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

  1. I apologize. Yesterday I called this the new Operation Barbarossa; that is an insult to the real Operation Barbarossa. This is the Battle of the Bulge: a last gasp with all remaining offensive power to grab something of value in a war they know they cannot win...."
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  2. Zelensky said yesterday hes willing to go back to 2022 borders now to "start" negotiations. Which would mean Russia would have to give Bakhmut back to start "negotiations". That comedian sure is funny!!!!😂
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  3. Last week it was 40K AFU, then Monday it was 60K AFU, now its 80K AFU. Next week Ukraine will have more combat troops than Russia. Next month Ukraine will have one Million troops.
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  4. Ukraine has 300K troops but if you look at any map, pro-Ukraine, pro-Russia, neutral they all show the same units in the same place and you can see at least 130,000 of AFU is Territorial Defense Units. These are 57 year old men, long past their prime and good only for static defense (hence the name of their units). So, in terms of offensive high-quality combat strength AFU is only about 170,000. Of course all of this assumes full strength brigades and everyone knows that isn't true of AFU now after three months of brutal fighting. If AFU has 125,000 able bodied 1st line soldiers as of today I'd be surprised. The evidence of this is piling up and becoming impossible to ignore; they simply do not have enough assault troops anymore. Even their FPV drone displays look like cheap toys versus the Russian ones that look like they cost 10x as much. The blockade in the Black Sea is having its effect; Ukraine was smuggling tons of arms in those grain ships and now that the big ones are completely blocked the impact on AFU is unmistakable.
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  5. Wow.....Russian air-to-air missile has greater range than Storm Shadow. How can you NOT love a country that has been fighting 30 other countries for almost two years and is always one step ahead of their foes??
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  6. I have noticed over the months two things. The AFU FPV drones were more numerous before June, since then there has been a decrease in vids on many channels and many said it was due to intense Russian jamming near the front. Also, you can tell the Russian FPV drones are more sophisticated, their display doesn't look like the one from racing drone you buy on Amazon, it looks more "military"...nothing pretty, all business. The rotors look more robust, that last vid the drone appears to be at 3000 ft or more altitude. The Russian drones are manufactured, not homemade.
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  7. I think it was March or so when I started seeing Kursk 1943 all over again; even the town names were similar: Poltava, Belgorod, Mariupol, Kiev. They are literally fighting in the exact same area as 80 years ago. I thought "Russia will just do what they did back then as they are on the defensive, their rear is secure, and they have a lot more soldiers." Nothing I've seen in the past 6 months has changed my opinion.
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  8. I have to give you credit (again) for giving us the details that help us understand what is REALLY going on in this war. You and a few others, simply cannot fully appreciate how little actual truth makes it to the front page of BBC/CNN/Telegraph/MSNBC etc. A couple weeks ago you explained how the coming muddy season was partially behind RU forces pushing hard to establish footholds inside various towns all along the front, as they knew that once the mud came, dislodging them until June would be almost impossible for AFU. Sure enough, we see a few days ago, AFU vehicles stuck in the mud and we now all know there will be no Abrams until June---it would get stuck or blown up within hours. 99% of us are not Ukrainians/Russians so it is these details that give us a far deeper understanding. I sometimes see articles on Western news and I really just shake my head incredulously: their readers don't hold them accountable because THEY DON'T KNOW ANY DIFFERENT THEMSELVES (AND DO NOT WANT TO KNOW). Keep it up my man!
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  9. It does not surprise me in the least that Russian's won the electronic warfare (EW) game in this battle. They've been EW Gods this entire war; it is one of the things you NEVER hear Western media make fun of the Russians about which just proves it is true.
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  10. Those of us who study history and were well versed in Russia long before this war have been vindicated. Just last week I posted on an article here how I just could not figure out why Russia is holding back. CNN types say Russia is stupid vodka-swilling incompetents, their economy a shambles, none of their equipment works, and they'd run away when the first Leopard 2 showed up. I knew none of that was true, but there was little objective proof-----until now. Russian defeated two of the largest armies in history in Napoleon and Hitler; by all accounts they should have turned all of Ukraine to rubble and steamrolled whatever was left 18 months ago. Putin's measured methodology is what created Prigozhin; many on the Far Right in Russia have long excoriated Putin for being too soft. Well, I guess Putin has waited long enough.
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  11. YouTube will probably delete this, but there is no other way to put it: AFU in KURSK are FUKKED."
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  12. Its been months since we have seen a TOS-1A Solntsepyok destroyed; two years ago you'd see at least 1 or 2 taken out per month. About a year ago RU boosted the range from 12km to 17km and that difference clearly has allowed them to remain out of reach of fpv drones. Small changes can have big results
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  13. Just like 1943: Russia is holding a defensive line behind a wall of gun barrels, while back in Siberia the factories run day and night pumping out weapons. Talk to someone who lives in the Urals and let them tell you what they've seen. Once the enemy attack is spent, they go on the offensive with a tsunami of new equipment and the steamroller doesn't stop until Berlin.
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  14. Also do not underestimate the impact the Naval Blockade is having. Ukraine was also getting a ton of lower-end stuff via these so called "grain ships". Small arms, grenades, etc. and componentry that was civilian, but they could use to make into weapons. That has dried up to a trickle now and while it took a while to have any effect, the past few weeks that effect is unmistakable.
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  15. Almost everyone who is objective on this, Weeb, HL, Military Summary said Robotyne looked like a trap; those fields have no Russian defenses because an open field is indefensible. I'm certain Zaluzhny knew it was a trap too but Ukraine has to have more than an empty town of 500 to show for three months and $20B in NATO training and weapons. Ukraine trading lives for land, while Russia trading land for time.
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  16. FAB-500 hitting from 60+ km away is astounding. JDAM is typically quoted as about 30 km range---even accounting for the fact its true range is never published, that just proves how capable the Russian version is. Wow.
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  17. Still no mythical North Koreans?
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  18. "Four abandoned villages, 5km", when the first (of six) defense lines is still 10km away. Ukraine about to be taught the same exact lesson the Wehrmacht learned precisely 80 years ago: having a better tank means little when the enemy outnumbers you, has had time to prepare, and knows you're coming. When they reach the real defenses, all those flat plains of shimmering grain give very little cover, and behind every copse will be a 100mm sniper. While artillery falls like rain, drones will dive out of the sky like angry hornets; driving those that flee right into an anti-tank mine. At night, Kamov Ka-52s hover unmolested, taking their time on thermal sights to blast anything that moves. TOS-1A thermobaric shells will suck the air out of Ukrainian lungs, before the detonation obliterates them, ending their suffering. If somehow, incredibly after all that a Ukrainian vehicle emerges unscathed, the T-90M, now being built at a rate of 100 per month, will blow it to bits. Not with 100,000 men could Ukraine do this...
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  19. Two thoughts: One, I now understand the reports last week of foreign fighters leaving Ukraine. They knew this was coming and they knew they would be very, very unlikely to survive it if they'd stayed. Two, the fact Shoigu is in NK at this moment is not a coincidence.
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  20. As a long time IT guy, seeing the Russians use a 10km fiber optic cable for direct, un-jammable control of their FPV drone really lights me up. Only possible problem is you can follow the cable directly to the source; but if YOU are the one advancing probably not a big risk. 10km of single-mode fiber is about $1500 in the US, but from China I'd bet its only half that much. $700 bucks to make your FPV drone have double the range and immune from jamming is why Russia always wins on its home turf.
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  21. The appearance of the Ukranian Territorial Defense units and say, the marines in Krynky could not be more different. They look like they are from two different nation's armies; the territorial guys look like their equipment and weapons are from 1980s Soviet-era, while the ones in Krynky look like NATO-standard soldiers. Always remember that it was UK that (Proudly) trained the AFU marines in Krynky; they cannot withdraw without having some means of hiding their failure as it will reflect poorly on Britain's SAS. BBC ran many stories about it; making the British military elite look bad is something Zelensky cannot afford to do; they have to come up with a cover story.
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  22. This is the Russian Steamroller I've been waiting to see now for over a year. Just as in 1943: let the enemy attack come, bend but don't break. Absorb the blows while constantly wearing them down with artillery and small counter-attacks,the whole time the factories in Siberia run day and night building a mountain of weapons and ammo. When the enemy attack finally slows, start the steamroller. The steamroller moves slowly---it is nothing like "blitzkrieg"---but it never, ever stops. The enemy never gets a chance to rest, even if it only moves 100 meters a day, that is 100 meters the enemy will never set foot on again. It isn't pretty or glamorous or dramatic, but it is 100% effective at winning a war.
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  23. Russia pounding Avdiivka with over 200 guns while Ukraine doesn't even possess 200 M177s or M109s in its entire inventory, let alone a single sector. The Steamroller moves slowly, but it ALWAYS moves forward...
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  24. AFU: A day after being savaged in the first "double double-envelopment" at Niu York, they initiate a "Battle of the Bulge" that doesn't last even 48 hours.... AFU's performance in this war will be taught in military academies for the next 200 years as an example of what NOT to do .... "
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  25. Mining buildings is straight out of USSR playbook. At Stalingrad, Kursk, etc. the Red Army would retreat from towns and lay mines and bombs everywhere. Some timed for 30 days later. Wehrmacht troops would be eating breakfast three weeks after taking the town thinking they are safe and the whole building blows up. Von Paulus, Von Bock, and Von Runstedt used to complain bitterly about the tactic.
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  26. A former US general was interviewed and at least I now have understanding of Macron's crazy words. Some NATO members (not all, but about 4 or 5) want to "officially" send their soldiers into Ukraine, but ONLY to do logistics, medical, and air defense. Macron is trying to get a group to do this; they believe they can tell the Russians they will not perform any offensive duties, just rear-area work and shooting down drones/missiles. Macron thinks this can free up many AFU who can then be sent to the front and this former General agrees. Neither Macron or the General offer an explanation as to why in the hell Russia would agree to such an arrangment------what could possibly be the benefit to Russia to accept that??
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  27. Sent to the combat line in handcuffs??? That's what French training gets you!!! 🙂
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  28. Russia already plan for this if necessary. They will simply take $300B worth of EU assets (especially in energy and mining sectors) in compensation; that is why the EU bankers are reluctant.
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  29. Fortress Zaporizhzhia holds while factories in the Urals run day and night. Even if the numbers we are hearing about Russian production are only half right, that is a tsunami of weapons on the way NATO simply cannot give away to Ukraine without impoverishing themselves and/or making themselves defenseless. Just like in late 1943, when the Russian steamroller starts, only the Russians themselves can stop it.
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  30. These North Koreans are almost "mythical" at this point. I may be wrong but I have always found it difficult to believe a modern army would go to war without any of the vehicles and equipment they train with for years. Militia, proxies, warlord gangs, sure....but the national State armed forces??
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  31. What chance did AFU ever even have? Avdiivka was a goner the day RU decided to conquer it----they have more of everything----only a matter of time.
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  32. Weeb Union today showed how many AFU brigades are in Sumy sector and I was surprised; its about thirty thousand . That 10K , 12K number from a month ago was either wrong then, or Napolensky sent far more into Kursk than I thought. It actually makes sense too, because a couple days ago the Chechen commander in Kursk said a lot about the battle and mentioned that AFU had sent 200 tanks into Kursk battle. That kind of shocked me as that many tanks meant way more than 12K troops committed. Now I learn its more like 30K committed and it lines up. That is a HUGE force to throw away being ground down in Kursk for basically nothing. Unbelievable....."
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  33. What Wagner and Prigozhin did in Bakhmut is the stuff of legend. We can't fully appreciate it yet, but decades from now people will watch the "musicians" dance over a hellish landscape of death and destruction and shake their heads in disbelief. People will think it was faked.
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  34. "...and these Ukrainian soldiers have already been deleted from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet by some officer back at HQ...." Damn. Cold.
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  35. I read that the T-80BV is the tank spearheading near Konstantinovka. As a kid I used to read all the Tom Clancy spy novels and at that time the T-80 was the newest and most feared Russian tank. Before the Wall fell, the amount of information that came out of the USSR was so small, no one who wasn't alive then could understand it with all the information we have from Russia today. The T-80 was almost mythical to my 10 year old mind because I had to use mostly my imagination as there were no clear photos of it published in any Western magazine." Seeing it being used today is like hearing about an old friend..."
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  36. Even if this is all a stalemate the past three weeks and both sides destroy/kill each other at exactly the same rate, that still mean Ukraine is losing.
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  37. Well done, I must say. Today, you have a lot more "strategic" than "tactical" and it is painting a pretty grim picture for Ukraine. That picture is no surprise to me, as I've said for 18 months no one can beat Russia in a land war on its own turf, "on the cheap". It CAN be done, but it would take MILLIONS of soldiers, YEARS of time, and TRILLIONS of dollars. I believe NATO has known this all along, and was never really trying to "beat" Russia, just weaken them enough that maybe Zelensky could get better terms than what he had a year ago. That has failed.
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  38. Vuhledar has been an impossible task for about two years now. 2024 is absolutely a turning point year, its not just the battles its years old strongholds finally falling for good..."
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  39. "...I'm not sure what technology the Russians have, maybe UFO technology..." Spewed my Coke again....😂
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  40. Trump realized only way to get Ukraine to table is to stop funding them; only way to get Russia to table is to accept their terms. 😂
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  41. Ukraine is holding up fairly well so far to the Russian Steamroller, but you can see the cracks if you look closely. The Kharkiv mail depot blown up yesterday became a target because Ukraine's rail network has been destroyed by the aerial blitz of the past two months. They have to use trucks to move arms and ammo now, making the mail hub a target. Russia has shot down 15 AFU planes in three days. Once Russia starts a large push in one or two more sectors, Ukraine's defense will crack suddenly like an eggshell that reached its limit.
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  42. Kramatorsk and Pokrovsk are basically the two largest cities left in the LPR and DPR that are in AFU possession. After those are taken, RU will be in "buffer zone" operations...."
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  43. So the Avdiivka Endgame is upon us. If we don't see the Challenger 2 in the next month, they don't have any left as they were destroyed in that Iskander strike back in August/September. If we don't see the Abrams in the next month, that means Austin really did tell AFU not to use them and they are hidden somewhere in the far West of Ukraine.
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  44. Russia shot down 6 out of 6 Storm Shadows, and 5 out of 5 Neptunes all aimed at Crimea. Not to mention, they popped TWO Ukraine Su-27s over Odessa that same day. Bad day in the sky for AFU...
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  45. "....he start packing his photos, his pencils...." Man, I will tell you, I have REALLY ENJOYED your summaries the past 9 months. You have made me spew my coffee or Coke so many times with your humor in the face of a very sad and tragic subject.
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  46. Wow that FAB hit on the warehouse. I read years ago that if an explosion is close enough to knock you down, you are dead; what we see in movies where the hero gets back up is pure fantasy. The overpressure that can knock over a 200 lb man is enough to collapse lungs. Imagine the overpressure to visibly lift the roof of a building that size....everyone in there is gone.
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  47. Those guys hiding under the bridge didn't make it?? Dang.... They are just fodder-----Zelensky, Blinken, Nuland....grrrrr. THEY put those men into the grave.
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  48. People gonna believe what they want; even if Ukraine MoD reported their casualties, most of those hopeful for them to win would not believe it. Even a pro-Ukraine channel like Binkovs Battlegrounds today summarized MINIMUM Ukraine vehicle losses at FIVE HUNDRED since June 1st; including 117 tanks and 190 APC/IFV. It simply is not possible for Ukraine to have destroyed a similar amount of Russian vehicles because Russia is not on the offensive, AFU has far less artillery, and no air force----it just defies logic when people say "Ukraine is inflicting more casualties on Russians" and I read dozens of comments like that every day. They just believe "NATO magic" negates all objective reason.
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  49. A lot of Western NATO types believe Russia cannot financially sustain this much longer; they believe the way to get some kind of positive outcome is to stretch it for as long as possible. I think that's why NATO is freaking out so much about North Korean troops (who are green and very few and not really a large tactical threat). If NK can speed up the timeline to AFU collapse, then their plan of "waiting it out for RU economic collapse" is in jeopardy....
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  50. NATO built their armored vehicle "brand" on gun superiority for the past 40 years; better range and better accuracy. Both now almost completely negated by the terrain of this war as no tank can see another vehicle at 2 or 3 km through treelines to use that "superior" gun. That Ukrainian T-64 was shot in the azz from 30 meters away; it drove right past an ambush point and was completely unaware. An Abrams doing that will explode just the same.
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  51. The drones are evolving faster than any other weapon type. The Ukraine ammo train the other day was hit while a drone watched. It was 60 km from the front. Now Ukraine seems to have an Orlan equivalent spotting artillery from 40 km. Russia soon to put S-70 stealth drone to work. Its like the jet age but with drones
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  52. Now we all understand why the Russians stopped short of Kharkiv a month ago. Like Putin said, no desire (or need) to take the city itself. Just draw more AFU away from the south, and sit there while they build a new Surovikin Line along the border that will, like Tokmak, resemble the surface of the Death Star.
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  53. Russia, with 1/10th the budget of the US alone, has fought 30 NATO countries to a draw for almost two years. If you add in the budgets of Germany, UK, Poland etc., then Russia's budget is a mere EIGHT PERCENT of what its enemies spend collectively; and Russia has defeated or countered virtually every weapon they've given to Ukraine. If Russian engineers were given all that money, Russia would rule the entire Milky Way Galaxy.
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  54. Holy shyte “kick US out of NATO” is a phrase probably never said before in history….
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  55. These guys are LITERALLY dying for political reasons. The NATO summit is in 30 days; Zelensky has to show his Patrons (masters?) that their investment in him is worth it.
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  56. Zelensky: "I'm ready to talk, but on my terms." 😂 That's like Hirohito after TWO bombs: "So, you Americans are still going to surrender to us, right?"
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  57. Tomahawk requires a ship to launch it. It is also quite old design (1983) and subsonic with no stealth. Pantsir-S1 will eat it for breakfast without even pausing to swallow...
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  58. I knew something had changed about the Iskander! Two weeks ago they used one on a single Ukrainian tank and I thought "dam RU not playing if they now will use an Iskander on a tank". Then in the past few weeks , we've seen double, triple, even quadruple-tap Iskander hits all over the front. I just remarked yesterday on another channel it seems like RU has more Iskanders to use. I don't know how they are doing it, but if RU got the cost of Iskander down (or maybe Iran/NK building clones for them?) to a level where they basically don't have to count them, its is GGWP for Ukraine. That is 1000kg of HE hitting at Mach 6 with a 9m CEP, and that covers every inch of their country.... Forget it, man!"
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  59. Interesting theory. ALL of Western media (and Ukraine itself) says Russia blew up the dam; you are the first to objectively argue it was Ukraine.
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  60. The grandfathers of the RU Army soldiers would be proud of them. Took an initial defeat, did not quit, went defensive, built up their power, took the enemy best offensive blow, then started up their steamroller and now they are unstoppable. Just like 1944..."
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  61. This update gives meaning to the phrase "defense in depth". By the time Ukrainians reach the Sea of Azov, there will only be 11 of them left alive and uninjured. I'd love to know what Russian weapon nailed a bullseye at 40km!!
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  62. That drone vid over Selydove confirms your statements from a few days ago; these towns Russia is taking now are almost completely intact. The buildings in the background look to be in move-in condition with not even a scorch mark on them. Is that because AFU don't have the manpower to defend them, requiring Russia to reduce the city to rubble? Same for Kurakhove; city looks to be mostly undamaged. RU should simply widen the advance of the steamroller, even including places they don't even really care that much about. The broader the front, the more spread out AFU will be meaning some towns will not even be defended, or all towns will be taken without RU having to bombard them very much
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  63. Iwo Jima went horribly for US Marines, but they never stopped. It had to be taken to win the war. Same is true of Avdiivka. If it takes 3 months and 10K casualties, so be it.
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  64. An American military officer said "Ukraine has been given over 600 different types of weapons for the offensive. That is more types than any other army in the world." Given.....not purchased.
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  65. All I'm waiting for is for Ukraine to get within 2-3km of the first defense line. I will laugh my ass off when the first video of a T-54 blowing apart a Bradley with a 60 year old 100mm HE shell emerges.
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  66. They not even engaged yet. Fake news
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  67. Even NATO admitting its over; Stoltenberg apologizing today for not helping more
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  68. Still no North Koreans....lol
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  69. That last Iskander definitely hit something volatile.
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  70. I guess Zelensky was talking about the Russians when he said take three cities by the end of 2023.
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  71. It seems like Macron made good on his promise to send (volunteers), not regular French Army to try and do rear-area work to free up AFU guys for the front. Doesn't make them any less of a target though. I can't believe a merc would take a job like that: go into a combat zone, do non-combat work like train and clear mines and build fortifications, and all the while you are a primary target #1. I'm not sure there's enough money in the world for me to volunteer for a job like that...
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  72. Those Kinzhal / Iskander drone vids at night are like science fiction. They look like turbolaser shots from an orbiting Star Destroyer
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  73. I read that the T-80BV is the tank spearheading near Konstantinovka. As a kid I used to read all the Tom Clancy spy novels and at that time the T-80 was the newest and most feared Russian tank. Before the Wall fell, the amount of information that came out of the USSR was so small, no one who wasn't alive then could understand it with all the information we have from Russia today. The T-80 was almost mythical to my 10 year old mind because I had to use mostly my imagination as there were no clear photos of it published in any Western magazine." Seeing it being used today is like hearing about an old friend..."
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  74. I do not have any negative feeling to Ukrainian people. I feel sad so many are dying to achieve NATO goals. I hope Russia crushes this offensive decisively as thats the only way US and UK will come to the table.
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  75. When you zoom out the map, the Kharkiv "salient" is so small compared to the rest of the front, it looks like the coloring of a child who can't stay inside the lines. Yet, Ukraine's most powerful force is near that salient; confirming that Russia's goal of using this operation to simply draw thousands of AFU away from the important places was a masterstroke of tactical operations. Zelensky cannot allow Kharkiv to fall; but from a strictly military standpoint it is nowhere near as important as Kupiansk, Pokrovsk or Kramatorsk. The war is already over (was over a year ago); but AFU simply has zero ability to stop RU from taking those three if they keep their biggest force near Kharkiv (which they must). Yesterday, Zelensky rejected Lavrov's "take it or leave it" offer; when those three cities fall, he will probably be calling Lavrov directly to ask if the "take it or leave it" offer from July is still available...."
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  76. Russia has more of everything. More planes, more bombs, more rockets, more shells, more guns, more tanks, more drones, more men. They would be fools to wait any longer.
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  77. I had to go look up what you call "game enders". I admit I was expecting 40 year old ex Soviet junk but was amazed to discover NK has two of the highest performance (on paper) MLRS systems in the world. They can use either Chinese satnav or GPS and they are the biggest by diameter in the world. Their range is incredible for a tactical rocket system putting them far out of range of artillery. No hyperbole....if they provide 100 of these and unlimited ammo, they actually could be "game enders".
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  78. I do not believe these "security agreements" obligate troops from whichever country to come in to save a region. For defense weapons, ammo yes but troops no. Scholz would never commit to something like that. Poland would love to but with no Article 5 to cover them theyd be alone vs. the Bear and their whiole country in easy missile range.
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  79. I did the "R-37 vs. Storm Shadow" math yesterday after you introduced us to this weapon. I thought "no wonder CNN has no Storm Shadow attack in over a month!"---Su-24 can't get close enough to launch without being killed. I had wondered a week ago why not even a single report of Storm Shadow. Mystery solved! However I didn't think of what that means for FAB-500/1500 like you. That is a great point: if Ukraine cannot stop a Su-34 from flying over Ukraine to that yellow line or close to it, say to Cherasky, a FAB-1500 with up to 80 km range could fall all over the Kyiv suburbs and Ukraine could not stop it at all. When 3000 lb. bombs are falling on Kyiv like they are on Gaza, that's the end of the SMO.
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  80. The bridges are a problem, but hardly a critical one, imho. RU can't bring up heavy tanks but they don't need them, as AFU don't have that many anyway. This Kursk incursion force is extremely APC/IFV/Armored Car heavy; it was optimized for mobility, sacrificing armor for speed. Notice how few Bradley's we've seen over the past week, in favor of wheeled Strykers/Maxxpros/Mastiffs/Senators ?? That works in the opening days when you had surprise on your side, but the reason AFU hasn't gone much of anywhere in a week despite hundreds of attack attempts is they don't have the firepower advantage vs. units that are prepared and expecting them. No more border guards, AFU now facing Spetsnaz, Akhmat, Marines, VDV paratroopers and Storm-Z units all around them in Kursk salient. Tough, experienced guys who are the perfect counter to light, mobile forces."
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  81. AFU has never been more vulnerable that it is now. Even during the overwhelming initial assault, they were physically back on their heels, but psychologically they were at full strength. Now, they are as weak mentally as I've ever seen them. The loss of Avdiivka will be a blow, but not a crushing one. Russia needs to deliver a knockout punch NOW; never let an opponent recover even a shred when you have them on the ropes. In 1990, Mike Tyson was the most powerful boxer on earth. He knocked Buster Douglas down in the 8th round, but failed to fully demolish his foe. What happened next is for the history books, as Douglas came back from the verge of defeat to shock the world.
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  82. Krasnopol is an incredible weapon, its range is less than Excalibur but it can hit moving targets like tanks which Excalibur cannot. My guess is the first Abrams to be burned will fall to the krasnopol.
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  83. Pokrovsk is not some little town, pre-war population about 60,000 means its half again as big as Avdiivka and almost as big as Bakhmut. Yet look how quickly RU is advancing on it!! It took months 18 months ago for RU to advance on Bakhmut the way they are moving on Pokrovsk in just a week! The grandfathers of the Russian soldiers would be proud of them; it is 1944 reborn in 2024..."
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  84. Russia is in Robotyne too. Flamethrower rockets collapse lungs, suffocate even inside of building or vehicle, blow humans apart, etc. out to football field range from impact. I think they are not suited for close combat.
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  85. I described exactly what is happening in Kursk as the logical conclusion six weeks ago and YT keeps deleting it when I try to post it here... LOL!! The Cope.
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  86. So AFU doesn't "own" it when the negotiations begin
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  87. The Russian Steamroller is slow and methodical, but it never stops
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  88. Over the past two months I've watched this, DPA, and Weeb less and less. Not because of their quality changing, but because the war has changed. Everyone knows Russia has won; its all been fighting over this town or that, a land grab here or there, etc. Its kinda boring phase now; Russia hasn't lost a battle in over a year now. The politics is far more interesting now, like Zel pissing off Trump in Paris....thats entertainment 😂
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  89. The whole point of defenses are to make the price of getting through them too high; so the enemy goes somewhere else, or commits a massive force (taking that massive force away from offensive operations elsewhere). That's it. So, the only way to understand who is "winning" the Battle of Robotyne is to know if the price Ukraine is paying for going forward is detrimental to their war plan, or expected and acceptable. We have no idea. 10,000 troops and 200 vehicles may be the "price" AFU decided getting through this phase is worth. Maybe not. AFU has asked Zelensky for another round of mobilization so that could mean they are losing more troops than they planned or they factored that in from the beginning. We just will not know for sure until the war is over.
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  90. There is so much in this summary that just boggles my mind; I can only respond maybe once every 30 minutes as I have to process what I just heard. HOW in the fucc does France (or any other NATO country) believe that putting their soldiers on an air base or power plant or fuel depot will "protect" it from Russian attack??? For two years Russia has rejoiced with glee to report it whenever they located NATO personnel in military roles in Ukraine (where they are not supposed to be), and they put an Iskander into them! The "drone show" last fall, the hotels in Odessa, the Patriot wipeouts, the German-speaking soldiers in Leopard 2s, the Poles in Krab artillery clearly heard on the radio, etc. Russia has considered it a badge of honor to demilitarize NATO personnel; Macron must be insane to think they will hesitate.
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  91. Man, that vid from Dnipro reminded me of that old game "Missile Command" when you run out of ammo and helplessly watch the missile trails descend to your cities and obliterate them one by one. 1983 fantasy is now 2023 reality.
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  92. Yes and he said "strike" military target, nothing about a demonstration of inert weapons. Maybe the detonations were deep in the earth....no one anywhere on earth has ever seen a weapon like this before.
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  93. This war makes me hate our own leaders...
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  94. YT always deletes my comment from other news sources as to how many bombs are hitting AFU per week----some of these sources are Ukraine MoD itself but still YT deletes it if I repeat the number on any comment. Let's just say even if that number of bombs is only causing ONE casualty, AFU is is taking thousands per month. Remember the smallest FAB-250 has a likely injury radius larger than a basketball court..... Just doing some basic math leaves you with no conclusion other than AFU must be taking an astounding level of losses in 2024...."
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  95. At night, when you can see the glowing orb moving...it looks like orbital bombardment from a Star Destroyer, the projectile is moving so fast.
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  96. Momentous times we are living in. Who will dominate the next 100 years is being decided right in front of us.
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  97. Ever since Avdiivka when AFU dug into the landfill there, the idea of fighting in a dugout or trench of human garbage has freaked me out a little. To die in a dugout of earth I can accept; the earth is where we are all going someday anyway. However to be buried by a FAB inside a mound of waste, where your bones won't be discovered for a thousand years, and archaeologists will uncover you and realize you were entombed in trash.... Imagine what a trench in garbage must smell like.
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  98. Putin has always fought this war the same way Abraham Lincoln fought the US Civil War; not too fiercely, not too much brutality, not too much scorched earth. Lincoln knew the country would have to heal afterwards, Putin is convinced of the same. However even Lincoln reached a point he had to unleash Sherman because the Confederacy wasn't getting the message...."
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  99. Pretty much confirms (as if I needed it) who blew up the Kakhovka Dam. Ukraine knew it wanted to attack through Zaporizhzhia (the shortest path to the Sea of Azov), but if they threw their (only offensive) army there, they would be weak and open to a devastating counter through Kherson. They blew it up so no one could attack through there; mean nothing to them as they weren't going to anyway.
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  100. Interesting theory regarding Budanov and AFU strategy; my first thought when I heard was "Commissar Corps". Budanov would seed the AFU with like-minded individuals to ensure no surrender or retreat because now, with Russia on the offensive, the only thing that "beats" Ukraine is a collapse of her defense lines. If their conscripts run away, they are done. Or, they may do both, guerilla warfare AND "blocking" units behind every defense line; I guess we will see.
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  101. So, Putin was right all the time about the POW plane. TBH, at this point Russian MoD has more credibility than Ukrainian MoD----a lot more.
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  102. I've seen parallels to the last days of the Wehrmacht for months now. In early 1945, many Wehrmacht units fired at the Americans only until their ammo ran out. Once it did they surrendered as they felt they'd done their duty. Freshly mobilized AFU conscripts willing to defend only but not attack is no surprise to me.
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  103. FAB-3000 strike: "....nothing special just regular military activity...." A 6600 lb. guided bomb obliterates some number of AFU and its hardly worth making a note of it.... THAT is the measure of how far RU has come in the past year..."
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  104. I am just one step from flat out calling AFU leadership, Zelensky and his nationalists, idiots. No Military Academy teaches officers to allow themselves to be encircled and AFU just sits there for months as the pincers close around them, then rushes in fresh troops (who get shredded) and they lost the city anyway. In 1871, France lost the Franco-Prussian war and gave up Alsace-Lorraine (which was a HUGE blow to them---same as losing Crimea is to Ukraine). They gave it up; they didn't throw a million men away when it was clear they'd lost. Guess what? 40 years later they had the opportunity to get it back (and many of the men who would have been lost needlessly in 1871 were there to help take it back). Someone convince me AFU are not led by morons....
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  105. Whenever you show the updates for a week or month the entire war picture becomes clear. Almost every blue icon in Russian territory is an FPV drone icon, with a small number of artillery shell icons. One the other side of the front line, there are three times as many red icons, and the vast majority are "mushroom" clouds, missile, or artillery shell icons; so many that the FPV drone strikes are almost completely obscured. Russia's firepower dominance is unmistakable.
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  106. Yeah, I'm with most on here; if those dots are NK troops because Zelensky says so, that mean nothing to me. ANY other evidence to back it up? I mean, I WANT to believe it, because we all been waiting two months to see what NK troops can do, but if the only source is Ukraine that is no source at all.
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  107. I'm really amazed the T-62 is still a useful weapon of war after all these years. It and the T-64, covered in ERA, with a cope cage, is still a potent weapon that no army can ignore.
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  108. China be like: "what you mean? We ship all this fiber optic cable to Russia for their strong, and growing mobile data and Internet capacity needs." 🙂
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  109. FAB-3000 6600 lbs is huge; like dropping a Chevy Suburban from 80km away and it lands within 100m of where you wanted it to. The UMPK kit for a bomb that large must have fairly substantial wings and fin control surfaces; I'm sure RU engineers figured the optimal size/range mix before deployment. With a blast radius that big, maybe it doesn't even need to be as accurate as a FAB-500?
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  110. Russia playing with their food just like they did in 1943: Allow the enemy to dash itself to pieces against hardened fortifications backed by massive artillery, while the factories in Siberia pumped out a tsunami of weapons. Then, in 1944 the steamroller starts and doesn't stop until Berlin.
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  111. Look at those shockwaves from those FAB-500 hits. Everyone has their eardrums blown out and lungs collapsed out to 700 meters. Su-34 lobs them from 40 MILES away and they land on the exact treeline the drone targeted. How dafuk can you survive that?
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  112. You are seeing the tank a week after the fight that caused it to be abandoned. It looks peaceful now, the day it was damaged was anything but peaceful and no one remembers to shut the dam door when the house and whole neighborhood is on fire
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  113. This is exactly how the "Russian Steamroller" works, just as it did in 1943-1944. I said this back in July, of course i didn't know when it would start (I thought next Spring), but it was 100% going to be exactly like this.
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  114. There have been fewer and fewer Iskander strikes noted in the daily summaries the past few weeks. The last memorable one was the "quintiple-tap" of five Iskanders hitting the same spot. Since then, very few. Is there anything to read into this tactically, or just a coincidence?
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  115. Just looking at the map yesterday show a salient of yellow surrounded by a sea of red. The deeper you push the more your flanks are exposed. Even if they crushed everything in front of them, they'd still eventually be annihilated.
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  116. I'd love to know the truth of how many Russian soldiers have been casualties in the past week in Robotyne sector. In all the past week's videos, I do not see any Ukrainian vehicle firing its gun right before it is hit by a Lancet, shell, or mine. To me, they are being hit before they even acquire a target, meaning it is very unlikely they even know where the Russians are. Yesterday the two CV-90s that were destroyed by RPG7s WERE firing their guns when hit, but the hits came from the side, not ahead where their gun barrel was aimed----they did not see the Russians who killed them. Also, the only Russian equipment I see being hit are from FPV drones, not from any tank or IFV in these assaults. There is no way Ukraine is inflicting serious losses on Russia in these attacks; the casualty ratio has to be 10:1 in Russia's favor.
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  117. An Iskander delivery to an AFU bbq.... That's cold.
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  118. What were those RU armored vehicles?? BMP-3?? Several artillery shells landed very close and they seemed totally unaffected; on the way back one of them fired at AFU so they seem to have a heavy caliber gun. Those drivers must have balls of titanium.
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  119. I tend to agree; since the Fall of Bakhmut Russia has had the initiative and terrorist attacks in Belgorod just proved to me Ukraine's core combat power is weakening so they have to do guerilla warfare. If Russia sends two 25K man army groups into Ukraine in two different areas one will be checked while the other will blitz all the way to Kyiv.
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  120. 100% agree! My favorite was when he was talking about the AFU left in the Avdiivka pocket when the big wigs first began to leave in December. He said "...these soldiers have been deleted from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet by an officer back at HQ...." I was like dam...Dima is cold... 🙂
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  121. "what kind of information you can provide for 7 minutes? Just understand how you're doing, what did you eat today..." AHAHAHAHAHAHH! 😀
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  122. That is kind of insane to have that many vehicles in the open during daylight that close to the front. Even just one or two would have indicated the facility is a repair shop and made it a target. Of course, CNN will report that AFU says they were all "decoys"..."
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  123. You called it 12 hours before it actually happened. The US threw Zelensky under the bus. Thats why he got mad and stormed away in a rage. Keep that analysis and "reading between the lines" up; anyone can read posts... it's your analysis why I watch. Well done
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  124. Yeah, but Dima's imperfect command of English is actually a plus when it comes to such a depressing subject. That and his occasional sense of humor; I crack up when he calls Russian motorcycle troops the "Sons of Anarchy" 🤣
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  125. Having your unit banner captured usually means you were overrun. Like a Roman Legion allowing its eagle to be captured....."
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  126. Man, the summary about Syrsky visiting Chasiv Yar and his Generals not wanting to gather there due to memory of what happened to the Polish General had me cracking up.
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  127. Things happening so fast now hard to keep up. STILL no North Koreans?? I'm starting to believe their presence was a Russian Psy Op using "asian looking" Russian citizens, and in reality not a single actual North Korean is within 500 km of Kursk.
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  128. At Okinawa, the US actually took more overall casualties than Japan did; IJN had almost no wounded---all were KIA while US had (obviously) a mix of KIA and wounded that exceeded the size of the Japanese force. That's about as "bad" as a battle can go for a victorious attacker and the US Marines didn't ever waver. It had to be taken to end the war, so taken it was. Same here for Russian Army; just do what must be done.
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  129. RU don't really seem to be concerned with pushing whatever AFU are still in Kursk out? Kursk never was a military risk; is it now no longer even a political one?
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  130. When was the last time Russia lost a fixed wing aircraft? I can't even recall----yet 100+ FAB-500s falling every day. Ukraine has no theater air defense anywhere along any front. However the Ka-52s have to be careful to stay at max range now, some new Swedish MANPAD has 8km range. Nasty, though the Su-34s are running wild.
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  131. With no starlink for FPV drone control, AFU going on the offensive with no drones is suicide. 🙂
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  132. The only metric that matters is casualties. Ukraine can put its last 10 soldiers into Tokmak and say "we've reached Tokmak" , then they die and Russia wins. Relative losses is the only way to accurately guage the battle and none of us know what these numbers are so we are all just enjoying ourselves arguing like drunks at a football match.
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  133. Zelensky demanded "500 meters a day" four days ago. Has AFU moved 2 km in any direction in that time?
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  134. For a conscript or convict with four weeks training; does it really make any difference if a FAB-1500 lands near you or a FAB-3000????"
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  135. So many times over the past year, what appeared to be an AFU tactical advantage, turned out to be a Russian lure or trap or otherwise precisely what RU wanted them to think/do. It has happened so often that for the past few months I honestly do not believe any initial report of a Ukrainian "success", no matter how small. I never believed the "we shot down five Su-34s", nor do I believe the absence of guided bombs on Kryinky area is simply due to a plane being shot down. RU has earned a fair amount of skepticism regarding any AFU claims against them; until I see more proof, I believe RU simply finds it unnecessary to use guided bombs in that area as the troop concentration is not worth it. Tornado or TOS rockets are a much cheaper option and are now likely more suited for the situation.
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  136. I wish I could donate money to Russia. What NATO is doing in Ukraine is naked opportunism at its purest.
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  137. It would seem so. There is video today of Wagner "musicians" with a T-90M blasting any building that has Ukrainian stragglers in it.
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  138. I try to imagine WW2 or Vietnam fought in the age of social media....and I just cannot. Even Iraq 2003 was not affected to this degree by social media. Social media is not only recording the historic events of this war, it is exerting influence on them as well...
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  139. I thought exactly the same thing, but my guess is a lot of those targets are artillery and/or drone squads. It is the artillery/fpv keeping the RU forces back from wiping out the AFU infantry beachhead. That must be suppressed before RU soldiers can go in there and wipe them out. Artillery gun only 3 to 5 crew, fpv team only 1-3. It could take 40 or 50 bombs to hang 120 KIA/200 wounded on AFU in such a situation. Just a guess....
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  140. BBC interviewed some AFU in Chasiv Yar and the guys building and operating the drones were early 20s, but the guys out in the streets and bunkers were all in their 60s. One looked as if he could be close to 70. The young ones that don't know any better maybe, but I can't for the life of me figure out why a 65 year old Ukrainian would fight to the death so NATO can use his land...."
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  141. Two weeks ago, Zelensky toured all the Fronts and the next day AFU sent the house in all three Fronts. At first, I thought he toured all his commands to inspire his troops; I now realize he was saying goodbye as he knew he'd never see most of them alive again.
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  142. Kursk is becoming a NATO equipment horror show. It appears the NATO army of 2024 has far more IFVs/APCs than their 2023 army. My guess is this reflects the infantry heavy tactics both sides went to in 2023 once the FPV drone became so numerous. RU seems to still prefer tank led assault by using Tsars Grill to diminish the drone threat. If my guess is right, I can see why Syrsky did not send this new army to the Donbass to try to check RU advance because such a mobility heavy force would be ineffective as a defensive force there.
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  143. Ukraine is about to get absolutely slaughtered; and the Biden Admin with its enablers is going to be exposed for the liars they are.
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  144. What a disaster.... How Ukraine military leadership even have any credibility left I'll never know. Even after the "pincers" reached 75% encircled in December, I would have called it quits and saved my army, but OK its "symbolic" so they stay. After the "pipe army" breach two weeks ago, not even symbolism could justify staying in place to be destroyed. AFU HQ sucks. Period.
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  145. Yes, it looks very bad for RU now , but remember Hitler sent THREE MILLION in this direction 80 years ago and lost. NATO has only sent about 25K...."
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  146. Where are the North Koreans??? Military Summary can't confirm these guys are in combat or not??
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  147. Now that Russia knows Zaporizhzhia is the goal, they will add far more defensive infrastructure to the already bristling Tokmak area. By next Spring the whole area around that city will look like the surface of the Second Death Star.
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  148. ? Poland been in the war almost since first day. Wagner was finding headless and handless bodies in captured towns back in January. They found cell phones and other personal items that indicated they were Polish.
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  149. Storm-Z going into the history books along with Hoplites, Immortals, Centurions, Saxons, Mamluks, US Marines, etc.
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  150. The tipping point has been reached; I've said all year when the final stage comes the pace will quicken. We will see some "collapse" in some places very soon
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  151. Belarus becoming TikTok warriors like Ukraine. Slick vids and FPV view like they are playing Call of Duty. Young men love that stuff for some reason. I think thats to make Ukraine keep forces in the north as they are infantry only and no combat experience. Now, if we see vehicles and artillery in those Belarus vids then that means they are coming
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  152. CNN doesn't report it, but it's clear Russia has gone ape-shit the past week with bombardment in Ukraines interior. The last four or five days summaries are just constant rain of Iskander, guided bombs, Tornado-S strikes in over 70 towns. The vids are all by Orlan drone and half at night so no idea what is being hit. Some do show rockets popping off after the strike so I'm sure ammo dumps are a large number of targets. The Naval attack was spectacular, and NATO appears to be taking the gloves off, but Russia also seems to have upped its game.
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  153. Just like in late 1943...the steamroller has begun
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  154. True but they don't want Ukraine to hold land in Kursk when negotiations begin; it's the first thing US will try to "offer" back to them
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  155. Still no North Koreans?? West Media is so pathetic....
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  156. I have never seen NATO look so pathetic as this past year. All the myths of wunderwaffe smashed. Their 30 years of lack of investment exposed. Their reliance on the US to do 90% of everything exposed. Yesterday, in a desperate attempt to start fear to get the funding passed, US congressman publicly state major security threat from Russian space nukes. 😅 Fear and desperation us everywhere in the West now
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  157. I hope this is the Russian steamroller that ends the war.
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  158. Where have you seen a big gain?
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  159. IKR. For the past 3 weeks I couldn't find a single "Slava Ukraini"
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  160. The military historian in me is fascinated by the tactical minutia of modern warfare, but tbh this is politically the stupidest modern war I've heard of; probably only the Franco-Prussian war was more stupid. This is basically a civil war---Ukrainians and Russians 20 years ago would look at you crazy if you asked them "is that your enemy?"
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  161. "Kimskander" 😂😂😂
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  162. Yes, BOTH have military equipment in them.
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  163. Good God, what is that like 16 or 17 brigades Zelensky has in Kursk pocket now?? That's more than double what they have in Zaporizhzhia direction...
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  164. I remember when Selydove was far in the rear, now its just the next target. Wow. Making it to the line of combat for a Ukrainian vehicle of any type is essentially 100% luck at this point.
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  165. Slow and steady the Steamroller goes
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  166. Your conservative methodology around showing territory under control of either side is greatly appreciated and one of the reasons this channel is one of only 2 or 3 that are my "go to" when I need to confirm or discredit what I see on BBC or CNN. Some other mil bloggers today show a bit more Russian advance north of Bakhmut, but even they also admit they cannot confirm if Russia has the whole town or just a part of it. Stay true to who you are!!
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  167. How's the demand to capture 500 m a day going for Zelensky?
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  168. All those AFU FPV drone hits in the north, the signal goes about 4/5 seconds before they hit; you can see them gyrate before the signal cuts out. RU is jamming them in that area to cover their advance.
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  169. YT won't let us post any response to the military analysis.... If we analyze the tactical footage and post our conclusions, they delete it immediately. Who knows? Some of us may actually notice something that could help the Russians so they are making sure that doesn't happen.
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  170. The F-16 destruction has set off a firestorm in American media today. On CNN all day there were 2000+ comments that it was "old airframe, 45 year old plane, old electronics, old this or that, etc." , then just an hour ago at the Pentagon briefing some reporter asked "what about the new electronic warfare equipment it was carrying" , and Singh only responded that you have to 'ask the Ukrainians' ; she did not deny there was some new EW on it. So, Biden gave Napolensky some new EW tech and on the FIRST NIGHT it was used, it got smoked...."
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  171. When RU dropped an Iskander on a single tank a week or so ago, I thought to myself. "They must have no real practical limit on Iskanders if they can spend one on a single tank". Nothing I've seen since has changed my mind..."
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  172. The T-80s and T-90s are like: " where you at bitches? Stop hiding and fight!" to the Challenger
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  173. This war is getting to be like a basketball game where one team is up by 30 and still has their starters in shooting 3-pointers... It is starting to lose its entertainment value..."
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  174. AFU fights well; I'll give them that. Their leaders make terrible decisions but the man in the mud does his duty. However, no matter how much they resist on a tactical level, at the strategic level, Ukraine (and their NATO sponsors) have completely failed, of that there is no doubt. The whole "cut the land bridge blahh, blahh" was a complete and total failure; they got five miles in six months. Yesterday Zaluzhny admitted what everyone knows; they can't push Russia out, all they can do is resist. That is FAILURE. The whole point of the war was to push Russia out (so NATO can move missiles and ships into a "NATO" Ukraine): that was what both sponsor and proxy wanted. That is now admitted to be impossible. So, what is AFU fighting for now?
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  175. Why were two of your most recent videos have comments disabled???
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  176. Kinzhal is air-launched, so Mig-31 now flying out of Belarus??
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  177. Go Russia, its your birthday; go Russia, its your birthday...."
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  178. I can hardly understand this as I dont understand the players. I know more about Russian history and how that relates to others in that region, than Nigerien history and how it relates to others in that region. Probably need a whole series on the cultural, religious, financial, history. A lot of reading needed as a prereq for this class...
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  179. SLAVA ROSSIYA!!
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  180. bro, he's done it this way as long as I've watched and I been watching since March, 2023. That's a lotta territory changed hands in that time and he does it the same to both sides so. His methods have stood the test of time
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  181. The only place we've ever heard that objective is speculation. The reason is, if you think about it five minutes it would have been an utterly stupid objective in the first place, and if you look at where they are and are already locked in a slugfest, had the gone that far, diluting their forces over twice the area they'd be in full retreat by now already...."
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  182. Of course in the first clash between Ukraine and NK, NK was defeated. We gonna hear "NK are poorly-led conscripts, poorly-fed with only shovels and they are running out of missiles..."
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  183. Its a ghastly thought, but just imagine how many AFU are buried in basements, dugouts, bunkers, "spider-holes"; under concrete, wood, dirt, or trash, in almost three years of intense combat. Just look at the map; the "red" long ago spread over and beyond the "lines" that represented static fortification defenses (bunkers and trenches). Look at the literally millions of shell craters, just imagine how many rockets airburst at those areas, how many cluster bomblets, mines etc. before RU passed them by. Battlefield archaeologists will still be finding AFU remains in 2259...
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  184. Who told you that? Zelensky?
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  185. "...most of them have lost their positions, and withdrawn to the garbage of history..." -- The fact English is not your native tongue is one of the primary reasons I look forward to your summary reports! 😆
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  186. Defeat does not mean "annihilate". Unless a unit is overrun or surrounded, it's defeat always means there are remnants to retreat
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  187. Medveyev visited the front yesterday and said 325,000 new signed contracta with Russian army this year through 9/26. Two weeks ago Putin announced new draft of 145,000 by this time next year. 470,000 new soldiers by September, 2024. Dam....
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  188. Su-57 has entered the chat ...
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  189. An attack on a nuclear power plant is functionally identical to an attempt at a "dirty bomb" strike. Russia now has the right to respond in kind....
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  190. I didn't think NATO would sit by and watch Russia take everything; so the "security agreements" seem logical.
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  191. I do appreciate your trying your best to analyze two conflicting stories, neither more "believable" than the other, and use your experience and the facts you DO know to come up with a most likely "truth" of the situation. That really enhances your credibility and is why this channel is one of only three I watch to get the "real story". Keep up the good work my friend.
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  192. I'm putting it out there: Biden not going to give JASSM missile or any approval for longer range attack with ATACMS. Biden cannot start a war without Congress approval, and if Russia says this is an "Act of War", Biden has to go before Congress to justify why US should take the risk of starting a war. He ain't gonna do that two months before election. He will say "NO", or he'll give the satellite target data to UK and only the Storm Shadow can be used.
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  193. Why those vids yesterday of two Leopard 2s hit by Lancet the tanks were abandoned? Were they hit by something else first? They looked perfectly intact
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  194. Blinken publicly makes a show of saying Iran sold missiles to Russia, and 3 days later a big depot explodes? Yeah…we know it’s US or UK….
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  195. We are at the point NATO simply cannot go any further without themselves entering the war. Biden said "NO" on the missiles for the same reason Scholz has said no for months; the programming can only be done by trained German/US/UK troops using satellite data and software only the US has. Ukraine would literally be reduced to just pushing the button to launch; and no one could disagree that is where "ally" becomes "participant". Germany is out, UK seems to want to risk it, but Joe Biden cannot risk that two months before an election...
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  196. Battle of the Bulge using the $60B American money. I’ve been wondering for weeks where all that money went because of AFU inability to resist in the south. I just assumed most of it was stolen. Same result as last Battle of the Bulge: nazi defeat….”
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  197. Every AFU FPV drone vid in the northern part of Avdiivka this week shows signs of signal jamming; the vid is clear until it gets within maybe 300 to 500 meters of the target then it gets fuzzy and the horizon starts gyrating wildly. RU probably has 10 or 20 signal jammers in a 2km square box of territory to cover their northern advances.
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  198. Like many, I expected Russia to send 100K men and 1000 tanks into Ukraine by now, like it was Eastern Front 1945. At first I scratched my head at their obvious reluctance to do so. I think that pervasive surveillance plus abundant guided weaponry has turned any war for territory between equally matched opponents into a version of WW1. I mean, the Krasnopol round can hit a MOVING tank from 20 miles away (as long as the drone guiding it remains unseen). That round is big enough to obliterate ANY armored vehicle of any type from anywhere 100% of the time. So how do you win? The old fashioned way when your armies cancel each other out; economic strangulation. No two warring factions are equal everywhere and Russia has a 100-ship Navy while Ukraine has none. Takes longer to subdue your foe this way, but much higher likelihood of success. I think we may be in for "forever war"; Biden sure doesn't want Ukraine to collapse in the next year so he won't allow them to talk OR allow them to be crushed.
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  199. For 2+ years NATO would not allow AFU to use their donated equipment to attack Russia proper. Why? Whatever that reason was, Russia has to now make good on whatever the consequence was that NATO wanted to avoid 2 years ago. They have to or their credibility will be undermined..."
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  200. This is what is called "collapse"
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  201. I mentioned how RU has pulled out 80 year old guns that fire 130mm NK ammo, and how smart they are to do that, and of course YT deleted it..." 😅 Anything showing Russia in a positive light is verboten in the West!!"
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  202. If reports of the Kalibr strike yesterday are true, we will likely never see the Challenger 2 in action in Ukraine. Hopefully they weren't dumb enough to put all 14 of them in the same warehouse.... In any event, even if some survived, they won't get used because they'll never be replaced. Britain admitted yesterday they only have 40 operational tanks themselves, so if Russia could invade the UK, they could probably win without taking a casualty.
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  203. The longer the war goes on the more it favors NATO. Stalemate will not work...US and UK will go to any length to give Kyiv means to strike at a high level. Once the war moves off the ground and into the air and space, Russia advantage is lost. Even if only 100,000 Ukrainians are left alive, that is enough to act as the 'hand of NATO" to bring Russia to her knees.
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  204. I saw the new "Coalition-SV" artillery on another channel a week ago. It originally was some kind of crazy double-barreled artillery; but in testing the twin barrels didn't work very well so they scrapped it. That origin is where "Coalition" came from; but they kept the name and went to a conventional single barrel design. When I saw the standard round range I too was shocked; that range is far beyond the standard range of any artillery either towed or self-propelled I've ever heard of. It is also armored like a tank; the crew and ammo are inside a "citadel" of armor so something like HIMARS or other artillery that lands nearby will never penetrate it; only a direct hit will probably destroy it. Its a monster for sure.
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  205. It seems that the anti-drone "cope cages" actually work to make it more difficult for FPV drones to achieve a critical hit. IDF tanks visible all week with cope cages on top, and the IDF is nowhere near the "diva army" that Ukraine is. IDF doesn't make TikTok videos for their fanbois; if the cope cage didn't have a benefit, it wouldn't be there. I saw vids this week where FPV drones could be clearly seen trying to maneuver to hit underneath the top and sides of the cage; and it seems to be much harder to do than just dive bomb the uncovered top of the vehicle. The cage on that BMP-T had angled sides to provide some protection while not blocking the missile launchers. The Terminator is one of the very few Russian vehicles you don't hear BS in US media about----all the usual neocon/US military sites give it respect as it is armed for basically any situation. Anti-personnel, anti-tank, anti-fortification all in one machine. AFU fortunate Russian only has like 30 of them.
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  206. This is very serious but I honestly laughed out loud when you showed the page with the four Ukrainian officers with a big red "X" across each photo...." 😂
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  207. So AFU just sitting inside forests solely to be hard for RU to root out? The only purpose to have something to bargain with? I can’t believe men willingly perform such a mission where “success” is judged by how long you last until you become a casualty or captured.
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  208. So basically Ukraine air defense announcements have no basis in reality
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  209. Any word on the North Korean KN-25 heavy MLRS coming to Russia? Heard rumors but so far only confirmation of rocket ammo from Iran and NK; no actual launchers or hardware systems.
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  210. This tale of the Ukrainian woman and the fate of her husband will garner no sympathy from any American. 50 years ago, one of the worst things any American could be called was a "draft-dodger"; as a young man it was your duty to go to SE Asia and die for your country. These complaints will fall on deaf ears at the Pentagon----to them the men of Ukraine are simply doing their part for the "deal" between NATO and Zelensky.
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  211. There is one thing standing out to me----LOUDLY----about Kherson. How is it that Ukraine has some kind of drone simply sitting above Russian territory at least 10 km deep?? All these vids of FPV drone or HIMARS hits are being RECORDED. By what?? Russia needs to fix THAT problem, and the other problems will solve themselves! At this point, I no longer call the red shaded areas "annexed areas"; they just celebrated Unification Day and voted (again) to be Russia. All that Red area is Russia; Ukraine is basically now in possession of 0.5% of Russia and the Russians are the ones trying to push out some squatters that overstayed their welcome.
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  212. Wow. Assuming those Iskander cluster munitions were detonating on the ground, if you compare the size of the detonations to the size of the vehicles, those are huge submunitions (maybe they are airburst). Go look at the detonations in the water and sand from the ATACMS cluster strike last week in Crimea; their detonations were about the size of a human. I've read that RU has modified Iskanders to have less range but more payload since their westward progress has shortened the range to all their likely targets. The pattern entirely covers that whole column, meaning every single vehicle was likely hit by some fragments..."
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  213. So the three-pronged Russia attack Weeb discussed three weeks ago has turned out to be correct? Wow. I only watch this, Weeb, and DPA. There really is no need to bother with all the others.
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  214. NATO will never admit is publicly, but when it comes to tactics, Russian army has had Ukraine's number all year long.
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  215. It took Russia what, 5 or 6 days to shoot down ATACMS?? That "game-changer" didn't even get off the bench and into the game....
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  216. "Desert Storm" negates everything you said
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  217. I'm not sure I believe that. Dima said its speculation; so nobody really knows. But then again, they are standing by watching thousands of civilians eat shrapnel in Gaza.
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  218. In every war the poor guys do the brunt of the dying while the sons of the rich and powerful survive.
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  219. So what? The town is supposed to be given up once Ukraine has committed enough and taken enough losses.
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  220. Not to their goals of course, but to their tactics and to how fast they move? Absolutely
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  221. ...and in yesterday NY Times, Ukraine is planning to send newly-trained female soldiers to face Storm-Z, Akhmat, and Spetznaz, all with two years now of combat experience in the most brutal warfare, and most of the comments were POSITIVE!! American Left would never in a thousand years send their daughters to do the same, but there they are, cheering Ukrainian women on. Madness. Western leaders are so wedded to the idea of beating Russia, so fervent in their desire to teach Putin a harsh lesson, they don't even notice they've long ago left the "high road" they walk on (and lecture others about) during peacetime.
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  222. 6 weeks only. Not really that long for a city of 30K size. It is operationally encircled and those inside have no hope of defeating those surrounding them. A large AFU army could be sent that could break the encirclement but it would have to come from somewhere else and then that front will collapse. What do you think will happen?
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  223. It seems like Russia had just decided "We are not going to let an FPV drone stop us. You want to stop us, you better have a tank or some big artillery, a flying 82mm mortar tis but a scratch to the Mighty Roaring Bear"
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  224. The fact the $60B from America is never coming is the final nail in the coffin
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  225. Imagine your unit notified it is being sent to Avdiivka and your orders are to "use your lives to slow down the Russians so our younger, higher quality troops can escape". 🤐
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  226.  @JasinNatael  True, but you have them to spread, the enemy doesn't
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  227. I don't see a lot of TOS1-A flamethrowers at work much recently and I know Putin prioritized their construction. Saw a lot of the big BM-27 rocket launchers on the move near Kupiansk but that's it. Maybe flamethrower range too short for current combat conditions? That one accumulation of forces seemed like perfect flamethrower target.
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  228. Not a relevant example until 30 countries give Hamas more weapons than IDF entire budget. Then it will be a fair comparison...
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  229. Ukraine is only limited in attacking Russia with NATO weapons. If it's something they built themselves or their domestic stuff who can tell them what not to hit. I can't believe Latvia wants to fight Russia. They must have built some long range drones.
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  230. Women as combat troops is not "shameful" in the United States. There is a very large majority here that dont see this as a problem. They believe women and men are interchangeable so what is the issue?
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  231. I don't know how Zelensky does it. How does he convince so many men to give up their lives for nothing?? How do you even sell such an operation like this incursion to officers? Let's invade Russia with 2500 men and 35 tanks; how do people not just get up and walk out of the room? Even if everything went right for Ukraine, what would your sacrifice have brought? Whether a week or a month, eventually all of you would be destroyed or captured or have to retreat. Just to try to embarrass Putin on his election day? Your life forfeit for such a complete PR goal?? What kind of men hear such a thing and think "yeah, good idea. I'm in!"
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  232. So Ukraine's "D-Day" invasion is over after 5 days?
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  233. Where is the video deep inside Russian territory coming from? What is watching the 11-truck convoy for Ukraine? I'm no longer surprised if its a US asset doing targeting for AFU as we all know they've done that the entire war, but I'd love to know what asset that is.
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  234. Does Ukraine have any combat power other than FPV drones and mortars? I never see "Cloud" or "Missile" icons in Blue, only FPV drone hits....and where are Ukraine's tanks and AFVs?? Its clear neither side uses vehicles much in offense, preferring the small infantry unit tactics, but on the defense you don't bring in some heavier firepower on attacking infantry??
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  235. There must be some agreement between the US and Russia for Russia to not fire on American drones and not interdict cargo ships. How could Russia possibly just allow a ship full of weapons to be used against them to simply sail unmolested to Poland?
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  236. Trump has to give Ukraine enough to survive the negotiations; RU will not stop during negotiations so they have to be able to just NOT collapse. Trump was going to do that anyway; these mineral rights is just payment for it.
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  237. Ukraine couldn't possibly have more than 50 operational aircraft at this point. When was the last time they fired a Storm Shadow? Three weeks ago?
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  238. The "unofficial" West media here says Biden plan now is just "preserve" whats left of Ukraine and build it up over time economically and militarily. To me that means they gonna have to talk to Putin eventually
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  239. This morning I just thought "Russia getting payback for the landing ship attack". I don't believe that anymore; the reports all day of the scale of this means there is NO way it could have been arranged in two days. The target selection and missile programming alone would have taken weeks to put almost 200 missiles and drones in the sky, from ships, subs, land launchers, and bombers. This is something else. Probably the beginning of the "Shock and Awe" air campaign to end the war. Imagine this happening every week for the next two months. By February Ukraine's entire logistic, tactical and strategic structure to support their war effort will have been annihilated.
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  240. A turning point has been reached: Today the Telegraph (among the most determined Russia-haters and Ukraine apologists in the media), ran a story: "Russia’s army is learning - here’s why it should worry the West". These warmongering a-holes are finally realizing they can't beat Russia on the cheap. Too bad a million had to be lost for them to finally understand.
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  241. Was that ICBM warhead Avangard or something else??
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  242. Ukraine army starting to fight on horseback while Russian army starting to look like "Ghost in the Shell".
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  243. An Amazon Delivery drone, big enough to carry heavy packages, but instead of a PS5 and a 4K TV, it carries an anti-tank missile. You are correct; in 2 years ALL the fighting will be done by drone.
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  244. I counted 12 brigades of AFU on each side of the Kursk salient. There are more brigades on ONE side of Kursk front than inside or near Velya Novosilka. Russia has to move deeper into Ukraine to flank that bulge, to advance where they are now against dug in AFU means they'd lose 3 troops for every Ukrainian loss. Zelensky pours more in no matter how many are lost because to him it is priority #1 before the ceasefire that he has a strong position on something Russia wants
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  245. Does Ukraine have any officers that actually went Military Academy or have those men all long ago been KIA or seriously wounded? All year long they walk into trap, after trap, after trap; whenever they see two enemy pincers form, they send their entire army into it. Bakhmut, Zaporizhzhia, now Donetsk.... Zelensky is 45; he is old enough to have at least watched "History Channel" while growing up. I hear he's just about had it with Zaluzhny.
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  246. $61B is technically true, but actual weapons and ammo is like $12B. No one in West is saying this will do anything other than prevent AFU collapse
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  247. I think the balance between armored vehicle and FPV drone has returned to even or possibly back in favor of the armored vehicle. I've noticed over the past several months many vehicles from both sides, not just tanks but IFVs and MRAPs too, tanking multiple hits from FPV drones and going right on. Even if they are damaged and stop, all six guys get out unharmed. Very recently I noticed many FPV drone vids they are almost exclusively trying to attack from the front and sides; to the rear, the slats, the ERA, the chains, the rebar, the cage with rubber panels, etc. is really making it difficult for the FPV drone's rather small shaped-charge to deal a critical blow. Of course the front and sides are the strongest part of any tank or armored vehicle directly from the factory. I've seen Bradley's and BMPs just driving right through 3 or 4 hits and dropping of their load....
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  248. AFU does not seem to bother using anti-drone cages over their Leopard 2s, and every vid I've seen the past few weeks the Russians target the rear turret when attacking Leopard 2. Is that a weak spot?
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  249. I respect the amount of speculation you use in your summaries, most of which, whether they turn out to be true or not, have valid reasoning behind them. However this idea that Russia has limited means of deploying FAB-3000 bombs is highly suspect. RU have almost 500 Tu-22 bombers, which can carry 50,000+ lbs. of weapons. So far, they only use them to launch cruise missiles but the standoff range of the FABs should allow them to do so as well. Tu-22 is no slouch; it can release and turn-n-burn just as well as a Su-34 so I'm not yet convinced there is any limit to where a FAB-3000 can show up.
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  250. Russia already won this war, now the focus is on winning the peace
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  251. Where are the 1000 North Korean casualties? Ukraine told CNN this
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  252. The entire tone of your daily summary is essentially: "...and today the Russian steamroller has flattened this part, is preparing to flatten that part, has cleaned up after flattening that part, and estimates they will flatten that part sometime next week". You don't even need the details anymore.....the previous sentence sums things up nicely for the past two months... 😂
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  253. The "gap" between the red "pincers" in the center of the city is only about 5 km. The overpressure lethal radius of a 2000 lb bomb is a 1.5km circle from point of impact. Just imagine that on AFU....
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  254.  @TeunisMarinus  ??? Yes, but they hung 5,000 KIA on AFU's best UK-trained troops in Krinky, right? Isn't that the whole point of war?
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  255. This really is a 21st century war; even Fallujah 2004 was nothing like this. These quadcopter drones were toys just a decade ago now they are bombs guided by the best intelligence system on Earth---a human. Even the small ones carry an explosive that basically took out the entire floor of what looked like at least about 3000 square feet of space. Even if you didn't get hit by fragments, your eardrums are destroyed and possibly your lungs collapsed in that enclosed space. Western leaders talk trash about Russia and say Ukraine is too slow; but in both cases the West is full of isht. None of them have ever fought a war like this. If Saddam's men had drones like this, US Marines wouldn't have taken a month to capture Fallujah, it would have taken them a YEAR.
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  256. "VDV"
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  257. Trumpeter (big military model kit maker) has their '24 line coming out and for the first time we are getting the latest versions of Russian tanks in SMO livery (and with cope cages!). I plan to build an entire array of models of Russian hardware to commemorate their victory over NATO.
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  258. I mean, everyone who watches this channel said two weeks ago when Ukraine started to go hard in Zaporizhzhia that they were being allowed to enter a meat grinder.
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  259. Yeah...what's this the 54th "game changer" or the 55th? I lose count there have been so many
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  260. How many Chechens are going to Kursk?
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  261. US local news in towns were Ukrainian soldiers are getting treated for loss of limbs, very serious injury and all of them say the same thing when interviewed. "We are shot at almost immediately" or "the average soldier at the front lasts three days before becoming a casualty". Day after day, for months now, this summary and many others say the same thing. Infantry assaults result in horrendous losses in every war. I recall stories about the Battle of the Bulge, where in the opening stages the Germans used infantry assault so they would not lose so many tanks in breaking through American lines. Some American soldiers said they stopped shooting at the Germans because by that stage of the war, the Wehrmacht was mostly teenage boys, and they killed so many with machine gun fire it made them sick to see all the dead littering the ground in front of their foxhole. We are seeing the exact same thing happening again.
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  262. What are the guesses at Ukrainian casualties in just the past week? NATO must have made some kind of promise to Ukraine for them to simply try the "bust through no matter the cost" strategy
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  263. ?? That's why we come here; this PERSON's view (who is doing this 24/7). Otherwise its just a daily report of how much this and how much that and that's boring.
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  264. Those Wagners man....they are going into the history books with Spartans, Persian Immortals, Centurions, US Marines in Pacific War, etc....
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  265. NATO may physically leave Mali, but they'll just arm whoever is against the government as they have done for decades. The old school CIA way. They won't just let Russia build up five or six countries there with no resistance
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  266. Go Russia! I have no hate for Ukraine but Biden and NATO are using Ukraine to destroy Russia.
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  267. Mi-28 gets no love 😅
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  268. Neither side posts videos of their failures; only their successes. Don't fall victim to confirmation bias.
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  269. RU has to show why the "no Western weapons used in Russia" rule was in place for 2+ years. NATO changed their policy suddenly to enable this attack, Russia has to change its "policy" suddenly in return..."
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  270. Source: trust me bro?
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  271. I can't believe Syrsky even took that job a few months back. A job Zaluzhzhny said was hopeless a year ago. Napolensky is going to start ordering him to send in "Army Group Steiner" very soon (if he hasn't already). Even Biden believes Zelensky may be trying to draw the US into direct war with Russia: ""...But Ukraine is fighting for its survival. It would accept direct US involvement in a war with Russia. According to a recent book by David Sanger, Biden even suggested to his aides that Zelenskyy might be deliberately trying to draw America into a third world war..." Financial Times - 8/26/24
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  272. This is basically the Russian version of the Jan 6th attack on the US Capitol
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  273. Zel is offering to sign the deal but Trump is still PO'ed at him so it'll probably be at least a week or two till they kiss and make up. Russia will ROFLstomp them during that time.
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  274. Just how in the HELL is AFU capable of special ops in freakin' Sudan, unless US military fly them there, equip them, feed them, and provide all the intel for them??? To kill BLACK members of Wagner; men who NEVER fought in Ukraine??? Those devils Blinken and Nuland have their hands all over that. WOW! My government is making me really angry!
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  275. I will admit that I am very surprised that Russia has not decisively defeated Ukraine to the point even their die hards see no choice but to talk. Ukraine fighting Russia is like a soy boy fighting Mike Tyson; if the soy boy manages to hit Mike, it is nothing really to Tyson, but it is a big deal to the soy boy (and his fans). There are signs that Putin has been holding back all along, not really wanting to vaporize the entire landscape of Ukraine (this restraint created Prigozhin). However, there are also signs Russia legitimately is at the limit of its ground combat capability---the dismissed General speaking of how he lacked enough of almost everything to truly defeat his opponent. Russia has 1500 combat aircraft yet only the Su-24s see any constant action; Ukraine no longer sends up fighters so the Su-27s and 35s have nothing to do. The bomber force could level cities with tons of dumb bombs, but that wouldn't do much militarily and in any event they are content to just be missile trucks for precision strike. There is a 100-ship navy that is doing almost nothing; a few Kalibrs a week. Maybe its both? Russia is holding back AND is near its limit on the ground?
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  276. If its true Avdiivka has 15,000 AFU and many NATO mercenaries (and is the basis of Ukraine's position in Donetsk since 2014), then it has to go. Russia has to take it to cleanse all of Donetsk so if it takes 500 vehicles, 10,000 casualties and four months, so be it. It is worth it to win the war.
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  277. "....and as you can see the entire block of Petropavlivka village was erased...." Military Summary reminds you to condemn any violence in the world...🤣🤣🤣
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  278. as long as the enemy is losing more, you are winning, correct? The point of war is to win. The West fights "play war" like Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. where they don't actually want to win, just to make a point or regime change. In those cases casualties are to be kept low for the West. However when your countries' life depends on it, the West WILL send you to your death just like the Russians do.
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  279. There was an article last week in the National Interest, a neo-con outlet, and the author flat out stated "...the Ukraine War has proven the T-72 is the best tank in the world..." A lot of US MIC heads are exploding this week....
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  280. Ukraine trading lives for land, Russia trading land for time. 2023 campaign season is about over. Winter is to rest, rotate, and train up new Legions for Spring 2024. Putin this week authorized 147,000 drafted between now an Spring, plus the 280,000 Medveyev said they recruited this year with bonuses, debt forgiveness, citizenship, etc. So thats 427,000 more ready by next year this time. AFU is sending 71 yr old men to NATO training, demanding countries send back male refugees, now conscripting women. Russia hasn't even had to raise its draft eligibility age max from its current age 27. Ukraine can win battles, but they will never win the war.
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  281. I would like a mini episode totally focused on what this air raid hit. So many targets in so many places, and West media will never report it. We could learn a lot by analyzing what RU is targeting...."
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  282. Wow. The Tu-22M story if true is a major problem.
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  283. The only metric that matters is what was the cost. If Ukraine said "ok, we accept 3000 casualties and 100 vehicles to take this town", and they take about that amount, they are "winning". If they lost 6000 casualties and 200 vehicles, Russia is winning. We just have no idea yet
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  284. If its on CNN or BBC, it's a lie
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  285. To see Velkya Novosilka now covered in red when just around Christmas the place was completely yellow is sobering. How many AFU were surrounded and captured in the south of the city?
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  286. This summary was like "left, left, body blow, right, left, body-blow, body-blow, uppercut!" There is NOTHING in Western Media AT ALL today about Ukraine's current state....in fact the whole week has been mostly silence. I think it is clear they simply have nothing good to say, so they say nothing..."
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  287. I am 100% certain Zelensky plans to share the fate of his country. When he chose not to negotiate in 2022 he tied his future to that of Ukaine as he dreams of it to be.
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  288. Russia never fights NATO directly; they'd lose such a fight. For every ATACMS that lands in Russia, a German internet cable will experience "failure", a Greek pipeline will develop a "leak", a Polish fuel storage tank will "ignite" , a Brit wind farm in the North Sea will lose fan blades to a "fault" , a French....well....you get the picture... 🤣
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  289. Cut the figures in half and they are still catastrophic
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  290. A few weeks ago the son of my wife's close friend told his family he is being deployed to "Europe". He is in the infantry, wife and two kids---one just born a few months ago. Great young man. I told my wife "he can't say, but I'm 99% certain he is going to Poland" (my wife never watches the news and has zero interest in geopolitics), and explained to her what is going in this war. She got a look of dread on her face, and I reassured here it was likely just political. Shore up Poland, make a show if it for Putin, etc. and the likelihood of him going to war with Russia was near zero. I am no longer sure of that: Ukraine has been simply hurling itself against the Fortress Zaporizhzhia wall with little apparent concern for losses since Zelensky visited the front a week ago. Zaluzhny called Robotyne "Kursk 2023" a few days ago, and AFU asked Zelensky to approve 200,000 more mobilization a week ago. Ukraine is fully aware it is going to lose A LOT of troops and is obviously prepared to do so. Such a gambit only makes sense if Zelensky knew his risk was mitigated somehow; he would not throw his entire NATO force into the grinder and just hope for victory without some insurance against disastrous loss. I now believe that "insurance" is Biden has assured him NATO will enter Ukraine if necessary to prevent a complete and total disastrous defeat and Russian occupation of the majority of what remains of the country.
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  291. I guessed Mariupol and I wasn't far off. I didn't see the dam busting coming but it makes perfect sense from Ukraine's point of view. Two weeks ago the WSJ had a retired general lay out 4 attack options he thought for Ukraine, it appears this is his option #2 Zaporizhzhia. The Russian defensive lines in that area are very strong; Novoprokopivka lay right in the center of 4 lines; 2 in front and 2 bigger behind it. This will not be any kind of maneuver war until Ukraine breaks through at least 5 or 6 lines; this will be the Germans and Belgians at Liege. Rock vs. hard place and one will eventually break.
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  292. I was just thinking last night that Ukraine has no depth in their combat power. They had to have blown that dam, because right now if 25K Russians pushed through Kherson there would be nothing to stop them. I also dont think they could stop 25K from Belgorod either.
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  293. US raised rates just 18 months ago to fight serious inflation due to high salaries and only just very recently has the inflation rate begun to stabilize and prices on cars and houses starting to fall.
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  294. AFU just asked Zelensky for 200K more last week. Ukraine basically had decided that either they will win and survive, or there will be no Ukrainians in the land that is now called Ukraine. "Victory or Death" strategy.
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  295. Im pro-Russia simply because NATO started the war by threatening Russia first. NATO must fail or we will see them do the same with Taiwan against China, Nigeria against Niger, anywhere anyone can bribed to be the Western proxy to do their dirty work will now be a new "cauldron". A NATO victory is a far more dangerous global future for ALL than a Russian victory
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  296. It's Russia now....2+ years and 20 years from now will be 22+ and counting. Get used to it
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  297. It has been unmistakable that the past month or two NATO has stepped up its game on Ukraines behalf. Precision strike is where NATO dominates and we are seeing more of that than ever before, because that requires intelligence, surveillance, satellites, $200M Global Hawk, etc. A billion dollars of assets are used before one HIMARS gets fired. That is the unmistakable hand of NATO. Ukraine may be taking tens of thousands of casualties on the ground, but Russia is going to have to find a way to counter this growing precision strike capability of Ukraine.
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  298. Waiting to see the "making gains" headlines on CNN and BBC later today....
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  299. Russia should advance through Kupiansk, Bakhmut, and Ohrekov. NO way Ukraine can stop all three.
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  300. CNN/BBC too. The amount of cognitive dissonance on the NATO side is astounding. However, I've begun to hear arguments by them now of "well, what has Putin really won?". They are beginning to believe...
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  301. That one night vision vid look like orbital bombardment shots from a Star Destroyer turbolaser. We've seen krasnopol shells hit at night, and the projectiles in this vid are moving much faster than a 152mm artillery shell.
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  302. Churchill wanted to kick Russia out of what would later become East Germany as well as Poland in 1945, if they resisted he wanted Truman to use the Bomb on them. Luckily, Truman had enough of war and wanted nothing to do with that; he felt it was better to just play the long game and try to limit the spread of Communism.
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  303. I looked and can find no reference to Zelensky saying that in Ramstein. If the did say that, it would be headline news around the world and there'd be no way for NATO to suppress it. Anyone have a link to it?
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  304. By publicly blaming North Korea for supplying (apparently the KN-23 tactical missile) to Russia, and then showing video of them (two hits!) turning a fueling facility and several tanker trucks into a blazing inferno, the United States has tacitly confirmed that NK missiles are capable of hitting a building the size of a Home Depot from 400 km away.
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  305. I really am getting tired of these people always complaining because THE BIGGER ARMY IS BEATING THE SMALLER ONE!!
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  306. They SAID they'd do it a few months ago, but clearly it takes time (and the right time of year) for offensives. So, their INTENT was long ago, their ACTION is what you see now.
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  307. That new Russian weapon looks like the stuff Thanos' warship was firing at the Avengers.
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  308. Its like the Rebels vs. the Empire. Sometimes the Rebels succeed in tying up the legs of an AT-AT walker
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  309. CNN has an interview up with a Ukrainian soldier wearing a baseball cap with a Reichsadler on it.... They are so tied to their propaganda they cant even see they are talking to a Nazi
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  310. You can take your 'woke" politics and shove it. Any nation that puts their women into trenches on the front lines is a nation that does not deserve to endure.
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  311. Tornado-S rocket carried 500 lb. HE fragmentation warhead. Within 20m (60+ feet) radius severe damage, instant death; out to 100m (300+ feet) fragments penetrate humans, trucks, light armor. You can see blast effects almost the entire length of the train. Anyone on that train is a casualty; either dead or injured. Any vehicle below a tank is heavily damaged to lightly damaged. Also, its very unlikely Russia would send only one rocket as rockets are cheap. That train and everyone on it is gone.
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  312. It’s called negotiation. The first offer from both sides is always unrealistic; this position is where the bargaining starts
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  313. This was the super battleship Yamato, with only enough fuel for a one-way trip to Okinawa to engage in glorious battle with the US Navy fleet. Which at this time was 28 aircraft carriers, 23 battleships, 71 escort carriers, 72 cruisers, over 232 submarines, and 377 destroyers. Yamato had an even chance at victory...."
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  314. No way. The Zelensky government will NEVER surrender. They are in this to whatever end. When Zelensky goes, it will be "Fuhrer bunker style".
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  315. I commented that the increased pace is due to Trump and the imminent end to hostiles and YT deleted it. NYTimes does this too. It's not my war, but nothing angers me more than US media censorship because we "speak" contrary to the party in power. Revolutions start that way...
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  316. Binkovs Battlegrounds (utterly shameless NATO shill) today: "Why are Ukraine's defenses failing?" I answered, and got 4 angry replies before he gave up and deleted the comment. 🤣
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  317. RU took back 15% in one day-------NOT A WORD IN CNN/BBC/SKY .
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  318. The true believers on CNN/BBC/DW/FRANCE24 are really having a tough time accepting reality today. On CNN YT channel anything saying "don't escalate" gets deleted, while any comment saying "lift all restrictions" gets hundreds of likes. It is really hard to believe most Americans want to attack Russia, but that's because it isn't really true. YT helping to shape public perception of opinion...."
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  319. WTF is wrong with people keep asking this question?? FAB-500 falling 100 times a day all across the front for two weeks or more now. What, does Russia have to call you personally when every Su-34 takes off??
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  320. My guess is trolling by RU, because they know something like that will be howled about on CNN/BBC/FRANCE24 tomorrow while they shudder with laughter. All those vids of "NK troops" over the weekend now proven to be the usual Budanov lies so if/when the NK's do come, no one knows for sure what manner it will take.
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  321. The propaganda BS is flying but what I do know is Zelensky and NATO are as scared as I've seen them since March, 2022. I said four days ago Biden Administration response shows they didn't plan for this and are not really sure what to do.
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  322. If Zelensky loses the army, he may get Mussolini-ed....
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  323. US and especially UK have really stepped up their "assistance" , they are not even trying to hide their intelligence and targeting data being sent directly to AFU. Russians overheard crew of Krab artillery speaking in Polish. NATO is at war with Russia, and it doesn't seem there are any limits other than "none of our help can be used to attack Moscow". That is all that stands between the current situation and we all die in thermonuclear fire.
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  324. Without Zelensky, Zaluzhny, Budanov, etc. and the other high-ranking nationalists?
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  325. What a story. It has happened so many times now in the past two years that it simply cannot be objectively denied. Putin always pays his debts....and promptly. Used Zelensky to locate the forces responsible for the ship attacks. Wow.
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  326. Other bloggers say that is the Lancet's new warhead specifically designed to defeat heavy armor. That jet is the tungsten dart being driven into the tank creating a cloud of plasma (and turning everything and everyone inside into slag instantaneously).
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  327. The Ka-52s were out hunting, but they mostly hunt at night. 🙂
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  328. All those towns in Dnipro area are like 250+ km from the front. What UAV asset Russia using that can just sit in the sky and observe that deep into Ukraine to hit Mig-29s and S-300 like that? My guess is Orlan-30 as the older version I don't think had that kind of range
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  329. Both leader admit they cant win , yet they won't admit they are beaten. Zelensky over here asking for F-18s, Apaches, THAAD, a Ford class carrier, etc. what the hell drugs is he on?? Just make AFU the 6th branch of US then....
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  330. Every one of these updates I just see "Kursk 1943" all over again. I just can't help it as it looks so similar tactically. The technology has changed, but that doesn't mean the lessons from 80 years ago are any different as BOTH sides have the same tech. Russia has all the time in the world, while Ukraine is on the clock. In the south, Russia doing typical "bend don't break" strategy, trading some land for time. Unless Ukraine advances on the flanks, that one salient cannot go very deep or it will simply be attacked on the flanks and destroyed. In the north, all those rocket launchers (and reloaders!) means they are going lay down some serious firepower as those look like the serious 220mm launchers with 20+ mile range.
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  331. BBC has big article up today on all the Ukrainian men who fled the country to escape the trenches. Smart guys, imho. If someone invades the US to make us all slaves, I fight to the death to be free. If Mexico invades just to take back the parts of CA and TX that are 99% Mexican like Los Angeles or Brownsville? Ehhh, maybe I don't bother fighting them.
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  332. TWO S-300s with one missile. AFU fools to place them so close together...
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  333. Everyone lies in war, in equal measure.
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  334. There is a pro-Ukraine channel with an American former military veteran; he is very pro-Ukraine, but he doesn't push fantasy. The mood and comments there are very somber; they realize they are doomed. Lots of anger at NATO for slow or no weapons, blaming and finger-pointing. I want to gloat and say "I told you so!!" , but I feel bad doing so as I , like most Americans, never had any ill will towards Ukraine. I hate seeing their male population decimated. I'm angry at Biden, Blinken, Nuland, and Johnson.
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  335. If RU took out another Patriot that is a big deal. Patriot is probably the greatest single NATO weapon system in demand right now; more than ATACMs, Storm Shadow, Abrams tanks, etc. Its air defense, then everything else; its so bad even the US don't have a full system to spare---they trying to cobble one together with launchers/radar/control module all from different countries. A lot of US media reports Israel is going to send up to 8 old Patriot systems to Ukraine because even UK news admits F-16 will be wiped out on the ground if they don't cover the bases with Patriot/NASMs. The $2.3B of more aid Joe Biden just announced is mostly Patriot missiles but they have to be produced so they are weeks away. Personally, I don't think any of that will make much difference; it is not clear Patriot can stop an Iskander...both sides say completely opposite things as to whether it can or not. Even if Patriot can stop Iskander half the time, there are far more Iskanders than Patriots so eventually the Iskanders will win.
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  336. as crazy as it sounds, you are more right than wrong. This was also Prigozhin's great frustration with Putin; Putin tries to walk the line with NATO, but NATO does not walk the line with Putin. However, Putin been in power over 20 years; I give him the benefit of the doubt when it comes to which path to choose, even if I don't agree...."
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  337. Ukraine FPV vid targeting a Bradley???
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  338. I bet some T-54/55 got in on the action massacring that AFU armored attack. 100 mm HE from 1953 will kill any IFV from 2023. 😂
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  339. West Media doing the usual: pouring on the daily propaganda this time about North Korean soldiers in Russia. Almost a million soldiers from both sides engaged and the West flipping out due to 3000 more?
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  340. What if they can? You think Russia is going to run out of missiles and artillery shells?
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  341. In so many ways Ukraine reminds me of Germany in 1945. Still dangerous, but no realistic ability to stop the enemy offensives. No air cover at all for their ground forces. Low on ammo, fuel, and hardware. Most of all, a fanatically ultra-nationalist leader that would rather die resisting than admit defeat.
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  342. That took what, a day or two?? Is Chasiv Yar heavily fortified?
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  343. RU need to stop behaving like AFU tiktok warriors and posting all their social media stuff. Both sides basically have spies all over each other's territory as they've been cousins for 1500 years.
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  344. Remember six months ago Ukraine and the West teasing Russia about using "cope cages" against FPV drones? Half the AFU vehicles seen being blown up yesterday in Zaporizhzhia had----you guessed it----cope cage. Doesn't seem to help for side shot by ATGM tho....😂😂
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  345. Ouch!! Gonna need more than a Band-Aid at 8:57 ....
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  346. @maxwolf8055 Ok, that's not enough to counter-attack unless they are part of a larger force.
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  347. For Kirby to directly address this specific type of NK weapon (when everyone already knows NK shells artillery rockets are being provided), means US is very concerned. At first I thought maybe the NK KN-25 MLRS had showed up
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  348. So Shoigu ALLOWED AFU to mass in Krinky to lure them into a larger operation, THEN he unleashed the night-vision drones? So Russia tunneled under the AFU strongpoint, and set off explosives (just like in US Civil War 160 years ago) to blow a hole in their defenses? Tactically, Russia has been dominating Ukraine all year.
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  349. Drone biggest weakness is control signal can be jammed. Once the drones can fly themselves through trees and under tents, its over. Skynet is reality.
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  350. US DoD now admits "Spring Offensive" has failed, is now planning for a restart in the Fall. The "Peace" summit in Jeddah, was instigated by the US in March/April, and timed to coincide with what was hoped would be significant Ukrainian gains by now, will obviously either be canceled or be a waste of time. In other words, Biden hoped by now Russia would be on her knees, and Jeddah would be where he and his lapdog Zelensky would dictate terms to a humiliated Putin. I guess we'll all be back here in November after Russia has smashed all the Abrams tanks. See ya'll then! 🙂
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  351. Those drone bombs make me think of the running robot bombs from "The Creator"
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  352. Its no surprise wars start in Slavic countries, WW1, WW2, now WW3 all the same origins. They are just combative culture; easy to anger, easy to take offense, quick to resort to violence. NATO is using that trait to its advantage.
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  353. Krinky Part Deux. 100% to get some PR value...." Niger just officially broke diplomatic ties with Ukraine; a country that itself may or may not exist is already interfering in the affairs of foreign countries. They are becoming another "the country that cannot be named"...."
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  354. I'm not really sure anymore what NATO is trying to accomplish at this point. Everyone knows the whole "push Russia out of Crimea and the Republics, blahh, blahh" is never going to happen in a thousand years, and Russia is far stronger now than it was in 2021. NATO is publicly pulling cash and telling Zelensky to talk; so what is their desired outcome now?
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  355. Biden is shoveling A LOT of money and weapons out the door to Ukraine the last month. Some is just what's left from the $61B approved last Spring, but I just read he gave $20B from seized Russian assets to the World Bank where Ukraine can use it. I've read that World Bank money cannot be used for weapons; is that true?
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  356. So just like the Abrams?
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  357. There is a drone hovering over a Pantsir-S1 and spotting for HIMARS, and the Pantsir cannot detect it. That is crazy. Your AA system can't see an A sitting right over it.
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  358. Lavrov gave Biden/Zelensky ultimatum: Capitulate on Russian terms or Ukraine will cease to exist as a country. Not much nuance there... Diesel fuel recently having shortages in Russia. Speculation is army is stockpiling it for the Steamroller Phase. North Korea has a million shells ready to ship to their new ally. Everything is in place; Putin just needs to give the word.
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  359. Dam, every war on earth right now is in tunnels. 21st century high-tech my azz; when it comes down to it war is just like it was 200 years ago. Men in the mud.
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  360. Russia need to fit a "daisycutter" fuse to FAB-500 bombs and knock down the treelineline in front of all these areas. That's the only way AFU can approach and hide their stuff; de-forest the area out to a km and nothing will be able to sneak up on you. Drop some Agent Orange on them or something. Fight nasty like the US does...
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  361. I felt the same way about the elections; if Harris wins Russia gonna send everyone (including the North Koreans) because the more they get now the better. If Trump wins , maybe they don't have to push so hard so fast since negotiations are much more likely. Also, today on the "propaganda" channels as I call them, like Sun, Kanal13, etc. there are stories of how AFU and NK troops are in contact and fighting already, but due to the channels I see this on, I consider it very unlikely to be true.
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  362. I think Putin has had enough giving US drones over the Black Sea such soft treatment. No more just chasing them off, only for them to just come back later. They are actively enabling destruction of big assets and helping provide intel for incursions on Crimea. Today Russia started attacking these drones. About time.
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  363. I really wonder if it is even really possible to "end" this war by either side? Constantly we've heard how Ukraine evacuates areas all along its border because most of the citizens there cannot be trusted by Kyiv. Last week all the elections in Crimea and the Republics went for Russia by huge margins-----margins so big you cannot simply wave it away as "well they were told to vote for Russia". Asia and ME news outlets interview people living in these territories and they almost always say "we chose to stay Russian". Even if Russian army left all these places tomorrow, Ukraine would have an insurgency "forever war" on its hands and NATO would be in the position of supporting a force for tyranny over people who voted for someone else. You could almost call this a civil war.
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  364. I felt exactly the same two days ago: Putin must respond, but he will have to thread a tiny gap between facing down Biden without making it impossible to work with Trump. This is a tiny sliver of daylight, but Putin has been doing this since the 1980s and if anyone can thread it he can. I give credit to Biden though; this was a brilliant political move by him even though I strongly dislike him and this stupid war.
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  365. If you win, they'll love you and shower you with money. If you lose, they'll pretend they never met you before...
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  366. I agree with the belief Ukraine didn't have much more of a plan than "rush in there and smash isht" for Kursk. Their own statements are all over the place, which could be psyops, but they now asking for entrenching equipment means they didn't initially plan to need it at this time...
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  367. Just like you said, now public that Ukraine is moving troops from Kherson. You are more reliable than all western media combined
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  368. I've lost count of how many things reported here (and on other blogger sites) that you found NOWHERE ELSE in the Western media until 2 or 3 days later. The list is in the hundreds...
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  369. My major malfunction with the Biden Administration and the Blinken/Nuland neocons, is now resolved. There will never be US missiles in Mariupol. The US Navy will never have a base in Odessa or a squadron in the Sea of Azov. The NATO plan for Ukraine is defeated forever. If Russia ends up with all of remaining Ukraine or part of it hardly matters as the unification day a couple weeks ago showed NATO the people of Crimea and the annexed areas are with Russia. If the war ends today the neocons lost. That's all that really matters.
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  370. Anyone else notice that since the Israel -Hamas war started, ,YT has gone crazy deleing comments that support Russia?
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  371. This is absolutely nuts. Many thousands of civilians will be killed to forcibly install the guy those same people just ousted? There will never be peace, there has to be a better way.
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  372. Just read that Vicky Nuland---the Architect of the Zelensky Government and Ukrainian Nationalist takeover----is "retiring" in a few weeks. 😂
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  373. If RU has such detailed information about brigade level celebration within AFU, they have very deep spy network in Ukraine. Those FAB hits for months in Kherson, we have no way to know if they do anything other than demolish a building. However, I now believe their spies are highly accurate and each FAB explosion is wiping out at least 30 AFU each time on average.
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  374. Shoigu said all F-16s will be destroyed within six days. I believe him.
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  375. Is there any NK hardware coming along as well? Some of those monster sized MLRS systems??
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  376. I actually did think last night how Modi could be there with an incoming missile attack imminent. As to the other stuff, after Istanbul 2022; I don't believe Russia considers anything said by Zelensky and hist nationalists to be the truth...."
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  377.  @Bishop46066  You tell us? Every blogger has said the same, few to no vids from the Ukraine side the past week.
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  378. Today's update has more "blue skulls" than any single day update I think I've ever seen.
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  379. Then why do you come here? I long ago stopped watching the pro-Ukrainian sites; what would be the point since I don't believe them anyway.
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  380. Weeb had a post a few days ago saying Russians are planning something in the north very soon. Since all of Ukraine's best combat power is in the south, a northern "pincer" whose only real goal is to draw Ukraine forces to it from the south, spreading AFU out thinner and allowed them to be destroyed in detail. I wonder if that speculation is correct and that is why Ukraine is evacuating in the north.
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  381. Hmmm, I didn't realize AFU built significant fortifications in the Kursk salient. If you analyze where that Iskander hit was, that is pretty deep inside what the "bulge" was in say, October. Meaning they had the safety of air defense back then in order to be able to build it; its safe to assume the closer RU gets to Sudzja the more defenses we'll see.
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  382. Can you do a bit of analysis on the Ukraine strikes at Russian oil depots? The West Media is constantly showing a burning oil tank and they are pushing hard the narrative that these can potentially affect RU economy not in years but in months. I don't trust anything CNN/BBC says about this war; can you do a little research on how many of these hit, how serious, what is possible effect?"
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  383. Dude, I was just thinking that today! If by next year this time, the Abrams and F-16s have resulted in no clear advantage, you know Zelensky will demand Biden give him a nuclear weapon.
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  384. YT doesn't like me commenting on that 47th brigade HQ vid..... I think it was too successful for their moderators who are, of course, pro NATO/pro Ukraine...."
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  385. RU only wants the remaining 15 percent or so of the annexed ares they don't have. That's it. All year stupid NATO thinks they want to go to Kyiv and they don't give a isht about Kyiv.
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  386. Another AFU "zergling rush"....this time over water. Should end well.
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  387. Exactly a year ago, whenever I said "the steamroller is coming" on Ukraine posts, YT would usually delete them. I am vindicated.....😂😂😂"
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  388. US Congress going to holiday recess with no agreement between DEMs and GOP. That means at least a month before they'll even meet again to discuss it. EU $50B is held up by Hungary. Germany $8B is just for AA missiles and to keep the power on during the winter. Japan's $5B is to rebuild (assuming there is a Ukraine in the future). That's it. Ukraine is out of money.
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  389. I swear this entire year of war is "hide in the treeline". Can't Russia whip up some extre-strength herbicide and fill some bombs and just de-foliate the entire treeline in key areas??? Like a modern version of Agent Orange?? With no leaves, no one can hide in that area at all. Or just just a large bomb fused for airburst to blow off all the leaves/branches like a "daisy cutter". Geeze EVERY vid from the combat line is both sides with these hovering FPV drones looking at trees trying to see a glint of metal or hint of movement. All this technology and World War Three comes down to "hide among the trees" like its Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD???
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  390. Several others have reported its over for 2023. AFU will try to widen the salient for the next few weeks but the "all go south" phase is over for this year. Too many losses, too strong a defense.
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  391. US media hasn't had a major Ukraine article up for a few weeks now; here in US we are completely consumed by the election as it is a very close race. No one even paying attention to Ukraine for at least the next month; RU is basically going to be running wild with almost no coverage in the West media.
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  392. Maybe AFU got a few Su-25 and mis identified the type?? We saw vid a couple days ago of six of them flying toward Avdiivka front
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  393. You were so right. You said today would be "big"; and it was. Military Summary is #1.
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  394. Russia can never beat NATO in coventional attrition war, all know that for 80 years. Thats why nuke deterrent and MAD concept keeps the peace. In Ukraine the West found a willing partner to do the dying in exchange for money and ammo. Ukraine has enough men and NATO enough money to bleed Russia for years. It is possible a nuke will have to be used on Ukraine onoy to save Russia. NATO cant use Ukraine if it no longer exists. We havent seen this in 80 years, even a history nerd like me has no idea how this could end.
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  395. I always felt Ukraine was at its tipping point; all that was needed was a strong blow to shatter them.
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  396. Any estimates of the size of the AFU forces committed at Kursk and massed near Belgorod? It has been a week and usually by now we have a good feel for the size of both forces. I heard AFU rushed some forces back when Belarus moved up tanks yesterday, that would indicate they took those forces away from there, and basically are playing a "shell game" now with their units. They don't have enough to commit/cover everywhere..."
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  397. Forbes has an article up today "confirming" that Russia used what they call an "Iskander clone" to blow up two AFU supply bases (doing significant logistical damage). The video they used is the exact same one you had yesterday showing two glowing bolts from the sky obliterating some buildings. You were 100% correct (again). No one really knows if they were actually NK rockets (US could just be saying that for political reasons), but there is no doubt that the air raids last week did MAJOR damage to Ukraine and the US putting Adm. Kirby up there a couple days later is proof that the impact went all the way to the top of the Biden Administration. Keep it up man!! You and just a few others have been the ONLY sources of TRUTH for almost two years and counting!
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  398. If Ukraine was using the bridge to cover boats moving supplies in underneath, just drop the entire span. Half a dozen FAB-500s would do it. The Ukrainians stranded on the Russian side surrender or die. End of problem.
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  399. ??? Bro, where you been? RU destroyed all their planes.
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  400. US media says Trump denies US is closing base in Greece. Not sure who to believe 100% , just noting this is contested.
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  401. "No peace in our time. Once more unto the breach, dear friends..."
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  402. Of course that is true, but there IS major propaganda value to AFU when they "liberate" something, even just a farm house. That helps keep the NATO pipeline primed.
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  403. Everyone knew Ukraine was going to make an offensive soon, only question was where. My guess is this is all a diversion so the F-16 can do something spectacular somewhere else.
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  404. Jesus Christ. The Russians did the old "blow up the front, then blow up the back" routine to trap the train with a dam rocket from 50 miles away. Tornado-S accurate enough to trap the train, then they can destroy the rest of it at leisure. If there is any "game-changer" in this war, it is the combination of Orlan/Lancet. Those two have been ripping AFU a new arsehole for a year now and still NOTHING can stop them.
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  405. What asset is able to hover unbothered 20 km deep into Russian territory and sight for HIMARS?? THAT is RU biggest problem the last few weeks that I can see. AFU can see Russian Orlan drone, but either don't have the expensive missiles to shoot it or would rather save the few they have for Ka-52 or Su-35. Russia don't have any supply problem with anti-aircraft missiles, so how they heck they allow whatever that thing is to just hover over their territory like that? If they don't know its there, then it must be stealth and that can mean only one thing: US Military asset.
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  406. I've rewritten it three times but YT deletes it every time. If that AFU massing is really that big, well "....its the only way to be sure..."
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  407. Two US senators support Poland's request to intercept Russian missiles that "appear" to be headed for their airspace and wrote a letter to Biden asking him to do it. No decision made and this is something Stoltenberg rejected a few months ago. No idea if Rutte supports it but even if he does, Biden is the one who decides everything for NATO.
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  408. What exactly is "Wagner" now?? They are not "Storm Z" as those are former Wagners who joined the regular Russian Army in assault units. Is that what you refer to as Wagner now? They can't be the PMC folks as private armies were outlawed in Russia.
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  409. RU had to be going after the Swedes doing the AWACS training. In Star Wars even the "good" Rebels realized it was better to destroy the engineers building the Death Star than to try to destroy it after it was completed
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  410. All is fair in love and war, but the only way this "sneak attack" takes place is NATO changed their donated weapons ROE policy so that AFU would have an advantage. Strykers and Humvees on the border is a concern but not an invasion threat since for 2+ years they could not enter Russia proper. NATO pulled the "switcheroo" allowing Ukraine to catch Russia of guard (this is now the second time; the first time was in Istanbul in 2022). Pearl Harbor was a tactical military success, but there was no glory in it; none here for AFU as well...."
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  411. "...the Son of Anarchy...." 🤣🤣🤣
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  412. ICBM tech is why Kim is meeting Putin in person. Serious stuff.
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  413. The only reason I can think of that the Russians don't used a deforestation agent like "Agent Orange" to just remove all the vegetation where AFU is hiding, is they don't want to poison their own land. Ukraine's entire defense tactic is based on using trees as cover; without the trees they'd be sitting ducks.
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  414. Tornado-S, 31:40 .... wow
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  415. Still no mythical North Koreans??
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  416. Yep!! When I heard about the "EYE" targeting system I thought "instant response direct fire from a thermobaric rocket is guaranteed instant death". There is nowhere to hide from a flamethrower rocket, it kills you in a ditch, in a tank, in a building, in the open. No injuries, only death.
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  417.  Viper-ms9eg  YouTube blocks URL links. Just google "Russia artillery drone targeting system"
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  418. I don't trust anything from Ukraine; that "document" about 2045 is suspect AF....
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  419. If these NATO 'plans' are true, Russia should move up the offensive timeline, even if just by a few weeks. Once they are in or beyond those "blocking" areas; there is nothing NATO can do that won't start WW3.
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  420. For months I didn't believe NK troops were in Russia to fight, no matter what Ukraine or US said, because no army fights without its hardware, and there was zero reports of any large amounts of NK hardware entering Russia. Such hardware would be impossible to hide. Well, a couple of days ago a RU Telegram channel I've followed for over a year (and just reports on military activity of Russia---no politics), showed the 122mm D-74 gun in action. That gun was retired from RU service in the 80s and NK is known to operate many of them. Today I just saw on that same channel a railcar of at least a dozen, monster 170mm M-1978 SPG's. A gun that only comes from one place: North Korea. I'm a believer now; NK Army is there and they are there to fight.
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  421. Ukrainian counter-offensive in 2025: 400,000 women backed by 1 million FPV drones.
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  422. That kind of explains all the conscription talk out of the UK the past month
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  423. You know that if war were to "freeze" right now that means complete Russian win, correct?
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  424. Half the world is involved in this war, and most of the remaining half are directly affected by it. We don't realize it yet, but this is WW3 and it is nothing like we expected
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  425. Sigh...two years ago, I like everyone else thought "Russia will crush them in a few weeks or months". We all were wrong because Russian intel was wrong, Ukraine had far more NATO weapons than anyone knew. However, once Russia retreated and Putin said they were switching to "total war" economy, I knew what we see today would be the result eventually. Once they got the Steamroller fully ready, they started on November 7th or so and its just going to keep slowly grinding AFU to dust.
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  426. If Russians break out in force, they must not stop. Anywhere there is resistance, just go bypass and keep going. Dont worry about supply, go for the jugular in Kyiv and end the war. Battle of France part deux
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  427. Hmm interesting news about the AFU desires for engineering equipment. A smart general would have already gotten all that before his attack, which just confirms what I've been guessing for the past several days. I don't think Napolensky had a real goal in mind other than to go in there and make mayhem. Every day his stated "goal" has changed; on day 2 it was "bring war to Russia", day 4 "embarrass Putin" , day 7 "make a buffer", now its "dig in stay and become an irritant". AFU had no plan because the whole thing was desperation from the start; Syrski just winging it as they go. That said; RU cannot sit back an allow them to build up a mini-Tokmak. That is the mistake Ukraine made last year, so that would be embarrassing for RU to allow that to be done to them. I'm certain they won't allow this and the key to stopping it is FABs. RU may not have enough to operate two Donbas style offensives at the same time, but imho they better find enough air power to turn the Kursk salient into Donbas part 2. They have a little time, maybe a month at most. Strong fortifications take time to build...."
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  428. Well, we all know the point now, right from Zelensky. In 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy, fully aware the war was unwinnable and down to their last capital ship, sent the super battleship Yamato directly at the US Navy invasion fleet at Okinawa. With only enough fuel to reach its destination, none of the 2000+ sailors aboard expected to return; their only goal to meet the US Navy in a glorious 200 ships vs. 1 ship battle where they would go down fighting and become an eternal legend. What choice did they have? Surrender and let the Americans take the largest warship in human history home as a prize? Never. Zelensky was inspired by this historical occasion and-----for the first time ever in my life----I kind of respect him a little bit now...."
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  429. LOL, 1980s really.
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  430. Iskander fragmentation pattern is size of football field.
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  431. Not a single penetration to the E or W of Robotyne means the Russians just allowing Ukraine to push deeper into the "venus flytrap". Ukraine has no ability to stop Lancet, so if there are no Lancets its because Russia is holding them back. RU wants the Challenger 2 to show up and it won't unless the Ukrainians believe there is a "breakthrough" of the line. RU is hoping they take the bait...
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  432. All this back and forth can't change the harsh math. Ukraine has 25K-45K for this "operation" with zero reserves (they had to rush some troops back up to the border with Belarus last weekend when Lukashenko got angry at them). The RU army based at Kursk (that was preparing to invade through Sumy) is about the same size, that's why the back and forth the last three days, no one can overpower the other. That time is over now. More units have arrived and more are coming every minute. Once RU has the force advantage we all know what will happen. AFU can't cross anywhere else easily because this was the only point where the mines were removed (and they don't have another offensive army to do it with anyway). The hard truth cuts both ways..."
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  433. OMG....FAB 3000??? 6600 pound guided bombs? The guys calling in airstrike better be precise with those GLONASS coordinates as the kill radius of a bomb that big is probably a kilometer from impact point!
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  434. Anything pro Russia gets deleted by Google.
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  435. Anyone not blinded by hatred for Putin or the propaganda of NATO knew there is no way Ukraine could defeat Russia. Napoleon and Hitler couldn't defeat Russia. Even NATO knew it too; just listen to the words of Blinken this week saying the same thing he said 18 months ago. "Opportunity to degrade Russia's military"---his words not mine. US NEVER expected (or tried) to "win". Just weaken Russia as much as possible. Putin, of course knows this, which is why he never once broke a sweat. This damned war is over. The Abrams will never arrive as Biden realizes it'll just burn on the field like the Leopard 2/Challenger 2. No need to delay calling it; this is over and Russia has won.
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  436. All the past six weeks I thought this was the "Russian Steamroller". This is just some shaping, some preparation for the real thing next Spring then? Whoa....
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  437. I've learned over the past two years that Russia and Putin will always tell you exactly what they are doing if you are willing to listen. The entire war, Russia has said their goal is "demilitarization". To most in the West that means something like "take away your weapons" or "disband your army", which is true. However in the Russian meaning, it also means "kill or maim every Ukrainian that could possibly hold a rifle or drive a tank". You scratch your head at the actions of Russia over the past three months, but then you remember that "demilitarization" of Ukraine is the point, and it all makes sense.
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  438. You should probably not speak about military matters anymore....
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  439. Ukraine intelligence said today that Kh-101 parts they recovered last night show the missile was made in 2023. CNN/BBC said Russia was running out of missiles a year ago....
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  440. This still isn't "proof" those dots are NK soldiers, but I will admit I have not previously seen the Russians attack like that. We've seen buggies, "sons of anarcy", tanks, turtles, BMP, but I can't recall a Russian infantry only assault on foot in daylight.
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  441. I'm sure Mitsubishi would love for their trucks to NOT be constantly showing up in videos being blown to bits by Russian FPV drones.... Also that vid from Pokrovsk clearly shows how powerful these FPV drones are; the entire front of that van was literally blown off by the first drone. We are so used to watching armored vehicles just shrug off one or two hits and we get the sense these drones aren't that powerful. Then we see what a single drone can do to a civilian truck or van and we realize just how heavily armored tanks, APCs, and IFVs really are.
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  442. Wow, Tornado-S has 120 km range. "Those hits were at least 60 km from the front line; assume the launcher is 20 km back thats at least 80 km a rocket with a 500 lb warhead lands right on the roof of your storage barn."
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  443. Made a simple point about FPV drones and armored assaults, and YT deleted it. I see nothing has changed even after Trump's victory.... Can't do any discussion of tactics without the dam censorship because some NAFO bot might get his feelings hurt....
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  444. Saw that 155th on France24 ; using old French equipment that was gonna be retired soon anyways. Wondered where they'd be deployed and how they'd fight. I am surprised so many ran away at first contact. HL did a deep dive on the 155th a month ago they had AMX-10 and the FAMAS rifle to replace their AKs. For them to crack so quickly is a monstrous embarrassment for France and Ukraine
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  445. I've watched this channel for over two years; part of its appeal is the "theories". Some he got right, others he got wrong, but for me that is a reason I watch. His "theories" are based in fact and experience, and even when wrong, they were credible , not wild fantasy like the "Abrams in Moscow" or "Tokmak in ten days" like you see on Davyov.
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  446. No one in the West ever even brings it up, and if they do it is ignored. Those people are civilians and the West says nothing about AFU going after them. Very ugly...
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  447. Ukraine definitely has the plucky underdog thing going for them. Their hits in Moscow mean more to them that it does to Russia.
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  448. No more Abrams sightings?
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  449. Ukraine has been massing in Orekhov for months; every armored vehicle coming to the front through Novo-Danilovka originated in Orekhov. A tactical nuke on Orekhov would have wiped out the entire NATO-trained force in one go and the war would be over. I have no idea what Putin is doing.....I guess he has his reasons.
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  450. If AFU is really going to make a new offensive to grab territory before winter, I do not see how they are not going to die like flies. I swear Ukraine does things that violate decades, even centuries of military wisdom, and they get their ass handed to them as a result. An all-out attack on Bakhmut? Where 100,000 Russians and 900 tanks have been sitting for months?? A push into Zaporizhzhia by some amphibious means, where anything strong enough to carry a 75-ton tank will be quickly seen and obliterated, meaning just another "Zergling Rush" like they've done in Robotyne?? Like in June, they make a "public service" video talking about "Shhhh" before their Grand Spring Offensive. What army has ever done that?? What General tells his enemy he is coming?? Then for the next four months they tell everyone that they are inflicting more losses on Russia than they are taking, even though they are the ones attacking. They really believe their Western backers are stupid.
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  451. Russia is taking territory at a massively increased rate in 2024 it is already clear.
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  452. That's really crazy that your calculations for UKR losses almost 99% match those reported by Ukraine itself. Amazing.
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  453. ... meanwhile Wagner and the Chechens are massing in Belgorod. Putin said yesterday they are going to create a "security zone" to protect Belgorod from incursion and shelling. That means carving out a new chunk of Ukrainian territory.... permanently. Who will stop them?
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  454. All that matters is that for every Russian that dies, three (or more) Ukrainians die. As long as that metric is sustained Ukraine can go all the way to Azov and Russia still wins going away.
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  455. This is not "war"; it never was. US and Russia are renegotiating their relationship. That is how to understand it
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  456. Why was it so much in NATO interest that the war with Russia continue?? How would Ukraines neutrality like Finland once was, hurt NATO??
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  457. If that is "Plan A", then we wasted the jet fuel to fly Napolensky here to tell Biden to his face, because I can answer that right now: HELL NO. Biden's words at the start of the SMO: "I am not seeking a war with Russia". Even if he changed his mind, he has 3 months left in his term and the US Congress WILL ABSOLUTELY NOT authorize a declaration of war with Russia. Imho, the J.D. Vance option is what is most likely: RU keeps what it has, a DMZ is created between, and remnant Ukraine goes on living like they would have after the 2022 Istanbul agreement.
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  458. Ukrainian banzai charge 😂
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  459. You are seeing the tank a week after the fight that caused it to be abandoned. It looks peaceful now, the day it was damaged was anything but peaceful and no one remembers to shut the dam door when the house and whole neighborhood is on fire
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  460. All these reports in West Media the last few days about "thousands" of NK troops and then Zelensky says "we are now fighting them" and zero independent proof anywhere of this. All you have is a video of two guys walking into a house.... I always felt like when Austin said "the NK's are using Russian uniforms" that was their way of being able to point to any future video and say "...see! These are North Korean soldiers fighting in Ukraine!". Can't trust those Ukrainians or the ones in the US holding the leash...
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  461. RU has to start taking AFU units off the chessboard completely. Joe Biden is hurrying a lot of weapons to be delivered before January (in case Trump wins) which will just make the war last a little longer. However if AFU has no units to give the weapons to, then its just as if they didn't have them. These "pincers" need to be closed and the unit inside removed from the fight; the more that happens the faster this will end.
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  462. They are estimates; everyone knows that. What matters is that for every Russian casualty, there are three Ukrainian (or more). As long as that metric holds up, Russia wins going away.
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  463. Russia is about to fire a million of them at Ukraine, they want to make sure no slack in supply because what they are about to do will use up all their domestic production.
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  464. LOL. YT still deleting comments that highlight Ukraine's losses too much. 🙂 I mention something about those FPV drone hits near Pokrovsk and YT deleted it. Once Trump get in office , this media censorship garbage for Ukraine will end.
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  465. Funny I saw this coming a few weeks ago right after Biden OK'ed the anti-personnel mines. You gotta remember the US is not just one view; there is Biden Way and there is Trump Way; Biden hates Trump and will do things not only to help Ukraine, but also to hurt Trump. By pushing Russia to respond more aggressively, Biden hopes to make it harder for Trump to get a deal with Russia. Putin has to walk the tightrope between a response that is too harsh, and too weak.
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  466. Agreed. It may have began a proxy war, but it is NATO vs. Russia for past 9 months at least
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  467. Yeah, $350-400 Billion and 17 million shells to beat Russia. Can you imagine how many Ukraine soldiers would be lost if they somehow got all that ammo and equipment? Win or lose by the time it was over Zelensky would be President of a nation entirely made up of 80 and 11 yr olds....
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  468. This is the occupation force.
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  469. I'm shocked Ukraine still had a 203mm SPG left to use. No one in the West produces that shell caliber and the ancient stocks were given to them years ago. I bet that gun hadn't been fired in a year or more...
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  470. How close is RU to the big lithium deposit?
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  471. It becomes increasingly difficult to find any news about the Ukraine war in the Western media; today there is not a single Ukraine article on front page of WaPo or NYT. Online, CNN/BBC/SKY/FRANCE24 ... nothing. That basically tells us all we need to know..."
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  472. What happened to all our North Korean friends?
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  473. Russia can nuke Ukraine and win tomorrow, but to kill a million civilians would be the end of Putin. China and Iran and even NK (maybe) and certainly the BRICS would all turn their backs on Russia if they did that. AFU knows this which is why they mass their army groups in populated cities....Russia cant wipe out their army without killing 50,000 civilians too. FAB-1500 may offer a way to break the stalemate. Such a weapon may only cause 1000 civilian casualties if dropped on an AFU HQ or vehicle concentration in a populated area.
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  474. ​ @KSmithwick1989 RU never was able to have such large bomb work with the satellite guidance kit. It does now.
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  475. Bro, did you listen? He said the females were in body armor and fully kitted out as assault troopers. This was no dam news reporter.
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  476. 20 storm shadow=$40M , lets say 40 Russian AA missiles about $3/4M. Thats why NATO losing in a nutshell
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  477. Ten MILLION shells. Damn....
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  478. I really think Russian strategy is just wait for Biden to lose. Its that simple.
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  479. You are right, but Dima means active participation ; US troops, US/UK no-fly zone, it won't be "NATO" as Germany, Italy, and the rest will never join, but US/UK/Poland will. However it'll never happen as Biden cannot start a war without Congressional Authorization and two months before an election you think he's going to go to Congress and argue why American lives should be spent? Keep dreaming...
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  480. Wow. I went to Hawaii on the 8th and just got back; never watched a lick of news, The Kursk bulge is half the size it was when I left...
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  481. No one even knows how many D-20 and D-30 howitzers Russia has. "Many thousands" is all most Western estimates say. Suffice to say with a supply train of ten million rounds backing up their own production, any city, no matter how large, that is in their way will be reduced to ruins. Guaranteed. Which is exactly how I expected Russia to fight all along as thats how they won in 1943. They didn't expect to have to do it this way so thats why it has taken so long....they had to get prepared logistically. A year of producing guns and ammo, a new rail line to Melitopol, now massive stock of shells from NK. They are ready.
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  482. My guess is mine (embarrassing for a mine clearing vehicle), or Krasnopol
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  483. The worse things get for Ukraine; the more strict the YT censor becomes. As of yesterday, almost any comment I construct gets deleted. I think I'm only allowed to say "hi"
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  484. Whether that specific story is true or not, the reality is there is enough evidence to already believe "talks" at some level are ongoing. DW reported Germany is pressing Zelensky to negotiate; we know the US was doing so a few weeks ago. When 2 of your 3 main sponsors are telling you "time to talk"; its only a matter of time. I'm feeling the recent accelerated pace of Russian movement since Thanksgiving is them going for as much territory as possible as they know an armistice may be near and they can use that territory to bargain with.
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  485. About a year ago, UK channel ITN had a reporter somewhere near Bakhmut interviewing some RU soldiers. Halfway through the interview, three Spetznaz came into the bunker and one of them saw the Brit and looked at him like he wanted to eat him. The interviewer had to stop, move the Brit to another room and tell the Spetznaz what was going on to calm them. Eventually the Spetznaz calmed down and actually talked to the Brit (one of them still joking that he wanted to eat the Brit's liver); I'll say this: I would never want to run into men like those Spetznaz as their enemy. I'll take Storm-Z, regular RU army mechanized soldiers, etc.; but those special forces guys scare me. They are even scarier than our "Seal Team Six" type guys because I believe they were not joking when they said one of them wanted to eat the Brit reporter's liver..."
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  486. That Iskander strike vid appears to be the one from a few days ago; of course I don't "know", but I recognized the building burning in the drone footage as very similar to the one in the photo we saw a couple days after the news from Selydove. Large, rectangular building about 3/4 stories with an open square area in front. The speed of those Iskanders is incredible; night footage of artillery shells moving at say 1500 m/s looks positively SLOW in comparison to those of Iskander. 1500 m/s is about 3000 mph; so just seeing the Iskander clearly moving at twice that speed gives you 6000 mph or about Mach 7 at sea level. Damn....
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  487. I don't believe the Brits ever sent even a single Challenger tank. That was in January and here it is almost August and no one has ever seen one in Ukraine even fire one shot at the Russians. Today Ukraine cashes in all her poker chips and even now, no Challengers to be seen. History will record it as the "Coward Tank" of the Ukraine war.
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  488. I first learned of Sarmat w/Avangard two years ago from Scott Ritter and here we are RU is clearly preparing to use it if they have to. However I'm not sure if other older ICBMs can carry Avangard warhead or just RS-28 Sarmat; if not RU in trouble because US/UK will not back down unless made to do so. Its true they have many ammo depots and it won't matter for them beating up Ukraine; but NATO "softening up" RU using Ukrainian hands is exactly what they want. Without the non-nuclear "big stick" RU doesn't have a credible conventional deterrent to NATO. EDIT: Just looked it up and (at least according to Wikipedia, Avangard can be carried by "UR-100UTTKh,[9][10] R-36M2 and RS-28" Whew was worried there for a sec; no one is under any illusion that in a direct conventional confrontation US can beat RU; $900B a year vs. $110B a year has only one possible outcome. Avangard, being a "strategic" (but non-nuclear) capability, is one of the few things that can keep NATO at bay without having to burn the northern hemisphere.
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  489. YT is deleting any suggestions the Russians use a WMD on Avdiivka.
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  490. Yeah sure send 60K man army into a direct frontal assault on fortified enemy positions manned by an equal number of troops, who have ten gun barrels for every one you have and five times the shells, plus they have attack helicopters while you have none, and they have 800 jets while you have 87. That is not an exaggeration. No hyperbole. Ukraine actually tried that. The military history books will have a whole chapter on this battle 100 years from now.
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  491. Trump has Zel and EU by the balls, this deal will get done. I don't know when exactly but this war is over.
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  492. "The Biden administration has quietly given Ukraine permission to strike inside Russia — solely near the area of Kharkiv — using U.S.-provided weapons, three U.S. officials and two other people familiar with the move said Thursday, a major reversal that will help Ukraine to better defend its second-largest city." May 30, 2024 "Ukraine has not violated our policy..." US State Dept, August 8, 2024. 🤣 I'm with Medveyev.....it's Avangard Time...."
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  493. Can't be everywhere, and Russia has so many D20 howitzers they don't even man them all...they just leave them deployed all over and they are crewed when needed
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  494. The Alligator flying in the background as Gerasimov walks.... Reminds me of 2023 when Shoigu visited the Front and the vid showed two Ka-52s escorting his chopper. 🙂
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  495. I think the Ukraine war is now a race for territory like in April, 1945. The Russians have to get as much before NATO comes in to save their investment (and prevent some of their own members taking chunks). When that happens everyone will face down, then talk, and settle up in negotiations.
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  496. Blinken and Austin are 100% NATO stooges, but they do not engage in speculation; the NK soldiers are there. However even they admit they don't know for what purposes; Austin said they are training on drones, artillery and trench-clearing. That SEEMS to indicate they will join the fight but so far they haven't. RU dont want to take a single soldier from the momentum in Donbass, nor from the huge army in Zaporizhzhia, it "looks" like they just dont have enough men to push AFU out of Kursk anytime soon. Maybe that's what NK is for? I never imagine the "human shield" idea but the fact the NK brought none of their own trucks, tanks, APCs, MLRS, etc. always make me doubt they there to fight
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  497. Please do not mix the Ukraine war summaries with the Gaza war. Anything to do with Gaza or Israel is triggering some kind of hyper-level suppression of comments on YT. I can't even make a post about the TOS-1A "Flamethrower" on this article without YT deleting it.
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  498. I saw that RU increased the range of their glide bombs by-------making the wings longer. LOL. Even if the increase only 20 or 30 percent in range that is huge in terms of tactical advantage. I think most bombs were in the 60km range before so if they are up to 80 or 90 kms now, that is the maximum range of the latest model IRIS-T. HUGE tactical impact..."
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  499. Those weapons weren't for Ukraine; RU hardly need them for Ukraine. Those missiles were meant to bulk up for NATO; that's why NATO made it a priority (Blinken publicly called it out 3 days before the attack on the arsenal).
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  500. Wow every day I hear a different story about this Russian fighter shoot down; thats how shocking it is that Ukraine could shoot down a Russian plane.
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  501. "....not some weapon that your hands are shaking when you sent it to the front line, Russia will build thousands of this type of weapon..." Spewed my Coke again!! Three days in a row! 😂😂😂
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  502. "Ukraine" pre-2022 or post-annexation?
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  503. Military and Foreign Affairs said the same about Zaluzhny earlier today. They can't 100% confirm exactly how it went down, but they believe he either was fired and accepted it, or was fired and refused to leave his position.
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  504. Trump better hurry or there will be nothing left to pay for protection after the ceasefire!😂
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  505. This is starting to remind me of Japan, 1945. US has massive advantage in men, money, and materiel, but Japan is mobilizing EVERYONE and is on their home turf. I'm not saying I believe there will be a nuke (I don't), but there WILL have to be something that changes the calculus to end the war. If Russia has to take the whole country and lose 2M men doing so, even the biggest anti-Putin Russian will NEVER in a thousand years give it back or make peace with NATO after such a sacrifice.
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  506. YT is really going crazy on deleting comments the past few weeks since the Israel-Hamas war. I've never had so many comments disappear within less than a minute and I'm not really sure what triggers it. If you say "Go Russia!" the comment stands; if you say something like "take Avdiivka no matter the cost" there's a 50/50 chance that gets deleted.
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