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

  1. That 31,000 number is so nuts that we have to assume the number is only meant for his audience (Ukrainians). He may be leaving out foreign soldiers, missing in action, etc. Or, its psyops with Budanov behind the scenes; no one asked him, he volunteered it. Which means he meant to put that number out there for some reason.
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  2. The implications of this are huge. These missiles are about $2M each but the issue is anything---and I mean anything---above ground in the Separatist Regions is now under threat like it never was before. It probably could hit stationary ships in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol as well. This is a massive escalation; it can't win the war of course, but its presence just increased the costs for Russia by a factor of ten. Imagine the amount of assets Russia will have to either move out of range or protect with more anti-air assets. One cannot overstate the logistics burden this weapon just imposed on Russia---even if they counter it by relocating/defending assets that is a huge amount of resources that would have been used in offensive action.
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  3. Every other news channel says "Houthis claim..." ; only Sky puts "Iran-backed" modifier in front.... Keep your minds open!!"
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  4. I don't get this question at all. Iran has sold Russia many Shaheed drones last year as well as licensed Russia to make them---they use moped engines and cost only around $10K each. In return, Iran is getting brand new Su-35's which will allow them to jump three generations in fighter jet capability vs. Israel. One should not need hard proof to imagine Iran is selling low-rent things like artillery shells and rockets to Russia in the tens or hundreds of thousands.
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  5. Sky just can't bring themselves to say "Russia won"
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  6. Iran are no fools. Don't play the enemy's game; play your own. "The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.” -- Sun Tzu
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  7. Just guarantees a Trump victory next year. God Help us All.
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  8. This is not just a "retaliation" for the destroyed landing ship; the more we are learning about the scale of this means it is something else as a raid as big as last night's could not possibly have been put together in two days.
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  9. I just went back 12 days in my watch history to read BBC ABC SKY CNN, etc. My comments were FAR more accurate than their "experts".....🤣🤣🤣
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  10. So, basically IDF is just putting on a dog and pony show for Blinken, and they'll go right back to business as usual once his plane leaves.
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  11. The AFU prisoners were given the option to be flown home or take the bus. They all said "...to hell with the POW plane, we'll take the bus!!" 😂😂😂
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  12. F the Western leaders, and I'm born and raised American..."
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  13. So a drone spotted another drone? Whoa there...
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  14. Russians did not have 9 months to prepare six lines of defense and 300K called up reservists last year in Kherson. This is a completely different situation.
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  15. Its like that movie "Aliens". The super advanced weaponry of the Colonial Marines was useless inside the tight confines, and the creatures closed the distance on them in safety. In a melee fight, teeth and claws were more than than a match for small arms fire.
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  16. The afternoon reports from the military bloggers are coming in. Last night may have been the first use of Shahed-238; the jet-powered version of the infamous Shahed-136. 3x faster and more accurate. This was no "retaliation" for the ship attack.....this is the beginning of the "knockout blow" air campaign, imho.
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  17. Number of Ukrainian bots is the same. This is Sky News right? Equal voice for all?
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  18. Robotyne was just rolled up after what, four days of Russian focus there after taking Avdiivka? That is, all the land AFU gained in Zaporizhzhia last summer gone in less than a week. All this is academic now....Russia has a massive advantage in every statistical category and logistics wins wars. Unless some divine intervention occurs, from now on we are in the formality phase. Just as in 1944, once the steamroller starts, there is no stopping it.
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  19. In 1943, the Germans had two million soldiers poised to take Kursk, along with them were the 800,000-strong Italian 8th Army, and 225,000 Hungarian 1st Army. In total, THREE MILLION men intent on taking Kursk. When the smoke cleared, the Italians and Hungarians were decimated so severely, only 10 percent of the men they sent to Russia returned to their homeland. The Germans were mauled badly, but the bulk of their force survived to retreat that didn't stop until the Battle of Berlin. People never listen to historians until its too late. They say "it will be different this time", and it never is..."
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  20. If NATO knew it could not see this through, yet ignored Putin's negotiation overture in September, 2021 and chose the path of war, they were incompetent then? Or, was it something else?
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  21. This is what the Ukraine war is really about. EU and American Left liberalism vs. Traditional Christian family values.
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  22. The Rebels managed to tie up the legs of an AT-AT Walker and bring it down.
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  23. What cracks me up is the way Bell speaks as if RU "weakness" in another sector, means they can't "go all the way to Kyiv". RU could leave 5000 men in the Donbas and true, they wouldn't be able to move forward any longer, but AFU doesn't have the men to even take back anywhere even places where RU is "weak". Comparing numbers of men only is absurdly foolish especially for an "expert" like Bell. Even if AFU has 5000 men vs. 5000 RU men, the RU will win easily as they have 100 bombers, 500 tanks, 1000 armored vehicles, 100K shells, 100 Iskanders, etc.
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  24. President Obama 2015: "...I will not arm Ukraine as Russia has escalatory dominance ; any capability we'd be willing to give, they can leap-frog, just leading to destruction of Ukraine..." Always listen to the smartest guy in the room....
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  25. Who was the UK the proxy for? I forget??"
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  26. It is time to negotiate. Long past time actually, but the offensive has been defeated. With no air cover Abrams will be blown up just like Leopards. A few F-16s are still months away and won't change the outcome of this offensive. Then its winter, Russians still sitting right where they are today, and rested with more tanks and more ammo. Armistice. Now.
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  27. Whatever that Iskander hit was valuable as they don't waste them and that missile does not miss. Yesterday Russia double tapped an AFU structure holding Storm Shadow missiles and DU ammunition. They hit it while a drone watched, then when AFU came to try to salvage anything they hit it with two more missiles. Brutal. New vid today of latest veesion of Lancet drone hitting a Ukrainian Mig-29 sitting in the open...over 70 km from the Front. Previous Lancet max range was about 40 km. Of course bigger drone watched the whole thing. Russia owns the sky.
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  28. One million dollars??? ONE million? Ukraine fires a $1M US missile every 10 minutes! This is like "discovering" China is shipping toilet paper to the Russian Army.
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  29. Then Rishi smacks that talk down. LOL. That's embarrassing. First Canada, now UK....it has not been a good week for the British Empire. A lot of cases of "open mouth, insert foot" going around among them...
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  30. Sigh. Here we go again for yet another war: West media only shows us the school, maternity ward, retirement home, or daycare center, but never the ammo depot, airbase, port, tank factory, or HQ
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  31. A question I've asked for years now; why should we care how others choose to live their lives? When Burkina Faso expelled the French a few months ago, the first thing the US did was send Vicky Nuland there to threaten the new government. Why? Why does the US and UK always rely on implied force to cow others into living as they think they should? Where does this cultural conceit come from??
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  32. Ukraine has long been storing NATO weapons and supplies in civilian buildings. This is well known as it is the only way to preserve them from Russian missile strikes as anything obviously military like bases and depot areas have already been destroyed months ago by Russia.
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  33. A "sky shield"?? No one on Earth has that. Is he saying he needs aliens to come to Earth to protect him from Putins wrath? Probably, if any man would demand Mars give him weapons, it would be Zelensky
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  34. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has said that any battlefield gains made in Ukraine’s counteroffensive could provide leverage in future peace talks with Russia. That's the first time I've heard NATO openly discuss "talks"; that means reality is settling in that Ukraine will never be able to push 300K Russians out of Crimea and the annexed territories. At best they'll have a few square km of land to bargain with.
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  35. Anyone who believes Ukraine can win needs a mental health evaluation. Don't take my word for it; take America's: "National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, claimed that F-16 fighter jets sent to Ukraine would be unlikely to have a significant impact on the battlefield. Sullivan also said that "Russia has 800 to 900 fourth- and fifth-generation fighters." 800-900 fighters to Ukraine's old 84 (last count, last week's 100 missile barrage probably reduced this a bit). People are starting to sound like QAnon kooks or "Big Lie" numbskulls...
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  36. 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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  37. Wow. Anyone in the West who dares to disobey Zelensky is quickly and summarily dismissed. Just like in Russia...
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  38. Keep the handyman busy installing glass and painting walls? Who knows
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  39. Finally found the "Hero" video I've been hearing about all day. The one where a lone Russian tank goes 1 on 8 against 2 Ukrainian tanks and 6 IFVs. The Russian emerges from a treeline and charges the oncoming Ukrainians but there is a copse of forest between them. He pops the first Ukrainian tank twice, then drills an IFV, the rest stop wondering what is hitting them. The Russian reverses and hits the second Ukrainian tank, blowing its turret off. He then nails the remaining 5 APCs one by one. The mil blogger said it was a T-90M, networked to the drone that was recording the battle; the tank could "see" what the drone could see and that is why the Ukrainians never fired even once as they could not see through the trees at what was hitting them. Amazing.
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  40. RU produces 12% of world oil supply. It will be 2259 before Ukraine could interrupt their production enough to halt the T-80s currently overrunning them in Donbas...."
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  41. A month ago, there are US tanks, armored vehicles, Humvees clearly running around inside Russia trashing the place. Yet, Blinken today calls Iran sending Russia some rockets "an escalation"... smdh...."
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  42. A condition of their "donation" (not purchase) was that they not be used to attack Russia proper. Ukraine agreed to this. That policy suddenly changed so it is newsworthy. Stop whining....."
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  43. Ask your wife why its so important for her country to be in NATO?
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  44. Russia made it clear any such UK formations in Ukraine would be given an Iskander welcome. Sunak, knowing the state of UK armed forces, wisely demurred. RAF has 130 fighters and no bombers; RU has 700 Su-27,30,34 and Mig 29,31. 😂
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  45. Morality is relative. What is objective is that sending more money is throwing good money after bad; Ukraine is a failed investment. Best cut losses.
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  46. Empires always fall when they get themselves involved in protracted conflicts where things dont go as planned. Other subjects notice the Imperial boot is no longer as strong as it was for the past 100 years. That is when they make their move...
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  47. What about the Ukrainian shell that hit a bus in Donetsk yesterday, killing 7 innocent civilians? News or Propaganda, Sky? Which is it?
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  48. Zelensky has fired his entire cabinet ( or they quit). In interview yesterday he looked like he hadn't slept in weeks and he sounds irrational. He now looks older than Putin. Biden needs to step in and tell Zelensky it's over...."
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  49. I give him credit for positive thinking. He is feeling confident because Joe is rushing in the Abrams next month. The Abrams is "mighty" only in the minds of Americans. It has NEVER once been tested in battle with a near-peer opponent; it has only fought ancient Iraqi tanks and militia with rpgs and IEDs. It has never faced T-80s, T-90s, Kornet atgms, attack helicopters, drones, 152mm laser-guided artillery.
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  50. This guy is an Israeli citizen, what does one expect?
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