Comments by "Boarface Swinejaw" (@boarfaceswinejaw4516) on "William Spaniel" channel.

i keep saying this. war isnt about successes, but creating the conditions for successes, which is especially important when facing off against a larger overwhelming foe. Ukraine has failed to make major landgrabs, but they have resisted one of the fiercest invasions and mobilizations yet, and inflicted insane casualties on russian forces.
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except we already know Hungary wouldn't lift a finger against russia.
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the problem is that israel relies entirely on being reactive rather than pro-active. as long as the far right government of israel relies on political support from settlers, aka the ones responsible for provoking the palestinians, war is inevitable.
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as much as i'd like to blame CIA or some NATO organization, as that would be a strategy that sounds like part of their MO. However, there is a lot of reasons why they wouldnt do it. -if exposed, would sour relations immensely between the US, CIA or whatever and their allies. wouldnt be worth it. -Its likely closely guarded by the parties most closely related to it, namely germany and russia, thus further risk of being exposed. -The gas has already been shut off, so it would be immensely foolish to do it. The argument for why Russia would have done it makes a lot more sense, as Russia not only has a history of petty attacks, but causing a gas leak right into the sea, fucking up aquatic life and forcing the EU to spend time and money fixing the pipe or at least sealing it, sounds exactly like something they would do. a scorched earth strategy that is as shortsighted as it is backwards has been the russian MO since the middle-ages.
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the problem with the "its illogical" approach to the topic is that it assumes Maduro and his administration percieves reality the same way we do.
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@black10872 the last american president, and the rest of his party, are the reason why Ukraine isnt recieving the support it needs.
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based on footage from the war, and the amount of manpower losses russia suffers with its disastrious long sieges on deeply held defensive positions, i'd argue that it doesnt preserve manpower. in fact, if the amount of footage of russian troops without sufficient vehicle support is anything to go by, as well as the frequent clown-car tactics using apcs and tanks (where they regularly have more than twice the amount of passengers on them), russia's slow advance can be partially chalked up to a lack of sufficient vehicles.
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@JL-tm3rc Ukraine absolutely humiliated the Russian navy despite lacking a navy themselves. This war is absurd, because Russia is an absurdly shitty military. Russia should have been able to steamroll Ukraine five times over, instead they struggled for months to take places like Bakhmit and avdiivka, suffering insane casualties.
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@lethalchocobo1886 are we just gonna ignore how russia invade chechyna and got its ass kicked the first time around? hell, even ukraine was vastly less prepared and well armed to the point where russia could annex crimea in a month.
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@anthonygallegos3269 He visisted grocery stores in the capital, where all the wealth of russia flows.
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Wagner isnt mostly conscripts. they did use conscripts as cannon fodder but backed up by well armed and well trained elite soldiers, often recruited from the upper echelons of the russian military.
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If you want to weaken russia, you must weaken Iran. If you want to weaken Iran, you must weaken russia. if you want to weaken china, you must weaken Iran and Russia. it seems pretty obvious, but not to partisan political hacks in congress it seems.
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@martinseptimryden7272 even sweden's neutrality has always been built up on the knowledge that the invaders will come from the east.
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@MJGMJGMJG "Orban is realistic, he sees where all of this is going and doesnt follow the crowd" If orban was realistic he would have realized that he has turned Hungary into a pariah-state in both NATO and the EU, and were it not for the war creating a crisis he can exploit, all attention would be turned to hungary. when this war is over Hungary will be lucky if its still a part of the EU or NATO.
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@stonedaurelius6496 "by some data". Russia has approximately 12k t72 tanks from their soviet-era stockpile, so the idea that they've lost close to a 2-3 thousand is far from unrealistic. Yes, ukraine has understated losses, but Russian losses arent overstated, because odds are the number of russian dead is way higher than conservative estimates. Russia lacks proper med-evac and their strategy on the battlefield has time and time again been extremely manpower intensive leading to immense casualties. not helped that wounded and scattered russian infantry get hunted down by ukrainian drones.
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@williamcrawford7621 Its almost as if there is a reason why all the countries that had been invaded by russia at one point or another decided to join an alliance to avoid being invaded by russia ever again. Finland and sweden tried to be neutral, tried to be friendly, but then russia invaded ukraine and threatened northern europe with nuclear annihiliation. Russia made its bed, and now russia will die in it.
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@silverkobo "they had no issue getting stuff in", nor did they have an issue launching an all out assault on the most fortified country in the middle-east. israel got comfortable, and thats how they managed to smuggle in weapons. also, telling the palestinians to just "stop firing rockets" doesnt work until israel tells its settlers to stop expanding over palestinian land.
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@mrman2415 So recruitment officers being attacked in Russia was just a hoax then? The prison conscripts?
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@darkultra this is especially important. pro-russian people can claim all they want that "only 30k russians have died" or some insane number like that, but when prigozhin himself, the (now dead) commander of the once most efficient wing of the russian military, the wagner PMC, literally rebukes every bit of russian propaganda, its hard to say "nah, false, westoid lies".
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@yellowtunes2756 prigozhin himself literally said that russia has lost over 120k men. when the (now dead) former leader of russia's most efficient military wing literally states that russia has lost more men, lets face it, reality is turning against russia.
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@JL-tm3rc the US was way more successful in afghanistan than the entire soviet union was, despite the soviet union having a way larger presence and expending far more resources. also, how does it feel knowing that Vietnam is opting for a closer relationship with the US than BRICS?
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@yellowtunes2756 holy shit, this is the biggest pile of bullshit i've seen all week. i think you should check out what Mediazone ACTUALLY said regarding casualties, because from their estimates the casualties are anywhere from 60-80 thousand dead russians, and thats based entirely on records and death certificates. also, why do you fuckers rely so heavily on mediazone, a news organization that is russian, as your one source of information as if it superior to every other media source in the world?
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@sharpe3698 except we know from attacks on recruitment offices, the wagner mutiny and prigozhin's refuting of often spouted russian propaganda (prigozhin claiming that over 120k russian soldiers have died in the war which is at least 4 times more than what russian sources state) that this is not going well for russia. Even in a heavily secretive police state we see enough to know that things are not going well. and the real problem isn't that russia doesnt have enough people to potentially endlessly recruit more conscripts, its that Russia is running out of well-trained personel. the fact that russian tanks being blown up kills the crew most of the time is a major deficit to its armed forces, whilst western made tanks are made explicitely to protect the crew inside ensuring that ukrainian tank drivers can survive long enough to become hardened and experienced. russia is using finite resources in an unsustainable manner, and without major overhauls to how the russian military functions at its core russia cannot hope to win. Hell, Russia arguablly can never win, because the stated goal of the invasion of ukraine was annexation which russia has utterly failed with.
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@yellowtunes2756 this is some hardcore vatnik coping. Are we really supposed to believe that the russian military, which since the 18th century has practiced human-wave tactics, are the ones who fight in a reserved and sustainable manner? this is so cartoonishly on the nose self-projection it isnt even funny anymore. Prigozhin himself, the now dead commander of Wagner pmc aka the same guys who took bakhmut in the first place, has literally admitted that Russia has been bullshitting about their minimal casualties. the literal reason wagner mutinied is because Russia is using their soldiers like cannon-fodder and refusing to supply their men on the front.
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@yellowtunes2756 Prigozhin could have said anything, so what? Prigozhin and his men fought and bled for russia for over a year, undersupplied and abandoned, and frequently having their victories and achivements stolen by other officers and generals. Prigozhin is the only person in Russia who was close to the ground to see what was happening and powerful enough to talk back against putin and the MOD without fear of immediate lethal reprecussions. And there is a reason why Prigozhin made it almost entirely unchallenged all the way to rostov, being almost treated to a parade when he arrived there. There is a reason why Wagner was one of the most if not THE most efficient wing of the russian forces and thats because Prigozhin, at his worst, was realistic about strengths and weaknesses of his own forces and of the enemy. of course you can argue about Mediazones data, what the fuck are you even on about. Mediazone is russian, meaning that it has stakes in the war, and its anti-putin, meaning that it has a bias. regardless whether you agree with them or not, they are not a staunchly reliable source. and even then, their numbers are constantly misappropriated and misunderstood. a lot of vatniks say that only "37k russian soldiers have died so far", despite the fact that Mediazone has expressed that those are just the numbers of death certificates they've verified, and that the real number is likely 2 or 3 times as high. but if you want to trust a country that was actively throwing people in jail for calling the invasion of ukraine a "war" then go ahead.
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@matthewmiller8297 Thats a straight up lie, and you know it. If they lack any real respect, love or care for their own infrastructure and military, why would they give a rats ass about Ukrainian civilian infrastructure? And that's without mentioning the mines planted on wheat and grain fields, which also counts as infrastructure. Unless of course you're gonna spin some tale about how the Ukrainian government is actively self sabotaging and blaming it on Russia, as if that level of 8th dimensional level chess is even mildly plausible.
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@robobrain10000 You can be incompetent and still powerful. One thing I am beyond certain Russia does have quality control on is subterfuge and secret operations. No big guns, no tanks, no expensive maintenance. Just a culture of control, ruthless meritocracy, secrecy and the occassional bit of direct weaponry. There is a reason why Russian spies can murder oligarchs in London, yet struggle to assassinate zelensky.
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having watched a lot of, quite frankly, horrifying combat footage showing russia's advances, the main reason i think russia advances, but very slowly, is because of a lack of sufficient combat-ready tanks and APCs. a russian BTR can fit upwards of 10, maybe 12 people. yet there is a ton of footage of russian BTRs and Tanks rolling all on their own, without support, toward ukrainian lines. When they hit a landmine or get stopped by artillery, upwards of 20-30 men depart from the heavily crowded vehicle, including men sitting ontop of the vehicle (many of them get eviscerated by the artillery). one of two things will happen at this point. A: Ukrainian artillery and drones will neutralize each of the 20-30 men B: because of a lack of artillery, most of the 20-30 men make it to nearby forests and abandoned trenches in deadman's land, making it no longer deadman's land. Russia repeats this clown war strategy where individual vehicles carry way more soldiers than they should until they manage to put enough pressure on a ukrainian position to push through. if two clown-cars worth of russian soldiers manage to fill a trench, now you got a pretty solid bunch of men to push a underdefended ukrainian line from.
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for the same reason Orban blocked the EU from providing financial support to Ukraine until the EU promised to give Hungary a slice of the pie. Orban doesnt care about the EU, NATO, europe, democracy, or even really Hungary. Orban cares about Orban, and to hell with everyone else. neither Turkey nor Hungary care about sweden joining NATO. all they care about is extorting their alliances for maximum benefit.
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@MemeManiaYT the CV90 literally was introduced in 1994. new ones are produced but they are heavily modified and improved. the ones sent to ukraine are likely older models. likewise, when finland bought CV90s back in 2008 the price for each one was estimated around 3 million euros. i have no fucking clue where you got the "10 million dollars" from, but it was probably a vatnik so drunk on vodka he somehow forgot that there are about a gazillion different leopard variants. saying "all leopards cost 11 million, are highly advanced and all are sent to ukraine" is so pants on head stupid it straddled the line of being actually deranged.
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@aldovk6681 ah yes, russia, the only country whos GDP improves when they lose out on trade, lose trillions and lose hundreds of thousands of men to war and flight. and fun fact: putin's shit cures cancer.
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@MemeManiaYT "more aid to ukraine or ukraine loses the war, also Russia cant conquer Ukraine" are not contradictory statements, you literal baboon. I know that Putin is more than vague in regards to what he actually wants out of the war, but what Putin wanted was the complete subjugation of ukraine, the ousting of the "pro-west" government in favor of a pro-putin stooge. that objective failed even before western arms and vehicles started going into ukraine. now the goalposts of the war are the regions Russia tried to annex, as well as potentially Crimea. Without western support Ukraine cannot take back donetsk and luhansk, nor take back crimea. But Ukraine likely can endure as a sovereign state where western support to suddenly stop.
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i think its unfair to blame Biden when its the republicans who at every turn block, obstruct and halt support for Ukraine, whilst putting out blatantly unfair standards.
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@emmbotson what the fuck are you even on about. Ukraine isn't even a member of Nato, and they got everything from weapons, training, vehicles, intelligience and advisors. imagine how much support an actual NATO member would get. even if its just slightly more than that, it would still be A LOT. people are lifting fingers against russia over a country that is neither a member of the EU or NATO. but Hungary is the only obstructionist that is actively working against efforts to help ukraine.
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@matthewbartley2746 except hungary is actively obstructing NATO and the EU. so its not even about "what help could they provide" and moreso "why are they actively helping russia?" between preventing eu from helping Ukraine, they're now also taking on Ukrainian POWs from russia, but instead of handing them over to Ukraine they're keeping them as hostages.
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the question is whether ISrael is willing to obliterate the entirety of gaza and murder 2 million people.... and the answer is yes. perhaps not immediatly, it will take a while, but israel is willing to play the long game as shown with the slow and steady conquest of palestine over the past 50 years. between a far right government and a growing citizenry of militant hesedic and orthodox jewish settlers who are exempt from military service, this war only has one path.
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@binbows2258 the solution should have been both sides stopping their respective lunatics from running wild. but its clear that Hamas WANTS israel to treat palestine like shit because thats how their elite makes money. and Israeli government wants hamas to behead babies and shoot rockets because it galvanizes the people and makes politics easier.
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less so "distract the west" and probably moreso "distract republicans".
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