Comments by "Marc Joly" (@emjizone) on "Jake Broe" channel.

  1. 17:29 Soledar is not just a village surrounded by farmland. It's also a salt mine with extended underground network that can be used to store ammunitions with zero risk of destruction by artillery, and it's also the place of a railroad to Bakhmut. So don't take it as non-strategical.
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  2. 2:08 I didn't realize that Belarus was so sparsely populated compared to its neighbors. It puts things in perspective. It helps a little to understand how such a small number of gangsters managed to impose their will on the Belarussians, and also their fears.
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  3. 3:57 They were put on "pause" by Ukrainian forces. The day after the Ukrainian forces finally retreated and let them take Lyssychansk in order to avoid many more casualties on their side, Vladi Putin congratulated the Russian forces on their rapid advance and immediately said that he demanded similar rapid results in the Donetsk People's Republic. However, exactly where the Ukrainians said they would organize a new line of defense, they are stopped. This is clearly not the will of Putin, who has no interest at all in prolonging this scabrous political situation and absolutely no interest in waiting for the ukrainian forces to get stronger and get even more weapons. But this stabilization of the front line is not a pause in the sense of a cease-fire: the bombing continues. Very short failed attemps to control more lands are visible on this dynamical map. A small advance followed by a small retreat is not a pause.
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  4. 7:28 Such a large fuel fire on a train certainly means that the train is now welded to the track by the high temperature. It is very difficult to use a crane inside a tunnel. This means they will have to cut the wreck into small pieces to get it out of the tunnel. So expect repairs to be slow or extremely costly. And the funniest part is that this extra effort does not guarantee that explosions and fires will not happen again with the next shipment.
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  5. 15:27 I don't know if this is the case everywhere in the world, but these numerous videos of places left in a terrible mess by Russian soldiers are disturbingly strange for French people like me. In France, being it true or not, we tend to think of the army as a reference for discipline, which is expressed, among other things, by the art of keeping a place clean and very organized. Please, people of the world, let me know if you have a similar image of the manners of your country's armed forces or not.
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  6. 18:51 I think I like these people very much. They take a lot of initiative. They know what they want and they know why. They don't just talk: they act together. That's the kind of people I'd like to live among! Although present, I'd like to see this good spirit more often in my country too, and all around the world. This is how life is made acceptable. I thank them for giving humanity this good example of responsibility and dignity. They should be proud. It's not just a gift to themselves, but a gift to us all. Glory to the sane and caring.
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  7. It doesn't seem a very fair trade. The menace is global. The cost of managing it should be distributed.
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  8. 14:52 Russia has had tens of millions of opportunities to "make" the peace that would exist by default anyways, starting with not attacking anyone, for example, or not despoiling anyone, or not imposing acts of war on others completely unilaterally when everyone expected to trade with manners and live normally. Every second that goes by without apologizing for the attacks and not stopping deadly operations on foreign territories or not trying to de-occupied illegally occupied territories is another missed opportunity for Russia to start making peace , without having to "negotiate" anything! It's not on real victims to "negotiate" the right to stop being victims, duh. It's not even a question of trust or conditions to be negotiated for some kind of peace in the future, it's not about "making" up peace out of nothing like if it was something new, no: peace already exist; peace is already here, in the present, hardly surviving under Russia's boots. If Russia genuinely wanted peace today, it would not be making extreme special efforts to trample and destroy it at this very moment, paying to make sure more people die, paying to make sure more people are injured or upset, paying to make sure more are forced to live under rules they don't want. Starting to "make" peace would be as simple as stoping working on its systematic destruction, as simple as doing… nothing ! for a change. You don't have negotiate "nothing" to do it, right ?
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  9. 15:13 This about using bikes to light bulbs in december is a game ! They started to do it in my town about ten years ago during a internationally famous "light feast", as both art and ecologist activism, bringing tourists even from Asia. This date is also a commemoration where people from all over the city put candles on their windows to thank the Virgin Mary for having spared the city from an epidemic a long time ago, and of course they voluntarily turn off the lights at home so that it looks better. I bet that if I send the pictures of this joyful night to a Russian TV, they will explain that we are doing this because our nuclear power plants don't work anymore and we are afraid to freeze to death. 🤣 Yes evolution of energy prices mean we are going to waste less. It's not like we are going to live less. The bad news is this good attitude is not going to compensate for the ecological impact of the war in term of atmospheric CO2.
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  10. It's not that they aren't advancing. It's that those who advance never come back.😐
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  11. "Putin declares that Russia is invincible": Oh shit! He did it! That's a game changer, right? What we gonna do about that? 😂
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  12. 1:28 This chart suggest that the best way for Russia to not lose this war is to not do it. Sound legit.
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  13. 3:05 I may be wrong, but I bet that in my country an engineer who designed a railroad to be built on a simple stone embankment so close to the sea would never keep his job for more than a week or two, and then would be blacklisted for insulting the rules of the art. In any case, the company would be sued if the construction project went ahead, before the line is even open. Or is it that the railroad is very, very old, and the sea has been moving toward it for a century?
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  14. 11:10 She dares to speak of "unwanted" children, even for those whose biological and legal parents beg to see them, and even in cases where Russian forces have killed their loving parents. If hells exist, it's for people like that.
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  15. 1:24 In return, let's wish Belarus to become independent one day too. :)
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  16. 17:16 No... the Rhineland was indeed very German and its occupation by French forces after World War I had nothing to do with the creation of a new sovereign state by the will of its inhabitants. You can't compare it with Czechoslovakia or Poland. 18:11 Not everything. Not the exact same thing. But yes, extremely similar. Same kind of political line, same kind of goals, very similar methods.
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  17. January 2024: He's dead. You're not. Natural selection strikes again.
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  18. 12:30 Don't be amazed by the reaction of the Poles. Take a look at their history. They learned better than many what it is like to be invaded, occupied, politically deprived of existence, erased from the maps, massively killed or deported by strangers, forced by strangers to remain poor when they knew how to get rich, to suffer several kinds of foreign cruel dictatorships for more than a generation and still remain Polish. They can understand Ukrainian so well. Plus, russian medias explicitely say they are next if Ukraine falls. The campaign against Ukraine is outright presented as a preliminary step against them! So of course they take it personnally and consider this war is their, too! What would you do, personally, in order to survive ? Don't be amazed: you'd do the same.
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  19. 1:14 Yeah, another intriguing example of "good will" from Russia, not destroying weapons that destroy russian forces in Ukraine. I also remember a month earliers some french military experts saying that they won't be surprised if the russian forces manage to destroy a few CAESAr systems per month, too, despite of the high mobility of such weapon, but all those 18 mobile canons work fine days and nights since then. Ukrainian forces sure demonstrate that they know how to use the provided weapons and don't waste them. According to russian officials and journalists, Russia already destroyed more Bayraktar TB2 drones than ever built, so why not saying they already destroyed those HIMARS systems in the future (if not in their dreams)?
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  20. 1:25 This is not what I heard from the experts The opinion was that the Ukrainians would fight bravely, but would be defeated in many places by the supposedly more organized and much better equipped Russian war machine. I think that the experts believed : - that the Russian military equipment was ready and improved according to the official announcements and propaganda. - that all Russian troops would be well trained and equipped, not only the elite troops. - that all forces participating in this Russian operation would be given clear objectives and doctrines, that they would know what they are doing in Ukraine, would not be surprised, and that they would have high morale. I suppose these experts believed this because their training prevents them from imagining preparing and launching a military operation otherwise. According to them, if Russia attacked, it necessarily implied that it was actually ready to attack, seriously. The surprise that Russia was not really ready for the operation it was conducting was immense; a real shock. It seemed too nut to be true. The experts probably also underestimated the expertise and training of the best Ukrainian troops. But not their morale. In any case the intense resistance efforts of the Ukrainians were expected, even in case of loss of the central command, as their interest in anti-vehicle defensive weapons was noticed the year before. The kind of weapons that do not allow to assault enemy positions at all, but are perfect for ambushes against invaders. So they had already perceived the danger and were already mentally prepared to resist if necessary. And it is quite consistent with their political choices of the previous years. It was quite obvious that, for them, the invasion started in 2014 and they were already opposed to it.
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  21. When a top general dies and nothing changes on the front in consequence, what was this top general worth?
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  22. Military operations in Eastern Europe are getting more special every day.
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  23. 12:40 Bodyguard ? This about actors stress the fact that Putin's world is in fact very small. They are only a little circle of people doing it all. A small gang among Russians. Yet 142 million Russians don't stop them, and many even worship them quite blindly, like if they had magical powers.
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  24. 15:00 These debates are lunar. One really have to be out of his mind to go looking for such irrelevant arguments. There is no point in debating the past existence of Ukraine in the current situation. Even if we could manage, by feats of intellectual contortion, to prove that everything Ukrainian is Russian, it remains undeniable that today millions of people, the vast majority of the inhabitants of a large country, want today Ukraine to exist today and to be independent from Russia *today*, and this is in no way a threat for the Russians. If in doubt, instead of bringing clowns on a TV set, just ask them. Even assuming that every Ukrainian is Russian, the vast majority of them still do not want to be part of Russia and want to have their own state. Well, that is their right ! The right to political self-determination is a human right, and the tendency of human beings to fight for their human rights is ignored only by the worst fools. And even if the will and the rights of the people who call themselves Ukrainians were to be debated, one would have to be seriously mentally ill to imagine that they would suddenly want to call themselves Russian by being harmed by those who call themselves Russian. This whole circus is therefore vain from a philosophical, cognitive and even operational point of view. Soon, these serious nutjobs will have to explain how it is possible for something that doesn't exist to defend itself, and why it is so important to fight at the risk of one's life for the destruction of what doesn't exist. Ask the doctors: this is the manifestation of a serious psychiatric disorder.
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  25. 18:03 Wow... this winter they advanced a few kilometers everywhere there is nothing, taking care to bypass the most strategic places.
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  26. Better Lassie than It , right?
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  27. 6:31 That exception is not random at all. They received exceptional treatment because they attacked several foreign countries and because their expansionist and destructive policies posed a very special kind of threat to many others. Other similar cases in previous wars should be noted. It's almost a rule of how human society works.
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  28. 0:16 "Tanksgiving Day" 😂 Oh, gosh... that's nervous laugh.
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  29. 1:36 "Decimated" in latin language: 10% are killed. "Decimated" in Jake's language about Russia: 10% survive.
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  30. 27:16 This is insane. At this rate, Russia won't have to shoot its own planes with missiles anymore to make them fall out of the sky.
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  31. 7:59 This guy dares to write "I've seen enough." ! Well, OBVIOUSLY NOT! Too much bullshit in his eyes. Too much pseudo-Christian vomit in his hears. Too much money on his heart. This overprotected, spoiled product of the liar's factory clearly hasn't seen enough of the real world! If he were taken right now and thrown out of a plane right between the Ukrainian and Russian lines, without any support, counting only on himself, forced to deal with reality, maybe he would start to see the fruits of his labor. Now he has no idea. He is a robot following a given script. He hasn't felt anything yet.
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  32. 10:15 T-34 : The tank the Collective West never ever prepared for ! 😲😅
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  33. 22:32 No, helicopters are too slow to drop diagonally to avoid the flames and smoke, can't carry enough extinguishing fluid and are too vulnerable to turbulence caused by the column of hot gases. What they need is several firefighting planes like the CL-215 , Dash-8 Q400 or Tracker S-2FT and enough talented pilots with special training for that to maintain the pressure on fire 24h/24, and a also enough experts to organise such operation , manage such special air traffic and synchronise it with people on the ground, ensure supplies and legal consequences, etc. Nothing Russia couldn't afford if it didn't waste away feeding its mafia and waging conquest wars abroad.
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  34. 6:59 They'll be in the memories forever.
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  35. 18:37 ...the only way for Russia to get bigger... while having no fucking reason to want to get bigger! Russian already has much more ressources per inhabitant to become the richest country in the world, if it wasn't wasting it in internal and external wars.
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  36. 12:00 @JakeBroe, Let me translate french for you 卢沙野, ambassador of China in France, talking on LCI TV: "These countries, ex-Soviet Union, they do not have... they do not have hum… how to say… an effective status in international law." French television reports the following reactions: - The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs publish: "We have learned with dismay about the words of the Chinese ambassador in France concerning the borders of the countries that became independent after the fall of the Soviet Union." - Edgars Rinkēvičs, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia, says: "The remarks of the Chinese ambassador in France concerning international law and the sovereignty of nations are totally unacceptable. We expect explanations from the Chinese side and a complete retraction of this statement." - Gabrielius Landsbergis, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania: "If anyone is still wondering why the Baltic States do not trust China to negotiate peace in Ukraine, here is a Chinese ambassador saying that Crimea is Russian and that the borders of our countries have no legal basis." - French Ministry of Foreign Affairs declare solidarity with the ex-USSR countries and remind that the annexion of Crimea by Russia in 2014 is illegal with regard to international law. - Several people and associations are asking 卢沙野 to retract his statement. My personal point of view: Clearly, 卢沙野 was not comfortable with the pronunciation of this sentence. However, it is not clear whether he was concerned with the predictable reactions or was struggling with french vocabulary. Listening to this sentence alone, one can think that he meant that the rights of these countries are not fully enforced at the moment (and this is true since Russia does not respect them), without any clue about intentions regarding these rights (whether they should be respected or not according to China). In context, however, various statements by diplomats, as well as murders on foreign soil and in international waters and effective annexations of foreign territory (undeclared acts of war), make it very clear that China has no regard for international rights or human rights except when they can benefit its government or reputation.
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  37. 11:55 Yeah, well… England once belonged to the Roman empire, Poland once belonged to the French empire, Ukraine once belonged to the Viking empire, and Russia belonged to the Mongol empire, etc. So, who's next ? 😆 In case some haven't noticed yet, "once" doesn't mean "twice".
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  38. 9:53 The second (and not required) military power in Ukraine.
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  39. Trajectory of the Russian army: 2014: second army in the World 2022: second army in Ukraine 2024: second army in Russia
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  40. 6:57 Time to annonce a few fake supplies to Ukraine between real ones, to see if Russia annonce their immediate destruction. "We plan to deliver a few F-16 to Ukraine" ——> "Las F-16 in the world destroyed" "We plan to deliver McMillan TAC-50 riffles to Ukraine" ——> "All TAC-50 riffles destroyed by high-precision strikes" "We plan to deliver five pink elephants and one tactical dancing mouse to Ukraine" ——> "twenny-six pink elephants and a whole convoy of tactical dancing mice destroyed in a single strike." 🤣 Don't laugh too much yet, 'cause at this point I start to believe it could work.
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  41. 2:15 Plus the psychological effect. Imagine you are ordered to return to work on this base and you see little square holes everywhere, including on the seat you are supposed to take and work on all day, and you understand that those little holes could be in your body, that there is nowhere to escape on this field when it strikes, and that strikes can happen anytime. It's not like if you bravely died in combat, like a viking, no. It's just you have to work inside a giant unpredictable grinder. Not very motivating.
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  42. Note 1: I'm not just talking about cleaning (for hygiene reasons) and tidying (for logistical efficiency reasons), which one would imagine are neglected in cases of discouragement, deep fatigue, intense stress, lack of resources, lack of training, lack of preparation, or lack of supervision. I'm also talking about the design choices, the "decorative arts" and the degradation that we see in some occupied homes and buildings. The filthy inscriptions on the doors or walls, the excrement in surprising places, the open bottles of alcohol, the broken furniture, etc... It seems to me that this is not just negligence or failing, but the expression of a self-destructive tendency. Not having the courage to clean up, or the loss of faith in the strict rules whose reasons have remained obscure, or the reality of war, so be it! I definitely understand it can happen. What I don't understand is what seems to me to be an extra effort to break or mess up places unnecessarily. Especially if "we're here forever". I myself am extremely messy and careless, so tolerate clutter, but I'm not trying to intoxicate myself or make my surroundings uglier and less convenient. That would finish me even without enemies. Note 2: Thanks to anyone adding more original point of views. It's nice to have veterans' point of view, as I have absolutely no experience of this. Historical points are also very valuable. But don't be ashamed to give civilian and novice points of view too, especially from many diverses places in the world, because I find the lores and common beliefs around that as interesting as the historical facts. It helps me understand better what people stand for or hide from.
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  43. 16:41 Even worse than leaving Russia: they could talk! Combattants coming back alive to Russia would bring with them the truth about what is actually going on in Ukraine. The criminal regime cannot allow that.
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  44. All the Russians Z-ists will achieve by cultivating such hatred on a global scale is to take the place of the Nazis as default anonymous antagonists in video games. In the end, that's the only thing this kind of morbid delirium can lead to.
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  45. 9:57 It's amazing how much his body endures his soul without managing to reject it, without crying for a more decent one. It must be torture.
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  46. 9:00 According to oral testimonies recorded in Ukraine, this is not only said on Russian television. Some Ukrainians were held captive and tortured to make them confess where "the Americans" were. Of course, they had no idea. Living in a small village, they had never seen any of them, not even a tourist or a passing journalist. It was almost impossible for their torturers to believe them: they had been sent here specifically to neutralize American agents and armed troops in significant numbers. Similarly, on an intercepted phone call, most of the Russian soldiers seem to understand that they are fighting Ukrainians, but some of the gunners still believe that they are fighting NATO. They can't believe that the "khokhol" (as they say) can be so effective in combat and able to use high-tech weapons on their own, believing them to be subhuman morons who do not deserve respect. They don't seem to realize that Ukraine is in fact a very competent nation in many fields, and believe them only capable of traditional agriculture of the last century, songs, dances and fierce acts. Obviously, they have only ever traveled in clichés fabricated to flatter their egos by contrast, so much so that they can't even respect them as enemies. I guess they do not even take seriously the role of Ukrainians in "their" great patriotic war.
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  47. 5:07 "Cancel culture" for trying to cancel a super-deadly territorial conquest and the bombing of cities. ;D The survival instinct is so secondary for him that he considers it a cultural phenomenon ;D And again the neo-colonial delusion: as if he himself had no personal interest in ordering the plunder of Ukraine! As if he was not the colonial invader in this story, forcing people to change their nationality. It's so grotesque that grotesque must be the point!
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  48. 12:46 Mr. Prigo regretting "good old times" when his task was to racket and kill defenseless, unarmed villagers in remote places.
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  49. I hope we can still sue real people for what they are doing.
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  50. 24:04 Since most people lack imagination or experience, and since faces convey much more empathy than machines, scars and wounds are sometimes more distressing to some than seeing vehicles explode with people in it, or even to see a man falling in the mud. I have noticed that the Russian media take special care never to show damaged faces of a Russian soldiers. But statistically, wow...*there must be a lot of them.* I think that a photo album of physically injured Russian soldiers would bring many crazy Z-ists and silly candidates back to the reality of what it means to attack another country, what it means to trust someone like В.В.Пу́тин, much more efficiently than a number of deceased.
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