Comments by "foil hat" (@foilhat1138) on "Zelenskyy says Ukraine's army wants to mobilize as many as 500,000 troops | DW News" video.

So when in September 2022 when Russia mobilized 300k men that's because they took 300k loses right?
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@linkmeforfun Vietnam is a good example of how you can win almost every battle and still lose the war. The US occupied Afghanistan in a few weeks. The Taliban spent 20 years hiding in caves. Russia got smoked so hard in Afghanistan their whole country collapsed.
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Is that why Russian generals Popov and Selivyorstov were both fired after complaining about lack of troop rotation? Why are several new videos released every week by Russians on the front complaining about no troop rotation? Why is there a new protest movement of Russian wives and mothers starting in Russia complaining their husbands and sons aren't being rotated?
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@SergioK111 All western countries have taken combined zero casualties. Russia's lost half its army and cant even take Avdiivka.
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@azuaraikrezeul1677 uh, no they haven't.
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@davidlloyd2583 Ukraine has the advantage in accurate/effective fire. There's also defenders advantage. So everything you typed is complete nonsense.
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So OP they still cant even take the Donbas.
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@privatebandana Russia has been recruiting 20-40k personnel a month.
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@davidlloyd2583 An overwhelming majority of what Russia fires aren't guided munitions. You can go look yourself at satellite images to see the difference. On the Russian frontline Ukrainian fire will be concentrated along the roads and Russian positions. On the Ukrainian side Russian fire will be spread randomly all over the place.
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@@slavamoi So when in September 2022 when Russia mobilized 300k men that's because they took 300k loses right?
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@armanicharles5336 I've alreay responded to you before but i'll say again, Russia hsa been recruiting around 20-40k a month. This doesn't include penal battalions and human trafficing operations to bring in forces from Cuba and Nepal etc.
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@supermanhun Yeah and in WW1 the Russian army mutinied and the entire country fell apart.
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@kaiserschlacht5398 Russia cant even take Avdiivka bud, its time to face reality.
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@brandonlance3601 Photographic evidence for one. Plus thats just how defenders advantage works.
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Ukraine adopted a policy of recruiting older men in the early days of the war to spare the younger generation. They were very pubic with this policy. There are still millions of military aged men in Ukraine.
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@АртемАртем-л4э What about the other 20-40k troops added per month by Russia? Do the math bud.
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Russia doesn't have the logistical wherewithal to supply the men in the field it's got.
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@ЕкатеринаАнатольевна-л8у I'm just going by photographic evidence. Russia has lost around 14,000 armored vehicles so far.
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@cjchris8317 Putin said in 2014 he could ltake all of Ukraine in 2 weeks. the 3 day narrative was all over Russian state media, they dont say anything withut the approval of the Kremlin. Or do you really think WW1 style attrition warfare was the plan all along?
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@davidlloyd2583 Grads make up a tiny percentage of total unguided artillery fired. Its clear you have no idea what you are talking about, you should quit before you embarrass yourself further.
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@RAIDENCHEEKS 18,266 towed artillery and 6,443 SPG. Thats just howitzers, not including mortars. Regular artillery ammunition is also much cheaper to produce.
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@davidlloyd2583 If you're looking for something to read here's some excerpts from a Forbes article titled: Russia Has More Artillery Than Ukraine. But Russian Gunners Have A Bad Habit Of Shelling ... Nothing. Russian army still has more artillery and rocket-launchers than the Ukrainian army has. But Russian gunners have a bad habit of shelling ... nothing. Or worse, shelling friendly troops. On paper, the Russian army possesses one of the world’s best artillery fire-control systems. In practice, poorly trained and undisciplined Russian gunners following rigid, outdated doctrine are wasting Russia’s artillery advantage. Firing a lot of shells and rockets without necessarily hitting anything. One panicky December phone call from a Russian draftee, fighting somewhere in eastern Ukraine, tells the story of Russia’s failing fire-support system. After describing Russian battalions shipping home daily “packages” of 17 dead draftees, the unhappy soldier blames Russian gunners for Russian casualties. “Ours have fd us up,” he says in his intercepted call. “Entered incorrect adjustment data. Fd up everything we have, our own guys.”
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@davidlloyd2583 "The Russians have run into a lot of problems. They've got command-and-control issues, logistics issues. They've got morale issues, leadership issues and a wide variety of other issues.” Failures of command result in a lot of wasted shells and rockets and all-too-frequent friendly-fire incidents. Even when artillery is hitting nothing or, worse, hitting allied positions, the gunners just keep blasting away. There’s a “near-absence of reversionary courses of action” in the Russian fire-control system, analysts Mykhaylo Zabrodskyi, Jack Watling, Oleksandr Danylyuk and Nick Reynolds explained in a study for the Royal United Services Institute in London. What that means is, in Russian doctrine, brigades, battalions and batteries tend to freeze up in the absence of detailed instructions from higher command. While awaiting fresh orders, lower units just keep doing what they already were doing. Even when it doesn’t make sense. Even when the current course of action is killing friendly troops. “This approach has probably had the greatest impact in creating a gap between potential and actual capability as regards Russian fires,” Zabrodskyi, Watling, Danylyuk and Reynolds wrote. Russian gunners simply don’t think for themselves. “All reported contacts are treated as true. All fire missions appear to be given equal priority and are prosecuted in the order in which they are received unless an order to prioritize a specific mission comes from higher authority.” “It seems that those directing fire missions either do not have access to contextual information or are indifferent to it,” the analysts added. Ukrainian gunners shoot, correct their aim, shoot again—and entirely change up their schemes of fire when those schemes aren’t working. Russian gunners, on the other hand, tend to blast away at the wrong coordinates while awaiting new orders from division. Orders that might never come.
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@Дмитрий-с8е5ы Yeah been hearing that for 2 years now, how long is that supposed to take? Let me guess, 3 days.
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@linkmeforfun The objective wasn't to occupy Afghanistan until the end of time, if after 20 years the ANA wasnt able to fight for itself it never would. The only reason it was brought up is some unaware Russian fans fail to realize that Russia received such a thrashing in Afghanistan their entire empire collapsed.
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@giganerd6780 There were two Iraq wars, the first time Iraq had the 4th largest army on Earth.
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@linkmeforfun the objective was to take out Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. Which were successful. Those were all political goals. Militarily Afghanistan was a success, they occupied them for 20 years. Russia cant even get to the occupation stage.
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@ElvisDmello Nobody is reporting their losses at all, Ukraine or Russia. Defenders advantage is a thing that exists though. We've all seen the footage of Russia's attempts at Avdiivka. Columns of single file armored vehicles being destroyed and human wave infantry assaults being wiped out by cluster munitions.
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@alexbukovsky4621 Russia went with cup in hand to North Korea to bend the knee and beg for ammunition.
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@JustAvoidNothinghere huh?
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@JustAvoidNothinghere What are the LPR and DPR going to tell me? That Russia, despite nine years of backstopping an insurrection and two years of total war still cant take all of the Donbas? I already know that.
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62% is extremely high for a democracy. Its only in dictatorships where 'popularity' rates are over 80%. In autocratic Russia Putin has a supposed approval rating over 90%. Of course if you disapprove you find yourself taking a swan dive out of a window or eating a polonium salad.
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@bonnie7898 He's a conspiracy theorist, he posts this nonsense all over the place. Next he'll be talking about how bigfoot came down from his UFO to kidnap Ukrainian toddlers to the front to serve their illuminati overlords.
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@lovyrituraj The US has no peers.
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@armanicharles5336 Russia's been mobilizing between 20-40k Russians a month, mobilization never ended. And last I heard Russia had more or less stripped the Finish border of all force to send to Ukraine. They've also been emptying out Kaliningrad and the Baltic border. this is because Russia doesn't actually think NATO is a threat to them they just like using them as an excuse. They also need everythign they can get in Ukraine. And no Ukrainian goon squads aren't roaming the streets kidnapping women and children. Watch something other than RT.
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@gen.aladeenhandsome3101 You live in an absolute fantasy world bud.
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@privateer9181 How much more population did Russia have than afghanistan when they lost there? Chechnya had a population of like 3 million and they bet the Russians.
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@WaqasAfzali-ls5yi Russia is a conscription based army bud...
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@WaqasAfzali-ls5yi Conscription is stated in their constitution. Do you really have no idea what you are talking about?
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@WaqasAfzali-ls5yi As of 2021, all male citizens in Russia aged 18–27 are subject to conscription for 1 year of active duty military service in the armed forces, but the precise number of conscripts for each of the recruitment campaigns, which are usually held twice annually, is prescribed by particular Presidential Decree. In July 2023, the Russian State Duma has passed legislation to raise the maximum age for military conscription to 30. Get a clue bud.
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@АртемАртем-л4э Is that why Russian generals Popov and Selivyorstov were both fired after complaining about lack of troop rotation? Why are several new videos released every week by Russians on the front complaining about no troop rotation? Why is there a new protest movement of Russian wives and mothers starting in Russia complaining their husbands and sons aren't being rotated? You guys live in an absolute fantasy world.
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@fahadahaf There were two Chechen wars genius.
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@ЕкатеринаАнатольевна-л8у "Only Russia knows how many it's lost.. The same for Ukraine." Proceeds to make baseless assertions regarding casualties. All we can go by is photographic evidence, which seems to indicate Russia is taking around 3.5-4 times the losses as Ukraine.
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@J-Hump94 Though I guess Ukraine captured a dirt pile by Horlivka, maybe thats how the war will go from now on, trading dirt piles back and forth.
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