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

  1.  @timonsolus  Ukraine has more men in the field. The Russian advantage isn't quantitative.
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  2.  @Cheesusrice69222  what do you mean they haven't moved an inch? How's Adivka and Bakhmut looking? In the north, the Ukrainians are back at the Oskil river. Pay attention for Christ's sake :P
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  3.  @cfosnock  A Ukrainian officer estimated that the Ukrainians were taking five casualties for every Russian in the Kherson offensive. The Russians were saying the same.
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  4. To the last Ukrainian. It's a sacrifice the US is willing to make.
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  5. How is Africa going to be the richest continent when it doesn't have the best educated people or the most peaceful people?
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  6. Another game changer is the Lancet. The Russians get more vehicle kills with Lancets now than they do with artillery.
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  7. People from Luhansk: overwhelmingly prefer to be part of Russia
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  8.  @darlingdear2687  In 1999 NATO attacked Serbian bridges, the energy network and a television tower. In Iraq in 2003, America destroyed the Iraqi electricity grid. They called it a "dual purpose target". It's the same as what Russia is doing now.
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  9. Ukraine flattened Slovyansk in 2014. And it's been shelling Donetsk ever since.
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  10.  @lambertlum1087  Yes lots of Russian men left the country but lots of Russian men also volunteered. The big difference is Russia has had one round of mobilisation (or reserves), Ukraine has had several waves of conscription and is now pulling in 60 year old men.
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  11. Baerbock is one of the people responsible for shutting down Germany's nuclear industry. Also opposed gas fracking.
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  12.  @anastasiagasanova574  Stalin and Beria were not Russian.
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  13.  @Solitas777  "not even a blip on our economy"?? Do you know how much the USA spent on its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Two and a half TRILLION!
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  14. Yeah like their warning to Ukraine that it should not attempt to join NATO ... oh wait....
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  15. After the war, very few of those people are going back. They'll have new lives and Ukraine will be economically wrecked for generations to come.
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  16.  @peabase  In the lead up to the war, Ukraine stepped up attacks on Donetsk, Kamala Harris was talking about Ukraine joining NATO and Zelensky was talking about Ukraine acquiring nuclear weapons. All public information but you're never going to hear it on DW.
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  17.  @pedromatos5918  Zelensky also said he's going to take the Crimea and the Donbas back from Russia - why would anyone believe anything he says?
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  18.  @MXB2001  Both sides are using upgraded T55s as assault guns They wouldn't do well in a tank on tank battle but there have hardly been any of them anyway, artillery is the main tank killer. With modern fire control systems and thermal imaging, they're perfectly useful weapon systems.
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  19. NATO created a dangerous precedent with Kosovo. Until then, European borders were regarded as sacrosanct. Yeltsin warned us at the time but NATO leaders did not want to listen.
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  20. These warmongers always want to escalate and risk starting another world war. The First World War started through both sides escalating like this guy wants to escalate. Assuming the Russians will always back down no matter what the provocation is a huge risk for little benefit. Backing the Russians into a corner is unlikely to result in the Russians backing down, it's more likely to result in the widening of the war. Most Europeans and most British people would die in a nuclear war. On honest look at how this war started would acknowledge that NATO crossed Russian red lines over and over and the origin of the whole problem was the American sponsored Maidan coup in which nationalist extremists deposed the democratically elected president.
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  21.  @riccles8331  This clown general is basically calling for World War Three.
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  22. United Kingdom, net contributor and one of the world's biggest economies out, Ukraine, corrupt and amongst the poorest countries in Europe even before the war in....
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  23.  @peabase  Ukraine attacking Donetsk breached the Minsk II agreement - obviously. Even apart from this, the same logic was used by NATO to justify its war on Serbia. So if you think Ukraine was justified in attacking "separatists" you need to explain why Serbia was not justified in fighting Kosovan separatists. You should check out Jacques Baud, Swiss intelligence officer and Dan Davis, US army colonel.
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  24. Check out his earlier predictions - hilariously inaccurate
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  25.  @murrayflewelling1258  Ukraine is taking far higher losses than Russia even though Russia is currently losing territory. Russia has been fighting outnumbered three to one. Wait a few weeks and see who is losing once the mobilised Russian reserves arrive.
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  26. No, the Ukrainian army is running out of resources, eventually Russia will take over a lot more territory. The optimal time for Ukraine to negotiate was before the war even started.
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  27.  @Scapestoat  North Korea is an almost inexhaustible supply of 152mm ammo, it's a very poor country but it has a huge supply of certain munitions. European military aid to Ukraine is actually diminishing if you look at the details - see Brian Berletic's New Atlas channel for a detailed analysis even if you have to account for bias there. But it's not just about ammunition. Consider manpower. The Ukrainians have lost heavy casualties, we don't know how high exactly but there are good reasons to think hundreds of thousands dead, missing, severely injured, POWs. Their army is declining in manpower and especially highly motivated well trained infantry. They're struggling to find motivated people to replace losses. The Russian army is growing. In theory at least every Russian soldier in Ukraine volunteered to be there.
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  28.  @JohnDoe-vy5hh  Yeah. Nuclear war between the world's biggest two nuclear powers. If you think that's a good idea maybe you should ask for a brain transplant.
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  29. 43,000 Russian soldiers killed in the entire war ... why do you think they lose 20,000 in a week?
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  30. Check out his earlier predictions - hilariously inaccurate
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  31.  @pansepot1490  Regardless of what Hodge knows which might be a lot less than you think about modern war, the guy is a lying propagandist. If you believed everything he said, Ukraine took Crimea last year.
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  32. He wants World War Three!
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  33. Ukraine is hardly a democracy. Opposition parties banned, politicians assassinated, elections suspended ....
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  34.  @antoniousai1989  It was a violent coup supported by the Americans and opposed by the majority of the population of the country overall. It's the direct opposite of democracy.
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  35. Eventually Zelensky will run out of Ukrainians willing to die for his ego.
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  36.  @LusoPictures  The difference is, America gave up Vietnam and Afghanistan because those countries weren't especially important to America. They weren't worth the cost. In contrast, Ukraine is extremely important to Russia. Russia will not be leaving because from Russia's point of view, it's not just some remote conflict for minor geopolitical advantage, it's essential to Russia's survival. The outcome of this war is almost as important to Russia as it is to Ukraine.
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  37.  @First-Last_name  BS. A Ukrainian officer admitted Ukrainian casualties were five times higher than the Russians. Nobody expected the Russians to withdraw when they did, if you remember, Ukraine suspected it was a trap and didn't seriously pursue. Less than a dozen Russian prisoners taken despite tens of thousands of men involved. Probably the real reason the Russians pulled out was because of the danger the Ukrainians would be able to destroy the dam.
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  38. Nor did the current heavy shelling by Ukraine of Donetsk city get a mention.
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  39. The guy is a total grifter - check the Panama papers.
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  40.  @asynchronicity  You probably thought the Maidan coup was legitimate?
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  41. LOL In 1938 Germany wanted an alliance with Poland against the Soviet Union, the Poles thought they were strong enough to fight Germany and the Soviet Union.
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  42.  @HughWilson-sj4xd  Well I agree. How things turned out, Polish policy obviously ended up being a disaster. Hard to say how much of this was foreseeable. I think the Poles did very well in the 1920s war and as a result, overestimated their strength. They realistically had to have friendly relations with either Germany or the Soviet Union or both. They chose neither. In retrospect that was a fatal mistake. Dealing with either would have been expensive (for example giving up the Polish corridor) but infinitely better than how things turned out. The current Polish policy is unnecessarily antagonistic towards Russia. There's no advantage to Poland. Smarter would be a more neutral stance which could see Poland gain a lot of territory after the war since Russia is obviously going to carve up Ukraine but has no interest in the north west. At minimum, what remains could be turned into a Polish satellite.
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  43.  @a.j.haverkamp4023  USA is also a permanent member. USA has started a lot more wars than Russia since the end of WWII.
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  44. The real reason for this is the Russians demined that area of the border in preparation for their own attack there. The Ukrainian attack is a proactive strike to disrupt the upcoming Russian attack. The so called military analyst doesn't seem to know what's going on.
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  45. Surely over the past couple of years, lockdowns, suppression of free speech and vaccine coercion, you've noticed most of the EU doesn't have much rule of law or stable democracy either!
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  46.  @Teatime-qe2lj  The German economy is more export dependent than China.
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  47. These guys don't believe what they say. Just like WMD in Iraq. By the time the 90% find out the elites were lying, the elites have already done what they want.
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  48. @Ole Ahlers You seem to be confusing the Bosnian Serbs and the state of Yugoslavia.
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  49. @Ole Ahlers Yes NATO bombing precisely hit a civilian passenger train, a television station and the Chinese embassy!
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  50. Yeah like when he threatened that Ukraine should never attempt to join NATO and then he did nothing ... oh wait
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