Comments by "Trevor Sutherland" (@trevorsutherland5263) on "The New Atlas" channel.

  1. Scott Ritter been saying this since August, 2022 and yet you never see him interviewed on CNN, ABC, Washington Post, etc. I wonder why?
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  2. Is a "buffer zone" even still possible? Once the Russian steamroller starts they are not going to stop for anything less than total victory
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  3. This is the dumbest war I've ever lived through. All wars are political negotiation by violence, but this war takes that Maxim to its purest form. Every aspect of this war, from its beginning to its soon-to-occur end, is purely political negotiation by violence. Like a giant game of lethal "rock, paper, scissors"; the US and Russia are each jockeying for the advantage vis-a-vis each other, with Ukraine acting as the US proxy. The West has embarrassed itself in 100 different ways trying to leap-frog each Russian escalation----remember a few months ago the entire South American continent told the US "hell no" when they asked them to give Ukraine their old weapons (with US promise to replace them one-for-one with new NATO ones)?? Biden and the Democrats will not live this one down for another generation...
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  4. I knew Russia could not possibly be taking anywhere near the casualties of AFU over the past few months. How could they be when they are sitting in holes in the ground, while artillery and Lancets work over the AFU who are advancing on them, and Russians only have to face danger from the AFU that have survived and made it close enough to engage them??? Even if the AFU at that point is inflicting casualties on RU at a 1:1 ratio, THEY LOST 50 SOLDIERS JUST GETTING THERE!
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  5. ? Every couple weeks they sortie and unleash a barrage of missiles. What else can they do? Ukraine has no ships and subs to destroy
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  6. Do you think the West's anti Russia policy is more politics driven or military driven? About the same?
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  7. Especially with Russia having 24/7 overwatch on every base they can fly from
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  8. I don't understand; Russia will simply destroy any such factory. Are you referring to the post-war world?
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  9. Brian, do you think NATO's entry (US/UK/France/Poland at least) into Ukraine very soon is a foregone conclusion?
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  10. I'm American, never had much love for Putin. However I always respected him because, no matter what he does, he does it for Russia; he does it for HIS people. What the US has done the past year, imho, is shameful. There was a plan for peace on the table and US/NATO ignored it as they wanted to teach Putin a lesson. I felt the same anger in 2003 toward Bush and the lies leading to Iraq as I do now to Biden and the lies leading to massive death on both Ukraine and Russian side. There was a chance for no war---no, Ukraine would not have got all it wanted, but their country would not be in ruins and their young men all still alive. The Biden Administration did not want that as they had a score to settle with Putin from 2016. It didn't have to be this way.
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  11. If nuclear weapons did not exist, Russia would still be immune from NATO invasion as no NATO country wants to suffer the casualties needed to subdue Russia. In the nuclear age, I have no idea where that "line" between conventional and nuclear is....no one else does either
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  12. I'm sure the UK is adapting to the lessons of the Ukraine war; they have to be. Even the latest version of the T-90M Proryv has been seen with a manufacturer-designed anti-drone protective assembly that is fully integrated with the tank. Just because we haven't seen the UK adapt this tank to the lessons from Ukraine doesn't mean they aren't hard at work on doing so. They'd be crazy if they weren't
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  13. Our leadership are insane. We discuss right now, things that were unthinkable less than two years ago. The escalation shows no sign of abating; Biden and his crazies don't even have a plan other than to just react to Russia. These madmen will keep pushing Putin until they find out what his limits are. Unfortunately it won't be them that feels the impact of that discovery.
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  14. Hahaha, no.
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  15. Finally someone admits that it is the US (Biden) pushing Ukraine to "roll the dice" as opposed to having peace talks. This is Bidens War now. Russia has massive artillery advantage and manpower advantage, they know where Ukraine must attack, and they have total Air Superiority. This is a fight Ukraine cannot win, but must try anyway to justify all the resources the US has given them.
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  16. Something isn't right. In just the past two months Ukraine has suffered at the lowest end 30,000 casualties. Even if you cut that in half, that is a monstrous number....as the annual rate is over 85,000. That is more men than Ukraine currently has deployed.
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  17. Like all of us, I have zero insight into Russia's logistics. However, I just imagine that after 18 months of war they would not be very dependent on the Most Obvious Target in The War.
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  18. Heard today the Abrams timeline that Biden moved up last month, has been "delayed" several weeks. LOL. I'm sure the image of the Challenger 2 blasted and blazing from end to end had nothing at all to do with this decision. 😂
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  19. Who says Putin has to go along? He knows that AFU cannot stop Russia and he has all the time in the world.
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  20. NATO was never on the side of righteousness in Ukraine; never had the moral high ground. The 2014 Coup, the lies, the duplicitousness with respect to Russia, the ulterior motives, the arrogance in choosing the destiny of people who you never asked, etc. That is why I knew in December, 2021 NATO would fail.
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  21. The Cold War kept our edge sharp. After the Wall fell, we ceased to have a worthy foe and our politicians spent 30 years bullying goat herders. Our MIC had no one to compete with so we got a generation of expensive untestable weapons that have all now been exposed.
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  22. A week ago I started seeing far more attack helicopter activity in Ukraine; last fall there was almost zero such activity as the skies over the front were far too lethal for a helicopter. That could only mean one thing: Ukraine is low on AA assets.
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  23. Man, this is an absolutely brutal summary of the total incompetence of the Biden Administration on foreign policy.
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  24. Of course this is true but I believe Russia has inoculated Iran against losing their nuc sites. Iran can lose other stuff but not those
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  25. Crudely put, but mostly correct. However Ukraine and Russia are about the same in terms of toughness; but yes in a place like Bakhmut, Russia would go through any NATO army like a hot knife through butter.
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