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

  1. "Wars of attrition make the victor stronger" - hardly true for Britain, France, Belgium and Serbia in the First World War.
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  2. Seems BJ's covering up for a known pervert was the main thing that pushed people over the edge. Most of them seem to agree with BJ about Ukraine.
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  3.  @Guvnor100  France had exactly this problem in 1914-1918. France accepted tactical and operational disadvantages because giving up further French territory had even greater costs. Germany deliberately gave up territory to get better tactical positions. France did manage to win eventually so be careful about blanket statements about history.
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  4.  @QualityPen  ... except the fighting at Kharkov has been back and forth for months. If the Russians had prioritised Kharkov I think we'd have seen much heavier fighting there before now.
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  5. "Countries that win wars emerge stronger" - Belgium, France and Italy certainly didn't in 1918. Winning the Second World War cost the Soviet Union severely, it never really recovered.
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  6.  @gilberttessier1871  Agreed, Russia is unlikely to resume trade with Europe while its huge foreign reserves remain frozen.
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  7.  @arthurtane6505  Time will tell which side needs the other more, Europe is going to have a very hard winter and European industries are already migrating to North America. Fertiliser and aluminium production especially has largely shut down. Not to understate the economic cost to Russia and the pressure on their budget, I acknowledge it will create difficulties for them but the economic damage to Europe looks to be devastating.
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  8.  @arthurtane6505  I doubt Germany has 90% of the gas it needs, gas storage capacity is not designed to get through a winter without any supplies, merely to even out supply and demand in normal circumstances. The other important point is cost. LNG imports cost several times as much as cheap, piped Russian gas. Industries which use a lot of gas like ammonium based fertiliser production just can't compete using LNG. It doesn't matter that US workers earn more, if much of your cost is energy inputs. It's not speculation, it's already happening. Plenty of European manufacturing has already closed down. In Britain too.
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  9.  @MN-jw7mm  LOL Only 40???
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  10. Stay in your country, buy what you can afford somewhere rural away from any big cities and away from any oil or military targets!
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  11. But no evidence whatsoever that it actually happened.
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  12.  @chipchiperson679  Overall he seems to have a pro-Russian slant. I'm not criticising that. But he does seem quite credible about Russian press releases which are often blatant propaganda.
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  13.  @PassivePortfolios  That's no different from the Ukrainian army chasing men down the street to conscript them. The large majority will fight nevertheless.
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  14. Artillery fires what it's going to fire then it moves.
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  15. Is there a POW camp there? :P
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  16. Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland all could have done it. It was shallow water. Any country with naval divers could have done it. Russia could have done it to stop sending gas to Germany without taking the political blame or having to break contract.
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  17. Doesn't make sense at all to say everyone expected the Russians to take Lysychansk before Severo Donetsk. Severo Donetsk is on the Russian side of the river and was in front of Lysychansk. The Russians couldn't even get to Lysychansk until they had most of Severo Donetsk and was outflanking Lysychansk from the south. I don't know where Alex gets a lot of this stuff from but I'm not sure he closely follows the actual fighting.
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  18. The West needs Russian gas and oil but Russia also needs Western markets. So yes Russia would definitely want to resume selling gas, also it's strongly in Russia's interest to have good relations with Europe.
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  19. Yes of course. Blood is thicker than water. And to many of these people, Israel is blood. The USA is just a passport and a place to earn money. It's the same situation in Britain. A lot of the politicians and media people and finance people have ethnic links to Israel.
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  20.  @rankoorovic7904  I think it's probably a feint. The main efforts seem to be near Donetsk and towards Mikulayev.
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  21.  @rankoorovic7904  Yeah I totally agree. And when you wrote it, it seemed logical. Now a week later, it doesn't look like a serious push for Kharkov. Probably what happened is Russian infantry patrols found villages were undefended so opportunistically occupied them.
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  22.  @chipchiperson679  Dima from Military Summary is pro-Russia and reports Russian military press releases as if they're factual.
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  23.  @Lomnjac007  Both sides tell propaganda lies, it's usual for any war. I agree the Western media has been lying outrageously. But so has the Russian media.
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  24.  @damjanm3585  Everything people like you criticise about mobilised Russian reservists could equally be said about Ukrainian conscripts. Reservists are trained soldiers who left full time service. Russia has a huge stock of small arms and infantry equipment, they've been preparing for this for ten years. Your speculations are unrealistic.
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  25.  @SSS-lc6mi  Barclay was from a Scottish ancestor.
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