Comments by "David Elliott" (@davidelliott5843) on "Ryan McBeth" channel.

  1. Paid by Russia.
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  2. I used to watch Tim Poole, but that outburst about Ukraine would have pulled his plug on the spot.
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  3. BBC was quoting Russian news outlets on the same level as Ukraine for at least the first year. Even today they are given far too much credibility. When volunteers on the ground in Ukraine complained the presenters did not know what to say. Then Gaza happened so Ukr just gets ignored.
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  4. UK has at least one Trident submarine on patrol 365 days of the year and ready to fight back. If their command goes down they will retaliate with full force. We can also assume that every patrolling Trident sub is escorted by a hunter killer sun especially in the current situation.
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  5. The shoot n scoot means troops with Stingers can be placed ready to hit an attacking aircraft. Who arrive with no target to hit.
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  6. Maybe Wagner has lost far more men than advertised and the management are getting desperate.
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  7. Sadly our democratic(?) leaders seem to have lost the keys.
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  8. Apart from one Patriot SAM system and some ammo, USA is sending stuff that was written off decades ago. It’s good kit but the costs are already spent.
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  9. He’s certainly been useful.
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  10. These things ex plod ed with just the right amount of time for user to pick up the device to read the message. There are many hand and face injuries. Precision like that can’t be done with an overheating battery.
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  11. Except the 130 has twice as many hot spots for ManPads to take out and its bigger and it's slower. Really what applies to A10 also applies to AC130.
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  12. NCOs are the most experienced soldiers. Russia runs them all to death so there is nobody to promote to sergeant. In conditions like these trenches any corporals will simply cease to care.
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  13. My 2012 MacBook might be no programmer’s tool but it’s still going strong after 10 years and feels as fast as it ever did. It won’t do video editing but then it never did that.
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  14. You can bet Dimona is extremely well protected.
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  15. Military equipment is expensive. It always has been. In the mid 1930s UK tried to re-arm on the cheap. WW1 artillery was dusted off and tarted up. Then they got their a*ses kicked in France & Belgium. The men were extracted at Dunkirk but the equipment got left behind. UK had to rapidly build new gun systems and tanks. USA provided most of the vehicles at very reasonable prices. UK made the final debt payment in the 1990s.
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  16. I spent 20 years as a technical author. I found few engineers understood how their technical niche fitted into the big picture. That made it very hard for them to explain their own job. Even worse, many had no idea if their work was adding value or just a road block to improving the overall product. Tech authors writing project documentation fill that gap and bring together the carouse subcomponents of a project.
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  17. Fuel/air has a heavy pushing action that’s especially damaging to buildings. Normal military explosives give a sudden punch that quickly dissipates. Bulldozer vs wrecking ball.
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  18. I ignore the woke media, so really don’t have an opinion on Trump the man. Regards Trump the politician, to date he’s done a great job.
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  19. It’s a micro message about conspiracy theories coming true.
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  20. The British worked out the keys that were added to the Bomba output to break the codes.
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  21. The cathedral had to be programmed into the missile as a way point or a target. Russia has form when they hit a Polish farmhouse instead of an actual target on the same latitude. The cathedral and power plant are also on the same latitude. The simplest option is always the most likely Russet wants to destroy everything of value in Ukraine so the cathedral was set as the target.
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  22. The raving commentary from this dude shows he’s just making it up. Or more likely a direct copy from Russian propaganda.
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  23. I hope Donald Trump is listening to this. Jake talks a lot of sense. Actually, a lot of common sense.
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  24. If a Russian beach has been bombed, it’s more likely a Russian aircraft accident or possibly deliberate
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  25. We all have a bias. It’s best dealt with by declaring your personal bias. In my experience as a new consumer, those who claim to be unbiased are more likely to lean left and are more likely to claim zero bias without actually achieving it.
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  26. When you say “taking out” substations take months or years to repair, that’s only true if the whole site is flattened. Circuit breakers and transformers are relatively easy to replace.
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  27. Biden is younger than Trump but Biden’s brain is toast. Sad but true. Biden by the way was no friend of Ukraine. He did enough to look helpful while actually doing as little as possible.
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  28. The Ukraine w@r shows how well the Russian military performs. Their vehicles suck and they have never achieved anything close to air superiority and their Black Sea fleet has been sunk.
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  29. The big problem is political. Biden is trying to semi-appease Putin by restricting Ukraine’s use of weapons. NATO leaders are doing all they can to pretend Ukraine is not their problem. Russian mis-information is adding to that problem.
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  30. We know McGregor is on a payroll. 4.5 minutes in and Ryan has already demolished Carlson’s foundation.
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  31. There is a fourth reason for news mistakes. That’s the publication has an agenda. Some will assign anything negative to the side they want labeled as “bad guys”. The “mistakes” made by NY Times always seem to swing the same way. Go figure?
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  32. “Native American” is a misnomer because the country of Columbus found the West Indies in 1492. America did not exist before 1750AD The native people were around for possibly 20,000 years before Columbus turned up.
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  33. Balloons might affect autonomous drones. They will not stop piloted drones which will take out the balloons before the heavy hitters arrive.
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  34. Drones will be stopped by directional radio beams that either fry the receiver or just block access to it. Lasers are less likely because so much power is needed. BUT sophisticated image matching should allow drones to autonomously take themselves into the target. Full AI is not needed.
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  35. Maybe that's the answer. Convert the A10s into drones.
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  36. Your map includes Faslane (submarine base Scotland), Portsmouth (Royal Navy base) but ignores Plymouth (Royal Navy maintenance including submarines).
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  37. Russia has the Ka-52. Their equivalent of Cobra attack helicopters. They are getting blown out of the sky. Cobra would go the same way.
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  38. This would kill most image memes but worth the loss I feel.
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  39. The British had flame throwing tanks during World War II. They had a much longer range and were incredibly frightening. Most of the time they didn’t even need to use them. A quick blast of flame or a squirt of fuel and everyone in a bunker surrendered.
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  40. The Cold W@r boxed up Russia behind its own Iron Curtain borders. They won’t make that mistake again. Any peace deal that does not throw Russia fully out of Ukraine is a win for Russia. Their method is long term nibbling. It’s already happened across their southern borders (Georgia, Chechnya etc). Ukraine will just take longer. When that’s done, the rest of eastern Europe will follow.
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  41. The Tim Pool monologues against Ukraine were so blatantly untrue , I can’t believe that nobody ratted him out. Ditto the others many of whom are still at it. The clue was they all used the same script. Just like MSM does with every new story.
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  42. Ukraine might have been able to use GPS jammers to distort the signal near important targets. It would be a cheap way to protect assets though not anyone sitting near the target.
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  43. Afghanistan proves the US ways of fighting wars does not work in failed states. They’ll have to seriously adapt with drones and radio jamming.
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  44. Solid rocket motors are a hollow tube that burns from the top down. It’s possible the casing could fail causing a jet out of the side but I can’t see that creating such a controlled turn. A spin and break apart is more likely.
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  45. Why are the new rocket powered glide bombs taking so long to arrive? Anyone would think Boeing is doing a ground-up redesign. Surely not?
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  46. Putin is incredibly good at lulling opponents into false sense of security. It’s a KGB core skill. He’s done it everywhere. Even Prigohzin, the mafia boss, and one time confidant, was taken in. So Trump is either an asset or he’s setting up Putin for a surprise. Tulsi seems to have dropped her Russian talking points so who knows. Personally I think asset evidence would have come out long ago. People like Douglas MacGregor absolutely work for Putin. They parrot the exact phrases used by Russian propaganda. DM (and others) are significantly absent from Trump’s administration.
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  47. It’s Tim Ground News got a grip. BBC is not centrist or highly factual. It’s a leftist echo chamber.
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  48. Ukraine uses decoy missiles with its Storm Shadow attacks. Russia sees 7 and fires its SAMs to take them down. Three actual Storm Shadows come in while the SAM sites are recovering. Total 10. The Kilo submarine is NOT nuclear powered. But it could launch nuclear tipped cruise missiles.
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  49. Isn't everything but stealth (over-rated IMO) included in the upgrade?
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  50. These days it's perfectly possible for every vehicle to have an IFF of its own It could be made to announce its presence if stolen making it a target so less likely to get stolen.
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  51.  @ilyadashevsky9347 Find your own primary source to oppose the point.
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  52. NYT and other left wing press deliberately get the “machine gun” thing wrong. In USA they are trying to ban all repeating rifles by calling them machine guns. IT IS NOT ACCIDENTAL.
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  53. ⁠ @virginiaoflaherty2983  Russia (sorry) Soviets funded European (and to a lesser extent USA) Green politics to discredit nuclear power. They were extremely successful. They also had the handy side effect of Europe buying Russian gas. Just before Putin’s war in Ukraine, Ursula Von Der Leyen was saying that clean “green” gas was Europe’s future energy source. You really couldn’t make it up.
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  54. In WW1, the main purpose of British tanks was to roll over barbed wire and get across trenches. Apart from the top of fixed security fences the stuff is pretty useless.
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  55. Failed states are one thing. However, when a nation like Slovakia needs the protection of foreign soldiers we need to ask why they are not doing the job themselves.
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  56. Russian Dude is constantly getting demonetised and deleted yet if he self censored any further there would be content.
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  57. On top of the human suffering, the world’s most important silicon crystal mine has been washed out. It produces material fundamental to world microchip production. We could be heading for another Coof style microchip famine.
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  58. Ever since WW2 it’s been proved the only weapons capable of destroying bridges (or tunnels) are earthquake bombs. U.K. started with 5 ton Tallboy and later 10 ton Grand Slam. US has similar stuff. Both need BIG aircraft and again there’s the AAA to deal with.
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  59. Hi Ryan. Trying to find you on Substack is ridiculously difficult. Why do they hide the search feature? If they have one at all?
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  60. The point about $ value of Ukraine’s counter attacks is important. They had a boost from last year’s success in Donbas. But then what? Russia will bombers from over the border. Going South to cut the Russian controlled area in two has the same whizz-bang but naturally leads on to taking Crimea or simply laying siege to Crimea. From there move East. All the time eroding Russian strength. Luhansk and Donbas would be the last on the list.
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  61. Hints that Ukraine was involved with lab accidents and organ harvesting have been around since the accidents were mentioned in context with another power somewhere about about 3 years ago. Hmm who could that be?
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  62. The previous dam on this site was blown up by Stalin to stop the Nazi Germans. It’s estimated this killed at least 10,000 Russian people. The new dam (“nova”) was built with pockets for explosives. It was designed to allow destruction. It’s been reported that a Russian soldier said he was part of a team tasked with carrying explosives into the dam. Russian tanks and other assets were told to move the day before the dam “collapsed”. The ordinary disposable troops were ignored. The turbine house has been up-ended but not in ways a water scour would do it.
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  63. Russia originally had a push logistics system. Your gun was supplied with an amount of shells that you were expected to fire. They destroy cities because that’s what they do.
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  64. Anti radiation missiles should work well against jamming transmitters. If they can be made to avoid the towers they are trying to jam.
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  65. It’s a good thing that mainstream media copy and paste each other’s stories. Their incompetence protects special force operations.
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  66. China will wait until Putin has exhausted his entire military then they take Eastern Siberiaaka Manchuria.
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  67. Balloons in a ring around a factory do nothing to stop diving drones. They would need balloons all over the site. More debris for drones to drop on the target area.
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  68. It's all too late. The A10 has already been updated and the $Billions are spent.
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  69. Israel would be happy if Gaza did not exist but not to take the land. The whole patch is useless sand.
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  70. Radioactivity is potentially nasty but it’s quite hard to get a significant dose. Radiological contamination is extremely nasty because any particles that get into your body will sit there irradiating the same tissue. That’s properly nasty snd will trigger cancer.
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  71. It took Obama a very long time and not near enough was done to stop their covert activities.
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  72. Plutonium has a 1/2 life of (near enough) 250,000 years. It emits beta radiation that’s stopped by a sheet of paper. But the decay rate is so slow it’s almost impossible to get an overdose just by standing near the stuff. It is highly toxic but so is lead, bismuth, arsenic and many other elements.
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  73. Elon is wrong about his new self driving car. Side by side seats mean it uses the same road space as any other car. Tandem seating with lean steering above 10mph gives a narrow car that can fit 1.5x to 2x as many cars on a particular road space.
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  74. Sea of Azov is very shallow. The landing ships hit by Ukraine are the only substantial vessels with a shallow enough draft to operate in shallow waters.
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  75. Russia, preceded by the Soviets never seem to scrap anything. They all got parked up in far off fields and forgotten about. It’s likely this thing was moved to gain access to a row of T62 tanks and someone snapped a few pictures.
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  76. The Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill is a KGB spy and personal friend of Putin (who was also KGB). Krill is also one of the richest men in Russia.
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  77. The Tim Pool clip is on this video at 10:15.
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  78. I like Ryan. I was not impressed by his dam break theory. Deep water pushes hard but it goes not shatter concrete turbine houses. This alone was enough to see that dam did not simply fail. Even if it had overtopped the collapse would have been relatively gradual.
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