Comments by "Black Cat Dungeon Master\x27s Familiar" (@blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311) on "The Telegraph" channel.

  1.  @neilmcbeath954  A lot of the "Ukrainians" have brown skin and Pakistani accents.
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  2. Apparently, nobody told the Russians, they're closing in on Avdivka and making rapid progress, also retaking the ground Ukraine took around Bakhmut. Not that Telegraph would mention that.
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  3. Thing is, Russian soldiers or Ukrainian soldiers would be shocked that so many guys are grouped up together in the open on the battlefield like that. It's like their doctrine has learned nothing from the Ukraine war.
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  4. He's just a bit thick
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  5.  @terryharris1291  Those kind of numbers are pure cope. Yes it is a lot of vehicles I saw 109 confirmed but since then it'll be a bit more since then. Most will be recovered after the battle, most are just tracks blown off by mines. Ukraine has lost hundreds around Robotyne too. But your manpower numbers are ridiculous. Check out Meduza which tracks CONFIRMED Russian manpower losses over the war and plots them month by month - it's been trailing off ever since Russia mobilised.
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  6. He'd have to be either black or trans
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  7. Ukraine had a navy. Russia sunk it at the start of the war.
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  8. Plenty of atrocities from the Ukrainian side too so put it in perspective. Happens in war. The individual soldier who does this is guilty, not the entire country. In WWII, there were similar outrageous atrocities from the British army, how could there not be with hundreds of thousands of men under arms? At one stage, the Canadians barely took prisoners at all
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  9. In Normandy, the Allies had an overwhelming material advantage over Germany. In Ukraine, the Russians have an overwhelming material advantage. The comparison is pretty silly.
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  10. Russian made "marginal gains" - marginal my arse. Russia has broken into Avdivka from the north and south. They're less than 1km away from physically cutting the last road in and out. There was a huge advance over two days in the north. The Russian position there has improved immeasurably since the start of the year.
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  11.  @christianbroadbent7489  Nah the Russians are over the railway lines now in the north, have a strong hold on the slag heap which gives them observation over the entire northern flank. In the south they're advancing too. And in the south west area actually into the town. From the drone footage it looks like most of the Russian vehicle losses were early on and are north east of the Terrikon which is pretty secure territory for them now. They've already done the hard part. I don't see how anyone can seriously argue Avdivka is going to be able to hold now. BTW big Russian advances around Bakhmut too and further north on the Kupyansk front.. Ukraine is still fighting hard but the writing's on the walll
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  12. The Telegraph propaganda is a bit OTT. Back in the real world, the Ukrainian offensive has been a disaster. Around a hundred AFUs destroyed, who knows how many men killed. Russian losses obviously much lower and no important territory gained so far. In the past couple of days, Russia has started its own offensive in the east.
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  13. Turkey isn't that stupid, they've fought plenty of wars with Russia and they usually loose.
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  14. LOL he's a lightweight who writes popular history books
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  15. "if they lose this conflict" i.e. if pigs could fly
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  16. Plenty of videos of atrocities by the Ukrainians too but the media never talks about that. No excuse for atrocities of any kind but the individual must be held accountable, not the entire country.
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  17. Not really, it's Russia which will decide the outcome, all Ukraine can do is delay the decision
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  18. Ukraine is a technological and industrial power house? Per capita it's close to the poorest country in Europe even before the war. Last I heard only Moldova was poorer.
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  19. Plenty of atrocities from the Ukrainian side too so put it in perspective. Happens in war. The individual soldier who does this is guilty, not the entire country. In WWII, there were similar outrageous atrocities from the British army, how could there not be with hundreds of thousands of men under arms? At one stage, the Canadians barely took prisoners at all.
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  20.  @davidorrell764  Back in the 70s the Scottish Office looked into this, the original McCrone report. It found that Scotland would have a "chronic surplus to a quite embarrassing degree and its currency would become the hardest in Europe". Luckily for Westminster and unluckily for Scotland, she was successful in covering it up. Only came out in 2005.
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  21.  @DAndyLord  Firstly, Russia isn't defeated. Even the Americans are admitting that Ukraine needs negotiations as soon as possible. It's the Russians who aren't talking negotiations because they know they're winning. Secondly, supporting Ukraine wasn't "cheap" for the West, it's destroyed the German economy for a start. The big picture is it drives Russia and China (and Iran and North Korea) together. That's not just not smart, it's outright moronic.
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  22. Unlikely, the Ukrainian soldiers are running out of enthusiasm even if the government is not.
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  23. Yes but don't forget the Russian secret weapon - washing machine chips!
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  24.  @Clapperofcheeks5000  It's sad how the Telegraph won't tell us what's really happening without a strong filter of wishful thinking.
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  25. And they are. For example the Ukrainians lost their last hold in Robotyne today. And Netailove.
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  26. Apparently the Russian army didn't get the message that they're in panic. Probably they'll start retreating towards Kiev pretty soon.
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  27. What's funny is the vast majority of these English speakers who call the Russians orcs wouldn't know the difference between a Russian and a Ukrainian
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  28. No. But there are plenty of reasons to think democracy is disintegrating as we watch in the West.
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  29. @tayletubby5138 There's plenty of footage of Ukraine using blocking forces too and shooting men who try to retreat. Not that you'd ever hear about that from the Telegraph.
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  30. Could be any of a missile which missed completely, a missile brought down or knocked off target by Ukr air defence or could also be a Ukrainian air defence missile which went off target like the big one in Dniepro which got Arestovych fired when he went off script and admitted it was a Ukrainian missile.
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  31.  @lubanskigornik282  Well at least some of these missile strikes are actually Ukrainian missiles. Remember that missile that killed two guys in Poland? Ukrainian S300 which Kiev claimed was Russian. Missile which killed a lot of people in Dniepro recently? Ukrainian, Arestovych got fired for admitting it. Russia has fired over 5000 missiles so far at Ukraine. Some have missed their intended targets for sure but given that number of missiles, the civilian casualties look surprisingly low. Compare to the US in Iraq! Albright admitted half a million Iraqi dead.
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  32.  @Explorer982  Sort of ... pay for officers was about four times as much in the Russian military as in the Ukrainian military so a lot of guys defected. Not surprising when Crimea was heavily pro-Russian anyway and there was widespread disgust at the Maidan coup.
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  33. Even the suggestion that Russia is about to pull out of Ukraine is ridiculous. Afghanistan just doesn't matter that much. Ukraine does.
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  34. Hard to see what incentive Russia has to stop the war at this stage. Especially when big population centres are still in Ukrainian artillery range.
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  35. The West keeps escalating. Putin's trying to tell us to back off. We can either laugh at him or take him seriously but remember the logic conclusion of escalation is nuclear war.
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  36. Except that Hannibal was competent and pulled off some incredible victories.
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  37.  @dannyshadbolt229  Both sides have propaganda, it's all equally ridiculous. There are good neutral sources. Try some.
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  38. Why? All he does is human interest stories with no analysis, he's a light weight popular historian, not a researcher, not an original thinker, not an expert on Russia.
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  39.  @firebyrd437  how?
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  40. Exactly the same kind of propaganda stories on the Russian side.
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  41. The Telegraph has really demeaned itself with its ridiculous coverage of the Ukraine war. Does a propagandist clown like Petraeus really deserve an interview?
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  42. Daniel Johnson seems to be talking about a different war from everyone else. Perhaps he's just been scanning the media headlines and hasn't been following daily maps of Russian progress or the dozens of videos of Ukrainian soldiers surrendering or complaining about their orders and leadership.
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  43.  @GARDENER42  The Crocodiles are destroying Ukrainian AFVs from 8km behind the front. No, MANPADS are not perfectly adequate.
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  44. If Ukraine joins NATO, US nuclear capable missiles are stationed on Russia's border. Russia kept pleading not to let Ukraine join NATO for years. A few days before the war started, Kamala Harris encouraged Ukraine to join NATO (see her 22nd Feb speech). Putin finally lost patience. The Biden administration knew this was going to happen. They engineered this war.
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  45.  @Wallyworld30  Fair enough and I agree, I've read some of his books and they're fine for a light read. A lot like Max Hastings.
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  46. No interrupting because they're all cooperating to push the same propaganda.
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  47. No, it'll be all down the memory hole.
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  48.  @Surfbird11  1) Ukraine doesn't hold the ground. Russia has recovered everything they lost on the southern front. 2) That's not what everyone was saying when Russia lost their first T90
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  49.  @anthonyhulse1248  Russia still controls Bakhmut. Also, Russia controls the villages north and south of Bakhmut.
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  50.  @claudemaggard7162  By the nationalist extremists.
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