Comments by "David Elliott" (@davidelliott5843) on "Jake Broe" channel.

  1. Trump sounds just like every other fascist we have ever endured. I hope the swing state voters realise what he is.
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  2. Post-war Russia cannot be allowed to have any involvement whatsoever in Ukraine. Anyone thinking that’s excessive should look at how Russia is holding up grain exports which should be going to Africa.
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  3. Russia’s hypersonic cruise missile is actually a ballistic missile with better steering than a Scud. Nothing special.
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  4. Do you mean Jake Bro should be leading NATO? That’s a wonderful thing to say, but I believe General Ben Hodges would be even better.
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  5. France was duped. It’s their own fault for appearing timid but at least they are prepared to swing around and use their big sticks.
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  6. Jake knows that you don’t learn from other people if all you do is show off your own knowledge and opinions. Talking heads on mainstream broadcast media (who all have the same agenda) could learn a lot from Jake.
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  7. Huge oil and gas resources were recently found under East and Southern Ukraine and Crimea. I believe Putin invaded to prevent exploitation of that resource. It’s direct competition to his oil business. However, when Russia is eventually removed, that oil will help to pay for rebuilding the country.
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  8. Ukraine has found a way to use HARM missiles from their MiGs. They’ve already taken out the Russian SAM systems and Russia has no Stingers. Ukraine already has air superiority over Kherson.
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  9. Is he on a the same payroll as the bloggers?
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  10.  @mal2ksc  Normal people want boring parades short as possible. Long and boring is what demagogues like Putin force people to watch.
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  11. We are no longer in a post war situation (WW2 or Cold War). We are now in a pre war situation. The parallels with 1935-38 are frightening.
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  12. Other commentators are saying Ukraine has already breached the Russian trenches. Once inside they cause serious havoc as trenches are not built to handle flank attacks.
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  13. The rockets used were made in 1996 and 1997. Ukraine is saving US the disposal costs.
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  14. My God the trolls are trying to sow doubt on even this act of extreme evil.
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  15. No point asking Russian people. They have no idea what is really going on. They will learn eventually but much too late to save their empire.
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  16. On top of the impact, the raging fuel fire won’t have done him a favour.
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  17. 90% of Western people want this war ended. Most of them want Ukraine to be given everything it needs to get the job done. Drip feeding “defensive” weapons is ridiculous and simply extends the misery. Some of us want to know what is the real read for this foot dragging.
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  18. I wholeheartedly support Ukraine. But I am concerned that Russia’s disregard for life (on either side) is allowing them to creep forward. I hope this is not the case but am concerned it might be.
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  19. This British Viking is 100% on board (I have the Viking colouring).
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  20.  @effexon  They both do a great job of collating and disseminating complex data into information and learning.
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  21.  @effexon  The Soviets are far enough away for propaganda to eulogise over the good old days. Anyone to the right of the bell curve has already left. The remaining sheeple are easier to con.
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  22.  @cristians3363  I like to think I’m pretty good at detecting accents. Her normal and her Russian sound the same to me.
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  23. Where I grew up trump = fart. Literally. “Have you just trumped?”
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  24. Reagan showed Gorbachev USA’s new anti-missile systems. Gorby went back in shock and had his engineers step up efforts to meet the challenges of US technology. Pressure applied by Reagan was central to the Soviet collapse.
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  25. Ukraine FPV drones handle Russian countermeasures far better than the US Switchblade drones. They’ll sort the GLSDB. They won’t bother to tell us or Russia that it’s done.
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  26. Ukraine has been fitting RPG warheads with tail fins and dropping from drones. They happily take out Russian tanks.
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  27. Those children will grow up highly patriotic. In 20 years time, they won’t be backtracking as Russia wants to dissolve the DMZ border to Ukraine.
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  28. Someone who really knows what they are doing should follow the money trails. He’s not blocking this bill for political reasons. There are none.
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  29. Someone should follow the money on Johnsonski.
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  30.  @rickymherbert2899  There are some people for whom the human race is better without.
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  31. High speed drones would be very effective against Putin’s nasty noisy Shsheds. Ideally blow it up with a proximity shot. But simply flying into the propeller will down these things.
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  32. The Bridge is holding up dozens of Russian air defence units. Blowing the bridge means they can be shipped out closer to Ukraine cities.
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  33.  Dennis Wilson  “You broke it You bought it”, is exactly what Putin wants. “You broke it, you pay to fix it as new”, is what’s needed.
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  34. Russia stopped training pilots years ago. Before the war, the existing personnel were given too few flight hours to remain capable of flying at all. Actually achieving any military objective was beyond most of them. Those with any skills are almost certainly gone.
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  35. Keith Kellogg’s daughter has been working in Ukraine for the whole of this conflict.
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  36. General George Patton said, “We are fighting the wrong enemy”. He’s was painted as an apologist for Hitler and met with an “accident”. However he was right. The list of horrors happening in Ukraine today were visited upon eastern Europe in 1945. Very little has changed except Russian ability to keep rolling forward.
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  37. Perun explained in great detail how countries can keep going during wartimes. Russia is one of the most capable at boxing itself in and taking external pressure.
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  38.  @Asporez  The battles against Russian regulars and Warner’s will be brutal. Every other man on the Russian side is poorly trained, poorly equipped, underfed and unpaid. They are not stupid enough to wait until a Himars arrives.
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  39. Russian fighter pilots simply steer their planes. Every movement is controlled by ground or air based directors. Take out the control and they don’t know how to fight.
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  40. Russia is freezing this winter. But they’ll never get the repairs made and even more will fail in 2025. It couldn’t happen to a more worthy set of victims.
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  41. The soldiers almost ignoring dropped grenades are suffering severe hypothermia/exposure. They are too cold to respond and probably close to death anyway.
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  42. The Moskva in that image looks like a rust bucket. Was its defensive armament manned or even operational?
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  43. The Oblasts of Russia around the east of Black Sea up to River Don used to be Ukraine and the language was spoken right over to Caspian Sea. Ethic Ukrainians were long since “cleansed” and deported but that is the history.
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  44. Mike Johnson is very clearly on a payroll.
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  45. Piles of flowers will not collapse Putin. But it’s a start.
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  46. It's a shame the circuit boards are not laced with a layer of explosive to vaporise the parts.
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  47. Japan successfully brought a massive industrial force into the war against them. 6 months later their best aircraft carriers were gone. Their leaders were no different to Hitler, Stalin, Putin or any other autocrat. Their empire in east Asia could have grown. All they had to do was work with USA and not abuse their conquered people. Obviously an impossible task for any autocrat.
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  48. I was very impressed with Alex and Alex (The Duran) explaining what was happening in Kazakhstan, Georgia, Turkey, etc. I’m saddened that they’ve taken Putin’s side of the story. Even if (it’s s big if) Ukraine was a problem to Russia, the war and treatment of Ukraine people is so horribly fascist there is no way to support what’s being done.
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  49. Item 11. Ukraine makes Russian rockets and aircraft.
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  50. The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. But the KGB who controlled the whole thing have never gone away. Their name changed to FSB but they are the same animal.
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  51. Ukraine is most likely concentrating on the oil and gas port facilities with additional hits on refineries. Russian defences are scattered thinly, because they don’t know where the next one will land.
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  52. Like every ex Soviet nation, pre war Ukraine struggled with corruption. The Russian money captured by western countries must be used for Ukraine reconstruction but it must be controlled. Simply paying it to US multinationals like Halliburton is not the answer but simply handing it all over will be even worse.
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  53. Oil and gas wells always contain water. Flow has to be continuous or Russian winter will freeze and shatter the pipes. That broken gas facility will require gas wells to be shut down. Good luck everyone reopening them.
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  54. I would like to say the EU keeps Orban close so they can manage what he does. In reality the EU is a poorly organised alliance with none of the tools any normal group has to remove errant members.
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  55. China will take Eastern Siberia (Manchuria) including Vladivostok. Japan is building up its navy and will grab the islands given to Stalin after WW2.
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  56. This hit looks like a failed attempt by a crime boss to take out a failed henchman. But it did the job anyway. Said henchman will now toe the line and probably withdraw from any involvement in the Kremlin.
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  57. Putin looks more like Eeyore the depressed misery than Piglet who was the eternal optimist.
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  58. Do these drone boats have engines and electric power? That would explain how they could get so close without beating heard.
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  59. Ukraine is big enough to nearly double EU grain production. EU agriculture is robust enough to cope with a price hit of that magnitude. The solution (that EU refuses to accept) is to protect Ukraine grain ports and storage facilities. Not to mention the bulk ships on the Black Sea.
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  60.  @Wann-zo7rn2qn4i  The Rostov crowd at least looked real. All Putin can manage is the same few renta bods to wave flags and try to not look bored. I'm amazed FSB has put up with him for so long.
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  61. The work done by Alan Turing and the British Ultra code breakers was classified so hard because the Soviets never knew the Enigma code was broken They used versions of the machines until 1990.
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  62. Rotterdam was hit by massed attacks of Nazi missiles. London had mostly V1 cruise missiles that were mostly shot down with relatively few V2 rockets which had no defence whatsoever. None of these were accurately targeted.
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  63. It’s not just the pipes. Much of Russian oil and gas is under the Tundra permafrost. It comes out of the wells hot. If the flow stops the ground around the well freezes and crushes the pipe. That well can no longer be used.
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  64. I am not anti vax but I will not be accepting another MRNA jab. Too many negatives for me.
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  65. The original people of Konigsberg were removed and sent to the salt mines long ago. Kaliningrad is entirely Russian and should never be allowed into EU.
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  66. Many of these new cryptos were hyped by “influencers” (who of course) already held a significant number) their subscribers buy their share. Laddie influence then sells a chunk of his coins.
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  67. The most likely cause is usually the least complicated option. These multi-bomblet missiles are the easiest way to get the job done.
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  68.  @nomercyinc6783  Putin does not have control of FSB. It all depends on who FSB think is a better figurehead to replace Putin. Prigozhin is a risk but he's all they have.
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  69. The steel arch span shown in Jake’s image of the bridge would be a good target. One or two precision misfiles could take out fundamental structures. It’s then “only” a short span to replace after the war.
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  70.  @obscureus2561  Russian army does not have sergeants. It’s no wonder they can’t fight a war against anyone who can fight back.
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  71. The world failed when they did nothing about the dam destruction. It was obviously deliberately blown up but nobody said anything. Even BBC pretended it was accidental n
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  72. An unpopular foreign war ended the Soviets by exposing their corruption and mismanagement. The war in 1917 ended the Tsars for the same reasons. Putin is simply continuing the tradition.
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  73. However. the red value to date is based on profits etc in a stable and rising market. The future with high inflation AND high interest rates, will be anything but either of these. Future stock values will be lower. Add effect of day trading speculators cashing in their losses and prices can only fall.
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  74. Russia is an empire, every bit as brutal as C15th Spanish Empire. Spain grew up. Russia prefers to be a mafia state that brutalises and makes slaves of the people it conquers.
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  75. That Russian train looks just like the same stupid trains built by Hitler’s Germany. The only difference is Russia ran out of paint for the full swastika.
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  76. UK is already short of building trades. The situation will get worse when people (quite rightly) move to Ukraine to help with rebuilding.
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  77. She (so) in China has operated along the same lines. They are basically no different to 1930s Germany. No one man can control every detail of even their own household never mind a whole country. Sooner or later it will collapse. Russia has a huge demographic problem too many old people too few working age too much disease and no useful education. They are now killing their young men at a prodigious rate. They already cannot control wildfires in Siberia so what happens when China walks into the Vladivostok area?
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  78. Ukraine pilots can probably learn US aircraft very quickly but the maintenance crews are another issue. They are no less capable but they do not work with 21st Century equipment.
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  79. Russia has to keep pumping. But when their infrastructure inevitably breaks down, the wells will have to be shut down. They can’t sell oil they can’t move to the customers. As Jake says. Closed wells in Siberia won’t reopen without being redrilled. Russia does not have the expertise so then what?
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  80. It takes 18 years to make an 18 year-old. Get them at 10 and halve the development time.
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  81. Peter Zeihan explained how China’s one child policy created a serious demographic problem. Their population is ageing and within 10 years they won’t be able to run the country. Russia wanted Ukraine because their demographics are not far behind.
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  82. Russia might have failed militarily but their currency has bounced back and The West sanctions are doing more harm to Europe (especially) and USA because they can’t or won’t do the job properly.
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  83. Russia does not need Musk to put their stuff into space.
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  84. Jake mentions the Caspian Sea and River Volga. Ukraine sovereignty was once bordered by the Volga but was dismembered by the Soviets.
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  85.  @PedroFerreira-ze5yp . Trump so far is not supporting Putin and Muzk is
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  86. This week, Russia has been shelling its own towns in Belgorod. During WW2, Stalin flattened every town as they pushed back the Germans. It was a scorched earth that killed millions of totally defenceless Russians. The Germans were brutal, but Stalin was orders of magnitude worse. In 1944, General George Patton said “we are fighting the wrong enemy” and was castigated for saying it. . Today’s Russia shows how totally correct he was.
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  87. Daylight savings time works in some northern latitudes. England for example would benefit from double summer time and summer time. Anyone further north or south just has too many negatives to be worth the bother.
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  88. Putin always lies. Everything he says is the opposite of reality. Ditto the Russian media. Putin also does a great job of mirroring anyone he meets so they believe he’s a good guy. Certainly worked on Germany and France.
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  89. Biden has been sick for months. He should have stepped aside in early 2024 but he’s too much of a narcissist to think about such things.
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  90. The only fundamental difference between Stalin’s Soviets and Hitler’s Nazis was the Nazis had better uniforms. Stalin’s incompetence made Russia a target for Hitler’s take-over.
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  91.  @dgwachtel  Wars are won by military power. Wars are lost by economics.
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  92. Anders is a serving military officer. There will be much he cannot say. Disentangling sensitive information from public domain is a full time job by itself.
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  93. The coming inflation will quickly look like a dead cat bounce. The real problem is long term DEFLATION. we are heading where Japan has been for the last >30 years. The world economy is heading for short term inflation followed by long term collapse.
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  94. The parallels with Hitler, Stalin and the Kim family is stunning.
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  95. Shut down the cell towers and mobiles stop working. Simples.
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  96. None Russian athletes should boycott the Paris Olympic Games. That’s tough when you’ve worked hard for the privilege but morally you should walk away.
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  97. Russian tanks and vehicles advancing on Kyiv in February 22 endlessly broke down and ran out of fuel. Their tyres were ancient and fell apart. The whole escapade looked unplanned and extremely badly prepared. Why? Corruption. They had nothing to prepare with so went with what they had.
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  98. I hope you are right about SDLB numbers.
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  99. The trumpian "patriot" GOP voters will avoid electing more of the same corporate schills taking back-handers. It's hard to know how that will effect the economy but for sure it's unlikely to follow past patterns.
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  100. Thank You for stating what should be obvious. When your country is invaded by monsters you either fight back or you literally fall into hell and slavery.
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  101. He’s already “fallen” out of a window and flown to Africa.
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  102.  @vitapont7338  Hitler always wanted to attack Stalins Soviets. He only went for Western Europe because he could. A basic mistake only a megalomaniac would make. He then ruined his occupation of Russian Steppes by treating the people as slaves. This people absolutely hated Stalin but decided to stick with the devil they knew. Politically there was no fundamental difference between Hitler and Stalin.
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  103. Jake with Ben. This is going to be good.
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  104. Back the 1950s many people escaped Ukraine to escape Stalin’s iron rule and later the Iron Curtain. UK has many “temporary” camps that became permanent settlements usually known as the Ukraine Camp. This is a big part of why UK has given so much support.
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  105. Russia will delay, delay, delay, then accept, then blame Ukraine for breaking the ceasefire. Expect black flags, “accidents” and fires.
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  106. 600 dead was an uncanny coincidence. And a tacit admission that Ukraine weapons had set off Russian munitions killing 600 (rather than 63 or 89).
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  107. Russian soldiers never get their payments. It’s either stolen or they are not recorded as kia in action. No Kia no money.
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  108. My huge hope is this pointless delay wakes up European leaders. The EU is not an appropriate vehicle to run a military. It’s up to individual countries to protect themselves by going back to defence investments that we last saw 40 years ago. This is a real war. Right here. Right now. Russia is dangerous. The peace is over.
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  109. USA has absolutely no need to make ever more nuke weapons. They already have more than enough to wipe out Russia 10x over.
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  110. During WW2 the NAZIs treated Russians with unspeakable brutality. Later in the war Russian troops were every bit as bad towards Germans. 80 years later we get proof the Russian army is just as barbaric today as they ever were.
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  111. Russia has 6000 nuke warheads. Correction - Russia claims to have 6000 warheads. How many would actually work is another matter. They are as likely to explode on the launch pad as anywhere else. Or just fail to launch or fail to do anything at all.
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  112. Tucker Carlson has been reasonably opposed to Biden policies - before this war started. He seems to think that opposing Biden now is more of the same yet Biden has clearly been correct on Ukraine. His only mistake (regarding the war) is not doing more to help Ukraine.
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  113. India and China have demanded discounts on Russian oil. They have been paying 30% under the spot price. Prices have dropped so they are now well below the cost of production. Then as Peter says, Russia is paying the high costs of delivering the oil. Their money printer has already become a money pit.
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  114.  @thany3  some religions are deeply F in the ways of Giovani Gentile. Today’s Christianity is not.
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  115. Female mosquitoes do the biting. Sterile male mosquitoes are real and they do cut the population. But it’s just nutty enough for nutters like JFK to distort.
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  116. A-10 or Embraer Tucano would make a mess of that lot. However, many Chechens switched to fighting WITH Ukraine. These new guys might follow suit.
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  117. Has Prigozhin backed down or is the revolt still on?
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  118. Hasn’t the pentagon turned Starlink back on for the whole area? That solves the problem of a private company taking sides.
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  119. I have no problem with political bias. We all have it. I do have a huge problem when journalists claim to be unbiased yet spin stuff to suit their personal narrative. BBC and Sky News UK are full of this. Sky Australia is right wing but never pretends otherwise. I find this is a more honest way to work.
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  120. The Siberian people must surely realise they have been taken for fools. Becoming part of China must look like a great idea.
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  121. The Belarus military has one task - they keep the population under control. Remove any of them to fight in Ukraine and the people will kick off.
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  122. The parallels with Nazi Germany are shocking.
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  123. China guy says he has a heavy cold. It’s highly likely he has early stage TB. Russian bullets and trenches are infested.
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  124. There are no missile craters yet numerous assets were destroyed. I think it’s more likely a special forces demolition job.
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  125. Go for it Russia. Send your bombers to Kyiv. Our AA is switched off. Honest. Looking forward to seeing your smoke trails (sorry) contrails.
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  126. The Soviet gulags were (and still are) slave camps by any other name. The Soviet economy was propped up by slavery. It’s a nice little earner. Why would Putin change that?
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  127. The founding fathers of USA benefited strongly from how things were at the time. They created the constitution, bill, endless checks and balances so that system would not change. Allowing one man to control the diary of Congress was/is a huge mistake but the situation won’t be changed in our lifetimes. Hopefully the recently triggered work-around will get the Ukraine finance bill pig to the vote. Why did it have to take so long.
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  128. Hey look Comical Ali and Ri Chun-hee are working in Moscow.
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  129. What a surprise #1 the very people used in every other Putin video are right there in this one. What a surprise #2 the man wasn’t even the real Putin. What a surprise #3 the film location was not even Mariupol.
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  130. Jake Rocks. Why do the establishment find it so hard?
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  131.  @davidfraser9365  The German car industry is failing to embrace electric cars and will die as a result. German armaments have always been seen as the best. Not any more. Far too many strings attached. By the way inflatable fake tanks fooled Germany in 1944. They should work just as well this time.
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  132. Is Ukraine using dumb missiles to decoy the HIMARS? They all look the same on radar.
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  133. Parkinson’s can persist for decades so don’t expect nay sudden changes.
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  134. Erdogan is trying to play both sides and his Islamist connections are not a good sign.
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  135. USA has a history of failed regime change. Dictators cause huge damage but (especially in Middle East) their removal causes even bigger problems. Obama/Biden are trying to avoid a repeat by letting dictators do what they like. We need a measured response that gets results. That needs genuine intelligence. Not something US (or any western) leaders are well endowed with.
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  136. Russia has considerable problems with endemic disease including TB (drug resistant) and HIV. This is causing a serious drain on their economy. The war has extracted even more men and thrown them into the grinder. Many are too sick to fight properly, never mind their adequate equipment.
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  137. Israel has been preparing for war for 70 years. Ukraine allowed itself to be “protected” by The West when they gave up their nukes. 10 years later Putin invaded and The West did nothing. 8 years after that, Putin turned up the pressure with all-out war.
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  138. Leftists have captured the media in The West. In UK, they even control the media regulator. An outfit created by Tony Blair specifically to twist the media in his preferred direction. BBC and Sky News constantly lie by omission and GB News is always fighting against claims of bias. I have no idea why UK Left don’t support fights against fascism. But then hard left politics always becomes fascist. So no surprise really.
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  139. The bridge punched through near the abutment has not quite hit the foundation. Another one will finish the job.
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  140. There was no fundamental difference between the Soviets and the Nazis. Pick any factor they did them all. They hated each other because only one could be top dog. Just like every other mafia boss. Putin is said to be continuing the tradition but except for a pause after the Soviet collapse, nothing has changed. In Russia, thud is all perfectly normal.
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  141. Russia won’t walk into any NATO country. Russia will erode and corrode us from the inside. The devisive social justice campaigns are almost certainly funded by Russia. Just as they did with European Greens since the 1970s.
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  142. Russian athletes get to compete only when their government says so. They are not neutral.
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  143. Russia is notable for starting wars and taking a pasting. Then the y bounce back and win by brutalising the victim country. Chechnya and Georgia are good examples. Hopefully the Ukraine army is ready for them trying something similar this time. Personally I think they are spent. But better safe than sorry. Be ready.
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  144. The "wonderful" WW2 T34 tank could not have existed without USA made parts. e.g. rubber components the turret ring gear. Don't have these and you don't have a tank.
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  145. Up to 1943, Churchill supported plans to assassinate Hitler. Then he realised the man was so stupid that keeping him alive was actually an asset to The Allies. I suggest Putin falls into the same bucket.
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  146. Patton was right.
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  147. Patriot batteries could be moved closer to front lines and continue to protect Kyiv. It has the range.
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  148. Trump’s strength during 2016 to 2020 was that he could not be bought. He doesn’t need dirty money. He actually took just $1 per year in presidential salary. So what’s changed since then?
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  149. Wagner has a big force near Ukraine. Obviously they won’t invade Ukraine.
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  150. It was the Russia Fall.
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  151.  @wedgeantilles8575  USA screwed up with its help to Stalin. They wanted to shorten WW2 but instead created the “ever war” of the Cold War and allowed Soviets to subjugate Eastern Europe.
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  152. Russia says the F-16 seen over Kiev was a photoshop job. They don’t mention why it sounded like an F-16.
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  153. I fear that Joe Biden does not explain the reality to the US people because he is simply not capable. The VP is at least as as handicapped, because she can’t string two coherent words together.
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  154. The point about Russian propaganda reinforcing the cracks between our various political groups is very interesting. The Greens were especially anti nuclear. Not just “ban the bomb” but the power plants as well. KGB funded the German and EU Greens leading to Germany closing its nuclear power plants. The spin-off was excessive regulatory control making power plants too expensive to build. As has especially happened in UK.
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  155. Don’t forget Putin has more than enough Nazis of his own. Wagner Group and Chechen mercenaries.
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  156. You have to confirm every target is real. Russian troops just shoot off another multimillion dollar cruise missile. Better than being shot for not firing a missile.
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  157. Russia is amassing a new invasion force to retake the recently liberated North. Uncle Himars will be in action soon.
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  158. Ukraine has an 1800 km (1100 mile) border with Russia. That would need a massive army to protect. When Ukraine falls (as it will) that border gets even longer which still has to be protected.
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  159. One Himars on each target per night for five nights would be more effective than five all at once. Think of the psychological effect.
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  160. It’s disingenuous to criticise Musk while ignoring Zuck spending millions to swing US elections and Gates funding the WEF.
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  161. Russia and its plans are laid bare. Why is Biden not releasing the F-16s, A10s and moving Abrams tanks by the 100s? The money being spent on Ukraine is not a rounding error but it is an extremely small part of the USA defence budget.
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  162. US announcs $Billions of expenditure but in reality it’s stuff that was bought 20 years ago then priced like it’s new. The desperately needed GLSDB (and no doubt superb) bomb system is old stuff with some new add-ons. I can’t imagine the actual cost today is $40,000 per unit.
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  163. 7:30 is not abandoned Russian armour. It’s a special military storage area they’ve left ready for next week’s campaign.
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  164. Maybe we can get the Ukraine trainees to sign flags for raffling off to raise charity funds.
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  165. Pre USSR, Ukraine territories reached the River Don and all around the Black Sea to Turkey. Soviet “Russification” removed the indigenous peoples, but when Russia collapses, what chance those people want to reset the borders? Ukraine had better be careful it’s not a Trojan horse. .
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  166. I was going by a map showing Ukraine in early C20th. Ukraine did reach the Caspian though there was almost no coast line. They say the language was spoken right over to the Caspian. Obviously the Soviets quickly dealt with that issue.
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  167. The 20 years delay on NATO entry for Ukraine ignores that Putin cannot stop his w@r. Russia is now a full w@r economy. A DMZ won’t stop the fight, because even a short pause will collapse the Russian economy overnight.
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  168. Trump is campaigning for Trump. He plans to abolish the electoral college voting system. He will leave when he expires naturally and his family will fill the job. MAGA will rue the day they voted for this monster.
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  169. Brazilian tries to say Trump is just as bad. Typical Leftist response. Do you really want more Biden style appeasement?
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  170. UK currently has a big problem with its unionised train drivers. They have extremely well paid, cushy jobs but they always want more. This coming week, they are using their political power to shut down the rail network. It will not be the last strike. Europe has (so far) managed to keep its public sector workers happy. But trains only work for the bulk distances. Busses are largely rubbish for local journeys and taxis are VERY expensive. Neither work for daily commutes. Now please remind me why I own a car?
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  171. Pool has been pushing against Ukraine well before the 2021 invasion. But all of them had the same talking points. Duran, Redacted, Pool basically said the same story.
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  172. Storm Shadow is expensive but the costs of fighters like F-15 are at another level plus the cost of munitions
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  173. George Patton said, “we are fighting the wrong enemy”. He was not a Nazi but had realised the Soviets made Hitler’s regime look cute.
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  174. We need to find ways to get all Americans to appreciate what is going on. Those who oppose Biden are ignoring what is happening in Ukraine.
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  175. USA has a frightening prospect. The Supreme Court is considering a new ruling where a president cannot be prosecuted for anything done while in office - personal or as pet of his official duties. If that happens, USA will become a dictatorship. It won’t matter if it’s Trump or anyone else. Such power without penalty is incredibly dangerous.
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  176. The prisoner HIV story shows the total lack of education in Russia. Death in the front line is nasty but AIDS is one of the worst ways to die ever. Why don’t they know that?
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  177. Biden was no friend to Ukraine. He had to be dragged into sending significant material into Ukraine. Tanks, Bradleys, F-16, etc arrived but very slowly. Ukraine stalled the Russians but was not allowed to throw them back.
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  178. It’s not called New York Crimes for nothing.
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  179. Ukraine should walk into Belgorod. It would make a good bargaining chip. But more likely the people would want to stay with Ukraine. Ditto Rostov but that’s just too far away.
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  180. Sadly the song had no sound. But it looks like winter was there when he filmed it.
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  181. Ukraine did better than sink that Russian warship. It’s now taking up maintenance space and preventing more usable ships from being repaired.
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  182. Extreme theology from any religion always becomes fascist. This includes communism and Hitler’s pseudo religious fanaticism.
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  183. Can Ukraine load ships on Dnipro? They have the missile range to protect their 12 mile national maritime limit.
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  184. Nuking Yellowstone would kill bears, bison, deer and wild cats. It would not trigger the volcano unless it’s ready to blow anyway.
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  185. Could Ukraine aircraft have taken out the four or five Russians?
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  186. Russian oil and gas is extracted from tundra areas where the ground is permanently frozen. The petroleum products come out hot and keep the ground ice-free. When those wells are closed the pipes will get crushed by the ice. They can never be restarted. Russia has no intrinsic oil industry. They bought in the expertise from service companies such as Halliburton. They walked out leaving nobody to maintain the industry.
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  187. Has anyone followed the money on these pro Putin House members.
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  188. Until this war, I was impressed with Marjorie Taylor Green. However her attitude over Ukraine is either incredibly duplicitous or incredibly stupid. The war was allowed to happen by Obama ignoring the Crimea annexation but also by Trump pretending that Ukraine doesn’t exist. Trump hit Putin’s forces (hard) in Syria - rightly so. But he did nothing to warn Putin off Ukraine when the direction of travel was obvious.
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  189. What happens when Russian oil production collapses through lack of maintenance? The international contractors have walked out and Russia has nobody to do do the work. When oil and gas wells through permafrost go cold they get crushed. Those wells can never be used again.
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  190. Operation Barbarossa failed for many reasons.  (1) Germany advanced on a front that was far too wide for them to cope with. Germany urgently needed oil from the Caucasus area. Anything north of Ukraine was no strategic benefit to Germany. Even Stalin was amazed at their folly.  (2) The Slavic Russian peasants hated Stalin with a vengeance but Nazis considered them sub-human. Unsurprisingly, they stuck with the devil they knew and sheer weight of numbers swamped the Nazis. (3) There are numerous other reasons including 2000 miles of supply lines that Germany could not support.
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  191. Soviet Russia closed off its borders and controlled the people with good salaries and cheap alcohol. There was nothing worth buying but the system hung on for 60 years.
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  192. We should be helping Ukraine build more cruise missiles to take out many more expensive bombers.
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  193. Those tapered cylinder things were being recycled into magnifying glasses. Nothing to see here.
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  194. Ukraine is being careful with those new ATACMS. Russia has no idea when or where they’ll arrive.
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  195. Ukraine did “the right thing” by giving up their nuclear weapons. In realty that was a huge strategic error. They knew that Russia can never be trusted and should have kept an undisclosed amount of weapons.
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  196. Xi is not stupid. He might help out with a few bullets but there no way he will saddle China to a failed state that’s even more corrupt than his own.
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  197. Putin is about to escalate the war by declaring the occupied parts of Ukraine as part of Russia. At least Ukraine can now attack the Belgorod rail lines.
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  198. Russia entire purpose is to wipe Ukraine off the map. Razing the cities is all part of that process.
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  199. Why not the F18? It’s built for carrier operations so the airframe is tougher than F16.
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  200. That could take years, by then Chinese demographic problems will be seriously biting their economy. Russia wont be far behind taking their oil industry with them.
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  201. Russia says 97% of those who voted yes voted yes. Well they would, wouldn’t they?
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  202. Putin is trying to create a new Soviet with Nazi fascist dressing. The parade with its Z logo and over dressed general looks fascist. He even goes on about Motherland vs the other parent.
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  203. Many are saying we are at the start of not just a recession but a full blown depression. Burry says we are half way there but why would things stop falling that point? Where is the bottom? Could it drop below the 2008 levels?
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  204. Fascism comes in many flavours. Hitler and his Naxis are obvious. Stalin was no different and Putin is more of the same. Then we have The Iran Mullahs, ISIS and Taliban. They are all fascists.
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  205. Putin has around 100 oligarchs immediately before him. For various reasons, none of them will lift a finger to remove him. He will cling on to the bitter end.
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  206. Marx and his fascist acolytes were reprehensible but that doesn’t mean all philosophers are as disgusting. Apart from Dugin who is just (yet) another Russian troll.
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  207. If Biden/Obama had a fraction of Jake’s common sense they would have said exactly that Iran and Russia are pals and both are enemies of USA. But he’s ignoring the whole point. Political incompetence on a stick.
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  208. Mainstream Media will always push the government narrative. When they want Ukraine to look good, they'll show exploding Russian tanks. When they want to chicken-out and pull away, they'll say that Ukraine is losing. Too many "losing" videos are a sign that Biden and NATO are getting cold feet.
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  209. Russian news is 100% propaganda. Carlson should know better.
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  210. Dresden was fire-stormed. A side(?) effect was to show Stalin exactly what Allied bombers could do.
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  211. The motor industry is basically ignoring the reality of electric vehicles. Component prices especially batteries are falling yet that are making no serious preparations. The legacy manufacturers are headed for a huge crash. Unfortunately the released labour force will be too late for any Chinese “adventurers”.
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  212. Taking out Putin WILL NOT STOP Putin. His entirecsbsl is staffed by like-minded monsters. Losing the Putin snake head would simply allow another to step into his place.
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  213.  @mal2ksc  eBay “for parts” means it’s a pile of scrap good luck finding another sucker to buy it.
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  214. People think nuclear waste is the stuff taken out of reactors. A far bigger component is the depleted uranium. Every ton of fissile uranium leaves 200 tons of depleted uranium along with all the disposable stuff used along the way.
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  215. How long before Russia blows the reservoir dam?
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  216. Check out the map from Kazakhstan westwards. Armenia Georgia, Ukraine are all in a line along Russia’s border and all have significant oil reserves. Putin opposes a pipeline across the Caspian Sea and has fought endless wars to impose his rule over the area. This is not about old Soviet borders. It’s about stopping that oil from competing with Putin’s oil in Siberia and North Russia. Ukraine started to exploit its new oil reserves in Donbas and Crimea. Suddenly there’s a civil war fomented by Putin. He’s now escalated it to a full on invasion.
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  217. The man blocking Congressional business is almost certainly paid by KGB or whatever acronym they use these days. Why does everybody choose not to see this?
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  218. After 1991, everyone in positions of power wanted to believe the collapse of USSR meant a utopian new future. They wilfully ignored that the same people were still running Russia.
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  219. How long before Russian citizens start shooting the secret police? Men thinking If I’m going to did anyway? might as well take a few “bar stewards’ with you.
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  220. Russia stopped having children years ago. They are running out of people. Putin keeps killing any chance of new babies being born
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  221. During WW2 William Joyce (and others) broadcast Nazi propaganda to UK. Nicknamed “Lord Haw Haw” but met a sticky end after the war.
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  222. This seems to be consistently bad. Is it a cover for the picks she has not declared?
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  223. Battle of Midway - 1942 the first three bomber and torpedo attacks were crushed by the Japanese. Another flight went out, found nothing and came back. That US ship did basically nothing. However USA in the end destroyed three out of four Japanese aircraft carriers in a resounding victory. Ukraine is right now in a similar situation. There will be losses but they have the means and the leadership to win.
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  224. Other than uniforms and technology, there is no fundamental difference between fascism and communism. Both are state controlled hard left socialism. Putin is a fascist but despite his propaganda so was Stalin and the whole Soviet system.
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  225. These drones are good for destabilising Russia, but we need a plan to force Russia out of Ukraine. If Putin gets any value (no matter the cost) from his war he will do it again.
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  226. Every one of those examples of European misery is wrong. Our costs have gone up and weather has been colder than usual but we simply get on with our lives. Putin’s gas card failed but we just moved on. He can’t play it again. Even Germany has turned its back on Russian energy.
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  227. I used to watch what Carlson has to say. And agree that Ukraine has corruption problems. That does justify the most corrupt country in the world just walking in and exterminating people. TC has clearly been bought by Putin.
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  228. The pre 1917 borders are not ideal. Ukraine borders reached the River Don and around the whole Sea of Azov. Poland hardly existed. East Germany was not Russian. Neither was any of Hungaria or Czechs or the Slovaks. Albania and Romania were not part of Tzarist Russia.
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  229. Russia has used Eastern Ukraine men as cannon fodder (few will be left alive), raped and deported the women. The children are separated and deported into “orphanages” and indoctrinated as Russians.
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  230. Ukraine is better leaving Kherson boxed up and waiting for the invaders to give up. The place is already stripped bare soles d them to fester.
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  231. The missile used had at least a ton of explosive. Air defence is not even close to that size.
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  232. The war could drag on, but hopefully it will be over by 2026. I’m not convinced that Trump hates corruption and we know he responds to winners. I’m not convinced he will dump Ukraine but he may well dump NATO.
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  233. The best way to destroy Putin is low oil and gas prices. His customers agreed $30 below market rates. When rates hit $80, Putin will be selling below cost. Then there’s the lack of maintenance degrading what Russia can deliver at any price.
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  234. A10s and HARM missiles can take out every radar station. BUT radar sees across borders. Russia would simply move its Buk and other AA system across their side of the border. When Ukraine uses HARMs on them, they’ll have escalated the war.
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  235. If NATO goes for no fly zones, will they include the occupied areas? The risk is they won’t.
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  236. USA has given over just 10% of the money headlined as aid for Ukraine. The rest goes to US arms manufacturers to replace the worn out kit that was shipped out.
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  237. The Republican speaker is an idiot but why has Biden faffed about sending powerful aid to Ukraine? He clogged up the potential for F-16 and refused to send ATACMS. Why? Also where are those glide bomb missiles? Deliberate delay? Of course not. So what’s going on?
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  238. 150,000 plus (at least) another 50,000 they choose to ignore Chechens, Donbas irregulars, conscripted Ukrainian slaves, Wagner, Russian prisoners, etc.
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  239. Tuberculosis (TB) is endemic in Russia. Alcohol dependence (if not alcoholism) is extremely common.
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  240. Wagner recruiting in prisons suggests they have lost a significant proportion of their numbers. Why else are they making such desperate moves? The flaw in their grift is that convicts will not be recorded and bodies not recovered. Nobody will know your 6 months have been served so how do you escape?
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  241. 5 tanks killed is great. However, we need to see 50 tanks going down per day. Loitering drones with squash head (HESH) warheads would be incredibly effective and seriously cheap.
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  242. Ukraine is unlikely to waste its ammunition on a demonstration attack on Moscow. Russian patriots might have done it but the warheads failed to explode. False flag is the most likely. The surprise is that Putin hasn’t demolished a couple of residential blocks like he did to bounce himself into power.
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  243. Putin keeps his personal enemies arguing and fighting amongst themselves so they don’t threaten him.
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  244. The least risky option is to get mobilised and surrender ASAP. Do it now before Russia gets its Wagner bullies organised They’ll be keep people lined up as cannon fodder.
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  245. Putin will have already been told that when he drops a nuke every one of his military bases will get trashed by tomahawks.
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  246. Putin planned to occupy all of eastern and southern Ukraine across the whole Azov and Black Sea coasts. They were let in by sympathetic local leaders and military. Quite why Ukraine could not better manage the situation before the war is anyone’s guess.
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  247. Its only a matter of (not much) time. These drones can go directly into fox-holes.
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  248. Ukraine has Leopard tanks sinking into fields and becoming well embedded. They are too heavy to be used until the land dries out. The offensive will wait for the same reasons. The offensive will also wait until more tanks arrive.
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  249. During WW2 the British removed unexploded bomb fuses just like guys at end of this video. BUT they literally steamed out the contents. Wet steam literally melts the explosive out of that fuse hole.
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  250. Gasprom blew up Nordstream to avoid paying damages money due under their supply contracts
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  251. That’s a Star Trek rock
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  252. Russian oligarchs and immediate families have been hit by an epidemic of murder suicides. Amazingly these men managed to stab themselves multiple times.
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  253. The guy with the road mine could do it more safely with a tyre over the mine and drop a hand grenade into the middle. Tyre traps the shrapnel.
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  254. Putin is surrounded by idiots because he poisoned anyone with any ability or had them fall out of high windows.
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  255. If you are drafting anyone, why are the women not being taken as well? An untrained woman can hold a rusty AK-47 j(or WW1 rifle) ust as well as an untrained man.
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  256. If Trump returns to power and if the war is still running, its highly unlikely he will pull the plug on weapons support to Ukraine. He’s more likely to tell Putin to do his worst and see what happens.
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  257. Putin has made the news deliberately complicated and confusing so the people give up and outsource it to his government. In many cases that’s not reversible. That 70% grey mass is unlikely to shrink very much.
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  258. What you say makes sense but why did Biden cancel oil pipeline contracts and refuse to lease federal land leases for oil and gas extraction. Far from driving oil prices down he seems to be pushing them up.
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  259. Putin stealing (sorry) nationalising the steel industry is much the same as how Hitler handled Heinkel and his aircraft company. Sadly other industrialists failed to appreciate what was going on and too many were doing nicely from Hitler’s war preparations.
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  260. Hitler had his Fatherland. Stalin had his Motherland. Both were fascist socialists where the people worked for the state and the top dogs creamed off anything they could get. Putin’s Russia is so corrupt they can’t even get that right.
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  261. When I was a child a close neighbour was an lovely German lady who married a British soldier after WW1. She absolutely refused to believe the Nazi crimes ever happened. Basically, the German people would never allow such atrocities to happen. We can shoot endless holes in her approach but I suspect many Russians are doing this over Putin’s regime.
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  262. I can’t see Ukraine stopping until they have thrown Russia back to the original borders and retaken Crimea. Stopping short of that would look like win for Putin or at least spun that way. There is also the huge oil and gas reserves under the area. Putin simply wants if kept in the ground. Europe wants that oil as kills Putin’s monopoly.
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  263. Ukraine spent a fortune on its FPV drone technology. It’s only fair they want to maintain their first mover advantage.
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  264. Russia has already given (Soviet) nuke technology to Iran. The next attack from Israel will show where the goodies were sent.
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  265. Zelenski needs to get his counter offensive going because (1) he can’t wait for Russia to collapse into civil war and (2) when Russia does collapse into civil war, the chaos could make the war crimes around Ukraine even worse.
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  266. Russian oil production is ok for now but maintenance has all but stopped which will hit their oil and gas production. Wells drilled through permafrost cannot be allowed to go cold. The pipes get crushed and they can’t ever be used again.
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  267. Putin will never rebuild Mariopol or anywhere else in Ukraine because he’s taking all the people to slave in his dangerous outdated factories and as sex slaves to deliver good Soviet children.
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  268. Zelensky saying the wider border is originally Ukraine does not mean Ukraine will go to war over it. However when the people really pi$$ed off with Putler, they might choose to move the border.
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  269. @alistair1840Troll alert.
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  270.  @233lynx The latter has always held up his side, even not using US supplied “tools” when doing so was beneficial to Ukraine. He kept to his side of the bargain.
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  271. Theories of who killed Priggy are only conspiracies when they go against the narrative. We have since learned there was no sign of SAM shrapnel damage. It’s likely there was a bomb or two on board. We are told Priggy has been identified - he had enough tats and probably wasn’t 100% crispy.
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  272. Watch Putin claim a Ukraine drone killed Priggy. It’s another excuse to hit a grain depot.
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  273. Musk is wrong for following what Russian bots have to say. However, Ukraine should have kept 100% quiet about their drone boats AND hidden the Starlink antenna under a cloth cover. Advertising Starlink or any other commercial service provider was guaranteed to cause arguments and lead to losing the service.
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  274. It was a diesel submarine bug no less nasty for that.
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  275. Suggest we also watch Joshua Philipp who has a hour long discussion on the subject. eg USAID is being rolled into State Department. Two sides to every story.
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  276. If Biden would get off the fence about long range missiles and F-16, to Ukraine the war would have been over by now.
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  277. Kim must be loving this.
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  278. The Soviets only “won” WW2 because USA gave them huge amounts of equipment and aid. USA screwed up because without that help the whole of Eastern Europe would have never been subjugated by Stalin and his Soviets.
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  279. Compare the people cheering the removal of a communist monument with the women supposedly praising the Russian soldiers driving into Donbas. They look so happy not even slightly coerced.
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  280. The good General would be a superb president. However Democrats as as crooked as it gets and Republicans have gone totalitarian. He can’t go it alone because the US system always destroys anything that’s not from one or other end of the system.
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  281. GLSDB has arrived but if it’s going via Poland the pro Russians over there will delay the trucks. There’s always some snag or demonstration causing queues and lines on the roads.
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  282. Ukraine has no long range HIMARS. Oh wait…
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  283. UK has the same problem. We have the hard left making laws which conservatives never repeal. We have the same hard left allowing hordes of Muslim men to invade our southern border. These men will never integrate into British society. They will expand their inner city enclaves and the organised crime that controls those areas.
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  284. The Biden regime has crimped the US ability to meet its own demand for oil. But that's a transitory situation they have over-cooked it. USA will soon enough return to oil exportation and the price will collapse. However the world is heading for long term DEFLATION caused by serious demographic issues. Legacy manufacturing with its top-heavy management and excessive debt will get crushed by new players (Tesla at the top and the Chinese at the bottom end).
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  285. If Ukraine can make its own long range missile, they can easily swap the hamstrung HIMARS computers for untouched versions supplied by third countries. After all, they don’t need very many.
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  286.  @CMY187  Russian peasants absolutely hated Stalin with his purges and famines. They would have happily fought with Hitler so why did they stay with the devil they knew? The Nazis were too racist (in the correct sense) and stupid to see resource on their own borders. Their empire failed as a result.
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  287. It’s the 1930s all over again. USA buried its head in the sand while Europe pretended that an Austrian corporal and Russian hoodlum could bd negotiated with.
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  288. An urgent job for Ukraine is to build a fortified border from Poland to the Black Sea. Tank traps and barbed wire to begin with.
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  289. Jake should talk to Vlad Vexler who is an expert on the psychology of Soviets and today’s Russia.
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  290. BBC was right up there trotting out the Kremlin BS.
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  291. Civilian nuclear fuel “can” be reprocessed into military grade material but its a long hard task.
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  292. GLSDB hasn’t worked. Fixing the issues can’t be that hard. Ukraine FPV drones get through. Can the glide kits be upgraded to FPV?
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  293. Russia is doing to Ukraine exactly what Stalins Soviets did to occupied Russia and East Germany.
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  294. Power plants have huge transformers adjacent to the turbine hall that step up the generator voltage to grid voltage. A drone into each transformer will take the plant offline for months. These transformers are hand built and it takes a very long time.
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  295. This sounds like a snipe against Ukraine but it’s just to illustrate the incompetence of Russia. Russian frontlines are eggshell thin with nothing behind. There is minimal need to mop up because there are no Russians there to even attempt to hold out. They matched in looted everything lootable and kept going.
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  296.  @ivanxyz1  Trump says it how it is. Previous presidents and politicians hid the unpalatable truth about US politics. Trump has unearthed some extreme corruption and media meddling. I hope he can fully uproot the weeds that infest the US system. I fear he may be “prevented” drone achieving such results.
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  297. We do not yet know what Trump will do but please do not lionise Biden. His incompetence in Afghanistan triggered Putin to attack Ukraine. Biden then had to be dragged into sending useful amounts of arms. Even then, he drip fed it and added usage restrictions
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  298. Putin wants Ukraine to become another Belarus. Any agreement with Russia must ensure that Ukraine can prosper. Russia will do its best to prevent that happening.
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  299. The 2008 banking crisis was compounded in the long term by governments bailing out broken banks. There was no downside for dangerous banking behaviour. SVB will hopefully remind bankers in general that bailouts are not happening this time.
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  300. Those Latvian soldiers are amazing.
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  301. The Soviet approach to its expansion was always bit-by-bit “salami slicing”. Berlin was one of those events. KGB/FSB funding the European Green movement was another. The green’s near visceral stance against nuclear power is part of it. Putin is following the same approach. Armenia, Georgia, Donbas, then Crimea then Ukraine then who’s next…
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  302. Follow the money. This unknown little man is being paid to stop the aid to Ukraine.
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  303. How long before China walks into Manchuria? Russia can’t stop them so why the delay?
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  304. Interesting how Syria was mentioned. After Putin’s chemical weapons attack, Trump hit Russian air bases and Wagner battalions with Tomahawk missiles. Putin immediately backed off.
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  305. Those Russian soldiers could have walked right out of Stalingrad in 1942.
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  306. Trump hit Putin’s air bases and Wagner troops in Syria. Putin immediately backed off. Putin absolutely would not have invaded under a Trump presidency because he knew the response would be severe. Trump’s failure was not doing anything about Ukraine corruption. That said, this war is getting the job done. There is no room for corruption when there’s a war to win.
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  307. Looking at the lady on the left keeping quiet - she knew what was about to happen.
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  308. Bolton is unreliable at best but the mood music certainly looks like Ukraine is being S on.
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  309. If Putin uses a nuke in Ukraine his military establishments will get hammered by a barrage of non nuclear missiles. It will make the 200 Tomahawks Trump used on his Syria forces look like fireworks. If he drops another nuke Moscow and St Petersburg will get turned to glass. Putin knows this and will have been reminded via the back channels just to make sure. It will not cause WW3. Completely neutering his threats.
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  310. That same mud stalled Hitler’s forces. Nothing changes.
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  311. I have always thought Putin controlled the FSB. Maybe he once did but today Jake’s theory makes more sense. The only flaw is they allowed the Ukraine war to happen. Presumably FSB believe their own propaganda just as Putin does.
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  312. Dugin’s daughter might have been killed accidentally by a bomb aimed at him. I suspect her death was a warning. His behaviour right now is self preservation. It’s not hard for him to do, but he’s saying all the right things.
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  313. Trump is playing dirty. Why is that any different to the Democrats behaviour? They play dirty all of the time.
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  314. Allow the Russians to fill the holes then knock in some new ones. The ferry and pontoon need the same treatment.
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  315. Spanish is the language of the future. Mexico is becoming a low cost manufacturer and the whole of Central and South America is well placed to grow. China is contracting and Russia has killed itself.
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  316. Kamala seems to have a new speech writer. What she says sounds good. Hopefully she will replace the military advisors and give Ukraine the means to remove Putin.
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  317. Putin will announce that he's found viper's nests of ** including huge common graves of dead Donbas Russians. As result he has to fully mobilise for a full out war.
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  318. Russian control of Europe and the world via energy supplies was prodded by the huge oil and gas resources found under East Ukraine (the very areas taken by Putin). Putin doesn’t want that oil but more importantly he doesn’t want the competition. He’s prevented states like Kazakhstan building oil pipelines. It seems his Ukraine war is about stopping it’s oil before it gets started.
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  319. NATO has removed the need to make a decision that goes against Russia. Hopefully they have woken up to need for better preparations from Baltics to Hungary.
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  320. With Russian losses like these, why does Ukraine need to exaggerate? I’d say they don’t and the numbers they quote are actually realistic.
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  321. Wagner is not getting ammo because Russia stopped making it 20 years ago. Their stocks are gone.
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  322. Chines tyres not coping with -35C (-31 F) is no surprise. They are probably summer tyres.
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  323. Death and injury due to bullets and bombs. But Russian troops have serious problems with filthy living conditions using disease (TB, black mould infections, cholera and other waterborne disease). That affects lieutenants and captains as much as any other personnel. By the way don't forget alcohol and methanol poisoning.
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  324. Huge oil and gas reserves were recently discovered under all the areas Russia has occupied. Ukraine has many pipelines to Europe that would be competing with Russia. Putin doesn’t want the oil but he won’t allow any competition. He is wiping East Ukraine off the map just like a mafia boss would deal with local drug barons.
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  325. I think the Putin regime was always heading for never-ending war. It worked for the Soviets. It will work for Putin. At least as long as he will be around. Then another psycho will be along.
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  326. Poland is treading a very fine line. If Russia attacks, EU is likely to look the other way. Poland can’t allow them that excuse.
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  327. Putin wants Ukraine to be another Belarus. He’s trying to make the country unviable so he can use them as another puppet state.
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  328.  @longandshort6639 Trump wants to become dictator of USA. If Trump gets power, he will make sure he never leaves.
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  329. This war would never have happened under DLT (the previous POTUS). But now that it has kicked off, we cannot allow Putin to gain from his aggressions. He has to be stopped, pushed back to the old borders. The triggers for this war can be researched when the war is over.
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  330. Ukraine lost so much territory during March 2022, because their civil systems were infiltrated by Russia. Ukraine has since conducted a massive cleanup operation but the damage is clear. I’m sure that Germany is similarly compromised. Jake is probably right about how it’s been done.
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  331. That hamster needs a bigger wheel to protect his back.
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  332. The old "joke" about men doing mine clearance by jumping about with fingers in their ears is 100% true. Hopefully Ukraine soldiers can find ways to capture rather than kill these poor guys.
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  333. Douglas McGregor will carry on regardless. The pull of Kremlin money must be strong.
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  334. Biden/Obama could instruct CIA to get supplies to Ukraine. They don’t because that requires a decision and neither of them can do that.
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  335. Can puppets have puppets? Someone has shifted Trump towards Putin. Trump is too rich to bribe so who knows how it’s been done.
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  336. Putin is using his W-r to make Ukraine unviable. The longer it continues, the more damage it causes.
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  337. Those on The Left who always spout that war should be stopped are deliberately trying to freeze this war as it is. That’s exactly what Putin wants (and they know it). Freezing this war gives the aggressors the gains they currently hold and rewards them for their war crimes and atrocities. The comments look nice but are really pushing for the worst of all outcomes.
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  338. There is next to no political difference between Biden and Trump. Biden stopped the border fence and the oil pipeline. But everything else is more of the same.
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  339. Why does Israel not “remove” the Russian assets in that air base? Turkey doesn’t need them. The new “government” should not have them. Russia should be denied them.
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  340. Jake is an unusual Mid Westerner because he is interested in international politics and understands situations like Ukraine.
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  341. You can rot in a Gulag or you can be cannon fodder in Ukraine. But hey you might get captured without a scratch.
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  342. Russian soldiers complaining about poor equipment never complain that the war is illegal or that it’s all about subjugating a sovereign country. As always it’s all about them.
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  343. This is what happens when monsters are appeased. Religion is probably the trigger but does not explain the extreme brutality. There is however a strong similarity with Bucha in Ukraine. Only there, the terror was dragged out for a month. Then there’s Mariupol which is completely levelled. Who knows what was done to the people before it was bulldozed.
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  344. Hopefully, Ukraine’s future is a 60 mile DMZ separating them from Russia. The Kremlin is toxic at best. Keep well clear.
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  345. Cluster bombs in areas already contaminated with mines and Russian IEDs make zero difference to the future cleanup.
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  346. This Ukraine war was easily predicted after the way every other southern satellite state including Chechnya was crushed by Putin’s juggernaut. Obama and Biden did nothing to prepare Ukraine and Trump literally ignored the country because he doesn’t like Zelenski. However, at least Trump did the right thing after Putin used chemical weapons in Syria. Putin knew he could not mess with Trump so he wanted for the old guy to move in and his incompetent withdrawal from Afghanistan ticked all necessary boxes.
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  347. We have a local fox. It’s wild but well fed. He/she watches us from 20ft away. I’m sure if we put food out it would move in.
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  348. Denmark gets that attack is the best form of defence and that Ukraine is doing an excellent job. It’s time for UK to send a significant percentage of its tank force. Challengers in dry storage are a wasted resource. Get them out there.
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  349. Ukraine should send the foreign PoWs back to their own countries. They can then go back to Russia to try again. They are not useful Russia so let them go.
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  350. If Russia uses chemical weapons they’ll lose thousands of their own men. They are untrained undisciplined and they have no protective equipment. Plague masks won’t cut it any better than they did for the lurgy itself.
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  351. Russian generals don’t care if hundreds are killed per day. Ukraine (1) values their lives but (2) can’t afford to lose too many. My concern is that Russia’s brutalist approach could win over the long term. What’s your thinking on the situation?
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  352. Trump wants to make America great. That can’t happen when the likes of Russia & China are starting W all over the place. So Trump is making changes. Common sense really.
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  353. Why is everyone parroting Russian lies. There is every evidence the pow are faked there is no evidence any more than the crew were on board.
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  354. Resnikov having belief and being convinced are not the words I want to hear. I want “we are ready and we will win”.
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  355. It is said that Stalin killed 20,000 Ukrainians when he blew a dam supposedly to stop the German advance. I can’t find a reference. Blowing the Dnipro dam would destroy the nuclear power plant as it would lose cooling water.
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  356. The Soviets claimed that 15,000 soldiers died in Afghanistan. In reality it was at least 15,000 possibly 30,000 per YEAR of that war. Men who had seen the cumbersome incompetence and brutality of their leaders returned home. This news undermined the public view of what they had been told about Russia. Gorbachev saw the end coming. Putin chooses not to see but similar things are happening today.
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  357. Fascism and Communism are two cheeks of the same stinking rear end.
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  358. Check out Parkinson’s “pill rolling”. Looks like that’s what his thumb is doing.
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  359. Russian men who left Russia (who can blame them) have lost the pressure of propaganda. They are now exposed to the blunt reality of this war. You can’t un-see the truth. Will any of them ever return?
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  360. How long before China walks into Manchuria? They don’t complain as much as they do about Taiwan but they desperately want the sea port and the oil.
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  361. Iran will be fine. Brandon doesn’t want to upset the status-quo.
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  362. ISIS did it. FSB let them.
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  363. The only difference between Fascist and Communist is the flag and the uniform. Functionally there is no difference.
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  364. You can only choose by basing decisions on company fundamentals and plan over the long term. The latter seriously narrows your options to the likes of Amazon, Tesla and - erm - Who knows. Apple are far too exposed to China, Big oil will be volatile. Big Auto is dying, Maybe a nuke power company.
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  365. A great many new conscripts will simply surrender. Russia does not have enough Wagner thugs to stop them.
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  366. Putin controls massive oil and gas reserves. He does not need (or want) Ukraine oil & gas. However, like any other gangster, he doesn’t want any competition near his turf. Do he’s taking out a potential competitor. It’s all about power. Oil & gas are incidental.
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  367. A critical collapse of the dam would have been preceded by it overtopping. This did not happen. It reached maximum possible and was blown up. They’ve had a year to carry in tons of explosives. The result was turbine room shattered and shifted in ways a collapse would not achieve.
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  368. I’m not a fan of Eddie Izzard and his hard left politics. The BBC like to have him on the political panel shows. However Eddie always has a loudly shouted answer but never has a solution. It’s all emotion but in the end always falls down to central control.
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  369. Like every other despot in history, Putin is extremely well protected. He is also surrounded by drones who do as he demands and will continue when he is gone. There is nobody at the upper echelons to stop him.
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  370. Nazi Germany did terrible things to the Slavic people of Russia. However in 1945, the Red Army literally raped and killed it’s way across Eastern Europe. We always say two wrongs don’t make it right, yet the horrendous levels of Russian atrocities were wiped from history.
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  371. Russians have wilfully allowed Putin to turn they country into a mafia gang. This is the result.
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  372. Sadly, The Allies failed to protect Eastern Europe and 60% of Germany from Stalin’s brutal rule of terror.
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  373. South Africa had a truth and reconciliation commission that forgave former crimes. It’s hard to know how well that worked but putting every past transgressor in prison was impossible. What are the options?
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  374. Dear World. Ukraine will do all it can to avoid shooting down commercial aircraft. But this is war - accidents can happen. Do not board flights within western Russia.
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  375. Germany was unified very quickly after the Soviet collapse. East Germany did not have to haul itself into the modern world like every other Soviet colony. East Germany is at least 60% of the country so it’s no surprise they remained supportive of Putin and his Soviet v2.
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  376. The Russian people were quite happy to ignore the abuse, deportations and genocide going on in Ukraine (and every other ex-Soviet nation). Only when it directly affects them do they get interested.
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  377. 100,000 is just those who got counted. The image showed 40,203 returned by Russia, yet they have portable crematorium in some areas and huge holes in the ground elsewhere.
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  378.  @itskyansaro  The parts of Russia on same side of world as NZ are simply poor colonies where the natural resources are stolen by the oligarchs and the men are stolen as cannon fodder for Putin’s pleasure.
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  379. North Korea has troops who excel at marching in time and clapping. They are under-equipped and otherwise untrained.
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  380. The British extensively used decoys during WW2. Their North African success at El Alamein was significantly helped by such subterfuge. Fields full of lights were used to divert bombers away from towns. Inflatable tanks made the D-Day build-ups appear to be heading for Calais.
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  381. The British ships hit by Exocet missiles were put out of action but had to bd scuttled. The fires alone didn’t sink them.
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  382. I would not want to go up against those women singing Bella Ciao. They look seriously professional.
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  383. Russia has no electronic components and absolutely no computer chips. Their new military weapons are not even WW2 spec.
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  384. Putin seems to be following the Nazi German playbook. Everything from slavery to gencide is used on anyone in their way. The difference is that (at least until Stalingrad) Germany had the tools to get the job done. Russia nearly does not.
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  385. A huge mistake by The Allies in WW2 was supporting Stalin. Hitler was a tyrant but his economic stupidity and internal rivalry meant he could never win his war. UK and USA did not need Russian “help”. Their military aid to Russia simply enabled Stalin to annex huge swathes of Europe.
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  386. Germany is already making noises that Ukraine should cut a deal with Putin. They want their gas switched on and don’t care who suffers for it.
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  387. Sadly I really don’t think they will answer for this. Hitler basically got away with it. He was already seriously sick. Most of his henchmen were never caught. Russia (and Iran) will be no different.
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  388. Before Jake showed that damaged 2nd bridge deck I was calling this a false flag attack. Not any more. That second deck is hanging by a thread.
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  389. Jake is taking flak. He’s over the target. I used to really rate Duran but the moment Putin started amassing forces it was clear they were not on the side of NATO. Extremely sad because they were previously on the button for geopolitics.
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  390. Russia claims that its war in Afghanistan killed 15,000 Russians. However the horrific numbers led directly to the Soviet collapse. The real numbers were at least 15,000 per year. More likely 3x that.
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  391. Regime change in Moscow will probably do nothing to affect this war. Putin started it but his backers are not going away. Many are far more fascist than he is. Ukraine has to prepare for 20 years of overt threats from Russia. They’ll need to become more like Israel with a far more powerful military than most countries even consider.
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  392. Someone did the maths for the the war costs to USA. Per citizen, it really wasn’t much. BUT most of the stuff supplied was manufactured decades ago. The costs are fully written down and now there are no storage costs. The real expense is HIMARS rockets and 155 shells.
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  393.  @msytdc1577  You are so right. The speedboat they show being shot up was actually filmed two years ago yet even western outlets like BBC are using it as if it’s genuine footage.
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  394. Hopefully, Jake can get time with Donald Trump to discuss the war. No need to film it but Jake’s eloquence should correct the many distortions over the Ukraine war.
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  395. Cluster rounds will be used to box Russians into their dugouts. The trench will get hit then immediately followed up with troops to do the dirty job of clearing the line. Artillery does the same job but it’s far less efficient in terms of fire power.
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  396. Russia has huge storage compounds of tanks and other military vehicles. But how usable are these “assets”. Are these basically scrapyards of stripped-out shells or do they simply need an oil change and new tyres?
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  397. We are told that Ukraine was seriously corrupt before the war. Surely if they were that bad, their army would be as useless as Putin’s military playset. Post war will be a time for tight controls on money and received value. But Ukraine has shown they have the mettle to get it done.
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  398.  @Lolypop123  Socialism causes the worst corruption. People are not allowed to achieve anything of value while the government is supposed to do it all. Result is people not paying their taxes. But far worse, it’s always socialist leaders stealing from government projects. It’s always these leaders using excessive policing against the people
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  399. The political crisis that became World War 1 was started by Serbia shooting an Austrian head of state. The full truth is that Russia triggered a far bigger war by fully backing Serbia. Russia was untrustworthy 110 years ago. Russia never changes.
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  400. UK took in Ukraine refugees, many turned out to be Russians on the take.
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  401. Russia had a huge number of silent agents in USA. Many just “vanished” when the Soviets collapsed. Many did not and others will have been installed. Russia probably has no idea who is who. FBI probably does not either.
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  402. The list is wrong AND the list title uses the past tense. Passenger lists never use any tense. It’s fake.
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  403. Israel will get its money. Time will run out for Ukraine funding.
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  404. Regarding Abrams tank maintenance training - a huge amount can be done on classrooms. US already has its own Abrams in Germany so what’s the chance Ukraine maintainers have already had hands-on. I can’t imagine they’ll need another 12 weeks on top.
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