Comments by "Miriam Weller" (@miriamweller812) on "Defense Politics Asia (DPA)" channel.

  1. People should get, that those "settlements' are mainly ruins and not some kind of resource hub in a video game. It shall sound important, but really isn't.
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  2. Georgia imprisoned the guy who wagered the war against Russia, Saakaschwilli (who had a surprising career in Ukraine by the way and is best bud with Elensky). Unlikely, that they are very keen to shake hands with the current Ukraine.
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  3.  @fibo2459  It's exactly what the Russian MoD had said...
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  4. He's milking the stupid to get more money for his food, alc and smoking problems.
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  5. Always love the 'argument' "someone on the internet said it".
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  6.  @Zenny1220  What is smart about that? War is all about your army. When you got no army left, you lose. That's the core math of war. Ukraine is wasting absurd masses of equipment and soldiers over nothing. It's insane.
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  7. Overall it looks like they simply lure out the Ukrainian army and Naziy out of Kharkiv. Because if they fight them there, they will hide inside the city and civilians buildings and the city gets destroyed just like Mariupol that way. Also, depending on how accurate that map is of course, the Ukrainian offense there does look like the usual failure, to just try to take as much ground as possible while not at all watching your flanks, what is one of the biggest mistakes you can make.
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  8. It looks like Rusians simply let them push, it's a pretty old trick. You let the enemy come and then entrap him. Ukrain felt for that several times since 2014, they don't seem to learn. That's what you got a FRONT, that you can't be attack from all sides. If you push in like that, you are fucked. And you don't even have to be a master tactician to get that.
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  9. They only got a fraction of their army there, they could just send more if they would want and need to.
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  10. Sure, they just need 10 million more soldiers to waste and a trillion more in equipment.
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  11. It's not an encirclement, when the crucial part of your circle is encircled. People act like they can just do what they want there - and are not getting attacked all the time from three directions.
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  12. Good luck bringing such masses of equipment to a completely unsecure frontline without a big part being detected and destroyed on that way.
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  13. Kiev was to keep the Ukrainian army chained there, nothing like Kharkiv.
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  14. Because of their 10:1 K/D ratio?
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  15.  @freetime5803  Overall it's not about time it never was. People tend to think too much in videogame terms, as if there is some kind of countdown or achievement for being fast. 24h, 48h, 72h, a whole week or a month - it's not about time. Overall rushing things mainly means to increase the risk. That's what see on Ukraine side actually, since rushing in like that is just an terrible idea. If they get destroyed in 24h, it's less about that Russia is in a hurry to do so, but it could happen, if they are so dumb and really just try to amass troops there for a further push - what will of course just be an easy, giant target.
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  16.  @thomassimmer5186  You seem to ahve no clue what mountains of weapons and ammuntion Russia got... What you saw in videos is close to nothing. Something like 2000(!) artillery shells is seen as a "SMALL depot".
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  17.  @littlejimmy8744  As seen with all the Ukrop Nazis? Got nothing to do with that. If you are a mercenary, your personal ideology does not matter, by the way. Doesn't work that way. You sell your fighting power and do what your company tells you to do - or you might even get shot if you are in a combat situation or just fired when not. They don't care what you think or pray for in your free time. Azov is hold together by their fascistic ideology. No place for that when you are a mercenary.
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  18.  @jetfighter200  They came up with 30km range guide bombs. And for that range you have to fly high. Means the likelyhood that this F-16 won't ever return when dropping this bomb is very, very high.
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  19. People don't get that those color patches on the map aren't actual frontlines even less fortified. It's simply a very vague "area of control", what doesn't even mean that you got a defensed border there, it simply means, that inside the area the attacks of the enemy against you are increasing enormously. It's not hard to storm in there - it's just extremely dangerous and risky. Those lines on the map aren't some kind of wall and when you get over it, you are in and can do what you want. In contrary.
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  20. Look at what NATO and US fascism did to absolute every country it's involved in since decades...
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  21. Sure and NATO just got negative growth and all the Ukro soldiers just counter survive.
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  22. It's not the pressure that's the problem, but that disastrous losses. It's just insane and overall looks like as if they just want so many people to die...
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  23. A brute force offensive MUST crush the enemey in a decisive way, though. Since this did not happen, it's simply no brute force offensive - it's just a rushed suicide mission.
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  24. The collapse got little to do with area and all with manpower and equipment. Overall coup regime Ukraine is long time dead, it's the constant infusions from NATO which still make it move, but this is just grinded down, and NATO is bleeding out, they can't keep that coming, while Russia could hold up that low, effective level for half eternity - though since it's clear, that NATO can't do much more and will likely just go fo terrorism now, you got these 300k which will secure the new areas and alike...
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  25. What's brave about it? There is a clear differenec between bravery and stupidity, especially the stupidity of fascists.
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  26. Winning, while keeping their losses and costs low, whle NATO wastes endless billions and Ukraine just burns down its whole future for nothing.
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  27. Stop the momentum nonsense, it's dumb.
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  28. Was always the funny part about Trump, that he just speaks out without care what US fascism is about.
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  29. It's not. Bakhmut is important, even crucial (btw ESPECIALY for the whole Ukrainian army), some empty area in the north is not.
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  30. Sabotage acts can have an impact, if you combine them with actual efforts. But the way it is, this simply did borderline nothing.
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  31. Outside of videogames, where you can just waste your armies and get a new one on the next map: in real life you only got one army from start to end and what is gone, is gone. Also: winning a map doesn't mean, you are closer to the final level. You have to continue to defend that map or it will quickly be gone already. So when you waste your army by conquering it...well...
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  32. It's literally the last day of the referendum and a big majority already gave their vote. Millions of the people of Donbass are in Russia and vote there anyway.
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  33.  @esense9602  First lesson: this is not a videogame or sports. You don't just have a match, put everything in and the winner takes all. What you lose in reality regarding troops and equipment is gone. Area meanwhile goes nowhere, doesn't matter to give it up and it's stupid to waste your army to gain it.
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  34.  @AndRei-yc3ti  What's the point to kill the puppet Zelensky? He's of no meaning.
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  35.  @freetime5803  People somehow like to listen to all the youtuber, but overall rushing in like that was NEVER a good idea in all history or warfare. It CAN be worth the endless high risk if you either so powerful, that you can stomp the enemy or somehow reach a worthwhile goal by it before the enemy may be able to react. The thing is: Ukraine has reached absolutely nothing. Settlements got no military worth and they did nothing to dimish the Russian firepower in any meaningful way. So you got a high risk manveure, reached nothing of worth with it what chance the high risk to certain and catastrophic failure. The only idea behind it would remain, that Russia simply ran out of ammunition - what is a winny wonderland fantasy.
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  36. What momentum? Momentum would be when you storm through to your actual goal in one move, before the enemy can even react. You got no momentum when you get slaughtered every single day.
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  37. What defeat? You guys don't know how warfare works, obviously.
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  38. You mean they keep running into the punches, right?
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  39.  @NLTops  A counter offensive is no worth on its own. You have to actually reach a goal with it and that goal must be very worthwhile regartding the risks and losses. With the losses Ukraine already got, they would at least needed to conquer Kherson at this point, if not Mariupol. It's insane, that they wasted so much soldiers and equipment for almost nothing.
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  40. Bakhmut? Doesn't matter there. The city is crucial for the whole position of the Ukrop army in the Donbass. Losing this is not compareable at all with some unimportant towns elsewhere.
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  41. That's clear since start that they are not. With such losses even if you reach a goal it's a disaster. And what they are able to reach isn't even a worthwhile goal. With such losses you would have to take somethign like Mariupol - and even then it would still be terribly bad.
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  42. Throwing away billions in equipment and thousands of lives for nothing isn't 'well played' beside it not being a game at all.
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  43.  CFC - Citizens For Change  When the enemy let them and then they still lose thousands of men and equipment.
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  44. You captured territory if you dominate it. Running in doesn't mean you conquered anything.
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  45. Ammunition got its own weight and is not 100% explosives, so no. Take for example rifle ammunition. You got the propellant, but also the bullet itself and that for every single shot. You also may have the magazin, which is also non-explosive weight. Hard to tell if other weight like the crates are also part of that weight, since overall you DO need them to store and transport that ammunition, you can't just let it lie around like that or throw them into a truck.
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  46. Also: a counter offensive got no worth on its own, in contrary, it's something very risky with liekly high losses, so you need to have a worthwhile goal. Ukraine just seems to attack for the attack itself with no plan how they would even able to hold it.
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  47.  @theangrycheeto  Is that some kind of typical Nazi question?
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  48.  @lukaswatts8422  NATO would never have let Ukraine keep the Russian nukes - which by the way wouldn't even work without the Russian codes. You think NATO would want a whole bunch of ex soviet states all with their own nukes and who knows what people who control them? You think NATO could have risk their fascistic coup in Ukraine, if they got nukes?
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  49. People got 5 days time to vote, yesterday was the second. Current % of people who gave their vote: – The turnout in the Kherson region following the results of two days of voting was 31.79%; – The turnout in the Zaporozhye region following the results of two days of voting was 35.54%; – The turnout in the DPR following the results of two days of voting was 55.5%; – The turnout in the LPR following the results of two days of voting was 45.86%. That's just saying how many voted, not what for.
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  50. So they gonna lose soldiers and equipment even faster? Likely.
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