Comments by "Dean Firnatine" (@deanfirnatine7814) on "Sky News" channel.

  1. The map is seriously misleading, all that red "Russian controlled" is false in most cases they control nothing beyond a major road or two and maybe a few villages and towns in some cases, that is why they are getting ambushed constantly. The only area where they have actual control of large swaths of land is in the South just NE and NW of Crimea, that is in part weather related, it is drier there, not a mud pit like the North and East and they are not confined to improved roads. Most of those red areas have multiple towns and swaths of land controlled by Ukraine.
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  2. If this offensive is a failure its 100% on the Biden Administration who still has yet to provide tanks and even the amount promised were a pittance, 31 Abrams out of 3450 Abrams in mothballs alone. This leaves Ukraine with less than half the minimum number experts felt Ukraine needed for the offensive 300-500. As for air power again its 100% on the Biden Administration who have refused to even cough up the 21 Mig-29's the US owns let alone the 150 modern jet fighters needed, the US has held off on allowing its allies to provide their limited excess supplies of fighters until recently now it will be months after the offensive before they get them and the US still has not allowed any US made helicopters to be sent despite hundreds of excess Blackhawks, Little Birds and Cobra's. In addition the US has refused long range weapons like ATACMS that are badly needed. It is almost as if the Biden Administration is intentionally handicapping Ukraine, remember the Obama-Biden Administration refused to even sell any weapons to Ukraine in the 2014 invasion and strong armed its NATO allies to not supply any either.
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  3. Moldova should strip the citizenship of these paid protestors and any pro Russian traitors
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  4. The center left are now "far right" according to the media, look at former Democrats in the US like Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr, they were considered left of left center for years, now they are called "far right" by the media even though almost none of their views have changed.
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  5. China can go eff itself. China demographically will collapse by 2050 and it will be irreversible by 2030, authoritarian countries like that usually go to war to both distract their public and to find a way to survive, Russia has done that and their situation is not as demographically as bad as China.
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  6. 100%
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  7. No, lol
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  8. The sooner that older generation is dead the better in Russia
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  9.  @jackelliot547  Swiss companies would sell to the Devil himself
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  10. So what a Labour Government that actively hates the military? I hate Rishi but the alternative is a disaster under the current circumstances.
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  11. I cannot freaking believe Sky News employs a known liar like Christopher Steele as "expert" the guy should be in prison.
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  12. They should wipe Gaza off the map
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  13. Its an act of war against all of Europe and potentially the Middle East depending on wind direction
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  14. Launch our own balloon over China loaded with a ton of cow and chicken poop so they get a present when they shoot it down.
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  15. This is BS, a bit of Western arrogance, Ukraine has excellent pilots that will learn quickly how to go from a Mig-29 or Su-27 to a F-16 or F-18, reliable sources are saying the Americans have been training several dozen Ukrainian pilots for a few months now.
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  16. Media being their usually slimy selves
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  17. 8 years of the West working with Ukrainian military has helped establish a military force that is simply better trained, far more professional and tactically more sound than their Russian opponents who seem stuck 30 years in the past.
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  18. Always suspect things like this of being Russian propaganda, they are masters at it, they not only have 80% of their own population brainwashed but probably ten percent of the US and Canadian population as well.
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  19. Hamas putting their military command centers next to a hospital is a war crime doctor as is beheading babies.
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  20. They need modern jets but no one will give them any because of pressure from the Biden Administration not to, the US will not even give them the old Soviet era 21 Mig-29's the US owns. They also need far more modern tanks than they got, experts say they need 300-500 but they have only got 122, the US still has not delivered the measly 31 Abrams it promised despite having 3450 in mothball storage alone, only the US has the tank numbers to provide what is needed but again the Biden Administration refuses as well as refusing longer range artillery rockets. It really appears the Biden Administration will only give Ukraine enough equipment not to lose but not nearly enough to win thus needlessly prolonging this war and the massive loss of life including vast numbers of innocent civilians along with the continued destruction of Ukraine as a whole. By the way the US dollar numbers in aid are grossly inflated due to Pentagon mis-accounting such as a 40-50 year old M113 APC which cost originally say $250k but thanks to depreciation is valued at just $25k now is being charged against the Ukraine aid package at what it would cost to build a new M113 today at $500k as an example, yet it is not being replaced, it was replaced years ago by Strykers which themselves are now going to be replaced, they also double billed for $12.5 billion against the Ukraine aid packages, billed $7.5 billion in NATO projects to Ukraine aid package and several hundred million in a US energy independence program to the Ukraine aid package. The Biden Administration is robbing both Ukraine and US taxpayers with these accounting games.
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  21. Yes we should, sadly many in power in the West and the Western media have downplayed even mocked and condemned the governments of Eastern Europe before this war.
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  22. Russian FSB are are experts at poisoning opposition, remember they poisoned the pro Western Ukrainian Presidential candidate in the early 2000's, remember what it did to his face?
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  23. Yes 30 of them
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  24. @holzy0815 Biden is under tremendous pressure from the Dem party and half the Republican party plus the entire military industrial complex, he will send them after some other countries send their thus embarrassing the US.
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  25. Exactly, no more German attempts to conquer Europe which is what the EU is
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  26. Biden will not even cough up the old Soviet era 21 Mig-29's the US owns and still has not delivered the measly 31 Abrams promised out of the 3450 Abrams in mothballs. Biden is just giving enough to keep Ukraine from losing but not enough to win, meanwhile people are dying. Biden is a worthless coward.
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  27. I cannot support these criminals being on trial in the International Court of Justice in The Hague because they lack the death penalty, same with Ukraine, twelve years sentence is disgusting, total miscarriage of justice. Put them on trial in Texas with a jury and judge of Texans of Ukrainian heritage, that will be justice. Texas can pass a law similar to the law Spain has where they can try anyone from anywhere for crimes against humanity.
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  28. Russia has been shocked to find the Ukraine they are facing militarily in 2022 is NOT the Ukraine they faced in 2014, this is a army that completely redid itself from a old Soviet era force to a modern military patterned structurally after NATO nations and trained by NATO nations. In addition they are an extremely patriotic motivated defending army led by Officers and NCO's that had years of experience fighting in the Donbass against Russian "volunteers" as well as over 5000 Ukrainian troops who fought in Iraq against a Russian force with almost no combat veterans and lacking NCO's with experience or battlefield authority to make decisions.
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  29. A very reliable source with ties to the US Military and Intel agencies has said Ukraine has forces 40km (25 miles) deep into Kursk.
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  30. Go eff off Putin
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  31. Which country? I was unaware anyone in Europe had 18 F-16's in storage. I was aware Australia had 24? F-18's in storage.
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  32. Every member of the Labour Party should be put on trial as Communist traitors, either deport them to Communist China or hang them. I will grant that most of the Conservative MP's are not much better.
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  33. Bingo and I am firefighter trained in arson investigation
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  34.  @spkcorny  Normal weather variation, FYI I am a firefighter since the mid 80's this is nothing new, look at a history book and major wild fires have been going on since recorded history, in fact in most areas less rainfall goes in conjunction with cooling temps (less evaporation) such as the cooling period that followed the wet and war Minoan Warm period.
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  35. Putin does not give a damn about UN or rules of war
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  36. Gove is a super globalist, good. FYI SKY Trump proved as did Reagan that tax cuts within a year not only pay for themselves but INCREASE revenue as the economy of the working class bounces back with more disposable income.
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  37.  @johnwong8336  Go to hell Ivan
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  38. The Soviet Union/Russia did this by drawing insane borders of the old Soviet Republics, purposely putting one ethnic group surrounded almost by another, Azerbaijan for example is literally split in two pieces and go look at the Central Asian former Soviet Republics with multiple exclaves. The Soviets/Russians did this on purpose, "divide and conquer".
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  39. I fully support Scottish Independence, that said the SNP under Sturgeon and company have become a bunch of authoritarian Marxists. I see this comment section is infected by Marxist Labour and SNP igits (misspelling intentional due to authoritarian leftists running YT).
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  40. Best analysis yet of the accident
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  41. The current government are tools of Russia and they poisoned him, the charges against him are BS as well.
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  42. The media love negative news, more clicks. Zalensky at times has bags under his eyes the size of a purse, the man is exhausted and on edge. None of this would be happening if Obama had lived up to the Budapest agreement during the 2014 invasion, instead he did the exact opposite, embargoing arms to Ukraine and arm twisting the rest of NATO to do the same, much of this tragedy lies at the feet of Obama.
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  43. Khan took a step towards becoming an authoritarian despot like his allies Putin and Xi. Khan has put Pakistan in a situation where it is no longer neutral and faces getting dragged into WW3 by his allies.
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  44. That is what they always do, too little too late
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  45. The NATO thing is an excuse, he knows NATO would never invade Russia without Russia attacking first and he knows Ukraine before the war had almost no chance of getting into NATO or even the EU, his invasion made that far more likely to happen. Putin invaded because he wants to recreate the Russian Empire to leave it as his legacy, that is what this was about, he is 69 and reportedly has a cancer which makes him incredibly dangerous, I think he does not care what happens to Russia if they fail him, much like Hitler felt the Germans deserved their fate if they failed him.
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  46. The West is complaining about the lack of progress of Ukraine's offensive when they refuse to provide modern jet fighters, not a single Western helicopter provided, extremely limited long range weapons, forbid Ukraine from using the weapons provided to strike Russia, provided less than half the required tanks experts said were the minimum number required (300) etc. But hey they should just be able to march right through the most extensive mine fields in the history of war and hundreds of miles of multi layered trenches, no problem.
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  47. Israeli and all Western Intel agencies are guilty of a massive failure here, how the heck could Hamas have planned something this big without a single major Intel agency getting wind of it? Heads need to roll in Intel agencies from Jerusalem, to Washington to London.
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  48. Israel struck the embassy in retaliation for Iran funding Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis who are all attacking Israel and one of the Generals killed was the Iranian General that gave Hamas the go ahead order for the October 7th massacre. The Biden Administration claiming Israel gave them this problem is outrageous, maybe they should look in the mirror concerning the tens of billions they have given Iran thus allowing Iran to spend even more on its military proxies.
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  49. Guaranteed
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  50. Joe Biden will not even cough up the 21 old Soviet Mig-29's the US owns, I doubt he will ever approve F-16's or F-18's, there is 122 modern Western tanks given to Ukraine not a single one from America so far, still waiting on the 31 promised, just 31 when the US has 3450 Abrams just in mothball storage alone.
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