Comments by "David Elliott" (@davidelliott5843) on "The Telegraph" channel.

  1.  @WestValleyTransparency  WW2 had two parts. Before Xmas 1942 and after.
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  2. It’s a small thing but can we PLEASE stop saying New-Cue-Lar. I know the correspondents know better so Please get it right. Nuclear is pronounced New-cle-are. Thanks in advance.
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  3. Bakhmut is under constant Russian artillery fire. Why has Ukraine not taken out the guns?
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  4. How will Russia choose (1) a nuke that will work and (2) a missile that won’t explode when launched.
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  5. Telegraph has been making this very point for decades. It’s only been ignored because Russia hadn’t really shown its colours until now.
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  6. EU cannot afford to accept Ukraine. Their massive agricultural industry would collapse the Common Agricultural Policy.
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  7. Putin has just now driven a Mercedes car across the repaired Kirsch Bridge. It carries huge symbolic importance for him. Time to hit it again.
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  8. The German lady was talking about threats from right wing and left wing “populists”. The right is generally common sense and less government. The Left is about central control some say coercive control. Don’t forget the German historical situation she alluded to was done by a hard socialist. There were added horrors but the foundation was socialist. They fought for the same political space as the communists.
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  9. Check out the latest from Vlad Vexler. He explains the four levels of help that are of could be offered to Ukraine. The most likely answer is enough support to keep Ukraine fighting but not enough for them to beat Russia out of their lands. Not handing over equipment that’s really needed but just sat in garages is a likely outcome.
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  10. The contributors seem to assume the British do not put family values first. The reality is that British are small “c”conservative. We do not support the woke politics espoused by the leftists in our establishment.
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  11. We need a heavy hit of Tomahawks on the airbase near Caspian Sea. Take out the considerable Russian airforce in there.
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  12. Can Ukraine use fast drones to take out Shaheeds? They fly straight and slow with easy to hit propeller at the back
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  13. What a shame. It’s only just been insured for third party, fire & theft.
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  14. We have allowed our politics to swing ever leftwards. Until recently this side was supportive of (and often supported by) Russian influence. They have ridiculed indigenous nuclear power yet been happy to buy Russian gas.
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  15. It is indeed one sided, because Russian information is so corrupted (they win everywhere and shoot everything down) while casualty numbers are irrelevant.
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  16. Russia has not lost until its air bases within range of Ukraine have been softened up. The truck will be going it when Russia least expects it.
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  17. General Mily oversaw the USA making a disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan complete with $80 Billion worth of armaments (and cash money) left behind. What does Mily know about winning wars.
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  18. I fail to see why the most obvious solutions need to take so long to put into action. I also fail to see why upsetting the German government is such an issue. If donors of Leopard tanks simply got on with it, Germany would have a simple choice. Let it happen or be seen as Putin’s poodle.
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  19. Taiwan is 7 hours sailing time from mainland China. Any invasion force would be obliterated long before it got close to Taiwan. Taiwan has steep coastline last with very few landing beaches. All of which are heavily protected. China is actually not that interested but they do want Manchuria and they have the means to take it. Putin dismantling his own military and stealing Siberian men is making that extremely likely.
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  20. How has Victor been swung away from Russia? Maybe someone reminded him that Putin and the Soviets are the same animal. Maybe it’s dawning that useful idiots always lose.
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  21. Putin has the dirt on Sholtz that will be released when he oversteps the line. Not that the German hasn’t been paid off in some way.
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  22. By the time US Hawk arrives, there’ll be no working infrastructure in the country. Hopefully Ukraine can use its domestic ability with drones to take out Iran’s flying bombs.
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  23. EU Germany USA and NATO basically ignored the annexation of Crimea. Putin waited until USA had a weak president and he walked in it was so obviously going to happen.
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  24. UK should send far more Challenger tanks. They are doing nothing useful in MoD garages.
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  25. The Biden Administration bragged about the $ money it was spending on Ukraine. This seriously backfired, because the real $ cost was tiny. He gave his political opponents all the leverage to stop the deliveries. Politically a very poor performance.
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  26. Everyone says that Trump will abandon Ukraine. Maybe he will but Biden’s political incompetence has had the same effect. Historically Trump x armed the s*t out of Putin when he flattened Russian (sorry) Wagner forces in Syria. Putin lost elite troops and much equipment and immediately backed out. Biden’s incompetence in Afghanistan was the trigger to restart Russian aggression.
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  27. It used to be pronounced “Key-Yev”. I always thought that was the Soviet version.
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  28. Nukes are for posturing only. They are useless as weapons of war.
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  29. Telegraph Ukraine podcast is only comedic to those who use rape, torture and destruction of good as weapons of war.
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  30. German Green politics was funded by KGB. That’s the direct reason why Germany scrapped N power in favour of Russian gas.
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  31. Ukraine is likely to be accepted into NATO eventually. It’s highly unlikely to get full membership of EU. It’s huge agriculture industry would completely unbalance the Common Agricultural Policy. Then there’s the massive cost of rebuilding the country. EU will want to impose their micromanaging methods and they’ll see Ukraine as a money pit rather than a business opportunity.
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  32. It seems strange that Russia would remove the one lever it had against Germany/EU. We will know when the damage can be assessed. Internally blow out = Russia sent a bomb down the line. External blow in = anyone’s guess.
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  33.  @mitchyoung93  Biden is clearly signalling that he IS NOT preparing for war.
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  34. Wagner has gone to Belarus where they can attempt an attack on Ukraine from the north. There are too few to win anything so hopefully they’ll try and get trashed by Ukraine.
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  35. It’s not only Schroeder who is compromised. Merkel happily built the Nordstream pipelines and no doubt has some dodgy history with Putin.
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  36. During WW2 Churchill supported attempts to assassinate Hitler. After a while he realised Hitler’s incompetence was an asset and withdrew that policy.
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  37. After the 2017 Syria chemical attack, Trump hit Russian airbases and Wagner thugs with 200 cruise missiles. Putin immediately backed off and stayed off. Then Biden screwed up in Afghanistan and Putin went back to his old ways.
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  38. Russia uses convicts as slave labour. But nobody is buying the stuff they used to dig out of mines. So no worries all round. 😮
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  39. Ukraine would be winning a lot faster if F-16, F-18 or Gripen had already been delivered. Not to mention soviet aircraft that were delayed by Biden.
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  40. The German speakers in Russia- were they trapped there after WW2 or did they move when the iron Curtain / Wall came down?
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  41. ISIS, Alkaida, Iran regime, Assad’s regime, Putin Regime are all fascists. Their people are all disposable assets of the state. Their enemies are objects to be destroyed.
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  42. Belgorod was part of Ukraine before Soviets redrew the borders. Kursk was Russia bug spoke Ukraine Rostov and the Sea of Azov coast was Ukraine. I can see them all wanting to move back.
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  43. The rest of the world has always ignored internal events within Russia and other despotic regimes. This war is a direct result of the same attitudes. Continuing in the same way leads directly to World War 3.
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  44. EU has no mechanism to remove a member country. The exit clause used by UK was an afterthought. And even that was made as difficult as possible.
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  45. YT demonetises anything like this. Hopefully they won’t cancel the channel.
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  46. Turkey needs NATO membership and we don’t need the alternative. Turkey is keeping keeping Russian ships from entering the Black Sea and their drones are doing well for Ukraine. We absolutely do not want a Turkey-Russia-Iran-China axis that could easily develop if Turkey is not welcomed by The West.
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  47. China and India are getting a little cheap oil from Russia but it’s delivered by ship around Africa do won’t make a huge difference. They get almost no gas from Russia because Putin refused to allow building of pipelines. The most likely future event is China taking Manchuria - entirely because they can.
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  48. Russia deliberately razes every city they take. The people are killed in the least costly way. Subsequently it’s rebuilt in the dour Soviet style and repopulated with ethnic Russians. It’s cultural and physical genocide.
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  49. Russia never “donates” anything for free. There are always strings attached. President Biden could easily get aid to Ukraine using channels US commonly operates around the world.
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  50. Back-filling the weaponry given by ex Soviet nations still makes sense because it shows Putin that NATO does not rob Peter to pay Paul. That time is over as UK has recognised.
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