Comments by "jdg" (@jdg9999) on "Military Summary" channel.

  1. Congratulations to the Russian people from the UK.
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  2. I guessed Odessa for a possible surprise assault before you said it. Been thinking about it as an idea for a while. If they can get a foothold there it can be resupplied and reinforced from the sea.
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  3. @John Mogli they most certainly are. Here in the UK, sites like RT are censored.
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  4. This seems like a decernt assessment, it's ridiculous that most people on both sides are incapable of detaching their biases from their analysis. However the fundamental point that people cheerleading for Ukraine don't seem to understand, is that Russia can mess up and get away with it, Ukraine can't. Russia has overwhelming escalatory dominance, because Ukraine is already fighting a total war, while Russia isn't even putting 25% of its national effort into the war.
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  5. Yeah I was wondering why there's so much focus on this. If this is the most important thing happening, then the offensive isn't very impressive.
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  6. Main point would be that the "how did the Russians not anticipate this?" comments just don't make any sense. If random war bloggers have been talking about this stuff for weeks, then the Russians know 10x more about what Ukraine was planning and the disposition of their own forces. So the only logical explanation is that the Russians are executing some sort of strategy here. Not because they are military geniuses or something, but simply because they didn't have the resources in place to defend these areas, and so the only rational thing to do is to fall back.
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  7. ​ @captivatethem  NATO shills making things up lol.
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  8. What most people still don't get is that this is a modern industrial war, the back and forth of front lines doesn't really matter, the longer this war continues, the worse it is for Ukraine, while Russia can continue the current non mobilized war indefinitely. The Ukrainian economy is gone, Russia has taken the majority of its GDP producing former territory, and what's left is in total economic collapse, and most of the male population is now in the military instead of working. Without The West literally paying their salaries, the Ukrainian government would have collapsed already. Meanwhile the Russians are a much larger country, and their small expeditionary force can be sustained for as long as necessary.
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  9. ​ @limedickandrew6016  I mean, the more general point is that the UK is an island, and one of the largest economies in the world, and almost everything imported comes by sea. The idea that you somehow can't function without having bridges connecting you to other places is ridiculous.
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  10. Couldn't the Russians just encircle Kharkiv and wait them out? Does Ukraine really want to leave enough forces stationed there to hold the city and risk a Mariupol 2.0 situation?
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  11. ​ @paulsingleton3191  literally repeating stuff the British minister of defence made up lol
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  12. Russia hasn't been wasting manpower like this. Remember, when the Russians were willing to expose their men like this they were able to encircle Kiev.
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  13. Agreed. And even of its a double fake and they do go for Belgorod, they will ultimately be trapped there and encircled of their offensive "succeeds" in moving into Russia.
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  14. I just don't get why they'd need to "hide" what they'd done with a massive rocket attack. It's Russian controlled territory, they could have easily have tortured and killed people there, then removed all evidence much more quietly just by cleaning the place up, getting rid of the bodies etc, so a rocket attack by Russia makes no sense.
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  15. It's called the ocean dude.
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  16. What's interesting is that satellite imagery shows that the New Wagner base has been under co structure for weeks. There's no way it really was just a psyop is there?
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  17. They're part of the West now, they can just import millions of Middle Easterners and Africans to replace them.
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  18. Yep, agreed.
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  19.  @anglet64  This is such a stupid lie. A $2 ARM chip from a decade old mobile phone is 100x more capable than necessary for missle guidance. Something like 15,000 shipments have been sent out BY US COMPANIES, to Russia since the war began, because they're so basic and easily available all over the world that they aren't even subject to export controls.
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  20.  @anglet64  you said nothing to rebut my arguments you clown, except parroting some obvious propaganda.
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  21. Yep, can't see the Russians stopping until the Dniepr if that happens.
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  22.  @hasanyilmaz9715  Except that Ukraine is on the European plain, shares a massive open border with Russia, is full of people who are visually and culturally indistinguishable from Russians, and who were part of the same state for centuries. So literally nothing like Afghanistan. Assimilating occupied Ukraine into Russian takes almost no effort at all.
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  23. ​@nemisous83 It could transport huge numbers of troops there, and ship in all the supplies needed. And provide artillery support too as you say. What's the point of having a massive naval advantage over Ukraine if you aren't going to use it?
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  24. ​ @bozo5632 Yeah it's very risky, so I doubt they try it, however at the beginning of the war they took similar risks, so it's possible they go for it.
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  25. aww, globalist drone is upset that this isn't a Western propaganda channel like 99% of the rest of youtube.
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  26. Wouldn't a smart Russian approach be to put EW units on cheap light aircraft, then have them just fly right next to US drones.and spy planes?
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  27. Why wouldnt the Russians have already prepositioned massive stockpiles of supplies on the other side of the bridge? Even if the Ukrainians manage to damage it, the Russians would have time to defeat the offensive before they ran out of supplies.
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  28. I've often thought about with there being so many more accurate and powerful munitions around the modern battlefield, whether more smaller faster vehicles with fewer men riding each of them would be more successful, but the consensus seemed to be that no, soldiers still preferred heavy slow armored vehicles. The motorbikes are interesting. My thought was more like the use of dune buggy type vehicles that were fast but good off road too.
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  29. Seems to me that in tthis much more static mode of warfare, the Russians should have been making heavy use of sappers and tunnelling this entire time.
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  30. Yeah I feel like people are looking at this whole thing irrationally. As far as we've seen, when the Russians stand and fight, they always win. Even in the last offensive, Russian light infantry with no defences managed to hold off the Ukrainians as long as needed for Russian forces to withdraw. The only possibility for the Ukrainians I see is if they pull off some genius surprise strategy and break through and then the Russian leadership are totally incompetent and bungle their reaction.
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  31.  @jasonblatter1397  No thing is being reversed you clown. The Ukrainians losing hundreds of thousands of men so that halfwits like you can say "UKRAINE TOOK BACK 100 KM OF TERRITORY, THEY'RE WINNING!!!
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  32. Kind of fucked up, but with the weather couldn't they just burn the forest?
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  33. Yeah I've thought this too, if they are under pressure, it's a clever tactic to trick the Russians into diverting resources into building up defences they don't actually need. Also it would be a PR win for the West to say "ha, there was never an offensive, we tricked the Russians into wasting resources"
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