Comments by "Vaska Tumir" (@vaska1999) on "The New Atlas" channel.

  1. ​​ @Samuel-hd3cp Losing 9,000 of your best trained and equipped forces for a PR stunt may be a tactical success but it's a strategic idiocy of mega proportions.
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  2. I remember him saying a few years ago that "Russia has many Putins" -- I'm sure he's already planning his succession with the usual care he brings to all his tasks.
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  3. Uncle Sam's been at it for decades, and all over the world.
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  4. Kiev's been lying, and spectacularly, from Day 1.
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  5. ​​ @comingviking It's about using civilians as human shields. Ukraine's been doing it from day 1. A war crime.
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  6. OMG!
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  7. What a great idea, product, and company! Really impressive. I particularly like that the founder actually cares about agricultural labour, too.
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  8. 41, not 30.
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  9. The real question is why. And how did they manage to do that?!
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  10. She's a member of the tribe, steeped in its ways.
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  11. 🎯
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  12. Privet from Serbia! ❤️
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  13. ​ @justsilas37  It may surprise you to learn that outside the collective West (a mere 14% of humanity), it's NATO that's seen as a paper tiger and Russia as the #1 military superpower today.
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  14. ​ @captainamericaamerica8090 Dima's married to a Ukrainian*nationalist' and it shows. He tries to be objective, but he frequently indulges in fantasies about Ukraine.
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  15. Too arrogant. Their overweening vanity made them underestimate Russia all along.
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  16. Exactly.
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  17. Brian, you're an international treasure! People from all around the world watch your videos and look forward to each new one. I don't think I can emphasize enough how valuable your painstakingly researched analyses are. Thank you for the work you do. Much appreciated!
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  18. ​ nasumaa83  Kiev is well outside Galicia. Ukraine's a nation that's been rotting from within for at least the past 30 years.
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  19. ​ @AizenSosuke_3d  The richest in natural resources and industrial capacity, both.
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  20. You're giving up your neutrality -- the absolute key to your security -- so as to serve as a first-time country in a future US war against Russia. You must have a very strong self-destruction drive not to be out in the streets, toppling this government and all the MPs who voted in favour of joining NATO.
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  21. ​@ytsertd333 Just ask them if they want to end up like Ukraine.
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  22. They, too?! What idiots! 😂
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  23.  @natalya793  Thankfully, Russia's jettisoning the idiotic Bologna agreement on education (the dimming down of the European education systems) and re-introducing its own previous approach.
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  24. Their own size? NATO-sphere has a population of roughly 800 million, Russia 148. Its members' combined economies are many times that of Russia. And NATO's getting humiliated (again -- even Afghani Taliban managed to beat NATO in the end).
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  25. ​ @iRelevant.47.system.boycott  That, and a lot of bare faced lying.
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  26. The US needs to fall apart into several regional sovereign countries.
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  27. ​ @andrebalsa203  There's no such plan now but Russia did propose a railway line going from Portugal all the way to Vladivostok, as both a trade and a peace initiative at once. The EU's war-mongering racists turned the idea down.
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  28. And after shelling the civilians in Donbass, which they continue to do day in and day out. A war crime a day.
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  29. Private (public) school education. Either that or an exceptional talent for languages (found in about 1% of the population).
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  30. 😅
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  31. Because it's Russian territory Lenin annexed to the borderlands to form a new nation, Ukraine. The Russians were ok with that until Kiev began assaulting the civilians of Donbass in 2014.
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  32. Because all of that is Russian territory which Lenin annexed to the Borderlands in order to firm a new Soviet Republic called the Ukraine. After the dissolution of the USSR, most Russians were ok with that until Kiev began shelling the civilians of Donbass, the overwhelming majority of whom are ethnic Russians, the descendants of the people whose land the communists had annexed to the Borderlands/Ukraine.
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  33. The political contexts of the two events are also markedly different. Vietnam was of no importance for the security of the USA, whereas what happens on or close to Russia's borders is clearly of extreme importance for its security interests. The public back home in Russia understand this very clearly and will only renew their demands to intensify the engagement in Ukraine.
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  34. It's sickening. 🤮
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  35. Another essential analysis of what's really going on in Myanmar! And as Brian remarks at the end, if anything, China's not doing enough to protect itself from Belt & Road subversion and attempted US "containment" from Myanmar. Reminiscent of Russia's (in hindsight counterproductive) 8-year patience and forbearance with Ukraine.
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  36. ​ @matthewfusaro2590  They had excellent satellite imagery of the depth of defenses the Russians have set up over the past 6-8 months, i.e. since their first troop mobilization (I'm calling it the first because I suspect we may see at least one more). So they knew things would be very different this time. I attribute what we're seeing to the absolute callousness on Zelensky's part and on the part of those of his Western enablers both in the US and the EU who really do want to fight this proxy war to the last Ukrainian. Some of these people are simply irrational in their ethnic hatred of Russia and the Russians..
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  37. ​ @bluechurch776  Except that Lavrov is so giddy with their talks in Rhyad, he's practically Americans "our partners" all over again. Here's an excerpt: “I believe the discussions were highly productive,” Lavrov said, adding, “Not only did we listen, but we genuinely heard each other.” He further stated that he had reason to believe the American side “now has a clearer understanding of Russia’s position,” as it had been “thoroughly detailed” using specific examples drawn from President Putin’s numerous statements.
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  38. A lot of Ukrainians understand it, too. That's why they're doing their very best to avoid conscription.
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  39. And by the sheer amount of production China does. In production terms, it's outranked the US and EU combined!
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  40. ​ @JohnDoe-zb5mt They have not yet reached the FIRST of Russian defense lines, that's how "good" they've been so far. Three months, and losses to the tune of 60,000 men, NOT to reach let alone breach just the first of several Russian defense lines is probably the worst any Western proxy force has ever performed. Ukraine was forced into this utterly disastrous offensive (nothing counter about it) by US neocons, notably Victoria Nuland and her family. I remember her bragging back in March how "we" had spent months training, equipping and preparing Ukrainian forces for a spring "counteroffensive" and how glorious it was going to be.
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  41. Shoigu announced it yesterday: 70,000 volunteers who will be added to the 300,000 reservists, 200,000 of whom are already in training.
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  42.  @ZOFIELHERRERA-wy3yo  You can scream "wrong" as much as you like, but it's just facts.
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  43. This will drag on for a while because the collective West is still egging on Kiev to fight and not to return to the negotiating table.
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  44. ​ @radicalmind5742  It was a political mistake on Putin's part: he thought, as it did seem plausible at the time, that a small expeditionary force, which is what the Russians originally started with, would serve to bring Ukraine to the negotiating table and make actual war unnecessary. And it almost worked: Ukraine did initial the peace agreement worked out in Turkey in March 2022.
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  45. ​ @cango5679  Zelensky won the 2019 elections on a platform promising the implementation of the Minsk Accords and the re-establishment of friendly relations with Russia. He got 70% of the vote (none of which came from Donbas, since the people of Donbas were deprived of their right to vote). It's reasonable to assume that many of those who'd expected the implementation of the Minsk Accords from Zelensky but got a bloody proxy war attrition with Russia no longer support him.
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  46. ​ @yxmichaelxyyxmichaelxy3074 And lost the war and his entire army in the end! 😂
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  47. The possibility of NATO directly intervening in Ukraine (beyond the proxy war parameters, that is) is what has been worrying me for months now. I think Russia's biggest mistake has been its decision not to finish this quickly, using it's overwhelming military power. There are reports now from the front that the Russian forces have been regularly ordered to stand down precisely when they are at the point of decisively routing the Ukrainian forces. iEarlGrey talks about it in a video he posted on Dec. 30 it 31.
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  48. First-rate analysis, as always. I can't emphasize enough the enormous respect I have for Brian and his unassailable integrity.
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  49. I very much hope you're right.
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  50. It's terrible watching it unfold before our eyes and not being able to do much about it.
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