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

  1. 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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  2.  @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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  3. They've been invaded many times it seldom ends well for the invaders.
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  4.  @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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  5. Schools in Ukraine are typically used as barracks - by both sides. So it's not surprising many get bombed out.
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  6. Straight from the Ukrainian ministry of truth
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  7. Not recently though - weeks or even months after mobilisation - yes. But the bureaucracy has caught up.
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  8. In most countries, more than in Britain.
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  9.  @taffyterrier  And most of them will be richer per capita than Britain.
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  10. 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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  11.  @davidlloyd2583  Also, the smaller, low profile tanks are much harder to spot - and they tend to be much cheaper too.
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  12.  @PaIaeoCIive1684  Or Denis Kireev
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  13.  @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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  14.  @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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  15.  @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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  16. 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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  17.  @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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  18. So what? Russian armaments are purchased in roubles, not dollars.
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  19.  @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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  20.  @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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  21.  @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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  22. 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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  23.  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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  24.  @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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  25.  @Lenser  Sure. Everyone who calls out BS is a Russian troll. Kindergarten level argument.
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  26. True but only because they're paid such an extortionate amount in the first place.
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  27.  @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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  28. "in our hearts" :P
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  29. 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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  30.  @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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  31. 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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  32. 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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  33. @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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  34. No just a lot of people outraged at the blatant propaganda
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  35. ​ @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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  36. Backed up by geolocation of Russian soldiers and Ukrainian vehicles at the border. Looks like Ukraine got badly defeated here.
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  37. As a contractor, I'm earning less money than before the pandemic despite inflation. And junior doctors want 35%??
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  38.  @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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  39.  @boink800  1) Most of the Bolsheviks weren't Russian 2) The Russian countryside got starved as well
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  40.  @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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  41. They're too small to show on anything except a survey map :)
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  42.  @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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  43. It's a made up propaganda number
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  44. 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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  45. 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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  46. It's a made up propaganda number
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  47. Yeah it was a really dumb escalation by the West.
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  48. Which right, the right to hold the public hostage or the right to life saving cancer care?
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  49.  @Zikar  Nah Ukraine admitted they were. The Ukrainian army also destroyed a dam in Bakhmut a couple of months back.
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  50.  @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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