Comments by "jdg" (@jdg9999) on "Alexander Mercouris" channel.

  1. To be fair, the UN did just release an independent report that showed a specific example where the Ukrainians intentionally used civilians as human shields. The fact that the behaviour was so egregious that even the UN wouldn't cover for them is a real indictment.
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  2. The fact that the former German defence minister doesn't understand the difference between officers and men is amazing.
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  3. I did find the EU woman publicly announcing their genius plan to just "use 15% less gas until winter" somewhat hilarious. As Alexander says, whatever efficiencies the Europeans find so that they can refill the gas storage facilities, the Russians can just reduce the gas they supply by that amount.
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  4. Yep, back in 2013/2014 Russia was clear it was happy for them to have a trade agreement with both the EU and Russia, but of course it was the EU which insisted Ukraine take a side.
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  5. France will be supplying the same number of shells in a year that the Russians use in a day 😂
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  6. We all take it for granted but I think you are literally the best unscripted expository speaker I've ever seen. Pretty amazing to be able to just talk at a camera for an hour every day about complex subjects and make it so engaging.
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  7. As if the Russians will be able to take on America's pregnant fighter pilots and trans Navy SEALs!!!
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  8. The circumstantial evidence does seem overwhelming. If the evidence is all real then it seems difficult to come up with any other explanation for her behaviour, other than, "oh it's just a coincidence that a Ukrainian intelligence operative moved entered Russia, moved into the same building as Daria, went to the same places, then left the country immediately after she was killed in a car bomb."
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  9. Funny what you said about "media steers", since today's "security analyst" on Sky News literally parroted the "limited operational relevance" line about Bakhmut.
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  10. "The midterm offensive"
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  11.  @16252  He didn't explain how Russia didn't do something it never aaid it was going to do?
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  12.  @lloads642  Do you seriously not understand that withdrawing in the face of massive offences by the enemy does not have any significance to the outcome of a war? Look at military history of you have trouble understanding this.
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  13. This is a war of attrition, the front line moving 50km and then stabilising again doesn't change the fundamental direction of the war.
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  14. ​​ @clapclap5452  Unfprtunately you must remember how pampered and insulated we British are on our island, makes it very easy to treat this as if it's some sort of fictional spectacle. Not as bad as the Americans, but still very out of touch.
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  15. Hilarious isn't it. Consider the arrogance it takes to lecture your enemy while you're retreating in disarray.
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  16. the worst thing is that the average person is so clueless they don't even know that there is any other viewpoint than the one they're fed.
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  17. It doesn't have to be either. It's perfectly possible this area of the front line wasn't defensible with the resources available and the Russians knew they would have to pull back if it came under heavy assault.
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  18.  @johntheaccountant5594  They did, obviously.
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  19.  @redscope897  Sorry but that's a lie, since e en Alexander was talking a week ago about chatter that the real objective might be Kharkiv and not Kherson. Why can't people understand that ot doesn't have to be a trap or a massive fuck up, they may simply not have the resources to defend the entire front line.
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  20.  @kevinwaalker  No, no it's not, the difference being that the Russian position is far closer to the truth, so they don't need to be that balanced.
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  21. Yeah I was amazed Sky showed it too.
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  22. text in the thumbnail? YOU ABSOLUTE MADMAN!!!
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  23. Rutte does indeed some to be a particularly arrogant and obnoxious neocon. I've seen his constant public attacks against Russia since even before the war began. Can't think of whar Dutch national interest he's serving.
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  24. Why should we give up Northern Ireland? Ireland should rejoin the United Kingdom and the island can be reunited.
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  25. Interesting that Newsweek seems to have some sort of connection to The Pentagon. That article from earlier in the year calling out elements of the US establishment for trying to escalate the conflict and pointing out that Russia had acted with restraint was also published there.
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  26. I agree that this is foolish but calling the UK a mouse in comparison to Russia is just insulting and ridiculous. The UK still has a larger economy than Russia. If it wanted to it could easily outspend Russia on defence.
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  27. Or perhaps a lot of them have been destroyed.
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  28. I think kettle as you mentioned is actually more correct. British police often refer to "kettling" protesters when they surround them.
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  29. I could already see what you were going to say before you said it, that was masterfully laid out. They're now in the position that the Soviet Union was in the late 60s. The Chinese and the Russians have already chosen sides, now the USA are the ones faced with a two front war. Thinks could have turned out so differently if the West had embraced Russia instead of trying to subjugate it.
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  30.  @andrewholdaway813  If you lose momentum with those gains and can't defend a counter attack, those gains be be counter productive.
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  31. Do you think this is a clever little comment? As he's explained multiple times before, the Russians did indeed think it was strategically important, and expended significant resources on taking it, thinking it would make a big difference to the ability of the Ukrainians to move men and materiel into the area, but once they took it, it really didn't. Now, knowing that, it isn't necessary to expend excessive resources to hold on to it.
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  32. I saw president Lukashenko had a similar opinion about Merkel to yours, that she's lying now when seh says she was just providing cover for Ukraine to rearm.
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  33. I think this is what the Russians are in fact doing. And it's why they're not escalating even though they could.
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  34. I just find the entire story bizarre. How could such a supposedly dangerous man be stupid enough to think he could just visit Russia at his leisure like this? Anyone with any sense would have been straight off to Africa and looking over his shoulder for a very long time.
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  35. Right, don't see why people are saying he was wrong when he specifically said yesterday that the Russians might decide this part of the front isn't worth defending.
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  36. @MichaelW Where does Ukraine rank in corruption genius?
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  37. Actually, it does undermine them slowly. If you look at public opinion surveys, trust in media has been collapsing in the US and UK for years.
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  38. "NATO minions" 😄
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  39.  @johnadam2885  Yep, sunk cost fallacy.
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  40. Czar Nicholas went to the front during WW1 didn't he? Didn't work put very well though lol.
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  41. The point you made about there being relatively few Russian attackers seems to be shown by the video of Russian forces celebrating in Lysychansk, where it seems they could only gather a couple of dozen men for a photo in the middle of the town.
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  42. Yeah this is the point. I've seen people questioning why the Russians have a relatively small force in Ukraine, but they don't understand that having 1,000,000 badly trained, badly equipped, badly supported, badly supplied and badly led men is a massive liability compared to 200,000 well trained, well equipped, well supplied well led soldiers. And that the 200,000 men will easily defeat the 1,000,000 in detail.
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  43. Was thinking about this the other day. It seems like another time, "unipolar moment etc", but the seeds of the current geopolitical global confrontation were visible even then. America used the war in Yugoslavia to humiliate both Russia and China.
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  44.  @bboucharde  you're a leftist bro.
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  45. The chips needed for cruise missiles are incredibly simple. Chips from the 1980s were good enough, and the cheapest $2 ARM chip now is hundred times faster than that. Getting the chips they need is literally nothing. There was even an outraged article a few months ago about the fact that AMERICAN chipmakers had exported more than $20 million of chips to Russia since the war began, because the chips are so basic that no one had even bothered to sanction them.
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  46. The Trolliban lol.
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  47. What? I've literally watched him say for the last couple of weeks that Liman was being effectively defended, but by relatively small numbers of forces (against, actually, relatively small numbers of attackers) and that Russia could possibly decide to withdraw if it came under too heavy attack, since it isn't as strategically important as the Russians had thought when they first took it.
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  48. I like your coverage of events and oppose the globalist/neoliberal project and attempts at retaining US hegemony, but at the same time it's valid for the US, UK and Australia to be closely aligned and to seek to maximize their strategic power, so I don't like that you refelxively oppose EVERY attempt to do so.
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  49. If I were the Russians now I'd reposition these forces to taking the rest of Donetsk, then heavily fortify Donetsk and Lugansk and the South. From then on just aim to focus on one single objective at a time. (probably best to focus all further efforts on taking the rest of the Ukrainian coast.)
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  50. A quote from the comments on that Telegraph article about how the Russian people "as bad as Putin" Alexander mentioned; "It is a worry that so many Russians support him. They're different from us. We, as in earlier generations, did benefit from their incredible defiance of Hitler. Now they're defying us, and all we want is their freedom and prosperity. Ukraine's future may lie in neutrality rather than Nato membership, but that's not what the issue is." "now they're defying us"... Quite remarkable seeing the unguarded reality of what really makes Western liberals/neocons angry about Russia... they just won't do what they're told.
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  51.  @torgnyhansson7409  lol except you're lying and their equipment losses are not "so much higher".
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  52. Wouldn't the Dniepr be defensible?
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  53. Missiles don't need very advanced chips anyway. Stuff from 40 years ago was good enough.
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  54. Yes, the Soviets intentionally had "export versions" of their tanks that were inferior to the production for their own forces.
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  55. This is nonsense. You don't seem to understand the difference between an offensive against a lightly defended region that is not a central objective fo the invasion, and an incredibly heavily defended region that is the main reson the invasion happened in the first place.
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  56. Honestly this "accusing everyone of being Nazis" stuff is a bit cringe. The reality is that the Kiev regime is in fact a neoliberal leftist globalist one, merely using Ukrainian ultranationalists as a tool that it will ultimately dispose of when it no longer needs them. They want to join the EU so they can have LGBT parades and gender transitioning kids and Black Lives Matter marches just like the West. It's somewhat bizarre that these Ukrainian ultranationalists are so blinded by their hatred of Russia that they can't see they're actually handing their country over to people far worse than the Russians.
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  57. I don't think stuff about "fascists" is really relevant, the simple fact is that the real leaders of Ukraine are neoliberal globalists, who've tricked Ukrainian ultranationalists into thinking they're fighting for Ukraine, when they're actually fighting for it to absorbed into the EU and abolished. That aside, the attitude of the Ukrainian leadership is clearly a problem. I think the minimum Russia will have to do is take the country East of the Dniepr for a strong defensive line, as well as take the southern coast to cut it off from the sea. After that Ukraine is left as a rump state with no GDP that the EU will either be stuck subsidizing for the next 50 years, or will have to abandon. (at which points i will be forced to go back to Russia hat in hand)
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  58. I'm British and I'm the same. Our countries are run by arrogant children.
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  59.  @aramisio2  You're a clown. There haven't been Russian NGOs in the West trying to subvert Western societies and overthrow their systems of government and elites for the last 30 years, but there has been the opposite. Literally all the West doss is try to dominate and control the rest of the world. Sanctions, subversion, regime change, invasion and occupation all over the planet, attempting to contain or subvert all regional powers that threaten Western dominance (Russia, China. Iran etc), and regime change, attack, sanction or occupy all smaller ones that resist Western dominance (Venezuela, North Korea, Afghanistan, Serbia, Iraq, Syria etc) When it seems like everyone else is the problem, you're the problem.
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  60. Russia isn't America. And Western support is in fact continually decreasing.
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  61.  @alexiveperez4687  I obviously don't have timestamps and I can't be bothered to go through 8 hours of video I've already watched, but he said it in multiple videos.
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  62. Pretty much. If not then the NGOs would creep back in and begin the process of subversion again.
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  63. How could Ukraine possibly know how many people they've killed with a missile strike 80 miles away from them? That's how you know the Ukrainians are lying.
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  64. "Descendants of people who came from central Europe" seem to have a specific hatred of ethnic Russians too, also for historical reasons.
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  65.  @MaxZadow  Lol, except the people of Eastern Ukraine were invaded and brutalized by the pro Western coup regime for refusing to bow to their authority, and Russia protected them when they asked for help. Funny how the Kiev government thinks it has more claim over the land of the people of the Donbass, then the people do themselves. Hilarious watching Ukrainian soldiers complain about how the "stupid locals" fail to appreciate their "protection" and keep helping the Russians. Britain would fight because no other nation or people has any claim to this country. And even then, if it was clear that there was no possibility of victory, I wouldn't encourage the massacre of hundreds of thousands of my own countryman for no reason. This is how real governments that care about their people (rather than being corrupt puppets) behave.
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  66. Rare correction but Raytheon is pronounced "Wraith - E - On"
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  67. Blockchain technology is incredibly effective. There's an entire parallel financial system being built, and it's the only alternative to centralised authoritarian globalist control.
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  68. Yeah seemed like the logical point to me too. Also leaving Kiev as the capital of a rump Ukraine rather than taking it also seems like a good strategy. Would make it similar to Seoul in South Korea, right on the border with North Korea, with the South Korean government and elite always aware that they'd be the first to go in any war.
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  69. The microchip thing is so dumb. A $2 ARM chip that is produced by the millions, sold all over the world, and easily acquired by the tens of thousands from suppliers, is a hundred times more powerful than the 1980s microchips that these cruise missiles were designed to be guided by.
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  70.  @drewbydoobydoo2918  You're a transparent shill lol.
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  71. Didn't Zelensky say if Bakhmut fell then the war would be lost a few months ago?
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  72. Given how depopulated these areas have become, it seems like it would also be clever of the Russians to encourage as much Russia immigration to them as possible Will make it impossible for the Ukrainians to rake them back (since civilian populations can't be ethnically cleansed any more like they used to be after conflicts)
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  73.  @fwins4236  "russia is literally getting their army destroyed" lol what a clown. If you said "the war is turning in Ukraine's favour" or something, that would be a defensible argument, that will only be proven or disproven as events unfold. But no, you say the Russian army is being destroyed. Got any facts whatsoever to back that up? No, of course not, because you just repeat the narrative you're fed by the neolib/neocon media.
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  74. What worse is that the general populace is so stupid that it doesn't know that the policies of the current elites caused these problems.
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  75. Not sure why you need to constantly insult Britain. We're not a "mouse", our economy is bigger than Russia's and our military spending is similar. Yes, we obviously have no business trying to "confront" Russia in their own backyard, but that doesn't mean you need to make such derogatory comments.
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  76.  @blackiemwe1481  No it isn't.
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  77. So if you take 100 steps forward and 2 steps back (this is litrerally an accurate metaphor for Russia's capture of Ukrainian territory) that means you are not competent?
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  78. Do you understand that one man in a position of power can choose to do things for any reason he wants? Stop making stuff up.
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  79. Yes it has some strategic value, but the point is that the Russians have realized that it didn't have as much strategic value as they thought it did (taking it didn't have the effect on Ukrainian reinforcements and supply lines that they initially supposed it would.)
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  80. I like your stuff but sometimes it feels like you cross over into straight up anti British propaganda.
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  81. You should improve your lighting setup in the room you usually film in.
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  82.  @dekartmagomedov  Lol, it wasn't a nuclear missile you clown
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  83.  @damjanm3585  cool story shill
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  84. Seems rather foolish for South Korea to supply Ukraine with weapons, the Russians will make sure to be as helpful to the North Koreans as possible to pay them back.
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  85. What Winter Offensive are you talking about exactly? Russia has said nothing of the kind. Shitty neocon propagandists need to try harder.
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  86.  @homeguardster  The Russians just bomb empty hockey rinks for fun eh?
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  87. Yep, but somehow all the morons and shills here think withdrawing from a town when you don't have the forces to defend it and are waiting for massive reinforcements to arrive is somehow proof that the Ukrainians are about to win the war.
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  88. I think Putin is right, I repeatedly see left liberals on social media cite "repressive tolerance" as a justification for censoring right wingers.
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  89. Your guess yesterday was right, very impressive!
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  90. They could also just refuse to send gas through any other pipeline than nordstream.
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  91. If the Polish mobilisation is indeed defensive, then it suggests that the West secretly knows that Ukraine is totally fucked.
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  92. In Soviet Russia, Putin regime changes you!
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  93. Lol, never thought I'd see a Do Kwon reference in one of Alexander's videos.
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  94. So annoying that the UK is still siding with the EU when we finally have a chance to strike out away from them.
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  95. I guess (if we had a serious British government that actually cared about national interests) it would also be an advantage to the UK, since it would have control of not just the strategic access to the Atlantic via Suez, but also the UKGI gap for access to the Atlantic via the Arctic route.
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  96.  @31mAyMgaYanga  "like i will believe their lies like they said with kyiv taking it 3 days" - No, that;s your lie. They never said that. This is something Western media and governments made up, as they constantly do, so that when Russia doesn't achieve something it never said it could do, this is used as "proof" of its failure.
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  97. I remember hearing mockery a few years ago by Western commentators on the fact that the Russians maintained vast stockpiles of mothballed vehicles, artillery and ammunition, and how ridiculous and wasteful ot was to try to maintain this "obsolete" equipment in basic condition. Guess we know who's laughing now.
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  98. Are you actually real you clown? There's not some magical anti missile force field, if there's an attack in a place where there weren't specific air defences in place to stop it, then they will get though.
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  99.  @alanedwards6491 total non sequitur.
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  100. If I remember correctly, a few years ago Putin tried to appoint a new defence minister who was anti corruption, but was effectively forced to fire him because there was so much pushback from vested interests involved in defence procurement. Maybe the war has finally given Putin cover to get the job done.
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  101. Holy shit is Alexander on a Twitter Spaces with Elon Musk right now?!!!
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  102. If the UK was smart, we would cut army and air force funding by 80% and redirect it all to the navy, we're an island, all we need to do is protect ourselves and our shipping, we shouldn't even need an army.
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