officers I've ever seen in my life. They make being encircled and destroyed seem almost like part of their battle plan. I don't want to hear about "political" angles or "symbolic" holdouts; losing a city but saving your army is what 3000 years of military history teaches a commander is FAR more preferable to losing a city while your army is annihilated at the same time.
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  29. My god this guy. "Russia destroys 30% of NATO equipment since June" and he demands to see the "significant gains".
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  30. Nothing happens in a vacuum. Remember about two months ago when Russia first started dropping FABs and Iskanders on the Ukrainian side? It wasn't clear what they were hitting as no troops or vehicles were visible, and there were no secondary detonations so it wasn't ammo. Ding! It was the heavy river fording equipment given to them by the UK (who also trained a lot of the AFU marines). Russia knew where it all was hidden, so instead of worrying too much about infantry incursions, they destroyed any capacity to bring over a vehicle leading to the turkey shoot we see now. Well done.
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  31. "small town" gives away your bias. Robotyne which you celebrated, 500 people. Avdiivka 30,000 people. Cope harder.
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  32. I honestly cannot think of any. MSM says the sea drones are a "game changer" but I don't think they are. Today all the Western media is shouting "Urozhaine" but we all here know that is just another step closer to the Tokmak meat grinder. There is word the Challenger and Marder and Strykers are coming out to fight but Strykers were blown up in Afghanistan easy enough and I can't see a Marder doing more than a Bradley. Maybe the Challenger will be up to the "challenge"?
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  33. My wife enjoyed it, which means the movie was NOT aimed at history nerds. No one would go see a movie that was just a fancy documentary, so I was not expecting that. At one point my wife asked "why did he win so much?" because the movie doesn't get into the details of military strategy (and I'm sure that was on purpose). It wasn't great, but it was good.
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  34. The shattered bodies of the Ukrainian soldiers all around those vehicles, even the battle-hardened Russian soldiers trying not to throw up. CNN/BBC will never show that part and that's the part the citizens of those countries need to see.
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  35. M-1978 has like 25 km range.... Who the heck brough it so close to the front line??
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  36. The cheap drone threat is why Russia is briging all kinds of old automatic AA gun platforms out of mothballs. Tunguska, ZSU-23-4, etc.----even some tank chassis with Naval autocannon mounted on them; all to knock down these waves of cheap drones with cheap ammunition.
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  37. Can someone please explain why AFU did not do preparatory artillery bombardment for at least a day all along their desired axis of advance, and "walk" the shells ahead of their leading elements??
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  38. I didn't pay close attention to this war until around that time, so to hear about some of the precursor battles before Bakhmut was very interesting to me. Even me, just starting to pay closer attention back then, NEVER heard an estimate of AFU at Bakhmut of strength as low as 30,000!! The lowest I recall from the time was about 50,000; usually 60,000 and the Russians about 45,000 to 50,000. It was about even overall, but Russia had a huge firepower advantage with artillery and helicopters. I recall Prigozhin raging about how his guys would have high casualties whenever the Russian army failed to give him adequate artillery support.
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  39. Yes, but Ukraine takes 3 - 5 x the losses and they have much fewer to give, hence the point. Broaden your understanding bro!
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  40. I knew France had some kind of deep beef with Russia that they didn't have three years ago. Who can forget Macron sitting at that giant table across from Putin on the eve of the invasion, trying to talk him out of it? I did not know France's colonial interests were still this extensive; we are about to have a Franco-Russian War and it really has nothing to do with NATO or Ukraine----its personal.
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  41. Von Der Leyen said yesterday that "Project 2030" will allow Ukraine to win.
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  42. Wow. A lot of information here that really frames the "big picture". Ukraine seems to me to have a helluva lot of FPV drones, so to hear Russia vastly outnumbers them is a bit shocking. I wonder if "drones" means all types, because for FPV it "appears" that AFU and RU are on equal terms. 20,000 AFU in the Avdiivka pocket? That is half the NATO-trained army from Robotyne; that is a LOT of manpower Ukraine sent there and that explains why it hasn't fallen yet. After the war, a battle patch from Avdiivka is going to be on the same level as one from Bakhmut.
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  43. You mean US and UK are going to try to take Crimea or at least pave the way for some kind of Ukrainian D-day. This has NATO written all over it. In conventional war NATO beats Russia 100% of the time for 80 years now. Unless NK has a Star Destroyer we don't know about, things don't look good for Russia long term. This is not Biden...there are top echelon people in NATO who want Russia put down permanently and Ukraine was the perfect opportunity to do it.
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  44. Americans are absolutely flummoxed by Wagner because the idea of a private corporation having an army with military grade weaponry is unheard of. It can't happen here as it would violate 100 laws and open any such corporation to liability beyond imagining. Westerners really cannot fathom how such an outfit exists. In US military weapons cannot be in private hands.
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  45. He'd need an hour to summarize what Russia has done to Ukraine from the air the past three weeks. I swear some of the video looks like orbital bombardment by a Star Destroyer.
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  46. Dassault Mirage was first model airplane I ever got. The Mirage III got famous during the Six-Day War so when I started liking jet planes around 1979, my Dad got me a Mirage III. I still have a soft spot for the Mirage 🙂
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  47. Mongols: 2024 edition...
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  48. How dafuq Ukraine gonna get a 70 ton tank across the river without being seen??
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  49. The fact I didn't see any tanks involved made me feel this was kind of an "opportunistic" attack. It started out as a probe, but when the defenses melted away so easily, they just kept going since "why not?" What is really amazing is that all this caused Antony Blinken to rush to Kyiv and Budanov and Syrsky to start blaming each other. Imagine what will happen when RU sends 25,000 along with 200 T-90Ms....
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  50. Your idea that AFU veterans should train their new soldiers is an excellent one, which is why it'll never happen. To do that means NATO has to accept that their methods don't work in the "real world"; their 50 years of investment in "wunderwaffe" to protect Europe probably would have failed had the Soviets sent the house in 1981, and that the $20B army from last summer was basically a sacrificial lamb to the slaughter. Won't happen in a thousand years...
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