Comments by "Trevor Sutherland" (@trevorsutherland5263) on "The Wall Street Journal" channel.

  1. Lucky they did the story now; in about two weeks Chasiv Yar will be Chasov Yar.
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  2. How would "we get past that"? If I'm on land you want, how else would you get me off?
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  3. This guy has broken so many laws I can't even keep track of all the current indictments, pending indictments, potential indictments; and the crazy thing is that NONE of them are at all related to his biggest crime of all: Rebellion.
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  4. yet they are always vastly outnumbered by the Ukrainian bots; strange given the relative population size.
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  5. I'm (pleasantly) surprised WSJ didn't edit out the video to remove the sign where some Polish farmer's asked Putin to "sort out their problem" with Ukraine and Brussels. CNN or BBC would have removed that for its viewers' tender eyes. WSJ does still appear to retain some vestigial shreds of journalistic integrity. My understanding from other sources is that those farmers were arrested by Polish police for "hate speech" 😂
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  6. People act like 60% of the money going to the American MIC is something to be proud of. The MIC already gets $900B a year from our annual budget, so every tranche of Ukraine "aid" is really another tranche of "windfall" to Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. Also, $27B to pay the salary of Zelensky and all the politicians, army, police and firefighters of Ukraine??? That is what we do for Puerto Rico.
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  7. Did you say that 26 months ago when Biden refused to talk to Putin???
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  8. The Telegraph had an article up yesterday with the title "Russia takes 17,000 casualties to capture Avdeevka" while on Fox News the "expert" said it was 60,000. 😂 Western Propaganda mills are not yet in sync
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  9. So the media has recently switched over from "Spring Offensive" they've used for the past six months, to "Counteroffensive"?? Makes sense; they've covered themselves in case it starts in Summer, Fall, Winter, 2024, 2124...
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  10. They gave Putin a standing ovation. Biden can't even get that in his own country.
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  11.  @Netcentric-fk6ek  wow, an entire 7 minute video clearly showing they are effective and you just ignored it. That is an impressive display of refusal to be objective! You must vote GOP....."
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  12. Many pro-Russian sources are puzzled about the Kursk invasion. Many expected the strategic weaponry to come out if NATO dared to attack Russia directly and.........two weeks in, nothing more than Russia fighting the same way, just now on their own land. Maybe the Kursk thing just isn't really a threat to Russia's existence (yet)? Or they feel their vastly more militarily valuable gains in Donbas are worth losing a bit of non-critical territory for a while?"
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  13.  @Funktastico  RU uses GLONASS, not GPS and the frequencies are very close, meaning any jammer Ukraine has would also jam GPS in that area.
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  14. You'd have a better chance of finding a unicorn than an American on the street who knows Russian history, so I understand why we are at war. However if you could somehow imbue the population overnight with such knowledge, I can guarantee we'd not be in this fight. Ukraine/Russia have been "cousins" since before the time of the Kievan Rus. Ukrainian and Russian princes took the same road to pay their tributes to their Mongol Golden Horde overlords for centuries. They fought and defeated the Mongols together. They fought and defeated the Wehrmacht together. Now, after 1500 years, a few Nationalists let themselves be convinced by NATO diplomats that they need to be "separate" from Russia. A separation mostly that favors NATO, and they have led their fellow countrymen to disaster as a result.
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  15. Zelensky has no one to blame but himself. He had 75% of what he wanted in Istanbul in 2022 (and when you are in the lion's den, getting out with 75% of your body is a smashing success). However that deal was 0% of what the US/UK wanted , so they sent emissaries to whisper in Zelensky's ear, and convince him they could enable him to get that other 25%. He listened, and his choice doomed himself and his country.
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  16. 100% true. Our MIC doesn't know how to build "simple" things, even when asked to. A "cheap" drone to Northrop-Grumman or Lockheed-Martin is $1M each...."
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  17. There are 67K Ukrainians massed to the east of Bakhmut. There are about 40K (mostly NATO-trained) just north of Zaporizhzhia, with maybe another 20K north of Donetsk. That is it. That is Ukraine's combat power; the bloggers who track units are very, very good at it---the leaked US intel confirmed this. Two weeks ago Zelensky mobilized again because 120K or so won't do as Russia has 180K around Bakhmut alone.
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  18. To think we all helped pay for this....whether we wanted to or not....
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  19. As usual, it takes some time for us to get the full picture. Russian MoD recently reported to Putin they identified about 50 military, and 250 commercial satellites that actively participate in the war against them. They didn't specify how, only that this is an issue we need to "resolve".
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  20. These small cheap drones ARE changing the battlefield calculus, but it remains to be seen if that change is permanent. I'm not sold on cheap drones making armored vehicles the "battleships" of the modern era---vulnerable to the point of irrelevance---yet. First, these drones are tough to deal with precisely because they are the size of a bird----but that means they can't go far or carry much. They mostly annoy tanks and heavier armored vehicles, but if they penetrate thinner-skinned vehicles they can destroy them. One thing I feel this war has taught everyone is that air-defense now must come standard on almost every vehicle. You cannot rely on sending a few AA vehicles along with a force as the drone swarm will just overwhelm them and then everyone else is defenseless. Future vehicles will ALL need to have an AA system standard---every tank, APC, IFV, armored car, etc. will have to mount a system that can destroy drones. Maybe some larger radar at a safe distance can be networked to all vehicles so they can share the "view" and shoot down the drones, as it would not be feasible to put a radar on every vehicle (which would just make them more "visible" in the EW spectrum). Tough problem, but weapon designers will counter it.
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  21. LOL. That Kinzhal that put Budanov into a coma pretty much landed right next to him!! 🤣
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  22. You cannot possibly be telling the truth. A soldier would NEVER hire others to fight his enemy for him; he would have the honor to face his enemy himself.
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  23. Russians are doing exact same thing, but they use drones manufactured by their MIC. The Lancet, now in its 3rd generation is the killer of $10M Leopard 2 tanks. It costs $25K. Ukraine bought up to 70,000 cheap toy drones on the market all last Fall and Spring. They strap little grenades and bombs to them like you see here and yes they have been effective, but due to their cheap origins they don't go very far, can't carry very much, and are easily jammed. There are many vids of these things flying at and hitting Russian BMPs and T-80s and the vehicle just shrugs off the blast and keeps right on going. Ukraine has to use these because the bigger, expensive ones given to them by Biden, like the Switchblade, are dependent upon GPS, easily jammed by Russia and have proven to be almost worthless.
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  24. The reason the war is a struggle for NATO and Ukraine is because they are not on the side of right in this. The arc of history bends towards justice, and there is nothing "just" about US involvement in this war. NATO is a military alliance and like any such organization it exists to destroy its enemies; everything it does is in furtherance of this goal. Convincing Zelensky to accept weapons and do the fighting on NATO's behalf was in the interest of providing a future willing partner in moving US Aegis Ashore missiles, currently in Poland and Romania, closer to Moscow, as well as allowing the US Navy to create a "Black Sea Fleet" based in Crimea. Go look it all up; as late as 2019 US Navy was publicly issuing contracts to expand and refurbish old Soviet-era naval bases in Crimea. With land based missiles and a fleet of warships, both using the Aegis Combat System, and all mere kilometers from Russia's border, Russia would be the United States' slave in all but name. That is why she fights as if her life depends upon it because it DOES. In Zelensky, the US found a willing partner in a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to put a noose around Russia's neck and loosen or tighten the knot whenever it pleased.
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  25. You got a $60B NATO-trained and equipped army in 2023 and Zelensky split it up (against US advice) and sent half to Bakhmut and the other half to Zaporizhzhia , were the Russians destroyed them both with ease. Take it up with your Regent, or Viceroy, or whatever designation Zelensky carries these days...
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  26. ? sharpened bone will kill a human just as easily as it did in 200,000 BCE.
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  27. Russia is such an interesting place. Only there can an openly hostile private company transport a tank for hundreds of miles on the public highway and not single police car even try to pull them over for expired tags. Here in the US, you could have a broken taillight and if you don't stop, there will be 50 police cars around you and they'll do a pit maneuver to stop you.
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  28. If someone is on land you want, how do you get them to leave?
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  29. So after reading the NYT article the other day about our web of CIA bases all over Ukraine, my first question is "how much is ADM, Cargill, and Monsanto invested into shares of Ukrainian farms???" That will answer everything....
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  30. The TOS-1A Solntsepyok (Scorching Sunlight) , commonly known as the "flamethrower". Finally getting some love!! The burns if you are out in the open turn you into BBQ. If you try to hide, the pressure wave knocks one side of any void spaces in your body (bowels, lungs, etc.) into the other, smashing them together at supersonic speeds turning them to mush instantly. If you are in a tank or basement, the effect is even stronger. Many AFU are found inside bunkers or vehicles, looking perfectly intact, but completely sent to Valhalla.
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  31. We have all just witnessed the End of post-WW2 US Hegemony over world events. There are now two "poles" around which the affairs of humanity revolve, not just one.
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  32. Ukraine didn't belive Putin would do it. Even up to the night before, the Ukrainian ambassador was telling NATO "he won't do it".
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  33. What nonsense is this? Yesterday CNN showed AFU M109 team firing 155mm SMOKE SHELLS as that's all they have. The guy interviewed said "old Soviet stuff is better because its easier to get and always works".
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  34. Only in the very spots where NATO gave them stuff. They are using home-made drones and IEDs in other areas. Most of their tanks are still T-64 type. Most of their aircraft are old and have ancient avionics tech.
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  35.  @TinyBlitz8  Shaheds are NOT remote-controlled...."
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  36. US ones were old too, and were just shells. RU was using RBK cluster BOMBS. Devastate MUCH wider area. Higher dud rate doesn't mean much when the bomb has 10x as many submunitions as a 155mm shell.
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  37. Two years ago it may have been a legitimate military target, but for the past year it is 100% a "PR" target to get headlines in CNN and BBC. Russians long ago knew it was a single point of failure in their logistics so they built up the rail network in DPR/LPR and they hardly need the bridge for military traffic. Mostly tourists going to the beach in summer use it.
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  38. Wow. Ukraine 38M, Russia 144M. So when Russia only has 106M people and Ukraine the way of the T-Rex, then the war ends?
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  39. The "junk drawer" is why Russia slapped them down like a bear slapping a salmon. The expensive stuff is what hurts RU, but when we ship that out it costs real money to replace it.
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  40. If you'd chosen neutrality like Sweden, there would have been no need for us to defend your skies. Next time, choose wisely...
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  41. We spend $800B a year on weapons, Russia spends $80B. Yet, Russia has slapped down EVERY weapon we've sent to Ukraine for 18 months and counting. Our MIC is earning 80% margins on everything they sell us.
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  42. So, its really a "Jobs Corps" for the MIC?? That's why we should get on board with it??? Insanity.
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  43. No, as Russia has never gone on the offensive other than the day the war started. If the Russian Winter Offensive that just started a few days ago fails, THEN it will be a "stalemate". However that is a big "IF": Russia has more ammo, guns, drones, helicopters, aircraft, tanks, and men. It would take Divine Intervention for Ukraine to survive 2024.
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  44. This will be an intriguing book a few years from now. Prigozhin's move was so self-destructive, I have to believe there is a "third hand" involved. Wagner just took Bakhmut from a NATO-trained force of 60K soldiers. As a company their value could not have been higher until this past weekend; all Prigozhin had to do was keep doing what he'd been doing and after the war his global contracts would have increased by a factor of ten. Yes, yes we've known all year he hates the "elites" and Military brass and felt they never gave his private army the same support regular army gets. So what? Who can blame them? If there are only 10 shells left, the Army will give them to their own units not some bunch of mercs. He should know the rules of the "game". To make such a move, and actually fire on fellow Russian servicemen(!), just makes zero sense. Something else is at play here; the move favors Ukraine so much I have to believe CIA/MI6 involvement at some level. We all know they were involved with Nordstream, and probably the dam as well. That they are involved here should be no surprise. I can't wait for the tell-all book but Prigozhin will not live to be interviewed----he killed fellow Russians and that is unforgiveable. His exile will be brief...
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  45. Begin Armistice negotiations...
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  46. Just read a report Zaluzhny has told Zelensky the offensive is unsustainable due to massive losses for little to no gain, and he recommends to halt. Zelensky didn't listen 8 months ago when he told him don't waste 50K soldiers to defend Bakhmut; let's see if Zelensky listens this time. I doubt he will; the Western Media has pumped him up so he believes he is a Lincoln or Churchill.
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  47. You mean the Patriot that two weeks ago in Kyiv fired all 32 of its $4M missiles at the Kinzhal and all missed? The Kinzhal then hitting Budanov's Intelligence HQ and he is now barely alive in a hospital in Germany? That Patriot?
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  48. Today is a decisive day. Ukraine has reached the first "observation line"; about 5km from the first actual defense line; the area made famous as "Bradley Square". This is in Zaporizhzhia near Robotyne, which is in the Tokmak defense sector. This is probably the most heavily fortified area in all of the annexed areas, and one of the four most likely attack routes everyone estimated a year ago. There are five defense lines in front of Ukraine; they have not yet reached the first (5km from it). The Lancet drones here are so numerous they fill the sky like flies. The mines are so thick, you could walk from Orekhov to Tokmak without getting any dirt on your boot. Artillery here falls like rain; and the Krasnopol laser-guided shells can hit a single vehicle from 25 miles away. The Ka-52s and Mi-28s, unbothered since Ukraine has no air force, now have new LMUR missiles with 15km range, even better than the 8km range of the Vikhr missiles that murdered the Ukrainians back in June. Behind all this, sit hundreds of T-80BV3 and T-90M tanks; ready to pounce upon whatever survives the Dantes Inferno described before. Not with 500,000 men could Ukraine do this; it is folly.
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  49.  @ericp1139  I spewed my Coke!!!
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  50.  @pasdpasse439  US attacked Iraq in 1991, we took about 0.001% of the casualties they took
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