Comments by "" (@tomk3732) on "Ukraine War and its Global Impact" video.

What about Ukrainian soldier bombing civilians in Donbass? Who made him do this?
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@kuanliu4253 Are you kidding - there are like 1000s of videos showing even live strikes on schools and markets in Donetsk! Every week about a dozen people get killed or at least hurt from UA attacks against strictly civilian targets.
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Not really - they have shown that in Ukraine they sure can fight and their economics of war are very, very good.
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Russia is making 2nd gen thermals at a rather amazing pace. Matching or exceeding western tech should not be a problem at all - see how well Soviets did in that respect. I would not worry at all if I was in charge of Russian armor. They have a very long history of shocking the west - about 100 years now. Russian manufacturing capacity - as per west - dwarfs western ability - so I would be shocked if west was able to go toe to toe with Russia in weapons making. Russia is 2nd largest arms exporter by value after US - so I feel like they do indeed have customers.
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Freedom to Donbass from Canada!
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Mobilization was of small number of people. War effort has decreased unemployment to super low levels (like less than 5%) and trade with Asia proven to be much better than with EU. Sanctions are actually helping Russian economy now. Ukraine is spent - we shall see a slow decline till they either come to their senses or last Ukrainian dies.
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A lot of this is propaganda and a lot of this is true. Same as from the other side - pro Ukraine, a lot is true but a lot is pure propaganda. Just to give the help (weapons only) to Ukraine - currently at over 60B -- this is about half of Lend - lease help during WWII that Soviets got adjusted to today's $$$. I.e. Ukraine is getting about 2x+ the aid Soviets got against Germany. Combined with other aid it is more like 4x.
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I would say neither - it is totally different war. It is not winter or Russo - Japanese war nor patriotic war as Russians are allergic to taking any losses - for the first time in history Russian commanders are fired if they take losses. Also Russians are now clearly winning the war so we cannot use examples where they lost - maybe the continuation war is a good example, when Soviets easily started to roll over the Fins and give such epic losses to Finland that Finland had to surrender or loose entire nation.
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@External2737 Spent? Russia is crushing Ukraine all along the front line and giving them massive casualties. Ukraine lost the war at the very beginning when they refused to negotiate. How can any logical person not see that Russia only deployed 300k reservists - they can deploy as needed another 300k and another 300k etc. Ukraine deployed 100% and their army is now shrinking. Lets all hope for Ukrainian counter offensive - the war will end soon after unless idiots want to fight to the last Ukrainian - in that case, few more years and no more western ruled Ukraine.
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Not really - there are no plans to invest in the army and production - other than say Poland. You do not see for example neither US nor Germany planning to increase tank production.
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@recoil53 Not really - there are no huge orders or huge expansion in the plans. Sure maybe Nordic countries are standardizing rifles but US just changed the caliber from 5.56 to 6.8. Also it will take years before US artillery production has any meaningful increase. Germany can order 10x more - but does not change the fact that production numbers per month are not increasing by much. You cannot increase production without major investment. US did not open old tank factory. I.e. there is nothing indicating major artillery production is coming to the west. Even if by some magic west doubled artillery production in a year - the war is going so bad for Ukraine that in a year - even this year they need to capitulate or the fight will be to the last Ukrainian. Lets say UA wants to implode and will fight to the last one and west doubles production in a year (this doubling is a dream - nothing indicates this - but lets take best case UA scenario) so what? Russia will still have 3 : 1 advantage and Ukraine will be running out of people. Even if the west doubles production again (magic) in a year and matches Russian artillery - who will operate it after 4 years of war on UA side? The only solution for Ukrainian victory is for NATO to join the war & convince Russia it cannot go for the tie (i.e. defend with nukes). This seems less likely than magical artillery production numbers. I fail to see the dream unrealistic world where Ukraine has a chance of defeating Russia - nothing at all indicates such scenario. No sane person looking and hard core data sees this. Especially with idiots in Ukraine defining victory as total defeat of Russia. I think Russia should continue in their current strategy and if Ukraine wants to fight to the last man and woman, sadly, let the idiots do it. If they are so stupid as to throw their nation away, maybe they do not deserve it in the first place.
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@recoil53 Dude, do you know how long it takes to build a factory to make ammo for 155mm guns and how long it takes to expand? Official numbers for Russian production show steady gains from 2014 - these gains per year are less than 100k rounds. Officially in 2022 Russia made over 700k rounds per year. If anyone was serious they would have signed papers yesterday. Look at Russian production increase - this is a multi year process, needs investments etc. There clearly is no will to increase production as no one sane thinks they will need to do so. "In the US, BAE & the Pentagon are figuring out what needs to be done to ramp up production too. " - no they are NOT. They know exactly what to do but it costs $$$ that no one is exactly wanting to spend. So they did nothing. After more than a year of a war they signed no contracts. Why? They know that war will almost certainly be over by the time these things would be online & wasted $$$. Even if Ukraine was still in the fight they will be out of people. So there is no push to ramp up production in few years. If there was, we would see orders. Same with tanks, US has factories already build, need to refurbish and off they go. But no ORDERS were placed. None. "Factories for the anti-tank missiles are also adding new lines." they are adding a little bit more capacity, but nothing drastic. No new factories are build AFAIK.
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I only have seen DPR forces with these - so its Ukrainians robbing other Ukrainians.
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@jessehachey2732 So far 1000s of Orcs are joined by 10x as many Ukies. I hope this war ends, but if Ukies are so stupid, none may be left when it ends!
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@dorugi20 Sure, why don't you search for "attack on Donetsk" in that little youtube search bar??? Or you are not intelligent enough?
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Well it is now almost certain Ukraine will loose.
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@jessehachey2732 Yeah they loot washing machines and kill these Ukies by the dozen. Imagine if you can rob a washing machine of its chip and the Ukeis are still soooo bad as troops that you can easily eliminate them. Imagine how terrible western armies must be if they trained Ukies to be such a terrible soldiers! Better learn Russian!
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Maybe. But I would think that Russia would create a puppet state instead of taking over.
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@TheRezro Your views are based on "copeware" and "hopeware" - mine are exactly what World Bank is saying. Why would factory workers be dead or not paid? Why? Explain? Why would China pay "quarter of the price" - nothing indicates any "quarter" of the price at all - in fact our friends at WB show many goods are sold for MORE than they were to EU. This is good for China as well as they pay LESS than before. Why would Russian economy implode when World Bank says it will do great - is the west lying? Ukraine is spent economically and with people dying. Why would Russia collapse? Why? West says Russia will do great so a collapse seems not logical. Explain. Why is Russia a joke? They are fighting a proxy war with NATO, not using their full army and are winning.... why is this implying Russia is weak? Why? Explain.
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Support for the war is 75%+++ Even anti Putin guys support the fight for political reasons. I.e. Free Russia anti Putin forces == war is needed.
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@mbnovik Be real - the 1st army in the world (LOL) failed in Afghanistan... recently.... US could not defeat bunch of Taliban. For 20 years. Russian economy according to world bank is doing better than any G7 economy. Guess World Bank is lying. The idiot Europeans are still buying Russian oil and gas - but now at inflated prices as it needs to be blended in Asia before it is sold. How stupid EU is?
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