Comments by "Antony Wooster" (@antonywooster6783) on "William Spaniel" channel.

  1. This video starts off with a lie: The war did not start in February 2022, it started in 2014. By February 2022 about 10,000 peope had already been killed. It goes on in the same vein. The "Great Mistake" that was made, was made by NATO, which thought that the Ukrainian Army, which they had built up, trained and armed over the previous seven years, was going to "wipe the floor " with the Russian Army and that the sanctions package that they had prepared, would cripple the Russian economy. They also thought, erroneously, that the collapse of the Russian economy and the defeat of the Russian Army would so anger the Russian public, that they would overthrow the "hated Putin Regime" in Moscow. The "Great Mistake" that Russia made in February 2022, was in failing to understand that the Collective West was living in a fantasy land , where NATO, the greatest military machine that the World had ever seen, was something that no one would dare to stand up against, where Russia was "a Gas-station masquerading as a country", whose economy and Banks, were totally unprepared for the sanctions that were coming , whose army was in shambles, mutinous, ill-trained, ill-equipped with out-dated weapons, manned by stupids, badly officered, etc., etc. They also failed, in not understanding at first, that their enemies, were expecting to carve up Russia into manegable portions and then plunder it as they had done in the 1990s. The combined effects of these mistakes is that NATO has been defeated militarily, for the first time, (Which is having a huge geo-political effect) the US has profitted from the partial collapse of the European Economies caused by the blow-back of the sanctions, and the Russian economy has profitted greatly from the "protectionist" effect of the sanctions! (Suddenly, the Russian industries found themselves freed of all Western competition!). Putin, so far from being overthrown, is more popular than ever. I don't know whether the US Intelligence agencies mis-informed the White house or whether they told them correctly what the situation was and were disbelieved. It rather looks as though, both believed their own propaganda.
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  2.  @McCreeedy You're welcome! He who laughs last luaghs best.
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  3. Another Wuderwaffen! All reactionaries LOVE their Wunderwaffen! The Wunderwaffen of WW2 the V1 and the V2, were "going to win the war" for the Wehrmacht, but they didn't. The war in Ukraine has been lost and HIMARS are not going to alter that.
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  4.  @JMM33RanMA  Yeah, and so have I. Go read it.
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  5.  @CN_SFY_General  Wrong! Ukraine lost its sovreignity in the Maidan coup d'etat. After that it was and still is a US Puppet.
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  6.  @kenmasters2025  I bet you have never been there!
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  7.  @JMM33RanMA  good advice.
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  8. 12:36 Russia is the largest country in the World. It has had a bad experience of owning an empire. It has no need of anything in Europe. It does not want a large new Hostile population. In other words, Russia does not need nor does it want, any part of Europe. The Trip wire keeps thw Europeans in line more than anything else.
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  9. 14:45 The Russians have already warned that if there are French troops in Ukraine, whatever they are doing, even if they are sitting on their hands, they will be targets. Any troops in Ukraine will be regarded as combatants.
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  10. Is it not normal for buyers and sellers to haggle? When you are buying enormous quantities, a tiny difference in unit price can amount to a LOT OF money! Listening to your commentary it seems to me that you are making mountains out of molehills. That price cap, had practically zero effect, but you make it sound like mortal blow.
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  11. A bit over 1% does not sound like much of a crisis.
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  12. 6:16 You have not mentioned that France and Germany strung Russia along with the two Minsk "Agreements" which France, Germany and the Kiev Rgime had no intention of honouring! Nor have you mentioned, why "the Russian troops were massing along theborder". This a crucial omission! The Russian troops were massing along the border, because the troops of the Kiev Regime, which had been shelling the Donbass for seven years, were threatening to kill or drive out the inhabitants of the Russian-speaking provinces. What were the Russians supposed to do? Sit on their hands and watch? Your bias, your spin is showing.
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  13. 11:42 All through the Cold War, the NATO top brass knew that the USSR had plans only for a Counter-Attack, in the event that the Western powers invaded Eastern Europe.
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  14. 7:45What a shameful turn around! France which was occupied by NAZ*s all through WW2, now in 2014 and on, supporting an openly NAZ* regime! What a come-down! What a disgrace! ("And they're doing it me lads to save Democracy!")
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  15. The problem with western commentators is that they did not listen to what Putin said at the start of the SMO. To a western mind, the important thing in a war is how much territory is won. This war was/is not about territory, well, not primarily anyway, it is about political alignments. As Putin put it at the start of the SMO it is about "Demilitarizing, de-NA*Ifying and neutralizing Ukraine." Nothing about "conquering territory". As the Russians regard Ukrainians as "Russians" they have tried, as far as winning the war will allow, to avoid civilian casualties, concentrating on hitting military targets with very precise missiles and guided bombs. The SMO, has killed fewer civilians in two-&-a-bit years, than Israel killed in two weeks in Gaza, These factors explain why the Russians have been "so slow"! It's not that they are so weak, it is that they went slowly deliberately.
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