Comments by "" (@tomk3732) on "Anders Puck Nielsen" channel.

  1. This guy is to facts as pig is to flying.
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  2.  @johndonaldson3619  Then you are in the wrong place. This is UA fantasy propaganda channel.
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  3. I come here to make fun of the author and pro UA crowd.
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  4.  @johndonaldson3619  Watch some neutral channels so you will not be shocked when Ukraine surrenders or Russia removes Kiev regime by force.
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  5. 7:06 - why would it take Russia 6 months to a year to take Pokrovsk? Ukraine is on the ropes. They don't have man power to defend the city. City does not have any fortifications. I say this year it will surely fall. We see who is right.
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  6. They have no blackouts and fastest growing economy in Europe....
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  7. What? You should say its Russian strategy.
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  8. What Ukrainian advance? There is no advance. HIMARS caused superficial damage to the bridge that was fixed in 1 day.
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  9.  @philliptemple9841  Russian forces are advancing on about 500km front. Everywhere. They have an advantage in everything. The main question is will Ukraine surrender or will continue resisting once Russia captured whole river line.
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  10. The sky was blue bird - i.e. not even single cloud and there were 1000s of people on the beaches. So I think we can safely assume no cruise missiles were used. No one noticed any helicopter activity either so we can remove commando strike. I also doubt it was a missile such as ATACMS - it would be noticed as well - as you mention at least attempt should be made by air defenses and if not then 1000s of people should see something. Finally craters left by the strike are beyond massive - we are talking about crater diameter of well over 30m and depth of maybe 5 or 6. Big enough to swallow an airplane. Certainly not HIMARS (see strike on bridge) and certainly not small SRBM. If it was Ukraine all I can think of is a drone attacking ammo dumps.
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  11. Nah, much easier would be to apply EU values equally in say Baltic states, making democracy there would allow local ethnic Russians be treated as humans. It's hard to explain to your own that you need to fight for justice when justice is already there. I.e. EU has to follow its own laws.
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  12. LOL, 100% propaganda. Delusional one. I come here for comedy.
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  13.  @sjs9698  For political reasons Russians are very adverse to any losses - thus the heavy use of troops from Chechnya, mercenary units, prisoners etc. combined with heavy use of artillery to wipe out enemy at absolutely minimal cost. Russian strategy also does not seem to care much about land gained as they retreated a LOT since the start of the war. This is in difference to "no step back" strategy of Zielinski whom refused for UA troops to retreat from multiple cities. This has caused massive casualties which now result in UA not having enough troops to defend massive front line. The disaster operation at Kursk only quickened Russian advance. Despite this UA command lead by Zielinski still refuses to do a general retreat allowing Russians to create more meat grinders which Ukraine cannot afford.
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  14.  @jnygaarddk  When they hit some oil depots and caused little fire helicopters were filmed - and it was not over a busy beach area.
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  15.  @thedutchfoxxx  All these 3 you mentioned failed.
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  16. Turkey would invade Greece 😊 More likely that Russia would come to Greek aid than say Poland.
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  17. How??? Russia has air defense and 100x more missiles. Ukraine cannot play now any game.
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  18. Short story, Russia is winning big on the battle field, Ukraine is getting creamed.
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  19. I see it exactly the other way around.
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  20. Ukraine main issue is personnel losses. No new Ukrainians were shipped from the west 😅😅😅
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  21.  @hecmen7298  history legends, weeb union. Non crazy pro UA would be blond Australian guy. Crazy pro Ukriane would be this guy and Denys.
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  22. LOL!
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  23. It now means unconditional surrender. Nothing else.
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  24. No. The warning in the aircraft is for either airborne band radar or ground based radar. There is no distinction between "this radar is connected to medium range or long range" - as this is unknown to the aircraft. And said radar can be used with either - a lock is a lock. Most likely scenario is that no Russian aircraft were harmed as there is zero evidence of anything and prominent Russian bloggers denied any aircraft were harmed.
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  25. Yeah Germans also thought same way. Incompetent Soviets.... And then smash, they have shown brilliance against Germany. They have shown excellent command. They executed operation after operation perfectly. This is how we see Ukraine war today. As well organized operation.
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  26. LOL, and yet Ukraine managed to break through last year near Kharkiv all without air superiority. The problem is Russians are diged in, they have (as per Ukraine) 10:1 artillery superiority and were expecting the attack. Sending few F-16s would not make any difference at all.
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  27. Chechnya is a major allay. There are no other fronts. Belarus is unlikely - they are not as stupid as Ukraine. No one else wanted to join grand war against Russia and rather negotiate. Ukraine already lost the war - we are waiting till September to find out extent of the loss.
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  28. Russia is advancing and in front of victorious Russian panzer there is a lot of Ukrainians running.
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  29. Russia won the war already like two months ago. Ukraine "win" is simply re-defining loss as win. Such as, sure we lost half the country, but we got to keep the other half!
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  30. Comedy - same as Denys.
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  31. Sure, he will. Once Ukraine surrenders.
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  32. This one would be unconditional surrender. Germans trusted Soviets in 1945.
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  33.  @martstam2016  War of 1920 is complex as there were multiple "Russians", multiple factions which we can see as "Ukraine" or proto Ukraine as well as Poland. Everyone fought with everyone else. Oh and there was also US involved as well as Czech legion and lots of other strange stuff. Oh and everyone switched sides few times - in 1920 the RPAU were enemies of RKKA so I wondering whatever he just mixed things up a bit or its not precise which part of 1920 he is referring to. For the most part RPAU were communists... just "different". Its really hard to tell what was going on.
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  34. Ukraine offensive has failed & it is ending right now. Russia is now doing as many advances now or more than Ukraine. Saying the "offensive by UA" can still succeed is a massive cope. In the last 24h Russia has made significantly more gains than Ukraine. For example, Russia managed to finally operationally encircle Avdiivka. They also managed to cross Oskill river and held on to a bridgehead near Zerebrianski forestry. Especially operational encirclement of Avdiivka is huge - it feels like Avdiivka is the next Bakhmut. 13:07 - Russia loves attrition - so I would certainly NOT mark Ukraine goals as attrition - these are Russian goals - which they succeeded in.
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  35. Nope, it was a good move. It served as pressure tactics vs. Ukraine. First two, then two more, maybe another counter offensive will add one or two more. It shows to Kiev they will be taken apart. He left plenty of room - what do you mean? And why replace Putin? New Kremlin ruler will show strength by pushing Ukraine harder.
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  36. Remove the "mine" crap and just concentrate on previous shelling and water level as well as luck of maintenance for 30 years.
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  37. Not really, Russia is moving forward in Donbass and most Russian troops were pulled back. So now its mostly UA vs UA war.
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  38. Well, public opinion in Russia has 2 effects: 1 support for war increased 2 more people are volunteering to serve Not sure how that helps Ukraine.
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  39.  @MTStingray  On one side, people claim bloggers from Russia admitted it - so it must be true, but when they deny it, it must be a lie ;) Ukraine has zero proof but whatever they say is gospel. I think people on this channel are insane.
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  40. Nah, Hitler did terror attacks, these are aimed attacks against military targets. One out of 40 missiles dropped on a mall. Maybe it was shot down. So what?
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  41.  @stream2watch  Modified version is still in production.
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  42. The whole offensive is stupid. They should have stopped it at week 1 after it was clearly failing.
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  43.  @nvelsen1975  Genral Zaluzny - commander of UA forces stated on video 10:1. I think it is more like 5:1. I.e. Russia as clearly seen from the map is smashing Ukraine attacks quite well. I mean in the last 24h Ukraine on video lost few dozen vehicles - on bloody video! In one run you can count 11 smashed vehicles. in Just one column.
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  44.  @jimdake6632  Soviet doctrine - if we cannot fly, no one flies.
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  45. Why change, they won.
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  46. Yes Ukraine created a dilemma for itself. Either call Kursk a failure and retreat herby creating PR disaster and lesser gifts for the war effort leading to quick defeat OR keep Kursk alive and lose Pokrovsk enabling Russians to move in any direction with ease thereby leading to defeat. So what would you pick?
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  47.  @eeeertoo2597  Germany lost by 1944 - everyone knew it, even by 1943. Yet the war kept going for a long time!
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  48. No its comedy channel.
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  49.  @hecmen7298  history legends made pro UA videos. His latest one is very pro UA and actually has false UA info in it. Willy OAM is light pro UA. Weeb only reports front line changes and has conservative commentary. He did report any pro UA stuff religiously. This channel is like Denys, delusional propaganda. It's comical edition.
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  50. He is super pro UA propagandist. Even when they start storming Kiev he will still say UA can win.
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  51. But his audience is mostly western woke people that are drunk on idea of Ukrainian victory ;)
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  52. I do not think there is much chance Russia can loose. Given Russia constantly on the winning side there is little criticism from its people or personnel. Since chances of Russia loosing are low I doubt we see too much of it.
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  53. ​ @johnathanhughes9881  You do not understand that Russia is not doing the most fighting there. Most fighting and most dying is done by people of Donbass fighting for their freedom. There are also Chechens there, Wagner group etc. And then there are Russians. I do not dispute the 60k casualties figures. Nor 80k. Usually for each dead there are 3 wounded so the 80k would suggest 20k dead and 60k wounded. Which does seem very plausible. BUT this is for Donbass + Russia + Wagner etc. Brunt of fighting is by Donbass Ukrainian militia against Kiev regime. So they have taken most KIA and casualties. So my numbers are actually, quite high - i.e. the top estimate of 9k is more then US estimates suggest! Thus I am not "optimistic" at all. As for liberation of Donbass - see above whom is dying - I feel they are not dying to be salves ;) Azov battalion is actually a regiment and there are many regiments. At least 10% of UA forces are Nazi - similar to SS in Nazi Germany. There are pure Nazi - i.e. they believe in racial superiority of Ukrainians over Russians (and anyone else). Standard Nazi stuff. No Russians are no Nazi - they are RED ;) Russia is very multi ethnic, racial superiority crap would never work there ;) Regarding demilitarization, you must be joking about better military - they are sending people with few weeks of training that are turned into mince meat and then sending more. Ukrainian losses are epic high. Some front lines have many "volksturm" brigades just slowly getting creamed. Regarding these two joining NATO - this is actually not a big deal at all - you do not see any epic levels of anger in Moscow at all. Both countries have been somewhat unofficially in NATO since 1991 and they both threatened to join NATO if Russia invades Ukraine. Both are non issues. Neither of them will station (at least they never had such plans before) offensive weapons on their border with Russia - so non threat - non issue. Thus I stand by stopping NATO expansion - expansion to Ukraine. Full success. No NATO in Ukraine. Ever. Well, as for getting Russians out of Ukraine - how about Ukraine leaves Donbass alone? Why are they there occupying? Why they don't leave these people alone in peace? No one there wants to be under Kiev boot. This is why they are being liberated. They are fighting, every man, and many women, for their freedom. Just like US did against UK in their war of independence. Lugansk is already free of Kiev occupational force and soon Donetks will be as well. How can you support oppression? How can you deny people their God given right to determine their future? US won its independence. I think Donbass also has the same right. Kiev regime troops should pack up and leave and then war will end.
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  54. Nope. He said no officially few days ago. Who you trust - Putin or someone on the internet?
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  55. LOL, "excellent" - they are terrible. They get out played by Russia every time in Donbass. The Kherson is an excellent example of Ukraine getting out played.
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  56. 2:07 - Russian Bakhmut offensive is smart while Ukrainian defense there is idiotic. Russian losses are 4x to 5x smaller than Ukrainian losses. Multiple reasons, such as "road of life (or death)" or total Russian artillery supremacy. 2:56 Bakhmut has been a total failure for Ukraine - they have allowed Russia to grind them hard. For what exactly? Ruins? These idiots in Kiev may indeed "counter" and retake the city just so Russians can retake it again! Brilliant. 8:00 no, break through now seems next to impossible. Reason is that Russia has multiple lines of defense and a LOT of mine fields. These things will slow down any attack & reserves can be utilized. 10:00 why don't you mark Ukrainian supply lines? Far longer, no? And within range of a lot of Russian systems. Bottom line is, if Ukraine pushes hard the war may end this year after Russia takes a lot of land with a counter.
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  57. B/c idiots like this guy live there?
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  58. For Russia.
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  59. Guys is comedian - don't expect facts.
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  60. Victory for Ukraine now looks like loosing Crimea, Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, Zaporoze and say Kharkiv. I would say that it would look actually good if they only lost that much. It would also mean victory for Putin. Loss for Ukraine is loosing more or all.
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  61. It happens WHEN NATO intervenes. Nukes are response to NATO attack.
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  62. Objective is clear, to stretch Ukrainian forces more. Same with Sumy offensive. Ukraine has no reserves. Russia does have plenty. Once Ukraine is stretched more Russia can do breakthroughs. Once they start manover they will take lots of land and maybe Ukriane will surrender. Well played Russia. Well played.
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  63. Depends how many pp can Ukraine throw - they are loosing at least 30k a month to various causes - maybe as much as 50k now. But still they can thrown 1000s more. As long as supply of pp is there and west sends weapons it can last for more then a year. I expect Russia to take Donbass sometime by September. But Dniepr river is still far AND Russia does not have man power to annex whole right hand side of Dniepr. So I am confused as to the game plan.
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  64. Given the number of videos of Ukrainians begging for stuff I think you are spot on - just switch Russia and Ukraine.
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  65. Yes, very old aircraft.
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  66. They are out of range. Russia can strike any airfield in Ukraine.
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  67. Exactly current Russian plan.
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  68.  @dougcoombes8497  What opposite - look at the map and look at the videos from the front and look at say hard economic data. All these are rather reliable sources. Why deny these?
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  69.  @mariaf.6601  Economic data shows Russia is doing super good and on the map you do not see Ukraine capturing anything of any strategic value - in fact you are now seeing Russia capturing stuff - in the last few days - shaping operation for next Bakhmut.
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  70. Exactly - this is why Ukraine is loosing the war badly now - they are not "running completely out" of things they are running low on a lot of things all over the place & are unable to replace losses. Russia is winning as they are able to easily replace all of their losses. It is a classical war of atrition where you are out rating your enemy.
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  71.  @gingerlicious3500  Exactly - they are based on air power - they cannot supply artillery for a Soviet style war. They simply do not have the capacity to do so - thus you just proven my point that NATO is running out. You said it yourself.
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  72.  @gingerlicious3500  LOL, NATO has no plans of supplying large number of air assets. US did not even supply the 31 tanks it promised - it delayed till 2024 ;)) "Not to mention that NATO has a much larger industrial capability than Russia and is beginning to expand its plant for artillery." not at all - Russia has shown it has a much larger capacity and NATO did zippo so far to expand its production. There are no plans in any major NATO country to radically increase artillery production. NATO just keeps Ukraine on a drip feeder waiting for inevitable collapse. Once Ukraine starts clearly collapsing NATO will strongly suggest negotiations and whatever they lead to it will be called "Ukrainian victory". There - come back to this comment predicting the future when it happens.
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  73. Bakhmut was around 3m - Pokrovsk is bigger (its two cities actually) at over 100k population but I recon at most a month to take it as UA is spent.
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  74.  @krjohnson29  Umm 3m == 3 months ;) "Bakhmut was around 3m - Pokrovsk is bigger (its two cities actually) at over 100k population" -- need to read more carefuly what I wrote, "Pokrovsk is bigger" and "at over 100k population". I am actually not pro Russia but pro common sense - Russia is winning the war and propaganda machine trying to say its no is becoming out of control.
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  75. none.
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  76. More or less. I mean its like saying - what if Hitler turned things around in 1944????
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  77. FYI, so far confirmed in this war it was Ukraine blowing dams - it was said that the dam near Kiev was blown and river was the defender of the nation. No talk about Ukraine drowning (and admitting) 1000s of animals.
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  78. The dam was repeatedly hit by HIMARS. Why don't you go and fix it yourself under fire first from HIMARS and then from Ukies on the other side of the river. How about maintenance from 1992 till 2022 -- we all know Ukraine did not build anything from Soviet times so maintenance was non existent for the dam. The gates were also damaged - you can read it in old Russian reports. If you want the truth, and only the truth - google for damage images. But be warned, you may not be able to handle the truth.
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  79.  @EliasRinghauge  Ukraine was not and is not interested in any UN truces over anything. Even now they are not interested in say any UN effort to jointly save civilians etc.
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  80.  @larshildebrandt3835  how could they manage to maintain it when it was under fire? Ukraine hit the dam with Himars multiple times, proven by pictures. When Russian troops moved out of the other side of the river there was no agreement on management. Russia did not damage the dam, Ukraine did. Ukraine even now refuses any UN involvment. So how is this all Russia's fault?
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  81.  @idoit5067  Nope, they rejected.
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  82.  @greenl7661  like Ukraine would have agreed to it, Lol. They have refused to agree to any such zones. Why do you think Russia would mind?
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  83.  @greenl7661  Russia is totally fine with it. UA said no. UA said no to presence of any observers or UN troops. Last time I checked it was UA attacking the power plant not Russia that controls it.
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  84. Like Ukraine, whom shelled NPP many times cares about "nuclear disaster" - you only hear "nuclear disaster" from RT.
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  85. LOL!
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  86.  @blazunlimited  No they did not. Also their prominent account for such news regarding Su-34 - fighter-bomber on Telegram denied any losses. This account is the one that listed all other losses. So Russian side - both official - and unofficial denied any losses. This has forced guys on youtube to backtrack - say military summary channel reported "loss of 3x Su-34" but today he said that it is unconfirmed and he does not know.
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  87. Good guys won - winner is always the good guys.
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  88. Around 100 sq km taken by Russia in last 24h.
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  89.  @dinodudedanny6324  Who exactly owned the dam from the time it was build - starting in 1992? Ukraine... who did not maintain it? I do not recall Russia having control over it from 1992 till 2022.
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  90. Clear answer now is yes. End of video.
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  91. No, he kept them out of a fight as the losses would be high and public opinion would hate such a move. Now, with public opinion turning he can use conscripts more freely as support for more sacrifice is there.
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  92.  @rogerthat4545  Not inch by inch - in the last 48h they got like 3 towns.
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  93. In short Russians won the war, are moving forward and Ukraine is on constant back foot without any chance of winning - hence they lost. Operation looks to be over by September.
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  94. Imagine what is US military!
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  95.  @andrzejbarcelonafrlk6416  Speaker is just a good Bagdad Bob. His idea of offensive is going back to trap the enemy ;))) This may be an idea on tactical level (Russians did it south of Izium - they moved back, UA moved in, Russians wiped them out with artillery and moved back in). But not on larger strategic level.
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  96. NATO. EU is just an economic union. Its not a big deal. When Ukraine joins in say 50+ years I doubt anyone in Moscow will loose sleep over it.
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  97.  @stream2watch  Sure wiki.
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  98. Yep, soon Ukraine will advance to Polish border!
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  99.  @BTinSF  I think Ukraine will now be lucky to hold 50% with left bank going to Russia + Odessa.
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  100. Much less than Ukraine!
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  101. Let it sink in, Russia is making right now about 1/10 of the shells UK made during WWI. And this joker is saying, a country like 5x the size of UK in WWI, with CNC technology cannot produce more!!!! Really Mr. Joker? Really? Russian economy is overheating? Like what, they will not grow as the fastest economy in Europe? Ukraine capability is increasing? Like its going from zero right now to 1? How? Russia is destroying Ukraine every day, if anything their capability is going down every day. More people are leaving, more workshops are trashed. They have no economy and subside on aid alone. Aid is running low. Maximizing attrition on the Russians when Russians have massive advantage in firepower - this guy is a total joke. Ukraine will have advantage in a year? In what, number of dead?
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  102. Exactly, never interrupt your enemy when they are being idiots. Notice Russia is not saying anything to allow Ukraine to move out of Bakhmut. Heck, they are now doing anything possible to keep Kiev in Bakhmut together with circus from Progozyn. The mean grinder must go on - Bakhmut is the best thing that happened to Russia in a while. Its were Ukraine takes epic level losses.
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  103. Russia is not on any UA territory. Ukraine needs to withdraw from Russian territory.
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  104.  @HR_8035_YEA  I saw videos of people for both - for the war and for the mobilization.
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  105.  @Its_shiki_time4876  Yes, on your part. In manouver welfare which Ukraine claims to employ you always advance fast at the start and this was the UA plan as well. This is seen all over WWII - where the first 24h - 72h is decisive. For example, during D-day the first 24h were decisive. After first 24h allies knew they won. Their forces advanced up to 10km deep and diged in. At that time they started to unload supplies and additional troops. The reason why first 24h - 72h are the most important is you simply want to make sure your pressure point is maximal and your enemy has no chance to bring in reinforcements. You can also go deep beyond enemy's defensive line. To counter this enemy should build multiple defensive lines in a deep defense doctrine. We see success of both Russia and Ukraine with fast attack - Ukraine had success during Kharkiv offensive by piercing weak Russian defense in first 24h followed by very quick deep strike. Without any major defensive lines behind main line Russians did not have defense in depth. All attempts to retreat and form defense failed as Ukrainians were too fast. Reserve Russian units only formed defense behind a river many km to the rear (due to UA mistake of turning north). If you do not go fast like you say, enemy will bring reinforcement in time and the battle turns into attrition war. Attrition war favors Russia and is their way to fight.
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  106. Which it should - it won the war.
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  107.  @TaTvsU  Russia would simply liberate the villages from Ukrainian occupation. In the worst case to protect sovereign Russian territory Russian constitution allows use of nukes. At first tactical then on cities.
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  108.  @dIRECTOR259  Spot on. Besides - if they had issues they would not be attacking! Or at least not attacking so hard with such expenditure of artillery.
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  109.  @golddigger8759  nah, and what will they exactly do against Russian defensive mine fields? Most of these nations have weak offense. Russia has nothing to worry about these. The main problem is missile sites, but even these are not such a big deal as Baltic are actually closer. Finland essentially is of little problem for Russia.
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  110. LOL, no - talk is about unconditional Ukraine surrender. Russia will get between 20 - 35% of Ukraine, no NATO ever, etc, etc.
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  111. Main cause of the disaster looks like damage to the dam by early HIMARS strikes combined with high water level. That seems to be 70% probable cause.
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  112. 3 months later and this guy is wrong on every level. Every.
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  113. Ukraine will not attack Kherson itself as right now Russia is pushing them towards the city of Mikolayiv and I would not be shocked if we see battle for that city.
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  114.  @dylanc9174  Bridge is fine. Why pp say its destroyed is beyond me. There are videos from the bridge while ON the bridge - from like today. Not only that there is 2nd bridge available. Finally not only that but Russia has ferries. Not even that - Russia has pontoon bridges.
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  115.  @terjeoseberg990  Only deck is damaged. As they hit the deck Russian or local crew fixes it. Main problem now is they hit it at day time targeting Ukrainian crew and killed some workers so maybe they will not be so willing to work on fixing it. In emergency they can just put some beams over damaged section and drive truck onto that. Its non issue.
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  116.  @terjeoseberg990 HIMARS is a rocket system. Maybe you want to read more about it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M142_HIMARS and educate yourself.
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  117. Ukraine will surrender? Seems like a good idea.
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  118. I come here for comic relief.
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  119. This is such a cope. It was a failure as it was attack of desperation of weak UA army against well defended front line and well armed troops.
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  120. This is why stock market in Moscow collapsed almost 10%. This is why Putin was avoiding it so long. It will be a big hit to the economy.
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  121. So once Ukriane surrenders what will you say 😅😅😅
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  122. There is no such thing as "free media" anywhere on this planet.
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  123. What man power - Kiev independent said that population of Ukraine is 20m. If you look at population graph there is 3x less (more actually) 25 year olds than 45 year olds.
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  124. Morale in Russian army is great, Ukraine, not so much.
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  125. Better Zielinski to Moscow.
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  126.  @jamesthomas4841  they did win. We are just waiting for precise info what they won. Will Kharkov be Russian? Maybe Odessa? Will UA disintegrate?
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  127. Balanced comedy!
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  128. No, Ukraine refused!!! Russia asked for international help in the area. Ukraine refused! Ukraine refused Turkish proposal - Russia welcomed it! stop spreading fake news.
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  129. There are zero indications Ukraine can turn around a war it has lost. It has not done anything in Kherson to suggest that they can do anything more then a local counter attack. I do not see any danger for Russian forces around Kherson. There is currently zero chance of cutting off supplies. Essentially the question now is where all the Russians have gone. And what will Russia's next move be. Where will they attack?!
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  130. But they themselves DO NOT want to interact with the west - they see west as double faced and treacherous. This is why they did a total break in relationship. There is not will in Russia to deal with the west for decades - they are turning totally in the direction of Asia. And why, do I sense that opinions of around 3% of the world that US makes up should matter? Why should US have a SAY in world matters. And why the west, that under US leadership, making whopping 13% of the planet is there to rule them all?! I say the world needs to unite and put west in its place - and that is not at the helm of the planet. End of colonial era. All people are now free or should be. No more dictating to the word. Finally, US started massive wars - were is the outrage at the measly 3% that is a world dictator? Why US is allowed to exist - why no prison USA?
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  131.  @williamwang9154  I am sure Russia will not mind, they put minefield on their side, just in case anyone scales the wall.
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  132.  @pinkyfull  In Kharkiv Russia had two brigades over like 100km front line and no defense in depth at all. It took this for Putin to finally realize he needs mobilization. Its not like Putin did not make mistakes.
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  133.  @celebrim1  Ukraine also does not have pilot nor mechanic fleet to do so. Nor number of bases nor air defense systems.... Also Russia has best and largest air defense network on earth.
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  134.  @celebrim1  Russian air defenses are considered by almost everyone including me to be the best in the world. This does not mean it cannot be defeated or losses will not happen. S-400 is not used to take out small drones. Israel does not fly through Russian supplied air defenses at all - they are not that stupid. They use terrain masking and a good mission planning even vs. 50 year old systems Syria has & that is only when they have to be close - most of the time Israel uses stand off weapons. Location of slightly newer Syrian air defenses is well known by the Israeli as Syrians are not exactly good at hiding stuff. Remember that Israel managed to destroy in the past 100s of missile sites without almost any losses - while at the same time NATO over Yugoslavia later on with better tech could not really touch the same old systems. Using ME as an example is foolish as one could say that M1 Abrams tank is total junk as in Iraqi hands it was junk. They lost 60 in 3 days. To ISIS in pickup trucks.
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  135. They have now standard rat catcher bus!
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  136. Oh yes, take popcorn and watch the comedian.
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  137. Attacks in some cases, for few days, taken out 5% of Russian capacity. More or less non event. At least much smaller than say scheduled maintenance.
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  138. Well, the peace deal centers around not allowing NATO into Ukraine. As well as making sure any Nazi tendencies of Ukraine are nullified in rather "assured" way. Also Crimea is transferred to Russia. Donbass was supposed to go back to Ukraine .... but it seems now this may not be possible as after almost 2 years of war no one exactly trusts Kiev. Author here is total joke - Russia DOES NOT NEED ALL LAND - OR EVEN MOST LAND. Come on. Be real. We know what last year the document said about peace deal.... we KNOW. it was signed by both sides.... thus we know author here is dead wrong. War crimes? Sure Russia does not mind at all prosecution of war crimes - remember that Ukraine did a lot of war crimes. Also no one cares too much about some criminal Ivan - these guys will probably get themselves into a Russian prison anyways. Reparations???? Sure - Russia can pay a deal of $$$ for removal of sanctions. Again, author here is.... crazy! I actually expected Russia to pay something like 100B over period of 10 years. Yes, in fair world Ukraine would pay, but world is not fair. Why war needs to continue as long as Putin is in power - if Putin died today war would not be affected. Putin has not a lot of connection to the war. New Russian president would continue the war as it is in best interest of Russia to do so ... come on.
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  139. NO!
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  140. Germany first.
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  141. Phase 3 will start once all of Donbas is taken - so probably at least a month away now. I assume phase 3 will be taking Kharkiv - but I could be wrong - it may be Odessa.
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  142.  @andersjjensen  Russians already taken Kherson - you mean Nikolaiv. Problem is Russia and allies are not taking heavy casualties and costs are low. But costs for Ukraine to hold the line are immense. This is why Russia is in no hurry. Let them bleed. This it may still take many weeks before all of Donbas is taken. Kharkiv will probably be taken but will be a huge operation - I expect something like 6 months. I also expect Odessa to be taken - also 6 months. We see. You never know exact times in war. At the beginning of 1944 Germans were still doing OK - then Soviets did Bargation and it was all over - front moved a lot. Same break may happen here, Russians do a major break through and Ukraine may loose tons of land in matter of a week.
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  143. then I guess Russia also forever.
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  144. And its PPP representing production is larger than Germany. Fastest growing economy in Europe as per world bank. Keep that in mind.
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  145. Russian regular army is well trained and has no issues - they easily cut and slice through UA lines. Problem is too few of them. General mobilization main issue is economic downturn. Russia would easily smash Ukraine but be set back 10 years. US game plan is to sacrifice Ukraine for such mobilization. And Z is willing to do so to push forward US agenda.
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  146. He has - he is like comic for pro Ukraine point of view - I am waiting for his video explaining UA surrender ;)
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  147. Russia taken the city on 21st. The battle is over. Any retaking of the city would be a new battle for Bakhmut. Otherwise a whole war would be one long single battle. The best joke here is that Bakhmut is somehow a "drain" on Russia and attacking it by Ukraine is not a drain on Ukraine - what? Heavy cope. The main idea of the battle for Russia was to severely deplete Ukrainian reserves and destory as much troops as possible while at the same time gaining very defensible position from which future attacks can be lead against remaining cities of Donbass. Russia accomplished its mission. Not sure why Ukraine was there - PR? Ukraine failed as everyone can see the city they said will never be taken ... fall. Bad PR.
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  148.  @andrzejbarcelonafrlk6416  Well, I guess almost none now ;) They do have around 10 brigades left for the "great" offensive. After that ... nothing.
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  149.  @richardjoseph9002  Ukraine is further and further from its objectives while Russia is on home stretch. War win or loose is based on getting your goals or not getting them. Thus Russia is clearly winning and more or less won already for some time - same as Allies were more or less winning and already won by 1944. All that was needed is to do the final stretch. In WWI people were not as stupid as now or in WWII - Germany instead of dragging it out quit early - and even by WWI standards it was late (all other central powers quit before it). Sure it was later used by Hitler etc. But what was the point of dragging the war for say 2 more years to make sure allies are near or in Berlin? Ukraine should admit they lost and cut their losses.
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  150.  @johndonaldson3619  but all neutral channels and all sane people say Ukriane lost. I am trying to save you from yourself. And from this propagandist.
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  151. These were NOT treaties. And any treaty can be revoked. And "Russian-Ukrainian Friendship Treaty" expired in 2019 (!) So nope, they did not violate any treaty.
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  152. Why on earth would Russians mine Zaporizhzhia NPP??? Or are you also believing that Russians shell Zaporizhzhia NPP while their own troops are there????
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  153.  @traumflug  * Ukraine.
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  154. LOL!
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  155.  @macmcleod1188  Problem is Russia is ALSO defending their country.
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  156. Yeah, sure - they are announcing it rather hard - last time they did that in Kherson they took epic level losses and it was not even against fortified positions.
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  157. He will even think that once Ukraine surrenders ;)
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  158. Except opposite is happening right now - they went on the offensive aimed at cutting Ukrainians off.
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  159.  @stutteringyak9492  what exchange, Ukraine has no nukes. Tactical nukes only effect area in limited way and detonating 50 to take care of troop concentrations / critical infrastructure would at most deal with some global warming (yay!). Remember people in Japan live in both cities nuked.
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  160. Wow, he is Ukrainian. Leader of Soviet Union in his childhood was Ukrainian - Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. Almost all leaders of Soviet Union were not ethnic Russians - most were Ukrainians. Thank you Ukraine for the wonderful years of red scare! Soviet Union was such a paradise! Sooo much freedom!
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  161.  @thomaslunde5014  Sure. There was no mention of Ukraine in the context of a country or people before around 1898 or so - I forgot exact date - this was first mention. So thus there is no history before that. Present day Ukraine usually borrows stuff from history of Poland or Russia or mentions stuff that occurred on lands present day Ukraine has. Around Russian revolution, Ukraine as a concept was become more mainstream - as separate people. Multiple "Ukraine" were created and fought each other, Poles, Russians etc. The concept was not even close to today - most people did not view themselves as Ukrainians - as one nation. After Soviet Union and Polish - Soviet war, lands of present day Ukraine were part of Poland and Russia. Ethnically Polish part had minority of Ukrainians on all lands that were in Poland. In Soviet Union many sections were majority Ukrainian. What is interesting is that SU actively promoted Ukrainian language (!) and for example many signs were in Ukrainian. SU was multicultural and it added new Ukrainian idea nicely. In Poland, super progressive for the time, Ukrainian became regional language - in 1930s kids learned both Polish and Ukrainian at school (!) About half of leaders of SU were ethnic Ukrainians for about half of its existence (!) So saying Ukrainians were abused by SU is wrong - especially given that SU was ... run by Ukrainians. Contrast this with present day nationalist Ukraine - imagine them treating Russians same way Ukrainians were treated in Soviet Union! I not only see removal of Russian language but also of culture etc. Clearly Ukraine is a country today one does not want to support just on humanitarian basis.
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  162.  @sot11cat  No, video author is the performing clown - I am in the audience and I am in on the joke. You seem to not get it.
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  163.  @hedgehog3180  Russian supply chain switched to war mode almost two months ago. These would not be "fresh conscripts" these would be reservists. I.e. people that had around 1 year of military training. These troops would be used to simply stretch Ukrainian defense over the whole border area. Kremlin does not operate on "optics" as much as Kiev does for whom public opinion, especially international one, trumps all. Kremlin operates on what military needs to not only finish the operation (which is soon) but broader war. It is clear that end of operation may not mean end of the actual conflict. Thus regime change in Kiev and more broad territorial changes may be needed. You simply cannot do this with currently used troops. Thus mobilization is almost certain in near future. Hence why switch to war economy. Remember when Kremlin pulled from Kiev area? They are doing sound military decisions not based on BS.
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  164.  @cv990a4  Russia is doing well - like I said - they have maybe 40k deployed, recently got another 60k contract troops and have at least another 100k tucked away. So they indeed have 200k - plenty for a very long operation & for taking more and more land. This is why we can see Ukraine lost this war. In the unlikely event of some miracle happening on Ukrainian side Russia can simply mobilize, partially or fully. Finally, contract soldiers are will not "walk away" as many have just signed up - you do not sign up for a war to quit it few weeks later ;) I am sure they are exceptions, but I assume few and far in between. As you can see there is no possible scenario where Russia runs out.
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  165.  @cv990a4  If that was true Russia would not have had deployed only like 20% of the available force ;) Why they would already won? They would need to throw all they got to push harder and take heavy losses. It is much more economical to let artillery cream Ukrainians and let DPR / LPR / Chechens / Wagner etc. do the fight. I think you do not get it. Russia has less troops deployed in Ukraine then US had in Iraq. When you say "they could deploy more" same could be said of US - why US did not deploy more? They did have surge in Afghanistan - they still lost. Why US lost in Vietnam - they could have deployed more! Russia is winning the war with what it has deployed right now - no need to deploy more unless you start to loose. Besides by keeping 1000s at home you can always scare Ukraine of the "next big attack". Keep them on their toes. They know you have massive reserves. As for prisons - Ukraine did the same long time ago. No one mentions desperation there! Russia increased age... no one mentions Ukraine did the same!
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  166. Well, not so fast - Putin will not let that place fall into chaos.
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  167. What 20x bigger economies? Russia is largest economy in Europe. China is largest in the world - who can say Russia has to loose? Who has that power? No one in Ukraine corner. Ukraine will lose the war, that is clear. What is not is how badly.
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  168. 2 to 3 years but for whom? Israel? Taiwan?
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  169. But it scorched mostly Russia - so deployed by Ukraine?
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  170. It is.
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  171. UK seems to want to.
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  172. Where are they forcing him???
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  173. No. Putin said clearly in Belarus few days ago. Unconditional surrender.
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  174. Nah, by spring Ukraine will loose a lot of land. Russia did mobilize quicker than expected and is already making an impact.
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  175. LOL! I wait till US pays it to Afghan people, Iraq, Vietnam etc. that would be many trillions.
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  176. For 1, almost zero - why waste a nuke. Plus you would be condemned for it. For 2, right now I say 10% in the next 3 months. For 3 I say less then 1% - there is no need & nothing to be gained.
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  177. Phase 5 Russian general counter offensive pushes Ukraine towards Dniepr river. Phase 6 despite efforts to have peace Russia is forced to mobilize and takes over all of Ukraine Phase 7 puppet UA state is created, half of Ukraine is annexed by Russia
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  178. Yes - what could happen is norther Russian forces reach the river - only 30km away, and soother forces take out bridges to Nikolayev. Then Ukrainian troops would be trapped as it takes time to prepare new bridges + they have 500k in the city to deal with. This would be just like Severtsk.
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  179. Nah, lets be realistic here, Russians have dug deep defenses there and in depth - just like Ukraine all over the place. With lots of artillery defending. It would take weeks to reduce such defenses in the meantime Russians can reinforce.
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  180. Its a comic video - it is meant to make you laugh.
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  181. Its like offensive #66 - it has no purpose other then get pro UA excited.
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  182. Its not denial - its pure comedy!
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  183. LOL, nope. Russia cannot turn around. From some areas maybe but not all. Also NATO needs to be removed from Ukraine hopes and dreams permanently by a treaty.
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  184. LOL! Forgot 6 - Putin will dance naked ;) Ukraine conditions are non starter even for Navalny.
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  185. And then you wonder why Russia sees the west as an enemy ;)
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  186.  @lp9280  Personally I would start with division of US - they are far bigger threat to world peace then Russia. Besides, Soviet Union was already divided up - so they already passed the division stage. We are more now into "reunification" phase.
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  187.  @lp9280  Who cares about what internal politics US has - what is its external policies? How many wars did US start? How many millions of pp did it kill? Internal policies of Russia are a business of Russians, same as internal stuff of US - its business of Americans. The US is by far the most militaristic nation on Earth, the most aggressive and the one that loves to change borders or dictate terms. Russian culture is mostly that of Asian origin, so I doubt they "destroyed" much there on that part. Their origins are same as that of Ukraine which was broken off from Russian culture around 100 years ago. Lithuania and Baltics overall are about as democratic and free as Stalinist Soviet Union - i.e. in many respects they are not far from North Korea. Belarus is mostly part taken away from Poland, as is Kalingrad as is western Ukraine. Thanks to western polices in 1945 Poland did not get any of that land back - west was not interested in pressuring Stalin so Stalin did not give stuff back. This is why Poland actually lost a lot of land after WWII as one of "victors". Heck, wonderful US did not step in there to help - one has to remember that wonderful US was the one that heavily supported Nazi Germany in 1930s. It does ring a bell with current unconditional support of Ukrainian Nazi. Finally, if US was so fair in their polices they would insist on self determination of nations - i.e. why is it that there were no referendums after fall of Soviet Union as they were after WWI. Even today, a lot could be avoided if US did not play hypocrite in their politics - I mean one cannot have a base 1000 miles from US or WAR, but God forbid Russia wants the same! Or when US created Kosovo based on ethnic division, but God forbid same was to be extended to Crimea or Donbass.
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  188. ​ @lp9280  Where on earth did you get this "It is just a historic fact that democracies go to wars much less often than dictatorships, and even less often against other democracies." Either it is totally false or US is NOT a democracy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_lengths_of_United_States_participation_in_wars Compared to US Russia is a peace loving country. Gendercide against Poles was done by Ukrainians not by Soviets or Russians. There was no gendercide against any ethnics group under Soviet rule - i.e. holdomir was a result of failed policies that did not specifically targeted anyone. The sheer "targeting" of an ethnic group in Soviet Union would be a big no no and would get you death or a long time in Siberia. Since WWII US is the biggest killer of foreign peoples. Prove me wrong on that one. Whom killed more? WHO! "Ruthenia" or Rus is common word that denounces all people to the east of Poland. "Grand Duchy of Lithuania" is a construct that was in union with Poland (same country) from around 500 years ago. I think you going a bit deep there. "So if we talking about "historic fairness" the Poland didn't lose shit, they were just shifted westwards." false - Poland lost vast territories - as per land area. "When union between Poland and Lithuania was created, the Lithuania was the bigger and more populous country. " False. Maybe you need to read more about this ---> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Commonwealth and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duchy_of_Lithuania at time of union with Poland they did not even have 2m people! While Poland (with all fiefs) was 7.5m+ " The ruzzian federation actually traces its existence to the Novgorod Republic, which was province of Kievan Rus, but gained independence once Kievan Rus was occupied by Mongols and later Grand Duchy of Lithuania, followed by Lithuanian-Polish Commonwealth... followed by none other but ruzzian empire. Which makes it very stupid to say that Ukraine "broken off from Russian culture", NO it is a Russian culture, the ruzzian federation is the one which broke off like 800 years ago when Novgorod Republic became it's own entity." LOL. All lands of European "Russia" "Ukraine" "Belarus" etc. were lands occupied by Polish tribes. Then the people from the north came in through the rivers and invaded these tribes and they were the RUS. There was no "Ukraine" or "Ukrainian" people till after around WWI or maybe before that a bit. There are no written documents etc. where there is "Ukraine" mentioned. None. Prove me wrong. Only around 100 years ago did "Ukraine" become a concept. Thus I stand by my assertion to say that Ukraine broken off from Russian culture - they are actually very similar to this day and are quite distinct from Poles (especially the sheer brutality). "So you clearly lacking historic knowledge, don't understand the cultural differences and lack depth in your commentary. " I think the same of you. "I don't know what you mean about "referendum" after soviet Union collapse, all countries that appeared after the collapse already had strong national movements and they elected their democratic national governments.. what are you talking about?" So what - borders were an issue. They should be ethnically divided. There now been many, many wars over this. "Poles or Lithuanians independent from ruzzia" - actually it is Russia that celebrates its independence from Poland ;) " Likewise ruzzian immigrants can't demand Crimea or Donbass to become part of ruzzia. " Umm, depends - remember that in Kosovo a lot of population is quite recent. Also ... Crimea never was Polish, thus it never was Ukrainian, and was seat of Golden Horde. Thus after Russia (Cathrine) won the wars with Turkey it passed on to Russian empire. Thus any Ukrainian population there is immigrants (recent). Why do you not move out from US to your preferred country you came from and let natives alone then if you are so anti immigration? People of Donbass been there before any concept of Ukrainian state. They have God given right to live how they like. I support their right to freedom. Their right to liberty - same as I supported US right to rebel against King. " their national country by the way is already biggest in the world" ah right of freedom cut off by "you too big already" I consider right of pp to be above all else. Freedom shall prevail. Crimea is Russia if people want it to be Russia. Donbass is Russia if people want it to be Russia. If Scots vote to leave UK and join EU that is their free will. If Kosovo becomes part of Albania - so be it. I will never infringe, as you do, on will of the people.
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  189.  @lp9280  Ah, so apart from US is they keyword. So you fully agree that US is a huge risk to the planet and it is the main risk. Yet you also say they are democracy. So there exists a democracy that is a huge risk to the planet. US is far and wide bigger risk than Russia or China. Then you give examples of "barely democratic" which is a very loose term - is US barely democratic then? If Ukraine was not pushed by US we would not have this war. Your definition of "democracy" is also very well turned to make sure at least nominally US qualifies. To bad Soviets and most communist countries also qualify ;) -- at least two parties - check -- assembly and executive - check -- 50% voting - check -- fairness of elections is established by transfer of power that is peaceful - sure ALL transfers of power in Soviet Union were quite peaceful ;) Note there were transfers as no one lives forever. and they were elected as well, usually every 5 years. "Same say for Lithuanian-Polish war, Poland at the time was good example of anocracy, Lithuania just became independent a year before." another example of a mini war that would have been easily solved if there was a referendum based on ethnicity. For some reason rules were applied (loosely) between Poland and German but not here. Poland took over territories that were ethnically Polish for 100s of years and never hand any Baltic country population in majority (throughout history). Incidentally Poland took over control of land to the east only where it had absolute majority - i.e. no greed at all. Later on Soviets stole all that land from Poland and incorporated it into different republics. Without any western pressure borders stayed as they are to this day. This is why Ukraine today is much, much, much bigger then ethnic lands of Rus population that later claimed to be Ukrainians. I.e. thanks to Soviets Ukraine is so big & their need to steal. Now Russians are taking back their own land.
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  190. Well, we can see this somewhat clearly with Russian army increasing in size and UA army decreasing in size and with massive advantage in artillery, air power etc. Russia has. Take any WWI book that explains losses and look at allied advantage in artillery - it is tiny compared to what advantage Russia has. While at it look at casualties from artillery and look at WWII casualties from bombing. Each glide bomb is equivalent to 25 dumb bombs as per US. Now you will graduate to Russian troll rank.
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  191. Spot on. One sane person among the sheep. Also gates were damaged. I bet there were no engineers monitoring this at all.
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  192. Nope - they need to move more troops towards Kherson. It puts bigger strain on Russia where 80% of flooding is.
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  193. I think it is going towards Russia being forced to conscript and either control half of Ukraine - or removing Ukraine from the map all together for a short period of time (puppet government in 1/2 Ukraine). The leader in Kiev is run by US and does not see what is good for Ukraine.
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  194. It is starting to be a joke of how poor NATO officers really are or how much they care about opinion about them. Even Polish generals now switched front and say Ukraine lost the war - they want to save their skin. This guy? No shame.
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  195. Well, most Ukrainian young men either run away or are dead. Putin can use some conscripts but the usage is low and will not make any dent in demographic.
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  196.  @eeeertoo2597  Russia did not loose any ground around Kharkiv for like 2 months. Same with Kherson - no lost ground as well. In the last 20 days they have made major advances in Donbass - just today they finally taken over a power plant that was in the south. UA defense lines in Donbas are slowly colapsing again and we should see another major gain like Lisichians - Severdoneck soon. Then one more step and Sloviansk - Kremators are taken ==> end of special operation.
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  197.  @hjoseph777  In school in America. How much Ukraine is paying you?
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  198.  @RobertMartin-ru2lx  Its like 1944 - technically Germany is in the fight but not really.
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  199.  @RobertMartin-ru2lx  Ukraine lost the war, that is clear. If they are smart, which they are not, they would have surrendered. In the next few months - this year we see collapse of UA forces in Donbass and its liberation. Russia may also go for total envelopment. If they do, Ukraine will loose this year left hand of Dniepr. Next year, if idiot in Kiev is still around and not killed by UA patriots, Russia will go for Odessa. If UA still has issues - Kiev is after that followed by a push towards Polish border and puppet state creation from a shell. Remember this comment.
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  200. Already finished.
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  201.  @CrazyGaming-ig6qq  Russia should liberate Donbass by this winter. all of it. As per current advance.
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  202. OF course not. Russia won that war.
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  203. Where? Its on Twitter. Works well - moving forward! In reality Russia and allies started their own offensive in the area and captured multiple towns threatening city of Mikolayev. So "counter offensive" is more Russian thing which may end up with either taking the city or at least blocking it. Total failure for Ukraine. How on earth phase three is Ukraine "initiative" when Russia and allies are moving forward??? Is this a joke? Finally, if Russian logistics is so bad how on Earth do they manage to push Ukrainians off in Kherson? HOW??? Magic?
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  204. Its too late - Ukraine is on the ropes. Also they are loosing more troops in defense than Russians in offense - roughly 2 to 1. This is due to Russian fire power. This is moving towards 3:1 as Ukraine is running low on ammo and equipment.
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  205. This guy is such an idiot. Why would Russia invade any part of Finland, specially in the north? Why? Why even test there anything? Why? How to even do it? Lol. Also NATO may react as commitment is low. Article 5 is hot air as it is super weak. It is mostly based on US political will. Also why this guy talks about Russia, not Russian block, majority of humanity.
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  206. Vote for Trump - lets end this war.
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  207. Russia army seems to be in great state - look how they smashed Ukrainian offensive!!! Leopards burning together with Bradly IFVs.
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  208.  @philliptemple9841  I went to deep state UA maps and they are making huge advances. In one day they managed to advance as much as they did for the entire month. In one day they advanced more then the Kursk offensive did per day over two weeks. Within days they advanced approximately 10km. There is no evidence of "huge cost" but there seems to be plenty of evidence of huge UA losses especially to Russian drones. As Russian electronic welfare capability went up even deep state admits only 10% of UA drones make it anywhere close to the targets intended for. Ukraine does not need to surrender if they don't want to. They simply will be overrun and destroyed. Either Kiev regime will be replaced by Russia friendly dictator or after even more de population all of Ukraine will be absorbed into Russia.
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  209. Wait, did not they run out of missiles two years ago ;)))))))))))))
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  210. Relax, western people are super easy to play with using propaganda. They defy logic to believe.
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  211. You do know Soviet Union was communist not a monarch so communists... won, right?
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  212. Well we know there are surrender negotiations as Ukraine clearly lost the war. West wants to surrender the least, Russia wants to take the most.
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  213. Sounds like him! Loosing Baghdad was a plan to trap Americans in Iraq!
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  214. Zero.
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  215. Well, that would put Russia in front, 5 confirmed kills vs. 8 confirmed kills - so already half of F-16s to be delivered are down.
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  216.  @tuehojbjerg969  I mean no confirmed kills for either side. I bet neither side lost a single aircraft.
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  217. Not really - if flanks fall Russia would leave. They are not as stupid as Ukies.
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  218. Russia can mobilize more but why? They are not pushed by Ukraine in any sense. They have more equipment as well - to mobilize and equip 300k more troops. BUT the limiting factor here is artillery - Russia cannot attack decisively in more then few places as they are limited to maybe at most 30k shells per day. If Russia mobilized and used another 300k these troops would suffer higher casualty rates - maybe even as high as Ukrainian casualty rates. Putin does not want that - there is no hurry - Ukraine is getting weaker every day - no need to speed up the war at a cost of 1000s of dead - which would look bad at home. Let artillery do its work. Of course things can change and Putin may be forced to mobilize more. Either way Ukraine can only count on a miracle to turn things around.
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  219.  @thomasjgallagher924  Ukraine did not take any land back in the last 6 months and only lost it. Ukraine took massive losses in equipment and man power. Ukraine has zero path to victory. Not exactly sure what they are waiting for as miracles are rare and far between. By end of summer huh? Like the war was supposed to be won before the winter? Then by spring? LOL. What can Ukraine do by end of summer exactly? They are weaker now than they have been during Kharkov and Kherson offensives. Russia is much, much stronger. If by end of Summer you mean that Ukraine will be forced to the table - I agree - but why wait? Ukraine defeat is inevitable given that it cannot sustain losses while Russia can. Ukraine cannot replace lost troops. Russia can. Ukraine cannot replace lost equipment - Russia can.
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  220. Kursk was a brain dead move for PR reasons that cost massive loss of equipment and lives.
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  221. @Olaf Sigurson Russia won the war at least 6 weeks ago.
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  222.  @enpakeksi765  These objectives were stated by Putin at the beginning. Verifiable objective (since "denazification" as an example is hard to verify) is control of all of Donbass. Putin already liberated Lugansk and is well on his way to liberate Donetsk. As a bonus he also captured most of Kherson, Zaporozia and large portion of Kharkiv.
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  223.  @mariaf.6601  Economy growing at fastest rate in Europe according to World Bank. There is no budget deficit - Russia - like China - have a surplus. This is not the west ;) Imports and exports are doing well - heck exports to many places in EU have... grown. Most companies stayed in Russia - only about 7% left. Exchange rate is fine - Chinese value yuan low as well - it boosts economic growth and lowers cost of war. Remember they have positive trade balance - in difference to the west. So lowering your currency makes pp pay more for the war. They can always sell some surplus currency to push ruble up - but why?
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  224.  @mariaf.6601  the western world bank is good with money. So it would be strange if they lied to make Russia look good. Russia's reserves are growing, which is normal as they are surplus trade balance country. If they sold reserves we would know about it, they do not and let Ruble fall. How can you deny even western data about Russia? Who do you trust then, just propaganda. This is not some Chinese or Russian stuff. It's a western stuff. You are deep in belief that Russia is failing same as the idiots that were saying since April last year that Russia will run out of missiles or idiots that made jokes about chips from washing machines. So far nothing was shown to be true. With Ukraine pushing hard front lines stay static clearly indicating that they cannot push Russia out. Western economists show Russia is not going to collapse. What is your plan, to the last Ukrainian?
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  225.  @solimaro  Isn't it? Whole west is trying to defeat Russia with Ukrainian hands yet it fails - who would have ever thought! Either Russia is strong, or NATO is weak.
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  226.  @gingerlicious3500  And did they give Ukraine tanks???? Nope. NATO knows that if it pushes very hard China will get involved into a war of attrition and a proxy. They know they cannot win that. Who is saying all this BS about bad Russian economy when they are doing like 100x better than NATO predicted??? Russia may not be a great country - may be a shithole country - but at least its a country - Ukraine right now is not. Russian economy recovered already - as per world bank. Russian military does not need to recover from anything - they have not collapsed at all. Losses in say air power are ... a whopping 1 year production ;)))) I.e. since the war lasts now over a year Russians recovered all losses ;) Losses from tank combat may take longer - few years - but it also means Russia will have better tanks. Once Russia wins the war do you really think the victor will suffer? How can anyone sane think Ukraine, in a war that is crucial to Russia's survival can win is beyond me. Its like a grown man fighting a 10 year old an pp betting on the 10 year old - in a fight to the death. Less than 300 tanks committed for year 2 of the war. Almost no new artillery systems. Chronic luck of artillery shells, with no new major numbers coming in. Epic level losses of military personnel. Tiny air force. Soon running out (as per west) of air defense missiles. And yet there are pp that think... Ukraine can win. Russia did not even mobilize too hard. Please, enlighten me as to why Ukraine would win? Other than a miracle please. Win is defined regaining all land prior to 2014.
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  227.  @agffans5725  Exactly - almost nothing is sent anymore. May I remaind you that west sent something in line of over 600 artillery systems during first year of the war, and there are no pledges for more than 100 for 2nd year. In order to fire 5000 rounds of ammo per day you need around 1.7 million rounds per year. No do your math and see that artillery shells are NOT coming. 8000 rounds for 19 howitzers is not much at all ;))) Usually these fire around 50 rounds per day. So supply sent is for... OMG - a whopping 8 days. Maybe 10 days if they stretch it out ;)))) Yes, Ukraine will get all ex. Polish and ex. Slovakian fighters - I do expect that the west eventually will donate few dozen F-16s. The donations do not fully cover Ukraine losses which are much more. Ukraine lost over 70 aircraft (quite confirmed - not some Russian source) with almost half of these MiG-29s. If you want to know exact types, just use wikipedia. This is pro western source - so real number can be much higher. Essentially Ukraine is toast. They are not getting a lot of tanks, artillery or even IFV. They are not getting air defense systems. Sending more "wonder weapons" will be of similar help as the one in Germany in 1945 ;) Sending weapons only prolongs the war. Russia is clearly winning and sending more to keep war going is certainly not making the end of the war in sight. 1000s more will have to die. Why not simply start negotiations? Ukraine does not enter NATO and transfers all land with majority RU population to Russia - Russia transfers all land with majority UA back to Ukraine. Simple. Why does Ukraine fight to be in NATO???
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  228. Well, Ukraine is loosing the war. It has no allies with troops deployed. And has no way to retaliate.
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  229.  @morstyrannis1951  Russia called UK and France and made it clear to both than any attack on Russia will lead to direct attack on them. And if they want nuclear exchange, they got it. Next move, UK and France. They have been warned. And I am sure Xi in France few days ago clearly explained to the French that Putin is not bluffing. Russia clearly told both little dogs they will be smashed. Maybe you were not paying attention. So far little dogs took note and backtracked rather quickly. China and rest of the world would certainly not let the west get away with this - the so called free world moves to Asia - not anywhere in US or EU. West better take note.
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  230. He is a mad pro Ukraine propagandist. His job is to spread fantasy.
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  231. Russians have accuracy as well - have you seen all these krasnopol hits? Also Russia won in 2023 the artillery battle inflicting higher losses on Ukraine then on itself.
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  232. Who cares?! So US passes 60B in aid. They only thing it will do is prolong the war. Better not pass any aid and force UA to surrender now, then say 2 years from now when there is nothing to really surrender. Heck, it feels that even now its too late and Ukraine will never rise up again. Their losses dwarf anything in WWII. By Kiev Independent.
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  233. Maybe - but I believe this is to show Ukraine that if they do not freeze the conflict he will annex half of it.
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  234.  @keithpalmer4547  LOL! Based on what? The fact soon they will be outnumbered? War ends when ether a) both sides are to tired of it and end it in the middle. b) one side gets smashed Since Russia is way too powerful it will not be the one smashed. so either Ukraine gets smashed or both sides get too tired and have a political solution. Neither of these are seen as victories for Ukraine. Also in 6 months Russian mobilized troops will be fully deployed and in 6 months it is Russia and her allies that are going to smash some Ukrainian butt.
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  235. DPICM is not that great against enemy artillery as it cannot damage things such as mobile artillery - i.e. mobile artillery is very resistant to DPICM. Towed artillery not so much - but good luck doing any major damage to towed piece with DPICM. Heck, DPICM cannot even take on hardened trenches - as these have sandbags which will resist DPICM or simply make DPICM irrelevant. If DPICM was so great we would only see DPICM - but its not - it is mostly good against soft targets such as trucks or troops in the open or troops in shallow trenches / fox holes. It is also not good in build up area - as houses will resist DPICM and apartment buildings are all but immune.
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  236.  @s4ss  US as many others have zero caring about "submunitions don´t explode and great unintended minefields" - the main caring is a) is it effective. If it was so great all shells would be submunitions. So why they are not? "DPICM has a potential destructive effect on armored vehicles due to the shaped charge bomblet, but it may require a very large number of shells to have an effect against targets like tank formations to the point of futility;" Cluster ammunition is nothing new - Ukraine has already used it extensively - got more from Turkey and Russia used it extensively as well. Note that these bomblets are no more dangerous then so called petal mines so widely used mostly by Ukraine. All artillery systems (mobile) are specifically designed to resist such bomblets. Same as all field fortifications. This is an old weapon system - used since 1950s and a lot during 1960s. It is thus very well known.
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  237.  @s4ss  But its not. It has a range of less than 30km - vs. 44km for regular rounds. Also the bomblets do not posses a lot of destructive power - we are talking about what, a single Oz of explosives? That is 6x less than hand grenade! M777 have survived single hits from older kamikaze drones (!) So when attacking artillery you mostly are attacking personnel or tow vehicle. As well as ammo storage. If dealing with self propelled stuff you are far better off to use regular artillery or use some kind of smart round. All bomblets that do not hit self propelled artillery due to their tiny charge - even if they fall right next to it - are harmless. All bomblets that do fall onto the artillery system may produce only small amount of damage - even if they penetrate they actually need to penetrate something of note - if they go over the bombardier they may burn his face - so what. This would be much better against say MLRS system where multiple tubes could be damaged leading to cook off. Again note 2/3 of the regular round range. Best use is infantry in the open supported by Humvees. I.e. Ukrainian infantry. Against a spread out platoon you can take 1/4 of them out of combat with a single round.
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  238.  @s4ss  Base bleed can be applied to other types of rounds to increase range - here it is used as the round without it would have even less than 30km. The gun used is 52 caliber. Roof armor is good enough - even when bomblets penetrate they do not have a lot of power behind them. Let me put it this way - during WWII at the very beginning Poland used anti material rifle against tanks. In one episode such rifle kept firing at a tank. The tank finally stopped and crew bailed. The went to inspect the tank. They found out that ALL rounds fired at it penetrated and create nice 1 1/4" holes in the armor. The last round killed the driver and thus the tank stopped. Moral of the story is size matters. The bomblets will produce damage but you need a LOT of them to either cause cumulative damage or get lucky to hit and damage sufficiently something critical. Also since bomblets need to hit directly and any near misses are useless how many bomblets out of say 64 will actually hit the SPG? Bomblets should be distributed more or less evenly - and over wide area - say the area is 150 ft by 150ft. So we have one bomblet per 350 sq ft. So chances of hitting the SPG with even 1 are 50-50.
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  239. Yep, UA surrender coming soon.
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  240. Nah, Russia is taking in 30k per month, they are fine.
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  241. Russia will win. Doh. Come on. Like I said, Ukriane lost and now in full retreat. This collapse will only accelerate. This guy propaganda is such a joke. Him and Denys should open their own channel.
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  242. War of attrition works great for Russia - this is why Russia has chosen such war. There is currently no danger in Kherson of any supply cut - anyone thinking such is delusional.
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  243. Why does US?
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  244. Yes, possible soft target for such nukes.
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  245.  @Lizardo451  I watched news almost every day from the start.
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  246. Not possible. Putin is too smart for "leaders" such as Biden.
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  247. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL! Ukraine is winning war of attrition? Really? They are loosing it BAD. Russia picked this war of attrition as it guarantees them victory in the long run. This guy is an idiot.
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  248. But none of Russian soldiers will be knifed per day as many are actually former Ukrainians fighting within visual range of their homes. Who is going to knife them? Their wives? Maybe their grandpa? Cousin?
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  249. Russian plan is very good. It may lead to end of the war this year.
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  250. Russia also claimed 6 downed UA aircraft over the last week or so. Both sides provided same evidence - like none. Given total luck of evidence and similar use of glide bombs today as yesterday I think that Russia did not loose what UA claims. Imagine if Ukraine could do what they claim - to take down Russian jets with patriot - they could have moved it all over the front - move it to Donbass and down aircraft there, etc. Why is this not happening? Russia lost few aircraft some time ago in a single day - but that came with actual video as proof - aircraft were filmed. Now we have none.
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  251.  @rmdomainer9042  Russian telegram channels mean nothing. Same as other channels online - same channels say they downed 100 Ukrainian aircraft - do you believe that as well?
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  252. There is little evidence stuff was really shot down - there is little info about whatever anyone died. There is ZERO evidence of ground fire at all - none - not even single fire between Wagner troops. All we got is helicopters and aircraft but no ground action? Putin did not accept this - Progrozin is no longer in Russia. Exile is standard way of dealing with anyone in power that rebels. This has been done for 100s of years in Russia. As for Lukaszenko - nope - he was not the main man involved - there are pictures with Russian generals casually chatting.
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  253.  @larshildebrandt3835  no talk about how Ukraine damaged the dam and the gates? Russia multiple times said both this and shelling of the nuclear power plant are disasters in the making. So I guess now we have to look for a lucky UA artillery hit to the diesel generators to have a little meltdown and I am sure you błame Russia for not taking out all M777 in the area.
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  254.  @greenl7661  NO. That is a lie. UA explicitly denied ANY presence of UN troops. You can Google it. UA said NO. Same as UA said no to any negotiations.
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  255.  @andersjjensen  Yep, how delusional one has to be to think that Russians shelled themselves.
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  256. Correct - Ukraine has no people left due to huge losses and has no ammo or equipment even for these troops they have.
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  257.  @jesan733  no, this is quite new. Maybe two months now. You are confusing it with western propaganda that said Russia will run out of missiles, tanks, etc. That started in April or May of last year but somewhat lost steam.
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  258. Are you also stupid?
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  259. Wolf! Wolf!! Wolf!!! .............. Wolf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM Yeah, no more UK.
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  260. Both claims are a joke. No proof for either.
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  261. With eventual surrender of UA - in rail car?
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  262. Yes, the stakes are high - once Russia wins it will be the end of western backed international rules and start of world backed international rules. End of the west, beginning of the east!
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  263. Who cares who will be the next US president. Ukraine lost the war even if its mickey mouse.
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  264. LOL, 70% it collapsed due to damage from previous strikes by Ukraine and high water level 20% Ukraine blew it up to bring attention away from failed offensive (same as attacks on Belogrod were done to take news away from fall of Bakhmut) 10% it was Russia in an accident as no sane person would do it deliberately. Vast majority of damage from this is to the lower Russian side. Almost all dead are on Russian side. Long term damage is on Russian side. Satellite phots support collapse on its own theory. This is why US is not saying "it was Russia" - if they had even a blip of evidence they would point a finger.
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  265. Try what again? They did not try again after win with Fins. Main goal is to keep NATO out of Ukraine. This needs to be written in stone.
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  266. Sure and they can then take same amount from assets west has. Also this will be political suicide for the west in views of the world. UK tries to dance around the issue by saying founds will be frozen forever - but this is not realistic at all.
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  267. This shows Putin is rather strong and secure leader. I.e. western propaganda repeated here is a joke. Any leader that survives a military action against him is coming out stronger. The whole situation is done by Wagner with a little though - they did it in a such a strange way, pp are questioning whatever this was a "real" operation. So far this is seen as 50-50. Main reason why pp don't think this is maskiruvka is b/c it is so well done - i.e. if this is fake it was done very, very, very well. This would be best run operation in Russia / Soviet Union ever.
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  268. Nah, I doubt the losses on this stretch operation will cave Ukraine in faster. Yes, they are taking a beating and all they are getting is a lot of media attention plus are forcing Russians to act. But all they are getting is extra time for like 10x Russian losses. Time for what I ask?
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  269. They are smart - they send troops to Donbass - Kursk is just forests and villages. Once Donbass is taken its game over.
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  270.  @philjameson292  Sure - Putin does not need soldiers to occupy Ukraine - he will simply incorporate large parts of it into Russia or all of it as needed and use local police to deal with any limited insurgency. As you noted any OUN resistance vs. Stalin did not reach much beyond 1950 and calling it resistance is a stretch - it was more they managed to hide in holes for 5 years before security forces found them. So yeah I don't think it will be a problem for Russia - not a problem at all.
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  271.  @philjameson292  How does that related to Ukraine? Last time I checked they were part of Soviet Union with over 50m population and there was no resistance. Now they have 20m in Zielinski Ukraine. Neither in Iraq nor Afghanistan nor Vietnam US had 30% or more of Americans living there. Once again, Soviets had Ukraine - all of it - without any insurgency. Now its just a shadow of what its been. There is more partisan activity in Zielinski Ukraine fighting US sponsored regime than in Putin Ukraine fighting Russia. So I fail to see comparisons to Vietnam at work her - especially given that its Kiev that has more issues than Moscow.
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  272.  @philjameson292  You do not understand this war. This war is more of a civil war not a war of different people. " If the population doesn't want you there then you ain't going to stay." - they key is the "if" if the population does not mind you staying there - as is the case here, you can stay. Putin, if needed, can seal the border so no weapons will flow. The situation can be best modeled by civil war in say Spain - how many troops do Spain need to use to keep insurgents at bay? They had a war in 1930s you know. Or if you don't like it, Chechnya - I don't see huge insurgency there - do you - and by far they are significantly more fight in the locals there than say Afghanistan. And yeah, you need to work on your English skills.
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  273. This is the same BS that Germans talked about in 1941. That Soviets are weak, that Stalin will fall, that all it takes is ONE kick. Blah Blah Blah. Putin will not last forever. But his replacement will continue similar policies as they are good for Russia as a country. No one, that is a true Russian, a patriot, will simply let Russia disintegrate or disappear from the map. Personally I think Putin is going to be seen as one of the greatest leaders Russia had.
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  274.  @allanmason3201  There are videos of Russians doing just what you described. Trucks, buses - no issues. The missiles on Antonovsky bridge did little damage as well - Russians simply replaced the deck with ... new deck - so new concrete blocks. A crane lifted old ones and disposed of them while then placed new ones.
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  275.  @allanmason3201  Its not patched up - they actually replaced the deck - so its better then what it used to be. Its like they did not fix a tire, they just replaced with brand new tire.
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  276. But Ukraine cannot bring the war to such point -- not even within 1000 miles of it. Putin knows he won the war. It is clear. All he has to do is preserve. Same as Stalin knew in 1943 he won. We are in more like 1944 in WWII timeline - it is obvious Ukraine lost the war.
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  277. They pushed through 1st defense line. Then there is the 2nd, and after that only weak defenses. Then it can go quick.
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  278. How west is using propaganda .... well, you are watching it right now!
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  279. Probably will be Russian citizens soon.
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  280. 😂😂😂
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  281.  @bananian  The looser mostly lies and twists. Russia is clearly winning the war. There is no need to do any major lying. Using on pro UA channels you find a lot of BS. I mean what else can you show? I have said Ukraine will loose this war right after they ended negotiations in 2022. I was sure of a loss when Russia mobilized 300k fresh troops. Now its only question of time - there will be strong western push to end this by Spring 2024.
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  282. Which shows why it could not be Russia. They have nothing at all to gain from this. Its a disaster for them. Dozens of civilians killed. 1000s of troops needed to run. Lots of equipment lost. Lots of positions lost. Defensive mine fields lost. etc. etc.
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  283. That would assure nuclear strike by Putin - i.e. if I was Putin I would immediately strike with heavy nukes all possible areas - ensures total destruction of Ukrainian state.
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  284. Its quite a modern aircraft - less than a decade old. Way ahead of the electronics in old F-16s.
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  285.  @superwout  But a 1980s F-16 is not contemporary western jet. Su-34s - depending on which one it is, is few years old - maybe a decade, not 40! Please, I hope you are not suggesting Russia is 40 years behind the west in avionics. Same BS was repeated during both Korean and Vietnam wars - but it was quickly corrected. Neither MiG-15 nor MiG-21 proven to be junk.
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  286.  @superwout  Ukraine is getting the old stuff - that is a fact. So not sure exactly which ball game you are talking about. Not only they are getting old F-16s, they are not getting 100s of them but less than two dozen.
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  287.  @enpakeksi765  Maybe, maybe not. Didn't they have an election where "no more war" party won? Once they form government they are very likely to cancel any help to UA.
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  288. Would not change the war. There never was a chance for UA to win other that Russian economy collapsing.
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  289. Exactly - Russia has 7x more ammo for its artillery.... not to mention aviation and missile troops. This will not change in favor of Ukraine but in favor of Russia.... Defeat of Ukraine is certain.
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  290. Ukraine never had any chance of prevailing. I think this is obvious now.
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  291. Yes, but longer than borrowed time of EU.
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  292.  @dpelpal  Based on what exactly??? When was last time US faced any real enemy? WWII??? US lost almost every war its been in since WWII. Soviets / Russia won almost every war they have been in since WWII. Russia is supported by Asia, in which there is China whom has 55% of worlds industrial power. Who supports US? Nobody.
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  293. And proof of that is??? Reminder - you don't beg for foreign volunteers if all is going well - and that is what UA does ;)
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  294. In Kherson offensive Ukraine soundly lost. Badly. Here we have a repeat of this but on a larger scale. The offensive is almost over now. I expect Russia may go on a large counter before rains in September. The war may be over this year - but if Ukraine manages to drag it into 3rd year we may see some major Russian gains followed by strong push by the west for Ukraine to settle due to fears Kiev regime total collapse is close. I also expect full general mobilization in Ukraine soon.
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  295.  @enpakeksi765  Kherson was a loss when Ukraine tried to take it by force in a failed offensive. It was almost as bad as the current attempt.
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  296.  @enpakeksi765  Russia retreated from Kherson AFTER the offensive - as they could not do it under pressure. They retreated as it was expensive and risky to keep forces there over the river. Risk was clearly exposed by failure of the dam - which was attacked by Ukraine multiple times. The main bridge was also attacked multiple times forcing building of additional bridge which was also regularly attacked. Also Russia probably no longer was interested in threats to Odessa so keeping troops on the other side of the river lost strategic reason. Almost all decisions by Russia are cold and calculated while many of Ukraine decisions seem to be mostly drawn by PR value. Russia so far never fought in any position where it has no advantage - they retreat.
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  297.  @enpakeksi765  Actually the main objective was or should be to destroy Russian forces on that bank of the river. You can see what dam did - if it happened when Russians were on the other side they would loose 30k of their best troops - or close to it. Russians moved out in good order. Ukraine can celebrate taking some land back but they know they cannot cross the river to get more land and they are looking at their new border. At most minor victory for Ukraine and a setback for Russians they cannot threaten Odessa for a while - through I would not count out Russia cutting Ukraine from the sea yet.
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  298. No clue. Maybe take over US? Seems logical!
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  299. Yes, they have taken usual number - these are not used in Ukraine. No Russia is not using humans lives - that would be Ukraine. Air assets were transferred to Ukraine - dozens of aircraft, dozens of helicopters.
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  300. Who cares what UA wants - Russia won the war. Either UA surrender or Russia takes all it wants.
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  301. Russia still moving forward and Ukraine cannot even do a larger counter attack. Come September operation will be over. I.e. Russia will offer peace as it will have achieved all verifiable goals of the operation.
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  302.  @krakhedd  Ukraine prepared like 50 times before. At least. What new recruits out of country???? Where???? Maybe that 10k in UK that will be ready in 4 months??? LOL! Russia cannot send untrained recruits as it has none to send. What new weapons are taking the tall? Everything Ukraine gets or has is sent to the front line immediately. There is no "reserve army". Ukraine lost the war. There is no path to victory. The talk is how defeat will look like. Mostly, will Ukraine loose only what Russia controls now, will it loose half the country or will Kiev regime be removed. That is the main direction.
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  303.  @krakhedd  Yep, my dear random dude - you are sure full of BS and luck any logic.
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  304.  @Rednek0117  LOL, they sent every little bit of western equipment to the front. They are using 100% of what they got. This is why any grand counter offensives are out of the question as there are no grand reserve armies that are equipped with western stuff.
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  305.  @Rednek0117  Not according to maps that show Ukrainian forces displacement and units.
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  306.  @Rednek0117  LOL, Kremlin maps do not focus on where UA units are ;)
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  307. Yes, certainly Russia will win the war - but we don't know final terms.
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  308. Exactly - Russians said the gates were badly damaged - satellite show slow collapse over few days. There are images of the damage to the dam. Timing was just coincidence.
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  309.  @jnygaarddk  Also find it questionable - this was supposedly ready to use ammo - so I find it unlikely that charges were placed more than few hours before the blast. I rather believe it was internal - almost entire UA army in Crimea joined RF after Crimea became part of Russia. Maybe some of these pp had change of heart.
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  310.  @williamjackson5942  Look at pictures again, they were NOT within the earth dams protecting the aircraft.
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  311. They were not.
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  312. Nah, 87% of the planet is trading with them and has no issues.
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  313.  @mariaf.6601  Sure they can. Maybe not a lot of them, as say compared to Germany, but decent number. They make under 2m cars per year.
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  314. Russia would have no problem with either war crime trails as long as done by say Asian court system or African court system & involved criminals from Ukraine. Repatriations are on the table as well as a swap for sanctions. Putin and end of the war are in no shape and form related. Any future leader will do exactly same as Putin.
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  315. What positions???? Really - where??? There were no Ukrainians anywhere - most troops flooded were Russian. Offensive totally defeated... so why blow up the dam? A dam which will mostly flood your land, kill mostly your people???!!!
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  316. Ukraine had larger losses in artillery than Russia according to armor spotter. Which makes total sense.
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  317. Russian KIA max is 70k, UA KIA max is 300k. More realistic is 45- 60k and 200 - 250k for Ukraine.
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  318.  @marquisdemoo1792  Russian figures are from media Zona /BBC. UA figures are based on BBC artillery use report.
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  319.  @marquisdemoo1792  Yes, this is why I have accounted for this.
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  320. Yes, that was the whole aim of the attrition.
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  321. LOL! Russia picks and chooses where to attack.
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  322. Russian readout has France begging to freeze the conflict.
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  323. LOL, not at all. SA does not have much of any educated society. If Russia did not have good scientists they would not compete with US in technology ;)
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  324.  @buck4490  Mostly military stuff - at least that is most famous. Certainly their stuff is not bad if US has to sanction its purchase to gain competitive advantage.
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  325.  @buck4490  Its not just Turkey - US would sanction anyone whom ever thinks of buying S400. It does not matter if they are in NATO or not. The F35 is just a total joke and excuse - it is simple sanction and punishment for Turkey for getting S400, has nothing to do with eavesdropping or spying etc. That is total BS. A lot of NATO members use non NATO stuff - I do not see a problem there. Russia is not at all close to SA. SA has only raw materials and noting else of note in addition to being absolute monarchy. Russia is 2nd largest exporter of weapons on Earth and is over 50% more then 3rd (France). As for high tech, Russia is ranked 10th on Earth, so not bad, not great either. Hardly "none". It would be better if not for very heavy brain drain of talented workers ( I briefly worked in US where half of all programmers were from former Soviet Union).
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  326. Including the ones in Donbass?
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  327.  @gorillaguerillaDK  International law is only to keep little guys in check & threaten them with "international" courts. "resolutions we’ve signed and ratified regarding human rights " oh really, does that include ALL people or only these you like? Another hypocrite.
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  328.  @gorillaguerillaDK  So what about Russians that live in Donbass and Crimea where they have majority and will be heavily discriminated against by Ukrainians? What about them? Why should Ukraine get a land where the Ukrainians are not majority? Should we return Kosovo to Serbia then? What about Taiwan - guess mainland has a point? What about Texas? Etc.
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  329.  @gorillaguerillaDK  "If the areas of Ukraine where there's a high percentage of ethnic Russians wanted to succeed, then there's actually legal procedures to be followed!" no there are no legal procedures that do not involve violence. The legal procedure is called war of independence. It is legal under UN. I.e. under UN law people have the right to decide their future. Oh and who founded Azov and friends? Mermaids? Oh and whom burned Russian ethic minority in Odessa - again - angles? Or demons? Here and all be it known that annexation of the land by US of the British crown is determined to be illegal. LOL. Oh so is Kosovo legal or illegal, is Taiwan legal or illegal - you did not answer - I assume you have no answer. This all comes down to freedom. US people fought the British in totally illegal insurrection to gain their freedom. But as with Vietnam, now with Donbass, US says clearly that freedom is only for US people not for anyone else that does not align with US. That is it. Total hypocrisy. Why you deny people of Donbass their freedom? What did they do to you? Why you deny their right to chose? Don't believe in freedom huh? The only country on earth that I know of which seems at least on paper to offer right of separation is Canada. In Canada there are laws governing secession of provinces. Never yet tested, but in theory will of the people should be respected. Even UK is not that free as Scotland wanting 2nd referendum due to UK leaving EU is seen as a NO! You can have a referendum as long as your vote is "correct one". So much for your BS about freedom - freedom is a tree that is nourished with the blood of patriots - there is not peaceful process - you need to fight for your freedom. Interestingly Ukraine could have kept Donbass if they did similar laws as Canada did with Quebec. But they refused!
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  330. He is just clueless.
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  331.  @MrJdsenior  Clearly ISIS is better at this as they taken Mosul - which is like 2nd largest in Iraq, despite being outnumbered more than 10 to 1 and out gunned around 100 to 1 in just 3 days. US lost to the Taliban and created a country that fell in ... also 3 weeks, despite being larger than Iraq (!) so the Taliban moved faster then US army in Iraq (!) US loss to the Taliban was due to repeat once and again failed strategy of fire bases. US did not learn from the British or Soviets at all and simply repeated their usual way of fighting - which is totally defensive. This lead the Taliban to control all around US fire bases while US took low losses as a result of not engaging. Once US started to roll back fire bases Taliban just took over & thus the 3 week advance. Since Russia mobilized we have not seen even a single Russian withdrawal being announced. Many people expect Ukraine to sue for peace this year. I.e. the war for Ukraine is lost and they need an exit. I expect Ukraine to fight a bit longer - but I doubt they will last till next summer. Russians do not have any WWII tanks left - they have so few T-34s they had to buy them from Asia for parade use. And what about Ukraine - they are out of tanks now. All Russia needs to do is keep going. Ukraine can only pro-long the war but clearly they cannot reach anywhere close to a "win". War is fully controlled by Russia - they can do offensives if they feel like or not - enemy is unable to sustain operations + the rest of the country is disintegrating. There is very real chance of a collapse of Ukraine as a country after the war.
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  332.  @KRDUC  Yes of course - if they show they are fighting they get more for the fight. But this will not slow down their demise but speed it up. To slow down and wait for a miracle they should only defend.
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  333.  @wai828  Why is it unacceptable? Is it better for it to finally collapse? Winners do not surrender - losers are advised to negotiate their way out before total defeat where surrender is irrelevant as there is nothing to surrender.
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  334.  @wai828  Russian troops announced withdrawal from Kherson around September - google for exact date. Sure, Ukraine is stupid so let them fight to the end. Russia is winning according to all sane people looking at the war. Ukraine has zero room to maneuver. Most western assets are used up. And no more are on the way. Russia did not throw everything it has - Russia has lots and lots of room - they can mobilize more, they can ask for help from allies etc. They can defend or attack. Lots of room. Sure, Ukraine can still win - chances are about 0.1%. Chances of Russian victory are 99.9%. Would you bet on Ukraine with such odds? Germany could also still win in 1945.
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  335.  @wai828  Who cares they are determined? Defenders of Warsaw during uprising were determined - yet they got crushed. Insurgencies? Are you serious? Russia has majority in almost all areas. Who is going to go and rise - Russians against Russians? LOL! Ukraine did not achieve anything other than some tactical gains and now they are loosing initiative. Population belief is irrelevant - Germans believed in victory in 1945. So what? Winners like Ukraine don't surrender - clearly they are simply crushed. Same as winners in Nazi Germany. Ukraine achieves peace by negotiating an end of the war while they still have something to negotiate with. This is a huge win for Ukraine. Looking at Wagner Russia looks very solid. No one joined Wagner and no one is really sure this was a real deal. Especially the fact that Putin met Progrozin few days after supposed insurrection (!!!) Counteroffensive has failed. Putin has 76% support for the war - i.e. Russian people are with him. Russian economic data looks wonderful. There is less chance of Russian collapse than that of US. Ukraine on the other hand will need to be resolved by around April or March 2024 anyways as Biden - if he has even a hope of winning it - will need to remove shame of defeat before November elections way before said elections are held. There are clearly no weapons available to drag this for more than a year. Best solution is to get Ukraine to negotiate this year and sign by December 31st.
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  336.  @scipioafricanus5871  Yes, the 2016 - 2017 loss was far bigger! I mean US equipped and trained army - no more excuses of Soviet junk or poor training. And enemy was tiny + poorly armed.
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  337. This is to scare people into support for Ukraine - don't fall for empty propaganda.
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  338. LOL! And why would Russia use nukes when they won the war? Maybe its b/c west wants to get involved? If west invades Russia will defend. West take note.
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  339. LOL, so far it looks like Russia is going to surround a lot of troops to the west of Kherson. They only have 1 bridge and 3 roads. Russia already is attacking that bridge. 3 roads are 10km away from Russian troops.
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  340.  @christophercousins184  West of Kherson as in moved to the border of the region south side and moved within 15km max of the Nikolayev city proper and within less then 10km of full cut off of all supplies in the north. If Russia and allies cut this off and blow ONE bridge a whole southern group of UA forces will be surrounded.
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  341.  @christophercousins184  They taken few towns in the last 48h. It feels more then an attack. They are moving on broad front. Its at least small offensive. We see where it goes in a week.
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  342.  @reneblom2160  I am not wasting my time here - this is excellent comedy. If you are after pro Ukraine facts you may go to say Willy OAM channel. Be prepared for grim reality through - he is fiercely pro UA but does not lie.
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  343.  @Aubrey2004-j4k  So wait, I cannot express my opinion or have freedom to waste my time? So democratic of you. What else I cannot do?
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  344.  @Aubrey2004-j4k  I simply point out how illogical and delusional the author is and make fun of him and his followers. I treat this channel as entertainment - similar to when people listened to Baghdad Bob or Lord How How during WWII. Its funny to watch this guy try to say that Kiev is not strategically important ;) Or that yet another defeat of Ukraine forces was somehow a victory - or how advancing towards Poland will lead to victory ;)
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  345. Nah, if Crimea was in danger it would be clear cause for Russians to mobilize to push Ukrainians back. Invasion of Crimea would mean full mobilization of Russians. Even if NATO helped war would turn nuclear as Crimea is part of Russia as seen by 95% of Russians. It would be like taking Texas out of US by force and re-gifting it to Mexico. US would fight hard to keep it especially with Texans on US side.
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  346. Oh and Banderites respected Minsk 1 and Minsk 2? What deal in 1994 - there was no treaty - same as there was no treaty signed on dissolution of Germany where it said no NATO to the east of Berlin.
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  347. Russia said clearly they want strong assurances of peace - also not interested in some frozen conflict.
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  348.  @terjeoseberg990  Well, not really - Belarus and Russia have nuclear defense agreement and NATO does not protect invading forces - so liberal use of nukes would quickly decimate Polish forces & winds usually blow from east to west.
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  349. LOL!
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  350. USSR never got annihilated in Afghanistan!
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  351. But this is chief UA propaganda channel. Even Forbs David Axe admitted to losses as UA propaganda is unable to cover for absolute failure of the army.
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  352. LOL, Putin no longer president - war will continue. War is not related to Putin. Same as once started WWII was not related to Hitler at all - or once Banderism started it continued even without Bandera. This is not about Putin at all. Nope. Zero. Putin dies today, no difference.
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  353. If Ukraine attacks hard they will collapse under counterattack and indeed war will end maybe this year as the west will be scared to loose half of Ukraine.
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  354. In our hearts ;)
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  355. Ceasefire == Ukraine needs to surrender.
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  356. Yeah, one of the main reason of the operation is becoming a failure for Russia and they blame Russia for it ;)
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  357.  @deeptime5581  Russia has no issues with supply lines now, did not for around 5 months now. Not sure about Ukraine. But given slow operations I say no issues as well. On the other front through Ukraine will freeze and so will rest of Europe. Not sure whatever you mean that.
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  358. Why prolong the war? This is like saying Germany should still fight in 1944.
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  359. There was never emergency option - the dam bursting is a disaster for Russia - it never was an option to blow it up.
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  360. Most of the losses were for Russia - it is almost impossible for Russia to have done this. Sat photos support it was simply a dam that failed. Water levels were record high.
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  361. There is no sense here.
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  362.  @brianquigley5743  Umm, there is no sense here - its just pure propaganda. Look at Nazi Germany - they were "winning" even in 1945 ;) My other hobby is studding military and WWII in great detail. Also know a lot about Soviet Union and their system post WWII
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  363.  @anderspuck  Your expertise is in propaganda and pure comedy.
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  364. Biden is an old man. He does not know what was the point. Maybe MIC in the US making lots of $$$$???
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  365.  @thedutchfoxxx  Why would anyone need copium in Russia - they are clearly winning the war. Ukraine made epic level mistake of invading Kursk. Russians are very happy about how things have turned out. No one in Russia that is in charge cares about "getting humiliated" - this is purely western thing.
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  366.  @hydrolifetech7911  LOL, you may read about this some more. They have this special system in Latvia and Estonia where you have a non citizen passports ;) They were afraid that if they given ethnic Russians a right to vote after 1992 they may vote "wrong way" - so much for democracy. Before the whole 2014 Russians in the Baltics won numerous cases against host countries - ethnic Russians were denied things such as old age pension based on ethnicity. Geneva human rights tribunal cases were won by these people... well until 2014 that is. "even refuse to get Baltic countries citizenship documents crucial for employment and benefits" - LOL - again they were not given these - they were denied citizenship in Estonia and Latvia BUT not Lithuania. There is plenty about it on the internet and you can even see original cases pre 2014 when Baltics lost in EU courts. Of course what is happening there is total violation of EU own laws but somehow everyone looks the other way. In some border areas ethnic Russians make 90%+ of the population but they are denied the right to open a Russian language school. How is that for EU "freedom" and "democracy"? How can anyone who sees this be pro these racist pigs? How can you?
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  367.  @LuckyPkerz  No, last time I checked denying old age pensions / denying language or cultural rights etc. was against EU rules and laws. Not to mention the non citizen passport idea that is abomination on this planet.
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  368.  @ggwp2797  Russian minority should have same rights as any other minority in EU. For example, same rights as Turks have in Germany. I am simply asking that Russian minority be treated equally - and as per EU laws. You disagree. If you suddenly agree with me you will be a Russian troll and will have to start watching different channels - or come here mostly for comical relief and as observance of ignorance among people.
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  369.  @elkiebeerepoot5829  and who will pay for that in Bankrupt Europe?
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  370.  @tekha1977  Finland lost all wars against Soviets and had to sue for peace multiple times. I.e. Fins are no match for Russia.
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  371.  @LuckyPkerz  oh really, so you accidentally lost all these cases in front of EU tribunals? Prior to EU changing its posture?
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  372.  @robertpatrick3350  Actually its not used. It is however interesting, that both Estonia and Latvia are seeing excuse of an invasion next door - or say Kosovo, yet they simply cannot help themselves to be evil. Also no one in EU does anything to "deal" with the problem. You can clearly see the level of "caring" for people here - or say in Palestine or Iraq or anywhere - the level is low or non existent.
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  373.  @LuckyPkerz  LOL, check out EU cases - its there ;) Heck I even watched interview with the old lady in English - it was a long time ago, before 2014. I am sure now its much, much worse.
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  374.  @Markle2k  "The Defense Cooperation Agreement signed Monday between Washington and Helsinki will give the American forces access to 15 installations — five in the High North near Russia — and permission to store equipment and weapons on Finnish soil." Ah yes, the "defensive" alliance ;)
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  375.  @Markle2k  cope, it's equipment that matters.
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  376.  @Markle2k  LOL, propaganda is here not in what I am saying. I am simply pointing out logic. You are like Germans in 1943, when someone tried to convince them that Jews are human too... you point out that the person is sick with allied propaganda ;) If you have any logic in your bones you know I speak the truth - same as these Germans in 1943 knew Jews are humans. You are just afraid to admit it.
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  377.  @viliusm.8232  Why they are not citizens already??? Well, why not??? Why they did not get their citizenship right away? Why were they prevented and how was it possible to prevent them. They only way was to exclude people based on ethnicity. There is no other way. Is this Europe? Like free one? No.
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  378. With multiple waves of mobilization victory is assured.
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  379. Message to the west in case they forgot.
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  380.  @captlazer5509  why would China need any part of Russia. They can just buy, like Germany does in EU or US to Mexico.
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  381.  @rufaelmekuria6868  Spot on, annex more of Ukraine!
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  382. 3:20 that is NOT true at all - a missile system such as patriot has to be relatively close to engage a target such as a fighter aircraft - it cannot be close to its max range - that range is for non maneuvering aircraft such as a transport aircraft on fixed route. A fighter bomber would detect patriot attack and immediately make a defensive turn, going back and down - down low to drag the missile into thicker air. In order to still down this aircraft you would fire multiple interceptors as well as be relatively close - so your own missiles have maximum energy. At 100km you are too far - system max range is only 160km. For 100km shot you need super long range like S-400 system which downed Su-27 over Kiev from well over 100km away. But S-400 max range is whopping 400km.
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  383. LOL! The incursion into Belogrod was to cover fall of Bakhmut. It was a butt of jokes on pro Russian channels. Patric L traveled to the area and in English did a whole episode showing that none of claimed areas were taken over by Ukraine.... by actually walking the streets with a camera. Stop trying to blame this on Russia - they are biggest loose in this disaster.
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  384. What shambling logistics? The ones that dwarfs Ukraine logistics?
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  385. It is sincere. Putin tells Ukraine they can surrender or die. Either is good by him.
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  386.  @KevinWarburton-tv2iy  No they do not. Explosion or collapse cause same seismic event. Potential damage to whom exactly? Are you high? 80% damage is to Russian side. You seriously are suggesting Russians decided to kill their own people?
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  387. Why, this seems normal - Russia is top 5 destination for migrants on Earth. Millions would love to get their citizenship.
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  388. Which is the right mindset - they won the war.
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  389. It is now clear the war entered end stage at the end we have Ukraine total defeat. There is no turning it now.
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  390.  @dylanc9174  Sure, here is the video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxMoPyEomQI at 2:09 I am sure you can search for longer version of the video yourself. You can use CC auto translate. Its from today.
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  391.  @dylanc9174  Find source. And where are your sources???? Do they have images of the supposed destruction? Huh? Or they are using "trust me bro" bridge severely damaged??? You have no source. I showed you mine. You want what, a date stamp??? A local newspaper with an image of the date? What would convince you? As many other pp you believe not on the facts on the ground but some BS "trust me bro" claims - Russia is on the offensive in Kherson. Even Ukraine admitted loosing towns (not all) you can look at the map - even pro Ukraine one. But I guess you just ignore facts and believe bridges are cut off and Russia uses "magic" to move in supplies.
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  392.  @terjeoseberg990  What other damage - HIMARS are small rockets - this is the damage done. You can find more videos online if you want different angle. Or more full video. I do have a degree, maybe not in bridge building but I do understand how they are constructed and its not rocket science. Humans have build massive bridges since Roman times. Columns support a deck. Deck is made of sections. You replace sections that are damaged and its as good as new. To cause real damage you would need to take out the columns - which is very difficult. With deck heavily damaged you cannot easily drive on it but its not a very difficult or time consuming repair.
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  393.  @terjeoseberg990  Everyone knows that what you stated above. You simply do not understand the English phase and think I said something incorrectly. Deck was indeed replaced. Then Ukraine hit it again. And I think it was replaced and hit again. Does that answer your question?
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  394. But how - Ukraine latest offensive there was soundly crushed with huge losses. Russia is slowly gaining and setting up for another mini collapse in Donbass - it looks like Putin will take back Donbass by September.
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  395. Problem is Russia is degrading Ukraine at about 10x the pace Ukraine is degrading Russia.
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  396.  Harbin Tiger  Even pro UA live map says otherwise ;)
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  397. Russia does not care about losing face.
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  398. By same logic one would assume US, a sort of great power should not more or less loose every major war (with few exceptions) since WWII - but they did. So ... is US a great power???
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  399.  @tjampman  Problem is that if we use that metric US and many others also won - so both UK and Soviets also won in Afghanistan. Even by that metric Soviets won much more in Afghanistan as after they left Afghan government did not fall for 2 years vs. when US left it fell in 3 weeks.
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  400.  @nic.h  Well, so he will tie - entire planet will burn. and West will not win as well.
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  401. Yeah, 110B by US alone. Was not enough. What did they expect, 330B?
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  402.  @aaronbaker2186  not sure these latest patriot systems were on the way out. As well as a lot of other air defense. Same with AT weapons, US is making the same ones now for itself. Some equipment, yes, older. But a lot no, not old. Also a lot of it was cash transfers. No one know where these went.
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  403.  @wallingnaga6563  US command would be wrong. Part of the problem in this war is that the enemy sees everything. If Ukraine used their forces in one spot they would be spotted and destroyed - in this war you cannot have too many people that make a nice target. Ukraine correctly spread Russian forces and stretched them - the problem is that Russians had too many troops and it was not possible. Ukraine sure wanted to attack early - but the forces were not ready - heck Ukraine big problem is under trained troops - sometimes less than a month in an emergency. So attacking early may have been better or worse - who knows. Ukraine has next to now air force so it could not stop Russian air power nor its drones. The main problem was with well prepared, well trained, well equipped Russian army supported by a lot of artillery that prevented Ukraine from moving forward - Russia was simply way too strong. Offensive was the last push - Ukraine now is in total defense and is being pushed off... Best thing Ukraine can do now is start negotiations.
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  404. Russia will not give it up - this is their getaway to rest of Ukraine and to Odessa.
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  405.  @cethironwood  Nah, they have multiple bridges and now worries about supplies. They have few ferries as well. There is zero danger of Ukraine taking Kherson this year or ever.
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  406.  @13thmistral  you do know Turkey and Greece are enemies, do you? It is far more likely Russia would come to Greek aid than Turkey. If US stops its police Greeks need to be nicer to Russia to gain some protection.
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  407.  @michaelmather7352  nope. Not at all. There is only weak article 5 that does not require any help be given.
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  408.  @mmdoof  LOL, Greece and Turkey are enemies - Greeks and Russians used to be allies ;) LOL!
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  409. They won. But UK wants to attack Moscow. So Russia said London will burn more.
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  410. But they are winning militarily! Ukraine offensive is failing in spectacular fashion.
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  411.  @bernardvc5820  But no longer in 1944 - Ukraine is like Nazi Germany in 1944.
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  412. #5 was total win for Soviet Union. They got all territories they asked for. This was solution for Ukraine, but Ukraine refused. Fins were smart. Ukraine is not. Ukraine lost the war already - we just need to see how bad is the loss. Is it total (no more Ukraine) or partial.
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  413.  @henrik8812  It is simple. THEIR MAIN AIM WAS TO GET THAT USELESS LAND. Clearly for Russians / Soviets it was not useless. War is about objectives. That was their objective. They gained objective and won the war! Once Russia controls all of Donbass, i.e. its objective sometime before September, then we can look into negotiations with Ukraine and proposed peace. Even if Russia gives good terms to Ukraine I bet they will refuse. Thus, Russia will have no choice as to removal of Kiev regime.
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  414.  @henrik8812  No, not at all. If Soviets wanted all of Finland there was not much that could have stopped them from taking all of it. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Armistice Also one has to point out that Moocow was not interested in say Austria post WWII - once direct military rule ended, Soviets simply moved out. Thus it is not true that Russians wanted everything. Some things, they simply did not want.
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  415.  @henrik8812  Of course nothing was stopping the Soviets - you are looking at the wrong war ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation_War
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  416.  @henrik8812  What is your point? They won OK? They gained their aims. Everyone sees it as a WIN. Soviets lost more troops then Germans but they did win WWII. Now in Ukraine, if be some strange act Ukraine won and lost 5x as many troops it still a win.
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  417.  @henrik8812  They did not need to go 3rd time - they won on the 2nd time in continuation war. Everyone recognizes it as a win. Fins lost the war. If Soviet wanted to push for all of Finland there was little Fins could do. But in difference to idiots in Ukraine, Fins were smart and agreed to a LOT of punishing terms, anything to appease and don't give pretext for Soviets to absorb them. Russia won in Ukraine. Full stop. War is won and Ukraine lost it. Now we are just determining terms of that loss. It feels Ukraine does not want to exist. Finland - smart. Ukraine - stupid. Finland is still here. I am not so sure about Ukraine being around in the future.
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  418.  @henrik8812  Why - to me it feels exactly that. No sane country would do what Ukraine is doing if they still wanted to be on the map later on. This is why Ukraine lost the war. Their existence as viable entity is more or less no longer possible. Its not just about current lost land (which has least meaning) - its lost people, destruction, no future prospects.
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  419.  @henrik8812  Lots of reasons - main deal with Russian security.
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  420.  @henrik8812  LOL, no, most is simple logic based on facts confirmed by both sides.
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  421.  @henrik8812  Why did US push Ukraine after 2014? Before 2014 all was nice and cool. Ukraine was total pile of garbage with pro and against Russia governments but things never got too bad. Then in 2014 with some unproven US help both nationalists and Nazi got into power. Their main goal was to eradicate minorities, create "clean" state and as a nod to US join NATO. Ukraine is probably the very first nation on Earth that wants to join "defensive" alliance in order to have a war. They know Russia cannot allow this and it means war. Anyone whom loves their country would not allow such a step. Finally, if a large portion of your country was a bit different it seems Canadian model would be preferable. Sure Canadian model means two languages and more or less slavery to the French - but at least it does not lead to civil war (which more or less was close in 1970s). What do you mean what kind of logic it is that they were scared? US uses same logic - why was US scared of a little Soviet base in Cuba? Big powerful US scared of a little tiny base??? At least Fidel loved his country and did not want to go to war over this tiny little base! It goes even deeper then that - no one can have a military base within like 1000 miles of US. So I guess US is far and wide more scared then Russia and more then willing to go to war over this "scare".
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  422.  @henrik8812  Sure, you look it up as well, maybe while at it see whom supported current president of Ukraine. You are the one that is deep into propaganda.
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  423.  @henrik8812  In Ukraine half were moving west half were moving east. The problem after 2014 is moving neo Nazi. Who do you think sponsored Zielinski? Look it up.
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  424. No they cannot. War could spread to Asia and NATO would loose it.
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  425. What dilemma? Why the idiots in the west think there is one? Putin has clear path. Advance in Donbass. It is now enabled by foolish Ukrainian move.
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  426. Well, Russian claim is as believable as UA claim without any proof. So this week Russia lost 5 aircraft and Ukraine 4.
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  427.  @twirlyturd4364  Of course its a lot of cope - especially on UA side as they are loosing the war now. So we will see more news of UA victories during the winter as Russians continue their advance. What else can UA do? They cannot report "today our forces fought hard but had to retreat in 8 places". Instead they say "Our forces stopped 20 enemy attacks". They cannot say "Today we lost Marinka and suburbs" instead "Today we downed 3 enemy aircraft".
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  428. Even this super pro Ukraine guy cannot see how flooding so much land and their own troops benefits Russia. It benefits Ukraine only a little bit. Since neither is really benefited a lot, most likely it was simply a dam failure as shown on sat photos. Or Ukraine did it - after all, they have more to gain and they do strange things when they loose - to draw attention to failed offensive. They drew attention from Bakhmut defeat by invading Russia proper. They blew up the dam to draw attention away from failure of offensive.
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  429. Russia is probably calling more then 500k troops. The 300k is for public. No issues with weapons. No issues with troops. No issues with logistics. Who ever though that weapons are an issue for reds??? Why logistics? Come on - rail network is bigger then in WWII and troops numbers are much lower! Ukraine lost the war. Now we are seeing how much the actual loss will be. Current main issue for Russia is that mobilization is stressing administration - huge lineups of people called in to fight! Putin knows there will not be a quick win as it takes time to use all mobilized soldiers - at least two months till Russia can employ them and probably at least another month before they can do an offensive.
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  430.  @keithmorgan3295  But it is HONEST. Its TRUE. You may bend into a pretzel and it still will be true. Accept it as truth. Why pp imagine things?
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  431. He be a savior.
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  432. Spot on. They have like zero feeling and are approaching it from "western view".
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  433. Eh it will be probably 2/3s professional troops and 1/3 conscripts. Even if by some miracle losses were even - which they clearly are not with Ukraine losses much higher, Russia can afford it. Ukraine cannot loose these troops as they don't have anything to replace them with.
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  434.  @Maxcom-r8i  I am from Earth - obviously video author and you are from some different planet.
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  435. Fight to last Ukrainian?
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  436. Cost for Russia is low - for Ukraine huge.
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  437.  @christiandollerup8088  Evidence from BBC - Mediazona now shows Ukraine is loosing 4x to 5x more troops. Not the other way around. West also admitted that Russian army was fully restored to its pre-war strength - not after decade but already (!!!) Russian losses are per Mediazona are now super tiny - lowest during the entire war - while they are on positional attack (!!!) This is BBC - so heavily pro British stuff. You can check it yourself - they have plenty of graphs, charts etc. And they are BBC sponsored.
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  438. No, use it for comedy!
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  439.  @Driver2724  Well, for the author of this video its a joke. Is he in a mental institution? If yes, do they have access to the internet to post videos?
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  440. If NATO attacks Russia warns it would use nukes to defend. As simple as that. West was warned.
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  441. But they cannot withdraw. That is the problem - Crimea is Russia. Donbass is more or less Russia as well. They cannot "move back home" - they are home. So even if this war last 100 years we still be at war 100 years from now! Attack on other EU countries is possible even today if that means the Baltics - they are severely discriminating Russians there - far more then the Serbs did in Kosovo. I expect soon to see massive expulsions of population (i.e. driving people to the border by force). We already see people "loosing permanent residency permit" and other antics. Note two out of the three countries did not give citizenship to "ethnic Russians" after fall of Soviet Union so they have far more "non citizens" then say USA. Its a mess but they are "friendly countries" so EU / US ignores this clear violation of both EU laws and UN rights. Similar to Saudi Arabia.
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  442. ​ @thoughttransmitter5555  You do not understand - in 100 years there will be Russians (or Ukrainians that do not like Kiev) willing to defend their homes as well! You cannot be on moral high ground when you say to people that they need to move out of their homes and they cannot decide their future. Using you British example, the UK is wise enough to allow referendum for Scotland to leave. If Scots vote yes, do you expect tanks to roll in - if yes, then you are pro Ukraine. If you expect UK to give these people freedom, then you are pro Russia. Pick one. Baltic states were independent nations and have a slim majority of say Estonians in their country. Their treatment of Russian minority is starting to look like treatment of Jews before holocaust. Yet no one in EU points that out. Guess lessons of Nazism did not stick too well with the west. How can "Russia withdraw" - you assume these pp will leave their homes so occupying Ukrainian army can march in? Really? Would you leave your home??? As for IRA conflict - again, this is an example HOW TO SOLVE THINGS. Maybe you should print it out and send it to Kiev huh? Look how well UK solved the issue - if they were like Ukraine or Estonia they would terrorize Irish even more and send even more tanks. But UK was wise to figure out a solution. UK is an example of how "we can solve it at home" but God forbid others can solve it - we do not support. Or US "we do not support democracy other then at home" idea.
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  443. As Putin said, they fought Sweden for few decades, they can fight at least that long.
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  444. I think there is little exit now for Ukraine - they should have negotiated their way out after first 30 days or better yet simply fulfilled Minsk agreement and left Crimea question open. No war, Donbass back in Ukraine, Crimea question open. Excellent. It is now clear that chances of Putin loosing power or pp like him are far lesser then that of Zielinski.
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  445.  @ImperialDiecast  What is clear since 2014 that the will of the Russians is equally strong and will not break - for 10 or 20 or 30 more years. On Russian side its same way - its the will of the people, not one or two or ten men.
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  446.  @ImperialDiecast  But it is their country in their view. So the will of the people of Russia in Russia. A country is nothing without people - its just a concept. People make a country not country makes the people. Thus people living in these areas should be able to decide. Plain and simple. Your view is totally hypocritical - you view yourself as someone living in democracy - but applying same freedoms to others is a crime! After WWI land was divided by the will of the people on that land - league of nations did referendums and based on these and some usual interference from the west land was divided among countries. Same concept was totally omitted after fall of Soviet Union and this is causing dozens of small and some large wars.
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  447.  @andrzejbarcelonafrlk6416  Sure there are - you do know Poland got Slask that way, do you? Or history is no longer "hot" in Polish schools? Do you need more sources or what? Or maybe you are so strong headed you want to give Slask back to Germany? What Chinese parts of RF - there are no areas of Russian federation - including these you imply they gained from China - where it just happens that ethnically they are... 95% Russian? It would be similar to point out that Alaska should maybe go back to RF - after all same rules apply. Maybe with the exception that Alaska is far more Russian today then Amur is Chinese - no really, check it out!
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  448.  @andrzejbarcelonafrlk6416  I did answer the question about former Chinese territories. I said it was a transfer similar to Alaska or Spanish territories. What else do you want me to say? At all three transfers the owner knew that their hold on the land was weak and it would be better to give them away vs. fight a loosing war over them. Neither Russia, Spain or China are questioning the transfers.
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  449. Nope, not trapped at all - this was very well done. The regions were added but NOT their borders ;) So borders are free to be changed in any negotiations. Exception is Crimea. Russia army has shown in the last two weeks that Ukraine army is not even close to being better at anything.
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  450. Why?
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  451.  @philliptemple9841  It will be a disaster as there are no defense lines behind it, attacks from it can go and hit rear of UA defenses in Donbass. so it is not just cutting UA supply it ensuring that supply goes to Russians.
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  452. So they destroyed few depots. Big deal. Russia destroys few every day. Its not that easy to distribute evenly at moments notice. Imagine that Ukraine has not even done that as they get hit every day.
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  453.  @mariaf.6601  Win is not possible.
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  454. They had such capability around year 2000 - now long gone.
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  455.  @unduloid  Now imagine Russia has roughly 5x as many drones!
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  456.  @unduloid  How can Russia be all of this yet they are winning the war without needing to even do a conscription? Come on, you have a brain, use it. Use plain simple logic. Observe the facts on the ground, and based on these facts draw conclusions. Don't use news, propaganda etc. just plain facts. And solid conclusions. What do you come up with now?
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  457.  @enpakeksi765  We are talking here about service in Ukraine, not annual draft for training. Most of the world had or has draft since roughly French revolution. Not sure what is your point here.
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  458. Correct. Russia needs to make it clear to NATO that it plays with fire and any deeper attacks on Russia would mean retaliation against NATO directly and MAD if needed.
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  459. Yes, his comedy is great!
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  460. Strong nations send warning first.
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  461. Yeah but far worse then what the central powers did in WWI.
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  462. Russian move is now strategic victory. They managed to draw in 1000s of Ukrainian soldiers from other front lines. They made sure Ukraine has zero reserves. They managed to destroy 20 artillery pieces confirmed in just 3 days. Now operation in other areas will have far more success. This is classical operations to stretch enemy when you have numerical advantage. This is like 1944, Soviets had 1.5 to 1 advantage. Same today. Ukraine is like 1944 Germany. We see whatever they enter 1945 next year or this year.
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  463. Ummm, 10x is not possible. Even 1x is not possible. The aid amount is 190B per year. Largest in human history. The equipment portion of aid is equivalent to all of EU (!!!) So 10x more would be 10x EU military purchases ;) This would be MORE than all of NATO purchases - i.e. including the US (!).
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  464. Any nuke use would not be in Ukraine but against France and UK and or their interests in Europe. Putin said that any attack by NATO deep into Russia would mean Russian response directly against sponsors. Including using nukes against nuke armed UK and France.
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  465. Well, as per Russia it will be Russian. New border with Ukraine is of course subject to discussion. But I doubt the initial deal Ukraine got is still on the table. I.e. they will loose more then Crimea and Donbass.
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  466.  @andrzejbarcelonafrlk6416  They were gained in same way US gained Alaska or US gained Spanish possessions in NA. Incidentally roughly at similar historical period.
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  467.  @andrzejbarcelonafrlk6416  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_the_United_States It outlines growth of US - it has good part about what US gained from Spain via acquisition and via combat. Early US history is expansion in not exactly friendly way - its pure force. Same as everyone else. Some of this force was "purchases" - like I hold a gun to your head, point at a paper and say, look, give me all your land for a dollar or I spent a cent on a bullet. To this day US occupies Gautama Bay in Cuba and pays "rent" of less then month rental of an average apartment ;)
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  468.  @andrzejbarcelonafrlk6416  Should it? I been to Alaska - through they did keep their Russian heritage (i.e. preserved historical sites etc.) they are like close to 100% American. There is very tiny Russian presence there. So should we now disconnect a totally American state and attach it to Russia? I bet people of Alaska want to stay in US - they probably do not even want to join Canada. My view is people over state - state is made of will of the people - it is a construct. It should not override people. Thus people should decide their fate not some state.
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  469. Oh they know that Kiev is rather firm & they know Russia is far more flexible. But heck, if you do not try, you never will have a success.
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  470. What???
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  471. More like soon we see a POW for 30k or 40k Ukrainians there. Only 10km to go and 1 bridge.
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  472.  @ericgrace9995  Um, no they did not - if you knew where their HQ are they would be either moved or destroyed come on - use logic ;)
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  473. LOL!
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  474. But from WHERE is Ukraine to get this massive supply of equipment? No one in the west has it!
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  475. Nah, navy still there and HIMARS 300km missiles are not that of a big deal in small numbers - they simply need air defenses over the bases to shoot them down. However, such missiles will give Russia clear pretext to create 300km buffer zone. Thus adding such missiles would be terrible idea (for Ukraine).
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  476.  @Pyriold  And how would Ukraine or NATO know???? Remember when CNN did not even know who was in charge? Then suddenly they knew all the generals ;))) Magic.
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  477. No they have not and no they will not send them if they are sane. But hey, Biden does not even know he is alive so anything is possible.
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  478. Everyone waits for UA to surrender.
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  479.  @geofflepper3207  I am sure Z would get fair treatment in Moscow.
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  480. No, they claim 20m, which is lower than my estimates. Seems they are honest about 20m. Or do you think they are lower?
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  481. Ukraine already announced that they will do ethnic cleansing of any territories they occupy - thus Donbass better fight like their lives depend on it - b/c they do. Children are non issue - they are returned to their parents or guardians. I do not see any issue with them being initially evacuated. As soon as parents ask for them back, they are back.
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  482. But they went on massive attack and threaten cutting Ukrainians off!
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  483. Russia does not have fantasies - they have realities.
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  484.  @chaosopher23  s 400 actually is cheaper, you are talking Patriots. Russia is world leader in drones and drone tech. Ukraine mostly has primitive drones with short range or few longer range converted aircraft. Russian advantage in drones is huge. But air defenses still play a role, they can intercept missiles or aircraft.
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  485. About 95%+++ See Crimea as Russian including Navalny. I.e. there are super few Russians that don't see Crimea as Russia. Even heavy pro west opposition sees it as Russian. I mean Crimea ethnically is by far Russian, it was only moved administratively to Ukraine and has no real connection to Ukraine.
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  486.  @kevoliver7443  They will not - he is being truthful and sarcastic at the same time. I.e. it is clear to anyone Ukraine is loosing the war badly. Explaining loosing city after city after city as "trap". LOL!
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  487. Its not super flat - plenty of high rise buildings still stand. It is a fortress that will be very hard to take especially with Russian fire superiority.
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  488. This is why I told pp from Russia to volunteer - and this is why volunteering contracts are only max 6 months long! Also mobilized troops get around 4000 USD as a starting bonus.
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  489.  @mascot4950  Not really, 160km is too short. Remember these cannot be right at the front or they could be taken out - unless Ukraine risked their precious battery.
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  490.  @mascot4950  yes I am pointing out error on his side. The whole thing is hypothetical as there is zero proof of anyone loosing any aircraft.
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  491.  Harbin Tiger  Cut off from what ;) For cut off troops they sure act strange going on fire recon missions etc. ;)))
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  492. ​ @scipioafricanus5871  LOL, do you see Ukrainians attacking???? Nope. Russian did some recon in force. Otherwise for "cut off" it is sure very quiet. In fact cut off troops seem to be the one on the attack ;)
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  493. EU can be negotiated - NATO not. War will continue until last Ukrainian is killed or they accept they will never be part of NATO.
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  494.  @HenningJohansen  Well, same response as by someone 200 years ago claiming end of slavery in US is too silly to discuss.
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  495. Nah, they just have more storage close to the front. Not a big deal. Ukraine did that and they loose multiple depots per day and are still in the fight.
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  496. Both are well maintained. West attack on Russia would mean MAD or Chinese involvement which will end NATO. Either way west either looses big or goes for MAD.
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  497. Why on Earth would Putin want to take whole Ukraine? LOL! At most he would try to put pro Putin puppet in charge.
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  498. What??? Russian sources I read are all in as how stupid Ukrainians are and how badly they got beaten and how bloody this is for them. The usual losses are at least 4:1 and some are as high as 6:1 pointing out that most Ukrainian columns are destroyed before they even engage any Russians. In fact, a lot of sources are surprised at how well Russians did - almost everyone expected Ukraine to do better ----> in Russia!
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  499. Russia managed to stop Ukraine much faster than expected. I still think Ukraine will continue attacks till about November. I expect by Spring it will be clear Ukraine is getting very bloody nose. Russia may want to cut Ukraine from Poland. Just to make sure it is clear to Kiev there is no path to victory. It is getting more and more clear to anyone sane that Ukraine lost the war. Russia is willing to escalate as much as it needs to make sure it wins, no matter the cost.
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  500.  @migsvensurfing6310  I am sorry to break your world but Russia has won as it has achieved it strategic goal of stopping NATO. Since it has achieved it goals it has won. That is the definition of a win. Win may come at a high price, but that does not change it being a win. There is actually almost nothing left to sanction. West has sanctioned 90%+ of what it can sanction. Thus, currently west has no leverage left - as it used up all sanctions it could use. Also note that Russia is doing far better with sanctions than EU is doing - i.e. Russian economy and its counter sanctions were well thought off and worked! Note Euro is now less than USD, UK pound is almost even with US. All of Europe + UK are in recession.
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  501. Current talks are akin to Yalta - either UA surrenders or gets overrun.
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  502. How would you hit a ferry anyways? Why would Ukraine care about civilians??? Come on. There are multiple alternative bridges build already so zero worries regarding any supply problems.
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  503.  @williamjackson5942  And how do they know where such ferry is at any given time ;)
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  504.  @LarsRyeJeppesen  Depends how much load is actually needed. But there are no worries with bridges. Ukraine strikes the bridges with HIMARS and Russians fix them. Plus they have pontoon bridges.
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  505. They already have been liberated few months back - waiting for liberation of all cities in Donbass now.
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  506. LOL, I am sure this is going to get super comical once west runs out of stuff totally and Ukraine surrenders sometime in 2025.
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  507. Which shows how delusional Ukraine is. There is no chance Russia is giving up Crimea which is officially part of Russia. Crimea has no chance of being in Ukraine in any foreseeable feature. This shows war will continue until Ukraine is totally spent and Russia annexes about half of it. One has to understand that 95% of Russians and their pro western opposition see Crimea as Russia (i.e. any change in Kremlin even pro western one will not change status of Crimea). Asking Russia to give Crimea up is more then asking US to give up Texas (!)
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  508. LOL, why - there are plenty of roads that can be used to supply troops in Kherson. Putin can end the war quicker BUT that would cost him. So he tries to not pay. Ukraine already lost the war - we are just seeing how much they lost and when they loose it.
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  509.  @Thermopylae2007  Well, not just that. Russia has won the war & is in full control. They can attack more or attack less. They are currently opting for "Syria" i.e. local rebel groups supported by Russians. This has plummeted Russian casualties to almost none while stupid Zielinski insists on holding the line at any costs causing massive Ukrainian casualties. Since Russia drives they can: - send more troops and speed up - escalate vs. the west The only option for Ukraine is desperation - such as continued shelling of nuclear power plant hoping for disaster... like Russians will care. They simply retailate by hitting a nuclear power plant near Lviv when wind blows west. At current "Syria" pace war could last a very long time - even years. Russia slowly takes over Donbass and then creates buffer.... and then idiots in the west send longer range weapons to idiot Zielinski and Russia needs to create bigger buffer.
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  510. Well and Russian controlled Kherson - they are the biggest victim and most civilians killed are Russians. 80% of towns flooded are on Russian side.
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  511. They will never regain that land.
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  512. New problem for the Russians.
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  513. Russia on the offensive! Today moved in 5 places, Ukraine in 0. Yesterday, in 6, Ukraine in 0. Ukraine taking heavy losses and has no choice but to retreat all across Donbas front line.
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  514. Fake news.
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  515. No.
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  516.  @stream2watch  Yes, but it has to fly in the area and Russia has few of them available.
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  517.  @stream2watch  Yeah but none were shown to be flying over the Black Sea. Most of what US flies there are drones - these are to spy on electromagnetic emissions. They are not AWACS drones. We also don't know of any US AWACS flying in Romania. Even if they tried the distance is over 400km. Which is beyond AWACS effective range - too far. Even from Black Sea, without flying right next to Ukraine, the range would be around 400km. I think we can safely say it was not US AWACS.
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  518. No tech.
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  519.  @nic.h  true. But if wind were to blow west their support would vaporize. And if it were to blow east they may get real nuke back. I guess hope would be for north south winds.
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  520.  @nic.h  If deployed in Russia - unless in the middle of nowhere and small, almost certainly would result in nuclear response. I was more thinking deployed in Ukraine - and large - so wind would either carry it towards Russia or Berlin - say Chernobyl size.
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  521. Ukraine is doomed.
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  522. Stolen.
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  523. Most Russian troops are not committed to fighting. Putin will only mobilize more if he is pushed to do so. Russia seems to wait for Ukraine to go on offensive, commit and then they will strike. Russia is into war of atrition. This means by any means destroy enemies more than loosing their own. At any other cost. 2:14 - Putin DID NOT use these troops for winter offensive - see my first line - there was hardly any offensive & most of these troops sit idle (well they may get more training).
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  524. Not much truth to it. There are plenty of resources in Donbass. Crimea is mostly a drag on Russian economy - it was taken b/c of the base and b/c 95% of Russians say its Russia - some say poison pill for any "western oriented" leader - i.e. no one in Russia without facing public overthrow can give up Crimea. So Donbass yes, resources, but Crimea, no.
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  525. @GlowyBoi Sure they can. During WWI (I not II) France made 3x as much ammo per day then Russia is using today. I kind of feel like Russia is able to match 1/3 production from WWI ;) Russia does not need forever as well. Few more weeks and Donbass will be liberated. People are happy to see Ukrainian occupational forces gone (on video). Once that is taken care of, there are no major obstacles till Dniepr river. We see what Russians do. They already won the war, now they need to just sweep off any remaining forces. Afghanistan was totally different conflict for totally different reasons and its a joke that it destroyed Soviet Union. It was more a symptom of the decay - not actual reason for it. There are dozens of reasons for eventual collapse. One of these for example, is the need to keep large parts of Soviet Union "fed". Few pp know that only European portion of Soviet Union was somewhat "civilized". The rest were super primitive. They only seen money for the first time 100 years ago (!) They made beads and jewelry for women in 1920s out of coins. It costs a lot of money to introduce electrification to most regions of Soviet Union. Then to build crappy roads. Then to build cities. Finally with end of gulag system there was little that forced people to work hard - the saying in say Poland was, that whatever you stand or lay down you get your 5000. The Afghan thing is a myth in the west.
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  526.  @MrElliotc02  Pro UA seem to only notice high inflation in Russia and ignore everything else.
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  527.  @MrElliotc02  GNP of Russia is growing faster than world average and fastest in Europe - so this is pro Russia stance. Performance of Russian weapons in this war has been excellent as compared to western weapons - which sure will increase their sales. If weapons sales were not loaded with politics who would ever buy western tank when they can get a better tank form Russia for like less than 1/2 the price??? Not to mention their missiles and flying bombs or top of the line drone industry! Not to mention innovation and super modern stuff such as fiber optic drones. The loss of people due to conscription is a pro Russian stance - people are literally swimming through rivers to escape conscription in Ukraine. Even if many drown. Life of a conscript is like three weeks as per UA sources - actual brigade commanders - cannot hide this as guys are rather hard to fake & would be called as fake by real guys.
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  528.  @MrElliotc02  How can Russia lose the war when it completed or is about to complete all its goals? Big picture is that the west lost control of the world. Russia is with the east - with the new rulers.
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  529. UA is running out of people.... let that sink in.
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  530.  @kyoungd  Russia has by far superior air force and is much better at maneuver welfare / battle management. Combined with much more superior fire power they are taking far fewer casualties. Kharkiv had two brigades - Russia does not have manpower problem anymore. There is no reason for Russia to fully mobilize as they do not intend to go to Berlin. Yet. If Russia needs to they can go for another 300k - that would imply they want to take either all of Ukraine or left hand side of Dniper river. Bottom line is, Ukraine lost the war. They have no path to victory. All they can do is prolong it.
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  531. ​ @kyoungd  War is not as simple as you describe. If US really had such a strong army why did it say lost in Vietnam? If it really had well trained army, good airforce etc. etc. etc. it would have won within months! Yet instead it lost and also lost well over 10,000 aircraft (planes + helicopters). Russia is not investing all of its money into ground forces - it also has air force, nuclear force, navy etc. Ukraine inherited the very best equipment from Soviet Union. The newest stuff. In huge numbers. Ukraine by far was the strongest army entirely in Europe by 2022. This is not some pushover. In addition to being already so powerful Ukraine received largest ever help in human history. Ukraine received same help in one year as Soviets during entire WWII (!) Actions do indeed speak lauder - why is Ukraine unable to win the war despite such huge investment? Why are they taking such huge casualties? Why west constantly needs to escalate? Sanctions have hit EU much harder than Russia - time is on Russia's side as the pro Ukraine crowd is bleeding out huge amounts of money. This is why there is such push for Ukraine to start some offensive. Again, your estimate of Ukraine - largest army entirely in Europe - with by far largest air defense network that makes say Germany look like undefended skies is totally taken from CNN. How could such huge army just collapse? They fought Donbas separatists for 8 years - they did not collapse. You have purchased the 3 day cool aid. And if Ukraine makes Russia weak - how weak is US? Much weaker no? US has totally failed in Afghanistan. Despite spending 20 years there and around a trillion $$$ they were defeated by some poorly clothed insurgents. Or I repeat Vietnam - where they were defeated by equally poorly armed but determined Vietnamese. How can you say "Russia is weak" when there are clear examples of US getting its rear end handed to them - even super recent? And may I add no one helped the Taliban and Vietnam received rather minimal help compared to Ukraine. The war has shown Russia is a very strong country, with well insulated economy and well prepared military industrial complex. Russian army is fairly well trained and more than a match for anything from NATO. Russian army premier units are as well equipped, commanded etc. as very best units from NATO. Today, these Russian units also have combat experience and experience in large maneuver warfare - something US has zero recent experience with. Again, just think and stop repeating CNN.
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  532. ​ @kyoungd  US had volunteer army during times of Vietnam but it simply was not enough thus US had to do draft. "conscription remains in place on a contingency basis and all male U.S. citizens, regardless of where they live, and male immigrants, whether documented or undocumented, residing within the United States, who are 18 through 25 are required to register with the Selective Service System.[2][3] United States federal law also continues to provide for the compulsory conscription of men between the ages of 17 and 45 and certain women for militia service pursuant to Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution and 10 U.S. Code § 246" Ukraine does not really have a navy nor it has any nuclear forces nor it actually spent any money on air force - all of it went to the army in addition to aid supplied by the west from 2014. The military aid - as you state 50B in say first year of the war is significantly more than Russia spends on its equipment for the army during a year - around... 5x more. I know, shocking that soldiers in the Russian army get paid a salary, or they maintain their bases or maybe existing equipment etc. Actual acquisition budget is not 100%. US is not fantastic at fighting a conventional war at all - US lost almost every war it ever was in. Including conventional wars. Please do name a war, other than 1st Iraqi war and not a small invasion of an island of Grenada where US army had a victory since WWII. Russia is good at conventional war - it won almost every conventional war it was in since its inception again in 1992! Cannot say that for US. Also as Soviet Union we see almost all victories - "List of wars involving Russia" on wiki for a list. Yep, looks good no? Through I would say Syrian war is more or less over and is a Russian victory, as usual. Right now Russia is on clear course to win in Ukraine - despite epic level of western support, full mobilization etc. Russia is set to win a full blown conventional war in Europe.... certainly way, way, way better record than US - which last time fought at peer enemy and won ... in WWII (!) I am unsure about this myth of western crucial involvement in Russian gas and oil infrastructure. Its not like Russia has no connections outside of it and its not like Russia cannot take care of its own oil.... you do know.... that Russia managed to get oil as Soviets.... with zero western help? Not even tiny little bit?! It also sent dog and man to space, without any western help - who would have ever believe that! Why would China need expertise in oil and gas - they have Russia for that. They are one of world's largest producers - they certainly have technology needed. Why would China ask for concessions - we do not see that - you do know there are others in Asia and around the world - like 87% of the planet is not the west and 82% is not China. Actually there are no significant discounts given to either China or India - Russian budget would have issues not records if they had to sell low. Besides most Russian oil still goes to Europe - except now its blended in India. Russian economy is doing great - its growth is predicted to be over 2% year over year, unemployment is under 4%, inflation is low. They are growing quite faster then rest of Europe. As someone remarked, Russia is running the very best war economy there ever was! I have no idea how someone can look at this an think that Ukraine and west that clings to control can win. It is not 1960s anymore. BRICS passed G7 few years ago and by 2050 will be more than 2x as big. The world wants to be free - and part of this freedom seeking is to drop western control and so called "international order". They want to be free and want any order to be equal among all people. Also how on Earth does anyone in the west think betting on Kiev regime run by pure blood Nazi is a good idea is beyond me. I know US loves to bet on the devil himself and did many times - but each time it backfired. Heck, US loans to Nazi Germany did not work out too well either. After all these episodes supporting clearly Nazi racial supremacy is lunacy. Clinging to control will not work any better that clinging to slavery worked for the south - time to move on with progress - pass on the torch to Asia - China. Of course falling empires never do it easily - lets hope US will not have to loose major conventional war in order to finally let go.
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  533. ​ @kyoungd  Russian navy plays roughly same role today as it played in the beginning - that is its a missile platform. There is no other role for it. Well, it did in the beginning do some transport duties - but I hardly would point this out as major role. US weapons aid is just acquisition of new equipment - so when comparing apples to apples you compare how much new equipment one got. Thus base maintenance etc. is not involved in this at all. It is pure gift of weapons. This is why it is like 5x of yearly budget for same equipment as Russia - easily. Ukraine pays salaries of troops from economic aid money it gets - i.e. the other 60+B it gets a year - that money pays for salaries. Do if you want to compare that - sure - this is what most pp would compare. For example, Soviets during WWII got a lot of aid such as trains and food - hardly military stuff - 10000 train cars and 1000 locomotives. If we compare total aid, its well over 120B per year. So well above current yearly Russian budget for military - even at war (!). Russia did not just support Assad - they actively used their troops - ground forces as well. At one point they were loosing up to 100 people a month. They also did a lot of bombing runs. How many troops did US loose in direct fight with ISIS as part of support? Regarding Afghanistan, lets compare apples to apples - US was there, Soviets were there. Soviets after 10 years or so left and their government, without any support, and against the Taliban supported by the US lasted almost 3 years. US was around 20 years in Afghanistan, fought against Taliban which were NOT supported by anyone and the government they formed lasted three weeks.... So do you really think US is so good at conventional wars? US totally failed to root out Afghan resistance. They did not even scratch it. They only controlled the capital and area around their bases - so much so for "control". Three weeks, based on local roads and country size is roughly how fast you can drive. Ukraine gets EPIC support as no one got even close. "Afghanistan and Iraq received much greater Western support than the current situation in Ukraine. " not true. Both at the very top received less than HALF of the support Ukraine gets. Around 120B per year. And this is low ball figure - as a lot of aid is not really shown - for example, aid from Poland is frequently marked as "charity". Regarding China / India / rest of the planet - this is not a war between Russia and Ukraine supported by the west - this is a war between Russia supported by non west and Ukraine supported by the west. China especially has vested interest in breaking western grip on power - but even India has interest in it as well. Do you really think anyone in say Europe cares about some territorial integrity of some UA? Nope. This is about control - they want to say they are in charge - the west is in charge, the western "rules" - you hear this a lot. This is why its in the best interest of non western world to break these rules - these rules are not for say India - they are for west.. In G7 only US matters and in BRICS only China - so what is your point? Sure they are friends as much as say Japan and US are - you do know Japan fought a war with US somewhat recently? Its not like G7 is all roses. Polls show the world does not want not just US but any western influence. I.e. they do not want US to lead at all (come on, who would - crazy!) what would be next, survey of slaves that say they want their master to stay in power? Really? Really? People want to be free - and that means no leader. The main problem with rise of China is that it may become next US - and no one wants that. So far China shows nothing of the sorts - China is far easier to deal with than US - you can trade with China with no strings attached! Fun fact, in China over 70% of people (around a billion) say they are best democracy in the world - only 6% say US is ;) More people in the world (just looking at China) say China is #1 world democracy than there are people in the west ;) Ukraine is a Nazi state - having a Jew as president and I believe a PM is not an issue. You can have Israel with right leadership descend into Nazism - there is nothing in ideology saying that cannot be done. We had Nazism flare up in imperfect form in Africa. Ukraine Nazi flag is red - black - its their equivalent of German Nazi swastika. Look at videos of Ukrainians on say CNN and you see it all over the place. Alternatively they use "black sun" or "runes" etc. On their tanks they frequently now use German Nazi style double cross. Their laws are carbon copy taken from 1930s Nazi Germany - for example, speaking Russian by official is a fine of 5000 Harvina. Russian books are banned. Ethnic Russians are to be expelled by force etc. History is changed and white washed - now Bandera (official Hero of Ukraine) is a nice guy that did not kill over a million.... You need to read more history to find out about Ukraine Nazi state and its current continuation. These guys make German Nazi look civilized. How can anyone deny Ukraine Nazi links - what will be next, white washing SS and saying there were just some German nationalists fighting for freedom? Well, technically, there were German, they were nationalists and they were... fighting for their version of freedom. It is shameful that the west is supporting this evil.
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  534. ​ @kyoungd  Why would Russian navy approach UA coast - to do what, wave? LOL! There is no need for equipment maintenance right away for new stuff received - it is destroyed long before any maintenance costs are taken and these are paid by the west. Training is rudimentary. For trucks etc. there is almost no training needed or provided. Americans do not loose 100s of people but do not win anything in return - see Afghanistan - Soviets lost a lot of people - but had great results. US lost few people but had terrible results. You go to war to win it - accept losses. US lost almost a trillion USD in Afghanistan. So what that for PR they did not have casualties? Maybe they should have lost 20k killed but had results - or never actually stayed. Clear win for Soviets / Russia. Soviets loss in Afghanistan was not related to break up of Soviet Union later on. Costs were not even remotely high. The breakup was due to poor policies of Soviet leadership. Let me re-iterate - the total aid as per google in year 1 of the war exceeded 120B. This includes money from US poppet states. The war is between Russia - supported by non western countries and Ukraine supported by the west. China cares about Russia a lot. China cannot afford for Russia to loose. Come on, this is geo politics 101. Look at the envoy now traveling around EU and back to Moscow. China is getting ready to, in emergency, provide aid to Russia - if west oversteps read lines. 85% + 2% (Russia) did not sanction Russia - let that sink in. They all trade with Russia & are happy to break western dominance. China as well as everyone else in Asia knows that eventually they will need to go into full sanctions war with the west. Of course this will cost them as well so they are not to eager to go into the hot water. However, even countries such as Indonesia created their own payment system - they are getting ready. Russia absolutely does not want to re-create Soviet Union - even Putin said that. LOL. Even trying to join Russia would be rejected. Heck, Putin flatly refused to get involved in little Tajikistan - Uzbekistan conflict ;) They had to both beg for weeks for Putin to send a single police battalion. Putin simply said they are independent now and need to take care of their own affairs ;) EU is not a country. I do not think that a lot of countries prefer US over China - I think if such survey was done China would be picked over US - if someone wanted a leader. China would get overwhelming support from places such as Africa or South America. Yes, China is by far easier to deal with than US - by far! This is why a lot of smaller countries are signing documents of cooperation with China. Sure, China is throwing around a lot of influence etc. around - but not even close to what US is doing. Please, take a look at surveys about US - US is the most hated country on earth. With few exceptions world view of US is negative. US forces countries to do its bidding. They call it "free choice" - you are free to be poor or do as we say. With China you do not have to make such choice. With China you can trade without strings attached. And do let me know who bombards city centers with dumb artillery every day and fires on hospitals - oh wait, its Ukraine. Who officially say they will cleanse millions of people? Who has laws of racial superiority? Putin said that Ukraine and Russia are very similar or even the same - no Nazi would say even something remotely close to that. As for children - what will - children now have a will to stay in a war zone? Really? they were moved out of war zone and once parents were located they were returned to such parents or guardians. What is wrong with that - this is how things should be done. Protect the children and then return them to their parents. As for adults - they moved to Russia freely - they can leave anytime - over 2 million people. No one is keeping them there against their will - why would they? Of course I show you officials fined for speaking Russian - no links allowed so you need to google - "Ukrainian authorities have fined the mayor of Kharkov, Igor Terekhov, nearly 100 euros for speaking Russian on television and managing his social networks in the same language, as he would have violated a law that places Ukrainian as the vehicular language throughout the state, even before the Russian invasion." from MSN "Russian book ban in Ukraine" - from wikipedia "Ukraine withdraws 19 million Russian, Soviet-era books from libraries" - reuters "Tamila Tasheva, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's top representative for Crimea, told Ukraine's Radio NV that some 500,000 to 800,000 Russians are currently living illegally in Crimea, and could be forcibly deported in accordance with the norms of Ukrainian legislation and international law." I can provide a LOT more links. You can google yourself as well. The Kiev link to Nazism is as clear as that of Germans. I live in area heavily populated by Ukrainians. They make around 20% of the population. This does not imply that Kiev regime is not Nazi in some way or form - their actions, statements etc. are clearly linked to Nazi as well as flags, symbols etc. What are they supposed to do? Build concentration camps? I am sure you would also have a good explanation for that.
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  535. Freedom for Donbass and make Kiev pay for all the houses and civilians killed.
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  536. Even if they ramp it up so what? Ukraine lost.
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  537.  @bitcoin4life  No, but I posted similar stuff starting in April 2022 - when only chance Ukraine had was during Turkey negotiations in March.
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  538.  @bitcoin4life  I agree. I fully support right of people to decide their future. However, I also include Russian people among these that can decide their future.
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  539.  @bitcoin4life They refused such referendums on Russian majority land. Again, fair UN referendum was refused by Ukraine, not by Russia. Colonial empire? Who are you referring to, US?
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  540. He is not.
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  541.  @1djbecker  Putin did not start a war to expand territory, he started a war to stop NATO in order to secure Russia. He is supported by non west (vast majority of humanity). Additional goal is liberation of Russian areas under occupation by Kiev forces - something allowed by law superseding right of countries to stay together. This could have been easily avoided by Ukraine. The rest of the world should indeed care - and place pressure on the west and Ukraine to stop this war. No more NATO expansion. No more oppression of all ethnic groups, full respect for human rights and the right of people to decide their future. The whole war is shameful display of politics by the west that will end up with total destruction of Ukraine, which probably will be mostly gone from the map by 2050 due to simply no more ethnic Ukrainians... Shame. Also shame on people like Zielinski whom clearly does not care about Ukraine and is as far away from patriot as we are from the moon.
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  542.  @a.brekkan4965  He is crazy pro Ukraine. He will lie straight up to cover them.
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  543. Given ammo shortages not much more. There never was a chance of UA winning the war.
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  544.  @richardjoseph9002  LOOOOOOK at objectives of both sides in this war. Russian objective - Lugansk captured - check. Donets almost captured. Thus Russian objectives almost done ====> total victory. Ukrainian armed forces are weakening not growing stronger or they are weakening vs. Russian forces as Russia is advancing. There are Ukrainian counter attacks and were but they are ineffective. There is no chance of Ukraine invading Russia - mostly b/c Russia would be forced to mobilize and call a war. Yes, thanks, over a dozen T-64s were captured in Lisichainsk alone and displayed for everyone to see. I am sure after repainting they will be given to DPR forces.
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  545.  @richardjoseph9002  Russia has reasons to invade Ukraine - to create buffer zone for DPR and LPR. Why does Ukraine occupy LPR / DPR? These pp do not want Kiev regime troops on their door step - Russia stepped up (not for free) to help free these areas from occupation. It is not 100% certain what Kiev operation was all about - I believe it was a gamble to take the city quickly with tiny force. Once that gamble failed it was called a faint. Russia does not use T-64s and no videos were created with them. You probably mean T-62M given as aid to light Donbass infantry. US helicopters also liberally use unguided missile pods. Don't seem to be a problem for US. US HIMARS and its predecessor are not exactly "new" and main stocks are of dumb unguided missiles. Sure, sunken ship - may I remind you of that wonderful US operation to save pp from Iranian embassy - how did that go? How many sons of US senators and members of executive in harms way? None? Oh I thought so.
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  546.  @jamesmedina2062  There is no way Ukraine could ever win a war against Russia. It would be as if someone said "Canada can gain lots of weapons and occupy US" LOL! PRC is the new world leader - US can delay that but again, not forever. It is simply numbers gain, PRC does not need amazing GDP, it needs GDP per person that is equivalent to say Mexico to already vastly surpass US. This is not a huge goal to achieve. As for India - most of the planet earth is either neutral or sees through West hypocrisies and does not support it. This is best seen at UN where outside of the western countries support for Ukraine is more or less gone. Sanctions are enacted by only 13% of the planet. As this continues I expect more support for Russia not Ukraine.
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  547.  @jamesmedina2062  You are not to experienced in the science of war.... If it was all about tech US would not get run out from Afghanistan by bunch of flip flop wearing Taliban. This is BTW, not the first time for US, they got kicked in the teeth by Vietnamese whom did not even have footwear. Numbers matter - as seen in Ukraine - where Russia has much more & modern equipment while Ukraine has more numbers. As Ukraine pays with blood for Russian equipment advantage it is bound to eventually run out of pp or Russia low on equipment. But even if Russia runs low on equipment it still has numbers on its side. Thus it is impossible for Ukraine to win. It indeed could last 10 years or even more, but we already know the winner and the looser.
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  548.  @jamesmedina2062  So do you really think that Russians will just one day wake up and leave their homes? It is about as likely as one day Texans waking up and leaving theirs. Russians weapons are as sophisticated as these of Ukraine & provided by the west - I hope you do not think Russia is poorly armed or has low tech - I think the west made that mistake once already. War is fought in Ukraine & Ukraine is a failed state. They cannot pay their bills. This is why there is no path to victory for Kiev regime. They simply priced themselves out of it by having too high expectations. Finally the rest of the planet outside US and their "allies" clearly sees through it all.
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  549.  @jamesmedina2062  And that is why Egypt, like 2nd largest user of M1 after US, decided to upgrade M1 to T-90 ;) MLRS of Russia uses GPS guidance same as US one, its just their local GPS system not US one. Also has longer range. Russian artillery out ranges anything in NATO by few km. Russia is getting quite a lot of drones. Sure jets of US are superior but Russia has best air defense on earth.
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  550.  @MarcosElMalo2  What conquest? They are taking back what is theirs and does not want to be part of Ukraine. Conquest is taking what is not yours. Both Crimea and Donbass do not want to be part of Ukraine due to rather harsh discrimination faced. Germany in WWII was not content with taking German speaking territories. They wanted more - they wanted land of not just Poland but also Russia. They wanted large empire where they would eliminate and crush other races. If German wants and needs were similar to Russia there would not be WWII. In fact Germany got far more then Russia wants.
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  551. Panic b/c of what exactly????
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  552. There was no Ukraine or Ukrainian as a concept in times of Catharine the Great - a German.
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  553.  @ImperialDiecast  Crimean Tatars are also known as Golden Horde. They are closely related to Volga Tatars which are in Russia. Most Tatars - which is Turkic ethnic group are Russians - like 90%. Cossacks are nomadic or semi nomadic people that occupied (occupy) lands between great rivers on current plains of Ukraine and Russia. Currently they are on Russian side of the conflict - fun fact, the Krasny Liman city is defended against Ukrainian troops by Cossack regiment.
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  554. LOL, and what will Russia occupy rest of Europe with - against NATO? Come on, be real. It will take Russia few years to rebuild from this war.
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  555. They talk about UA surrender - its same as allies back in 1944.
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  556. This is mostly to scare people into paying more taxes. There is small chance of war between east and west. It is clear NATO will loose any war, no matter what they do. So why invest if nukes are the equalizer. So why invest into a certain, unlikely loss? Note Russian side has bigger advantage over NATO than allies had over Nazi. Huge population advantage, more than 2 to 1 and huge economic advantage, more than 2 to 1. I would vote to stop any needless military spending. Also the small country is protected is total BS, look at US dictating to little guy.
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  557.  @HeadsFullOfEyeballs  Russian centric block has few billion people and more than 50% of world's production capacity ;) This is easily verified with Google.
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  558. Nah, Ukraine will break first.
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  559. He will.
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  560. Ukraine is democracy? Is North Korea a democracy?
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  561.  @simian_essence  both are one party absolute dictatorships. Ukraine is more similar to Nazi Germany while NK is more of a medieval kingdom.
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  562. Ah yes, the aid is 190B per year out of which about 55B are for equipment alone. This is largest aid in human history. The equipment part is roughly equivalent to all purchases of EU countries (!) And people say that weapons are "managed" LOL! Aid for UA adjusted for inflation and per year is MORE than US aid to other allies during WWII - which was 17% of US war expenditures... Sure UA does not get enough aid ;))))
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  563.  @harmless6813  Nice try Boris but as per google aid to Ukraine has been 380B as of March 2024, so 190B per year. Aid to Soviet Union as per Google again - taken from bloody US embassy in Russia web page was 180B inflation adjusted between 1941 and 1945. Over 4 years. so per year the aid was less than 45B. Last time I checked 45B is way less than 180B. In case you wonder aid to UK was about 3x that of Soviets over longer period of time - so also LESS.
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  564.  @harmless6813  Google points out info from reliable source - such as US embassy to Russia. Is US government reliable source for you on WWII aid data or not?
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  565. ​ @harmless6813  You have 64B as a US aid only in weapons - I assume its maybe as of September? So you fully agree with me and my numbers. Good to know. Total aid per year of 190B, with US portion of the aid as military only (weapons) aid of less than 30B per year. Largest ever military aid in human history to a single country - agreed?
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  566. There was no end of the 2014 conflict. Many people consider this current events continuation of 2014.
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  567. He can, from a prison cell.
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  568. F16s need to be sent as Ukraine has no air force left. This is just pro longing the fight not any game changer at all. In fact it is a downgrade from MiG-29 which can be used in much rougher conditions.
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  569.  @anderspuck  Why you see a problem? Russia has like 2 extra bridges already + they just fixed Antonovsky brodge. The dam bridge has only minor damage and video shows trucks and busses have no issues driving over it.
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  570.  @kuroneko77716  there are like 10000 videos, actual western commentary and agreed by both side facts. I mean west admits that Russia has at least 5x advantage in artillery. West admits that Russia has 100x advantage in long range missiles. And so on.
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  571.  @correctionguy7632  He is neutral. Ukraine having 100k in Bakhmut seems realistic as well, I don't see any propaganda here, remember the fight for the city was over a very, very long time. I realize fan boys of this guy are so pro Ukraine that nothing, not even neutral positions will shift them. Well, so be it. Once the war will end you will be shocked the lies here - and author will simply state he did it for the good of Ukraine ;) But the author here is not pro Ukraine. He wants Ukraine to bleed. He wants country to disappear from the map. He is not a friend.
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  572.  @theonlylauri  Not sure what a scare quote is. In 2010 Ukraine made Bandera a hero of Ukraine and started to slowly encroach on the rights of ethnic Russians. By 2014 we had things such as Odessa massacre. Ukraine, or more specifically Kiev regime, also did not exactly live by the treat. I fully support the fight for freedom of both people of Crimea and Donbass - they have the right, as all humans do, to live free. The free choice of the people is far more important than any other "laws" or "regulations" that attempt to hamper such freedoms.
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  573.  @colinwise8044  After Maiden square once their president was removed sure there was discontent - come on - if you elected a guy and they removed him would you be ... happy? Maybe Donbass and Crimea did not want to outright leave Ukraine but they certainly wanted something to happen. There was no intervention of Russian "mercenaries and irregular forces in Crimea" - they had their regular forces there. "The Odessa event looks like an accident that would not have happened if Putin had not done his best to sow discord in Ukraine" please - Putin's fault? Really? This event has 100% shown the true side of Banderites - they were BACK. The worst evil on earth was born again. And do you care what people of Ukraine want? Like all of them? Donbass was supposed to go back to Ukraine with set of rights as a territory. But nope, none of this was materialized - I am sure its Putin's fault. It is also Putin's fault that Kiev wants to go to NATO at any cost - even if it means burning down all of Ukraine. Strange no? This is why so many people in Donbas fight against Kiev regime - they want freedom. They are tired of empty stuff. Saying in 2014 they did not want to leave Ukraine - neither did UK want to leave EU in 2014. So I guess we have to de-legitimize their referendum, correct? Elections are held every few years as people view changes. So did view of people of Donbas - they no longer want to be part of Ukraine. Why the west insists incorporation by force is a solution? I support freedom for Donbass and their choice. Sure Russia had its hand in it - but so does US or anyone else - so everyone is as guilty. May I remind you of embassies that US has in countries it controls that are the size of small cities? No influence there ;) Millions or Billions spent on Ukraine by US also does not count, I guess, in influence shaping - so why blame Russia?
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  574.  @colinwise8044  Ah yes, people burned themselves ;) And again somehow fault of Putin - I guess he instructed people to set fire to a building with at least 40 pp inside. And I love the idea that if they make one decision its final forever - who cares what referendum said in 1991? You do know we have elections every few years as people change opinions and things change. In 1991 Ukraine was Bandera free - not so much later on like in 2014. So this argument makes no sense at all. Also we do know that after Maiden there were very strong anti Ukraine feelings in Crimea - we do know over 70% of Ukraine army stationed in Crimea joined Russia. If your troops join the "enemy" in large numbers then clearly they do not want to be part of Ukraine. Kiev was with different president in 2013 - irrelevant. They wanted to be in NATO by 2014. They wanted to be in NATO at any cost in 2022 even if they needed to fight a war for it. Looking at Donbas right now almost all males of military age fight for freedom. If any left their homes (and many did) they did so to go to Russia. "people of Donbas did regularly have their say and would have had it again following Maidan" - LOL, sure - you must be kidding - their president was just removed by force and new Ukraine just banned their culture and language. What do you want these pp do - I would fight for freedom as well! "They might have elected many MPs or even a president sympathetic to Russia. " - LOL, Ukraine arrested all opposition and all MPs. "Much of it was in promoting or supporting democracy." i.e. western US version of it. Not actual freedom. If someone wanted anyone "poisoned" dead they would be dead. Same as any other strange poisonings. They are a joke. Bottom line is people have the right to determine their future. People of Donbas do not see that future in Ukraine but with Russia. You can say that "Putin changed their mind" or some similar stuff - but that is just a way to go around election results - I mean anyone can say that Biden is not true US president as Americans were coerced by say... Putin? Do you think that would fly? I think democrats actually tried that with Trump. Past results of elections etc. are of no importance. What counts is now and current will of the people. Kiev regime knows 100% they cannot win any referendums in Donbass or Crimea - even if we get 100% of people that were there in 2022 and had residency. After all, would you vote for regime that shelled you for past 8 or 9 years? Ukraine today is one party multi leader dictatorship. There are no freedoms. There is no opposition and people that are inconvenient are disposed off by force. Go ahead, ask why Ukraine does not want any referendums that are totally free? Go ahead ask why they fight a war given they can end it by simply saying they want to be neutral? Strange they say they want NATO for safety yet they lost all that safety b/c of NATO. Nuland and US admitting to some spending is also not exactly to be trusted. There is a reason countries are banning or taking a careful eye to all these "charities". I wonder how somehow its OK for US to have so much influence in Ukraine but you start to scream when Russia does the same - one is "legal" the other is "evil". To summarize will of the people needs to be respected and the current will not some past will and without any conditions. Simply ask, what they want.
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  575. Not just fine - they are winning!!!
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  576.  @philliptemple9841  No, are you?
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  577. They probably replaced most barrels at last 5x maybe 10x.
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  578. Yes, Russians have been reducing Ukrainians all the time and removing both their morale, equipment and generally will to resist.
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  579.  @mbak7801  Sure there are some safeties. But there is no reason not to replace when you have them plenty available. Also re-manufacturing them is not rocket science.
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  580. Nope. A lot of Russian troops - even seen by Ukrainians - were killed by flooding waters. No troops were moved from the area - in fact more may need to be added as a lot of defensive positions were wiped out.
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  581. There is zero chance of tide turning. Ukraine since start of the war had zero success on counterattack. Not even once.
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  582. Russia is exactly using nukes to prevent hypothetical aggression of NATO. So will UK attack?
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  583. Why would they need bigger army? For what? To finish war sooner? It costs a lot of money to rise a big army - and than what? Disband it? Invade EU? What do you do with such huge army?
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  584. Russia.
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  585. Stop using logic - if you do this channel is pure comedy.
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  586. Trump will simply ask them to surrender now. If they are still in the war by January 2025.
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  587. LOL!
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  588. Crimea is Russian territory and thus even if Putin was gone any future leader would defend it even with nukes as needed. So Crimea will never "go back" to Ukraine. Russia soundly won this war at least 6 weeks ago, maybe 8 as it is achieving all of its goals set for the operation.
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  589. Russia has skin in the game as well - they are also fighting for and defending land of allies and Russian ethnic people. They have as much reason or even more then Kiev regime. These pp have no choice. They have to defeat Kiev at any cost. This is why Ukraine will not win - same reason why US / Russia / UK failed in Afghanistan. Freedom is simply hard to defeat.
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  590.  @pavelhranicky8291  General mobilization is expensive. Ukraine already recruited in prisons few months ago. Why do things you do not have to do???
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  591.  @pavelhranicky8291  But ethnic Russians in these regions are fully mobilized - i.e. they are all in the army already. Donbass mobilized as soon as Ukraine mobilized, at the same time. What you need to see as distinction is which part of Ukraine, is it in Donbass or is it outside of Donbass. For example, there is not that much will to fight in Kherson other then for say for water supply for Crimea or b/c Ukraine would bombard areas of Russia proper such as Crimea or Donbass. Telling pp we need 100km buffer is less convincing then we need to get your home back. Support for Crimea is like 95% in Russia - even Navalny sees it as part of Russia. At the same time Kherson probably does not have more then 50%. DPR / LPR only want to fight in Donbass. Or for Russia proper as 2nd choice, not so much for say Dnipro. Good example of what is going on.
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  592.  @pavelhranicky8291  WHAT? There is not a hint of what are you saying. There is a clear resolve to fight. Crimean, Donbass, Ukraine, Russia etc. Belongs to people that live there. Period. If these pp want to join Russia - it is Russia. If they want to join Ukraine, its Ukraine. Period. We no longer live in imperial times - we live in more civilized world where pp should be given a choice. Freedom win these days, and it can be seen after 20 year stay of US in Afghanistan. Same thing in Crimea and Donbass. They do not want to be part of Kiev regime. Crimea belonged to Ukraine, but then it seceded from Ukraine and as independent state joined Russia. I am sure you can now throw some legality fit, to which I remind you it was illegal for US to secede from UK as well ;) Also I remind you a lot of land that makes your country is based on people that LIVE there. Otherwise maybe you should give some land back to Germany, huh?!
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  593.  @pavelhranicky8291  LOL! Russia was all for real referendum as well - even in Donbass ;) With UN and US and EU as watchdogs. Totally legit. Ukraine refused. What on earth possessed you to think that they would allow people choice?!?! Why Siberia would separate from Russia proper ;) Yes, I believe in choice - too bad only few places on earth give such choice. Most countries do not - heck even somewhat civilized places such as Spain do not allow referendums... maybe b/c they know Catalonia would leave. Finally what about Georgia - why they do not have referendum? Or maybe even Azerbaijan. Or so many other places. I assume you firmly believe Taiwan does not have a choice either and needs to listen to Beijing? I also assume you do not support Kosovo?
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  594.  @pavelhranicky8291  You can do referendum with UN / US / UK and any of these democracies. Results would be the same. A lot of referendums by so called "democratic powers" were with soldiers on the streets. Heck, may I remind you of elections in Afghanistan? Were there US soldiers there? Were the elections "fair"? Exactly. Was above resolved by "political menas"? No - oh why not? I guess "democratic powers" do not like to play? What about all these coups where US overturned democratic government? Say like Iran? Why not resolve through "political means"? What about Kosovo - why not return it to Serbia then - there was not even fake referendum there! Sometimes you need to fight for what is yours. This is what Russia do. I support their fight for their home. Ukraine did not allow referendum for Crimea or Donbass - so revolution it is. If you were so law abiding regarding rules and sitting at a table to do political means you would not have your country right now!
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  595.  @macmcleod1188  You do know they get paid at least monthly :) Why would young well off Russians not have skin in the game? It is their country. Same thing can be said of many well of Ukrainians - they also do not have skin in the game by same argument! This is why so many young Ukrainians left and are seen all over Europe or north America. Why not fight for their country - or shall we say Donbass? How many millions have left Ukraine, never to return in pas few years? Even before the war???? Country of 54m before 1991 reduced to just 37m before this current conflict. That is a loss of what exactly, 17m. Even if you exclude Crimea and Donbass regions from 2021 it is like 10m loss (!)
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  596.  @pavelhranicky8291  WHAT DO YOU MEAN - it happened like 10 years ago! Last time a democratic power organized a referendum and annexed the territory. 10 years ago or so. Hello, Kosovo?! "Serbia lost any claim on Kosovo when it used ethnical cleansing as a final solution there." Oh, so I guess you agree then that Ukraine lost any claim to both Crimea and Donbass. Thank you for agreeing on that point. Oh, regarding your country - I have a feeling it has tiny bit LONGER history then last 25 years, no, think deeper. Finally, regarding annexation and referendums - that was the correct solution to crisis after WWI. Land was given based on who lived there and this is how new nations were created. Sure, people from Kherson can go back to Ukraine - this was original proposal for peace which Ukraine refused. Ukraine did not want to end this war based on ethnic divide. It would be foolish for Russia to give back land to Ukraine which it captured without any peace deal. For a pariah Russia is doing very well - guess who defeated soundly pro Ukraine resolution at UN few days ago! Only west supported it, the rest of the planet shown a middle finger. People are not as stupid as you think, they can clearly see that Ukraine does not want peace and wants to continue abusing Russians which rose up. I also support people fighting for their freedom. Democracy is based on freedom. You are good to remember that. How free are you exactly?
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  597.  @mirekslechta7161  about 50k troops out of which over 40k are Russians (there are Chinese at over 2000, Indians probably same number and some former republics like Tajikistan). So I realize that the 40k can later be deployed in Ukraine.
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  598.  @pavelhranicky8291  According to your country Kosovo does not belong to Serbia it belongs to Kosovo which is about as close to Albania as Donbass is to Russia. Maybe you need to actually read about the issue there. Kosovo - Albania - Serbia issue is EXACTLY the same as Donbass - Russia - Ukraine issue. Exactly. Every little detail. Ethnical cleansing definition is different for everyone - its a very broad term. Was there attack on Russian culture, language and customs? Yes of course. Such attacks are all over Baltic states as well (former Nazi). Are they forcing Russians out of their homes? In some cases yes. Are they using gas to finish them off - so far no. Which resolution - from August 25th. Sure you live in a country that you can do all of that - lets see how far you go when you actually do stuff that are NOT popular and once you become a threat. They will cancel you. And if you are big enough threat they will sanction you. So much for "freedom" nowdays. You do not have a lot of knowledge of stuff going on around you. Its all propaganda. These news you watch - propaganda. Most of what you read online propaganda. Everything. To figure out a slimmer of truth you need to use logic and filter through the lies.
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  599. With what? They don't even have power to keep the lights on.
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  600. Yep, nukes were already proposed. If Putin is replaced with Progrozin Ukraine is done for. He would mobilize 600k and run them over including Kiev.
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  601. And so they did.
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  602. West made a threat to attack Russia (UK and France) Russia called in ambassadors and said such attack would mean direct response by Russia against them. Ukraine cannot go on the offensive - they lost the war.
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  603.  @fridrekr7510  Nah, this guy is gold man, gold I tell ya. He is better than Sainfeld.
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  604. Well, Russia is responding by crossing western red lines - clearly continuing this will lead to even more escalation.
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  605. Ukraine cracks and breaks. No negotiation.
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  606. When Russia is taking Kiev we still will hear they have no troops left ;)
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  607. The gates were damaged. You can see the damage from phots. Gates were damaged by UA b/c when Russians held the other bank they intentionally kept levels in the reservoir low and flooding the area - being accused by UA of flooding. The reason for this was Russia was afraid UA will blow the dam with reservoir full and trap their troops. So UA keep hitting the dam. One of the reason for Russian eventual evacuation from the region.
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  608. Nah, Putin showed signed papers from last March - they were nowhere even as bad as this video shows - this was Putin victory in March of 2022. The main essential thing for Russia to win is keep NATO out of Ukraine. No NATO === Putin won. Anything else is secondary. Sure protecting ethnic Russians from Nazi needs to happen - but this could be even done with help of UN.
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  609.  @rogerthat4545  Given how it goes now the clear answer is YES. Reason is Ukraine simply will run out of pp.
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  610. Why you guys don't want to loose for the 3rd time?
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  611. If Russian army suffers heavy losses using tactical nukes for enemy troops concentrations as well as things such as large bridges (one near Odessa) or conventional power plants, dams, etc. seems reasonable. I do see use of nukes if the west escalates - for example, delivery of long range weaponry to Ukraine now may tip the balance of Putin's decision & get him to escalate to nuke use.
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  612. Yes, Russians love attrition - they know they can win this - Ukraine is fighting just as Russia wants them to fight.
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  613. So essentially you are saying Russia has won - which I agree with.
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  614. Well, Russia has been stingy with air support. Maybe that will change.
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  615. The dam was damaged including the gates.
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  616.  @johnathanhughes9881  But there are NO large flows of dead - if there were we would know about it from Russians themselves. Heck, you can even estimate dead based on numbers of funerals etc. Russia proper lost maybe around 8000 dead, maybe 9000 dead at most. It is painfully obvious to any outside observer that Russia controls large parts of territory formally Ukrainian and is expanding on this land. Tool used is called a map. Direction overall is for continued Russian gains - liberation of Donbass and possibly annexations of different regions.
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  617.  @johnathanhughes9881  There cannot be more dead as Russia does not have enough forces deployed to support much higher number of dead. 8k-9k also means that there is at least 30k wounded! That is a lot, and only 15k of these come back to fight. Thus the numbers I quoted seem very realistic - I hope you realize that Russia right now has very few soldiers deployed mostly in support roles and like 75% of actual combat is done not by Russian troops. You are stating western opinion on what Russian goals are. The actual Russian goals are: - liberation of Donbass (mostly complete) - denazification (hard to determine this, but many Azov style units were smashed) - demilitarization (hard to determine this but certainly Ukraine has little equipment left) - stopping expansion of NATO (full success) So as you can see Russia almost accomplished its main goal and it is certain they will succeed in it. As for Donbass - the Minsk agreement said autonomy. Ukraine refused any autonomy. Ukraine refused any referendums etc. Or any discussion on the status or any attempts to let people say what they want to do. Russia would be 100% OK with removing their troops if Ukraine did the same BUT Ukraine would not. Why is that? Well, if you do referendums there it would be clearly in favor of Russia (fair ones, with UN only troops). As for pounding it flat - well, what do you suggest they do - most of the fighting is done by pp of Donbass - I am sure they are not happy with destroying their own cities. But Ukraine does not care - its not their cities getting smashed! Personally I seen no way around the war. It was necessary - there was no political solution to the problem at all. Some people you simply cannot nicely talk to - you have to kick their teeth in or out. This is what Russia had to do. Ukraine is same culture as them, they only understand force.
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  618. ​ @johnathanhughes9881  Russians are conscripting from Donbass, that is true. Kiev regime is also conscripting. Luck of training is certainly on both sides, but losses for Kiev regime are far more epic then for Russia + allies. How do I get it backwards - homes are of people of Donbass not of Kiev regime. It is war, both sides throw poorly trained troops - but for Kiev regime it is far and wide more common. I am glad you condemn Kiev for a change. Russia is NOT using conscripts to fight for someone else's land - that is what UKRAINE Kiev regime is doing. Almost all conscripts are used to fight right next to their homes while Kiev ones are 1000km away from their homes. Research Stephan Bandera and stop being a Nazi apologist / sympathizer. Its a lie to claim holocaust did not happen. Nazism is officially accepted in Ukraine and is official - i.e. it is set in laws of the land - they accept Nazi formations to their army and they accept Nazi heroes as their heroes. Officially. By government. According to you Nazi Germany was not Nazi. They also had around 10% ;) I stand by Azov and SS - in fact I would say that I would rather deal with German Nazi SS then with Ukrainian Azov units. SS was more ... western oriented. Level of sheer brutality was much lower. My grandfather fought in WWII against both German and Ukrainian Nazi and Ukrainians are far and wide worse. Ukrainians are demilitarized b/c their losses are much, much higher ;) Ukraine supply of manpower is not endless especially in a country that quickly depopulated - even before the war. It feels no one wants to live under this regime. As Soviet republic they had 54m. just 20 years later they dropped to 37m. Now they are what, well under 30m? If we start to include Russian liberated and occupied territories they are what, 25m? I stand by my assertion of NATO. Its you whom are lying.
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  619.  @seimen4348  Russia already won this war. Russia can continue finishing it off for a long time. We see how long does the other side last. They do not have endless supply of manpower.
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  620. ​ @HR_8035_YEA  Oh, its a one party democracy, got it ;) Russia at least has systemic opposition - so it is far more of a democracy then Ukraine. Navalny as per west has support of around 2% of Russian population. I.e. he has less support then communists or extremists. Granted Russia is flowed democracy BUT Putin at least cares about popular opinion. In Ukraine all opposition (ALL) is in prison or exiled. In Russia you mostly quote Navalny - not everyone. Yes, racism is at the heart of the conflict. Russian MIR is based on Soviet ideology which means it is supper opposed to racism. Its allergic to it more then Jews to pork. After all, you have now fights for Bahmut and Donetsk People Republic forces are liberating their city via Patric Lumumba street - dedicated to an African leader whom fought for the rights of black people against imperialistic colonialism. Regarding your claim about Asians being used more then say people from Moscow, it is as true as same situation in US where people from poor neighborhoods, a lot of Black people are used as cannon fodder. I assume you mean US is very racist with this as well - the truth is that poor people want money and people in Moscow are not poor. Has zero to do with race :) On the other hand Ukraine is a very racist country with strong Nazi overtones where racial superiority is a very important thing. After all, official hero of Ukraine, Bandera, demanded that any true Ukrainian has to have proof that ALL 4 grandparents hailed from Ukraine. Anyone else was to be killed or run out. Thus we have all these Nazi units and hate for anything and anyone that is not Ukrainian. This is why Donbass people, with help from Russia, rose up against oppressive state & are now fighting for their freedom. Why you are against people fighting for their freedom? Are you also against US gaining its freedom from UK?
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  621. ​ @HR_8035_YEA  LOL, Zielinski won against Right Sector.... too bad he was sponsored by the guy whom supported Azov.... so he "won" against them ;) Navalny did break some Russian laws and through sentence was over the top he was not killed or something like that - he is part of systemic opposition. He still controls his own party and political block. I.e. not all of his supporters were jailed (see my comment about Ukraine). As for running for office - HE DID RUN - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Navalny He did not win, but actually had some votes numbers in liberal sections of Russian society - like Moscow. In fact the numbers Navalny got were confirmed by Navalny campaign office as what they predicted he would get (i.e. he had no basis for saying fraud - his own campaign knew there is no chance & predicted the numbers +- 2%) Russia cannot be racists as racism is as allergic to Russians as sun to vampires. I.e. Russia is by far and wide less racist then say US. Its not even close. Like US is racism level 10 and Russia is 1. I am not racist at all, I simply say you do not know what you are talking about. People in Donbass were never oppressed.... I guess Jews were never oppressed by Germans as well huh? I guess it was just one giant conspiracy to get poor Nazi Germany.... The history of this predates FSB, or even KGB. It goes all the way to 1930s. You have zero clue as to what you are talking about. "It will end badly for him, for Russia and for you personally." I see we are now at personal level threats. I am strongly against Nazism as my grandfather fought Nazi (both German and Ukrainian) during WWII. Mass murdering psychopath was the current hero of Ukraine Stephan Bandera.
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  622.  @williamjackson5942  Same as you - if half of what you were saying was true Ukraine would have taken Moscow by now ;)
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  623.  @johnathanhughes9881  Its a civil war - the sooner you understand that the sooner you understand what is going on. Why did NATO invade Yugoslavia and carve out Kosovo? Was that right or was that wrong? If it was right so is Russian intervention in Ukraine. The rights of people of Donbass and Crimea cannot be ignored. West somehow fights for rights of people if it is politically convenient, for example, in Taiwan, but when its not "nice" for them they simply suddenly do not care about people's rights - like in Yemen. Ukrainians are NOT doing what Russians did in WWII at all - WWII was not based on civil war (we ignore the fact large number of Ukrainians joined the Nazi) it was invasion by foreign power to gain land that they had no neither any allies nor their people on it. Russians are helping their allay, DPR and LPR gain independence from Kiev. Both of these regions do not want to be part of Kiev run Ukraine. They have been clearly discriminated against in the last decade (but no genocide) and have clear case of going their own separate way. Look at Canada. The same issue was with Quebec. Exactly the same. Yet it was solved in a peaceful manner. Why Kiev regime could not do that? In 1970s Quebec demanded freedom, bombs exploded etc. Canada countered with legal way for Quebec to leave Canada via referendum. In order to win French over, full language rights were given! Many other laws were passed to show that English Canada and French Canada should be one. So far after two close referendums Quebec is still part of Canada. No need for a war. Contrast this to Kiev regime whose first move was to make Russian language, more popular in Donbass then French in Quebec, to be illegal. I fully support the struggle of people of Donbass for freedom, same as I support other struggles for freedom. You are on the wrong side of history for supporting tyranny. All people have basic human rights.
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  624.  @johnathanhughes9881  VAST majority of troops fighting in Donbass were born in Donbass and used to have Ukrainian citizenship. It is a civil war. What gives anyone the right to deny Russia power of intervention? Do you also deny power of intervention to US? How does that work?
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  625. Nah, in reality this is offensive #66 or #67 or something like that on Twitter alone.
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  626. Yeah, too bad Ukrainian losses are much higher and Russians have much deeper reserves.
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  627. You are 100% right.
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  628.  @thomaslunde5014  What? Read some history. Brezniev was a career politician. Read his wiki page.
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  629. Not really - we do not see any of these extra troops at all - in fact speculation is what is Russia planning. Main talk is massive attack on Zaporozia.
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  630. Well, here we will see one side crushed at great cost. Well, they picked a comic, they get a tragedy.
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  631. Exactly - Russians said the gates were damaged. There are pictures of damage. There are sat photos showing the dam slowly giving in. Over few days.
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  632. By far the most likely scenario is that the dam - as per sat phots - failed by itself. It started failing at location where HIMARS hit. Then it failed completely (well not really - just the top). Biggest looser from this is Russia. They loose some water supply to Crimea, cooling water for nuclear plant, a lot of mine fields, fortified positions, etc. 80% plus of land flooded is on Russian side. Ukraine is not a winner, but certainly better off than Russia. Regarding resource drain - its mostly for Russia - as most of flooded ground is on Russian side. Most civilians killed are on Russian side. Ukraine before considered blowing the dam - they already used HIMARS strikes on the dam. They did threaten to blow up the dam before. Russia never attacked the dam or threaten to blow it up. Russians moved out of Kherson b/c they were afraid of the dam being blown.
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  633. LOL - for propaganda free stuff look to weeb union - he just released an hour commentary on the war.
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  634. Media Zona gives us over 36,000 KIA - if we add DPR and possibly other formations we get around 50k++ for entire war. With 5:1 wounded ratio we are about 250k. Totals are around 300k+ Ukraine losses are generally much higher - I estimate 200k KIA as minimum and around 1m wounded for total well over a million casualties. Mediazona did not see any spike in Russian losses last month.
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  635.  @dowgy177  Well, I don't say trust me - just google yourself!
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  636.  @attilamarics4808  Its not - the video is idiotic. Its Russian plan. They have like 10x as much artillery and are inflicting massive casualties on Ukraine.
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  637. Exactly - Russia got that idea.
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  638. No - at once and probably more then 300k.
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  639. Yes, its brilliant. Russia did so well there. The attrition rate of Ukrainian troops is 4x the Russian troops - in the best case for Ukraine!
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  640.  @mattias5157  What infights? Russians are quite unified. Bakhum fiasco for Ukraine is a gift to Russia. They can kill or wound 100s of Ukrainian troops per day. Taking minimal losses at the same time. Imagine the emotional damage once Bakhmut - despite 10s of 1000s of Ukrainians dying to keep it falls in the next few days completely! What will Zielinski say? Imagine morale boost for Russian troops - if we could take Bakhmut - we can take anything.
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  641. Not at all. Russia currently demands only small part of Ukraine and no NATO. Next year it will be half of Ukraine.
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  642. Nah, in the unlikely event of UA advance I am sure Putin could simply declare war and start mobilizing. Chances of that happening are maybe 3%.
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  643. @GlowyBoi Sure he can mobilize any day - but there is a price to pay. Since Russia is clearly winning why pay a price???
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  644. International law states that people have the right to decide their future. The country from which territory is annexed does not have to accept such choice nor do have others. This does not change annexation. See Golan Heights. See Kosovo. Etc.
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  645.  @KasumiRINA  Oh, US did just that - but I guess different laws apply to US. One has to remember that US gained Hawaii through conquest, they invaded, overthrew by force of arms local government and then annexed the territory. So I guess US state of Hawaii is under occupation. There are many more examples.
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  646.  @gorillaguerillaDK  Annexation was always "illegal" - its not like annexing by force was ever right! Finally, US controls Kosovo - it has a huge base there and rules over the territory supreme - so I guess I have more recent example. If you do not like that example, we have plenty of examples from say... Israel. Oh, wait, its OK, they are under US protection. Cannot count that. What about India - Pakistan? Good enough? What you are referring to is ""All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations" I guess US is guilty here more then sin itself. I mean they just broken this in like ... all of Middle east or is it only like 90% of it? So in that spirit you agree that US should have done nothing when Kosovo crisis was happening and should never interfere in Taiwan, correct? Or are you a hypocrite as everyone else pro US / UA?
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  647.  @gorillaguerillaDK  It was never legal - rape may not have been codified everywhere till somewhat recently but that did not exactly make it legal. Besides, US has not problems ignoring these laws or not even signing up to enforce.
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  648.  @gorillaguerillaDK  Oh, so Serbs can take Kosovo back, correct? So you are either a) Kosovo is a country or b) its part of Serbia, which one is it and why? Taiwan same deal - state your stance.
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  649.  @gorillaguerillaDK  Unless you mean rape in marriage - i.e. supposal rape or woman on woman (maybe), then there are no known to me countries that allow rape - i.e. there is no place where a man can rape a woman and its not a crime. Also there were no know to me countries where it was legal until recently - for example in two largest religions it has been illegal from their start - as it is illegal in Judaism. You constantly point out that it was OK for everyone to do X as it was still not illegal - but say it is illegal now. So your argument is that rape was totally cool if it was done in the past. Great.
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  650.  @gorillaguerillaDK  Still you are dodging your stance on Kosovo and Taiwan. According to international law Serbia has then full legal right to march in there, pacify the rebels and connect rebel province by force of arms. Correct? According to the same law China mainland has full rights to Taiwan. Are you also fully condemning EU and US in their support of illegal Kosovo and illegal Taiwan? Or are you just against illegal Russia?
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  651.  @Lasse65  Ukraine before the war, as per Ukraine had 37m. Out of that 37m more then 7m left the country. Out of the reminder a lot of men and women are in territories freshly occupied by Russians. So what is left? 28m? 27m? And do you think the pp will just watch 1000s killed per day? And are all these able bodied men? Realistically Ukraine can rise up maybe over a million. So within few years they loose most of these. Russia recruited another 60k or so troops recently and trained some / many. That is about 2x++ more then currently deployed troops!!! US also raised the age during times of conflict! So what - its natural thing to do. Having more possible pp is a good thing. Russia is not running out of troops anytime soon. Besides - they can always mobilize.
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  652.  @terjeoseberg990  <--- believes not his own eyes and ears but BS propaganda.
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  653.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  Size is relevant - this is how war were won or lost.
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  654.  @Lasse65  Ukraine government knows how many tax payers it has. So its 37m. Period. Why would we remove women and children - they come with husbands as well ;) There are no 6 million. Not from such a small country. Germany during WWII in 1943 had just under 7m troops. And that is from just over 110m people (!) So we use about 6% of the population as our "peak". Which also nicely translates to sizes of other armies (allies). as per my calculus Ukraine has at most 28m or even maybe less now. So their top strength is at most around 1.7m. And that is at most. Realistically they be lucky to even get to half that number. Realistically they loose at least 1000 per day as casualties. Even if some come back we are talking about loosing at least 300k per year. At least. So they will be done at current rate in less then 3 years. I think Russia can live with 3 years. Maybe 4 years if they bring a lot of women in.
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  655.  @davidfaraday7963  If the movement was so strong war would not last as long as it did! So I call total BS on "could not deploy more" yet could fight a war for... wait for it a decade! (this does not count the almost 10 years when US was not involved directly). So for 10 years the "anti-war movement back home was becoming too much even for the pentagon" is a bit ... off. Note that at peak US had more then 1/2 million people serving in Vietnam at a time. If we adjust for population this would place Russia at around 400k+ serving which is more then triple its current capability! As you can see, clearly you over estimate the power of anti war movement!
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  656. Russia won the war as defeat as defined by Ukraine and idiot Z is not possible. On the other hand Russian goals are so modest & almost all achieved that it is hard to imagine them loosing. It is as simple as that. Easy logic. As to 3:38 - it is clear that Ukraine cannot push Russia out as they never actually did even attempt hard at doing so - Russians and allies are still moving forward as they did for past 6 months. Russia has a lot to escalate with - its idiotic to think the do not! We can see one day total war which would kill millions of people - certainly we do not want to escalate to that. Finally thinking that Russia is weak got certain Adolf to get his teeth knocked in.
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  657. He is crazy pro Ukraine man, what do you expect??!!
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  658. EU can be negotiated. No NATO is mandatory. Land is optional. Actual documents were signed in March - Putin shown them to African delegation. I.e. peace was super close in March but UK blew it up with promises.
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  659. Why would Russia evacuate? they can easily move heavy equipment such as tanks over. They have spare bridges.
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  660. What "stalemate" -- Russia has been steadily advancing in Donbass for months. Now this advance is gaining speed.
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  661.  @Jagonath  Ah yes, you have 10x advantage in fire power your enemies are running out of men and yet some people claim you are the one taking heavier losses ;)))))
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  662. They do. Russia has 100x more. It is that way with everything. This is why Ukraine man power losses are so huge.
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  663. They do. Russia has 100x more. It is that way with everything. This is why Ukraine man power losses are so huge.
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  664. Russia does not care about using any power to do any influence in the west ;)
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  665. Putin clearly said, during visit in Belarus, that there will be no negotiations with Ukraine as there is no one to negotiate with. Ukraine needs to surrender unconditionally. There will be no negotiations. Surrender or overrun. Russia will go all the way.
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  666. Russia just moved into advance and attack in Kherson and has captured multiple towns in last 48h. They are trying to disable single supply bridge for Ukraine and if they advance 10km in the north they cut off any land supply route. So I wonder if Ukraine will loose next big city in the region.
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  667. Does not make sense as flooding the islands means flooding equally low land on Russian side. No explanation - logical - points finger at Russia.
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  668.  @pinkyfull  40% of EU equipment was sent and Russia is winning....
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  669.  @maurvir3197  Russian reserves are increasing as we speak - have you seen their production??? Their aerial bomb development? Missile production??? At this rate they should pass US military power index this year. NATO plan, if there was one, totally backfired.
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  670.  @maurvir3197  Russia did not switch to some total war economy. West is NOT handling Ukraine some excess old material - captured US Bradley was made in 2012. "Remember, the US and Europe are still in peace-time economies and aren't spending significantly on materiel production." EU does not have any means to do any "production" and they have no money to spend. They EU is on the brink of bankruptcy. The US military spending NOT AT WAR combined with interests payments are larger than that of Russia (!) US spends almost 50% of its tax income on military and interest payments.... I am sure US can somehow spend more on the military - maybe causing little starvation here and there ;) One has to note that aid to Ukraine is largest in human history. It is larger than all combined aid US sent during WWII. Expenditures on weapons alone are equivalent to all of EU - i.e. same number of tanks by value is sent to Ukraine per year as all of EU purchases. Eventually west may force China to enter the chat and it will dwarf any total war economy whole west can create. West made huge mistake by entering this war and now there does not seem to be any exit possible other than Russian total defeat of Ukraine. What do you propose? That west sends 2x purchase of weapons for all of EU to Ukraine??? Where will all that come from? Even if billions were spent to ramp up production - money that does not exist - it would take years to industrialize. Even with Hitler at the helm of Germany and Himmler saying that either you make a tank or die its not possible. It took Soviets 20 years to industrialize with millions that starved.... 20 years! Even with ramped up production by 2x we see Russia has at least 5x the advantage in ammo. In defense to overwhelm Russia one would need 3x or 4x production. Even with that you would need more people - people that Ukraine does not have. So either you need to send the French to the trenches or provide even more equipment. So say 6x. Where will all that stuff come from? People just don't seem to know how to count and realize they are asking for impossible.
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  671. Well, they were overrun - they could not hold superior numbers and far better equipped Russian forces.
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