Comments by "John Adam" (@johnadam2885) on "Alexander Mercouris" channel.

  1. It took days for the western media and weeks for the Ukrainians to accept Soledar was taken. Western and Ukrainian reaction to the fall of Bakhmut will be like that also.
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  2. Indeed, the price cap is a harebrained scheme - born out of western desperation and false pride.
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  3. Western media were saying Russia's capture of Bakhmut was a Phyrric victory. Now we are told that Ukraine is trying to get it back.
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  4.  @16252  Unfortunately the Donbas is not Russian... Ukraine's borders of 1991 are arbitrary and there is nothing sacrosanct or holy about it. Crimea, Donbass, Odessa were built and settled by Russia during Catherine the Great's time. These areas were attached by Russia to Ukraine during the formation of the Soviet Union. Sovereignty does not give one the right to invite and give bases to a distant nuclear power, to threaten a neighbour. Ukraine played this wicked game and therefore Russia has cancelled its independence.
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  5.  @WolfUkr  Well BBC and other western media do say sometimes that the cemeteries in Ukraine are overflowing since the offensive started. Must be a reason.
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  6.  @billrand4138  'quite right,,and its pointless tactically now anyway' Then the Ukranians should withdraw from Bakhmut and let it be incorporated into the Russian Federation. Let the Russians move to the next staging post that is tactically pointless for Ukraine to hold.
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  7.  @freemanreed5228 Was it the Russians or the Ukro Nazis who got evicted from Bakhmut ?
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  8. MoD Admits Ukr Offensive Standstill - I heard that was due to growth of weeds, another deceitful Russian tactic.
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  9. The British are singularly crafty in making neighbours fight, and in inciting regime change operations, while claiming lofty morals and values. They did that in India and all their colonies. They pretend disinterest but are after wealth. They have a duplicity in their character. However, the game they played for centuries does not work with present day Russia. The British take pride that they were leading the escalation, they were the first to give tanks forcing the Germans and the US to give tanks, the first to give Storm Shadow missiles etc. But none of that changed the situation on the battlefield. 'but are then only to be found sitting at the head of the table when the spoils are to be shared'. In the present case, there are no spoils in Ukraine to share amongst the west. Further, the Russians will negotiate with the US, and they will not allow Britain to be present. There will be no more agreements like Budapest Memorandum where the British will be co-signatories. The British were selected as co-signatories earlier because they were among the winning allies in WW 2. But now they are seen as untrustworthy warmongers and nothing more, so nobody will invite them.
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  10. A watched a video on the Havana syndrome, Americans being attacked by Chinese and Russians with microwave guns. Did not believe it for one moment !
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  11. Zelensky to Starmer - gimme those Storm Shadows without restrictions ! Starmer - I wanted to but Biden is not allowing. Zelensky - but you have special relationship, and you are Churchill, you should be able to persuade Biden. Starmer - the Houthis struck a British tanker, and I am afraid more will be struck, and I would not know what to do if Biden does not fight for me. I too am a dependent of the US like you.
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  12. You are entirely right on titanium and Russian metallurgy. I have met people from Boeing who told me they bought titanium from the Soviet Union and and buys now from Russia.
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  13. Actually, the learning point for Russia (and other countries) is to not to use private groups outside the Russian army. Russia should remember its Soviet glory days when there was only one Red Army that took out the German Nazis. Russia should only use the Russian army to take out the Bandera army. The Wagner should not be sent to Africa.
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  14. I can believe that Russia did not intent to end Ukraine as a state. All Russia asked Ukraine was for neutrality and staying away from an anti-Russian military alliance. Ukraine had promised that in their Declaration of Independence. However, circumstances - Ukraine's misbehaviour and intransigence based on western goading - might de facto end Ukraine. The Ukraine of 1991 is already ended. Russia will certainly take crucial areas of Ukraine, and the rest will be turned into a wasteland, and the west will walk away from it when new politicians come. Putin has also ended the western 'world order' - for good. Only Russia could do this.
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  15. If Gutterez is forced to resign, then that will prove the toxic control of world bodies by the Jews. The Jews cannot behave like this and complain about rising anti-semitism.
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  16. There is no way Biden will make such a commitment to strike Russia when he is a lame duck President. It would be committing the US to fight a direct war with Russia. Long ago, Kissinger said the US would not fight a nuclear war against the Soviet Union to save Germany. That still stands. Why would the US get its cities incinerated for Ukraine ? It have the choice to hand over its failed project to the Europeans and walk away.
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  17.  @litlnote-wu6yv  Moscow has taken most of Donbass, its have killed off much of he Ukrainian army, so that Ukraine's main sponsor wants to withdraw support. That is as good as won for Moscow. Ukraine is left with the choice of ceding land and accepting it cannot be in NATO.
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  18. Israel, like Ukraine, is a lost cause for the west. It is all part of the end of the western world order.
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  19. The latest in western standard media like Sky is that it is too early to say that Ukraine cannot win, and that Ukraine's strategy is two stage, first is probing for weaknesses, and then after finding that, to launch the big offensive for which the Ukranians have saved 9 brigades and a huge amount of weapons.
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  20.  @chrisbarnett6999  Which serious media ? If you mean Western media, they report the govt. view, and the Ukranian view. There is no debate with Russians.
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  21. Correct, especially if the manufactured arms are supplied free to Ukraine. The armament company makes money from the US govt's order, but whose money is the US govt. giving away ? It will be that of the public.
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  22. The problem is not that Macron and Scholz have no credibility for negotiations, the problem is Macron and Scholz would need US permission for any negotiations. All the Europeans including France, Germany and UK are subordinates of the US. They imagine it is friendship and shared values with the US, so they are 'willing subordinates', but the fact is, they are subordinates, so they cannot defy the master.
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  23. The American belief that the Russian economy will collapse like a house of cards is similar to what the Nazis thought about the Soviet Union. The Nazis also thought German technology was supreme and Russians would be fighting with bows and arrows. The Europeans and Americans still think the same way now. They are victims of their own echo box propaganda. Indeed, the west thought the Russian economy would fold in weeks due to their sanctions, crowds will come on the street, Putin will be overthrown, and the Americans would get a Zelensky type they could control in Moscow, and sanctions could be lifted. But Sir Putin is a judo black belt, he deftly threw the western economy onto the floor ! In fact, he has single handedly ended the western 'rules based order'. He is de-industrialising Europe and has taken steps to accelerate the decline of the dollar.
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  24.  @tomgnyc  'a lot of european countries have also lost their self confidence and independence and just kowtow to the US.' In fact, all of them without exception are door mats of the US.
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  25.  @JoeStrange709 'Genesis 16:12 He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.' That sums up the Jews. They are at war with everyone they live with. That was the case when they were in Europe, that is the case after they moved to Palestine. They are in a permanent war.
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  26. The neocons and Zionists are in control of the west.
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  27. Sean Bell on Sky TV was boasting how the Challenger saved the lives of the crew, and the tank is not destroyed, it can be repaired ! And further he scores a point that Russia lost 2000 tanks, and Ukraine says they have only lost 6 tanks !
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  28. I agree, the US may tell the British to use their Storm Shadows on condition that the US will not have responsibility afterwards. Then Britain will find itself on a limb when the Russians strike British assets as promised. I admired Keir Starmer for the way he handled the riots in Britain, with quick sentencing and control of law and order. But on the Ukraine issue, Starmer is making a fool of himself - just like Macron.
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  29. The Daily Telegraph jubilantly declared a month ago that Ukrainian forces crossed the Dnieper and seized some islands and this was the start of the counter offensive. It said this was a bridgehead to assault the Crimea. This story disappeared without trace soon after.
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  30.  @andrew30m  So Ukraine should surrender Bahkhmut and leave. It will be simpler for them.
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  31.  @mv69969  They may hide the Challengers ! Leopards are not coming out anymore.
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  32.  @JonWilde2105  'I guess they're going to have to make an update to qualify that claim .' They will now say the Challenger has never been knocked out except when fighting Russia, but the crew survived.
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  33.  @rankoorovic7904  After seeing the fate of the Leopards and Challengers, the Americans will delay sending the Abrams. The British were the first to send tanks and they forced the unwilling Germans and Americans. After that the British kept a back seat, and told the Germans to send their tanks. After seeing the outcome, they did not send the Challengers to the front. But eventually the Ukranians ran out and had to field the Challengers. The British reputation is in tatters like the Germans.
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  34.  @kazab873  Never underestimate British military intelligence either - Russia is reduced to fighting in Bakhmut with shovels.
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  35. Article 5 does not commit anyone to war. It says, an attack on one is an attack on all; but each nation may take its course up to and including war. There is no commitment that all members have to agree to fight a war. That is the escape clause for the US.
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  36. Then what is all this about Zelensky going to Biden to present his victory plan ?
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  37. It is correct the Americans are brought up to believe in escalation. They believe they are the sole superpower. Till the dollar is eroded, that will continue.
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  38. The reason people in the west do not know about the degradation of Ukraine's fighting ability is because the western media projects Russian casualties without giving what Ukranians have lost. Then naturally, the simplistic conclusion is Ukraine has no casualties and is winning.
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  39. Zelensky can have refuge in a safe place, Israel. That is where his mentor Kolomovsky is hiding.
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  40. The US should send its troops to Ukraine to show the correctness of the advice it is giving. As for the Ukro-British ties, there are as many streets named after BoJo as Bandera. Will those withstand the betrayal ?
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  41.  @andrew30m  Well, the Ukrainians are good fighters, they are like the Russians, they are from the same DNA. But Mercouris was absolutely correct that Russia would take Bakhmut and most importantly, he explained its significance. He was not dodgy like the western media which started saying Bakhmut was of no military and strategic significance.
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  42.  @andrew30m  If Bakhmut is not significant, why did Ukraine allow its forces to get slaughtered there to defend it, and why is it trying to take it back ?
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  43. I see no news in the standard western media about Russia's adavances in Donbass. Instead, the picture is that there is no movement for 6 weeks and Russia has lost steam due to Kherson offensive. But there is not much about the Kherson offensive. There was some exultation about the bombing of the Antonovski Bridge, but little now.
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  44. Bloody cheek asking Russia to give up Bakhmut, Mariopol, Lyschansk, Severodonestk, Avdeevka....in return for recognition of Crimea as Russian and allowing Ukraine into NATO. Russia should not pick up the phone and listen to these jokers, continue with Chasov Yar, Kharkhov and Odessa.
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  45.  @Pangora2  When the westerners wanted to underplay the Red Army's success, they said the Soviets could produce inferior weapons but in great numbers. Stalin retorted 'numbers' is also a quality. At the end of the war, Germans produced a super tank, but few of them. The Soviets even knocked some of them out by running into them, knowing the Germans could not make new ones and bring them to the front in time. The Ukranians find they cannot get the superior weapons to the frontline fast enough when the Russians knock them out. The Russian weapons work in the battlefield with low maintenance. The Kalashinkov rifle is an example of that.
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  46. The Ukranians also have similar tenacity. They are the same or similar people. They were called Little Russians.
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  47. Russia and China are the only two countries that have said the solution is the implementation of the Two State Solution. If any western leaders says it, they will be shouted down and told this is not the time to say it. So when is the time to say it ? A solution cannot come from the west as they think Israel is part of the west. A solution can only come by pressure from Russia and China.
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  48. The Ukranians and the west say Bakhmut is no longer important, they don't why Russia is so much after it, or they say Russia is after Bakhmut to prove it is not losing.
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  49. According to The Guardian, the Ukrainians have taken Robotinye and punctured the first line of defence. Typically, they interview some Ukranian soldier and report that as fact. The Ukranian soldier told the Guardian the Ukranians did manual demining at night and created a corridor for advance. There was a lot of self praise, and he said the Russians could not believe Ukraine could do it. All this is natural for a Ukrainian. He said now that a corridor has been demined, the advance was straightforward because the 2nd and 3rd Russians lines are poorly defended. We don't know, but that is the assertion of the Ukranian soldier reported by the Guardian as fact. Once the corridor is demined, the Guardian makes out that it is straightfoward for the Ukrainian armoured vehicles to advance without opposition. The expectation is the Russians will crumble and surrender. This kind of hopeful reports of breaching the line and impending Ukranian advance has been going on in the western media, but I still see no lightning move towards the Sea of Azov. Expectation and hope does not seem to match the actuality. On Sky News, I saw self-contradictory propaganda by Sean Bell. He was reporting on the Abrams tanks. He also said that Ukranians were clearing the minefields manually and advancing, and then the Abrams will be invaluable in leading the charge to the Sea of Azov. But he said 10 Abrams will arrive mid Sept. and another 21 at the end of the year. So at present Ukraine's efforts to breach the lines is purely by infantry, and the armoured tanks will appear later from behind to lead the charge ! Firstly, by the time those Abrams come on the scene, the Russians will massacre the Ukrainian infantry. Secondly, the Russians may destroy the Abrams from the air when they arrive.
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  50. Agree, Russia has all the strong cards. Ukraine was foolish to allow Ukro Nazis and indulge in Russophobia, thinking it will bring NATO acceptance. Ukraine is losing its industrial heartland, it has lost the coastal areas, and Russia can strangle its economy. If Ukraine wants to survive with what remains, it has to go back to neutrality, give up on NATO, and the Nazi elements need to be taken out. Playing the anti-Russian card to get western support is not going to work. Otherwise, Ukraine is going to lose more. Of course, having backed Ukro Nazis, this is a humiliating loss for the west. But as the commentator says, it is best for the west to cut its losses now as it will become worse later.
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