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

  1. Also it's delusional to say the Ukrainians are "fixing" the Russians around Bakhmut while the Russians have recently taken Soledar and are advancing deep into the Ukrainian front just south of Bakhmut.
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  2. She's invading our country and we're supposed to feel sorry for her? No.
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  3.  @richardramirez2557  Except the south and east of Ukraine is ethnically Russian. A lot of people in Mariupol for example are quite glad the Azov battalion has been destroyed.
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  4. "Not military targets" - the first thing the USA did in Iraq was knock out the electric grid.
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  5. This is a propaganda channel.
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  6.  @richardbarton2709  Every geostrategic rival of the Americans gets described as Hitler or the devil Saddam Hussein turned from US ally to Hitler when the politics changed.
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  7. That description fits Biden better. Putin will be around for a long time yet.
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  8. The Russian strategy isn't about seizing lots of land, they already had lots of land a month into the war and they gave up much of it to achieve a better front. What's happening week after week is that Russia is using their air and artillery advantage to bombard the Ukrainian positions and inflict much higher on the Ukrainians than they're taking themselves. They only bother advancing now when they have an overwhelming advantage.
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  9. The other thing he's lying about is that Russia is taking heavy casualties in Bakhmut. Ukrainian casualties there are very obviously much higher which is clear to anyone who actually pays attention to the footage from both sides.
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  10. I can't see how she'd even want to stay in the SNP long term.
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  11.  @oldbloke135  Doesn't work like that, Ukraine keeps feeding reserves into Bakhmut, the heavy Russian artillery advantage keeps chewing them up. When Ukraine starts running out of reserves, the front will collapse.
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  12. Nah he knows he's a propagandist.
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  13. When did it become a democracy?
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  14.  @ReeceCMF  Your info is probably out of date. They're directly SW of Bakhmut. Only one major road to Bakhmut is still open. As for costly, costly for whom? There's no evidence for the oft repeated claim that the Russians are losing more than the Ukrainians around Bakhmut. And while a lot of the Russian losses are disposably convict Wagner recruits, the Ukrainians have been losing their elite units like airborne and mountain brigades. I'll be surprised if there's not an evacuation from Bakhmut in the next month.
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  15. We have the same problem in Britain, serious criminals get let out of prison after ridiculously light sentences.
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  16.  @thewatcher5822  Eventually, yes. In the next ten years, no.
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  17.  @dahliacoles4372  But a well paid one I'm sure :)
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  18. Right so when the shelling starts, you'd rather be out in the open? BTW the vast majority of casualties in Ukraine are caused by artillery, not by drones, not by bullets, not by air strikes.
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  19. @@abdulSpruce Eh? The Russians did take Bakhmut. The army didn't even want to take Bakhmut, they wanted Wagner to use it to bleed the Ukrainian army. The only reason the Russians took Bakhmut at all is because Prigozhin went off script and wanted the PR win.
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  20. Russia holding on to the Donbas is more like the Afghanis holding on to Afghanistan. The people who live in Donbas are mainly ethnically Russian.
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  21.  @michaelotieno6524  Yes the war would be over by now - and those of us who survived would be struggling through a nuclear winter.
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  22. This is deluded. Men in Odessa are dressing as women to leave the house to avoid getting rounded up and conscripted. The Ukrainian army has also pardoned convicts who are willing to fight.
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  23.  @zugzug6773  That's what they tried on the first few days about three months ago. It was a complete disaster. Huge minefields, attack helicopters picking off vehicles with impunity and hidden Russian infantry who didn't panic, instead taking potshots from the hedge rows with Kornets.
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  24.  @generaljg4373  The reason France went into North Africa in the first place was to stop the corsair slavers who raided the French coast and took French people off to the slave markets in places like Algiers.
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  25. In that case don't complain if Kinzhals start landing in your home town because your country is arming Ukraine.
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  26.  @heycidskyja4668  Except for the people who actually live in Donbas - and who went to war with Ukraine for their independence. And the people who live in Crimea and now overwhelmingly support the annexation by Russia. Even a majority of the ethnic Ukrainian minority in Crimea were brought around to the annexation according to Western opinion polls.
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  27.  @Gerrard_Pike2008  Impossible that Russia launched three missiles. They ran out of missiles a year ago. The media said so.
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  28. Not to mention he thinks there are too many white people in Scotland.
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  29.  @AndyM_323YYY  Ukraine is a large country armed the whole of NATO. Of course it's not easy for Russia. But Russia is still winning.
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  30.  @flipout99  WWII lasted for six years. Russia is fighting the second biggest army in Europe, backed by NATO, fed real time intelligence by NATO such that the Russian air force can't be effectively used. Russia is doing this with its peacetime army, it hasn't mobilised reservists. The Ukrainian army is actually bigger than the Russian army now. Whereas the Ukrainian economy has collapsed to half what it was, Russia is fighting a major war with a budgetary surplus. The Russian army made mistakes in the first month of the war but since then, it's inflicting vastly higher casualties on the Ukrainians than its suffering itself. The Western media is outrageously misrepresenting what's actually happening which is that the Russian army are killing these poor Ukrainian conscripts by the tens of thousands at little cost to themselves.
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  31. Keep telling yourself how insignificant Russia is but in the real world, Russia is outproducing not just the EU but all of NATO in important munitions categories like artillery ammunition.
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  32. The Ghost of Kiev, the Goat of Kiev and the family of the dead Polish farmers all agree.
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  33. In this case, the entire country
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  34.  @raik747  Not that different, Ukraine puts soldiers in hotels, schools and other public buildings the Russians then hit them with missiles. Also at the start of the war, Ukraine was encouraging civilians to attack Russian soldiers. They were literally handing out assault rifles to civilians
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  35.  @hamzamahmood9565  NATO created the precedent of breaking up sovereign states and seizing territory in Kosovo in 1999. At the time Russia warned this was a dangerous precedent. Putin would never have done this if Ukraine were willing to stay neutral and out of NATO.
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  36.  @timeames2509  Check out Brian Berletic's New Atlas Channel, he analyses what's actually arriving. The quality is not obviously better and the quantity is far too little. Ukrainian sources including Zaluzhny himself confirm this. Check what Zaluzhny says he needs to hold off the Russians. It's basically not so much NATO help as NATO.
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  37.  @paulmasterson386  The war's going to be decided by the collapse of one side or the other, not by the capture or loss of any particular town. as for Kherson, the Russians pulled out of there because of the danger the Ukrainians would flood the Dniepr. Until they did pull out, the Russians obviously had the upper hand on the open terrain of the Kherson front and Ukrainian casualties were heavy. Since then, Russian manpower has been built up so the Ukrainians no longer have a large manpower advantage. For the time being at least, the Russians are unambiguously winning.
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  38. Most of the private sector has had a real terms pay cut way bigger than that. For me it's more like 40%. Anyone who claims doctors are underpaid needs to have a realistic look at the rest of society.
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  39.  @TheReddkatt  It's not about taking ground, it's about attrition. And Russia is indisputably winning the war of attrition. While Ukraine is rounding up teenagers and crippled retirees for the army, Russia has got by with one round of mobilisation.
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  40.  @Percival5  They use washing machine chips for the electronics and the fins are made from shovels :)
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  41.  @damianeadie510  It opens up a huge amount of the Donbas. It's the biggest town for a long way in each direction and it's an important transport hub. Once Bakhmut is gone, Sieversk to the north won't last long and the Russians can approach Adivka from the south which is important because Adivka is very well fortified and the Ukrainians use it to bombard Donetsk. And Bakhmut covers the eastern approaches to Kramatorsk and Slovyansk. They'll be hard to take but once Russia has taken them, they have all of the Donbas. After that they offer Ukraine peace together with guarantees to stay out of NATO. If Ukraine refuses, the Russians keep advancing westwards until Ukraine runs out of men.
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  42.  @StArShIpEnTeRpRiSe  Shoigu and Putin go back more than twenty years, since before Putin was president. I don't see the problem with calling them friends.
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  43. Stop the war by starting WWIII and seeing Europe wiped out by thousands of nuclear weapons?
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  44. Clue is in the name - and it's certainly not a British name
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  45. Same logic as Russia blew up their own pipeline or flooded their own defensive positions by blowing up the Nova Kakovka dam
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  46. It's a propaganda channel :P
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  47.  @benfowler1134  Just like he said over and over Ukraine joining NATO was a red line and on 22nd Feb 2022, Kamala Harris said Ukraine should join NATO and over the next few days, Putin did nothing? oh wait...
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  48.  @dannyboy-vtc5741  Ukraine didn't respect its end of the grain deal, nor did Turkey. Russian ships were attacked by drones launched from the grain ship route and Azov nationalist POWs interned in Turkey have been released back to Ukraine.
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  49.  @Nista357  Yeah it's a real tragedy. Totally unnecessary too. I hope total Ukrainian casualties are lower than that but certainly in the hundreds of thousands.
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  50. No, these new trade deals e.g. with Japan will stand regardless of the outcome of the negotiations, the negotiations cover access to British waters and trade governance between Britain and the EU.
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  51. One guy was saying he got no pay for three months but then got everything owed all at once. There's no doubt Russia had a lot of problems with mobilisation but over time the problems have been sorted out.
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  52.  @ne-ht4zx  Only in specific sectors. For example lorry drivers did really well from Brexit. In general, private sector pay is not keeping up with inflation.
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  53. They've been invaded many times it seldom ends well for the invaders.
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  54.  @user-yp9nz6bs9q  Yeah both sides are recruiting convicts - it's not really different from what USA did in Vietnam. A lot of guys were given the choice of prison and enlisting in the army.
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  55. Schools in Ukraine are typically used as barracks - by both sides. So it's not surprising many get bombed out.
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  56. Straight from the Ukrainian ministry of truth
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  57. Not recently though - weeks or even months after mobilisation - yes. But the bureaucracy has caught up.
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  58. In most countries, more than in Britain.
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  59.  @taffyterrier  And most of them will be richer per capita than Britain.
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  60. The headline is only valid if we believe the Ukrainian military's claim that this was a purely civilian target. But why would we believe that when they've lied so often before? The Russians claim they targeted a meeting of Ukrainian air force officers and arms suppliers. They're unlikely to waste their extremely expensive precision missiles unless they've got a good reason to believe they're striking a valuable target.
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  61.  @davidlloyd2583  Also, the smaller, low profile tanks are much harder to spot - and they tend to be much cheaper too.
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  62.  @PaIaeoCIive1684  Or Denis Kireev
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  63.  @OliverCassandraJacobsen  Comparing the Ukraine offensive to the Battle of Kursk is unfair to the Germans because the Germans did achieve considerable gains and it wasn't obvious until afterwards who would prevail. The Ukrainian offensive in contrast has achieved nothing and that outcome was foreseeable from the start.
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  64.  @Pikkabuu  Except that the actual fighting in Bakhmut involved the Russians shelling any Ukrainian position to dust with overwhelming artillery and air advantage. There's no comparison with the current Ukrainian offensive where the Ukrainians are obviously outgunned.
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  65.  @davecuddahy7872  Of course there was a deal, Putin showed the Russian copy publicly, nobody even tried to claim it was fake.
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  66. Remember the red line that Ukraine joining NATo was unacceptable to Russia? how is crossing that red line working out for Ukraine?
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  67.  @TheUncommonShaman  Yeah the first Russian helicopters lost this month were shot down by Wagner. What does that say about the state of Ukrainian air defence?
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  68. So what? Russian armaments are purchased in roubles, not dollars.
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  69.  @mbak7801  British ships that shouldn't be anywhere near there. When Russian and Chinese ships sail past, the Houthis wave a greeting. Everyone knows Britain serves America and America serves Israel. We should tell the Americans we'll help them out if they're attacked but we're not fighting any more imperial wars for their interests ... or Israel's.
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  70.  @Nista357  It does seem possible. I can believe the claim of 100,000 dead and in artillery battles, you'd expect maybe four injured for each man killed. Sometimes the same man can become a casualty more than once. A lot of these injured guys will spend a few days, weeks or longer in hospital but most will be able to return to the fighting eventually. In World War One, some men were injured many times over the course of their war.
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  71.  @williamscottshelton945  No it's definitely not taken but Russian gains around Bakhmut have been very rapid over the past two weeks and the last roads out are under fire control. Ukrainian counter attacks have failed. It'll probably hold out for weeks to come but it;'s still pretty bad news for Ukraine, they're going to lose thousands of men there and it's too late to prevent it. Honest news reporting would tell us that.
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  72. God isn't winning. The Ukrainians took a tiny village at huge cost. The Russian advance around Kupyansk is bigger - and cheaper.
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  73.  Charles Epstein  Not really, Ukraine has deployed and lost some pretty good units on that front. The charge of the light brigade worked earlier around Kherson when Russia was low on manpower, it's not going to work in future. The Russians have fixed their manpower problem and also have built deep fortifications all over the front.
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  74.  @AlfaGiuliaQV  Over the past few weeks, the Russians have started deploying their reservists, the balance of power has shifted quite radically. But yeah the Ukrainians did a pretty good job defensively until recently.
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  75.  @Lenser  Sure. Everyone who calls out BS is a Russian troll. Kindergarten level argument.
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  76. True but only because they're paid such an extortionate amount in the first place.
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  77.  @aaronmicalowe  Breached the main defenses in your dreams. In Zaporizhye, the Ukrainians haven't even reached the main Russian defence line. Wishful thinking doesn't win wars.
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  78. "in our hearts" :P
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  79. Complicated though, the Russian losses didn't include DPR/LPR and Wagner. Also Ukrainian losses were much too low, probably because most are classified as missing.
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  80.  @boogiewoogie9770  People are saying that but there was no hard evidence either side was using them until recently. Photos of unexploded cluster munitions in Kharkov from earlier in the war turned out to be air defence decoys.
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  81. This is typical of how Ukraine is fighting this war, risking brave, elite soldiers for a propaganda stunt. It's like the flag planting operation on Snake Island which cost several lives for the sake of a photo of a flag.
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  82. The bigger threat to Britain than a Russia which just wants us to keep out of their own neighbourhood is the political elite who are determined to import millions of foreigners and marginalise the ethnic British. Let the foreign imports fight for their ridiculous imperial projects since the politicians love them so much.
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  83. @velvet1865 This so called gas station is beating the second biggest military power in Europe armed by the whole of NATO.
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  84. No just a lot of people outraged at the blatant propaganda
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  85. ​ @VioIetShift  That's true but in the case of Crimea, even though Russia obviously rigged the referendum, Western polls still showed an overwhelming majority of people voted in favour. And in the years since, the popularity of Russian rule has increased. As for Donbas, most people were happy until the Maidan coup, after the Ukrainian nationalists took control and started doing stuff like suppressing the Russian language then enough people wanted to leave Ukraine strongly enough that they were able to fight off the Ukrainian army for months before Russia started to get involved. In Odessa, dozens of pro-Russians were murdered. The picture we have in the Western media is very one sided. Read Ukraine in the Crossfire by a Dutch journalists for some solid references.
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  86. Backed up by geolocation of Russian soldiers and Ukrainian vehicles at the border. Looks like Ukraine got badly defeated here.
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  87. As a contractor, I'm earning less money than before the pandemic despite inflation. And junior doctors want 35%??
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  88.  @treecko7424  No, Russia doesn't care about Sweden or Finland, Russia already got the territory it wanted from Finland at the end of WWII. Crimea and Novorossiya are vastly more important than what Finland and Sweden do - because millions of ethnic Russians live in Crimea and Novorossiya. Far from diplomatically isolating Russia, the Russian relationship with China and Iran has never been stronger. India, Turkey and Saudi-Arabia are drifting away from the West towards the BRICS bloc. As for NATO, it's strength is illusory, it has important centrifugal forces including the US/EU divide, the pained Polish-German relationship and Turkish ambivalence. Important NATO countries including France and Italy have powerful anti-NATO movements emerging. Crucially the German population has become very sceptical of the war and of the official Nordstream narrative.
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  89.  @boink800  1) Most of the Bolsheviks weren't Russian 2) The Russian countryside got starved as well
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  90.  @nerdyali4154  True but it's the same for the Russian tanks. People ridicule the Russians for using fifty year old tanks but ignore that they've been upgraded.
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  91. They're too small to show on anything except a survey map :)
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  92.  @gambrydew2059  It's not so much Russia is running out of missiles as running out of decent targets. Anything immobile, valuable and destructible in Ukraine has been hit already.
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  93. It's a made up propaganda number
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  94. Russia was hoping to keep the scale of the war as limited as possible. Also they warned there would be a serious retaliation if the Kerch bridge was hit. By escalating now, they're facing reality.
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  95. Last time South Korea suggested they would send Ukraine military aid, they back tracked within hours after Russia suggested they would share some military technology with North Korea :P
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  96. It's a made up propaganda number
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  97. Yeah it was a really dumb escalation by the West.
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  98. Which right, the right to hold the public hostage or the right to life saving cancer care?
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  99.  @Zikar  Nah Ukraine admitted they were. The Ukrainian army also destroyed a dam in Bakhmut a couple of months back.
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  100.  @Tha-King-Arthur  Based on 1) incentives and 2) precedent. Over and over Ukraine has accused Russia of what Ukraine did. For example Ukrainian S300 missile hit Poland killed two farmers. Zelensky blamed Russia. Physically impossible given the range of the missile. Even the Americans were embarrassed.
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  101. No, the war would have spread to become WWIII and probably would have turned nuclear by now.
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  102.  @jamesmason8944  It'll be on the Russian nuclear targets list too because of the long runway.
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  103. It's nothing to do with Barclay personally, the doctors have to be realistic. 35% pay rise is not reasonable.
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  104. Because it costs a fortune and it just pushes manufacturing out of Britain to places like India and China so net CO2 emissions actually increase.
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  105. Russia can replace the lost men and equipment. Ukraine can't.
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  106. Just like we did in Iraq in both wars.
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  107.  @TonyM540  Yet another Ukrainian claim which turns out to be false. He's been televised twice since they claimed that. Remember they claimed to have killed Gerasimov a year ago too and he's still going strong.
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  108. She's too good for the SNP.
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  109.  @DutchWeazel  It;'s a possible outcome. Wagner stays Wagner but some military leaders who defected to Wagner might be purged.
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  110.  @yyyy-uv3po  The "defensive alliance" which attacked Libya, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Serbia even though none of these attacked any NATO country. Very defensive!
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  111.  @MuantanamoMobile  It's worse than that, there are now millions of young men in the EU from the Middle East and Africa. No Western European country is going to be able to fight a major war like they did in the twentieth century because they're no longer ethnically united.
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  112. Even a week ago was too late
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  113.  @Handy1s  Sure... NATO is a purely defensive organisation ... tell that to the Serbs or the Libyans.
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  114.  @meoff7602  For something a decent analysis of the evidence for each side's casualties, check out the History legends channel, he just released a video looking at what's available. Yeah it is obvious. Ukrainian casualties are heavy. Much heavier than Russian casualties too.
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  115. Britain did the same in the First World War. American did the same in the Second and in Vietnam too.
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  116. Yeah I do. It's almost as good as Blackadder.
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  117.  @petrciperny  Because he's confident the Ukrainian Kursk offensive can be contained and while Ukraine is preoccupied there, their weakness elsewhere allows the Russians to take territory cheaply while it's under defended.
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  118.  @petrciperny  Said nobody
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  119.  @Giantly  The entire premise is based on anecdote. Try to be consistent.
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  120.  @abrahamdozer6273  I don't doubt such a thing has happened but you;d have to be naive to think this is typical. In the Russian army just like in any other modern army, pay is handled by a bureaucracy. Commanders don't have access to it. Money gets paid directly into a bank account. People are a bit too gullible about anecdote based anti-Russian propaganda.
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  121. But why would anyone believe the Russians had a meeting of senior commanders in a building there? As if they don't have plenty of secure bunkers nearby.
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  122.  @mr.mayhem7402  The consequences of picking a fight with a much bigger country with many allies backed by China and Russia.
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  123. And this is why Ukraine will be completely destroyed.
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  124. That's a completely ridiculous supposition. If the Russians wanted to kill random civilians they would have killed far, far more than they have so far.
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  125. Same logic as them blowing up their own pipeline and shelling their own cities and flooding their own defensive positions by blowing up a dam so Ukraine can launch an attack across the river straight after the flooding has subsided.
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  126. There was a negotiated peace arranged a month into the war, Biden and BJ convinced Zelensky to tear it up. It's too late for talking now.
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  127.  @teleguy5699  He's fighting a large country backed by all of NATO's armaments and he's winning.
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  128. I'm sure neither side did it deliberately but the best evidence is that it was an air defence missile. There's shrapnel there typical of a S300. A Gerand would have flattened the cathedral completely.
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  129.  @steveosborne2297  But they're not. The Ukrainian offensive towards Kremina has ground to a halt and the large forces the Ukrainians have there are being outflanked to their south. Nothing big is happening around Svatove and even if the Russians did lose Svatove, it would be a dangerous salient for the Ukrainians exposing them to a Russian strike from the north along the western bank of the river. It's a bizarre place for the Ukrainians to be making a major effort at all.
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  130. In WWI, the Central Powers were heavily outnumbered in manpower, resources and industrial capacity. In this war, it's Ukraine which is heavily outnumbered in manpower, resources and industrial capacity.
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  131.  @stuartx7865  Back in the real world, non Western countries are queueing up to join BRICS.
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  132.  @davidthompson4383  Kindergarten level of analysis. Russia has been warning ever since the end of the Soviet Union that it would not accept continual NATO expansion. The neocon clowns like Nuland deliberately provoked Russia.
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  133. Because these politician clowns want to pretend they're Winston Churchill and think it's outrageous that Russia behaves on its own border like the USA behaves all over the world
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  134.  @peterjohnson5586  In the territories the Russians actually control, most of the population is pro-Russian.
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  135. @Jim Carner It's definitely deliberate. It's a pretty nasty practice called shadow banning. YT is notorious for it though other sites do it too.
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  136.  @bdelectr7411  The media reported it as a stalemate. What's actually been happening since the Russians withdrew from the north is that Russia has been using its enormous air and artillery advantage to bombard the Ukrainian army for months, inflicting horrendous casualties at little cost to themselves. And now the Ukrainian army is gradually starting to crack. The Russians just encircled some Ukrainian formations and made a big advance in the past few days, it's pretty suspect that this wasn't mentioned at all.
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  137. Hasn't all the British media been pretty much the same? Propaganda with a few facts thrown in. Times seems worst of all.
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  138. Actually yes the Russians have captured about a similar amount of territory that the Ukrainians have over the summer, it's just the media doesn't report it. Besides which these tiny amounts of territory changing hands are irrelevant now that this has become a war of attrition - which Russia is winning decisively against a smaller, poorer country, despite all the Western military aid.
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  139.  @jeffsaffron5647  They took Bakhmut. Only a propagandist would claim that has no strategic value.
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  140.  @FEWGEE1  No, only the USA can do that
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  141. Rule number 4: When America promise they're going to back an ally, that ally is doomed
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  142.  @nicholas-k8j  Western sanctions have overreached themselves. At this point over half the world's population is living under Western sanctions. Pushing Russia, Iran, China and North Korea into an alliance is moronic but that's what's happened. It's not actually true Russia has no friends in Europe but to the extent that it is true, it really doesn't matter anymore. Russia's in BRICS and BRICS is taking off. Russia has new markets and sources of imports in Asia. Whereas Europe has permanently higher energy costs and permanently higher defence spending. Russia comes out of this better than Europe does. China and Iran are the biggest winners here.
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  143. If the dam gets destroyed it will be a disaster for Russia. Only an idiot would believe they'll destroy it themselves
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  144. It changed a lot in the east as Russia took Bakhmut.
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  145. Iran and China support Russia. India and Brazil and almost all of Africa are neutral.
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  146.  @GivemetheGravy  So what? If a dog is born in a stable does that make it a horse?
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  147. Britain is being invaded but it's not by the Russians.
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  148.  @ethelmini  For sure. Also, the better trenches have sections with overhead protection, there are videos of guys diving under cover when there's a drone above them.
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  149. @chrisviking7807 cope
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  150. Totally. And both sides have already destroyed smaller dams in this war.
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  151.  @onestepbeyond5221  What is Russia doing in Ukraine that's worse than what NATO countries did in Serbia, Syria, Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan? Have a read of the Edward Snowden revelations about how the American military behaves and tell me Russia so much worse. Outside of the West the rest of the world looks at all this and thinks the West is hypocritical.
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  152. The Russians are closing in around Kupyansk on near the north of the front and have repelled the Ukrainian attempts to advance around Bakhmut to both north and south, isn't significant enough to be worth mentioning? It was certainly significant enough to mention Bakhmut a couple of weeks back when the Ukrainians looked like they were making progress.
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  153.  @philipmain5701  LOL RT has been censored, apparently we can't be trusted to watch it. Even though we live in a "free" democracy.
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  154.  @jockumt7063  The Russian deficit is smaller than the UK deficit even though they're fighting a major war. Their national debt is pretty small. Their economy is growing, ours is not. After the war is over, a lot of that military spending is going to go towards rebuilding eastern Ukraine. They're the world's biggest primary resource supplier. Yes that spending does look pretty sustainable.
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  155. It was meant to be a month ago.
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  156.  @79keydet  LOL I think the Russian army cancelled the beach party .. maybe next year eh Zelensky?
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  157. Big words from someone who doesn't appear to realise Russia has more nuclear weapons than any other country in the world.
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  158.  @alasdairmmorrison74  Obviously they do.
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  159.  @hazalnut8647  At the height of their counter offensive, Ukraine is actually losing more territory than they're winning. It's all downhill for Ukraine from here on. Russian recently opened up their own offensive in the north and it looks very heavy. Check some neutral sources like Defense Politics Asia, Military Summary, History Legends, Theti Mapping, Weeb Union.
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  160.  @imperius1158  It's a war of attrition. Unimportant areas of land changing hands is irrelevant especially relatively small chunks of land changing hands. Ukraine is running out of support, running out of time and most importantly, running out of men.
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  161. Just like he said over and over Ukraine joining NATO was a red line and on 22nd Feb 2022, Kamala Harris said Ukraine should join NATO and over the next few days, Putin did nothing? oh wait...
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  162. No it's just people with brain realise the propaganda is becoming preposterous
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  163.  @eddietat95  Military experience is irrelevant, criminals aren't going to go back to their home towns to call in artillery or practice their battle drills the local population. Anyway many countries have done similar to this including Britain and America.
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  164.  @northleedspoppa  That's BS, check for yourself we have career criminals on the street after over 100 convictions. Even murderers tend to be released after a so called life sentence. Most murderers in Britain don't die in prison. There about a dozen murders EVERY YEAR in Britain by murderers who have served time for a previous murder but have since been released from prison. For example, google Cherylee Shennan, Quyen Hgoc Nguyen, Lisa Skidmore and Robert Hind. Until the war this kind of thing didn't happen in Russia.
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  165. And pennies is what they get paid.
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  166.  @rokitap.w1193  So what? Humza is racist against whites in a 95% white country. Give me the "transphobe"
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  167. Much like expired junk NATO has been sending Ukraine!
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  168. 5 to 1 Russian casualties - this is straight out of an Orwell novel
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  169. Both sides lie, so do the US and UK governments. But there's geolocation of Russians back at the border with smashed up Ukrainian vehicles.
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  170. All that money that gets paid in extra tariffs gets paid to our own government and ultimately, recycled back into the economy through extra spending or offsetting other taxes. For the country overall, it's really not a problem. For a net importer like UK, tariffs will help get our trade balance in order and in the long run, create more jobs than they destroy.
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  171.  @ryanfraser167  Well we might not like what the government spends money on and some spending helps the economy more than other spending but nevertheless, almost all of this money (other than say foreign aid and the like) gets recycled within the British economy. The point is that tariffs are not money lost to the economy like a lot of people seem to assume. If the state raises six billion in tariffs then it can afford to lower other taxes by six billion. Or lower the deficit by six billion. Or whatever. Tariffs are basically consumption tax like VAT. So a reasonably fair and economically efficient tax especially compared to say income tax.
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  172.  @Joe-og6br  It won't be a stalemate. Ukraine will run out of manpower and equipment and it's already destroyed economically. Morale is already starting to fail. Russia is just fighting a patient attrition war, it's not cheap for Russia but it's affordable, Russia can keep this up for however long it takes and it's not actually losing a lot of men. That's not to say Russia will drive all the way to the Polish border because Putin doesn't want to start WWIII but when the peace deal is finally agreed, not even Sky News will be able to pretend it wasn't a Russian victory.
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  173.  @orvalprosacco1951  The propaganda is strong with this one
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  174.  @royboy565  Because the NHS is massively overfunded. It has become a vast self serving empire sucking up ever greater quantities of GDP for mediocre health outcomes.
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  175. And likewise, don't imagine Western air defence can stop more than a fraction of what's sent in a mass attack. We've seen the failure of even the legendary Patriot in Kiev destroyed not by an expensive hypersonic missile but by a cheap drone.
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  176.  @rockyrowlands3652  Another parallel is like the German spearheads in 1944, the Ukrainians are vulnerable to the enemy's superior air force out in the open. It's obvious the gamble was to take the Kursk nuclear plant in the first few days. Now that has failed, it's senseless to continue pouring reserves into taking some border villages.
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  177. If NATO "steps up" then there will be a needless suffering of billions of more people in a nuclear war.
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  178.  @joshhencik1849  Unlikely, they stayed just long enough to get some selfies.
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  179.  @RaRa-eu9mw  There's no evidence whatsoever the Russians intend to attack Poland or Finland in fact the idea is preposterous. The Russians have been warning for decades that Ukraine should not join NATO. Both the post Maidan coup government and the Americans pushed Ukraine towards NATO deliberately to provoke the Russians. Now we see how it has backfired because Putin wasn't bluffing.
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  180. @@rorykinahan The European increase in armaments manufacturing is mainly imaginary. The European economy is severely impaired by this war mainly because of higher energy prices. NATO unity is illusory, Poland and the Baltics want to escalate, France and Germany want to deescalate, Turkey wants to play both sides for concessions. The USA actually bombed its so called NATO ally's pipeline to the cheapest gas in Europe. Like much else in the West, NATO unity is a fraud.
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  181.  @MrMezmerized  No the difference is, Russia is not sending conscripts - Ukraine is. So yes, they both have a manpower problem but Ukraine is fighting a total war, Russia is still fighting with a peacetime army. The Ukrainian economy is collapsing, the Russian state is running a budgetary surplus.
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  182. The problem with that logic is fighting Hitler destroyed Europe. And that's before the availability of nuclear weapons.
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  183. None .. but Zelensky is desperate to drag in NATO and a false flag might work
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  184.  @Flornmonk  Sure... another wonder weapon. Russian SAMs will make flying F16 suicidal.
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  185.  @michael_dugan  The Russians have huge forces they haven't even committed yet. Presumably they will once the ground dries out and hardens up. If they don't, the only possible explanation is they want to drag out the war.
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  186. The people of Belgorod are now free from Ukrainians
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  187.  @thegreatdane3627  In this case the Ukrainians outnumber the Russians. They have for the entire war. Russia is winning despite being outnumbered.
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  188. I'd take that bet. Putin doesn't need to use nuclear weapons, he'll crush Ukraine militarily by the summer if they can even last that long with no gas and no electricity and insufficient ammunition and the huge casualties they've taken so far.
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  189. If the Ukrainian Kharkov offensive round about a year into the war had not have been stopped by the Russian army the Russians were planning to use tactical nuclear weapons. So long as they have nothing to worry about the Russians won't use nuclear weapons. If they get in serious trouble they will. And what will the West do? Not a damn thing. Because nobody wants nuclear Armageddon. It's Ukraine which will pay the price.
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  190.  @philmyers5409  After a Western sponsored violent coup kicked out the democratically elected president and replaced him with an extreme nationalist anti-Russian government
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  191. Israel controls and is funded by the USA and Britain.
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  192.  @biggestjonc4362  They murdered a couple of civilians
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  193. Not many people in Britain would survive a full scale nuclear war. Yes we need a hard reset but not that hard!
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  194.  @opensizhe  The only way Russia can lose this war is if it becomes WWIII - in which case we all loose. Russia can mobilise a couple of million men if it really needs to. China is the world's biggest manufacturing country and China would supply Russia to prevent Russia losing if there were any possibility of that but Russia also has the option of using tactical nuclear weapons if it got worried. Supplying Ukraine is about limiting Russia's gains and bleeding Russia as much as possible. Nobody with a brain believes Ukraine can take Crimea or take Donetsk or whatever.
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  195.  @fredbyoutubing  It's obvious the Ukrainians were going for the Kursk nuclear plant. The Russians captured orders confirming that. Now they're failed with that gamble, the question is, why are they doubling down?
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  196.  russo-phobe  That's delusional. Everyone knows the Russians have air dominance. Zaluzhny claims the Russians have a ten to one artillery advantage, is he lying? And the Ukrainians are attacking which is generally much harder than defending. Only a complete moron would believe Russian casualties are higher let alone eight times higher. Go easy on the meth.
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  197. Most Russians would survive, they have nuclear bunkers and the biggest land mass on earth. Luckily in Britain we also have nuclear bunks and our population is spread over a huge land mass too, right? right?
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  198.  @jamesmason8944  Aye it's surreal these monkeys are cheer leading for war with Russia when half of the British population would be wiped out just in the first few days of a nuclear war to say nothing of the radiation and starvation afterwards. The Westminster circus are even more rabid than Washington even though Britain has got zero at stake in Ukraine either way. Ironically Russia with its huge area, spread out population and municipal fall out shelters would survive a nuclear war better than almost any Western country.
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  199.  @1daxwood  The Indians kicked the British out of India.
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  200. Yeah it's hard to see what Western governments are trying to achieve here. It seems likely the German government has seen the light and wants to avoid antagonising the Russians any further.
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  201. A big chunk of the Rostov na Donu population obviously favoured Wagner.
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  202. Deliberately targeting civilians? Looks like a desperate attempt to provoke the Russians into something stupid.
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  203.  @timdyer5903  The US and UK have illegally invaded plenty of foreign countries since the end of the Cold War. Yeltsin warned European borders were up for grabs after NATO created the precedent of seizing Kosovo off Serbia.
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  204. It's not unwinnable because Ukraine is slowly running out of manpower whereas Russia is not even mobilising the huge army they could. With patience, Russia will win this decisively.
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  205. It's just a BS narrative with zero evidence
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  206. Has there ever been a single bit of evidence that Russia intends to attack any NATO country? Much less is able to? No? Well then drop that ridiculous narrative.
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  207. By this time next year it'll be obvious Russia is winning.
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  208. There were serious negotiations a month into the war, Ukraine tore them up after a visit by Boris Johnson. There were more negotiations recently, Ukrainian's Kursk offensive makes it obvious the war will only end now in a Ukrainian collapse.
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  209. Looks like the Ukrainians are still making gains in Kursk and are doubling down. The Russians are probably going to have to pull across to the north of the river west of the salient.
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  210. A reversal of the US sponsored coup of 2014 which expelled the democratically elected president and put in place a NATO puppet government.
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  211.  @fnorgen  No it's because the distribution system can be repaired fairly quickly, repairing actual power plants could take years. Yes it's true power plants are harder targets. But they're also relatively few in number. A single Iskander could knock out a thermal plant.
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  212.  @laughingbuddha1926  Russians build their own weapons. A few smuggled microchips are a rounding error compared to the total cost of a helicopter or tank.
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  213. By which time their manpower losses will exceed their population many times over.
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  214.  @orlock20  11 million Ukrainians have already left their homes. I severely doubt they're all going back after the fighting stops.
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  215.  @khubza8999  Pretty much true though. The countries with the most ammunition an artillery have not banned it - China, North Korea, Russia, USA.
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  216. "relatively small operation" in Bakhmut - where Ukraine has 60,000 men defending a single town. How big is the British army again?
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  217.  @patlelion  The sad thing is even if the war stopped tomorrow, Ukraine is permanently depopulated and impoverished. And the war has a long way to run yet.
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  218. Apparently she's never heard of NATO's own little war of aggression in Kosovo.
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  219.  @gregorysurovoi3968  Russia has hit Ukraine with something well over 5000 missiles and drones destroying much of its power grid and almost all of its military manufacturing. Ukraine sent one back and we're supposed to be impressed?
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  220.  @yxmichaelxyyxmichaelxy3074  Well the USA outspends Russia by a huge amount but Russia can still produce more of important categories so the Russians must be doing something right. Communism ended over 30 years ago, it's like a distant memory for Russians now.
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  221. Yes it's a desperate propaganda attempt by Ukraine to drag NATO in
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  222. There are people who claim the world is flat should we give them a platform too? Russia reached the Western outskirts a week ago. There is now photographic evidence of Wagner soldiers even in the last Ukrainian strong points.
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  223. Four legs good two legs bad
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  224. No, he'll just say it wasn't strategically important. And that Russian losses were massive.
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  225.  @boink800  Yeah there's tons of proof. It's been going on literally since 2014. In 2022, they were hitting it with petal mines which are mainly dangerous to civilians and animals with hardly any military utility. Not saying Russia are right and Ukraine are wrong but in this particular case, yes there is proof.
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  226. Because he's in a country which is lobbing missiles at Russia and the world is on the brink of the most destructive war ever?
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  227. Doesn't matter though, the 1% of the population in Britain who follow the war closely know it's propaganda but the vast majority won't know enough to see through it.
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  228.  @WinterXR7  That was a Ukrainian S300 (in Poland)
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  229. It was designed to ensure the heaviest fighting would be in Belgian territory rather than French territory. It worked a treat.
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  230. The guy is just making up rubbish. Russian servicemen in Ukraine are not conscripts at all - they're contract soldiers ie. professionals. The conscripts are most of the Ukrainians - and most of the DPR and LPR soldiers. And the DPR and LPR guys are fighting for their homeland even more than most of the Ukrainians - because it's their own area they're fighting in. Let's give him a pass for saying Peter the Great is an architect of the Soviet Union - I think he meant Russia. It's his analysis of the war which is the real problem.
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  231. No not totally encircled but the last roads out are under fire control.
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  232. Ukraine is desperate to pull NATO into the war. The actual radiation released would be negligible at least relative to the thousands of people dying in the fighting.
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  233.  @christiandauz3742  No Russia isn't using T34 tanks that's just moronic.
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  234.  @TheCriticalSigma  But at what cost?
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  235. Yeah and maybe the Ukrainians are bombing Kiev
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  236. By international law, Kosovo is part of Serbia. .NATO destroyed the convention that European borders are inviolable.
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  237. What policies? Encouraging foreign immigration so Scotland becomes like Bradford or Oldham?
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  238. The UK government obviously regards the public as expendable, look at how they're so busy replacing us with immigrants.
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