Comments by "Daniel B West" (@danielbwest) on "What Does Trump’s Peace Plan Actually Mean for Ukraine?" video.

  1.  @tomaskulik80  for one thing the US is an actual superpower whilst Russia only identifies as one so yes, transrussia has to listen to what the US has to say okay? 😂😂
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  2. How is Russia going to dictate terms when they can't defeat Ukraine? you guys need to live in reality😂
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  3. ​ @ВладиславНиколаев-ч5щ  and there's no point for Ukraine agreeing to this either given the fact that your country attacked them without a Declaration Of War. why would they give up access to weapons and territory at the same time and leave them vulnerable to future Russian attack? your country is no position to make demands of Ukraine considering you are incapable of defeating them on the battlefield
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  4. This is exactly why this peace plan doesn't make sense
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  5.  @OneShadow7  and yet Russia has not shown the capability to end Ukraine so your point is moot Also, Ukraine has suffered 8 times as many casualties? What? 😂
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  6. You don't know cus you think war is abt numbers. That's only part of the story. Read your history books. Smaller nations have achieved greater things This isn't a strategy game
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  7. ​ @shovelhead2155  so you just hate Ukraine huh?
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  8.  @vlad_47  and you have over 100 comments on this channel boasting about how great and powerful Russia is... .... when they can't beat defeat Almighty Ukraine 🤣 you guys are joke if you actually think you can stand up to the US 😂😂
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  9.  @davidtinghuongying7213  every one of you see but always says the same thing "if only the US didn't give Ukraine the war would end faster" do you guys not study the history of warfare at all?
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  10.  @Alejandrica  Ukraine has evicted Russia from its territories before. believe it or not Russia is not undefeatable
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  11.  @CP-28  even if the US stops giving Ukraine aid other major European countries won't. so therefore your hopes of a collapse isn't going to come true anytime soon
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  12.  @TheBigWall3284  winning is not the same thing as has won
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  13.  @jimzo1985  panicking already?
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  14. @Kruger_Mk1  victories on the battlefield are one thing defeating Ukraine in a war is a whole different matter which Russia is clearly incapable of
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  15.  @TheBigWall3284  not to mention the cost of Russia's winning is too high for them to sustained over a long period of time. so yes Russia is in capable of defeating Ukraine
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  16. ​ @shovelhead2155 that doesn't mean anything if the war in Ukraine spreads. Protecting the border from migrants is nowhere near the same thing as getting dragged into a European war. His plan doesn't mean anything
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  17.  @Warren_Peace  collectively in terms of military gear they don't but financially in terms of the European Union they do regardless even if the US tops IT support Ukraine can still fight back
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  18.  @reee_4067  believes what you want
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  19.  @TheBigWall3284  and none of these losses have proven to be the knockout blow so my point still stands doesn't it?
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  20.  @thetruthmongerer777  OK bot
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  21.  @robertmusil1107  true. I'm just saying that all of the celebration an assumption that the war is already over is way too premature especially for a country the size of Ukraine
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  22.  @garrettstickel1189  winning a war outright for smaller countries memas repelling an invasion. So Vietnam in 1979 against China counts. As does isreal six day war
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  23.  @RenjiXIII  correction, we defeated Iraq twice. Get it right
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  24. Don't get your hopes up😂😂
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  25.  @Warren_Peace  as long as Ukraine can fight, they have a chance Am I don't know what the West believes. All I know is they won't recognise those borders in the near term And I acknowledge that there will be concessions on Ukraine's part. Just not territorial. That's not realistic for Ukraine after Russia launched a surprise invasion And you're right. Those types of military victories are rare. It depends on the belligerent. Because Russia were the ones who invaded, and they stated their goal was to demilitarise Ukraine, they have to eliminate Ukraine's ability to fight back. That doesn't necessarily mean destroying all military equipment. Look at the gulf War as an example. One saddam was incapable of maintaining his forces in Kuwait, he sued for peace. That's also what happened to Germany after wwi and Italy in wwii. Right now, Russia doesn't have basic air superiority, thus Ukraine can still pose a threat in that domain. Russia hasn't shown the ability to destroy this capability in Ukraine
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  26. Trumps plan hinges on: 1. Both Russia and Ukraine agreeing to this. Both have maximumalist war aims. This will not work 2. other countries being willing to send trrloops to Ukraine. Considering he can't force them, thus is unrealistic
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  27. Realism is just going to cause more Wars. Ukraine doesn't belong in Russia sphere of influence and if they can't accept that then they'll suffer for it
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  28.  @muratbayraktar5035  my guy, Russia, isn't able to make serious inroads into defeating Ukraine in 2 years. What makes you think that if we give another 2 years to Russia they will be able to defeat Ukraine?
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  29.  @TheEVEInspiration  if they've already defeated Ukraine, then why isn't the war over? Why aren't the ukrainians asking for peace terms? Why hasn't zylinski stepped down What do you mean by maximising casualties and terrain? Why does that matter if they've already defeated Ukraine already? Is that in line with Russia's original war aims? We're talking about Russia dictating peace to Ukraine here. to do that Russia has to totally defeat Ukraine and that means they have to take most of the territory of Ukraine and Kiev whilst destroying their capability to fight back. you guys celebrate the small victories Russia has, but none of them are towards the ultimate goal of actually defeating Ukraine. Russia is so small minded that there are only focused on taking territory, territory they could lose once again. if you think Ukraine doesn't have the numbers now that doesn't mean that they won't have the numbers in the future, and therefore Ukraine has no reason to ask for peace if they're fighting potential is still there Like I said you need to live in reality and not in this online discourse where you think Ukraine is already been defeated. That line of thinking only exists in pro-russian spaces of which you need to extract yourself from to see the full picture
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  30.  @Warren_Peace  when and where did Russia defeat Ukraine? 😂 that's news to me And yes, in the post cold war era, the US has defeated Iraq in a similar war in less than two months. They would've smashed Ukraine long ago
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  31.  @korvinusin  this is all empty talk. you know very well the Russia is incapable of doing what you're saying
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  32.  @Максим-с9ы5т  why aren't you on the front line yourself fighting for Almighty Russia? 😂
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  33.  @Warren_Peace  do they have a chance? Obviously. You think they have NO chance? Cmon dude
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  34.  @Warren_Peace  and to my knowledge the west hasn't changed its position at all they continue to maintain that Crimea is part of Ukraine the all the territories Russia occupies must be returned to Ukraine. I'm not sure what you're talking about Anyway, any territorial concessions were even discussing that they are merely theoretical. I don't think discussing something in theory means that Ukraine has lost the war unless you have a different definition of what it means to lose for me, Ukraine having lost the war means that they are incapable military of fighting back, which is obviously not the case.
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  35.  @Warren_Peace  I am well aware that desertion has been a problem for the ukrainians and that it is likely to get worse in the near term until they find a solution to it. however to pretend as if because of this it makes their chances non-existence is actual delusion. I keep saying it and I'll say it again, war is not a strategy game anything can happen and things can change on a dime you thinking that the war is over is extremely premature and it shows your lack of understanding about how Wars actually progress. war exhaustion, moral, weapons Logistics and Manpower are all crucial elements in any war but what you haven't considered is the political Fallout, and capital both countries have invested into this war. Ukraine still has a lot more political capital they can use to mobilise the population to continue fighting on Walsh Russia has to essentially bribe its poor citizens to fight if you are old enough and recall the wars in Chechnya in the 90s and early 2000s the perception of the war in Russia was extremely negative and that contributed to low morale and war exhaustion in the populis. how long is Russia going to be able to continue to bribe its citizens to fight? how long will the Russian economy be able to manage with the shortage of Manpower and consumer goods? how long will the population be alright sending it's Sons to die in Ukraine? given the fact that Russia is not fighting a total war and doesn't even recognise that it is fighting a war in the first place is the Patience of the Russian population Infinite These are important questions to think about and have realistic expectations of. Ukraine also have the same concerns, but because their country is being attacked constantly they're willingness to fight is still very strong. Also the historical examples you gave are not a good representation of the point I was trying to make. yes Napoleon surrendered in 1814 despite the fact that France was capable of fighting back but this was due to the political pressure put on him to resign, the political factors that I was talking about above. the fact is he came back the next year and showed the allies why they needed to remove France's ability to fight back by actually defeating them in Battle and occupying France. so the point you made was not a good one. same with Alexander the Great. the successers to Darius did not give up the fight and fled into central Persia and then bactria continue the fight and Alexander himself had to take his army there and destroy their military potential. again, a bad example At the end of the day you're free to believe whatever you want I'm telling you that there is precedence for the west not recognising territories it feels where unjustly taken away from its rightful owners and that precedence in some cases has lasted decades. the war is being fought on Ukrainian territory, so, like I said at the beginning of this thread, you and other pro Russian commenters need to be realistic. you're not going to be able to enforce a piece on Ukraine without military defeating them, and since Russia can't, military defeat them in your words without going all out in a total war. it means Russia will have to make some concessions as well. It's not going to be one-sided because Ukraine is not a defeated nation. That's the reality
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  36.  @shovelhead2155  the plan that was suggested in the video
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  37.  @markobucevic8991  dumb question
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  38.  @tulenik71  war is real life
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  39.  @OneShadow7  not sure about your numbers but ok
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  40.  @Ermagron  not sure what you mean
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  41.  @Natalia-i1i1i  I understand the confusion When we say "defeating one on the battlefield" we typically don't mean winning battles. War is so expansive now that localized victories are only meaningful if you can defeat your adversary in a war. That's what I meant when I said that obviously both Russia and Ukraine have achieved Battlefield success but that hasn't translated to them actually being able to conclusively defeat one another in the war
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  42.  @TheBigWall3284  if your banking on Russia winning like the r allies won in World War I then Russia will just exhaust itself and weaken itself for decades to come, just as what happened to the allies not to mention this will take much longer than 4 years. and again Russia has to actually military defeat Ukraine. what you want to believe won't change that
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  43.  @GodsendTruth  Taiwan
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  44.  @cameronsinnett8117  ask Vietnam. They defeated both the US AND China in wars in the 70s and 80s
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  45.  @RikusVanBaalen  its Ukraine's choice whether or not they want to sacrifice those lives
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  46.  @ralofofriverwood4806  what I said was they don't have to capability to military defeat Ukraine. And since the start of the conflict they said that their stated aims were to demilitarise Ukraine. we can also add annexing those territories as well. out of all of these goals the only goal they have achieved is successfully conquering luhansk and they were only able to do that by launching a surprise attack on Ukraine.
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  47.  @ralofofriverwood4806  and Vietnam's war against China in the late 70s is a perfect example of a smaller country defeating a major regional superpower in a conventional war. And Vietnam had alot less than Ukraine
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  48. @GodsendTruth  that wasn't the question OK if not Taiwan then how about Vietnam's war against China?
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  49.  @paijokotak6996  can't use natural obstacles to exclude those countries cus there are many examples of those obstacles not being a factor. Think Greece in 1940 and abyssinia in 1935
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  50.  @delta_glider4362  the Threat is that the US will keep supplying Ukraine with even more weapons and it will take Russia and impossibly long time to to even achieve their goals which makes defeating Ukraine impossible
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  51.  @kaalisurfer600  😂😂😂
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  52.  @bam114921  did I hurt your feelings?
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  53.  @MissingThe90s  obviously. Russia knows all about that 😂
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  54.  @yasvirid  the US has many more geographical advantages so the idea that the US may at collapse in never recover is quite farcical Second the US has the most powerful military in the world third there is no guarantee that if the US gives Russia something then that will end the conflict once and for all and not drag the US into another conflict. Russia already attacked Ukraine once without a Declaration Of War after lying to the US and telling them that they weren't planning to invade. it's very much in American interests not to get dragged into a war in Europe and they can't do that by just giving Russia what it wants
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  55.  @DrO111-z1v  I'd get canceled for that comment
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  56.  @mcnuffin1208  Vietnam repelled an invasion from China in 79.
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