Youtube comments of Black Cat Dungeon Master\x27s Familiar (@blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311).

  1. The two ethnic Pakistani men who attacked police offers at Manchester airport still haven't been charged.
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  2. George Galloway outclasses all of them put together.
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  3.  @Akendesuu  It's complicated. There are several reasons acting together. One big reason is the ideology of liberalism. Another influence is wokism which is hostile to ethnic identity of any Western people. Another big reason is the class system which originates in the Norman conquest of England in 1066. Another big reason is the people who rule Britain don't identify themselves as English (or Scottish or Welsh or Irish) but have different ethnic interests altogether. If you're from Romania, be glad that your country had decades of misery under communism, it had many downsides but it was an excellent vaccination against wokism.
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  4. I struggle to believe the Palestinians started this without the guarantee of outside assistance.
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  5.  @rudiruttger  If you go find videos from 2014 the locals in Mariupol, Slovyansk and a host of other places call the Ukrainians the invaders. And that's not even talking about Donetsk. Who the invaders are depends entirely on what side you're on.
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  6. Poland and Hungary aren't the genuine corruption problem states. It's just they're the ones Zeihan doesn't like for geopolitical reasons. Corruption in Bulgaria and especially Romania is way worse. Corruption in Lithuania and Latvia is pretty bad too.
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  7. Twenty something minutes of sound bites. Zero analysis.
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  8. If he really was objective, he wouldn't be calling the war a stalemate, he'd admit Ukraine is losing badly. Talking about a new Ukrainian offensive next year is pure delusion.
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  9. There's more free speech in Russia than in Britain. And vastly more respect for Christianity.
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  10. Immigration actually lowers the fertility rate by increasing the cost of housing and the population density. Hard to measure but people tend to have more children when the population density is lower. That's why even in the modern world, rural families tend to be bigger.
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  11.  @veritasaequitas2632  There were railways in the 1940s, Germany and her allies invaded with an army many times larger than Napoleon's and they were still defeated eventually. The point is not whether the Russians are more efficient man for man, the point is that if Russia is determined - and I think it's obvious they are - then Ukraine can't possibly win this war.
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  12. I would have said the Korean war but yeah - after this war, the Russian military is going to be much more dangerous than before the war.
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  13.  @paulsmyth3580  An excuse deemed to be inadmissible in the Nuremburg trials.
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  14. Not so much lazy as corrupt, entitled and incompetent. Back in the day, the police were at least competent enough to at least invest a pretext before arresting you, now they're actually inventing the pretext afterwards.
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  15. Pay attention to what Putin said, he doesn't oppose Ukraine's existence as a sovereign state at all. Just not with the pre Maidan coup borders.
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  16. Moltke the Younger was also an extremely good general. The Race to the Sea didn't work out for Germany but the reasons for that are complex. One of his subordinates deserves more blame than Moltke.
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  17.  @mrdumbfellow927  I think he means bombing ethnic Russians - which is true. No, Ukraine was definitely not bombing Russia itself.
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  18. Make peace now while there's still something left to save of Ukraine
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  19. The North Koreans also now have an unknown number of modern Russian long distance missiles. See ex CIA Ray McGovern discussing this. Pushing Russia closer to China, Iran and North Korea looks like a huge strategic failure for NATO
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  20. So much like a lot of the Romanians in Britain.
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  21. 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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  22. She's invading our country and we're supposed to feel sorry for her? No.
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  23.  @neilmcbeath954  A lot of the "Ukrainians" have brown skin and Pakistani accents.
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  24.  @triola3983  But it is actually true, right? So calling the guy a bot doesn't change that it's true.
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  25.  @vsm_dracarys6282  Yeah the Germans thought the same thing in 1941, they thought they were invincible and the Russians would crumble like the French did.
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  26. And people still claim it's a defensive alliance.
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  27. Most of this kind of art was made by Catholics!
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  28. Apparently, nobody told the Russians, they're closing in on Avdivka and making rapid progress, also retaking the ground Ukraine took around Bakhmut. Not that Telegraph would mention that.
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  29.  @AlphaSAS  As usual any criticism of Zionism, the most racist ideology in the Middle East gets called racism.
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  30.  @alanmarr3323  Because she has ethnic loyalties other than to the British people. How can that not be obvious?
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  31. It's because the Gypsies have left and moved to Western Europe. I was in Bratislava in 1999 it was full of Gypsies. I was in Bratislava again more recently, not a Gypsy to be seen but Paris and London are full of them.
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  32. It's not really isolated anymore, now that the US has pushed Russia, Iran, China and North Korea into an alliance of convenience.
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  33. LOL, Sweden faces invasion but it's not from an enemy army and it's assisted by the Swedish government.
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  34. Very unusual for a senior office of the British military to have such a sane perspective on Russia.
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  35. Thing is, Russian soldiers or Ukrainian soldiers would be shocked that so many guys are grouped up together in the open on the battlefield like that. It's like their doctrine has learned nothing from the Ukraine war.
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  36. How can you seriously believe it's 50/50 who is winning? Ukrainian casualties are much higher and it's a much smaller, weaker country. Ukraine is struggling to replace manpower, Russia is not. Ukraine is burning its reserves, Russia is building up reserves. It's blindingly obvious who is winning.
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  37. If you believe that, you should invest everything you have in Ukraine. When Ukraine wins you'll be rich.
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  38. Is it so different in the USA? The coastal elites call the Midwest "flyover country".
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  39. It's not broken, it's by design
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  40. Also, ask him if he's heard of Kosovo when he claims European borders should not be changed :P
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  41. LOL 500k casualties, numbers straight from the Ukrainian ministry of propaganda
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  42. Shovels? :)
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  43. Who didn't?
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  44. Except he got some huge facts wrong for example the age structure - Scotland is typical for the EU. Health - pockets of dire health mainly in Glasgow aren't typical for Scotland. And energy - Scotland is a huge energy exporter.
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  45. Why would Russia risk stopping at the four oblasts when there's the likelihood that anything they don't take now becomes an enemy again later? Why would they want to risk enemy nuclear weapons being stationed closer to Moscow than they can avoid? Now the Ukrainian army is starting to break and Russia can make further gains at acceptable cost, it seems likely to me Russia will want everything east of the Dniepr, even just for their own future security.
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  46.  @EnteleiEchein  A lot of them don't think ahead and don't plan. Babies "happen".
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  47. Yes... he speaks very confidently about stuff he barely understands. And his track record of predictions is pretty dire.
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  48. His solution for "getting rid of Hamas" ... import them to Britain?!
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  49. The History Legends youtube channel did an excellent video on the British military and why few people want to join in just a couple of days ago. Obvious reasons - multiethnic society, marginalisation of the British working class and economics.
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  50.  @davidsuber8756  Iraq was a war for their benefit in the first place.
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  51. In fact, we should ask Putin to be our Prime Minister after he's finished bringing Russia back as a super power from the mess it was in when he took over.
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  52. World's biggest nuclear power.. what could go wrong?
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  53. Antagonising Russia was deliberate US policy. Antagonising Iran is deliberate US policy. Antagonising China is deliberate US policy. Is it any surprise Russia, China and Iran feel they need to team up for their own safety?
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  54. Yes but they're semi autonomous explosive flying shovels
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  55.  @stephenderry9488  In reality Northern Scotland has pretty good health outcomes, the really bad health problems are from the poorest parts of Glasgow. As for obesity, some of the USA e.g. Mississippi is way worse than Scotland.
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  56.  @timothyhouse1622  No, I blame the US government for following a stupid policy. For example if Biden had said in 2022 than Ukraine will never join NATO and should abide by the Minsk II accords (which Ukraine signed) then there would never have been a war in Ukraine. Relations between Russia and the West would have improved and North Korea would not have advanced missiles which can reach the west coast of the USA. It's not as simple as "being aggressors", that's playground level language. All of these countries are just following what they perceive to be their strategic interest.
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  57.  @dimakhidarkovskiy2175  LOL no he was obviously Jewish like so much of the Soviet leadership. Not saying he was religious but he was 100% ethnically Jewish.
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  58. That's why they employ him. He's a professional punching bag.
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  59. His titles are ridiculous but the actual content wasn't as bad as earlier in the war. He is very pro-Ukraine biased but his content is 80% accurate even if it's cherry picked to be pro-Ukraine. Earlier in the war it seemed mainly fantasy.
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  60. Allowing rail transit to Kaliningrad was a condition of Russia recognising Lithuania's right to secede from the Soviet Union. If Lithuania revokes rail transit then from Russia's viewpoint any obligation to recognise Lithuania's sovereignty is also violated. A decent reporter should have at least mentioned this. Also unmentioned but crucially important, the EU now recognises the danger and has told Lithuanian to back off.
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  61. Only if you assume justice is meant to be blind. Easy to understand if you know the real purpose of justice is to protect the regime, not the public.
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  62. If the guy was clean and didn't hang out with murderous gangsters, he'd still be alive.
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  63. He's just a bit thick
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  64. "Aus dem Kontext riesen" 🤡🤡🤡 Aussenminister - wir haben gehoert was sie gesagt hat.
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  65. The admiral would do better thinking about how to defend the Channel against invaders from much further south in the world than Russai.
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  66.  @colincampbell4261  Nah look at the outrageous bombing of Serbia. Britain was cheer leading. Norway was cheer leading. The USA is just the biggest, it's not always the most aggressive.
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  67. The size of the population isn't too important, it's the size of the defending army which matters. And Ukraine is slowly but surely running out of men.
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  68.  @terryharris1291  Those kind of numbers are pure cope. Yes it is a lot of vehicles I saw 109 confirmed but since then it'll be a bit more since then. Most will be recovered after the battle, most are just tracks blown off by mines. Ukraine has lost hundreds around Robotyne too. But your manpower numbers are ridiculous. Check out Meduza which tracks CONFIRMED Russian manpower losses over the war and plots them month by month - it's been trailing off ever since Russia mobilised.
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  69.  @Alain.Robert  I lived in Netherlands, its far from racist. The government goes to great expense to make life easy for immigrants and to make assimilation easy - for those who want to assimilate. Blaming the "racism" of host societies is a particularly stupid slur on the most open cultures on the planet. If it were actually true, these societies wouldn't allow high immigration at all.
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  70. Potentially you could pack five tons of HE into the end of a tunnel, you couldn't really get the same blast from a guide bomb. Yes some WWII bombs were huge but they weren't glide bombs and it's too dangerous to fly a heavy bomber over the combat line.
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  71.  @gustavlarsson9932  MI6 estimates shouldn't be taken seriously. Britain obviously supports Ukraine and propaganda is one of the battlefields. Actual personally identified Russian killed from the entire war so far is 43,000 men. Add a few thousand who for whatever reason have had no social media or newspaper mention of their deaths. Multiple by three or four for wounded and you get to maybe 200,000 for the whole war. Not 500,000.
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  72.  @gamingforever9121  In the area which Russia currently holds, there will be very few pro-Ukraine people left. They either long since left or they became resigned to being part of Russia. As for separatist movements - no. Donetsk and Luhansk always wanted to be part of Russia, back in 2014, they rebelled against Ukraine because they thought the Russian army would move in to help them, they were angry at Putin when this didn't happen. As part of Russia they're far richer than being independent. The only people who benefited from independence were the local warlords most of whom are now dead. Only if Russia moves much further west will there be a serious partisan problem.
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  73. Different units in the Russian army are completely different in quality. The more disciplined units usually treat prisoners well but it still depends on individuals like it does in any war. Storm Z and the Wagner conscripts before them are unlikely to be so disciplined as the VDV.
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  74. @@moe-qw7xt What if the policeman was defending himself from being run down?
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  75.  @reescantdance7831  If that's what you call analysis, you need to broaden your sources.
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  76. A culture which has evolved near the Arctic Circle has evolved to think ahead carefully and prepare. Closer to the equator, preparation for the future in pre modern times was not essential.
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  77.  @timonsolus  Ukraine has more men in the field. The Russian advantage isn't quantitative.
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  78. @scldistancer4ever868 It's easy to understand. The Russian military is pretty good, the exact opposite of how clowns like Zeihan portray them (he actually claimed in a war with NATO, casualties would be a thousand to one). Doesn't mean you want them to win to acknowledge that. As for Zelensky, the guy is a slimeball. Elected on a peace platform, he was threatened by the nationalists so did a 180 reversal and escalated. He tells blatant lies. He signed an agreement with Russia a month into the war which would have ended the war on good terms but then tore it up. If you're a Ukrainian patriot, the guy has been a disaster, he's destroying the country.
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  79. And more importantly, European food is not full of poison.
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  80. Glenn Greenwald is another giant, a left wing guy who has brains and principles
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  81.  @Capohanf1  And cars!
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  82. He's a Washington propagandist. This video alone is full of holes.
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  83.  @secretname4190  He's basically a CIA propagandist. I assume the Washington establishment would oppose Scottish independence in case an independent Scotland was sceptical about NATO or closed down Faslane. Inconvenient facts don't matter, just so long as the presentation is self assured and backed up by an army of fan boys.
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  84.  @allacheget3023  How is he wrong? Nothing more lame than calling someone a bot when he points out facts you don't like.
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  85. The Scots Captain probably has a relatively rosy view because Scotland is decades behind England with immigration. It's just not going to be an issue somewhere like Dumfries.
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  86. Joseph Chamberlain tried doing that but he had a lot of opposition. It was the First World War which weakened the British Empire, not tariffs. At the start of the century, the British Empire was in pretty good health, but it had a huge economic and technological lead in the mid nineteenth century, it was unsustainable to keep such a big lead as countries like Germany industrialised and educated their populations. So it was inevitable it would lose a relative share of the world economy no matter what it did.
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  87. Any threat to Sweden from Russia is entirely imaginary.
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  88. You're probably right but would you be surprised if you're wrong? I wouldn't. One thing the recent pandemic has taught us is that when we're told something is safe by pharmaceutical companies, we should run.
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  89. Two tier policing is objectively official policy according to instructions from senior police management to front line officers and publicly available documents.
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  90. I don't think so, Putin is conservative, he never wanted this war and I don't think he will be wiling to risk escalation by pushing so far west. He might take Kharkov city though. And probably take back Kherson city.
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  91. Zeihan calling someone else a propagandist?!!
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  92.  @jerribee1  Also Giles Milton: White Gold
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  93. The funny thing about this comment is you could be using it to support either side. Because both sides have committed outrageous atrocities.
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  94.  @TessaTickle  LOL yeah Albania is pretty bad too but they exported most of their criminals to London.
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  95.  @jamesgornall5731  Works really well if the enemy is weak and disorganised like in Iraq or during the Kharkov offensive where it was relatively easy to infiltrate through Russian lines and punch through with armour into the rear. A totally inappropriate strategy for dealing with a well defended, heavily fortified line protected by many layers of minefields.
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  96.  @aaronaaronson7600  The Russians have no interest in starting a global nuclear war, whereas the demographic replacement of the British people is very real.
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  97. Russia has enormous economic resources and an enormous advantage in armour, artillery and air power. For every Russian casualty there are several Ukrainian casualties. The only reason it's advancing so slowly is because it's trying hard to conserve infantry. If you think Russia will be defeated by Ukraine then you're in for a bad surprise.
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  98. True for all of Europe, is just that Netherlands and Denmark did good studies and put numbers on it. In Britain now, the government has stopped publishing statistics on immigrant crime.
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  99.  @MrGreenTabasco  It's a short video he gave the example of Hungary and Poland as countries with corruption problems. Sure they both do have corruption problems but it's way, way worse in other countries.
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  100. Disagree, the big offensives will start as soon as Ukraine reaches the point that it doesn't have enough reserves to plug gaps when a position collapses. And that point seems to be approaching. Big offensives when the enemy is too strong is expensive and risky but positional warfare has an opportunity cost too when the enemy is weak enough that big offensives have a realistic prospect of success. The Kharkov offensive had a good pay off for Ukraine when the Russians were too weak in this sector, cutting off Russian forces and capturing territory. Ukrainian casualties were modest relative to the results achieved so far as we can tell. The balance of power is starting to favour Russia doing something like this.
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  101.  @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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  102.  @thomasherrin6798  Mainly England, some to Ireland if we're talking about electricity. Most of the gas powering Britain is from rigs overwhelmingly off NE Scotland. I'm not trying to make any kind of anti-English argument, I'm just pointing out Zeihan is factually wrong and it's obvious he's deliberately talking down Scotland's prospects because of his own pro-Washington agenda.
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  103.  @WJV9  What Putin is doing in Ukraine isn't different from what NATO did in Kosovo. Back then Yeltsin warned that violating sovereignty was a dangerous precedent for Europe but he was ignored.
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  104. They smuggle through tunnels. You can't smuggle food, fuel and water for two million people through tunnels. That's a couple of hundred tons of supplies per hour.
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  105.  @stubones  His book is literally titled Enemy of the State. It seems to be a justified claim.
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  106. That's a ridiculous oversimplification which ignores the Kosovo precedent, NATO expanding eastwards despite assurances given to the Russians and the fact that overwhelmingly Russian Crimea was given away to Ukraine by Khrushchev.
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  107. "Not military targets" - the first thing the USA did in Iraq was knock out the electric grid.
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  108. All of them are :) The main reason to come here is for a comedy take on what Washington want the plebs to think
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  109.  @dexterquotidian  I realise Orban has problems but you have to admit, he is determined to keep Hungary Hungarian. Can you say the German government is protecting Germany in the same way? Is the French government protecting France? Visit Paris, you now will see the French are a minority in the city overall.
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  110.  @ChaosOperator  Not so much potential causes of cancer as known causes of cancer. I'm no fan of the EU but the poison allowed in US food is outrageous for a rich country. That's one of the problems with Ukrainian grain too, It contains all kinds of stuff regarded as unacceptable in Europe.
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  111. No not really. Machine learning systems can behave in ways unpredictable to the designer. The designer is more like a parent. The parents has control at the start of the child's life but the child becomes more independent over time and may ultimately outshine the parent.
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  112. Biden?
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  113. His fear mongering makes him rich.
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  114. If what you said were true the Maoris would never have lost the country. The Treaty Of Waitangi was signed by the Maori chiefs so they'd get the same protection as British Citizens. They didn't get legal recognition SUPERIOR to British Citizens which is what they've rewritten history to claim the treaty meant. Read the actual text it's nothing like how the likes of Garrick present it.
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  115. Yeah he's full of shit in the 90% of stuff he talks about which he doesn't know about.
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  116. He'd have to be either black or trans
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  117. ... and the entire software industry
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  118. Ukraine had a navy. Russia sunk it at the start of the war.
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  119.  @hinkosever-koren9911  Ukraine isn't a toddler, it had the second most powerful army military in NATO after the USA before the war started. And no, the Russians didn't try to capture Kiev. Their army in the north was far too small to make it plausible that they even tried. Yes they did fail to remove Zelensky by surprise, you're right about the second point. Yes Finland and Sweden join NATO but from Russia's point of view, Ukraine is more important because the border between Russia and Finland is settled, neither side is seeking to change it. From a practical perspective, Finland and Sweden joining NATO doesn't matter that much unless the USA tries to build silos for nuclear capable missiles there in which case it's a dangerous escalation but since they did this in Poland anyway despite Russia's complaint, it's not much different.
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  120. This is a propaganda channel.
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  121.  @smallbluemachine  Buy food, some bottled water, matches, candles and something to defend yourself with now and that should see you through any temporary chaos. Plus plenty of warm clothes.
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  122.  @DavidRyan-jp6vt  but how long should that really take when all the video is available?
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  123.  @jimjones-bk2is  Another example of how we can't trust the police anymore.
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  124.  @bjorntorlarsson  Interesting idea but I don't think Russia will want Ukraine missiles, drones and and artillery any closer to Sevastopol than they already are. I can imagine the Russians might deliberately allow the Ukrainians to land some equipment on a bridgehead which would then be hard to evacuate if the bridgehead is crushed.
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  125.  @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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  126.  @nijadbahnam9859  Dream on, most of Africa hates the French and respect Wagner
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  127.  @AscentofTrollbane  1) Yes Russia does have the world's biggest nuclear arsenal. And its pretty modern too on average. 2) PPP GDP Russia is the world's forth largest economy, recently overtaken Germany. PPP is what matters if you're justing industrial potential, not nominal GDP
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  128.  @Maplelust  Sure. And NATO bombing passenger trains and a TV tower in Belgrade was totally justified right? And America's invasion of Iraq was provoked because of WMD. And the half million people who died because of it was worth it. And the Russians shelled themselves in Donetsk city over many years and killed hundreds of their own civilians.
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  129.  @yarpenzirgin1826  Britain fought and won on the sea, bombed Germany from 1939 all the way through to 1945 and fought Italy and Germany together in North Africa, in Greece, in Italy and in East Africa. There was no time from 1939 to 1945 where the British army was not fighting. Britain and the British Empire fought for two years before the Soviet Union was involved at all.
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  130.  @bryandimery6509  Either are better than Biden
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  131.  @nazihater2798  Disagree. This war is not good vs. evil it's self interest, propaganda and dishonesty on both sides but also legitimate grievances. Even if you have taken a side you need to hear the other side's point of view.
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  132. Plenty of atrocities from the Ukrainian side too so put it in perspective. Happens in war. The individual soldier who does this is guilty, not the entire country. In WWII, there were similar outrageous atrocities from the British army, how could there not be with hundreds of thousands of men under arms? At one stage, the Canadians barely took prisoners at all
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  133.  @kartikeyatiwari2502  Eventually Ukraine will run out of men who want to fight. There have already been videos of units refusing orders to attack and leaving their positions without orders.
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  134.  @hartyewh1  So you've never seen videos of Ukrainian guys getting ambushed by recruiters and thrown into vans? You totally missed the arguments going on in their parliament about extending conscription?
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  135. He's on the wrong side of the Ukraine war too :) He's one of the clowns who wanted to start WWIII
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  136.  @tomjones8715  mass immigration has pushed up the price of housing and pushed down the price of labour.
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  137. The economic case AGAINST immigration is very strong. Netherlands and Denmark did detailed studies on this, on average only immigrants from other Western countries (or Japan) contributed more on average than the host population. Immigrants from non Western countries were a net cost and for many countries, a huge net cost. For example immigration has cost Netherlands 400 billion Euros overall. Also some immigrant groups commit vastly more crime than the host population on average. This is obvious to anyone who lives in Europe.
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  138. LOL what a clown - if you met a Russian and a Ukrainian on the street, how would you tell them apart?
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  139. ​ @listrahtes  Of course casualties doesn't mean deaths. But 500k is still way, way too high. Less than 50k dead Russians are identified by name using all kinds of methods, obituaries, parent support groups etc.. There will be some dead who have fallen through the cracks but even so, even Meduza estimates no more than 80k dead and that's a pro NATO organisation so consider that an upper estimate. If you triple that for total casualties, you're still nowhere near 500k. To get to 500k you have to start believing propaganda sources like US government or Ukrainian government estimates. Would you believe Russian government estimates of Ukrainian casualties? No. So why would you believe Ukrainian government sources. In any war, both sides lie shamelessly.
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  140.  @SusCalvin  For sure. But if there's a serious war, particularly a nuclear war, it would be smart to keep out of it. There is the assumption that Russia is morally wrong and NATO is morally right. This is naïve. Russia has legitimate grievances and Lithuania has deliberately escalated the situation. Do you really want to go to war with Russia because Lithuania was so arrogant as to blockade Kaliningrad? In any case, suffering millions of causalities in a nuclear war when neutrality was a justifiable alternative is just stupid and irresponsible.
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  141.  @Maplelust  You started the conversation with me - and it's not my job to make excuses for Russia, I'm just pointing out the bias and double standard. But sure, you're welcome wallow in your own ignorance.
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  142. Don't you realise the average age of the Ukrainian army is several years older than the Russians in Ukraine?
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  143. Yes... he speaks very confidently about stuff he barely understands. And his track record of predictions is pretty dire.
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  144. In Normandy, the Allies had an overwhelming material advantage over Germany. In Ukraine, the Russians have an overwhelming material advantage. The comparison is pretty silly.
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  145. And people still think Russia bombed Nordstream
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  146. That description fits Biden better. Putin will be around for a long time yet.
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  147. Totally false that there is a historical consensus that Gallipoli would not have worked. It could quite conceivably have worked in which case the Ottomans could be knocked out of the war, Russia supported, Bulgaria kept out and the Central Powers would be massively weakened. Given what was known at the time and given the alternative was further infantry attacks in France before sufficient artillery was available, it was worth trying. Even though it failed, it sucked in Ottoman reserves which otherwise would have had to be fought elsewhere.
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  148. "If I wanted to look like Dawn Butler I'd be eating the sun cream" - worth listening to just for that line
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  149. France's involvement in Niger has nothing to do with a Jacobian world view or even national prestige and everything to do with extremely cheap uranium supplies for the large country which relies most heavily on nuclear power. Bizarre that Zeihan didn't bother mentioning this essential information.
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  150.  @cathjj840  Same in the West then - a huge number of people studying inappropriate, irrelevant useless subjects.
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  151. Russian made "marginal gains" - marginal my arse. Russia has broken into Avdivka from the north and south. They're less than 1km away from physically cutting the last road in and out. There was a huge advance over two days in the north. The Russian position there has improved immeasurably since the start of the year.
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  152.  @christianbroadbent7489  Nah the Russians are over the railway lines now in the north, have a strong hold on the slag heap which gives them observation over the entire northern flank. In the south they're advancing too. And in the south west area actually into the town. From the drone footage it looks like most of the Russian vehicle losses were early on and are north east of the Terrikon which is pretty secure territory for them now. They've already done the hard part. I don't see how anyone can seriously argue Avdivka is going to be able to hold now. BTW big Russian advances around Bakhmut too and further north on the Kupyansk front.. Ukraine is still fighting hard but the writing's on the walll
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  153. 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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  154. They never did
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  155. 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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  156. More seriously have a look at the Barbary pirates - enslaved probably over a million Europeans including from Britain and Ireland and it ended less than 200 years ago, long after slavery was abolished in the British empire. A lot of these guys were tortured and worked to death.
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  157.  @David-jt9nt  What utter bollocks. It's only tritium that needs to be replaced and the Russians put serious resources into their nuclear arsenal. It's their top military priority despite the war in Ukraine. They have no shortage of tritium either. If you think only a 40% launch rate look into the reliability of their missiles in Ukraine. Less than 99% but more than 95%.
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  158. He is biased. If he wasn't biased he'd tell you Russia is winning. Instead he implies there is a stalemate.
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  159.  @Mairtn-dt3kk  Seems actually demolishing buildings with explosives would have been a bit too blatant. Propaganda is super important in this war.
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  160. The Telegraph propaganda is a bit OTT. Back in the real world, the Ukrainian offensive has been a disaster. Around a hundred AFUs destroyed, who knows how many men killed. Russian losses obviously much lower and no important territory gained so far. In the past couple of days, Russia has started its own offensive in the east.
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  161. The whole area has been mined for over a hundred years, there are slag heaps everywhere. It'll be an old tunnel.
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  162. I can't see how she'd even want to stay in the SNP long term.
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  163. Everywhere's like that now. I'm in rural Scotland and it's astonishing how quickly we're being colonised by thousands of grifters.
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  164. Put it this way - Russia has a huge military. We have a huge bureaucracy. Russia has the biggest arsenal in the world of nuclear weapons. We struggle not to drop them. Russia has nuclear fall out shelters for their entire population. We have net zero ambitions. Yet our missiles are striking Russian territory and we think this is going to end well??!
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  165.  @DzIVDzAN  The one you got wrong there is Nordstream. The Ukrainians, specifically Zaluzhny got scapegoated by the people who really blew it up - and they can't complain about their main donor. Seymour Hersh described it nicely.
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  166.  @FredScuttle456  That's pretty typical when a country gets occupied. You could say the same for Ukraine or Yugoslavia or Belgium or Netherlands or Norway. The SS recruited divisions from all of them but also in all of them there were partisans fighting the Germans. Just the reality of war.
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  167. 40,000+ killed in Gaza because of a few hundred Israelis killed on October 7, a third of whom were killed by their own military and half of whom were military personnel. Think about that before you talk about hypocrisy.
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  168. Ok so WWIII. What's your nuclear bunker looking like? Got your two years food supplies ready?
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  169. He's Pakistani, it's his wife who's from Palestine.
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  170.  @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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  171. It still does. He still thinks this war is going to fizzle out in a stalemate. Whereas every day Russia gets stronger, Ukraine gets weaker. The First World War didn't end in a stalemate, although both sides got exhausted one side cracked first. Likewise, this war.
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  172. That would be a good start but most of the immigration is legal. At this point there has to be repatriation of the worst trouble makers.
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  173. See Defence Politics Asia's analysis from today at the demographic profile of Ukraine. When you could guys who have left, guys who are in the east on the Russian side, guys who are already in the army, there just aren't that many more Ukraine can mobilise. Anyone who was wiling to fight is already in the army or has become a casualty.
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  174. The delusion of you guys is hilarious. With a much smaller budget than the USA Russia munitions production is outstripping the USA in important areas. As for skillset, with a population less than half the USA, Russia trains more engineers. Not gender studies graduates or critical race theorists, or finance bros, engineers.
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  175. Not long because the Ukrainians trapped in the Kursk salient are negotiating right now to surrender a whole lot. AFVs, drone and communications tech the lot. But you'll never hear that from Zeihan
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  176.  @jamiestone1809  It's the wrong way round. Benefits for children just means the lowest IQ, lowest earning segment of the population has the most children because they have the strongest incentive whereas richer people pay the highest marginal costs . Better would be lower taxes for more children rather than more benefits.
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  177. Turkey isn't that stupid, they've fought plenty of wars with Russia and they usually loose.
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  178. Deliberately stopping the Ukrainian railways prevents a Ukrainian build up on the Oskil or a redeployment of Ukrainian forces to the southern front. Also immobilises a lot of troop trains for hours making them potential targets for air or artillery strikes.
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  179. Only an idiot thinks Russian casualties are higher than Ukraine's. The side with the air, armour, artillery and ammunition advantage does not take hgiher casualties.
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  180.  @Feffro  Britain recently sprinted past both of them in the worst government competition.
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  181. Of course Ukrainian strikes have killed civilians - why do you think they have not?
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  182.  @gamingforever9121  What you have to understand, these borders are pretty arbitrary to start with. These people have been there for hundreds of years. Crimea was only given to Ukraine in the 50s to solve a temporary political problem for Khrushchev even though Ukrainians were a small minority of the population. When NATO seized Kosovo from Serbia, Yeltsin warned this created the precedent that European borders can be changed by force of arms. At the time Russia was weak so NATO ignored him but given this precedent, it's a bit late to complain about what Russia should be allowed to do now. Russia is doing what NATO did first in Kosovo.
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  183.  @gamingforever9121  Anyone can claim there are humanitarian reasons or atrocities as a reason to follow one's own geopolitical interest. The Serb government atrocities against Kosovo were mainly invented, not entirely but mainly. Western populations fell for this easily because the Bosnian Serbs (different political entity) had committed large massacres in Bosnia. Other much greater atrocities were ignored where there was no geopolitical interest e.g. in Rwanda. Likewise, Ukrainian atrocities against ethnic Russians in the Donbas were ignored by the West but used by the Russians. If you really believe NATO's involvement in Kosovo was for genuine humanitarian reasons, you haven't looked at it closely enough.
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  184. Many of those who did now regret it.
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  185.  @geekobgaming5647  A lot of the problem was poor communications. Nobody knew WTF was happening until it was too late. And that goes for the Allied side too. The British won Le Cateau but it was almost a disaster because of information couldn't be transferred quickly enough. But it was worse for the Germans because they were advancing so their communication lines were more stretched. I don't think a better commander could have fixed that.
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  186.  @gentlemanjim480  Roosevelt engineered the war with Germany by ordering the navy to attack German ships fighting the British and Canadians and he engineered the war with Japan by imposing sanctions he expected would put Japan in an impossible situation. Both Japan and Germany had authoritarian regimes but to defeat them the USA allied itself with the Stalin's Soviet Union which was at least as bad. It only became essential for America to defeat Germany and Japan after America had picked a fight with both.
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  187. Cost of housing vs wages in Britain has exploded due to immigration.
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  188. LOL, that's a really high bar
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  189. Nah he knows he's a propagandist.
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  190. The Ukrainian military leadership isn't free from political interference. Zelensky never even wanted to attack through Zaporozhye according to rumour, he disappeared for ages at the start of the offensive. He didn't like the open terrain and the heavy Russian defences.
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  191. If it had have been Tommy Robinson, he would have been arrested for sure
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  192. Also never talked about is Zelensky was talking about acquiring nuclear weapons in the Munich a few days before the invasion. Kamala Harris was there and didn't challenge him.
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  193. When did it become a democracy?
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  194.  @fanfeck2844  Russia is a vastly saner society than ours nowadays and unlike us, it has a government that approximately follows the interests of the people. You're more likely to be arrested for speech crimes in Britain than in Russia even though they're fighting a major war.
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  195. Definitely. Lack of infantry caused the Russians huge problems early in the war.
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  196.  @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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  197. Western support for Ukraine is dropping off - even if the USA picks it up again it's still down on what it was especially in artillery ammo the most important category. And Ukraine has used up willing recruits. I seriously doubt Ukraine can last another year.
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  198. No it wouldn't, nobody did anything when a Ukrainian missile killed two Polish civilians.
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  199. And who won that war then?
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  200.  @strongest32  I don't think so because winning a single battle wouldn't win the war. And if Paris had been retaken by the Royalists, Napoleon would have been left marching between enemies with a shrinking army like Hannibal.
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  201. The generals all disagree but one of Douglas's colleagues Colonel Daniel David very much agrees. The generals are politicians, the guys who write books on tactics are the colonels.
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  202. That's his version of affairs, there's also the rumour that he paid a bribe to escape Ukraine. Military and Foreign Affairs channel covered this. I don't know for a fact it's true to be fair.
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  203. We have the same problem in Britain, serious criminals get let out of prison after ridiculously light sentences.
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  204.  @darmaputra1937  Ukraine and Russia are tied together more closely than Russia and Finland. Most people in Ukraine are neither completely Ukrainian (though some are) nor completely Russian (though some are), most people are in between. Russia can't ignore Ukraine like it can ignore Finland. The Americans sponsored a coup in Ukraine in 2013 to overthrow the democratically elected president who was trying to balance east and west - and replaced him with extreme nationalists who wanted to assimilate the culturally and linguistically Russian half of the country. Russia couldn't ignore this just like the USA couldn't ignore it if China sponsored a coup in Canada to replace the government with an extreme Chinese nationalist government which wanted to oppress the English speakers.
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  205.  @colliehouse3133  There's no law that says we need to put them up in hotels. They could be in cheap huts on an island
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  206.  @account-369  Go and live in Somalia, Nigeria or the Congo then
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  207. Plus betrayed Russia with the Minsk 2 accords as admitted by Poroshenko, Merkel and Hollande
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  208. This is astonishingly ignorant, don't you realise Yiddish itself is a dialect of German?
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  209. The problem isn't the courts, the problem is the people.
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  210. Not really, he's a centrist. He actually said he's against American complicity in the conflict. He criticises arming Israel. The fact you're criticising him demonstrates your own bias.
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  211.  Free Trolling  It's certainly not inevitable but this mess could result in an emasculated NATO - or even countries leaving NATO. That's how this situation could backfire on the US.
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  212. "British" citizens whose loyalty is to a different country they live in. We should stop dual citizenship.
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  213. Bel Wallace and Grant Shapps want escalation but they don't run the government. Ben Wallace is gone and Grant Shapps was overruled by Sunak.
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  214.  @minaolenella869  Yes DPR and LPR have heavy conscription but are you seriously arguing Ukraine doesn't? There are videos of teenagers being arrested by the police in Odessa with their mothers screaming and sent to the army. And men who look like they're around 60.
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  215. LOL what a cope. The first of Wellington's soldiers to break at Waterloo were Dutch and that's just from artillery fire.
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  216. Russia still has a peace time economy. It could still mobilise millions men more if it needs to. There's no comparison with Ukraine.
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  217.  @TheRogey1  Could the root cause of the problem be this spelling mistake? Maybe the civil service just misinterpreted their instructions! :P
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  218.  @thewatcher5822  Eventually, yes. In the next ten years, no.
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  219.  @MrGreenTabasco  Only an idiot thinks the economic problems in Britain are from Brexit. Immigration is running at over a million per year and has pushed up the cost of living massively (especially in the south) while depressing wages and standard of life generally. Anything to do with the state has become dysfunctional and people are starting to notice. That includes the NHS. As for Zeihan he's shown over and over he knows little of the world outside the USA which is ironic for someone who markets himself as a geostrategic analyst. He doesn't like Brexit because he's a globalist it's that simple.
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  220.  @TheOffkilter  I certainly agree there's bad inequality in Russia but again, the USA is not really much difference. I don't think Russia has such a homelessness problem as the USA.
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  221.  @Spanish_Patriot  No that's propaganda. The Russians settled the Donbas hundreds of years ago. It was only part of Ukraine since early Soviet times. And Crimea was only part of Ukraine since the 1950s. Ethnic Ukrainians have never been a majority in either the Donbas or Crimea.
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  222.  @MuantanamoMobile  In this case the word "deep" does not mean underground. A better word might be "thick". So a minefield 5km and 600m deep means a rectangle 5000x600m.
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  223.  @MarkNOTW  Except that Russian soldiers are dying too. I don't know what numbers, I'm sure Ukrainian losses are higher but Russia won't be low either. And escalation is dangerous for everyone including Russia.
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  224.  @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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  225. They do it to push through stuff which wouldn't stand up on its own merits.
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  226.  @edinazsiga8608  I didn't especially like Bri but she's at least intelligent and sane. Why did she get fired? She criticised the people/country you're not allowed to criticise.
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  227. Sure. If you believe that you should sell everything you own and buy property in Kharkov because right now it's really cheap. When Ukraine wins you'll be rich beyond your wildest dreams.
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  228. Yeah I believe Russia took higher casualties in the first month of the war because Ukraine ambushed their supply lines. Since then Ukrainian casualties have been higher overall for sure, in the past two months, much higher. Probably several times higher. We've all seen videos of these failed attacks where dozens of vehicles have been destroyed and defenceless infantry platoons get shelled in the open.
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  229. Probably not they don't like to leave the city
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  230. Interesting, do you have any references for this?
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  231.  @dahliacoles4372  But a well paid one I'm sure :)
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  232. Russia started the war to keep NATO out of Ukraine, why would Russia end the war if doing so means NATO in Ukraine?
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  233.  @kimwit1307  Yep I agree with all of that. All alliances are negotiable and contingent and close in proportion to the size of the threat bringing the parties together. Earlier US leaders were smart enough to see that and for example improve relations with China to break China away from from the Soviet Union. It's incredible the present government is trying to pick a fight with all of Russia, China and Iran at the same time.
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  234.  @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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  235. So much like the media on the Ukraine war now :P
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  236.  @jonroesler8155  NATO attacked Serbia over a fake genocide and then seized Kosovo. Yeltsin at the time warned using force to chance European borders was a dangerous precedent.
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  237.  @superhumantrueman  The problem with that posturing is that we (NATO countries) are responsible for most of the wars started in the past few decades, most of the countries invaded, most of the civilians killed. Back when Kosovo was seized from Serbia, Yeltsin warned NATO was creating the precedent that European borders were up for grabs. Russia has been warning for decades Ukraine should never join NATO and these arrogant neocons ignored them. Poroshenko, Hollande and Merkel even admitted the Minsk II accords were never intended as a serious attempt at peace. We're criticising Russia for behaving as an imperialistic bully without acknowledging that the West has been worse.
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  238.  @tonupharry  You need to broaden your sources if you think Russia can't handle Ukraine. Russia is winning this war decisively despite all of the NATO aid.
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  239. Both sides hit a lot of ammo dumps. Russia hits battalion and brigade ammo dumps with artillery but also big strategic stores of ammunition all over Ukraine with missiles. I don't think we can assume one side is hitting logistics more successfully than the other.
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  240.  @jlethal4929  The British economy nowadays is vastly bigger than it was in the early 1980s and it's projected to be the fastest growing large economy in Europe. Run the numbers. The currently tiny British army is by choice. The navy and air force is getting adequately funded.
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  241.  @TankandDimples  There's zero evidence for this. If you actually believe it, it's obvious you don't follow the fighting closely. Even pro-Ukrainian maps don't support this claim.
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  242. If you're measuring territorial gains in a war of attrition, you're measuring the wrong thing.
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  243.  @giovanni-ed7zq  You're selectively quoting Prigozhin to pick out the bits of what he said which suit your narrative. Also why would you trust anything Prigozhin said at all? It;s obvious he had his own agenda, undermining Gerasimov and Shoigu.
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  244.  @santhosh4474  Offensives against defended positions are difficult and expensive. The Russian strategy seems to be to do the bare minimum of attacking to keep the line they want and wait for the Ukrainians to waste their strength battering against good Russian defences. Once the Ukrainians have burned their reserves Russia can start taking ground at an acceptable cost. That's why judging the progress of the war merely by looking at the map is misleading. You also have to try to estimate casualties.
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  245. That's because you understand US politics. If you understood geopolitics just as well you'd see him for a charlatan on that too.
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  246. Zeihan's takes on everything can be distilled down to two rules. USA = good everywhere else = bad. Hope that clarifies this video.
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  247. LOL he's a lightweight who writes popular history books
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  248. @@user-jv4ec5pm9n Oryx has been completely discredited. It has attributed Ukrainian losses as Russian losses, made up Russian losses and ignored Ukrainian losses. When challenged about this, the guys behind Oryx just get angry and say it's a volunteer effort - well ok it's a volunteer effort but then admit it's not accurate.
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  249.  @didiyo4366  US abandons allies: Britain and France in Suez, South Vietnam in 70s, Afghanistan more recently and in 2024, the Kurds.
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  250. What do you think kicking Turkey out of NATO would achieve? Turkey follows Turkey's interests whether in or out of NATO, picking a fight with Turkey would only strengthen Russia.
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  251. Paul from Combat Veteran Reacts is a clown who cherry picks facts to create a fantasy narrative..
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  252. first?!
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  253.  @Maplelust  In your opinion - which suggests like most people in the West, you don't have any understanding of the history behind this war.
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  254.  @barbaral.5980  Hypocrisy sure - but the end result is Poland stays Polish, Germany does not stay German.
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  255. 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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  256. Zeihan doesn't do facts, he does narratives. And the schrecklicher the besser. He's got quite rich from pushing hysteria.
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  257.  @mar-a-lagofbibug8833  Then don't be surprised when you find yourself fighting WW3
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  258.  @Chaezaa  NATO/the US ignores the UN when it suits. For example there's no UN mandate for US troops in Syria where the Syrian gov. doesn't want them. The UN says Israel should leave the occupied West Bank and Golan Heights (stolen from Syria) but NATO supports Israel. The UN doesnt' recognise Kosovo as a separate country from Syria but the US does and some other NATO countries. This is the US "rules based order"
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  259. This woman does seem a bit thick. Believing in freedom of speech doesn't mean we should let enemies into the country. Total non sequitur.
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  260. Evidence?
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  261.  @alvaro701  That's definitely false. These were used as sniper rifles. They fire 7.62 rounds. An AK is going to be lucky to hit anything at 500m, the cartridge is too light and the barrel is shorter. It's built for combat at less than 400m. The age doesn't matter. Even earlier than the First World War marksmen often firing at over 1200m, see the South African war.
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  262.  @maxpower3990  We know for sure Ukraine massively exaggerates claims of Russian losses.
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  263. Another parallel is the ethnic aspect to those early Soviet Union period genocides.
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  264.  @junioraltamontent.7582  Yep marines aren't known for their intellect.
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  265. For one thing he was in the Royal Marines
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  266. The only mistake was thinking these defenceless, unarmed men were Palestinian civilians
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  267. Nothing to do with religion, it's to do with ethnicity. Ethnicity in the early Stalinist period was exceptionally important just as it remains important everywhere else. If you think people aren't motivated by ethnic interests you don't have a clue about history.
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  268. Russia of the 1990s had really serious corruption and could barely be described as a superpower. It struggled militarily against Chechnya. Yes Russia is back now but 1990s Russia was a serious mess.
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  269.  @kristiankruse3964  Yeah. And I wonder if the US engineers who built 2000 pound bombs expected they'd be used to flatten Gaza :0
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  270. Israel and USA
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  271. Tens of thousands of French civilians especially in the north were killed by Allied, mainly British bombing in 1944.
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  272. Worse than that, some Scottish guy got arrested in London for posting on Facebook he was disgusted by Palestinian flags everywhere. That's literally all he did. Six police turned up at his door and had him in hand cuffs.
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  273. Tommy Robinson qualified as an aero engineer didn't he? Better than a few GCSEs I'd bet.
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  274.  @Ultra-Violet  Not really. You have to look at multiple metrics, official GDP is important but so are others like PPP, electrical generation, steel production etc.
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  275. Some people are making a lot of money from this war. Guys like Blinken.
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  276. "if they lose this conflict" i.e. if pigs could fly
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  277. Glenn is wrong about some details, the UK lockdown was relatively lenient. People were never disallowed from going outside (like happened in Spain and Italy). There were limited e.g. you were only allowed to go a certain distance from your house and were limited to an hour exercise outdoors in public per day but it was only loosely enforced.
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  278. I heard Switzerland. Maybe he moves around to avoid getting mobilised :P
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  279.  @Will-zi6fn  At least 80% of the immigrants are not net contributors. Look at the Dutch and Danish studies on immigration. The University of Amsterdam study found Japanese or European immigrants tended to be net contributors, from other parts of the world they were net burdens. The total cost of immigration was 400 billion, roughly the entire benefit to the Dutch of North Sea Gas. The Dutch basically paid a fortune to fill their country up with foreigners and ethnic problems. Similiar story in Denmark.
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  280. Part of it could be active defence of the israeli tanks (Trophy system) makes it too dangerous for infantry to be in close support.
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  281. Are you talking about the European Union?
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  282.  @zaerdna  You don't have to trust him, you can read it yourself.
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  283. Software engineers have had real term pay cuts over twenty years too.
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  284.  @arnoldsaunders6073  Good point about toilet paper. Germany's biggest producer closed down because of the price of natural gas. There's no downside to buying enough for a few months up front.
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  285.  @davidgmillsatty1900  I reckon the USA will be fine, it's Europe that's ground zero! Well Germany, Poland, Baltics anyway.
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  286.  @Bombeatomics  Even back to the First World War, tunnels were hugely important for transferring men and supplies safely between front lines and rear lines.
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  287. And John Mearsheimer, he has been warning this was going to happen for decades.
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  288. "Wars of attrition make the victor stronger" - hardly true for Britain, France, Belgium and Serbia in the First World War.
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  289. Recently a woman went to prison for making a social media post related to Southport and quickly deleting it. The double standards are blatant.
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  290. Part of the Budapest Memorandum was that Ukraine would remain neutral - and after the Maidan coup, it didn't.
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  291. The unarmed shot woman was by a federal agent who has never been formally identified and never been charged.
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  292. @@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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  293. This isn't about South Africa and yes a lot of people have been murdered there. The point is Israel has deliberately murdered tens of thousands of innocent people in Palestine, not just Gaza but the West Bank too. They've deliberately destroyed hospitals and housing for hundreds of thousands of people, they've deliberately destroyed water supplies . They've openly said they want to expel the population. You don't have to be pro-Islam or pro Hamas (and I'm neither) to admit his is outrageous behaviour.
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  294. The Conservatives are a lost cause. Reform UK seems to be the best choice.
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  295.  @shaungold  I don't agree they had no choice, yes Wagner has good air defence but the Russian air force surely could have destroyed a column marching on Moscow if they threw serious resources at it.
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  296.  @LewisPulsipher  In Britain the Conservative party promised again and again to get immigration down but never delivered. Many voters pay more attention to the rhetoric than to the substance. As for immigration being necessary, why? Most immigrants cost more than they contribute. Look into the Dutch and Danish studies quantifying the benefits of immigration - the Dutch found immigration cost them 400 billion over the years i.e. that it was a huge net cost, roughly equivalent to the entire benefit they got from North Sea gas. The reason is obvious. Most immigrants don't come from successful countries, they mainly come from parts of the world which are unsuccessful. They bring with them their culture.
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  297.  @incurableromantic4006  So did the ancestors of the modern Palestinians.
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  298.  @edwardvalivonis23  Nobody believes it was Russian. Even the Americans were embarrassed when Zelensky claimed it was Russian. And the Ukrainians later said if it was ours, it was Russia's fault anyway. Forensic evidence shows it was a S300. They're short range air defence missiles. A Russian S300 couldn't reach Poland, it's much too far. Lots of S300s have gone off course in the war. We've got visual evidence of many including a Russian one in Belgorod.
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  299.  @jamesmaybrick2001  Only an idiot would even suggest that it's paranoia to think freedoms are getting restricted. Haven't you been paying attention the past twenty years?
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  300. They're not serious debates - it's all about sound bites.
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  301. 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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  302. This must be a joke right? The entire British army fills a football stadium. It's low on tanks (already given to Ukraine) and almost out of artillery ammunition (guess where that went).
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  303. Plenty of videos of atrocities by the Ukrainians too but the media never talks about that. No excuse for atrocities of any kind but the individual must be held accountable, not the entire country.
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  304. Yeah it seems delusional. Why does Dima even give it credibility?
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  305. Guy I know who got bombed in Port Glasgow as an eight year old in 1941 is saying the same.
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  306. That first negative review is indeed badly flawed but sorry, TIK, the rebuttal of both negative reviews contains important flaws itself. Firstly, the comment that the user's name looks German. No, it really doesn't. But apart from that, the observation contains the implication that the author's nationality or ethnicity has some bearing on his or her credibility. TIK should honestly ask himself why he even mentioned this. TIK talks about "history theory" as if these are authoritative laws like the laws of thermodynamics. But they're not, they're just ideas, and like all ideas in history, they are neither universally applicable nor beyond criticism themselves. The idea which TIK surely doesn't actually believe but implies in his analysis of the first review is that all sources are biased and so all perspectives are equally (in)valid. This is undergraduate postmodernism of the more extreme end of the spectrum. Even worse, that historical truth can be best arrived at by a sort of democratic poll of reading many authors. TIK is ignoring a contradiction here. If history is some kind of popularity contest and everybody is biased anyway, then this reviewer's perspective is just as valid as his own - exactly the argument of the more extreme postmodernists. But obviously, TIK doesn't actually believe that. He has explained elsewhere why he finds this postmodernist line of thinking poisonous so why bring in this postmodernist argument he doesn't really believe in so flippantly here? The reviewer accuses the author of cherry picking and TIK's criticism of that is because no historian can know everything or fit everything into a book, it's justifiable to present just those facts or arguments which suit the author. Obviously it is true that an author can't know everything and is under no obligation to try to include everything. But doesn't excuse cherry picking which is to deliberately overemphasise unimportant points which support your argument and ignore unimportant points which are unhelpful to your argument. TIK would rightfully condemn an author who minimised the brutality of the German or Soviet regimes by presenting facts which supported such an argument while ignoring more important facts which undermine it. An historian has no obligation to present ALL the relevant information (which as TIK says, is infinite) but does have the obligation to portray a subject honestly. If building an argument, there is the obligation to present the most important considerations with bearing on that argument, not just those which support it. It's not good enough to claim there wasn't room in your book! TIK claims that "all sources are anecdotal". No they're not! Official statistics are not anecdotal. Unit orders are not anecdotal. And nor are many other types of evidence historians deal with. The second reviewer criticises that the book authors don't attempt to quantify the popularity of the "pro-Wehrmacht viewpoint". Isn't this a valid criticism? If you're going to write an entire book warning against the popularity of a viewpoint you consider dangerous, shouldn't you at least attempt to quantify that popularity? TIK dismisses this merely because it's not practical to poll the entire country. Of course it's not. But isn't it reasonable to at least attempt to quantify the importance of the things like the authors or chatrooms or whatever that you're discussing? For example by looking at sales figures of books as the reviewer suggests. Because what if they turn out to be really obscure influences with no relevance to larger society? That would undermine your entire argument! Instead TIK just claims a "huge portion" of the American public has this perception and apparently, we must take his word for it. TIK criticises the second reviewer for noting that the book doesn't discuss films, again with the straw man argument that no book can include everything. But aren't films at least as important in influencing public perceptions of history as academic books, chatrooms and computer wargames? And if so, don't they deserve some attention? At bare minimum, the reviewer is making a valid observation. And the reviewer never claimed that Enemy of the Gates is historically accurate. TIK is putting words in his mouth here. TIK does a great job of visually presenting battles in depth and demolishing the Manstein/Halder view of history but in this video, if you're criticising other people who can't reply themselves, you should be doubly careful to present their arguments carefully and fairly. I don't think TIK quite measured up to this in this video. "The Wehrmacht was Guilty as Charged". Yes. Fair enough. If we're talking about the institution as a whole rather than every single member of it. But this is another straw man argument. Neither of these two negative reviewers attempted to claim otherwise.
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  307.  @ianbarker1241  Everybody recognises the Russians have the world's biggest nuclear arsenal. As for reliability - it's the most modern part of their military, on average their weapons are more modern than US nuclear weapons. As for their missiles - judge by Ukraine. Occasionally a missile goes off target but the large majority are accurate.
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  308.  @scroopynooperz9051  Not all the Soviet losses were inflicted by the Germans. Many were killed by the Soviet regime and many simply died of hunger because the Soviet Union couldn't feed itself.
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  309. Oryx has been shown to classify Ukrainian losses as Russian, inflate Russian losses, count duplicates as multiple losses and ignore Ukrainian losses. When challenged about this, one of the Oryx founders said we just don't have enough time to improve quality. Which is maybe true but the bias does seem to be all in one direction. Realistically, if Oryx were accurate, Russia would no longer be able to make the armoured gains it makes now every day.
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  310.  @strawdemindset  You're basically saying these people could have left their homeland and moved somewhere else. Why should they? They've been there for two hundred years. They had their country, they had a president they elected, they didn't ask for a foreign sponsored coup by radical nationalists kicking out the democratically elected president and imposing their own agenda, passing laws against their own language, occupying cities like Donetsk and Mariupol like an invading army. Look up the footage from 2014 of the Ukrainian army entering Mariupol in APCs
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  311.  @davecuddahy7872  Democracy has been suspended in Ukraine. Election postponed, opposition parties banned, opposition politicians arrested and assassinated. In what sense is it up to the people? How do you know what they choose?
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  312. Cool. so how do you explain the Israeli discussions about expelling the population of Gaza and taking over the land? How do you explain the hundreds killed in the West Bank over the past year even though Hamas is not there? And why are you shilling for this foreign country which regards the rest of us with contempt?
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  313. It's not happening all over the world, it's not happening in Japan or China or India, it's only happening in Western countries that opened themselves up to immigration.
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  314. Not just that Russian armaments production is right up, Russian casualties are lower and this year, Russia has taken more ground than Ukraine has. Even more, there's severe infighting in the Ukrainian leadership now, close to an open war between Zelensky and Zaluzhny.
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  315.  @T5Zplayer  Putin is the only adult in the room here.
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  316.  @pogo1140  Your numbers are wrong. Perhaps you're looking at just one calibre. The Russians have many. Also, they're using a lot of mortars and much of their artillery fires rockets rather than shells.
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  317.  @lp9280  If you'd lived in the USA as well as Britain you'd realise that US food is much, much worse than the crappiest ASDA or Lidl slop sold in Britain
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  318.  @eddiemarten3381  LOL. "Putin is brittle". So NATO soldiers cross into Ukraine and Russia just hits them with Iskandars. What then? WWIII? Or NATO backs down. Russia isn't going to back down so escalation either means WWIII or NATO backs down. You really haven't thought this through have you?
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  319. He's always been a BS merchant he deliberately repeats State Dept propaganda on anything to do with the Ukraine war. He even claimed in a NATO Russia war casualties would be a thousand to one in favour of NATO
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  320.  @ew1363  I know a fair bit about Ukraine and Russia and follow the war closely. I can promise you his takes on anything to do with that whole area of the world is outrageously misleading, I don't know whether just totally ignorant but looks more like deliberate propaganda.
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  321.  @ANISMIK  Hungarian speaking areas have the highest proportion of casualties of all Ukrainian regions due to aggressive conscription applied in ethnic minority areas and the Russian east. .
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  322. It would be surprising if there's no pedestrian tunnel under the rail way line at a large station like that.
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  323. Not really, it's Russia which will decide the outcome, all Ukraine can do is delay the decision
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  324.  @Nun195  LOL do you really think Biden will still be alive in five years time??
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  325.  @K_A_R_L_O_S_  I do agree the Russians probably won't go that far but there are definitely a lot of pro-Russian people in Odessa. It wouldn't be surprising if the Russians don't try to retake Mikulaev.
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  326. Because she looks pretty attractive.
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  327.  @Muzakman37  How is Kosovo not relevant to Ukraine? It gives lie to NATO being a defensive alliance. It overturned European borders by force. It demonstrated NATO's determination to attack Russian allies. If Kosovo had never had happened, the Ukraine war would never have happened.
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  328.  @LEP021085  The claimed people killed have been individually identified. Almost 50% of them are female. Look it up. The claim that any more than a tiny number of these children killed are Hamas fighters is contemptable.
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  329.  @Scythical  That's just because YouTube pushes what you watch. I watch Military Summary, Weeb Union, History Legends, DPA and yes, YouTube recommends that kind of stuff to me but at a certain point, I stopped watching stuff like Peter Zeihan, Ryan McBeth, Telegraph, Times Radio, Combat Veteran Reacts and some of the ridiculous Ukrainian guys like Starsky (if I got his name right) because they were so obviously useless propaganda. But even though I unsubscribed and even downvoted particular videos, YouTube still recommends them to me from time to time. It's obvious YouTube gives an advantage to pro-Ukraine voices. If you're not familiar already, have a look at Matt Taibbi's work on exposing the influence of the US government in Twitter - before Musk took over.
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  330. The whiny vocal fry discredits everything she says.
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  331. Tell that to the people of Donetsk under Ukrainian shelling.
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  332.  @simonh6371  Part of the reason is the US likes it that way.
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  333. Europe will never have a cheaper source of energy than Russian gas. LNG is intrinsically more expensive. North African gas is insufficient. Renewables will take decades further to become cost competitive. Europe should not have expected to put sanctions on Russia and actually arm Ukraine without Russia applying counter sanctions to Europe.
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  334.  @insertcognomen  Hardly unprovoked - perhaps you also believe the WMD story from Iraq?
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  335. The political point you make about not panicking the West is valid but the military pay off of a big offensive is too big to ignore. Russia doesn't want the war to drag on forever either. I think the big offensives will start as soon as Ukraine reaches the point that it doesn't have enough reserves to plug gaps when a position collapses. And that point seems to be approaching. Big offensives when the enemy is too strong is expensive and risky but positional warfare has an opportunity cost too when the enemy is weak enough that big offensives have a realistic prospect of success. The Kharkov offensive had a good pay off for Ukraine when the Russians were too weak in this sector, cutting off Russian forces and capturing territory. Ukrainian casualties were modest relative to the results achieved so far as we can tell. The balance of power is starting to favour Russia doing something like this.
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  336. Poverty and misery? Moscow is more civilised than any city in the West these days.
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  337. Organic manure of course.
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  338. No Ukraine is running low on manpower not just support, money and weapons. Vote them another hundred billion it will just delay the Russians, it won't change the result.
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  339.  @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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  340. Ukraine is a technological and industrial power house? Per capita it's close to the poorest country in Europe even before the war. Last I heard only Moldova was poorer.
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  341.  @MusicLover-01  My thinking is Labour is going to get in no matter who we vote for and the Conservatives nowadays aren't that different from Labour. Reform UK are likely to poach the best people from the Conservatives and the more votes they get the easier that will be. Have to start somewhere. UKIP was useful to convince the Conservatives to behave, maybe Reform UK can have the same effect.
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  342. @ The definition of a great power is to be able to fight a major war with its own resources. The end of great power status is actually doing so. The USA only got away with it in the first two world wars because the destruction was far from home and it joined late enough to spare most of the cost and come out ahead of all the countries which joined earlier.
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  343.  @fankrys  Putin never said three day invasion. The Western media did. Zelensky said the Ukrainians would have taken back Crimea by now. How's that working out?
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  344. @@brandonblop Your point is irrelevant. Allegations should not be enough to deprive Brand of income.
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  345. LBC won't be happy until half of Africa live in Britain
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  346. There'd have to be a massive cut in spending for Scotland to go independent without suffering a bond crisis like what destroyed Greece.
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  347.  @Vercixx  You have to understand, this is political. Hungary and Poland oppose the EU federalist agenda especially in the respect that they won't take asylum seekers from elsewhere.
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  348.  @nich7622  Shadow banning? It's pretty bad on youtube.
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  349. These wars weren't really English vs. Scottish at all, at the time of the Jacobites, about half of Scotland supported the Hanoverians and a lot of people in England supported the Jacobites. Scots fought on both sides in all of these battles he mentioned.
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  350. 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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  351.  @leesamardzija9165  Just like people from different parts of the world are physically different - due to evolution in different environments, they're mentally different too. Adoption studies prove it's not just about culture, it's about genes too. We can even identity particular genes and see they're correlated with particular outcomes.
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  352. Except that Hitler never wanted a war with Britain. Hitler didn't even want a war with Poland, he wanted Danzig, an ethnically German city and a corridor to East Prussia through ethnically German territory. The Poles wouldn't negotiate because they thought they could defeat the German army (surprising in retrospect but it's a fact) and also, they had a blank check from Chamberlain since March 1939.
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  353. In all seriousness, the best outcome by far would have been to stay out of it. The Germans would have fought the Soviet Union and they would have exhausted each other. A lot of the reason Britain fought Germany was the fear that Hitler wanted the colonies lost at Versailles back. But without a huge navy which he didn't have, he had no means of getting them. We lost our empire anyway so it wouldn't have mattered if we'd given him some bits of Africa.
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  354. He's also closed monasteries and arrested the priests
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  355.  @sabinegierth-waniczek4872  This is the first thing that happens in a police state. People who are in the establishment self-censor.
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  356.  @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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  357. LOL I thought Karl L was the most deranged.
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  358. In reality, Russia has very low debt and a positive balance of payments - the exact opposite of most Western countries despite that Russia is fighting a major war.
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  359.  @Rammbukk  I'm not talking about total debt, Russian debt to GDP is low. There is a huge capacity to borrow either overseas or off their own citizens. This guy's theory that the Russian economy can't sustain this for long is implausible. He's a serving NATO officer producing propaganda.
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  360. Plus maybe around a year ago, Von der Leyen accidently let slip a hundred thousand Ukrainian dead in speech the footage of which was later censored.
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  361.  @gamingforever9121  Yes the problem is, firstly these wars are very profitable for certain people, secondly the US domestic consequences for all these wars stirred up by the US State Dept are pretty minor. Usually they just fund it through proxies. Even when US forces go in like in Iraq the casualties are very one sided for the US but these wars have killed millions in places like Iraq, Afghan, Somalia, Libya, Syria and now Ukraine. The even bigger worry is the risks of escalation to nuclear war once you start picking fights with Russia and China. In earlier times there were competent people running the US who successfully navigated those risks (they were very lucky too, there were some close calls) whereas the clown show now are taking huge risks for trivial pay offs. Nordstream for example - what kind of precedent does that set?
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  362. Don't believe all the BS. Zaluzhny himself acknowledges Gerasimov as his hero and mentor.
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  363.  @wanderer2925  In six months' time you're welcome to reply to this message and laugh at me at how badly Russia has lost. And I'll humbly admit how deceived I was by Russian propaganda is that's what actually happens. Bookmark it now.
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  364. The Russians lost a TOS system there recently. It's a short range weapon so it's vulnerable.
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  365.  @MV-hl2dp  Seit Seymour Hersch wissen wir genau was passiert ist.
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  366. Anyone who thinks it's a good idea to provoke Russia into a war needs to look at some history books
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  367.  @adilsaria2868  I personally pretty much buy into the John Mearsheimer view of international relations where everyone's worried about security and if you don't try to think about the security concerns of other countries, you make dumb decisions which create undesirable outcomes. I think that's what's happening here.
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  368. Not so much doesn't know what to say as just opens her mouth and random words come pouring out
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  369.  @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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  370. Plenty of atrocities from the Ukrainian side too so put it in perspective. Happens in war. The individual soldier who does this is guilty, not the entire country. In WWII, there were similar outrageous atrocities from the British army, how could there not be with hundreds of thousands of men under arms? At one stage, the Canadians barely took prisoners at all.
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  371. A lot of outright lies more like
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  372. Stay and fight for your country. Either that or learn Russian or Hungarian, they're the only sane European countries left.
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  373. 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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  374.  @matthewgaudet8001  Why does Washington want to get involved in the internal politics of any other country? We can speculate why but we know for sure it does. My guess is NATO. The US views the UK as a vassal - largely correctly. An independent might take a more sceptical position on NATO and the US rule the world project. In particular, Britain's nuclear submarines are based in Scotland, moving them to England would be difficult and expensive, all the viable locations are big cities.
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  375.  @OWnIshiiTrolling  As soon as someone calls Russians orcs it's an immediate sign he's full of shit :)
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  376. In that case don't complain if Kinzhals start landing in your home town because your country is arming Ukraine.
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  377.  @arielmizrahi6359  "alliance" is a massive exaggeration. It's an agreement for the US to prop up the regime in exchange for the regime keeping the oil flowing. Saudi Arabia has joined BRICS and is patching up relations with Iran. That's a massive swing away from the US no matter how you try to spin it. If by alliance you mean the Saudis still want to buy US weapons then yes, that's still true.
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  378.  @shuki1  Saudi-Iranian relations are the best they've been for almost fifty years. Hard to understand why you don't think is relevant. 96% of Saudi adults want to break relations with Israel. That kind of number can't be ignored even by a dictator.
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  379. He was Algerian
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  380.  @davidorrell764  Back in the 70s the Scottish Office looked into this, the original McCrone report. It found that Scotland would have a "chronic surplus to a quite embarrassing degree and its currency would become the hardest in Europe". Luckily for Westminster and unluckily for Scotland, she was successful in covering it up. Only came out in 2005.
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  381.  @chepaline  I assume you live in Kaliningrad? Is it easy for German passport holders who do not have Russian passports to visit and settle? I assume many of these people will be Russian citizens who usually live in Germany? Also, if you don't mind me asking, are the transit restrictions through Lithuania causing problems? For example increased prices for industry in Kaliningrad?
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  382.  @chepaline  Thank you, very interesting.
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  383. "He speaks the Russian language" - anyone who has seen Patrick's interviews will know he speaks just about well enough to buy a train ticket and not much more.
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  384. Don't you realise the Ukrainian army is older than the Russians in Ukraine on average?
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  385. Even when she's right about something and people agree with her, she gets aggressive anyway.
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  386. Jenrick was a remainer. Says it all.
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  387. Births are still very high in the least capable populations of the world especially in Africa.
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  388. Times Radio? They're delusional.
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  389.  @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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  390.  @youareliedtobythemedia  I agree that more shells fired doesn't necessarily equate to more damage done but I don't think you can assume better Ukrainian precision than the Russians and I totally disagree with greater Ukrainian range. Russia can hit high priority targets anywhere in Ukraine. Just yesterday they hit Odessa and maybe two days ago they hit a training facility in Lviv. There have been some huge explosions from Ukrainian ammo dumps.
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  391.  @Gerrard_Pike2008  Impossible that Russia launched three missiles. They ran out of missiles a year ago. The media said so.
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  392. Generally, yes. The Surovikhin line in particular has fairly deep concrete bunkers.
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  393.  @wavebuilder14udc75  That's an implausible take, the Somme sucked in hundreds of thousands of German reserves who would otherwise been available for the Verdun battle - which was in the balance. "little to no effect on German troop movements" is just plain wrong.
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  394. Not to mention he thinks there are too many white people in Scotland.
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  395. He got destroyed by false allegations. He deserves his day in court. The tax payer won't have to cover the SNP's costs.
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  396.  @DolphLongedgreens  Another great gem - in a war between NATO and Russia, the casualties would be 1000 to 1. It reminded me of Biden confidently predicting the Taleban would be defeated by the Afghan government forces a few days before the Taleban drove into Kabul.
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  397. LOL what you're basically saying is we must escalate otherwise this will escalate. Do you actually want WWIII?
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  398. To the last Ukrainian. It's a sacrifice the US is willing to make.
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  399.  @slavajuri  I think Ukrainians quite likely would fight like that - in the west of Ukraine. In the east of Ukraine, most people don't care that much. They could be Ukrainian if it suits them, they could be Russian if it suits them. Russians and Ukrainians are on a cultural spectrum from east to west, not too binary, immutable groups like Americans and Iraqis or Americans and Vietnamese at the time of the Vietnam war. Generally, Russians will not see Ukrainian civilians as a totally foreign people, at least in the east of the country. They speak the same language, they share a very similar culture. It's more like a civil war.
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  400.  @np4029  It's bizarre to claim expanding eastwards created a burden for more Western powers. German defence spending fell to around 1% of GDP. NATO calls itself a defensive alliance. A defensive alliance which has attacked Serbia, Libya, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan none of which were threatening any NATO country. Russia views NATO as a military alliance aimed at them. Are they wrong?
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  401.  @tannaeros  They'll emigrate either to Russia or to the EU.
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  402. The DPR population is a lot larger than the LPR population.
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  403.  @stephenderry9488  Brexit actually helped the City of London ie. escaping from the regulatory stranglehold of Brussels which came up with such huge work creation schemes as MIFID2
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  404. You do know that the British fleet attacked the French fleet and killed thousands soon after the Vichy surrender right?
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  405. You could turn the same argument on Israel.
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  406.  @redscope897  Except that Russia is not seriously threatening Poland. Their shared border is tiny and uncontested. Even if Russia occupied Kiev, with a million man army, they're not going to cross the Polish border. Good Polish relations with Russia is the best guarantee of Polish security.
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  407. 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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  408.  @SelfProclaimedEmperor  If Ukraine hadn't been on the path to join NATO this war would never have happened.
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  409. Yeah America's really lucky with its geography. It can fight power balancing proxy wars in far off parts of the world. It won't save America from a nuclear war though.
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  410.  @TmackSD184  Crimea was Russia before it was gifted by Khrushchev to Ukraine.
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  411.  @kleinenboese395  Too complicated. The Ukrainian war aim is keep the aid grift going as long as possible, drag NATO into the war to bail them out or if that fails hope for a collapse or change in leadership in Russia. Nothing very likely but now they're in this difficult situation the only alternative is making peace and the regime wouldn't survive that.
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  412. Otherwise known as lawfare
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  413.  @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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  414.  @fka-Kaya  Telling people what they want to hear is what all politicians do. In Britain and throughout Europe politicians promise to get immigration under control but never do. Populism is really just a word with derogatory connotations for those who oppose oligarchy.
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  415. Close to zero
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  416.  @elKarlo  Even worse, if they'd honoured Minsk II in the first place and stopped that crazy talk about acquiring nuclear weapons and joining NATO, this war would never have happened at all. Zelensky was elected on a platform of reconciliation with Russia but the nationalist extremists threatened him and he backed down.
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  417. You'd be less likely to get arrested for social media posts.
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  418.  @DAndyLord  Firstly, Russia isn't defeated. Even the Americans are admitting that Ukraine needs negotiations as soon as possible. It's the Russians who aren't talking negotiations because they know they're winning. Secondly, supporting Ukraine wasn't "cheap" for the West, it's destroyed the German economy for a start. The big picture is it drives Russia and China (and Iran and North Korea) together. That's not just not smart, it's outright moronic.
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  419. What freedom? It's not Putin threatening Europe's freedom, it's Europe's own leaders. Have you been asleep the past five years?
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  420.  @donaldclifford5763  A "defensive" alliance which attacked Serbia, Libya, Syria etc etc
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  421.  @dasbubba841  I don't know for sure what the Russian strategy is but they probably think time is on their side. 1) Ukrainian casualties are horrific. More and more, Ukrainian units are refusing to fight - yes this has also happened to a few LPR and DPR units too but it's usually Ukrainians putting out videos criticising their officers and abandoning positions. 2) As inflation and economic problems start to bite, the Western capacity and enthusiasm to support Ukraine is diminishing especially over the past two weeks. 3) Much of the EU is going to have a catastrophic winter, electricity blackouts, factory closures etc. Governments collapsing. Maybe even hunger. The political will to oppose Russia will evaporate then in Germany at minimum probably many other countries. Additionally, the Russian government is very sensitive about casualties. It never uses its own armour or infantry to storm anywhere now. It shells the Ukrainians until it thinks there's nobody left and sends in an infantry patrol to see. If the patrol takes fire the Russians retreat and shell some more. It's very slow - but the casualties are very one sided too. What's really interesting about all of this is that it's pretty much the exact opposite of the Western media narrative.
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  422. LOL it's undiluted propaganda. For example claiming Mariupol can only be supplied by road - er no there's a railway there now and onwards up to the front. And he didn't mention Avdivka which is likely to fall in the next couple of months, that's pretty huge.
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  423. Greece suffered fifteen years of austerity, economic stagnation, suicides and brain drain of the young and ambitious because it joined the Euro zone.
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  424. So basically a mother can get away with anything she wants? She should have gone to prison and the children to either grandparents, father or foster care. Equality before the law shouldn't mean mothers get off free.
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  425. Chechens are now amongst the most enthusiastic soldiers in the Russian army. They consider themselves free already. Chechnya is officially part of Russia but they have autonomy over their own domestic affairs. Likewise Dagestan.
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  426. Nothing to do with Islam, it's to do with them being from a primitive culture. You get the same kind of rapieness in India and not just from the Muslim minority.
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  427. With a far smaller population than the USA, Russia trains more engineers. Peter Zeihan has many ridiculous narratives, that Russia doesn't train engineers is one of them. He's basically gas lighting.
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  428.  @alanmarr3323  Why do you believe Navalny was murdered? There's literally zero evidence. Obviously Siberian prisons are very tough, unhealthy places where your life expectancy can expect to be shortened but that's not the same as murder. Then again, what about Peter Lynch?
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  429. Another game changer is the Lancet. The Russians get more vehicle kills with Lancets now than they do with artillery.
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  430. This entire interview is this Georgian guy boasting and slagging off the Russians. You have to take that into account.
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  431. Ukraine has lots of main problems!
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  432. He's not really that truthful the real reason the Russians care so much about Avdivka is that the Ukrainian army has been shelling Donetsk City from there with artillery and butterfly mines. It's a huge embarrassment to Russia that they've never solved this because there have been hundreds of civilian casualties.
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  433. Definitely, and this video is now totally obsolete.
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  434. He has a long way to go
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  435.  @6axy3  The past week Russia has gained more territory than Ukraine has.
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  436. People from Luhansk: overwhelmingly prefer to be part of Russia
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  437.  @michaelclatworthy8364  The police have made a lot of arrests but earlier on, front line officers were told to ignore a lot of this kind of crime to avoid bringing Pakistanis into disrepute. A lot of the police are so conformist and politically correct they did what they were told.
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  438.  @Joshpox  The past two times Finland fought Russia, each war ended with Finland's capitulation and Finland smaller than when it started. Chechnya got ground to dust by the Russians and Chechnya remains part of the Russian federation.
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  439. And at the same time he could revisit his claims that Russian munition production would collapse because of lack of engineers, machine tools and maintenance. And his many predictions that the Russian and Chinese economies were about to collapse.
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  440.  @alastairbarkley6572  hmmm German POWs were clearing minefields all over Western Europe after WWII.
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  441. Not really, European militaries are in an appalling state.
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  442. Plus both are keen to escalate the Ukraine situation no matter that it's destroying our economy and Russia was provoked.
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  443. Won't happen though. Even if he successfully sues nobody will get fired.
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  444.  @demonshelby1311  Collective punishment against a civilian population for the actions of political leaders is a war crime. Also, you can only argue Hamas "started it" if you start your history in 2023. Obviously there are grievances on both sides going back to 1947.
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  445.  @n0_h4ndl3  Why do you think a Russian victory would be a disaster for anyone who isn't a Ukrainian nationalist? So Russia retakes parts of Ukraine which used to be part of Russia anyway before Soviet bureaucrats gave them to Ukraine. So what? How does that affect normal people in USA, France, Britain or Germany? It doesn't. If anything the damage is already done. Failed diplomacy before 2022 created the situation where Russia decided a break with the West was inevitable. Now, we have a new Cold War. Let's end the fighting as soon as possible and ensure it doesn't become a world war instead of a second Cold War.
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  446.  @ezioauditore3128  It is true that Zelensky has cancelled an election and had political opponents imprisoned. If that doesn't make him a dictator, what does?
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  447. So a lot like London then.
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  448. In the long run, taking eastern Ukraine puts Russia in a very strong position as a supplier of gas and wheat. Europe has been moving to greener energy sources for decades and it still needs Russian gas. In the long run it can develop LPG infrastructure (too late for this winter) but it'll never be as cheap as piped gas straight from the Urals. Either Europe backtracks and trades with Russia or it deindustrialises and Germany accepts a significantly lower standard of living. My money is on mutually beneficial trade with Russia.
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  449.  @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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  450. Do you make a donation every time the Ukrainians shell civilians in Donetsk like they've been doing since 2014 or shower the city with petal mines where they're highly unlikely to injure Russian soldiers but are especially dangerous for children?
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  451.  @TheLampini  You're hopelessly naive. Look at the kid gloves when the Muslims rioted in Rochdale last week attacking a police station and police cars - and the kid gloves when the Gypsies rioted in Leeds a bit earlier. Police cars burned etc.
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  452. Gaining a square kilometre of farmland but losing dozens of armoured vehicles and hundreds of men is not a good trade. And over the past couple of days, Russia is winning more territory than Ukraine is anyway.
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  453. 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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  454. The Ghost of Kiev, the Goat of Kiev and the family of the dead Polish farmers all agree.
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  455. We don't actually know. I certainly agree with innocent until proven guilty but we don't know yet how this will turn out.
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  456. Peter Zeihan obviously never read the McCrone report - during Thatcher's years Scotland was massively subsidising England. And it was kept very, very quiet. As for energy, Scotland is an energy exporter.
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  457. He won't care, he'll still get his high paid speaking gigs to military officers and big business
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  458.  @zibbitybibbitybop  It's a war of attrition. Most of the territory changing hands isn't important just like on the Western Front in the First World War. What's important is casualties. When one side runs out of reserves it'll lose the ability to stop large advances. Which side do you think is going to run out of reserves? I'll give you a clue. The Russians are training new air mobile brigades right now.
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  459. The Americans shouldn't be anywhere near Syria and Iraq. Both governments want them gone. Trump wanted US soldiers pulled out of Syria and he was illegally thwarted by the generals.
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  460.  @LKaramazov  A tactical nuclear weapon is a short range, low yield weapon which creates a fission explosion. These have most definitely NOT been used in Yugoslavia and Iraq. Depleted uranium ammunition are strictly kinetic weapons. Their use however does create radioactive dust which is dangerous to inhale.
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  461. That's not really what's going on. Armenia was trying to get closer links to the USA and NATO. The Russians could easily put pressure on Azerbaijan, both economically or if necessary, militarily but why would they want to antagonise a neighbour on behalf of a less powerful country which is trying to defect to NATO?
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  462. In this case, the entire country
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  463.  @mikoto7693  Widespread shortages are acknowledged in NATO. British and German generals complain they're out of equipment. NATO collectively has a critical shortage of artillery shells. The Americans are buying back Patriot missiles from Japan to cover their shortfall. It's just not correct to claim the war isn't stretching NATO munitions.
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  464.  @mikeedwards2537  The Russian birth rate (1.5 births per woman) isn't that much lower than UISA (1.7). The big difference is America is importing millions of people from South America, Africa and Asia whereas Russia keeps immigration low because it wants to stay Russian. If you want to talk about a really low birth rate, Ukraine's was around 1.3 before the war started but has plummeted since then. We don't have accurate numbers but it's estimated to now be the lowest in the world, something like half what it was before the war.
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  465. He belongs in Israel
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  466. Seems they're going to have a lot of damaged vehicles they could strip parts from. I'm sure it's a problem but doesn't seem like top of the list.
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  467.  @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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  468. The SNP is hard left. There's nothing right wing about them at all.
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  469.  @tombombadil8709  European economic health is not great as you say but even worse is European democratic health. Political leaders have never been as unpopular in the entire post WWII period as now.
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  470. The other big difference is with these wars, America wasn't militarily defeated, it just lost motivation because it didn't have enough at stake. Same as the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. The Soviet Army just like the American military never lost an important battle there. It just kept bleeding men in a war that wasn't worth the cost. That doesn't apply in Ukraine. Ukraine is too important to Russia. It will pay the price.
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  471. Casualties affects morale. And morale affects the ability to keep fighting. If it were just about the amount of military equipment and manpower doesn't matter, Japan would have defeated China in the 1930s with their greater armaments. But China offseted its material disadvantage with its manpower advantage.
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  472.  @samg.5165  You might want to consider that Putin is vastly more population in Buryatia than Biden is in Iowa.
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  473.  @TheOffkilter  I'd say the comparison between rural Appalachia and rural Russia is probably quite close. The Appalachians are richer in theory but the cost of living in Russia is so much lower. In either case, they're poor but they can live. They have food, housing and heating. And they probably have mobile phones and TV too. Where there's real poverty is in cities like Los Angeles where thousands of people are living in cardboard boxes and tents. Even many people with jobs in California live in their cars because housing is so expensive. So far as I'm aware there's nothing comparable in Russia.
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  474.  @theant9821  "NATO didn't attack Iraq or Syria"? Ok... not NATO. Just many countries in NATO acting in collaboration. Got it. "Nato isn't interested in attacking Russia" It's out in the open that the US government and many other NATO governments want to see the Russian federation broken up. They've said so openly many times. Baerbock even said we're at war with Russia! "with that friendship comes ideas of freedom and democracy" Freedom and democracy? Like Ukraine? A country where opposition media has been shut down and opposition politicians arrested and assassinated? Where 16 year old boys are arrested on the street and sent off to the army. It's not as if Western countries are even free or democratic any more. Look at how Snowden and Assange have been treated, look at the lack of due process in how protesters were treated in Canada and Germany, look at how assets of Russians completely unrelated to the government have been frozen.
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  475.  @shaunvduke  MacGregor is an American patriot. He realises that relentless expansion of NATO pushing Russia into a proxy war in Ukraine isn't in America's best interests. Firstly, it was hugely dangerous and still could result in a nuclear war. Secondly, it just pushes Russia and China into a closer alliance. Far smarter would have been to assure Russian security so none of this would ever have happened.
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  476. Unlikely, the Ukrainian soldiers are running out of enthusiasm even if the government is not.
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  477.  @Zeidinho  If the war goes on long enough, running out of resources without unconditional surrender looks like Berlin 1945. How united is the command of the Ukrainian military? If the war is obviously going really badly, it's pretty common for a government to step down and hand over to someone else like Germany in 1918.
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  478.  @4450krank  The problem with heat pumps, they work fine when the difference in temperature between outside and inside is pretty small. But when it gets really cold in winter their efficiency drops right off. And that's exactly the time overall demand for energy in a cold country like Germany goes through the roof. For heat pumps to replace gas heating on a wide scale will require electricity vastly cheaper than anything available now. Imagining that an entire country like Germany can heat itself with heat pumps powered by renewable energy is totally unrealistic. Maybe in thirty years it will be if Germany returns to nuclear. But not soon.
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  479.  @spendor9377  Zelensky was elected on a platform of honouring the Minsk II agreement and seeking a reconciliation with Russia. Instead, he got intimidated by the nationalist militias. He escalated the shelling of Donetsk City, pushed joining NATO and started talking about acquiring nuclear weapons. The USA has attacked countries and started wars all over the world, what Russia is doing is at least somewhere where it has a legitimate interest.
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  480.  @hammerhorrible  The Donbas people didn't vote in the elections which saw Zelensky in power so you entire argument makes no sense. Zelensky was elected on a peace platform, once he was in, he got intimidated by the nationalists and so instead, escalated the war.
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  481.  @NickyDekker89  I disagree it's not about the land. This particular land is relatively close to Moscow and other important Russian cities so it's dangerous for Russia to leave it under control of a country radically hostile to Russia. It's potentially very valuable economically. And it's populated by people who speak Russian. So the land is important, it's worth fighting a longer war for. Of course it's also about preventing Ukraine from joining NATO. I don't think Russia is going to accept any kind of peace where Ukraine joins NATO at all unless all that's left of Ukraine is the north west. I think we're going to see a major move on Kharkov before this war is over. And cities like Kharkov, Sumy and certainly Slavyansk could quite well return to Russia.
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  482.  @TheDa6781  The bodies for the army aren't willing bodies.
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  483. Not really, she doesn't seem to realise France and Britain built the Suez canal
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  484. Read it - and you'll learn that Ukraine was required to remain neutral. Which it didn't.
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  485.  @TorianTammas  It looks like that but that's not the whole picture. Ukraine is getting weaker, Russia is getting stronger day by day. Remember the 1914-1918 war, in France/Belgium there are many similarities. In 1914 things were very fluid, there were rapid advances (like the first month in 2022). Then in the West at least there were years of stasis. Then in 1918 the weaker side tried a desperate and costly assault that put the stronger side under pressure (the Ukrainian counter offensive). After that failed, the weaker German side had used their best reserves. We're now at the June 1918 stage where the British and French started pushing back the German army. It's starting to become obvious to everyone the Ukrainians are weakening, even the Western media is starting to admit this. In 2024, the Russians will have the option to take the four oblasts they have already annexed or if they are prepared to pay a heavier price, advance further into Ukraine.
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  486.  @beastmode6225  Drones and precise artillery still leave the defender with an advantage given roughly equal firepower. And firepower is unlikely to be equal especially considering the Russian aviation advantage.
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  487. He butchers every language in a lazy arrogant way.
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  488. Game changer number 25? How many game changers are we up to now?
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  489. And you think replacing Europeans with Nigerians and Somalis is a solution? When why aren't Somalia and Nigeria rich, successful countries?
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  490. Very similar situation in Germany in 1918. The armistice was so surprising people didn't realise it was a defeat.
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  491. Ridiculous click bait title
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  492. If you think writing code isn't hard then you've only done mindless business/website programming. Try writing graphics software or performance sensitive scientific software or software tools.
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  493.  @silversurfer640  When the Germans attacked the Soviet Union in 1941, there's pretty strong evidence the Soviet army was deployed to attack Germany, part of the reason for the high Soviet losses in the first month. e.g. European gauge tracks laid, large supply dumps close to the front line, forward airbases full of aircraft. A defensive deployment would have been quite different. From the archives the Soviet thinking in 1939 was that the West and the Germans would exhaust each other in prolongued First World War style attrition.
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  494. That seems deluded to me. If it's not obvious Ukraine is collapsing in three months I'll be very surprised. See the most recent video from the History Legends channel.
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  495.  @hailexiao2770  Russia just doubled the size of its army in the past few weeks - at least. NATO supplies to Ukraine are dropping off, it's a fact you can check. Russia is advancing in several places, Ukraine is not. Ukraine has had around nine or ten rounds of mobilisation now. Russia has had one and has stopped because it thinks it doesn't need more. I don't understand how anyone who knows all that can seriously think Ukraine can somehow win.
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  496.  @veerchand2129  You're missing some things here. Firstly the people driving these T62s/T64s are regular Russian forces. They're DPR/LPR. According to Ukrainian logic, these are actually Ukrainians. Secondly, most of the Ukrainian forces are also poorly equipped. I've seen plenty of videos of conscripted Ukrainians saying they were meant to have two weeks training but never actually fired a rifle and then sent to the front. Guys with WWII machine guns. Thirdly - we've been hearing about the Kherson offensive since the start of May. The Kiev government recently admitted themselves it was just propaganda. If you think Ukrainian counter offensives will capture anything significant you're buying propaganda.
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  497.  @jasondelvaux3036  I think your numbers are wrong. Japan killed more civilians. The Chinese are expanding in the South China Sea. This is a serious strategic danger to the Philippines, more important than historical grievances over a hundred years old.
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  498. Ukraine flattened Slovyansk in 2014. And it's been shelling Donetsk ever since.
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  499.  @Mary-wj5ti  What business would it be of Britain's if the Russians staged a coup in Ireland and the new Irish government wanted to stage Russian missiles on the Ulster border?
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  500. They're a colonising army
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  501. He actually said he's against American complicity in the conflict. He criticises arming Israel. Just because he's not 100% on one side doesn't mean he's "parroting the talking points of Israel".
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  502. Nobody would sign a deal to ban drones. You can ban gas because it's not that useful militarily - in WWI only about 1% of the fatalities were from gas. But you can't ban something which is militarily essential. Or if you do ban it, the ban will be ignored. Both sides are using flamethrowers in Ukraine and thermobaric explosives aren't too different from flamethrowers anyway.
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  503.  @marcoobin4571  Where do you get your info from? Russia expanded 4.10 percent in the second quarter annualised and that's with a declining population. Is this what you call a collapsing economy? Most of Europe is in recession!
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  504.  @markrockin  Zelensky threw away a very generous peace treaty a month into the war which would have seen him lose no territory at all. After he'd already signed it.
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  505. Not surprising though. The Russians are short of infantry because they're relying on their professionals rather than conscripts like Ukraine so their elite infantry is overworked. An officer from an elite Ukrainian unit in the Donbass was saying they've had 80% casualties. Another Ukrainian officer said he's the fourth to command his unit after two predecessors killed and one seriously injured. This is the biggest war fought in Europe since 1945.
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  506. This contains plenty of non sequiturs itself. And plenty of wishful thinking. Only 100,000 Ukrainian wounded mid 2023? This is an obvious under estimate.
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  507. @@BF-sb5zs Yeah Mississippi is just an extreme example. Anyway obesity in Scotland is around 30% of adults, US average over 40%. Don't you think Zeihan should have given that context?
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  508.  @colliehouse3133  If you think we're not a third world country, where have you been the last ten years?
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  509. Spoken like a true Soviet apparatchik
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  510.  @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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  511. The job of excusing war crimes?
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  512. So nothing to do with breaking promises like the promises not to expand NATO eastwards and the promises made in Minsk I and Minsk II?
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  513. Yes but don't forget the Russian secret weapon - washing machine chips!
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  514. The connotation of verstehen in German is a bit different from understand in English. It can mean agreement as well as comprehension.
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  515.  @MrM-s6u  Right on the Syrian border where they launched raids into Syria. Syria has wanted US forces out for years, there's no excuse for US forces being in Syria.
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  516.  @toddlawrence6872  You seem to be confusing Patriot batteries with Patriot launchers
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  517. You don't seem to realise two million people are trapped in this small area, civilians are not allowed to leave. Egypt isn't taking them. The warning to leave was for propaganda purposes only.
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  518. Sooner. It's happening now in the big cities.
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  519. Easy but they have no shortage of Russian engineers despite what Peter claims. Despite the smaller population Russia trains more engineers than the USA. The urgent shortage in Russia is of gender theory graduates.
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  520. Russia is fighting a war in Ukraine but it isn't deliberately murdering civilians, dehousing the population or destroying water supplies so the country is uninhabitable afterwards.
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  521. AP is now saying 200k.
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  522.  @acebongboy  I agree - and war deaths were certainly important. It was a big disaster for all of Europe. Germany got hit harder than Britain and France harder still. Serbia lost maybe a third of its population, how grim is that! One interesting outcome of the war, before the war, taller men tended to have more children, possibly because being taller meant they were healthier but certainly in part sexual selection. After the war, the difference disappeared. Pretty much any man who wanted to get married, could.
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  523. But Russia has taken "by far" the higher casualties 🤡🤡🤡
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  524.  @9nniosalier1  Ukraine broke the Minsk accords.
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  525. Putin never said anything about invading NATO land, it's NATO which has been pushing eastward. What Putin did say many times over and over was that NATO joining Ukraine was a red line. If he hadn't been ignored this war need never have happened.
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  526. @@CarperSmithy And? Both sides use minefields. Go check out some neutral sources. Theti Mapping, Weeb Union, Defense Politics Asia, Military Summary. Large Russian advance in the east that the British media is totally ignoring.
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  527.  @vinm300  You're just listing units which may or may not have been in Bucha. Go and check who the Ukrainians accuse of what happened there. One Siberian motorised rifle regiment. No VDV.
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  528. He needs to start living in his own country Israel instead of trying to destroy ours.
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  529. Crimeans overwhelmingly prefer to be part of Russia than part of Ukraine. Even Western polling organisations confirmed that.
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  530. Russia didn't get to be the biggest country in the world by being easy to defeat. Most of your points are wrong eg. Poland, Finland, China. The Soviet Union pulled out of Afghanistan for the same reason America did - because there's nothing there worth staying for. If you think Ukraine has defeated Russia, you're not paying attention.
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  531.  @theaviator06  Canada is way, way colder than this part of Ukraine.
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  532.  @thanatosdriver1938  Higher density = lower fertility so a population will reach an equilibrium over time. Obviously that's a simplification there are many other influences on fertility. The point about immigration it doesn't change our population significantly a hundred years down the track it just means our own genetic inheritance will be diminished and diluted. When the British (mainly English) first settled mainly empty North America they had a fertility of around eight children.
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  533.  @Clapperofcheeks5000  It's sad how the Telegraph won't tell us what's really happening without a strong filter of wishful thinking.
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  534. He is trying as hard as he can to do worse.
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  535. "We outnumbered them two to one and were lucky to get out alive" just doesn't sound as impressive as there were 30,000 of them and we killed endless thousands.
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  536.  @Fluxwux  Yes that's true but African birth rates are still far, far beyond replacement. Some African countries are still going to double in size in just a few decades.
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  537. The population has already halved since the end of the Soviet Union and the birth rate is close to the lowest in Europe, certainly lower than Russia's. The post war situation is going to be dire, so many working age men killed, so many young people left and huge debts incurred. The most productive parts of the country have been lost. So ambitious, educated young people who have not already left will leave and the population will plunge further.
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  538. Fifty years ago, left vs. right was important but nowadays, the left vs. right is no longer as important as individual rights vs. authoritarianism.
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  539.  @demonshelby1311  Yeah anyone who goes back thousands of years to justify genocide in the modern world deserves contempt.
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  540. I reckon sooner, the Russians look to be entrenched now and can fly drones over the supply roads. They probably need a pause to consolidate and to expand the flanks which might take weeks but I'll be surprised if it's not taken by end of winter.
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  541. And they are. For example the Ukrainians lost their last hold in Robotyne today. And Netailove.
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  542. Back then the USA and UK were sane enough not to attack Russia with their missiles.
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  543.  @paulgibbon5991  Calling people botski is not an argument. And it's childish. Who is building the empire here? Russia is (so far) recovering territories which were settled by Russians and used to be part of Russia. If the war continues, that could change, The Russians might take over all of Ukraine. As for empires, compare which part of the world contain Russian military bases with which parts of the world contain US military bases. Until 2022 America considered itself a global hegemon. It's a bit rich for the Americans to start complaining about empire building now.
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  544.  @kamiabghorbanpour2291  Hardly any of the people who opposed Hitler whether in Poland, France, Britain or even Germany would have regarded as insane the idea that millions of foreigners should be welcomed into their countries such that the existing population becomes just another minority.
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  545.  @superhumantrueman  If the argument is that there is a reason so morally compelling to stop Russia that it's worth risking WWIII (and look into how WWI started to see how dangerous brinkmanship is) then you absolutely have to take a look at your own behaviour to honestly judge if Russia's behaviour is actually worse. And even if you decide it is actually worse (far from obvious IMO) then at least try to understand Russia's point of view. For them, it is a defensive war, they feel backed into a corner after relentless expansion of the world's biggest military alliance aimed at them.
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  546.  @superhumantrueman  I don't say the war in Ukraine is "right", I just say it's no more wrong than much of what NATO has done. My main argument is its not worth fighting WWIII just to "punish" Russia for acting like Great Powers have always acted including the USA, including Britain. The narrative that Russia must punished is dangerously naive, ignores (wilfully) why Russia started this war and the likely outcome of a wider war with Russia, i.e. billions of people killed.
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  547. CIA spokesman
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  548.  @OctavChelaru  We have plenty of instances of Ukrainian morale failing in this war. Take enough casualties and morale will fail, especially when most soldiers are not volunteers and many commanders are incompetent.
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  549. But haven't you noticed how completely wrong they have been about everything they said about this war?
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  550. Russia offered to make up all the grain ... for free.
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  551.  @Random-nf7qb  Youtube shadow banning.
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  552.  @shiva_productions  Mass immigration pushes down pay and pushes up the cost of living. It's not that Irish people don't want those kind of jobs, it's that they can't afford a normal life with what those kind of jobs pay.
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  553.  @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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  554. Apparently the Russian army didn't get the message that they're in panic. Probably they'll start retreating towards Kiev pretty soon.
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  555. Three quarters of the population in England is still English and the average age is more like 40, not over 60. Your numbers are just made up. As for the First World War, the proportion of the British army who were Indian soldiers was tiny compared to the total size of the army. Go look it up.
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  556.  @womble321  They can make room according to priorities. Look at how thieves have been let out early but Sam Melia got two years for leafleting even though nothing in the leaflets was illegal.
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  557. The only exception is deep under the Carparthians. Could be they'll build huge caves there like the Iranians built underground weapons factories safe from US conventional weapons. Wouldn't be cheap though and hard to see how Ukrainian resources are going to stretch to that given all their other difficulties.
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  558. This war didn't start on October 7 and the vast majority of the people who are dying are not Hamas.
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  559.  @umjackd  The USA has the same attitude towards small countries. Look at how they bombed Serbia and then seized the province of Kosovo. Look at how US forces are still in Syria despite the Syrian government wanting them out and the UN confirming they have no right to be there. Look at US missile strikes all over the Middle East including in Iraq and Syria.
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  560. Definitely a good channel but there's pretty strong pro-Russian bias. Also he has some pretty eccentric takes. Defense Politics Asia is probably more neutral and Theti Mapping is apparently totally neutral but only posts when he has time. Weeb Union is also good but only Dima does two detailed updates per day.
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  561.  @TheHighlanderprime  Much like Zeihan is a propagandist, not a real geostrategist.
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  562.  @SLDimarco  Don't you realise millions of Ukrainians support the Russian side? Don't you realise for the first year of the war a huge portion of those fighting on the Russian side in Ukraine were officially Ukrainian citizens according to the Kiev government's own definition of Ukraine?
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  563.  @Tea_And_History  Falkenhayn himself cited the Somme as part of the reason for calling off Verdun. The claim that it didn't make any difference makes no sense. It sucked in the German reserves and cost almost half a million casualties. How could it possibly not have effected the German ability to maintain pressure on Verdun? if you want another source, try Chris Duffy's book on the Somme Through German Eyes, page 327
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  564. China's manufacturing output exceeds the USA's and Europe's put together. At the end of the Second World War, the USA had half of the world's manufacturing output just on its own but those days are long gone. As for depleted uranium - it definitely causes huge health problems. Look into Fallujah where birth defects and still births went through the roof. Also much higher in Serbia after NATO used DU there. The main problem is the chemical toxicity, not the radioactivity.
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  565.  @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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  566. Like much of the Communist leadership, this person was Jewish, not ethnically Russian. Stalin himself was Georgian, not Russian, as was Beria. Actually Russians were only lightly represented in the Communist leadership until after Stalin.
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  567. ​ @dementesf  You might be giving these clowns more credit than they deserve. Boris Johnson, Joe Biden, Ursula Van Der Leyen, Zelensky himself, these are not serious people.
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  568. The EU can destroy Hungary economically if it wants to, Hungary is surrounded. Also, Hungary gets more economic advantage in the EU. The smart thing to do is stay in but follow its own interest so far as possible.
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  569. Unlike the shit show we've got in power, Putin has left his country better than it was when it took over.
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  570. Only in the USA
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  571.  @RandomPostcards  He's full of BS on many issues. Not long ago he said Scotland had the oldest population in Europe. A 20 second google confirmed no - it's close to median.
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  572. I'm not seeing that at all, I'm seeing this lawyer make weaselly excuses for blatant government intimidation based on mere accusations about crimes which have nothing to do with the monetisation of Russell Brand's content.
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  573.  @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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  574. I've been partially shadow banned too.
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  575. yeah his laugh is pretty bad though - saying that as a huge fan of Carlson
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  576.  @clone3_7  Sorry that's not right. If EITHER player is unable to do a legal move, that's stalemate. I'm not a chess expert but I played club chess, I'm totally sure about that.
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  577.  @7Vooby  The Soviet Union collapsed decades ago. Russia has moved on.
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  578.  @KillerRabbit1975  The BBC cooperate with a Latvian organisation to track Russian KIA through social media and newspaper announcements ie. for funeral services. It's not perfect it will miss some. But it identified something like 40,000. Anyway 250k is delusional. If it were true, the Ukrainians would have taken Belgorod and Rostov by now..
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  579.  @yurisonovab3892  Look it up. Russia graduates more engineers than the USA.
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  580.  @cymeriandesigns  Some truth to that but two points: US wealth is built on massive debt and a deficit nobody has a plan to control. In short, US prosperity which is what attracts that foreign talent is living on borrowed time. Second point - it shouldn't be so expensive to train people. The US university system is severely broken. Look at the cost of fees vs. average earnings, it's been creeping up over decades. No good reason for that.
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  581.  @scubaspears  Yes there is definitely in breeding in Iraq but you can compare the rate of still births before and after and the rate of birth defects. Also compare Falluja with Iraq overall. There is also evidence from Serbia where NATO used D.U and inbreeding is not a factor. So yes there is hard statistical evidence.
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  582. AFTER the Ardennes offensive turned out as unsuccessful as the Ukrainian 2023 summer offensive.
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  583.  @johnathanhughes4367  Do you seriously believe this>? How is it Ukraine hasn't pushed Russia out of Crimea yet if casualties are so one sided? Both sides agree Russia has a huge dominance in artillery, armour, aircraft and ammunition but you still believe Ukrainian casualties are higher than Russian? Answer me this, when was the last Russian mobilisation of men to fight in Ukraine?
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  584. She was just as wrong about Egypt - she doesn't seem to realise France and Britain built the Suez canal
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  585. This has happened over and over in history, if you're Greek, surely you've read the Melian Dialogue?
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  586. 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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  587.  @beannabeanna1130  Born in this country but not ethnically British. Britain hands out passports like confetti, calling someone "British" means nothing nowadays.
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  588. Sure - trust the politicians, they know what's best for us. How many boosters are you on now??
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  589.  @nostro1001  You don't have to be pro-Hamas to listen to Israeli politicians talking about exterminating or expelling Palestinians and to see the outcome of them actually doing it.
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  590.  @Leiska86  I don't question Europe's willingness to support Ukraine, I question its ability. Actual money is insufficient and there just isn't the industrial capacity for stuff like artillery ammunition and SAMs. As for Russia, even if support drops, it has a long long way to go before there's a serious problem replacing losses. Look at Mediazona tracking Russian deaths, Russian losses aren't actually that high compared to say the Bakhmut battle. Russian men were reluctant to go to Ukraine when there was a shortage of men and it was highly dangerous to be a Russian soldier covering an undermanned line. The situation now is completely different. Yes the Storm Z guys have a short life expectancy but the typical soldiers have a very good chance of coming back in one piece with a bulging bank account.
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  591. Seems it's about gaining a propaganda victory for Erdogan rather than he seriously expects the EU is going to follow through.
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  592.  @neutralevil1917  That was possibly true for particular formations around Kiev - obviously not true for Russia overall.
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  593.  @DerDop  The cost of potatoes is not the problem. How much does an apartment cost in small town Russia? Because in Netherlands, I was paying 2000 Euro/month. In 2014, Ukrainian pensioners were taking Russian citizenship because Russian pensions were several times higher. Whereas poor Californians can not afford to pay rent. And in Texas you'd have to work over a hundred hours at minimum wage just to pay the rent on a one room apartment. So sure, it's hard to compare. But being poor is going to be hard whether you're in America or Russia.
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  594.  @clroger4  Sky News Australia is pretty good.
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  595. Totally agree, I really have to question the integrity of this Daniel guy when he argues this. I'm pretty sure if a mafioso sent a letter to a business suggesting something similar, any court would have no problem identifying it as intimidation.
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  596. Rayner is a corrupt, lying hypocrite. Criticise the Tories sure but don't let off Raynor just because she's in your preferred party. That makes you a hypocrite too.
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  597.  @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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  598. Yeah Perun is excellent but you have to realise he's very biased and you have to take account of that.
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  599. Evidence? No? Thought not.
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  600. Do you still believe they blew up their own ten billion dollar pipeline?
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  601. Why should the British people have to put up with either of these Middle Eastern factions pushing their own agendas in our country?
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  602. LOL have you already forgotten Ukraine switched to small squad infiltration tactics soon after their "counteroffensive" resulted in hundreds of destroyed Western vehicles?
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  603.  @jonathansimmons5353  That's ridiculous. You can learn a language in a few weeks if you're in total immersion. Two years is enough to learn a language to a very high level if you're studying it in addition to merely speaking it. But twenty years living somewhere might not be enough if you speak to eveyrone in Englisha and you make no effort. Look at how the Jehovah Witnesses train young Americans for their prosoletysing in different countries: intense immersion but quite short. Even for hard languages for an English speaker like Korean.
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  604. They mistook satire for an instruction manual.
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  605. Except that the Ukrainian army is declining because of attrition whereas the Russian army is still growing. This stalemate narrative reminds me of Douglas Haig in mid 1918, pessimistic after the difficulties of surviving the Germany March/April offensives whereas he'd been overly optimistic all throughout 1916-1917. What he wasn't accounting for was the rapidly weakening state of the Germany army AND the German home front. Rapid allied advances followed. I suspect 2024 will be similar. Even if the West keeps arming Ukraine at the same rate and that's a big if, the best Ukrainian manpower has been wasted.
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  606.  @spendor9377  LOL how many hundreds of years do you need to go back? Since the end of the cold war, who started most of the wars? Who destroyed Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Serbia, Somalia and a dozen other places?
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  607.  @debcollins8231  I agree... it's a complicated situation, I started off 70% in favour of Ukraine but the more I learn the more I move to Russia's position. Both sides have valid arguments. Best thing is to try to see both sides and stay neutral.
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  608. The 80-90% of the Russian military forces not in Ukraine are not in reserve, they haven't been called up at all. In reality, most couldn't be called up. If the Russians were as strong as Mercouris thinks, they'd have finished off Ukraine by now.
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  609.  @highlandgnome  I live in Scotland I can confirm Humza and his anti-white hypocrisy is widely hated. Even SNP members can't stand him.
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  610. That's ironic because some people might think you're posting like a knobhead
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  611.  @David-jt9nt  If Russian equipment were really so unreliable as that, Ukraine would have won the war by now. The other isotope that's made with tritium is deuterium, it's not required for missiles directly but it is used in nuclear engineering. Russia has a large civilian and military nuclear industry it has maybe the world's largest uranium resources, it doesn't have a problem with materials.
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  612.  @teekay_1  Yeah Budapest is a really nice city. And compared to cities in Western Europe, it's clean and tidy.
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  613. Disagree, Russia will require a lot of territory and constitutional changes in Ukraine but will not require an unconditional surrender because Russia needs to contain the war, avoid panicking NATO countries and going all the way to Lvov would be very difficult for Russia even though they're winning the war decisively. Few wars end in unconditional surrender like the Second World War, most end in negotiations and this one will too.
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  614. It's a propaganda channel. There are way better neutral channels.
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  615. What's funny is the vast majority of these English speakers who call the Russians orcs wouldn't know the difference between a Russian and a Ukrainian
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  616. Can you find the article? I don't speak Danish and there's a paywall but from recent articles mentioning Christianso (with the mark through the o), none seem to be mention this.
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  617.  @Penigale  The Russians also have a lot of experience in insurgency warfare, in Chechnya and in Syria.
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  618.  @diegosilang4823  The US/British alliance was driven by Roosevelt wanting to destroy his two biggest rivals at once - Britain and Germany - and then to take over the British empire.
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  619.  @johnnyel  Yeah Greenwald is approximately right, we was wrong on a few minor details. The Duran channel is probably best on British politics esp. their recent interview with Parvini.. As for Zeihan, he's basically a joke
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  620. Mercouris jeez mute your microphone when you're not talking if you've got a cold. Another long interview with Mercouris sniffing through the entire thing.
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  621.  @teddypicker8799  Russian MOD claims can't be taken seriously but that doesn't mean Oryx isn't biased as well. A few weeks back it was showing three Leopards destroyed and damaged when by then there was documentary evidence of twenty something. Look at the guys who run Oryx - one of them is linked to Bellingcat FFS
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  622.  @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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  623.  @JJRM8  You obviously haven't actually read the Budapest Memorandum because you've cherry picked the bit that suited your agenda and left out the rest. NATO has broken several promises made to Russia. The Americans promised NATO would not expand eastwards if Russia allowed Germany to reunify. Then Ukraine broke the Minsk II accords.
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  624.  @edwardgiovannelli5191  Not what we're seeing now. Guys like Elon Musk and JFK Jnr are exactly the kind of highly competent outsiders you need to get anything done.
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  625. We didn't drag the French into war in 1939. Most of the French cabinet (except Georges Bonnet) wanted the war as much as the British cabinet. Obviously they wanted the Poles to do the fighting rather than to do it themselves but they had the opportunity to tell the Poles they planned to keep out of it in the days before the war started just as Mussolini told Hitler he planned to keep Italy out. The French had a military commitment to launch a major attack on Germany by day 15 of the war - which they obviously didn't do. No country (including the USA) comes out of this without blame.
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  626. Spoken like someone too thick to understand the end point of escalation is nuclear annihilation.
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  627. Ukraine has naval patrol boats in Odessa. The Russians used quite accurate Kalibr missiles to hit them. it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the grain export infrastructure at all. As for investment, it looks now as if Russia has given up on the West altogether. They can already generate all the investment they need internally ie. with their own capital. Like Lavrov says, "we no longer care what you think".
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  628. Totally. These kind of people have a financial incentive for more people whereas normal working people sacrifice a huge opportunity cost with lost earnings, nursery fees, food, larger house required etc.
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  629.  @giovanni-ed7zq  Eighty years ago, a large Western country went down the road of dehumanising and underestimating the Russians. They called them Untermenschen rather than orcs but the meaning is similar. It didn't end well for that large Western country. If you're Italian as your name suggests, you should have learned a few lessons from that war too.
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  630. Not superstition, ethnicity. Which is fundamentally biological in origin, the competition between rival extended family groups.
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  631. If you think Wagner are amateurs it just shows you don't have a clue. The core of Wagner are guys who come disproportionately from the Spetznatz and VDV and they join Wagner because they want to fight rather than just draw a salary. They've had victories all over Africa, the Middle East and Ukraine. They're probably amongst the best soldiers in the world.
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  632.  @abr00ky  It's delusional to think one of the world's biggest economies can't stand on its own. The EU is a disaster zone nowadays, there's serious political instability and economic stagnation. The EU's only answer to its growing problems is greater integration and greater authoritarianism. The UK re-joining the EU would be complete madness. It's more likely other countries will leave.
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  633. The Ukraine that eventually joins NATO might be a lot smaller than the Ukraine of 2024 :) Seriously, if Russia goes as far as Odessa, it probably doesn't care anymore if Galicia joins NATO.
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  634.  @jdee8407  Yeah I've lived/worked in about eight countries, now permanently living in Scotland by choice. Great culture, low population density, higher pay to cost of living ratio than England, mainly avoided mass immigration - so far. Excellent schools, free, high quality health care, great mountains and plenty of coastline within easy reach. The weather isn't terrible, it's a bit wetter and colder than ideal but it's not too different from England. I have a Dutch friend who moved to Scotland intending to stay for two years before moving to Canada, he now intends to stay permanently.
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  635.  @GlasgowCelticBhoy  This discussion just goes to show how inaccurate and radically exaggerated Zeihan's takes are and how he confidently makes astonishing claims which can be debunked with 30 seconds googling. Likewise, his claims about Scotland's obesity and health problems - which are real - are presented without the important context that both of these problems are far worse elsewhere.
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  636. Yes, you won't see it in the Western media but there are literally hundreds of videos of the Ukrainian police rounding up men who don't want to fight including guys over 60 and 16 or younger. The Russians are advancing in multiple points across the front and have taken some high ground overlooking the supply roads to Avdivka.
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  637. That was the claim but other people with substantially less money than he had did not have their accounts closed.
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  638.  @alvaro701  Yeah it does seem like Russia is using these guys like cannon fodder, maybe not so much now but earlier in the war. But it could also be that for the kind of fighting we're seeing in Ukraine - basically an artillery war - then heavier round bolt action rifles especially with a decent scope are more appropriate than AKs for a lot of the work these guys are meant to be doing. Holding a tree line with the enemy 500m or even 800m away across these huge open fields. An AK is appropriate in a forest or city but probably not much use in a lot of that more open country.
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  639.  @AlexKomnenos  Tens of thousands of Tartars fought for Himmler's SS. Stalin didn't deport them for no reason.
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  640.  @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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  641. That's how it looked to me too.
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  642. When was the last offensive operation by Ukraine? Ukraine has been on the defensive for weeks now. The Russians are making small advances in about a dozen places.
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  643.  @Percival5  They use washing machine chips for the electronics and the fins are made from shovels :)
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  644. As usual Zeihan's narrative misses out the essential information which doesn't suit US interests which in the Sahel, involves displacing France. The French were so big in Niger not so much for prestige as to get the cheap uranium. France massively depends on nuclear power, more than any other large country and their nuclear industry was getting ridiculously cheap uranium from the previous Niger regime. This is a big enough reason for France to fight a war there, regardless of prestige.
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  645. The Ukrainians are actually shelling these reactors! You can blame the Russians for hiding in there. But if there's any leak it'll be because of Ukrainian shelling.
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  646. He mispronounces famous names in Russian, German and French too.
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  647. Both sides are mainly using tanks as SP artillery now. And both sides are using T55s.
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  648. I think that's the most likely outcome but I think the timeline will be much longer. One of the lessons of watching this war is things always take much longer than expected :)
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  649.  @Ungood-jl5ep  facts are facts and I've shown you why you're wrong. No mental gymnastics necessary. Also check out medical studies on places where DU has been used particularly Falluja. It's pretty awful. Still births and birth defects through the roof.
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  650.  @Ungood-jl5ep  LOL I provided some facts which show some of what you said is indisputably wrong and you don't know what you're talking about. For example you said "It is radioactive, but only beta emissions." You're wrong. Cope harder.
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  651.  @JK-dv3qe  Since when is the sinking of an enemy warship during a war a war crime? Even the Belgrano captain admitted the sinking was legitimate. If you want to criticise Britain, go find some genuine grievances, there are many. Sinking an enemy warship during wartime is not one of them.
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  652.  @imrekalman9044  The Russian equivalents to Tisdale are even more extreme. They talk about launching nuclear weapons at London. Journalists from either side shouldn't be taken seriously in a war.
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  653. No. But there are plenty of reasons to think democracy is disintegrating as we watch in the West.
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  654.  @SanderBelt-qz2ue  Nothing Sam Melia put on posters was obviously illegal and he got two years - look into it.
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  655. Baerbock is one of the people responsible for shutting down Germany's nuclear industry. Also opposed gas fracking.
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  656.  @boarfaceswinejaw4516  Almost the entire world recognises that the Golan Heights rightfully belong to Syria yet Israel still occupies it. Israeli settlers colonise the West Bank. And US forces are stationed in Syria despite the government wanting them out. There are double standards here. Don't forget Kosovo either. NATO bombed Syria to successfully force the Serbs out then recognised Kosovo as a separate country. At the time Yeltsin warned it was a dangerous precedent that put all European into question but Yeltsin was ignored. As for blaming Russians for the Holodimor, that has nothing to do with Putin. Stalin wasn't even Russian.
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  657.  @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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  658.  @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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  659.  @Tayletubby  There's plenty of footage of Ukraine using blocking forces too and shooting men who try to retreat. Not that you'd ever hear about that from the Telegraph.
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  660. Unlike attacking smaller far away countries all over the world with impunity like America does.
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  661. LOL yeah nobody knows, Willy should really be calling this out.
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  662. Stop the war by starting WWIII and seeing Europe wiped out by thousands of nuclear weapons?
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  663. And also, you can't assimilate a dog into a cat.
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  664. Gonzalo Lira??
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  665. Both sides report each other's claimed casualty numbers but the Russians give a breakdown of where enemy casualties were sustained. The Ukrainians just give a total.
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  666.  @Panj0  Can you give me an example anywhere of any time where a society collapsed because it had full employment?
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  667.  @shinkansenshinkansend8316  Ideally he'd also be able to bring a personal claim against the individual who pepper sprayed him or against whoever ordered it.
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  668. IDS has always been dumber than a rock
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  669.  @RL.777  They actually had a peace treaty hammered out, a visit from Boris Johnson promising who knows what convinced Zelensky to tear it up.
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  670. Yes he's a neocon propagandist. For example in this video he totally ignores the improving relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia - a really huge change in the Middle East and not to America's advantage.
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  671.  @kirishima638  No, the Baltics aren't in Western Europe but if you want to see 17% inflation, look to Netherlands. If you want to mass demonstrations against the cost of living, look to Italy, France, Netherlands, Germany. If you think this is all about Brexit, you're not paying attention to what's going on in Europe.
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  672. think about what you're saying - diktat from above - do you really want to recreate the Soviet Union in Western Europe?
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  673. I agree it's not practical but moving one tonne on a boat is nothing. These big river rafts could move hundreds of tons. I totally agree it would be madness to even consider without proper air defences.
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  674. Could be any of a missile which missed completely, a missile brought down or knocked off target by Ukr air defence or could also be a Ukrainian air defence missile which went off target like the big one in Dniepro which got Arestovych fired when he went off script and admitted it was a Ukrainian missile.
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  675.  @lubanskigornik282  Well at least some of these missile strikes are actually Ukrainian missiles. Remember that missile that killed two guys in Poland? Ukrainian S300 which Kiev claimed was Russian. Missile which killed a lot of people in Dniepro recently? Ukrainian, Arestovych got fired for admitting it. Russia has fired over 5000 missiles so far at Ukraine. Some have missed their intended targets for sure but given that number of missiles, the civilian casualties look surprisingly low. Compare to the US in Iraq! Albright admitted half a million Iraqi dead.
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  676.  @duncanbirnie4158  You wouldn't be the oldest or sickest in the Ukrainian army
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  677.  @allanmason3201  Russia heavily subsidised the rest of the USSR during Soviet times. Much of the periphery was economic dead weight, especially the central Asian republics which was part of the union due to ideology rather than economic advantage. Most of the seriously productive parts of Ukraine are populated by Russians and mainly in Russian hands due to this invasion - most of the coal, much of the gas fields and the most fertile farmland.
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  678. Partly agree the Russians will have the terrain advantage once they're pushed back to the town but the Ukrainians can build a pontoon and the whole exercise does allow them to get their artillery closer to Crimea. Also sucks in Russian reserves.
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  679. The average age of the Ukrainian soldiers is mid 40s... not that young
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  680. 62 of 73 shot down is implausible. We know there have times Ukraine has claimed almost every missile was shot down and yet there were multiple explosions and electricity knocked out for hours. A Ukrainian military official recently admitted in an interview they've never shot down a single hypersonic missile even though the Ukrainian government has claimed many shot down.
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  681.  @utrian4148  LOL if you follow neutral channels you'll see Ukrainian claims are full of contradiction. Sorry to burst your echo chamber bubble.
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  682. So nothing to do with importing millions of benefits seeking grifters then?!
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  683. Ukraine is winning the meme and propaganda war. Russia is winning the artillery and economic war. Comparisons with Vietnam or Afghanistan are misleading unless Russia is stupid enough to occupy the north west of Ukraine. The territory Russia will take is populated by people who speak Russian and mainly prefer to be part of Russia. There's no reason to think Russian consolidation of Kherson, Mikulayev, Odessa and Kharkov will be less successful than it's consolidation of Crimea and Donetsk.
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  684. You know he's a "pick up artist" right? He's not likely to tell you the real reasons he got kicked out on his channel.
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  685.  @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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  686. Clue is in the name - and it's certainly not a British name
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  687.  @chrissmith7669  Everyone knows Russia has the air, artillery and ammunition advantage and are gaining ground and taking prisoners but you still think Russian losses are higher? That makes no sense.
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  688. @ Yeah Russian prisons are brutal for sure but that's a separate issue. I'm specifically talking about freedom of speech.
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  689. Julian Assange with Elon Musk as runner up.
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  690.  @georgewright4285  I don't think there was a wide desire in Crimea to join Russia until after the Maidan coup. That's when the ethnic Russians in Donbas and Crimea and Odessa and even Kharkov started to perceive that the government in Kiev is hostile to them. Before the Maidan coup, relations between Russia and Ukraine were (usually) reasonably friendly and bringing Crimea back into the Russian federation was never a priority. The Maidan coup changed everything in Ukraine. I disagree with you that the Ukrainians don't talk about getting Crimea back. Zelensky just a few days ago talked about spending summer holidays there. It's the official position of the Ukrainian government that they'll get it back. It's delusional IMO.
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  691.  @rich7447  It's beside the point. Inequality in the USA has massively increased. Wealth is getting concentrated in the hands of the billionaires. The problem isn't the top 1%, the problem is the top 1% of the top 1%. And the people who run the country have rigged things to be like that starting with the Greenspan put and the endless QE which followed, that's the root of the high inflation now. Only worsened by the covid lockdowns which transferred billions from small business to Big Tech. It's by design.
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  692. Russia has them pinned down, looks like statemate on that particular front. Neither side can advance because of the geography. But in the east, the Russians are advancing.
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  693. One problem with this analysis, it assumes that all the "destroyed" tanks are so severely damaged they can't be repaired. That will be true for some of them but except for losses in the first month where Russia retreated from the north, the vast majority of the vehicles lost since can be recovered since Russia has generally been taking territory since April. Many will be repaired, of those that can't be repaired, many will be useful for parts.
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  694. Is that a joke? Don't you realise Russia is the side with the massive artillery advantage?
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  695.  @shugieshugied2269  The Conservatives were just much more competent at containment, i.e. kicking the can down the road. They made endless promises they had no intention of keeping . In contrast, Labour are much more honest. They openly despise the English working class.
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  696. 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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  697.  @Muzakman37  LOL you NATO fan boys must be loving what's happening in Ukraine right now.
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  698.  @aeasus  Ukraine has been desperately trying to drag NATO in for the past two years.
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  699.  @golden.lights.twinkle2329  Yes, defending himself from being run down
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  700. Most of what he says is BS. Claiming Russian losses are higher than Ukrainian losses is already implausible, claiming Russian losses are five times higher is blatant fantasy.
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  701. LOL, the evidence is that Ukraine has opened the upstream sluices. But keep blaming Russia :P
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  702. I take it you've never visited China then :)
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  703. They all agree on one thing. That the US should mind its own business.
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  704.  @yourstruly4817  Wrong. Most of the world is neutral or supports Russia. The world's biggest industrial power by far supports Russia (China obviously). The world's biggest resource supplier is Russia. The world's upcoming most populous country (India) is neutral but economically and diplomatically leaning towards Russia. Other huge, powerful countries like Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and Brazil are neutral and diplomatically moving closer to Russia. Most of the world views this as a US/Russia proxy war. Putin is said to be the most popular politician in Africa and the entire Arab world now.
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  705. It's a propaganda channel :P
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  706. That goes for both sides. Before the war Ukraine was owned by oligarchs and the ordinary people had nothing. After the war Ukraine will be split between Blackrock and Russia and the ordinary people will be even poorer than before the war started.
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  707.  @barrygower6733  Sure - but the intent behind this question is obvious to everyone. It's blatant intimidation.
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  708. And why would you believe a claim from "US officials"? Did you believe the Iraqi WMD claim? Did you believe the claims about the Afghani government defeating the Taleban?
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  709. In the lead up to the war, both Ukraine and America were pushing hard for Ukraine to join NATO, Ukraine was on the path to membership. Zelensky was also talking about acquiring nuclear weapons.
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  710. "holding pattern in Ukraine!" what a joke. Avdivka the greatest fortress on the entire front is collapsing under a huge Russian assault. The 3rd Azov, Ukraine's best unit retreated without orders. Zeihan is so full of BS
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  711. He's a propgandist, he doesn't do sources.
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  712.  @anastasiagasanova574  Stalin and Beria were not Russian.
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  713. Pick up some new caravans :)
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  714. One of the good arguments for Brexit was the EU's special interests
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  715. Ceaucescu
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  716. And how is this any different for the Ukrainians? Most of the current Ukrainian army were civilians at the start of this year.
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  717. You do realise that this is a cherry picked snapshot of a battle Ukraine has almost lost right?
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  718.  @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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  719.  @lemontec  Depends how you define "didn't work". No it's not a magic solution but it helps. The Russian birth rate now is similar to the birth rate of white people in the USA.
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  720.  @demonshelby1311  Just because mass killings of civilians and other atrocities happen in war doesn't make it excusable. In the case of Gaza, much of this is quite deliberate. There is a vast amount of footage of unnecessary targeting of civilians and also, there is footage of IDF personnel admitting to committing atrocities. If this scale of atrocities were happening in Ukraine (a much, much larger war), there'd be outrage and the media would be full of it.
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  721. And America repeatedly promised NATO would not be expanded eastwards from Germany. Since then, even territory which was part of the Soviet Union as joined NATO.
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  722. he doesn't do details
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  723. Hard to see how the army is going to be fighting on the same side as the Muslims against their own families.
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  724.  @Explorer982  Sort of ... pay for officers was about four times as much in the Russian military as in the Ukrainian military so a lot of guys defected. Not surprising when Crimea was heavily pro-Russian anyway and there was widespread disgust at the Maidan coup.
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  725. Ridiculous to claim Hitler wasn't socialist. He was for state control, central planning and opposed free markets and global capital.
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  726.  @canyouhandlethis_  So someone who isn't 100% in agreement with you must be wrong? If that's what you believe it's pointless to even argue with you. I don't think there's a formal definition of a terrorist organisation but I don't have any problem with including Hamas. As for the IDF if you're going to designate the entire armed forces of a state as a terrorist organisation it ceases to mean anything useful. That's a valid position to have even if you acknowledge that Israel has behaved inexcusably in Gaza (which I certainly believe and Robbie has implied at times too whether he's said it directly or not).
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  727.  @unifiedfield_thisisit  No she just gets more emotional. Robby isn't right about everything but he's more logical
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  728. We're being led by them.
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  729. Yeah he's the exact opposite of your typical politician: competent, obnoxious, direct and honest. I'd actually vote for him.
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  730. Ukrainian ministry of truth
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  731.  @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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  732. Are you confusing Assange with Snowden? You need to educate yourself. If you think Russia is worse than Ukraine then yes, you should be looking into names like Gonzalo Lira and Denys Kireyev
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  733. They're both huge economies with nuclear weapons.. you're not going to kick them out.
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  734. The AI system was rejecting 90% of claims which forced people to appeal to get the money they're entitled to. This CEO's greed destroyed countless lives.
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  735.  @jamesgarner327  Offensives are much harder. Russia has struggled but has succeeded in offensive operations. After the Ukrainian reserves and ammunition have been burned in a few weeks, Russia is going to find offensives much easier.
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  736. It's fine for this particular minority to have their vigilante organisation but in some areas, the English also face physical violence from other ethnic groups. But when they also tried to organise a vigilante protection organisation that was outrageously racist?
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  737. He's hardly thick as mince. If you want to see how thick mince gets, consider Diane Abbott.
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  738.  @teddypicker8799  That's a pretty dumb take, a victory in a war of attrition is when one side loses the will or the ability to continue, not when a particular town is taken. It doesn't matter that Bakhmut is pretty far down the league in size, what matters is the resources expended to attack and defend it.
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  739. And another billion dollars thanks
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  740.  @CA-jz9bm  Not just Poland either, some of Ukraine is ethnically Hungarian and Romanian. After the war, the Hungarian area is going to have a lot of resentment towards the Kiev government.
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  741.  @CA-jz9bm  Yes I think it was on purpose, well not on purpose to get them killed, on purpose to ensure non Ukrainian areas did most of the dying. It might be different now but earlier on in the war, conscription was most aggressive in the least Ukrainian parts of the country. Someone did a break down by oblast of identified deaths divided by the pre-war population of the oblast and I think Transcarpathia had the highest overall number. Viktor Orban was quite outspoken about this so people who speak Hungarian probably know about it.
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  742. The Russians are shooting down Ukrainian aircraft far behind Ukrainian lines, flying F16s in Ukraine would be a suicide mission given the capable state of Russian air defences. Additionally the Russians would strike the air bases. And I bet they'd do that even if they were flying from Poland or Romania if NATO wanted to escalate like that.
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  743. Seems if the Ukrainians were able to take Kherson they would have done it by now. They've been hammering away at that whole front for months. When the Russians were really weak just before conscription, the Ukrainians took a lot of ground until the Russians withdrew to shorter lines. That window has passed. I'll be very surprised if Kherson falls.
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  744.  @carlthor91  Why do you think Russia is coming apart? Militarily they look like they're inflicting heavy losses without losing more than a trivial amount of ground. Their economy is growing. I can't see them falling apart before Ukraine does.
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  745.  @schepvogelk5971  Yes Russia is losing a lot of men but the only hard evidence we have as to numbers (Mediazona) shows that Russian fatalities are much lower now compared to earlier in the war while their gains in territory are much higher. Given the Russian government has already paid a high price so far, it doesn't seem plausible they will refuse to pay a much lower price to continue now they're making gains. It's like suggesting the Allies should have made peace with Germany in January 1945 to save casualties. No, if the only consideration was saving casualties they would have done it in 1941.
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  746.  @User-54631  Usually and certainly in this case "think tank" = propaganda outlet
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  747. Disagree, it's just much harder to concentrate large forces now. There is satellite reconnaissance and either side can destroy large concentrations of vehicles and supply dumps and vehicles at long range, easier than sending a fleet of bombers in WWII. Also, modern equipment is vastly more expensive than in WWII, even if you account for the huge economic growth since then. Tens of millions of dollars for a single aircraft is nothing unusual. Apparently it took 4000 man hours to build a Bf109 and 16000 to build a Spitfire for about $1 million in modern money. A Ka52 costs ten times as much and a F22 Raptor is well over a hundred million. We're looking at over a hundred thousand man hours for modern military aircraft and much of that cost is avionics. You're not going to be seeing hundreds of Ka52s or Su35s in a single battle.
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  748. No Alexander these are not the normal race riots which are typical of the English summer. This time it's the native English who are doing it.
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  749.  @svenhanson398  Does seem like the Cook Islanders want the best of both worlds though. Free access to settle in NZ but also, all the benefits of a true sovereign country.
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  750.  @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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  751.  @MrSnakeFilms  Here's another country with no democracy - Ukraine
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  752.  @ljubomirculibrk4097  They didn't have better artillery than the French but they had better positions, in the hills overlooking Dien Bien Phu from several times with their guns concealed in the jungle.
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  753.  @drgat6953  It might be partially successful but most likely there'll be pressure doors because these tunnels have been built over years and Hamas would be aware of this risk.
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  754. It hasn't been their country for quite some time.
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  755. The objective should b e contain the damage and stop a nuclear war. Bleeding the bear just means the a new cold war and the bear will have its revenge at length. Victory for Ukraine is obviously impossible unless you define victory as survival in a diminished form.
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  756. 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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  757.  @Reasonable6  It's not far from a false flag. The only reason for them being (illegally) in Syria is as bait.
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  758.  @JG-fv9bv  You're totally missing the point, just because a dog is born in a stable doesn't make it a horse. Being born in Britain gives someone a British passport but the ethnicity is still Somali or Pakistani or Iraqi or whatever,
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  759.  @alka7145  He talks as if it's an expert but mispronounces the names of famous people and places in French, German, Ukrainian and Russian. It's a huge red flag.
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  760.  @milospavlovic7520  You can't drain the swamp by appointing swamp monsters
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  761. I was impressed first time I saw Zeihan speak. Later I heard him talk about something I know something about and I realised he's just making it up. Slick delivery, crude propaganda.
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  762. She wants endless immigration even though the ethnic British are already becoming a minority and most people can't afford housing.
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  763. Even the suggestion that Russia is about to pull out of Ukraine is ridiculous. Afghanistan just doesn't matter that much. Ukraine does.
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  764. A10s are decades out of date. Modern Russian SAMs would knock them out of the sky before they reach the front line.
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  765. Hard to see what incentive Russia has to stop the war at this stage. Especially when big population centres are still in Ukrainian artillery range.
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  766.  @loganhoffman5789  Like in the Kosovo war
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  767. Subscribe now, unsubscribe later, what's the problem?
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  768.  @curlyjoh9055  Are you seriously condoning a terroristic attack on infrastructure by the Americans? If you are, don't complain if Russia does the same to the rest of the North Sea pipelines and the trans Atlantic communication cables. The whole Western financial system would collapse immediately.
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  769. There will definitely be good underground fortifications under and around Kharkov by now.
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  770. 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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  771.  @jethro1963  I'm sure Carlson's laugh is real but so what? He's a genuine guy trying hard to be courageous, honest and fair - especially now he's left Fox. Another example is Glenn Greenwald - I find his voice and mannerisms a bit grating but so what? Just cosmetic. He's another guy trying to be courageous, honest and fair, this time coming from the political left. Can't ask for more than that.
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  772.  @7Vooby  You obviously know nothing about the Russian army if you think they haven't changed their training much from Soviet times. As for NATO training, that's Ukraine abandoned NATO tactics a couple of weeks into their Zaporozhye offensive when they decided it was completely inappropriate.
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  773.  @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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  774.  @olepettergansmo3307  when do you think he said that? If you believe that either you heard it second hand or it's a mistranslation
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  775.  @jorgeenchilada  You think US educational standards are as high as in Russia? PISA says Russia is higher by several places. Russian universities are pretty good, they're academically elitist and cheap. And not infected with PC.
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  776. Yeah and most people who own leopards don't actually have their leopards kill random members of the public either, doesn't mean leopards should be allowed as pets.
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  777. I've seen the original footage. She was talking about Ukrainian casualties, not Russian casualties.
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  778. @ No it's not, it's censored so people like you only ever get one side of the story. In reality BOTH sides tell outrageous lies and spread propaganda but this site in particular censors on behalf of one side. Even so there are plenty of places you can look even on YT to find the other side of the story. If you want to understand what's really happening you have to seek out both sides and compare them. On this topic you'll find there's plenty of substance to the complaints of the other side.
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  779.  @rezcon  The main problem is alpha radiation which is a huge problem if ingested - as it will be if farmland is sprayed with uranium particles. And it won't just disappear after a few years. Radiation is not the only problem, the chemical toxicity is (apparently) a greater health risk than the radiation. There are hundreds of academic papers published on this, there's not really a debate to be had about whether it's dangerous. Saying it's not dangerous is as incorrect as saying smoking is not dangerous.
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  780. Most First World War veterans would be turning in their grave, especially Londoners.
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  781.  @skylark8828  Western run opinion polls showed most Crimeans favoured joining Russia and the annexation has only gained popularity over time - since Russia pumped in money and Ukraine shut off the water. I agree about the referendum, it wasn't completely clean but there's no doubt the pro Russian side would have won it.
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  782.  @janstapaj9689  Yes obviously Ukraine cut off water afterwards. And do you think cutting off their water makes Crimeans more favourable to Ukraine?
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  783. Russia is also mass producing replacement equipment and even though they've lost a lot, they still have huge stocks of old equipment, I don't think it will be a problem to find at least enough old equipment for those numbers.
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  784. When Putin took over, Russia was disintegrating, it had suffered a massive drop in GDP, life expectancy was plummeting and oligarchs were looting the country. Under Putin, Russia has become stable, much richer and the oligarchs have been reigned in despite the endless hostility of the West. I think more neutral historians will be more favourable about his legacy than Taylor expects.
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  785.  @JasperKlijndijk  No it didn't - the British army did run low on heavy artillery shells in the first year of the war but definitely not the first week.
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  786.  @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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  787. Yeah he's a blatant neocon propagandist. For example saying Russia ignored the missile treaty without telling you the US never ratified it.
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  788. Brexit didn't make it worse, Britain had the highest growth of any large European country for most of the period of the Brexit negotiations. Lock downs, structural deficit spending and general public sector incompetence are more than enough to explain the financial dysfunction in Britain as of 2024.
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  789. Plus a railway... the Russians hit the railway bridge but AFAIK, have not been able to disable the bridge permanently.
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  790.  @Nathan-ls4xt  And the German tax payer is funding NGOs which tug these boats from Africa to Italy :-0
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  791. ​@@brandonblop And what if he turns out to be totally innocent? You're fine with him getting financially destroyed before he's even been charged with something much less convicted? It's happened to a lot of other people.
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  792. ​ @Leiska86  Europe is in severe economic trouble. If Europe had a dictator like that, Europe would have a revolution. It's already having minor revolutions as it is. Money isn't everything. Saudi Arabia has plenty of money but it still has a well funded military which most neutral commentators regard with derision. Furthermore, nominal exchange rates are highly misleading. The US economy for example still has a strong dollar but seems to be heading for a financial collapse given its huge deficit spending.
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  793. What democracies? Democracy is dead, haven't you noticed yet?
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  794. There won't be many British people voted for her.
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  795. Ukraine has done plenty of assassinations of journalists and commentators in Russia. And the US assassinates people all over the place. Israel has just done an air strike assassination in Syria. Trump boasted about assassinating Soleimani. But double standards are par for the course with Zeihan.
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  796.  @jimpaddy79  Nice theory but it's not actually true. Roughly 80% of immigrants cost more than they contribute. On average immigrants from other Western countries contribute more than they cost but on average immigrants from less developed parts of the world cost more despite their younger age profile. And same story elsewhere. University of Copenhagen did a good study on this and more recently the University of Amsterdam. They found immigration in Netherlands cost 400 billion in total, they basically squandered their entire North Sea gas wealth to make their country less cohesive, more overcrowded, more violent and more dysfunctional. Check it out.
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  797. Maybe they need you to go and help and show them how it's done.
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  798. Go and volunteer if that's what you think. Perhaps then you'll be taking a dirt nap yourself and it would serve you right.
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  799.  @LB-wn6ur  ETHNICITY, not religious beliefs. There are religious Jewish people, atheist Jewish people and everything in between. It's also possible to be ethnically Jewish and Christian.
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  800. Exactly, if everyone had said from the start Ukraine will never join NATO, this war would never have happened.
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  801. He says that to minimise the chance his channel gets demonetised or deleted. In any war each side accuses the other of atrocities and genocide. And in any war, there are atrocities committed by both sides. It's not hypocrisy, it's common sense.
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  802. His track record of predictions is pretty dismal - he talks very confidently but when he's talking about something you know a lot about it's obviously he's full of BS
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  803. Delusional. Israel is attacking neighbours without provocation to drag in America to fight Iran. Israelis occupying Syrian territory by force, something we criticise Russia for in Ukraine. And it has murdered tens of thousands of innocent people in Gaza.
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  804. They've been invaded many times it seldom ends well for the invaders.
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  805.  @Reece1980  People who think the tank is obsolete because of what the infantry can do to the tank are forgetting what the tank can do to infantry. It's not pretty.
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  806. This is an apologist for Stalinism
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  807. Ukraine doesn't need to stop but if it wants to survive, it needs to negotiate. Every day, Ukraine gets weaker and loses more men. It's not about what's fair it's about common sense. Every day the war continues is a bad day for Ukraine.
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  808. Nothing to do with him, he's an Indian.
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  809. If it's true that none of the seven officers knew this was an illegal arrest then FFS you have to wonder what their training is like.
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  810.  @FishandHunt  If that were actually true, Ukrainian missiles and drones would have destroyed the Kerch bridge by now.
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  811. The West keeps escalating. Putin's trying to tell us to back off. We can either laugh at him or take him seriously but remember the logic conclusion of escalation is nuclear war.
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  812. Don't you realise the whole of the EU has the same cost of living and inflation problems?
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  813. Yes they are, it's just that we've already lost most of both in Britain.
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  814. the large majority of the people in Crimea want to be part of Russia, not part of Ukraine - which is heavily resented for cutting off their water for years. Do the people get a vote in your world? Or maybe you follow the Argentine logic that all the people in the Falkland Islands should move back to mainland Britain.
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  815.  @velvetmagnetta3074  Same cause, same solution. AFVs are too vulnerable to use in large concentrations and you can spot concentrations building with satellites. Large troop concentrations are vulnerable targets so both sides move to small unit infiltration for the same reason. The narrative that when Ukraine does something that's smart but when Russia does the same it's incompetence is so blatant especially on this channel.
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  816.  @markbryant4641  Yep. It's pretty interesting the monthly profile of Russian losses as tracked by Mediazona. There's big peak around the Bakhmut operation time but it was mainly convicts dying. And Russian losses dropped off after this.
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  817. It's not just British made missiles being fired into Russia by Ukraine, it's the fact that it's our targeting which is allowing them to do this. So far as the Russians are concerned, we're now directly involved in the war. In other words, we're firing missiles at the world's largest nuclear power whose president we claim is an insane war monger. What could possibly go wrong?
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  818. Poland also has a government which cares about the Polish nation (although that might change with Donald Tusk). Britain has a government which has allowed mass immigration to push down wages and push up the price of housing.
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  819.  @sk.43821  That's not an argument. If I'm wrong explain why.
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  820.  @christianevanherck6023  There are lots of reasons but the primary one is Russia doesn't want a hostile American puppet regime controlling Ukraine. In the lead up to the war, Ukraine was moving closer to joining NATO and Zelensky had started talking about acquiring nuclear weapons.
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  821.  @spendor9377  Usually there'll be a faction in most countries willing to fight the government if there's a great power backing that faction. Exactly the same in Ukraine. Also a civil war where the Russian government backed the ethnic Russians in Donbas who found the post Maidan regime in Kiev intolerable. You're just criticising Russia for exactly the same behaviour we've been seeing from the USA over the past few decades.
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  822.  @Censoredbyfscists  Whose fleet was it then genius?
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  823. The Turks have already made a deal with the Russians. Zeihan is either out of date or just doesn't know
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  824. Russia would land a nuclear weapon on your head before an unconditional surrender. This escalation talk ends with WWIII.
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  825.  @MarvinWestmaas  The Human wave narrative is not borne out by actual footage. Neither side has used 1914 style "human waves". The importance of Bakhmut does not depend on its prewar population. Gettysburg was a village. Verdun was a village. El Alamein was little more than a railway station. Also, these Westerners who call Russians orcs - grow up! The vast majority wouldn't know the difference between a Russian and a Ukrainian anyway.
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  826. 1) Why should they leave their homes? 2) They've got nowhere to go 3) They've got no way to move
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  827.  @Emjaemidd  Don't you have any concept of hypocrisy? The Jews of Europe suffered genocide by the Nazis then they go and do the same thing in Palestine. There's been a document leaked in the past few hours showing the Israelis want to annex Gaza and expel the whole population to the West. If you're a Westerner, have a think about it - they're trying to push their problem on to you. Why would you want to be a shill for people who despise you?
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  828. What's funny about that is most of the English speakers talking like that wouldn't know the difference between a Russian guy and a Ukrainian guy if they met one of each.
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  829.  @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  Raw numbers aren't the whole story. The German soldier of the early 1940s was vastly more efficient than the soldier of any other major country. In 1940, the Germans defeated the larger French army together with the BEF and the Belgians at the same time. In 1941, the Germans cut through huge Soviet forces. In North Africa, the Germans defeated a larger British force several times despite a difficult supply situation even though the same British force had defeated a vastly larger Italian army. You can argue this changed later in the war but in 1942, man for man, the German army was more powerful than numbers alone suggested.
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  830. Nobody loves the sound of his own voice more than Mercouris. He says nothing important on his own podcast that isn't covered by the Duran together :)
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  831.  @coffeebreakchat2450  Kursk doesn't seem to be the highest priority for Russia, fighting there is advantageous tactically for Russia and the fighting has drawn in a lot of the best Ukrainian units. I'm sure the Russians would like to snuff out the salient but the gains they're making in the south east are more important.
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  832. I'm curious why Poland would pick a fight with Russia... but they seem to want to anyway. Currently Poland are demanding a totally unrealistic amount of money from Germany as reparations for WWII. It's hard to know what their real thinking is.
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  833. "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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  834. Peter Zeihan is no better :)
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  835. And the Romano-Celts of England
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  836.  @wokeaf1337  The EU sanctions were on Russian exports only. Transferring goods across Lithuanian territory from one part of Russia to another is not covered by EU sanctions. Lithuanian claimed it was merely following EU sanctions, this is incorrect. The EU has clarified this. The only logical explanation is that this is a deliberate attempt to escalate by Lithuania.
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  837.  @bonnie7898  The USA dictates to sovereign countries every day of the week. If the USA had kept out of Ukraine this war would never have happened.
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  838.  @rosshilton  I think the steel from old rounds should be fine if they've been stored properly probably doesn't matter if they're fifty years old but the explosives will have been replaced.
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  839. What should the correct Russia-Ukraine border be? The 1990s border was drawn up by Soviet bureaucrats. Millions of ethnic Russians were caught on the Ukrainian side.
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  840.  @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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  841. Except that Hannibal was competent and pulled off some incredible victories.
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  842.  @jeannieheard1465  You know aircraft and longer range missiles can fly around the entire world right?
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  843. Obviously not intentional, better question is was it a Russian missile or Ukrainian air defence.
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  844. Yeah like their warning to Ukraine that it should not attempt to join NATO ... oh wait....
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  845. Nothing says I'm a geopolitical expert like mispronouncing the names of important people. His pronunciation of Russian leaders is just as bad.
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  846.  @SmokestackOG  I've lived in USA lived in a few European countries, almost all US food is full of chemicals, highly processed. Cheese especially is basically plastic. There's no comparison. The federal government cares more about big business lobbyists than the health of the population. It's a broken system. I'm not criticising the US in general, love the first amendment, love the second amendment but just admit it, your food is broken.
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  847. Nah he's just as bad on geopolitics too. His takes on the Russia Ukraine war are blatant propaganda.
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  848.  @RandomLBS  Sure there are drones now. And anti-tank missiles and all sorts of other anti-tank weapons. The point is, if you're not in a tank, you're even more vulnerable. What you're not seeing is all the times when RPGs or even anti-tank missiles get hits on tanks but the tank survives or even when they get a mobility kill, the crew survives. Compare that to infantry - vulnerable to everything even small arms. Nobody claimed infantry became obsolete when the machine gun was invented. But infantry tactics certainly changed to adapt. Tank tactics will adapt to the existence of drones. Actually drones will benefit tanks because tanks will use drones to improve their own visibility and situational awareness.
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  849.  @Godfather-oy2kw  Jeez don't you realise AI can do censorship almost for free?
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  850.  @bobcprimus  USA was a vastly weaker power in Vietnam. Russia is fighting a major country with a huge, experienced well equipped military in Ukraine - which is receiving billions in military aid from the West. It's not a useful comparison.
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  851. We have a huge population for the size of the country. Back in WWII when the population was half as much, we could only grow enough food to feed a third of the population. Governments have insisted on importing millions of people for decades so now, we have to import the large majority of our food. World food prices are especially high right now for many reasons including our sanctions on Russia.
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  852.  @tayclift5322  Too many wars against weak enemies like the Iraqis which resulted in only a "few" thousand Western deaths. They've forgotten what disaster a major war would be. Especially in the twilight of Western civilisation where birth rates have collapsed and there's the danger of nuclear weapons.
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  853. Schools in Ukraine are typically used as barracks - by both sides. So it's not surprising many get bombed out.
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  854. This is the same logic which saw German forces liquidate the Jewish ghettoes in Warsaw and Lodz.
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  855.  @igorpupkinable  Also a lot like Scott Ritter (entrapment) and Alex Salmond (implausible allegations).
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  856. Zeihan doesn't do details.
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  857.  @aoeu256  For Ukraine specifically, the US was openly funding anti-government movements and Vic Nuland was openly supporting the Maidan protesters. Also the US had a veto on appointing ministers in the new government. One good source is Ukraine in the Crossfire by a Dutch journalist.
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  858.  @myusernamerocks3  Only the most junior programmer doesn't have to interpret and help refine requirements. I've worked as a contractor in dozens of organisations large and small over thirty years and it's extremely rare to have requirements so detailed and complete that you can just code it up. Much more usual is the software team helps refine requirements. Agile brings requirements into the team entirely.
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  859. Ukraine has turned to literally dozens of countries begging for help but that doesn't prove Ukraine is in trouble, oh no because logical consistency isn't fashionable in this channel.
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  860.  @ulrichkristensen4087  Israel has been escalating for a year now and trying to provoke a war with Iran. Iran had nothing to do with October 7th.
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  861.  @istinagy5835  I understand your argument and I don't disagree. I'm just pointing out that these kind of numbers are possible. The only hard numbers I have any trust in personally are Mediazona's numbers for Russian dead. BTW the classification of casualties was a huge issue in the British historiography of the First World War (which I did a masters dissertation on), British and German definitions of who is a casualty were different and raw casualty numbers led historians to underestimate the British success in battles like the Somme.
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  862.  @James_Doyle83  In what sense is Russia worse? Plenty of Westerners love living in Russia. St. Petersburg seems way more civilised than any large Western city.
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  863.  @jesussaves_316  At this point in the war the VDV are probably way better than at the start. They've got all the funding they need, they have way more experience and they've pulled in patriotic volunteers who wouldn't have wanted an army career in peace time.
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  864.  @Silent824  The Russian army is successfully fighting a war against a major country armed by the whole of NATO. It's no mean achievement.
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  865. I come here for comedy entertainment.
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  866. Russian speakers can read Ukrainian, the languages are similar enough.
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  867. This argument only works if the vanquished actually survives.
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  868. Recycled old news. Zaluzhnyi got fired over a week ago. Why does the Hill do this?
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  869.  @maxpower3990  Yet it wasn't the Russians who admitted the Minsk II accords were signed as a pretext to rearm before resuming the fighting. It was Poroshenko, Hollande and Merke.
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  870. No because nobody with a brain takes Macron seriously.
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  871.  @dannyshadbolt229  Both sides have propaganda, it's all equally ridiculous. There are good neutral sources. Try some.
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  872.  @jonathanpuigvert7468  In Britain they have access to council housing and the NHS immediately. Asylum seekers are housed in hotels costing over ten billion per year.
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  873.  @historylegends  29th battle of the Isonzo?
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  874.  @nathanielhunter1280  Appears this has happened now in Ukraine. Earlier on Ukraine had the drone advantage, now Russia's EW is jamming most of the Ukrainian drones while the Russian lancets roam freely.
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  875. How would you know it's there when you're flying 600km/hr?
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  876.  Dmitry  I'm not talking about Kherson, I'm talking about attacks over the border (in Russia). Yes there have been civilian casualties. Even more, attacks on Donetsk City - there have been hundreds of casualties, including from petal mines. There have even been two deaths in Poland from Ukrainian weapons.
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  877. Turkey and Greece are both in NATO.
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  878. Why? All he does is human interest stories with no analysis, he's a light weight popular historian, not a researcher, not an original thinker, not an expert on Russia.
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  879. Unsurprising since everyone knows the primary weapon of the Russian army is shovels.
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  880.  @bik3r230  What kind of nuclear energy worker are you? A security guard? You're certainly not a physicist are you! A solid lump of DU creates a lot of alpha radiation but that radiation doesn't get inside the human body. Once it's vaporised and spread all over Europe's primary wheat producing region, then yes it does become a huge problem. And the chemical toxicity is potentially an even bigger problem than the radiation.
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  881. If you've got old junk and you're fighting a major war of course you're going to use up the old junk.
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  882.  @gilberttessier1871  Agreed, Russia is unlikely to resume trade with Europe while its huge foreign reserves remain frozen.
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  883.  @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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  884.  @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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  885.  @avadoksorem2854  Soon after the war started, Ukraine actually negotiated an agreement with Russia, Putin presented the text of this agreement and nobody disputed it's authentic. Ukraine reneged on the agreement.
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  886.  @darmaputra1937  Yes Ukraine as a political entity has the right to defend its sovereign territory. Did you also argue Serbia had the right to defend its sovereign territory in 1999? And doesn't Syria now? In which case you support Kosovo returning to Serbia and you should support all US soldiers leaving Syria. As for what Ukrainian citizens want, Zelensky was elected on a platform of improving relations with Russia. Instead he was intimidated by the extreme nationalist militias. Since the war started he arrested opposition politicians, banned opposition political parties and suspended elections. Many of the Ukrainians don't want to fight there are plenty of videos of Ukrainians pulled off the street by the police including teenagers and old men. And there are plenty of videos of Ukrainians who try to retreat or who refuse orders being executed, shot and blown up by their own side. Hungary has publicly criticised the Ukrainian government for using the ethnically Hungarian population in Ukraine as cannon fodder so it's not as simple as claiming that there's a single Ukrainian people or that they have a united position on the war. Very many people support Russia, even in the west of the country.
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  887. Straight from the Ukrainian ministry of truth
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  888. Not recently though - weeks or even months after mobilisation - yes. But the bureaucracy has caught up.
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  889.  @jettrink9502  You obviously don't have a clue what you're talking about. It's nothing to do with Bosnia. You don't understand the difference between the Bosnian Serbs and the Serbian state. The NATO attacks on Serbia in 1999 were unrelated to Bosnia. The NATO airstrike on a civilian passenger train in Belgrade was unrelated to Bosnia. The NATO airstrike on a Belgrade television station was unrelated to Bosnia. The "genocide" argument is exactly the same argument Putin used to provide assistance to the Donbas Russians. NATO didn't invade Libya. It just bombed it to rubble. Is that better than invasion?
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  890. delusional
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  891.  Dennis Estrada  Actually Russia isn't using conscripts in Ukraine, you are misinformed. HIMARS strikes deep inside Russia is likely to start WWIII. Russia has the biggest arsenal of nuclear weapons in the world and Russian cities have deep nuclear fall out shelters for millions of people like the bunkers under Mariupol. Their population is spread over eleven time zones. What are the nuclear bunkers like in the city where you live?
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  892.  @dasbubba841  1) casualties - the BBC made a major effort to assess Russian casualties a couple of months ago and could identify only 4000 Russians killed. Obviously it will have increased slightly since then and does not include LPR/DPR/Wagner casualties. In contrast a leaked Ukrainian government report mentioned over 190,000 casualties (not broken down into killed/wounded). 2) Inflation isn't going away any time soon. Biden just signed the inflation reduction bill which is actually going to contribute to inflation because it spends lots of printed money. Inflation has already claimed the scalp of Boris Johnson in Britain and Draghi in Italy. There have been large protests in France, Italy, Germany and especially Netherlands. Canada and the USA look to be politically fragile. Heavy spending on Ukraine isn't sustainable. 3) EU countries have made only token preparations. Germany is now talking about needing to make a 20% reduction in electricity consumption over winter. That's impossible without throwing millions out of work. Fertiliser and aluminium production in Europe is already shutting down and we're still in the summer. Electricity prices in much of Europe are already up to seven times higher than two years ago and gas prices similar. Many people won't be able to afford to heat their houses in countries which get cold enough for the sea to freeze. Poles have been told to gather firewood because there won't be enough gas, you're wrong that Poland doesn't depend on Russia for energy. LPG imports to Europe aren't anywhere near enough to offset Russian gas. US LPG exports to Europe are already dropping because of the high LPG price in USA. I agree that the USA will not be directly affected except by higher prices. Unemployed Germans freezing and hungry over the winter will notice the unequal burden borne by the NATO effort to sanction Russia.
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  893.  @legrandliseurtri7495  Video proof? Where from? Are those the calculations which assume every APC is full of infantry whereas it may have actually been empty? Probably Russian casualties were higher in the first month. Ukrainian casualties have definitely been much higher every month since. Why would the Kiev regime surrender after 200k casualties? Are you French? Then you must know that in la grande Guerre, France took around 6 million casualties with a population something similar to modern Ukraine's. That's about 30 x the Ukrainian casualties so far.
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  894.  @dougcoombes8497  There's no evidence Russian losses are anywhere near that high. Russia isn't even fighting seriously. It hasn't even sent conscripts - except a few by mistake. If you think Ukraine is winning you need to compare territory controlled day by day.
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  895.  @Pyriold  He's a blatant propagandist for the CIA / state department perspective
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  896.  @SanderBelt-qz2ue  In a free country, crimes are punished, not thoughts or opinions. Whether someone is an AH sympathiser, a Lenin sympathiser or a Muhammad sympathiser should have no bearing on whether he is in prison, only whether he committed a crime.
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  897.  @barkobummer  Don't you realise NATO entering the war means WWIII and you'll probably die? Unless you have a nuclear fallout shelter with two years of food?
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  898. They must have been tempted but the patient strategy of running Ukraine out of morale and manpower seems safer.
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  899. In most countries, more than in Britain.
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  900.  @taffyterrier  And most of them will be richer per capita than Britain.
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  901.  @mariuspuiu9555  No, he's popular in Hungary and if the Hungarian people don't want him, he'll be gone. The EU commissioners and appartchiks can not be removed by democratic means. If you want o argue against this you don't have a clue how the EU works.
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  902. The people who set up Bolshevism in 1917 were not ethnically Russian. You should look into that period a bit deeper.
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  903. "the country which gave us the Chernobyl nuclear disaster"... that's actually Ukraine! Watch what Putin actually said - he didn't threaten to use nuclear weapons. As usual the media is full of BS.
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  904.  @geekobgaming5647  Yeah that's an interesting take. I just think that there was so much unknowable that you couldn't really expect some genius commander would be able to exactly calculate everything accurately and come up with a perfect plan. Possibly Moltke wasn't ruthless enough. Possibly if he had more political power he could have got different subordinates but you have to work with what you've got.
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  905. More accurate would be Israeli interests.
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  906.  @MN-jw7mm  LOL Only 40???
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  907.  @davemorgan6013  Doesn't seem likely - not in five years. Most of India is extremely poor.
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  908. He also said there's no rail connection to Mariupol which is obviously BS
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  909. Pretty telling that during the height of the Ukrainian offensive, we're talking about how Russian progress has slowed right down.
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  910. Gonzalo Lira
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  911. @MCADHD666 VOL2 You're correct that a weasel lawyer could say it wasn't a formal contract. Nevertheless, the Russians feel betrayed. And it's not as if there weren't signed formal agreements broken too. Like the Minsk II accords. Hollande, Merkel, Poroshenko and now Zelensky too have all admitted there was never any intention on the Ukrainian side to treat them seriously, they were agreed (and signed!) only to buy Ukraine time to rearm.
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  912. Rayner is a corrupt, lying hypocrite. Criticise the Tories sure but don't let off Raynor just because she's in your preferred party. That makes you a hypocrite too.
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  913. LOL you guys are so deluded. Ukraine has been wrecked.
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  914. A lot of propaganda
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  915. He's full of BS. For example smooth bore guns not being as accurate. Total BS. The reason barrels moved to smooth bore is because they don't need to spin any more - they have fins to prevent tumbling. The entire world has moved to smooth bore. As for getting to Crimea - get real. Look at a map of what the Ukrainians have spent all summer achieving.
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  916. Also lower mean intelligence.
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  917. Neither side treats POWs well.
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  918.  @paolopetrozzi2213  Hilarious that the same person who calls Russians "pigtroops" accusing someone else of disseminating propaganda in the very next sentence.
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  919. Even if he is guilty, that should have nothing to do with the monetisation of his videos. It's for the court to impose penalties, not private companies.
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  920.  @kristianpadley5562  Russia doesn't want to pay the price in lost equipment and lost lives to push through huge minefields but in six months time it'll be pretty obvious even to people on this channel that Ukraine has lost. Once Russia takes Avdivka guys like this Paul veteran can't keep up the BS
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  921.  @KSmithwick1989  If the Ukrainians had the artillery capability to suppress Russian artillery, we'd have known about it long ago. Both sides acknowledge the Russians have an overwhelming artillery advantage. Even if they didn't, both sides also acknowledge the Russians have an overwhelming air advantage. Any amphibious operation beyond stealth raids require complete air and artillery dominance. Look at how even that narrow Russian river crossing got smashed north of Severnodonetsk at a time when the Russians had the artillery advantage.
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  922. Ukraine and Russia have been in conflict since the Maidan coup. Neither side is blameless and whether you think the Russian invasion was unjustified, it certainly wasn't unprovoked. European countries are arming Ukraine and European weapons are killing Russian soldiers. It was immensely naïve to think that Russia would forgo using its gas supplies to put pressure on European countries. By this winter, European armies are going to be very vulnerable having sent so much equipment, particularly ammunition to Ukraine. European power grids are going to be struggling to keep the lights on let alone keep heavy industry operational. The situation is going to be especially critical in Germany where the government has actually sabotaged themselves by shutting the door to nuclear power. Germany has badly miscalculated in assuming Russia needed German markets more than Germany needs Russian energy. Unless Germany changes course before Russia loses patience, Germany faces deindustrialisation as Russia builds pipelines southward and eastward to Asia.
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  923.  @georgethompson1460  1) The Ukrainian army is suffering severe attrition. The Russian army is not. After the Russians pulled back from Kiev, the balance of forces was quite even. Over time, the Russians built up greater forces and the Ukrainians lost their experienced veterans to greater Russian artillery. When the Russians moved on Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, it all collapsed quite quickly, two or three weeks. The attrition continues every day and will presumably speed up rapidly now Ukraine is on the offensive. 2) Currently, the Russians are extremely casualty averse. They only take a position when there's no opposition left and an infantry patrol notices vacated Ukrainian defences, we don't see aggressive assaults any more - so their gains are very slow. However the Russians have amassed large air mobile reserves. If it suits them and they want to pay the price in casualties, they can move quickly. Quite likely they'll do this with an airmobile strike because of the thick minefields all over the front now. 3) The Russians currently judge that time is on their side. Diplomatic opposition is gradually crumbling. It could be they want to avoid panicking the West with rapid moves. It could be that they're waiting for ongoing Ukrainian casualties to weaken the opposition. In any case they've got the capacity to fight a lot more aggressively than they currently are.
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  924. Yes he's very articulate etc. but listen to what he says and look at his track record - it's ridiculous propaganda.
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  925. That's optimistic. Russia has large reserves they haven't committed yet and Ukraine is already at breaking point. We're starting to see large Russian territorial gains now without evidence of high Russian casualties. A lot has changed in the past two months.
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  926.  @littlejohnuk  Yeah I'm pretty sure being a bit sleazy isn't why he got arrested. I'm just saying the guy is sleazy as f**k and not to assume he's telling you the whole story.
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  927. 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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  928.  @allthatjazz-7  Not free speech in Russia, just freer speech than in Britain
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  929. Ian Duncan Smith is thick as a brick, always was
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  930.  @ScragNath  LOL it's 2023 you don't have to "be there" to find out what's happening. Go educate yourself about the history of Gaza..
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  931. LOL have you never heard of Seymour Hersh?
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  932. If the Americans hadn't supported a violent coup on behalf of extreme nationalists to overthrow the democratically elected president of Ukraine in 2014, this war would never have happened anyway. If the West had enforced the Minsk accords, Russia would never have invaded. Not our war.
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  933.  @TrendyStone  Look into it. Zeihan/Friedman/Barros - Neocon propaganda
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  934. And in a guerrilla war, how does this matter?
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  935. Exaggerated though, the number of British who died in the war per rate of population was low compared to France and Germany. Post war emigration was a bigger factor. Men were more likely than women to emigrate for new opportunities elsewhere and there was high post war emigration to USA, Canada, South Africa and Australia. Also people were still moving from the country to the cities. Consider that in the 1910-1920 period, Britain's population grew despite the war.
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  936.  @acebongboy  Yes a war that nobody actually wanted, well nobody wanted a general war between the great powers. But then, just like now, several parties were willing to accept the risk of a general war to win marginal diplomatic advantages. There are so many parallels between Europe 1914 and Ukraine 2023 - the brinkmanship, the hysterical propaganda, the misreading and ignoring of diplomatic signals, the logic of escalation.
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  937. He's actually wrong. People have more children when conditions get a bit tougher. It's not intuitive but apparently comfortable modern life does not inspire people to have many children.
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  938.  @davidlloyd2583  Also, the smaller, low profile tanks are much harder to spot - and they tend to be much cheaper too.
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  939. Totally - only a lawyer or a politician would argue otherwise.
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  940.  @neilmcgilligan2695  Interesting - why do you think so?
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  941.  @philosopher2king  Most of these neocon warmongers have no interest in fighting themselves.
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  942.  @danielbwest  weird, I said literally nothing about me
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  943. LOL it's undiluted propaganda. For example claiming Mariupol can only be supplied by road - er no there's a railway there now and onwards up to the front. And he didn't mention Avdivka which is likely to fall in the next couple of months, that's pretty huge.
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  944.  @PaIaeoCIive1684  Or Denis Kireev
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  945. There's no way the SBU or CIA can shoot down an aircraft near Moscow. Obviously they'd love to be able to that but if you believe they can do that you have to believe Russian security services are completely incompetent. This is either a complicated psy-op and Prigozhin is not really dead or far more likely, one of the factions within the Russian government, almost certainly at Putin's orders.
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  946.  @jameseversole6118  Are you arguing that it's fine to starve two million people if a few thousand of them are Hamas?
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  947. "You can't make them part of the leadership" - what?? Shoigu isn't ethnically Russia. In Soviet times, ethnic Russians were UNDERREPRESENTED in the leadership.
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  948.  @abigailkannai484  Israel didn't even allow Gaza to have a seaport and open access to world trade. Hardly an independent country.
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  949.  @alanrobertson9790  Take Afghanistan for example. The Soviet Union left the country destroyed. Yes they left eventually but only because it wasn't worth staying. The Afghans didn't defeat them militarily. Unless you want to argue the Afghans defeated NATO military later on? Take Poland - Even at a time of great weakness when there was a civil war in the emerging Soviet Union, the Poles defeated a Soviet invasion of their territory - but the Red army defeated a Polish counter invasion. And they both decided it wasn't going anywhere and called an armistice. The point is your list isn't really plausible.
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  950.  @alanrobertson9790  And? Stalin moved the Polish border got moved hundreds of km west in 1945. It's hardly a win for Poland is it?
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  951.  @strigoiu13  The guy is an apologist for genocide
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  952. How do you think what the Russians are doing is any different from the Ukrainians in Robotyne? Except the Russians have more firepower to cover their advances.
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  953.  @markb8468  Russia lost some ground north and south of Bakhmut in the summer, they've retaken that ground and more. They've retaken half of the Robotyne/Verbove salient over the past two weeks. It's going to be pretty one sided from now on.
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  954. "No country should be allowed to redraw borders of sovereign states"?? What do you think America did in Kosovo?
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  955. 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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  956.  @grahamhireme9283  Great footage but that BBC series was full of errors, some of them were excusable back then but some were blatantly wrong even then.
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  957. Yes that's exactly the Washington attitude
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  958.  @firebyrd437  how?
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  959. Cool. Now do a video about Gonzalo Lira's death in prison
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  960. The weapons and tactics used - the Highlanders would jog up to pistol range, discharge a volley, drop their pistols and then charge forward with claymore and targes.
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  961.  @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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  962.  @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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  963. Exactly the same kind of propaganda stories on the Russian side.
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  964. Inspecting cargo ships near the Ukrainian coast is too risky for the Russian navy but Russia can just hit the port infrastructure
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  965. Does Brexit also explain how badly screwed the German economy is? Does it explain the huge energy crisis there too? Is this something to do with the butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon effect?
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  966.  @DStead2239  There's tons of footage of the Ukrainians shelling Donetsk city. Like literally hundreds of videos, geolocated shell hits showing the direction of Avdivka, thousands of butterfly mines. There's no question at all that Ukraine has shelled Donetsk City. Hundreds of civilian casualties from this.
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  967.  @GinaFernandezx14  None of those breeds are causing 63% of all the deaths of humans.
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  968. They don't have the manpower less for another offensive.
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  969. LOL this is fantasy. Didn't you see the incredible welcome Putin got in UAE? Blinken got close to ignored. After Ukraine is finished up, Russia is back in the Middle East in a big way.
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  970. Not going to happen, the Russian soldiers have seen plenty of videos of Ukrainian soldiers executing and torturing Russian POWs. There are atrocities on both sides but usually both sides treat POWs ok. Just like in any other war - depends on the people concerned.
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  971.  @appalingbehaviour  Surely even an idiot can see that putting up anyone who illegally enters the country in a hotel is not a sustainable solution. There are billions of people in the world who would like to move to Britain to stay in a hotel for free.
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  972. You could say the same about the population of Kiev / Kyiv while the Ukrainian army was shelling Donetsk all these years.
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  973. It's good to know what the CIA/State Dept want us to believe
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  974. Complete myth that attacking forces always lose more. It's situational. Do you think The British took higher losses than Argentina in the Falklands? Or the Americans took higher losses than the Iraqis in Desert Storm?
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  975. I'm not sure what he actually knows about at all. The first time I heard Zeihan I was impressed then I heard to talk about subjects I knew something about and it was obvious he was competely ignorant. But he does have a very confident and slick delivery. I'm sure it makes him a lot of money telling the US establishment what they want to hear.
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  976.  @harry130747  What you're claiming is not only irrelevant but also illogical. Do you think the Palestinian people just sprouted from the ground? Obviously their ancestors also existed 4000 years ago. A hundred years ago they were a large majority of the people in modern Israel. Jews were there too but they were a minority. The Palestinians were expelled by terror. Read Israeli historians like Benny Morris and Ilan Pappe.
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  977.  @demonshelby1311  I agree with you on Ukraine too. The problem is, it's too late. There's no going back now, the war will just have to be fought out.
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  978.  @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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  979.  @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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  980. They're now included with the Russian army. They're formally part of the Russian army now.
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  981. Yeah Trump is a seriously flawed and unlikeable character but he has one huge thing going for him, he's not the Washington establishment.
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  982. Yeah this channel is highly concentrated copium
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  983. The Telegraph has really demeaned itself with its ridiculous coverage of the Ukraine war. Does a propagandist clown like Petraeus really deserve an interview?
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  984.  fckYTcensorship  Blatant double standards. Ukrainian trains and logistics rely on electricity. Ukrainian munitions factories rely on electricity. BTW if you did care about double standards you'd also note the US attacked Iraqi electrical generation in 2003.
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  985.  @JustMeUpNorth  A lot of stuff like that involves back handers.
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  986. Similar to how it sounds in Russian.
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  987. Yeah it's a blatant smear. So he's white. Why is this a problem? He's from South Africa. Why is this a problem? The real reason Zeihan hates Musk is because Musk stood up to government censorship.
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  988.  @ianc7866  Just google the Nuland -Pyatt conversation. Read Ukraine in the Crossfire by a Dutch journalist. There was huge US funding for the anti-government nationalist militias. As for Nordstream, the Germans and the Americans claim Ukraine did it, Hersh claims the US did it, nobody believes the Russians did it.
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  989.  @_Uh_Oh_  Maybe. But I'd like there to be something more concrete before firing people. As for all the people directly involved at Coutts - fire them now.
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  990.  @philipbutler6608  America's Vietnam war is not the correct analogy for what's happening now. WWI is the better analogy. If it's actually true that Russia has lost 80,000 men (and even if it is true, a large chunk of these are from DPR, LPR rather than the pre-war Russian federation) then in WWI terms, that's what countries were losing in a single battle.
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  991. Almost as if having children outside of a stable relationship is a bad idea?
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  992.  @kamiabghorbanpour2291  LOL if you had half the intelligence you think you have, you'd have a specific argument as to why I'm wrong.
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  993. 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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  994.  @randomname3109  Yes, that's true, by international standards, he's pretty clean. Cleaner than Biden if we're being honest.
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  995. Immigration of people with very similar culture and genetics from Scotland and England caused huge problems four hundred years ago, Northern Ireland has broken off. It's bizarre how any Irishman can know that but still think the vastly greater modern immigration from mainly Africa is going to be a manageable problem.
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  996.  @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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  997. The tattoos suggest he might have a pretty good idea what he's fighting for. Pity the journalists didn't ask him about them.
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  998.  @joeduffy3309  Can you demonstrate why import costs would be lower if we'd stayed in the EU? Just asking because Germany has exactly the same worrying about inflation and cost of living and last I heard they're still in the EU.
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  999. To be fair, HIMARS really was a game changer. It caused huge problems for the Russians and still causes problems.
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  1000.  @bluemarlin8138  I served in the army of a NATO country. Did you?
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  1001.  @Mkrake2024  No Robbie is pretty good. He's tolerant which destroys the credibility of the obnoxious woman shouting over him and elevates his own points.
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  1002. So what? Russian armaments are purchased in roubles, not dollars.
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  1003.  @ChaseyBOIDude  If you didn't hear about this, that's just a testament to the very strong hold over information that the US government has over information now, look into the tight cooperation between FBI/CIA and big tech especially Matt Taibi's study of Twitter. As for Ukraine, a great book is Ukraine in the Crossfire by a Dutch investigative journalist.
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  1004. Crimea used to be part of Russia. The people who live there are (mainly) Russian. The Donbas region used to be part of Russia. Odessa was a Russian city. Unless you understand the history, you can't understand the logic.
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  1005. Large corporate news channel reliability of information - that's a very low bar
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  1006. Daniel Johnson seems to be talking about a different war from everyone else. Perhaps he's just been scanning the media headlines and hasn't been following daily maps of Russian progress or the dozens of videos of Ukrainian soldiers surrendering or complaining about their orders and leadership.
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  1007. That's BS, they were Soviet weapons stationed in Ukraine, controlled by mainly Russian officers. If Ukraine had tried to keep them, Russia would have just replaced the government.
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  1008.  @youareliedtobythemedia  Dunno they're a huge grain exporter. And I'd guess they;re offering the grain for free at point of collection, not delivered for free.
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  1009.  @arjan2777  Russia can hit anywhere on the surface of Ukraine. The only place safe from Russian missile strikes would be deep under the Carpathian mountains. Ukraine doesn't have the economic resources remaining to build a large armaments industry underground.
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  1010.  @Max_Da_G  Shadow banning is really bad on this platform
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  1011.  @GARDENER42  The Crocodiles are destroying Ukrainian AFVs from 8km behind the front. No, MANPADS are not perfectly adequate.
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  1012. 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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  1013.  @AlfaGiuliaQV  Yeah seriously I do. Only ignorant Americans think it's unusual to speak several languages.
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  1014. "That Russia is about to lose the war" - obvious sign this guy is full of s**t
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  1015.  @candy-le4nh  The point is, the French did nothing. Maurice Gamelin had a commitment to the Poles to launch an invasion of Germany with the majority of his forces on day 15 of a war. He obviously lied, hoping the Poles would take the brunt of the German effort and wear the Germans down. Obviously things didn't work out like that, the Germans were stronger and the Poles were weaker than anyone (Poles, French or German) expected - but that was the plan. Also the Poles expected heavy bombing of the Ruhr from the start of the war. Instead the RAF and the pretty large French airforce dropped a few propaganda leaflets.
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  1016.  @Withnail1969  Not only does Zeihan speak no Russian, he wilfully mispronounces the names of famous places and people and even gets different people confused. He has the knack for confidently talking about subjects he knows next to nothing about.
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  1017. It's hilarious propaganda. There are good neutral channels. Theti Mapping, Defense Politics Asia, History Legends, Weeb Union.
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  1018. Biden?
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  1019. Peter Zeihan makes all kinds of ridiculous claims without evidence, if you take him seriously, you should look into the many criticisms of his record.
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  1020. You could say exactly the same thing about Russians and Ukrainians. Lots of intermarriage, conflict between them can only benefit a third party.
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  1021.  @homerboy91  Using more dirt bikes is probably more just that the war has opened up a lot. A year ago, dirt bikes against entrenched Ukrainian positions would have been suicide. But the main Ukrainian lines have been breeched now in many places. Dirt bikes allow stealth and speed which tanks do not. Russian losses seem to have dropped off compared to a year ago while territorial gains are increasing. Over and over the Russians are getting Ukrainians into pockets they can only withdraw from under fire.
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  1022.  @jeffnorris8848  Defences in the north are surely weaker than elsewhere across the front. Why would they be forced to withdraw? Ukraine would have to pull in huge reinforcements to meet any new Russian front.
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  1023. There's no way to know actual Ukrainian losses, Sachs doesn't know for sure. 600k is possible if you include injured but don't imagine it's a fact.
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  1024.  @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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  1025.  @simonmilligan7497  We could have just stayed out of it. In the days before the war, Britain wrote a blank cheque for Poland much like Germany did for Austria-Hungary in 1914. As a result the Poles wouldn't negotiate at all with the Germans even when they knew the Germans had a non agression pact with the Soviet Union obivously aimed at Poland. In fact, Britain actually sabotated any Polish/German negotiations (see Schulze-Rhonof the War with Many Fathers). Britain had good reasons for this of course but it wasn't the only option and in retrospect wasn't the best option.
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  1026. LOL it's undiluted propaganda. For example claiming Mariupol can only be supplied by road - er no there's a railway there now and onwards up to the front. And he didn't mention Avdivka which is likely to fall in the next couple of months, that's pretty huge.
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  1027. The moaning mirror doesn't put up a realistic solution. So it takes more barges than are available. You have to start with one. If it works out ok then build more. Better in a barge than in hotels. It's obvious that treating these colonising immigrants too well encourages more to come. Either we get swamped and kiss good bye to the country or we discourage them from coming.
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  1028. LOL yeah maybe Finland could sanction Russian oil and gas, that'll show them.
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  1029. Derschowitz is making claims she knows is wrong, it's her job to expose this to the audience. You can't say she didn't let him speak, amongst three people, he did most of the speaking by far.
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  1030. It was impossible to know what would happen, there was the danger of a third world war, maybe there still is. Russia have played this extremely well. They're winning but at the same time, growing their economy, holding their society together and minimising the chance of dangerous escalation. You're criticising a winning strategy.
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  1031. Churchill often gets the blame for Gallipoli going wrong, this is unfair. The original plan was good - force the straits, if necessary, sacrificing otherwise useless obsolete battleships. The admirals got cold feet after losing a couple of ships and later, generals, especially Stopford bungled the land attack. But the original idea was worthwhile, it could conceivably have worked and if it had, Turkey would have been knocked out, Russia would have survived and Germany would have collapsed sooner.
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  1032. Again Zeihan demonstrates he doesn't have a clue about reality, all he looks at is age profiles. France is heading towards civil war. Germany is aging more but third world immigration has turned France into a loosely held together patchwork of enclaves, it's no longer a nation state in the sense of the France which emerged in de Gaulle's time. The French nation will survive but only in isolated enclaves. Most likely the country will break up over the next few decades just as Yugoslavia did. In contrast, although Germany has severe problems with immigration too, the numbers still favour the ethnic Germans. The non European immigrants are mainly concentrated in several big cities which can be isolated if there's a civil war.. The European immigrants in Germany are generally well assimilated.
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  1033.  @Adnancorner  Lucky for you, you're going to need a lot of coping when you find out how this war turns out.
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  1034.  @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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  1035.  @blafonovision4342  And you think Russia can't retaliate if the US Navy sinks a Russian ship? Are you advocating war against Russia or are you just advocating piracy?
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  1036. With a much smaller population Russia trains more engineers than the USA. The claim that Russia is short of engineers is blatant propaganda.
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  1037. Ukraine is advancing backwards. New shipments of weapons isn't going to change that. Ukraine is already short of willing trained manpower.
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  1038. Nobody. These guys being disabled on the Ukrainian side are going to be abandoned. The economy is already collapsing. After the war, it's going to be like Germany 1923 but even worse because in Germany after WWI, most of the population was still young and in place. In Ukraine, most of the healthy, intelligent young people are going to leave if they haven't already The Russian vets won't get treated well either but at least they'll get pensions and respect.
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  1039.  @k8byp  Definitely nuclear but we still need oil and gas. Nuclear displaces coal more than anything else.
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  1040.  @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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  1041.  @fetasheiken  There hasn't been a Czechoslovakia for over thirty years.
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  1042.  @bovinicide  She has a point though. A better answer to her was self evidently, you're not ETHNICALLY English. She couldn't honestly answer that except to admit she's not..
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  1043. It'll be a lot more than London, Manchester and Scotland. It'll be every military base and every large city.
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  1044.  @joeschlotthauer840  And you think Russia can't land a 2Mton nuke on your home town?
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  1045.  @rogyn8484  Everyone admits the Russians have a huge advantage in missiles, armour, artillery and aviation. But somehow Russian losses are higher? The only logic used to justify this is that Russia has been attacking most of the war. It's the same logic which says US losses were higher than Iraqi losses in the invasion of Iraq.
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  1046. Look into the history - yes Ukraine did ask for this war. Poroshenko admitted the Minsk II accords was only signed to buy time to re-arm. If Ukraine had genuinely abided by the Minsk II accords, not only would there be no war, Donetsk and Luhansk would still be part of a federal Ukraine
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  1047. F16s won't do well against Russian SAMs
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  1048.  @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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  1049.  @sergeykorostelev7510  The Soviet Union would have starved without Lend Lease, they were close to starvation as it was. What counted wasn't so much the military supplies as all the trucks and food.
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  1050. The only place more dangerous to be on a battlefield than inside a tank is outside a tank. They're not disappearing any time soon. People have been anticipating tanks becoming obsolete for a hundred years now.
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  1051.  @perfectmazda3538  The Russian state had no involvement in Mariupol as early as April. It wasn't "their citizens". It was Ukrainian citizens who opposed a violent coup overthrowing the democratically elected president.
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  1052.  @perfectmazda3538  Yes Girkin was there early but he was just doing his own freelance thing, he wasn't working for the Russian government and was actually criticising Putin for refusing to get involved. He's actually in prison in Russia FFS. As for buses from Russia ... evidence? Trust me bro
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  1053. To be fair, the Institute for the Study of War updated their map around the same time this video was uploaded.
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  1054.  @thelonerick  LOL The British /US relationship since WWI has seen the UK go from the centre of the world's largest empire and the financial centre of the world to a US satellite. No, this relationship has been great for one side it hasn't been great for the other side.
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  1055.  @spacecadet35  The rate of fire is highly unlikely to matter in modern combat. Way more decisive is who sees the enemy first. And long distance accuracy because MBTs are normally used quite far from the enemy nowadays.
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  1056. Never. Ukraine has served its purpose, to cost the Russians live and equipment regardless of the cost to Ukraine itself. And make tens of billions for the US armaments industry.
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  1057. 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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  1058. It's not about corrupt politicians, it's about importing millions of people from Africa.
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  1059. Khodorkovsky himself is a ruthless, corrupt criminal. Look at how he made his money in the first place. Surreal that people like this are taken at face value.
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  1060.  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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  1061.  @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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  1062.  @diagorasofmel0s  Western technology and medicine and stamping out cannibalism has seen the population of Africa explode.
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  1063. Because he's in the House of Lords. Interesting though they couldn't find anyone better in the entire House of Commons.
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  1064. Totally leaving out how the US wouldn't talk to the Russians about the US stationing interception in Eastern Europe. Zeihan is a propagandist, not a neutral commentator. As for the "genocidal warpath", the number of civilians killed in Ukraine is a tiny proportion of the civilians killed in US wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Syria etc.etc.
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  1065.  @KJ-yises  You can always think of edge cases. The problem with edge cases is the vast majority of single mothers made bad decisions. Mortality for healthy young people in Britain is extremely low
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  1066.  @atapene  I'm not an expert but it's not a secret defence companies get away with charging outrageous prices. It's not just the Russians, the Japanese are able to build modern submarines much cheaper than the US too. It's not just defense, the US government is driven by industry lobbying, big business spends billions buying politicians. Pharma and Wall St are just as bad as defense.
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  1067.  @Lenser  Sure. Everyone who calls out BS is a Russian troll. Kindergarten level argument.
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  1068. "a decent breakthrough in Zaphorizha" is only going to happen in your imagination.
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  1069. Watching neutral sources on the war, Russia is now gaining more territory than Ukraine without taking the high losses in infantry that Ukraine has been. Russia just opened a huge offensive in the north. There's no way the Russians would do that if they had any doubts about being able to hold their land corridor to Crimea. Taking Crimea was never going to happen outside of the Western media echo chamber.
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  1070.  @ohmybrowncow  Putin explicitly said anyone who wants to return to the days of the Soviet Union is a fool. Most of what you hear about Putin in this channel is BS.
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  1071. If Ukraine joins NATO, US nuclear capable missiles are stationed on Russia's border. Russia kept pleading not to let Ukraine join NATO for years. A few days before the war started, Kamala Harris encouraged Ukraine to join NATO (see her 22nd Feb speech). Putin finally lost patience. The Biden administration knew this was going to happen. They engineered this war.
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  1072. Lucky it's not Russia doing this otherwise it'd be a war crime.
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  1073. True but only because they're paid such an extortionate amount in the first place.
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  1074.  @jameswatt9158  It wasn't a serious attempt to end the war. It tried to lock in territorial annexations on German terms. Read Koch's The Origins of the First World War: Great Power Rivalry and German War Aims
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  1075.  @brokenaura23  Ukraine is starting to crack. America spent twenty years in Afghanistan to replace the Taliban with .. the Taliban
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  1076.  @trader2137  Oryx doesn't list personnel, just vehicles and anyway, it's not a neutral source. For example it was claiming three Leopards destroyed or damaged when other sources documented 29.
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  1077.  @paulholbrook7315  LOL is that how you admit you're wrong?
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  1078.  @paulholbrook7315  The Vietnam war lasted more like ten thousand days. And ended with a US withdrawal. Afghanistan was twenty years and ended the same.
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  1079.  @Somerandomname1999  Because quantity matters. Obviously. It's like saying why would the US need to buy Patriot missiles from Japan if they can't produce their own (which is happening). The US do produce their own (obviously that's where Patriots are from) but in a major war, ammunition consumption is huge.
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  1080. Whether Russia keeps Lyman or Ukrainian cuts it off and forces the capitulation of the Russian garrison is still hugely important. If Russian holds out until reserves arrive, the writing is on the wall for Ukraine. If Ukraine captures Lyman and the garrison, that's a huge disaster for the Russians, Ukraine is still in the game.
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  1081.  @Wallyworld30  Fair enough and I agree, I've read some of his books and they're fine for a light read. A lot like Max Hastings.
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  1082. No interrupting because they're all cooperating to push the same propaganda.
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  1083. Britain needs to be a lot more like China. Keep out of wars half way around the world and try to have good relations with both sides.
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  1084.  @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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  1085. SOME people are obviously well food but likewise, there's plenty of footage of genuine starvation from Gaza too even though Israel has killed a couple of hundred journalists, deliberately wiped out internet connectivity and most Western social media censors footage. Obviously it can be true that some people can be starving while other people are well fed in fact there's probably never been a famine where this did not happen.
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  1086.  @shaunpatrick8345  Yeah shadow banning on YT is ridiculous especially on this topic, I should not even bother commenting
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  1087. Yes, it's well documented, it's a huge problem that is not going to disappear in just a few decades.
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  1088.  @bendewet1057  The UN passed a resolution demanding a cease fire - and Israel ignored it, it's flattening a city with the population in place. Why are you so sure you're on the right side?
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  1089. @DorisDay-lw4xs I do reckon that Labour will be a one term government. People will vote Labour not because they want Labour but because the Conservatives are a shit show. I hope a real patriotic party is ready to get some influence not this election which won't happen but the following election which is when Labour will be punished too.
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  1090.  @skylark8828  Too early to say I think. I accept your reasoning but remember that earlier predictions about the Russian economy being about to collapse and the rouble about to collapse and the stock market about to collapse were the same quality as those predictions the British economy would collapse upon voting for Brexit. Hasn't happened yet. Predictions about sanctions and other trade limiting effects like tariffs usually overestimate the harm because they fail to account for import substitution and workarounds. Energy sanctions against Russia might hurt Europe a lot more than they hurt Russia. Especially if the sanctions drag on towards the end of the year when gas consumption shoots up.
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  1091.  @skylark8828  I think purchasing power parity matters more than the official size of the economy in terms of war making capability. Russia has had a decade to prepare for these kind of sanctions. Cutting off gas to Europe would hurt Russia for sure but it would hurt Europe even more in winter. European democracies are not going to be so keen to sacrifice on Ukraine's behalf if people start dying of hypothermia. The Western media is ridiculously underestimating Russia's staying power. I presume Ukraine will collapse before winter but if not, Russia is going to have a lot of bargaining power by then.
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  1092.  @janstapaj9689  What do you think is going to happen to the rouble then? Since you think you're the genius. What I'm seeing is that Russia is buying gold to force the rouble down because it's appreciating out of control. The world needs oil. And it looks like in the future if you want to buy Russian oil you need to pay in roubles. A collapse of the rouble doesn't look too likely in these circumstances.
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  1093.  @the_pinkerton  Sure. So the professors I had when I did a bachelor and masters in history are wrong because you said.
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  1094. Worse than that, they bought the politicians that took Britain and America into two wars against Iraq.
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  1095.  @buck4490  Not how I read it at all - he's not hysterically anti-Putin like some Western commentators but he's definitely hostile. The only famous Western commentator I can think of who is sympathetic to the Russian position right now is John Mearsheimer - who has been warning about this war for years. And maybe Peter Zeihan who thinks it's all about geography and nothing else.
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  1096.  @simonbucci1041  Western countries are geopolitical rivals of Russia therefore almost every commentator and scholar in Western countries has an anti-Russian bias. A deferral to the number of people holding a position rather than the merits of particular arguments is the sign of someone who is incapable of independent or original thought.
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  1097.  @apacheattackhelicopter8185  What does it matter what the people of a region think? Well do yo believe in democracy or not? Because if you do, how can you deny the people of Crimea the right to decide which of the two countries they're members of? Why was Crimea part of Ukraine anyway? Only because Khrushchev wanted to buy the Ukrainian communist leadership in his own bid for power. Crimea was part of Russia much longer than it was part of Ukraine. Most of the people who live there are Russian. Apply your same logic to Kosovo if you can. Who gave NATO the right to break up Serbia? There was some violence but it was heavily exaggerated in the Western media. After Maidan there was quite a lot of violence in Ukraine too. Dozens of anti-Maidan people were murdered in Kiev and Odessa and in the south and east. Actually let's go back further. If borders are set in stone regardless of the realities of the preferences of the people who live somewhere, who gave the USA the right to rip Texas from Mexico? Personally I've seen too many videos of Ukrainian soldiers in places like Lysychansk and Mariupol complaining about the locals who hate them. I've seen convincing evidence of atrocities by Azov in particular against the locals in places like that. If you care about the Serbian army's brutality against the Albanians of Kosovo, don't be a hypocrite and admit how the Ukrainians have behaved in the east is no different.
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  1098.  @57thorns  The Crimea referendum wasn't perfect but Western observers agreed it was generally run ok. A few Tartars didn't get voting papers which isn't ideal but there's no doubt about the overall result. See also the polls run by Western polling companies before and after the referendum showing a heavy majority in favour of annexation by Russia. Ukrainian elections have also had serious fraud BTW.
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  1099.  @sambones1092  Zeihan makes some ridiculous claims for example Scotland is a large energy exporter and its demographics are way healthier than places like the Baltic countries. There are pockets of dire health but that's not typical for Scotland overall.
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  1100. No, it'll be all down the memory hole.
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  1101.  @skiddzjust1389  Nah Oryx has been discredited by people auditing it. You can check for yourself. You can't discredit something by declaring it discredited, people have examined particular samples and explained why they're wrong. But you'll believe what suits your preconceived agenda :)
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  1102.  @chemistryconcepts7782  Sure, the labour. Engineers, technology, management and capital were mainly French. Later on the British took over. Without the French/British technology and engineering, it would never have happened. If only labour was a factor, the canal would have been built thousands of years ago.
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  1103.  @chemistryconcepts7782  Yeah France paid for it. Labourers get paid with cash, not with ownership of the end result. If you think it was built entirely by hand you should be embarrassed I'm giving you a history lesson on your own country. Literally hundreds of steam engines were used. Steam shovels, dredgers, ships etc. Sorry but face facts. Egypt at the time wasn't capable of this.
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  1104. It wasn't Russia that destroyed Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Serbia, Libya, Somalia and Yemen. It was the biggest "bully" of all.
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  1105. The Frankfurt School was an ethnically Jewish movement originating in Germany rather than an ethnically German movement.
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  1106. Yeah but if you had to hire people to work in your company the last ones you want are the mentally ill.
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  1107. Yeah the reporting on this is pretty outrageous. Compare the coverage with Ukraine when the Russians took over Mariupol block by block and civilians were trapped in the ruins.
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  1108. Because mass immigration has pushed up the price of housing and pushed down the price of labour.
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  1109. I'd say it was as soon as the Russian army pulled out in the north and had consolidated Izyum that they started winning. After the Russians taking Popasna, the Ukrainian front is cracking. It's surreal the Western media is still entertaining ideas about Ukraine taking back this territory.
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  1110. ​ @wblake-j4g  This logic is embarrassing. That country is far from a civilised democracy and just because people vaguely related to the Palestinians are causing problems over here doesn't excuse them being subject to mass murder, torture and expropriation over there.
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  1111. These Russian guys aren't generally communist, it's a bit like Ukrainians painting the Balkenkreuz on their tanks. There's some continuation from previous conflicts but there are differences too.
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  1112. Good to see someone capable of thinking about this rather than just mindlessly blaming Russia when it's pretty obvious this is a severe set back for Russia. Poland for one has submarines and given the depth of the water, pretty much any navy would be capable of this kind of operation. The USA and France have form with this kind of operation.
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  1113.  @Whatsupwiththisname  In case you haven't noticed Wagner are pretty good at shooting down attacking aircraft.
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  1114.  @markvargus6519  If you think his US politics analysis is bad you're going to love the crap he talks about Russia and Ukraine :)
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  1115.  @mtapp113  He's not so much anti-Republican as pro-Washington establishment. The uniparty.
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  1116. These clowns simultaneously want to argue the Russian military is incompetent and also if we don't ship Zelensky billions, the Russian military is going to stomp all over Europe. It's propaganda for thick people.
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  1117.  @sanavip  Did you believe everything Prigozhin said? Losses doesn't mean killed. If you look at Mediazona the big spike in Russian deaths is around the time of the main Bakhmut battle. It's not about remains, it's about online or newspaper references from friends and families. For the tiny number of guys who have no friends and family online and nobody cares about them then sure Mediazona is going to miss those guys. But it won't be many.
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  1118. It's not nothing to do with the Gaza conflict, it's the Houthis striking back at Israel in support of the Palestinians, 23,000 of whom have been killed by Israel over a few months. Half of them female, half of them children. Thousands of whom were killed by American bombs. Every day another ship lands in Israel with more munitions from America. Our own British government is complicit in the mass murder of innocent people. If the Russians had levelled Kiev like Israel had levelled Gaza (and they could have if they wanted) the world would be outraged. And outside of the West, the world is outraged. Read the 84 page South African document, Israeli politicians openly calling for the extermination of millions of people - wake up people.
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  1119.  @AlanFagan-y5l  Aye it does affect the price for us because imported energy includes the transport cost. Which for oil is pretty substantial and for gas is absolutely huge if you're talking about LNG. Look at the USA, they don't pay global prices for gas, they pay North American prices. Some of their gas is exported as LNG but LNG is fundamentally much more expensive than piped gas.
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  1120. Zeihan tells blatant lies about a lot of topic. Especially the Ukraine war.
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  1121. Yes but they're not spare officers, they'd leave the British army with a huge shortage.
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  1122. I;m sure he's shaking in fear from your threats.
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  1123. He also ignored the war NATO started on Serbia to seize territory from Serbia by force - much like what Russia is now doing in Ukraine.
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  1124.  @oleskou2436  So what's the point of listening to his blatantly propagandistic opinion at all? If he's far out of date? BTW. The Russians are still using FABs in great number quite successfully. Maybe some get jammed but they're still going to land close to target and whatever can jam something like that is going to have a very local effect.
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  1125.  @Leiska86  What do you mean by economic output? Looking at money is misleading. Russia's industrial output is huge if you look at the stuff that counts in this kind of war - heavy industry. Yes theoretically if Europe were controlled by a dictator who was willing to cut social spending and build up heavy industry and military production then yes European munitions production could expand but that's not going to happen. Only a few countries like Poland, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania will be willing to make the sacrifice. In Slovakia and Netherlands the Russophobe politicians have already lost elections. Next elections the current German government will fall too and maybe the same in France.
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  1126.  @Leiska86  The smartest thing Finland could do would be to have a good relationship with Russia. Every time Finland fights a war with Russia, Finland gets smaller. Joining NATO means Finland will now have a much larger Russia force on its border and will require higher military spending indefinitely. Also it loses cheap Russian gas. I see no advantage whatsoever.
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  1127. Times Radio is deranged whenever Russia is concerned.
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  1128. I saw the claim that the shirtless photo of Utkin screwing his face up is not actually Utkin - but someone else. i.e. disinformation by anti-Putin propagandists. Does anyone have any concrete information?
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  1129.  @dw620  Doesn't matter who owns it, it's jobs, exports and a tax base. Same for the oil industry or the wind industry.
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  1130.  @yahtyscids194  Here's some examples- near the start of the war he was banging on about how much the Chinese and Russians really hate each other and Russia needs to watch out for a Chinese move into Siberia - it's just ridiculous fantasy. China and Russia have never had stronger relations. He's been claiming for years that the Chinese will lose 500 million to starvation if America cuts their sea lanes, no mention of China now having pretty good rail lines to Russia and the Chinese navy being the second biggest in the world. He's been claiming the Russians are engaged in a "genocidal war" in Ukraine. Where's the evidence? A few small scale atrocities happen in every war. Putin talks about the Ukrainian people being pawns of the West, not an enemy to be destroyed. Millions of Ukrainians support the Russian side. He keeps talking about the Kerch bridge as if 1) it's completely shut down - no, it's back up and running months ago and 2) the Russians have no ships or ports and can't just move stuff by sea. He's contradicting himself there especially because one of his main talking points is how efficient water communications are compared to road and rail. Just a few but you could go on all day. He's only really worth listening to, to know what the CIA propaganda line is. As for Germany, his pessimistic forecasts for Germany are ... exaggerated. Not completely wrong but heavily exaggerated.
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  1131. LOL before the war Ukraine was the most corrupt and the poorest of the large countries in Europe. What are you going to support them with?
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  1132. "in our hearts" :P
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  1133. Has always been at war with surely?
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  1134.  @kevlacy5306  In general that's false. Look in to it. Besides which in the vast majority of Britain certainly the areas where fracking would be considered, we use rain water for drinking and irrigation.
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  1135. He's Jewish. If his ethnicity is Jewish, it's not British.
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  1136.  @LB-wn6ur  LOL you obviously don't understand what ethnicity is, perhaps your 20 second google wasn't quite enough. Try reading Anthony Smith and Johann Herder. The point is, his loyalty is not to the British people, he's Jewish. Yes there is such a thing as a British Jew but no, a person with Jewish ethnicity does not have British ethnicity. The ethnic British are those descended from the people who lived in Britain thousands of years ago, not those who turned up in the 1930s or even the 1830s.
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  1137.  @corvanna4438  A huge difference between Russia and the West is that the war doesn't really matter to the West. It's a matter of survival for Russia. So Western countries will donate tens of billions of weapons and supplies but they're not going to make serious sacrifices to fight Russia. Biden doesn't know much but he knows it's getting harder to make the case for continued new aid packages to the voters and the election is in sight now.
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  1138.  @Pierluigi_Di_Lorenzo  Ukraine has also used blocking detachments behind the line to shoot retreating soldiers.
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  1139.  @jonlittle5032  No, before the invasion. See Jacques Baud, Swiss intel officer who documented it.
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  1140.  @TheWESTSIDE1967  Yeah seriously - that part of Ukraine broke away after the Maidan coup and has been at war with the Kiev regime for eight years - with some long truces. Don't you realise you're only getting one side of the story?
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  1141.  @a0flj0  Not true, the Russian state didn't even support the separatists until several months into the war. It was mainly locals who saw what happened in Odessa (the massacre of ethnic Russians by Ukrainian nationalists), they got some help from Russian nationalists from Crimea and elsewhere but the large majority of the rebels were locals. There are tons of good sources on this, plenty of video evidence. Also read 85 days in Slavyansk and Ukraine in the Crossfire.
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  1142.  @Jezza_One  Correct there was no treaty but there were many documented verbal pledges. Russia lost tens of millions of people from invasions on its Western border, you don't make promises like that lightly and then betray them without consequence. Russia wanted friendship with the West, the people who run NATO have a lot to answer for.
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  1143. Only half is true
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  1144.  @TomTomicMic  US and Israel have attacked a lot more countries than that. Why aren't you upset by Israel's recent land grab in Syria?
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  1145. 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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  1146.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  LOL you think Western soldiers never commit suicide? You think Ukrainian morale is better than Russian morale?
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  1147.  @Katoshi_Takagumi  Various channels follow the fighting day by day, Defense Politics Asia, Theti Mapping and Military Summary are all pretty good. Even CIA sponsored Institute for the Study of War admits the Russian army is advancing.
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  1148.  @littlefinger4509  You realise the Russians have mobilised hundreds of thousands of reservists since then losing Izyum and Liman? And many of their best formations like the VDV are west of the Dniepr whereas Lyman was mainly defended by LPR guys.
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  1149. I nominate general Ben Hodges for expanding our horizons by introducing us to an alternative universe.
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  1150.  @Cullaica  So what? It wasn't hard. There was a large Russian army massing on the border. Zelensky had been elected on a peace platform but instead stepped up attacks on Donetsk. Lots of people predicted it would result in a war including Zelensky's best buddy Arestovych - he thought it would result in a Russian collapse and great Ukrainian annexations of Russian territory.
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  1151. Utterly and embarrassingly wrong that Hitler wanted a war with Britain. Hitler didn't even want a war with Poland. He wanted Danzig, an ethnically German city and a corridor to East Prussia through ethnically German territory.
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  1152. If you actually fact check Scottish demographics, it's not that bad. Way better than most of Eastern Europe. England's demographics are slightly younger only because of the immigration - and as we see in France that's a way bigger problem than an aging population.
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  1153.  @davidmclean357  The main maintenance cost is the tritium decays pretty quickly so needs to be replaced periodically. Not cheap or easy. Fission only weapons aren't such a problem.
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  1154. I will be very surprised if Ukraine lasts until the end of winter.
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  1155. Zeihan's claims about lots of other topics are also equally flawed.
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  1156. Surely not by the guys who have always been hostile to Germany buying Russian gas and threatened it if Russia attacked Ukraine?
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  1157.  @wintermute-  People just get annoyed by the blatant propaganda. Bots don't tend to write such relevant comments as what Carlos wrote. Bots tend to write bland generic fan boy comments. And there are plenty such comments here.
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  1158.  @fergusdenoon1255  Non sequitur - an independent Scotland would have to fund itself through borrowing and taxation. The gap between what's spent in Scotland and what's raised in taxation is huge. Exactly which parts of government spending right now are controlled by Westminster and which parts by Holyrood are irrelevant as soon as Scotland becomes independent (obviously). BTW I stay in Scotland and voted to leave in the indie referendum but have changed my mind since partly because of economics, partly because Scottish politics is just so irretrievably corrupt and broken it's obvious the current clownshow would destroy the country for at least two generations if they had the chance...
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  1159.  @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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  1160. You're deluded. If Ukraine doesn't negotiate, Russia will destroy Ukraine. It will take a long time and it will be very expensive for Russia but Russia will do what it has to do. Europe and America don't want to fight Russia over Ukraine. And Russia has the manpower and resources to grind Ukraine into the dust.
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  1161.  @elKarlo  People assume Russia will accept negotiations. It's not clear Russia will. There were already negotiations a month into the war. Russia pulled back from Kiev because there was an agreement. Then Kiev cancelled the agreement. Russia will be very reluctant to trust any pledges. The war might go on until there's a complete collapse. Which might well happen this year. In that case, Russia occupies the territory they want and what remains falls into anarchy and probably gets occupied by NATO armies.
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  1162. Jews and Muslims both lecturing British people about what British values are.
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  1163. But neither track Ukrainian losses. And the Russian losses are just estimated. Actual measured losses are forty something thousand Russians killed.
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  1164.  @marktrotter8971  In the Robotyne/Verbove area, not it really is hundreds of AFVs. Dozens is a massive understatement. There were around 50 destroyed in about three days alone. it's not called Bradley Square for nothing.
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  1165. I'm Scottish and speak French (badly) from what I experienced, people were really friendly in the north (Normandy, Brittany and Picardly), more hostile around Nice and in Paris. I wasn't long in the far east (the annexed Germany bits) but people there seemed pretty friendly too. Might depend a lot where you are.
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  1166.  @regina1892  He's severely messed up as chancellor. Worst chancellor since Gordon Brown.
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  1167. He covered it yesterday.
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  1168. He didn't have the final say. People like Hancock and Johnson did.
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  1169. You might as well say infantry are obsolete because they're even more vulnerable than tanks. People have been saying tanks are obsolete for over a hundred years now.
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  1170.  @christianevanherck6023  Borodai was saying they are Russian forces because they're ethnic Russians! Look at the actually word he used in the original - Russkiyi - it means ethnic Russians, not Russian citizens which is a different word. Read 85 Days in Slovyansk - the vast majority of the rebels were locals. The non locals were Russian nationalists acting without the support of the Kremlin and sometimes obstruction by the Kremlin. They actually hugely resented the Russian government's refusal to get involved in the first few months of the war. It's a bit like the Texans who rose up against Mexico- they were the local people who had been there for generations, had an ethnic affinity with a neighbouring state, suffered oppression by their own state and rose up of their own initiative.
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  1171. I don't know about Lithuania but Latvia's population is definitely shrinking... and pretty rapidly. Partly the low fertility of course but mainly emigration.
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  1172. It was the whole point. They thought Russia would collapse when they applied economic sanctions.
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  1173. The Russians are losing this war horribly - even though they're taking ground everywhere from near Zaparozhye all the way up to near Svatove? How do we reconcile the Russians taking more and more objectives with the narrative that they're losing? Apparently, this commentator thinks these Western tanks are immune to artillery? As for these tanks being more modern than the Russian tanks - not really. These are obsolete Western tanks being sent, they probably outclass the Russian T72s but the T90s? Hard to believe.
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  1174. Do you have a nuclear bunker with two years of food? If so congratulations you'll probably survive WWIII
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  1175. Go for it, unless you're over 80 you won't be the oldest soldier in the Ukrainian army.
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  1176.  @bobcprimus  Contracting economy and rising inflation.... describes pretty much every Western country right now.
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  1177. In both world wars when the population was half what is is now and we had the biggest navy in the world we were still endangered by starvation. If there's another major war, food security is a huge vulnerability.
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  1178.  @Emjaemidd  Read about the Nakba FFS
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  1179.  @frankcouper9377  Don't be an apologist for genocide, don't be a shill for the Israelis, these are the people who have agitated for immigration into the West for over a hundred years but they want to ethnically cleanse their own country of Arabs, the native people. There's just been a document leaked now showing they want to push the entire population of Gaza into the West. Walk or take a donkey. FFS you obviously don't have a clue about the place do you.
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  1180.  @Emjaemidd  Israel treats people differently by law according to ethnicity. How is that different from Apartheid? As for the Thai nationals - yes there was huge sympathy for victims of Hamas terrorism. But the large majority of people who have died over the past few months are innocent Palestinians. Yes, definitely- sympathy for the innocent Israeli civilians murdered by Hamas. But what makes innocent Palestinian lives worth less?
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  1181.  @MarkNOTW  Do you mean if Russian losses were high, we'd be seeing Ukrainian breakthroughs? Two things I'd say to that, firstly, the Ukrainians certainly are making gains. They're modest and they're at high price but they are taking ground. Secondly, it could be the Russians are just feeding reserves in as they need to, to keep things under control so lack of Ukrainian breakthroughs doesn't necessarily mean Russian losses are light, just that the Russians are able to replace losses quickly enough. Nobody knows how large the Russian reserves are but I agree with Weeb that they're probably pretty huge. Anyway I've seen plenty of Ukrainian footage showing Russian losses, if I had to guess, I'd guess they're around half the Ukrainian losses.
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  1182.  @Tree.fiddy.  There's a clue in "all the territory he wants". Putin is basically telling Ukraine to surrender. That's not a sign of weakness. As for glacial progress.. there's a better reason. Russia's in no hurry. Economy is growing, war support is high, casualties are sustainable and down on last year according to Mediazona, Ukraine is gradually weakening, most of energy production is destroyed now. Why would Russia risk an escalation by panicking the NATO with something dramatic?
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  1183. Don't take them literally but they give an indication of where fighting is heaviest and how the magnitude of fighting is changing over time.
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  1184. Zeihan's take on everything is always to present in the most optimistic terms for America
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  1185. FPV drones can't destroy a real tank, the payload is too small.
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  1186. Proud to say mine is 98% European and 2% non significant
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  1187.  @hhsg11  It's deliberate to get an argument going, gets a reaction from the audience and keeps us engaged.
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  1188.  @quatrecheeze  The UK parliament is writing letters to intimidate media organisations to shut down Brand's income. On the basis of mere allegations. Why does this even need to be explained?
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  1189.  @quatrecheeze  It's more than overreach. It's sinister. It's intimidation.
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  1190.  @kmaggs7804  Luckily for the EU, not yet a member :)
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  1191.  @kth6736  Not the American public so much as the people who finance the politicians
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  1192.  @meiko_kaji  Here are some good ones History Legends - smart arse executive summaries of particular aspects from time to time Military Summary - factually excellent well sourced in detail analysis, generally twice per day. Feel free to ignore the speculations. Slight pro-Russian bias. Weeb Union - also thoughtful analysis, slight pro-Russian bias. Theti Mapping - irregular detailed updates and good analysis, totally neutral. Defense Politics Asia - regular, detailed updates and analysis In the English speaking Internet, the large majority of channels are strongly pro-Ukrainian most to the point where they're outright propaganda. The above ones are at minimum honest.
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  1193.  @aniksamiurrahman6365  Yes, I also think that is a bit aspect of this :) Three points. 1) Confrontation with the Germans and the Russians at the same time has never worked out well for Poland. 2) The Polish politicians should be smarter than this. 3) The German politicians are being incredibly naive. Their current policy of allying with American against Russia brings them only costs and risks.
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  1194. In some places the Russians are willing to give up territory easily, on the land corridor to Crimea, there's only so much territory Russia can afford to lose before the railway line is threatened.
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  1195. Escalation could quickly turn into global nuclear war. Hard to see that there's anything in Ukraine worth risking that for.
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  1196.  @Surfbird11  1) Ukraine doesn't hold the ground. Russia has recovered everything they lost on the southern front. 2) That's not what everyone was saying when Russia lost their first T90
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  1197.  @acosorimaxconto5610  Of course they had snipers in 1916, I literally have a book called Sniping in France by Major Hesketh-Pritchard who helped set it up in 1915
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  1198.  @jamiestone1809  I completely agree with you about immigration. It has questionable short term economic benefits with vast costs longer term of all kinds. I do understand your point about lower taxes don't help out poorer people as much. Public policy is all about trade offs. Overall, poorer parents would be better off by 1) Completely stopping low skilled immigration so market forces push up low skilled pay 2) Rolling back the excessive regulation around child care which mean we have (from memory) the second most expensive child care in Europe (the continent, not the EU) after Slovakia and Switzerland (relative to earnings) I'm not arguing against all child benefits, I'm just highly sceptical of direct benefits. For example there used to be universal free milk in schools i.e. not means tested. Why can't we do that now (part from political correctness?). I'm also fine with some subsidies for child care. The problem with direct benefits, it creates perverse incentives. The poorest people have a strong financial incentive to have more children for the benefits. For higher earning people, the benefits are negligible relative to the opportunity costs. It's not PC to say this but differential fertility rates have seen the genetic component of intelligence fall drastically in Western countries over the past 150 years especially in Britain. Until say 20 years ago, this was masked by improving environment, eg. nutrition, health care etc. but it's really starting to become obvious now. Immigration is a huge problem too of course but we're rapidly becoming a third world country and the fact that less intelligent people have substantially more children on average is one of the two big reasons. Although I agree with you about immigration, differential fertility across let's say the capability spectrum is a really huge problem almost nobody is aware of. There's some very convincing mathematical and genetic evidence behind this long term trend.
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  1199. That would be the same Saddam Hussein who was a US ally would it?
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  1200.  @yohanannatanson4199  Yes, certainly, Allied airpower over Normandy was fundamental to the Rundstedt and Rommel debate. In Ukraine, I don't think air power is quite as important as most people do, even though the Russians have a huge advantage - because they can't use that advantage by safely flying sorties over Ukrainian lines.
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  1201.  @lowersaxon  Duran guys are definitely pro-Russian and massively underestimate Russian difficulties but their criticisms of Western leaders are valid - more than valid.
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  1202. A Russian NCO was telling mobilised soldiers that they won't receive much equipment, she told them to ask their wives and girlfriends for medical supplies including tampons to plug bullet wounds, a trick learned from Chechnya. That's the origin of the Telegraph story.
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  1203.  @crowbar_the_skull  So it's obvious the system is not working in the interests of normal people. The Middle Class is getting crushed. Do you really want a society like the Roman Empire where there are a few plutocrats and millions of slaves?
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  1204. "When Putin invaded Crimea" .... as if the Maidan coup never happened
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  1205. Don't you realise the whole of the EU has the same cost of living and inflation problems?
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  1206.  @eileenmcconnell4150  The rumour is in the Mariupol direction. The AFU has been clearing their own minefields on that front, the only reason to do that is if they want to attack themselves.
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  1207. Already happened years ago.
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  1208. I heard that rumour but it doesn't seem likely. More likely is Lloyd Austin is scared for his job and didn't want to show any weakness by telling anyone he's going for an operation. He probably expected to be out in a couple of hours but the operation went wrong and he was stuck in there for days with no means to communicate with his staff, possibly because his chief of staff had flu. Or possibly because he was too sick to even try to contact anyone. Anyway we'll probably never know the truth.
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  1209. Case closed, no further evidence needed
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  1210.  @chapter4travels  There are good reasons for that, mining some of that stuff is an environmental nightmare. That's why China is the world's biggest supplier, they care less about the environment. But sure you can build mines in North America, Australia whatever, it won't happen overnight though. Could take years to replace Chinese imports.
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  1211. And buying back Patriot missiles from Japan because the US is running so low
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  1212. There are already autonomous cars driving on the road, it's extremely rare they make huge mistakes. There have been weapon systems around for years which use image recognition. It's a technology which has been around for decades now, steadily improving - speaking as someone who has worked in this field. The idea that it's beyond Russia's capabilities is bizarre, Russian weapons already use terrain recognition even before this war started.
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  1213.  @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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  1214.  @PxThucydides  Doesn't work like that, the war won't be won by slowly taking the next trench line, it will be won when one side runs out of men willing to fight. Russia is sending volunteers to Ukraine while Ukraine is kidnapping old and sick men off the street so which side to you think that will be?
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  1215. It did adapt, the video talks about this.
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  1216.  @teddypicker8799  Bellingcat is a bit like Oryx - heavy NATO bias. Sure if it "exposes" Russian missiles hit civilian targets despite the Russian MOD claims then it will be factually accurate but there's selection bias. Ukraine makes all kind of equally ridiculous claims but Bellingcat concentrates on debunking Russian propaganda because it's far from neutral on anything to do with Russia. It's worth looking at you just have to keep in mind that it has that kind of bias.
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  1217. The bear got a bloody nose last time but the bear won the fight. Finland ended up smaller and also lost a lot of people.
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  1218.  @EyeOfMagnus4E201  Interesting points - I think you're underrating both the Russians and the Ukrainians. Have a look at the size of the professional Finnish army - it's tiny. Sure the American 101 division or British regular infantry or whatever are good soldiers but that's a pretty tiny number of guys. The point is both Ukraine and Russia but especially Ukraine are fighting mainly with conscripts/reservists. The pre-war Ukrainian professional army is gone just like the high quality pre-war British professional army was gone by late 1915. Dead or injured or at best diluted in a much bigger replacement of civilians. In Russia's case most of the guys fighting now are at least volunteers who have to do service anyway and sign on for Ukraine partly from patriotism, partly because the pay is pretty good. But there's plenty of the prewar professionals left too. The regular Russian army hasn't even taken high casualties apart from the VDV maybe. Only the pre war DPR/LPR guys have taken the brutal kind of casualties the Ukrainian professionals have. But the Ukrainian army now is mainly guys who were not soldiers before the war. Obviously some of them will now be battle hardened veterans but a lot don't want to be there at all. The average age is about 43 last I heard. Some are as high as 70. If Finland fought a war with Russia it's going to be the same thing. There'll be a tiny number of high quality well trained professionals but the vast majority of the Finnish army are going to be guys who don't get a choice. Many of whom would rather be with their families or safe overseas. Same for other NATO countries. As for Russian casualties the only reliable source we have is Mediazona who spends a serious effort tracking down obituaries and similar from Russian newspapers and websites. They only found around 40,000 KIA. And look at the chronology of when they are, it's mainly from 2022. Since the Russians got themselves organised their casualties just haven't been that high. The British MOD claims and US gov claims are just propaganda you can ignore just like Russian claims about Ukrainian casualties. I realise this isn't the website where people are going to want to hear Ukraine is getting a kicking but I'm following the fighting for a couple of hours a day and from where I'm sitting it's looking pretty damn one sided nowadays.
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  1219.  @JLudwig-c4l  You think military service isn't mandatory in Russia? The point is the size of the populations. In a serious war Russia would have a bigger army than the entire Finnish population. Finnish smack talk about Russia is ridiculous.
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  1220. Both sides have a problem with this. I've seen Russian barrels split. Hard to know whether the crew survive when that happens.
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  1221.  @j.l.w9563  Not actually a bad system to allow employers complete freedom because in a limited labour market then employers would have to compete for competent staff. The problem is, employers also have an endless flow of immigrants to push down wages as well so employers have all the power and employees have too little.
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  1222.  @j.l.w9563  Yes the thumb is definitely on the scale against small businesses. It's not so much taxation, it's regulation which big business loves because big companies have the scale to navigate it. And that includes regulation around employment law.
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  1223.  @rockrabbit253  If you think things are bad for the Russian economy, consider the Ukrainian economy. Frequent electricity blackouts, winter approaching and they're seriously talking about evacuating civilians from Kiev. Already over ten million people have left, presumably most will never return since after living in Western Europe for a few months they'll start to get jobs and put down roots. Russia seems determined to continue the war, how long can Ukraine sustain the current level of effort?
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  1224. Much like Rishi Sunak
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  1225.  @wlhjr77  I'm curious. How can anyone still be claiming Russia has lost? Are you following the same war as me?
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  1226.  @helenan7368  Russia was also promised NATO wouldn't expand beyond Germany.
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  1227.  @APW554  This is often claimed but it's complete BS. Finland fought two wars against the Soviet Union, the Winter War and the Continuation War. Both wars ended with Finland giving up territory.
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  1228. 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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  1229. Soviet T34 production reached well over 1000 per month - nowhere near 1000 per day. And the Panther was not an especially large tank - it was classed as a medium tank. There are other examples of very large German tanks like the King Tiger. Larry Johnson throws facts around pretty carelessly.
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  1230. We can't possibly know for sure either way.
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  1231.  @artnull13  From Russia's point of view, the West didn't remove SWIFT sanctions on a Russian bank like they were meant to, also Erdogan allowed Azov prisoners interned in Turkey to return to Ukraine against the original agreement.
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  1232.  @miriamweller812  Totally. Surely obvious to Putin too which is probably why Putin says he has no objection to Ukraine joining the EU.
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  1233. Blame the Tories but all the main parties agree with the policies which resulted in this. Firstly, shutting down the economy for covid and pouring endless money into the NHS, for example two billion pounds per month for free covid test. Secondly, energy sanctions on Russia which has resulted in vastly increased energy costs for the Western world. In fact, Labour were calling for even stricter lockdowns and greater money transfers for people economically shut down. The Tories are a total mess just now but it's hypocritical to pretend they're any different from the other major parties.
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  1234.  @bretseattle  This one is more like an American counter revolution. Removing the Jacobins.
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  1235.  @anthonyhulse1248  Russia still controls Bakhmut. Also, Russia controls the villages north and south of Bakhmut.
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  1236. 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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  1237. @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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  1238. TBH a hundred and something AFVs is a pretty reasonable price to pay for positions overlooking the supply roads into Avdivka. The only people who think Ukraine can hold Avdivka now are the same people who told us Russia would never take Bakhmut.
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  1239. No just a lot of people outraged at the blatant propaganda
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  1240. If you think Russia blew this up, ask yourself why Ukraine has opened the upstream sluices.
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  1241. ​ @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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  1242.  @AlexKarasev  That's ridiculous, he implies there's a stalemate. There isn't a stalemate. Russia is winning.
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  1243. You have reversed the names. This Lisa woman interrupted first and did most of the interrupting
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  1244.  @leviashanken2506  She told some blatant lies, lies should be challenged. But truth is not a strong point for you Israeli apologists.
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  1245. Backed up by geolocation of Russian soldiers and Ukrainian vehicles at the border. Looks like Ukraine got badly defeated here.
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  1246. I believe Ukrainian casualties run into the hundreds of thousands but not a million. Very many Ukrainians have just left. Many left even before the war because it was too hard to earn a living in Ukraine. Males are typically much more mobile in any society.
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  1247. Just because they say it doesn't mean it's true. Probably Ukrainian casualties are higher but probably not much higher. The Ukrainians have had some advantages at certain points especially mainly being on the defensive.
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  1248.  @claudemaggard7162  By the nationalist extremists.
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  1249.  @JJRM8  Again easy to prove there certainly was that promise James Baker US secretary of defence, google not one inch
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  1250. That's a ridiculous argument. By that logic you could be sleeping in a hotel and according to you, still driving.
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  1251. Sure, and the Iraqi soldiers turned off baby incubators in Kuwait right?
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  1252. Now Russia has started the hard, costly job of grinding Ukraine's army into the dust and is starting to make progress, why would it stop until it has an outright victory? Why would it risk leaving a pro-Western government in Kiev? Why wouldn't it at least want to take Odessa?
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  1253.  @charlesoleary3066  Yeah he should really be a fantasy novelist!
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  1254. I think we could see rapid Russian advances once they're ready. The Ukrainians have burned a lot of their reserves and their best men, they can't move forces around so easily now and I'm sceptical they can defend the entire front in depth. Look at what the Russians achieved in the first days of the campaign and what the Ukrainians achieved in the weeks just before mobilisation - rapid advances through overstretched defences resulting in confusion, panic, enemy surrenders and seizure of a lot of territory. The Ukrainians achieved those deep penetrations with a deficiency of armour, the Russians won't have that problem. I think we're going to see some true Bewungskrieg before this is over and done with. And how well will the Ukrainian morale hold once defeat starts to look inevitable?
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  1255.  @patrickholt2270  Yeah fair enough, that's definitely true over the existing front, I'm just not convinced that the Ukrainians can properly fortify AND man the entire border from Kharkov all the way to Poland. I'd guess there are a few weeks of attrition first in any case waiting for the ground to freeze, the expanded Russian army to rotate reservists and get them experienced and get themselves organised before we see anything big.
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  1256. Moving shells is not a problem. It's by older guys with military experience who return to the army for fixed length contracts at pretty good pay. Likewise, distributing ammunition into smaller dumps and hiding them is hardly on the harder end of military problems. A couple of weeks ago a lot of big Russian ammunition dumps were hit. It lasted for a few days until the Russians changed their practices. As for running out of shells... well according to the Western media, Russia was supposed to run out of missiles, tanks, shells, pilots, generals, soldiers, even food back months ago. Don't hold your breath...
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  1257.  @giftedtheos  Have you learned nothing from this war? Zelensky has told endless lies. Ghost of Kiev. Missile which killed Polish farmers was Russian. We didn't shell the Energodar power plant. Russia shelled Donetsk City (controlled by Russian side since 2014). Russians have taken half a million losses, etc etc.
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  1258. Misrepresentation of Galloway. He was in the marines and supported Britain in the Falklands war because it was the last war Britain fought for Britain's own interests. I don't buy the anti-English accusation.
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  1259. You're not kidding some of them are old enough to be retiring.
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  1260. The Ukrainians will launch some amphibious raids for sure but there's no way they're going to try a major offensive. It would be suicide. The Energodar attack shows what would happen. Since then the Russians are much better fortified and prepared.
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  1261. Why would anyone trust US government estimates of Ukrainian and Russian casualties when numbers like this are so highly political? How is it that Russia has higher casualties when both sides admit the Russians have a heavy advantage in artillery, armour and aviation?
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  1262. "when Ukraine pushes back through" Bakhmut? Is that before or after Ukraine reaches the Azov sea? Which is going to be any day now right?
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  1263. Advantages for Russia: eliminate the Ukrainian forces who have infiltrated and entrenched themselves on the islands downstream; minimise the threat of a Ukrainian crossing while there's major fighting to the east so they can protect this front with minimal forces. Russia had both the motive and the means.
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  1264.  @ТарасМакаренко-ф3ш  It's true the average age of the Ukrainian army is quite old but the younger age group is disproportionately in the high casualty elite units and nationalist units. Even more important, because of the war, millions of young Ukrainians have left the country and most of these have no intention to return.
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  1265. Have a look at the Minsk II accords and tell me NATO honestly tried to abide with what NATO countries signed. Even Merkel and Hollande admitted the treaty was not made in good faith.
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  1266.  @southtexasprepper1837  Except I'm not claiming that. What you lack is the entire context. You quote the Budapest Memorandum but ignore the long line of broken promises to Russia about NATO expansion. As for invading Crimea in 2014, the background to this is a NATO sponsored violent coup supported by a minority of the population against the wishes of the majority to overthrow the democratically elected president and replace him with extreme nationalists. Answer me honestly, what would the USA do if the Chinese staged a coup in Canada and installed an extremist pro-Chinese government?
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  1267.  @southtexasprepper1837  You're wrong about some important claims. The ethnic Russian majority has been in places like Donetsk for a couple of hundred years at least. Nothing to do with Stalin. Secondly you seem to believe the Holodomor is something the Russians inflict on the Ukrainians. No, the Russians were affected as well. This is something the communists did and at that time, the communists were not overwhelmingly even ethnic Russian. Early on, Jewish people were heavily overrepresented, also Georgians and other minority groups. You're missing my point about a Chinese coup in China. Yes you admit the USA would invade right away. Which is what Russia did in Crimea when the US staged a coup in Ukraine. So you see how you're criticising Russia for doing something you admit the US would do too in similar circumstances? Lastly international recognition. This is entirely political. Most of the world doesn't recognise Kosovo as an independent country after the US attacked Serbia and seized this territory off Serbia. Doesn't stop the USA from recognising it.
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  1268. Unlikely because Israel has left not a single functioning hospital in Gaza.
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  1269. The five factor works pretty well for the Scottish parliament. The final cost divided by the initial estimate was around there. Also not that far off for the Edinburgh tram project.
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  1270. Yeah you have to be thick as mud to believe there are no evil people in the world.
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  1271.  @simongarthwaite7695  Sure but it was obvious to everyone good relations between Germany and the Soviet Union were temporary. Even if they never gone to war, they were balancing each other. As in forcing each other to keep large forces dedicated to defending against an attack by the other. This would have held German expansion in check without the necessity for Britain to go to war.
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  1272. No matter what new facts come out, Peter always has some arguments to get back to the US doing great, China heading for disaster narrative.
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  1273. Don'#t worry he's wrong about almost everything
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  1274.  @wintermute-  LOL an American accusing the China of being a dying empire! Don't you see the irony? If not then you really need to widen your sources.
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  1275.  @aarhusnord  So if you think the EU doesn't threaten the sovereignty of nations, why not leave it up to individual nations to send aid to Ukraine? Why does there need to be direct aid from the EU?
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  1276.  @aarhusnord  Don't you see it's just another EU power grab? At this rate, Denmark will just be another province.
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  1277.  @istinagy5835  In this kind of static warfare, there will be a lot of casualties from shell splinters and at this time of year, frost bite. Most of these casualties will be quite minor. Not minor enough to safely stay in the line, serious enough to require treatment but minor enough to allow returning to duty after a few days. So it doesn't seem totally impossible.
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  1278.  @ClownCarCoup  LOL that's true on its own but the point of the oil price cap was explicitly NOT less of the product. It was to minimise Russian revenue but without impacting the volume magnitude exports. No, it's charisma my dump stat :)
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  1279. Britain sent Ukraine Harpoons (I think)
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  1280.  @bobbobby7536  Look at England for example, the Celts invaded and took it over from the original post ice age settlers, the Romans came in and took it from the Celts, the Vikings and Angles and Saxons came in and took it from the Romano Britains, the Normans came in and took it from the Saxons this is the history of humanity going back since before history was written down.
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  1281. The pro-Russian bias is a bit OTT. The Ukrainian army has taken a huge bite out of Russia. After almost a week, they're still taking more territory. Will Ukraine win the war? No. But not for the first time, this is a significant win for Ukraine. Hundreds of Russian prisoners, deep penetration into Russian territory, many destroyed vehicles on both sides.
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  1282. As a contractor, I'm earning less money than before the pandemic despite inflation. And junior doctors want 35%??
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  1283.  @limedickandrew6016  I don't get the point about how shallow the sea is. Wreckage either sinks or floats. if it floats, you can see it with a satellite doesn't matter how deep the sea is. If it sinks even 7m deep you can't see it with a satellite.
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  1284.  @limedickandrew6016  No, I'm not claiming there won't be floating wreckage, I'm just questioning why you think the depth of the sea matters. Satellites won't see sunk wreckage 7m underwater any more easily than they would 7000m underwater.
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  1285. Hamas can't win military but doesn't need to. To win, they just need to survive longer than Netanyahu's political capital. The world is turning against Israel because of this war. Biden hates Netanyahu and his continued support is dangerous to his own election chances.
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  1286. He's meant to be accountable to the people of Ukraine, not the neocons or the Democrats.
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  1287. So what? If you're accusing him of being a propagandist for Russia, what exactly did he say which wasn't true?
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  1288.  @rebelmango2141  Saddam Hussein is not someone I ever want to make excuses for but the invasion was never sold using humanitarian reasons. It was sold as destroying the WMD which the US and UK governments knew had already been destroyed. The invasion was justified by a lie. All of these wars are motivated by geopolitical advantage usually for the USA, sometimes for Israel. What Russia is doing in Ukraine is no different.
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  1289. @ The roots in India ones are particularly bad but the "Romanian" Romanians are also far from upstanding
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  1290.  @Corvin2696  haha USA is already well past that point :)
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  1291. A war in which we fought on behalf of a vicious, murderous dictatorship (Poland) to stop a different vicious, murderous dictatorship (Germany) from taking control of a League of Nations administered ethnically German city which wasn't even part of Poland and allied ourselves with yet another vicious, murderous dictatorship, the worst of all (Soviet Union). The outcome being we lost hundreds of thousands dead, bankrupted ourselves and lost our empire, in fact, our empire has now colonised us. A totally unnecessary and stupid war.
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  1292. "It's recognising an ethnic and linguistic reality on the ground" - something you were not prepared to do in Ukraine.
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  1293. It's fine to be pro-Putin but the story about Prigozhin is as convincing as Burisma hiring Hunter Biden because he's the smartest lawyer available. As Joe Biden would say - "c'mon man!" ..... anyone who has any doubts should look up the footage of the plane crashing. A grenade doesn't do that.
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  1294.  @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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  1295. It's even worse than that, Britain is out in front encouraging escalation.
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  1296. @Echo Foxtrot That's a totally moronic claim. In most battles, the defender takes higher casualties because the attacker has the initiative and more firepower and when the defender breaks they're retreating out in the open.
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  1297.  danjohnston9037  LOL it's undiluted propaganda. For example claiming Mariupol can only be supplied by road - er no there's a railway there now and onwards up to the front. And he didn't mention Avdivka which is likely to fall in the next couple of months, that's pretty huge.
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  1298. Yeah - he's more right than wrong but he's more left than right
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  1299. Don't you realise Israel is killing thousands of innocent people?
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  1300. Worked nicely for an Austrian postcard painter too.
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  1301. It's not a stalemate. Whereas every day Russia gets stronger, Ukraine gets weaker. The First World War didn't end in a stalemate, although both sides got exhausted one side cracked first. Likewise, this war.
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  1302.  @boink800  1) Most of the Bolsheviks weren't Russian 2) The Russian countryside got starved as well
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  1303. Yeah the Ukraine war definitely is all for nothing. Ukraine is going to lose, it's economy is destroyed and it's going to have hundreds of thousands of dead from the war and be permanently depopulated by emigration. There was a peace deal hammered out a few weeks into the way which basically says Ukraine keeps out of NATO and treats the ethnic Russians properly. And it was torpedoed by Biden and Boris Johnson and Scholz. This isn't just a rumour anymore, a couple of weeks back German corroboration was released including from the ex head of the German army. So yes, the war is all for nothing or perhaps for the US neocons to kill some Russians by expending Ukrainian lives. And yes the First World War was all for nothing too. What did it achieve? Millions dead, Europe destroyed, British empire fatally weakened, Bolshevik Revolution in Russia which soon killed millions more and all it did to Germany was postpone its rise by twenty years.
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  1304.  @MyUniqueVibe  Those cheap Iranian drones have caused a massive problem for Ukraine. They're far cheaper than any anti-aircraft missile and were hitting the electricity grid all winter. Just because North Korea and Iran can't build a forth or fifth generation fighter doesn't mean they can't build good missiles or perfectly adequate artillery shells.
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  1305.  @paulsonsons425  And you think in a war only one side tells lies?
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  1306.  @joshuaking2171  No kidding, that was sarcasm
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  1307. Nobody with a brain seriously believes there was no attempt to cover this up. Jailing people for what was known to be the truth is blatantly totalitarian.
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  1308. This would be true if human behaviour was purely determined by environment but we know for a fact it's also heavily influenced by genetics.
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  1309. Russia's economy is growing pretty quickly, you might want to check your sources
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  1310. Maybe they could just be used in different areas though. Yes using different systems in the same area that could definitely be dysfunctional.
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  1311. 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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  1312. All the Ukrainian trains are electric, correct? And the Ukrainian military replies almost exclusively on trains for its logistics, correct? So losing any ability to redeploy or supply forces across the whole front for several hours is something the Ukrainian military would not notice? I don't think so.
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  1313. @ Only a school child with no knowledge of Libya, Afghanistan or Kosovo would claim NATO has never started hostilities.
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  1314.  @lastword8783  Over the past couple of weeks it's nowhere near a 1:1 trade. The Ukrainians have destroyed a few Russian vehicles here and there. Whereas entire Ukrainian columns have been smashed up. There's also footage of Ukrainian units deliberately crossing into Russian lines to surrender.
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  1315.  @abrahamroe5148  Ukraine has been shelling Donetsk City for years, deliberately targeting civilians not just killing them as collateral damage. The SBU has tortured and murdered people as have the nationalist militias like Azov. It's all documented and if you have any doubt, you should research it yourself. Ethnic violence and murders started with the Maidan coup, before Russia took Crimea.
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  1316.  @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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  1317.  @adambussert3383  For sure if it was just Soviet Union vs Germany, it could have ended in a stalemate. The Soviets needed Western supplies to sustain their deep penetration attacks. But at the end of the day, the Red Army took Berlin and stomped al over Eastern Europe. It's dangerous to underestimate Russia.
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  1318. So nothing to do with the Ukrainian government using the ethnic Hungarians as cannon fodder then?
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  1319. They're too small to show on anything except a survey map :)
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  1320. No, there will never be thick enough ice that far south.
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  1321. @@AquaFyrre Interesting comment, can you please explain how you know that?
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  1322.  @marcoobin4571  Neutral projections are that the Russian economy will be growing nicely the next couple of years. An overheating economy is normal when you've got high economic growth. So is high employment and wage pressures. Jumping from the Russian economy is overheating to it's going to meltdown implies no understanding of economics.
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  1323.  @marcoobin4571  Of course war is expensive but the idea the Russian economy can't sustain this for long just isn't plausible. In case you haven't noticed, Ukraine is in serious trouble.
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  1324. Putin laid down his terms, he knows he's winning. Ukraine has the option of meeting his terms.
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  1325.  @ericp1139  Apparently a bare bones T72 is half a million! And the Amata is around 5 million. Russian tanks might not be better than Western tanks but they're certainly cheaper.
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  1326.  @RomanVarl  People have been predicting the tank is about to become obsolete for over a hundred years now :P The only place on the battlefield more dangerous than in a tank is outside of a tank.
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  1327.  @redscope897  wikipedia says half a million for a brand new T72 in 2011 but no doubt you know better.
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  1328.  @andreasfjellborg1810  Yeah fair enough it's a base price. Still a lot cheaper than $30 million!
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  1329.  @careytitan9097  Both sides have released criminals from prison to fight at the front. Actually Britain did that in the First World War (not sure about the Second) and America did that in Vietnam.
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  1330. "There's noone I can find across the spectrum who doesn't like Humza Yousef" FFS man 90% of Scotland hates him! Even most SNP members can't stand him.
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  1331.  @kevinodriscoll3904  It's very hard to compare British and German casualties because the British recorded all casualties whereas the Germans didn't record injured who were successfully treated by their own regimental aid posts. This means in most older historiography, German casualties tend to be heavily understated. On the Somme specifically, German casualties in their fighting against the British (I don't know too much about the French held front) were lower than British casualties but the difference probably isn't that much. In some specific battles within the general Somme umbrella, German casualties were definitely higher.
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  1332.  @polysporin8332  LOL the USA is a former British colony and nowadays a brown country too
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  1333. Nah he's not a fool, more like a tool - making very good money spreading this propaganda
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  1334.  @gamingforever9121  Yes a consideration but generally a minor consideration. NATO countries have no problem managing their media to make whatever case they want to make for war. Even when it's extremely clumsy as in 9/11 Al Qaeda attacked us so let's attack Al Qaeda's other enemy Iraq, the end result is Western governments drag their populations behind them just as easily as countries like Russia. If you ever do get a chance to look into the media manipulation to make the case for the Kosovo war, it's fascinating but things have moved on so much since then, government control over media narratives is much tighter, true for USA, Britain, France and Germany.
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  1335.  @Ungood-jl5ep  You obviously don't understand this stuff at all. The half life is around six times longer than U235, nobody suggests that's negligible so why would you claim a sixth of that is practically on existent? That makes no sense whatsover. When U238 decays it decays with an alpha particle. So it's wrong to suggest it's "mainly a beta emitter". It emits both particles at the same time. The alpha one is approx two thousand times more dangerous so that's the one we care about. As for vaporising, the density is irrelevant. It vaporises around 4000K and you get way hotter than that in the stream of a shape charged anti-tank round. Dude, stick to what you know and it ain;t nuclear physics.
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  1336.  @Ungood-jl5ep  Does it hurt to be humiliated by a lady? Or has it been happening your whole life so you're used to it?
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  1337. According to the British media, Russia ran out of tanks, missiles and aircraft several months ago. Even just a couple of weeks ago we were being told Ukraine is winning.
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  1338.  @bonnie7898  1) You call NATO a defensive alliance. This is a propaganda claim easily refuted by looking at the wars in Serbia, Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan. None of these countries attacked a NATO country. NATO coalitions attacked them. 2) Your understanding of how both world wars started is extremely simplistic. 3) The Donbas situation is not comparable to 1938 Sudetenland. Ukraine attacked its own citizens in Donbas (and successfully in Odessa). The war was settled by Minsk I and then later by Minsk II. All of Poroshenko, Zelensky, Hollande and Merkel admitted that the Minsk II treaty was not meant in good faith by the west and was merely to give Ukraine time to rearm. 4) In the lead up to the Russian invasion, Ukrainian shelling of Donbas intensified, both Ukraine and USA were talking about Ukraine joining NATO (and Ukraine was on a membership plan) and Zelensky was talking about acquiring nuclear weapons.
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  1339. Firstly it is cherry picked content because the Russian MOD won't release what doesn't suit them and the Ukrainians are keeping quiet but there is a huge element of desperation in the Ukrainian attack. An attack against open country against well defended and well prepared positions is just extremely hard especially without air cover. Russia had the same problem at Vuhledar - and also had high losses for minimal gains. Anyone who thought Ukraine could magically try the same thing successfully just because they have "Western equipment" is naive.
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  1340. If F16s arrived, the Russians would hit them on the airfields.
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  1341.  @MsLoumon  Then by that logic we're all guilty because all of our governments have committed plenty of atrocities especially if we're Israel, American or British.
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  1342.  @jettrink9502  Even after I pointed this out you are STILL confusing 1) the ethnic Serbs in Bosnia and 2) The State of Serbia.
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  1343.  @donaldclifford5763  Correct. None of those "limited operations" were about defending NATO countries. They were all aggressive military actions against other countries. Just because NATO claims to be a defensive alliance don't make it so.
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  1344.  @jettrink9502  Finland and Sweden aren't in NATO you clown. They plan to join but that's years off. The reason Russia hasn't invaded Finland or Sweden is because Russia has no reason to invade Finland or Sweden. It's a totally different situation from Ukraine where there's been a war going on ever since the Maidan coup.
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  1345.  @Katya_Lastochka  Olga Skabeyeva suggested London should be hit by a nuclear armed missile on television and others I don't remember. I don't know what you mean by official Russian state media.
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  1346.  @johngarbutt  It wasn't just the Western MSM. Western generals made hyperbolic claims about the Russians collapsing most notoriously clown in chief Ben Hodges. And Zelensky predicted he'd be swimming on a Crimean beach by the end of the summer.
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  1347.  @donaldkasper8346  They didn't starve when Ukraine cut off the water before the war, hard to see why they would starve now. The rail bridge is still working. The ports are still working. The land corridor is still open.
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  1348.  @christinemcclymont269  Same logic as saying an astrologer knows nothing because he hasn't been to the stars.
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  1349.  @NerickovaNoha  Not the logic NATO used when it seized Kosovo from Serbia. The rhetoric then was all about self determination.
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  1350.  @NerickovaNoha  You're making the common mistake of confusing Bosnia and Kosovo. Mladic was in Bosnia and was not part of the Serbian state. It's a bit like blaming the Mexican state for the actions of Mexican cartels in the USA.
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  1351.  @NerickovaNoha  Yeah this kind of morality depends massively on what side you're on. There is a huge double standard though. Yeltsin warned that if Kosovo was taken from Serbia, that created the precedent that European borders were up for negotiation. But because Russia was very weak at the time, Yeltsin was ignored. Well, you know the saying, what goes around comes around. This war would never have happened if Ukraine and America had just publicly stated Ukraine will not join NATO. But instead, both were pushing hard for Ukraine to join NATO despite many warnings including from Germany. Now it's too late, The war will have to be fought out until one side or the other collapses. And I don't think Russia is going to collapse. I doubt there'll be much left of Ukraine afterwards. It's already lost half its population since the end of the Soviet Union.
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  1352. The Finns should ask Ukraine how getting Crimea back is working out for them.
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  1353.  @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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  1354.  @dlarge6502  LOL a bot accuses a human of being a bot
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  1355. @Nehemiah Scudder Britain was a net EU contributor so by your own logic, Britain was right to leave.
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  1356. @Nehemiah Scudder Your assumptions are wrong. 1) The British economy isn't actually shrinking relative to the rest of Europe. Baltic countries are much worse hit. British inflation is around the European average. Dutch inflation is almost 17% now, it's carnage. There have been huge protests this year all over Europe, just a few days ago tens of thousands of people were demonstrating in Prague. 2) If it's actually true that there's some EU funding which has not been covered by the British government (and that's NOT true for farming) then that's a deliberate choice by the British government. The point of Brexit is more CONTROL for the British people, NOT automatic presents from their own money. 3) Import/export restrictions are due mainly to deliberate revenge by Brussels, Paris and Dublin. For example, the Northern Irish borders sees 2.5 times more customs checks than Rotterdam, the biggest port in Europe despite the cross border traffic being a tiny proportion of the traffic going through Rotterdam. Why do you want to be politically united with an empire that behaves like that towards us?
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  1357.  @alisonwilson9749  Since 2016, UK's average annual growth has been almost identical to Germany's. You can't explain economic performance with a monocausal explanation like Brexit but even if you could, you would have to conclude it had no effect.
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  1358. Diversity is our strength
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  1359. What a joke. Back in the real world, Russia is advancing on multiple places on the eastern front and Ukraine seems incapable of doing anything about it. Pretty soon, Russia's going to have three quarters of a million men in Ukraine, for the first time outnumbering the Ukrainian army. The Russian economy is growing and munitions production has increased faster than in the West. And ammunition which was going to Ukraine has been rerouted to Israel. And these clowns are still talking about taking Crimea. Do they even believe what they're saying?
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  1360. Their exact identity is not 100% known but we know they fired from a building controlled by the nationalists.
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  1361. Only feasible when the Russian front was chronically undermanned, and sporadically fortified, before mobilisation.
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  1362. Yeah Zeihan doesn't seem to know what he's talking about. He's wrong about the population being older and unhealthy too. There are pockets of severe health problems but that's not typical of the whole country. The age structure is typical for the EU. Scotland is an energy exporter and that won't change any time soon. Huge wind farms, fisheries, North Sea oil will be around for decades yet. Cheap housing and pay similar to England outside London.
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  1363.  CrimeaIsUkraine  You're getting confused. AFU = Ukrainian armed forces. That's almost 200k Ukrainian casualties, not Russian casualties. A leaked internal Ukrainian military report. Also look at prisoners taken. Less than 1000 Russian POWs taken by Ukraine, well over 10k Ukrainian POWs taken by the Russian side. Lastly, consider that according to the Kiev regime's own logic, half of the Russian side casualties are actually Ukrainian citizens. DPR/LPR forces do most of the close in infantry fighting.
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  1364. This is a typical Russian offensive. And it's in the most heavily fortified part of the entire front. https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Nevelskoe.mp4 Bombard the Ukrainian positions until defenders are either casualties or retreat. Attack with armour and artillery support. Infantry mops up. It's slow but it results in very low casualties on the Russian side. Some Ukrainian units report taking 60% casualties without even seeing an enemy soldier. Anyone who still thinks the Russians are going to be defeated is a victim of NATO and Ukrainian propaganda. Look at the Ukrainian Kherson offensive and the propaganda about thousands of Russian soldiers being trapped west of the Dniepr without supplies. The reality is that over the past couple of days, the Russians made a big advance along the coast towards Mikulayev and another advance around the north west.
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  1365.  @flyingnorseman  It's better than the alternative!
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  1366. Yes the demographic problem in Ireland is a complete catastrophe, per capita is seems to be about the worst in Europe.
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  1367.  @FutureCommentary1  No, there is really high immigration from Africa. For a long time, if someone from Africa arrived in Ireland and had a baby, the baby would automatically get Irish citizenship then the mother and other family members could stay. An utterly moronic policy which meant that even ten years ago, a quarter of the babies being born in Ireland were African.
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  1368.  @Withnail1969  Correct that S300s are not designed for ground targets but they can be used as ground to ground missiles and Russia used some in that way because they're obsolete and not required for air defence. You are right that some of the S300 hits in Ukraine (and Poland!) are from Ukrainian missiles failing to work as intended.
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  1369.  @Withnail1969  Lots of documented cases of them used to hit ground targets, what evidence do you have that they can not?
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  1370. It's a made up propaganda number
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  1371.  @w8stral  Scotland obesity around 30% Mississippi obesity around 40%. USA around 36%. But now compare to what Zeihan actually says about Scotland. If you didn't check the numbers, you'd have the impression that Scotland is worse off than just about anywhere right? BTW I wasn't meaning to suggest Mississippi is especially bad, just using that as an example of one I knew about without having to check.
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  1372.  @hrogarfyrninga3238  Don't you think that's relevant information for context for his mainly American audience? He's basically saying people in Scotland are fat - but leaving out the hugely important context that relative to the population his audience comes from, people in Scotland are thin.
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  1373.  @Whaleydavey  If you followed the entire thread you'll know that obesity in Scotland is lower than in the USA OVERALL. A lot lower.
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  1374. Elite units get the most dangerous jobs. And most of the casualties are from the failed attack on Hostomel. They're not necessarily taking high causalities any more. Some Ukrainian units have taken 80% casualties and are still in battle.
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  1375. There's a lot more going on than what Zeihan tells you. In Netherlands and Ireland, the governments are actually trying to seize land. It's not so much about subsidies as restrictions which make farming uneconomic or outright illegal.
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  1376.  @penoytinker1183  ah ok fair enough, I didn't hear that. I think a MSP could still claim expenses for a personal device used overseas if it's for parliamentary business. And fair enough too, if you get high roaming charges because of your work, it's fair your work should reimburse. Obviously this particular case was not parliamentary business.
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  1377.  @ronniemac2636  Aye fair enough I hadn't heard that
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  1378. EVs powered by a mainly fossil fuel electricity grid :)
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  1379. 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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  1380. You want to stop trading with the entire world?
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  1381.  @smillner771  There has never been a "free and fair election" in Ukraine :)
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  1382. They're not - look them up. Zeihan didn't bother fact checking the basics. Also about energy - Scotland is a huge energy exporter.
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  1383. Especially running down a policeman
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  1384.  @aladnyulok32  Why should Hungarian voters need to speak English? It's their country, their interests. Don't you know how badly Ukraine has treated ethnic Hungarians since the Maidan coup?
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  1385.  @aladnyulok32  Hungary is doing better than most of the EU. I lived in Netherlands even 20 years ago it had a huge problem with immigration and it has only got worse since. I know Germany pretty well it's going downhill there really fast. France has long since been a lost cause. In fifty years time Hungary will still be Hungarian, France will have only French pockets left.
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  1386.  @leeii337  Chechnya is part of the Russian federation. If you support self determination for Chechans who want to separate from Russia, do you also support self determination for Donbas Russians who want to separate from Ukraine?
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  1387. You should take a look at what Snowden released to Wikileaks.
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  1388. More like they were just waiting for Ukraine to burn their reserves in pointless attacks. Also the Russian army has been slowly expanding whereas Ukraine is running low on manpower.
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  1389.  @CakeofWisdom  If you believe that, you're going to get a very unpleasant surprise when you see how this war ends.
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  1390.  @jonlee2217  What you think everyone who calls out neocon propaganda must be Russian?
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  1391. "when". Back in the real world, Russia is destroying the Ukrainian army and driving them out of Donbas one village at a time
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  1392. Piers Morgan is not England.
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  1393.  @billkosses3808  I've got four children and it's damn expensive. But I'd much rather have lower taxes than more benefits which is basically making me jump through hoops to claw back some of my own money.
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  1394.  @bradmodd7856  How can anyone still believe Ukraine is going to retake Zaporizhye and Kherson? Look at the progress towards this over the past two months and the casualties.
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  1395.  @ethancoster1324  US and other NATO officials including Baker the US Secretary of State publicly promised NATO would not expand eastwards.
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  1396.  @LutherusPXCs  And if you believe a general's claims in war time about enemy casualties, you've never studied history. Everyone lies in war time, if you don't believe Gerasimov's claims about Ukrainian deaths, why would you believe Zaluzhny?
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  1397. Accurate, unbiased? Are you drunk? this guy is heavily pro-Ukraine.
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  1398. There are plenty of Russians on the internet back from Ukrainian captivity who are saying exactly the same things. If you think Russia behaves worse than Ukraine to POWs it's because you're consuming propaganda from only one side.
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  1399.  @XMusicSickness  If Israel is right, why did the UN get a two thirds majority demanding a cease fire despite US pressure to vote against? You really should look in to how the Palestinians have been treated by Israel.
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  1400. 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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  1401.  @ErikLiberty  Russia won the guerrilla war in Chechnya
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  1402. But no evidence whatsoever that it actually happened.
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  1403.  @rameshpudhucode6862  Yes he said it bit it's a lie. Even the US president admitted the US is in Syria for the oil.
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  1404.  @wedgeantilles8575  Every day Ukraine gets weaker, every day the Russian economy grows and the Russian army is gradually getting stronger too. That's not a stalemate. A stalemate is where neither side has a path to victory.
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  1405. They don't, it's Zeihan's explanation to distract from the real reason for the Ukraine war - relentless NATO expansion eastwards despite promises made to Russia at the time of German reunification that this would not happen. You'll notice that although he keeps repeating this claim over and over in any video where he mentions Russia, he has never provided a single shred of evidence.
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  1406. It's true, Ukraine doesn't have the satellites to target them.
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  1407.  @jimluebke3869  Either side could have used divers to set charges. All we know for sure is before the Russians pulled back across the river, Ukraine was targeting the dam with missiles.
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  1408. I can't stand this guy but he is right about Cameron and double standards.
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  1409.  @tsubadaikhan6332  Possibilities to consider 1) They already have most of the territory they want - with the exception of Donetsk oblast which is so heavily defended that advances are very slow. 2) Once the Ukrainian army has collapsed, it's relatively easy to take the rest of the territory they want. The Ukrainian army is suffering high attrition and desertion so although collapse hasn't happened yet, it's probably inevitable rather than just conceivable. I don't know for sure exactly what territory Russia wants but it already has the land bridge to Crimea and the city of Mariupol (which rebelled against Kiev in 2014). It has already secured the Azov Sea and Crimea's water supplies and the best farm land in the country and most of the coal fields and most of the gas fields. Quite likely they'll want Kharkov too and Odessa (other cities with large pro-Russian movements) but who knows? The other consideration is that Russia is playing a very cool game. Avoiding sudden movements avoids unduly alarming the rest of the world. This artillery war of attrition plays to Russia's strengths diplomatically and militarily. As for Kherson, check the latest reports. The Russians are already regaining the villages the Ukrainians took at high cost over the past couple of days. Supply lines? Don't you think the Russians have barges? Pontoon bridges? A huge fleet of heavy lift helicopters? Ukrainian attacks on logistics are about preventing a Russian attack north of Mikulayev, not about seriously retaking Kherson which is just militarily impossible.
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  1410. Even the lettuce lasted longer than Truss.
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  1411.  @cfosnock  "no promises were made". It's all well documented pal. You obviously just don't know much about it. For a single example, google Secretary of State James Baker not one inch eastward.
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  1412.  @martinsFILMS13  Thank you, you are finally admitting Russia was lied to about something they consider fundamental to their security.
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  1413. It's a made up propaganda number
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  1414. Sure, the NZ military is about the same size as the entire Cook Island population. A single company of infantry would be plenty to take over the entire country.
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  1415. Every Western country other than Hungary is being colonised by other than ethnically European immigrants with the assistance of its own government. Censorship blocks out any criticism and authoritarian measures are being used against any protests while at the same time the colonisers are allowed to run riot.
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  1416. Facts 1) Maidan coup was supported by the minority of the population. 2) Shooting started by what we now have proof is nationalist agents-provacateurs shooting on both sides. 3) Yanukovych u-turned on EU membership because EU terms were too harsh i.e. killing the eastern Ukraine economy 4) The democratically elected president was ousted violently.
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  1417.  @invisiblehandofadamsmith  Poland has official inflation over 17%, the government is becoming ever more authoritarian, economists are confidently predicting electricity black outs and I've seen people queuing half a day for firewood. Perhaps you live in Krakow without following what's going on around you?
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  1418. "invading orcs" FFS man are you at primary school? Do you think this is Lord of the Rings? If you ever go to Russia, you'll find cities like Moscow and St Petersburg more civilised than Paris and London. If you think this is an "unprovoked invasion" then you haven't looked into the background to the war.
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  1419.  @dannydxm  Like with many other topics, he just makes stuff up. Earlier on he said Scotland has the oldest population in Europe, something easy to check which you can see is false after a few minutes checking sources. As for the outright propaganda he comes up with on Ukraine...
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  1420.  @naplutin4779  Because I watch several neutral channels plus I watch the propaganda from both sides.
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  1421.  @turnip5359  It's not just Mozart, it's Azov and Right Sector and the SBU etc. etc.
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  1422.  @kitsuneneko2567  Spoken like a true problem gambler. I keep winning so double or nothing. If you had the brains to understand game theory it should be obvious to you the Russians will retaliate against anything that truly hurts them. Luckily they're confident they're going to win an acceptable cost regardless of these US weapons.
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  1423.  @kitsuneneko2567  It takes a special level of stupidity to think you can keep escalating and the other side won't retaliate. Congrations you're special.
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  1424.  @wsamples  You can make fun of countries like China and India but you can't pretend Western countries don't have economic problems. China has already overtaken the USA in PPP GDP and it long since overtook the US in manufacturing output. BRICS is expanding and most of the world economy and most of the world population and most of the world's oil production will be in BRICS. The fact is, most of the world regards the US as bullying, hypocritical and dangerous. BRICS destroys the ability of the US to impoverish other countries by using economic sanctions.
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  1425.  @TheImperatorKnight  I've got bachelors and masters in both engineering mathematics and history. I disagree that any of it was a waste of time or money. Studying history formally has some big advantages over just reading history books, it forces you to question your assumptions, read different points of view and opens up large fields you didn't know you should read about otherwise. Might depend what universities though - for me, it was Open University and Dundee for history. Excellent tutors for the most part who show you where you're wrong and what you're missing. That's what you're paying for. You just don't have that if you're learning on your own. BTW for context, I did history purely as a hobby with no career benefits other than improving my writing skills and possibly improving my ability to structure an argument.
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  1426. "when"
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  1427.  @IrishTechnicalThinker  Like for example banning the teaching of Russian in schools or Russian language in cinemas like the post Maidan government did in Crimea and Donetsk even though almost all of the people in south east Ukraine were Russian speakers?
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  1428.  @enpakeksi765  Theti Mapping, Defense Politics Asia, Weeb Union. Another good channel is Military Summary, pro-Russian bias but best for detailed twice daily updates/analysis of the fighting. Also see History Legends, not frequent updates calls out propaganda from both sides.
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  1429. If it were possible to destroy those bridges I think Russia would already have done that.
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  1430. Zeihan's calls on this incident so far have been embarrassing.
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  1431. What does he care? It doesn't bother him how many Ukrainians die just so long as the US gets a minor geostrategic advantage from their deaths.
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  1432.  @RazorMouth  The Kherson offensive was a morale boosting press release by the Ukrainian ministry of defence. Russia has already retaken the territory the Ukrainian army gained there at great cost. The Russians have also regained most of their losses around Kharkov.
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  1433.  @Harry_S._  That's very far from certain. If domestic heating can be maintained it'll only be through higher domestic prices and shutting down industrial gas use altogether. Already, fertiliser and aluminium production has been shut off because gas is too expensive.
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  1434.  @Szminsky  For sure. Some missiles miss their target. But I've seen a lot of videos of substation transformers being hit.
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  1435. 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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  1436. The ones there for political crimes are - like Sam Melia two years prison for posting leaflets.
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  1437. So much like Westmoreland in Vietnam? Who sent platoons of soldiers and marines out into the jungle as bait for VC ambushes.
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  1438.  @tsumugikotobuki0131  I'm pretty sure Julius Caesar stole it from Homer.
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  1439.  @vincekerrigan8300  The point is it explains why a lot of French people aren't going to thank Britain for kicking the Germans out.
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  1440. LOL both sides have been using them for over a year.
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  1441. If these clowns in Washington and London had listened when Putin explained over and over Ukraine joining NATO is crossing a red line for Russia, none of this would have happened. I can't see many young British men willing to sacrifice their lives to fight Russia on behalf of a country which is selling them out anyway. It's not Russia that's invading the country.
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  1442.  @the_pinkerton  LOL how can anyone seriously believe that? economically state spending just keeps rising. Individual rights are being subsumed by collective rights with each new law. Culturally we're even now struggling to define what a woman is and what a family is. Do you think Gramsci wasn't far left?
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  1443. Dr Campbell is very worthwhile listening to on medical matters but doesn't appear to have a realistic understanding of the war. The chances of the Ukrainian army getting near the power station are very low despite their "modern Western weapons".
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  1444.  @iannothling2791  I think you mean the Kherson offensive. I don't think the Kharkov offensive can really be spun positively for the Russians even if Ukrainian casualties were heavy as well.
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  1445.  @tonygreen6185  Because it is a fairy tale. Ukraine is losing badly. Over the past few weeks Russia has taken more territory than Ukraine and the Ukrainian casualties have been very heavy.
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  1446. Back in the real world, Russia already got the Finnish border it wanted in 1944. The idea that it's going to risk a major war to attack Lapland where it has no strategic interest is beyond ridiculous. Probably Nielsen doesn't seriously believe this, it's just typical war hysteria to feed the NATO gravy train.
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  1447.  @ABCBCNM  Yeah I understand the narrative but please, turn on your BS detector
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  1448.  @ABCBCNM  I think I've been shadow banned. I answered that already and I can't see my answer.
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  1449. Nobody could make Russia pay and Russia could easily find other excuses why the pipeline could be temporarily broken. Russia would not throw away its leverage over Germany for something so trivial as a contract which can not be enforced anyway. Russia and Germany are the least likely suspects of all.
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  1450. The downside is he lets his guests get away with propaganda assertions which should be questioned. Examples in this interview are Russian interference when even at the time of the interview was known to be FBI disinformation to smear Trump and also the blatant double standards on Ukraine.
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  1451. @ Mate, even your mother thinks you're a boring pedant.
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  1452. I'm now waiting for Peter Zeihan to call the US security system incompetent because the Russians warned about the Boston marathon attack before it happened and FBI failed to stop it. But he's not going to do that because regardless of the facts, he spins every fact as US great, Russia/China bad. And his fan boys love it.
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  1453. Some individual animals maybe even most are fine but some are psychotic and you can't tell for sure which is which. They've killed and mutilated too many people especially children.
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  1454. Like what? Peace?
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  1455.  @AS-hb2hb  What, destroying freedom of speech?
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  1456.  @aaronbaker2186  Not really, the parts of Ukraine which Russia has taken is mainly Russian speaking, settled by Russians and mainly pro-Russian. Look at how successfully Russia assimilated Crimea. And whereas Vietnam didn't matter to the Americans, Ukraine really does matter to the Russians.
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  1457.  @grimnir8872  12 December 2005 Independent article "By the mid 1970s, international convention had already agreed that the North Sea north of the 55th parallel was under Scottish jurisdiction. That meant around 90 per cent of the UK's oil and gas reserves fell within Scottish waters"
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  1458.  @exat87  Hitler actually wanted an alliance with Poland against the Soviet Union :) He wanted the Danzig corridor and Danzig city (which wasn't part of Poland anyway) and offered to compensate Poland with territory annexed from the Soviet Union. It's not as far fetched as it sounds. Germany and Poland collaborated to dismember Czechoslovakia (and Poland got a city called Teschen out of it). So your analogy is a bit more complex than you assume.
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  1459. Why would Russia be desperate? They're winning the war. Look up the average age of Ukrainian soldiers, it's up to ten years older than their Russian counter parts now. What do you think happened to the younger soldiers?
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  1460.  @YaroslavGovorunov  Russian nuclear weapons are more modern than US weapons on average. US nuclear modernisation hasn't been prioritised after decades of fighting third world insurgent forces.
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  1461. Too late now, the critical shortage in Ukraine is not equipment, it's willing and capable manpower.
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  1462. Yeah it was a really dumb escalation by the West.
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  1463. @ Edward Dutton has written several books on this. Also J. Winter. It's usual that after a major war the birth rate increases. Happened with both world wars. Probably will happen with the Ukraine war too. A lot of those Russian guys will go home get married and have plenty of money for a house.
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  1464.  @michaelbrown7142  Who the hell is Adrian?
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  1465. Worse... much worse. Thousands of guys stuck in trenches getting shelled with nothing they can do about it. Really tragic. But you'll never hear about it in the Western media.
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  1466. Looks like the US government would prefer Zaluzhny at this stage. Zelensky is discredited within and outside Ukraine. Just look at how he's being portrayed in the Western media now e.g. the Times article which basically ridicules him for still believing in victory.
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  1467.  @kathi17a  Yeah definitely. Blaming Zelensky outright is too blatant. The problem is, the media story about blaming Zaluzhny came out months ago, long before he looked like a possible successor to Zelensky, So now we've got this ridiculous pivot to some fairly junior colonel who is conveniently in prison anyway. Maybe we can pretend he was acting rogue without Zaluzhny's knowledge.
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  1468. Which right, the right to hold the public hostage or the right to life saving cancer care?
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  1469.  @maryginger4877  A submarine drone can cut its way through nets.
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  1470.  @lani6647  Artillery isn't the main Russian problem, the problem is the supply roads to Klishivka are pretty crap and run close to Ukrainian lines so communications with the front are unfavourable. Also the Ukrainians have most or all of the high ground now. It's not really worth the Russians fighting there at a disadvantage so they'll probably pull back soon if Ukraine can keep pushing hard. However there aren't great positions for the Russians to the east of there either.
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  1471. People they "captured" in Ukraine? You mean the ethnic Russians who rebelled against the post Maidan government long before Russia got involved at all?
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  1472.  @georgewright4285  Russia would say the same about Crimea. Crimea was Russian long before it became Ukrainian. Also, most of the people in Crimea want to be part of Russia, not part of Ukraine. Even according to Western polling agencies.
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  1473. ​ @michaeltoms7040  By your own argument, the vast majority of the population of North America, Australia and South America should move to Europe (and Africa) even if all their grandparents were born where they were born. 99% of the Taiwanese should move to mainland China. etc. But how far back do you want to go? Perhaps you should take your own advice because if you actually looked into who the Tartars are, to the extent that they're not interbred with everyone since, they're descended from incoming conquerors themselves, they're not the native people. Should they all move back to Mongolia? I don't think you've thought this through.
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  1474.  @michaeltoms7040  My point is if you're arguing to kick out people whose ancestors moved there several hundred years ago - because the area was annexed by Russia in the reign of Catherine the Great - then you're creating an interesting precedent for the rest of the world. I'm not pro-Russian and I'm not pro-Ukrainian but the reality is, the large majority of people in Crimea want to be part of Russia, not part of Ukraine. A few years ago, even an outright majority of the large minority of ethnic Ukrainians in Crimea were happy to be part of Russia. Not as surprising as it sounds because pay and pensions in Russia are far higher than in Ukraine. In any case, nobody is going to be throwing Russia out of Crimea. Despite the Russians pulling out of Kherson, Ukraine is going to be lucky not to lose more territory before this war is over. As for rewarding people for holding the ground, we (the West) lost any credibility in 1999 when we seized Kosovo by force and took it off Serbia. Since then we've had all kinds of hypocrisy and lies in Iraq and Syria and Libya.
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  1475. Times Radio is embarrassing. How can they claim with a straight face Ukraine can negotiate from a position of strength next year? They'll be nobody left to negotiate by then.
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  1476.  @stephenconnolly3018  Ok bright spark explain how you think Ukraine is going to turn this around without reference to the tooth fairy or Santa claus
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  1477. Zeihan's track record on predictions is pretty dire too.
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  1478. He didn't imprison ALL the opposition, some were assassinated e.g Denys Kireyev
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  1479. Yes! Reminds me a bit of how Dr John Campbell evolved in his excellent channel on the virus and the cover ups and the vaccines.
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  1480. Casualties usually mean killed, wounded, prisoners, missing etc. The normal word for killed only is fatalities.
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  1481. Sure, you also believe the Nordstream pipeline blew up itself right?
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  1482. Sure, after they do that, they could do a lightning advance to Vladivostok through Moscow and plant the Ukrainian flag on the Kremlin. Easy. They should phone you up for advice.
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  1483.  @damonburroughs5283  Russia has taken lower casualties overall from a population more than four times bigger. And most of the Russian casualties have been DPR/LPR/Wagner rather than Russian military. Russian morale right now seems pretty good, obviously there are always going to be a lot of complaints but we're not seeing deliberate surrenders (ie. radioing the enemy to organise surrenders) like we've seen from the Ukrainian side on many occasions over the past two weeks. Over months now I've seen dozens of videos of Ukrainians rounding up random guys picked up off the street for the army. Whereas Russia had one round of mobilising reservists - not conscripts - reservists. I don't suggest it's all easy for Russia but Ukraine has taken higher casualties with a much smaller population. Much of the Ukrainian population doesn't support the war anyway (tens of thousands of them are fighting for the Russian side). Given the recent Russian gains at what's supposed to be the height of the Ukrainian offensive, I don't think it looks good for Ukraine.
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  1484. Axis of evil = neocon propaganda for dummies. Don't people remember how Iran, Iraq and North Korea were the "Axis of Evil"? And the US started a war with Iraq based on lies about WMD
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  1485. Look at the big picture. Russia is not going to accept being pushed out of Crimea. It would use nuclear weapons if it had to. NATO leaders know that or the smarter ones do. Nobody except maybe Zelensky wants a nuclear war.
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  1486. It's not objective, it's based on incorrect claims. Go fact check Scottish demographics, health and energy. Scotland is a huge energy exporter and demographics is way better than most of Eastern Europe. It's only slightly older than England and England is younger only because of mass immigration from high birth rate parts of the world like Africa.
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  1487.  @vinm300  The "Butchers of Bucha" were Siberians, not the VDV. Possibly Chechans were involved. There's no evidence whatsoever the VDV had anything to do with it.
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  1488.  @antoniohagopian213  That's true. But he also said the same of Kiev :) You could read that as a threat more than something they will try to follow up on. The war is like a huge game of chicken with nuclear weapons. Neither NATO nor Russia want a nuclear war but both don't know how far they can push the other.
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  1489.  @danielbwest  Have you ever studied any history? wars often follow this pattern. It looks fairly even but one side has an advantage in numbers. Attrition costs both sides a similar number of casualties but relative casualties are higher for the smaller side. The number of men that smaller side can field starts to fall. Casualties start to get one sided. It's like a vertical pole falling. It firstly falls very slowly but it speeds up. The US Civil War and the First World War are examples. This Ukraine war is following the same pattern. How can you not see it? Ukraine is replacing trained, motivated volunteer casualties with old men, sick men, mentally retarded men - and even women.
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  1490.  @riccles8331  This clown general is basically calling for World War Three.
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  1491. Don't worry it doesn't actually work in America either. Accuracy and facts are not his strong points.
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  1492. So the much vaunted Ukrainian offensive was overblown, Ukraine can't win and continued fighting is achieving what exactly? The Iranian drones contributed to wiping out Ukrainian air defence and contributed to destroying the electric grid. Calling that a mistake is wishful thinking.
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  1493. As if he's read it! Great book BTW opened my eyes a lot.
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  1494.  @Zikar  Nah Ukraine admitted they were. The Ukrainian army also destroyed a dam in Bakhmut a couple of months back.
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  1495.  @gdiwolverinemale4th  No, it was corporatist. The small businessman was weak.
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  1496. Israel arbitrarily arrests Palestinians all the time. They're not prisoners of war, they're ordinary people who get arrested for things like sharing the news on Facebook. Just remember Israel is illegally occupying the West Bank and the Israeli government facilitates illegal Jewish settlements there.
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  1497.  @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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  1498.  @davidanon1568  He never had credibility he's always been a neocon propagandist. He's from Stratfor
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  1499.  @hastekulvaati9681  By that logic any country which is in the EU should be doing well. The reality is that every country in the EU except for tax haven Luxembourg has poverty. And currently there are huge protests all over the EU at the cost of living.
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  1500. Pretty soon he will be - if he wants to survive in a modern prison.
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  1501.  @Mercuryrising56627  Who is we the people? Putin is way more popular in Russia than any Western leader I can think of.
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  1502. I despise Sturgeon but claiming the SNP style civic nationalism has its origins in Goebbels is moronic. Fail.
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  1503. It was Canadians who had a stand off with the Red Army there. It probably wouldn't have mattered, the Soviets withdrew from Austria after the war as agreed before the surrender.
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  1504. In any war, each side accuses the other of war crimes. And most people are dumb enough to believe the propaganda.
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  1505. Also, the drones are directed by US air assets. If the Russians were allowed to target them the drones would have to rely entirely on their own autonomous AI.
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  1506. If it's a war crime to target civilian infrastructure then just remember, the USA did the same thing in many, many places including Yugoslavia and Iraq. And the British military helped them. So be aware of the blatant hypocrisy.
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  1507.  @mitchbaker6300  In Ukraine, the Russians are winning decisively despite Ukraine being a big country backed by NATO military aid exceeding the Russian defence budget. Underestimating Russia is a rookie's mistake :)
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  1508.  @benhardsatrio8222  And you seriously think a carrier is safe from Iskanders and Kinzhals?
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  1509.  @soot.2146  His kind can't help it, undermining the host society is an irresistible instinct.
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  1510. The vast majority of the people killed have been by Israeli airstrikes but people pointing out Israeli crimes are pro terrorist according to your kindergarten logic?
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  1511.  @SignalCorps1  Before, back before the 60s France contained almost all of West Africa. But France's heavy involvement in the region up until the year 2023 is about uranium.
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  1512. Utter BS just look at the numbers of people killed
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  1513.  @ForOurGood  The difference is Russia has more firepower, ammunition and an air force. What's the same is both sides use small squads to infiltrate.
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  1514. No, the war would have spread to become WWIII and probably would have turned nuclear by now.
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  1515.  @tgalloway  No, America instigated that war with a lot of cheer leading by Tony Blair.
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  1516.  @drmodestoesq  I don't pretend to know what the Serbs want but it's a fact that Kosovo was part of the Serbian state until NATO attacked Serbia and broke Kosovo away by force. The point is that NATO created this precedent that sovereign borders are no longer inviolable. Russia noted this publicly at the time. It's hypocritical for NATO now to pretend that Russia is doing anything different to what NATO did in Serbia.
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  1517. Even assuming Europe can avoid blackouts and mass death through hypothermia this winter - and that's a big if - then moving off cheap Russian gas means permanently higher prices for European industry. The permanent loss of energy intensive industry and the loss of millions of jobs. All for America's right to push NATO up to Russia's borders and the US installed, Bandera worshipping Kiev regime's right to treat its ethnic Russians how Serbia treated its ethnic Albanians.
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  1518.  @Klaatu-gl7jg  Obviously Algeria, Netherlands and Norway will not be able to make up all the supply in time for winter - and they won't be able to supply enough gas for all of Europe as cheaply as Russia can. I don't think Europe's blockade of Russian gas will last for long. As for all the LPG Europe is importing... where does it all come from? Well much of it comes from China. And where did China get it? Russia :) So Europe is basically paying a huge premium just to pretend it has sanctions on Russia. Pretensions that expensive aren't sustainable.
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  1519. Not American tanks. No American tanks have been given to Ukraine so far. The only Western tanks definitely destroyed so far are German Leopards. Possibly British Challengers have been used in action too but none known to be destroyed so far.
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  1520.  @propagandaisnottrue2121  Look into the guy's background
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  1521. Yeah hard to believe but it must be true because Zeihan said so without any evidence :P
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  1522.  @David-jt9nt  LOL guy who spells Tsar as Zar fancies himself an expert on Russian history
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  1523.  @David-jt9nt  LOL Dude who fancies himself an expert on Russia but spells Tsar as Zar now claims to be sleep texting.
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  1524.  @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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  1525.  @e-machine-ol1987  That seems to be the Halder version of what happens. The TIK channel analyses the whole Stalingrad battle over maybe fifty hours of video. Blaming AH doesn't seem to stand up.
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  1526. Russian air defence is cutting edge though Zeihan will never admit it.
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  1527. Because he's a comedian? How are his predictions panning out?
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  1528.  @neil2444  Bernie Sanders is a millionaire who has attacked elitism too. Does being a millionaire make Bernie Sanders wrong? I don't think so.
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  1529.  @neil2444  I'm not trying to tell you what you meant. I don't think having his own show makes him an oligarch. Unless you want to argue someone like Joe Rogan is an oligarch because he has a big audience and a big bank account too? That's not what an oligarch is. On the other hand, guys like Bezos or Zuckerberg or Dalio - these guys with the money to bend policy decisions in their direction - at least when they have a collective interest like when taxes are at stake.
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  1530.  @alunjones3860  Doubt a man would get ten years, the crime taken seriously nowadays is mis gendering. I agree a man would have gone to prison though.
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  1531. Derschowitz is making claims she knows is wrong, it's her job to expose this to the audience.
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  1532.  @jamesmason8944  It'll be on the Russian nuclear targets list too because of the long runway.
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  1533.  @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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  1534.  @quantumfairing2216  People keep forgetting, Finland lost both the Winter War and the Continuation War. Once the Soviet army got organised, the Finns could do nothing to stop it.
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  1535.  @quantumfairing2216  The reason the Soviet Union didn't crush Finland was political, not military. In both wars, the Soviets had penetrated the main Finnish defensive line defending Helsinki. In the Winter War, the Soviet objective was building a buffer zone to defend Leningrad, not taking over Finland. Dedicating excessive resources to Finland would have been rash given the danger from Germany, Japan and other priorities like gaining territory in the Balkans. It would also have massively antagonised Germany whom the Soviets rightly feared. Yes, for sure, there was incompetence, Stalin's purge of the generals is probably the main reason but nowadays, it's usual to exaggerate it as you seem to be doing. Don't forget the Soviet Army crushed the Japanese in a pretty big battle around this time. As for the Continuation War, obviously the main priority for the Soviet Army was defeating Germany, Finland was a sideshow. Peace with Finland freed up Soviet forces for the advance to Berlin. But the Finnish defeat was even more decisive. Finland nowadays likes to remember tactical successes in these wars, it's a nationalist narrative a lot like Ukraine boasting about tactical successes from the first month of the 2022 war. The reality is that tactical successes don't prevent disaster.
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  1536.  @quantumfairing2216  I never said the Red Army reached Helsinki, do you struggle with comprehension? The Molotov Ribbentrop Pact brought Finland into the Soviet sphere of influence. The Germans certainly didn't agree with the Soviet Union taking Finland over completely. Hitler said so explicitly. Yes, I said fighting with Japan was "around that time" - two months before. As for what you said about building a buffer zone around Leningrad - if you contradict that then you obviously don't have a clue about what the Soviet Union was trying to achieve. Look into the Soviet territorial demands/offer which led to the war. Am I correct that English isn't your native language?
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  1537. Yeah he's a pretty nice guy but he's not that bright.
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  1538. Even if Ukraine with its NATO missiles destroyed the entire Black Sea fleet, Russia will still win the war. Sorry to state the obvious but it's a land war. Russia is taking ground across the entire front. Ukraine is struggling to replace losses. All the propaganda in the world won't change those realities.
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  1539. 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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  1540. Your attitude towards the native population illustrates why this will end in ethnic war like in Bosnia, Lebanon and Iraq.
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  1541. Go and volunteer yourself, there are plenty of vacancies in the Ukrainian army
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  1542. That delusional. Most of Eastern Ukraine is Russian speaking and Belgorod is further east than anywhere in Ukraine. Even Zelensky from Krivoy Rog is a native Russian speaker and can't speak Ukrainian all that well. Real Ukrainian is more like the Lviv area
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  1543.  @SuperRede4u  To be fair so many people have said it I think it's taken root. I think originally Margarita Simonyan said something similar but it wasn't Putin or any other senior government leaders.
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  1544. Can you find the article? I don't speak Danish and there's a paywall but from recent articles mentioning Christianso (with the mark through the o), none seem to be mention this.
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  1545. I made a few quid on Trump winning so thanks!!
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  1546.  @Bluest_of_Blue_Waffles  I don't think so they all attempt to be neutral. Acknowledging Ukraine is losing this war is obvious even to pro-NATO people with a brain like Dan Davis. Admittedly Dima from Military Summary has a lot of eccentric speculations but they're pro Ukraine as often as pro-Russia. And he does a good job of distinguishing between fact and speculation. Guys like DPA and History LEgends have no skin in the game they're just calling out NAFO delusions. They both call out pro-Russia BS too.
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  1547. It's nothing to do with Barclay personally, the doctors have to be realistic. 35% pay rise is not reasonable.
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  1548.  @jlvandat69  If your guess is Russia will lose the war you obviously have no clue whatsoever. Your own government has just acknowledged Russia already won the war.
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  1549. Or Ukraine could have a change of government ... or growing casualties could force Ukraine to change its war aims.
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  1550.  @adambussert3383  Yeah actually corruption is a massive problem in Ukraine. It's the most corrupt country in Europe, even worse than Moldova. Why do you think the economy has barely grown since Soviet times while Russians are many times richer? Ukraine is very rich in natural resources but the people are poor, the wealth is controlled by oligarchs. Yes Russia has an enormous corruption problem too but Ukraine is even worse. Donated equipment of all kinds up to including Stingers and Javelins are sold on the black market. Even the C in C Zaluzhny was recently caught giving military vehicles to his mistresses - google it.
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  1551. Except Russian style attacking is flatten defences with artillery and send in patrols to see if anyone is still alive, if not, occupy the new position. It's very slow in the well fortified areas but Ukraine takes higher casualties in this kind of warfare.
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  1552. 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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  1553. Advantages for Russia: eliminate the Ukrainian forces who have infiltrated and entrenched themselves on the islands downstream; minimise the threat of a Ukrainian crossing while there's major fighting to the east so they can protect this front with minimal forces. Russia had both the motive and the means.
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  1554.  @john.8805  You should go and look up the greatest 1000 inventions in history if you don't think Britain has been punching above its weight over the past few hundred years.
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  1555. Not what the experts say. Why do you think HIMARS has become almost irrelevant in Ukraine? Because interception reliability has got so high.
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  1556.  @namastezen3300  Everyone knows the US sponsored a violent coup which displaced the democratically elected president and then installed an extreme nationalist government which made war on the ethnic Russians. Don't try to rewrite history. If self determination is good enough for Kosovo then don't be a hypocrite, it's good enough for Donbas too.
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  1557.  @namastezen3300  The atrocities against the Albanians were 99% invented. A bit like Iraqi soldiers turning off baby incubators in Kuwait. People just believed unquestioningly it because of real atrocities by Bosnian Serbs (not the Serbian state) in Bosnia. Atrocities after Maidan OTOH by the Ukrainian nationalists were very widespread. Look at the Odessa massacre - over 50 people murdered, hundreds of witnesses and nobody ever prosecuted.
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  1558. Ridiculous clickbait title.
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  1559. Russia can replace the lost men and equipment. Ukraine can't.
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  1560. Sure. They have thousands of aircraft and have lost around a hundred since the start of the war but have only fifty pilots left. Do you also believe in the tooth fairy?
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  1561. Sky is complaining Albanese isn't paying enough attention to Australia, why should he be going to Israel at all?
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  1562. Probably more about the quantitative Russian advantage especially in aviation than about the quality of the equipment.
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  1563. TIK is unbelievably arrogant for someone who has pretty narrow knowledge, yes his videos about particular battles are very good especially Stalingrad. But how can someone seriously believe that you can't model human behaviour? Individuals behave differently as individuals and individuals are individually unpredictable yes that's true but collectively, humans behave according to certain patterns. If they didn't then throw out ALL of the social sciences and economics and psychology. Not just the crap bits, all of it.
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  1564.  @rhythmandacoustics  It's more complicated. The richest people might have children because they can afford to. The poorest people might have children because they're subsidised to and there is little opportunity cost. It's the productive people in the middle who have the strongest economic incentive not to. The people who struggle to provide the extra housing required, the extra food costs, the child care costs and afford the huge amount of time off work required. For many educated, intelligent people it comes down to the choice between a comfortable lifestyle of luxury holidays and cars and no children or children and economic hardship.
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  1565. Unlike you, people in the UN actually know what the evidence is and the evidence is irrefutable.
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  1566. Why not evacuate Kherson? Too many people to resettle.
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  1567. Looks pretty deliberate propaganda to me
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  1568.  @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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  1569.  @VisibilityFoggy  Shortly before this invasion started, Zelensky was talking about joining NATO and acquiring nuclear weapons (in Munich October 2021). Kamala Harris was at the same conference and raised no objections. Putin drew the logical conclusions.
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  1570.  @shuathe2nd  Doesn't work like that. Russian air defences are widely recognised as top rate. It's one area they're invested heavily in. The USAF hasn't fought a war against a technologically advanced power since WWII. If you think B2s and F22s would survive deep into Russian territory then that says a lot about what you know about air power and its limitations. If you think the Russians would let NATO destroy its strategic nuclear weapons without using them first, you're not even trying to look at things from a Russian perspective.
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  1571.  @tobiascore  The war started there before the Russian army was in Donbas at all. The locals took up arms in response to the US sponsored coup which overthrew the democratically elected president. Ukraine claims these people are Ukrainians. But it has been shelling them deliberately killing civilians. Think about it.
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  1572. I don't think Lancets are generally powerful enough to destroy MBTs
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  1573. They should have seen that from the start and negotiated a peace.
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  1574. There is a recent video of Shoigu inspecting dozens of brand new T90s and Russia still has thousands of tanks. Obviously they could have put some of these in a parade.
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  1575.  @Scriobh  Might be a different video if you only saw a dozen tanks. Dunno some years they have lots of tanks some years they don't. Not sure what the pattern is. Russia blogosphere speculating they would be criticised if they put lots of tanks on display instead of actually using them. Anyway nobody with a brain disputes the Russians have thousands of tanks so the whole discussion is pretty pointless.
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  1576. That's fair but just be aware that the main problem is not religion, it's ethnic difference. Kicking out or jailing the worst imams is useful but is at best a minor mitigation. Most the of the rioters don't care about Islam even if they might be from a Muslim background.
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  1577. And who are they? Red Kier Starmer? Thickie Dianne Abbott? Are you forgetting why people voted in the Tories with a landslide in the first place?
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  1578.  @purplerings1969  There are pluses and minuses with proportional representation but on balance I agree with you. I reckon the next couple of years will see a massive shake up in politics in any case. Not just in Britain. We're heading for a brutal recession, a collapse of living standards and such a heavy dose of reality should result in a more politically realistic electorate. I hope.
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  1579. Takes an impressive level of delusion to blame shoplifting by EU passport holders in Britain on Brexit
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  1580.  fckYTcensorship  The vast majority of the 2014 rebels were locals. This was well covered by even Western media at the time. The Russian state didn't even bother to help them until they were in danger of getting wiped out completely. Anyway in the lead up to the 2022 invasion there was heavy Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk city. Well covered by Jacques Baud - Swiss ex intel officer who has written several books on Russia/Ukraine.
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  1581. Russia didn't get to be the biggest country in the world by being bad at war. Some of your entries are ridiculous. Like Afghanistan. The Soviet Union left for the same reason the USA left. Not because of military defeat but because they weren't achieving anything. As for Finland, the war didn't end in 1939, it continued into 1940 with a decisive Soviet defeat of Finland. Likewise the Ukraine war won't be ending this year and when it does end, nobody will be claiming Ukraine won.
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  1582. Pakistan would keep out of it but it wouldn't be surprising if Iran suddenly acquired nuclear tipped Kinzhals and Iskandars overnight.
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  1583. Even worse than the Telegraph
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  1584. He told some outright lies for example the terms Russia offered a month into the war were remarkably undemanding. We have corroboration from several people including in the Ukrainian government.
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  1585.  @bulborum  Analogies between individuals and countries don't work well. The US has invaded many countries in recent decades including Syria, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan. There were reasons for each of these invasions, from the US viewpoint some of these reasons were justifiable. Likewise, from a Russian viewpoint there were justifiable reasons for invading Ukraine. There are US soldiers in Niger right now, the Niger government has asked them to leave, the US refuses. How is that any better than the Russians refusing to leave Ukraine?
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  1586.  @thomaslunde5014  You are wrong on many counts. Firstly, you divide the world into the non authoritarian and "authoritarian". This dichotomy is a mischaracterisation of the West, much of which is heading in a pretty authoritarian direction anyway. And Russia is certainly LESS authoritarian than Ukraine. Perhaps more importantly how authoritarian a country is says very little about its foreign policy. France and the USA consider themselves democracies, it hasn't prevented them from waging aggressive wars over the past few decades. And the West has no reluctance to ally themselves with dictators (like Saddam Hussein) when it suits their objectives. Your knowledge of history is obviously very limited if your only reference point is Hitler. Most dictatorships end peacefully like Greece, Spain and Portugal rather than with a destructive world war like WWII which you may recall impoverished and weakened both Britain and France, the who Great Powers who declared war on Germany - and both lost their empires from the effort of fighting Germany. Yes of course a war between east and west would end badly for Russia. It would almost certain see the use of thousands of nuclear weapons, doesn't it occur to you it would end badly for all of us?
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  1587.  @bulborum  Sounds like you know you're wrong but your ego won't allow admitting it.
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  1588. Just like we did in Iraq in both wars.
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  1589. Perhaps but you could apply this advice equally to the USA. What Russia is doing in Ukraine now is no different to what the USA has done in Serbia and the Middle East.
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  1590.  @victorstegmaier7572  Whataboutism
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  1591. Yes he does but that doesn't invalidate his overall argument.
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  1592. What's crazy is that we have British soldiers in Ukraine, poking our nose into a war which has nothing to do with us. We send our military off to fight the Russians and complain that the Russians are looking at fighting a war with us.
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  1593. Huge land grab by Israel. Apparently that's fine within the US "rules based order"
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  1594. It started before Hamas even existed
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  1595.  @ohmightyzeus6135  There are studies from Iraq and Serbia, especially Falluja where birth defects and still births shot up after the war.
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  1596. And a nuclear tipped Iskander would hit the first NATO troop train into Ukraine. What then?
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  1597. You can't achieve air superiority against even a close to peer enemy nowadays. SAMs are just so much cheaper than aircraft.
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  1598. I doubt they'll help much, the Russians will shoot at them before they even get close to the front lines. They might be useful for launching missiles themselves but they won't affect Russian air superiority.
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  1599. Yet on any issue to do with Israel's interests, our political leadership, security services and most of the media agree they support Israel.
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  1600.  @IvanLeonard-b7y  There was no need to discuss territory at that point because at that point Russia had no territorial demands. Now Russia is in a stronger position, it's too late. Zelensky gambled on the West and lost.
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  1601.  @IvanLeonard-b7y  No kidding? As if anyone didn't know that. Since it's not obvious to you Russia was willing to withdraw back to the January border.
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  1602.  @deryck-kr2tl  This is something I know a lot about. The Wehrmacht committed massacres and other crimes. On occasion, they executed POWs and innocent civilians. But guess what? So did everyone else. Including for example the US armed forces. There were occasions where the US army was explicitly told not to take prisoners. More often they were not told this explicitly but they were encouraged not to. They also starved POWs and shot civilians. The USAF bombed cities. They USN attacked German submarines before the US was at war. If the Germans had won they could have had the equivalent of the Nuremburg trials for allied leaders. Postwar propaganda would have emphasised the crimes of allied armies and minimised or crimes of the Germans. No I don't classify the Wehrmacht as a terrorist organisation. It was an organisation which contained millions of men and during the course of a major war it committed many crimes. A good definition of a terrorist organisation would be an organisation which explicitly rather than merely incidentally uses terrorism to pursue its goals.
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  1603. I'm not convinced that Africa can control Europe but it's certainly true that a more balanced judgement (which you're never going to get with Zeihan) would acknowledged the huge change in geopolitics that relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran are improving. Cutting out the petrodollar brings advantages to both oil producers like Saudi Arabia, Russia and Iran and oil consumers like China and India. Although Zeihan would love for the US to be able to flick the sanctions switch at will, the rest of the world says no.
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  1604. There's a pragmatic happy medium. These guys go too far.
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  1605.  @hinkosever-koren9911  Three reasons, to draw Ukrainian reserves away from other fronts and secondly, to pressure the Ukrainian government into negotiations. Thirdly to cut off the city from the rest of the country if the government didn't collapse. The first two goals were achieved but the Russians weren't strong enough to cut off the city. Look at the numbers. Nobody who knows anything about war claimed the Russians thought they were strong enough to take the city by storm. That would have required maybe five or even ten times this force.
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  1606. So his reason for fighting is racism :)
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  1607.  @IAMAVIKJORDAN  And the South Vietnamese
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  1608. Russia can easily sink any ships that try to dock and it can easily destroy the port infrastructure.
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  1609.  @Grossknecht  Entschuldigung, ich habe falsch verstanden.
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  1610.  @Sukhothai77  I don't have a link but I've seen in on Twitter and Dima from Military Summary channel showed it. This guy lost his shit, told someone to give him a grenade and threw it in the bunker where his men had just been arguing with him.
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  1611.  @luckyluke1503  To be fair, inequality in Russia is also quite extreme. But yeah - from a weak hand, this war could end up leaving Russia in a much stronger geopolitical position. Let's see what these sanctions look like towards the end of the year when it's freezing in Germany and Russia has cut off the gas supply.
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  1612.  @Papaghost8902  I agree with your overall assessment but 10 to 1 casualties isn't plausible. It's certainly one sided but we've seen plenty of footage of Ukrainian successes.
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  1613.  @havanasyndrome3024  The Russians have a video of dead Ukrainian women manning a trench now. It's not just non combat roles, women are doing front line infantry work which is a disaster, you have to be able to dig, carry heavy loads and live out in the open in cold, wet weather.
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  1614.  @user-qq2mo1ek2r  I took that to mean he should have gone public with all his complaints. Which would have created a pretty serious crisis for the government presumably. My point is there's a huge difference between someone who can see things are wrong and keeps his head down for personal safety/advantage (Sunak) and a person who complains loudly but internally (Cummings). Going public is the nuclear option, that's what you do only when you're sure nothing is going to get fixed by keeping it internal. If you argue he should have done that sooner, fair enough.
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  1615.  @stephenjon3502  Ask the Danes how they got on with accepting Palestinian refugees. MOST now have a criminal record. And they were back and forth to Gaza/West bank for holidays. Not condoning what Israel is doing in either of those places but moving people to Western countries is no solution.
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  1616. Artillery fires what it's going to fire then it moves.
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  1617.  @brad6523  I thought Zeihan was pretty interesting and read one of his books until I started hearing about stuff I know a lot about then I realised he's full of BS. Like 80% BS.
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  1618.  @Hezboom  LOL you have no idea about what's happening in Ukraine.
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  1619. Totally agree, also modern equipment is vastly more expensive than in WWII, even if you account for the huge economic growth since then. Tens of millions of dollars for a single aircraft is nothing unusual. Apparently it took 4000 man hours to build a Bf109 and 16000 to build a Spitfire for about $1 million in modern money. A Ka52 costs ten times as much and a F22 Raptor is well over a hundred million. We're looking at over a hundred thousand man hours for modern military aircraft and much of that cost is avionics.
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  1620.  @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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  1621.  @michaeldendulk9225  Hard to see what's to gain for Russia by making an offer they don't intend to deliver on. Remember Russia was the world's biggest grain exporter before the war, Ukraine was number five. And not all Ukrainian grain went out of Odessa.
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  1622. It's not about how many years we have to wait for an operation, it's about whether our grandchildren have a country to live in.
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  1623.  @Gargoiling  Maybe I'm biased, I speak French, German and Russian but to me, if someone is telling the audience about Russian politics and can't even pronounce the names of the most famous personalities - or even large cities like Voronezh then you know automatically he has no credibility. I was impressed the first few hours of Peter Zeihan content I saw but when he started talking about stuff I actually knew something about I realised he's simply a neocon conman. Out of curiosity I looked into his track record and it's not great.
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  1624. The large majority of people in Crimea want to be part of Russia, not Ukraine. If anyone has been following this war and honestly believes Russia is going to be ejected from Crimea, I can only suggest widen your sources because it's vastly more likely there'll be the Russian flag going up in Lvov than the Ukrainian flag going up in Sevastopol.
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  1625.  @frankielov  The war between Israelis and Palestinians didn't start on 7th October.
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  1626.  @teddypicker8799  How can you believe Ukraine is getting stronger and Russia is getting weaker? The Russian economy is actually growing despite the war. Russia has only had one round of mobilisation. If Russia had any doubts at all about where this war is going don't you think they'd mobilise another half million, million, two million men?
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  1627. ​ @Daniel-CMelinte  In what sense is Scotland looking shaky? There was already an independence referendum, the preference to stay in the UK was overwhelming. The EU is much more likely to break up than the UK.
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  1628.  @relaxletgo7105  What is the economic implosion in the UK? Have you actually compared UK growth over the past few years with EU countries? It's pretty similar. Germany is in recession right now, the UK is not.
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  1629.  @frommeralfred  Sure France and Italy are net payers but Germany pays half on its own. There are lots of reasons to be outside the EU and especially outside the Euro. The tendency is for anti-EU parties to get stronger over time in all of France, Italy and Germany. So if you think nobody other than Britain will ever leave, I'd like to point out few people expected Britain to leave either.
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  1630. He would have been in the Ottoman Empire! He's got Turkic ancestry
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  1631. She's too good for the SNP.
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  1632.  @DutchWeazel  It;'s a possible outcome. Wagner stays Wagner but some military leaders who defected to Wagner might be purged.
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  1633. Nothing to do with Brexit you clown, the same thing is happening in Germany, the entire German chemical industry is migrating overseas.
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  1634. Gaza has been subject to a blockade you clown, how are they supposed to build a prosperous economy?
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  1635. What like those famously low birth rate Somalia and Afghanistan?
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  1636. LOL she's bad but Brie was even worse
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  1637. Here's a clue on his great insight - he can't even pronounce the names of some of the most important personalities in Russia - hardly an obscure, unimportant country. Also, check out some of his earlier predictions - it's not a great track record.
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  1638. We know that's you Peter posting from your fake account
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  1639. LOL since when? He mainly repeats the MSM.
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  1640.  @TorianTammas  I speak French German, Czech and Dutch, also at a basic level, Italian Greek, Slovak, Polish and Spanish, I've lived in Netherlands, Czech Republic and Germany. What lack of knowledge about the EU are you referring to precisely?
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  1641.  @mbak7801  Total myth which came about because firstly, in the first two years of the war, the British had a lack of artillery and the French had relatively more - since pre war they had a much bigger army and secondly Lloyd George hated Haig and created the French are more competent narrative to reign in Haig. In reality, both French and British went through some crap generals before they found good ones and by the end of the war, the British army was pushing through Belgium whereas the French did almost no attacks because their morale had broken in 1917. In fact, the French army got close to falling apart.
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  1642. There's no way Russia can take Odessa in two or three months. If things go well for Russia, they'll maybe take Adivka in two or three months or Kupyansk in two or three months but that's a very optimistic scenario.
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  1643. Check out his earlier predictions - hilariously inaccurate
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  1644.  @mememachine5244  Tell me about it! Pay in anything to do with IT has been pushed down by immigration. If only politicians had to compete with lower paid immigrants, immigration would be fixed overnight.
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  1645.  @Fankas2000  I think he's Latvian - based on things he said.
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  1646. What should have happened instead? Millions of Jews arriving in Palestine was a disaster for the Palestinians. Britain had obligations to them too.
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  1647.  @simonh6371  Aye maybe - hard to say what the world would have looked like if Germany had just defeated France, Belgium and Russia. With German air and naval bases just across the Channel. I don't think there were easy options. Anyway, too late now!
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  1648. Agree - and long term better pipeline connections to China and through Iran puts Russia in a very strong position. Until now, Russia was bound to European buyers, in future, Europe and Russia will be doing business again even if they hate each other, there's too much mutual benefit. And Russia will have the option to switch buyers more easily once better infrastructure to Asian markets is up and running. As for the economic damage to Russia - this relies on harsh sanctions remaining in place long term. With an economic collapse in Europe looming, that seems extremely unlikely.
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  1649.  @Maperator  Even worse than that, the Soviet Union was about to invade Germany. It had a huge build up of forces on the border, there is hard evidence that was offensively deployed. e.g. supply dumps but not fortifications. Rail track using European gauge.
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  1650. Jewish journalists and intellectuals have always been heavily in favour of mass immigration going back over a hundred years - except in Israel, their own country
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  1651. It's blatant propaganda
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  1652. Yes this is obviously true and what's more everyone in Britain knows it. But it's typical of Zeihan's takes on anything outside of the USA. Confidently delivered superficial rubbish
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  1653. It's because of the weather. Russian artillery drones can't work in the fog.
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  1654. Ukraine is likely to collapse this year. Talking about stretching the war on for five years is just ignoring Ukraine's massive manpower problems and the fact that its economy has already been destroyed.
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  1655. ... "to the last Ukrainian"
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  1656. LOL It's a CIA approved channel
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  1657.  @Quickshot0  Ukraine can only produce stuff which can be done on small scale and distributed, nobody sane is going to build a large munitions factory in Ukraine. Especially now the Oreshnik demonstrates that going thirty metres underground isn't going to save you.
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  1658. "didn't go down well" LOL
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  1659.  @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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  1660. This is totally deluded. Because Ukraine are doing so well? They've just lost tens of thousands of men over the past couple of months in Donbas and they're losing Soledar as we speak.
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  1661. It's a lot like Saigon in 1970
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  1662.  @eddiemarten3381  If you look at industrial production and PPP, the difference between the US and Russian economies looks a lot smaller. US growth was high in 2023 as an after effect from covid and it's not looking great for next year and the deficit is out of control. No mainstream political movement has a plan to deal with it. It's going to blow up the US economy. Russian growth is high despite all the sanctions. After this war is over it looks like Russia is going to be back as a superpower.
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  1663. Look in the mirror
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  1664.  @teddypicker8799  When did Russia commit to major offensives? Last I heard Surovikhin explicitly said they're NOT going to do major offensives, they're going to use their artillery to destroy the Ukrainian army.
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  1665.  @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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  1666.  @Guvnor100  Yes definitely higher conscription in the least Ukrainian parts of Ukraine - the Carpathians too apparently. But the actual volunteers and pre-war regulars? Those are the storm troopers and the fire fighters. Heavy casualties in those kind of formations. Case in point - 47th brigade - pretty elite, best equipment but now mainly destroyed over the past two months (so I understand)
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  1667.  @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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  1668. Yeah took hundreds of lives and several weeks to capture a football sized field of rubble.
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  1669.  @peterderuiter2937  The Russians certainly lost plenty of armour around Adivka but I don't know where you got "all attempts failed" from, you're obviously not following the fighting day by day. The Russians are making pretty rapid progress just check pro-Western maps now compared to two months ago.
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  1670.  @untubus  The US hasn't annexed territory recently but it has invaded or otherwise regime changed literally dozens of countries in just a few decades. If you want an example of a sovereign country being ripped apart by the US look no further than Serbia: Kosovo was taken from Serbia by force and made a US satellite.
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  1671. Military Summary Channel is pretty good and so is DPA
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  1672. Even a week ago was too late
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  1673. This is a completely sophistic argument. Britain gave Germany an ultimatum. You can't just pretend Britain doesn't have any responsibility.
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  1674. There were people there before the Jews if you think going back thousands of years is any kind of sensible argument.
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  1675. What you're telling me covid didn't come from a wet market after all but might have actually come from a lab funded by the US gov doing bat research on similar disease just a short walk from where the first case was detected?
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  1676. Yeah it's huge. Even with drones. Even a 6m elevation advantage helps a lot for visibility.
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  1677.  @thethinkingman-  In some cases there definitely are tunnels between different strong points, they were constructed over the winter by large construction contractors. It turned out the Ukrainians were able to keep Bakhmut so long because they had a supply tunnel between there are Chasiv Yar.
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  1678. Including nuclear weapons ... something Russia isn't going to put up with.
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  1679.  @Paul-wo3qh  Anyone supporting NATO should know
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  1680.  @Paul-wo3qh  The Soviets in Afghanistan was not the modern Russian state anyway. You might as well blame the Ukrainians for what happened there which is no different from the two dozen proxy wars the Americans fought in the Cold War. The Russians in Syria are there at the behest of the Syrian government and were fighting ISIS, barbaric Islamic extremists backed by the USA. Ask yourself why the US is backing ISIS in Syria. All the rest are about Russia holding itself together and upholding the rights and safety of Russians in ex Soviet territory. What Russia is doing in Ukraine is no different from what the USA would do in Mexico or Canada if the Chinese (or Russians) staged a coup in those countries and tried to create a well armed enemy on the USA's door step. Look at the Monroe doctrine. US meddling in Ukraine has killed hundreds of thousands of people and has been a total catastrophe for the Ukrainian nation from which it will never recover. Even from the US's selfish viewpoint, continued opposition to Russia is moronic. It just pushes Russia and China into an unnecessary alliance. Smarter by far for the US would be to improve relations with both so all three would balance each other and the US would be the stronger of the three. Instead, Russia and China together are a very powerful coalition. As for Europe, making an enemy of Russia is even worse. After the US realises Ukraine is a losing proposition, Europe is left with a rearmed, reinvigorated and hostile Russia on its doorstep. It has lost its cheap gas probably for decades and will have to heavily increase military spending. And that's the best case - assuming we can avoid further escalation.
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  1681.  @josephpaerau9144  There's plenty of money for asylum seekers to stay in four star hotels though.
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  1682. Does Brexit also explain how badly screwed the German economy is? Does it explain the huge energy crisis there too? Is this something to do with the butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon effect?
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  1683.  @McConnachy  LOL you're disagreeing about facts. There are hard numbers on these kind of things. For example "Scotland lost more than any other combatant nation." This is totally wrong. Not opinion, fact. Go and check the numbers.
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  1684. I was initially impressed by Peter until he started talking about stuff I know something about then I realised he's 80% full of B.S. but with very slick delivery and plenty of confidence.
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  1685.  @montydee5914  There's more to the story though. This invasion would never have happened if the West lived up to its promise not to expand NATO eastwards and if the democratically elected president of Ukraine had not been overthrown by an American sponsored coup in 2014. As for Ukrainian nuclear weapons - they were actually Soviet weapons stationed in Ukraine, controlled by Soviet officers. If the new Ukrainian state had tried to keep them, Russia would have invaded and the guys controlling the weapons would have mainly supported Russia.
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  1686. Is there a POW camp there? :P
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  1687. No, Russia has moved strong forces there now, a Ukrainian attack there would be counter productive. The only purpose was PR and a failure is bad PR.
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  1688.  @jasonodlin8305  Yet somehow Russia is outproducing all of NATO in artillery ammunition and missiles and making gains all along the front. Perhaps the measurable metrics you're measuring are the wrong metrics?
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  1689. Why stop at Crimea, why not just advance all the way to Moscow and simultaneously, launch a naval assault on Vladivostok?
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  1690.  @fluph1  If you believe that you might want to look past the propaganda. He has black friends and Asian friends.
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  1691.  @Handy1s  Sure... NATO is a purely defensive organisation ... tell that to the Serbs or the Libyans.
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  1692. Nup, I don't like this woman but she does have a point here. There's immense hypocrisy here but it's the Israel lobby. The Auschwitz memorial is about remembering the murder of innocent Jewish people last century whereas right now, Jewish people are murdering tens of thousands of Palestinians and deliberately de-housing two million of them in Gaza with a view to expelling them from their own homeland..
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  1693.  @Replacement.Erasure  They'll probably get jobs as community relations consultants.
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  1694.  @ttblade  LOL!
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  1695. If Ukraine joins NATO when the war is over, Russia has a strong incentive to keep the war going and ensure they control the important parts of Ukraine when the war finally is over.
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  1696.  @triumphstagdriver  Lake Wanaka (80% sure)
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  1697.  @booopwappp1323  Nah North Sea oil will be around for decades yet. Demand will keep increasing and the price is climbing. Yes the easy oil is gone but there's a lot left and the value is increasing. The point is this report was covered up at the time it only became public decades later. They lied then, why would anyone believe they're telling the truth now?
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  1698. Yorkshire has been part of England for a thousand years. The Donbas has been part of Ukraine only since some Soviet bureaucrat decided so without regard to the people who live there. Crimea has been part of Ukraine only since the 1950s when Khrushchev moved it to Ukraine to dilute the influence of Ukrainian nationalists in the Ukrainian republic. The situation was only sustainable if the state of Ukraine respected the rights of the ethnic Russians, this ended with the American sponsored coup in 2014.
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  1699.  @darthkek1953  If the Democrats picked Kennedy, they wouldn't be the Democrats :P If they don't switch from Biden soon it's going to be too late. Seems all the other choices are pretty divisive too. Robert Kennedy might be the best candidate by far but he'd tear the party apart.
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  1700. The whole Western world is going in this direction.
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  1701. A month into the war Russia decided it would be a long war of attrition so pulled back from anywhere where their supply lines were in danger including Kiev. Putting valuable aircraft and pilots in danger over Bakhmut just wasn't worth any advantage, they achieved the same result with artillery and expendable criminals. It's a mistake to think because Russia doesn't capture ground quickly means there isn't an overwhelming disparity of resources.
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  1702.  @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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  1703. Or the state funeral Kennedy got.
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  1704.  @noramartin96  Totally different circumstances.
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  1705.  @notmenotme614  True... but he was stopped by police expecting the danger of getting shot at themselves because his pals had been planning a firearms crime. So although it was bad luck, he made that bad luck.
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  1706.  @notmenotme614  Obviously the police didn't know he didn't have a firearm. They thought anyone driving this vehicle likely did with credible reason. Look at the actual details of the case.
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  1707. So about typical for most of his videos.
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  1708.  @baxtardboy  His background is Stratfor which is a CIA linked consultancy. He's basically a propagandist for the Washington establishment with a history of making outrageous and unsubstantiated claims. I assume Washington would oppose Scottish independence in case an independent Scotland went in a NATO sceptical direction.
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  1709.  @werner9643  DPA is pretty good but there's a bit too much fluff. Military Summary has a lot more analysis but some of it's a bit far eccentric.
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  1710.  @DonetskResident  Military Summary? Yeah maybe. He tends to panic and overreact to the latest developments and contradict himself month to month.
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  1711. Cool now do the same for all other ethnicities, go and ridicule their ethnic identity. When the woman says "I think our culture is being erased" is she wrong?
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  1712.  @mikemckinnis3877  I'd guess there was a slight chance at the start of the war that Putin's government would collapse. But it was always a long shot.
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  1713. The ground is still hard enough for tank operations. It might be November before the mud gets deep.
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  1714. Wrong, the Moriori are not Maori. Genetically quite different and they don't consider themselves Maori.
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  1715. The US can borrow very cheaply, one day that will catch up with the US but in the short term, high spending makes the economy boom, sure. But Russia can't safely run a big deficit because it can't sell its debt to the rest of the world. The Russian economy seems to be holding up well but it does have high inflation, they won't want to increase the deficit too much otherwise inflation will climb like it did in Turkey.
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  1716.  @djtan3313  Yeah potentially but I think the Chinese economy is in pretty serious trouble too right now and it's unclear that China would really want to buy a lot of Russian debt.
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  1717. Totally misreading the war based on large scale maps. Russia isn't trying hard to take territory, it's fighting by using its air and artillery advantage to inflict higher casualties on the Ukrainian army than they take themselves. The Russians have just cut off thousands of Ukrainian troops in the Donbass salient over the past few days. By the way the "Institute for the Study of War" is a CIA linked neocon organisation. For example, it suggested the Ukrainian army shelling of Donetsk City (controlled by the Russian side since 2014) was a false flag operation by the Russians despite geolocation and eye witness reports refuting this. In other words, it's a mouthpiece for Ukrainian government propaganda. As for the headline Russia's Economic COLLAPSE Just got worse - do you think your viewers are stupid Max? The Russian government is running a surplus right now. A technical default makes no difference whatsoever to the Russian economy. Inflation in Russia is high but not much higher than in Western countries. What's the actual collapse? Is this like the claims we kept hearing that Russia is running out of tanks, running out of men, running out of precision missiles around the start of the war?
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  1718. C is the best estimate but we could easily see surprises like Prigozhin's coup. We do know Zelensky has some serious enemies now including Poroshenko, Timoshenko and Zaluzhny.
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  1719.  @ruleaus7664  As someone who has been doing software a long time but also speaks several languages reasonably well, I don't think natural human language is likely to be an optimal medium for creating software. Human languages developed organically to satisfy the requirements of pre-21st century lives and were not designed to unambiguously describe the requirements of software systems. So I think other higher level languages will emerge which do this job better.
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  1720.  @ruleaus7664  I don't think existing languages have a "problem" but the general trend over decades is for languages to get higher level as compiler technology improves and low level performance considerations become less relevant. Use of ML in compilation seems like just another step. We already have Chat and similar able to create say C# code from human language instructions at least for a very simple problem (ie. write me a method which does ....) I just don't think human language seems optimal for specifying what you want software to do. I presume it's possible to create languages which drive out some of the ambiguity of human languages but which at the same time are easy for humans to learn. Probably that kind of thing will evolve organically from existing high level computer languages.
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  1721.  @adam90670  Using cluster munitions against enemy soldiers is not a war crime. Using cluster munitions against central Donetsk City most certainly is.
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  1722. There's no way he's stupid enough to have missed this, he's deliberately obfuscating the issue.
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  1723. Plenty of videos online of young teenagers and guys who look 60 being pulled off the street in places like Odessa and being bundled off to the army. The Russians have paraded prisoners like a 15 year old conscripts and a 60 something year old conscript. Ukraine is now looking at conscripting women. Meanwhile, Russia still only had one mobilisation phase.
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  1724.  @RickDeckard6531  It's laughable to think the EU will rebuild Ukraine.. the Germans are already furious at bailing out Greece. Rebuilding Ukraine is going to make bailing out Greece look like pocket money.
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  1725. Might be too late for that now, the Russians are not going to back down and it's hard to see Trump will be able to swallow Russia's terms.
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  1726. You don't seem to be aware, Georgia started the war in 2008, not Russia.
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  1727. Biden can't even speak coherently nowadays. I wouldn't envy the translator if Biden ever visited Moscow.
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  1728. Numbers don'#t lie but Zeihan has the numbers wrong. Demographics, health and energy - the situation is way better than he makes out. Far from Scots moving to London, Londoners move to Scotland to escape the crime and housing costs.
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  1729.  @arjan2777  Most of what you write is BS. Your chronology is wrong. Poroshenko, Hollande and Merkel all admitted the Minsk II accords were signed with no intention of implementing them, just to buy time. Check the text of what they wrote. There was no attempt to build a federal state. As for Zelensky yes he was elected on a peace platform but when he tried to tell the nationalists what to do they threatened him - again all on video you can check. Ukraine was on the path to joining NATO. Also Zelensky was talking about building nuclear weapons in October.
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  1730. Russians hit hotels where Polish mercenaries were stationed, SBU (secret police) head quarters and the electricity grid. It's not exactly petty or pointless.
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  1731. Britain did the same in the First World War. American did the same in the Second and in Vietnam too.
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  1732.  @dingoeatswolf3663  Russian losses in Ukraine have been heavily overstated in the West. The Oryx blog for example has been discredited.
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  1733.  @NitpickingNerd  Yeah maybe. I mean right now Zelensky isn't seriously interested in negotiations because he's scared of the nationalists but anyone who replaces him isn't likely to be any easier to negotiate with.
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  1734.  @michaelbell362  If you think Zeihan's takes on American politics are deranged, wait until you hear what he thinks about Ukraine :)
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  1735.  @pyrioncelendil  If you think the Russians are getting their shit kicked in, perhaps you should widen your sources beyond Western propaganda
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  1736. 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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  1737.  @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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  1738. LOL
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  1739. Russia currently has the drone advantage everywhere except around Pokrovsk. According to teh Ukrainians themselves.
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  1740. Out in the villages where the French people live is nice, just keep out of the big cities.
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  1741. 700k Russian casualties :P
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  1742. She says "we're not targeting civilians". Anyone who believes that should look at the footage from Gaza - already over 6000 bombs used several days ago, at that rate, over 10,000 by the time I'm writing this.
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  1743.  @Sapnfap  It's irrelevant whether the majority of bombs kill civilians. In any war, only a tiny minority of ammunition used kills anyone. The point is you can't use thousands of bombs on a city with its population in place and then claim you aren't targeting civilians.
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  1744. is this it the same Ukraine which attacked its own citizens in Odessa, Mariupol and Donetsk in 2014?
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  1745. Yeah I do. It's almost as good as Blackadder.
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  1746.  @philliptemple9841  Did you see the huge Ukrainian ammo blow up? With hundreds of cluster munitions popping off like fireworks?
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  1747.  @agh0x01  If you're following neutral sources instead of this ridiculous propaganda channel you'll realise Russian missile strikes hit high value targets even on the west of Ukraine. Even a Danube port a few hundred metres away from Romania. And you don't think the Russians can hit Ukrainian aircraft on the ground of they're permanently based in Ukraine?
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  1748. Yeah the stalemate narrative is ridiculous. Every day the war continues results in a worse outcome for Ukraine.
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  1749.  @KirkFickert  Game changer after game changer. Weren't HIMARS supposed to be a game changer? Weren't Leopard tanks and Challengers supposed to be a game changer? Why do you think F16s will achieve anything when the Russian SAMs are currently destroying Ukrainian aircraft far behind Ukrainian lines?
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  1750. And the police, the civil service and worst of all, the law courts.
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  1751.  @forthfarean  The Israelis literally committed genocide in Palestine. Blaming the victims is outrageous
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  1752.  @jamesgrant3343  The way the Russians see it, the land they want and have taken is rightfully Russian land inhabited by Russian speaking ethnically Russian people. It's not just some random territorial conquest. Doesn't hurt that it's also very rich in minerals.
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  1753.  @carlosandleon  Lead and DU are not comparable in toxicity. DU used as anti-tank ammunition gets vaporised; in addition to its radioactivity which lasts practically forever, it's chemically far more toxic than lead. Google Falluja birth defects.
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  1754.  @SFHFWill  You're wrong about depleted uranium, the radioactivity is dangerous when vaporised because it's an alpha emitter which gets inside your intestines when you eat food grown on polluted farmland. Also, it's chemically highly toxic. There are hundreds of studies published on this. Please look into them. Yes it is slightly safer than enriched uranium. That doesn't mean it's safe.
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  1755. Do you have any evidence for this half trained Russian narrative? The Russians burned through some expendable Wagner/Storm Z convicts early on but nowadays? Russian casualties have really dropped off this year.
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  1756.  @penhdog2207  Blaming colonisation is moronic. Everyone has been colonised at some point. The Moors colonised Spain for centuries and invaded France before the Spanish and France colonised North Africa. Somalia and Singapore were both colonised by Britain, if you want to blame colonisation for Somalia being a mess, you'd better explain how Singapore is so successful. It's these third world immigrants who are the colonists in Europe.
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  1757. Very rare for someone to be killed by a Rottweiler or Staffie. Staffies are much smaller and Rottweilers are bred as sheep dogs, not as fighting dogs.
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  1758. Yes they're apologists for genocide.
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  1759.  @cdgncgn  I've been listening to Military Summary since near the start of the war, some of his earlier "speculations" were sometimes pretty eccentric, I think he's got a lot more sensible over time. He's honest, he's extremely hard working and well informed and tries to be neutral - overall he's probably the best day to day commentator now.
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  1760. Why do you think Ukrainian soldiers are superior? They outnumber the Russians three to one and are taking higher losses. What didn't the media tell you that?
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  1761. Genuinely funny how the USA thinks it's the "good guys". The Biden administration started this war by insisting Ukraine should join NATO despite even its own ambassador warning this was crossing a red line for the Russians. Also staging what George Friedman called the most blatant coup in history by overthrowing the democratically elected government which for completely sane reasons wanted to keep Ukraine non aligned.
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  1762.  @dongmingzhu666  Money does trickle down. High paid bankers pay huge income tax. Without the million financial sector workers of the City of London, there wouldn't be money for the NHS or social welfare. If you think poor people in Britain have it hard, look at the rest of the world outside of Europe.
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  1763. If (when) the USA turns to shit, Russia and China will be busy doing their own thing. For Russia that's the Baltic, Black Sea and Caucasus. For China, it's the China Sea, Taiwan and Africa. They're not going to need to or be powerful enough to get heavily involved in the Americas.
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  1764. We can see the bigger picture. Anyone with an open and sceptical mind can see it's not going well.
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  1765.  @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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  1766. What are you smoking? The 47th brigade has been close to wiped out.
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  1767.  @edwardkennedy6443  LOL haven't you clowns learned yet? Have you forgotten the Russians will never take Bakhmut? Have you forgotten the Ukrainian beach party in Crimea by late summer 2023?
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  1768.  @mybad2603  Two differences, in Serbia, the Serbs were fighting for their own land, in Gaza, the Israelis are fighting for someone else's. Other difference, the USA supports Israel, the USA bombed Serbia.
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  1769. Except that these numbers come from the Ukrainian ministry of truth and their NATO allies. The Russian soldiers think these claims Russian losses higher than Ukrainian losses are amusing. Who are all these dead Russians? Mediazona can find around 40,000 from the entire war. And look at when they died - current losses are running at a trickle. The really high losses were when they were throwing expendable convicts into the Bakhmut meat grinder. Where Russia was firing 90% of the ammunition so what do you think Ukrainian losses were like there?
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  1770. Be careful because there's also evidence Hitler was quite ambivalent about Jewish people this early
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  1771. If you're trying to ram someone driving a car it's irrelevant whether he's unarmed.
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  1772. Which army are you talking about? In the First World War, that was true in the British army but by the Second World War, not really any more. The problem is, military objectives can't be attained without taking casualties in a land war.
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  1773. "call the police" LOL guy has no clue
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  1774.  @harrysmith5353  The alternative is civil war
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  1775.  @run2cat4run  Don't need to "Look up British Empire", millions of them have come to Britain
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  1776.  @BanjoPixelSnack  Fathers get their pay docked to pay single mothers so they're only going to be able to "do a runner" if the mother doesn't even know who the father is or if he flees to a non Western country. I know a woman who had a child with a third worlder who has no interest and she deserves no sympathy.
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  1777.  @cataliaishere  Fathers get their pay docked to pay single mothers so they're only going to be able to "do a runner" if the mother doesn't even know who the father is or if he flees to a non Western country. I know a woman who had a child with a third worlder who has no interest and she deserves no sympathy.
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  1778.  @MancCow  Fathers get their pay docked to pay single mothers so they're only going to be able to "do a runner" if the mother doesn't even know who the father is or if he flees to a non Western country. I know a woman who had a child with a third worlder who has no interest and she deserves no sympathy.
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  1779.  @KJ-yises  Yeh I don't think there's a solution. The media is always going to emphasise the ones who fall through the cracks, anyway. Most people have family to help them out at the end of the day if the SHTF. I'm more concerned with the long term health of the country. The least capable people have been having more children than the most capable people for well over a hundred years and we're starting to pay the price even apart from importing millions of welfare cases from the third world. I doubt the NHS and social welfare are sustainable long term at all.
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  1780.  @niklasklein8704  Not ten times cheaper. US defence companies have enormous stock valuations for a good reason.
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  1781.  @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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  1782.  @petrciperny  Said nobody
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  1783.  @Giantly  The entire premise is based on anecdote. Try to be consistent.
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  1784.  @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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  1785.  @mikeryan3701  Seems a pretty sensible attitude!
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  1786.  @ArnoSchlick  Russia is fighting a major war and it's surviving just fine. The war will probably end in 2025. Russia's medium term prospects look pretty good to me.
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  1787.  @ArnoSchlick  The whole world has declining birth rates. The Russian birth rate is about average for Europe. The high military spending will be scaled back after the war. The economic problems only last as long as the war does and aren't severe enough to affect the country's ability to fight. If you want to see severe economic problems, France and Germany seem to be ground zero and Britain isn't far behind.
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  1788. Censorship in a lot of Europe is worse. For example France banned Rumble for refusing to censor. In Germany saying something pro Russian gets you arrested. None of Europe has freedom of speech.
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  1789. You're confusing the mugshot with what you see in the mirror
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  1790. Nothing more ridiculous than Americans, representing a country formed by colonising calling for the decolonising of geopolitical enemies.
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  1791. Even the bots make more intelligent comments than that.
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  1792.  @joostdriesens3984  He's right, that's a stalemate. The king is not in check but must move and there's nowhere to move which is not check,
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  1793.  @joostdriesens3984  How can it be hard to understand what I'm saying? I wrote "The king is not in check"
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  1794.  @Malcolm.Y  LOL oh really? That's obvious to anyone who has ever played chess!
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  1795. It hasn't come to light, where's the evidence?
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  1796. Defend themselves from whom? Those huge German armies on their border? Or the Russians on the march to Warsaw just as soon as they can take Sieversk after three years of trying?
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  1797.  @regularshiftrs3676  Produced in Kharkov, an ethnically Russian and entirely Russian speaking city
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  1798. Almost all of them since they're more likely to survive fighting in Ukraine than 15 years in a Russian prison.
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  1799.  @EssayMaestro  And you think Britain is still a democracy??? The British people never wanted this mass migration, political leaders keep promising to stop it but never do. Don't talk about Rwanda not being a democracy when the British politicians keep betraying the people on this issue for decades.
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  1800. Long term, Israel can't win. They haven't defeated Hamas in a year now they've taken on the much more powerful Hezbollah. Their treatment of Palestinians has antagonised the entire Muslim world and much of the rest of the world too. Their economy is held up only by American aid and most of the smarter people are leaving. Doesn't look good long term. America is obviously declining as a global hegemon and without US backing Israel is badly outnumbered. Long term too, they'll lose their stranglehold over US politicians.
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  1801.  @IMGreg..  Of course they're not. They've had several evolutions since then. They started moving to a professional military years ago, they introduced the battalion tactical group, they now have no problem delegating responsibility to low rank NCOs
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  1802.  @7Vooby  The first half of what you wrote is you telling me I'm wrong the second half is you telling me I'm right. Perhaps you are schizophrenic? You don't need to go to Russian state media, just follow what Zaluzhny himself has said.
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  1803.  @7Vooby  LOL I'm a native English speaker you clown. As if I'd bother with Google translate to read your post. You need to broaden your sources. Sooner or later Ukraine is going to collapse and this channel is the last place to admit it.
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  1804. These clowns simultaneously want to argue the Russian military is incompetent and also if we don't ship Zelensky billions, the Russian military is going to stomp all over Europe. It's propaganda for thick people.
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  1805.  @truthseeker6116  What is History Legends wrong about? Seems to me he backs up what he says with plenty of evidence and anyway, he only does videos when it's pretty well known what happened. That Theti (and Weeb and DPA) are doing is much harder: daily videos of status updates where the reliability of the information is harder to determine.
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  1806.  @truthseeker6116  I've seen all his videos going back months, I think you're misrepresenting what he said about Bakhmut. It is true that Ukraine poured huge resources into holding Bakhmut longer than many people including Zaluzhny thought was wise and they did hold Bakhmut longer than many including History Legends were expecting them to. As for Leopard losses, I presume you're going by Oryx's reported losses which are implausibly low. I think maybe three destroyed last time I checked. Whereas other sources have identified 29 damaged or destroyed as of a couple of days ago. I don't know why Oryx has not identified more, perhaps he's just far behind it's often claimed he applies different standards of proof for Ukrainian and Russian losses. History Legends isn't slow to acknowledge Ukrainian achievements and if you go back to the Kharkhov offensive, he's hugely critical of the Russian command.
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  1807.  @truthseeker6116  Which particular point? I'm not clear what you think History Legends was actually wrong about. Unless you think Oryx is the definitive truth about vehicle losses - which can't be taken seriously. Or something about Bakhmut? In which case what did he say when which was false? If you can point me to something I'll rewatch the video concerned and if you're right I'll concede your point. But if you can't point out something specific then I have to wonder whether your own pro-Ukraine bias just makes you hostile to neutral sources.
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  1808.  @oneshothunter9877  Perhaps you haven't noticed, it's still summer.
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  1809. 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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  1810. I'm 99.9% sure the Americans did it but I wouldn't have put it past Ukraine if they could have pulled it off. Consider lots of the other things they've done - assassination of civilians in Russia, showering Donetsk city centre with butterfly mines, a kill list including all kinds of Westerners, shelling Energodar power station ...
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  1811. You're talking as if Russia can't retaliate.
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  1812. British Christian - how deluded do you have to be? Guy is ethnically from Rwanda. I don't know whether it's true or not he's a Muslim convert but regardless of where he was born and what passport he has, he's not British - not ethnically British. So calling him British is deliberately gaslighting the actual British.
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  1813. Yeah like what Trump had first time round. He's learned his lesson.
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  1814.  @rustydusty2992  He was one of the main people always pushing escalation and using the most inflammatory rhetoric. So far, we've dodged WWIII but the result of the war so far is that Ukraine is being shattered. Even the Western media admits Russia is winning, even the US is sounding out peace talks but any terms the Russians will agree to will be vastly worse than early in the war. It's thanks to the NATO hawks like this guy that Ukraine is being destroyed. So yeah, it's my opinion and yeah I am right. Should be obvious to everyone by now.
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  1815.  @peterrees6335  Redacted aren't MSM but they're light weight. Try Military Summary Channel, Defense Politics Asia, Daniel Davis Deep Dive and the Duran channel.
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  1816. Russia has been advancing across most of the front over the past week and has tens of thousands of mobilised men available as reserve.
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  1817.  @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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  1818. The IDF has killed over 20,000 innocent civilians in Gaza FFS
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  1819. 43,000 Russian soldiers killed in the entire war ... why do you think they lose 20,000 in a week?
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  1820.  @waxwars9183  Which is why the US military can't reach recruitment targets. Even though they're realised woke commercials aimed at women don't work and have started targeting white men again
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  1821.  @joshjones6072  The exact opposite of what's happened over the past thirty years.
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  1822.  @JohnnyMotel99  Putin took over a country which was falling apart, you don't have to like him to admit he turned it around.
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  1823.  @kurtniznik8116  It's really hard to get Russian citizenship. Not like Western countries where parasites can just turn up and get social welfare.
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  1824.  @SamuelClemens-o6q  Why do you think Russia is running out of money? They've just raised their defence budget for next year.
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  1825.  @trader2137  Sure it's been updated since but a couple of weeks back when I looked there were only three listed when there was documentary evidence of 29. DOCUMENTARY evidence. And more have been destroyed or damaged since then. I used to trust Oryx too but there's gradually been more evidence that it has double standards. Same as Bellingcat BTW.
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  1826.  @KillerRabbit1975  Ok so who are all these dead people? How did hundreds of thousands of people manage to die without any trace on social media, without any family obituaries? Where's the evidence 40k Wagner were killed at Bakhmut? If that number were even remotely true there'd be photographic evidence of thousands of bodies. Where is it? There is a photo of about fifty dead Wagner guys (almost certainly convicts rather than the elite mercenaries) dead in a field. But not thousands. How are I meant to find some random post? If you've got some concrete evidence what is it? So far all you've got is some guy said some other guy said so. Who is this Russian general? You don't even know his name.
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  1827.  @richardm7004  There's plenty of criticism online with concrete examples of Oryx bias in favour of Ukraine. If you want reality rather than propaganda then you'll go and check for yourself. The guys who run Oryx have links to Bellingcat and Janes, these are far from neutral. In some cases judging from the actual evidence posted on Oryx some vehicles listed as Russian destroyed could just as easily be Ukrainian. Anecdotally, there are Ukrainian admissions they've painted Russian Zs on their own destroyed vehicles. The information war is an important part of this war and Oryx is clearly on the Ukrainian side. Serious analysts don't take it too seriously.
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  1828. LOL cope - the Ukrainians can't even defend Donbas. They tried Crimea last year and Russia is much stronger since then
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  1829. Utter rubbish. Hitler accepted homosexuals only as long as he needed to. For example he liked and respected Roehm but found his homosexual behaviour disgusting.
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  1830. Wauchope - this is the Scots/German ch sound, not ch as in chips
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  1831. Yeah people like him are why Russia invaded Ukraine.
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  1832. Nobody cares about Afghanistan. The Russians care about Ukraine. There's no comparison.
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  1833.  @sagichnicht6748  The NSDAP were actually far left. Evidence? Radical - yes. Government organisation of the economy - yes. High social spending - yes. Government guaranteed job and income - yes. The real far right would have been more like Dolfuss and Schuschnigg.
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  1834. Yep Finland joining NATO was geopolitical idiocy
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  1835.  @Konstantin2004  Stalin let Finland off easy only because the Red Army was still fighting Germany. Otherwise, the Red Army would have taken Finland easily. It was always a minor front for the Soviets, they were concerned only to keep a buffer around Leningrad and protect the northern sea route. There's nothing more ridiculous than Finns boasting about how they could fight the Russians. They just don't have the population. Besides which the Russian army now is huge, experienced and battle hardened from two years of war. Compared to Ukraine, Finland would be a quick snack for a few months.
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  1836.  @Konstantin2004  Actual casualty figures are disputed but sure Soviet casualties in the Winter War were higher. Doesn't change the result though does it - a Soviet victory. In the continuation war, casualties were probably pretty similar. Again another Soviet victory. US casualties in Vietnam and Afghanistan were lower than those of their enemies, didn't prevent US defeats. Finland after WWII wasn't laughing about higher Soviet casualties they thought the war a huge national tragedy which left so many dead and their country smaller.
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  1837. Actually no. This is the first time that NATO missiles have been landing in Russia. Only an idiot would imagine Putin will stand for this.
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  1838.  @yurisonovab3892  US military budget is ten times the Russian military budget and Russia is still outproducing the US in artillery ammo, missiles and nuclear weapons. Where does that huge US spending go?
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  1839.  @yurisonovab3892  Still losing? Are you following the same war as me? I watch daily updates from the channels Military Summary Weeb Union, DPA war and Theti Mapping, it's been obvious Ukraine has been losing for the past year.
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  1840. Lord George Murray advised against fighting there at all, he was overridden by Charles Stuart who didn't really have a clue about anything military.
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  1841.  @davidfoggie9272  Ukraine is also using T55s so try to at least pretend to be objective. And we have footage of way more than 3 Leopards being destroyed, 7 last I saw which was days ago.
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  1842. The Russians have just damaged (again) the large bridge south of Odessa. Getting out that much gain by rail doesn't look realistic.
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  1843.  @gagamba9198  m So? Most generals are basically politicians. The guys who write books on military affairs tend to be colonels (like Dan Davis and McGreagor) they don't go further because they're not interested in boot licking to get higher up the ladder.
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  1844. The Americans in Syria are starting to look very exposed.
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  1845.  @UnitedAgainstMorons  Yeah it's definitely due to breeding, a breed like say Dobermanns is bred to be protective. Even then you're still going to get a rare psychotic individual. But you can't argue banning doesn't work at all. It will get rid of 99% of the dogs. And the 1% who won't get picked up are basically in hiding by their owners so they're unlikely to be a problem, they're not roaming the streets. It's like assault rifles. They're banned. So they're incredibly rare. That's not to say they're completely irradicated from the criminal underworld, there'll still be a few out there but they'll be incredibly rare. I don't generally like banning things but these dogs are just too dangerous. Get a different breed instead.
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  1846. Yes, America's proxy war against Russia has destroyed his country's economy, the US directly attacked Nordstream2 and still Scholz is too cowardly to stand up to teh USA
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  1847. "steps which are temporary propping up the rouble" .... like increasing their oil sales to Europe! And pushing the price of oil and gas to record highs. And taking control of a huge chunk of the world's food and fertiliser supplies at the same time creating a global shortage of these pushing up the price of them as well. Far from propping up the rouble, Russia buying gold to try to force the rouble down.
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  1848.  @Brian-om2hh  Europe can't ditch Russian gas and oil. Not without electricity blackouts, factory shutdowns and freezing in winter. In twenty years maybe. But not in 18 months.
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  1849. And this is why Ukraine will be completely destroyed.
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  1850. Check out his earlier predictions - hilariously inaccurate
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  1851. 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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  1852.  @bruced1429  Well if you don't believe me you can easily check, there are websites in English which translate the actual words. You can find one in 30 seconds. You could also try the common sense test - why would a major Russian media figure with close ties to the regime be saying this on national TV?
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  1853. Zero chance the Russians would agree to this, they're quite willing to fight NATO now.
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  1854. Yes it smacks of Iraqi WMD, the Gulf of Tonkin and the USS Reuben James
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  1855. It's because the ex officer clown is trying to BS us and he's not very good at it. For example his ridiculous bluster about whether Ukraine is actually getting tanks. It's actually getting light IFVs and APCs which will almost certainly get destroyed when they come across a real tank or get hit by even the lightest artillery. It's all about propaganda. Look how many tanks we're giving is way more impressive than we're not giving any tanks but here are some lightly armoured tin cans which US soldiers in Vietnam called iron coffins back half a century ago when M113s were actually modern.
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  1856. If you think this has anything to do with democracy, you should take a look at what the CIA has been up to the past 70 years and also how the Ukrainian government has banned opposition parties, assassinated politicians and suspended elections. Also how a US sponsored coup overthrew the DEMOCRATICALLY elected president of Ukraine in 2014.
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  1857.  @dreambadger  It is proved beyond doubt that depleted uranium is an ongoing health hazard to the population of any area where it's used in war for generations after the war is over.
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  1858.  @rezcon  Firstly, don't even bother paying attention to what the WHO says after all the lies it told us over Wuhan, the origins of the virus and China's handling of it. Check out the studies from Serbia and Falluja. It's irrefutable this is some nasty stuff
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  1859.  @rebelmango2141  Glad you find cancer funny - check these two studies Jia G, Belli M, Sansone U, Rosamilia S, Gaudino S. Concentration and characteristics of depleted uranium in water, air and biological samples collected in Serbia and Montenegro. Appl Radiat Isot. 2005;63:381–399. Duraković A. On depleted uranium: gulf war and Balkan syndrome. Croat Med J. 2001;42:130–134.
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  1860.  @rebelmango2141  The war was over 2 decades ago! If you want to find more recent studies, you can google just the same as me. Mate there is zero doubt at all, tons of evidence uranium is dangerous. Vaporised uranium is way more dangerous than solid uranium. DU is 40% less reactive than natural uranium. It's just ignorant to argue DU isn't dangerous. It's like arguing smoking isn't dangerous or mercury isn't dangerous.
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  1861. Israel has actually executed and tortured tens of thousands of Palestinians over the past decades, often on trivial pretexts.
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  1862.  @FlytoColombia  No, I'm far from confused, I've followed the war closely since October 7th. Have you read the South African document? I have. It's only 84 pages, read it before you talk complete shite. Israeli leaders have said openly they want to kill Palestinians. Not Hamas fighters but Palestinians. Almost a thousand have been killed in the West Bank which has got nothing to do with Hamas. Don't you even know Hamas was funded by Netanyahu and Mossad? All on record. You obviously know very little about this part of the world.
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  1863.  @mtshedamarunyane5465  The song is a call to genocide. If you push the Afrikaaners into a war of extermination don't assume it's you that gets to commit the genocide, you might want to remember Blood River.
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  1864.  @Mulubhubesi  All he has to do is read the 84 South African pages. Very well written, clear, careful, rock solid and irrefutable.
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  1865.  @WaltShag  Neither side is Western civilisation. They're both middle easterners. Look at the footage of Israelis jumping up and down calling for blood and celebrating the murder of the enemy population, there's nothing Western about them, there's nothing modern about them. They're literally using a religious text from thousands of years ago to justify their behaviour.
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  1866.  @honeybunch6473  It's only 84 pages, you should read it before spouting complete shite
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  1867.  @kidgamer9399  No I'm not a kid gamer I've got five degrees including a mastesr in history and I've read quite a bit on this subject including Benny Morris and Ilan Pappe. Don't pretend you've even heard of them. Assuming it's not too many pages for you, read the South African case and educate yourself.
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  1868. The problem is, in this Orwellian world, the sarcasm would be lost on the most people.
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  1869. "People are quite relaxed here" - doesn't square with the narrative that Russian missiles are deliberately targeted at civilians or are inaccurate.
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  1870.  @skylark8828  If Russia's economy tanks, it's still going to be in a vastly better shape than Ukraine's economy! So far, the rouble is up whereas America and the EU are suffering the high inflation. In any case, I can't see Crimea, Mariupol or the Donbas returning to Ukraine.
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  1871. ​ @skylark8828  I will be very surprised if all these new Wunderwaffen Ukraine is getting will stop the Russians. The Russians can always up the effort if they really need to, they haven't even sent in conscripts yet with the exception of Donetsk/Luhansk republics. They've got huge reserves of equipment. The Ukrainian territorials are starting to surrender in large numbers and some units are on the verge of mutiny. The stuff Ukraine is getting so far is going to be too little too late, especially once you factor in the training time. And it's not getting distributed efficiently either. Some of it including Javelins has already reached the Syrian black market.
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  1872.  @skylark8828  The Ukrainian army overall isn't beaten yet but in Donbas especially, some units are falling apart. It's not "misinformation" there are plenty of videos from Telegram and elsewhere from the past few days of Ukrainian units refusing orders, on the verge of mutiny or in actual mutiny. We don't need to take someone else's word for it nowadays, we can see for ourselves. And from the Western media? Near silence.
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  1873.  @PNH-sf4jz  Both sides are killing Russian speaking Ukrainian civilians. In this kind of war, if your enemy takes positions in towns containing civilians, it's impossible to avoid civilian casualties. Personally I am neutral in this war. What I am arguing against is hypocrisy - which is what the Western media is full of.
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  1874.  @LoneWolf-rc4go  Completely false that British soldiers at the Somme weren't fully trained. Also false that Russian soldiers now aren't fully trained. It's Ukrainian officers complaining about receiving guys who have barely fired a rifle.
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  1875. The Second front in Europe was Italy which opened in mid 1943 with the Sicily landings. Normandy in 1944 was the third front against Germany.
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  1876. Only an idiot thinks the police act "without fear or favour". She's not an idiot, she's a liar.
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  1877.  @matthewroberson1247  There were plenty of broken promises you're cherry picking one of them. Russia was promised NATO would not expand eastwards.
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  1878. Dream on. the Ukrainians pulled off a successful surprise attack, doesn't mean Russia is going to be abandon Opytne. They'll counter attack and kick the Ukrainians out. Tell me I'm wrong and I'll get back to you in a couple of days when the Russians again control the entire village beyond any possibility of denial.
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  1879.  @pierrewilliams1533  The left stands for collectivism and top down changes, the right stands for tradition and individualism. What far right really means is extreme conservatism like Dolfuss and Schuschnigg and Thatcherism and the Tea Party maybe Franco at a stretch. The far left is more like the NSDAP and Leninism. There's a world of difference.
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  1880. That's more like Ukrainian, in Russian the X is like X in Greek or ch in German or Scots.
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  1881. Corruption in the Soviet Union times was less than now.
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  1882.  @Idk_about_anything  Russia at the time of the First Chechan war was in chaos. The Russian army wasn't immune from the general collapse of society. There was corruption and there was drunkenness and there was a morale problem. So yeah - some Russians were drunk. The war was a fiasco. Soon afterwards, Putin took power, stopped the rot and set Russia on a path of recovery.
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  1883.  @PeterSedesse  Ukraine's economy will collapse long before Russia's does. It's already held up only by Western aid and has contracted by almost half. The US government is paying the wages of the entire Ukrainian army. The Ukrainian population will not have gas and electricity for heating over the winter and a modern country can't survive a winter far below freezing without energy.
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  1884.  @PeterSedesse  You're assuming that America throwing money at the problem is all that is necessary. The Afghanistan debacle should have shown the dangers of that. A huge but unknown proportion of all the aid to Ukraine is stolen. We've seen Western military aid to Ukraine showing up in the Middle East at very cheap prices, you can buy Javelins in Syria now for $15,000 straight from Ukraine. According to some sources at least, Ukraine is the most corrupt country in Europe and one of the most corrupt in the world. Two French Caesars were bought by the Russians direct from Ukrainian soldiers and I've seen videos of other equipment being bought. Russia will disconnect Europe's biggest nuclear plant from the Ukrainian grid soon. An injection of money won't be able to prevent electricity blackouts and gas supplies for heating. Ukraine gets cold in winter, usually well below freezing. People in the villages can burn wood but not in the cities. Additionally, there'll be a shortage of vehicle fuel and probably food.
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  1885. The Wagner sledgehammer incident was fake, the guy who was supposedly executed was filmed with Prigozhin a few weeks later.
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  1886.  @wleon4068  If you knew as much about Irish history as you think, you'd see the parallels between the plantations of Ulster and the Dubliners being displaced by immigrants.
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  1887. 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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  1888. Robert Kennedy Junior - but they hate him almost as much as they hate Trump.
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  1889. They're gangsters, murders, robbers and drug dealers.
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  1890.  @apacheattackhelicopter8185  "paid Kremlin propagandist" - no I'm a patriotic Westerner who calls out BS from either side. Russia now is vastly richer than when Putin took over - look it up. Disintegrating - under Yeltsin the whole country was dysfunctional. Chechnya got close to breaking away. Dagestan would probably have followed. Putin sorted out the military and sorted out Chechnya. Now, Chechnya is solidly behind the Russian state for the most part. Like Gorbachev and Yeltsin, Putin was popular in the West to start with because Western leaders assumed he'd follow Yeltsin in allowing continued Russian decline and NATO expansion. He only fell out of favour when he stood up against both. Ukraine and particularly Crimea are crucial for Russia. He couldn't safely ignore the Maidan coup. Forward thinking Western politicians should have foreseen that. Instead people like Victoria Nuland encouraged a Ukraine hostile to Russia. Now we see the result. And it was foreseeable. People like Putin himself and John Mearsheimer predicted this would happen.
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  1891.  @simonbucci1041  Actual scholars - as if you actually read any. Take John Mearsheimer for instance - he saw this coming and warned against it almost twenty years ago.
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  1892.  @apacheattackhelicopter8185  The Crimean population is mainly Russia and overwhelmingly wants to be part of Russia. We don't have to take the referendum result at face value, we can look to opinion polls run by professional Western organisations before and after the Russian annexation. That logic was good enough for Kosovo. Yeltsin at the time warned the West that detaching Kosovo from Serbia set a dangerous precedent. So what did Russia do in Crimea that NATO did not do in Kosovo? As for corruption in Russia. It's not my job to defend Putin. Nevertheless, corruption in Russia is less under Putin than it was in the Yeltsin days. Ukraine is probably worse - at least it is worse according to some surveys. But Russian corruption is not really our business. I'm personally more concerned about growing corruption, censorship and authoritarianism in the West. One thing I do find amusing is that questioning the blatantly inaccurate and hypocritical Western media narrative on Ukraine gets me called a Russian bot/troll etc. Just shows how tight the grip of censorship is getting on the narrative about this war.
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  1893.  @apacheattackhelicopter8185  What difference does it make whether Kosovo is independent or joined Albania? The point is NATO broke up a sovereign country in Europe. What Russia did is no different. They just followed where NATO led the way. Check out the poll results for yourself. I can look up references if you want help. You should read Ukraine in the Crossfire by Chris Kasper de Ploeg for a more balanced understanding of Crimea and Russian-Ukrainian relations. When you've done that try Ukraine and Russia by Paul D'Anieri - certainly not pro-Russian but at least shows both perspectives. So far you're just repeating all the same double standards arguments that you'd consider contemptible if Russia used them against the West.
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  1894. It's Zelensky who wore stilettos, not Putin
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  1895. Who is a terrorist and who is a freedom fighter depends entirely on which side you're on. Ukrainians resisting occupiers are freedom fighting heroes. Palestinians resisting occupiers are terrorists.
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  1896. Because the US funds ISIS
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  1897.  @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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  1898. Zeihan is the king of illogical, baseless assertions, this is just one of many.
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  1899. 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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  1900. delusional as usual
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  1901. He has been on TV with proof - twice. Nobody seriously still believes this guy is dead. Not the first time this happened, a year ago to the Ukrainians claimed to have killed Gerasimov.
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  1902. How do we know it's a Russian missile which did this? We now know for a fact the missile which hit Poland and killed two Poles was Ukrainian. We know for a fact that the missile which hit the Kostantinivka market was Ukrainian. In both cases, Artur blamed Russia.
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  1903. The rest of the world outside of the West looks at Nordstream and listens to the Western narrative on Ukraine and becomes ever more sympathetic to the Russian/Chinese point of view. If you're advocating terrorism, Russia can also cut subsea cables and blow up pipelines and deny it was them, just as unconvincingly as the Americans can.
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  1904. It wasn't for no reason look into the history of the war. Start with Ukraine in the Crossfire by de Ploeg
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  1905. No, he wasn't the one awarding huge contracts to his mates, you're talking about the likes of Matt Hancock.
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  1906.  @peachyllama722  If you've got details I'd like to read. If there's a direct link between the two then yes that would be pretty bad.
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  1907.  @jonlee2217  It's going pretty damn bad for Ukraine
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  1908. Impossible. There must be some mistake. We were told from the Western media Russia would run out of missiles one month into the war.
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  1909. @xander5411 The Greens are outright insane. There are no good options.
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  1910. @@user-jv4ec5pm9n There is no other open source which covers the whole war. Yes people can check Oryx. People have checked Oryx. It's full of errors and the errors are all one way. You can deny it but it doesn't really matter. The war won't be won by propaganda. The war will be won by a collapse of Ukrainian morale due to huge casualties. If Ukrainians had been more realistic to start with this could have been avoided. Denying this reality just drags the war on longer and increases the number of people killed.
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  1911.  @joseavila5747  That would be multiple but you can't blame them for that, they couldn't know. The bigger problem is someone audited a subset and found they'd 1) made up Russian losses 2) counted Ukrainian losses as Russian 3) ignored Ukrainian losses. Unfortunately we just can't know what real losses are. Probably NATO militaries have a pretty good idea by doing the same as ORYX but with more resources but they're not going to tell us.
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  1912.  @bedandbreakfastman11  The big picture is the US neocons and Vicky Nuland provoked Russia into a defensive war. If you don't know what I'm talking about, watch Jeff Sachs or John Mearsheimer to explain it to you. Yes forget Ukraine because Russia is going to win no matter what we do short of starting WWIII. And afterwards, Russia has no interest in advancing westwards to capture Warsaw or Berlin again.
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  1913.  @muirislandjim453  On the contrary, Russia warned over and over, pleaded even that Ukraine joining NATO was crossing a red line for them. Now CIA chief Burns warned the US gov secretly they were serious. Biden and Zelensky pushed it anyway. There are other reasons. In the lead up to the war (October), Zelensky started talking about acquiring nuclear weapons - and the Americans didn't shoot him down. Also, Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk was increasing. We now know (because all of Poroshenko, Hollande and Merkel have admitted it) that these countries only signed the Minsk II accords to buy time to arm Ukraine, not because they saw it as a serious basis for peace. As for what Putin wants, no there's zero evidence he wants to attack any NATO country. The only reason for thinking this is NATO generals claim so. He's said many times the Soviet Union can never be recreated and anyone who thinks it can is a fool. You're probably a well meaning guy but like 99.9% of the British population, you've only heard the US/UK propaganda version of this story. Check out Jeff Sachs or Mearsheimer or the Duran channel or even better senior ex CIA Antony McGovern. If you want to read you couldn't do better than Ukraine in the Crossfire by Dutch journalist de Ploeg
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  1914. If Ukraine had really shot down a IL-76 full of VDV we'd have all kinds of photographic and satellite evidence. We can be sure this never happened.
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  1915. Mass immigration pushed down wages and pushed up the price of housing but surely it's worth it for all the cultural enrichment, life was so boring in the days before race riots and paedo gangs
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  1916. Yes the only people in Britain with a nuclear fall out shelter.
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  1917.  @teleguy5699  He's fighting a large country backed by all of NATO's armaments and he's winning.
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  1918. 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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  1919.  @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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  1920. High ground
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  1921. If you think Israel is blameless you need to get out of your echo chamber. Both sides pump out propaganda but wrt. Iran especially, it's Israel that started lobbing the missiles. As for Hamas, the Palestinians have legitimate grievances by any objective standard.
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  1922.  @hsa330  Hamas was funded by Israel to sabotage the necessity to make concessions to Palestine - don't be so naive.
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  1923.  @elizabethlacky6068  Turn on your brain. If I'm on a pro-Israel channel pointing out that Israel is non blameless, it's not me in an echo chamber. Actually I'm pretty neutral on this war, I just find the Israeli hypocrisy nauseating.
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  1924. Israel would love to drive the population overseas. But even if the borders were open, millions of people can't just leave their homes and go overseas in 24 hours. But actually the borders are shut. The people are trapped. They always were.
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  1925.  @eternalardour  Yeah. Your argument is no different from the 1940s Germans committing genocide on the Jewish population because of strong support for communism in that population. Same mentality. You realise about a million children live in Gaza right? And they can't escape. Food, power shut off. Nowhere to go. Reap what you sow. Looks to me - an informed outsider with no personal links to the region - both sides have committed plenty of atrocities going all the way back to 1948 and before. If you think genocide is the answer, don't be surprised if your enemies choose the same answer.
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  1926.  @rogermartinez78  What do you mean Western militaries don't attack civilian infrastructure? Never heard of the Belgrade railway bridge or television tower? Never heard of the Iraqi power grid? Check your facts.
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  1927. Russia graduates more engineers than the USA even though the population is less than half the USA's. However, Russian education is very weak at gender studies and critical race theory.
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  1928.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  A lot of Siberia has a really low population density, they rely more on railways than roads. It's not like US infrastructure is perfect either. If their weapons keep failing like you claim, they'd have lost the war by now. It's Ukrainians who are getting the shit kicked out of them
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  1929. Not so much anymore, was definitely true under Yeltsin
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  1930. No evidence Russia did it. Most likely Ukraine did it.
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  1931.  @SP-nx8qx  haha ok well google the Melian dialogue it describes an early example of a genocide by Thucydides
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  1932.  @SP-nx8qx  I've been to some of those islands, not that one. Beautiful country, excellent people.
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  1933.  @ABRAM_BEATS  Here in the West we can vote for Labour, Conservatives or the Lib Dems but whichever we vote for, we're always going to get more immigration, more crime, more corruption, more waste and higher taxes.
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  1934. Derschowitz is making claims she knows is wrong, it's her job to expose this to the audience. You can't say she didn't let him speak, amongst three people, he did most of the speaking by far.
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  1935. Russia recognised Lithuania's independence in return for guarantees of transit rights. Remove the transit rights, remove the legal obligation for Russia to recognise Lithuania's independence. If you think the USA wants a nuclear war with Russia for the sake of Lithuania's right to provoke the Russians then you must be the kind of person who believed Biden's claim the Afghan army could defeat the Taleban a few days before the Taleban took over Kabul.
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  1936. He wants World War Three!
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  1937.  @tubthump  The other interesting thing about Bakhmut, the Russians just released footage of an underground road all the way to Chasiv Yar. The Ukrainians were doing rotations through this tunnel. The whole area has huge salt mines.
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  1938. "No border should be changed in Europe by force" - but NATO did exactly this in Kosovo. Yeltsin at the time warned it was creating a dangerous precedent.
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  1939.  @steveb951  Check out the Panama Papers
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  1940.  @davidhimmelsbach557  You say I'm totally wrong but it's a fact that the USA never ratified the treaty we're talking about. You don't even try to address this verifiable fact. BTW same thing happened with the League of Nations back in the day. President Wilson pushed it but Congress never ratified it. So the whole project was a waste of time.
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  1941.  @charshill2978  The honest truth is both sides. From the imported third world masses on one side, from the globalist politicians, financiers, media (disproportionately Jewish) on the other.
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  1942. In general the billionaires are not wealth creators. There are a few exceptions like Musk and Gates but most of the billionaires are basically parasites
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  1943. You're not going to fix that bridge in 24 hours. You're not going to fix it in 24 days. 24 weeks... maybe.
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  1944.  @Wildweib  As an engineer, I'd put money on that span not being fixed in 24 hours or even 24 days. Do you have any idea what's going to be required to replace a span? As for knowing Russia - actually I speak Russian.
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  1945. And not just on that particular topic. On the Russian-Ukraine war too, many claims reported as fact by the media were disinformation.
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  1946.  @DeepCFisher  Not really because the Highlanders were fighting for their own king, their own country by then. Calling him an English king is misleading, it makes them sound like mercenaries.
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  1947.  @scarletlady3727  British passport, African background i.e a foreign coloniser.
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  1948. Yes - the difference now is that they're being used to target Russian territory. Imagine what the USA would do if Russian missiles started landing in the USA.
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  1949. The native American tribes committed genocide on each other, there's nothing new, it's just the Europeans had more advanced technology so they were more successful.
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  1950.  @РоманДмитриев-ь3ю  Yeah a lot of them seem to live in Switzerland and Poland now :P
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  1951. Huge assumption that Putin can't win this war. Russia only recently started mobilising and Ukraine is running low on ammunition.
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  1952. Same, he's a snakeoil salesman.
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  1953. Western propaganda delivery is vastly better. Much better media and internet control
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  1954.  @bretseattle  There are better options like the Duran
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  1955.  @Joe-og6br  The US contributed to there being a war in Ukraine in the first place. All Putin wanted was the pledge that Ukraine would not join NATO - for Russia's own security. Biden insisted Ukraine should be on the MAP.
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  1956.  @juliantheapostate8295  Way more than 5 years, we're still about 96% w-HITE. Yes it certainly feels more and the trend is obvious but most of Scotland, there are very few. Some of England, ethnic English are already a minority.
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  1957.  @BlossomField91  I agree there's definitely that danger, a small population can for flooded suddenly for sure... especially if the politicians are insane like in Ireland. Lucky for Scotland, immigration policy is decided in London and finally there seems to be a serious backlash against immigration there. I don't mean to suggest it's not a problem in Scotland at all, it's just for the time being, Scotland is still overwhelmingly ... Scottish. I reckon we've got a few years to learn the obvious lessons from the rest of Britain and from Europe before it's too late. Will we learn obvious lessons? I don't know.
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  1958.  @ysw8291  And he's wrong. The USA used tariffs to build up its own domestic industry two hundred years ago when it was decisively in the ascent. There are many other such examples. 19th century Europe was highly protectionist you can't argue that it was in decline then.
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  1959.  @agustintarzian9450  They didn't expect to need air defence in Syria since ISIS are not known for the strength of their air force. On their march from Rostov towards Moscow they shot down anything which came near them for very little loss of their own. You can guarantee that if there's any sign of confrontation in Africa between Wagner and the French military, the Wagner are going to be using S300s at the minimum, more likely they'll have S400s available.
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  1960.  @artnull13  Don't you realise the ISW is propaganda too? Look who runs it - CIA linked neocons
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  1961. The US has military bases in Syria which 100% of the world recognises as Syrian territory. And the Syrians want the US out.
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  1962.  @davidheidt8548  If that's the funniest you can come up with, don't give up the day job
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  1963.  @russ1669  There's tons of footage, it's in the Russian news, it's all over Russian social media. It's hardly a secret.
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  1964. I don't know this for sure but if I had to bet, USA and Germany accusing Ukraine is a distraction from the actual culprits - and Seymour Hersh told us who they are. It goes without saying that elements within German intelligence and the German government were onboard with the sabotage.
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  1965. Productive people have fewer.
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  1966. I don't think anyone really knew what would happen. Ukraine's success in Kharkov in 2022 was a surprise. The Russian pull out of Kherson was a surprise even after it had happened, the Ukrainians thought it was a trap for a couple of days.
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  1967. Russia has more nuclear weapons than any other country - and you want a nuclear war with Russia?
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  1968. You obviously don't know what democracy is. The EU which is not answerable to electorates is deliberately bypassing member states which are answerable to electorates to send huge amounts of money to the most corrupt country in Europe. In a democracy, the people decide. Let member parliaments decide whether to spend this money on a state by state basis, that is far more democratic than diktat from Brussels.
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  1969. Zelensky was elected on a platform of improving relations with Russia. Instead he escalated the conflict over Donbas in the lead up to the Russian invasion.
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  1970. The ones who should be charged are people like Austin who are now exposed as lying to the American public by these leaked documents.
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  1971.  @troymash8109  No, common criminals get away with serious crimes but people who expose the lies of the elite like Snowden and Assange and even Trump get everything thrown at them.
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  1972. The helots were in Sparta, not Athens.
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  1973. I get the impression that most intelligent people have better things to do (with the possible exception of the retired) and find it easy to get off jury service so the less intelligent tend to be concentrated on juries. It's a huge flaw in the process.
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  1974. The Russians already do this. They station a couple of Wagner guys on their oil tankers and the Somalis know to keep the hell away from them.
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  1975.  @crescent4996  Western European countries have already been invaded without a fight. Even to criticise the invasion invites arrest and imprisonment. Why would any sane person fight for governments which want to protect Ukraine's borders but not their own?
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  1976. He definitely has click bait titles but the Bretton Woods world order is definitely being shaken up. The recovery or Russia, decline of the West and rise of BRICS is huge. These things don't happen overnight but step back a bit and the world as it is now is completely different from five years ago.
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  1977. "relatively weak and unprepared Ukraine", the second biggest military in NATO, armed by almost all of NATO? Or do you mean a different Ukraine?
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  1978. Only an idiot thinks Russia took higher casualties in Avdivka. Just see the FABs demolishing entire high rise buildings. The Ukrainians have no answer to that.
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  1979. Sure, he pumps out CIA propaganda. He worked for stratfor which is a CIA front organization
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  1980. What has Israel got to do with it? If you're pro-Israel, you're either brain washed or Jewish. If you're Jewish, that's fine but if you're British or European America and you're pro-Israel you really need to analyse more carefully why.
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  1981. Nordstreamem delenda est!
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  1982. 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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  1983. It's worse than disingenuous, it's an outright lie. Israel was built on expelling the existing population from the territory which now makes up the country. Only someone who knows nothing about it could think otherwise.
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  1984. They're going for Sieversk for sure but also resting some of the units used for the Donbas battle. After they're rested, I wouldn't be surprised if they're redeployed elsewhere especially Kharkov.
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  1985. He can't pronounce Russian names either, not even close, nothing says I'm a geopolitical expert like butchering the names of major leaders.
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  1986.  @kerryparffrey9993  I'd rather get serious analysis but ok whatever works for you
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  1987.  @okbutthenagain.9402  I'm not defending Hamas. The IDF has killed 24,000 people that names have been put to and thousands unidentified buried in the rubble. 70% of those killed were children or women. Of the remaining 30% very few were Hamas. Hamas are underground in tunnels. They pop out and ambush the IDF. Most of the people who are dying are just Palestinian civilians. And it's not just the deaths. Most of the housing has been deliberately destroyed by the IDF so even if there's a cease fire, there's nowhere for a million people to live. Only one hospital left operating in Gaza. People are starting to starve. Journalists and medical staff deliberately targeted by the IDF. Be careful about supporting Israel on this one because Israel's response to October 7th is massively disproportionate.
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  1988. He doesn't, he just makes it up. He can't even get names of important people right.
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  1989.  @stuartx7865  Back in the real world, non Western countries are queueing up to join BRICS.
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  1990. @@brandonblop Most people don't have twenty million quid. This is bigger than just Brand. If mere allegations suffice to shut someone down financially then I hope you can see what a dangerous precedent that is and the chilling effect it will have on free speech. It should be totally obvious that the motivation for this extends beyond justice for any alleged victims.
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  1991. He's talking as if someone else has been running the country for the past decade - but no, it was his party. All the main parties are complicit in this because nobody is prepared to stand up to the media/immigration/social welfare complex.
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  1992.  @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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  1993.  @elaineteut9579  I pretty much agree with all he says but there's one glaring irony here. Sky News has been recently calling to END the free speech of pro-Palestinian protesters. Yes, many of them are obnoxious and we may disagree with what they say but free speech only exists if it applies to everyone including those we disagree with.
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  1994.  @Leiska86  North Korea produces vastly more artillery ammunition than all EU countries put together. Yes, you're right that Europe hypothetically could increase armaments production massively. But it's an entirely hypothetical argument. In such a serious emergency that doing so out prioritised economic health and social spending. It's not going to happen and even if it did, by the time they've finally build up that industry the war is over. Let's stick to what is likely to happen, not hypothetical speculations about something we know will not happen. What I expect to happen is new European leaders are going to want nothing to do with Ukraine.
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  1995. The actual NSDAP gets called far right but was actually far left. Radical, high social spending, state control of the economy, collectivist over individual rights - all leftist features. The main difference between the NSDAP and the modern left is the NSDAP was patriotic.
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  1996. LOL do you think the CIA or MI6 or Mossad never murder anyone?!
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  1997. Briahna could argue with her own reflection.
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  1998.  @blixten2928  Totally agree. No matter how hard it is for Russia, Russia will pay the price and the territory they currently control will return to Russia. The only remaining questions are how long it will take, how many more must die and how much more territory the Russians will take.
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  1999. This is a fairy story. If you believe this, try and find the evidence - there is none.
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  2000. LOL they;'re Gypsies they've been professional thieves for a thousand years.
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  2001. It's not united at all. Hungary and Slovakia are now happy for the war to end on Russia's terms. The next Dutch government will be sceptical of NATO
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  2002. The USA invades countries all over the world because "they're evil" - the rest of the world finds this childishness embarrassing.
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  2003. 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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  2004. Sure. Let's start WW3 because of some accusations without evidence.
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  2005.  @Carl-hs420a  Incorrect, over and over politicians promise to fix immigration but it never happens. The electorate never voted for immigration, it's a project imposed by the political elite and their sponsors in the City who benefit short term from lower wages.
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  2006. "I promise you the Palestinian people will thank Israel" - anyone who believes this needs to look up the photos of what the Israelis are doing in Gaza. Entire suburbs flattened with the population unable to escape.
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  2007. LOL Al Capone would be proud
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  2008.  @peterjohnson5586  In the territories the Russians actually control, most of the population is pro-Russian.
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  2009. Ukraine is hardly a democracy. Opposition parties banned, politicians assassinated, elections suspended ....
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  2010.  @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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  2011.  @HistoryDebunkedsimonwebb  You should really look into these wars you accuse Russia of. The narrative that Russia attacked Georgia for example is completely wrong. The war started when Georgia attacked Russian peacekeepers. Putin was taken completely by surprise. Only takes a couple of hours to look into.
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  2012. Deliberately leaving out the elephant in the room - hugely improved relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Because that fact doesn't suit the neocon agenda.
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  2013. Early in the war we were told Russia is running out of missiles. A few days ago they destroyed most of Ukraine's port infrastructure in just one night. It's delusional to claim Russia is running out of ammunition. But recently Biden admitted the US is running out of ammunition. Zelensky and Zaluzhny have several times admitted the Russians fire many shells for every Ukrainian shell fired.
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  2014. You should actually read the Budapest Memorandum. You'll find Ukraine was obliged to remain neutral. Attempting to join NATO is not remaining neutral.
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  2015. More recently, the US destroyed a dam in Syria too.
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  2016. Remind me who cancelled the last elections was it Putin or Zelensky?
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  2017. The Russians have already destroyed the bridgehead
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  2018.  @stephanguitar9778  All the big parties want mass immigration. Without Brexit they could blame the EU for doing what they wanted to anyway. But it's not just Britain, almost all EU countries have a huge problem with mass immigration too. As for the Tories, you keep saying "your Tory government". They're just as much YOUR government as mine. Don't blame me for the likes of Rishi Sunak.
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  2019.  @DerDop  I speak Russian
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  2020.  @drsgme69  Russia certainly has poor people. But almost all countries do. I'm not seeing much difference in the quality of life of poor people in USA, Britain and Russia. Possibly of the three, the poorest people have it harder in USA. You don't really have a lot of people living on the street in Russia like you do in say Los Angeles.
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  2021.  @leme5639  I realise that - but equally, poor people in the USA are literally living in their vehicles because they can't afford rent, even people who work full time. And the really poor people live in tents. They don't have indoor plumbing either. In addition, poor people in the USA have no healthcare. There's no comparison with Russia where all people have the right to free healthcare. This is why a like for like comparison of official GDP gives a very misleading impression of the actual standard of living.
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  2022. There are also videos of Ukrainians executing Russian POWs, do you get outraged about that too?
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  2023. Meanwhile back in the real world, Russia is fending off Ukrainian attacks, pushing the Ukrainians back in several places, closing in around Bakhmut and have almost taken Soledar, cutting off the remaining Ukrainian defenders. But the British media is still banging on about the Russians being defeated.
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  2024. Definitely, the US Army was hoping to replace a lot of their old equipment with new equipment, using the Ukraine armaments funds.
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  2025. It's NATO propaganda. This guy is literally a serving NATO officer
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  2026. Zero evidence the Russians did it. Zeihan has blamed the Russians before for things it turned out the Ukrainians did.
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  2027.  @lethallizard963  War started with the US sponsored Maidan coup which overthrew a democratically elected government and replaced it with nationalist extremists.
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  2028.  @user-fh1rz1uq6c  What you're confusing is Judaism the religion with Jewishness the ethnicity.
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  2029.  @user-fh1rz1uq6c  Actually it's you who doesn't know what you're talking about. Even in the east of England, most of the ancestry of the native population (ie. not the immigrant farm labourers) is predominantly descended from the settlers who moved up after the ice retreated ten thousand years ago. There was a Celtic invasion, Roman invasion, an Anglo-Saxon invasion and a Viking invasion and all imposed their language but didn't fundamentally genetically replace the population. Read for example Brian Sykes. The further west you go, their influence was less. Anyway regardless of all that, these people who arrived in the 1930s, 50s and 60s have only superficially assimilated. They may speak only English but they're (generally) fundamentally hostile to the very notion of a British (or English or Scottish etc) ethnicity because it's not something they're part of.
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  2030.  @catwoman7462  Sure there are sub ethnicities within the Jewish ethnicity but if you're denying there's such a thing as a Jewish ethnicity then you don't have a clue. Try Yuri Slezkine's The Jewish Century, winner of the 2005 National Jewish Book Award. Nobody would deny Einstein was Jewish least of all Einstein himself though he described himself as religiously agnostic.
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  2031.  @catwoman7462  So now you're contradicting what you said before. Yes, as I originally said, Judaism is a religion. Jewishness is an ethnicity.
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  2032.  @catwoman7462  The Jewish nation. The Jewish identity. The Jewish ethnicity. Closely correlated with but different from Judaism.
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  2033.  @catwoman7462  The idea that Jewish ethnicity can only be inherited from the mother is a Jewish convention that doesn't have much logic behind it unless you believe the theory that Jewish society went through a period when it was common to not know who the father was. The reality is that ethnicity depends on all of ancestry, identity and culture. It doesn't fit into a definitive formula.
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  2034.  @catwoman7462  Correct all people have admixture but incorrect that this matters. Just because theoretically an Englishman has ancestors thousands of years ago from Spain and Norway and Hanover and further back even from Africa doesn't make him less English. Ethnicity is something which crystalises over many generations. The Gellner theory which claims it's entirely synthetic is blatantly flawed. I hope it's obvious that someone who has racially Japanese parents (for example) can not credibly claim to be of Jewish ethnicity. Even if such a person converted to Judaism.
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  2035.  @catwoman7462  I understand your thinking but I disagree. In a homogenous society, people don't have to think about ethnicity and identity too much, they can take it for granted. They can even pretend it doesn't matter or doesn't exist. In a multi-ethnic society, it really starts to matter more especially when relations between different ethnic groups deteriorate - which is obviously the situation we've got across the entire West right now. People become hyperaware of their ethnicity when society is ethnically divided. Israel is a case in point. People are either Jewish or Palestinian and claiming it doesn't matter, that you don't really care either way isn't really an option. Everyone is going to classify you as one or another (or maybe one of the tiny other options) and how they classify you is important both to them and to you.
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  2036.  @catwoman7462  Humans are biologically evolved to be tribal - because it's evolutionarily adaptive. Furthering the interests of your own group furthers the fitness of your own genes. Westerners have deliberately suppressed their innate tribalism but the rest of the world hasn't and that gives Western groups a huge disadvantage as evidenced by how certain immigrant groups have colonised large sections of the west. Pretending ethnicity doesn't matter is a luxury for those who live in a society where their own ethnic group overwhelmingly dominates. In the West, that time is passing or in many countries has already passed.
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  2037.  @catwoman7462  Likewise, youtube is not really the place to have an intelligent discussion :)
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  2038.  @PlanetWalking-qd8gv  Ukraine would have lost Crimea
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  2039. Nordstream pipeline - "Nobody's sure quite who did that" :P I assume that's sarcasm. Biden and other necons threatened the pipeline before the war even began. Seymour Hersh's article should convince anyone who had doubts. The Americans blame Zaluzhny, their ally. German intelligence came up with a farcical story about Ukrainian saboteurs. Anyone who isn't quite sure hasn't been paying attention.
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  2040. No because the Palestinians have a higher birth-rate, the Zionists in America are gradually losing credibility and the most productive people in Israel have packed up and left in large numbers. Israel has made an enemy of all of its neighbours in a tough neighbourhood. Its future looks pretty bleak. All it takes is for a future US government to say ok we're sick of this country dragging us into wars, sick of its brutality and land grabs and its neighbours will have many decades of scores to pay back.
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  2041.  @tclanjtopsom4846  Check out neutral sources, none of the Western media are neutral. They always present things in the best possible light for Ukraine. Yes Russian media is just as bad but there are good neutral sources too.
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  2042.  @comeforaride  Also, the Odessa massacre had dozens of victims murdered, nobody ever prosecuted and no mention in the Western media.
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  2043.  @tunny5802  Applies in some places more than others.
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  2044. Ridiculous to estimate 600,000 Ukrainians have been killed. As ridiculous as Zelensky's estimate but in the opposite direction.
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  2045. Andrew Bridgen is right about a lot of things.
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  2046.  @darrylknight2675  Yeah I know it's not perfect. It just compares well with most of the media.
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  2047.  @lachlanbell8390  I totally agree with you about Sky News Australia. Yes they're fully neocon. But they're also anti-woke which puts them far ahead of most of the MSM. It's interesting that Sky News in Britain is quite different, they're quite PC.
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  2048.  @lachlanbell8390  Yeah shadow banning, youtube is notorious for that. Quite likely right about that w keyword. Interesting about ownership, I'd never checked.
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  2049.  @lachlanbell8390  BTW I can't see your comment if I expand the thread either. Only if I click on the bell link. Consider yourself shadow banned :0
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  2050.  @mousquetairedumas4382  Military Summary Channel, probably the best channel on Youtube for frequent updates on the war, he updates twice per day, moderate pro-Russian bias
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  2051.  @Rozerand  Romania just banned the most popular politician by far from running in an election. All over Europe, people are being arrested over free speech violations. In Britain you're more than ten times more likely per capita to be prosecuted for social media posts than in Russia. All of these are facts. if you're still talking about the free world, you're decades out of date.
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  2052.  @GSicKz  What's your evidence the Russians are losing thousands of men? Mediazona tracked 50,000 dead Russians in the whole war including convicts. Losses this year have really dropped off. Following the fighting from mapping channels like Weeb Union, DPA and Military Summary, it's looking very one sided. The Russians locate Ukrainian positions and wipe them out with FABS. The Ukrainians have no way to answer that.
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  2053.  @Bobby-LeeChanning  Yes, without provocation. Hamas started a war with Israel so Israel turns around and attacks Syria, Hezbollah and Iran.
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  2054. @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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  2055.  @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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  2056. Everything coming out of Ukraine is propaganda, you understand that right?
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  2057. That's a tiny amount of money compared to what Russian retaliation is going to cost us.
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  2058.  @keithbarrett2433  If only. 150 years ago we were at the peak of our civilisation and the whole world looked up to us. One EMP now and we'd be like be more like Haiti or Somalia, at least in the cities.
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  2059.  @glennbateman4483  Yeah the Russian military is so poor it's defeating a large country armed and financed by all of NATO.
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  2060.  @truthseeker6116  Nothing dumber than a guy who calls himself truth seeker who laps up propaganda like a kitten laps up milk.
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  2061.  @jonlittle5032  Jeez the comments on Zeihan's channel are like 5 year old level. Ok genius, believe what you want. Ukraine is going to stomp all over Russia and the tooth fairy will bring you a special prize.
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  2062.  @GeekDad74x  You're telling me what the media narrative is, not what's actually happening in Ukraine. You don't need to take my word for it. Check out what the guys who won Desert Storm say about it - Dan Davis and Scot McGregor. Even better Swiss intel officer Jacques Baud and Austrian Col. Reisner. These aren't "Russian bots", they're retired senior Western officers, the guys who write books, not the politicians officers who become generals like that embarrassment Ben Hodges. Actually Reisner is still serving. There is such a thing as Russian disinformation of course and it's interesting to know what they want their population to think but quite seriously, there's nothing they say as ridiculous as the stuff Zeihan comes up with.
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  2063.  @longforgotten4823  LOL cope harder. The Russians withdrew so suddenly the Ukrainians thought it was a trap for a couple of days afterwards
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  2064. "moral stance" = followed orders from Washington. BTW Are you still claiming the Russians blew up their own pipeline Zeihan?
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  2065. They're really not :P They've been full of B.S. right from the start.
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  2066. The vast majority of the "Ukrainian" civilians in that area hate Ukraine, they've been shelled by the Ukrainian army for years.
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  2067.  @a0flj0  Not at all. Ukraine in the Crossfire is by a Dutch journalist - the best single source on Ukraine I'd say. Another worthwhile sources are Paul D'Anieri and the one which came out recently War in Ukraine by Benjamin and Davies. Those three are all Americans.
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  2068. The real reason the Russians care so much about Avdivka is that the Ukrainian army has been shelling Donetsk City from there with artillery and butterfly mines. It's a huge embarrassment to Russia that they've never solved this because there have been hundreds of civilian casualties.
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  2069.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  Zelensky himself admitted it would be disaster if the Russians captured Bakhmut a couple of months before ... Russians captured Bakhmut.
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  2070.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  And then did what happen? Did the Russians take Bakhmut? Sorry to break this to you but yeah. Did they take Avdivka? They definitely will. They've got the supply roads under at least some level of fire control now and they've broken into the town from the south.
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  2071.  @Northman-from-the-North  Interesting. The way you talk about the Russians is how Germans in the 1930s were propagandised to talk about certain other neighbouring ethnic groups. Not through personal experience or a detailed understanding of the hated other, just from a sustained state sponsored narrative.
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  2072.  @rickschroth9869  The Russians have been warning about NATO expansion for twenty years. In the lead up to the invasion both the US and Ukraine were making concrete plans to bring Ukraine into NATO and NATO was arming Ukraine. But the war has "NOTHING, ZERO, ZILTCH" to do with NATO expansion? LOL
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  2073.  @josephgonzalez_  I'm definitely not "throwing in my lot" with Putin. He has made mistakes, he has told lies, he has flaws. He has admirable qualities too. He is fundamentally a patriot. I simply call out the lies and propaganda of both sides. And in the West, the propaganda is 99% in one direction. There have always been plenty of self hating Russians just like there are self hating "liberals" in the West. Same kind of mentality. And they're concentrated in Moscow and St Petersburg.
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  2074.  @josephgonzalez_  You say there's no equivalence between Russia and the West. It's as if you have no idea what NATO military forces did in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Afghanistan. Look up with Madeleine Albright tried to tell us yes we killed half a million people in Iraq but it was worth it! Presumably you're also unaware that Ukraine has deliberately murdering people and shelling Donetsk City for years including with butterfly mines which are pretty useless against military personnel but are especially dangerous for children.
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  2075.  @deepaks4370  If you think my facts are wrong then you haven't read what I wrote carefully enough. I never claimed there was a formal agreement. There were however multiple verbal agreements by senior officials - made in public. If you think it's fine for promises like that to be broken then congratulations - you're exactly the kind of person who caused the breakdown in relations between Russia and NATO. Russia is universally recognised as the successor state of the Soviet Union. When the other states broke away, that doesn't give other countries the excuse to just ignore promises made. Otherwise, how could you expect Russia to honour for example debts incurred by the Soviet Union?
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  2076. Because you want WWIII?
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  2077.  @Eire32  CIA directory William Burns also warned the US gov privately NATO expansion was going to cause a war, see the Snowden leaks. Maybe you think he works for the Kremlin too?
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  2078. Yeah blocking the F16s seemed to be a sign that the US administration is changing direction.
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  2079. This "moderate regional power" has not even mobilised but nevertheless took over almost a quarter of Ukraine and is shelling the next largest army in Europe to shreds even though Ukraine has received so much Western money and armaments that France for one warns that it is no longer ready to fight a war itself. It's doing all of this while protecting the living standards of its population in the face of sanctions, in fact sanctions by NATO and EU countries threaten to create a severe energy and economic crisis in the EU itself.
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  2080.  @alexandermackie7621  If I'm "whining and crying", it's because the West is so deluded and it's destroying itself. I've been following the war closely from the start and I've never seen the Western media serve up such outrageous propaganda.
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  2081. ​ @alexandermackie7621  The big picture is that before the war, America was the only superpower, the threat of devastating sanctions constrained other great powers like Russia and China. 1) America created this proxy war in Ukraine, Russia got pushed into an intolerable position and has now broken out of the post cold war era. Most of the world outside of the West is now detaching from the American order. 2) Armaments to Ukraine have prolonged the war but are straining Western economies already stretched from lockdowns. Inflation is out of control and even raising interest rates won't help as much as usual because much of the inflation comes from energy costs. Armaments to Ukraine have severely depleted Western militaries e.g. French generals warned their government they're currently too depleted to fight a war. 3) Financial and energy sanctions against Russia have backfired, we're looking at economic collapse in much of Europe this winter when the gas runs out. Energy intensive industries are already closing, just today Slovakia shut down aluminium production - aluminium will have be imported from Russia instead. Financial sanctions on Russia have pushed non Western countries into developing alternatives. China and Russia are now setting up international competition to SWIFT and a new BRICS currency for international transactions. Huge own goal by America there. For the first time, large amounts of oil and gas are being traded in a currency other than US dollars. 4) The totally insane timing of Pelosi's visit to Taiwan antagonises China and contributes to China's orientation away from the West and towards Russia. Far from Russia being isolated, the rest of the world is pivoting away from the West. Obviously there are plenty of small ones but that's the big picture. It'll be clearer by spring next year after Europe has had an economic meltdown, many current Western leaders have gone and Western solidarity against Russia is broken.
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  2082.  @alexandermackie7621  I'm neutral I'm not pro-Ukraine. I may have been pro-Ukraine when the war started. I've learned a lot since then. Yes I do watch Russian propaganda sometimes, 1) it's entertaining because it's bad 2) you need to hear both sides to question your assumptions 3) it's language practice. I assume anything either the Ukrainian or Russian government says is outright propaganda. If there's any particular point you're interested in I can give more details or point you to good source.
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  2083.  @alexandermackie7621  I largely agree with your estimation of China. I don't think they're confident they're ready militarily to confront America either - but the trajectory is obvious. For sure, China has some severe economic problems just now, their huge housing bubble is starting to burst. So being able to sell to America is important and valuable to them - however they sell to the whole world - and their domestic market is huge now too. And a real trade breakdown with America will hurt America almost as much as China. The problem is, the totally unnecessary confrontation over Taiwan (because America could have just kept the status quo at no cost) puts China in the position where it feels forced to pivot away from the neutral position it had on the Ukraine war up until a few weeks ago. It has always wanted to dismantled America's financial hegemony but America's own move has given China urgency. Some concrete numbers. China is getting rid of US treasuries. Its holdings are now lower than any time in the past twelve years.
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  2084.  @alexandermackie7621  Yeah that's basically the Peter Zeihan viewpoint on China. I think it's massively overstated but we'll see. The thing is, economically, Russia and China are perfect matches. Russia has the food production, metals and energy, China has the manpower, size and manufacturing. Given China's rising position and Russia's recovery, it was essential for the USA to do anything possible to drive a wedge between them. Antagonising Russia and antagonising China at the same time just drives them together and is an inexcusable strategic blunder. Fairly recently China and Russia patched up a decades long border dispute and have already opened some new bridges across the Amur. As well as China, Russia is making strategic partnerships with Turkey and Iran - even though Turkey is still nominally in NATO. Hard to see how the West could have prevented that though. The USA nowadays is like a great super tanker with nobody at the helm. The USA has lost Turkey and China, the big question coming up for next year is whether it loses Europe too.
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  2085.  @alexandermackie7621  Yeah a tight military alliance between China and Russia is unlikely but closer economic and military co-operation - for sure. They're currently doing a big military exercise together. This is a major win for Russia because until recently they needed to keep large forces on their huge border with China. Yeah Turkey is playing both sides for sure but step back and think about how profound this is that they're actually moving closer to Russia just a few months into a war which is going to end with Russian dominance over the Black Sea. That's really not a good sign for the West. As for Israel - well if Turkey and Russia manage to resolve their differences in Syria (big if) then Israel is starting to look very isolated. I don't know so much about Middle Eastern politics but my understanding was that close Russian ally Syria and Israel were in a low intensity war, Israel bombed a Syrian airport just recently. BTW, Michael Kofman is already talking about having to put Ukraine on an "ammo diet" - because the supply of armaments to Ukraine is unsustainable and is already falling off.
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  2086.  @alexandermackie7621  "a pack of self serving wolves out for themselves first and foremost with at best minimal concern for their so called allies" That could describe both sides in WWII :) Well I agree neither Russia nor China will want to be subordinate. But it doesn't really matter, they have such strong synergies provided they're both secure about their long shared border. Given them a few years to build more pipelines and rail links and China's maritime vulnerability largely disappears. Likewise, Turkey has so much to gain economically from cooperating with Russia. Access to cheap Russian gas and wheat. I think Turkey is looking at what's happening in Ukraine and wants good relations with the winning side. Kicking Turkey out of NATO completely would be a seriously stupid move for NATO. Here's another Western own goal. The EU is busy trying to make it harder for Russians to get travel visas. Meanwhile, Turkish banks recently started allowing the Russian mir cards. So that will be a lot of rich Russians spending their tourist money in Turkey instead of Europe.
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  2087. There's video evidence of Russian prisoners being tortured by Azov
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  2088. Only in the Western media is the Russian army getting "pasted". On the ground, they're inflicting higher casualties than they take and they're sitting on the most valuable regions of Ukraine. And they're advancing too.
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  2089.  @timonsolus  That's propaganda and simply false.
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  2090.  @Katoshi_Takagumi  Suggestion you widen your sources beyond the Western media. Try History Legends channel if you want a brief overview.
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  2091.  @timonsolus  Russia withdrew from Kherson and around Kiev. The only territory the Ukrainians actually took in battle is around Kharkov which is mainly low value forest and pasture country. Russia retains Mariupol and most of the industrial region of Donbas. Since Russia mobilised hundreds of thousands of reservists, the fighting has been getting more and more one sided.
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  2092.  @timonsolus  Calling the men the Russians mobilised "untrained" is again, propaganda. The vast majority (some exceptions) are reservists with years of military experience, not raw recruits. And now, months later, they have had months of training as a refresher. The large majority of the Ukrainian army were actually raw recruits at the start of the war. Now, the Western media calls them veterans. Don't you see the double standard? For most of this war including the first weeks, the Russians were outnumbered and were able to seize huge tracts of Ukraine anyway - why? Greater firepower and the difference between a professional army and semi-trained reservists. To suggest the Russians are going to be unable to win when they actually outnumber the Ukrainians just doesn't seem plausible.
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  2093. Sure... it's taken three months to reach the first main defence line. And that's in the sector where the Ukrainians have done best.
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  2094. People in Britain often have an unrealistic understanding of Indians because the Indians in Britain tend to be from the intellectual elite. As for the over a billion of them in India, the average IQ is about 85 which is about a standard deviation lower than in Britain.
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  2095. Israel started the war with Hezbollah and Iran. I despise the government but stopping arms sales to Israel was justified.
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  2096. He just said the war is not going well for Russia - as Ukraine is on the brink of collapse.. He's a joke.
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  2097. You point it at an area, it assumes any military equipment in that area is enemy.
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  2098. Don't you realise the US has been at war for almost every day over the past decades somewhere in the world? And most Americans have never heard of many of the places American soldiers are killing people.
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  2099. Trump recognises Ukraine has lost the war and wants to disassociate himself from Biden's failed project. It's that simple.
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  2100.  @chatnoir1224  That's true but 50k for a country the size of Russia is nothing. Also, many of these soldiers were Wagner convicts, i.e. people who were not really too valuable in the first place, many others were ethnic minorities.
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  2101.  @henkschrader4513  Seriously? Do you mind saying which city you mean? I used to work near Den Haag and there were huge numbers of people from Africa in that area.
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  2102.  @littlefinger4509  And if the Ukrainians DON'T capture Kherson, are you going to return to reality?
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  2103.  @rosomak8244  Tiny quadcopter drones, yes. But larger drones like Lancets seem to be fine in the rain.
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  2104. Ground is definitely dry enough for tracked vehicles.
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  2105. Even polling organisations that the Western media likes find that Putin is massively popular. He's more popular than when the war started. What this video ignores is that Ukrainian elections have been cancelled and opposition parties banned. And opposition politicians arrested or murdered.
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  2106. 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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  2107. Plenty of money for asylum seekers though
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  2108. Appalling though they are a Tory GE loss would bring in Labour who would be even worse.
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  2109.  @MaxDamageTV  I'm a swing voter. Yes, Labour are even worse than the Tories. High tax, high public sector bureaucracy party whose support base are 95% people who take out more from society than they put in - including a lot of high paid parasites. Pro-immigration despite that being a disaster for the working class. And infected with wokeness.
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  2110. The Russians are already rebuilding Mariupol. I don't think rebuilding the Donbass will be easy or fast but I don't think it will be expensive enough to make much difference to such a huge country as Russia. Compare West Germany rebuilding East Germany, the size difference there is small whereas the Russia to Donbass size difference is huge. Construction costs in Russia are very low. As for Putin's popularity, it's riding high. Assuming he gets some convincing victory which seems highly likely, winning a major war doesn't usually make national leaders weaker.
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  2111. Mass immigration has pushed up the price of housing and pushed down the price of labour. If you think replacing Europeans with Somalis and Afghanis is some kind of solution then you need to think about what you're suggesting.
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  2112. As usual, they take the most optimistic view of the fighting from the Russian viewpoint. Defense Politics Asia and Military Summary channel both neutral to pro-Russian in stance. Their updates from the past few hours show the Ukrainians closing in around Lyman, potentially trapping thousands of Russian soldiers, and advancing into Luhansk oblast. Mercouris claims there's no point to capturing Krasny Lyman, the purpose to anyone who is trying to be neutral is obvious. Trapping thousands of Russian soldiers there will unravel the entire Russian position in Luhansk. It would be a total disaster for the Russians. Will the Ukrainians be actually be able to pull it off? Too soon to say. But Mercouris's optimism is comical to anyone following the fighting.
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  2113. Not to mention dozens of January 6th protestors imprisoned in some cases for years when the police just let them walk through the White House
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  2114. The Israelis say exactly the same thing, no shortage of atrocities from both sides but Israel has the firepower.
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  2115.  @stephenderry9488  (Almost) all governments are ultimately accountable to their citizens even if they're not formally democracies. And the Arab street will never forgive Israel for the genocide happening now. Middle Eastern leaders can't ignore that. Also growing BRICS power and thawing Saudi-Iranian relations mean Israel has less space for divide and conquer.
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  2116. Yeah the Russians are already using drones like this to hunt infantry and vehicles - fully autonomous so they can't be jammed. And they're producing them on a huge scale.
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  2117. He butchers Russian so comically it's only fair he butchers French as well.
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  2118. Except it's not actually true, it's just a narrative from Peter Zeihan. I mean ask yourself do you seriously believe even if the Russians took over all of Ukraine, they'll continue on to Berlin and Paris? Peter Zeihan is a neocon propagandist, he talks very confidently but where's the actual evidence?
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  2119. This is the problem with not having an ethnic identity. For over a hundred years, Britain has been run by liberals who elevate short term economic advantage over the long term welfare of the British people and so there's been almost no serious argument against allowing millions of foreigners to settle, pushing down wages and pushing up the cost of housing. It's surreal that the Prime Minister is an ethnic Indian, Scotland's first minister is an ethnic Pakistani and the government is full of people whose ethnic loyalties lay elsewhere. The First Minister of Scotland has even publicly complained that there too many white people in senior positions in Scotland. Japan or India or Russia or Israel or Turkey would never elect leaders who didn't put their own people first but Anglophone countries fear to even admit they have such a thing as an ethnicity. Unless this changes and changes quickly, we're going to have a lot more to worry about than economic hardship.
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  2120. What work? Just uses the second hand work of actual war mappers. There are much better channels. DPA, Military Summary, Weeb Union, Theti Mapping all better analysis. And Theti Mapping is genuinely neutral.
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  2121. And both are smarter than you.
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  2122. Throughout the war, Russia has been much more careful about the lives of their men than the Ukrainian side. They've usually been willing to trade ground to save their forces whereas the Ukrainians have done plenty of sacrifices for media victories.
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  2123. I doubt Ukraine will completely run out - there'll always be at least a trickle of new supplies coming in so long as they keep fighting. And a 200,000 dollar missile vs a 20 million dollar aircraft means the Russians will never get too reckless.
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  2124.  @MarvinWestmaas  You're less human than most Russians, you're the worst kind of racist, no self awareness.
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  2125. This whole cannel is wishful thinking. Zeihan is basically a neocon wishful thinking merchant.
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  2126. And your reason for believing this is??
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  2127.  @ChicagoDB  Don't you realise that everything you know about this war is propaganda?
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  2128.  @ChicagoDB  That's propaganda BS. For example there's hardly any civilian population left in the combat area and the people who are left are generally not pro-Ukrainian anyway. The Russians started the war with BTGs but aren't generally using them any more. Your theory that this structure in particular makes it hard to evacuate wounded is just illogical.
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  2129. You';re being manipulated by accusations without evidence
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  2130.  @rasek240  A lot of Ukrainians are very ambivalent about the government to start with. There have been plenty of videos of units criticising their commanders, refusing orders to advance, justifying retreating without orders etc. Yes, SOME Ukrainians remain highly motivated, a lot of these will become demoralised if the current offensive collapses - as I expect it will.
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  2131.  @maxpower3990  A lot of assumptions there if you're gambling with the survival of the world. Since the West keeps escalating, it's obviously in Russia's interest to show they're serious about a red line. A Russian strike at say a Polish airbase - what then? Do you seriously believe the USA wants a war with Russia? No. So what's NATO going to do? In a game of chicken where everyone dies if nobody chickens out, escalation is the dumbest choice by far.
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  2132. The US army fights third world partisans. In a major war, it's not always going to be possible to evacuate wounded soldiers. You can't just fly a helicopter in on the front lines like in Afghanistan or Iraq. You think the Russian army sucks but the Russian army is winning against a major country of tens of millions of population armed by all of NATO.
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  2133.  @albertwesker828  S500 is better :)
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  2134. Sure. And if you go down that route, Russia starts sinking Western ships and cutting the Atlantic cables. What then? Nuclear war? Or West backs down?
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  2135.  @andyw_uk74  The West is running out of all kinds of munitions. French generals told their government they can't send any more aid to Ukraine or they won't be able to fight a war themselves. The Germans had huge holes even before the war. Even American officers are worrying about the same thing. The Russians are talking about setting off to demilitarise Ukraine but actually having demilitarised NATO.
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  2136. Probably because you're not very bright. Read the 84 pages. Israel is committing a massacre.
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  2137. What the media reports as Russian red lines are usually traced to someone on their TV. Putin himself only had two. Ukraine should never join NATO - and he invaded when Ukraine tried. And secondly, NATO missiles should not attack Russia. As for the narrative the Putin wants to re-occupy Eastern Europe sorry it's moronic to anyone who understands this war. Russia won't even want to occupy all of Ukraine - only the ethnically Russian east.
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  2138. Eventually Zelensky will run out of Ukrainians willing to die for his ego.
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  2139. Russian oil revenues are now significantly up on the same time last year. Russia currently has no problem whatsoever funding this war. Apart from oil, Russia now controls a huge chunk of the world's food supply.
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  2140.  @orlock20  No, economies adapt quickly. Look at Germany in both world wars under British blockade. Russia can still get most of what it needs through China and other places. Just because Russia didn't make much of this kind of stuff, doesn't mean it can't - it was just cheaper to buy it from poorer countries. Besides, Russia has been preparing for this since 2014.
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  2141. Sky News Australia are the mirror image. The reality there is nuanced. There are genocidal extremists on both sides, Hamas and the Israeli government. For example Netanyahu and Israel actually supported Hamas (because they both oppose a two state solution) and the leadership of Hamas is in Qatar, a US ally. Hard to believe if you only saw Sky News coverage.
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  2142. 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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  2143.  @jeffsaffron5647  They took Bakhmut. Only a propagandist would claim that has no strategic value.
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  2144. Who is getting decimated in Ukraine? Russia? What are you smoking?
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  2145.  @shugieshugied2269  The Conservatives have been promising to get immigration under control for 15 years. They lied over and over. Don't blame people for not bothering to vote, it's dishonest. We live in a managed democracy where two very similar parties take turns doing what the establishment wants and the Overton window is very narrow.
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  2146. Excellent explanation of this by Dan Tubb on the Lotus Eaters yesterday. The establishment's main fear is that the British working class gets organised. What's ridiculous is that by making the double standard so obvious, it makes it all but inevitable.
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  2147.  @Laniakea79  Nah I was in Brussels a few years back it really is a Middle Eastern city. Maybe some of the countryside is still European? Around the Waterloo battlefield was pretty nice. Charleroi was full of immigrants.
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  2148.  @FEWGEE1  No, only the USA can do that
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  2149. Don't you realise the consequences? It's basically theft. Steal that money and no Chinese nobody will want to keep money in the West. It could crash the world economy very quickly.
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  2150. So what are "conservative values" then? Under the Conservatives, taxes were up, public spending was up, immigration was up and criminals went unpunished.
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  2151.  @p_1945  Scotland is way too rich for EU aid, the EU is close to broke. If Scotland really wants back in the EU the price will be very high. The EU will want a slice of the oil and fisheries. And then trade with Scotland's biggest trading partner by far (England) will be harder. Realiistically it'll never happen.
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  2152. Oryx has been completely discredited - for inflating and inventing Russian losses. Up to you whether you want to trust it but don't be surprised when the Russians win the war despite these fantasy numbers.
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  2153.  @sjd7810  But other industries are doing better because they're not subject to EU import duties. If you don't like import duties in principle because you want truly free trade then you can't be a Remainer because the whole point of the EU is that it's a trade cartel.
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  2154.  @sjd7810  Yes of course I understand basic economics. Justify food duty - sure. take away the food duty and British farmers will get paid even less - and they're struggling to make a living already other than the really huge farms. Closing down British farming for slightly cheaper foreign food prices is a really bad idea. It means when we really need it in an emergency, it's too late. And millions starve. Also understand tariffs bring in revenue, take away the tariffs and you have to raise taxes on something else - which is pretty much impossible now because taxes are already too high across the board. either that or cut spending which the voters will never stomach nowadays. Should all be blatantly obvious if you understood the first thing about economics yourself.
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  2155.  @allip4226  "right wing governments" - are you on drugs pal? We've got the highest peace time taxes since directly after the Second World War and immigration is several times higher than under Blair. Government spending just keeps increasing, it's now higher than any level of taxation could justify. When did we last vote in a right wing government?
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  2156.  @sjd7810  Half of all EU spending went to farmers so yes farmers had a particular incentive to love the EU but here's the thing - EU subsidies didn't encourage productivity. They went on all kinds of ridiculous schemes. How do I know? I'm not a farmer myself but family members were and are - and I currently live in the countryside. I have personal knowledge of claiming EU farming subsidies. Look at what's actually happening to farmers now in the EU. It's French, German and Dutch farmers in the vanguard of anti-EU protests - literally spraying manure on Eu buildings in Brussels. Didn't you know that? Perhaps you don't know as much as you think.
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  2157.  @sjd7810  You're making the school boy mistake of confusing causation with correlation. Yes of course living standards are plummeting but you're determined to blame Brexit as if nothing else has changed since. Long before Brexit we were living beyond our means, QE was storing up an inflation reckoning which affects all Western countries. In case you don't know Germany, USA and France are all fretting about inflation. Studies by globalist organisations trying to pick out the effect of Brexit specifically are laughable. Aren't you aware the Bank of England warned there'd be an immediate collapse if we voted for Brexit? In the weeks following the economy boomed. You call these studies "factual". No economics is not factual. All economic studies are politically informed. It's not called the dismal science for nothing.
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  2158.  @suryakumairi3622  Maybe this explains why the Ukrainians have so many "friendly fire" incidents!
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  2159. Zeihan is merely a mouthpiece for Washington, he's not even slightly open minded.
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  2160. The Soviet Union didn't deliberately replace its own population with immigrants.
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  2161. Stalin and Beria would have been embarrassed by this trial. At least they could specify what the fake charges against their victims were.
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  2162.  @MissMan666  That's what Yeltsin said back in 1999 when NATO seized Kosovo from Yugoslavia. Pity Clinton and Blair didn't listen to him or we wouldn't have this war now.
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  2163.  @pallascat1743  Definitely some truth that the Conservatives have attracted a lot of people in it for themselves. Likewise, the SNP is full of the same kind of chancers. They've just been in power too long.
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  2164.  @formica.  Pretty much every country except China, North Korea and Ukraine have elections, doesn't mean they're actually democracies. Watch what you say or the police will take you away - that applies to Britain and Germany and Canada.
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  2165. Russia doesn't care about F16s, they're old technology and Russian air defence is first rate. For a country like Norway to antagonise Russia unnecessarily is just irrational. Russia can make things difficult for Norway in the arctic and the Norwegian oil industry is much more vulnerable than Russia's is.
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  2166.  @nedimyra  Norway is giving Ukraine F16s. Of course Russia is part of Europe.
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  2167.  @nedimyra  Topic of the video is F16s so OP is implicitly referring to F16s, I wasn't even replying to you, not sure why you think I was, perhaps you've never seen youtube comments before?
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  2168.  @juanmata2837  Except Russia is going to have to spend most of the money to rebuild Ukraine because after the war ends, Russia will control the devastated regions. As for the West of Ukraine nobody will rebuild it, it will become depopulated as all the remaining young people go to Poland and Germany.
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  2169. Most of the Ukrainian army were civilians at the start of the year. Some of them are now skilled veterans. A lot of the mobilised Russians will be expert soldiers who just needed a few weeks to integrate with a new unit and modernise their skills.
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  2170.  @Rednek0117  See the guys those 250,000 Ukrainians were fighting? They're the DPR and LPR armies. And they're roughly similar in size to the Ukrainian army. And they're exactly as experienced as the Ukrainians. So the situation isn't really different. In addition the Russian regular army has combat experience from Syria and elsewhere, not as much as say the US army but not trivial either.
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  2171.  @mduckernz  I've never seen that claim but there's no doubt DPR casualties are high. But this also goes for Ukraine. One Ukrainian company commander was saying he was the forth commander in a couple of months after two of the previous were killed and one injured. And this was a young guy who never even finished military academy. Even months ago a leaked Ukrainian document admitted they'd taken almost two hundred thousand casualties. That's going to be concentrated in the experienced professionals.
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  2172.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  LOL sure....
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  2173. Check the actual numbers before you believe the Zeihan fairy tale. Russia's demographics are pretty dire that's true but pretty average by Western standards. Most of Eastern Europe is in fact worse. As for the Russian economy, it's going to grow by 2% this year. It's hardly collapsing. And nor is its international trade. It's successfully replacing European markets with Asian markets. Finally, there's no sign Russia is interested in a cease fire judging by the statements of the leadership. Apparently, the Russian leadership believes it will win.
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  2174. It really was exactly that, we know that from various NGOs and people like Vic Nuland. However it's backfired because the Russian regime is much stronger than they expected.
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  2175. Rule number 4: When America promise they're going to back an ally, that ally is doomed
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  2176.  @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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  2177.  @RainerMichelle  Even Western run polls like Gallup and a big German organisation found a majority of people in Crimea were pro-Russian after Maidan even before the Russian take over. It went up in the months afterwards.
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  2178.  @RainerMichelle  LOL ok let's stick to concrete facts. You ask "this is nonsense, why would foreigners do polls in Ukraine?" Not for me to answer why, I'm just telling they were done. If you want to see an actual reference to the polls just check the wikipedia page for Crimea look at the 2014 section. If you want some real detail about all that happened in Ukraine at that time you couldn't do better than read Ukraine in the Crossfire by de Ploeg, a Dutch investigative journalist. Who is quite anti-Putin BTW.
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  2179.  @RainerMichelle  "trust me!" LOL Trust someone who admits to bias because of personal contacts over objective sources? This amounts to argument by anecdote.
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  2180.  @maxpower3990  Germany was starving and was unable to replace losses. Hardly applies to 2024 Russia where the economy is booming, the army is expanding and Putin's popularity is higher than when the war started. It may well apply to Ukraine though.
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  2181.  @strigoiu13  Not really, internet BS is America's greatest strength. A uni of Adelaide study earlier in the war found that 90% of the bots were on Ukraine's side. The US state puts serious money into this. As for Russia, look at the deficit, look at the growth look at national debt. All looking better than the USA. Laughing emojis don't change the numbers.
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  2182. 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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  2183.  @felicitysparrowhawk  The mainly territorial 51st Highland division wasn't taken off at Dunkirk, they fought until destroyed further south. There was massive resentment in Scotland about it because Churchill sacrificed them to try to convince the French to stay in the war.
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  2184. Because mass immigration has pushed up the price of housing and pushed down the price of labour.
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  2185. Why is it left to the Victorians and Edwardians? Because they were more intelligent. Higher reaction times, higher average genetic basis for intelligence. IQ has been declining about 1IQ point per decade for over a hundred years. Eventually, that starts to matter.
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  2186. He's a murderer, he's had various people murdered including Dugin's daughter. So basically, he's a terrorist.
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  2187. I bet Blackrock isn't buying assets east of the Dniepr!
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  2188.  @caboosej8749  Giving up an entire Oblast?? Look at a map it's a few border villages
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  2189. LOL the Russians don't think so, they're confident, they're advancing, they're having no problem expanding their army and their economy is growing despite sanctions. Have a close look at things in Ukraine. Just yesterday recriminations and arguments in the Rada, Zaluzhny was shouting he needed a massive expansion in recruitment months ago.
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  2190. LOL Ukraine is getting weaker day by day and Russia is getting stronger, it's been obvious for at least six months and it's pretty funny you propaganda echo chamber people still can't see that.
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  2191. Even if he is found guilty, the monetisation of his content has zero relationship to the accusations. It's for the court to impose penalties for crime, not for private companies to augment such a punishment with something they decide subjectively for themselves.
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  2192. Yeah his takes on China are blatant propaganda. More like China just doesn't want to deal with the EU. They want to deal with EU countries individually so they can treat them differentially and ideally split them. They treated Macron really well, rolled out the red carpet but snubbed Von Der Leyen.
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  2193.  @grahamo22  and because they have a corrupt national leader with dementia and a bad temper :)
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  2194.  @velvetmagnetta3074  The problem is, you think Russians are incompetent and Ukrainians are creative and resourceful because you watch pro-Ukraine channels in a medium controlled by American/NATO censorship (Youtube). The reality is, it's easy to cherry pick examples of incidents to make whatever narrative you want and that goes for each side. Yes of course there are examples of Russian incompetence, uncaring commanders etc. but there are 100% the same examples from the Ukrainian side. And whereas Russia is generally improving, things in Ukraine are generally deteriorating now. Really quickly. Just remember this guy is a serving NATO officer. It's his job to build this narrative. There are good neutral sources too but if you watched them, you wouldn't have the same assumptions you do have.
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  2195. Yeah I know the narrative, only problem is that it's based on the very worst examples cherry picked to create a Russia is useless story. It's not typical.
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  2196. Col Macgregor exaggerates but he is correct that Ukrainian casualties are crippling and he is correct that Russia is winning decisively. As for General Hodges - he predicted Ukraine would recapture Crimea by the end of August - for all his credentials and assurance, that looked pretty ridiculous when he claimed that, it looks even more ridiculous today. All the past week, the Russians have been gaining more territory than Ukraine has and without the heavy casualties.
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  2197.  @jonathansimmons5353  That's ridiculous and I can prove it. Intelligence agencies train operatives to be good enough to impersonate a native speaker in a foreign language through study, immersion and tutoring. It might take as long as a year but you're claiming five years. You're massively overestimating how long it takes at least some people to learn a language. I speak French and have dabbled in Italian and Spanish. I went on holiday to Portugal without speaking any Portuguese but over a week I read Teach Yourself Portuguese and by the end of the week I could have a pretty decent conversation with people. That's not even immersion, that's just pretty casual. Likewise I picked up Afrikaans over a month to the point where I could have a decent conversation, my starting point was Dutch. If you're actually getting lessons you can make rapid progress. If you're getting 8 hours per day immersion you're going to learn in no time if you're of at least average intelligence. Yes a lot will depend on the language. Learning Russian is harder than Portuguese and Chinese is going to much harder still.
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  2198.  @CONTACTLIGHTTOMMY  Stealing hundreds of billions of another country's assets tells the rest of the world that you can't be trusted with foreign assets. Say goodbye to the City of London.
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  2199.  @waybackwhen1999  The origin of these reports is the Ukrainian Ministry of Disinformation... they don't have a great track record.
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  2200. Nice excuse - with no evidence
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  2201. A full mobilisation is for total war - world war three.
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  2202. Yeah I don't agree with the Duran's claim that it's strategically irrelevant.
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  2203.  @4450krank  Sure deep in the ground doesn't change temperature so rapidly as the surface. I looked at getting a heat pump in Northern Europe recently - the economics just don't stack up. Maybe in the south of France or Italy or something it makes more sense. Anyway, electricity is so expensive now and it's likely to stay really expensive for many years so I don't anticipate it will become economic - at least for me. I'll revisit in five or ten years if there's a massive nuclear building programme in Europe.
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  2204. Back in the real world, Russia already got the Finnish border it wanted in 1944. The idea that it's going to risk a major war to attack Lapland where it has no strategic interest is beyond ridiculous. Probably Nielsen doesn't seriously believe this, it's just typical war hysteria to feed the NATO gravy train.
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  2205.  @martin-cheers  Yes that's the story but what's in it for Russia? Even without the USA, France and Britain have nuclear weapons. What is the advantage to Russia of a new war? What you have to understand is the reactive nature of Putin's actions so far. Imagine the best possible outcome for Russia. It shatters article 5 and reoccupies the Lithuania to create a corridor to Kaliningrad. So what? It takes over a whole lot of territory with no resources where the people hate Russians. The Russians already did that in 1945. It was just a big economic drain on resources. The main thing Russia cares about is pushing American nuclear weapons away from Russian borders. Why? for security. Fighting a war against any NATO country is not something Russia is ever going to do to INCREASE its security because anyone can see it results in a DECREASE in security
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  2206.  @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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  2207. This is downright dishonest. I have unsubscribed.
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  2208. Highly doubtful outside of the UK media propaganda bubble that the Ukrainians have achieved counter battery parity. Just today, just in the vicinity of Robotine, the Ukrainians lost 15 artillery pieces - FIFTEEN! Mainly modern Western weapons. Ok, that's not a typical day but it's a lot
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  2209. The point is he wasn't complicit, he could have kept his head down and kept his job but he spoke up and got fired.
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  2210. "Zapotoria" - Jesus. Please google how to say Zaparozhye.
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  2211.  @ThePandafriend  It's normal ammunition needs to be rationed in the war. Do you think Ukraine has unlimited ammunition? Hodges is a fraud. His predictions have been dire. Ukraine should have captured Crimea by now according to him. In reality, they created a small salient full of thousands of dead men and burning AFVs.
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  2212. Who do you think just seized a big chunk of Syria and has murdered tens of thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza? Which superpower has attacked around thirty countries over the past thirty years? Who do you think the bully is?
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  2213.  @markotrieste  Not at all, why are you holding Russia to a blatantly higher standard than the world's biggest aggressor of the past forty years, the USA?
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  2214. It changed a lot in the east as Russia took Bakhmut.
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  2215. The attitude that the West should "punish" Africa is exactly why Putin is now the most popular leader in the Arab world and in Africa.
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  2216.  @natalieturko4808  Check Zelensky's speech in Munich a few months before the war, yes he was talking about acquiring nuclear weapons and nobody from NATO called him out. Don't imagine the Russians didn't notice. Yes he's democratically elected, so was Yanukovych and the Americans organised a coup to remove him. So what?
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  2217.  @ChuckAmadi  The fact that you call Russians orcs demonstrates firstly that you're racist and secondly that you're childish. The word "enclaves" could equally be applied to everywhere black people are concentrated in Europe or North America. How do you feel about it then?
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  2218.  @28pbtkh23  Yeah that's how it looks from the British point of view. If you were French, you'd see it differently., You'd find such an ultimatum from your so called ally outrageous and you'd know that if you just handed your fleet over, the Germans would take reprisals on the remaining parts of France.
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  2219.  @AlanFagan-y5l  Just because the Conservatives are awful doesn't mean Labour can't be worse.... at least the Conservatives pretend to care about lowering immigration and keeping spending and taxes down.
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  2220.  @tethergobrrr  Shut down free speech because it's American imperialism? Are you a bit thick?
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  2221. The problem with retired generals is not that they're stupid, it's that they're deliberately spreading propaganda.
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  2222.  @MCADHD-rf5kl  LOL the complete BS you clowns believe :) Do you also believe in the ghost of Kiev? The goat of Kiev? Did you believe Zelensky when he said it was a Russian missile which landed in Poland? Did you believe him when he said Bakhmut would never be taken? The Ukrainian government has even contradicted itself from time to time.
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  2223. Yeah I think it's almost certain Russia did it but let's put it in perspective. Ukraine blew a dam in Bakhmut a couple of months back to disrupt the Russians there and when Russians were still on the right bank of the river the Ukrainians were trying to blow up the very same dam which has just been blown up now.
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  2224. Even better check out some neutral channels who pay attention to the details of the fighting and you'll see the talk of retaking Crimea is total fantasy.
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  2225.  @SDRsUnited  yeah - so it's totally useless.
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  2226. Russia's nuclear weapons are pretty modern, most US nuclear weapons are cold war era.
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  2227.  @Lesminster  Probably true but this narrative that a nuclear war against Russia is "winnable" is blatantly wrong and extremely dangerous.
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  2228. Iran and China support Russia. India and Brazil and almost all of Africa are neutral.
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  2229. The "official" Western narrative is just as bad as the Russian propaganda narrative. Also youtube and the like push pro-Ukraine channels. There are good neutral channels: History Legends, Theti Mapping, Weeb Union, Military Summary. Willy's channel is pro-Ukraine but at least attempts to be a bit sceptical.
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  2230.  @RichardTaylor1630  Given the way the fighting is going, it's delusional to think Ukraine is going to be dictating terms to Russia.
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  2231.  @greenandpleasant5523  That's exactly what happens.
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  2232. Not really, the Russians just used FABs to destroy any Ukrainian position they spotted. The Russians lost a lot of vehicles at the start of the operation but higher manpower losses than Ukraine? Unlikely. Check mediazona for a chronological breakdown of identified Russian deaths, Russian casualties this year have dropped right off.
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  2233.  @Curmudgeon2  Not really, the 1942 summer campaign saw Germany take a huge amount of new territory and the Soviet Union was pushed to breaking point. It was touch and go. It really was Stalingrad and losing 6th army which messed up the Germans. Otherwise they'd have had the strength for more victories, more Soviet armies crushed in encirclements in 1943.
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  2234.  @Curmudgeon2  What's understood by "turning point" is the point in time that the situation changes from one side winning to the other side winning. Failing to take Moscow was certainly an important reverse for the Germans and could have turned into a disaster if say the Demyansk pocket had been crushed - but the Demyansk pocket was held and eventually the Kessel there was lifted. German losses over the winter were high but so were Soviet losses. Regardless, the German army was able to resume its advance into the Soviet Union in 1942 once the weather got good enough. It conquered huge amounts of territory and inflicted catastrophic defeats on the Red Army AFTER the failure to take Moscow. Facts are that the Germans were winning before the failure to take Moscow. They were winning after the failure to take Moscow. The point at which they were no longer winning was at some point during the Stalingrad battle. It's a matter of opinion which particular period of the battle you may choose but it's going to be around a year after Moscow. Most likely even after Operation Torch and El Alamein. If you think "most scholars agree Moscow was the turning point" then you might be misinterpreting exactly what people are saying. And if you find a particular person who does claim that, it looks like a hindsight kind of argument because I guarantee Stalin and Stavka weren't confident of victory until well after 1941.
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  2235. Yeah he's just repeating Ukrainian propaganda numbers we know are lies. Actually identified Russian dead in the whole war are around 20k and that includes DPR/LPR who are actually Ukrainian according to Ukrainian logic. The actual Russian army hasn't lost that many at all.
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  2236. Or more likely just don't care about Ukrainian lives and want to cost the Russians as many losses as possible even if the fighting is extremely one sided.
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  2237.  @AG-vb6vv  In the lead up to the invasion, Ukraine was put on a membership path to NATO and Zelensky started talking about acquiring nuclear weapons. I don't think the waiting game was realistic for Russia. The two options were either invade when Russia did or alternatively, just accept that Ukraine was going to get stronger. Unless the Kremlin was willing to give up both Donbas and Crimea, war was probably inevitable. I can see how the Kremlin's calculation was better fight a war now than fight a war later with Ukraine even stronger and possibly with nuclear weapons. BTW, Ukraine had the technology and the infrastructure to build nuclear weapons very quickly if that decision were made. And obviously it also has its own effective delivery systems.
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  2238. Because mass immigration has pushed up the price of housing and pushed down the price of labour.
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  2239. Poland can't afford it either. Actually confrontation with Russia is pure madness.
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  2240.  @VoltageLP  Evidence?
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  2241.  @VoltageLP  It's not a yes/no question, what is the evidence? Point me at it. If you can't then don't believe it. This war is full of propaganda (from both sides), don't smoke your own supply
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  2242.  BeGoodNow12  It was Palestinian land before Israel stole it. Look at the history. 100 years ago the whole of Israel was populated 90% by Arabs.
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  2243.  @franktully3065  Yeah I have I did a BA and MA in history. Read about the Nakba, read about the Plan Dalet, read about the Deir Yassin massacre. Don't be a shill for the Israelis, these are the people who have agitated for immigration into the West for over a hundred years but they want to ethnically cleanse their own country of Arabs, the native people. There's just been a document leaked now showing they want to push the entire population of Gaza into the West.
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  2244. Ukraine learns the difference between being a US ally and being a proxy to be sacrificed for the minor geopolitical goal of tying up Russia for a few years.
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  2245.  @FunkyFunky7345  Yeah Russia is pretty much done - done destroying Ukraine. Even the US military now admits the Russian military is stronger than when the war started. And the Russian economy has recovered from the start of the war and is now bigger than ever. Putin's popularity is even higher than when the war started. Verified Russian combat losses are just over 40,000. If you think somehow Russia is losing this war, you're consuming some pretty potent propaganda.
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  2246. No, it's the Ukrainian army which averages 43-45, the Russian army averages mid 30s. And yes, they did volunteer for service in Ukraine which is the opposite of the large majority of those still left fighting in the Ukrainian army. Ukrainian press gangs are now hiding even in ambulances to ambush men in the street.
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  2247. Sure. Because what China needs most is a nuclear war with Russia. In the real world, China and Russia are improving their relations and are doing military exercises together right now.
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  2248.  @zebradun7407  I doubt it, US losses in WWII were over 400k killed, Russian losses are probably around 50k killed. Ukrainian losses will be much higher but nowhere near 400k killed. Probably much less than 200k. Obviously that's still a lot. And before the war casualties will continue to climb.
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  2249. "Europe produces none of its natural gas" - er no. Scotland, Norway and Netherlands are all huge natural gas producers.
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  2250. The Russians control the plant. What's this "multinational force" supposed to do? Attack the Russians? Please engage the brain before you post.
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  2251. Because his whole coverage on Ukraine is propaganda.
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  2252.  @zurielsss  I read one of his books and was reasonably impressed but then I saw him do videos on stuff I know a bit about and it was obvious he's 50% bluffing and 20% lying.
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  2253. BJ doesn't have millions, he's always broke :) He spends a lot on child support.
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  2254.  @jakeforrest  You know the US seized hundreds of billions of Russian assets right?
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  2255.  @GivemetheGravy  So what? If a dog is born in a stable does that make it a horse?
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  2256. This is Peter Zeihan bollocks. In a real war the threat is missiles. Mountains and rivers count for nothing, besides which the Russian army is more than capable in a land war. This war started because 1) Ukraine was on an action plan for joining NATO and 2) in October 2021 in Germany, Zelensky was talking about acquiring nuclear weapons. Kamala Harris as there and didn't contradict him.
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  2257. There's no chance the Ukrainians did it, that story is just the Americans deflecting attention from themselves.
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  2258. Only takes a few submarines to shut down global trade. It's delusional to think NATO can shut down Russian trade without Russia being able to do the same to NATO.
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  2259.  @andrewscharbarth2099  It's not created by sunlight, it's created as a fission product. You can't collect it by electrolysis it's chemically just hydrogen. There is a fancy distillation way you can separate it (really cold distillation) but I think isotopic exchange is the normal method, anyway it's not a challenge for any country with a large nuclear industry.
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  2260.  @Sho-td8wg  If your point is that the US spends vastly more on its air force than Russia does and could gain air superiority quickly where Russia has not then yes probably. Before the war Ukraine had a very large and well prepared army, I don't think the US would find that easy either. The whole war, Ukraine has had more men under arms in Ukraine than Russia has. The Russians took a huge amount of territory in the first days, yes the US could have done that too but would have faced the same problem the Russians have, ambushes on supply lines. If you think the US could magically brush all of that aside, you're ignoring the US experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan, militarily much weaker countries than Ukraine. Also I hope it's obvious Ukraine would have collapsed long ago without the huge amount of NATO backing. The US has never faced anything analogous since Korea.
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  2261.  @JQ-999  Go check latest reports by Military Summary Channel, Weeb Union or Defense Politics Asia. Dense Ukrainian fortifications overcome in a matter of hours. But don't expect to hear about it in the British media
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  2262. It was fighting three powerful empires at the same time - Soviet Union, British Empire, the USA. And it was doing all this with a smaller population than any of them and an oil shortage.
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  2263.  @SvetlanaVladimirova8590  Not in 1942.
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  2264.  @RemusCroft  You're mistaking hitting a tank with destroying a tank
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  2265.  @RemusCroft  BMPs yes, tanks no although there maybe a few exeptions. I've seen hundreds of hours of footage. Usually FPV drones don't seriously damage a MBT at all. That goes for both sides.
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  2266. 27 million is probably for the whole Soviet Union,16 million for Russia is probably not far off.
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  2267. He is Jewish!
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  2268. A lot of the people in the Philippines hate the Chinese because ethnic Chinese dominate the economy. Yes, the US is a cynical, imperialist power but so is China. Chinese expansion in the South China sea is a strategic threat to the Philippines. This makes the pro-US stance of the Philippines government quite rational. Brian is often worth listening to but he's too pro-China, anti-America to offer a balanced perspective.
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  2269. Of course they have, they can wait until a ship enters port then hit it with a Kinzhal.
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  2270. @ The Israeli population is behind the war. By the OP's logic (not mine) that makes the Israeli population responsible for each woman, child and non combatant man killed in Gaza, for every civilian building destroyed and for the starvation and lack of medical care there. In fact the same argument has been made by both sides in most major wars.
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  2271.  @Metonymy1979  .. which is nice in theory but ignores the multiple elephants in the room, namely that these media organisations have become monopolistic and they collude with each other, with Big Tech and with governments. If there is a monopoly on the ability to create a narrative, democracy is finished.
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  2272.  @Vercixx  LOL do you think the EU is any better? Brussels is ground zero for EU corruption. Billions get distributed and plenty get skimmed. Look at "Qatargate". All the so called reforms apply to member countries but not to the EU itself. Brussels is every bit as filthy as Washington.
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  2273.  @kronus4915  The whole of the West is getting worse in terms of corruption
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  2274. Usually when someone as big as Biden or Putin speak there are dozens of cameras
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  2275.  @ad2040  Maybe but it still has a large air force and in a longer war it could expand to millions of men pretty quickly. But anyway nobody wants an accidental nuclear war.
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  2276. As if Russia is insane enough to take Islamic colonisers. Send them to Ireland
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  2277. Slava Blackrock
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  2278. Good to see this guy is starting to see through the Russophobic propaganda on Ukraine.
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  2279.  @minaolenella869  If you say Russia has only three times Ukraine's population then you're including Crimea/Donetsk/Luhansk which support Russia, you're also looking at the pre-war Ukrainian population. Millions of people have left most never to return. Yes people have left Russia too but a much higher rate has left Ukraine. It's more realistic to say Russia has something like 4.5 times Ukraine's population.
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  2280.  @minaolenella869  You're telling me to look at the numbers - ok let's look. Pre war population of Ukraine around 40 million - including millions in Crimea/Donetsk/LPR. Russia population around 143 million. About eleven million people left Ukraine around three million returned. So yeah - current Russian population around 4.5 times what's left in Ukrainian territory still controlled by Kiev and that's being very generous.
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  2281.  @minaolenella869  Your conclusion is wrong because your assumptions are wrong. Ella Libanova, one of the country’s most respected demographers, at the National Academy of Science estimates the population of the territory controlled by Kiev as as little as 28 million. Perhaps you know better in which case you should email her with your corrections. If she's right, that makes Russia's population over five times bigger.
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  2282.  @minaolenella869  Yes it's obvious where they've gone. Poland, other EU countries and Russia.
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  2283.  @minaolenella869  No I'm going by Ella Libanova's numbers. If she's spreading Russian propaganda you should inform the SBU.
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  2284.  @craigjones1497  Yeah I can point you to a factual lie which you can verify for yourself. The snipers on the Maidan square weren't from the government they were agents provocateurs this is now known for sure. Some (maybe not all) were mercenaries from Georgia. This is what George Friedman (Stratfor) called the most blatant coup ever in a private conversation which you can get from wikileaks. Tell me the USA wouldn't invade Canada if the Russians staged a coup there to overthrow the democratically elected leader.
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  2285. Highly implausible that Ukrainian losses are lower than the Russian losses when Russia has air and artillery dominance in the whole area. In Bakhmut itself Ukrainian artillery has been wirthdrawn.
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  2286. We all know why - a particular ethnic minority especially numerous in the Balkan countries, notorious for social welfare scams, pickpocketing and shoplifting.
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  2287. To Washington, they're just expendable pawns like the millions killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Libya and Syria.
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  2288. Sorry to be pedantic but it would be a battalion rather than a regiment. There are lots of stories like this unit falling to 1%. It's important to be aware that usually after a battle like this, many of these men would not be casualties, they were either in reserve, doing jobs which didn't require them to attack (e.g. at least 50 men for a battalion including wagon drivers, signallers, medical aid post staff etc) or simply lost and a lot of men often found ways to avoid making the attack at all. Units get disorganised and mixed up. When someone tries to do a roll call after an attack, the roll call is only going to be of the men who can be immediately found. For example a Seaforths battalion did an attack, only two men could be found afterwards. Casualties were very high but a lot of men appeared days later after other battalions came up to occupy the captured ground. Some of them were pinned down in a German trench which now found itself in no man's land. Some had been temporarily commandeered by an officer from a neighbouring battalion in an occupied German trench. Some had probably just gone to ground and hidden in a shell crater somewhere. It's already been mentioned this regiment is wrong; usually when a battalion took very high casualties and had to be amalgamated, battalions were amalgamated within the same regiment rather than being transferred to another regiment. This could well have happened in 1918 I don't think it's likely in 1916 when the pre-war regimental system was still pretty strong. This was pretty rare in 1916, there were still enough new men coming through to rebuild shattered battalions. It became more common in 1917 when, due to casualties, infantry manpower was shrinking.
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  2289. They're really calling them out by passport. Their actual nationality is Gypsy.
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  2290. Yep Simon is decades behind on the science on this. Upbringing makes much less difference than people assume.
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  2291. @ Agree with you there but the idea they can be changed through education is a dead end.
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  2292. Zeihan doesn't care about details, just big picture narratives :)
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  2293. The only evidence of which side is which is the flags stuck on by whoever posted the video. For all you know, you're cheering for the wrong side. Most sheep like you wouldn't know the difference between a Ukrainian and a Russian if you met one of each in the street but you think one side are heroes and the other side are orcs. The media tells you which side to support and you reliably fall into line without engaging the few brain cells you possess.
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  2294. Britain is being invaded but it's not by the Russians.
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  2295. A lot of bankers go begging for handouts every time there's a bank run.
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  2296. The recent anchor dragging looks pretty deliberate. Although compared to the US destroying Nordstream it's totally trivial.
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  2297. He makes them up. The whole "meat wave assaults" narrative is blatant propaganda. There's been no footage of heavy Russian casualties in the Donetsk area since the early stages of the Avdivka battle.
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  2298. The difference is, in 1944, the Allies had an overwhelming material and manpower advantage, the only German advantage was the difficulty of attacking a fortified coast. In Ukraine, the Russians have the material advantage and manpower is pretty similar. It's hard for the Russians to crush the bridgehead but it's also hard for Ukraine to break out of it. The Russians have nothing to worry about. The Ukrainians have Avdivka to worry about.
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  2299. Every time the Russians fight Finland, Finland ends up smaller.
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  2300. I was flat sharing as a student, great fun, good times, ran out of money at one point, luckily my mate covered the rent for a couple of months and I paid him back later. I'd definitely live with friends if I had to save money in future.
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  2301. An historical argument about Russian's problems with internal communications before the age of railways is extraordinarily naive. What's especially ironic is the two examples given: Napoleon's invasion and the Anglo-French attack on Crimea. The first ended with a Russian army in Paris, the second ended with a Russian victory as well.
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  2302.  @johnschwartz1641  Who controlled Crimea at the end of the war?
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  2303.  @johnschwartz1641  I'm not claiming Russia won the war but both sides made concessions to get peace. The important point is any analogies going that far back are totally irrelevant now. Russia struggled in the 19th century because of internal communication problems. That all changed once it had a railway network - and it's a pretty excellent railway network. Peter Zeihan who claims to be a geography expert and a geopolitical export totally ignores that.
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  2304. And Niemoller wasn't even Jewish he was German. It was a pretty good analogy.
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  2305. And you think Ukraine doesn't? Ukrainian demographics and the Ukrainian birth rate is worse than Russia's. Actually a lot of Europe is worse than Russia's.
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  2306.  VINLAND_777  good theory which seems to ignore the contingents they sent to Iraq and Afghanistan
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  2307.  VINLAND_777  You want to know the country which most often sends its young men to die in useless wars? The USA. Fact. Whereas Russia is fighting a war for lands which used to be part of Russia and where the people speak Russian, the US fights wars all over the world to maintain its empire. And its Western European lackeys go and fight and die for no advantage to themselves.
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  2308.  @Jayce_Alexander  What evidence do you have that Russia lies about demographics? I don't even know how they could lie about demographics. Maybe they have maternity hospitals full of plastic dolls? Look at the pre war natality rate. 1.5 for Russia (bad) but 1.2 for Ukraine - obviously far, far worse. This is world bank data. Looks like it's since dropped to around half of that since so many women are overseas, most of which will never return. Which would be by far the worst demographics in the world. As for Western Europe - well Spain is also around 1.2. Italy 1.3, obviously worse than Russia. Germany is 1.6 and some other countries more like 1.7 - which looks better than Russia unless you realise these numbers are inflated by immigrant populations who have more babies than the natives. It's obviously you never bothered looking at the numbers and you're just buying into the 1990s cliche that Russian demographics are bad - ignoring that demographics are bad pretty much everywhere which isn't Africa the Middle East or Afghanistan.
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  2309. The USA invades countries all over the world because "they're evil" - the rest of the world finds this childishness embarrassing.
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  2310. Never heard of Snowden?
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  2311. Go look it up, Georgia started the 2008 war.
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  2312. Ukraine has also conscripted a lot of guys in their 50s and 60s. Both sides are doing the same.
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  2313. 80% of the Russians who left have returned. Identified Russian dead (by Mediazona) comes to around 40,000 out of the biggest population in Europe. Peter's numbers are propaganda wishful thinking.
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  2314. LOL if you believe that you need to get your news from neutral sources instead of propaganda channels like this one.
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  2315. The Russians seized a fifth of a huge country in about a week. The narrative of Russian incompetence was a lie from the start. Almost everything in the media about this war has been lies from why it started to how it's fought to the nature of the current Ukrainian regime to who blew up Nordstream to who was attacking Energodar power station, to the silence about Ukraine attacking Donetsk city centre with butterfly mines and artillery to who blew up the Novakharkovka dam. The more dangerous narratives are about Russians intending to continue on to Warsaw and Berlin.
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  2316.  @The_Stef  Not just too optimistic but outright propaganda merchants. Times Radio's coverage was unfiltered Ukrainian government disinformation. The Telegraph wasn't much better. Sometimes these guys were transparently lying.
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  2317. Sweden has even greater wealth inequality than the USA. For example a greater proportion of GDP held by billionaires.
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  2318. What this young clown doesn't realise is with the biggest navy in the world, Britain was in danger of starvation in two world wars. Now, our navy is tiny and our population has doubled.
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  2319.  @pyrioncelendil  That was air strikes that hit Wagner. It's not like the US special forces rampaged through a Wagner camp like in Call of Duty
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  2320. Then you're underestimating how much America has screwed over both Britain and Europe over the past ninety years..
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  2321. Exaggerated ... his takes have always minimised Russian problems. It's obvious Russia is winning but Scott Ritter goes way too far.
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  2322. If you want to fight Russia there are many vacancies in the Ukrainian army for men of your intellect.
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  2323.  @onceamoth  Ethnonationalist? The SNP? They're run by a Pakistani FFS
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  2324.  @Ukfairgrounds  London went from 99% British white to British whites a minority of the children in less than a life time. In some of the biggest cities now e.g. Birmingham, British whites are already a minority and when you look at the age structure, it's much worse since almost all the old people are British white. It's little to do with Islam as a religion, the guys rioting aren't devout, it's about ethnicity and culture. It's not about them taking over the entire country, it's about them colonising enclaves then expanding those enclaves.
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  2325. ​ @Jackiechandler27  Both can be true :)
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  2326. It's because the media is full of lies and listening to what Putin says demolishes some of them. Therefore don't listen to Putin.
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  2327. 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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  2328. Yes that was pretty much the deal, it would have probably worked out ok if people like Carrie didn't get in the way and BJ wasn't distracted by illness and family.
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  2329. Axis of evil = neocon propaganda for dummies. Don't people remember how Iran, Iraq and North Korea were the "Axis of Evil"? And the US started a war with Iraq based on lies about WMD
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  2330. A realistic appreciation of the situation is not a capitulation. If Ukraine had abided by the Minsk II accords this would never have happened at all. Poroshenko (and Merkel and Hollande) all admitted there was never the intention to live up to Ukraine's obligations.
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  2331. You';re being manipulated by accusations without evidence
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  2332. The west has already tried escalating over and over, at some point Russia responds and then we have a real crisis, the potential for nuclear war. That would be a disaster for everyone. What is there in Ukraine you want to risk your country's future for?
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  2333. @SnorriTheLlama LOL Chechnya already fought two wars against Russia and realised it's easy to just fight Ukraine.
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  2334.  @louiscypher4186  A better analogy is the Scottish Highlands after the 1746 war a generation later, the former enemies of the British state were their elite shock troops. The Chechens fighting for Ukraine are exiles who have left.
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  2335. the only evidence we have that North Korean soldiers are in Ukraine is the claim of the Ukrainian government i.e. proven liars.
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  2336. Somme was from July 1916 onwards, it was over by 1917. I kind of feel anyone using it as an example should know that.
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  2337. Alexander is the only person in the world who takes Russian MOD press releases literally.
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  2338. Everybody knows NATO is providing the targeting for them. Ukraine can't use these on its own. Putin says that makes us a party to the war. Hard to see how he's wrong. Don't think the world's largest nuclear power is going to stand for this without retaliating.
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  2339. He'll be shocked the Russians won't take his "deal". It's Putin who will end this war, not Trump and on his own terms.
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  2340. There's strong evidence the missile which hit the market place came from the north. Irrefutable evidence even. Hard to see how it can possibly be Russian. Even Julian Roepke pro-Ukrainian journalist for Das Bild admits this.
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  2341. Number one dumbest thing is the US baiting Russia into a war which results in China, Russia, Iran and North Korea in an anti-US alliance.
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  2342. He's a conman in the pocket of the Ukrainian oligarchs. Look up the Pandora papers.
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  2343.  @Daniel-h8c1u  Then you're clueless, Russia had this tech even before the war
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  2344.  @jameskuyper  I built an app in python which can recognise digits from in a couple of hours following a pretty beginner level ML tutorial. There is no shortage of morons on this channel who seem to believe Russia is a primitive wasteland populated by drunks.
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  2345. "Moscow's only victories come from invading smaller countries". True. But all countries are smaller countries. Russia didn't get to be the biggest country in the world by being crap at war.
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  2346.  @hybridarmyoffreeworld  Russians are winning decisively in Ukraine, if you didn't know that you should widen your sources beyond Zeihan
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  2347. Zelensky is a prisoner of the nationalists. If he tried to make peace, he'd probably be assassinated. That's not to excuse his cowardice.
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  2348.  @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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  2349.  @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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  2350. The UK Conservatives aren't a right wing government :)
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  2351. At this point only nuclear weapons are going to prevent Russia from winning.
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  2352.  @dr.j5642  Compare to say coverage by the Duran channel - they're biased in the other direction but at least give sources. Or compare with Col. Dan Davies, more neutral and also gives sources. Peter Zeihan is not an expert on most of the stuff he talks about, on the things I really know a lot about it's very clear he is not only ignorant but tells outright lies too.
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  2353.  @dr.j5642  His entire narrative on the Ukraine was is blatantly dishonest. He keeps saying stuff like the Russians are taking horrendous casualties - zero evidence. That they're making "human wave" attacks - they definitely don't. See History Legends channel if you want a quick debunk. That they're deliberately trying to genocide the Ukrainian population. Yet civilian deaths in the much smaller and shorter war in Gaza far outweigh Ukrainian civilian deaths. That Russian air defence is useless - doesn't match the open source evidence. Earlier, he strongly implied the Russians blew up Nordstream and anyone who thought otherwise is a conspiracy theorist. Now, the official story is the Ukrainians did it although Seymour Hersh's version is far more plausible. Do you see why anyone closely following the war knows he's full of s***?
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  2354.  @dr.j5642  I'll give another big narrative he keeps pushing which makes zero sense. That the Russians need to control seven choke points to guarantee their security, even at the cost of war with NATO. Russia is the world's biggest nuclear power, that's what guarantees the security of Kaliningrad, now the Suwalki Gap. It's a bit like arguing the USA needs a land corridor to Alaska to guarantee its security. Not only this but it's prepared to fight a world war to do it. Earlier on he claimed in a NATO-Russian war the casualites would be a thousand to one - that's literally insane. The Russian army is the most powerful in the world now. Its overall military is less powerful than NATO but even with no nuclear weapons it'd be far from one sided.
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  2355.  @dr.j5642  The only prediction he got right on Ukraine is that the Russians would invade but everyone paying attention knew that was going to happen once Zelensky started talking about joiing NATO and acquriing nuclear weapons in October 2021 in Germany with Kamala Harris there with him and Harris allowing this to go unchallenged.
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  2356.  @EyeOfMagnus4E201  Yes Soviet Union was slightly bigger in population than Russia today but it had huge political problems and the military hadn't recovered from the officer purges. That hardly applies to Russia as of late 2023. The military is battle hardened, useless officers have been fired, armaments production is right up, look at how Russia is fighting in Ukraine nowadays, they're probably the most effective military in the world at least the most effective large military. in 1940, you could argue man for man the Finns were better at least given the time of year, you can't argue that now. Ukraine is a huge country compared to Finland and you can't say the Ukrainians aren't brave tenacious soldiers but they're getting ground down despite all the Western aid. Are you sure Finns would be more effective man for man than the Ukrainians are? They wouldn't have the huge corruption problems Ukraine has so maybe but I doubt there'd be much in it. Don't dismiss Russia technologically either, they graduate more engineers than any other country in the world and they're world leaders in certain areas.
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  2357.  @JLudwig-c4l  LOL your user name is debater, well debate this. You say Finland has a million reservists and every Finn is militarily trained. By the same standard, twenty something million Russians are militarily trained and officially there are something like twenty million Russian reservists. Is anyone seriously going to argue Russia could field twenty million men? Of course not. So why do you think Finland could field a million men? If you think Russian deaths in Ukraine are higher than what Mediazona can actually identify cool, tell them who all the missing people are they can't find.
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  2358.  @EyeOfMagnus4E201  As for Poland wanting to fight the Russians ... i don't think so. Duda got recorded by those Russian prankster guys who keep pretending to the Poroshenko and he was really clear he didn't want a war with Russia. That's despite a lot of smack talk in public. The Polish military is struggling to recruit and retain guys since the war started because sane people don't want to be fighting a land war against Russia :P The narrative by Peter Zeihan is that the Russians are incredibly incompetent I'm just not seeing it. Earlier in 2022 yeah there was incompetence at times (not consistently) but it's getting pretty rare now that the Russians make obvious mistakes like having a couple of hundred guys in a barracks with their phones popping off giving away their location or sending fleets of tanks across minefields in unsuccessful attacks. Both sides were making those kind of mistakes, it's not so common now.
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  2359.  @LoveBagpipes  Twitter and I think maybe DPA but it was back in Bakhmut days. Could be the Russians have fixed things since then.
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  2360.  @LoveBagpipes  Can't you just use google? It's not even surprising. Both sides acknowledge the Russians fire way more rounds than the Ukrainians. How would they magically avoid wearing out barrels?
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  2361.  @LoveBagpipes  LOL there are tons of images online ok I'll pander to your laziness. Google David Axe Artillery Forbes article from 25 July 2022. Yes I know David Axe is full of ** but the image there is genuine.
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  2362.  @off6848  Yeah the Russian artillery tends to be lower pressure but they fire so much more in total they wear out the barrels anyway.
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  2363. Stop worrying I think you are wrong. Things are bad right now but Europe is taking a turn back to sanity. Look at how Geert Wilders got elected. Sooner or later, Germany is going to have a AFD led government which builds nuclear power stations, restores relations with Russia, sorts out the feral immigrant invasion and eliminates the poisonous American foreign policy sycophancy.
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  2364.  @JCrashB  What problems will the AfD cause do you think? Will it be so bad that they restart nuclear power, talk business with the Russians and shut down immigrant crime?
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  2365. Seems overstated to me. Sure we see a lot of destroyed Russian vehicles but it's a large scale war. Both sides are suffering casualties. That doesn't mean the Russians aren't winning. Their advances are slow but they're still advancing. So long as they can keep advancing, sooner or later their spearheads are going to join up and Ukrainian formations will be cut off. In any case, why would we take Ukrainian government claims about Russian losses at face value? For example they claimed two IL-76s shot down, one full of Russian airborne troops. Two weeks later, do we have any further details? Where's the crash site? The only photos we've seen are from a Ukrainian aircraft shot down in 2014.
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  2366. Zeihan is a clown but both pronunciations are acceptable.
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  2367.  @alexanderchenf1  That's a misunderstanding, the Lowland Scots had and have their own culture separate from both Gaels and the English. But even then, your characterisation is wrong. Many of the Highlanders fought for the Hanoverian side including most of Clan Campbell, one of the largest factions in the Highlands. Many Lowlanders and some English too supported the Jacobites. It's complicated.
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  2368.  @paulkelly9250  LOL The guy's track record for predictions is a disaster. He knows nothing about Russia and can't get even get names right. It's war propaganda for morons.
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  2369. LOL I once saw a contract advertised which required five years experience in a version of a tool which was only two years old. I learned to just say "yes" when asked in interviews whether I'd used a particular tool. Never had a problem picking up what's required when I'm in the contract.
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  2370.  @kenneththrasher1152  You could argue the Democrats are worse but there's not much in it. Most of the Washington establishment is up to their necks in filth.
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  2371.  @justanaverageguy912  That's seriously dumb. How far back do you want to go? Before it was Ukrainian it was Russian. Before it was Russian, it was Tartar. Before it was Tartar, it belonged to different people like the Greeks. Maybe Greece should invade Ukraine to take it? Most people who live there now are ethnically Russian and want to be part of Russia. Even Western polling organisations found that.
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  2372.  @Kirdaro  Populations have always been migrating and displacing others and assimilating others across the Eurasian landmass for thousands of years. The modern Ukrainians are different from the people who lived in Ukraine thousands of years before. The Tartars are not native to Crimea either, they conquered and were themselves conquered. If you think colonisation is unique to the Russians then you don't have a clue.
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  2373.  @JohnSmith-kg2rt  It couldn't look after them it couldn't afford them. They were just Soviet weapons stationed in Ukraine. There were also weapons stationed in Kazakhstan. The Americans wanted Russia to take back all the weaponed because otherwise, they would have just been sold to terrorists and organised crime.
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  2374.  @danilasergeev2954  Russia was the recognised successor state
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  2375.  @rockrabbit253  You're very optimistic. The vast majority of the aid to Ukraine is loans that it will never be able to pay back. The Europeans are struggling themselves - like really struggling. There's no way they're going to want to pay to rebuild a country which isn't part of the EU.
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  2376.  brianmcpherson7786  For sure, Humza Yousef is the worst of the three if we're honest.
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  2377.  @Ollybus  Two tier justice is a "far right conspiracy theory" which is now obviously true. Retired guy just got 18 months prison for threatening the police in these riots and shouting something about Allah. Meanwhile ethnic minority who killed someone has just been let out after six months. Have you seen the video of police pleading with Muslim gangs to kindly leave their weapons in the mosque before they go out to confront the English?
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  2378.  @wlhjr77  LOL ok when the fighting stops, see who is dictating peace to whom and who controls the Donbas.
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  2379. ​ @marktrotter8971  You guys are deranged. Russian controls more territory now than at the start of the Ukrainian summer offensive. Russia's advancing over most of the front. Putin's popularity is higher than when the war started. The economy is growing, the predictions of collapse were bollocks. Which ever side you support there's no excuse for ignoring reality. You've been lied to over and over and you never learn.
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  2380.  @wlhjr77  The claim that Russia wanted to annex all of Ukraine is wrong. There's no evidence for it. And it would be a nightmare for Russia to annex the West of Ukraine where the locals hate Russians. All they wanted at the start of the war was an agreement by Ukraine to uphold the Minsk accords and stay out of NATO. We know that for a fact because senior people from both sides have acknowledged the agreement.
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  2381.  @clawzdayz980  That's true but it was said verbally many times including by the Secretary of State. You can see why the Russians felt swindled.
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  2382.  @helenan7368  Secretary of State James Baker in February 1990. Not One Inch. Go and educate yourself. Just one of many famous broken promises. You obviously don't have a clue.
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  2383.  @horrorfan117  Yes Russia was repeatedly promised verbally. You're right it wasn't in a formal treaty. Fact remains, Russia was lied to. They're pissed off. They don't trust the West especially the USA. And it's not the only time they were lied to. Minsk II was in writing but Ukraine didn't stick to what they signed. All of Merkel, Hollande (guarantors) and Poroshenko (earlier president of Ukraine) admitted it wasn't signed in good faith, it was intended only to buy time for Ukraine to rearm. That's the background to this war. A long history of bad faith and broken promises.
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  2384.  @helenan7368  You might be able to justify breaking promises to yourself, to the rest of the world, the USA looks totally untrustworthy. Xi said directly to Biden I can't trust you because you keep lying to me.
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  2385.  @ggoddkkiller1342  Russia can easily sink any ships, with mines, torpedoes of missiles in Odessa. Say Russia sinks a British or even an American ship. What then? Do you think national leaders want to start WWIII and see their countries wiped out in a nuclear war because Russia sunk a ship? Nope. So nobody's going to do it.
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  2386.  @TemirlanBaigon  Says a guy who calls himself Temirlan 🤡🤡🤡
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  2387.  @Katoshi_Takagumi  gunpowder was stored in the driest place available :P
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  2388. There is no Ukrainian advance in the east. Russia has been pushing the Ukrainians back towards the Oskil river for the past week. Most (admittedly not all) of the mobilised Russians are men with years of training, they're reservists, not conscripts. Neither are they lacking in equipment in general. On average, the Russians have vastly more heavy equipment than the Ukrainians. Honestly, the amount of total B.S that gets spouted in the comments section of English language media is shocking. You guys should pay some attention to the actual fighting if you're going to take the trouble to comment.
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  2389. Yeah - if you support Russia.
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  2390. @chrisviking7807 cope
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  2391.  @jesan733  The people having the babies in France are not French. And many of them actually hate France.
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  2392. At this point, we're basically working and paying taxes to subsidise our own replacement and colonisation by people who hate us.
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  2393. The average Ukrainian is not that enthused about being in Ukraine either, Arestovych admitted 30% to 70% of the army is looking for the chance to desert and the army has resorted to hiding in ambulances now to ambush new recruits
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  2394. Black Rock stands to lose a lot of money in Ukraine because Russia is spoiling their plans
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  2395. the city will be rebuilt from scratch, most buildings are not worth trying to save.
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  2396. If the UN could enforce anything, Israel would have to leave the West Bank and the Golan Heights. And the USA would have to get out of Syria.
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  2397. Russians hit hotels where Polish mercenaries were stationed, SBU (secret police) head quarters and the electricity grid which run the trains the Ukrainian army uses for supplies and mobility. It's hardly targets of no value.
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  2398.  @andrewjenkinson7052  The Ukrainian army relies on trains which are 95% electric. Last time Russian hit the Ukrainian electric grid, troop trains were stranded for hours and 200 Ukrainian soldiers were killed when their stranded train was hit by an air strike.
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  2399.  @alasdairmmorrison74  Pretty much all infrastructure is dual use. Let's not forget NATO attacked a rail bridge and a television tower in Belgrade.
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  2400.  @andrewjenkinson7052  Nothing NATO and America didn't do already in places like Serbia and Iraq.
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  2401.  @danakaleb4882  In any war you can cherry pick pictures to demonise the other side.
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  2402. @@jimmyjamalv4532 Hamas has nothing to do with Iran. They're not allies at all. If anything it's Qatar which has good relations with Hamas. The American neocons just want to use the excuse to attack Iran - much like they used 9/11 to attack Iraq even though Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda were actually enemies.
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  2403.  @danakaleb4882  I'm neutral and I believe you saw that. But likewise, you could also look at pictures and videos of what the IDF is doing in Gaza, incidents going years back of IDF soldiers shooting dead children, medics and journalists. Right now, the IDF has dropped thousands of bombs on a city of overwhelmingly innocent civilians. It's not like one side are saints and one side are evil, there are genocidal people on both sides. I don't accuse you personally of cherry picking but the media is cherry picking because the USA and their allies support Israel.
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  2404. Very questionable interpretation of what happened at Bucha. 100% certain at least many of the people killed there were killed by Russian forces.
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  2405. Good content but the narrator manages to butcher not only French, German and Gaelic but even English. You'd think a native English speaker could manage names like Stewart and Campbell?
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  2406. Ukraine is now mobilising mentally handicapped, the disabled and the elderly. It might end sooner than you think.
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  2407. It's typical war propaganda. Not everything the Ukrainians claim is actually true though some of it is. The Russians make similar claims and some of it actually checks out. There are psychopaths fighting on both sides, there have verifiable atrocities committed by the Ukrainians too, there are actually plenty of videos eg. of Russian prisoners being executed. Because the West supports Ukraine, we only get one side's propaganda.
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  2408.  @klown463  Russia is still advancing across most of their front. It's slow because they don't want to take high casualties by assaulting Ukrainian positions. They shell the Ukrainians until any survivors retreat then the Russians send out infantry patrols to take the vacated ground. if the patrol takes fire the Russians retreat and shell some more. It's slow but it's relentless and the casualties are very one sided. Also the entire front line now is covered by minefields.
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  2409. he copied Biden's 10% for the big guy
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  2410. Putin is not Hitler and Russia is not the Third Reich.
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  2411. It won't be a serious operation, the Ukrainians might try some amphibious raid but it's probably a diversion. More likely the Ukrainians will try something in the east.
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  2412. The courageous defenders in Bakhmut are Russians. Shows how much you know about what's going on.
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  2413. No, from the footage, it was obvious the people in charge were morons. What would be surprising would be if they had followed procedure.
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  2414. Ukraine joining the EU would be the end of the EU. Seriously. Ukraine is big and corrupt and dirt poor. The EU is starting to crack already, it would be the final straw.
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  2415. If you want to fight Russia there are many vacancies in the Ukrainian army for men of your intellect.
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  2416. It is a fact that over the past few days NATO missiles have struck Russia. That is a fact. It sounds insane but it is 100% true.
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  2417. He misread or misspoke and corrected himself right away. On the scale of a Biden gaffe, this is a 1/10. Barely worth mentioning.
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  2418.  @albatross8361  Thanks, good article.
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  2419. Totally. And both sides have already destroyed smaller dams in this war.
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  2420. How many countries do you think the USA has invaded over the past few decades??
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  2421.  @edwardgiovannelli5191  Pretty sure neither of us watch Hannity
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  2422.  @edwardgiovannelli5191  Hannity and Zeihan are both full of sh** but from different directions , is your strategy to triangulate somewhere in the middle:?
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  2423.  @keacoq  Seems to have escaped you it's the British people who voted for Brexit. All Labour voted for was to honour the referendum result.
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  2424. Yeah that's why it will be impossible to break out of the bridgehead.
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  2425.  @011258stooie  Roosevelt and his ambassadors got leaked the secret clause of the Ribbentrop/Molotov Pact and deliberately didn't tell Poland - the only explanation can be Roosevelt wanted to prevent the Poles from backing down i.e. he wanted to bait Germany into a war.
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  2426.  @rogerwilco5918  Iraq didn't have modern equipment, didn't have a well educated population, didn't have decent SAMS, didn't have NATO's satellite intelligence, didn't have NATO training, didn't have billions of arms deliveries from the West. It's not a useful comparison to the war in Ukraine. The first few weeks of the war didn't work out well for Russia but since they went back to short supply lines and using their artillery instead of deep penetrations, they've been pounding the Ukrainians into the dust. Why do you assume they're in a hurry? They're making a fortune from this war, oil is through the roof. And once we start getting near to winter they get leverage with gas supplies.
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  2427.  @hmq9052  Nothing to do with Brexit you clown, obviously locking down the economy for months would cause inflation to say nothing of sanctioning Russian oil and gas.
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  2428. China doesn't care about the EU anymore have a look at Macron's last visit to China where he got treated well and Von der Leyen got totally ignored. China is betting on BRICS and the EU is declining in importance really quickly.
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  2429.  @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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  2430. 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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  2431. Derschowitz is making claims she knows is wrong, it's her job to expose this to the audience. You can't say she didn't let him speak, amongst three people, he did most of the speaking by far.
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  2432. Florida is my bet :)
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  2433. There's no evidence Patriot killed a hypersonic missile. Just the debunked claim from the Ukrainians.
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  2434. Because mass immigration has pushed up the price of housing and pushed down the price of labour. If you think replacing Europeans with third world people is any kind of solution then you're not thinking this through. Europe is swamped with immigrants as much as the USA is.
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  2435. You point it at an area, it assumes any military equipment in that area is enemy.
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  2436. And probably Odessa
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  2437.  @burritosls  "interests of the West." Not really, more like the interests of the Bidens, the CIA and Blackrock.
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  2438.  @piotrd.4850  There might not be signs of Ukrainian collapse but there are certainly signs that the Ukrainian army is under desperate pressure and has severe morale problems. The Russians are just being patient. They have large reserves ready to go now.
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  2439.  @tuehojbjerg969  Do you have any evidence whatsoever that Russian casualties are higher than Ukrainian let alone four times higher? Ukraine admits Russia has the ammunition, armour artillery and air power advantages, it must take some impressive mental gymnastics to believe Russian losses are higher. As for four times higher, how do you do it? Psychedelic drugs?
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  2440.  @The_ZeroLine  You seriously believe that Russian losses were ever 10-12 x higher? Where are all the dead Russians? Mediazone can barely find 40,000 from teh whole war.
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  2441.  @CirKhan  Dima is well intentioned and well informed but some of his "speculations" are pretty unrealistic.
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  2442. There was no treaty signed but it was promised multiple times verbally.
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  2443. Nor did the current heavy shelling by Ukraine of Donetsk city get a mention.
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  2444. The first F16s have already arrived in Ukraine. Not that it will make any difference to the result.
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  2445.  @Kushdeeskates  What planet are you living on FFS? They don't WANT to be in a war zone. They have no option. Israel demanded the population evacuate the northern end of Gaza (itself a war crime) and when thousand of people did, Israel bombed refugee camps in including in what they had themselves called a safe zone.
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  2446.  @jake751  They're total clowns. Their policies would destroy the economy and result in severe hardship. If they really cared about the environment, they'd be organising protests to build nuclear power stations. What they really care about is Marxism.
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  2447.  @stargazer-elite  LOL remind me again, what's the US's debt to GDP ration? And what's Russia's? And you think Russia is broke?
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  2448. It's amongst the most deluded propaganda channels.
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  2449. Except then, Germany had superior training and air superiority and they were fighting enemies with insufficient anti-tank capability. So quite a few differences.
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  2450.  @willdon.1279  In case you haven't noticed there have been protests all over the West the past few years. No Western leader even approaches Putin in popularity.
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  2451.  @MrX-75  Nevalny was a Western invention he had no support in Russia. His right hand man is on record soliciting a bribe from Western intelligence to start a revolution. He wasn't a pro-democracy liberal either,
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  2452.  @mickg7299  I'm not convinced by that, the radical Left and the Muslims in Britain definitely support Palestine, most people don't care. And a lot support Israel.
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  2453.  @Snipeyou1  In a nuclear war, most of the US population is dead in the first month. Most of the remainder is dead in the first year.
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  2454.  @FedericoSantoro-yi5wv  What do you mean grow up? Don't you get it? If both sides keep escalating everyone dies. 100% chance that's the outcome.
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  2455. ​ @ClownCarCoup  I don't know why you think the Russians are bluffing. Even Zeihan who is a pretty extreme anti-Russian propagandist admits this war is existential for Russia. Look at it from Russia's perspective. You don't have to agree 100% but look at how they see it. NATO kept expanding eastwards despite multiple pledges given to the Russians this would not happen. Minsk II accords was a fraud, even Hollande and Merkel and Poroshenko admit that. USA is stationing nuclear capable missiles (so Russia can't tell whether they're nuclear armed) in Poland. Soon before the war Zelensky was talking about Ukraine acquiring nuclear weapons. Kamala Harris explicitly said Ukraine would join NATO. It's one red line too many for the Russians. Now they've crossed the Rubicon they're not backing down, if they were actually losing somehow, they'd escalate. You can bet 100% certain they'd use tactical nukes if Crimea were seriously threatened. So what's the actual point of escalation for the USA? To kill a few more Russians? The Russians won't forgive or forget that, they'll return the favour next time the US is in some overseas war. For Ukraine to actually win? That's even more dangerous than Ukraine losing. That's the path to WWIII which is highly likely going to wipe out both sides. Do you want your family dead to stop Russia controlling Donetsk and Mariupol? Guess what the people who live in those cities would rather be part of Russia anyway. The only smart thing to do is negotiate seriously and in good faith and cut a deal with the Russians that recognises what Putin calls "facts on the ground". Don't force the Russias to fight all the way to Kiev and Odessa because the Ukrainians are going to run out of men and the Russians will manage it eventually
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  2456. I've heard that claim but it's definitely false. There were certainly highlanders on both sides but from memory it's about 5000+ Highlanders on the Jacobite side at Culloden, less than a thousand on the government side.
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  2457. The same civilised world that destroyed Iraq over a lie, jailed Julian Assange and is quickly demolishing freedom of speech and democracy?
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  2458. For sure. And build huge prison camps for those who steal, riot, attack police, burn cars, break into houses. Change the economic incentives and mass immigration will become manageable.
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  2459.  @soniad3241  Britain tried to keep the Zionist out of Palestine. After WWII European Jews were put behind barbed wire in Cyprus but by that time Britain was too weak to run the world. Blaming Britain for everyone else's problems is childish.
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  2460. As usual he's lying about the communication links between Russia and China which have been rapidly improved over the past few years. Zeihan was predicting 500 million Chinese will starve to death even though they're allied with and neighbours with the world's biggest wheat exporter. Sure, the Chinese will have a bad recession but hundreds of millions of people starving to death is just a neocon fantasy.
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  2461. Both sides have blown dams (Ukraine in Bakhmut and Russia north west of Kherson forget the name) so the whole war crime narrative is pretty pointless but in this particular case, Russia had the means and the motive. Hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers have been stationed on the islands in the river and now either drown or if they're lucky, get evacuated. And flooding the basin safeguards the Russian right flank while the Ukrainians are making their offensive around Zaporozhye. It looks like a disaster for Ukraine so I think we can be confident Russia did this one.
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  2462. Freedom of speech is more important. Freedom of speech isn't the problem. The problem is the police are siding with the enemies of Britain.
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  2463.  @blockytart  They won;t get through the first line of defense. They'll take some screening outposts and declare a victory. Thousands of men are dying for a media stunt.
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  2464. Michael Kofman is completely deluded. The longer the war goes on, the smaller Ukraine gets. We're at the point now where it's obvious to anyone with a brain Ukraine is losing. The rate at which Ukraine is losing is only going to accelerate.
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  2465.  @orionstark  2014 you mean right? Not really surprising though was it. I mean the democratically elected president gets overthrown in what George Friedman called "the most blatant coup in history" to be replaced by anti-Russian nationalist extremists and anyone expected Russia to sit back and consent?
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  2466. The guy is a total grifter - check the Panama papers.
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  2467.  @ARenvironmental  Literally dozens of studies of intelligence of adopted children. One guy to read is Richard Lynn who does stuff like meta analysis (not the original studies)
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  2468.  @JJRM8  Ex CIA guy who set up Stratfor called it the most obvious coup ever. Listen to the Pyatt-Nuland phone call for god's sake.
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  2469. So one billion people in the world are sanctioning the other seven billion - how's that going to work out? Russia remains the world's biggest primary resource supplier. We're two and a half years into sanctioning Russia now and the Russian economy is growing faster than almost all the G8.
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  2470. Ask Biden the same question, the USA pays more for their military than the next highest paying ten countries combined.
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  2471. I don't think they're dangerous for NATO. They'll be really easy to shoot down over contested air space. They're useful as a launch platform for missiles and FAB guided bombs.
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  2472.  @asynchronicity  You probably thought the Maidan coup was legitimate?
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  2473.  @31Blaize  There are Korean soldiers training in Russia, so far there is ZERO evidence of them in Ukraine. It's just a Ukrainian government propaganda claim which gets repeated by our media over and over.
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  2474. People have been saying the tank's days are numbered since 1919. Sure tanks can get destroyed but you're still safer in a tank than literally anywhere else on a battlefield.
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  2475. Yeah, Russia is an aggressive imperialist nation. It has pushed the borders of the military alliance it dominates right up to America's borders despite promising not to and it has hundreds of offshore military bases all around the world, encircling its enemies, it staged a violent coup in Canada or Mexico to replace the democratically elected pro-USA government with extreme nationalists.
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  2476. The opposite is oligarchy - what we have now. Oligarchs control the media and buy the politicians. The left vs. right culture wars stuff like transgenderism has the purpose of keeping the voters distracted while the important stuff like regulation to favour big business over small business and importing cheap labour even at a high overall cost to the country is going to happen no matter who you vote for.
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  2477.  @theinternetdude8599  Ukraine had a huge, battle hardened army at the start of the war and had received tens of billions in Western armaments. So the comparison isn't that bad. Israel is demographically falling behind its neighbours, its technological edge is attenuating.
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  2478. Disagree, Ween Union, Military Summary, Theti Mapping, Defense Politics Asia all do a great job of remaining neutral.
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  2479. The one thing we can be sure of, it was not an accident. Four different punctures, large explosions detected by Swedish seismologists. At least 100kg of explosives required.
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  2480.  @cann0708  Highly unlikely that Russian casualties are higher than Ukrainian casualties. In the fighting around Kherson, even Ukrainian officers admitted their casualties were five times the Russian casualties. Russia has an abundance of heavy equipment and artillery, Ukraine has a shortage.
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  2481.  @SelfProclaimedEmperor  Because the Ukrainian government told you so?
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  2482.  @ce4062  Where is the Russian meddling?
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  2483.  @bluecanary9417  Only if you believe the propaganda. What I'm seeing is a Russian withdrawal to a shorter, more defensible river line. I haven't seen more than a handful of prisoners taken. I'm also seeing the Ukrainian economy collapsing. The whole rail network failed for several hours and Russian air and artillery strikes hit stranded troop trains. It's very hard to know what's really going on but it doesn't look like a one sided victory like the Ukrainians claim. As for Kherson, that's been a total disaster for the Ukrainians. Wait and see what happens next.
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  2484. Russian nukes are more modern than US nukes on average.
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  2485.  @Lee-fc3yf  No the reason Germany is suffering is because of 1) mass immigration and 2) the USA ordering them to cut off their cheap energy supply so they can buy expensive LNG from America instead. Even to the extent of blowing up Nordstream2.
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  2486. While Europe insists on fighting to the last Ukrainian.
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  2487.  @eastcoastdashcamsweden2483  How do you know what Ukrainians want? No free media, no elections, political dissidents jailed or shot. Press gangs driving around grabbing guys off the street to send off to the front. And you talk about what THEY want?
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  2488. For sure. That's a lot of ammunition stored inside those turrets.
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  2489.  @Targe0  That's true for sure but it's not the whole story. The CIA and Mossad have been deliberately stirring things up all over the Middle East for decades. Wesley Clark made public a plan to replace seven governments at the end of the Cold War, engineering chaos in Israel's neighbours is not an accident.
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  2490. The only real impediment would Spain - the Spanish state is worried about Catalonia.
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  2491. We keep letting them.
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  2492.  @jontalbot1  I assume his attitude to Germany is influenced by his Jewish ancestry.
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  2493.  @jontalbot1  Yeah could be a bad case of Imbissbauch. He's a Stratfor guy and a protoge of George Friedman so he probably got his dislike of Germany (and Russia.. and China) from him.
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  2494.  @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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  2495.  @organicwest  LOL Malcolm Nance has been exposed as a complete fraud
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  2496. Go and look up Ukraine's birth rate. 1.3. And that was before the war, it's much lower now. 1.5 isn't actually that low. Much of Europe and Asia is lower.
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  2497.  @danielc9967  After this war, there is no Ukraine, not in its present form. Whatever is left is going to be destroyed economically everyone will want to leave. Russia meanwhile is self sufficient in food and energy, it can keep up a war long term.
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  2498. Both sides commit atrocities, if you think Ukrainian soldiers are more civilised than Russian soldiers then you're too personally involved to judge this.
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  2499. Where's the evidence Russia blew it up and not Ukraine? Is this another story like Russia shelled their own city, attacked their own Kremlin, shelled the nuclear power station they control and blew up their own multi-billion dollar pipeline?
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  2500.  @aaronaaronson7600  What planet are you on? In one life time the proportion of ethnically British children being born in major cities has dropped from almost all to a minority. In some cities British people are already an overall minority. If you think the British people aren't being replaced, you need a brain transplant.
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  2501.  @aceyage  How is the EU authoritarian? I'm not sure if that's a serious question. People in countries like France and Germany now have very little freedom of speech now. The EU itself is a big part of the reason. There's very little democratic accountability. Most laws come from people who are mainly anonymous and are not directly voted for. How much detail do you want? You want some books to read?
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  2502.  @aceyage  Democracy is dying all over the West except maybe Switzerland but the USA has one huge advantage over everywhere else: freedom of speech in the constitution. As for the GOP aren't you aware of how the Biden administration has used the justice system to prosecute political opponents? Look into all the charges against Trump for a start but there are many other less famous examples.
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  2503. LOL Look a bit deeper. it's not the US running Western foreign policy, it's Zionists. The USA does what it's told just the same as Britain. Netanyahu is on record boasting about it.
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  2504.  @enriqueperezarce5485  Ammunition dumps are typically in buildings and there are villages all over the front line areas. Both sides will continue to successfully target each other's ammunition dumps but at the current rate of success, there's no reason to think it will be anything more than a minor inconvenience for the Russian army. The Ukrainians did get some spectacular successes a few weeks back but we've seen nothing big since other than the Saki airbase attack.
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  2505.  @Ophaganestopolis  It's highly unlikely this war will last for two years but if the Russians decide there's a serious chance they'll run low on ammunition, that's more than enough time to scale up production. They can also buy ammunition from North Korea and China if they really needed to, both of which have huge stockpiles of shared calibres. On the other hand.... America has already expended a third of its Excalibur rounds in Ukraine.
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  2506.  @geheimnis8187  missile strikes - for sure the frequency has dropped off but still happens whenever Russia considers a distant target interesting. Missiles are extremely expensive and can't be produced quickly. Air strikes - actually more so now. The VDK are flying further behind Ukrainian lines than they were two months ago and only rarely get shot down. Air assets are precious and the gains from air strikes are limited so this says more about the degradation of Ukrainian air defences than anything else.
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  2507.  @GeneralBlackNorway  You're going to be pretty disappointed when those 25,000 Russians "trapped" west of Kherson start advancing to the the north east of Mikoyalev. If you pay attention to the fighting day by day you'll see every day Russian advances. They shell the defenders until the survivors retreat then they send in an infantry patrol. It's really slow because they're dealing with mine fields and they don't do expensive assaults. But it's relentless. And the casualties are very one sided.
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  2508.  @GeneralBlackNorway  I think you're missing the point. It doesn't matter that the Russians are taking territory slowly, time is on their side. The Ukrainian economy is on life support and won't survive the winter. The Ukrainian army is taking unsustainable casualties from Russian artillery and despite ever more draconian discipline, units are refusing orders and abandoning their positions. At the start of the war the Russians tried grabbing lots of territory without defeating their enemy first and it was expensive in losses. That's not how the war is being fought now. Actually rapid advances are impossible anyway, the entire front line is well protected by minefields.
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  2509.  @GeneralBlackNorway  Back in the real world, sanctions on Russia are being relaxed and circumvented. Russian economic contraction keeps getting revised downward. Their economy was supposed to have collapsed months ago according to predictions the West made at the start of the war. Their exports were supposed to have collapsed already, in reality oil and coal exports are actually up. And it's the Western world especially German, Poland and the Baltics who are heading into what's going to be the worst economic crisis since 1946. When the Russians start struggling, DM me and tell me how wrong I was because all I see is the Russian army slowly grinding forward, inflicting 200k casualties on the Ukrainians so far and few ongoing losses to themselves despite all this military and economic aid for Ukraine.
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  2510.  @Zandonus  Is that so? Inflation in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are the highest in the EU. According to Fitch, in July, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia recorded inflation of 21.0%, 20.8% and 22.7% respectively. Go and tell Fitch their economics is "imaginary".
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  2511.  @Zandonus  20% is overall inflation, not just some things. With 20% inflation, your claim that the "economy in Baltics is doing just fine" makes no sense.
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  2512.  @GeneralBlackNorway  Remember how you were telling us 25,000 Russian soldiers are trapped west of the Dniepr? In the past couple of days, those "trapped" Russian soldiers are advancing along the coast to Mikulayev. You really need to read sources wider than Ukrainian propaganda
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  2513.  @GeneralBlackNorway  I don't know whether the Russians seriously intend to take Mikulayev, I'd guess not. But the fact is that these soldiers whom Ukraine claims are cut off and unsupplied are able to advance at all. The most recent information is the Antonovsky bridge is open again (see Defense Politics Asia youtube channel, I can't remember his source) and the new pontoon bridge is directly under it so it should be at least partially protected. The Russians have destroyed Ukrainian bridges many times so far and bridges are repaired quickly including that high value rail bridge south of Odessa. Even with no bridges, supplies can be brought across the river with barges. To actually interdict supplies successfully on the scale required would require Ukraine gets within artillery range and brings artillery superiority to bear. They're too far away and their artillery is badly outnumbered by Russian artillery. The whole idea that the Russians west of Kherson are going to be cut off from supplies and stranded was highly optimistic when Russian forces in the south were much weaker, now Russia has reinforced there, it's totally unrealistic. For a short overview of the war so far see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfywR6HpDeA NATO aid to Ukraine is dropping off. They're still fighting but they're slowly losing ground and time is not on their side.
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  2514.  @GeneralBlackNorway  Most Ukrainian artillery is already out of range of the bridges. That's why Ukraine was wasting HIMARS rockets attacking the road bridge. The defender has a huge advantage in this kind of war. Attacking the Russian logistics is not about Ukraine retaking Kherson. It's about slowing down a Russian advance.
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  2515. US told them they'd be targeted themselves if they tried to arrest US citizens.
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  2516. Budanov has had plenty of people murdered
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  2517. No this is about Britain putting itself at risk of nuclear annihilation to fight Washington's proxy war against the world's second strongest military power. We're still the poodle.
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  2518.  @UnintendedConsequences  Nice. I have a masters in history. If you think on this topic one side is totally right and the other side is totally wrong, you're either of the same mentality as the Hitlerites or you're totally ignorant about the subject.
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  2519.  @johnsolberg5611  Yeah both sides are pushing the envelope. The drone was hit just off Sevastopol. Everyone knows they're flying in the Black Sea to collect intelligence to allow Ukrainian targeting. There's no way the US would allow Russian surveillance just off the coast of a war zone if the US were fighting a hot war.
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  2520.  @rob4214  Sure. If you cherry pick. And do you think the Ukrainians don't do the same thing? What do you think the entire Krinky bridgehead is? A death trap where entire brigades of elite marines have been chewed up. Ukraine lost its best mountain brigades in the Kherson offensive attacking over open ground in the face of Russian artillery. In Bakhjmut tens of thousands of men were sacrificed. You're watching English language coverage of this war which is 90%+ pro-Ukraine.
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  2521.  @Darkest_matter  Nah Scotland is galloping to catch up. Just look up First Minister Humza Yousef complaining about too many white people in Scotland, spitting out the word white like it's a term of contempt.
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  2522. He's obnoxious but the point is, he put himself on the line to call out incompetence and BS regardless of the consequences to himself. That's what the country needs and in spades. How he "comes across" is irrelevant.
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  2523.  @elKarlo  At some point the moderate elements in Ukraine, possibly guys like Zaluzhny are going to either convince or displace the extremists. It might not be this year but just like Germany in 1918, the leadership are going to realise continued fighting is a disaster. It'll be interesting to see how pro-NATO post war Ukraine will be; it could be that there's a backlash against the American neocons. Especially in those not so Ukrainian regions which have done disproportionate dying like the Hungarian and Romanian border regions and the Russian speaking north east.
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  2524.  @arekkusub6877  The problem is those 82 million people aren't all Germans. Many millions of them are different ethnic groups which contribute only chaos and crime.
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  2525.  @LtSich  The Americans are dreaming if they think there are no consequences for them of escalating. If this becomes a general nuclear war, American cities will get incinerated as well as European cities.
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  2526.  @acsmith44  If this becomes a general war between NATO and Russia, it becomes a nuclear war. Russia would 100% use a nuclear weapon to warn the West to back off. How does the West respond then? I don't think you've thought this through.
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  2527.  @colincampbell4261  US shipping sailing through a war zone.
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  2528. Delusional. Ukraine is losing. Losing badly.
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  2529. Ridiculous optimism from the Ukrainian propagandists. The only reason the Ukrainians got through the border is the Russians demined this particular stretch in preparation for their own offensive. The breakthrough is now contained. Ukraine is burning its reserves by this stunt while the Russians are making rapid gains elsewhere.
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  2530. There's an obvious solution which doesn't suit Peter's narrative. Repair relations with Russia. German manufacturing and Russian natural resources are natural partners.
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  2531. "Ukrainian offensive actions" where are you getting your news? Russia is advancing faster now that at any time after the first month of the war.
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  2532. The end for Russia is also the end for NATO. Have you got a nuclear bunker stocked with two years of food? If so congratulations, you'll probably survive.
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  2533. When people get the courage to stand up for their own people and be openly ethnocentric. We have an Indian prime minster and in Scotland, the Pakistani first minister openly despises white people. Ireland had a half Indian prime minister too. We've been too damn polite.
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  2534. That's because Peter Zeihan is a political propagandist for whom every fact should be either ignored to spun to create the USA is awesome narrative.
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  2535.  @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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  2536. Russia is containing the Ukrainian advance before the main Russian defensive line. Russia has nothing to gain by this. What Ukraine has to gain is the potential to escalate the war. Ukraine has been trying to pull NATO into the hot war since the start.
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  2537.  @paultaylor7082  Rayner is a corrupt, lying hypocrite. Criticise the Tories sure but don't let off Raynor just because she's in your preferred party. That makes you a hypocrite too.
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  2538.  @rharris4736  From the fact that Russia has a heavy advantage in armour, artillery and aviation. Where do you get the idea that Russian casualties are higher? From Ukrainian government press releases?
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  2539. The huge one that got left out was Ukraine.
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  2540. Except Russian style attacking is flatten defences with artillery and send in patrols to see if anyone is still alive, if not, occupy the new position. It's very slow in the well fortified areas but Ukraine takes higher casualties in this kind of warfare.
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  2541.  @hallgeirtveit5553  I suspect you don't watch Telegram footage from both sides?
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  2542. There's zero evidence the Russians intend to attack Poland or anywhere else. NATO fighting Russia in Ukraine would result in Russian nuclear strikes on NATO forces in Ukraine. If NATO responds with nuclear strikes, Russia will hit NATO cities.
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  2543.  @paulwilson8061  Because he's not an analyst at all, he's a propagandist for the CIA
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  2544.  @paulwilson8061  So did Yeltsin. When NATO seized Kosovo from Serbia all the way back in 1999, Yeltsin warned that doing so meant that European borders were up for grabs.
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  2545. That applies to Ukraine, not to Russia. Russia is fighting the war with professionals and volunteers of all ages. As for Ukraine, there is a huge shortage of young people, so many weren't born and of those who were, so many have left the country already.
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  2546.  @wcjones4079  No, a few hundred thousand Russians left but most returned after a few months when it became apparent the mobilisation was very limited in scope and affected reservists only. Millions of Ukrainians left. The Russians mobilised reserves after the Kharkov offensive defeat b ut since then they've been able to grow the army with volunteers only (yes, including convict cannon fodder). The Ukrainians have been pulling in more and more people. For the past year there have been vids of the Ukrainian army ambushing guys on the street to bundle them away into recruitment vans, even using an ambulance to ambush from. There have been battles with fists and even axes between guys trying to escape. The Ukrainian army even mined the western borders to prevent guys escaping into Romania.
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  2547. 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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  2548. Yeah I've seen the same in the Daily Mail. Reporting an artillery strike on civilians in Donetsk City and claiming the Russians did it. Not sure whether it's because the journalist was just a moron or whether it's a deliberate lie.
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  2549. It was meant to be a month ago.
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  2550.  @79keydet  LOL I think the Russian army cancelled the beach party .. maybe next year eh Zelensky?
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  2551.  @anglaismoyen  America is falling apart. At the end of the Second World War, the USA had half's the world's manufacturing output. China has now surpassed the USA in manufacturing and has already surpassed the USA economically in PPP. I'm no fan of China but it's still rising, the USA is falling at least in relative terms.
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  2552.  @wintermute-  The USA is financially overstretched, when was the last balanced budget? Look at the debt to GDP trajectory over the past few years. Diplomatically, the Ukraine war has been a total disaster for the USA, even Saudi Arabia is new defecting from the US orbit. Politically the USA is slipping into authoritarianism and it's not that far off open civil war. Crime is out of control and ever more people are living on the streets. China has big problems too but nothing that big. It's slowly and surely breaking free of the export junk to the West economic model. It's a technology leader now in a lot of important upcoming technologies. And most of all, because of moronic US foreign policy, it now has excellent relations with Russia, the world's biggest natural resource supplier. Economic and communication links with Russia are quickly improving. Lastly, the Chinese military is (obviously) building up pretty quickly. Pretty soon they'll outgun the USN in their own region and also, have the nuclear credibility to be prevent any nuclear intimidation by the USA.
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  2553. There's plenty of war weariness in what's left of the Ukrainian army too.
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  2554.  @777xino  If you believe that you need to broaden your sources.
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  2555.  @puraLusa  I would have answered a serious question but I don't have time for moronic ones.
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  2556.  @michaelthayer5351  Yeah it's going to be a war of attrition until one side collapses. But anyone who doesn't acknowledge that Russian mobilisation changes the situation decisively is simply ignoring the numbers.
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  2557.  @Lynda-z9v  Being a citizen of somewhere is meaningless nowadays. Ethnicity is what is important.
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  2558. Ukraine can't get equipment like HIMARS across the river.
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  2559.  @DIREWOLFx75  I mainly agree but claiming 20 to 1 manpower loss ratio is about as realistic as the NAFO guys talking about resuming the counter offensive next year. Those kind of numbers lose credibility for your overall argument.
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  2560. The Dagestan riot was instigated by Ukrainian intelligence, there wasn't even a flight from Israel :)
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  2561. The Duran are more often right than wrong but they are blatantly pro-Russian and often exaggerate. If they had been accurate, Ukraine would have collapsed long ago.
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  2562. Why? So Israel can just steal more land? The people who live in Gaza now for the most part are the descendants of people the Zionists expelled from their ancestral homes in the 40s through to the 60s. Why do you make excuses for ethnic cleansing by the Israeli state>?
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  2563. @ Not true but even if it were true, they've been in the Holy Land for hundreds of years. By the same logic, the whites should leave North America, Australia and NZ right?
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  2564.  @aarhusnord  You are simultaneously arguing that a sovereign country shouldn't be able to veto a huge amount of its own money being spent and that that a different sovereign country in the same organisation will never become a province. Do you not see the contradiction? Ever since the EU was founded, it has become more powerful, ever year it takes more power for itself away from its members.
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  2565. Is Christopher drunk? He's slurring worse than I do after a dozen pints..
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  2566. 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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  2567.  @kyufweqw  Hamas and Iran are different branches of Islam FFS, they didn't even have friendly relations. Israel started the war with Hezbollah.
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  2568.  @Перемогобуд  A lot of those "Ukrainians" are fighting on the Russian side.
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  2569.  @gonebabygone4116  According to Ukraine... but actual evidence is missing. How many Russian aircraft were really lost? We don't know.
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  2570.  @VisibilityFoggy  "I think the numbers have been fairly well-established" but why do you think this? The only reason we have for thinking that these aircraft have been shot down at all is because Ukraine told us so. Do you believe everything Ukraine claims? If you do then you still believe that two Polish farmers were killed by a Russian missile, not a Ukrainian missile even though there's strong evidence this is not so. You believe that 16 civilians in a Kramatorsk market were killed by a Russian missile not a Ukrainian missile even though we have video evidence that the missile came from the Ukrainian direction. You believe that Russia shelled civilians in Donetsk City even though they controlled the city for ten years and shell splashes show the shells came from the Ukrainian direction. The point is everyone in war time lies, if you only believe the enemy lies then you're not thinking very hard.
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  2571.  @Ducks0420  Thanks! Yes Dima's channel tends to have more open minded, better informed listeners than most channels on the war.
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  2572. Plenty of people pointed out the oil price cap would backfire, all it did was antagonise oil producers. When he says not working as well as expected, he means as he expected.
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  2573.  @ClownCarCoup  LOL So a price cap on a resource puts upward price pressure on the market! Have you heard of economics? You should look into it.
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  2574.  @ClownCarCoup  I didn't really answer your question which oil producers did it antagonise. Well most of OPEC+ but most noticeably, Saudi Arabia. Which now looks to be permanently lost as a US ally. Look at the expansion of BRICS+. This is overwhelmingly the result of sanctions. For example the Indonesian government explicitly said the danger of sanctions is why they needed to move away from SWITCH.
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  2575. The Mediazona stats include Wagner. Around 40,000 Russian dead. To get 80,000 you estimate you'd have to double that. It's possible but it seems high. I expect Russian dead are lower than 80k. Also I'm sure Ukrainian losses are very high but don't believe 373,000 - I don't know what the true number will be but that's much too high. About 500 dead every single day of the war on average. Finally, the cemetery you mention is Bykivnia and the size is less than 100 hectares. Yes, it's very big but be careful with such details if you put weight into this as evidence. Just because such a cemetery is built says nothing about how much of it has been used so far.
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  2576.  @kennyjohnson336  Russia doesn't tend to lose when it's invaded, it tends to win but sometimes suffers millions of deaths doing so. BTW the Japanese in 1905 and the Germans in 1917/18 did win outright on their own soil.
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  2577. In every country where they live in numbers, Jewish intellectuals, politicians, financiers and media have argued to undermine ethnic homogeneity and argued for mass immigration. This is true in Australia, Britain, France and the USA. Collectively, Jewish people disproportionately created the situation we're in now.
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  2578. The big picture is ever since the Russians pulled back from Kiev, the Ukrainians, the smaller country has been taking heavier losses with the possible exception of their very successful Kharkov offensive. The Russians pulled back from Kherson but Ukrainian losses there were heavy for sure. In general, in the static fighting, in Bakhmut and over this summer, Ukrainian losses have been higher, this summer, much higher and it's starting to catch up with them.
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  2579. Russell Brand just took a mighty paycut!
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  2580.  @alasdairmmorrison74  Obviously they do.
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  2581.  @hereandnow990  That's taking things way too far. Especially "when they practically alone had beaten German nazis, with Western allies joining only too late" Are you actually unaware Britain was fighting Germany since 1939? Soviet Union only joined in 1941. Also don't forget Russia has been beaten many times. Germany defeated Russia in the First World War when the main German effort was in the West. Also don't forget the huge supplies the Soviet Union received from the West to beat Germany. Munitions, food, transport. And the Germany it defeated was handicapped by Western bombing. It's delusional to think the Soviet Union could have defeated Germany on its own.
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  2582.  @vladimirgogunsky8335  I'm sceptical of Oryx. It's blatantly a pro-Ukrainian source. I haven't checked this myself but it's commonly said it applies a different standard of evidence to each side before marking a vehicle as destroyed. As to Russian tank production it all depends what you want to believe. I've seen the claim of 150 tanks per month. If that's true (and it probably is because it includes refurbishments and upgrades in addition to new tanks) then replacing 2000 tanks won't take long at all. Especially since many of those 2000 actually turn out to be repairable. Taking even the lowest estimates of Russian tank production, it's not going to be decades.
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  2583.  @American-In-Mykolaiv  The average Russian knows vastly more history than the average Westerner.
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  2584.  @martinepstein3332  If you believe the US is still a functioning democracy you're very naive. Have a look into how big tech manipulates elections.
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  2585.  @SILENTVIXXSIN  You seem to be unaware normal people can't leave Gaza. It's like a huge concentration camp. It doesn't have free access to the sea (Israel doesn't allow it) and its borders are to Israel and Egypt. Egypt doesn't allow Palestinian immigration.
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  2586. This must be pretty old. Posted on 10th Feb and they're obviously talking before Trump was inaugurated.
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  2587.  @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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  2588.  @12zaf1  And why would you believe the American government? Have they found those WMD in Iraq yet?
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  2589.  @ikanyengmalila5888  I have no doubt the Russians have already inflicted heavy casualties but the fact remains, a week into this offensive, the Russians are still losing ground and there's still serious confusion. Yes, Russia is winning the war that's obvious but dismissing Ukrainian successes like the Duran guys always do is just as bad as the Western media, just for the opposite side. I've seen a lot of footage, it looks like so far, the first week of this, the Ukrainians have at minimum held their own and Russian losses are probably higher despite all the advantages Russia has. That will probaby change once the Russians get organised but let's just be honest - they haven't yet.
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  2590.  @xlukas93  1) No evidence the FSB set off a bomb. Or better to say the evidence if fabricated. 2) Ukraine has admitted lots of terrorist attacks for example murdering journalists in Russia.
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  2591.  @MaximumEfficiency  Doubt it - not after almost a year of heavy casualties. It's questionable whether they still outnumber the Russians at all now.
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  2592. "According to Ukraine"
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  2593.  @cloudpoint0  Wishful thinking won't win a war
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  2594.  @cloudpoint0  NATO only backs winners - like the Afghan government? Are you a comedian? If you're actually hoping for a global nuclear war, you're astoundingly naive. Nobody will win a nuclear war but at least Russia's population is spread out and Russian cities have huge bunkers, remember the bunkers beneath Mariupol? Don't you realise that America's weapons are mainly cold war era whereas Russia's have mainly been replaced since Putin took over? As for boots on the ground even Biden isn't that stupid. Russia would most likely retaliate with a nuclear strike on Western Ukraine. What then? NATO would have to back down. No Western country wants to be destroyed for Ukraine sorry to disappoint you.
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  2595.  @bernardedwards8461  I was in the infantry too but never at war so I don't mean to criticise your record and certainly don't question your patriotism but the fact is, the last war Britain fought for British interests was the Falklands War. Everything since has been to lick American boots and the American foreign policy is run on behalf of Israel anyway,
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  2596. Firstly there is ZERO evidence North Korean troops have been used in Ukraine. Secondly how is it different? Because British missiles lobbed at Russia logically means they're going to retaliate. Who do you think is going to win a nuclear war between NATO and Russia? The entire mainland of Britain is smaller than some Russian oblasts. Russia has nuclear fall out shelters, we don't. Russia has the world's biggest stockpile of nuclear weapons and they're pretty modern. We've got a navy who drops them by mistake and collides their own ships together.
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  2597. See Patrick Lancaster's and Graham Philips's videos on youtube from places like Mariupol and it's pretty obvious the Russians won't have much trouble convincing the local population they're better off under Russian rule.
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  2598. @ Do you mean Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister who declared war on Germany? Is this the only war in history you ever heard about? The Ukraine situation has far more in common with the first rather than the second world war. A totally unnecessary blood bath caused by warmongers like your good self.
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  2599. Ireland, Britain, Scotland - national leaders all Asians. No surprise they want to fill the British Isles with their own people.
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  2600.  @GARDENER42  The Russian guys in Ukraine generally have at least six months training. Ukrainian officers have complained about receiving guys who had two weeks of training and have never fired their weapon. Not all of the Ukrainian army gets no NATO training. The territorial brigades tend to get little training before arriving at their units at all. If you think the Ukrainians are better trained than the Russians now, you're at least six months out of date.
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  2601. It's an echo chamber, totally ignoring how the Ukrainian government has assassinated opposition politicians and the Maidan coup overturned a democratically elected president supported by the majority of the population.
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  2602.  @stream2watch  If Russia has a stockpile of missiles from decades ago and is now fighting a major war, it would be strange not to use the old missiles. It doesn't prove they are running out of more modern alternatives.
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  2603.  @tomk3732  Do we know for sure that one dropped on that mall? Or did the mall catch fire when the huge armaments repair factory next door was hit? Video footage appears to show bricks thrown from the explosion are from the armaments factory rather than the mall. If the mall contained a thousand people as Zelensky claims and was in fact hit by this missile, why are casualties so low? The official Ukrainian story seems suspect.
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  2604. Impossible to predict how rashly America will act but in any case, not all of NATO is going to back up Lithuania, especially if Lithuania is to blame for the escalation. I guarantee Turkey will not fight Russia over Lithuanian. I seriously doubt Spain or Italy or Germany want Russian nuclear missiles landing on their cities for the sake of Lithuania either.
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  2605.  @Judasz696  Nobody wins from a nuclear war. But Russia has the world's biggest stockpile of nuclear weapons, the Russian population is spread over eleven time zones and Russian cities have huge fallout shelters like the bunkers under Mariupol. Which NATO cities have something comparable? You think Russia is the aggressor here, Russia has been complaining for thirty years about eastwards NATO expansion and made it very clear to the West that Ukraine joining NATO was a serious problem for Russia. The USA and Ukraine have been pushing for this anyway. Now, we in the West have a choice - escalate and expect a nuclear war or accept we made a mistake and de-escalate. This is not a computer game, billions of people will die in a nuclear war. And Western Europe will be hit hardest.
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  2606.  @Judasz696  That is a completely unrealistic assessment of the balance of power. The Ukrainian army is second only to the American army in NATO and the Russian army is defeating the Ukrainian army without even having mobilised or called up reserves.
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  2607.  @yiannismcaughrey1999  LOL - a German led military alliance to confront a Russian led military alliance - so a rematch of WWII but with nuclear weapons!
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  2608.  @Judasz696  Your whole position presupposes that Russia is the bully. But this war is happening right on Russia's border after Russia complained for decades about NATO expansion, warned explicitly for more than ten years that Ukraine joining NATO was a red line and the war started just a few weeks after Zelensky and the Biden administration were pushing hard for Ukraine to join NATO. America would never accept Mexico or Canada joining a nuclear armed anti-American military alliance, it would go to war to prevent it. But it has ignored Russian repeated warnings. An analogy with school bullies is unhelpful. From Russia's perspective, this is a defensive war.
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  2609.  @MMABlur  At least 50 VDV were killed at Hostomel - out of a pre war strength of around 40k. It's slightly more than one in a thousand of their original numbers killed in that battle. And according to you that's going to degrade their institutional skill and experience? Puh-lease!
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  2610. So who are all these people? Why can only 40 something thousand be identified?
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  2611. Hardly the only person to predict the Ukraine war in 2014. Plenty of people could see that coming.
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  2612. Far from the only wrong assumption in Zeihan's ridiculous narrative.
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  2613. @ Except he doesn't. He's coitized Putin many times. You can;'t make a deal with someone you keep insulting.
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  2614.  @asterixdogmatix1073  The gas pipeline passes through Ukraine so the Ukrainains can shut the gas off any time they want
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  2615. I don't think we've seen anything like everything they have yet. They're trying to suck in Russian reserves and to take the approaches. This is going to run for a long time yet, maybe for weeks - unless the shaping goes so badly the Ukrainians cancel the whole thing. When it's all over there'll be tens of thousands more of brave men lost on both sides that would still be alive if Ukraine had just honoured the Minsk accords and agreed to keep out of NATO.
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  2616. America made Russia an enemy. Only China gains by this moronic policy.
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  2617. The upcoming narrative is that this wasn't the main counter offensive, it was only "probing attacks"
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  2618.  @alexd7029  It's a ridiculous guilt by association smear. What did he say which isn't true? RT was (not necessarily anymore) a perfectly respectable broadcaster, state funded in the same way that the BBC is state funded. Obviously now Russia is at war, RT is going to have to conform to what the Russian government requires but it wasn't like that before the war, not while covering general international news.
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  2619.  @StrawHat83  LOL you're pretty gullible aren't you. Take Kosovo for example. The "G word" was an invention of NATO government propaganda, propagated by the media. Much like the "G word" in Syria - which didn't exist until the US started a war solely because Syria was a Russian ally. Iraq 2 wasn't based on "flawed intelligence", it was based on deliberate lies to start a war. As for the "G word", anyone can claim that anywhere. You ask what's Putin's excuse. Part of his excuse is Ukrainian genocide against ethnic Russians. Yes, this is mainly a lie. But no more than most of the times NATO uses it. There are real genocides going on in the world. But in places the US doesn't have a geostrategic reason to get involved ie. Darfur. If stopping genocide was the genuine reason for sending in soldiers, why did the US stand back during the Rwandan genocide? Like some Rwandan politician said - because we have no oil.
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  2620.  @rebelmango2141  Yes I'm not talking about the first Gulf War - which did actually have UN backing. I'm only talking about the 2003 invasion. Yes all countries lie when wars are concerned. Russia tells lies too.
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  2621.  @robderich8533  After the Soviet collapse, Russia bounced back after Putin. Ukraine just stagnated. It has suffered massive brain drain, worse than Russia. The population now could be half of what it was at the end of the Soviet Union and it's a very old population. Yes Russia has these problems too but Ukraine suffers far worse.
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  2622. Yeah it goes boom quite often
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  2623. 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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  2624.  @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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  2625. You think Russia is the bully here, the rest of the world outside of the west thinks America is the bully and Russia is standing up to the bully. This escalation rhetoric ends in WWIII and every single NATO country getting wiped out.
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  2626.  @connieparker9606  99% ethnic differences in Yugoslavia and different ethic groups mainly lived in different regions. Plus there was a lot of fairly recent history of ethnic atrocities (by fairly recent, I mean the Second World War which at the time was only 50 years ago). I'd say the ethnic problems in Yugoslavia in the 1990s were quite a bit worse than the ethnic differences in contemporary USA - which is bad enough.
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  2627.  @Corvin2696  No, he's right. Ethnic differences in the USA are bad but nowhere near as bad as in 1990s Yugoslavia. If you think they are then you should read guys like Misha Glenny on Yugoslavia breaking up.
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  2628. His position is nuanced. That's sensible because reality is nuanced. He actually opposes arming Israel.
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  2629. Bregman starts rudely insulting Carlson without justifying his criticism. If you're going to say this guy is part of the problem you have to have a robust argument. It's not really a fair argument Bregman has because Carlson for all his faults is pretty fearless about saying what he thinks even when it's going against the grain of the rest of society. Just saying you're a millionaire funded by billionaires isn't really helpful unless you've got a reason to believe the millionaire is censoring himself to benefit the billionaires. Given what Carlson says elsewhere, that's not really credible. Luckily for Bregman, Carlson takes the bait, loses his temper and embarrasses himself. Seems to me they both come off badly.
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  2630.  @wfcoaker1398  Which main stream media is not propaganda? CNN, MSNBC, etc. call out Fox when they're lying or misleading but Fox do the same for them. If you want some balance you have to watch both sides and mistrust both sides.
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  2631.  @wfcoaker1398  The BBC has its own bias, its own problems. Apart from the wokeness, not that different from the Guardian, it's generally very superficial with very little analysis. If you want to hear how British gardening culture is 'racist' due to its use of terms like 'heritage' and 'native' then sure, stick to the BBC. If you want to hear about the news with politically incorrect but important facts censored like a terrorists was screaming about a certain religion while attacking people then sure, stick to the BBC. But if you're deliberately avoiding "right wing" sources then your perception of reality will be skewed.
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  2632.  @wfcoaker1398  I watch Fox news from time to time, I agree with you that much of it is just worthless, boring, uninformative obvious propaganda. But some of it is pretty good. The business news seems fine. Watters and Gutfield can be pretty funny and interesting in the sense that they call out the other side's weaknesses. The political debates on the "Five" are pretty good and it's a mixture of Republican/Democrats. Dana Perino is really good. As for Tucker Carlson - yeah you have to be suspicious of everything he says. He certainly wouldn't be my first choice of guys to drink beer with. But he also comes up with a lot of stuff worth hearing. In many cases, he's the only big news anchor taking a particular position for example questioning the Zelensky personality cult. It's interesting that a lot of guys we used to call left wing like Glenn Greenwald and Russel Brand are pretty positive about Tucker Carlson as they become disillusioned with the rest of the MSM. That's my opinion :)
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  2633.  @wfcoaker1398  Yeah the whole left/right dichotomy is maybe becoming a bit obsolete anyway except in the pretty mindless tribalism sense. I'm personally more worried about the creeping authoritarianism and censorship in Western countries. The stuff that happened in Canada over the past couple of years seems pretty scary ie. executive government bypassing judicial process to do stuff like freeze bank accounts of people who haven't been convicted of any crime. But the same kind of things seem to be happening in every Western country. For all his faults, that's something that Tucker Carlson opposes.
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  2634. Earlier on there was a prediction earlier on in the war that Kalibr missile production would have to shut down due to sanctions. Reality? 500 new job vacancies there.
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  2635. The US keeps assassinating Iranian leaders. If any other country acted like this it would be called terrorism.
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  2636. Lithuanian wanted to do that earlier, Russia reminded the world that by treaty Lithuania's independence is conditional on Russian access through the Suwalki gap. Lithuania backed down pretty quickly. And that was a couple of years back when Russia was struggling. Say Lithuanian seriously decided to do that. And the Russians land a thousand missiles on every military base in Lithuania. What's any other country going to do? Do you seriously think the USA or Britain or France or Germany wants to risk a nuclear war to protect a country like Lithuania when they provoked the attack on themselves? If you seriously believe that why aren't they fighting in Ukraine right now?
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  2637. They'd love to but they can't because they're landlocked.
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  2638.  @soulsborne7765  Sort of a but a small country needs trade with its big neighbours. And we know from Brexit that the EU will use trade to punish a country that leaves.
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  2639.  @joelimbergamo639  No, the EU did all kinds of stuff it didn't need to do for example try to stop food being shipped from the mainland to NI supermarkets with no plan to ship them onward into Eire. Deliberately vindictive. Barnier admitted it FFS
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  2640.  @joelimbergamo639  No this is just sabotage and dangerous sabotage too. NI is part of Britain, attempting to create bureaucratic obstacles between the mainland and Northern Ireland supermarkets has got nothing to do with protecting trade into the EU if you can't see this is just a pretext you've bought the propaganda.
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  2641.  @nyaatell  Not benefactors, more like the Warsaw pact where you can't leave. If you try, they don't send in the tanks they just destroy your economy.
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  2642.  @RannonSi  EU negotiators including Barnier openly talked about punishing the UK
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  2643.  @joelimbergamo639  You use common sense. For example a consignment of sausages packaged for a supermarket which doesn't even exist in Eire at all doesn't merit any interest at all from EU custom inspectors.
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  2644.  @RannonSi  Listen to yourself - a club so desirable, they'd consider closing their airspace to you if you dare to leave.
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  2645.  @nyaatell  Hungary pays into EU funds just the same as every other country. Diverting billions to Ukraine obviously means less money for EU citizens. Not sure how anyone would find that logic weird.
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  2646.  @nyaatell  Of course Hungary is a net benefactor - so what? Does that mean it's not allowed to complain about money being misspent? Money for Ukraine isn't going to stop Russia, it's just going to drag the war out for longer and get more Ukrainians killed. The only thing that will "stop Russia" is giving Russia the security guarantees it should have been given to prevent the war in the first place. Let me remind you, since 1800, the French, then the British, then the Germans then the French, British and Americans all together all invaded Russia. The Soviet army only reached Budapest, Berlin and Vienna after the Germans invaded first. What Russia wants is security. If you're one of these clowns who thinks Russia wants to take over Eastern Europe, why? It already controlled Eastern Europe. It voluntarily gave up that control. Nobody wants to recreate the Soviet Union.
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  2647. Last year it's possible artillery inflicted 75% of the casualties, this year, it's FAB bombs and loitering munitions which are the big killers. Obviously Russia has a huge advantage in both of these too so your point stands.
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  2648.  berniecorruptsanders9450  Netanyahu wanted Hamas in Gaza. Look it up, he said so multiple times. To sabotage any possibility of a two state solution.
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  2649.  @joshuaogle7367  Can you demonstrate why import costs would be lower if we'd stayed in the EU? Just asking because Germany has exactly the same worrying about inflation and cost of living and last I heard they're still in the EU.
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  2650.  @joshuaogle7367  Read your question again and stop applying the double standard. The obvious point is British exporters are doing really well post Brexit, the exact opposite of your Remainder narrative.
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  2651.  @joshuaogle7367  Alright I didn't realise you genuinely didn't understand something so obvious so I'll spell it out. You asked a rhetorical question to push your narrative which is impossible to answer - because counter factuals are impossible to answer with anything except speculation. So asked one in return. Since basic things are not obvious to you, the narrative that Britain is doing badly because of Brexit is blatantly wrong for two reasons. Firstly, Britain isn't doing badly compared to other vaguely similar countries like Germany. Secondly, there's so much else going on even bigger than Brexit like covid and the Ukraine war that you can't pick out an effect of Brexit on the economy overall.
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  2652.  @jacksonteller1337  What evidence is there that Russia is running out of usable ammunition at the front? Pro-Russian channels are full of Ukrainian vehicles, infantry patrols and artillery being destroyed. Neutral channels show the Russians are capturing more territory than the Ukrainians. How could they be doing this if they're out of ammunition?
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  2653. Dishonest analysis but someone who obviously knows better. The Russians have been fighting with their professional forces and Ukrainian allies against a mobilised Ukraine. Now Russia has mobilised too, the balance is going to swing against them decisively. Russia won't need to use nuclear weapons.
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  2654.  @rabbitt-ee4yu  Everyone who understands this stuff knows Ukrainians can't use these missiles on their own. They don't have the satellite targeting. The Russians know damn well NATO personnel and satellites are being used to attack them. The whole world knows it.
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  2655.  @foilhat1138  Russia didn't "beg" drones from Iran, they bought them with their more advanced weapons like SAMs. Ukraine was armed by 30 countries, almost all of the weapons Russia uses are built by Russia.
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  2656.  @Moscow_Will_Burn  No, Russia has built up a huge stockpile of missiles in case the war spreads. Also they don't need missiles as much as earlier, the most promising targets have been destroyed and anything within 70km of the front is hit with cheap drones nowadays. They still use missiles whenever there's a good target but both sides have got a lot better at dispersing and hiding anything worth firing at.
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  2657.  @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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  2658.  @maxpower3990  Check your numbers, the Russian army is now bigger than when the war started. The economy has grown, not collapsed as Zeihan predicted. Nor has their oil industry collapsed like he predicted.
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  2659. Several weeks into the war it was already obvious Telegraph coverage was delusional.
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  2660. Right so 20 FAB strikes per day on Ukrainian positions, entire apartment blocks being demolished, hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers killed by drones, artillery and remote mines as they pulled out too late over open ground (we've seen the footage) but Russian casualties were 20 times Ukrainian casualties... just a few days ago when the Russians took over Avdivka, they said the whole town stunk of thousands of decomposing bodies. A lot of those bodies are buried under hundreds of tons of rubble. It'll be years before they're pulled out.
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  2661.  @Bill32H-it3sv  Less than quarter of the voters in Britain were for Starmer's muppets
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  2662. Accusing the Russians of deliberately trying to cause a famine is propaganda - and also slander. If the Russians really wanted to do this, they'd stop their own grain exports.
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  2663. If only you understood the background to this conflict.
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  2664.  @wekurtz72  Crimea and the Donbas were part of Russia and inhabited by Russians and were given to Ukraine by Bolshevik bureaucrats. It was never a sustainable situation. If self determination is good enough for Kosovo then don't be a hypocrite, it's good enough for Donbas too.
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  2665.  @wekurtz72  You ask me whether a Ukrainian civil war Russia's business. Explain to us all please why a terrorist insurgency in Serbian Kosovo was NATO's business. Why Syria, Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan were NATO's business. The difference between all those wars and Ukraine is that millions of ethnic Russians live in what you consider to be Ukrainian territory. They've lived there for hundreds of years. In Crimea especially, they are a large majority.
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  2666.  @wekurtz72  Just admit it, NATO waged a war of aggression against Serbia on an invented pretext, deliberately bombed civilian targets and destroyed the inviolability of European borders by seizing Kosovo. Don't blame Russia by playing by the same rules in Ukraine that NATO invented in Yugoslavia. Yeltsin warned Bush and Blair they were creating a dangerous precedent but they ignored him. Now you see the result. Don't be a hypocrite because the parallels are blatant.
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  2667. It's called shadow banning.
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  2668.  @har.u8926  Yes, I agree there are two sides to the issue. I just think Brian Berletic goes too far on the pro-China side. According to him, China's behaviour is never wrong, the US is always wrong. In reality, China and the US both behave like imperial bullies.
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  2669.  @davecooper3238  Trump wants to pull out of Ukraine. Quite right too. He didn't create the mess, Biden did and Vic Nuland and Zelensky did. Making unrealistic demands helps give Trump cover to disassociate.
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  2670. Ukraine had hundreds of men on the islands and flooding these islands is causing Ukraine a major panic to evacuate anyone they can. There are good videos available of dozens of boats attempting this. The flood shuts down any threat from this direction for Russia. Russian defences on the left bank were pretty sparse and far from the river bank. The Russian military has little to loose by this. They can just withdraw until the flood subsides.
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  2671.  @xenofonkarykis8417  If you look at all the video of the rescue boats Ukraine is sending out, that's not to pick up 50 men. And 50 men doesn't make sense. The Ukrainian army has been building up forces on those islands for weeks. As for springing a trap, by the time that water is drained and the ground dried out, the outcome of the Ukrainian offensive will long since be decided. The next couple of weeks will most likely be decisive one way or another. The point is to get an advantage now. If the Ukrainian offensive goes poorly, it could be that towards the end of summer, it's the Russian side which wants to cross the river again.
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  2672. Cool. Now have a look into what the US and CIA have been up to over the past 80 years.
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  2673.  @JLudwig-c4l  It wasn't Russia which staged a coup in Ukraine to overthrow the democratically elected president supported by most of the population setting off the catastrophe that is Ukraine today.
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  2674. You obviously don't have a clue. The Gazans were not allowed their own sea port, not allowed an airport, not allowed even to fish their own coast line beyond an ill defined short distance. It's been blockaded by Israel for decades you clown.
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  2675.  @EpicCrust  You've obviously never bothered reading much military history. Napoleonic Wars - almost every single battle, the winner's casualties were much lower and the winner was usually the attacker. That includes many battles where the attacker was weaker than the defender. WWI - that's more mixed. In unsuccessful attacks, the attacker casualties were usually higher but in successful attacks, usually not. WWII. In 1941 Barbarossa, Red Army casualties were many times the (still heavy) German casualties as the Germans were driving into the Soviet Union. By 1944 Bagration when the Germans were retreating, German casualties were higher. First and Second Gulf Wars - obviously US/allied casualties were a tiny fraction of the defending Iraqi casualties.
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  2676.  @EpicCrust  Are you seriously claiming Russia doesn't have the initiative around Bakhmut? As for poor communication and supplies - they have an overwhelming advantage in artillery shells. Communications to the east of the city are ideal for them, around the flanks you have a point, communications are poor. Russia is defeating a huge army (that outnumbers them in theatre) armed by all of NATO. At some point you're going to have to revise your understanding of Russian competence, primitive weapons and shoddy training.
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  2677.  @EpicCrust  What do you mean cope harder? I've just shown you how you're totally wrong by giving you well known historical examples and you're still trying to humiliate yourself?
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  2678.  @EpicCrust  You're saying it's normal for the attacker to take heavy losses on the strategic or operational scale. I've shown you're wrong.
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  2679.  @EpicCrust  I'm just refuting your blatantly ignorant initial claim. I wasn't originally even talking about Bakhmut specifically. It's not even unusual for infantry to take lower casualties than the defenders while storming a city. The US managed storming a city fine in Faluja and Baghdad. Wagner cut through Soledar without problem.
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  2680.  @EpicCrust  NOthing compares to US air power? In urban warfare? US air/artillery advantage in Falluja is no different from the Russian air/artillery advantage in Bakhmut. In both cases, any defenders who can be observed need to find cover within seconds or be obliterated.
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  2681. Like the policeman who shot dead Ashli Babbitt
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  2682.  danjohnston9037  In the Black Sea? Nobody now. It's a land war. The Black Sea doesn't matter all that much.
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  2683.  danjohnston9037  That's sort of true but Russia is destroying the Ukrainian economy while the Russian economy grows. Driving the Black Sea fleet out of the Western Black Sea is a consolation prize for Ukraine at best.
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  2684. Georgia started the 2008 war, it attacked Abkhazia and South Ossetia. As for NATO not being aggressive, tell that to the Serbs.
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  2685. Hi Peter
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  2686. @ Just means you need to account for his bias
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  2687.  @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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  2688.  @MisterWaldo  And you think US intelligence is telling you the truth? FFS man WMD in Iraq?! Hunter Biden's laptop is a Russian plant? we don't spy on US citizens?
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  2689.  @trackerbacker  It's obvious what the problem is in Ireland too - mass immigration lowering wages and pushing up the price of housing.
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  2690.  @gmanlee575  At least half of the US economy is a borrowing fuelled Ponzi scheme and it's not far off collapsing. Maybe even the next few years.
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  2691. He's an apologist for the sinister, intimidatory behaviour of the UK parliament. Hardly neutral.
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  2692. Why would he? Anyone watching neutral channels and comparing propaganda from both sides can see Russia is winning decisively. Compare ISW maps now compared to the start of the year. The entire Ukrainian Donetsk defense belt is gone. Russia's advancing every day. Zeihan keeps talking about "meat wave assaults" and heavy Russian casualties, where's the footage? It's just propaganda for his fan boys who don't watch neutral channels.
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  2693. I doubt elevation matters so much inside a city. Plenty of cover and you have elevation at the top of a building anyway.
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  2694. That;s the same dumb ass logic that said Russia would just let the US stage a coup in Ukraine without responding and later that Russia was bluffing when it insisted Ukraine should not join NATO.
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  2695. Important causes of the first world war and the second world war were ignoring red lines assuming because the other side backed down last time they're going to back down again. Actually because the other side backed down last time it makes it harder for them to back down again. While the USA keeps smack talking Russia, Russia is taking practical measures to prepare for nuclear war, it is mass producing portable fall out shelters for its cities.
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  2696. LOL most of the Palestinian men wear dresses
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  2697. And take them to San Francisco, Los Angeles or Detroit.
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  2698.  @outoforbit-  Totally different in different companies. But yes most people are jobsworth cowards. Which particular organisation are you talking about? Because some are better than others.
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  2699.  @outoforbit-  Financial services? Or public sector?
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  2700. There's the assumption that Jewishness is just some unimportant, arbitrary characteristic like being left handed. A more serious analysis would note that Jewish people in Weimar Germany as in many other places were heavily overrepresented in the professions but also in financial crime and Bolshevik agitation. They had a huge role in the Communist revolutions all over Eastern Europe and Germany at the end of the First World War. Even Winston Churchill noticed they tended to take an antagonistic viewpoint against any society they settled in.
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  2701.  @robertmatch6550  It's something you can check for yourself by opening a book. I recommend Kevin MacDonald but if you want a Jewish, pro Jewish writer covering the same subject matter, try Yuri Slezkine The Jewish Century.
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  2702.  @Hartley_Hare  Nice for you. Not sure how it's relevant.
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  2703.  @Hartley_Hare  There are several problems the most important is when the ethnic identity clashes with the national identity. Here's an example. In the USA especially but in Britain too we were pushed into an unnecessary and costly war (costly in lives and money) with Iraq, the real reason for this war was to enhance Israel's security. The people who got us into this war by telling a pack of lies (the Washington neoconservatives and their lackeys in London) put Israeli interests ahead of the interests of the country they claim to be citizens of. This is a long standing phenomenon. Amongst many others, all of Churchill, Stalin and Hitler noticed the tendency.
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  2704.  @Hartley_Hare  Has it led you to subvert your country or push it into a war against its national interests? If not then all good.
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  2705. Nice story, presumably you don't realise the Germans shot, starved to death and hanged millions of Russians. As for torture, the stuff like water boarding is done by the Americans. The rest of it is nothing the Ukrainians and the Israelis aren't doing.
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  2706. They do. That's why they're winning. The Russian manpower on the front is actually less than Ukrainian manpower and Ukraine is armed by all of NATO.
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  2707. ​ @paulsonsons425  Both sides acknowledge the Russians hold the power station. Do you seriously believe the Russians are shelling their own positions just because the Ukrainian government tells you so?
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  2708.  @paulsonsons425  Actually most of the world is neutral including India, Brazil, China, Turkey, Indonesia, most of Africa. It's really just Western countries plus Japan who are supporting Ukraine. If you'd been paying attention to actual claims by each side and the evidence, you'd see they're both telling blatant lies. For example Ukraine has been shelling Donetsk City for years and more recently with anti-personnel mines. Even if we were so propagandised that we thought the Russians wanted to shell a pro-Russian city they've controlled for years, we know from OSINT that it's the Ukrainians shelling it. We have dozens of eye witnesses and we can calculate direction from the shell damage. Even some Western media admit this. As for the power station - the Russians want to use it to connect to the Russian grid and power up all of Southern Ukraine. They've been putting in a lot of work to get it fixed up. It takes quite a level of stupidity to believe they're shelling themselves.
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  2709. Why do you believe these kind of stories without evidence? This is what happens in major wars, there are propaganda fabrications. There are also occasional atrocities by soldiers in ALL armies but most of these stories are fabricated.
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  2710. All Ukraine needed to do was stay unaligned - like Switzerland or Austria. How is that so bad? But that didn't suit the Americans and Ukrainian nationalists have been pushing to get Ukraine into NATO since 2014.
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  2711. It's worse than that, even if Western ground forces could turn the tide (a big if without a major American effort), Russia would use tactical nuclear weapons if they were losing badly. It's in their doctrine. Why would the world's largest nuclear power allow itself to be beaten in a ground war? These clowns advocating for Western ground forces haven't though the benefits/risks.
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  2712.  @lithuanianwarrior1081  I don't believe 5000 either but Russian army dead might not be much higher than that. On the Russian side, DPR, LPR, Wagner, Chechens irregulars and the Russian army are all fighting on the front line. The Russian army is a minority of the overall infantry. This 5000 number probably refers only to the Russian army. Total Russian side dead will be much higher.
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  2713. These guys hate the modern Western system so much they're blind to the problems elsewhere.. No matter how badly run the West is, China is run worse.
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  2714.  @gdiwolverinemale4th  Totally agree, to the extent that China is rich, it's rich despite the government, not because of it.
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  2715.  @theo7326  You imply that he knows better because he's a professor :P But thousands of other well qualified people say the opposite. There's no shortage of huge corruption in China. If you want to deny that, your head is in the sand.
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  2716. er no the Israelis broke diplomatic protocol by attacking an embassy. Why the Russians don't give the Syrians some Kinzhals to hit back at Israel every time the Israelis attack Syria is a mystery.
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  2717.  @frankzappa9853  Yeah you can if you want to start WW3. If the Russians start seeing themselves bombed by jets launched in NATO countries you're an idiot if you think the Russians are going to be too scared to hit those airfields. And if WW3 starts it will most likely turn nuclear pretty quickly.
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  2718. Imagine North Vietnam was hitting the USA with Soviet weapons. Do you seriously think the USA would just sit back and take it? If Western weapons do serious damage to Russia, Russia is going to reply. Either with a massive strike using conventional weapons to cause mass casualties in Ukraine - which they haven't done yet - or with tactical nuclear weapons. Only an idiot thinks Russia is going to back down and only an idiot thinks Russia is going to just keep letting the west escalate without responding. One response Russia has already made is to give NK advanced rocket technology. That alone is a huge loss for the USA.
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  2719. Russians who can remember the 90s and the Yeltsin years see that Putin worked a miracle. Whether or not they like him and many do, well informed Russians appreciate him. No Western leader comes close to Putin in popularity.
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  2720. Neutrality? Impartiality? Are you joking?
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  2721. Sure. Just like there was no way Russia would react to the Maidan coup by taking Crimea and there was no way Russia would invade Ukraine if Ukraine insisted on joining NATO. People don't get it Putin follows through. He's not bluffing on Ukraine. He's prepared to fight NATO if NATO doesn't back down and fighting NATO will end in nukes.
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  2722.  @MrJdsenior  Why are you clowns so eager to start WWIII? Don't you realise Russia has more nukes than you and more modern on average too? Go look up how long it takes Russian strategic missiles to hit your home town.
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  2723.  @brokenaura23  No, I think it's sustainable for a very long time. Russia has a partial war economy but it's calibrated. Non military manufacturing is expanding as well as just military production. Financially, their debt is pretty low, they have a lot of room to play with. The war won't last for years anyway, Ukraine is struggling badly now it's not just material, there's infighting at the top and a lot of guys don't want to fight any more.
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  2724. It's just a propaganda narrative anyway. You notice there's no evidence for anything he said.
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  2725. Yeah it's sad these dumb people are willing to risk a nuclear war about a part of the world they know nothing about.
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  2726. Look at it this way - if Russia really had any worry about losing the war it could 1) conscript another half a million men or 2) use a nuclear weapon to threaten the West to back off. The fact that it has not bothered even running another round of mobilisation suggests to me the Russians think the war is under control.
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  2727. We've already tried being run by an Indian, it was a disaster. The only thing he was successful with is flooding us with his own people. The last thing we need is being run by an African.
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  2728.  @augustuslunasol10thapostle  Over short distances, road transport - sure. But if you're moving 20 armoured vehicles over 600km, do you don't try to drive them. And if you did try to drive them, you're going to need more mechanics and you're going to need fuel tankers. So yeah - railways are essential for logistics and redeployments. On both sides.
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  2729.  @LisaPoihegatama  nga tikanga katoa rite tahi - how that that be understood as anything different to becoming British citizens? It's complete BS to pretend the Maori chiefs of 1840 thought anything else.
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  2730.  @badluck5647  Yeah the Russian MOD press releases have been incompetent at best but there's still plenty of real footage of Western equipment getting wrecked.
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  2731. When the country you come from is a cess pit you probably don't see what the problem is.
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  2732. It's totally delusional to think Russian losses are anywhere close to Ukrainian losses over the past couple of weeks. Entire columns of Ukrainian vehicles have been smashed to pieces. The Russians have lost a vehicle to HIMARS or artillery here and there.
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  2733.  @fullm3taljacket  Seems those Iranian drones are pretty effective. Cheaper than the missiles needed to shoot them down.
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  2734.  @IamOutOfNames  That's a seriously dumb comment. The West is being dragged into another war on a false narrative but this time it's with a great power with thousands of nuclear weapons rather than third world goat herders. But sure, anyone who points out the moral hypocrisy is a Russky troll.
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  2735.  @IamOutOfNames  You're wrong about almost everything there. Firstly the Russians aren't "pathetic" and "weak". The Ukrainian army is actually bigger than the total Russian side forces in Ukraine and the Ukrainian army is backed by NATO armaments and technology and intelligence. And the initiative is back with Russia again. As for "Putin's lapdog", Maidan was a US backed coup which ousted the democratically elected president. Google the Nuland and Pyatt conversation if you don't believe that. You're probably stuck in your propaganda bubble but if you had the intelligence and interest to look, you'd find Ukraine is guilty of all kinds of atrocities before this year.
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  2736. Sure. And so Russia mines the Baltic Sea. What you going to do? You think NATO can win WWIII?
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  2737. The West was directing who to place in the Ukrainian government
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  2738.  @edtheroverman  Blatant attempt to muddy the waters. Let's just pepper spray anyone the police don't like then let's say we're a democracy and Russia is a police state.
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  2739. Sure Denmark could do that - if they want to start World War Three.
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  2740.  @adambussert3383  Go read up on the Battle of Kursk and then check whether that was before or after D-Day
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  2741. These boosters undermine your immune system. John Campbell has covered the reasons why in great detail on his youtube channel over the past few years.
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  2742. The problem with this line of questioning is anyone who is even moderately intelligent can answer disingenuously. Some of the people answering were probably genuine, some gave the impression of dissimulating.
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  2743.  @andrebr1148  Other crimes yes but very low proportion of stabbings of strangers are by the ethnically English.
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  2744. LOL don't you realise Russia trains more engineers per year than the entire USA? Russia, the world's biggest nuclear power, with hypersonic missiles, fifth generation fighters and a huge military industry and you think it can't build an autonomous drone?
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  2745.  @j.p.ijsblok5304  Nice theory but the average standard of technical education in Russia is better than in the USA. You call the invasion a disaster and it definitely hasn't gone as well as the Kremlin had hoped. But which country has been wrecked? Which country has been depopulated? Which country has incurred debts so bit they'll never be paid off? Which country has permanently lost a big chunk of its most valuable territory? Which country has permanently alienated millions of its former citizens? Which country is now being abandoned by its allies?
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  2746.  @j.p.ijsblok5304  Yeah. Guys like you remind me of when Biden said the Afghan government would defeat the Taleban. When Zelensky said Bakhmut would never fall. When Hodges and the entire Ukrainian government said they'll celebrate the end of summer on the beach in Crimea.
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  2747. Normal people don't voluntarily go to risk their lives in a war which has nothing to do with them and then talk about it on the internet afterwards. It could be the more serious and informed guys fighting in Ukraine aren't so keen to talk about it. Also which ever side they're on, they're getting a lot of propaganda from that side and few people would do the digging and thinking to see through the propaganda. It's pretty amusing that all the same accusations and stereotypes the Ukrainians say about the Russians, the Russians say about Ukrainians.
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  2748.  @Chr1s-fm6bi  Sure mate, which other country builds nuclear power ice breakers?
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  2749. LOL it was the Soviet Union which did the hard fighting against the main enemy Germany and most of Japan's army was fighting the Chinese. Let's get real. The US struggled against Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. You seriously think the US could fight Russia and China together in a conventional war without nukes? And if it does turn nuclear, Russia has more nukes than America does ignoring however many the Chinese now have too.
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  2750. LOL it's just a bit more subtle, there's the choice of words and some of the facts are actually questionable too.
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  2751. Trump may be less willing to start a war with Russia but he is unlikely to try to restrain Israel.
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  2752. What Zeihan doesn't like about twitter is that under Musk, the CIA no longer controls it
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  2753.  @felixjtorres1321  Demography is a witch - well demography is cruellest to some countries more than others. In Ukraine the demographic situation is possibly the worst in the world now. Since the war started, the birth rate has fallen from amongst the lowest in Europe to now, probably the lowest in the world. Around ten million people have left, especially young people and especially women. Hundreds of thousands of men are dead or seriously injured. Millions of people who used to be Ukrainians are now Russian citizens. True the situation in Russia isn't rosy but compared to Ukraine, Russian demographics looks bright.
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  2754. 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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  2755. Maybe some of the stories were "borrowed" :)
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  2756.  @cooperchappell8310  Please point to specific facts he gets wrong. I ready Schultze-Rhonhof's book and spent a lot of time doing further digging. I believe he's wrong on some minor points but plenty of justification remains for his overall narrative. None of the major players escape blame for September 1939. A careful reading of British/French/Polish communications in the last few days demonstrates that they ALL wanted the war. Because much like Ukraine in 2022, they thought they were going to win.
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  2757. You're an apologist for genocide.
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  2758. That's complete rubbish. Britain lost around 700,000 men in that war. It's a lot but in the 1910-1920 decade the British population increased despite this.
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  2759.  @danz1182  What you're leaving out is the huge emigration from Britain after the First World War frankly because better economic opportunities were available elsewhere. Otherwise the population would have increased by a lot more. Despite emigration AND the war, the population increased in the 1910-1920 decade.
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  2760. @ "In some villages in the UK there were no men left" - do you have a single example?
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  2761.  @marcoobin4571  "burning reserves to generate wasteful economic war output" is exactly what the USA has been doing for decades now. It hasn't collapsed yet but yes, the US economy will collapse. It's deficit is out of control, debt is out of control. British debt to GDP just passed 100%. Europe is in recession and across he West, a lot of national leaders have the exact opposite of Putin's close to 80% approval rating. It takes a lot of wishful thinking to believe Russia will collapse before Ukraine does. BTW Vuhledar is falling right now after two years of fighting.
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  2762.  @marcoobin4571  Wars aren't won by wishful thinking and propaganda. The Ukrainians are getting pushed back all along the front and are running out of men gullible enough to fight for Zelensky.
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  2763. Half the war was already over before December 7 1941. The British air force defeated the German air force over Britain then the British army stalled the Germans in North Africa and the Chinese army stalled the Japanese in China before America even joined the war.
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  2764. The whole misogyny allegation is a distraction away from the accurate and necessary criticisms he was making about thick, superficial, vain and useless c**ts, f**kpigs and the like.
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  2765. Chris Daw claimed that an eight year old was hanged in Victorian times in England. I haven't read his book but this is an extremely dubious claim. Sometimes the age of criminals was not known exactly and criminals sometimes claimed to be younger than was plausible (just as asylum seekers do now) but when teenagers were hanged, this was noteworthy and only happened for the most serious crimes. If an eight year old were actually hanged much less a mass hanging of children as he claims, it's hard to see how this wouldn't be common knowledge. Since Chris Daw has covered this in his book, either he's being sloppy with the facts or he's deliberately misleading for effect.
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  2766.  @ernst624  Just google it. They're from Slovenia.
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  2767.  @MrDomingo55  Yes i saw that but the problem is, we've got no way of knowing whether it's genuine. It might be but it's too easy to fake. Nowadays even videos can be convincingly faked, it's getting really hard to tell what's real and what's not. That's why I put particular weight on that leak by Von Der Leyen.
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  2768. Before assuming there was an intel failure, be aware that Netanyahu is on record advocating that Israel supports Hamas in Gaza so as to sabotage the possibility of a two state solution.
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  2769. Ukrainian propaganda which its Zeihan's job to propagate. Real Russian casualties are tracked by mediazona and they were nowhere near as high as Zeihan makes out. Also at Bakhmut most of the Russian casualties were Wagner prison convicts ie. what the Russians call disposable infantry. Given the Russians were burying Ukrainian positions under rubble using FABs to demolish high rise blocks it's implausible to claim Ukrainian casualties were lower than Russian casualties. Also he keeps talking about Russian human wave tactics, why is there no footage of this? I've seen hundreds of hours of footage, both sides use similar tactics except the Russians use vehicles a lot more presumably because they've got plenty.
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  2770. For the Russians to deliberately shoot down the plane of an ally makes as much sense as them blowing up their own pipeline, a story we now know is a lie. HOWEVER it is possible that since they're fighting a war, their air defence may have accidentally mistaken a passenger plane for an enemy drone and shot it down. Which is not something they'd want to admit. The evidence for suspecting this might have happened is the wreckage appears to be peppered with shrapnel. This isn't going to happen from a mechanical accident. On the other hand, it was far away from the war zone. Guess we don't know for many years to come.
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  2771. This is what happens when a civilised country suffers mass immigration
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  2772. It's not Iran who is picking a fight here, it's Israel. Look at the evidence. Attacked Iranian consulate in Syria, assassinations in Tehran - that's what kicked all this off. I'm not defending Iran, it's just everything Iran has done here has been a response if you look past the propaganda.
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  2773. Don't you understand this NATO proxy war is making China stronger? Chinese/Russian relations used to be pretty frosty, now they both see the USA as the main enemy and so are cooperating more closely than they ever have.
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  2774.  @mysterioanonymous3206  NZ is highly competitive it has a small population and rich natural resources. Distance from markets really doesn't matter when you're exporting stuff like timber, meat, wool. It has large gas reserves and now has a sane government which will start exploiting them again. It has huge fisheries. It has a huge tourism industry and the capability for cheap electricity.
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  2775.  @mysterioanonymous3206  I'm not in NZ but sure - the per capital GDP isn't great. Look at the demographics. It used to be a white country, it's not any more and the traditional hard working culture of a hundred years ago is long gone. The point is, it has huge economic potential. I do agree it's no longer a great country but my point is distance from the rest of the world is so far down the list of its problems.
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  2776.  @mysterioanonymous3206  You're underrating the importance of primary resources. What looks like a knowledge economy is often fueled by debt. For example look at the US debt to GDP ratio and its trajectory. You don't need to be an economist to see that's going to blow up. Whereas primary resource giants like Russia and Saudi Arabia are back in a big way. Physical proximity just isn't that important anymore. I've worked in teams spread all over the world and I do gaming with friends from the opposite side of the world Not a problem. Shipping costs nowadays are so cheap Europe imports coal from South Africa, South America and Australia. As for highly connected economies ... yes ... but how much of that is cause and how much is effect? African and South American economies could be integrated in the same way. Middle Eastern economies certainly could be. Where they're not it's political reasons and economic backwardness that holds them back. It's not lack of interconnectivity which creates the political problems and economic backwardness. And anyway, the NZ economy is pretty closely integrated with Australia's. Medium sized companies operate pretty easily in the other country. It's not that much easier even within the EU because of regulatory and language differences.
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  2777.  @mysterioanonymous3206  Proximity mattered a lot more before jet aircraft and modern container ships. If it's economic to ship coal around the world, what's got lower value per ton than coal? If you're wondering about the difference between Congo and Switzerland, you'd be better off looking at the mean IQ of the populations rather than how many countries they're close to. BTW Congo is neighbour of a lot of countries! Switzerland got a huge dividend from staying out of both world wars and acting as Europe's banker. And it has avoided the worst impact of mass immigration. I'd say those two factors are pretty important for explaining Switzerland's prosperity today. Also democracy works better there than just about anywhere else (congratulations).
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  2778.  @mysterioanonymous3206  LOL Europe was wiped out by WWI and Switzerland stayed out of it. Surely that's obvious. And WWII and WWI were only twenty years apart. Yes Switzerland has a lot of foreigners but look at who they actually are. A lot of Westerners (French and German and Italian people are only technically foreigners in Switzerland, right?) and a lot of people from the Balkans. Completely different from the likes of France or Belgium where most immigrants come from Africa. Yes I know you get some Africans too but compare to places like Paris especially where you get areas where almost everyone is from African backgrounds or directly from Africa, whether North Africa or Sub Sahara. Do you get that in Switzerland? I don't think so.
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  2779.  @TroenderTass  In reality, the Western companies have Russian partners and Russian employees. When the Western company pulls out, it sells its operation to a Russian company. The actual change in real economic activity might be quite marginal. An engineer who works for Shell on Friday now works for a Russian company on Monday but he's working on the same project with the same equipment with the same colleagues on the same site.
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  2780.  @TroenderTass  My point is just that the narrative whereby Western companies pull out with X $billion of operations represents a X $billion loss of Russian GDP is misleading. The actual economic disruption is much smaller. I've worked for several companies where the ownership of a division or subsidiary changed and it made no difference to the employees - or customers - or delivery schedules.
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  2781. Where did you get these numbers from? Oryx? Oryx has been discredited, it has invented Russian losses, undercounted Ukrainian losses and attributed Ukrainian losses as Russian. Google it.
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  2782. Thank mass immigration for pushing down wages and pushing up the cost of housing. Yes the Tories have done this but so have Labour. Remember Andrew Nether's admission that mass immigration was to "rub the right's nose in diversity?" well now you have your diversity. Tens of millions of people crammed close together, low wages, expensive housing, no community, ethnic problems, riots and things are only getting worse. If you think Labour can fix this then you're going to be in for a nasty shock. They'll just jack up spending and crash the economy even more.
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  2783. No it's just people with brain realise the propaganda is becoming preposterous
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  2784. Don't believe everything you hear, there's ZERO evidence of any North Korean soldiers fighting so far. So called Russian red lines are mainly traced to the Russian media. Putin himself only ever had two. Ukraine joining NATO would mean war (which he followed through on) and NATO missiles attacking Russia would mean war with NATO. Now people with your genius intellect decided to "call his bluff". A nuclear war would be a disaster for Russia, it would lose maybe half its population in the first year. But for tiny Britain without fall out shelters it would be vastly worse. More like over 99% of our population. If you don't believe me you should really look into it.
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  2785. I know a similar one, guy got his bike stolen near Edinburgh tracked it to an address just out of town, police not interested. But Sam Melia went down two years for putting up posters never mind there was nothing untrue.
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  2786. It's not even a stalemate. Russia has waited for the Ukrainian offensive to run its course and now it's attacking all over the eastern front itself.
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  2787. This is literally war propaganda without evidence. Do yourself a favour and turn on your BS detector.
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  2788.  @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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  2789.  @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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  2790. Any NATO soldiers in Ukraine get targeted by missiles. What's NATO going to do then? Explain to the voters why their men are dying in Ukraine? It's not going to happen. It's such an obviously stupid thing to do even NATO won't be that dumb.
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  2791.  @Jim-Tuner  So what happens then is the Russians strike those soldiers in Western Ukraine and they have to the option of fighting the Russians or fleeing. I can't see even the Polish population supporting a war with the Russians in Ukraine. Certainly not the American population. Maybe only the Baltic leaders would be dumb enough to do that and their armies are too small to matter. It's not going to happen. The Americans would be forced to negotiate.
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  2792. Russian soldiers tend to me much younger and the pace of territorial captures has sped up a lot. The Russians have taken more land in the last two months than they did all of last year. As the Ukrainian army weakens, we'll get back to manoeuvre warfare.
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  2793.  @careytitan9097  Not Russia, Kiev. Since Russia mobilised over a year ago they've been growing their army with volunteers only.
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  2794.  @MrYuryZ  Why do you think Russia wants to invade the rest of Europe? What's in it for Russia? Russia is fighting Ukraine to protect its own security. Just like the USA felt threatened when Soviet weapons appeared in Cuba. It doesn't want nuclear weapons based so close. If Romania or Poland or Finland worry about Russia all they need to do is prove they're not going to host US weapons.
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  2795. It's an echo chamber, totally ignoring how the Ukrainian government has assassinated opposition politicians and the Maidan coup overturned a democratically elected president supported by the majority of the population.
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  2796.  @ruyaal  And where was Sweden's colonial empire? What about Switzerland's? If the Indians kicked the British out of India and the North Africans kicked the French out of North Africa, why should Britain accept being colonised by Indians or France accept being colonised by Arabs?
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  2797. Ukraine isn't capable of beating Russia. The effort of trying is destroying Ukraine. If you don't believe me wait a few more months and see what Ukraine has achieved through another year of fighting and tens of thousands more dead.
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  2798. Where are the neo-nazis? Are we really supposed to believe that the German woman married to another woman - from Indonesia - is a reincarnation of an Austrian painter born in 1889? If so, what is the average intelligence of Zeihan's audience?
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  2799. The TOS systems are themselves highly vulnerable.
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  2800. It's dreaming to think Russia will be defeated. They're fighting with 400k men and have another 400k ready and waiting. Even with 400k they're winning pretty decisively. Probably soon they'll open other fronts. A few dozen old Western tanks and even modern fighters won't change the result.
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  2801. Zeihan can't even get basic facts right or pronounce the names of well known people. Wagner was founded by Utkin, not Prigozhin.
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  2802.  @rhensontollhouse  Ukraine keeps trying these offensives, despite their lack in armour, artillery and air support. The result is, they're losing thousands of men.
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  2803.  @samsungtap4183  Russia cares, that's why this war started. They were promised NATO wouldn't expand eastwards it has been pushed right up to Russia's borders. Putin has been warning about this for years, Yeltsin before him. Now we pay the price.
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  2804. You should be way more concerned with the most popular politician in your country being banned from standing for election by your own government.
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  2805.  @schoppi9300  Evidence? Maybe he just doesn't want any part in NATO's proxy war.
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  2806. And pennies is what they get paid.
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  2807. Wagner pulled out of Bakhmut ages ago, the weekend coup/insurrection has no effect on Ukrainian success or lack of success around Bakhmut.
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  2808.  @rokitap.w1193  So what? Humza is racist against whites in a 95% white country. Give me the "transphobe"
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  2809. He knows some things but there are a lot of things he obviously knows nothing about but he talks as if he's an expert anyway.
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  2810.  @mintheman7  Zeihan gets so much wrong about so many of the topics he lectures about so assuredly and just by coincidence every and prediction he makes leads to the same outcome, that America has great prospects and America's rivals are going to collapse in ignominy. The claim that China can be blockaded for silicon sets a new record for stupidity.
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  2811.  @peterharma8937  The standard of living in Russia has vastly improved since then.
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  2812. Much like expired junk NATO has been sending Ukraine!
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  2813. Same as on every other topic then
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  2814.  @gamingforever9121  Overall Russia is weaker than NATO in some respects but two points, a hot war between Russia and NATO would probably become nuclear resulting in the destruction of Europe and huge damage to both USA and Russia both. Secondly, NATO is not united. For example Hungary and Turkey have no interest in fighting Russia because they're led by people who are sane. Western populations have no interest in fighting Russia. Whether in Germany, France or the USA, there are huge domestic problems. How would the USA ship hundreds of thousands of men and tens of millions of tons of stores across to Ukraine to fight Russia? Across an Atlantic where Russian submarines can attack troop ships? The first thing the Russians would do is cut the Atlantic and North Sea internet cables that alone would result in economic collapse in Europe without firing a shot. Anyone who things it would be easy for NATO to fight Russia hasn;t thought it through. NATO's main strenght is airpower but the Ukraine war proves firstly Russian air defences are excellent, secondly, using aircraft near the front line of a peer to peer conflict results in expensive aircraft being shot down by cheap SAMs. If the war didn't go nuclear then yes NATO could win eventually - the end result would leave NATO so weak China and India would dominate the post war world order.
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  2815.  @gamingforever9121  Complete capitulation would see Russian soldiers on the Polish border, that's not necessary, Russia doesn't want to risk a world war either and the Russians seem to have taken the land they really care about already. Yeah it should never have been allowed to deteriorate to this point. The anti-democratic Maidan coup should never have been staged and after it had been. Western countries (USA, France and Germany were the guarantors) should have upheld the Minsk II accords. Even then it wasn't too late, Russia could have been guaranteed that Ukraine would never join NATO. Zelensky could have tried to uphold his election manifesto of de-escalating the conflict before it blew up into a full scale invasion. But none of this happened. The best possible outcome for Ukraine now would be to negotiate before its position weakens further. If that means acknowledging it has lost Crimea and the Donbas forever, better to do that now than to keep fighting and loose more territory, ultimately Odessa and Kharkov. Even now Russia says it's open to negotiations.
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  2816.  @mormacil  DU is 100% radioactive. Every single atom of DU is radioactive. Every single atom of DU will eventually release a highly dangerous alpha particle - highly dangerous if it's inside your body because it's been vaporised hitting a tank on farmland then used to grow food.
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  2817. South Island New Zealand, maybe Lake Wanaka
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  2818. They're both propagandists who exaggerate but McGregor has at least called the winning side.
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  2819. The dogs are bred for aggression, size and fighting. Some individual dogs are just psychotic. Usually you're probably right, the owners are at fault but sometimes, it's the dog regardless of the well meaning owner. They're just too dangerous.
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  2820. they were later in the war by the Germans. The British didn't want to issue them in case pilots were tempted to prematurely abandon their planes.
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  2821.  @bonnie7898  It's a nit like how World War One started. Nobody wanted a world war but various people were prepared to take outrageous risks of a world war starting to win marginal diplomatic/political advantages i.e. it was brinkmanship and people miscalculated. A lot like now. Year after year Russia was warning that Ukraine joining NATO was a red line for them but the US and Ukraine pushed to join anyway. The US definitely doesn't want a world war but they gambled that Russia would keep backing down. Gamble failed. Next escalation. Gambling that Russia won't escalate too. Over and over. At some point the gamble will fail and we've got a world war.
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  2822.  @bonnie7898  Anyone can use the excuse of "stopping a genocide" or "protecting human rights" to start a war. And gullible people like you believe the propaganda. Stopping the genocide in Donbas was one of the reasons Russia gave for attacking Ukraine. So drop the hypocrisy and stop claiming NATO is a defensive alliance. Serbia didn't attack any NATO country. Iraq didn't attack any NATO country. Afghanistan didn't attack any NATO country.
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  2823. 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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  2824. Oryx unterschätzt ukraine Verluste und erfindet russiche Verluste.
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  2825. 5 to 1 Russian casualties - this is straight out of an Orwell novel
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  2826.  @natamadic  I don't think you have a clue. Directly after Maidan the government brought in a lot of measures repressive against the Russian language. Yes some of them didn't last very long because it created huge protests and the government back tracked. Additionally there's footage online of Azov beating people up for speaking Russian. There are accusations they committed murder and r*pe for the same reason.
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  2827. Is that the only history you learned at school? Who do you think started most of the wars from 1990 to 2020? It wasn't Russia which pushed its borders up to anti-Russian military alliance NATO, it was NATO which kept moving eastwards despite promises not to.
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  2828.  @UtubeRwokeLefties  That was long before Putin's time. But if you're talking about broken promises you left out plenty. Look into the promises not to expand NATO eastwards and the Minsk I and Minsk II agreements.
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  2829.  @UtubeRwokeLefties  It's not really important whether you like Putin or not, what's important is that the leaders of the Western world are so insane, they think they can shoot missiles at the world's largest nuclear power and think they're going to get away with it.
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  2830.  @loopy814  Look it up FFS - if Zelensky hadn't ripped up the agreement he'd be keeping the Donbas and hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians would still be alive.
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  2831.  @loopy814  You mean after the Americans staged a coup and put in nationalist extremists who made life intolerable for ethnic Russians.
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  2832.  @caractacusbrittania7442  Also happened on the Dniepr! The Soviet government blew the dams to slow down the German advance. And the really big one was the Yellow River which did little to hurt the Japanese but killed almost a million Chinese civilians.
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  2833. The so called occupied regions are mainly ethnically Russian. You don't think people from Donetsk have any love for the Zelensky regime do you? After the Ukrainian army has been shelling Donetsk for years.
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  2834. Russia was also promised NATO would not expand eastwards when Germany reunified.
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  2835.  @madhealerofwindurst807  And? We all know Ukraine is not part of NATO. The point is NATO created the precedent for what's happening now.
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  2836.  @madhealerofwindurst807  1) From Russia's perspective, broken promises made to the Soviet Union are evidence of NATO (American) treachery. Legally, you are correct. But look at it from Russia's perspective - they feel they have been swindled over and over by the West. It seems to me they have a point. 2) Yes, Russia is a revanchist superpower, several countries bordering Russia feel threatened. Not necessarily rationally in most of these cases (Finland and Sweden). In the case of the Baltic states, poor relations with Russia make NATO membership vital - but poor relations with Russia are also their deliberate choice as much as Russia's choice. Latvia for example has a very poor record regarding its large ethnic Russian minority. 3) Russia views Ukraine as an American puppet state (IMO at least partially correctly). Russia had an issue not so much with NATO as a whole (although it is undeniably an anti-Russian alliance) but with the Ukrainian government specifically. An anti-Russian government in Ukraine is a severe problem for Russia just as an anti-American government in Mexico or Canada would be for the USA. If Russian launched a successful coup in Mexico and installed a pro-Russian government, you can guarantee the USA would invade Mexico immediately. I agree with you that a direct Russian invasion of NATO territory will definitely not happen... because Putin is very shrewd and Russia has nothing to gain by this even if the risk were low. I wouldn't be surprised if Russia takes Moldova but all the talk in the media about rolling into Poland and Latvia etc is just ridiculous war propaganda to motivate NATO populations. This is why Finland and Sweden joining NATO is irrational. They sacrifice good relations with Russia for no advantage. Finland especially has much to lose by this action.
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  2837. Zionists have a death hold on US foreign policy.
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  2838. This is just German media propaganda against countries escaping from their crumbling EU empire.
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  2839. It's a war between two major military powers like we haven't seen since Korea. Tanks are going get destroyed, even the best tanks. The Russian problem in the first month wasn't defective tanks it was insufficient infantry support.
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  2840.  @Thurgenev  So you are personally responsible for the crimes and failings of your own government?
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  2841. Sure, they're going to drive to Berlin and put their flag on the Reichstag again, and you believe this .. why?
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  2842.  @sandragray3951  Yes his name and age has been released.
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  2843.  @IIHydraII  Look into it - Britain actually put Jews in concentration camps (e.g. in Cyprus) to keep them out of Israel. Blaming Britain for what the Jews did in Israel is delusional.
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  2844.  @dpstrial  They also want to push the entire population of Gaza into the West.
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  2845. 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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  2846. No they don't, there are a few psychopaths in any army. What numbers are we talking about here? Actually where's the evidence that it happened at all?
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  2847.  @analogninomad  Defense Politics Asia, Military Summary, Weeb Union, Theti Mapping all cover the details of the fighting day to day and are all neutral or close to neutral.
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  2848. Yes, as predicted by several neutral youtube channels months ago.
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  2849. Because Zeihan is a shill for Washington. Tucker Carlson understands what's going on and explains it to people. That makes him an enemy.
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  2850.  @elenanikitina5206  I already gave you an example, Olga Skabyeva. BTW I'm not on one side or the other. Both sides are lying, both sites are inciting escalation.
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  2851. 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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  2852. Propagandists need to be challenged
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  2853. The Indian woman is not ETHNICALLY English. Any moron can see that.
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  2854.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  That 3.4 billion includes China, by PPP already the world's biggest economy.
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  2855. The other huge difference is that Putin is patriotic.
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  2856.  @Tyrgalon  The difference is that Ukraine is a much bigger, stronger country than Finland. Second biggest military in Europe after Russia. Finland is a country of just a few million people. Only an idiot would talk about Finland retaking lost territory from Russia by force.
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  2857.  @Tyrgalon  LOL dreams are free just be glad the Russians don't defeat you for the third time in a hundred years. It really is farcical when people from a tiny country like Finland talk about defeating the second most powerful military in the world. It just shows how fantastical European countries have become.
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  2858. Yes, an unprovoked attack by Israel which developed nuclear weapons in secret itself. Don't be surprised if Iran pays Israel back with interest when it gets the chance.
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  2859. It's not Russia being bled dry, it's Ukraine. Russia isn't even treating this like a serious war. They're still fighting it overwhelmingly with professional volunteers - other than the Luhansk and Donetsk republics which Ukraine still considers part of Ukraine. Ukraine is conscripting hundreds of thousands of men, many of whom are deserting. Russia has thousands of Ukrainian prisoners, even some high quality Ukrainian formations have surrendered.
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  2860. Meanwhile. Africa stays African, India stays Indian and China stays Chinese.
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  2861.  @markford-h7l  And how did that work out for the Native Americans and the Australian Aborigines? It's hardly an argument for allowing it to happen to us!
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  2862. Yeah this crazy talk about taking Crimea just means the population is going to get a bigger shock when the final collapse comes, like Germany in the First World War. The Ukrainian refusal to face reality just forces Russia to keep fighting for longer, kills more people on both sides and makes post war reconciliation harder.
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  2863.  @niklaswikstrom78  Half of all EU custom checks are on the Northern Irish border with Eire and you tell me there's no aspect of political revenge? Brexit gives parliament the power to give the electorate what it wants. The EU constrained that power, it's blatantly wrong to argue that it didn't. Parliament so far continues to betray the electorate for example by increasing immigration. That's not an argument against Brexit, it's an argument for voting out the LabConLib hegemony.
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  2864.  @niklaswikstrom78  Complete rubbish to suggest the EU didn't constrain parliament. Something like 3/4 of our legislation came direct from Brussels.
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  2865. Only an idiot thinks Ukraine can win unless NATO joins the war.
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  2866.  @scroopynooperz9051  I don't say "as many" but it was certainly millions. We've all read Solzhentsyn and that all started before the wartime food crisis.
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  2867.  @andersonarmstrong2650  Your opinion AND immaterial. Read Applebaum then
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  2868. Not actually true though
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  2869.  @MM-xq1eu  Yeah I've been to Wales. If you actually believe that go and check some numbers. Russia trains more engineers than America does. It's the world's biggest primary resource producer. It's the world's 8th biggest economy and 6th biggest by PPP.
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  2870. Trial by jury in South Africa would mean basically anyone of the same ethic group as the majority of the jury would be acquitted regardless of the crime and evidence.
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  2871.  @ЕвгенийПершин-е1ь  Rumble and Telegraph seem to be pretty uncensored. I think Rumble even pulled out of France altogether when France tried to get them to censor - which is an impressive sacrifice for a private company.
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  2872. Don't understand the Brexit regret part, anyone who follows what's happening in Europe can see that it's marching towards disaster. That includes Ireland which seems to be on the brink of violence between the globalists and immigrants vs. Irish patriots. Not saying Britain is free from problems because obviously Britain has all the same kind of energy, immigration, globalisation problems, just to a lesser degree than Ireland, France and Germany.
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  2873. Multi-storey building - you can fit a lot of men into a small space when they're in sleeping bags and foam mats.
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  2874.  @1969cmp  If the Palestinians have been there for three and a half thousand years as you say, you can't really justify kicking them out now.
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  2875.  @bloodysimile4893  If it's a simple matter of might makes right then don't complain if, in a generation when the geopolitics have changed and demographic change erodes Israel's technological lead over the Arab world, the Arabs take it all back and expect the Israelis altogether.
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  2876.  @1969cmp  According to what? The bible? Look at genetics. The Jews and Palestinians have both been in this part of the world for thousands of years.
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  2877. Ukrainian losses from a static artillery battle would be pretty low. Losses are going to be high only if one side is attacking.
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  2878. Neil Oliver's understanding of the British army in the First World War is comically simplistic.
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  2879. Is that because Russian tanks threaten to invade Washington?
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  2880.  @YaBoyRockLee  LOL the original NATO borders were in Germany and Russia was promised it would stay that way. You can't keep moving NATO borders eastward and then suddenly panic that Russia in on the NATO borders. What thickies don't get is by pushing Russia into this war, all these US rivals like Russia, China and Iran are drawn into an alliance. In the days when the US was being run by people with a brain like Kissinger, the US strategy was to keep US rivals divided by taking account of their own security concerns and interests. BTW the Ukraine war is lost, the media admits it and the media is way behind.
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  2881.  @michaelillingworth6433  Bit like saying without Washington DC back in British hands, Britain will always have a knife in its side. Probably true - but doesn't mean there is even a minute chance it will happen.
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  2882.  @robtt6624  I think you should pay more attention to day by day maps before you believe everything in this report.
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  2883.  @enriqueperezarce5485  Russia is winning. An artillery war takes time. Who's taking 80% of the casualties? Whose army has units retreating without orders after weeks of shelling? Which army is only still in the field because it's wages are paid directly by the American tax payer?
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  2884.  CrimeaIsUkraine  Is there evidence the Russian side has lost as high as 70k casualties? That's the approx. US estimate but the US is obviously not impartial in this war so we have to assume that's a propagandistic number. Plausible calculations I've seen are much lower. It's certainly not possible they're losing 500 dead every day. OTOH a recent leaked internal AFU document talks about 191k AFU casualties, not even including non official military groups, foreign fighters etc. It could turn out to be fake... but those kind of numbers are congruent with other evidence e.g. Ukrainian soldiers talking about causalities in their units.
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  2885. The US is dominant but the EU is definitely not a dog. Only in military matters does it follow Washington's lead.
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  2886. This is hugely one sided, it leaves out important information which demolishes its central thesis for example that Germany cut its armaments production massively after the fall of the France, the Soviet Union's outrageous demands before the German invasion and the huge Soviet build up of forces on the border. Basically it's either a deliberate lie or written by someone who doesn't know what he's talking about. For a short summary of the opposing evidence, see Zoomer Historian's video on Lebensraum.
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  2887. 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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  2888.  @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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  2889.  @jazzyb4656  They used S300s to hit ground targets because they're up to the S500 now for air defence and they're never going to use those S300s for anything else. People have been predicting Russia will run out of missiles since the start of the war. They launched another large barrage of missiles just yesterday. And they just destroyed the large rail bridge south of Odessa.
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  2890.  @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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  2891.  @hrogarfyrninga3238  This particular thread is about obesity.
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  2892.  @Whaleydavey  Sure - the point is this Zeihan clown is telling a mainly American audience some misleading and incorrect information to create a narrative which checking some facts reveals to be total trash. Obesity is an example. Telling Americans that Scotland has an obesity problem but not mentioning the USA is much worse. Telling us that Scotland has an especially old demographic - reality is it's about average for Europe, FAR from the worst in Europe. His whole narrative is based on these kind of false premises. Surely he's doing this deliberately. Likewise on many other topics where I know enough to know he's BSing.
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  2893. Myth. German forces in the Southern Balkans were quite small. Forces for Crete specifically were irrelevant. One parachute division and one mountain division.
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  2894.  @pr248  For sure. The VDV were definitely not well prepared in the opening days. And NATO intelligence helped the Ukrainians counter attack before the Russians could bring in heavy weapons. The Russian opening moves were clearly incompetent but they've got their game sorted out now. The Western media narrative is months out of date!
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  2895. LOL - it looks pretty obvious even a week ago there's nothing Ukraine can do to prevent it
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  2896. Not wanting to defend the guy because he should resign but wasn't it a personal device? He's a MSP it's reasonable to be doing work on a personal device I think.
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  2897. That there is a tiny minority of psychopaths, same as anywhere else.
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  2898. 100|% chance Putin will respond to this - not with missiles, he'll do something indirect like cut cables and blow up pipelines to crash our economy
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  2899.  @dougcoombes8497  Are the Russians losing by forcing the surrender of the pocket in Mariupol and taking over the Donbass? Let's wait a couple of weeks then you can tell me you're right.
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  2900.  @dougcoombes8497  Do you actually know what a bot is? We have no way of telling what Russian losses are. If you want to take Ukrainian claims or even British/American claims at face value then you're very naive because the Ukrainian government has made several claims we can be sure are outright lies. What we can get a better idea of is POWs because various organisations can identify them individually and the Russian side has thousands of Ukrainian POWs. Russia lost a lot of POWs right at the start of the war but we've yet to see a large Russian formation surrender. This is a war of attrition for Russia now and Russia is winning - inflicting high Ukrainian casualties with artillery and isolating Ukrainian formations.
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  2901. Round about half way through you refer to them as the 7th battalion, Royal Scots Guards. It should just be Royal Scots. The Scots Guards are a different regiment.
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  2902. No, the rich people in Ukraine pay bribes to escape overseas or bribe their way out of the army.
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  2903.  @harmless6813  Why would you believe anything the Ukrainian government or the Kyiv Independent says? Even if you do, that 100 per month figure refers to large ballistic missiles like Iskander and Kinzhal, not S400 missiles and similar air defence missiles.
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  2904.  @harmless6813  Ghost of Kiev - now admitted BS. IL76s shot down in first days of war - obviously BS. Missile hit Poland - blamed Russia even though everyone knew it was Ukrainian. Shelling Energodar - couldn't get story straight sometimes blaming Russians for shelling, sometimes blaming Russians for stationing men there. Every time there's a battle - claim it was a failed Russian attack even when it was clearly a Ukrainian attack Etc etc.
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  2905.  @harmless6813  Ok, enjoy your echo chamber propaganda bubble where the enemies are primitive, brutal orcs and the most ridiculous improbable claims that aren't even consistent are totally true. And anyone who points out the BS is a vatnik, orc, Moscovite, traitor or whatever other vapid insult.
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  2906.  @Skunk106  When was the last time he had a narrative on anything which didn't align? Look into his background - Stratfor
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  2907. This has been pretty obvious for years, the Tea Party tax investigations were quite blatant and the differential treatment of BLM and January 6th protesters was obvious.
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  2908. Only if you believe propaganda sources about Russian tank losses. In reality the VKV is able to destroy any Ukrainian position detected now and Russian air losses are very low. It's a very, very one sided war and it's getting worse for Ukraine every day
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  2909. If you think tanks are vulnerable to infantry, you should think about how infantry are vulnerable to tanks.
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  2910. Ukrainians quoting NATO sources, NATO quoting Ukrainian sources :) But geolocation shows Russian advances all over the front.
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  2911. Anyone who thinks there should be a realistic negotiated solution is a Kremlin asset? Delusional. Jeffrey Sacks actually worked for the Ukrainian government.
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  2912. The bigger worry is the clown show in Washington considering using nukes when Ukraine collapses and the Russians move into the west of Ukraine..
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  2913. 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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  2914.  @ravecrab  Totally. He put himself on the line to do the right thing. If you keep your head down when you know something is wrong just to keep your job, you're a waste of space.
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  2915. Probably could but Russian can sink them in port fairly easily.
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  2916. Yes, they used to hunt and eat each other.. and the Europeans were evil for colonising, Christianising and civilising them :)
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  2917.  @jonathanj.7344  It's not about individuals it's about large, very well funded organisations. It's hardly secret, it's all out in the open. Read Mearsheimer and Kevin Macdonald, both rigorous academics.
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  2918. It's ridiculous to claim 80,000 people died in Mariupol. Why not just say a million squillion died there? Most people left, those who stayed were sheltering in basements. Even the Ukrainian government claims 25,000 died and that's surely an extreme exaggeration. Only 1348 confirmed by the UN so far.
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  2919. Zelensky has already banned opposition parties and the Ukrainian secret police has already assassinated opposition politicians and journalists.
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  2920.  @chrishieke1261  The media has whipped up an intense hatred of Russians. People are so gullible.
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  2921.  @57thorns  Some news for you - everybody on the earth is a descendant of people who committed genocide if you go back far enough - and people who suffered it too. That includes you and your own ethnic group so how about look in the mirror before spouting such hypocrisy. And the Russians have suffered more genocide than most throughout their history, some of it quite recent.
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  2922. Guerrilla tactics only work when the density of men is too low. That was true at the start of the war with much longer front lines and before mobilisation. After the Russians withdrew to shorter lines and mobilised and trained a larger army, it's no longer easy to infiltrate.
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  2923.  @marvinc9994  You and almost everyone here are badly misreading the war. Western supplies to Ukraine are tailing off and Ukrainian domestic industry is destroyed. Ukraine has been losing manpower faster than Russia has and Russia will have hundreds of thousands of fresh men available when the ground is solidly frozen. Ukraine has long since mobilised its most promising manpower. It's true that Russia can't supply Kherson but on the rest of the front the advantage has swung back to Russia. Meanwhile the rest of the non Western world is slowly drifting off from USA's sphere of influence into a new emerging BRICS block led by China and Russia. Russia's economy is hurting but so is every Western economy and Ukraine's economy is destroyed. This is a war of attrition, not a war over any particular town and Russia can't lose a war of attrition against Ukraine.
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  2924. Not going to happen in Ukraine though, most of the people who have left will never return. 80% say they will never return and of the remainder, when they look at the devastation and debt after the war most probably won't either.
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  2925.  @boarfaceswinejaw4516  Would never have happened if the US hadn't staged a coup to overthrow the democratically elected president in 2013. Look into it.
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  2926.  @alexcortez3007  "terrorists"? The IDF has levelled a big part of their homes. These guys are just defending their own city.
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  2927. What are you smoking? the Russian economy is growing at over 3%, that's faster than most of Europe.
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  2928. Fascism was the exact opposite of deracinating.
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  2929.  @orvalprosacco1951  The propaganda is strong with this one
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  2930. It's not just three girls, this is the last straw. In recent weeks there were two Muslim guys smashing up an airport, Gypsies burning down part of Leeds, a Muslim stabbing a soldier on the street, I think he's alive but only just, other Muslims beating guys up.
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  2931. Speaking as someone who spends a huge amount of time writing software and giving it away for free, TIK comes across as a typical ungrateful user with unrealistic expectations. Commercial software often has hundreds of developers behind it, don't complain that free software doesn't work exactly how you think it should. The reason software doesn't do everything you want without an add in is usually to keep the size and maintainability and release cycles of the core application under control with a small team of developers (often one guy) behind it. The reason an add in might get uninstalled during an update is probably deliberate, to ensure the core application still works even if the the add in is compatible only with the older version.
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  2932. It's simultaneously true that the billionaires get an easy ride and the middle classes are taxed to death. But it is pretty hard to tax those billionaires, they can just leave so easily.
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  2933.  @smillner771  You're obviously bluffing, you clearly don't know the first thing about Ukraine. if you think there have "tended to be free and fair elections in Ukraine", widely regarded as the most corrupt country in Europe before the war, read Ukraine in the Crossfire by Dutch journalist de Ploeg.
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  2934.  @smillner771  "Business or government corruption doesn't necessarily correlate with electoral corruption" - true - it doesn't necessarily. But in Ukraine's case there has been plenty of all of it. Yes it's true before Maidan no single faction dominated consistently. Basically governing politicians were so outrageously corrupt (from all factions) incumbents were often jettisoned. That's not actually evidence that elections were clean just because incumbents often lost..
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  2935. Most of the world listens to this Western propaganda and thinks about how many countries America has destroyed recently
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  2936. You shouldn't be banning all dogs because of a very rare incident like that. The individual dog which did it should probably be put down.
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  2937.  @robertjones2053  So you want to ban all dogs?
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  2938.  @robertjones2053  Seems OTT for the vast majority of dogs like over 99% but ok
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  2939.  @robertjones2053  There are tons of dogs where I live, almost all of my neighbours have dogs. Never been a problem except a few miles up the road, some dog worrying sheep, not sure whose dog it turned out to be. I can imagine is some pretty rough areas it could be different. As for a dog jumping in the pram, I would have strangled it on the spot and save the police a bullet. A dog that's going to do that shouldn't be out in public. But that's really not the reality for 99% of dogs. If you think it is, you must live in a gangster housing estate.
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  2940. Why? Genocidal maniacs on both sides, why do you want to be part of it?
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  2941. This is primary school quality analysis. Do you seriously think the Americans would stand for the Russians or Chinese supporting a coup in Canada or Mexico and installing a puppet government on America's doorstep? No? Then why do you think the Russians were going to stand for the Maidan coup followed by Ukraine joining NATO?
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  2942.  @porschia.3318  Yeah it's pretty outrageous how the government prefers foreigners to our own people.
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  2943. Is that like the red line that Ukraine attempting to join NATO would trigger a war? How did that red line turn out?
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  2944.  @monkeyboy9555  Sure. Russia would quite like that excuse to take back Lithuania. Remember that Lithuania's independence is conditional upon Russian transit access through the Suwalki gap. Deny that and 500 missiles hit every military base in Lithuania the next day. What's Germany, Britain and the USA going to do? Risk a nuclear war for the sake of Lithuania's suicidal idiocy?
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  2945.  @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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  2946. You point it at an area, it assumes any military equipment in that area is enemy.
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  2947. It's a shakedown by the Maori lawyer class most of whom like this clown are at least 75% white by ancestry.
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  2948.  @stand_alone_complex5620  Only true if you disregard that the vast majority of these "Maoris" have much more European ancestry than Polynesian, especially the professional parasite class
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  2949.  @terjeoseberg990  On the very first day Biden took office his first major action was to shut down the Keystone Pipeline. The motivation was purely political - to appease his own party's environmentalists. I haven't checked this myself but I've read that It would have been operational this summer if it had not been shut down. Furthermore, Biden shut down any drilling on federal land.
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  2950.  @terjeoseberg990  Biden wanted to save jobs by shutting down a major infrastructure project? That's a truly bizarre claim.
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  2951.  @aladnyulok32  Economic growth changes from year to year. Demographic change is forever. If you think economy is more important than immigration then you're an idiot.
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  2952.  @davecuddahy7872  Yes you can call it martial law, that's fine. What you can't call it is democracy.
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  2953. The USA is a colonial empire just as much as Russia is.
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  2954. Because there's no evidence it actually happened. Remember the German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies in the First World War? Total fabrication. Iraqi soldiers turning off the incubators in the Kuwaiti maternity ward? Total fabrication. Don't be manipulated by the war machine.
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  2955. The Israelis are flattening a city full of civilians. An Israeli minister described them as animals and that's how Palestinians have been treated for decades. Yes, condemn Hamas but the genocidal ethnic hatred isn't exactly all on one side.
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  2956. Americans want to put their country first and Americans want to support Israel - which is it? These two are contradictory.
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  2957.  @Typexviiib  LOL Just admit you're fully boosted, you believed Biden when he said the Afghan government would beat the Taleban and you still believe in Saddam's WMDs!
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  2958.  @arjaygee  The Americans and the EU supported the 2014 coup which overthrew the democratically elected president and put the country on the path to civil war. More recently, NATO encouraged Ukraine on the path to membership, ignoring Lavrov's explicit warning that it would be a casus belli. Then after the war started, Boris Johnson on behalf of Biden convinced Zelensky to abrogate the negotiated peace a month into the war with promises of overwhelming deliveries of weapons.
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  2959.  @Nobleheart111  Nobody cares enough about Afghanistan to bother staying there indefinitely. The Russians care about Ukraine because the parts they want are inhabited by ethnic Russians.
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  2960. Relative to the median income, food in Britain is cheaper than the vast majority of the world. It's really not food that's the problem. It's low wage growth and high housing costs. And both of those problems are due directly to mass immigration.
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  2961. 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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  2962. It's obvious that there was huge incompetence the reason for the secrecy is to cover up for the people concerned.
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  2963. Panama papers... and that was before all the recent war billions.
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  2964. Not deluded, dishonest.
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  2965. Much like the mayor of London (proud of being Pakistani when interviewed in Urdu on Pakistani TV) Humza Yousef blatantly agitates for his own ethnic interests - look up his speech in the Scottish parliament outraged that so many white people are in senior positions in Scotland, a 96% white country.
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  2966. And the same morons are surprised when the Russian/Chinese alliance just keeps getting tighter
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  2967. Burning their reserves on media offensives into Russia is Ukraine playing into Russian hands.
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  2968.  @jalalabdullah5043  Self pity, a victimhood complex, over entitlement and hostility to everyone else.
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  2969.  @billkosses3808  Yes for sure, Britain is an oligarchy to some extent, perhaps not quite as bad as the USA but unfortunately, democracy is only as good as the intelligence of the voters. As for benefits, if you're talking about direct benefits then yes I totally agree with that too. It's infuriating to pay heavy taxes and then jump through hoops to claw some back. So much fraud and bureaucracy. Subsiding child related things with though including child care - there's certainly strong arguments for that. Raising children is so expensive and society needs them. With the minimum of means testing - because that creates its own large bureaucracy and it's usually not as fair as intended.
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  2970. A big part of the problem is that Western societies are becoming more stupid. Partly it's immigration but partly it's because the less capable people have been having more children than the most capable people for well over a hundred years. Eventually, that catches up.
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  2971.  @edc1569  Norway is the single biggest supplier of gas to Europe since the war started! Or it was earlier on, it might have been overtaken by US LNG now but anyway, it's making incredible profits from this war. Obviously nobody is arguing it would do it without the approval of certain other countries but it certainly has the incentive.
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  2972. It's the delusion that America is above the rest of the world which comes partly from the huge US economic dominance after WWII but that dominance has been attenuating ever since and the rest of the world resents American government arrogance and hypocrisy. Failure to realise that the US is becoming one great power among several rather than the global hegemon is immensely dangerous and will probably be America's downfall.
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  2973. And also in protest against an obvious malicious prosecution to shut Trump down in court instead of at the ballot box.
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  2974.  @SvenGehlen  ... and the next Italian government is highly unlikely to have any patience for boats crossing the Med.
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  2975. LOL If Europe goes to the Urals which is the commonly accepted eastern boundary then Russia is the BIGGEST European country. And the large majority of the population originates from and lives West of the Urals. By your logic, the France is an Asian country too because some islands in South East Asia are officially part of France.
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  2976. Most losers in presidential elections challenge the results. Hilary Clinton claimed Trump was illegitimate after the 2016 election. Once you go down this path you can't claim to be a legitimate democracy any more.
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  2977.  @davidlindsey6111  You say the Germans were far below strength - maybe. Well the plan almost worked. It was touch and go. So if a highly ambitious plan almost worked that doesn't really seem to be a condemnation of the planner nor the implementer.
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  2978.  @davidlindsey6111  Yes.. but did he have any option? Remember that at the time of the original Schlieffen plan, the Russian army was much less developed and the Russian rail network was much more primitive. It could be assumed that it would take Russia much longer to develop a powerful offensive into East Prussia than was the case in 1914. And this was a serious threat. It would have been pointless to have taken Paris if the Russians had taken Berlin. Nobody knew ahead of time that there would be a successful Battle of Tannenberg and without strong forces in the east, there probably wouldn't have been. What you're really criticising Moltke for is that by 1914, the balance of forces had shifted to Germany's disadvantage.
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  2979. "multi-ethnic empire" which requires spies to suppress internal discontent = same as USA then.
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  2980. It's not a fact and it's not true. Mediazona is the only reliable source for Russian casualties.
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  2981. I like Rand Paul but it's naive to expect people to just know the sources of information about the world are being censored. No the market place doesn't take care of this. Big Tech companies are natural monopolies.
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  2982.  @kev845  No children are starving in Britain unless their parents are totally smashed on drugs.
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  2983. @@user-it4jz8jj1b The large majority of these migrants will cost far more than they ever contribute.
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  2984. It's like saying how is Russia able to hit Ukraine with literally thousands of missiles when Western air defence is so advanced? The answer is because no air defence can protect everywhere in a major war.
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  2985. You won't be disappointed. Another guy to check out if you haven't already if Jeff Sachs. Mearsheimer did a good video with him a week or two back.
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  2986.  @kenneth.topp.  Heard of him but never read any of his books.
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  2987. Highly dangerous though, if a missile flies off course by even a few hundred metres, it hits Romania. Yes they have bit Ismail once but if they keep doing it, sooner or later they'll land a missile in Romania.
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  2988.  @danielhutchinson6604  I don't know the status of the Odessa bridge, do you reckon it's permanently disabled? The damage I saw a few months back looked repairable. I'm an engineer but never worked on bridges.
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  2989.  @danielhutchinson6604  Interesting about the bridge - if it's really down properly then I'd guess the Danube ports aren't that important because too little wheat could be moved there to be decisive. Yeah there's no doubt it's going to be challenging but I don't see any sign that Ukrainian logistics have ever actually broken down. I think if there had have been a real danger of that the Russians would have persevered attacking the rail network. And as soon as they slacken off, stuff gets repaired pretty quickly and gets harder to damage. That's one of the lessons of the Second World War, that it's really hard to knock out infrastructure with bombing. That's why I expect the Ukrainian electricity grid will manage this coming winter. Because they've had all summer to prepare and install redundancy and probably install some transformers underground where they'll be safe. It'll be interesting though, Russian missile production has increased a lot so if the Russians go after the electricity grid again they'll be doing it with more missiles and more degraded Ukrainian air defence.
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  2990. I've never been scammed - so far - I use Windows most of the day, almost every day. I use a normal account without administer permissions day to day and I have a separate administrator account if I need to install software. Never had a virus, never had malware since I was a teenager. Don't usually even use anti-virus software.
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  2991.  @raevj  Yeah Pompeo was considering trying to assassinate him but USA good, Russia bad right?
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  2992. What the genius general also misses is that just like NATO armed Ukraine to shoot down Russian aircraft and hit Russian tanks with missiles, the Russians could have done exactly the same to the Taleban had America stayed there.
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  2993.  @evertblad8760  LOL you're American and you think Israel is on your side?
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  2994. Did you miss the Vic Nuland "f**k the EU" phone call?
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  2995. LOL you know Zelensky has suspended elections right? Putin hasn't moved Russia away from rule of law, when he took power, Russia was way more corrupt than it is now.
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  2996.  @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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  2997. It's a land war and Ukraine is running out of soldiers while the Russian army is still growing. If you think Ukraine is winning you're about a year out of date.
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  2998.  @FerBes-sy9oc  Most of the Wagner casualties were disposable convicts. But yes there were many thousands.
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  2999. Flat, soft sand several km wide with no buildings, no forest to then attack prepared positions in the face of artillery and Lancet drones.
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  3000.  @axebob730  Cuba, soon before.
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  3001.  @milaro222  Both assumptions are wrong.
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  3002. "coup" - It's a French origin word. The p is silent in English as it is in French.
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  3003. He seems to not speak any language other than English, I've heard him woefully mispronounce even well known names in French, German and Russian.
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  3004. Anything right of far left is now far right
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  3005.  @the_pinkerton  All those parties espouse higher taxes, higher social spending, high immigration and political correctness regardless of what their voters want. The policies and spending commitments of the current Conservative government in Britain would have been regarded as far left just a few decades ago. In fact immigration now is far higher than under Tony Blair. Likewise in Germany, the distance between the SPD and the CDU is too narrow to fit your finger through
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  3006.  @the_pinkerton  "calling the civic coalition pro immigration is also just wrong" Of course it's pro immigration. Immigration on this scale doesn't just happen on its own.
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  3007. Nothing in Ukraine corresponds to the headlines :)
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  3008.  @MuiltiLightRider  Yes it is more than that, it's mainly for the Israel lobby who has a death hold on US foreign policy but the oil is definitely a big part of it. Syrian oil is hardly insignificant, it's about half a percent of global production from memory and the US takes most of that. Look at the numbers. Google the videos of the convoy of tankers carting it out. Only Western media claims the US is NOT stealing Syrian oil. The entire non Western world can see theft for what it is.
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  3009.  @yeehaw9303  "US doesn't annex foreing territories in the 21th century" LOL the US has started plenty of wars in the past few years and seized Kosovo.
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  3010. Hamas are terrorists because they commit atrocities. But the Israeli military also commits atrocities. Scumbags on both sides, why do we need to take sides on this Middle Eastern ethnic war?
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  3011.  @user-je3sk8cj6g  Russia didn't get to be the biggest country in the world with an army that sucked. Zeihan is a propagandist. Anyone who's closely following the fighting and believes Russian casualties are higher than Ukrainian must be thick as a turd.
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  3012. You should join the Ukrainian army and show them how it's done. I'm sure the Russians will flee in terror when they find out you're on the scene.
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  3013. Go back fifty years when people were much poorer than now and there was much less mental health. Fifty years ago when people were happier on average, the median income adjusting for inflation would be regarded as serious poverty now. Perhaps it's you who don't understand.
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  3014.  @noreasonwhynot4548  That's completely wrong. Adjusted for inflation, wages are much higher now than in the 1970s. Real wages (ie. adjusted for inflation) grew by an average of 33% each decade from 1970 to 2007. That's a really huge increase in wealth. People are vastly richer now. Almost three times richer. Yes they've stagnated since due to mass immigration - and that's inexcusable. Perhaps the recent 15 years clouds your judgement.
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  3015.  @noreasonwhynot4548  This applies to the median - so it is normal people. Certainly there are still very poor people. But there were in the 70s too.
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  3016.  @noreasonwhynot4548  I've quoted actual numbers. Go and look them up yourself. As a general trend, the further back you go in time, the poorer people were. How can this be surprising?
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  3017. As a German, why are you worried about Russia? Germany and Russia are natural allies. Germany has the industrialisation and Russia has the energy. Any fool can see America's policy towards Germany over the past few decades has been unfriendly at best. The Nordstream attack was outrageous, I can't understand why the German government put up with it.
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  3018.  @Hellfr4g  You have to admit the EU is a total mess with no democratic accountability.
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  3019.  @Hellfr4g  LOL I've lived in Germany, Netherlands and Czech and I speak those languages plus some others. No longer live in Germany but I follow German politics pretty well. Most people in West Germany are totally deranged, it's a mad house really. Almost as bad as California. East Germany is pretty sane.
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  3020. He's an all round bull shitter. Earlier he was claiming Scotland had the lowest birth rate in Europe a quick check shows it's about medium
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  3021.  @YoniLiron  Where's the evidence that Russia is sending "human waves" anywhere? The Chinese army did massed infantry assaults against intact defensive positions in Korea 1950. But where have the Russians (or Ukrainians) done that anywhere in this war? I've been following this war closely from the start watching videos from both sides. It just doesn't happen. It's just a propaganda phrase. Avdivka is likely to fall in the next couple of months which prevents Ukraine from shelling Donetsk City. If the Russians can achieve that, it's a huge win for them and Peter Zeihan will never admit it.
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  3022. "People like her are heroes" I assume you include Julian Assange and Edward Snowden?
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  3023.  @Panj0  Full employment is normal in a country fighting a major war.
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  3024.  @bluemarlin8138  It's really the opposite. The Russians don't give a sh** about giving up territory or whatever, they try to save manpower. The Ukrainians often do dumb sh** for headlines like flag planting patrols where they get bombed like on Snake Island.
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  3025. Earlier on he said the Russians can't train any new engineers even though they train more per year than the entire USA. He also said in a NATO war with Russian the casualties would be a thousand to one even though Russia has chewed through hundreds of thousands of NATO armed and trained Ukrainians with access to NATO satellite targeting. The guy surely doesn't even believe his own BS
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  3026. Don't worry NATO is about to start a new war in Africa.
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  3027. Except that Putin isn't Hitler, the Russians have neither the interest in nor the capability of threatening Britain in a conventional war and Britain derives no benefit whatsoever in pursuing the Washington neocon agenda in Ukraine, the Middle East or elsewhere.
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  3028. Yeah and the Soviet Union won the Finnish Winter War and the Second World War.
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  3029. If you think Russia blew this up, ask yourself why Ukraine has opened the upstream sluices.
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  3030.  @didiersavard6809  Yeah I believe it's normal to periodically open sluices to prevent reservoirs overfilling but obviously and undeniably, doing so contributes to the flooding downstream of the dam. Temporarily keeping those sluices closed at this relatively dry time of year would mitigate the flooding. That Ukraine has opened them - so far as we can tell, several major dams - makes it obvious the Ukrainian government wants to exacerbate the flooding. Both sides lie but the Ukrainian side's motives for destroying the dam seem to be stronger and deliberately exacerbating the effect is just further confirmation who did it.
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  3031. The Russians just hit an ammunition train 70km behind the lines - and photographed the hit with a drone... so highly unlikely.
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  3032. Sure in that case all the Asians, Middle Easterners and Africans should leave Europe. As for the Maoris, they were hunting and eating each other before the British arrived and long afterwards.
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  3033.  @bluemarlin8138  By the same logic, Ukraine attacked Russia in 2022 because Russia had pledged to defend the LPR and DPR.
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  3034.  @tsubadaikhan6332  The Russians aren't trying hard to gain territory. They're just sitting back and shelling the Ukrainian army with overwhelming artillery superiority, inflicting high casualties at a low cost to themselves. That's why looking at the map is misleading. Ukraine can't survive the winter. They're already running out of everything and Western military aid is running down since Western countries have already dangerously exhausted their own stockpiles. Follow the long vaunted Kherson offensive which started a couple of days ago - it has already run out of steam.
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  3035.  @tim211292  Check out Military Summary Channel, Defense Politics Asia, Theti Mapping, Weeb Union. For economics numbers well you can google that pretty easily.
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  3036.  @robt7773  Nice theory but democracy is in retreat everywhere. Perhaps there's still real democracy in Switzerland but most of the West is giving up on democracy now. Ukraine's certainly no longer even pretending to be a democracy. Israel's an apartheid style sham democracy. The USA is becoming as fascist as Russia. Canada has resorted to blatant authoritarian coercion to suppress dissent. Freedom of speech has long since disappeared in Western Europe. It's all theatre. The war is 100% about geopolitics, not about ideology.
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  3037.  @theliato3809  Russia's stated objectives are to keep Ukraine out of NATO, to eliminate the national socialists and to demilitarise Ukraine. You can't really deny it's making progress on them. At some point and it might not be soon, Ukraine collapses exhausted. Long before that, everyone with a brain has left the country. The elite of the army is already dead for the most part. They're trying to get women as old as 60 to enlist now. Meanwhile the Russian economy is still growing, its military production is expanding and it's fighting the war with volunteers.
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  3038.  @toddinde  Russian losses are tiny compared to the overall size of the Russian population. The Russian economy is not collapsing and the war is not unpopular in Russia. The Western media is full of wishful thinking.
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  3039.  @mariaf.6601  Stick to the facts. Russia is fighting a major war against one of the most powerful militaries in the world backed by NATO with auxiliary forces and volunteers. If you think Russia's economy is going to "collapse" then you should provide some evidence. Do you remember how in the first few days of the war we were told the rouble would collapse? How Russia was running out of tanks? How Russia only had enough missiles for a few days? etc. etc.
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  3040.  @mariaf.6601  17% inflation is not much higher than many Western countries right now. Energy inflation in Europe in particular is crippling. Russia has ample food and energy. High inflation of luxury goods in Russia like smart phones is less important than high inflation of gas an electricity in Germany where already the government is looking at energy rationing to industry. If you don't believe me you should take all your money and invest in German heavy industry right now while equities are cheap. The old T62s are being used to give extra fire support to the auxiliary forces on the Russian side particularly the DPR/LPR forces. In this role, the deficiencies of the older tanks are unlikely to be important ie. they're unlikely to be fighting more modern tanks directly. If your enemy is infantry and lightly armoured APCs without air support, any MBT even an old one is adequate. If the regular Russian forces start using these T62s then your argument that Russia is running out of tanks would become persuasive. Until that happens it's more like Western armies giving Ukraine their stockpiles of ex-Soviet equipment and obsolete Javelins. It doesn't mean that Western armies don't have more modern technologies - obviously they do.
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  3041.  @mariaf.6601  Here are some facts. Russia is running a budgetary surplus despite fighting a major war. No major Western economy is running a budgetary surplus in fact the USA has not has a surplus since 2001. Yet you believe it is the Russian economy which is collapsing. If you want to talk about high inflation, NATO member Turkey currently has inflation over 70%.
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  3042.  @mariaf.6601  I wouldn't say there are no problems with the Russian economy, that would be exaggerating but I have provided you with much evidence that your own position is heavily overstated. You haven't even engaged with that evidence. We have debated long enough that it's clear to me that you are obviously someone who bends evidence into your predefined ideas rather than someone who updates your understanding according to new evidence. You're welcome to your wishful thinking.
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  3043.  @mariaf.6601  What do you want? Your only evidence that the Russian economy is collapsing is high inflation there - about twice as high as inflation in the USA and much lower than in some NATO countries. Meanwhile much of Europe is making preparations for energy rationing. You object that the Russian surplus is "tiny" - totally missing the point that it's fighting a major war with a budget surplus at all! You don't seem to have serious arguments, you're arguing with me because I'm pointing out evidence that the wishful thinking narrative is wrong. I'm not learning anything from a discussion with you.
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  3044. It's very easy to understand, Indians in the West tend to be from the intellectual elite. The average IQ in India itself is around 85, much much lower than any Western country.
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  3045.  @jeremiahdillard9201  They also don't want to work.
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  3046.  @KinoTechUSA69  Holland, Merkel, Poroshenko and now even Zelensky admit Minsk II was a sham to BS the Russians.
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  3047.  @fortunecookie3765  It's not that you're completely wrong, it's more that you only have one side of the story. Yes Ukraine is a sovereign nation. Where the US state department sponsored a coup overturning the democratically elected government and then went on to appoint a new government. Which murdered a lot of anti-Maidan ethnic Russians. Anyway pretty soon the Americans will dump the Ukrainians just like they dumped their allies in Afghanistan and Iraq and before that Vietnam. And you pro-Ukraine simps who only know the NATO propaganda will move on to the next big thing the propaganda tells you to get outraged about. Which is probably going to be China by the looks of it.
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  3048.  @cfosnock  Yeah lots of promises to Russia were broken, when the Berlin wall came down the Russians were told NATO would not expand eastwards. Obviously it did, even into ex Soviet territory. Even Burns warned Ukraine joining NATO was a red line for Russia, the Biden administration and Zelensky's government ignored that. Sure Ukraine can do what it wants but ignoring Russian warnings got it where it is now. BTW Zelensky was elected on a peace platform which he ignored once in office.
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  3049. @MCADHD666 VOL2 Your argument is that no formal treaty was signed. Correct. The Russians trusted many well documented verbal promises. These promises were broken. The Russians feel betrayed. With good reason. Every other non Western country understands NATO broke these promises. Every other non Western country can see the hypocrisy. That's why billions of people around the world are cheering on Russia for finally standing up to America even though the Russian government has many faults itself.
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  3050.  @martinsFILMS13  Are you saying repeated verbal assurances don't matter?
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  3051. If NATO "steps up" then there will be a needless suffering of billions of more people in a nuclear war.
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  3052.  @incurableromantic4006  He'd be in the Israeli military more likely.
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  3053.  @marshjj3788  LOL the Americans overthrew the democratically elected president in 2014. And France is getting ready to invade Niger right now to put in a pro-French government. Crimea was part of Russia until Khrushchev gave it to Ukraine in 1954 even though most of the people who lived there were ethnically Russian. This war isn't as simple as right and wrong and frankly it's none of our business.
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  3054. Only an idiot thinks Russia is losing. Even Arestovych admits Russia will take Avdivka. Supplies and manpower for Ukraine are running out.
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  3055. He has a lot to be humble about. His predictions have been laughable.
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  3056.  @jackn4853  Evidence already made public, look into it.
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  3057. Yeah according to the media, the Russians are down to their last stocks since April.
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  3058.  @johnwebster5005  Yes I don't even get what Britain was hoping to achieve by taking a stance on the war even more hawkish than America has taken.
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  3059. Nicely put. IMO it's naïve to even pretend another country did it. Even before the Hersch article, it was highly suspicious that no proper investigation was allowed. Much like the Wuhan lab - if there had been nothing to hide, the site would have been thrown open to international inspection.
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  3060. Propaganda without evidence and without logic
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  3061.  @johnbobak9263  Jeez I would have been embarrassed at that level of insult when I was 10 years old. How old are you exactly?
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  3062.  @johnbobak9263  Thanks now I understand why you guys still think Ukraine is winning. It's now obvious you're morons.
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  3063.  @thevale2456  The British Empire did die a long time ago but Britain hasn't completely moved on. For example the whole idea that Britain should oppose Russia and get involved in wars all over the world like in the Middle East involves huge costs but no advantage to Britain. It's an arrogant hang over from empire.
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  3064.  @davidb6576  It's not cost effective to make mines so powerful they can totally destroy a tank but once it's immobilised, the tank can most likely be destroyed by loitering munitions and artillery.
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  3065. 7 leopards had already been lost a few days ago, if it's up to 15 by now that wouldn't be surprising.
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  3066. What Ukraine needs is manpower, you should go and volunteer if you think Ukraine is so important to you.
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  3067. Biden was obviously senile long before he got elected. Admittedly he's much worse now but even if Trump declined in sharpness, he's got a long way to go before he's the mumbling vegetable now in the office.
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  3068. A conspiracy theory like covid vaccines are more dangerous than the disease they're intended to prevent? Which is now obvious. Or a conspiracy theory that it came from the Wuhan lab? which is also now obvious. Or a conspiracy theory that Big Tech censored about all of that on behalf of the US government? Also now obviously fact.
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  3069.  @xlukas93  Until 2022 the rest of the world didn't like but accepted the US domination of global finance. Since then it's obvious that the US is using this position as a weapon. Other than the US's closest allies, everyone else including neutrals like India now has a very strong incentive to de-dollarise which is exactly what's happening. It doesn't matter what hasn't happened for twenty years, the incentives are different now.
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  3070.  @xlukas93  It's not necessary that central bankers are stupid (although they can be - Griftopia makes a strong case against Alan Greenspan). It's more that the long term interest of the economy is not high on their list of incentives. An alternative to the US dollar doesn't have to be a single currency used by the whole world - I agree with you there is no contender to the US dollar emerging for that. International trade deals settled in the currencies of the parties to the deal are becoming more common, that's probably going to continue. An alternative could be in a basket of currencies. Consider how quickly Swift was circumvented. BRICS has got some problems to overcome but it's naive to dismiss it just because some of the members don't like each other. It's obvious to anyone paying attention the US hegemony is ending.
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  3071.  @leftfootforward1040  Only an idiot thinks this started on October 7th.
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  3072. It's propaganda for morons
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  3073. Avdivka is less defensible than Bakhmut. Bakhmut had a better geography for keeping the supply lines open. Avdivka is likely to call in the next two months. Some Ukrainian soldiers put out a video complaining officers have already been withdrawn.
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  3074. Putin doesn't speak English that well, it would have to be in German or Russian.
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  3075. Where's the evidence of huge Russian casualties? That's not what the footage coming out of Bakhmut is showing. We're seeing heavy Ukrainian casualties, they're talking about a battalion lost per day there. One Ukrainian brigade took 70% casualties before being pulled out. See History legends channel or Military Summary
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  3076.  @joshhencik1849  Unlikely, they stayed just long enough to get some selfies.
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  3077.  @Oceanvanguard58  If the North Koreans had been involved in action, there'd be footage of prisoners or dead bodies by now, there are hundreds of guys being killed each day. Ukraine has been claiming for over a week now North Korean soldiers are fighting on the lines but have produced no evidence. It's just propaganda aimed at the uninformed 95%
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  3078.  @Liers11188  In this case yes I do believe Putin doesn't want Russian soldiers in Lviv. Because it would just be an ongoing cost to Russia That's not to say Putin doesn't want any Ukrainian territory because obviously he does. But the point is Nigel Farage claimed the exact opposite of what Putin said.
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  3079.  @Liers11188  What you write is not logical. Obviously Putin wants oblasts like Donetsk and Luhansk, that doesn't mean he wants all of Ukraine. Only an idiot would believe he does. How does controlling Lvov advantage Russia?
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  3080. shh shh doesn't fit with the narrative. Also no mention of the hero's welcome Putin gets in the Gulf nowadays.
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  3081.  @randomdude2832  Yeah it's surreal how people can still believe Russia isn't winning and it's outright deluded thinking Ukraine is going to take back anything. It's obvious now the Russian army is taking very few causalities and is just shelling any Ukrainian position into rubble. Also a lot of people don't get that most of the Russian side casualties are not regulars since the first month - they're DPR/LPR/Chechans/Wagner guys.
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  3082.  @philliptemple9841  Russia embarrassed how? Ukraine was a very strong military power and they've received tens of billions of military aid - and they're getting pounded to dust by Russian artillery.
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  3083.  @philliptemple9841  Thousands of innocent woman and children maimed - reminds me of Madeleine Albright saying yeah it's worth it when asked about the half a million Iraqis killed from the 2003 war. If the Russians were really fighting a dirty war, how come Kharkiv still has water and electricity and internet when the Russians could easily cut all of them with shelling? They're close enough to make that city unliveable for its million population if they wanted to. As for Russians taking territory - firstly, do we know they really care about taking territory? Maybe they already took most of what they want. Do they want to take huge chunks of Ukraine that they'd have to rebuild afterwards? Or do they just want the places like Mariupol where the population is pretty pro-Russian already? Because right now, the Russians are taking very low casualties and the Ukrainians are not. Secondly, how would any army advance quickly in this kind of war? The Ukrainians have plenty of infantry anti-armour weapons. The Russians tried armoured spearheads in the first month and payed a high price. Now, they're only advancing where the Ukrainians retreat or have mainly been killed by shelling. In other words the Russians are very careful about risking their own infantry. What would say the American army do in the same situation? I'd guess they'd take their time and use their firepower advantage too. What I can say is if the Russians are advancing slowly, they're still advancing relentlessly. Sooner or later the Ukrainian army will collapse. We can be sure about this because even the better units are retreating without orders or refusing to move to the front. Given the situation even if the Russians wanted to take all of Ukraine which they almost certainly don't, the best strategy seems to be keep pounding the Ukrainians so long as they stand and fight until their army disintegrates rather than push hard and pay the high casualties of assaulting intact defenders.
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  3084.  @AB-ys4yn  Apparently the Bidens have a lot of dirty laundry to wash in Ukraine
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  3085.  @2msvalkyrie529  They won't, they'll mainly just ignore it and move on like they usually do. There was barely a peep when the Russians took Bakhmut except to claim the Ukrainians still held onto a corner of it - which we can tell from Russian footage was false.
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  3086.  @Erik_Ice_Fang  Ukrainian demographics is vastly worse than Russian demographics. And Ukraine is ethnically much less cohesive than Russia. You obviously don't have a clue.
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  3087.  @rogerwilco2  Everyone agrees that Russia has the aviation, armour, artillery and ammunition advantage. But Ukrainian losses are a third of Russian losses? This is extreme wishful thinking. Anyone who has been following this war with an open mind realises Ukrainian losses are higher - vastly higher. As or 200k Russian dead who are they all? Mediazona identifiers fewer than 50k Russian dead. As for Oryx - samples have been audited and it was found Russian losses were invented and exaggerated, Ukrainian losses were classified as Russian losses and one of the guys behind Oryx came up with the excuse we're volunteers, we don't have time to avoid mistakes. Maybe fair but the point is the Oryx numbers are meaningless.
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  3088.  @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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  3089.  @xkaiokenx10  He's not a bit biased towards the West, he's a Neocon propaganda mouth piece. He ignores obvious facts which don't suit his agenda and he exaggerates facts which do suit his agenda. First time I heard him I was impressed. After i heard him talk about things I knew a bit about it became more and more obvious he deliberately misleads. Also his incorrect pronunciation of so many well known people and places suggest he pretends to know far more about some topics than he really does.
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  3090. Both sides in this war are committing atrocities and both are led by genocidal maniacs. The pro-Israel media like here conflates Hamas with the Palestinian people.
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  3091. How would you feel if a different ethnic group showed up and took over your land by force? Go and read (Israeli) historians Benny Morris and Ilan Pappe.
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  3092. Mariupol was a "tactical retreat" according to the media :)
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  3093.  @kirishima638  That's complete rubbish, there are huge protests all over Europe against the cost of living.
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  3094.  @kirishima638  Actually, no, it's much worse in places like the Baltic countries where inflation is reaching over 20%. In Poland, people are queuing for half a day to buy firewood because electricity is expected to become unaffordable and even unavailable. There's real poverty appearing in Germany and Italy.
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  3095. Mediazona found about 50,000 Russian deaths in this war so far, it was millions who died in the first world war once you count starvation. There's no comparison. And it was starvation at home, not combat deaths which sparked things off. If there's going to be a revolution it'll be in Ukraine, not Russia.
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  3096. @@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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  3097. Accusations of torture and murder, civilians welcoming incoming soldiers and the incoming soldiers handing out humanitarian aid - watch Russian television and you'll see exactly the same but with roles reversed. It's hard to know how much is propaganda and how much is true but we do have hard evidence of atrocities from both sides going all the way back to 2014. It's not as simple as good vs. evil any more than any other war.
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  3098.  @justsomerandombirdwithinte5896  Actually, no I'm neither Russian nor an orc. Would you even know the difference between a Russian and a Ukrainian? Between their languages and cultures? Or are you just a sheep who believes one is heroic and one is monstrous because your government and media tell you to?
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  3099.  @Bernadette-x8v  Scottish First Ministers are even worse. Sturgeon corrupt as Zelensky and Humza so thick he hates white people but lives in Scotland.
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  3100. Minor correction. AFAIK, one man, Richard Creath survived from the HMS Defence crew.
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  3101.  @Rui301  Because the link between the people in power in Brussels and the voters is so tenuous. In practical terms the EU commission does what it wants and there's nothing the voters can do about it. No different from in the Soviet Union. National parliaments are at least imperfectly accountable to the voters. Take away state vetos and not only have you completely lost democratic accountability but also, EU states are no longer sovereign. It's the path to autocracy, repression and eventually, revolution. If you can't see that, you really need to read the history of the Soviet Union.
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  3102.  @nyaatell  Putin doesn't want to recreate the Soviet Union FFS, all he ever wanted was to stop NATO expanding up to his borders. All big empires become anti-democratic, whether it's the Soviet Union, the EU or the US federal government. The Hungarians can see this because they were stuck behind the iron curtain.
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  3103. A lot of these claims are hysterical and implausible. Bit like accusing Russia when a Ukrainian missile killed two Polish farmers. Even the Americans were embarrassed.
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  3104.  @KevinWebb  So two points. Yes, a single atrocity by a single guy who BTW claimed the Ukrainian had himself committed atrocities. So don't make that out to be systemic thing "the Russians" do (and he was Chechen anyway, not ethnic Russian). Because the vast majority of Ukrainian prisoners are treated properly. As for the missile, yes it was caused indirectly by the invasion and the causes of the invasion originate in a US sponsored violent coup overthrowing a democratically elected president. But that's beside the point. Regardless of the ORIGINS of the war, that doesn't give anyone an excuse to prosecute it illegally or immorally. The point is, it was a Ukrainian missile, everyone knows that and the Ukrainians claimed it was a Russian missile. It's war propaganda. Just because you support one side, you have to be sceptical.
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  3105. People are divided by default.
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  3106. 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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  3107. 1) Shut down nuclear stations 2) Sanction the cheapest and biggest nearby source of natural gas 3) Wonder why electricity is too expensive and unreliable
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  3108.  @mark63424able  the threat of nuclear war now is higher than it ever was in the Cold War. NATO weapons are actually being used to attack Russia. During the Cold War NATO and the Warsaw Pact only fought proxy wars in places that didn't matter. If you think Putin's threats are empty, imagine Russian missiles were hitting Britain or America because that's the situation Russians are experiencing right now. Even worse, recently the Ukrainians have started attacking Russia's nuclear early warning system. It's hard to imagine a more dangerous escalation.
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  3109.  @arshadali2312  LOL so explain please why Paris and Frankfurt went to such great lengths to unsuccessfully poach banks and bankers from London
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  3110.  @arshadali2312  The French and German states are not keen to have tens of billions of extra tax revenue? Do you have a shred of evidence for this surprising claim?
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  3111. I hope the family sues, there's no excuse not a single member of a large group of policemen not realising this was an illegal arrest. As for the policewoman who got offended, she's a waste of space, should be fired.
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  3112. Talking about long term trends and future of Europe purely in economic terms and in energy costs is nonsensical without mentioning the elephant in the room - demographic replacement by the Middle East, Asia and Africa.
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  3113.  @dancahill9585  A "third rate" military fighting a large country backed by the whole of NATO and even so, winning decisively.
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  3114.  @paolopetrozzi2213  The problem with that theory is that NATO is going to run out of Ukrainians.
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  3115. True but not going to happen. Once these federalists have their hands on power and wealth, they're never going to voluntarily give it up. It's the nature of such organisations to attempt to centralise ever more. The US government fought a particularly bloody civil war rather than allow member states to regain some of the power they once had.
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  3116. It's the same on every other topic, Zeihan lies to support the authoritarian agenda of the US government. He wants the US to be able to do what happened in Brazil.
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  3117. Are you seriously trying to suggest Britain is so rich and powerful it can afford to make the rest of the world rich enough that people don't want to leave their own countries?
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  3118.  @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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  3119. That's way too simple. For much of the war, the Russian army proper wasn't doing much fighting. DPR/LPR and Wager were doing the vast majority of the fighting over winter.
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  3120.  @H4kkk0  After the war is over and real casualty numbers leak out you're going to be shocked at how high Ukrainian casualties are. And disappointed at how low Russian casualties are.
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  3121.  @jesan733  What's the big escalation from Russia? US supplied weapons are actually hitting Russian territory. Imagine if that were the other way round. You seriously think the USA would stand for that?
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  3122. That's one action that definitely would guarantee a nuclear war.
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  3123.  @justanghozzst8218  Of course he did, he's a Washington shill. These Sullivan, Nuland, Blinken types encouraged Ukraine along the path of confrontation with Russia and NATO membership which provoked the invasion, then they made extravagant promises to Zelensky to get him to throw away the moderate peace deal a month into the war.
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  3124.  @twoheadedtasmanian1481  Russia, one of the world's biggest food exporters can barely feed itself? What planet are you on? FYI the reason there wasn't mass starvation when the Soviet economy collapsed is because not only can Russia feed itself, most Russians can feed themselves! Most Russians grow a lot or most of their own food. Even city people have gardens out of town.
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  3125.  @twoheadedtasmanian1481  LOL China disagrees with your assessment of what China should do. Outside of the West most of the world is sick of the US abusing the US dollar's status as the world reserve currency and accepts Russia's position that it was provoked into invading Ukraine
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  3126.  @Elbuarto  Zelensky himself told the population that the Russians were going to invade just before ... the Russians invaded :) Ukraine certainly isn't about to fold but likewise, I'd say anyone who predicts Russia is going to lose has zero credibility. There's just no evidence whatsoever that Russia is even struggling much less losing.
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  3127. More like it's in revenge for Zelensky insulting him.
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  3128.  @benitezkebab  The main reason Putin wants out is because the war is bad for America. It pushes Russia and china together and trump seems China as the main threat. Which should have been obvious right from the start,
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  3129.  @geofflepper3207  What Western military equipment is India ordering?
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  3130.  @softcolly8753  Duran are also biased but in the opposite direction. For example Mercouris claimed the Ukrainians sinking a Russian landing ship was just a waste of a missile because it's a land war. Times is ridiculous but Duran aren't much better. There are better commentators.
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  3131.  @softcolly8753  That's a low bar :) I think the Duran is interesting to listen to but on anything Russia/Ukraine related they're extremely biased. Yes I agree Times Radio is worse of course. Maybe even worse than Ukrainian government propaganda. Pretty funny how people here lap it up :)
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  3132. How can a journalist still seriously claim the Russians are shelling themselves in the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant? The Ukrainians have admitted shelling it themselves because they claim Russian soldiers are stationed there.
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  3133.  @johnschwartz1641  It's a war of attrition, The Russians are taking territory mainly just to force the Ukrainians to fight. If you really want to measure territorial change you;re better off looking at the rate of changing in March April compared to Janurary Feb and compare Jan Feb to last year. It's obvious the Russians are gaining momentum - without evidence of high casualites. Also, Ukrainian morale is cracking. Even guys like Azov or what's left of them have refused orders.
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  3134.  @thewatchman9540  Theoretically yeah you could read any of those books outside of university but I found the whole thing really interesting and helpful for many reasons including the feedback you get from discussions and essays, not sure where you'd get the same quality from outside a university. I did two history degrees as a hobby without taking significant time off work but yeah I agree with you if you're going to spend years doing it full time, that's a big opportunity cost. I'd say if you really, really want to be a professional historian, it's worth it. Though also it might depend what university you're at too. My daughter is now doing first year at Edinburgh which is meant to be a good university but I have to say I'm not too impressed with what I've seen. Anyway a lot of people nowadays are going to university as a place holder and not taking it too seriously. I completely agree with you (and TIK) that's a total waste of time.
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  3135. Taking Crimea is not realistic. If Russia really felt threatened they could mobilise another one million, two million men whatever they needed to. And they could use tactical nuclear weapons. What then? NATO either backs down or commits suicide by starting WW3.
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  3136. Russian-Chinese relations have never been better both are united in opposition to the USA. Chinese-Indian relations are not good but have improved. BRICS has legs.
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  3137.  @iivarilappalainen9836  I like and admire Finnish people but I notice on anything related to Russia, their rationality disappears and they succumb to delusion.
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  3138.  @lp9280  I've lived in several European countries and USA too yeah I'd say some European countries have better food than Britain but that still leaves Britain way, way ahead of most of the world including the USA. An American dude ridiculing British food just betrays a total lack of awareness
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  3139. Friendly fire happens a lot. Given the location it's the most likely explanation.
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  3140. I think you might be missing the main point. Some ex mining communities now have higher disability rates amongst working age people than they did when they were actually mining communities,. Despite that most working age men were subject to industrial accidents, lung cancer and all kinds of other mine related poisoning, there's higher disability .rates now. Not to discount the modern lifestyle being unhealthy, you're surely right about that but there's more to it than that
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  3141. That's compete BS. If you think Russian casualties are higher than Ukrainian casualties even though both sides admit Russia has a massive artillery, ammunition and air advantage then you're obviously not the brightest crayon in the box.
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  3142.  @wantanamera  Go and look at some numbers. Whether in the US or in Britain, obesity is higher in certain non white demographics. And life expectancy for whites is higher than most too.
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  3143.  @dogwhistle8836  The average intelligence of the Russian population is about medium by European standards, I doubt it's significantly different from the average intelligence of the Ukrainian army.
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  3144. It's delusional to think Ukraine can defeat Russia, a country with three times the population and the second most powerful military in the world. Even NATO armaments won't suffice. The Ukrainian economy is already shattered and over ten million people have left the country. The mayor of Kiev has already talked about evacuating civilians from the city. How many more Ukrainians do you want to see die before there are negotiations?
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  3145. You're advocating the genocide of over two million people almost half of whom are children.
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  3146.  @worfoz  I'm sure he gets paid well!
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  3147. They're hardly unbiased. Even though I agree with them on much, they've obviously got a very strong pro Russian and anti-NATO agenda.
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  3148. Dozens of journalists in Gaza have already been killed by the IDF. It's extremely hard operating in Gaza. It's hard to get food and water, it's hard to get power for charging batteries
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  3149.  @peterflohr7827  Yeah sure there are thousands of kms of trenches now. You can't tell what's in them. You can't afford to be shelling large stretches of empty trenches especially when every time you fire, you expose yourself to the risk of counter battery fire and loitering munitions. Defending is a huge advantage especially when the attackers have to cross open country. That's why the Russians failed to take Vuhledar.
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  3150.  @peterflohr7827  You need more than a path, you need protected flanks. The defenders are concealed and entrenched. The attackers are at least temporarily in the open. It's a huge difference. Despite a firepower advantage, Russian armour couldn't take Vuhledar because Ukrainian minefields slowed them down enough to be sitting ducks for Ukrainian artillery. Now the Ukrainian armour has the same problem the Russians did there. This is why the Russians took most of a year to take Bakhmut - because they used siege tactics. Ukraine got some earlier victories because the Russians didn't have enough men to form a continuous front i.e. there were gaps Ukrainians could infiltrate through. Those days are over. Be careful of channels like this, most English speaking media is ridiculous optimistic about Ukraine's situation.
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  3151. They only had trouble supplying their forces deep behind Ukrainian lines at the start of the war and more recently in Kherson because of the river. They don't have a supply problem in general. Nobody disputes that the Russians are still firing several artillery rounds for each round the Ukrainians fire and several rockets for each rocket the Ukrainians fire.
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  3152.  @haroldflint521  Which side do you mean? Because they both complain about defective gear, missing gear, insufficient food, insufficient ammunition, non existent artillery cover etc. The point is this is a major war. It's easy to point at videos of guys complaining and build a narrative that the Russians are suffering a disaster if you're ignoring all the videos of exactly the same from the Ukrainians. And if anything it's worse for the Ukrainians. The Russians have a large advantage in heavy equipment for example and especially artillery.
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  3153.  @haroldflint521  It's a strange assumption that Russia wants to "liberate" all of Ukraine. If that were actually true, it's inconceivable they wouldn't have mobilised hundreds of thousands of men from the start. Their stated goal is to demilitarise Ukraine. And they seem to be doing that by killing hundreds of Ukrainians every day.
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  3154.  @kristianpadley5562  Fair enough - if you follow the fighting closely from neutral channels then it's obvious Ukraine, the smaller country is taking much higher casualties. The problem is, channels like this one (and so many others boosted by youtube) are so biased that they create a completely misleading narrative. It's just ridiculous that so many people still believe Ukraine is winning a whole year after it was obvious they would not..
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  3155.  @kristianpadley5562  As for the UK, the economy is deep in the ** - the Conservative government is discredited and it'll be easy for the next (Labour) government to bail on Ukraine. The deficit is unsustainable and there'll have to be a reckoning which means rolling back all spending which is politically acceptable. British aid to Ukraine is going to be cut. Besides which most of the equipment useful to Ukraine has already been handed over. Look how many Challenger tanks the British army has left!
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  3156.  @snow_net  It's really simple to understand. You don't put a tens of millions of dollars aircraft and its valuable pilot up against a cheap missile unless there's something extremely valuable for that pilot to do. It's not because the VVS can't fly ground attack missions, it's just that usually the benefit/cost doesn't look worthwhile. During the Kharkov offensive the VVS was doing ground attack over the Ukrainian forces because it was an emergency but usually, day to day, it's too dangerous. The USAF would have the same consideration in a war against Russia. The USAF would be dominant but actually flying sorties over Russian lines would mean putting extremely valuable aircraft up against cheap SAMs.
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  3157.  @snow_net  Well seems they can achieve everything they need to already with long distance stand off munitions so there's probably no good reason to be flying deep behind Ukrainian lines. From Russia's perspective they're still not fighting a major war. If they can achieve what they want to reliably with old Soviet munitions they don't want to be losing more of their expensive modern equipment than they need to. We don't know what's going to happen yet, it's still possible the war will escalate with more countries coming in like potentially Poland and the US in which case Russia needs its air force to defend itself. I can't judge the quality of Russian aircraft on technical terms but I doubt they'd be the major exporter they are if it really were much inferior to Western technology.
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  3158. LOL China is the developed world. If you think China is backward you're a couple of decades out of date. And they won't be "out of the loop". The world is bifurcating, the West and Japan vs. everyone else. The everyone else is way, way bigger than the West plus Japan. In population, resources, technical work force and industrial capacity.
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  3159.  @Eder-bk5mm  You really need to look at how the First World War started. It was basically a game of chicken. Neither side wanted a general war but both sides took risks to get advantages i.e both sides escalated. And neither side backed down. The result is a devastating war which neither side wanted. The theory that Russia will always back down from red lines is stupid because this war only started by NATO crossing a red line for Russia. Russia explained over and over that Ukraine joining NATO was unacceptable, the Americans knew this (see wikileaks cable from Burns to Whitehouse) and the Americans were pushing Ukraine towards NATO anyway. Did the Russians back down? No. They went into Ukraine. If NATO keeps escalating in Ukraine, either Russia backs down which only an idiot believes will happen - or there's a hot war between NATO and Russia - which will probably turn nuclear. Further escalation is hugely dangerous. The smart thing to do for both sides is negotiate, let Russia pocket a win and whatever is left of Ukraine keeps out of NATO. The alternative is either world war killing billions or an eventual Ukrainian collapse which NATO can't do much about. Take your pick.
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  3160.  @michaelmoorrees3585  Non essential targets? Like a hotel full of Polish mercenaries and the SBU head quarters, killing one of the senior SBU commanders? I don't think so.
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  3161.  @matthewneddeau7993  The Ukrainian media admits a senior SBU commander was killed.
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  3162.  @saltmerchant749  Your assumption is probably wrong. They were probably using S300s for surface strikes because they're obsolete and the Russians don't need them any more as they transition to S400s for air defence. What else are they going to do with them? Using S300s saves their modern missiles.
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  3163.  @saltmerchant749  What you suggest is that the S300 is too small and too inaccurate to have any value then they're not worth firing. Since the Russians did actually fire them then it's logical to assume the Russians disagreed with your assessment.
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  3164.  @Szminsky  Well those rooskys have been "running out of missiles" since April and they just fired hundreds ... so what do I know?
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  3165.  @Szminsky  Knocking out the electricity grid has no effect on the war? Transformers that take a month to replace even in peace time? You know the Ukrainian trains are electric right?
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  3166. The problem with that logic is fighting Hitler destroyed Europe. And that's before the availability of nuclear weapons.
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  3167. A lot of them have gone home and are no longer under contract.
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  3168.  @ruthcollins2841  It's openly admitted this base is used to make raids into Syria.
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  3169.  @ruthcollins2841  Turns out the base is on the Syrian side of the border. The claim that it was in Jordan is probably deliberate misinformation. US forces are in Syria illegally, there to train anti-government ISIS forces.
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  3170. He'll be rich by then, he won't care :)
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  3171. LOL aye she is a minger
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  3172.  @djohnson6585  As if you'd even know the difference, if a Russian and a Ukrainian came and talked to you, you wouldn't know the difference would you!
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  3173. "freedom and democracy" are now endangered species in America itself not to mention the military dictatorship emerging in Ukraine.
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  3174. Your statement could apply to all of Ukraine, Russia and the USA.
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  3175. Zeihan's take on anything to do with Ukraine is outright Orwellian.
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  3176.  @Teatime-qe2lj  The German economy is more export dependent than China.
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  3177. But whom exactly did he mischaracterise?
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  3178.  @ianworley8169  And there are videos of Ukrainian soldiers executing Russian POWs too.
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  3179. They buy British passports though
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  3180.  @jamesmorrow1646  Most of the West is moving in the Fascist direction. Look at how protesters against lockdowns and vaccines were treated throughout the West especially Australia and France and Canada. A country can't claim to still be a liberal democracy when peaceful protesters have their bank accounts frozen without proper judicial process or are savaged by unaccountable riot police. Look at the January 6th protesters in America, many are still in prison for no more than trespass. Look at how Julian Assange was framed with pretext crimes and persecuted for exposing lies and corruption. Is Russia really worse?
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  3181.  @Jay-vt1mw  Sensible people talk with probabilities and caveats. Zeihan has come up with such ridiculous claims as shutting down oceanic trade would kill 500 million Chinese (even though they can import food from Russia) and a Russia-NATO war would see casualties 1000:1 (even though Russia is beating NATO armed Ukraine decisively). So much of what he says is blatant propaganda.
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  3182. And what are Western models now? A worship of transgendrism and LGBT? Mass immigration to replaces Western peoples with foreigners? Censorship even worse than in Russia? "human rights" except for Julian Assange and Palestinians?
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  3183. Considering the ex Prime Minister thought Rostov is in Ukraine, that's a bit much to ask!
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  3184.  @hedgehog3180  Russians captured dozens of military vehicles in Lysychansk. There are plenty of videos online. Likewise of Ukrainian infantry escaping on foot because the only road out was under fire control. According to your logic an advance which isn't rapid is embarrassing. What would you recommend the Russian generals do? A massed tank attack across minefields into towns where a poorly trained territorial can fire a cheap anti-tank missile? That's just stupid. Rommel fought much of WWII in an open desert where there were no forests and few towns and in the days when infantry anti-tank weapons were only dangerous at short range and from flanks.
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  3185.  @sgt.grinch3299  Not what I said ... but I think you knew that.
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  3186. What a ridiculous cope :) Most Americans think whatever the media tells them to think and the US media is turning hard against the losing proxy war against Russia.
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  3187. Yes they just hit a civilian area in Tokmak with cluster munitions.
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  3188.  @littlejohnuk  Well not sure what he did wrong exactly but Russia's at war so if the guy is annoying him, not surprising that they want him out. Big country anything les than a week to get from the middle of Siberia might be unreasonable. I don't know the reality of what he did there but consider this - there are thousands of Westerners living quite happily in Russia finding themselves quite welcome. Some have even moved there since the start of the war. A lot don't speak Russian too well. A lot have youtube channels. I don't think his mere presence in Russia was really the problem.
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  3189.  @rankoorovic7904  I think it's probably a feint. The main efforts seem to be near Donetsk and towards Mikulayev.
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  3190.  @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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  3191. How deluded do you have to be to even speculate that Russia was involved with planning the Gaza war!
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  3192.  @olddog100_UA  Yes Russia gained from it but why would anyone think Russia has any influence over Hamas? Motive alone isn't enough, You have to have at least some plausible mechanism.
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  3193. Not so much that they think Russia is their friend, more that they just understand the Ukraine war is a proxy war between the US and Russia and the US is even less of a friend than Russia to most African and Middle Eastern countries.
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  3194. ​ @manchesterexplorer8519  By the same logic you use, atrocities against Israel could be justified because Israelis voted for government which have committed war crimes. Almost all powerful countries have committed crimes, atrocities etc. certainly including America and Israel. Hold the individuals responsible for sure but innocent civilians must be protected whichever side of a border they're from.
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  3195. In every country where they live in numbers, Jewish intellectuals, politicians, financiers and media have argued to undermine ethnic homogeneity and argued for mass immigration. This is true in Britain, France and the USA. Collectively, Jewish people disproportionately created the situation we're in now.
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  3196. You're welcome to volunteer to go and fight in Ukraine.
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  3197. Russia started a war to keep NATO out of Ukraine, why would it end a war it's winning to then allow NATO into Ukraine?
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  3198. Zeihan is severely misreading this war. The Russians are running low on missiles but there's no evidence they're running low on artillery ammunition. Their production capacity is huge. The Institute for the Study of War is CIA propaganda, look at who owns it and its outrageous claims (like the Russians have been shelling themselves in Donetsk for months) and poor track record. The Kherson counter offensive has already failed, this was obvious by the time this video was released. As for the bridges .... the Russians have a huge fleet of heavy lift helicopters in the region.
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  3199. Do you seriously believe the Russians are using hypersonic missiles to attack random civilians? The SBU head quarters got flattened.
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  3200.  @davidmorris3981  Russia took on a NATO satellite and despite all the support from NATO, Russia appears to be winning decisively. If Russia is finished, why are so many powerful countries leaving the US sphere of influence and joining BRICS+?
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  3201. Over 95% of the people killed in Israel and Palestine this year have been Palestinians killed by the IDF. Look at the numbers. Israel government members have openly called for the extermination of the Gaza population. They're starving them right now and destroying their housing so even when there's a cease fire, they have nowhere to live. If you're siding with Israel on this one then you really need to have a closer look at what's happening
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  3202. A lot depends on how you cost military equipment. Old junk open market sale price might be $1m, like for like replacement cost might be $4m, replacement with the most modern alternative might be $8m
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  3203. 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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  3204. It's not just him, it's millions of people in Britain. The logic is we don't like these kind of people in our country (for good reasons BTW) so we're going to give a free pass to Israel to do their worst over there even if that involves mass murder, deliberately killing journalists and medical staff, torture and seizing huge amounts of land. It does seem pretty dim
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  3205. LOL Robbie thinks the people who run the Ivy League came over on the May Flower! Jeez man - no. Look at the Frankfurt School
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  3206.  @the_pinkerton  The rise in state spending has been gradual over more than a century. Covid and the Ukraine war are minor compared to the longer term effects. If you didn't know that then you've obviously got no historical reference. So called trans rights are an assault on the traditional society. Trans people already had essential human rights long before this became a major political movement. Stuff like renaming breast feeding as chest feeding and introducing pronouns like they/them are not about strengthening individual rights, they're about subverting the norm of the nuclear family and traditional sex roles.
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  3207.  @the_pinkerton  Here's a clue for you. Which societies are going to dominate the world in the decades to come, those which have strongly defined gender roles and families with many children or those where a quarter of the children are not even heterosexual, are damaging themselves with puberty blockers and other harmful medicines, where women spend the first decades of adulthood getting educated, building a career and enjoying spa holidays before finding it's too late to have children or only manage one or two. Don't just look at how things are now because things are changing very quickly, look ahead one or two generations.
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  3208.  @the_pinkerton  Only in the short term. Compare South Korea where there are around 0.8 babies per woman with Afghanistan where there are more than six. Obviously South Korea is nicer to live in but Afghanistan is going to export its surplus population and spread its culture thereby. In the West most native populations have around 1.6 children per woman. We're going to be swamped by Sub Saharan Africa in particular. It started decades ago it's well under way. Leftist politics is a big contribution both to the low birthrate of the native population and also to the ideology which says mass immigration is acceptable.
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  3209. Peter Zeihan is worse than a crackpot- he's an all round grifter and a neocon propagandist.
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  3210.  @iannothling2791  Yes that matches my misunderstanding exactly. One thing to add, covering the Kharkov front was a major mess up by Russia. The generals responsible for that front miscalculated their own strength and didn't see the Ukrainian build up. It was a genuine Ukrainian victory but it won't be repeated.
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  3211.  @teddypicker8799  Two points - if you think Russia loses 3 x more vehicles and equipment, you're putting way too much trust in Oryx - which is a far from neutral source. Secondly, Ukraine relies on infantry attacks much more than Russia does. Even the Ukrainians admit they have a severe shortage of vehicles. Thirdly - use your common sense. Both sides acknowledge that Russia has anything from a five times to a ten times artillery advantage. Fourthly - be consistent. When Russia was attacking Bakhmut (successfully), NATO fan boys like you were claiming the attacker always takes much higher casualties. Over the past couple of months, most of the attacking has been done by Ukraine. It's obvious to anyone who watches footage who's taking the higher casualties. Fifthly - I don't watch propaganda sources generally, I use sources that at least try to be neutral. You should try it. You might be shocked at the difference between neutral sources and the cherry picked propaganda you've been wasting your time on.
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  3212. Deluded propagandists, if you listen to Ben Hodges, kindly explain why the Ukrainian offensive didn't take Crimea in two weeks?
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  3213. You obviously don't know what democracy is. The EU which is not answerable to electorates is deliberately bypassing member states which are answerable to electorates to send huge amounts of money to the most corrupt country in Europe. In a democracy, the people decide. Let member parliaments decide whether to spend this money on a state by state basis, that is far more democratic than diktat from Brussels.
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  3214.  @GustavSvard  What you're really saying is that the EU has got too big to be democratically accountable.
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  3215.  @GustavSvard  Electing national parliaments already puts a layer (of politicians) in between the people and the government. It's unavoidable but it makes democracy very imperfect. The EU introduces an even denser layer, of EU commissioners whom nobody votes for. The EU is incompatible with democracy. The bigger the EU gets the less accountable it gets.
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  3216. Do you actually want a nuclear war with Russia?
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  3217.  @philipmain5701  Anyone who believes the Russians are going to be pushed out of Crimea is dumb as a rock.
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  3218. Devastated by Brexit? The only place devastated by Brexit are the brothels and high end restaurants in Brussels because the kleptocrats have less money to steal.
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  3219. The Ukrainian government has told plenty of completely ridiculous lies, if you trust the Ukrainian government on anything, you're not paying attention.
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  3220.  @lucylane7397  That's BS, labour in Britain got paid higher than just about anywhere else in the world in those days.
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  3221.  @chrissmith7669  If you believe that I don't think your sources are balanced. The Russians are taking 20-40 prisoners per day. The Ukrainians take a handful now and then. Yes the Russians have definitely blown through Ukrainian defences. If you're denying that then you're obviously not following the fighting very closely.
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  3222.  @cameronspence4977  You're missing the point. True the VKV doesn't usually fly directly over the front lines (although that has been happening a lot more this year), the VKV launches FABs from as much as 70km away. Yes it does put aircraft at risk from SAMs but they judge it worthwhile and Russian fighter losses are pretty modest. The end result is the Russians can demolish even the strongest fortification. Ukraine has no equivalent.
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  3223.  @chrissmith7669  F16s. Another "game changer" coming up right? I don't think FABs are limited success. Ukraine has no answer to FABs. As soon as the Russians can identify a Ukrainian position, it can be destroyed. Yes, missiles could do that already but missiles are expensive and in limited supply. FABs are cheap enough they can be used even when the Russians aren't confident they're going to hit something valuable. I don't think F16s are going to achieve anything like that. They'll get destroyed on the ground, destroyed in the air, they'll be useful to launch missiles but they're not going to change the one sided nature of the war.
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  3224. Peter Zeihan is just as bad on a lot of other topics, it's just that he has such confident delivery he sucks in people who aren't too knowledgeable about whatever he's talking about.
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  3225.  @dzonikg  Why would you support the side which bombed your country in 1999 based on lies? That deliberately targeted civilians including a television station? I am not Serbian but if I were, I would never forgive NATO for this.
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  3226.  @trishawilson1436  Haha clowns like you don't have a clue what's going on. There have been some successful Russian attacks in the north near Svatove and down south west of the Donetsk over the past couple of weeks. Oh didn't the media tell you about that??
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  3227. What was the alternative? Sit back and allow the Germans to keep the initiative? If the British had refused to attack, the Germans probably would have broken the French at Verdun, what then? Quite possibly a separate peace and a German victory. Haig didn't want to fight at the Somme, he had to. To relieve pressure on the French and the Russians.
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  3228.  @ABCBCNM  These guys keep trying to pretend Russia is going to stomp all over Europe. Why would Russia want to? There are specific reasons Russia went into Ukraine which don't apply to Lapland or Warsaw or even Riga.
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  3229.  @gijgij4541  No it's actually true but you'd never know from our media. You're statistically almost ten times more likely to be arrested in Britain for speech/media post related "crimes" than in Russia. And even though the Russian state has generally good relations with its Muslim population the state is explicitly pro-Christian.
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  3230.  @user-xd9yo3le7o  Yeah they're at war what do you expect? What do you think is going to happen to you if you went waving a Russian flag around in Britain? You obviously have no idea what's been happening in Britain. People have had more than a year prison just for attending a demonstration -not attacking the police, not for throwing stones, just being there. On woman got 18 months for just saying there'd be trouble if the Southport murderer turned out to be Muslim. Not inciting violence just saying that there would be violence.
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  3231. If the Russians were that useless, the Ukrainians would have taken Moscow by now.
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  3232. Actual neutral channels show Ukraine is in serious trouble. This guy claiming almost a million Russian casualties is plucking this number from where? If it were actually true, Russia would have stalled, in reality advances are accelerating.
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  3233.  @JoeyP946  The rest of the world doesn''t see it like that. The rest of the world sees America starting wars all over the world and killing millions of people. What you think is fighting fair looks to the rest of the world like launching drone strikes from the safety of overseas and air strikes against defenceless enemies
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  3234. Why do you want to be funding America's proxy war against Russia brought to you by the same people who got us into Iraq with lies and left half a million people dead in their wake? Don't you realise you're watching propaganda and being manipulated? Don't you realise this is one autocratic country against another? Don't you realise Ukraine tells lies and has committed atrocities too?
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  3235.  @DdiafwlL  Totally agree. Get the fighting over with as soon as possible before it blows up into WWIII.
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  3236. The propagandists have fall out shelters. We don't.
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  3237.  @rjohns25  FFS, how ignorant are people? Nuclear missiles have been able to hit USA from Russia and Russia from USA for over half a century now. That's why they're called ICBMs - INTER CONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILES. As for air defense systems, yeah that'll shoot down a few percent of the incoming missiles. Very unlikely to stop the hypersonic ones. Most will get through.
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  3238.  @citrusretna2088  Yes NATO/Washington is to blame but so is the Ukrainian government. They know they won't survive a peace deal so want to go down fighting like Hitler 1945.
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  3239.  @kevinchadwick8993  Wrong. Russia is not backing down over Ukraine. If you think they are you know nothing about Russian politics or society. And they're not going to ignore NATO missiles landing in Russia either. They'll retaliate on Ukraine probably tonight and also they'll retaliate against us. They could sink our economy just by cutting cables and blowing up some gas pipelines.
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  3240. The Turks aren't so stupid as to start a war with Russia. They've fought a lot of wars with Russia before and it seldom works out well for them.
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  3241.  @rccasual7525  I severely doubt the Turks want their country to be on the front line of WWIII. They have nothing to gain and everything to lose.
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  3242. Someone who cares way, way too much about keeping his job instead of doing his job well
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  3243. So when's that going to happen? Is it before or after Joe Biden wins a running gold in the next Olympics?
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  3244.  @djscoah8037  No, the majority of British people are pretty craven if we're honest. Look at how there's no opposition to mass immigration and how people were banging pots for the NHS and calling to be locked down harder.
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  3245. Of course not, they've got nowhere to go and no means to leave.
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  3246.  @hlc95  The vast majority of people in Gaza can't leave Gaza. Only those with foreign passports can leave plus a few wounded people have been taken out to be treated in Egypt. Just because one side in a war orders an entire population to vacate a city doesn't mean this is a legitimate order. The UN has passed a 2/3 majority resolution demanding the Israelis stop their invasion, the Israelis ignore it. Remember how the Americans were lecturing Russia about the "rules based order"?
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  3247.  @theophilusodafi2  I am not pro-Hamas. Hamas are terrorists because they kill innocent people. But the IDF is killing more innocent people than Hamas. The whole world sees it.
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  3248. Well put, these people who think Russia will just never respond to all this escalation are living in a dream world. The Russians must have already been sorely tempted to use a tactical nuclear weapon to warn the West to back off.
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  3249.  @tonywilson4713  On other stuff I know a bit about, machine learning and the Ukraine war, I can also confidently say, Zeihan is not only ignorant but outright dishonest. He's told many blatant lies about Russia in particular. One giveaway that he's full of S***, he badly mispronounces well known names in French, German and Russian in ways which would be unlikely if had the familiarity with the topics he's discussing, even without actually learning those languages properly.
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  3250.  @hanshansen3885  Orban has been right about all the big issues so far from EU authoritarianism to Middle Eastern migration to Ukraine joining NATO to Ukraine walking out of the peace negotiations a month into this war. If anyone had listened to him Ukraine would be vastly better off than it is now.
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  3251.  @aaronbaker2186  Out of two and a half million population there are a couple of sabotage operations. Which have apparently now been shut down. So it's hardly a popular insurgency.
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  3252. It seems obvious to you because you believe everything the Ukrainian government claims without question no matter how obviously propagandistic it is?
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  3253. No he's not better than that. He's always been a CIA propagandist. And under Musk, the CIA no longer controls Twitter.
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  3254.  @Kiyoone  He's gone to war with the Biden mafia. What's there not to like?
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  3255. But Ben Wallace is warmonger in chief.
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  3256. I've never heard of an army that's 20% officers but it is true that non combat roles like intelligence and electronic warfare will have a high proportion of officers. The problem is, the officer casualties are going to be concentrated in the infantry. And nowadays, artillery. You can't just swap in say a supply officer into an infantry platoon. Totally different skills and knowledge required.
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  3257.  @matthewfors114  He was definitely wrong about the time scale but the war could indeed end how he's predicting. Actually looking the most likely outcome as of 2024.
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  3258.  @matthewfors114  Yeah cool want to set an alarm? I typed a longer answer but lost it. Simple to say I don't think it's plausible Ukraine is taking fewer casualties than Russia, if you believe this you're not getting your info from balanced sources.
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  3259.  @disposabull  Storm Z guys are definitely used as cannon fodder but VDV? I haven't seen any evidence of that.
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  3260. You seriously want a nuclear war with the world's largest nuclear power, a country with nuclear fallout shelters and the biggest land mass in the world whose population is spread out? Don't you realise that a full scale nuclear war would wipe out over 99% of Britain's population?: About half dead on the first day. According to modelling more British people would die than Russians. If you want to fight the Russians, go and fight in Ukraine. They've already lost hundreds of thousands of men they have many vacancies for a man of your intellect.
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  3261. Nothing to do with modern Russia, Stalin wasn't even Russian FFS
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  3262. Millions of Ukrainian women have already left the country and are unlikely to ever go back.
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  3263.  @TrendyStone  Sure. And you also believe the Russians are trying to drive to Warsaw to increase their own security? And that China will collapse because of demographics but Japan will become a regional hegemon despite its even worse demographics? And it's just a pure coincidence that everything Zeihan/Stratfor say align with Washington policy goals?
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  3264.  @Henchman.24  No it's not! Glasgow City isn't much more than a tenth of Scotland's overall population. Why do you clowns spout utter crap about stuff you know nothing about? You could literally have checked this with google in the time you spent to write a post.
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  3265.  @chrisy6707  On a lot of other subjects too, he talks very authoritatively but the facts don't stack up. He seems to be a propaganda mouth piece for the CIA or the state department. Background is Stratfor an organisation linked to the CIA
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  3266. You're wrong Clinton never went to prison and nor has Biden yet.
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  3267. What's serious to us is not serious to the government and vice versa. If we had freedom of speech it wouldn't take long before the whole state falls apart so hurty words on social media (even if true) are more dangerous to the establishment then some plebs getting stabbed by a "Welshman" or a few million robberies, burglaries etc.
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  3268.  @anaxscotia  There's no doubt the average copper is a lazy blob of lard.
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  3269. And food and ammunition and computer chips and also they don't have any winter clothing, the Russian army is going to freeze this upcoming winter, they're a joke because the Russian army has never prepared to fight a war in winter, it probably never occurred to those stupid Russian generals that their army would ever have to fight anywhere cold.
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  3270.  @denkakorea3178  Mediazona has identified around 43,000 Russians killed so estimating 50k given a few will have been missed is probably about right. Von der Leyen accidentally admitted in a speech 100k dead Ukrainians back months ago. Ukrainian losses have increased massively since then because Russia has been pushing hard all winter. And that's dead, not total casualties.
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  3271.  @thedualtransition6070  I have no doubt Ukrainian casualties are very high but 800k is just impossible. 200k is probably a good guess.
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  3272.  @dcliffe8539  Yeah I believe their total casualties including seriously wounded might be that high.
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  3273. @@AquaFyrre You only have to go as far back as the Taleban to find an example.
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  3274.  @nicolast.davinci1561  This is the problem. The Isarelis used the excuse of atrocities and genocide from two thousand years ago to commit their own atrocities and genocide in the past decades. It's utter hypocrisy.
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  3275.  @johnnyredux4019  Yes Churchill's five volume series on the war is full of lies - I've read the first two volumes, he's so dishonest it's a waste of time. Just because Churchill claimed it doesn't mean it's true. Hitler wanted good relations with Britain all the way up until 1939. Even when Hitler realised good relations weren't possible, he wanted to avoid war. Britain, France and the USA baited Germany into attacking Poland - and the Polish misjudged their strength so badly they refused all negotiations with Germany. On Youtube, the Zoomer Historian channel covers this quite well but for the full story, read Schultze Rhonhof's book the War with Many Fathers.
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  3276. Is this guy for real? As if the Russians didn't know which side would be flooded. Why does he believe Russia blew the dam?
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  3277.  @wintermute-  When the Clintons get a half million dollars for an hour speaking gig, it's not because they have some special insight. Peter Zeihan is a CIA mouthpiece.
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  3278. If you knew a bit more history you'd know Britain fought WW2 on behalf of British Jews. Why do you think Churchill did a u-turn on whether it was acceptable for Germany to reverse the treaty of Versailles? Because he was being funded by the likes of Henry Strakosch, Ernest Cassell and Bernard Baruch.
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  3279. Driving most vehicles at 20mph definitely burns more fuel per mile than driving at 30mph. Petrol cars are not optimised for driving at 20mph. Their engines need to be powerful enough for 70mph at least. The optimum speed for fuel efficiency per mile is likely to be around 40mph or even more. At 40mph wind resistance is still pretty negligible and there's a cost associated with running the engine even if you're not moving.
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  3280. Why don't you go and volunteer yourself? After you've stopped vomiting of course.
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  3281. Not really, in India, Hindu extremists are just as nasty to the Muslims as Muslim extremists are to everyone else. The problem is your sample size of one.
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  3282. Yeah it's a suicide operation.
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  3283.  @youareliedtobythemedia  Park a ship in Odessa and the Russians will sink it. It's a game of chicken and the Russians aren't going to back down in Ukraine. If you think a global nuclear war is worth some shipments of grain then good luck convincing Erdogan because the Turks have fought many wars against Russia and they tend to lose badly.
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  3284.  @theobservationsreal3291  I agree MacGregor is the more weighty by far, just be aware that Scott Ritter was deliberately set up by the US security state - it's what they do to discredit big names with an inconvenient narrative (and the Russians do it too of course). Look at the Sweden charges against Julian Assange for another example.
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  3285. Clear weather is to the Russian advantage. They have the aviation, artillery and drone dominance. The worse the weather the better for Ukraine so they can infiltrate.
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  3286. The West has overwhelming dominance in the propaganda war in Western countries. Pretending Russian propaganda is "insanely active" ignores that NATO propaganda is ubiquitous. The Bandera cult in the nationalist elements of the Ukrainian army is hardly a conspiracy theory.
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  3287.  @talideon  How is that different to the US running away from Afghanistan leaving hundreds of billions worth of armaments?
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  3288. This is going around the internet but if you see the original footage, she was talking about Ukrainian deaths. If you don't speak Russian there are plenty of sites in English translating what she said for you.
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  3289.  @LewisPulsipher  What are the insurance costs of the Yemeni coast and off Somalia?
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  3290. If you believe that then you need to watch neutral sources. The Russians are bombarding this incursion with Lancets and FABs. There's a lot of footage of destroyed Ukrainian columns.
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  3291.  @ernest795  Sure that's true but even with more missiles and artillery ammunition - which isn't in any case available, Ukraine is too short of manpower now. Look at the debates going on in the Rada right now. They're talking about lowering the conscription age, Wyatt from Defense Politics Asia did a video a couple of days back explaining why that won't help much. Zaluzhny seems like he's close to the point of resigning.
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  3292. LOL yeah like when Russia attacked Serbia on the basis of lies and a few years later attacked Iraq... and then Libya and then Syria and funds the mass murder of innocent civilians in Gaza ... oh wait
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  3293.  @jasonbern5185  I agree it's complicated. It's not anything alone. However, there is evidence that experience of tough conditions and danger does make people more inclined to want to have children afterwards. Ed Dutton looks at the evidence for this extensively. Perhaps experience of danger shakes people out of the unnatural complacency of modern life.
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  3294. The Ukrainians are hardly united. For the first year of the war, well over a quarter of the soldiers on the Russian side were Ukrainian citizens according to official Ukrainian logic. When the war started, millions of Ukrainians left the country. Men paid large bribes to be smuggled across into the EU.
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  3295. Read the McCrone report - Scotland was subsidising England for years and it was kept secret by the government at the time.
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  3296.  @Fay-i2s  "lack of building houses" - engage your brain please. Since almost all of the increase in population is due to immigration, why would there need to be so many houses built without immigration? Study found 89% of the increase in cost of housing is due to immigration. Google it
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  3297.  @kylethompson1379  One study found 89% of the increase in UK house prices is due to immigration
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  3298.  @cat-as-trophy  The most "diverse" cities in Europe are absolutely awful to live in - crime, filth, high housing costs, lack of social cohesion - look at France right now. According to Zeihan logic, Somalia has a better future than Northern Europe because it has a young population.
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  3299.  @cat-as-trophy  Yeah it's definitely different, the other big difference is in most Asian countries, the amount of immigration is too small to be any demographic threat to the native population. In Europe there's neither quality control nor quantity control.
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  3300.  @cat-as-trophy  I couldn't agree more
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  3301. Disagree Glenn, it was ambiguous. Biden could have meant either. Out of all the ridiculous things Biden says, this is barely on the list.
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  3302.  @chadchadus9251  I'm curious, why do you think the Russians are losing? I follow several neutral (or close to) sources and it seems the Ukrainians are taking higher losses especially in manpower without gaining more than trivial territory and they're the smaller country by far. Yes they're supplied by NATO but it doesn't seem sustainable especially economically.
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  3303. She tried and Bri schooled her
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  3304.  @Chris-s1k6y  I'm the opposite of woke. She may well be knowledgeable but if she is, she's deliberately telling lies.
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  3305. The Russian army has lost 350,000 dead in the last few years?? This is blatant propaganda. Mediazona attempt to identify dead Russian soldiers and finds around 45,000 dead. It will have missed some and doesn't track DPR and LPR so feel free to add a few thousand to the real number. But this propagandist is still inflating Russian dead by a factor of at least five. Let's be real - if Russia had really lost 350,000 dead in Ukraine, the whole country would be up in arms against Putin. But it's not. He still has very high support.
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  3306.  @nigelgarrett7970  The Bosporus is a special case by treaty. It doesn't apply to any other sea channel in the world except canals.
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  3307.  @nigelgarrett7970  No blocking traffic through the Skagerrak would be an act of war.
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  3308.  @nigelgarrett7970  Here's a thought experiment. What if the Chinese allied with the Panamanian government and shut the Panama canal to US ships - what do you think the US would do?
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  3309.  @nigelgarrett7970  Shutting the Panama canal would probably be legal according to international war. It's Panamanian water. But we all know the US would attack the government immediately. Not like it hasn't done it before. If the Danes want a war with Russia, good luck Every Danish ship would be sunk within a month, every airbase turned to rubble and every other NATO country would find excuses to keep out the way. In fact, the USA would take over Greenland :)
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  3310.  @CatFluff-pm6qr  You really want to risk getting stabbed for the police to prosecute you afterwards?
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  3311. Why is a Gael shilling for Washington, neocons like Nuland and the corrupt Zelensky regime?
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  3312. And Russia was also promised multiple times NATO would not expand eastwards from Germany, which broken promises came first do you think?
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  3313.  @yurilytviak9066  Verbal commitments by George Bush and secretary of state James Baker. It's a technicality to say there's no written agreement. From the Russian POV they were given this assurance many times. Break the promise pay the price. And now another major war in Europe. USA doesn't care but other NATO are paying the price.
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  3314. A Russian NCO was telling mobilised soldiers that they won't receive much equipment, she told them to ask their wives and girlfriends for medical supplies including tampons to plug bullet wounds, a trick learned from Chechnya. That's the origin of the Telegraph story. Alex was presumably not aware of that.
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  3315. Sure, just steal the money and watch what happens to the world economy as everyone outside of the West pull out their money before it gets stolen too.
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  3316. Most of it's already been blown up by the Russians or stolen by the Ukrainians but you might be able to track down some of the kick backs in Washtington.
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  3317. Zeihan believes anything the Ukrainians claim which suits his narrative. There was such a claim but it was debunked. Search for the photo of Klitschko with this "hypersonic" missile which got shot down
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  3318.  @reginatrench3899  Imagine how many lives would have been saved if the US state dept. had never staged a coup in Kiev back in 2013
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  3319.  @codaalive5076  Yeah the Russian state has just been exploiting the population of the Donbas. The Russian army has treated them like cannon fodder at times. Hopefully after the war there'll be a lot of investment and rebuilding but I'd guess Russia might not have much money to spare after this expensive war.
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  3320. It's not Moscow that's getting flattened or freezing in the dark. And Mariupol is being rebuilt at an incredible pace.
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  3321.  @JM-yn8mb  Jeez for someone who watches geopolitics channels that's incredibly naive. US and Britain don't support Israel for their own benefit. It's because Zionists make campaign donations and have media influence. Read the Israel Lobby by Mearsheimer or the Neoconservatism as a Jewish ethnic movement by McDonald. As for not losing allies, just look at the UN. The entire UN except Israel, the USA and two tiny island countries is calling for a ceasefire.
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  3322.  @george2113  Most of us weren't alive then. The difference is, during the Cuban crisis, there was a sane, capable president in the White House who could and did talk to the Soviet leader and come up with a deal. Now, there is a demented incompetent in the White House who accuses the Russian leader of terrorism while at the same time committing sabotage like the Nordstream attack.
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  3323. I'd put it higher. 0.1%
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  3324. "Moscow's only victories come from invading smaller countries :" All countries are smaller countries for Russia you clown. It didn't get to be the biggest country in the world by being crap at war.
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  3325. Aristocrats didn't "cut" the grass around their houses, the grass was grazed by sheep, not wasted. Servants did have to pick up the dung :P
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  3326.  @robbielad  You believe Ukraine will prevail?? At what? Eurovision? Because they've lost millions in population since this war started, hundreds of thousands dead on the battlefield and millions left the country, 80% say they will never return. Their economy is destroyed, they're losing ground all over the front. If you think they can win this war you should check out some neutral sources because you've buying the propaganda.
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  3327. Russia fabricate their own chips. It's not totally self sufficient, it doesn't make the high end chipas but it can make plenty for the likes of missiles.
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  3328. But isn't the high fertility mainly because of the Gypsies?
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  3329.  @decemvre  They're well known in Britain, Germany and Scandinavia as shoplifters, pickpockets and social welfare frauds.
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  3330. Both are accepted alternatives.
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  3331. None .. but Zelensky is desperate to drag in NATO and a false flag might work
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  3332. I'm not sure TIK should be sarcastically criticising the English of non native speakers until he learns some basic pronunciation of French and German.
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  3333.  @zakstev  British media are mainly coke heads :P
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  3334.  @michaeltoms7040  If Ukraine is able to cut the water off to Crimea - and that's a big if - then that's going to convince Crimeans they should be part of Ukraine about as much as Russia is convincing the people of Kiev they should be part of Russia by cutting off their electricity. Actually cutting off the water before the war is a big reason why so many people in Crimea hate the Kiev regime As for rebuilding Ukraine - who's going to do that? Certainly not Britain. Britain's heading into probably the worst recession of our lives and is actually cutting military spending, foreign aid and raising taxes. Certainly not Germany. Germany is deindustrialising - its manufacturing model was built on cheap Russian gas. Certainly not America. America can't afford it either and the population is sick of foreign wars, they're still wondering how they managed to waste two trillion in Afghanistan with nothing to show for it. These tens of billions of aid given to Ukraine - the vast majority was actually loans, not presents. Ukraine started off amongst the poorest countries in Europe and is losing millions of people to emigration. If there isn't a negotiated peace soon, the Russians have already demonstrated they can easily cut off electricity to the cities, most people still remaining will leave over the winter because the alternative is sitting in a dark and literally freezing apartment block with no lifts, no water and for many, no ability to even earn money. Even before the war, a lot of Ukrainians were desperate to get to the EU. Once they actually make that step, most won't want to go back even if there is some kind of peace.
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  3335. Yes there's no shortage of grifters in the media nowadays. The British army would run out of ammo after one day and there'd be so few soldiers, the Russians would barely notice. The German army isn't in a much better state. Only the US could put a sizeable force together and luckily nobody senior wants a nuclear war.
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  3336. None of Russia, North Korea, Iran nor China want a war with us. We're the ones forever escalating and sabre rattling even as our military has been hollowed out.
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  3337. Things have been downhill since the 60s, it's just we've been gathering momentum and recently we've run off a cliff.
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  3338. "allegedly" by a man of Algerian origin - no not allegedly. It's a fact.
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  3339.  @yespeace2000  If the ammunition inside the tank explodes then yes I agree. But many of the tanks reported destroyed are actually just immobilised or have temporary damage.
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  3340. @Ole Ahlers You seem to be confusing the Bosnian Serbs and the state of Yugoslavia.
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  3341. @Ole Ahlers Yes NATO bombing precisely hit a civilian passenger train, a television station and the Chinese embassy!
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  3342. Does Robbie know the difference between England and Britain? Seems not.
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  3343. Just means the buffer zone the Russians will require at the final peace treaty will be bigger.
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  3344.  @eugenet9070  No, it's not whataboutism it's about confronting your own hypocrisy. The US has started countless wars all over the world for decades. Most of the US population doesn't care about the MILLIONS of innocent people killed overseas by the US military and the policies of the US State Department.
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  3345.  @kikidevine694  Yeah and he got fired because BJ didn't like the advice.
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  3346.  @kytestar  What's funny is the Youtube translation for your comment into English changes the meaning of some of it to the opposite of what it should be.
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  3347. Things have changed completely now. Firepower is relatively far heavier than in the Second World War. If you concentrate a large armoured force together it'll get slaughtered especially against the Russians. Just happened yesterday near Robotyne. Dozens of Ukrainian vehicles left. The only way to win ground now in a heavily manned part of the front is siege tactics like what Wagner used. Find enemy positions then bombard them until they're dead. Then creep forward in small groups to find the next enemy positions. It requires superior firepower which is what the Ukrainians don't have.
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  3348. Because Zionists control the US government. Netanyahu has openly boasted about it.
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  3349.  @ethanitus8028  I'm not seeing any evidence of that. The Russian economy is growing. Sanctions have failed. BRICS is expanding and in the new economic order emerging in the world, BRICS is going to be huge. Russia is going to be one of the three leading powers in BRICS, together with India and China. Obviously this is not inevitable but that's the way things are going. The Russian military is actually stronger now than when the war began. It's certainly more competent and battle hardened. We don't see the same mistakes and occasional incompetence of even a year ago. The kind of commanders who threw a BTG at a river crossing under artillery bombardment or mismanaged the assault on Vuhledar are gone. The guys in command now are successful both in offensive and defence.
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  3350.  @johnjennings9043  Yes, the claim that Russia is taking high casualties is totally implausible. Mediazona puts huge resources into identifying Russian casualties and even if many individuals are missed, the numbers killed are still less than 50,000 whereas there are multiple reasons to think Ukrainian deaths are going to be at least 150k possibly over 200k. About a year ago Van Der Leyen admitted by accident 100k Ukrainian deaths and footage since then suggests the rate of Ukrainian casualties has intensified. An investigation into amputees estimated 50k Ukrainian amputees which isn't that different for the whole of Britain in the First World War in which it lost three quarters of a million killed. Admittedly mines are more important in this war than in 1914-1918 but there are other circumstantial reasons too pointing to very high Ukrainian deaths.
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  3351.  @jakem4225  Unlikely. A full on war between Russia and NATO would be nuclear. Russia could survive that better than any NATO country. How many US cities have nuclear fall out cities for the majority of the population?
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  3352.  @Judasz696  Russia has thousands of warheads. More than enough to destroy every single large NATO city. The only way to win a nuclear war is avoid fighting one.
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  3353.  @Judasz696  That's not necessarily true in a more limited nuclear exchange of a few weapons in which one side backs down after seeing the other side is serious. Who has the credibility here? The Russian side who warned for years that Ukraine joining NATO was a serious problem for them and then finally acted? Or the NATO side which was drawing Ukraine into NATO and has now abandoned it? Only fools like the current Lithuanian government would bet against Putin.
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  3354.  @Judasz696  I suggest you watch some lectures by Prof. John Mearsheimer who has been warning about this war for years. Russia has been warning Ukraine should not join NATO for years and was ignored. Also Zelensky's announced intention to acquire nuclear weapons and betrayal of his campaign promises to improve relations with Russia are probably big factors.
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  3355.  @markobucevic8991  Wagner used treated conscripts as expendable in the Bakhmut battle and the Russian army does the same with Storm Z (also convicts) but yeah both sides have pretty similar tactics. Except the Russians use armour more because they have plenty. Overall, it's hard to believe Russian casualties are higher given their air and firepower advantage .... very hard.
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  3356.  @markobucevic8991  I agree with every word. Both sides make mistakes, both sides throw lives away but Russia has the firepower, Ukraine does not.
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  3357. The teacher was from Ireland but was not arrested for misgendering as such, was excluded from school for misgendering and refused to stay away from school so got arrested for that.
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  3358.  @zfloyd1627  After this offensive fails, the morale of the Ukrainian army is going to be pretty dire. And they'll have burned their reserves so there won't be much less to stop the Russian offensive that will probably start in a couple of weeks. The question is to how far the Russians want to push. It risks widening the war but there's a huge risk for the Russians in allowing a pro-Western regime to remain in Ukraine too.
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  3359. The Conservative party now is splitting up into a minority of true conservatives like Lee Anderson and a majority of dishonest, spineless grifters. The sooner it breaks up the better. A Labour government will be a disaster but until the Conservative party breaks up there's not even the prospect of improvement. We're way behind the curve, in Netherlands, Germany and France, real, patriotic alternatives are emerging.
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  3360.  @jarimakela7307  Yes... good spot!
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  3361. They just got humiliated by the Taleban and now they want to take on the Russians!
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  3362. 99% of the British population will die if there's another world war. If you want to fight the Russians go and join the Ukrainian foreign legion, they have many vacancies.
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  3363.  @durnastelikas5314  That's the same "it used to be ours once back hundreds of years ago" argument that you complain about when the Russians use it! It really is ridiculous, tiny Lithuania with its poverty, low birth-rate, emigrating population and pint sized military talking about retaking territory from Russia.
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  3364. Excellent weapon systems - against an enemy without effective air defence. Against the Russians - flying coffins.
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  3365.  @Flornmonk  Sure... another wonder weapon. Russian SAMs will make flying F16 suicidal.
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  3366.  @shugieshugied2269  Irrelevant what Farage and Tice think about the working class so long as they follow through on cutting immigration. If you think Labour has ties to the white working class, you're years out of date. The last of such ties ended with Corbyn. People like Starmer and Sunak both represent the establishment and the oligarchs and Starmer has purged the Labour party of any independent voices. Compare Starmer's treatment of the BLM riots with the recent white working class riots. The BLM riots were vastly more damaging and violent but Stamer was on his knees.
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  3367.  @angela-qh8gl  Poroshenko, Merkel and Hollande all publicly admitted Minsk II was signed to buy time to rearm Ukraine. But at the time it was meant to be an end to the war. Not sure how you can deny something which is public knowledge. No I'm not Russian, I'm British - it's just I don't automatically believe my own government's propaganda.
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  3368.  @blindatadas7763  Yeah it did Swiss intelligence colonel Jacque Baud wrote a book about this, read it. Also read Ukraine in the Crossfire by Dutch Journalist de Kaspar. It's not that Russia is blameless, it's just that everything Russia has done is in reaction to NATO expansion and the overthrow of the democratically elected Ukrainian president in 2014 by a US sponsored coup.
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  3369. It's deluded to believe this. Ukraine is struggling to replace manpower, Russia is expanding their army with volunteers only. The Ukrainian economy is destroyed and its surviving on foreign aid, the Russian economy is growing. The stale mate story is for morons.
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  3370. The reality is Scots don't need to move to London anymore, plenty of high sklll high pay jobs in Scotland. It's more like Londoners moving to Scotland to escape the crime and the housing costs.
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  3371. The other consideration is that the country east of Kerson, inland from the river is very sparsely populated. There aren't big towns to hide forces in. The area north west of Avdivka and especially around Kherson has large settlements.
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  3372.  @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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  3373. Correct. If you totally destroy the economy, the next generation can sort it out. If you flood the country with colonisers, even a hundred years won't be enough to fix the mess.
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  3374. Awful interview, can't you just let people finish answering what you've just asked them?
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  3375. Don't you realise the whole of the EU has the same cost of living and inflation problems?
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  3376.  @tobos8909  Sorry, our moronic energy market has nothing to do with Brexit and neither do our self sabotage sanctions on Russian energy.
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  3377.  @ManGoatHamburger  Look at the details, UK manufacturing was doing really well after the 2016 referendum right up to the point where we sabotaged ourselves by sanctioning Russian energy. The EU did the same - at EU level. The problem is self inflicted and nothing to do with Brexit.
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  3378.  @josephturner7569  Cool. So you know how much EU farmers hate the EU
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  3379.  @Flaggyt  Why don't you clowns spend a few seconds to fact check what you're writing? No UK inflation is nowhere near worst in the world. 30 seconds Google can show that.
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  3380.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  You think that tunnel is built of wood?
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  3381.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  While that's true if you've got really massive amounts of heat, a typical bomb doesn't produce enough heat sustained for long enough. There's a huge pressure which spreads the gas from the explosion over a wide area. You're going to need a truly massive conventional bomb to heat through 2cm of concrete and get rebar hot enough to damage it. A tanker fire .. now that could do it. An intense, sustained fire. But that's going to damage a tunnel structurally, it's not going to collapse a tunnel.
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  3382. Don't believe it, these clowns blame everything on Brexit which is BS. Did you know we've just overtaken France and Japan to be the world's 4th biggest exporter? You're never going to hear it on this channel.
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  3383.  @damonburroughs5283  Ukraine is running low on manpower and morale is starting to fail. Check recent Zerohedge article. Ukraine can probably keep fighting for a long time yet but if they can't break through Russian lines now, it's hard to see how that's going to improve as attrition grinds them down further
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  3384.  @damonburroughs5283  Yes I think you're right, it'll go on for months longer but ever since the Russians mobilised, or maybe a couple of months later, they seem to have recovered their balance and are slowly winning through attrition.
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  3385. Still ZERO evidence of North Korean soldiers fighting in Ukraine. Just another propaganda claim so far. Jack Keane is basically a mouthpiece for the arms companies.
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  3386.  @dag3014  According to whom? Check neutral sources that follow the fighting. The Times only reports good news for Ukraine and ignores all the bad news. It's a joke of a newspaper now.
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  3387. The bigger picture is that government, media and Big Tech collude together to push a mutually beneficial narrative. Any move to shut down independent media is dangerous no matter what the excuse.
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  3388. The people of Belgorod are now free from Ukrainians
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  3389. LOL If Europe goes to the Urals which is the commonly accepted eastern boundary then Russia is the BIGGEST European country. And the large majority of the population originates from and lives West of the Urals. By your logic, the France is an Asian country too because some islands in South East Asia are officially part of France.
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  3390.  @ololh4xx  Europe is a continent and a civilisation. The EU is a political organisation comprising some European countries but not others. Are you going to argue Switzerland is not part of Europe? That Britain and Norway and Serbia and Ukraine are not part of Europe? Perhaps you think Switzerland is an Asian country too?
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  3391.  @ololh4xx  The rest of the world's population apart from you agrees Europe and Asia are separate continents but let's pretend for the sake of argument that you're right and the only continent is Eurasia. Your original claim was Russia is not a European country. This claim remains wrong whether or not Europe is a continent or merely part of a continent. The large majority of the Russian people originated in Europe, speak a European language and live west of the Urals, the commonly acknowledged eastern boundary of Europe. Yes of course there are a specific Germanic civilisation, Slavic civilisation etc. but these civilisations are all part of a shared European civilisation with much commonality, for example a Christian heritage, a Graeco-Roman Classical inheritance and an Enlightenment influence. Go back hundreds of years, intellectuals would travel and work between Paris, St. Petersburg, Amsterdam and Edinburgh, Rome and London. Peter the Great employed Dutch ship builders, Scottish generals, German architects and Italian painters.
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  3392.  @derekbaker3279  If you believe that you should broaden your sources because every single neutral source agrees the Russian Kharkov front was very thinly manned.
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  3393.  @Glasgow_kiss  yes please
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  3394.  @Comanderstick  Even five years down the track, imported LPG will never be as cheap for Europe as Russian piped gas. Either Europe buys Russian gas or Europe says goodbye permanently to chemicals, metallurgy, fertilisers and so much else, even cement. You can't make stuff like that with LPG at competitive prices. For Germany especially, that's going to result in severe job losses and a permanently lower standard of living. Will Europeans accept this? Why would they?
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  3395. ​ @bluecanary9417  THe US will probably be fine, you're naive to think Europe will be. Have a look at the price of gas futures and what's happening to energy bills already.
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  3396.  @bluecanary9417  That's totally unrealistic. Look at the numbers. Germany has to cut energy consumption by 20% according to their own estimates. How does a modern economy do that without people going cold and without massive job losses and permanent economic damage. This isn't "some hardship". This is the kind of thing which brings governments down.
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  3397. There never was an Axis of Evil, that was a propaganda slogan for the dumb plebs. There were always just countries pursuing self interest.
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  3398. Imagine if Europe closed its borders to all Africans. I don't see European people crossing the sea trying to get into African countries but millions of Africans are trying to get to Europe.
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  3399.  @vinm300  What? I've just read the link YOU posted - and it confirms what I said.
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  3400.  @vinm300  That's just a random rant of anti-Russian racism. You posted a link and the link YOU posted says the opposite of what you claim.
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  3401. You're talking as if Russia can't retaliate.
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  3402.  @zvexevz  Anyone who's not completely biased can see that Russia's main problem has been insufficient manpower from the start. If you can't see that adding hundreds of thousands of Russian reservists isn't going to swing the initiative back to Russia is blinded by propaganda.
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  3403. No you were right the first time. Ukraine is a huge country backed by all of NATO and Russia is winning.
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  3404.  @xeganxerxes4319  You're looking at this the wrong way. Ukraine had a very large army at the start of the war and Russian went into the war unprepared. The Russians pulled back after the first month for two reasons, partly because they were overextended, partly because they had negotiated a cease fire. But what's happened since then is Russia has built up their army, got themselves organised and Ukraine has suffered attrition they can't recover from. It's not about territory captured so far, it's like attrition. Think of the Western front in the First World War. Taking this or that hill wasn't important, what was important was who got exhausted first and who can replace losses.
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  3405. ​ @xeganxerxes4319  I do agree that Putin almost certainly underestimated Ukrainian resistance. We can only speculate as to why but one good reason would be the incompetence of the Ukrainian army in the 2014-2015 war when the Russians creamed them with modest resources. Obviously a lot changed since then. Why would Putin launch the invasion with little preparation? Again I can only give an opinion. Two reasons - he was hoping he wouldn't have to. They probably decided they had no choice when on 22nd Feb. Kamala Harris gave a speech suggesting Ukraine should join NATO - this is after years of the Russians pleading that this was their red line and the Americans knew they weren't bluffing (see Burns cable in wikileaks - "Nyet means Nyet"). And secondly, the Russians knew the Americans had spies so they went to great lengths to keep the plans secret. Mid level commanders got their orders maybe 24 hours before hand, junior commanders at the last minute. As for invading Poland etc. That's completely ridiculous, Russia was never going to do that. Putin didn't even want to annex pro-Russian Donetsk and Lugansk before the war, he wanted them to remain in a federalised Ukraine - otherwise why sign the Minsk accords? Only mid war did this policy change. Anyone who says the Russians are going stomp all over Eastern Europe after Ukraine is a clown like Peter Zeihan or is lying for self interest like these NATO generals arguing for bigger budgets. In Soviet times Russia already controlled too much non ethnically Russian territory and it was just a huge cost to them.
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  3406.  @xeganxerxes4319  BTW something that doesn't get attention and I don't know why not - in the lead up to the war Zelensky was talking about acquiring nuclear weapons. And NATO leaders didn't challenge him. It's all fact that can be verified but hardly anyone talks about that I don't know why not, it seems like it might be a pretty huge consideration for Russian decision making.
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  3407. Who is J.S.? :-0
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  3408. Not really, the Russians have more than twice as many men now as they did last year. During the Kharkov offensive, there were huge holes in the Russian lines. That's no longer true.
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  3409. Yeah like when he threatened that Ukraine should never attempt to join NATO and then he did nothing ... oh wait
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  3410. I've seen similar. It's out in the open now, the British state does not protect the interests of the British people and doesn't try to. Indeed it no longer even pretends to. But let's all talk about the "far right" and bad man Vlad Putin
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  3411. Russia will be rebuilding Ukraine. Russia will control the most damaged areas at the end of the war. They're already started. Much of Mariupol has already been rebuilt better than it was before.
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  3412.  @Johnnybojangles664  He speaks only very basic Russian despite living in Russia for years. He basically gets a translator to help him out when he does interviews. He only understands half of what people say and they only understand him if he's asking something embarrassingly simple.
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  3413.  @xtwmx  It's amazing the utter bullshit people believe. As if you know the first thing about Russians.
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  3414. Long before Zelensky, Ukraine became an American satellite in 2014.
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  3415.  @christianevanherck6023  What you describe as "took advantage of the situation" is better described as damage control in response to what even Stratfor calls a coup d'etat staged by America. Read Ukraine in the Crossfire by Chris Kaspar de Ploeg. As for Donbas, the Russian state didn't engineer the situation or drive events. Putin tried to stop the fighting in Donbas, the Russian state only stepped in after the civil war had been running for months and it was obvious Ukraine was planning to crush the rebels. Read 85 Days in Slavyansk.
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  3416.  @christianevanherck6023  As far as I can I stick to what I know is true, if that gets me "shadow banned" that says more about the state of Big Tech censorship than me. Seriously - what most of the Western media and NATO governments are pumping out is propaganda too, or do you think only Moscow tells lies? Do you still believe Saddam's Iraq was full of weapons of mass destruction? Did you also believe Saddam was harbouring Al Qaeda terrorists? Maybe you still believe in the tooth fairy and Father Christmas too?
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  3417. My knowledge is only superior to yours because I look at primary sources and the claims of both sides. If you deliberately consume one side's propaganda only then you are being deliberately ignorant.
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  3418.  @Blanka1100  For me it's very interesting that the Polish population hates Russia so much that it is willing to ally with a Ukrainian regime which lionises Stepan Bandera and similar fascists who killed so many Poles within living memory. You should investigate for yourself how the Bandera cult has been promulgated by the Ukrainian government since 2014.
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  3419.  @alainlefebvre9860  Criminals shouldn't be able to run? Biden is blatantly corrupt!
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  3420. These guys need to get properly familiar with Ed Dutton's arguments. It's like a poorly informed discussion of stuff he's covered better. Not saying he's right about everything but this is one of the topic Dutton specialises in.
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  3421.  @peetky8645  US military entering Ukraine explicitly would result in Russia declaring war, mobilising and destroying Ukraine completely.
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  3422.  @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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  3423. @Targetlocked. Fitting though because Peter Zeihan copy and pastes the same discredited propaganda over and over in each video about Ukraine.
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  3424.  @Brit_Toolmaker  Selection bias. If you watched Russian channels you'd be seeing failed Ukrainian assaults and Russian lancets and FABs smashing Ukrainian positions. Both sides take casualties in a war but Russia is gaining ground, not the other way around. Both sides agree Russia has the advantage in armour, air, artillery and ammunition. Yet you believe Russian casualties are higher - not just higher but twenty times higher. Frankly, you're being manipulated.
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  3425. Russia is paying.... they're rebuilding Mariupol out of federal taxes. Thousands of new flats built already.
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  3426.  @fredscallietsoundman9701  Is it crime which makes Somalia poor or is crime in Somalia high because it's poor? In any case, giving people lots of money doesn't change their culture or their attitudes to honesty or violence or how to treat women. In most of the Eastern Europe, it's the richest people who are the criminals.
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  3427.  @millmoormichael6630  But where's the evidence Russia wants to annex the whole country? Sure Russia wants the pro-Russian parts like Crimea but Ukraine's continued fighting isn't going to prevent that. Every day more guys die and the country is impoverished further. What's going to be left of Ukraine after this war? Already millions of people have left and the population is down to half what it was at the end of the Soviet Union. Ukraine can't win and Russia won't give up so Ukraine is going to have to negotiate eventually anyway. The longer they fight the weaker their hand will be.
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  3428. A few months. A lot has changed in the past two months, Ukraine is at breaking point. It's not just ammo or equipment, the bigger problems are manpower and morale.
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  3429.  @ShadowMan66  Also check out the New Atlas channel for a sober analysis of the military outlook.
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  3430. 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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  3431. It's ridiculous though. The Russians will have snuffed out this incursion in a few weeks and there'll be a lot of dead Ukrainians left behind. The Russians are bombarding this incursion with Lancets and FABs. There's a lot of footage of destroyed Ukrainian columns. Yes, certainly the Russians were taken by surprise and lost some border villages and hundreds of conscript prisoners. It looks like now after the first week the Russians are retaking some of this ground already.
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  3432. I voted Conservatives a few years back (not last election), they promised to get immigration under control (yet again) and lied (yet again). I'll never make that mistake again.
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  3433.  @stoatystoat174  Yes also important to note when different ethnicities (ie. not British) riot they get what they want. The Gypsies got the child back taken by social services. The BLM crowd got Starmer on his knees begging forgiveness. Whenever the Muslims riot (often) they government caves right away. What's the lesson the white working class leaned from this? What set this off in the first place was some "Welshman" stabbing and killing little English girls.
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  3434. Denys Davydov left Ukraine illegally to avoid conscription, lives in Switzerland and makes a good living pushing propaganda. The guy accuses the Russians of all kinds of stuff including cowardice where the biggest coward of the whole war is himself. No criticism of Ukrainian guys who escape conscription overseas to avoid dying at the front but this piece of ** specifically did that then makes his living from exploiting the guys on each side with the courage to fight for their countries.
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  3435. Plus crashing the economy plus prioritising Ukraine over America
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  3436. 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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  3437. The man bun/TDS correlation is second only to blue hair
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  3438.  @JohnDuffy-bq8wg  It's basically started already. It's not something sudden, it grows gradually but the past year has been a milestone with the Muslim protests in London and the police backing down outnumbered.
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  3439.  @CarrotDipProductions  We're all on the front lines you clown
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  3440.  @lostlogic6911  If you think Russian casualties are higher than Ukraine's you should widen your sources to neutral channels. If you think Ukraine is going to be supported indefinitely you should look at the actual aid they're getting month by month, it's been dropping off over the past few months and doesn't look good. Check out the Times article on Zelensky - the US gov controls the US media and the US media is turning against Ukraine.
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  3441. Ukraine is more corrupt than Russia and Western Europe is catching up to both.
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  3442. Don't want to be defending someone I don't like but remember MPs have got no job security. Once she loses an election she's probably going to take a heavy cut in pay.
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  3443. Two big differences, Chernobyl was actually turned on when the meltdown happened. Energodar is shut down (mainly) so moderator rods will be inserted into the core to stop any chain reaction. Also Chernobyl was a much more dangerous design. There could be a radiation leak but it would be pretty limited. No argument that it could be much worse than Three Mile Island though.
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  3444. A lot of Russians were pretty outraged their government just stood back and let NATO squash countries like Iraq, Serbia and Libya.
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  3445. They're not routes to victory, they're routes to nuclear annihilation.
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  3446.  @jeffklenovic4386  You can't assimilate a dog into a cat.
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  3447.  @TesterAnimal1  Biden is a decent man? FFS you've got a lot to learn about the world. He's as vain as Trump, as warmongering as Bolton, as corrupt as Clinton and likes little girls. Also, he's obviously senile.
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  3448. He mispronounces place names to remind us he's an expert on geography and geopolitics. Nothing says I know what I'm talking about better than getting names totally wrong.
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  3449. FFS man you think Hamas rockets are a serious threat to Israel? A city of two million people is being flattened with the population in place. Food and supplies are blockaded. Think about the proportionality of this.
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  3450.  @MotoRide.  Yes - but that was already true before the moronic policy of pushing Russia, Iran, North Korea and China together.
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  3451.  @G1NZOU  Russia is less authoritarian than Ukraine. And the West is rapidly becoming more authoritarian anyway.
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  3452.  @G1NZOU  Ukraine: elections suspended, opposition politicians assassinated, opposition parties banned, teenagers and old men rounded up on the street and shipped off to the army. Immense corruption, even worse than in Russia. I assume you're asking in good faith and just don't know about this kind of stuff because the media somehow neglected to tell you. DM if you want more details.
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  3453. Ukraine is even more corrupt than Russia - look it up.
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  3454.  @captainbroady  The Russians aren't in a rush. They're slowly grinding the Ukrainian army into dust. If you think they won't take Avdivka because you watch propaganda channels like this then just remember this guy was telling us the Russians wouldn't take Bakhmut and after they did, that Ukraine would attack around the flanks and cut it off. This guy has been peddling BS ever since the war started.
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  3455. He's one of yours :P
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  3456.  @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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  3457. His record is awful. He's right about a few obvious things. According to him, the Russian economy collapsed about a year ago and Russia's about to break up. According to him, China's about to lose half its population to starvation. despite being the world's largest manufacturing power sharing a land border with a new ally, one of the world's biggest food producers. According to him, China has backstabbed Russia and is using Russian weakness to invade Siberia. etc. etc.
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  3458. Russian Telegram channels were talking about a Ukrainian build up there a week before it happened. Reading between the lines, the Russians chose not to defend the area heavily and they've successfully withdrawn. Most likely the Russians decided they wanted a shorter line. Russian military bloggers are full of panic, that's not to say the actual military leadership are worried.
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  3459. The Ukrainians usually leak a lot of videos though.
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  3460. The difference is, Gaza is their homeland, here is not. Just because we don't want them here doesn't make it right that Israel commits mass murder over there.
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  3461. What evidence do you have that Mearsheimer ever received money from Russia?
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  3462. He literally said if Russia starts losing the war. You hardly think he's neutral do you? He's a serving NATO officer.
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  3463. deluded
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  3464. Agree. Russia blowing up the dam would be a huge own goal just like them blowing up Nordstream pipeline. The only evidence so far Russia did either is Peter Zeihan said so.
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  3465.  @ex8280  This is an outrageous claim. Firstly people were bombarded with the utterly false claim that it was safe. Secondly many were coerced into taking vaccines with the threat of sanctions if they did not ranging from the blackmail that you're putting others at risk to refused entry to public places to getting fired.
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  3466.  @harmless6813  The Russians don't care, they know the Ukrainians can't break out and Ukraine has the high ground on the west bank so the Russians don't want to fight at a tactical advantage. Their main efforts are in the east of Ukraine especially Avdivka. After Avdivka falls there'll be plenty of resources freed up to deal with this bridgehead.
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  3467. A lot like the argument that Russian casualties were higher in Bakhmut because the Russians were on the offensive and attacker casualties are typically higher. This argument disappeared completely during the Zaporozhye offensive when Ukraine was attacking. A major Ukrainian effort across the Dniepr is just so transparently stupid it makes you wonder whether they have any kind of strategy at all. They will never be able to break out of this bridgehead and they can't fortify properly, they can't supply it easily, they're taking high losses in troop rotations, it's just madness.
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  3468.  @aeasus  I am not Ukrainian but over the past few years I have read many books on this country. I strongly believe Ukrainian interests are best served by good relations with Russia even if that means giving up the eastern most part of Ukraine which has in any case become alienated towards the Kyiv government due to the war in 2014. The alternative to a negotiated settlement with Russia is that Russia will destroy the country, take the ethnically Russian east and what's left will be depopulated, impoverished and most likely an American colony owned by Blackrock and the like. US multinationals will extract the resources but nobody will rebuild the economy and most young people will leave, especially the educated.. The east will quickly become Russified. The long war against Russia isn't going to change the outcome, hundreds of thousands have died for nothing.
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  3469.  @louiss.7765  Ok but so are the Israelis. Oh didn't anyone ever tell you they created their country through genocide?
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  3470. It might freeze but it's very rare it would freeze thick enough for armoured vehicles. Ice would need to be almost a metre thick to be safe for a Leopard to cross. I think winter will make it harder for the Ukrainians, there'll be less concealment and Russia has the firepower advantage.
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  3471. This brinkmanship and pushing the envelope is how World War One started. It's dangerous as f&**
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  3472. Until this happened the entire media agreed Netanyahu is a criminal. Now, he's a hero? Hamas are evil but this excuse is going to be used by Netanyahu's government to kill thousands of innocent people are terrorise Palestinians into leaving. The Israeli government has cut off water, food and electricity to two million people, almost half of them children. Van der Leyen called it a war crime when Russian forces attacked the Ukrainian electricity grid but because Israel is on "our" side, are we supposed to believe this is now acceptable? Wake up people. Just because Hamas commit atrocities doesn't give Israel the excuse to commit even wide scale atrocities.
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  3473. Already started already I'd say. It's nothing big and spectacular so far, just heavy pressure across half the front. There's heavy fighting near Kupyansk right now but very little information coming out.
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  3474. Israel controls and is funded by the USA and Britain.
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  3475. It's just deluded to think Russia is a threat to Europe, a continent being overrun by immigration from the south.
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  3476. The Ukrainian army are all teetotallers?
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  3477. Are you not ashamed at such moronic, childish propaganda?
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  3478.  @Dalla_Dog  Don't be gullible, this has nothing to do with Iran, it's geopolitics. The Iranian leadership are not ISIS in fact the Americans funded ISIS to attack the totally secular government of Syria. As for Israel if you think they're on our side jeez man wake up. Israeli leaders have openly stated they want the Palestinians to be expelled to Scotland, Ireland and Canada.
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  3479. The Ukrainian garrison on Snake Island did surrender and have since been repatriated - the defiance story is the usual propaganda rubbish :)
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  3480.  @CatouMilou  Think about what you're writing. These guys had their shirts off and their hands up and the IDF shot them dead anyway because the IDF thought they were Palestinians. On the few (exceptional) occasions Russian soldiers acted like this our media was outraged. This didn't start on October 7th, the IDF has been treating Palestinians like this all the way back to 1948. 95% of the people killed so far have been killed by Israel, almost half are children, almost half are women. Over the past few months the IDF has killed more people in the West Bank alone than were killed by Hamas on October 7th and the West Bank has nothing to do with Hamas. If you want to see primitive instincts, look at how Israeli politicians talk about the Arabs - some are openly calling for extermination.
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  3481. So Russia sinks a ship. What's NATO going to do then? Start WWIII? This war ends in one of there ways. Either Russia takes over all of Ukraine or it ends with a negotiated peace or it ends with civilisation being wiped out in a nuclear war - together with billions of people including almost everyone in Britain. Obviously the best outcome for everyone is a negotiated peace. Anyway Russia doesn't even need to sink a NATO ship. They can just destroy the ports with missiles - they did most of the job in a single night a few days ago.
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  3482.  @THX-ic8yw  In the immediate aftermath of the bombing the panicked police had no way to do anything better than guess. Police are notoriously bad at even guessing the size of a crowd let alone the numbers killed in a city in ruins.
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  3483. Scots have taken this tolerance of foreigners past the point of self preservation.
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  3484. If a sovereign state doesn't have a veto, it doesn't have sovereignty
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  3485. The real vandalism is importing an army of foreign invaders
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  3486. Total madness giving citizenship to these colonisers who hate the British people.
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  3487. Nah he believes everything the Ukrainian government claims .. when it suits his narrative. Actually identified Russians killed in the entire war - that's around 20k INCLUDING LPR/DPR forces. The high Russian casualties narrative is mainly BS.
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  3488. Strongly doubt British police are in Ukraine. It's possible Ukrainian police might have been supplied some British uniforms.
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  3489. Just beginning??
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  3490. It's what American ground forces did in Vietnam. Draw fire, pin point the enemy then call in artillery and airstrikes.
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  3491. That's the only issue that matters. Ukraine and Yemen are nothing to do with us. Russia, China, Iran none of these countries want a war with us, we insist on poking our noses into foreign conflicts as if it's still the nineteenth century at the same time we're being colonised ourselves.
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  3492.  @biggestjonc4362  They murdered a couple of civilians
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  3493.  @LegioIII.  Most of Wagner are former VDV or special forces or other military specialists; the convicts have mostly gone home or are dead and were just cannon fodder. Wagner's achievements preceded recruiting convicts at all i.e. breaking open the Ukrainian line at Popasnaya.
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  3494.  @dutchrjen  We all know the US propaganda pretexts. The real reason the Soviet Army went in there is much like the reason Russia has gone into Ukraine - to prevent a pro-American regime on its border. See Brzezinski's writing on it. Ultimately the Soviet Union decided it wasn't worth staying - after they'd wrecked the country for generations. Much like America in Vietnam. it's not the same as military defeat. There was no military defeat of the Americans in Vietnam or the Soviets in Afghanistan. 15,000 deaths over many years for a superpower is not a lot. It's about a quarter of American losses in Vietnam.
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  3495.  @cooldudecs  Yeah Soviet Union took casualties. The CIA was arming their the mujahadeen including with anti-aircraft missiles and RPGs. It's not a useful comparison. 15,000 men compared to the population of the Soviet Union is pretty trivial. That's like a bad day in WWII. How many men did America lose in Vietnam? Almost 60k.
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  3496.  @probusexcogitatoris736  Then by the same logic you can't deny America lost in Vietnam and Afghanistan. But military success and failure is more complicated than whether you retreat. For example in response to the Boxer rebellion, Western armies invaded China and then retreated - quite deliberately. That was not a failure, it was part of the plan from the start. It's far too early to say Russia has lost in Ukraine. The Russian side is currently inflicting the majority of the causalities and Russia hasn't even mobilised conscripts. Ukrainian losses aren't sustainable. Russia is slowly taking territory. It's quite conceivable, even likely that in a year's time, Ukraine is totally wrecked and the most valuable parts have been annexed by Russia - permanently. From a cold, geopolitical perspective, that looks like a massive win to Russia. If you think that's a failure, then you have a very optimistic view of how harmful sanctions are to Russia and how long they will last if the poorer parts of the world are starving and Russia starts cutting gas and oil deliveries to Europe.
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  3497.  @danielwamriew9614  Everybody reading this thread is very well aware of the difference between the Soviet Union and Russia.
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  3498.  @probusexcogitatoris736  Some of what you say is correct. Obviously the Russian army hoped for a swift Ukrainian collapse and that didn't happen. Obviously their plan B was to surround Kiev and get a capitulation by putting pressure on the city. That also didn't happen. You can call that a humiliation if you want but Ukraine is a major military power, this isn't Iraq or the Taleban. The Western media was full of burned out Russian tanks but the Ukrainians took heavy losses too. Anyway, the Russian army plan C is definitely working well. They've taken a huge chunk of Ukraine - permanently. They're grinding down the Ukrainian army at little cost to themselves in the Donbass. Cities like Mariupol and Kherson are never going back to the Ukrainian state. The Azov sea is a Russian lake and that's not going to change. The most valuable wheat area is going to be annexed by Russia or become Russian satellite states. Crimea's water is secure. All of the territory taken so far is ethnically Russian and either anti-Kiev regime or at worst ambivalent. Russia's not going to be facing any kind of protracted guerrilla warfare there. Probably the same will be true for Kharkov and Odessa when the time comes. Many pro Russians were murdered in both in 2014, it's unlikely to be hard for Russia to get the population onside. Probably you're looking at the slow progress of Russia on the map and perhaps too believing of the triumphalist headlines about Ukrainian counter offensives that rarely amount to gains enduring more than a few days. Russian progress is slow - but it's also relentless. More important than territory captured is the dispareity in casualties due to Russia's vast air and artillery superiority. Even the a top Ukrainian politician admitted they're taking up to 200 killed per day so that probably amounts to about a thousand per day when you include injured. How long will Ukrainian soldiers be prepared to take those kind of losses? Especially the ethnic Russians who are fighting for a country which has often acted to them with hostility? Look at POWs - Ukraine has about 300 Russians (or maybe 600 if you believe the Ukrainian government), the Russian side has about 8000 Ukrainian POWs. 2500 from Mariupol alone. In contrast, although the Russians took heavy losses in the first month, that's no longer true in general. For one thing they're using DPR, LPR, Chechans and Wagner mercenaries to do most of the close in fighting and they usually only attack positions once the artillery has pulverised any defenders. Russia is still using its peacetime army. It can sustain this kind of military effort for a long time to come.
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  3499.  @probusexcogitatoris736  Yeah it's extremely hard to predict. I'll be interesting to look back in six months or a couple of years... I'd set a reminder if youtube let us do that! I do disagree though that Russia needs us (the West) more than we need it. We'll know by the end of this winter. What I'm seeing right now is China, India and Brazil are talking to Russia, buying Russia's resources. I don't think Russia is going to become a Chinese puppet even if the Chinese take up some of the market share vacated by some Western companies. Remember most people predicted the rouble would collapse in the first few days and now it's stronger than before the invasion. The West is declining as a proportion of the world's economy, it has been for the past hundred years (not saying that's a good thing, just that it's a fact). And most of the non Western world views the Ukrainian situation very differently from the West. The other people Western commentators are getting wrong about this war, it's actually making Putin stronger domestically. So dragging the war out might actually be in his interest.
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  3500.  @probusexcogitatoris736  For sure Russia's economy is going to hurt. But there's a couple of things I disagree about. Russia isn't trying to hold up the rouble - quite the opposite. It's buying gold to try to force the rouble down. Russian export receipts are through the roof because the oil price is so high. Oligarchs can't export their wealth any more because the West is freezing their offshore assets. And Russian imports have fallen so yeah - they have a balance of payments crisis but the crisis is how to hold the rouble down, not how to prop it up! You note that Europe and the USA are huge markets but I suggest what's really important from Russian's point of view is not so much the size of the market in general but the size of the market for gas, oil and food - those are the strategic resources which Russia wants to export. For food, Europe and America are pretty unimportant, in normal times they're exporting food - although without Russian/Ukrainian fertiliser, that changes too. For oil, America is pretty irrelevant because America is roughly self sufficient. Europe is indeed a big oil market but certainly much smaller than Asia. And actually it's the size of the European market which makes it valuable because it can't just get what it needs from another exporter. Gas is the interesting one. Russia can't export much except to Europe although it does have a pipeline to Asia. Although Russia can survive without its main market temporarily at least, if the gas runs out in Europe in winter then the economy doesn't just contract, it collapses. Blackouts. Factory closures. No heating, pipes bursting - total chaos. Combined with food prices doubling and possible starvation in Africa, mass migration from there to Europe - I don't know if Europeans realise how vulnerable they are.
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  3501.  @Nesstor01  The real reason for that is embezzlement. The US military can't account for THREE TRILLION DOLLARS of spending. Think about how big that number is then tell us Russia and China are corrupt.
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  3502.  @Nesstor01  I think it was Mark Milley who came up with the three days claim. Not Putin. They did have a peace deal hammered out. Biden and Boris Johnson convinced the Ukrainians to scrap the peace deal after the Russians pulled back from Kiev. The Ukrainians will never get such a good deal again. We know this for a fact because it's corroborated by the ex Isreali PM and by the Germans including an ex leader of the German military.
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  3503.  @janpeterbaark7540  What democratic world? Where's the democratic accountability in Europe? In America a court has just ruled the most popular presidential candidate in the country can't stand at all in Colorado. Democracy requires transparency and there's growing censorship on both sides of the Atlantic. Julian Assange is still in prison. As for Ukraine, even Russia is more democratic.
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  3504.  @benhardsatrio8222  In case you haven't noticed, technology has changed since then. Look at how fairly primitive missiles sunk the Mosvka and have driven the Black Sea fleet out of Sevastopol. The Iranians are more than capable of sinking an aircraft carrier that comes too close. And that's if their new Russian allies didn't give them modern weapons. After all the US armaments for Ukraine, the Russians wouldn't seem to have any reason not to help Iran drive American carriers out of the Middle East in a hot war.
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  3505.  @benhardsatrio8222  You'll get your wish. All the Russians have to do is arm everyone who wants the Americans out and that's a long list. Do you really think the American presence in Syria is sustainable? I'm not suggesting the Americans will leave Israel. But it's going to keep getting harder for the Americans to sustain any influence in the Gulf much less places like Northern Iraq - unless it's through Turkey, a country growing in military power who is loosely allied to America but has its own agenda.
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  3506.  @benhardsatrio8222  The Iranians - much less the Russians - aren't going to use one missile. They're going to use decoys and many at once if they want to sink a high value target like a carrier. If you think any air defence is 100% reliable you haven't been paying attention to the Ukraine war. If you think US air defence is so much better than anything that's been used in Ukraine you're buying propaganda. The USN damn sure knows carrier battle groups are vulnerable. So they're going to keep well away from the Russian coast or the Iranian coast.
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  3507.  @strigoiu13  You obviously don't follow the fighting. Most Russian attacks are just enough to keep the pressure on. Who are all these dead Russians? Mediazona has identified around 40,000 from the entire war and the big spike was convicts during the Bakhmut battle.
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  3508.  @ronarnett4811  Yeah he's a blatant propagandist. Not just someone who's sometimes right and sometimes wrong in good faith but someone who is deliberately propagating propaganda. But he sure has a lot of sycophants :)
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  3509. What are you on about? Stalin fought the Finns twice and both times Finland ended up smaller.
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  3510.  @theylied1776  Yeah it's pretty common for countries who loose wars to have national myths about how good they fought, it salvages some pride. Same as the South in the US Civil War. The problem is when this myth making gets out of control to the point where the Finns start smack talking their bigger tougher, battle hardened super power neighbour which could crush them easily if it wouldn't start WWIII then it becomes pretty ridiculous
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  3511.  @theylied1776  Warum sollten Sie das annehmen? What different would it make if I'm British? The thing is almost everyone thinks his own country/unit etc are great fighters. Sure the Finns fought well in the Winter War but that wasn't what was important. What was important was the huge mistakes by the Red Army. After the Ukraine war the Ukrainians will have lots of nice myths about how well they fought. It won't save them from a catastrophic defeat will it? It won't matter that the Russians made bad mistakes early on because they learn from their mistakes and get their shit together. The countries which win wars don't need these myths as much. The reality of war is most guys are killed by artillery strikes and similar, your martial skills and individual merit don't count for that much in the scheme of things. Not in a real war like Ukraine. You can be the best sniper in the world and you get buried under hundreds of tons of rubble as a FAB500 hits your position.
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  3512.  @theylied1776  Well if that's the parallel you want to make, we could take it further. Ukraine's deliberate antagonisation of Russia (i.e. pursuing NATO membership, talking about acquiring nuclear weapons and shelling Donetsk despite Minsk II) caused the Russian invasion in 2022. And the decision to continue the war after Russia made its point and offered generous peace terms a month into the war resulted in the catastrophe for Ukraine now. There was a better alternative which was ignore what Biden wanted and settle with Russia. Likewise after Britain went to war on behalf of the unrealistic and belligerent Polish dictatorship of 1939 (unrealistic because Poland was too weak to stand up to both Germany and the Soviet Union simultaneously when it could have negotiated with either) even after throwing Czechoslovakia under the bus, Britain decided to fight a war against the strongest military power in the world. It was just a dumb thing to do. Yes the final outcome was being on the winning side but it left the country weak, broke and the empire collapsed. Ukraine's not even going to have the consolation of being on the winning side when the peace treaty is finally signed. They already know this now, even Zelensky but it's too late to do anything about it. Bit like Churchill realised in the Yalta conference he was being thrown under the bus.
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  3513.  @PeterSedesse  That makes zero sense whatsoever. Guided missiles adjust their flight according to their position and trajectory, if the fuel is degraded it might have a minor effect on their range and speed but not on their accuracy.
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  3514.  @wulfleyn6498  What right does America have to enforce the Monroe doctrine? Yet it does.
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  3515. Yeah that's why US casualties in Iraq were way higher than Iraqi casualties ..... oh wait
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  3516.  @DeathToZioWarPigs  One of the chosen who advocate racial mixing everywhere except Israel. Where they advocate genocide.
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  3517.  @jimjoelliejack  How do you clowns simultaneously believe the Russian military is useless and also, Russia is about to invade Central Europe?
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  3518. Except that with modern technology, you don't need area bombing to destroy a power station or hit the secret police head quarters in Kiev.
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  3519. It's even worse than those numbers suggest because so many of the not "foreign born" are third, fourth generation etc. immigrants who are neither culturally, ethnically nor racially British.
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  3520.  @the_pinkerton  Out of date data. Many of the Poles are going home since Poland is catching Britain up economically. Africans and Indians are flooding in.
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  3521.  @forbeginnersandbeyond6089  A better analogy is South Vietnam. Would North Vietnam want to be like South Vietnam?
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  3522. The normal name is the War of the Three Kingdoms. Scotland was hugely important, the wars make no sense without Scotland. Ireland was important too. On the other hand, the British Civil War makes no sense because there was no Britain as a political entity at the time.
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  3523.  @nicolettileo  I'd guess that depends who you ask. Niger was selling France uranium for a tiny fraction of the market price. Probably someone important was getting very rich from that.
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  3524.  @ngomaibinda  It's not like he doesn't know. In almost every video the facts he talks about are the facts that suit the US neocon agenda. He's a blatant propagandist. The Neocons are hoping to displace the French in the Sahel.
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  3525.  @JohnHughesChampigny  Since the coup - sure. Before the coup? False.
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  3526. No, it's the same problem for Ukraine, there is the Ukrainian army, there are nationalist militias, there are various foreign legions. Officially they're all under the command of the Ukrainian army but administratively - no. The Russian situation mirrors this exactly, officially DPR and LPR and Storm Z are now part of the Russian army but of course they all have their own administrative functions.
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  3527. Michelle made a good call there - the guy is a snob.
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  3528.  @baronrodrigo5049  You seriously believe simultaneously that Israeli intelligence couldn't see the entire 7th October attack coming at all but their intelligence is so good they can do pin point strikes on heavily populated areas and eliminate individual Hamas positions?
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  3529. 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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  3530.  @blafonovision4342  The US military is still stealing oil in Syria
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  3531. Yeah the US conned Ukraine into sacrificing their country just to kill 50,000 Russians.
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  3532. What should have happened instead? Millions of Jews arriving in Palestine was a disaster for the Palestinians. Britain had obligations to them too.
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  3533. The Russians have taken thousands of POWs. These claims are war propaganda. You get this in every major war. In WWI the papers were telling the British people that the Germans were bayoneting babies in Belgium.
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  3534. No, no ground has been taken and held and there's footage of huge losses. Shaping operations are taking - and holding - ground in preparation. Not sending in your main force.
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  3535.  @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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  3536. LOL if you believe nobody fears Russia you need to branch out to watch some neutral channels.
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  3537. Both sides attack with very small forces now but it's not brain dead, it's the only way it can be done now. Any time you form up a large force for a concentrated attack, that force will be spotted and targeted. Four guys might be able to infiltrate but an entire platoon will be spotted and shelled.
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  3538. Yep it's the usual war propaganda. Pretty blatant too.
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  3539. Good speech, free speech is extremely important but let's also beware, Sky News has been recently calling to END the free speech of pro-Palestinian protesters. Yes, many of them are obnoxious and we may disagree with what they say but free speech only exists if it applies to everyone including those we disagree with.
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  3540.  @Blanka1100  No. The Serbian government were not "angels". Do you think the Ukrainians government and the nationalist militias were "angels" in the Donbas and Mariupol and Odessa since 2014? It's often easy to find a pretext to start a war. What Russia is doing this year is not so different to what America/NATO did in Serbia and Afghanistan and Iraq. Condemn the Russians if you like by avoid hypocrisy.
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  3541.  @Blanka1100  It's easy to say the world is a better place without people like Saddam but since America went into Iraq, the fighting there has killed many times more people than Saddam ever did. I don't like Milosovic or Saddam Hussein or Osama Bin Laden either but since America started these wars to pursue its own goals, it doesn't make sense to pretend Russia is worse than America for doing in Ukraine now what America has already done in so many other places.
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  3542. LIOL cope harder because the US got kicked out of Niger. Earlier he was smug because the US was replacing France, now the Russians are replacing the US and it doesn't fit into Zeihan's team America narrative
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  3543.  @_c_y_p_3  That's a BS. argument. .Ukraine is usual but people say the Ukraine too. Russian/Ukrainian doesn't even have a word for "the".
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  3544. The official line is Zaluzhny's men did it, Seymour Hersh's explanation is about 100x more credible.
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  3545.  @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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  3546.  @jaysimpson6857  Escalation is highly dangerous. Ultimately it ends with WWIII. Russia expects it can outlast the West and win a war of attrition therefore it has nothing to gain by escalating. It's simple game theory. That's why almost all the escalation has been from the NATO side. People keep claiming Russia will never respond to escalation and so escalation is safe (i.e. all Russian threats are bluffing) but that's a pretty stupid misunderstanding based on failure to analyse the Russian viewpoint. At some point Russia is forced to respond to escalations. That's how the failure to renew the grain deal is best understood too. Escalating Ukrainian attacks, broken Turkish promises. Anyway "taking the gloves off" would be a mistake for Russia. The war is costing them lives and money but Russia can sustain the current trajectory indefinitely, Ukraine can not. If this trajectory continues, Ukraine collapses - eventually. Therefore a dangerous attempt to change the trajectory is just not worth the risk for Russia.
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  3547.  @tironansunfrendlyskies5040  NATO is the empire!
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  3548. The Russian ground military hasn't been neutered. It's going to come out of the war stronger, better led, better organised, bigger and more experienced than when it started the war. All US policy towards Russia achieves is binds Russia and China into a closer alliance. It's moronic.
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  3549. ​ @Klaatu-gl7jg  I don't know what a monkey currency is but it's interesting that so many Western commentators predicted the rouble would crash upon the imposition of sanctions. If any currency seems to be doing badly just now, it's the Euro since the Euro zone's economic prospects for next year are dire. I think you are overestimating how the balance of power is changing in the world. At the end of WWII, the USA had half the world's GDP and the "West" had a large proportion of the world's population and almost all of the world's educated population. Over time, the West is declining demographically and the rest of the world is catching up economically - not necessarily per capita but certainly in absolute terms. The West in contrast has political instability (over half of the US population excepts a civil war and countries like Sweden and France have huge problems assimilating their immigrants). And economically, the West is unsustainable. It has unaffordable bureaucratic and welfare costs. Am I correct in guessing you are from Finland? If so, congratulations, Finland seems to be an especially well organised Western country. Most of the West is more corrupt, less efficient and more internally cohesive. Outside of the West, the rest of the world looks at Russia very differently. Most of the world regards the USA as a cynical and hypocritical bully - and Ukraine as a corrupt American proxy that continues to make ridiculous and absurd claims for example that the Russians are shelling themselves with mines in Donetsk and that they're shelling a nuclear power plant which they control themselves. It doesn't necessarily matter whether we agree or disagree ourselves, the fact is this is how most people in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and at least some countries in South America think about this war. As for Europe - well we will disagree here I think. I expect that by the end of the winter, the consensus we saw against Russia after the invasion will be completely broken. I don't know where each individual country will stand but I give you two examples. Already in Italy, the new government wants to improve relations with Russia. Even more interestingly, in Poland, the same prime minister who only weeks ago was criticising the Germans for their lax response to Russia is now talking about the need to negotiate.
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  3550.  @Klaatu-gl7jg  I don't defend extremist Indian nationalism but India is nevertheless a real democracy. The extreme nationalism you criticise in India is also widespread in Ukraine. For example Stepan Bandera was allied to Hitler and his followers murdered tens of thousands of people from other ethnic groups. Yet in modern Ukraine right now, he is a national hero, officially celebrated by the regime. Extremist Ukrainians have oppressed ethnic Russians in Ukraine and committed real atrocities, it's not all just made up by Russian propaganda. I don't defend communism or the atrocities committed by Lenin and Trotsky. However, it should be obvious that the modern Russian state, Vladimir Putin and the population of Russia are not responsible for the atrocities of the Soviet Union. And actually, although the Russian people were the largest ethnic group in the Soviet Union, the original Bolsheviks were disproportionate from other ethnic groups, Georgians like Stalin and Beria, Finns, Latvians and especially, Jewish people. Simply said, it's not fair to blame modern Russians for the crimes of Stalin any more than it is fair to blame the modern Germans for the crimes of Hitler. At least Hitler was ethnically German, Stalin was not even Russian at all.
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  3551. Russia has swapped with a better ratio in the past e.g. more Ukrainians for fewer Russians.
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  3552. 50% subject matter 50% talking about himself
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  3553. What do you think America would do if Russian missiles started hitting targets in the USA?
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  3554.  @propagandaisnottrue2121  Maybe none but if the police need to stop a car and expect there's a high chance they're going to get shot at they're going to be jumpy. Accidents can happen. Would never have happened if he wasn't involved in firearms in the first place.
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  3555.  @simonb4757  It's not about expansionism, it's about the US proclivity to threaten, assassinate and stage coups. US politicians openly talk about attacking all of these countries. The US has assassinated Iranian leaders. The US sponsored a coup to overthrow the democratically elected Ukrainian leader and replace the regime with an anti-Russian alternative. The US has been doing this kind of stuff all over the world. These four countries feel threatened by the US for good reason.
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  3556. What are the Russians going to find out? Haven't you seen the welcome Putin is getting all over the Gulf? Haven't you seen how Peter Zeihan's predictions like the collapse of Russian oil production and Russian diplomatic isolation and Chinese economy collapse get quietly forgotten?
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  3557. Israel has been provoking Iran for months.
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  3558. "Gods chosen people" who treat the native population of Palestine as badly as they got treated in 1940s Europe
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  3559. As a German, you're certainly towards the left of your nation's intelligence bell curve. How did the first two world wars work out for Germany? Perhaps you should check. The next one will involve thousands of nuclear weapons. Are you thinking third time lucky? Russia and America will survive World War Three, neither in good shape, both will loose tens of millions of people killed and both will take generations to recover. But Germany will be immeasurably worse off. The logical outcome of escalation is the end of thousands of years of German history and the German people. You really haven't thought this through.
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  3560.  @scottkrater2131  The West's share of global GDP is falling pretty quickly. If you look at PPP which is pretty important to understand future trends, the picture looks even worse. On a PPP measure China has already surpassed the USA. As for China not supporting Russia, the Chinese energy market is replacing Europe. Russia buys any manufactured items it needs and does not produce itself from China. Just recently the Chechens were showing off their brand new Chinese military vehicles. And finally if you don't think Saudi Arabia isn't powerful please explain why Biden was grovelling in his last trip there. Saudi Arabia can crash the world economy if it really wants to.
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  3561. @ It's a bit like saying prove she's a woman - seems pretty obvious. But if you need "PROOF" check Hansard. She's called explicitly for more immigration from West Africa.
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  3562. LOL the reason nothing is happening around Avdivka is heavy fog. Unless Ukraine can recapture the Terrakon, it's untenable for Ukraine to hold Avivka
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  3563.  @a5cent  The Ukrainians built all kinds of bunkers under it. Only now the Russians have captured it does it become useless? Somehow reminds me of Bakhmut. Suddenly it became "strategically unimportant" as soon as it looked like Ukraine couldn't hold it any more. If you think high ground for observation doesn't matter in this war you haven't been following it. High ground remains massively important. That's why the Russians haven't been able to take Vuhledar. That's why the Russians haven't tried to defend the Dniepr bank opposite Kherson.
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  3564.  @chipchiperson679  Dima from Military Summary is pro-Russia and reports Russian military press releases as if they're factual.
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  3565.  @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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  3566. You mean the organisation whose missiles are landing in Russia right now?
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  3567.  @UserUser-ww2nj  And lots of eye witnesses saying Ukrainian artillery was stationed 50m away outside the Mariupol theatre. Also in Mariupol there are dozens of videos of civilians complaining the Ukrainian side used them as human shields. Both sides station their soldiers in houses, schools, hospitals. Literally hundreds of videos of this. Both sides target each other in these places. At least some of the Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk seems to have been aimed deliberately at civilians - people Ukraine claims are actually Ukrainian citizens (but in reality refers to as Vatniks, Moscovites and orcs). Don't believe one side's propaganda without at least seeing what the other side is saying.
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  3568.  @UserUser-ww2nj  Just remember every single thing we see on the internet is there because someone wants us to see it. There are no completely unbiased sources. Sure Russian media is full of propaganda just like Ukrainian media and our media. But there are also journalists on the front line and people who live there and soldiers with their own camera phones uploading footage. For example check out Patrick Lancaster's interviews from Mariupol, he just walks around talking to people. I think he was the first journalist to go into that theatre.
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  3569.  @dpelpal  Yeah the logic for stealing Kosovo from Serbia is exactly the same logic the Russians are using to take Donbas from Ukraine. Yeltsin warned NATO it would reap what it sowed in Kosovo and now we see the result.
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  3570. Free speech is a luxury for an ethnically homogenous society. In an ethnically diverse society, there needs to be authoritarianism to keep the lid on the underlying conflict. Freedom is something we gave up when we failed to prevent mass immigration.
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  3571.  @e-machine-ol1987  In general the German generals who survived liked to blame AH for all kinds of stuff including the Stalingrad debacle and Halder was especially notorious for this. Obviously AH made mistakes too, it's just a warning to be sceptical of the AH is to blame narrative. TIK really did an amazing job with the Stalingrad series. But it's not a casual watch.
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  3572.  @iivanforchune9666  Yeah the World at War series interviews were excellent. A lot of excellent historiography has come out over the past 25 years it's not all rubbish. This is normal, Our understanding of even the First World war is much better now than it was 25 years ago. There are all kinds of myths about both wars which have been demolished.
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  3573.  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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  3574. Then you need to read more. Ukraine is getting slaughtered. Try some neutral sources, the Times is blatant propaganda. All of the British media seems to spout government propaganda when it comes to Ukraine.
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  3575. Typical Jewish politics - oppose the most traditional culture, espouse ethnic factions except in their own country, Israel where they want to treat the Palestinians like dirt..
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  3576. That's a massive exaggeration. Late 30s yes ... which is younger than the median age of Ukrainian soldiers.
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  3577.  @lenwilkinson672  Ben Hodges predicted Ukraine will retake Crimea by the end of August. It's the most deluded prediction since Biden told us the Afghan army would win a few days before the Taleban took over Khabul.
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  3578.  @neil2444  Neither are hypocrites just because they're millionaires. Being a millionaire doesn't give you influence, it's the multi-billionaires who are rich enough to fund law suits to intimidate enemies, hire lobbyists and buy politicians. I don't want to defend Tucker Carlson but calling out oligarchic corruption is part of what he does. I certainly don't claim he has much integrity himself by the way - but that's irrelevant. For all his faults, he's certainly not a shill for the oligarchs. Yes, he works for the MSM ultimately and all the MSM is owned by oligarchs - but he has and he uses quite a lot of journalistic freedom. Which is already more than you can say for most news anchors.
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  3579.  @nukeninmgt1504  Seems to be that Joe Rogan is a massively popular talk show host - that's not an oligarch. I don't know how rich he is but the real oligarchs are the guys with billions like Rupert Murdoch, Ray Dalio, Jeff Bezos, George Soros, Bill Gates etc., not just people who made millions from a successful career. The oligarchs are so rich they can buy media organisations and collectively, they control almost all the media. If you want to define oligarchs much more widely than I would, that's fair enough. All media people get courted by politicians seeking election. The personal wealth of the media people concerned is irrelevant to this observation.
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  3580.  @HuehuehueEsBest  Firstly get your facts right before calling me disingenuous otherwise you make yourself look like a clown. I was surprised by your claim that Tucker Carlson has hundreds of millions so I looked into it - it's not true. More like 30 million as a quick google will tell you. Thanks for wasting my time - not. Secondly, and this is the more important point - this money comes from a salary, he works for an organisation he neither owns nor controls. Yes it's a very high salary but that's irrelevant. The actual oligarchs who run society have billions, not a few million. They make their money from their investments.
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  3581. Yeah it'd be good to hear her questioned about whether she's re-evaluated all her claims of Russian interference now we know it was a FBI invention to smear Trump.
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  3582. An "allied" country - Europeans are so naive.
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  3583. Think about how this looks to the Russians - that NATO intends to arm Ukraine to fight a future war against Russia. This creates an incentive for the Russians to continue the war until either they can install a pro-Russian government or alternatively, take over most of the country so whatever is left is going to be too weak to be valuable to NATO.
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  3584. That's true but it's also true that Israel expelled them from where they were living before Israel took over. I mean that's just history. There's no right and wrong here. Just a**eholes on both sides.
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  3585. That's how hundreds of millions of people around the world feel about the American soldiers who have destroyed their countries too.
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  3586. Yeah because nuclear war is nothing to worry about right? And there's no way the world's largest nuclear power is never going to retaliate
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  3587.  @djohnson6585  Staged a coup which deposed the democratically elected president and put corrupt nationalist extremists in charge who then went on to make war on their own citizens.
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  3588. 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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  3589. Nobody wants that escalation
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  3590. It is now. The Russians won't ignore this.
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  3591.  @gintasvilkelis2544  Russia doesn't even want all of Ukraine, just the ethnically Russian east. Only a moron thinks the Russians want to invade the rest of Eastern Europe. And even iif they wanted to, they're not strong enough.
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  3592.  @Tmb1112  Lots of videos online of Ukrainian formations complaining about their commanders having deserted them, being given impossible orders and being used as cannon fodder. Very easy to find if you want. The Western media only reports news which is positive for Ukraine. So many news outlets even called the mass surrender at Mariupol an "evacuation". Most people in Western countries have a completely unrealistic understanding of everything about this war including why it started.
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  3593.  @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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  3594.  @zurielsss  Often he does understand but he simply lies.
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  3595.  @Icarus07c  Around 80% of immigrants never pay enough tax to pay for their costs. The economic case for immigration is a scam.
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  3596. Scottish oil was another huge boon in the 80s
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  3597.  @juliewareham6772  Just shows how little you know about Russia. Yes Russia does have elections and furthermore, Putin's approval rating is around 80%.
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  3598.  @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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  3599.  @quantumfairing2216  I said the Soviet Union won both those wars. How can you possibly disagree with that? I honestly don't understand how you can claim the Soviet Union didn't win both those wars. Finland gave up territory after both wars. Are you going to argue the US didn't lose in Vietnam because it took lower casualties than North Vietnam? Are you going to claim Germany wasn't defeated by the Soviet Union in 1945 because it took lower casualties? That's just moronic. These two wars were catastrophic for Finland. Everyone at the time regarded it so. As for exact casualties - actually unknown how many casualties the Soviet Union took in these wars. The numbers you mention are possible but not necessarily correct. Dig in to where the numbers come from and you'll see.
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  3600.  @Asus_0746  Same riots in Switzerland and Sweden as in France and Belgium. Switzerland and Sweden didn't have empires in Africa or Asia.
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  3601.  @caninesandcompany  Who are all these dead Russians then? Mediazona can only find around 40,000 of them. Maybe they're just nameless orcs right?
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  3602. This is deluded. The Russian army is repulsing Ukrainian counter attacks all along the front despite being badly outnumbered by the Ukrainian side. The Ukrainians are taking high losses, the Russians aren't. The Russians just gave up a whole lot of territory they didn't have a reason to hold to shorten their line. The Ukrainian attack toward Kherson is turning into a disaster. Wait two days and see if I'm wrong.
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  3603.  @rappakalja5295  Wrong, it's the Ukrainians who are cut off in their bridgehead over the Ingolets. The Russians destroyed the big dam near Krivoy Rog yesterday creating a 2.5m surge in the river, washing away barges and pontoon bridges. Check channels like Military Summary and Defense Politics Asia for a day by day summary of primary source information.
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  3604.  @PossessedPotatoBird  Check channels like Military Summary and Defense Politics Asia for a day by day summary of primary source information.
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  3605.  @rappakalja5295  You do realise that the Russians have been "cut off" in Kherson for weeks now according to the Western media and still have a firepower advantage. In reality there are pontoon bridges over the Dniepr and the Russians are using barges to transport supplies. They also have a large fleet of heavy lift helicopters available should be there be an emergency. So far, there's no sign that Russian logistics in the Kherson region are stretched.
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  3606. According to your logic the Jewish Holocaust didn't happen because there are now more Jewish people in the world than in the 1930s.
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  3607.  @you-dont-know-me  Look at a map they're nowhere near it.
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  3608.  @1daxwood  The Indians kicked the British out of India.
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  3609. 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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  3610. Applies now to the whole of Western civilisation. It's on a steep downward spiral.
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  3611. No, it's just an hysterical claim. If Russia attacks a NATO country it will only be in response to this continual escalation.
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  3612. The US government is the biggest arms trafficker in the world , it dumped billions of dollars of weapons on the Taleban and a lot of the weapons sent to Ukraine have gone missing, some have turned up in Africa.
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  3613.  @FredScuttle456  I regard people like him as much worse. The Vichy police were trying to protect traditional French society from the left. France before 1939 had similar but milder problems to Spain, there was poltiical violence and extremism. Modern British police are the left.
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  3614.  @SqueakScolari69  Yeah because anyone who doesn't lap up blatant Washington propaganda is a gopnik or a Russian bot
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  3615.  @SqueakScolari69  Please go and check any pro-Ukrainian map. Avdivka has collapsed. Hundreds of Ukrainian POWs. Hundreds of Ukrainian dead in the fields west of the town as they tried to escape. Thousands still trapped. Counter attacks defeated by the Russians. Go and check for yourself. And then apologise for calling me a gopnik just because I'm calling out Zeihan's BS propaganda
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  3616. You mean a disaster which kills over 99% of Britain's population
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  3617. No because they're fighting the Russians. And the Russians are racist. So anyone fighting the Russians are anti-racist. Even if they do the "Roman salute" and paint the Balkenkreuz on their tanks.
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  3618. It's the Russians who will be doing the rebuilding because after the fighting's over it's they who will control the east of Ukraine.
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  3619.  @18_rabbit  Dream on. Nobody wants to start WWIII for the sake of Ukraine.
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  3620. I'd guess there are some deep bunkers there, the Ukrainians have had years to fortify it.
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  3621. Wait until you hear how be pronounces Prigozhin or Zaporozhye
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  3622. And ideally, all the Cook Islanders in NZ move to China. Good luck to them.
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  3623. Even polling organisations that the Western media likes find that Putin is massively popular. What this video ignores is that Ukrainian elections have been cancelled and opposition parties banned. And opposition politicians arrested or murdered.
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  3624.  @whatsdoin2392  Both sides are killing innocent civilians in this war. But if you look at the numbers, the vast majority of the innocent civilians being killed are Palestinians.
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  3625. LOL what this propaganda merchant Zeihan didn't tell you in the US never ratified this treaty.
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  3626. Almost everyone in the Donbas speaks Russian. Your information is completely wrong.
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  3627.  @alfredneuman6488  The US does that to other countries all the time. To the rest of the world it looks utterly hypocritical when the US accuses Russia of military aggression.
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  3628. They can't even stop Africans in leaky boats from invading
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  3629.  @kev_sen  If you think Ukraine is winning this war, you really need to broaden your sources. Even the Ukrainian government is now admitting they're getting pushed back and they're usually comically optimistic.
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  3630.  @kev_sen  Avdivka? Yeah they're thrown so many reserves into there, they've left other parts of the front weakened. Half of the Robotyne/Verbove salient has been retaken by the Russians over the past two weeks. The Russians have also retaken all the ground they lost around Bakhmut and plenty extra too. And since Christmas a big advance west of Kremina. It's pretty obvious the Ukrainians are firefighting now. It looks like the first few weeks of Bagration in 1944.
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  3631.  @kev_sen  Sure, the land taken is pretty minor the point is attrition. And Ukraine is running out of manpower. They're literally ambushing guys on the street now. They're conscripting teenagers, 60 year olds, partially disabled guys, mentally handicapped guys. They can't keep it up indefinitely. They're firefighting in the sense that Russia attacks one place, Ukraine rushes reserves there leaving weak points. Russia attacks a weak point. Things are going downhill pretty quickly.
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  3632.  @SuperRede4u  You seem to be confusing Ukraine and Russia. Yes Ukraine are conscripting people up to 60. No Russia are not. The Russian conscription age got raise three years. Facts matter.
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  3633. A big chunk of the Rostov na Donu population obviously favoured Wagner.
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  3634. How big can the national debt go before there's an Argentina style meltdown?
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  3635. Trump isn't a hero, he's a grifter. Yes, he's right about some things but he had his shot and failed to achieve much. At least he didn't start any new wars but he's a very flawed personality who couldn't stop the rot. If you want an example of a politician who turned things round radically and got his country out of the spiral of collapse, Vlad Putin is the best example. Pity the neocons chose to make an enemy of him.
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  3636.  @geordiewishart1683  Pretty sensible TBH because sometimes the wrong guy is arrested and it takes a while to sort it out. One guy i worked with was arrested by mistake, took many hours before the police believed they had the wrong guy. If his name had been all over the media, it could have really messed his life up.
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  3637. To be honest, it was a very one sided relationship even before that. The US used the Second World War to dismantle the British empire.
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  3638. The West is being overrun by a tidal wave of immigration from the third world facilitated by a leadership class who despise democracy and these clowns think oil is the biggest thing they have to worry about.
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  3639.  @milantrajceski8322  You have to be a moron to believe these fairy tale numbers. You seriously think Ukraine has lost an average of 50 killed per day of this war? If you do, you need to broaden your sources. This particular channel is BS
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  3640. You obviously don't get out much if you think that kind of language is unusual.
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  3641. No, he's a shill for Israel. A true patriot would be neutral on these Middle Eastern wars.
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  3642. The difference between Russia and the West is not about democracy because democracy is dead in both, it's that Russia is run by a patriotic nationalist, the West is run by unpatriotic globalists.
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  3643. Same story all over Africa. The Europeans built infrastructure, railways, electricity grids and industry, the white people left, were expelled or in South Africa's case, driven overseas by racial discrimination and gradually, everything falls apart.
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  3644.  @calc1657  Course there is. Millions of people borrow huge money to spend years studying totally useless subjects then when they graduate they can't get the kind of job they want. Yes they can get a minimum wage job doing something unskilled. It's a different kind of unemployment issue from Greece or China. In addition millions of young people don't find it attractive to work even if work is there. They just don't bother.
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  3645.  @buda3d2007  Well I partly agree, it's a different kind of problem. But not all Chinese study engineering :) They seem to have a similar problem to the US (actually most Western countries) in that most young people just can't make a decent living any more. Cost of living just outstrips wages. It's probably even worse in China than in most Western countries because the cost of housing in the cities where there are jobs is even more unaffordable than San Francisco or New York or London.
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  3646. Which is illegal because why?
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  3647. Go and volunteer for the Ukrainian army they have plenty of vacancies. And more created every day.
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  3648. There are similar guys in Britain for example Sean Bell, also an ex-airman who tells Sky News every day how the Ukrainians are doing really well.
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  3649.  @gueparm  I don't know about French language but in English, many of the comments on news channels about the Ukraine war are from bots. And of course, 90% of the bot comments are pro-Ukrainian.
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  3650.  @Euroscot9155  No I don't deliberately waste time on propaganda from either side except it's interesting to see what Zeihan's saying just to see what the US State Dept. wants the uninformed public to believe. If you think the likes of History Legends, DPA, Weeb Union and Miltary Summary are Russian propaganda then you've already been brainwashed.
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  3651.  @Bluest_of_Blue_Waffles  That's a bit vague, you can't say everyting Scott Ritter says is wrong - even though obviously he overstates his case at times. History Legends Alex often points out Russian claims are BS. He points out BS from both sides. If you think he's overall pro-Russian no it's just that Russia is winning ever more decisively. This was always going to happen since the Russians stopped the Ukrainian 2022 offensive and the Russian economy didn't collapse early on and is now reorientating eastwards. Time was always going to be on Russia's side. As for how the war started, it wasn't Russia which expanded 1000km westwards towards NATO. Are you familiar with Jacques Baud? Swiss intelligence officer. Look into his books on the origins of the war and the nature of the fighting.
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  3652. Yes and the important thing to know about Ben Wallace is that he's no longer defence minister. What he thinks and what he wants doesn't matter any more.
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  3653.  @pjhgerlach  The EU economy is a disaster right now though
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  3654. And German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies in 1914... no evidence required
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  3655.  @Kretenn  Yeah are you on Telegram? Most of the footage from Ukraine on both sides is from Telegram. Tens of thousands of people in Donetsk take photos and videos with their phones, the city has been under attack for years, how many videos would you expect there to be? The vast majority of the people killed in Donetsk from butterfly mines and artillery are civilians. This is how Ukraine treats the people it claims are its own citizens. And people like you are surprised that almost everyone in Donetsk voted to join with Russia.
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  3656.  @Tedger  What specifically for the UK was bad about the UK-Australia trade deal?
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  3657.  @HJ_Extravaganza  It's pretty stupid to believe that one of the biggest economies in the world isn't big enough to have enough leverage to be able to negotiate trade deals. Go look up countries ranked by total economy size.
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  3658.  @jeremymanson1781  Russia actually trains more engineers than the USA does despite the much smaller population. Zeihan keeps claiming Russia no longer trains engineers, it's moronic. He keeps making ridiculous claims over and over about Russia like human wave tactics, where's the footage? If half of what Zeihan said was true, Russia would be losing this war instead of grinding forward all over the front.
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  3659.  @jeremymanson1781  Ukraine had the second biggest military in NATO and is armed by all of NATO. It's a significant enemy. As for Russian losses, yes most people believe this but take a look into why you believe this. The Oryx blog for example has been shown to be full of errors e.g. inventing and exaggerating Russian losses and classifying Ukrainian losses and Russian. Auditing a random sample found plenty of errors. Hard to know whether deliberate or not. As for personnel losses, we hear about hundreds of thousand of Russians killed but mediazona can only identity just over 40,000 of them. There's a hell of a lot of wishful thinking going on here.
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  3660. If you want to shoot Russians go and join the foreign legion in Ukraine. You'll find out Russians shoot back.
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  3661. That's a totally implausible number.
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  3662. Too long, hard to concentrate to the end of this sitrep
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  3663.  @col0342  Another example. May 1945
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  3664. Only an idiot would believe casualty figures claimed by either side.
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  3665.  @qweezyuk  What do you expect landlords to provide accommodation for free? Being a landlord is pretty hard. My GF rented her house out and as soon as the tenant had been there long enough to get his residency rights, he stopped paying rent. Took two years to evict him over covid. Left owing 12k and we'll never get the money back. Meanwhile she still had to pay the mortgage and was just getting bigger and bigger credit card debt.
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  3666.  @roops2939  If we weren't importing millions of wasters from the third world, we wouldn't have to cover the countryside with houses. It's mass immigration which both pushes down wages and pushes up the price of housing.
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  3667.  @qweezyuk  In the case I'm talking about it wasn't a Buy to Let at all, it was the GF's only house. Buy to Let is close to dead now for small investors anyway. The government deliberately decided to squash it and the result is the small Buy to let landlords have already sold up and there's a chronic shortage of rentals. Also interest rates have gone right up so of course that's going to hit rents.
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  3668.  @qweezyuk  Paying a landlord mortgage, yes. I agree it's all down to timing. Landlords who got in 20 years ago made a killing but on capital gains more than rents. The point is, legislation makes being a landlord nowadays pretty unattractive, partly tenant rights, partly you can no longer take out mortgage cost from rental income in calculating income tax (so you can be paying income tax on rent even if you're making a loss - which is blatantly unfair). It's basically eliminating most private landlords or forcing them to run it as a business. So there's a shortage of houses and rents are pushed up. Yes some people are still making a lot of money but it's no longer easy. And some buy to let landlords have been burned badly.
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  3669. Every country is vulnerable. there's been plenty of sabotage and assassinations in Russia.
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  3670. These reports come from the Ukrainian government. Until we see the prisoners, such claims are worth nothing. The largest Russian unit I've seen surrender in the past few days was an infantry platoon of maybe fifteen guys.
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  3671. Deliberately targeting civilians? Looks like a desperate attempt to provoke the Russians into something stupid.
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  3672.  @adambussert3383  Let's get real, a lot of the kit which gets sent to Ukraine gets stolen and sold on the black market. Sure some guys will have some good winter kit. But there's nowhere near enough - if you believe what the Ukrainians claim themselves. But the narrative that the Russian army isn't trained or equipped to fight in winter - jeez what are you guys smoking?
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  3673.  @gotrefer6183  That makes no sense. You think it's funny the Russian government made Russians poor? Don't you know that Russians are much richer than Ukrainians? For example Russian pensions are about four times what Ukrainian pensions are. A DPR soldier is defending his homeland, a guy from Lvov? Not really. No more than a guy from Irkutsk. Both of them think they are because of their own government's propaganda. I keep hearing of low Russian morale from Western sources but on Telegram, I also see Ukrainian units retreating without orders and criticising their commanders. I'm not seeing much difference in morale between the two sides.
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  3674.  @_alienblood  Both sides lie, smart people are sceptical of the propaganda of both sides. Just because Russian propaganda is just as bad doesn't mean this channel isn't feel good copium clickbait run by a grifter.
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  3675. Yeah there's a huge amount of hypocrisy when critizing Russia. Especially this Ukrainian guy ridiculing Russia for mobilsing guys who don't want to go when we've all seen tons of footage of Ukrainian police throwing old men and teenagers into police vans off to the army
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  3676. Running a deficit isn't "austerity". Austerity was a fabrication from the start. Real austerity would have hurt but the country wouldn't be broke like it is now.
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  3677.  @michaelillingworth6433  Russian soldiers have already seen videos of Ukrainians executing and torturing Russian POWs. Russian surrenders dropped off a cliff after the first couple of weeks of the war
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  3678.  @nancyhoffman846  Are you one of these hysterical boors who think any criticism of Israeli policy is anti-Semitism?
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  3679. Yes they're trying to prove to NATO they're willing to attack the Russians and willing to make sacrifices for the upcoming conference to boost their case for being given more weapons.
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  3680. It's a mistake to take Zelensky so seriously. There's no point wasting time debunking Ukraine taking Donetsk City when Ukraine is being forced back across most of the front.
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  3681.  @KneelBeforeZod.  Seriously - Russia. Even semi-fascist Russia is saner than Britain now.
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  3682. Agree, the war is expensive for Russia, Russia can keep it up but offer decent terms and Putin would probably be glad to shut down the war. Putin wants to get back to peace to stop the dying, rebuild the military and reorientate the economy to Asia. Unlikely to happen soon though because the Ukrainian leadership would be disgraced and the Ukrainian population doesn't know they've lost yet.
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  3683.  @alainlefebvre9860  Ukraine will run out of willing manpower before Russia runs out of equipment.
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  3684. Putin and other senior Russian leaders have been warning for over a decade that Ukraine joining NATO was a serious problem for Russia. Austin, Blinken and Zelensky were all pushing this hard in the lead up to the war. Economic explanations may contribute but it's obvious Russia would not accept Ukraine in NATO.
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  3685.  @matsfrommusic  Before the war, Ukraine had a lower GDP than Russia and even more inequality. As for Ukraine becoming a democracy, its politics are controlled by oligarchs allied to nationalist extremists who murder their enemies. Its corruption is similar to Russia's. Whatever the reasons for Putin's invasion, jealousy is not one of them.
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  3686.  @matsfrommusic  It seems clear your understanding is overly influenced by the Western narrative of Russia as backwards and Ukraine as progressive. You are almost certainly correct however that Putin would be concerned however about the Western desire to see him replaced. Neocons are openly calling now for Russia to be broken up. Imagine if Russia were calling for Biden to be replaced and openly working to break up the USA.
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  3687.  @matsfrommusic  I don't claim anything is great about killing anyone. I agree many anti-government journalists and politicians in Russia have been killed. Many Western aligned countries act similarly. This is a problem for Russian society to solve for itself, Western interference would be opposed by the the vast majority of Russian society just as Russian interference in the politics of Western countries is opposed by Westerners. Political violence in Ukraine after 2014 was vastly worse than in Russia. I'd like to recommend a well referenced survey for you - Ukraine in the Crossfire by Dutch journalist Chris Kaspar de Ploeg. He is neither pro-Russians nor pro-Ukrainian, he criticises both sides. The West has a very poor record of replacing national leaders it calls corrupt with non corrupt alternatives. You will know some examples - Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. I don't know how much money Putin has stolen. When he assisted Sobchak, the mayor of St. Petersburg his position gave him the opportunity to steal millions as did many of his colleagues. He came out of that situation with a wooden house by a lake and US $5000. He couldn't afford his wife's medical care in Germany after a car accident. Perhaps you have concrete evidence that Putin has personally stolen billions I am not aware of.
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  3688. For clues look at the collapse of Russia and then Germany in 1918. Ukraine can hold out for longer but the clock is ticking. Something will give eventually.
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  3689.  @giuseppeanoardi3973  LOL do you have any reason whatsoever to believe the Russian regime is about to fall? The infighting I see is between Zelensky and Zaluzhny.
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  3690.  @giuseppeanoardi3973  Eliminating the loose cannon Prigozhin actually makes Putin's regime more secure. The few disloyal people who sided with him identified themselves and can no longer be a threat. Surovikhin who was a bit too close to Prigozhin has been sent to Africa apparently. As for the weaker rouble, this is helpful more than anything. Russian energy exports are priced in foreign currencies whereas armaments and other government costs are paid for in roubles. Obviously if inflation got out of control that would be a problem but it hasn't happened so far. Russians are complaining about inflation and higher costs but are they complaining more than the Europeans or Americans? Not so far.
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  3691. Are we allowed to ask the race of the assailants?
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  3692. In the interests of diversity I feel I should stand aside to allow an ethnic minority person a chance.
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  3693.  @GinaFernandezx14  Most people killed by dogs nowadays are killed by pit bulls. It's not that pit bulls kill more than any other breed, it's that they kill way more than all other breeds put together.
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  3694.  @pouyaz8472  Russia and the US can only act with the collaboration of allies. And the US has now lost all its allies there except Israel. Iran and Russia are now pretty tight and Saudi Arabia has made its peace with Russia. Pretty soon Iran's going to be strong enough to stand up to the USA. Look at how North Korea now has advanced Russian missiles which can hit the mainland USA. Russia's not going to let the US or Israel get away with anything in the future.
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  3695.  @patrickjeffers7864  For Russia? The end game in Ukraine is Ukrainian capitulation and the Russians install a puppet government. Bit like the Americans did in Iraq. Except that Ukraine will be partitioned. Failing that then yes, the Russians will conquer it eventually perhaps not Galicia but the rest of it. They're building a huge army and the Ukrainians are running out of men. They're at the January 1945 stage.
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  3696.  @Czar_Simeon_I_The_Great  Where's the evidence Russia wants to risk a global nuclear war by attacking any other NATO state? Russia explained over and over Ukraine joining NATO was a red line for them. American insisted on publicly backing Ukraine joining NATO and put Ukraine on a MEP. So now we have a war with Russia. The claim that Russia wants to expand the war out of Ukraine has zero evidence. It's just a Zeihan propaganda talking point. If you want to find a country at war who wants to expand the war you should look to Israel - attacked an Iranian embassy FFS to force Iran into a response and drag America in.
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  3697.  @eenigheid3186  There is no free world. If you think NATO countries are still free you haven't been paying attention the past few years. In America the justice system has become blatantly politicised. Freedom of speech is gone in Europe. Canada even froze bank accounts without trial for protesting against the government.
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  3698.  @whssy  Hundreds of cases? But no evidence.
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  3699. Anyone who believes Russian casualties are higher is either an idiot or has not put enough effort into questioning the propaganda.
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  3700. And so what? Russia also says Crimea is part of Russia. That's why NATO's whole strategy is wrong. Even if somehow the Ukrainians could threaten Crimea - which looks unrealistic - then Russia could just recover their position with nuclear weapons.
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  3701. The Germans chose this mess for themselves. Merkel admitted Minsk II was never intended seriously and was just to buy time to rearm Ukraine. The Germans should have put their foot down when Nordstream was bombed. The current German government is 100% Atlanticist even though the German population is becoming sceptical. If the Germans ever wake up, A Russian/German economic alliance would allow Germany to break free of the Americans and reinvigorate Germany.
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  3702.  @davidgmillsatty1900  Yes, all good points but I would say as for Crimea, this is a long term problem, Crimea survived for years without this water. The canal and dam can be fixed after the war. As for the towns, I presume very few people are left. And Russia can just blame Ukraine. Regardless of who did it, both sides will blame each other. I think the military considerations will outweigh the damage.
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  3703.  @davidgmillsatty1900  Yeah all we can know for sure is that they're going to blame each other! As an engineer, 'd be very surprised if it was just weakening allowed it to burst. I'm 99.9% sure this was as the result of an explosive charge and I'd say it's going to have to be a demolition charge rather than a missile, very few missiles are going to have a warhead anything like big enough.
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  3704.  @davidgmillsatty1900  It's probably in the interests of the stronger side to destroy the dam. Lowering the water upstream makes crossing upstream easier. That's probably more important than what happens downstream. In a few days or maybe a couple of weeks, the downstream water will be drained away and the ground firming up but upstream, the level will be permanently lower. I admit Ukraine does seem more interested in attacking in this sector, Russia's priority seems to be in the east. I don't think the Russians are profligate enough with their men to try light infantry river crossings for little advantage whereas the Ukrainians already tried a big raid like this last year. Anyway I'd guess in the next few days there'll be gradually more evidence from the dam itself appearing. Because of the location, a demolition would probably have been easier for the Russians.
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  3705.  @davidgmillsatty1900  Not exactly hard evidence who did it but Ukraine has opened a lot of the upstream sluice gates .. hard to see what the reason would be if they didn't want the flooding.
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  3706.  @davidgmillsatty1900  Yeah for sure, there's still scope to lower the level of the dam further. I have to admit early on I thought it probably was Russia, as I learn more about the strategic implications, it seems Ukraine has the greater advantage from it, also Ukraine surely could at least temporarily hold back upstream water if they wanted to. But we get the usual it was Russia wot done it story.
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  3707.  @davidgmillsatty1900  Haha yes that sounds right. I do software now and it's the same thing. But I'd never argue you don't need the bean counters :P No I haven't seen anything new about the dam, have you seen anything? I've just seen lots of footage from several places of upstream sluice gates open. There seems to be a lot more damage to the Russian bank but I suspect they don't care about that so much, their main defences will be inland and higher up. Maybe the biggest effect will be upstream of the dam where the river will now be permanently lower and easier to cross. The past few days have been really interesting to watch.
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  3708.  @alecpritchard  This channel is mainly for thick people
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  3709.  @MrBendylaw  No he's using his own pronunciation.
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  3710.  @mortmortannon6640  The kind of statistics your calculations are based on are from ethnically homogenous, highly nationalistic early twentieth century European countries with much younger populations than modern Ukraine. Most people in Ukraine have no interest in fighting for the regime. Indeed many of them would rather fight for the Russians. Compared to 1914-1918 Europe or 1939-1945 Europe, a huge section of that 40 million population are too old to fight for anyone. And it's not just women and children that have left. Fighting age men are resorting to bribery or other extreme measures to get out.
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  3711.  @mortmortannon6640  I'm certainly not arguing that nobody wants to fight for the regime, there are still many such individuals and formations with high morale, just not enough. It's obvious they're struggling to maintain manpower after the hundreds of thousands of casualties they've taken. There are plenty of videos online of the police pulling teenagers and old men off the street for the army and there are lots of guys in hiding so they don't get drafted. Also there are many cases of Ukrainian units retreating without orders and refusing to return to the front much like the French army in 1917 and the Germans in 1918. Already the Ukrainian army is disbanding brigades which have been effectively shattered. Western European armies of the 1914-1918 war were extremely patriotic and nationalistic. Serious corruption was rare. Whereas corruption in Ukraine is chronic. Yes it's pretty bad in Russia too but worse in Ukraine. Everyone knows the rich pay bribes to keep out the army and are partying it up while the poor are having their lives thrown away in suicidal attacks or abandoned in defensive positions without support. Extortionate bribes have made those with authority to draft recruits multimillionaires. This is not a society which can take millions of casualties and keep fighting regardless. The population has already dropped below thirty million due to emigration over the past year.
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  3712. Not actually true though, Russia has taken more territory in the Donbas alone since the start of the year
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  3713.  @lf6756  Check for yourself just check ISW maps from the start of the year compared to now.
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  3714. Do you mean the USA or Israel? They both fit the rogue and unhinged description.
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  3715. Yeah Bozo is a deluded bumbling clown who can't face reality because if he did, he'd be admitting he has a lot of the blame for the catastrophe of Project Ukraine.
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  3716. Russian nukes are more modern than US nukes on average. Why would they not work? Haven't you noticed their non nuclear missiles tend to work pretty effectively?
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  3717.  @karunama3771  Fail - Most Russian strategic missiles aren't from the cold war. It's ridiculous the deluded fantasies you Zeihan fan boys have about Russia. Actually, about most things but Russia especially. As for fission technology, it's pretty simple to get right. 80 year old tech. Even North Korea can do it. If you think Russia, a country that trains more engineers and scientists than the USA can't manage what North Korea can then you need to try thinking.
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  3718. @ So basically you haven't got an argument so that's the best you can do?
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  3719.  @karunama3771  1) I'm not Russian I'm actually in a NATO country 2) You can check for yourself really easily if you bothered the only reason for me to provide "proof" would be if you don't know how to use the internet yourself 3) You spend time writing a long post explaining why I;m not worth responding to - you might want to think through your logic
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  3720.  @karunama3771  Aircraft carriers are the bottom priority for Russia, strategic nuclear weapons are the highest priority.
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  3721. If DW had any integrity, they'd never talk to him again
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  3722.  @ArtisZ  Hard to say for sure that he's lying, maybe he's just insanely unrealistic. But for an early example, google "Tarmo Maiberg General Ben Hodges Q&A: Ukraine could push Russia back by end of 2022"
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  3723. Later on he changed "could" to "will". He's been predicting Russia is about to collapse for the past year. Yet Russia keeps grinding forward.
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  3724.  @alvaroLguevara  sure some places in USA were less but compare with most of Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand.
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  3725. This is a blatant propaganda channel. The Ukrainians took some ground north and south of Bakhmut - but just some fields and tree lines and mainly low lying ground, nothing which can be defended. It's a desperate headline to distract from the main offensive being an unmitigated disaster.
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  3726.  @namastezen3300  How can a foreign sponsored violent coup be described as pro-democracy? If you honestly believe the Odessa protesters set fire to themselves then you've never looked at the evidence. Who are the thousands of Kosovans murdered by the Serbian government? We're still waiting for the bodies to be found and the victims to be named. 1999 Moscow bombings, FSB - where's your evidence? Why are you trying to change the subject?
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  3727. Why do you believe Russia blew the dam? What's your evidence? Just because Peter Zeihan said so?
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  3728. Yes. That's why this river crossing is strategically useless and tactically unfavourable and the Russians have nothing to worry about.
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  3729. There's a video of Arestovych before the war explaining that Ukraine would have to provoke a war with Russia to create the conditions for a Russian collapse and so thereby obtain territory for a greater Ukraine. These guys had dreams of annexing Belgorod and Rostov.
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  3730. Yep Twitter is out of their control now, that's why they hate it.
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  3731.  @dpelpal  Putin never said that I'm sure you've been challenged many times before and you're still repeating this drivel. That makes you a propagandist.
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  3732. "so much senseless death for one old man" - that man is Biden.
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  3733.  @mmoxam6963  He had help from Vic Nuland if that's waht you mean?
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  3734.  @Zz_Mike-Hawk_zZ  When Italians looked back at the war in 1919, not many thought they had won.
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  3735.  @Zz_Mike-Hawk_zZ  In hindsight, staying out would have been ever better :)
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  3736.  @Zz_Mike-Hawk_zZ  Interesting, I thought it was widely regarded as a mistake. I hope your country stays out of the Third World War :)
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  3737.  @Zz_Mike-Hawk_zZ  I read Robert Paxton's book on Mussolini, it seems Mussolini's regime contributed a lot to unification but yes I can imagine the process was accelerated by the war too. It's probably true for most of the countries on the winning side.
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  3738. That puts Russia in the position where they can choose between making a peace deal which results in Ukraine joining NATO or alternatively taking over all of Ukraine. It's a totally unrealistic and childish level of diplomacy.
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  3739. the difference is Putin is a patriotic dictator, Starmer is actively trying to destroy his country
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  3740.  @curious_O_o  War started with the US sponsored Maidan coup which overthrew a democratically elected government and replaced it with nationalist extremists.
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  3741.  @kasimirfreeman  You're right but the Minski II agreement demanded this and Ukraine failed to follow though.
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  3742. This scumbag talking about Russian aggression and Kosovo doesn't acknowledge Kosovo was seized by NATO by force from Serbia - and afterwards the Serbs were ethnically cleansed. Somewhere that was once overwhelmingly Serbian is now almost entire Albanian. At the time Yeltsin warned changing European borders by force created a dangerous precedent and the Russians haven't forgotten.
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  3743. Totally agree, the UK MOD releases are just propaganda. The Russians got a nasty surprise by the Kharkov offensive, after that, they were very, very wary and pessimistic. The Crimean offensives were started around that time. Since then the Russian mobilised reserves are trained and the Russian position keeps improving.
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  3744. "credibility of Zeihan" .. he never had any credibility. He's a snake oil salesman.
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  3745. The similarity to WWI in Ukraine is superficial. One side is bigger, stronger, has more artillery ammunition, plentiful drones and missiles and is in no hurry. The other side is pulling old men and teenagers off the street to send to the front.
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  3746.  @vilian9185  If you believe Ukraine has a technology and tactical superiority over Russia, you've fallen for the propaganda narrative. Neutral channels that follow the fighting day by day tell a very different story.
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  3747.  @dachiarchvadze  If Russia takes Odessa, what's left of Ukraine will have an economy poorer than Moldova's and a population which has already suffered tens of thousands of conscripted soldiers killed by Russian artillery. By that stage, Europe will have realised it needs Russian energy more than Russia needs European money and NATO's consensus will have completely dissolved. Only the Americans and the nationalist extremists will want to continue a war with Russia.
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  3748.  @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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  3749. 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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  3750.  @gustaafpeeters6173  That's like saying the atomic bombs made the difference to Japan, not the Americans. The Russian state fell apart because it lost a war of attrition against the Germans. And anyway, the civil war was afterwards. The height of the civil war was in 1920.
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  3751. Except that Putin isn't Hitler, the Russians have neither the interest in nor the capability of threatening Britain in a conventional war and Britain derives no benefit whatsoever in pursuing the Washington neocon agenda in Ukraine, the Middle East or elsewhere.
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  3752.  @Randomuser-ei7is  To be fair both sides have used not only WWII equipment but even WWI equipment. DPR guys have used pre-war rifles and Ukrainian territorials have fielded Maxim guns.
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  3753. The only evidence of which side is which is the flags stuck on by whoever posted the video. For all you know, you're cheering for the wrong side. Most sheep like you wouldn't know the difference between a Ukrainian and a Russian if you met one of each in the street but you think one side are heroes and the other side are orcs. The media tells you which side to support and you reliably fall into line without engaging the few brain cells you possess.
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  3754.  @timwinterhalter5233  Cute that you think America is still a democracy like you haven't been paying attention the past ten years at all
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  3755. After WWII some ethnically Hungarian areas were given to surrounding countries. There are some areas outside of Hungary where Hungarians are a majority.
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  3756. Most of the bombers which destroyed Normandy were RAF bombers. Maybe that's part of the reason.
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  3757.  @Glasgow_kiss  Ask yourself why a mainly white country has so many immigrant colonisers in charge
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  3758. More realistic is about half of that ... still a lot of people. And most of them will never go back because after the war, the economy will be destroyed. There's no coming back from this for Ukraine.
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  3759. Oceans won't save the USA if endless escalation pushes the Russians into WWIII. Something clowns like Zeihan don't seem to understand.
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  3760. It's mindless propaganda for the thickies. Check out the History legends channel and an Aussie journalist interviewing his mercenary mate fighting Wagner in Bakhmut. He admits the professional Wagner mercenaries are taking very low casualties and the Ukrainians are getting pulped. It's appalling how the British media is so dishonest about everything to do with this war.
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  3761. It's an extremely childish understanding of the world
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  3762.  @demonshelby1311  I totally agree with that. What really object to is the hypocrisy. So much of the Western media the Western political elite (especially in America but in Britain too) is giving Israel a free pass for the kind of behaviour nobody else would get away with. Personally I'm politically to the right and I find it outrageous commentators I agree with on most issues spout such ignorant (or disingenuous) nonsense about what's happening in the West Bank and Gaza which is objectively worse than anything Serbia did in Kosovo or Russia did in Donbas or even anything the old regime in South Africa did.
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  3763.  @rewdwarf123  Impossible to know exact numbers but from the identities of those known to be killed, almost half of the Gazans killed are female. Almost half are children. Does that sound like accidental collateral damage to you? The Israelis themselves admit they'll destroy an entire apartment block full of people if they expect they're going to kill an enemy commander. We know for a fact they have targeted areas where refugees were ordered to move to. The IDF just doesn't care because they know Western media and Western politicians will make excuses for them no matter what happens.
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  3764. Interesting that Gonzalo Lira who hates the US government claims there was no US link, that the coup was organic.
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  3765.  @jesan733  It's actually verifiable fact if you'd care to check. If you can spare the time from finding those WMD in Iraq that is.
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  3766. ​ @MaraWantuch  If the war continues for another few months, the Ukrainians will break. It's obvious they're finding it harder ever week to paper over the cracks if you watch neutral channels like Military Summary, Weeb Union, DPA, Daniel Davis etc. That's not to say the war won't be settled by negotiations but only if the Russians choose to do it. Nothing short of nuclear war is actually able to stop the Russians from taking what they want at this point. Which might be why people in the Pentagon might be trying to provoke a nuclear war.
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  3767.  @jesan733  “Ukraine received security assurances for abandoning the world's third-largest nuclear arsenal. We have no weapons. And no security... If it does not work, or if there is no such package of security guarantees for Ukraine, then Ukraine will have every right to believe that the Budapest Memorandum is not working and all the package decisions of 1994 are in doubt.” anyone with room temperature IQ can see that means Ukraine building new nuclear weapons.
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  3768.  @jesan733  Over the preceding months, Ukraine stepped up shelling of Donetsk City, read Jacques Baud. Although it's true Russian forces built up for weeks before the invasion it's also obvious the actual invasion was last minute and improvised. Chaotic even. Most likely the build up was intended as a bluff to make Ukraine back down and then the order to go in was given only a couple of days before.
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  3769.  @jesan733  Jacques Baud is a Swiss intelligence officer - hardly a Russian propagandist. In any case his books are well references. If you want to argue with any particular point go for it but dismissing facts you don't like as Russian propaganda is lame crap for midwits. Nobody other than you claims the Russian invasion was well prepared, neither on the Ukrainian side nor the Russian side. The Russian soldiers who were involved say the lack of planning and organisation were appalling.
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  3770.  @jesan733  If you don't like Jacques Baud because somehow a Swiss intelligence officer is actually a Russian spy or something how about Scott Ritter ex US marine colonel/weapons inspector, Douglas McGregor and Daniel Davis US colonels famous from Desert Storm, interesting that it's the colonels who write books on tactics who are better informed than the political but out of touch senior generals like Hodges and Jack Keene
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  3771.  @a.brekkan4965  Anyone who thinks that is an idiot. Any use of nuclear weapons would probably escalated to an unrestrained nuclear wear between NATO and Russia.
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  3772. Yes, it was based on a pack of lies that NATO attacked Serbia too
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  3773.  @pedromatos5918  Yes I know what NATO is - a modern version of the Delian League, maintaining American global hegemony to the advantage of almost nobody. A so called defensive alliance which has attacked half a dozen countries in the past three decades, none of which attacked a NATO member first. And a source of huge profits for the most corrupt people in the West.
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  3774.  @arlenewipfler5475  Putin felt he had no choice but to retake Crimea after the Americans staged a violet coup in Ukraine 2013-2014. Everything which has happened follows from Vic Nuland's Maidan project.
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  3775.  @evaluateanalysis7974  Several senior US statesmen promised that NATO would not expand eastwards both in private conversations to Soviet officials and in public speeches on record. Including US Secretary of State James Baker. google "James Baker Not One Inch" and see how wrong you are.
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  3776. NATO aircraft would be just as vulnerable to Russian air defence as Russian aircraft are to Ukrainian air defence. A quarter million pound missile destroys a hundred million pound aircraft and possibly, its valuable pilot as well. It's mistaken to think NATO could fight Russia without massive casualties, let alone an escalation to nuclear war.
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  3777.  @andrew6978  so why are non NATO countries queuing up to buy Russian air defence systems? Think about it.
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  3778.  @andrew6978  Even India and Saudi Arabia are trying to buy the S400. If NATO technology were really better, why would they do that when the US would love to those multi-billion dollar contracts?
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  3779.  @Moscow_Will_Burn  Not really, North Korea has the world's biggest supply of 155mm ammunition. And now in return, North Korea has modern missiles which can hit the US mainland. North Korea might be a joke to you but it's still one of the world's strongest military powers.
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  3780. Nothing to do with Russia it's about the West turning authoritarian
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  3781.  @TJAMES19831  So long as it's safely in solid form. You certainly don't want to be breathing in dust laced with U235. The alpha radiation might not get through your skin but once it's in your lungs, it won't take much to create a serious problem.
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  3782. Is that because you believed Peter Zeihan who said the Chinese were going to backstab Russia and seize Siberia?
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  3783. Russiagate was a fraud from the start, did you never get the memo?
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  3784. It's just a BS narrative with zero evidence
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  3785. Check out his earlier predictions - hilariously inaccurate
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  3786.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  Sure. T90s Sitting there for years. Wonder how guys like you are going to cope when the final result of the war is a Russian victory?
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  3787.  @Scriobh  I'm not an expert and Wikipedia has been wrong before but according to Wikipedia - "In non-special anniversary years only a T-34/85 medium battle tank carrying the Victory Banner leads the column of tens of military vehicles and equipment" Looks like this whole narrative about only one tank in the parade looks like the typical media horse shit to me. There are more important things going on. The Russians just hit some huge ammo dumps in Western Ukraine in the weekend and now radioactivity across Western Ukraine has jumped almost 50%. Presumably the British depleted uranium ammunition getting vaporized. But instead the media wants to talk about kindergarten BS like how many tanks are in the Moscow parade.
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  3788. I'll be surprised if they don't. Stingers and Javelins are definitely available in the Middle Eastern black-markets.
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  3789.  @AndersLiljeblad  It's like media big mouths shooting their mouths off, nobody from the Russian government said it.
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  3790. Is that because Russians, who have been in the oil business for a hundred years, are too thick to maintain their infrastructure?
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  3791. Alexander Mercouris is a pedantic wind bag who knows nothing about military affairs and has an extreme pro-Russian bias. Brian Berletic has much better understanding and presentation but also extreme pro-Russian bias. Theti Mapping, Military Summary at least attempt to be neutral, as does History Legends Alex who has pretty sensible takes.
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  3792.  @spencerburke  It's hardly the economic collapse the advocates of sanctions predicted at the start of the war though is it! Yeah ordinary Russians have to pay more now for their phones and cars. But Russian armaments production is up heavily since the start of the war, even the NYT admits it.
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  3793. These clowns simultaneously want to argue the Russian military is incompetent and also if we don't ship Zelensky billions, the Russian military is going to stomp all over Europe. It's propaganda for thick people.
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  3794.  @purplerings1969  No serious economist denies migration pushed down wages and contributed to the housing crisis. If you think the current difficulties are primarily about Brexit, you should have a look at what's happening in the rest of Europe - huge protests, closing businesses and growing poverty.
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  3795.  @purplerings1969  I partly agree. Some of the people who pushed Brexit lied and immigration hasn't fallen because the politicians swindled the British people. Nevertheless Brexit is a prerequisite for getting immigration down. It allows a future government to do it if it wants to. In the EU, there's literally nothing we can do to stop the endless flow other than completely dismantling the welfare state.
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  3796.  @HKim0072  If that were true, why do people describe themselves as "African American" after ten generations? Why do people call themselves "Italian American" or "Latino"?
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  3797.  @HKim0072  If assimilation really worked, these people would just be "Americans". But they're not. People who think assimilation is fast should think about Northern Ireland where after 500 years, the "immigrants" have still not assimilated.
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  3798.  @HKim0072  LOL how did mass immigration of foreigners work out for the Native Americans?
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  3799.  @HKim0072  No I've lived in six countries and speak five languages so your powers of divination aren't as good as you assume. I've demonstrated why assimilation in the USA is mainly a myth, apparently, you have no counter argument. Talking about Native Americans doesn't contradict my point at all. The European incomers REPLACED their culture, they didn't assimilate into it.
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  3800. 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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  3801.  @AjayTiwari-en9nz  If the US sanctions India, India just says f. you to the US and looks for closer ties with Russia and China ... and Iran, Brazil, Indonesia etc. India is too big to bully.
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  3802.  @milesb2111  He said India gets most of its oil from Russia, not that Germany did.
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  3803. US spokesman since admitted a Patriot launcher was hit. We've yet to see evidence a single Kinzhal was shot down. Last time Ukraine claimed something like this we saw a photo of Kitschko standing next to something completely different.
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  3804. These clowns simultaneously want to argue the Russian military is incompetent and also if we don't ship Zelensky billions, the Russian military is going to stomp all over Europe. It's propaganda for thick people.
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  3805. So invite some into your own home
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  3806.  @cameroncrider6970  Wouldn't that be convenient - so Israel steals the land of other people and it's up to their neighbours to take in the refugees. How about in the "rules based order" the US keeps talking about Israel complies with UN resolutions and withdraws from the West Bank and the Golan Heights.
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  3807.  @jackt883  Ukraine was murdering its own citizens. Same excuse NATO used to attack Yugoslavia in 1999.
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  3808. Do we care about self determination? Does it matter if the large majority of the population of Crimea and Donetsk don't want to be part of Ukraine? If sovereign borders matter more than what the locals want, why did we attack Serbia to break off Kosovo? Or is it just that we're hypocrites whose moral stance depends on what we perceive to be our own geopolitical interest?
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  3809.  @dragonade85  Apparently, you're in favour of World War Three. I assume you haven't thought through that this would mean the destruction of Germany, Britain and much of America.
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  3810.  @marvinc9994  Several points. According to the logic you present, Kosovo should still be part of Serbia. It was taken off Serbia by force. Also, the American revolution was illegitimate because the British empire as a whole should have decided whether the 13 states should be allowed independence. The phrase "nation state" is problematic: a nation is a group of people who consider themselves a distinct group related by ancestry and culture. A nation can coincide with a state's borders and often does for example Japan is undeniably a nation state, the vast majority of the population of Japan belong to the Japanese nation. But Ukraine is not a nation state. It is a state containing many nations of which the Ukrainians are merely the biggest. I don't think a "nation state" is a concept in international law, what counts is the "sovereign state". The problem is, the prestige of international law went out the window because it's so blatantly disregarded by the USA. In other words, international law is only worth the paper its printed on if someone is prepared to enforce it. America considered itself the only super power so it felt free to disregard it for over two decades. Now, China and Russia are challenging that hegemony and its a bit late to start pretending international law is anything more than a convention or guideline that binds great powers. As for planting Russians in Crimea, what's the evidence of this? What evidence is there than Russia moved people to Crimea to change the demographics since the end of the Soviet Union? Ethnic Russians have been an outright majority there for around a hundred years. Crimea was Russian long before it was Ukrainian, in fact it was transferred to Ukraine by Khrushchev in the 1950s. Yes Stalin deported Tartars around the 1940s because some of them supported Germany, what responsibility does modern Russia have for the actions of this Georgian dictator? And actually how is this any different from the USA moving its ethnically Japanese population away from the coast? If you suppose the Tartars have any special right to Crimea more than anyone else, remember they're not an indigenous people, they conquered it before the Russians did. The phrase "certain Russophiles" implies it's just a small minority who support Russia. In Donetsk and Crimea, it's the vast majority who want to be part of Russia. Even many of the ethnic Ukrainians prefer to be part of Russia for various reasons - including distrust of the Ukrainian nationalists, the post Maidan situation in Ukraine and the vastly more generous Russian pensions. My point is not that Russia is in the right in Ukraine. it's just that it's not doing anything there that America didn't do first elsewhere. At least Russia in Ukraine has the excuse that its protecting the interests of ethnic Russians and legitimately safeguarding its own security. America can't genuinely argue anything comparable in Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Somalia or Serbia. I'm not pro-Russian, I have no personal stake either way, it's the Western hypocrisy I find tiresome.
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  3811. @d4qatoa If you think the fighting in Avdivka is 1 to 1 in casualties you need to check out neutral sources. Russia is cutting through Avidvka really fast, shelling Ukrainians trying to run the gauntlet in and out and hitting any known Ukrainian position with FAB bombs. It takes a lot of wishful thinking to believe Russian casualties are anywhere near as high as Ukrainian.
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  3812. The Robotyne area is a killing zone which is working out pretty well for the Russians. The Ukrainians are out in the open without good fortifications. Why would the Russians be in a hurry to close it? Adivka has been a huge problem for the Russians since the start of the war. Capturing it would be a major win.
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  3813. @@David45sa Thing is, the Ukrainians have been using Adivka to shell Donetsk City and kill a lot of civilians. It's a big embarrassment to the Russian army that so far the Russians haven't been able to protect them. Additionally, Adivka is probably the strongest point on the Ukrainian front. If it falls, the Ukrainians will struggle to cover the gap.
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  3814. At this stage Ukraine is winning if it can keep Odessa and Kiev and its independence.
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  3815. Mean IQ in India is around 85, mean IQ in Britain is around 100. Indians in Britain tend to be from amongst the elite they are NOT typical of the over a billion people in India.
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  3816. Yes, the west vs. the east, two oppressive, authoritarian empire coalitions fighting each other, people from each side unquestioningly believing the propaganda.
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  3817. She's thick as a brick
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  3818. As if the Chinese and the Russians don't know how big ammunition stockpiles are.
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  3819.  @mikedon5205  Decades ago the Americans promised the Russians NATO would not expand eastwards, they obviously lied. In the lead up to the war Kamala Harris and Zelensky both said Ukraine would join NATO (in Munich) and Ukraine was on the NATO MAP. How can anyone seriously claim this is irrelevant?
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  3820. NATO created this precedent of breaking up a European country when it seized Kosovo. Russia protested at the time but they were ignored.
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  3821.  @brandonstanley9125  It's delusional to think Russia is going to move further west past Ukraine. You might as well talk about Canada invading the USA. If the war stops now, Russian influence is limited to the east of Ukraine. As for Taiwan, the Ukraine war is a distraction which weakens the West's ability to fight a major war against China, the world's largest economy by PPP. The biggest benefit to China is for the Ukraine war to keep going because it ties Russia closely to China. In other words, so long as the war is running the Russian economy needs China.
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  3822.  @victorhopper6774  Fighting Russia is destroying Ukraine. Ukraine had an awful demographic profile even before the war and they've lost millions of people since the war started. Their economy is destroyed and they're incurring debts they'll never break free from in generations. They're losing hundreds more dead every day. They would have got the best terms in the weeks following the invasion. The terms available now will be worse. The terms available by the end of the year will be worse still. And your idea of a solution is invade Russa.
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  3823.  @MarvinWestmaas  Since you're so keen on killing Russians you should really join the Ukrainian army and show us how it's done rather than spewing childish racism online.
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  3824.  @hb1338  The smart thing to do for Estonia. Latvia and Lithuania if they care about their safety is to improve relations with Russia. For countries of little more than a million people to deliberately antagonise their superpower neighbour hoping that the fickle USA will bail them out is as foolish as Cuba deliberately antagonising the USA. As for Ukraine, if you cared about the future of Ukraine as a sovereign country, you'd realise that the best prospect of achieving that is a peace settlement with Russia. If this war grinds on for years, ultimately, Russia will take over all of Ukraine. Even though the Russians really don't want the west of the country where people are anti-Russian. Thinking Ukrainian nationalists should be glad to be rid of the south eastern part of the country because they could then reliably dominate the remainder. As for me - you're right, I don't care that much about the future of these abstract entities called sovereign countries. It really shouldn't matter to anyone in the West where exactly the border is drawn when the fighting stops. I do care about the people however. Their primary interest lies in ending the war while there's still something to save.
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  3825. By this time next year it'll be obvious Russia is winning.
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  3826. Yet the Russians still won. The Ukrainians are doing attacks daily in which they lose hundreds of men. That's the difference - the Russian side is very casualty conscious, the Ukrainians are not.
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  3827. Russians can just mine the approaches and hit any ship in the port with missiles. Russia doesn't need station warships outside the port like the Royal Navy in the nineteenth century.
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  3828.  @AlanBennett866  Yes fair point, Musk isn't entirely against the government but he doesn't follow the censorship agenda as closely as the rest of big tech.
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  3829. TIK - totally missing the point. It's not about measuring what a particular individual will do. It's about statistically measuring a large group. If you think that's an invalid thing to do then throw away psychology and all of the social sciences. And almost all of economics.
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  3830.  @amilaperera1  Not. the US. The State Department and the neocons who run it.
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  3831.  @davidlloyd1526  1) Lukashenko isn't Russia 2) It's nothing new
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  3832. Pretty funny, so you're watching a propaganda channel, lapping it up and you think the other side are brainwashed by their propaganda, did I get that right?
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  3833.  @dandansen571  Only a moron thinks is this is still WWII. Putin isn't Hitler, Zelensky isn't Churchill and we live in a time where nuclear weapons could kill billions of people. There are two sides to background behind this war and CNN is only going to tell you the CIA./State Dept version
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  3834. But would Rose have actually known about what Coutts were secretly up to here? I mean I totally get that anyone involved at Coutts should resign, but realistically how much would RBS management have even known?
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  3835.  @johnhankinson1929  I just think if there's any doubt, people should have the benefit of the doubt. I don't think Rose has been doing a bad job in general.
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  3836.  @jayshartzer844  Easy to fix, the Russians station mercenaries on their oil tankers and the Somalis know to keep well away. The Russians caught some pirates a few years back and fed them to to the sharks.
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  3837. The English speaking world is subject to massive propaganda from the opposite direction. There's nothing more ridiculous than people who think the enemy side are manipulated by propaganda but lap up the propaganda from their own media
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  3838.  @TurningoffyourGaslights  I'm not Russian or even pro-Russian, I'm just not part of the Western media propaganda machine echo chamber. Yes Ukraine scuttled a ship to prevent it being captured. Smaller patrol boats were sunk by missiles. The point is, it's not true that Ukraine didn't have a navy - it did. And it's gone.
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  3839.  @ludmilascoles1195  You can use them as assault guns though. They're not gong to survive in a one on one tank battle but they're still well armed and armoured.
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  3840. It wouldn't concern you that you're donating tens of billions to the most corrupt country in Europe?
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  3841. Mediazona is pretty good, have a look. They have individually identified about 40,000 Russian dead and they categorise them by month killed too. The problem is their "estimate" that actual Russian dead are more than twice what they have identified. It could be true but it is just a guess. What is far too low however are estimates of Ukrainian casualties. It's delusional to think that although everyone admits the Russians have more firepower, more air support, more armour and more ammunition, that Ukrainian casualties are lower.
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  3842. Obviously he doesn't actually believe that. What's interesting about the claim is it proves he wants to downplay the vast power of the Israeli lobby. Even Netanyahu admitted they control the USA.
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  3843.  @memofromessex  There were a couple of thousand Dutchmen at Killiecrankie
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  3844. No, the Conservatives have been a complete disaster. They're not importantly different from Labour, The two party system has outlived its purpose and we're not going to break free from it by voting for the sham Conservatives.
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  3845. You know the US sponsored a coup which overthrew the democratically elected president in Ukraine right? And the current Ukrainian government has banned opposition parties and suspended elections?
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  3846. Good wikipedia copy and paste skills
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  3847. None of whom want a war with us. The same government who has hollowed out our military wants to provoke all these other countries. We've given so much ammunition to Ukraine and half our tanks we'd run out of artillery ammunition in the first day of a war with Russia according to the army's own study. Utterly incompetent government. We'd be vastly better off if Putin retired from Russia and took over here.
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  3848.  @philipbutler6608  I don't think Russia does want to negotiate. Neither side does. They don't perceive that they're losing. They've lost some ground but just like the Germans in 1917, they're giving up someone else's ground and they're inflicting disproportionate casualties on the Ukrainians so far as we can tell. Unlike the Germans in 1917, the Russians have the material advantage. They have three times the manpower than Ukraine and maybe something like ten times the GDP. I think you have a very unbalanced view of the situation. It's particularly implausible to claim the DPR and LPR are not fighting this war. They're the ones fighting for their own homes, more than some guy from Lvov. I'd guess you haven't seen videos from Ukrainian soldiers complaining that the locals in the Donbas are pro-Russian.
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  3849. Hard to argue Vietnam wasn't a major war too. If you want to argue it wasn't a major war because it wasn't a total war then you should also likewise argue Ukraine isn't a major war for Russia.
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  3850.  @davidjones6389  So is the argument that America hasn't fought a world war since fighting the world wars?? Or is it that according to you, only the world wars were major wars? Either argument is too dumb to bother discussing.
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  3851. Every major party has promised to fix it for decades now and they all lie,
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  3852.  @Lexoka  Perhaps if you want "official" confirmation but it was obvious from footage which direction it came from. People were pointing this out withing minutes of the first footage coming out.
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  3853. No, Germany is under America's thumb. America wants to keep the war chugging along as long as possible. German industrial collapse isn't really a problem for America. And America is picking up some of Russia's gas market.
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  3854.  @50milliondownthedraintonym16  Yep. And which NATO country is up for nuclear annihilation for the sake of defending Ukraine? USA? No. UK? No. Germany? No. So if Poland or Latvia want to take on Russia, they'll be on their own. This is the thing. Ukraine and Russia are willing to risk going all the way on this. But to any other country, it's not worth being destroyed for. It's not worth losing half your population in a nuclear annihilation to protect Ukraine, one of the most corrupt, authoritarian and vicious countries in Europe.
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  3855. What has geology got to do with it?
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  3856. Can you find the article? I don't speak Danish and there's a paywall but from recent articles mentioning Christianso (with the mark through the o), none seem to be mention this.
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  3857.  @YeOldeLord  You pay your money, you take your chances. But if the relationship splits up the father has to pay child support. The only way he's going to get out it is if he moves overseas or if the mother doesn't even know who he is. At the end of the day someone has to pay for children and it should be the parents, not everyone else. Personally I've got my own four children to pay for, I can't afford to pay for everyone else's.
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  3858.  @Manu-Official  It's not like the first time something like this has happened. It happens over and over. Usually it;s a policeman or priest or other adult who gets stabbed by one of these not ethnically French background people and it doesn't make international news.
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  3859. @mortalaren5672 No, I support the interests of the British people. Israeli politicians have stated they want to push the Palestinians into Canada, Ireland and Scotland. No thanks!
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  3860. "rights of democracy" - the democratically elected president was overthrown by a violent coup and you think this guy's fighting for democracy? Open your eyes FFS
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  3861.  @colincampbell4261  Are you sure NATO countries want to fight a nuclear war with Russia? There's this moronic rhetoric that the Russians are all bluff but at some point if they're pushed hard enough of course they'll retaliate. If they start fighting aircraft launched from Polish airfields, they'd be mad NOT to hit those airfields - because if they didn't, they're fighting a losing war against NATO at a disadvantage. It's almost certain the Polish government understands this and doesn't want to be in the front line of a nuclear war.
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  3862.  @markb3786  10% for the big guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIbF8FC942Q
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  3863. 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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  3864. 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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  3865. Ukrainians do exactly the same. Officers draw salary for guys who have long since been killed.
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  3866. And yet the internet is full of videos of Russian infantry clearing Ukrainian trenches even though the Ukrainian army is now bigger than the Russian army in Ukraine....
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  3867. Ukrainian fighters are being shot out of the sky far behind Ukrainian lines, it's pretty naive to think attack helicopters could survive for long.
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  3868. 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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  3869. It was a bad choice of words to use it at all but from the context, he was using it sarcastically. Don't read too much into it.
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  3870.  @joeduffy3309  British inflation is mostly due to the same reason - self imposed energy sanctions on Russia. Plus our moronically designed electricity market and incompetent government determined to explode the size of the public sector even though their voters want the opposite. The point is Brexit has nothing to do with it. Our manufacturing actually benefits from the weaker pound and is gradually expanding despite the unnecessarily high energy costs..
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  3871.  @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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  3872. Slogan most likely derived from Gaelic rather than Welsh - and it does indeed mean battle cry but not of alive and kicking rather than the dead.
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  3873.  @Lioness_UTV  Putin definitely felt threatened by NATO. You can argue he shouldn't have but it's clear he did. This is Putin's viewpoint. Crimea should never have been given to Ukraine (by Khrushchev) because it was (and always has been since) predominantly Russian. For hundreds of years it's been the home of the Black Sea Fleet (even when under Ukraine). NATO staged a coup in 2013 to replace the democratically elected president with a government hostile to Russia. You can argue that's exaggerating but if you look at US funding for opposition groups and Nuland's call to Pyatt and US influence in selecting ministers for the post coup government then you're going to have your work cut out. Putin saw this as a direct attack on Russia. It was never going to be acceptable to Russia to have its Black Sea fleet ejected from Crimea and to see US warships take over its base there. As for the Donbas separatists, this was an organic movement supported by Russian nationalists acting on their own initiative. The Russian army only got involved months later after it looked like the Ukrainian army might crush the rebellion entirely. The Donbas separatists actually felt betrayed by Russia for not receiving more support earlier.
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  3874.  @bluemarlin8138  Russia isn't going to accept being "stomped on" by NATO. A nuclear war would be a disaster for everyone but at least Russia's population is widely spread and they have good nuclear fallout shelters for tens of millions of people - look at Mariupol. Western Europe would be destroyed by a nuclear war, most of its people will die. The US would probably suffer more deaths than Russia too because it has more big city targets. If you think there's anything in Ukraine worth risking this outcome then please, engage the brain.
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  3875.  @robertpatrick3350  Scotland. Served in Royal Scots. Not everyone is a gullible muppet who believes everything the media tells us.
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  3876. @@user-dv7im8rx1w Coward because I don't want WWIII? Are you actually a real person? Or a bot out of Langley?
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  3877.  @kaylidington  NATO the offensive alliance that attacked Libya, Serbia, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan even though none of these countries attacked a NATO country?
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  3878.  @4_vaccuum_salesman_of_marr944  Most likely but we're talking about artillery specifically. I suspect the quantitative Russian advantage there is decisive but it's hard to split out the armour advantage, the air advantage and missile advantage!
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  3879.  @wundurra24  Nobody with a brain believes Russian bombed NS. Seymour Hersh blamed the Americans. The Americans blame Ukraine. You could be the last person left in the world who blames Russia.
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  3880.  @jaybee4577  How? Which African country has a navy big enough to challenge Western navies? Besides which future European trade with Africa is likely to be routed through Russia. And it's not something Europe relies on to survive anyway.
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  3881. Anyone who thinks Navalny is a hero needs to look into who he actually was.
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  3882.  @HWEspana  If Ukraine was being armed by Russia instead of being armed by all of NATO then no the US couldn't conquer it in a week. How? There'd still be the same problem of minefields. The Ukrainian army and US army are roughly similar size. Russian satellites would allow Ukrainian missiles to target American airbases, logistics and command hubs. Russian SAMs would shoot down US aircraft. The US is basically an air/naval power, the naval part wouldn't help in Ukraine and valuable aircraft are vulnerable to cheap SAMs. It would be a long, hard slog.
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  3883. Look up Gonzalo Lira, murdered by a US ally without even a mention. Look up the USS Liberty, deliberately attacked, dozens of US sailors killed, the whole thing was covered up. Military personnel have always been expendable.
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  3884.  @JohnDoe-wt9ek  Dunno the economy is growing and the military is expanding despite the casualties. Diplomatically they seem to be doing amazingly well too. It doesn't seem an exaggeration to say Russia is getting stronger.
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  3885. Or how about just admit that NATO's strategy of pushing up against the Russian borders was bound to back fire in a war as warned by Putin many times and US ambassador Burns and admit NATO has lost in Ukraine and stop the dying while before Ukraine gets destroyed completely.
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  3886. That's why Zelensky is desperately trying to drag in other countries to help fight Russia.
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  3887. In both world wars, entire units were wiped out. If you find losing a comrade devastating what were you thinking joining the marines at all? The Russo Ukraine war is a major war. Both sides are taking heavy losses. The only alternative is make peace. There was a peace deal negotiated a month into the war and Biden/Boris Johnson convinced Zelensky to tear it up.
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  3888.  @daydays12  Firstly, while China's relations with the USA are so bad, there's no way China's going to backstab Russia like that. The Chinese understand that if NATO defeats Russia, China will be the next target. Secondly, even if hypothetically China and Russia fell out, Russia can just destroy the port infrastructure - actually they destroyed a lot of it in one night earlier this week. You're not going to load millions of tons of grain using wheelbarrows up the gang plank.
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  3889.  @Grossknecht  Die Aussenministerin sagt ganz klar "wir sind in einem Krieg mit Russland" und wir sollen es nicht so ernst nehmen? Ist das ein Scherz? Was sollen die Russen denken? Hier ist eine andere Floskel die du nicht so ernst nimmt. Dritte Weltkrieg!
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  3890. Not to mention outright land seizures! Yeah the guy is full of sh*t
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  3891.  @Sukhothai77  Took me literally less than a minute to find this .... if youtube lets me post it
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  3892. NATO also promised not to expand eastwards from Germany. NATO also sponsored a violent coup in Ukraine to overthrow the democratically elected president. NATO also signed the Minsk agreements which both Hollande and Merkel admitted were never intended in good faith and were meant only to buy Ukraine time to rearm. That is the context in which Russia violated earlier agreements.
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  3893.  @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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  3894.  @michaeldunham3385  Russia will 100% retaliate. Do you seriously think the USA would let is slide if Russian missiles were landing in America?
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  3895. By which time their manpower losses will exceed their population many times over.
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  3896.  @ChaseyBOIDude  The US funded anti-government organisations in Ukraine including blatantly Banderist groups (ie. extreme nationalists who like Hitlerite symbology). These are the guys who shot at both sides in the Maidan protest to create false flag escalations of violence. US involvement was quite open for example Vic Nuland was handing out supplies to protesters at the Maidan square. And after the coup, the US had a strong influence on the new government. If you don't know it already google Nuland Pyatt leaked telephone conversation.
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  3897.  @AndreasSagen  The Russians have been shouting for twenty years that Ukraine joining NATO would mean war. In 2022, Ukraine tried to join NATO.
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  3898. His understanding of Russia is just as bad.
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  3899.  @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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  3900. Over half of the UN admires the way Russia is standing up to the USA. It's not going to happen.
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  3901.  @Phoenix-vg8li  If that were true, Ukraine would be in Moscow by now
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  3902. yeah the usual fake outrage. i thought it was a pretty good analogy. Freedoms getting chipped away gradually. Or nowadays not so gradually.
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  3903.  @80-80.  Their stated goal was to demilitarise Ukraine. And now even the US media now admits Ukraine is running out of manpower
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  3904.  @marcux83  Even the US media admits Ukraine needs to negotiate. Guess who doesn't want to negotiate? Russia. Because they know they're winning.
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  3905.  @user-qq2mo1ek2r  The difference is, Cummings did speak up. Not in public but internally at least.
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  3906.  @Jordblitz  Three things you don't seem to understand. Nowadays, because of the internet, there's little money in journalism. In Western countries, big newspapers used to be rich, powerful, highly respected organisations who made their money by selling paper copies, nowadays, they scrape by on advertising and it's not too different for television. Big tech is 99% advertising. Secondly, they're owned by oligarchs who often run them at a loss so they can push their own agendas, guys like Jeff Bezos. Thirdly, they're influenced by states who again, push their own disinformation. Look at how Twitter was taking directions straight from the US state to shut down unwanted narratives, look how Twitter, Facebook, cable channels and most US news papers buried the Hunter Biden laptop story until after the presidential election, look how the media created a Russian interference in the election narrative which has been totally discredited. Same situation in Britain, same in France, same in Germany.
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  3907. Because he's totally full of BS
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  3908. The vast majority of people who voted against Brexit also do not understand how the EU works. In fact, almost nobody understands how the EU works.
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  3909. Your analogy is better than you know. Jutland was a strategic victory for the Royal Navy and the invasion of Ukraine will prove to be a strategic victory for Russia too.
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  3910.  @VickersDoorter  When Ukraine recaptures Kherson... or Donetsk or Mariupol, feel free to DM me and tell me I was wrong.
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  3911.  @VickersDoorter  The guy who talks about "Reichsmarschall Putin" accuses others of socially remedial world of gaming nonsense?
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  3912. There is zero chance that European populations will be willing to fight Russia. Maybe in Poland but in Germany, France, Italy, Czech, Netherlands, people will refuse. European governments are already falling.
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  3913. 80% of Ukrainians admit they never intend to return home. The most patriotic Ukrainians are now dead.
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  3914. Letby killed innocent babies, Putin killed a man whom he trusted but then betrayed him. There's no comparison.
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  3915. According to the map, Russia just keeps taking more of the Donbas every day.
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  3916. Yeah food in the USA is basically poison
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  3917.  @snakejuice4300  Any time an American argues America has the best in the world at anything, the rest of the world rolls eyes. Americans I've worked with in Europe are totally embarrassed by this argument though many French have the same superiority delusion which comes from ignorance about the rest of the world. Yes we're all aware that in big cities, it is possible to pay high prices for decent food (not so easy in rural Texas) but better than the rest of the world in your cute little dreams.
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  3918. That's an outright blockade and an act of war. So the EU would be starting a war with Russia. I hope the first nuclear missile lands on your house. If Russia stops off the gas to Germany, that's an economic sanction. Germany is currently applying economic sanctions on Russia.
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  3919. Delusional to think there's even a possibility Crimea will collapse in a month. There's a land corridor. There are ferries. There are air bases. There are shipping terminals. There are huge supply dumps there.
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  3920. This Benjamin guy is a complete clown
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  3921. Why would F16s make much difference? Just like Ukrainian Patriots and S300s can shoot down Russian aircraft, Russian S300s and S400s and Pantsirs can shoot down F16s. Air defence is a Russian strong point.
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  3922. This guy looks at the map of Ukraine and thinks because there hasn't been big movement for months it's going to be an ongoing stalemate. Obviously he hasn't been following the fighting. The Russians have a huge artillery and aviation advantage and have been inflicting higher casualties than they take themselves. The Ukrainian army has taken irreplaceable losses and is starting to disintegrate. Over the next few weeks we're going to see undeniable Russian advances.
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  3923. Sure. Russia would quite like that excuse to take back Lithuania. Remember that Lithuania's independence is conditional upon Russian transit access through the Suwalki gap. Deny that and 500 missiles hit every military base in Lithuania the next day. What's Germany, Britain and the USA going to do? Risk a nuclear war for the sake of Lithuania's suicidal idiocy?
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  3924.  @philiplbrown  Propaganda numbers. Actual identified Russian dead are around 50,000 for the entire war - including Wagner convicts. This year, Russian casualties have dropped right off.
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  3925.  @Toyotaamazon80series  The biggest rapists in Western Europe were the Maroccans in the Free French army. Obviously few French people wanted to be occupied by the Germans. But any time your country or town is fought over, your friends and family get killed, you have a year of starvation and you have to rebuild your home afterwards.
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  3926. Check out his earlier predictions - hilariously inaccurate
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  3927. ISW is highly biased. For example at one point they were claiming Russia was shelling Donetsk City despite that both common sense and forensic evidence showed it was Ukraine, not Russia, shelling a Russian controlled city. They usually exaggerate Ukrainian wins and minimise or ignore Russian wins. Look who runs it - Kimberly Kagan. One of the Kagan family of neocons.
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  3928.  @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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  3929.  @merlin7766  Russia was the biggest grain exporter in the world BEFORE the war. Ukraine was number five.
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  3930.  @Everyonehasanopinion  You think NATO can destroy the Kremlin without every NATO capital city getting incinerated? You really haven't thought this through.
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  3931. The government can't "create" jobs overall. If it tries, the extra taxes required destroy more jobs than the jobs created. We've already tried this socialist path. The only solution is to stop funding useless jobs like NHS diversity managers and rebalance the economy towards creating wealth.
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  3932.  @РусскийРусич  Russia is now the world's forth biggest economy adjusted for purchasing power parity.,
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  3933. He's Jewish.
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  3934. Eh? Who are the six prime ministers since 2016? David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak.
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  3935. Only a muppet calls Russians orcs. Stick to fantasy if that's your intellectual level. In the real world, the Russian infantry is clearing out Ukrainian trenches and towns in close quarter fighting, it's not just an artillery advantage they have.
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  3936. Evidence it was Russia please?
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  3937. All kinds of Ukrainian officials including Zelensky predicted it would be like the Kharkov offensive, so did general Ben Hodges
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  3938. His inability to pronounce the names of even famous Russian, German and French people is a useful clue that he doesn't know anywhere near as much as he pretends about the things he talks about.
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  3939.  @swirvinbirds1971  "Protestors of the war being loaded into vans and sent to the front" doesn't happen. Maybe someone in youtube claimed this but it's either BS or possibly DPR/LPR earlier on in the war.
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  3940.  @JFK6699  What that narrative misses is guys from Donetsk and Luhansk are fighting for their homeland - against Ukraine.
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  3941. For Ukraine to fight a war of attrition against Russia, a much bigger, richer and more united country was never a winning proposition, even with all the NATO backing.
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  3942. This guy did have some valid points but he's so aggressive and obnoxious, he just harms his own cause.
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  3943. A few days ago there were documents leaked from the Israeli government showing that's their actual plan, expel the entire population and get the Americans to bully other Western countries into accepting them.
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  3944. Check out his earlier predictions - hilariously inaccurate
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  3945. Demographically the EU is changing very quickly, that's going to create massive political problems even if there are no external factors. Economically, it's mainly Germany who is paying for everything especially now that Britain is gone so eventually the Germans will get tired of that. The AFD keeps getting stronger. Once the budgets dry up, the motivation for countries like Hungary and Italy and France disappears.
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  3946. Mercouris should stick to what he knows because his understanding of what's happening at Avdivka is totally wrong. The slag heap - the waste heap - same place. Yes the Russians took it a couple of times but couldn't hold it - much like the Ukrainians in Robotyne - which Mercouris ridiculed them for. Russian vehicle losses in Avdivka are very heavy, over 100 vehicles with video evidence. Their advances are very modest. Nobody on the Russian side who is following the actual fighting would claim it's going well. No Avdivka is not going to fall in a few weeks. Zero chance of that. It'll be a long, slow grind and you'll still be hearing about it next spring.
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  3947. You'd more appropriately be ashamed that your country is aligned with the Washington neocons who deposed the democratically elected government of Ukraine in 2014 and installed an oligarch puppet government which then went on to start a civil war.
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  3948. Exactly. Zeihan's claim that they cooperate with the Russian government is an outright lie. The reason he left Russia is because he refused to compromise the privacy of users by handing over back doors to the Russian government like Facebook etc cooperate with the US government.
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  3949. Knocking out the Ukrainian power grid was about disabling the Ukrainian railways. Supply trains and trains redeploying Ukrainian forces were immobilised for hours and targeted by Russian artillery and airstrikes.
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  3950.  @xevavexa9649  Yes, that's correct as a generalisation. Of course all immigrants are individuals. There are high skilled immigrants but most are not. They end up in low skilled work where they push pay down for local population and in many cases they don't work at all, they live on social welfare for maybe their whole lives.
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  3951.  @jhrusa8125  That just goes to show US propaganda is every bit as dumb as Chinese propaganda. Congratulations. Perfect parity.
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  3952. It also ignores anything the Russians actually say or do. It ignores that Russia was quite willing to negotiate a peace with Ukraine without involving any transfer of territory a month into the war when Kyiv was in danger of being cut off from the rest of the country. It;'s just one of Zeihan's unfounded assertions he keeps repeating without evidence to brainwash us into accepting it as a fact.
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  3953.  @simonmoorcroft1417  If you measure "the current rate of progress" as ground taken in the past few days then you're measuring the wrong thing. Look at how fast Lysychansk fell after Zolote. We're gong to see more cauldrons like that in the next couple of weeks. You can't follow the war only by looking at a map. The Russians are using their artillery to inflict heavy casualties on the Ukrainians. The Russians aren't trying hard to take ground any more, it's very rare that they make any kind of assault, they don't want infantry casualties. When they take ground it's because they've shelled the Ukrainian defenders so hard the survivors have retreated usually without orders. The Ukrainians have resorted to using extreme nationalists like Kraken as blocking units to shoot retreating defenders. You'll never hear about that in the Western media! And the Russians have to deal with minefields too. It's slow - but it's sustainable. Ukraine can't survive the coming winter economically even if its military doesn't collapse. Russia will have the Donbas in the next few months for sure. The question is how much further they will go. If there's no Ukrainian surrender then the Russians can just keep driving forward. It'll hurt their living standards short term but to put it in perspective, they haven't even sent conscripts to Ukraine.
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  3954. Not really. The CIA and Mossad do this kind of stuff all the time and usually get away with it.
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  3955. Guys like Sullivan, Nuland and Blinken have a lot of blood on their hands.
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  3956. Meanwhile the Russians are defending successfully against the Ukrainian offensive in the south, cleaning up their position south of Bakhmut and closing in on Kupyansk. But let's ignore all those three big events and concentrate on the one tiny bit of good news for Ukraine.
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  3957. LOL from Russia's pretend offensive to ok maybe the Russians know what they're doing in a couple of days. This whole channel has been pushing the Russians are incompetent narrative when it was already obvious from the start the Russians will win.
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  3958.  @heyho4770  Their military production is increasing. And overall economic growth is very healthy. Yes, they have low unemployment, it takes a lot of copium to spin that as a bad thing.
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  3959.  @heyho4770  Wars are expensive. remind me again how much the US spent in Afghanistan to replace the Taleban with the Taleban? Low unemployment pushes up wages and the standard of living. Look at the numbers. Russia's national debt is tiny compared to most Western countries and even the war inflated the deficit is less than 1% of GDP and will fall after the war. The US deficit is around 6% of GDP and that's structural. A lot of European countries are worse. Pointing to low unemployment in Russia as a problem really is clutching at straws.
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  3960.  @nightspore4850  Wishful thinking won't win a war
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  3961. Yeah - because another world war is just what the world needs right now.
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  3962. unbiased?! LOL ... The entire world except the USA votes one way and according to Willie, the entire world except the USA is in the wrong. Think about that.
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  3963. They do have massive corruption though.
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  3964. "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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  3965.  @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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  3966. Yes she's decent and sensible. That's why it'll be someone else.
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  3967. Nowadays the best news sources are not commercial media. Try guys like Glenn Greenwald and the Duran
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  3968.  @chrissmith2114  The message is broke. He predicted Ukraine would have captured Crimea by the end of August. Currently the Russians are taking more ground than Ukraine is. The Ukrainians have been attacking all out for two months and haven't penetrated the first Russian main defence line. There are about three lines depending on exactly where you're talking about.
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  3969. The narrative is that Russia is losing and Ukraine will retake Crimea. Facts which suit the narrative are emphasised, facts which are inconvenient to the narrative get ignored. Happens over and over.
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  3970.  @JJRM8  Yanukovych fled to avoid being violently murdered. George Friedman from CIA linked Stratfor called it the most blatant coup in history.
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  3971. Why do you think Russia wants all of Ukraine? So far it's taking the ethnically Russian east. Why would it want to permanently occupy the West of Ukraine and deal with a well armed insurgency in perpetuity?
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  3972.  @SSS-lc6mi  Barclay was from a Scottish ancestor.
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  3973. Britain fought the Russians in 1919. And lost.
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  3974. I don't think we should necessarily believe Ukrainian claims that so many troops have successfully withdrawn. Some Ukrainian claims have not aged well. Such a withdrawal would require maybe a thousand vehicles (buses, military trucks, civilian cars). To drive that many vehicles over a couple of roads within the range of enemy artillery and air strikes in just a few of days seems implausible. Certainly, there are videos online from both sides of many retreating vehicles destroyed. It seems a reasonable guess that most Ukrainian forces from Severodonetsk have escaped across the river successfully but that there are still large Ukrainian forces in Lysychansk.
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  3975.  @portwills  There's now democracy or freedom in Ukraine either you clown
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  3976.  @Mrgasman1978  The EU didn't start with the current members. It started with a small subset ... like BRICS. Since you need explaining, the original EU (then EEC) members had had massive disagreements very soon before the EU was formed (ie. France, and West Germany). The EEC helped reconcile just as economic cooperation under BRICS should be expected to help reconcile earlier enemies.
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  3977.  @kreb7  The EEC didn't have any of that when it started. If you think BRICS isn't important then you're living in your Peter Zeihan propaganda bubble.
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  3978. You seriously think stirring up a war with Russia increases the West's chances of survival?
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  3979.  @Jason-gq8fo  Not really you can get a pretty good idea of Russian casualties from Mediazona. The main battle for Avdivka started in October. There was only a small uptick in Russian dead. You'd have to estimate something like 10 injured to each death to get that kind of number.
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  3980. Apparently she's never heard of NATO's own little war of aggression in Kosovo.
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  3981. Yeah but at least Stalin and Beria knew what made up crime they were charging someone with. They'd have been embarrassed by this trial.
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  3982. Pity you;'ve spent the past few years demonising and antagonising Russia only to find out what was obvious to start with, the biggest predator and aggressor in the world is the USA.
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  3983. Except that so much of the world dislikes America and America's interference so much that much of the world supports Russia and of the rest, the large majority is neutral.
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  3984. By "Slovak" you don't mean ethnic Slovak, you mean Gypsy. Slovakia was smart to push the Gypsies who have plagued the country for hundreds of years into the West.
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  3985. The US has the most 20 and 30 somethings who are skilled? If you're talking about STEM skills, the US is dwarfed by China. Sorry Mr Neocon propagandist. Yes if we're talking about gender studies skills that would be the USA for sure.
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  3986. Except that the Ukrainian army is declining because of attrition whereas the Russian army is still growing. This stalemate narrative reminds me of Douglas Haig in mid 1918, pessimistic after the difficulties of surviving the Germany March/April offensives whereas he'd been overly optimistic all throughout 1916-1917. What he wasn't accounting for was the rapidly weakening state of the Germany army AND the German home front. Rapid allied advances followed. I suspect 2024 will be similar. Even if the West keeps arming Ukraine at the same rate and that's a big if, the best Ukrainian manpower has been wasted.
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  3987. LOL isn't it obvious? On any subject he takes the most optimistic interpretation for America and the most pessimistic interpretation for America's geopolitical competitors. Plus .... he makes stuff up. Case in point - the Nordstream pipeline bombing. Back when that happened he had endless reasons why it must be Russia who blew up their own pipeline. Now, that has been totally debunked.
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  3988.  @GARDENER42  The problem is you clowns live in such an echo chamber, you think radical pro-Ukraine is neutral and neutral is pro-Russian. I'm going to be laughing at you when you find out how this war ends.
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  3989. What's secret about it? Everyone with eyes can see there's one country no American politician is allowed to criticise. Texas even brought in laws to protect this country and no other.
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  3990.  @seniorbuttocksbiggusdickus7147  In the immediate aftermath of the dam blowing, Ukraine opened the upstream flood gates but after peak flooding level downstream, closed them again. Those are the facts. As for who blew the dam originally we can't be sure but I have my suspicions. Let's just say anyone who accused Russia of blowing the NS pipeline should remember first we had the Seymour Hersh article and since then we have the Americans accusing Ukraine.
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  3991.  @jezlawrence720  Look at how hands off the police were when the Gypsies smashed up a suburb in Leeds a couple of weeks back and how the Muslims smashed up Rochdale after the Manchester airport fight
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  3992.  @jezlawrence720  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91bBWdBbuD8
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  3993. Wait until you see one of his videos on the Ukraine war :P
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  3994. LOL you should look into some numbers. For example aircraft produced, soldiers deployed. Size of the fleet. The claim that India won WWII is pretty funny.
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  3995.  @GnosticAtheist  Only because most people in the West don't know the background to all this. Russia seizing Russian areas of Ukraine (which used to be part of Russia) is no different from NATO seizing Kosovo off Serbia.
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  3996.  @mzmz9355  Crimea was officially part of Russia until Khrushchev gave it to Ukraine. All of the southern coast and Donbas was part of Russia and is populated by Russian people. I'm hardly misinformed, I'm a trained historian who speaks Russian and has read many books on Ukraine. If you want to read a good one try Ukraine in the Crossfire by a Dutch journalist.
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  3997.  @GnosticAtheist  Kosovo was also officially recognised as part of Serbia by everyone, didn't stop the "defensive alliance" of NATO from launching a war against Serbia to break it off. Likewise, Syria is also officially recognised by everyone, doesn't stop US soldiers from seizing a big chunk of it and stealing the oil too. Iraq and Libya were recognised by everyone, didn't stop US led wars against them. If you think Russia is behaving badly, what do you think about America?
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  3998.  @mzmz9355  The vast majority of the people in Crimea want to be part of Russia. And so do the vast majority of people in Donetsk. Don't you believe in self determination?
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  3999.  @mzmz9355  If it looks like I'm jumping topics, it's to point out the hypocritical double standards. There was never going to be any kind of open referendum, only a military solution. If you really believe in democracy like you claim, you should recognise that violently overthrowing the democratically elected president by a minority of the population in a foreign sponsored coup which is exactly what happened at Maidan is not compatible with any kind of transparency. Read about the Odessa massacre to see where things were going. Ukraine had the chance to allow devolution and federalisation with the Minsk 2 accords. We know for a fact that was not done and Merkel and Hollande admitted there was never even the intention. Anyone who thinks this was an unprovoked war doesn't know the whole story.
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  4000.  @h20na  Prigozhin's "take no prisoners" order was in response to a Wagner prisoner getting murdered - and we have video of that incident. Yes I agree with you about Rusich but are they different from Azov near the start of the war? Let's be honest. There have been many atrocities from both sides starting with the first day
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  4001.  @h20na  I totally agree, for the first few days at least, there were a lot of Russian POWs murdered but it's very hard to find this in the English language internet. Most English speakers think all the atrocities are by the Russian side.
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  4002. Yes, it's a primary school level of analysis. The theory that Putin's regime is going to be undermined by Ukraine attacking into Russia is risible.
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  4003.  @rossa809  Both main parties betray the British people. What's new?
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  4004. There's already a photo of the wreckage of a Storm Shadow. Hardly surprising Starmer was pushing for this weeks ago.
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  4005.  @joythought  Sure, Ukraine admits they have a huge armour disadvantage, a huge artillery disadvantage and a huge air force disadvantage and Russia fires many times more artillery than they do but Ukrainian casualties are lower. Riiiiight
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  4006.  @tommyliu7020  Yeah both sides do. But they also hit a lot. Beware of cherry picked video evidence.
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  4007. There are other possible sources of generals - for example successful senior officers could be promoted.
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  4008. The problem with calling Russia Mordor is it prevents you from understanding why Russia acts as it does (seeking its own security) by instead creating the idea that it's some evil, malign ,irrational entity. It's as childish as calling Russians orcs.
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  4009. Dear TIK don't really agree with all of your political and economic takes but the work you've done on Stalingrad and Operation Crusader was really impressive, up there with the best content on youtube and certainly the best of its kind on those topics. That's not going to make you a lot of money but doing something better than anyone else in the entire world, surely that's got to be worth something. After all the effort, putting stuff on hold for a few weeks or months would be better to deciding to abandon it up front.
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  4010.  @helenanderson-smith5605  If you go to their own website you'll get the uncensored version, they have to snip out a lot for youtube. It's the only website I find worthwhile to pay a subscription for but a lot of their content they'll show for free.
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  4011. What makes you think the Russians are taking heavy losses? It's the Russian side which has an overwhelming air and artillery advantage. Most losses on the Russian side seem to be DPR/LPR or auxiliary forces rather than the Russian army. Meanwhile some Ukrainian regular units are reporting that few of their pre-war members are still active due to casualties.
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  4012.  @spacecanuk8316  Sure, Russia is trying hard to recruit. But get this - they're not even using conscripts or reserves. The Russian army is still fighting with volunteers. Compare that to Ukraine where they're drafting conscripts. Literally serving papers to guys on the street. I agree the Russian army took high losses in the first month of the year but there's little evidence they have been since. There are some failed river crossings but that's untypical of most of the fighting. You say that you can't replace professionals in a couple of months with guys of the same quality. This is an even bigger problem for Ukraine than for the Russian army. The Russians are rotating their units in and out of Ukraine giving them a chance to integrate replacements. Ukrainian units are stuck in the line for months without relief in some cases. They're the ones getting pounded by artillery and aviation. That's how the Russians just made their big advance and the Zolote encirclement - a Ukrainian regular unit retreated without orders after taking high casualties, leaving neighbouring the Zolote pocket to be surrounded.
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  4013.  @spacecanuk8316  Yeah the Western media repeated NATO press releases saying they redeployed too quickly. Maybe it's true, maybe it's the usual propaganda. In any case, what's been happening for the last few months is there's no evidence the Russians have been taking heavy casualties. There's a lot of evidence the Ukrainians have been. The Ukrainians are getting badly beaten in the place where the fighting is heaviest. The Russians are taking thousands of prisoners, the Ukrainians are taking very few. Not saying it's good or bad, that's just what the evidence shows.
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  4014.  @spacecanuk8316  Here's a link to an example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81PRbWC9dgo
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  4015.  @HistoryDebunkedsimonwebb  That's true and that explains SOME of the difference but nowhere near all of it, not even close. We know for a fact many aspects of the modern lifestyle and diet in particular are carcinogenic.
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  4016.  @goyakat2211  After Maidan that all changed. The new government started doing stuff like calling Bandera a hero and suppressing the Russian language and Soviet history. The majority of the people who fought in the Donbass against the new government in 2014 were locals. The Russian state only became involved much later.
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  4017.  @donixion4368  See Patrick Lancaster's youtube channel - he interviews people places like Mariupol. It's pretty obvious a lot of people there hate the Kiev government and the Azov battalion in particular.
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  4018. ​ @donixion4368  This part of the world has been ethnically Russian for a couple of hundred years - it was never ethnically Ukrainian. Have a look at the history of Ukraine's borders. The Communists made it part of Ukraine to ensure the ethnic Ukrainians would be tied to the Soviet Union. The point is all of these borders are pretty arbitrary. Telling people to go and settle in Russia makes no sense. A city like Mariupol is ethnically Russian - with a big Russian speaking ethnically Greek minority. Who's the occupying army? Google videos of the Ukrainian army moving in during 2014. What's that if not an invasion? Google videos of the fighting in Odessa where dozens of ethnic Russians were murdered - with the connivance of the Ukrainian state. These people are already in their ancestral homeland. Being part of Ukraine worked well enough when Ukraine was pluralistic country which made allowances for all ethnicities. When the Maiden coup replaced the democratically elected leader with vicious, murderous nationalist extremists, the existing borders were no longer sustainable. What Russia has done now in Ukraine is no different to what NATO did to Yugoslavia in 1999. There's a lot of hypocrisy in the media about this and get away with it only because very few people in the West know anything about it.
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  4019.  @donixion4368  I'm not sure why you think Russia "should" abandon the ethnic Russians of Donbass to the Ukrainian state which hates them and has been shelling them for years, killing thousands of civilians.
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  4020.  @donixion4368  Russia backed "terrorists"? I can't really argue with someone who labels ordinary people "terrorists" because they oppose an oppressive, hostile government. Unless you use the word terrorist strictly as someone who targets innocent people to spread terror then it's just mindless propagandistic slander. At least some of the Ukrainian shelling in Donbas is indeed deliberately targeting civilians. The Russian speakers have been in the Donbas for two hundred years. They're the majority. Ethnic Ukrainians never were in that part of Ukraine, likewise in Crimea. You really need to educate yourself. Start with Ukraine in the Crossfire by Chris Kaspar van de Ploeg.
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  4021.  @donixion4368  Do you think USA would stand for it if Russia replaced the democratically elected government of Mexico with a hostile pro-Russian government? The USA would invade immediately. It's the Monroe doctrine. Calling people terrorists because they oppose you politically is moronic. Telling people they should emigrate from their ancestral homeland because they don't want to be forcibly assimilated by a corrupt, ethnically chauvinistic regime shows you don't understand the situation there. By your own logic the ethnic Ukrainian minority in Crimea should emigrate to Western Ukraine now Russia has annexed Crimea. By your logic ethnic Albanians in Kosovo should have migrated to Albania. By your logic, Uighurs should emigrate to Kazakhstan. By your logic, South Tyroleans should emigrate to Germany. Simply put, you have an extreme Ukrainian nationalist position. You're in the same company as murderers and neo-Nazis. In contrast, for all its faults, the Russian state is multi-ethnic and ethnically inclusive.
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  4022. The situation is a lot more complicated than that, there's also the Russian side to the story which you're never going to get from the media. If you think Russia is going to accept NATO missiles hitting targets in Russia without retaliating then please - switch on your brain
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  4023.  @adamzain6770  Your problem is that you're cherry picking facts. There were many broken promises and most were not from the Russian side. Try Ukraine in the Crossfire by Dutch journalist Chris Kaspar de Ploeg to get started. And Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
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  4024.  @johnsmith4811  Even worse than that, the Soviet Union was about to invade Germany. It had a huge build up of forces on the border, there is hard evidence that was offensively deployed. e.g. supply dumps but not fortifications. Rail track using European gauge.
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  4025.  @keith8609  The Russians are fighting for their country too, even the Americans admit this is a proxy war. A lot of the guys on the Russian side are fighting for their own homes
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  4026. 75 years without a war ... ignoring the war NATO started on Serbia
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  4027.  @JLudwig-c4l  Yeah according to dumb people who believe what they're told from the media. Even if you believe Serbia was at fault because you haven't looked into the lies told to start the war (just like lies are told to start most wars), you can't deny NATO started the war.
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  4028.  @BurtReynolds-qp1jk  The person responsible for installing BJ is Theresa May who couldn't or didn't want to deliver Brexit and had to go according to 99% of the country.
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  4029. Seriously - read Kevin MacDonald to understand why Jews have never been able to get on well with host societies
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  4030.  @plebius  Sure some may fail but if you look past the propaganda of the Russians are incompetent narrative and look at what's really happening in Ukraine you'll see that Islander and Kalibr missiles usually hit their targets - and usually destroy them when they do.
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  4031. Go back two generations and ethnonationalism was the norm everywhere, even most of the left was nationalist. There's nothing far right about it. The "right" is really about conservativism. Dolfuss, Schuschnigg and Franco.
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  4032.  @andybrice2711  A highly individualistic ethno-state certainly has existed historically - the Texan Republic for example - but is not sustainable in the modern world. Modern globalisation means different parts of the world with vastly different levels of wealth are going to see mass transfer of population from the poorest to the richest places unless there's a level of state coercion to prevent it. And that state coercion is impossible in a highly individualistic society.
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  4033. The FN in France is actually pretty left-wing. They want to moderately restrict immigration and protect the future of France. That's all.
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  4034.  @natrone23  Soviet Union steam rolled the Japanese army in 1945.
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  4035. I probably wouldn't go that far but I wouldn't be surprised if the Israelis knew about it and deliberately ignored it so they can justify a massive response.
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  4036.  @jasonodlin8305  The numbers aren't verifiable that's true but there's no doubt that missile strike killed some French mercenaries. Yes agreed, there's propaganda and lies on both sides.
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  4037.  @thesnoopmeistersnoops5167  Yes, very true. By the time of El Alamein however, the days of those mistakes were over.
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  4038.  @orcho141  As if you know the first thing about economics. Read Roger Bootle on Brexit if you want to dig deeper than slogans.
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  4039. The country is run by an Indian globalist. It's no surprise the immigration flood gates are wide open.
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  4040. The logical outcome of escalation is either nuclear war or alternatively, Russia destroys Ukraine completely. It's high risk brinkmanship and that worked out pretty badly in 1914.
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  4041. A lot of the guys fighting for the Russian side are fighting for their own homes just like on the Ukrainian side. The heaviest casualties are from DPR and LPR. There are plenty of Ukrainian soldiers who were in Bakhmut saying the locals hated them and they felt like an occupying army. Go look up footage from the Ukrainian army entering Mariupol in 2014.
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  4042. Peter Zeihan is a shameless neocon propaganda merchant. If Gazprom wanted to get out of the contract all it had to do was have someone accidentally shove a spanner in the turbines and claim they can't be fixed due to Western sanctions. Nobody except Putin can make Gazprom pay if they don't want to pay, contract or no. Instead Zeihan is arguing the Russians destroyed literally hundreds of millions of dollars worth of their own gas plus did billions of damage to infrastructure which they mainly own plus lost their leverage over Germany in the process. As Biden would say - C'MON MAN!
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  4043.  @MesiterSode  What so NATO bombing Serbia and seizing territory off a sovereign country is a civil war??
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  4044. The Ukrainian army is bigger than Russian forces in Ukraine.
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  4045.  @Oktokolo  Good analysis. The reason Putin seems to fight with one hand tied behind his back is he's being careful not to escalate. He thinks time is on Russia's side and all they need to do to win is keep doing what they're doing now without starting World War Three.
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  4046. And a lot of the Poles who are arrested are actually Gypsies.
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  4047.  @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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  4048. What the US government does is not for the benefit of the US people.
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  4049.  @antonwearsakilt5209  Well the French could buy two Caesars back from the Russians if that would help them rearm?
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  4050. No Liz Truss didn't trash the UK economy, the Bank of England jacked up interest rates to sabotage her
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  4051. They needed him because most of them are thick and lazy, he was one of the few competent people and he got things done.
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  4052.  @sjs9698  Only the most propagandised gullible people believe the side with the armour, air, artillery and drone advantage is taking a "far higher casualty rate" or even higher at all. If you watch neutral mappers it's obvious the Ukrainians are struggling to firefight. Explain where all their hundreds of thousands of conscripts have disappeared to if you think their casualties are lower than Russia's.
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  4053.  @keysersoze3427  Climbing over war memorials = breach of the peace ... the police deliberately choose to ignore or enforce laws according to the politics. This is the opposite of justice.
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  4054. A lot of Ukrainian men are fighting in the Russian army.
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  4055. LOL this isn't Lord of the Rings you clown. If the Ukrainians couldn't create more than small salients at the cost of hundreds of armoured vehicles and tens of thousands of men over the whole summer, they're certainly not going to be able to break through next year when the Ukrainian army is weakening and the Russian army is getting stronger. Ukraine has lost the war. Even the Western media admits it. Try to keep up.
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  4056. Geopolitics for simpletons.
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  4057.  @davidgmillsatty1900  I presume the State Dept. is calculating that the war destroying Europe's economy removes a financial and export competitor and opens up a captive market for American arms, LNG and LPG. For a few dozen billion, that's a bargain!
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  4058.  @davidgmillsatty1900  Yeah I sort of agree with that. For sure there's such a thing as international capital which doesn't care about borders or patriotism and has huge power. But that doesn't stop the so called Deep State or better to say Washington Establishment from having its own goal (maintaining US hegemony) from being powerful too. And their interests often converge. Maybe even usually converge.
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  4059. Yes but it's been flattened by artillery since.
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  4060.  @milesnixon9554  In the days leading up to the war American officials were talking about Ukraine joining NATO. Ukraine was on the NATO MEP. 100% this war was about Ukraine trying to join NATO.
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  4061. Most Iranians would consider a pro-Western government despicable traitors given the way the West has treated Iran over the past hundred years.
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  4062. It's not true that the radioactivity is weak. The rate of decay is very slow so the amount of gamma coming off a lump of metal is small but when munitions are vaporised on farmland, it gets inside the human body where even a tiny amount of alpha radiation is dangerous because it's such a heavy particle.
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  4063. ... and Switzerland - you can't buy property there anonymously apparently and some documents showed up on the net showing some recent purchases by Ukrainian politicians.
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  4064.  @jeffnorris8848  Logistics look pretty good across most of the north east. Yes the Ukrainians have fortifications everywhere but you can't imagine the north east is going to be as entrenched as the south east. Anyway fortifications on their own aren't enough you also need men to defend them. And opening another front will stretch Ukrainian reserves. Anyway talking about attacking Odessa or towards Kherson at this stage seems totally unrealistic. Ukrainian defences are degraded but they still exist. Any large scale amphibious operation to Odessa would be suicide.
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  4065.  @jeffnorris8848  Kharkov: lots of major roads up to the border and Belgorod gives a huge supply base close behind the front. Sumy: can be attacked from all of the north, the north east and the east. Roads there are adequate too. I don't think the Russians need major highways. It's probably more effective to use a very wide front with a slow, careful incremental attack, clearing mines and eliminating counter battery fire as they go rather than a sudden armoured breakthrough attempt like at the start of the war.
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  4066.  @jeffnorris8848  If you're arguing an armoured charge of hundreds of tanks to Kiev in a few days is unrealistic then I agree. All I'm arguing is that the heavily prepared hedgerow by hedgerow attacks which generate slow but successful results elsewhere on the front are even more viable on these fronts.
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  4067.  @giovanni-ed7zq  Prigozhin also said Ukrainian casualties were higher than Russian casualties even when they weren;'t getting enough ammunition. As for obituaries, the Meduza project partly run by the BBC tracks Russian deaths, a few months ago identified 47,000. Obviously it'll be higher now and some will be missed but 300k deaths is pure fantasy. The real number will be more like 50,000 to 70,000
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  4068.  @МихаилЧерников-п2т  Yep. Well more recent numbers are over 40,000 identified so yeah it could be as much as 70,000. But these clowns are claiming 300,000 Russians killed.
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  4069.  @eddiemarten3381  LOL you're smoking your own supply there pal. So many mistakes. US is the leading manufacturing power. No. Chinese manufacturing capacity exceeds the USA and Europe combined. US has the world reserve currency. Not for long. It was only going to be true so long as it didn't abuse the position. BRICS invalidates US sanctions (BRICS countries can't sanction each other) and the dollar is being inflated away. The international oil trade is now moving off dollars slowly but surely. I do agree with you that China has a huge debt problem but so does the USA. Russia's debt is tiny compared to either. I don't know why you get the idea that BRICS countries have zero military. The Chinese military is huge. Russia has just proved it can outproduce all of NATO combined in artillery ammunition and in a land war, it's now looking like it could go toe to toe with NATO. Face it the US empire is crumbling as we speak.
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  4070. The Germans were never allies for America. During the Cold War they were cannon fodder. Since the cold war they've been economic competitors.
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  4071. I doubt that's the real reason. It's more just geopolitics. The Common Market was a joint project dominated by France and Germany by which Germany subsidised France. Once Britain joined, French influence was heavily diluted. De Gaulle also saw Britain as too closely aligned with the Americans - one of biggested economic and financial rivals of France.
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  4072. Yeah Shoigu who lives in a $18 million house stole $63 BILLION. According to Peter Zeihan. Who knows how much Shoigu stole better than the Russian government or Putin.
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  4073. Look up the Minsk II accords ... then look up what Merkel and Hollande admitted about them later.
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  4074.  @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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  4075. Neither of those traits stand out in Westminister.
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  4076. And 2 billion per month for freebee covid tests
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  4077.  @santhosh4474  I think Ukraine probably isn't all that far off. Probably most of their pre-war army has already become casualties. They're obviously struggling to find new volunteers and we've seen videos of very young and very old guys getting pulled off the street. Just like Russian VDV casualties have been heavy, Ukrainian casualties are going to be especially high amongst the more elite and aggressive formations.
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  4078. Why would you believe the Russians "are basically down to throwing raw recruits into the fray"? Jeez you really need to check out some neutral sources if you believe that.
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  4079. The Ukrainians do double taps too. But you'll never hear it from Zeihan.
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  4080. Not a fan of Liz Truss but it is true people want a high standard of living and super high government spending but don't want to work like in China or Japan.
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  4081.  @mikedown1250  I'm definitely generalising. But generalising is the whole point of democracy - to give the electorate what it collectively wants.
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  4082.  桜 ᴹᵘᵏᵘ⁴² 👽   You misunderstand how electricity production works. Renewables are intermittent. At certain times they surpass coal. At other times, the sun is not shining and the wind is not blowing. Electricity can still not be stored on a large enough scale. Gas is still needed for peak power production.
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  4083.  @paulgibbon5991  It should be obvious by now the Russian army doesn't care about small parcels of land. If it's costly for them to hold something they just retreat. It's casualties which will decide this war, not who controls some tiny village.
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  4084. No matter what happens, Ukraine's future looks dire. Endless thousands of young men dead, millions of people left for good, war damage costing hundreds of billions and debts incurred by the war which can never be repaid. Additionally, it's almost certain that at the end of the war, Ukraine will be much smaller than it is now. Probably the Russians will pump in enough money to rebuild the parts which join Russia but nobody will rebuild the rest of Ukraine. Oligarchs and predatory Western billionaires will suck the life out of whatever's left.
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  4085. The number of soldiers in Ukraine is approximately equal. Most people don't realise the Russian army has been outnumbered in manpower for almost all of this war ... until recently.
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  4086.  @thebigboy6070  It's a myth Russia lost to Finland. There were two wars the Winter War and the Continuation War. Both ended with Finland giving up territory to the Soviet Union. Go and check for yourself.
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  4087.  @peterderuiter2937  Russia pulled back from Kiev as agreed in a peace treaty Ukraine ripped up. That sounds like propaganda but from the German documents which came out a few days ago, we now know it's actually true. As for the future, it's obvious Ukraine gets weaker day by day. The Russian army is growing, Russian armaments production is expanding, the Russian economy is growing. The outcome is pretty obvious.
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  4088.  @peterderuiter2937  Is that the best you clowns have got, to call anyone who calls out your BS a bot? If you still think Ukraine can win this war you must be a bit thick. Even newspapers as neocon as the WSJ and the Economist admit Ukraine can't win.
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  4089.  @yurilytviak9066  No but let's not pretend to be shocked when great powers act like great powers always have. And let's not pretend Russia is worse than the USA.
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  4090.  @OlleSundblad  It's normal to accuse the enemy of genocide if you want to start a war. Russia did the same in Ukraine. there was no genocide in Kosovo. As for the UN, the UN has demanded the US leave Syria and Israel leave the Golan Heights - both just ignore the UN.
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  4091.  @OlleSundblad  Are you confusing the Serbian army in Kosovo with ethnic Serbs in Bosnia? There was a real genocide by ethnic Serbs in Bosnia but the Serbian state was not responsible for that.
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  4092. Yes it's a desperate propaganda attempt by Ukraine to drag NATO in
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  4093. Throughout the war, Russia has been much more careful about the lives of their men than the Ukrainian side. They've usually been willing to trade ground to save their forces whereas the Ukrainians have done plenty of sacrifices for media victories.
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  4094.  @boink800  Through this year Russia has gained more territory than Ukraine despite the Ukrainian offensive. Pretty soon they'll take Avdivka, the strongest fortress on the Ukrainian line.
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  4095.  @boink800  Jeez how old are you? There are websites that track this, yeah Russian gains are higher than Ukrainian gains for this year. The difference is tiny compared to the size of the country but it's still in Russia's favour. But anyway this is a pretty simplistic way to measure who is winning. It's a war of attrition now and Ukraine is running low on manpower.
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  4096. You want an open war with the world's biggest nuclear power? Russia has nuclear bunkers for millions of people and its population is spread out across eleven time zones. How many million people does America have nuclear bunkers for?
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  4097. Supportive in a hypothetical sense. Morally supportive. How many Americans want an escalation with Russia much less American servicemen in Ukraine like the US government now admits? Much fewer I'd guess.
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  4098.  @DamienPalmer  The US government now admits they have soldiers in Ukraine. And led by a general so presumably not just a few.
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  4099.  @Lukky_Luke  In your dreams. Most people who were prepared to act as partisans have long since been arrested. Somewhere like Donetsk, the Kiev regime is passionately hated.
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  4100.  @Inkling777  How can it be a parallel when Russia hasn't been defeated? I don't see the Russia army collapsing. I see it holding Ukrainian territory and repelling Ukrainian attacks. I see low inflation in Russia and the Russian economy growing. You seem to misunderstand who is winning this war.
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  4101.  @obsidianjane4413  You should go and fight the Russians
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  4102.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  LOL the cope from you guys is awesome
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  4103.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  It's not easy to clear for Russia for the same reason it's not easy for Ukraine to break out of it - geography. And unless Ukraine can break out - which they can't - it's a really stupid place to keep pouring resources into.
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  4104. 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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  4105. FFS open your eyes. If Ukraine couldn't break through in 2023 it's not going to be able to in 2024 when even more Ukrainians have died and more equipment burned. This is all about buying time for the regime at the cost of Ukrainian lives.
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  4106. Also people who lived under communism are immunised against politically correct propaganda about how good immigration is.
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  4107.  @hoewaxcandles  And the Albanians in Kosovo could have just moved to Albania by the same logic. It's you who has double standards.
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  4108. Of course, protecting ships from Somali style pirates is easy. It doesn't even take a navy, it just takes a few well trained guys with a heavy machine gun and an anti-tank missile. The real problem is protecting ships from the likes of the people who blew up Nordstream. And the Russian response to that would be to sink Western ships.
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  4109. Netherlands and Denmark found the same thing, crime of immigrants from some non Western origin was many times that of the overall population.
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  4110. Another history genius who learnt only one thing in school and can't even remember the date properly. Since you need it explained to you, Russia is not going to back down over Ukraine, a country where millions of ethnic Russians live. If you think we should "stand up" to Russia over Ukraine realise that Russian cities are putting up fall out shelters right now. Russia is the world's biggest country with a spread out population and the largest number of nuclear weapons. Britain is a geographically tiny country with a very dense population that has almost no nuclear bunkers. Who's going to come off best from that fight you genius?
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  4111. Good for destroying societies you mean
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  4112.  @hidesinlonggrass3229  The Canaanites were there before there was such a thing as Jews. Jews and Palestinians are both descended from the Canaanites. If you really have to go back thousands of years to justify stealing land of recent inhabitants then it just demonstrates how weak your case is.
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  4113.  @hidesinlonggrass3229  Not nice try. Facts. The Palestinians are just as much the native people as the Jews are.
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  4114. Most of what the guy says is wrong I'm surprised you'd pick on such a minor detail.
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  4115. It's not a secret plan it's out in the open. Remember Andy Nether's admission New Labour was deliberately pushing mass immigration to "rub the right's nose in diversity"?
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  4116.  @jehandesains8674  Ukrainian morale is failing too, it's not just numbers. Nobody wants to sit in a bunker and get buried in the rubble or vaporised in a TOS strike without any means to fight back.
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  4117. I'm not suggesting it's going to work but the Russian defences north and south of Bakhmut aren't that strong. It's newly captured territory and a lot of it isn't easy to entrench. The Ukrainians want to drive around Bakhmut, not fight through it. If the Ukrainians succeed anywhere, my bet would be they can retake that large salient north west of Bakhmut. I doubt they can get much further though.
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  4118. Yes all modern tanks can hit targets while moving.
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  4119.  @pweiss1983  African immigrants tend to be the economic and intellectual elite from their home countries. The normal people trying to get out are the ones who pay smugglers to take them across the Sahara and then on boats to Italy or Spain.
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  4120.  @meisterproper8304  It doesn't really matter who is strongest in a conventional war because it would probably become a nuclear war quite quickly.
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  4121.  @JanLCn  You're like an Iraqi propaganda minister claiming Iraq is winning while Abrams tanks drive into view behind him.
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  4122. @ Why do you think there are almost no Russian tanks left? That's a very strange take. I follow the fighting day to day and Russian advances have only accelerated.
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  4123. It's pretty obvious why, because Zionists own the US media and fund US politicians. Mearsheimer wrote a good book documenting this.
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  4124. Four legs good two legs bad
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  4125. Except without the high Russian casualties. Only around 40,000 identified Russians killed so far out of around 140 million population.
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  4126. No, he'll just say it wasn't strategically important. And that Russian losses were massive.
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  4127. Everyone in a war thinks he's morally in the right.
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  4128. He's deluded. There isn't going to be a NATO/Russia war because there are sane people in NATO who realise it would be a disaster. As for all this talk of Russia pushing past Ukraine into NATO countries - zero evidence for that.
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  4129. Every day there is no peace, more men die and Ukraine gets weaker. Russia isn't getting weaker. Its economy is growing and even a US general admitted its army is now stronger than when the war started. If (actually when) the Ukrainian offensive fails, the Russians will start grinding westwards again. Eventually, Ukraine will collapse. What is to be gained by further fighting?
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  4130. Nobody still believes in God and the king is as woke as the politicians. That leaves blood, the only thing ever worth fighting for.
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  4131. Ivan the Terrible was victorious.
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  4132.  @Paul-wo3qh  Libya? Syria? Iraq? Afghanistan? Serbia?
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  4133.  @donaldmackerer9032  If you're going to go all the way back to 1956, conflating the Soviet Union and Russia, there's a long, long list of atrocities by the USA, France and Britain back then as well. BTW Chechnya - it's part of Russia since you don't appear to be aware.
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  4134.  @dioghaltasfoirneartach7258  If you really are a Gael you should know better than to be cheer leading the most cynical, aggressive and destructive empire in the world right now, the one based in Washington. Ukraine isn't going to have an epic victory, it's going to be impoverished, depopulated and partitioned, if you can't see that already you should get out of your NAFO echo chamber.
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  4135. These American generals are full of sh** Breedlove is only one step behind Hodges. Defences only slow the Russians down, they won't stop them. The war will end when the Russians have whatever territory they want. The time to negotiate was a month into the war but NATO convinced the Ukrainians to throw away the agreement already made.
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  4136. If the Russian army is strong enough to cut supply lines to the Donbas, doing so might be more profitable than actually fighting through the Donbas because the Donbas is so heavily fortified. Places like Adivka have held fast the entire war so far and Pesky fell only just recently because they're so well fortified. The rear lines will be similar.
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  4137. Yeah for someone who's supposed to be a demographer Zeihan comes up with some pretty stupid stuff. Then again the narrative is more important to him than logic or details.
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  4138. Who is "we"? If you want to make the case for transferring tens of billions to the most corrupt country in Europe (Ukraine) then take that case to national parliaments rather than a Brussels diktat from above.
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  4139.  @georgerj2419  Or EU youtube bots :)
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  4140. Because their economic is built on natural resources and engineering, whereas the US economy is built on lawyers, diversity consultants and unfunded liabilities.
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  4141. Better late than never :)
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  4142. She is thick as a brick though.
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  4143.  @Qwairy  yeah because only "vatniks" think the side with more firepower, armour, airpower, manpower and a healthy economy is going to beat the side with none of them. Zeihan logic. Right.
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  4144.  @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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  4145. It's not a global ice berg, it's only Western countries which are being destroyed by immigration. Indian and Chinese and Arab and African societies aren't so naive as to think they could import millions of foreigners without consequence.
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  4146. He was Algerian.
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  4147.  @BlutoandCo  No, shooting down that airliner was a disaster, but it was an accident too. Remember the USN has also shot down an airliner by accident. The airline also has to take some responsibility for flying directly over a warzone don't you think?
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  4148. ​ @timonsolus  Problem is, Ukraine with about half the population Russian speaking and identifying with Russia was only sustainable as a state if it kept good relations with Russia. When the US sponsored Maidan coup deposed the democratically elected president and nationalists started murdering ethnic Russians (see the Odessa massacre early on) what was Russia supposed to do? USA was prepared to fight a nuclear war to prevent Cuba from stationing Soviet missiles, was Russia realistically supposed to accept Ukraine in NATO? Do you see the double standards?
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  4149.  @luisekjeldsen1515  Yeah and according to the US neocons, Saddam Hussein had WMDs and NATO is a defensive alliance - just because we shouldn't believe Russian lies doesn't mean we should buy the NATO lies instead.
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  4150.  @jokubasmirinas116  In the lead up to the war, the US and Ukraine were talking about Ukraine joining NATO, Ukraine (Zelensky) was talking about acquiring nuclear weapons and Ukraine shelling of Donetsk city escalated. In addition, it had become obvious that Ukraine never intended to implement the Minsk 2 accords (and this has actually been admitted by Merkel and Hollande recently). So the unprovoked invasion narrative looks ridiculous from the Russian side.
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  4151.  @luisekjeldsen1515  A cruel country run by criminals - you could be talking about Ukraine as well as Russia. And actually the USA is no better. You think "we" need to stop the Russians? Nothing is stopping you from joining the foreign legion in Ukraine if that's what you believe. Are you sure you want to die to stop the Russians of the Donbas from re-joining Russia?
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  4152.  @luisekjeldsen1515  Ukraine has banned most opposition parties and the secret service has assassinated people on the street including a politician so senior he was in the early peace negotiations with Russia last year. Not sure how you're trying to blame Russia for that? This is literally a fact you can check - and you should check because you obviously don't have a clue what's happening there.. You say the Russians in the Donbas should leave and return to Russia. That's exactly what they're doing :) The Donbas has returned to Russia. The smart thing for Ukraine to do now would be accept that and negotiate quickly while there's still a country to save.
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  4153.  @jokubasmirinas116  The background to this is that Soviet politicians were promised NATO wouldn't expand eastwards - which is well now documented. Obviously NATO has expanded relentlessly eastwards over Russian objections.. As for nuclear weapons, they weren't Ukrainian weapons, they were Soviet weapons stationed in Ukraine (and Kazakhstan). If the Ukrainian leadership had tried to keep them, the Russian officers in control of them would have prevented them from being used and Russia would have invaded immediately. So far as Russia is concerned, the 2014 government (which overthrew the democratically elected president in a violent coup) was illegitimate so the Russians felt no obligation to honour a treaty made to the legitimate government - which was reasonably friendly to Russia.
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  4154.  @maninthestreet01  False. There were dozens of assurances both public and private by senior people that NATO would not expand eastwards. All you have to do is google it. One example is US Secretary of State James Baker’s famous “not one inch eastward on 9th Feb 1990. Look it up. Literally dozens of similar examples.
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  4155.  @McConnachy  That's mostly myth, Scottish casualties were high early on because the first two new divisions to go into action were Scottish (9th and 15th) but overall, the Scottish rate of casualties was around in line with the rest of Britain. Conscription in Scotland was a bit lower because so many men were in reserved occupations (shipbuilding, mining, farming), a higher rate than the more service orientated English economy. It's to 1919 because although the armistice was in 1918, peace wasn't fully settled until 1919, a lot of the men didn't get home until then because a lot had to garrison occupied parts of Germany like the Rhein and also were fighting the Bolsheviks in Russia.
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  4156.  @Marie_West  Zeihan is a geopolitical snake oil salesman. Close to everything he says about Ukraine or Russia is propaganda. I was impressed first time I heard him and read some of his books but he's made endless wrong predictions and when he started talking about stuff I know a lot about, it became completely obvious he's full of **
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  4157. That means WWIII which will be nuclear. The far smarter option is stop this utter BS about Ukraine joining NATO and start negotiating realistically and by realistically I mean realistically acknowledging the reality that Russia has won this war. Every day the war goes on, Ukraine gets smaller.
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  4158. Where's the critical damage? Ukraine captured some border villages and have now been stopped. Meanwhile the Russians keep driving into Donbas.
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  4159.  @dylanbuchanan6511  He might be "factual" but so many of his facts are wrong. He's very slick and I was initially impressed until he started talking about stuff I know something about then it's obvious he's full of BS
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  4160.  @dylanbuchanan6511  One example is when he was discussing Scotland. His overall take was ridiculous. One particular detail was he claimed that Scotland has the oldest demographic in Europe - complete bollocks it's about mid range for Europe. The next thing I know a bit about is Ukraine and Russian-Ukrainian relations - his overall narrative there is even worse. It's like the CIA propaganda version distilled down for dummies. And whenever he speaks about Russia and Ukraine he makes endless factual mistakes, can't even pronounce the names of big cities and keeps banging on about Russia wanting to take back certain geographical bottlenecks so as to be better able to protect itself ignoring that nuclear weapons make this kind of thing irrelevant.. Overall the man's full of shit
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  4161.  @dylanbuchanan6511  If you seriously believe the 2022 invasion was unprovoked there's a lot of important stuff nobody's told you and you'll never hear from Zeihan. Some good books are de Kaspar's Ukraine in the Crossfire (too old to cover the lead up to the invasion but some important background) and the most recent book on Ukraine by Jaques Baud - which does cover the proximate causes very well. You can find a summary on youtube, he's done some interviews.
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  4162.  @dylanbuchanan6511  What do I think of Putin? I think he was backed into a corner. He tells lies like all politicians but if you compare Russia now to how Russia was when he took over, he must have done something right. What do you think of him? Do you believe he's the reincarnation of Hitler like the media tells us? Or is he obviously insane because he won't allow the transgender cult in his country?
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  4163. @@livingnarcfree Clown - who cares what his passport says. Look at his ethnicity.
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  4164.  @EbonicsInternational  You missed that he's Algerian because the Irish authorities have deliberately avoided mentioning it.
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  4165. objective 🤡🤡🤡
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  4166. If you want to fight Russia there are many vacancies in the Ukrainian army for men of your intellect.
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  4167.  @chrismartin2034  I'd guess they can keep it up for a long time agree with you there but there is a deficit from all this military spending and there are more productive things to spend this huge armaments effort on. It's a pretty major war, a lot of Russians are dying (even if it's pretty obvious Ukrainian casualties are higher), prolonging the war doesn't seem to be in Russia's interest
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  4168.  @PitchBlackTales  That's delusional. Nobody wants a war with Russia. In Germany or France, that would bring down their governments instantly. Professional European armies far too small to take on the Russians and in any case, the Russians have two years hard experience now fighting a major war, European armies have at best counter insurgency experience, nothing more. As for the British army, it'd be out of ammunition in the first few days. The Danish army has already given Ukraine its artillery. Who's going to replace casualties? Muslim immigrants? Only NATO airforces are going to be a match for the Russians and what's to stop the Russians waiting for them to deploy to Ukraine then using tactical nuclear weapons on the airbases? If European governments thought they could miitarily defeat Russia they would have joined the war long ago. Only the Baltic governments are insane enough to want to fight Russia and Putin would love an excuse to squash them.
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  4169.  @markscript5746  Yes, Russia ridded their gene pool of a lot of scum in Bakhmut at the same time as we imported the same kind of scum because our government is more interested in protected Ukraine's borders than our own.
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  4170.  @jasonodlin8305  Two points. yes Russia is running a war economy because it's prepared to make that sacrifice to win. And Europe is not operating a war economy because it's not prepared to make a sacrifice. In fact the British military is declining despite all the saber rattling by delusional generals. As for the front line, no it's not a stalemate, the Russian army is growing, the Ukrainian army is weakening. If you follow the day by day fighting like I do it'd be pretty obvious we're far from a stale mate. There aren't radical movements to the front line because the Russians aren't trying to capture territory at this stage in general - when they attack, it's to force the Ukrainians to fight. Since withdrawing from Kherson the Russians have been patiently inflicting attrition on the Ukrainian army and it's starting to pay big dividends now. Krinky has been almost snuffed out, Avdivka will fall soon, Vesele fell two days ago etc. etc. Check out channels Military Summary Weeb Union or DPA war
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  4171. The lesson Ukraine taught the world outside of the Western media propaganda bubble is that underestimating Russia gets your country wrecked.
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  4172. 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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  4173. Yeah because there's nothing Russia can do, not like they're the world's largest nuclear power or anything.
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  4174. No, he's just as bad on every other topic, the difference with this video is he's talking about something you know a lot about so it's more obvious.
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  4175.  @ram5ramen582  It was actually the opposite in 1914-1918. Russia started with a lot of experienced, professional officers (although a shortage of NCOs) and most of the officers became casualties in the first year especially junior officers. Replacement officers of the same standard couldn't be trained and promoted fast enough. There were a lot of intelligent, capable men like school teachers and lawyers but they weren't experienced enough so already by 1915 there was a severe shortage of officers.
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  4176. George Galloway isn't cynical, he hates the Israeli government and it's policy on Palestine. You can hate him fair enough but he is idealistic.
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  4177.  @tonydevos  The "Ukrainians" didn't decide to have their children, grandchildren and great grandchildren poisoned generations into the future. A small group of men who will probably not even stay in the country after the war is over decided.
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  4178. China's high growth numbers are BS anyway, the whole country is built on corruption and lies. These guys hate the US system so much they're blind to the problems with US competitors.
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  4179. Also, the West didn't remove SWIFT sanctions on a Russian bank like they were meant to, also Erdogan allowed Azov prisoners interned in Turkey to return to Ukraine against the original agreement.
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  4180. eh? what? er ... no
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  4181.  @colinbirks5403  LOL learn some history yourself. That wasn't early in the war, that was after the collapse of France and most especially, after the RN sunk the French fleet. And no, Vichy France didn't side with Germany. Vichy France sided with France. After the collapse, they tried to stay neutral as long as possible.
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  4182.  @FactCheckerGuy  If the initial invasion was aiming to take the whole country, it would have driven towards Lvov from Belorus. It aimed only to take as much as possible of the southeast and also to cut off GLOCs to Kyiv to force the Zelensky government into negotiations - which was somewhat successful because the Zelensky government actually came to an agreement in peace talks before reneging on the deal.
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  4183.  @rmdomainer9042  If you'd have been following the fighting you'd realise the Russian army is still getting stronger whereas the Ukrainian army is now getting weaker. Russian casualties have dropped off since the start of the year. It's slow but Russia's taking ground.
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  4184.  @rmdomainer9042  Both sides have started using light vehicles for assaults because there's the perception that mobility trumps protection. The Ukrainian army acknowledges it now has a chronic shortage of artillery. It has recently downgraded mechanised brigades to light infantry because of a shortage of armoured vehicles. There's no comparable problems on the Russian side. In terms of manpower, there are documented cases of Ukrainians mobilised then killed a few days later. Nothing like that has happened on the Russian side since the emergency following the Kharkov defeat, that's a long time ago now. Lastly the Russians are doing 90% of the attacking nowadays.
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  4185.  @rmdomainer9042  Both sides are using old equipment. Ukrainian territorials have been issued with First World War Maxim guns. Nobody denies the Russians have the advantage in equipement.
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  4186.  @bushido791  It's not so much even the major countries acting in their own interests as the unelected, unaccountable Brussels cabal acting in its own interest.
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  4187. Some of the MIA will be desertions who are still alive.
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  4188. Perfect avatar for your comment!!
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  4189. Good idea, completely destroy the credibility of Western finance and watch the Western economies collapse as trillions of dollars of investment are withdrawn by everyone who wonders if he might be the next to have his money arbitrarily stolen.
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  4190. This guy is a propaganda merchant. He cherry picks facts and news to create an unrealistically optimistic narrative for Ukraine.
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  4191.  @blafonovision4342  What neutral ship did the Russians sink or seize?
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  4192.  @blafonovision4342  Seizing enemy ships is not piracy. I really don't think escalation is in anyone's interest. A US-Russian war would probably turn nuclear. I hope you realise that means billions of people die.
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  4193.  @kylekitchen16  LOL sure lots of Russians emigrate often temporarily but this propagandist clown Peter Zeihan claims the country which trains the most engineers in the whole world doesn't have enough engineers to fix railway lines! Think about that for a minute ... assuming you're capable.
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  4194. The entire European economy is falling apart, there are mass protests in Rome, Paris, Amsterdam, Prague and various German towns, do you blame all that on Brexit too?
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  4195.  @YellowfinGrouper  None of this is an endorsement of Brexit but it's childish to pretend Brexit is to blame either. There was a point AFTER Brexit when we had the highest growth of the G7 too. You would have been right to laugh at anyone who claimed Brexit was responsible for that for the obvious reason this stuff is complicated. Our trade with the EU has increased year on year. It's actually currently increasing faster than our trade with the non EU world.
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  4196. Yes and ISW is heavily biased towards Ukraine too
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  4197.  @chechnya  According to Zeihan, China is going to backstab Russia and grab Siberia. Also according to Zeihan China is going to have a famine and lose 500 million people to starvation. In reality, Chinese and Russian relations have never been better and China is now allied to one of the world's biggest food exporters with which it shares a land border. I mean the guy doesn't even pretend to consider evidence that doesn't support his USA good Russia/China bad narrative.
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  4198.  @ivancho5854  LOL the Russian economy is booming. Sanctions didn't live up to their promise - and that's saying it generously. Look at the oil price cap joke for example. Even the EU admits that's a failure now.
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  4199. LOL If Europe goes to the Urals which is the commonly accepted eastern boundary then Russia is the BIGGEST European country. And the large majority of the population originates from and lives West of the Urals. By your logic, the France is an Asian country too because some islands in South East Asia are officially part of France.
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  4200.  @srwven  LOL the problem with Peter Zeihan is not that he leans left or right. It's that he's a spokesman for the US state dept. and the CIA who shamelessly propagates disinformation.
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  4201. The T14 Armata is Russia's most sophisticated tank, not the T90. The T14 REPLACES the T90. This guy seems to scan the news and make up his headlines based on guesses.
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  4202.  Democratsgetting smokedinNovember  The video doesn't distinguish between operational and non operation tanks so even if you were right, the video would be wrong. In any case, the T14 was first used in combat in 2020 so yes it is certainly operational too.
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  4203.  @arjan2777  One of the several mistakes you make is you think Ukraine will have the long term option to resist Russia. It's like saying why would Germany accept peace in 1945 if that means being demilitarised, partitioned, looted and held under military occupation? The answer should be obvious. Unconditional surrender earlier would have saved a lot of lives and destruction.
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  4204. That's already happening. The VKV is actually flying over Ukrainian positions now because Ukrainian air defense is so degraded. So FABs can be launched to destroy Ukrainian positions whereever they're detected 50 to 70km from the front lines. But the clowns on this site still believe Ukrainian casualties are lower than Russian casualties.
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  4205. I can't see it any time soon unless there's a military coup in Ukraine. The current leaders have nothing to gain by a surrender and NATO won't accept the kind of terms Russia will require. Likewise, Russia can't accept a peace which leaves Ukraine mainly intact and later joining NATO. The dying is going to go on for a lot longer I think.
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  4206.  @Arcaryon  Evidence for any of that? Before the invasion Ukraine was on the NATO MAP (membership action plan) and Biden/Harris were pushing hard to speed up Ukraine joining. You should check out Scott Horton, John Mearsheimer and Glenn Greenwald.
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  4207. Iraq? Or Afghanistan?
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  4208. The idea that Russia blew up its own pipelines which cost over 10 billion when it could have just shut off the taps is ridiculous. NS2 was not even shipping gas at all - because the German government would not commission it. Poland, the Baltic countries and the USA have always been hostile to the NS pipelines and several American officials including Biden threatened that NS2 would never ship gas.
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  4209. 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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  4210. A lot of his "facts" are actually lies.
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  4211.  @johnmackenzie9028  Improving drilling technology is making stuff like that more economic to produce. The end of Scottish oil got called decades too early.
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  4212. No, next year Ukraine will be weaker, Russia will be stronger and the Russians will start advancing slowly but surely through the east of Ukraine
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  4213.  @JoaoSoares-rs6ec  At 8pm Ukraine time, the Russians claim the Ukrainians have already been ejected. We'll know for sure in a couple of days. But if you believe the Russians are just going to run away from somewhere like Opytne then you need to find more neutral sources of information than this propaganda/sell junk channel.
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  4214.  @44johnburton  How? Even the Western media admits Ukraine is running out of reserves and taking heavy casualties. The Russian army is expanding. The Russian economy is on a war footing, armaments production is expanding rapidly and the economy is growing overall. The Ukrainian economy already collapsed a year ago, it's only held together by US aid. The Russians don't want a war dragging out forever. They want to drag it out until the West loses interest and willpower. That's already happening. Furthermore the Russians need a buffer because Ukraine is firing missiles at them now, even as far as Moscow. They'll want to take Kharkov and Sumy at a minimum, probably most of the land east of the Dniepr. Maybe even Odessa. Next year, they'll be strong enough to start doing this.
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  4215.  @flowertowerrr  I trust him too... to find out what the CIA wants the sheep to think.
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  4216. Biden is hated more than Trump. When Trump won he was polling behind Clinton. Now he's actually polling ahead.
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  4217. One of the terrorists has a Ukrainian passport and was a member of the Ukrainian military. They were stopped heading towards the Ukrainian border. It's really not hard to see why Putin might think Ukraine might have something to do with it. It doesn't look like the typical jihadi suicide attack does it.
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  4218. Yet their economy is growing, their military production is growing their population is solidly behind the war. Every problem the Russians have the Ukrainians have much worse.
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  4219. There's zero evidence it's just a circular argument from this propaganda snake oil salesman..
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  4220. Check that University of Adelaide study - 90% of the bots commenting on the war are pro-NATO bots. The Americans put serious money into manipulating social media narratives.
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  4221. Biden in 2024: Ukraine losing was the fault of the Republicans
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  4222.  @WinterXR7  That was a Ukrainian S300 (in Poland)
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  4223. This is an outrageous misrepresentation of Mers-el-Kebir.
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  4224.  @Grahamgusbull  Because every geopolitical rival of Washington is Hitler? That's the kind of half wit thinking that got us in to World War I, the Iraq wars and Afghanistan.
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  4225.  @mitchconner403  Non sequitur. Besides which Israel illegally occupies the West Bank to this day. The UN demands they leave but Israel ignores the UN. So much for the "rules based order" the US government keeps lecturing the Russians about.
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  4226. Yeah the Russians are holding a huge chunk of Ukraine despite their inability to launch an offensive. Not sure how this guy got promoted to general.
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  4227. What are you smoking? Ukraine is none of prosperous, democratic and free. It's even more authoritarian than Russia and much, much poorer. If you think it's a democracy, don't you realise opposition parties have been banned?
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  4228.  @Dryzark  Since Russia mobilised, Ukraine has lost ground. During the time of the Ukrainian Kharkiv offensive, the Russians on that front were badly outnumbered, maybe more than 5 to 1. Those days are long since over. The Ukrainians are outnumbered now.
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  4229. Probably a lot of Russian forces got withdrawn altogether to train the mobilised men.
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  4230. I'd say that if Putin removes Ukraine as a nuclear threat on Russia's border, takes control of a huge chunk of the country and creates economic damage to the West outweighing the damage to Russia such that meaningful sanctions won't last much longer than the fighting then he's won.. and it's looking like that's exactly what's going to happen.
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  4231.  @easyenetwork2023  The Russian government is actually running a budget surplus despite fighting a major war. In contrast, the Ukrainian economy is falling to half what it was and EU economy as a whole is crashing due to the sanctions on Russia, Germany is already starting to ration natural gas.
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  4232. Evidence it was Russia that blew the dam?
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  4233. Wasn't his first choice though was it, had to make the best of the shit show left by May.
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  4234. 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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  4235.  @avalerie4467  Only if you're part of the US government
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  4236. Victories purely from air attack - Serbia 1999, Japan 1945
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  4237. Mearsheimer speaks clearly and he speaks sense :) Mearsheimer has to speak especially clearly in this particular interview because he's arguing with a moron.
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  4238. Both equally deluded but in different directions. There are more realistic options.
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  4239. Agree about NATO but there's zero chance Russia will hand back the land bridge to Crimea.
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  4240.  @alexdunphy3716  You should read Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell before flying off to get yourself killed on behalf of a side which might not live up to your idealised understanding of good vs. evil.
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  4241. Whereas US politicians are beyond reproach. Trump is sophisticated and modest. Biden is sharp, incorruptible and articulate, though neither of them have the gravitas of Trudeau.
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  4242.  @chrisgoold9816  For a start, your estimates of Russian dead look like fantasy. You can't possibly know that. Actual confirmed Russian dead are like 10% of that.
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  4243. Since WWII, no country has started more aggressive wars than the USA. When NATO attacked Serbia in 1999 Yeltsin warned breaking off Kosovo was setting a dangerous precedent. It's disingenuous to act outraged now that Russia is taking back territory where ethnically Russian people live and which used to be part of Russia.
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  4244. Doesn't fit the US rocks, Russia sucks agenda
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  4245.  @WilliamAshleyOnline  Potentially quite a lot. Potentially get Adivka under fire control.
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  4246. Love the portrait on the wall behind.
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  4247. They've already planted anti-personnel mines on the Romanian border to stop men fleeing conscription. But they're on the side of democracy right?
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  4248. These clowns simultaneously want to argue the Russian military is incompetent and also if we don't ship Zelensky billions, the Russian military is going to stomp all over Europe. It's propaganda for thick people.
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  4249.  @teddypicker8799  The distance that matters the most is artillery distance and mortar distance. Ukraine doesn't have an advantage there at all.
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  4250.  @teddypicker8799  Where are you getting that little factoid from? Don't say Oryx, the Netherlands propaganda website linked to Bellingcat.
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  4251.  @teddypicker8799  No, neither Oryx nor Bellingcat are neutral sources. There's plenty of evidence online about this. Yes they do show losses of both sides but there are plenty of ways they skew their results. Have a google, you'll find it interesting. Bellingcat has actually been funded by the US government! I mean if you're pro-US fair enough but don't be surprised later on if it turns out the US State dept. propaganda about what's happening in Ukraine turns out to be wrong. Like it usually does. e.g. like it did in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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  4252.  @teddypicker8799  I can see I wrote a pretty long reply four hours ago ... can you see it? If not then it's been censored.
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  4253.  @danielomar9712  The incompetence was mainly from the prince. Lord George Murray advised him not to fight there at all.
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  4254.  @edwardharlem9588  Yeah we know for sure some of their descendants are still alive. The Moriori
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  4255.  @terrycole472  Not relevant how many there are left now, the point is they were the original people, the Maoris are not. There are no fully blooded Maoris left either, most people who call themselves Maori now have more European ancestry than Polynesian. "their genes are essentially Maori in origin" is false and even if it were true, so what? They're ethnically different. It;'s like saying Ukrainian genes are essentially Russian in origin. The word essentially is a weasel word that means nothing. Obviously Maoris, Samoans, Moriori are all Polynesian people so there's genetic similarity but also difference.
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  4256. 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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  4257. Taube subtly gives the impression he might not like Trudeau.
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  4258. No not totally encircled but the last roads out are under fire control.
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  4259. 10% for the big man.
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  4260. It won't. Not in our life times. It just keeps getting higher level as it has been since the 1950s.
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  4261. "meat wave tactics" is a propaganda invention. Both sides use the same tactics in Ukraine. If anything, the Russians rely more on armour because they have armour, the Ukrainians rely more on infantry.
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  4262. Just like Israel can supply weapons to Ukraine, Russia can supply weapons to Hezbollah or the Houthis or Syria. Long term, if Israel's relations with Russia break down, Israel is finished. Sorry but Russia plus Iran plus popular Arab support makes Israel untenable.
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  4263.  @nigelmorley5414  A NATO-Russian war is almost certain to become a nuclear war. If you think that's a good idea, you need to think harder.
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  4264.  @keithapps  That's BS plenty of homicides are out after a couple of years
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  4265. Zelinsky is a slime ball, anyone who thinks he's a saint is a moron.
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  4266. Yes we would there's no difference between Labour and Conservatives on Ukraine and anyway, it's an American project. Britain is just an American satellite at this point, Orwell's Airstrip one
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  4267. Not really seeing how he's a bad man, he decided to sacrifice himself to send a warning to keptocrat CEOs
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  4268. You point it at an area, it assumes any military equipment in that area is enemy.
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  4269. So deluded, the US proxy war against Russia has devastated Europe and you still think Russia is the enemy? Guess you still think it was Russia that destroyed Nordstream2?
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  4270. What's most funny about this is now Leo realises some of these conspiracy theories are actually true
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  4271. Plus all the other many problems.
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  4272. LOL he's a neocon
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  4273. Reality check - why do you need cities on a shipping route? Are there cities all across the Atlantic or Pacific?
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  4274. It's the exact opposite of reality. The BEF was overwhelmingly British but modern Britain exaggerates the tiny contribution of anyone who is not white. Likewise for the First World War.
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  4275. The US is behaving like a terrorist state.
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  4276. No. I'm not an idiot but I'm willing to call Piers Morgan an idiot :)
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  4277. 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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  4278. Russia could easily crush Gerogia, the current Georgian government knows this and realised the 2008 break with Russia was a mistake. It has improved relations with Russia since then. Parts of the Russian federation breaking away is just a Zeihan fantasy, it's not going to happen, certainly not while Putin is alive.
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  4279.  @forbaldo1  Yeah I think the Polish government is on that wavelength too. Most of those refugees are not going back I think. Not to a country which was amongst the poorest and most corrupt in Europe even before the war. The debts and destruction from this war are going to make the 1990s look like the good old days. Already Ukraine's population is down to not much more than half of what it was in Soviet times.
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  4280.  @forbaldo1  Agreed, it's going to make Russia's job easier long term if what's left of Western Ukraine has the smallest population possible. There are lots of Ukrainians here in Britain too, they don't always fit in as well as you'd hope, I think the expectation was that they were going to be like the Poles who are a pretty successful immigrant group. But the cultural differences and expectations of the Ukrainians have been .. different.
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  4281. Errr.... Andrew Bridgen? The guy got ruined, because he refused to stay silent about the government's outrageously incompetent handling of covid.
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  4282.  @rogyn8484  That's all true but there's just so much footage of Ukrainian positions getting demolished by FABS, it's been going on for almost a year I think. Yes the Ukrainians have HIMARS strikes but the Russians land some Iskanders or Kinzhals whenever they find good targets behind the lines. If you discount what Western governments claim and what the Ukrainians claim and what the Russians claim and just go by the preponderance of the footage and the daily commentary by neutral sources like DPA and Military Summary, it takes a huge amount of wishful thinking to believe Ukrainian casualties are higher. Yes I do agree Russian casualties were higher at certain times like probably the first month of the war.
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  4283. Russians hit hotels where Polish mercenaries were stationed, SBU (secret police) head quarters and the electricity grid. Drop the double standards please.
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  4284.  @JohnSmith-gd2fg  Sometimes these missiles miss the target. You don't seriously think the Russians are using valuable missiles to attack playgrounds do you? Are you aware that the Ukrainian army has been deliberately shelling civilians in Donbas? Including showering Donetsk city with anti-personnel mines. It's a fact but most Westerners don't know this.
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  4285.  @bloodgout  Your information is out of date. Jordan has denied the killed Americans were in Jordan. There are several bases close to each other at the intersection of the three borders. The latest information is the Americans killed were in a camp on the Syrian side.
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  4286.  @adoreslaurel  Yes I agree, decades of obviously useless wars and the blatant lies told to start them will do that.
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  4287. Are you talking about Biden or Putin?
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  4288.  @ilovetechnology8436  Georgia invaded South Ossetia. Russia stepped in to help South Ossetia. Bit like USA stepping in to help Kuwait after Iraq invaded Kuwait.
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  4289.  @ilovetechnology8436  Are you going to apply the same logic to Kosovo? Kosovo: most of the local people are ethnically different from the rest of Serbia and were willing to fight to become independent. South Ossetia: most of the local people are ethnically different from the rest of Georgia and are willing to fight to become independent. Kosovo: great power sponsor stepped in to help them. South Ossetia: great power sponsor stepped in to help them. Most of the world doesn't recognise Kosovo as independent either, the only reason the USA does is because it suits the geopolitical agenda. So be aware of the hypocritical double standards when talking about Russia.
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  4290.  @ilovetechnology8436  I agree. The thing is from the Russian perspective, places like Crimea are Russian. Conquored two hundred years ago. Given to Ukraine by Khrushchev as part of his own political manoevering. The people who live there are mainly Russian and have been since the Second World War (the Tartars got deported by Stalin eastwards). Yes, at a moment of weakness after the Soviet Union collapsed, Russia accepted this as Ukrainian territory but after the Maidan coup displaced the democratically elected president, and after a decade of NATO expansion eastwards despite promises this would not happen, Russia reneged on that agreement. As for places like Donetsk and Luhansk, likewise, Novorossiya, the people there are of Russian origin, speak Russian and overwhelmingly consider themselves Russian rather than Ukrainian. Places like Odessa, Kherson and Kharkov, likewise Russian speaking, Russian origin and many are pro-Russian though a decade of Ukrainian propaganda means many, perhaps the majority now consider themselves Ukrainian. It's a bit like places like Alsace - the population could go either way, German origin, German language but lots of French influence too. When Germany controlled the area, the population accepted that. When French controlled the area the population accepted that too - because they're neither completely one or the other, they're a bit of both. As for who rightfully owns the area, that was decided by force of arms. Over and over, in Napoleon's time, in the 1870s war, then in the First World War, most recently in the Second World War. It's going to be same with Crimea and Donetsk and Luhansk and probably other places too. You can call it a land grab or you can call it rightfully reclaiming part of Russia. Which one you call it depends on which side you're on.
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  4291.  @ilovetechnology8436  Do you mean the Tartars? Yeah for sure they were treated badly in Stalin's time. But let's be realistic, the Soviet Union was fighting a war of survival, not just survival of the regime but a war to prevent the genocide of its population. And many of the Tartars were pro-German. It's not really any different from the Americans moving its ethnically Japanese population inland away from the west coast. Nowadays that's regarded as an atrocity too but realistically, much of the ethnically Japanese population were actually loyal to the Japanese homeland.
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  4292.  @ilovetechnology8436  Yes certainly. There's no doubt the Soviet regime was brutal especially in the 1920s. Less so after Stalin. However I don't think it's reasonable to hold the current Russian government responsible for the indisputable atrocities of the 1920s.
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  4293.  @ilovetechnology8436  True, Russia is not blameless. But nor is Ukraine. Political assassinations, executions of soldiers for disobeying orders, deliberate shelling of civilians in Donetsk including with butterfly mines, executions and torture of Russian POWs etc. But most big powerful countries have a lot they should be ashamed of. US wars over the past couple of decades have killed millions of innocent people. Yes, accidents happen in war, some is unavoidable but much of the killing was easily avoidable if there had have been a true desire to minimise civilian casualties. What I object to is the hypocrisy and the double standards.
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  4294.  @ilovetechnology8436  likewise
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  4295. Seriously, this narrative is moronic. Russia trains more engineers than the USA does.. Google it. Even though the Russian population is much smaller. What it doesn't train is thousands of diversity law specialists, critical race theorists or gender studies graduates. That's where Russia is really lacking.
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  4296. Also the Russians want to fight close to their own supply lines. Their supply problems in the first few weeks of the war were immense.
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  4297. A Gypsy fraud gang who has ripped off 50 million aren't exactly "impoverished people" you muppet
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  4298. They had a large air force. The Russians destroyed it.
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  4299. He's been totally wrong about many other aspects of Russia
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  4300.  @christiandauz3742  No Russia isn't using T34 tanks that's just moronic.
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  4301.  @StepDub  For we westerners investing in Russia right now makes no sense because the EU is trying hard to seize Russian state assets and Russian companies are under all kinds of sanctions. Logically the Russian government will most likely take revenge on Western investors. On the other hand, it makes plenty of sense for Russians to invest in Russia given the hostility to Russians in the West now. Which is why so much money has been repatriated by Russian billionaires since the war started.
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  4302.  @Leo-ip9bv  LOL before you spend all your money, spend some time watching neutral channels on how the fighting is going :)
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  4303. Also just significance. Yes it is a government funded think tank. But there are hundreds of such think tanks. And they come up with an endless amount of crap. Only a tiny amount actually turns into government policy.
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  4304. Germany will run out of gas for sure this winter, it will create political and economic chaos. Destroying the pipeline removes the incentive for German politicians to try to reach an accommodation with Russia. Whoever did this wanted to permanently sabotage the possibility of a German-Russian rapprochement. The least likely suspects are the Germans and Russians. All of the Americans, the Poles and the Balts desperately want to keep Germany and Russia divided.
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  4305. Tucker Carlson got the British in the First World War TOTALLY wrong. The British had their wake up moments against the Boers and went into the First World War with a pretty small army for a great power but a very efficient and effective army. There was no British cavalry charge, the British cavalry used horses for mobility but by this time cavalry fought on foot.
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  4306. The USA also backed a coup to replace the democratically elected president with pro-US nationalists who then went on to murder ethnic Russians.
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  4307.  @nicolasolton  Never heard of the Odessa massacre? Dozens killed, nobody ever prosecuted. Google the leaked Nuland Pyatt conversation. Read Ukraine in the Crossfire by a Dutch journalist to see how the US appointed the Ukrainian government.
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  4308.  @TheCriticalSigma  But at what cost?
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  4309.  @jeremyt7722  That still leaves the Russian army with tens of thousands of men with abundant battle experience available to train new recruits. What Russia is doing now is no different to what Ukraine did at the start of the war, except that Russia has millions of men with military experience to choose from. In theory, over twenty million in fact.
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  4310.  @jeremyt7722  I don't really buy that narrative though. Sure there are videos of Russian guys complaining and in all kinds of deprivation but how representative is it? For everything I've seen that puts the Russians in a bad light there are videos of the same for the Ukrainians. But the media never shows the videos of Ukrainian soldiers complaining that they've been dumped with no effective weapons, that their commanders have sent them on a suicide mission or abandoned them or whatever. If you look on Telegram, they're there. But the media just shows the Ukraine good Russia bad material.
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  4311. It's not just the USA it's the entire Western world. Paris nowadays looks like an African slum city. So does Amsterdam. Do do parts of London and Berlin. Brussels and parts of Sweden look Middle Eastern. Sydney and Vancouver look Asian. Even smaller cities are getting taken over by non Western peoples.
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  4312. That's Ukraine for you. The guys doing the fighting are the poorer guys who can't afford the bribes to stay out the military while the rich are partying it up in discos in Lviv, Odessa or in Western Europe. A whole lot of military recruiters just got fired for taking bribes, one of them had made millions over the past year.
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  4313. Yeah and maybe the Ukrainians are bombing Kiev
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  4314. In every country where they live in numbers, Jewish intellectuals, politicians, financiers and media have argued to undermine ethnic homogeneity and argued for mass immigration. This is true in Britain, France and the USA. Collectively, Jewish people disproportionately created the situation we're in now.
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  4315. "Relatively small" - the second biggest country in Europe after Russia itself and the biggest army in NATO after America when the war started.
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  4316. There's plenty of footage of what they're hitting. For example the strikes on Dnipro obviously hit an ammo dump. A few days ago a hotel where mercenaries were staying got hit in Zaporizhye. Both sides are doing the same. Stationing soldiers in schools and hotels, hiding ammo and vehicles in warehouses. Both sides target where they suspect the enemy are hiding stuff.
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  4317.  @CollectiveDefence  LOL no I'm not Russian. I'm actually neutral in this Slavic civil war. But if I were Polish, I wouldn't be siding with the people who committed the Volyn massacre, who worship Stephan Bandera and who paint German style crosses on their Panzers.
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  4318.  @gurglejug627  The Russians are obviously aiming to advance in particular places, we see their attacks. He's right, Russian vehicle losses are pretty high.
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  4319. Ukrainian government claims are worth nothing.
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  4320. Russia will win because it will remove Ukraine's potential to join NATO and threaten Russia's borders and Russia will annex valuable territory populated by millions of Russians. There's not a damn think Ukraine nor NATO can to do stop it.
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  4321.  @jakubklis6797  Germany wanted an alliance with Britain.
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  4322.  @jamesstone9213  YES! Go and check - it's not a secret. Hitler wanted an alliance with Britain. He was very complimentary about the British Empire. It's the Soviet Union he wanted to fight.
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  4323.  @wifiunove1650  You have no evidence for Russian casualties being higher than Ukrainian casualties. Use your common sense. Everybody admits the Russians have the air advantage, artillery advantage, armour advantage and ammunition advantage. Mediazona stopped reporting on Russian deaths in Ukraine but could only find around 50,000 from the whole war.
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  4324.  @blazunlimited  If that were true, somebody would have made a list. Mediazona is the only organisation that made a list. They stopped around 50,000 recently.
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  4325.  @blazunlimited  Those numbers are "estimated". which means nothing. The Russians estimate hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians killed. Also means nothing. Actual identified Russian dead is the only hard information available, nothing else can be taken seriously. Otherwise you're deliberately buying propaganda. Anyway it doesn't matter any muppet can see the Russians have won this war, Ukraine is just taking a long time to die. If you don't believe me borrow as much money as you can and buy property in Kharkov, it's really cheap you';ll make squillions when Ukraine wins.
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  4326.  @Cailus3542  Not really, it's now public knowledge the Russians offered generous terms soon into the war. That was the whole purpose of the attack on Kyiv. They had a deal which Boris Johnson convinced Zelensky to tear up on Biden's behalf.
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  4327. Are you forgetting what the Germans did to Russia?
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  4328.  @josoapification  I don't doubt the casualties are very one sided but there are no reliable sources on casualties. We won't know the real answer for decades to come if ever.
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  4329. According to US intelligence, Saddam Hussein was building WMD which could hit Europe, did you believe that too?
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  4330. He thought he was safe but as soon as he started criticising Joe and Hunter Biden, the SBU arrested him. Coincidence? Unlikely.
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  4331. oh vey oh vey
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  4332. Nah she's just Greek :)
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  4333. If you were out in the open where the enemy is hitting you with FPV drones, you don't want to spend time hesitating.
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  4334. Yeah it's a complete waste of men. It's hard to fortify and support, hard to supply and troop rotations across the river are too dangerous. Even though it's hard for the Russians to actually storm the beachhead, it's impossible for Ukraine to break out of it. It's actually in Russia's advantage to leave this bridgehead in place.
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  4335. Since Russia is now winning decisively, why would Putin want to stop the war before Ukraine is so decisively defeated that so called "security guarantees" whether inside or outside of NATO are anything other than on Russia's terms?
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  4336.  @debater452  Oryx has been audited
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  4337.  @debater452  I presume you're talking about Oryx? From geolocated footage - which is really, really hard work. So mistakes are inevitable. The problem is the sheer proportion of mistakes and huge systematic bias towards inflating Russian losses. Anyway it doesn't matter what you guys believe. the astronomical claims about Russian vehicle losses don't change the reality on the battlefield where the Ukrainian army is getting slowly crushed.
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  4338.  @jasonfuller1001  Comparing the Russian army to Iraq is ridiculous. Russia is the second most powerful military in the world after the USA and it has nuclear weapons. In some areas it has technology which is right up there with the best NATO has (missiles and air defence), Iraqi hardware was a generation behind. Iraq was a much smaller country unable to prevent the USAF from bombing whatever it wanted. A relatively easy victory over a second rate power thirty years ago doesn't mean a war between the two most powerful militaries on earth would be easy.
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  4339.  @MaunoMato99  Eh? The Latvian army doesn't even have tanks, just light combat vehicles. How do you think they can hold off the Russian army for more than a few days?
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  4340.  @debater452  Why would any sane person believe Russia wants to fight NATO?
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  4341.  @MaunoMato99  If tanks are so unimportant, why does Zelensky keep begging for more of them? Ukraine and Russia have built up deep minefields on the front line over more than a year. The Baltics aren't doing that. They could but it'd be extremely expensive and they'd have to evacuate the entire border area.
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  4342. By international law, Kosovo is part of Serbia. .NATO destroyed the convention that European borders are inviolable.
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  4343. I'm highly sceptical that Ukraine is currently losing more men and equipment than Russia. Ukraine is capturing Russian equipment and taking Russian POWs.
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  4344.  @Yankeepride03  Except Putin never said that.
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  4345. There are Christians in Gaza, there's even a church in Gaza. The IDF shot it up and killed two unarmed women standing outside it.
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  4346.  @PamelaProPeace  Hamas still allowed a church in Gaza and the IDF shot up a few weeks ago . Shot at people sheltering inside it, shot dead an unarmed mother and daughter outside it. Look it up.
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  4347. Anyone who thinks Ukraine is winning this war is only listening to one side's propaganda and mistaking it for news.
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  4348. Everything he';s said about Ukraine so far has been 100% bullshit. The Russians are making faster and cheaper advances now than anytime since the first month of the war. Even pro-Ukrainian mappers are showing rapid Russian gains. He quotes the Ukrainian government, nobody who has been following this war seriously takes it as a serious source of truth.
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  4349. Bizarre how this guy thinks the Russians are in a weak position. Across most of the line, they're just sitting back and pouring shells on Ukrainian positions and waiting for the West to collapse economically and lose interest. The Russian army are taking very few casualties. Most of their front line fighting is done by DPR/LPR and Wagner mercenaries, the regular Russian army just gets rotated in and out, building up combat experience. The Russian population is solidly behind the war. The Russian economy hasn't collapsed like most Western leaders and media predicted it would, it's actually holding up better than European economies. The Ukrainian economy in contrast is on life support and won't survive the winter even if the Russians don't try to advance. The Ukrainians have just launched their first serious attack in weeks. All we know so far is they took heavy losses and captured a few villages. Impressive given their paucity of armour, artillery and air support but let's get real. The Russians have a huge air mobile reserve accumulated over the past couple of weeks. If the Russians really do feel themselves under pressure, it's available to plug any gaps. I'll personally be immensely surprised if the Ukrainians reach the outskirts of Kherson much less capture Kherson. More likely the Russians will wait for the Ukrainians to overcommit and burn their reserves before launching a major counter attack. This is the German spring offensive in 1918. The Ukrainians will capture some strategically unimportant territory but at high casualties to themselves of the best of their army. The effort will leave them vulnerable to a Russian counter strike which is likely to be sooner rather than later.
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  4350. The Russian army asked for permission to target Zelensky when he visited Kherson, they weren't allowed to. The Russian government doesn't want him dead.
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  4351. Not from day 1, the first few days of the war, the Russian army rules of engagement were to shoot only in response to being shot at.
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  4352.  @Scapestoat  North Korea has the largest stock of 152mm ammunition in the world. So that's not literally inexhaustible but it's going to last for long enough. Russia's own production has massively expanded since the start of the war, a new source of ammunition just buys time for Russia to expand capacity even further. As for the New Atlas Channel. you don't have to believe everything he claims, it doesn't matter. The point is he rigorously analyses NATO munition supplies to Ukraine and finds its been gradually dropping off over months.
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  4353. 95% of the people killed were killed by the Israelis, who are the terrorists again?
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  4354. There's a lot of footage of destroyed Ukrainian columns in this salient.
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  4355. What's really delusional about all your talk about how Russia needs to back down is that Russia is winning. Decisively winning. Even in an imaginary world where Ukraine could really threaten Crimea, Russia would use nuclear weapons before losing Crimea. It cares about Crimea that much. Ukraine can't win this.
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  4356.  @okeydokey3120  There's no scenario where Russia will withdraw from Donetsk and Luhansk. Outside of the Western media echo chamber, Russia is winning and they know it.
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  4357. I saw the video of the booby trap on the door of the basement containing civilians but it looks staged to me. Both sides are pumping out propaganda and lies. We generally can't tell what's true.
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  4358.  @daviddavidson1417  All I'm saying is that in his first term he appointed a lot of swamp monsters like Bill Barr and some of them stabbed him in the back. This time round he's being more careful.
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  4359. False claim that we know "Hamas weaponised rape". Zero evidence whatsoever. There's hard evidence that a single baby was killed on October 7th. Many of the hysterical claims made on the first day have been discredited. Meanwhile back in Gaza, the IDF has literally killed over 20,000 civilians and destroyed most of the houses in Gaza. This is genocide. Read South Africa's well documented charges against the Israeli government.
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  4360. Probably just war of attrition. Things will gradually get worse for Ukraine but they've still got enough resources to make large Russian advances too expensive and that's not likely to change soon. Nothing in this war happens quickly. Having said that, Ukraine can't keep doing this year after year. Especially if Trump wins the election and pulls the plug.
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  4361. "Luftwhaff" Guess someone never spent even five minutes learning German :P
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  4362. LOL cope. If you believe these kind of claims about Russian casualties you have to explain why the Ukrainians haven't taken Moscow yet.
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  4363. That English speakers have started calling Russians orcs just demonstrates the immense propaganda in the media about this war.
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  4364. The biggest threat to democracy in Europe is European leaders cancelling elections, banning political parties and squashing freedom of speech. Looking at you Germany, Britain and Romania. And in Ukraine you've got all three at once.
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  4365. This isn't about South Africa and yes a lot of people have been murdered there. The point is Israel has deliberately murdered tens of thousands of innocent people in Palestine, not just Gaza but the West Bank too. They've deliberately destroyed hospitals and housing for hundreds of thousands of people, they've deliberately destroyed water supplies . They've openly said they want to expel the population. You don't have to be pro-Islam or pro Hamas (and I'm neither) to admit his is outrageous behaviour.
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  4366. The US conned the Ukrainians into destroying themselves fighting Russia when Ukraine had a generous agreement ready to sign. Anyone who trusts the Americans hasn't looked at history - South Vietnam, Afghanistan, the Kurds just some US clients who were sacrificed.
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  4367. Imagine this had been England flag waving football supporters, there's 0% chance they would have been acquitted.
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  4368. Relentlessly pushing Ukraine towards NATO is what started this war in the first place. If you want to fight Russia, go and join the Ukrainian army, they're getting short of manpower now but don't drag the rest of us into WWIII.
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  4369. Russia won't use tactical nukes because they don't want to escalate and F16s aren't a serious threat. Russia might use tactical nukes if Crimea were seriously in danger - which is looking pretty implausible.
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  4370. LOL what a pathetic cringe. The Irish have been fighting each other more recently than the British. You have to go back hundreds of years to find real oppression by Britain, to Cromwell's time. Every country can find grievances if you go back hundreds of years. It's 2023. Time to grow up mate.
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  4371. No, Russia will be rebuilding the east which they've annexed, the rest of it won't get rebuilt, it'll just get exploited by companies like Black Rock and left impoverished. Most educated young people will just leave. The US will probably try to settle millions of Palestinians there to facilitate Israel's land grab.
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  4372.  @urbanarmory  That's now how the rest of the world sees it. The war on Serbia and the war on Iraq for example were started on blatant lies. US soldiers are still in Syria even though the Syrian government doesn't want them there and the UN states this is breaking international law. When Kosovo was taken from Serbia at the end of the 1999 war, Yeltsin warned this was creating a dangerous precedent, in 2023, Putin used exactly the same justification to take the four oblasts from Ukraine.
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  4373. Most frequently used word in this video - "fucking"
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  4374. There were only a few pals battalions. Most guys just joined their local regiment and got sent to different battalions. And often they wouldn't be joining their local regiment they'd for whatever reason (family tradition, whim, convenience etc.) join some other regiment.
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  4375.  @philliptemple9841  No couple of days ago. That's the thing. The media only reports bad news for the Russians. If you reply on the media or an echo chamber you have a very misleading picture about what's going on. The whole narrative that Ukrainians are destroying Russian ammo depots only - it just doesn't make sense. Russian air defence is pretty good, Ukrainian air defence just isn't - not any more. And Russia has an obvious advantage in long range missiles. Yes the Ukrainians occasionally get big wins. But so do the Russians. How many thousands of tons of Ukrainian ammo got blown up in the Odessa docks? We'll never know. Kramatorsk explosion. We'll never know.
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  4376. But quite similar languages. Also, many people in India do speak Urdu it's one of the country's major languages.
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  4377. Biggest battle of the Ukraine war has been raging the past few days and Fox News doesn't mention it at all.
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  4378.  @bastiaanblom8503  What are the names of these returned POWs? Where is the evidence?
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  4379.  @bastiaanblom8503  Yeah and there's no evidence. Don't be so damn gullible
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  4380. They'll be based in Poland and fly into Ukraine every now and then to make a show.
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  4381.  @agh0x01  At least some of the Ukrainian planes are based in Poland. They land in Ukraine to refuel before making a sortie near the front lines. Manned Ukrainian aircraft are no longer a significant factor in the fighting.
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  4382.  @agh0x01  How would you know where they fly from? How do you think satellite images would show you where they're based? They're not going to be parked beside a runway with a big Ukrainian flag.
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  4383.  @delta7554  No, Challengers are the same as Russian tanks, they have their ammo inside the tank. And this particular tank popped its turret just like Russian tanks.
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  4384. Brainwahsed more than brainless
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  4385. Because it's a real war and both sides have artillery. Removing the dead makes the living unnecessary targets.
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  4386. The war has swung in Ukraine's favour recently because Russia lacks infantry. How can adding hundreds of thousands of infantry not swing the war back in Russia's favour?
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  4387.  @anderspuck  Is there evidence of a significant decline of Russian artillery capability? The third Ukrainian attack on Liman has just been repulsed with heavy losses. Even the Ukrainians admit their attacks on the Kherson front have resulted in heavy losses and little territory has been gained. The Ukrainian advance near Kharkov was successful because the Russian line was only lightly screened, in some places, only by Roskvadia. Along much of the front, the Russians have only one line of defence. Their telegram channels deplore lack of infantry, not lack of artillery.
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  4388.  @anderspuck  Let's revisit in a few weeks when these Russian reinforcements have been deployed.
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  4389. Yeah hot nutritious food is a sure defence against modern artillery.
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  4390.  @peabase  Sure... but that's the middle of winter ... in Finland. Hot nutritious food is going to be a decisive in Ukraine. In more normal conditions, an army can fight on rations packs for months and without any food at all for a few days at least.
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  4391. Macron is not the EU.. He has always played his own game. Look at his recent trip to China. He was given a warm welcome whereas the EU representative was ignored completely.
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  4392. These clowns simultaneously want to argue the Russian military is incompetent and also if we don't ship Zelensky billions, the Russian military is going to stomp all over Europe. It's propaganda for thick people.
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  4393.  @findstephen70  By the end of life, that's pulled in a huge chunk of the population. How much do you think houses cost nowadays? When inheritance tax was first introduced it was to target the richest sliver of society, fiscal drag now pulls in normal people.
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  4394. @Vivacomunismo By the time they retire, yes. Because that's around the cost of an average house. The median net worth of people over 65 is well over half a million. Look it up. If you're surprised, it might be because you live in a poorer part of the country but in the SE, about one in six people are millionaires and that includes all ages. For pensioners it's much higher of course. Doesn't necessarily mean people are cash rich of course. Most of this wealth is tied up in overpriced houses.
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  4395. What policies? Encouraging foreign immigration so Scotland becomes like Bradford or Oldham?
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  4396. The Duran are more right than wrong but they are blatantly biased in favour of Russia. They both make implausible excuses for any Russian setbacks and dismiss Ukrainian achievements and this has happened throughout the war. So be as careful with them as with any other source. Having said that they;'re still right that Ukraine will lose :)
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  4397. "No military sense whatsoever" - so far, the fighting around Kherson has resulted in Ukrainian casualties several times higher than Russian casualties. One Ukrainian officer estimated five to one. Which isn't too surprising given Russia still has the air and firepower advantage and the Ukrainians are attacking across open terrain. Does Dom Nicholls not actually know this? If he does, why not report it, nobody can seriously argue it's not important.
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  4398.  @DS9TREK  Depends on the situation and terrain. If the attackers can suppress the defenders and the defenders are routed then no, the attackers might suffer light casualties and the defenders might suffer badly. But this isn't the case around Kherson. The Russians have superior firepower, the Ukrainians are attack across open country and with a deficiency in armour. So purely from an attrition viewpoint it makes excellent sense for the Russians to stay there. And later on, they'll probably use it as a springboard to drive westwards. But no, these Telegraph guys can't just admit that, there's always some snide comment implying the Russian commanders don't know what they're doing.
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  4399.  @UserNameInvalidated  Dom Nicholls claims it makes no sense for the Russians to remain in Kherson. Which is just ridiculous to anyone who knows anything about it. From a strictly military perspective (disregarding the propaganda requirements), it makes little sense for Ukraine to attack in this area. They can't succeed, it's too late now Russia has mobilised and will soon be strong enough to go over to the attack, well it appears this has already happened. The area is too open, it doesn't play to the temporary superiority in infantry. Ukraine is just wasting its best manpower in useless attacks which can no longer achieve enough to justify the cost.
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  4400.  @gordonclifton2694  No hard information about casualties anywhere. Leaked documents suggest Ukraine was near 200,000 casualties months ago. And a Ukrainian officer fighting near Kherson was complaining that they were losing five men for each Russian casualty. Video evidence of endless destroyed Ukrainian vehicles suggests that looks plausible.
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  4401. The likes of Time doesn't report anything the US deep state doesn't want reported. The fact they dumped on Zelensky indicates the Americans want him replaced. Question is, whom with? The only real alternative is Zaluzhny and he's the scapegoat guy for Nordstream.
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  4402. Right so 20 FAB strikes per day on Ukrainian positions, entire apartment blocks being demolished, hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers killed by drones, artillery and remote mines as they pulled out too late over open ground (we've seen the footage) but Russian casualties were 20 times Ukrainian casualties... tell you something, just a few days ago when the Russians took over Avdivka, they said the whole town stunk of thousands of decomposing bodies. A lot of those bodies are buried under hundreds of tons of rubble. It'll be years before they're pulled out.
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  4403. Sure. Start WW3 because of some unsubstantiated accusations.
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  4404. Zeihan doesn't care about the lives of non Israeli Middle Easterners.
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  4405. ​ @APW554  Ukraine is now mobilising women, disabled men including with epilepsy and special needs guys. Money and military aid isn't going to prevent defeat. As for the 300 billion frozen funds, steal that and the West loses all credibility as somewhere to invest money. It can't be exaggerated how huge the damage would be.
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  4406.  @stargazer-elite  US Secretary of State James Baker promised in a public speech NATO would not expand eastwards. Everyone knows this. You're attempting to rewrite history.
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  4407. The UK government obviously regards the public as expendable, look at how they're so busy replacing us with immigrants.
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  4408.  @daemontargaryen5614  The Overton window has changed radically to the left. Few people twenty years ago would imagine now we're having arguments about what the definition of a Woman is. Go back not much further and the idea that we should import millions of people who are never going to pay their way and are likely to outbreed us would have been regarded as insane by normal people..
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  4409. LOL you listen to too much media propaganda. Russia is in a better shape than the West. If any country collapses, it's Ukraine, followed by Germany.
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  4410.  @_0______00__________0_______0  Why do you think Russia wants more mobilisation? They're already getting plenty of volunteers.
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  4411. "show courage" is school playground talk. So Russia sinks a ship. What's NATO going to do then? Start WWIII? This war ends in one of there ways. Either Russia takes over all of Ukraine or it ends with a negotiated peace or it ends with civilisation being wiped out in a nuclear war - together with billions of people including almost everyone in Britain. Obviously the best outcome for everyone is a negotiated peace.
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  4412.  @forthfarean  That's irrelevant. You would never argue the 1940s Germans never committed genocide just because their target populations were later able to replenish their numbers would you? Look up the UN definition of genocide. The Israelis have committed massacres at various times. Read Benny Morris and Ilan Pappe, both Israeli historians. The fact is in this conflict, there are murderous genocidal people on both sides so be very careful before you take a side at all.
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  4413.  @kevinkanter2537  What's funny is you guys call out all the Russian propaganda - deservedly - but lap up the Ukrainian propaganda which is equally ridiculous as anything coming out of the Russian MOD briefings.
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  4414.  @kevinkanter2537  There are lots of good neutral sources - on youtube, - Military Summary, Weeb Union, Theti Mapping, Defense Politics Asia, History Legends.
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  4415.  @d93atomic  NATO the "defensive alliance" that attacked Serbia, Libya, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan? Or NATO, the "defensive alliance" that expanded eastwards into ex Soviet Union territory despite promising the Russians it would not when the Russians still had soldiers in Germany?
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  4416.  @d93atomic  So you're saying that a "US alliance" composed of as you admit mainly NATO members means NATO has no responsibility or involvement. How ridiculous do you think that looks to the rest of the world? You write "to my knowledge it kept it's territorial and self-determination's integrity". That suggests your knowledge is very limited. Have you never heard of Kosovo? In 1999 NATO attacked Serbia on a humanitarian pretext to detach a pro-NATO province, violating Serbia's territorial integrity then recognised the province as an independent country. Yeltsin warned against this precedent a the time and was ignored. Later, Russia attacks Ukraine to detach some pro-Russian provinces, violating Ukraine's territorial integrity then recognised the provinces as independent country. You can say it's right you can say it's wrong but what you can't say is NATO is a defensive alliances and you can't say Russia is doing anything in Ukraine which NATO didn't do first in Serbia. Or better to say, you can but if you do, you're demonstrating blatant and illogical hypocrisy.
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  4417.  @LizardSpork  Multiple instances of senior NATO politicians and military men including US secretary of state James Baker promising Russia NATO would not expand eastward, google James Baker "not one step eastward".
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  4418.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  Serbia was not "genociding" (sic) Bosnia, the Serbian state had nothing to do with what the Bosnian Serbs were doing. The Western media conflated the Serbian state with ethnic Serbs from Bosnia and the left hand of the bell curve like yourself fell for it. The pretext given was "ethnic cleansing" of Kosovan Albanians based on fabricated and exaggerated evidence. By the same logic, Russia could attack Ukraine to prevent Ukraine's war of "genocide" against the Donbas. In neither case was there a UN mandate.
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  4419.  @LizardSpork  Not for me to decide whether Russia was justified or not in attacking Ukraine but they had way more justification than NATO''s attack on Serbia. NATO didn't annex Serbia and there's zero evidence Russia wants to annex all of Ukraine. But NATO did seize part of Serbia by force - exactly what you accuse Russia of doing to Ukraine. To this day, there are NATO bases in Kosovo and NATO forces stationed there. I really don't get how you can't see how strong the analogy is. What's more, NATO did this first and at the time Yeltsin warned it was creating a dangerous precedent. Everything Russia did since has been a response to NATO's aggressive expansion. This blatant hypocrisy is why 90% of the rest of the world - China, India, Brazil, Indonesia, Iran, the Arab world, most of Africa - look at the Ukraine war and have sympathy for the Russian position despite that superficially Russia is the aggressor.
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  4420.  @d93atomic  You're wrong about important facts which invalidate your arguments. Start with "strong evidence of a mass genocide going on that country" Mass genocide going on in Serbia. What is that "strong evidence".? There is plenty of evidence there was a genocide in Bosnia. There were thousands of people murdered - by all factions, of all factions. We know what happened, who did it, who the victims were. There's nothing comparable in Kosovo, not before NATO bombing commenced. You shouldn't be surprised by this, we had the same kind of media fabrications with both the Iraq wars. Do you remember the media telling us Iraqi soldiers were turning off incubators in a maternity hospital? Where are those WMD the second war was started to destroy? The actual ethnic cleansing was after the war when the NATO sponsored ethnic Kosovans killed, intimidated and expelled almost all the remaining ethnic Serbs. When NATO bombed Serbia, NATO aircraft attacked civilian targets including a television tower, the Chinese embassy and a passenger train. Deliberately targeting a television tower was officially a war crime but NATO dismissed this because it was "broadcasting propaganda". Compare to Ukraine - since the US sponsored (and funded) Maidan coup violently deposed the democratically elected president, Ukrainian nationalists and the SBU murdered hundreds of people including over 50 in the Odessa fire from which nobody was ever prosecuted despite hundreds of witnesses. The SBU abducted, tortured and murdered people. The Ukrainian army has been shelling what it claims are its own people since 2014 including showering Donetsk city with petal mines, mines which have little military utility but main adults and kill children. Ukrainian politicians openly talked about exterminating Russians. Even the Western media was alarmed at genocidal extreme nationalism in Ukraine. If Russia wanted to make a propaganda case for a humanitarian intervention, it had a lot of material to work with.
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  4421.  @LizardSpork  The end result is a permanent (ie. more than 20 years) NATO military occupation of part of Serbian sovereign territory. US and other NATO countries now recognise Kosovo as an independent country and Kosovo is on the path to join NATO. You want to argue that's not annexing territory like Russia annexed Crimea but the result is the same. Recognising the seized territory as independent as an intermediate step towards actually annexing it is exactly what Russia did in Ukraine. Russia recognised DPR and LPR as independent but accepted their joining the Russian federation as a result of popular referenda in those territories. The differences are insignificant and immaterial. Yes - hypocrisy is the most appropriate word for people with your position. And everyone outside of the West can see it.
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  4422.  @LizardSpork  Yes of course context matters. If the democratically elected president and legal government of Ukraine had not been ousted in a violent Western sponsored and funded coup by radical nationalists then Russia would never have retaken Crimea. RETAKEN Crimea because Crimea was Russian before it was given away by a Soviet bureaucrat. As for Kosovo, no the UN did not sanction that war, nor did it sanction the second war on Iraq, that's all NATO countries especially the USA and Tony Blair's Britain just acting like imperial aggressors because they thought they could get away with it. Again you just demonstrate your blatant hypocrisy.
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  4423. "NATO has already been a defensive alliance" - which has expanded eastwards despite assurances it would not. Was it defensive when NATO aircraft bombed Belgrade? Including a civilian TV tower and a railway bridge killing over a hundred in a passenger train. Like Iraq, the NATO attack on Serbia was a war founded on lies.
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  4424. Yes the police are totally useless nowadays
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  4425.  @antique-bs8bb  It's far from a stalemate, Russia is winning. It's slowly taking territory and while the Ukrainians grow weaker, the Russians grow stronger. You can deny it now, you won't be able to deny it by the end of the winter.
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  4426. Russia recognised Lithuania's independence in return for guarantees of transit rights. Remove the transit rights, remove the legal obligation for Russia to recognise Lithuania's independence. If you think the USA wants a nuclear war with Russia for the sake of Lithuania's right to provoke the Russians then you must be the kind of person who believed Biden's claim the Afghan army could defeat the Taleban a few days before the Taleban took over Kabul.
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  4427. I'm sceptical of this claim I don't know of any battles where this happened.
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