Comments by "Black Cat Dungeon Master\x27s Familiar" (@blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311) on "Defense Politics Asia (DPA)" channel.

  1. Also, ask him if he's heard of Kosovo when he claims European borders should not be changed :P
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  2. His titles are ridiculous but the actual content wasn't as bad as earlier in the war. He is very pro-Ukraine biased but his content is 80% accurate even if it's cherry picked to be pro-Ukraine. Earlier in the war it seemed mainly fantasy.
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  3.  @nazihater2798  Disagree. This war is not good vs. evil it's self interest, propaganda and dishonesty on both sides but also legitimate grievances. Even if you have taken a side you need to hear the other side's point of view.
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  4. Deliberately stopping the Ukrainian railways prevents a Ukrainian build up on the Oskil or a redeployment of Ukrainian forces to the southern front. Also immobilises a lot of troop trains for hours making them potential targets for air or artillery strikes.
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  5. That's his version of affairs, there's also the rumour that he paid a bribe to escape Ukraine. Military and Foreign Affairs channel covered this. I don't know for a fact it's true to be fair.
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  6. Russia still has a peace time economy. It could still mobilise millions men more if it needs to. There's no comparison with Ukraine.
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  7.  @MuantanamoMobile  In this case the word "deep" does not mean underground. A better word might be "thick". So a minefield 5km and 600m deep means a rectangle 5000x600m.
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  8. first?!
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  9. Russia of the 1990s had really serious corruption and could barely be described as a superpower. It struggled militarily against Chechnya. Yes Russia is back now but 1990s Russia was a serious mess.
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  10.  @Ultra-Violet  Not really. You have to look at multiple metrics, official GDP is important but so are others like PPP, electrical generation, steel production etc.
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  11. I heard Switzerland. Maybe he moves around to avoid getting mobilised :P
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  12. It would be surprising if there's no pedestrian tunnel under the rail way line at a large station like that.
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  13. LOL I thought Karl L was the most deranged.
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  14.  @redscope897  Except that Russia is not seriously threatening Poland. Their shared border is tiny and uncontested. Even if Russia occupied Kiev, with a million man army, they're not going to cross the Polish border. Good Polish relations with Russia is the best guarantee of Polish security.
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  15.  @beastmode6225  Drones and precise artillery still leave the defender with an advantage given roughly equal firepower. And firepower is unlikely to be equal especially considering the Russian aviation advantage.
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  16.  @OctavChelaru  We have plenty of instances of Ukrainian morale failing in this war. Take enough casualties and morale will fail, especially when most soldiers are not volunteers and many commanders are incompetent.
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  17.  @Random-nf7qb  Youtube shadow banning.
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  18. Yeah Perun is excellent but you have to realise he's very biased and you have to take account of that.
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  19. Julian Assange with Elon Musk as runner up.
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  20. They're both huge economies with nuclear weapons.. you're not going to kick them out.
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  21.  @curlyjoh9055  Are you seriously condoning a terroristic attack on infrastructure by the Americans? If you are, don't complain if Russia does the same to the rest of the North Sea pipelines and the trans Atlantic communication cables. The whole Western financial system would collapse immediately.
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  22. Russia is also mass producing replacement equipment and even though they've lost a lot, they still have huge stocks of old equipment, I don't think it will be a problem to find at least enough old equipment for those numbers.
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  23. Plus a railway... the Russians hit the railway bridge but AFAIK, have not been able to disable the bridge permanently.
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  24.  @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  Raw numbers aren't the whole story. The German soldier of the early 1940s was vastly more efficient than the soldier of any other major country. In 1940, the Germans defeated the larger French army together with the BEF and the Belgians at the same time. In 1941, the Germans cut through huge Soviet forces. In North Africa, the Germans defeated a larger British force several times despite a difficult supply situation even though the same British force had defeated a vastly larger Italian army. You can argue this changed later in the war but in 1942, man for man, the German army was more powerful than numbers alone suggested.
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  25. I'm curious why Poland would pick a fight with Russia... but they seem to want to anyway. Currently Poland are demanding a totally unrealistic amount of money from Germany as reparations for WWII. It's hard to know what their real thinking is.
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  26.  @davemorgan6013  Doesn't seem likely - not in five years. Most of India is extremely poor.
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  27. Inspecting cargo ships near the Ukrainian coast is too risky for the Russian navy but Russia can just hit the port infrastructure
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  28. I nominate general Ben Hodges for expanding our horizons by introducing us to an alternative universe.
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  29. I don't know about Lithuania but Latvia's population is definitely shrinking... and pretty rapidly. Partly the low fertility of course but mainly emigration.
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  30.  @aniksamiurrahman6365  Yes, I also think that is a bit aspect of this :) Three points. 1) Confrontation with the Germans and the Russians at the same time has never worked out well for Poland. 2) The Polish politicians should be smarter than this. 3) The German politicians are being incredibly naive. Their current policy of allying with American against Russia brings them only costs and risks.
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  31. In some places the Russians are willing to give up territory easily, on the land corridor to Crimea, there's only so much territory Russia can afford to lose before the railway line is threatened.
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  32.  @eileenmcconnell4150  The rumour is in the Mariupol direction. The AFU has been clearing their own minefields on that front, the only reason to do that is if they want to attack themselves.
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  33.  @polysporin8332  LOL the USA is a former British colony and nowadays a brown country too
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  34. That's more like Ukrainian, in Russian the X is like X in Greek or ch in German or Scots.
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  35.  @Idk_about_anything  Russia at the time of the First Chechan war was in chaos. The Russian army wasn't immune from the general collapse of society. There was corruption and there was drunkenness and there was a morale problem. So yeah - some Russians were drunk. The war was a fiasco. Soon afterwards, Putin took power, stopped the rot and set Russia on a path of recovery.
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  36. Nordstreamem delenda est!
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  37.  @suryakumairi3622  Maybe this explains why the Ukrainians have so many "friendly fire" incidents!
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  38.  @juanmata2837  Except Russia is going to have to spend most of the money to rebuild Ukraine because after the war ends, Russia will control the devastated regions. As for the West of Ukraine nobody will rebuild it, it will become depopulated as all the remaining young people go to Poland and Germany.
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  39.  @waybackwhen1999  The origin of these reports is the Ukrainian Ministry of Disinformation... they don't have a great track record.
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  40. It was fighting three powerful empires at the same time - Soviet Union, British Empire, the USA. And it was doing all this with a smaller population than any of them and an oil shortage.
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  41.  @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  Not in 1942.
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  42.  @CirKhan  Dima is well intentioned and well informed but some of his "speculations" are pretty unrealistic.
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  43. I don't think they're dangerous for NATO. They'll be really easy to shoot down over contested air space. They're useful as a launch platform for missiles and FAB guided bombs.
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  44. The US is dominant but the EU is definitely not a dog. Only in military matters does it follow Washington's lead.
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  45. Highly dangerous though, if a missile flies off course by even a few hundred metres, it hits Romania. Yes they have bit Ismail once but if they keep doing it, sooner or later they'll land a missile in Romania.
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  46.  @danielhutchinson6604  I don't know the status of the Odessa bridge, do you reckon it's permanently disabled? The damage I saw a few months back looked repairable. I'm an engineer but never worked on bridges.
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  47.  @danielhutchinson6604  Interesting about the bridge - if it's really down properly then I'd guess the Danube ports aren't that important because too little wheat could be moved there to be decisive. Yeah there's no doubt it's going to be challenging but I don't see any sign that Ukrainian logistics have ever actually broken down. I think if there had have been a real danger of that the Russians would have persevered attacking the rail network. And as soon as they slacken off, stuff gets repaired pretty quickly and gets harder to damage. That's one of the lessons of the Second World War, that it's really hard to knock out infrastructure with bombing. That's why I expect the Ukrainian electricity grid will manage this coming winter. Because they've had all summer to prepare and install redundancy and probably install some transformers underground where they'll be safe. It'll be interesting though, Russian missile production has increased a lot so if the Russians go after the electricity grid again they'll be doing it with more missiles and more degraded Ukrainian air defence.
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  48.  @Kiyoone  He's gone to war with the Biden mafia. What's there not to like?
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  49. Nobody wants that escalation
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  50. Too long, hard to concentrate to the end of this sitrep
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