Comments by "Tx240" (@Texas240) on "Jake Broe" channel.

  1. ​ @arturobianco848 Putin or his central bank head, who is very intelligent and capable (and who tried to resign at the outset of the 2022 invasion but was told "work or window, no resignation"), have put in place other measures to help prop up the Ruble. Companies are required to repatriate foreign profits. So, businesses are required to buy Rubles with real money. The short term benefit is that it takes some pressure off the foreign currency reserves. The longer term result is that those companies are less profitable and possibly begin losing money as they trade real money for Russian toilet paper. That means less ability to buy Rubles with profits earned.
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  2. Oh, NATO might guarantee it, but Ukraine has been victimized several times by security assurances.
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  3. I went with a local bank during the 2008 crisis. They aren't "too big to fail", but they're small enough to be managed reasonably and money stays in the community.
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  4. 15:33 Putin also said Russia doesn't do propaganda. Putin also said Russia wouldn't invade Ukraine.
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  5. 10:30 you misunderstood Russian culture. While Stalingrad was renamed, many older Russians have remember Stalin fondly. I have a Russian friend (well, she lives in Ukraine so since February she's Ukrainian not Russian) who told me that her grandmother would talk about how much better things were back in Stalin's day. Ironically, grandma wouldn't leave her home in Donetsk when my friend fled during the 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine and she was killed by Russian proxy artillery when it hit their apartment building ahead of the Russian proxies moving into the city in the same playbook that Russia is currently using in its city attacks. I use the phrase "Russian proxy fighters" instead of "separatists" because the asymmetrical troops (as Russia refers to them internally) that Russia called "separatists" internationally were criminals and anarchists that Russia trucked to Ukraine and who were supported by Russian special forces that instructed the foreign fighters (so called "separatists") in basic tactics and how to use captured equipment and called in Russian helicopter gunships when Ukraine tried to move troops into an area to defend. The original "separatists" were not people living in Ukraine. They were foreign fighters hoping to be the next Kadyrov.
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  6. Ukraine has been fighting Russia with NATO hand me downs and surplus... For example, the Bradleys we sent were Desert Storm vintage, older than the crews operating them the Bradleys which they've put to excellent use in everything from ambulance to recon, to taxi, to tank hunter
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  7. We have so much just sitting unused in storage.
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  8. I think Russia liked the AWACS over the Sea of Azov because it could see the airbase that the Su-24s operate out of. That gave them alert that Storm Shadow attacks might be on the way and, in addition to vectoring CAP aircraft to lob R37 missiles, the A50 could provide radar guidance for land launched S400 anti aircraft missiles. Obviously pushing the A50 farther away gives Ukraine more room to move over their own territory without the long range pot shots from Russian aircraft and ground stations.
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  9. What you wrote means Zalensky always disappoints. You probably were between 2 thoughts and mashed them together. Zalensky never disappoints or Zalensky never fails to impress is what you meant, unless you were being sarcastic.
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  10. 9:22 "cache", noun, a group of items, pronounced "cash", can also be used as a verb in the action of creating a cache. "cachet", prestige, pronounced "cashay" Having access to a cache of secret documents might convey cachet on a teenage discord group.
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  11. It's all part of the plan. Putin #MasterStrategist
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  12.  @mikecunningham4735  - You make a good point. If NATO is going to help protect Europe by supplying aid to Ukraine, it makes a lot more sense to give Ukraine everything they need and then some.
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  13. ​ @JakeBroe  it's been suggested that the bridge is still up only because Russia keeps moving valuable air defense systems into Crimea from the far reaches of Russia and Ukraine can destroy them.
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  14. Ukranian Farmers Army was the 2nd strongest military in Ukraine for a while... Then Russia slowed its equipment donations and the Farmers gave equipment to the Ukrainian military.
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  15.  @BaBaYaga1999-p7u  it's better to think logically than emotionally. Rephrase your argument using Dan Quayle if Bush had needed to drop out against Clinton.
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  16. The difference between Mariupol and Kherson, and the reason Kherson won't be bombarded into oblivion, is that Ukraine now has counter-battery radar and artillery, including HIMARS, that have longer range than the Russian artillery. An added factor is that Ukraine also has more ability to use air assets in the Kherson area that wasn't possible in Mariupol.
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  17. I have a friend in another Ukranian city. Her kid has been on home school since the start of the war in 2022 due to the risk of attack on the schools. Recently, she said the children would be back in school and partly home school. I was worried about the safety of the school. Then, she sent pictures of the "school". It's a bomb shelter converted into a school. On the one hand, it's good that the kids are safe. On the other, the school is in a friggin bomb shelter.
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  18. Netanyahu is at 16 years in Israel (granted, Israel is the Russia of the Middle East), Erdogan is at 10 years in Turkey and, at 70, will probably be president for life.
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  19. Even the Russian TV propagandists are actually questioning how such territory loss so fast is possible.
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  20. Was it Churchill that said "Trust America do the right thing... After it has exhausted all other options."?
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  21. Yeah, Turkey was thrown out of the F35 program to buy "superior" S400 air defense systems. (Patriot giggling noises)
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  22. 13:00 so-called "Republicans" painted themselves into a corner. Democrats are willing to give them a deal on the border but then Republicans give a border policy victory to the democratic president. This is a further symptom of a total lack of leadership and vision in the republican party. Republicans are entirely reactionary, completely on defense. It's like watching tennis match where 1 player (democrats) are playing a relaxing game and the other player (republicans) are furiously trying to return the incoming shots and vollies and exhausting themselves trying to keep up and unable to take charge of the match. Republicans should be spearheading aid to Ukraine because it's beneficial to the US defense industry while updating our arsenal, it's damaging to Russia (a country that views the US as an enemy in a zero sum game), and aid to Ukraine would be helping a nation and people who actually WANT our help in fighting for freedom and democracy. Not helping Ukraine is helping Russia. Helping Russia is anti-American as Russia under Putin is against everything America stands for.
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  23. Good thing his restaurant is on the ground floor. That photo op could've been dangerous.
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  24.  @oleksandrbespalov9713  - was it this channel that talked about how the component that actually arms the warhead degrades or corrodes and must be replaced to keep the missile actually functional? If that hasn't been done then you're right that there is a real difference between "expired" as in won't launch or arm properly and "best if used by".
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  25.  @ZoeverseHistory  - fix you're leadership. I mean, even as horribly hypocritical as that sounds considering how bad American political leaders are... At least our system prevents one waco from playing dictator... And is doing a surprising job of attempting to punish a president who tried to. Edit, everyone looks at Hungary's actions and recognizes that Hungary's behavior isn't that of a European or NATO country.
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  26. @adurasarangheyo9597  He was a missileer when he was in the US Air Force or one of the guys responsible for turning the key to launch. He spent that time in an underground launch complex somewhere. I can't remember the order for certain, but I think South Korea was before he joined the USAF because he looked really young. He was there as a civilian and making a living teaching English to South Koreans.
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  27. You absolutely KNOW that senile, delusional Heir Fuhrer Putin is repeatedly asking his aides, "Where are those guys who took Bakhmut?! Get them to take Avdiivka!" Oops.
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  28. Regarding the storm shadow attacks, that's the same thing that preceeded the attacks in Kharkiv and Kherson. Ukraine destroyed Russia's ability to supply its troops. Russia learned to move its depots out of HIMARS range. Now, Ukraine has the range to again thin out Russian supply logistics.
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  29. 14:10 The US has more Abrams tanks and Bradley infantry fighting vehicles in storage, collecting dust, than we've sent to Ukraine. I think we'll manage.
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  30. 20:25 Re Christmas in Ukraine. I just spoke to a friend in Ukraine. I asked if she was doing anything for her daughter, if her daughter asked anything from Santa. She replied that her daughter (11) said this year wasn't a good time for that. Instead, the girl is making things by hand for her friends and they've handed out stuff to people who were in areas that were harder hit. In that regard, people giving to others, it's been Christmas for months. In the face of such destruction, loss, and sadness during the holidays, it's not at all Christmas.
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  31. 8:04 this is whst Russia did with the "8 years of shelling the Donbas". They'd show artillery damage that was caused by the Russian Proxies (aka "separatists" that were transported to Ukraine from parts of Russia) as the proxies prepared to attack an area. A friend's grandmother, a Russian speaker, was killed in such a Russian proxy artillery attack in 2014. Yet, pro Russian sources would show that damage and say "look what Ukraine did to Russian speakers." Russian sheep choking hard on that Blue Pill, blissfully oblivious that they're the new Libya or North Korea.
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  32. @martinsweeney7633  you should read a history book or 2. Seriously. You'll notice repeating patterns.
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  33.  @eyaklen4804  you're free to believe whatever it is you want to believe...
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  34. Russia started the war under knowingly false and illegitimate pretenses. Russia isn't interested in peace until they begin withdrawing their forces to Russia, a la Afghanistan in the 80s
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  35. 13:11 AHA! The bots WERE right! Russia hadn't sent in their best equipment. NOW, Russia is finally sending in their best, the stuff made in the great Golden Age of the Soviet Union!
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  36. The fact that those guys look excited to have them. I was excited to get a scooter nearly 40 years ago, as a kid, when it became a fad but I wasn't planning to go into battle on it!!
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  37.  @sstratford123  - for a moment, I thought the findings you listed were about the United States. I had to scroll back up. Independent judiciary? What about the federal judge who threw out an armored car company's request to issue a pre - trial injunction against a California sheriff's department that has been "legally" hijacking its armored cars and the proceeds mostly go to the US government, with a kick back to the sheriff department, through asset forfeiture laws? Abuse of Detainees? Ask former police officer Derek Chauvin why he was imprisoned (and subsequently stabbed 22 times). It sure wasn't for upholding detainee rights and guaranteeing proper care. Etc, etc. You're trying to say Ukraine isn't perfect. Glass houses and stones, my friend. The important question is whether Ukraine has been improving. Remember, you're talking about a former Soviet state that has been burdened with the mindset of some people that corruption is normal (it's well documented how Russia corruption compromised its military). All of the former Soviet states and Warsaw Pact countries that are now EU or NATO members would've had similar reports prior to them having a path to join those organizations. Hungary and Slovakia probably still do have such reports based on their Soviet-esque governments. Israel, beacon of the Western civilized world in the Middle East, is also pretty bad on the issues you chastise Ukraine for and that's part of the current cause of their troubles. To answer your question, yes I supported Ukraine in 2014 because I have a friend living there who had to flee the Donetsk area in 2014, despite being one of the Russian speakers that Putin's Russian proxies were "liberating". Putin's anarchists and criminals that Russia transported to eastern Ukraine and referred to as "separatists" were responsible for the death of my friend's grandmother (who raised her) when they began shelling the town with artillery prior to attacking (the same method Russia has used in Ukraine since 2022 which has turned many towns to rubble). The grandmother wouldn't leave her home when other people were evacuating and, ironically, had fond memories of the "good old days" during Stalin. No joke. That's how "Russian" my friend was raised inside Ukraine and who has proudly declared herself Ukrainian, not Russian, since February 2022. Since 2014, I've also been pointing out how the US and UK didn't fulfill our obligations under the Budapest Memorandum to protect Ukraine's territorial integrity in exchange for Ukraine giving up its Soviet era nuclear deterrent.
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  38. 20:35 Putin said, in February 2022, that he was not going to invade Ukraine. Of course Zalensky wouldn't want to negotiate with someone who has proven to be duplicitous and aggressive.
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  39. Zalensky, fighting a hot war with Russia, reminds me of Reagan, who defeated the Soviet Union in the Cold War.
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  40. The ghost of Ronald Reagan got fed up with the so-called "Republicans" aiding Russia while Russia is invading Europe. He whipped up that weather divide between Europe and Russia and...wait for it... Ghost of Reagan restarted the Cold War on Russia.
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  41. I wouldn't be surprised if Ukraine has been working on some homegrown longer range weapons.
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  42. Ronald Reagan knew Russians were evil at their core. He wasn't afraid to spend the money to defeat the Soviet Union without sending a single US soldier to fight there. Speaker Mike Johnson is a stooge, patsy, and rube.
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  43. Trump is un-American.
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  44. 14:57 Re, power outages in Russia Ukraine has been having rolling blackouts due to the damage to its electricity infrastructure from Russian attacks. I have a friend who sent me a picture of the schedule. In her city (not Kyiv but one of the major ones), some days it's up to 17 hours total without electricity and usually at least 12 hours. It's been that way for months. Fortunately, they don't use electricity for heating so still had heat in the colder months. But, they've had no air conditioning during the summer. While many might think of Ukraine as cold, from the snowy winter images, they genuinely have 4 seasons and this week it was hotter in Ukraine than it was in Texas.
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  45. 16:13 She's looking like she's tired of having to listen to the lies of her guests or co-hosts, knowing full well that the world outside knows the truth and is mocking her.
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  46. Apparently, Russian pilots are as skilled at "squirt on demand" as Russian cam girls...
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  47.  @khulgarulfsson8067  - I'm sure a lot of Russian "training" time is spent telling the new troops how terrible and viciously the Ukrainian Nazis treat prisoners. The must do something to prevent units from surrendering en masse.
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  48. 16:00 This is something difficult for some Western people to understand because a Western country hadn't been invaded and occupied by a foreign power since WWII. And, for their forefathers, it was a fight without finish, until Axis forces were defeated. I always thought it was funny, in a sad way, when history teachers would try to justify the importance of their class by saying, "it's important we learn history so we don't repeat the mistakes of the past." Anyone considering appeasement or a peace with Russia keeping parts of Ukraine had never read a history book or certainly didn't learn from the past if they did read one.
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  49. Fortunately, he's done after 4 more years.
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  50. Iirc, it's a few hundred $ per still image. I'm sure we'll see them around in the next few days.
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