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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