Comments by "Anders Juel Jensen" (@andersjjensen) on "Jake Broe" channel.

  1. If I hadn't been a vet on disability due to PTSD (and the wife's would-be objections) I would have gone to Ukraine after the revelation of what happened in Bucha. I trained Estonians in the mid to late 90s, and I developed a severe case of russophobia already back then, despite it not being a word yet. The horror stories these lads told me about what it was like to be an ethnic Estonian in an army where only Russians were allowed to reach officer ranks sent my blood boiling. What the Russians did in Chechnya (TWICE!) sent it boiling again. 2014 sent it boiling at steam pressure... and now there is no words in the dictionary that can describe my hatred and anger. I donate as much as I can (which ain't much on disability pension, but every penny counts!) directly to the fighting forces. I saw some absolutely nasty shit in ex-Yugoslavia. It was clearly personal to the sickos who carried out sadistic genocides on entire villages. I saw violence against women in Afghanistan on a systematic level that made me question if the human race will ever figure it out. But through all of it, despite many times feeling strong urges to just go vigilante and these animals, I took pride in not becoming the monster I set out to defeat.... But I am seriously questioning if I could have kept to that ethos had I gone to Ukraine. I'm not sure my human side would be stronger. I'm not at all religious, but sometimes religious expressions conveys the message the cleares: "The Russians should thank god, with all of their heart, that I'm no longer fit for fight, or they would have met the devil while they were still alive".
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  2. Salute to you Roman. Thank you for your service! As someone who was deployed in Kosovo, Bosnia and Afghanistan as part of a well funded, well equipped, well trained and well commanded force, who had every single advantage a force can have, I stand in awe of your bravery, morale and resolve. I was retired after a blast incident that contracted me a bad case of PTSD. I only have one thing to say to you: YOU HAVE DONE ENOUGH. Don't tell yourself otherwise. Your friends will be OK without you, just like you did OK without the ones that fell before you. Don't tell yourself otherwise. You're a hero of Ukraine and people are alive because of your actions. Don't tell yourself otherwise.
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  3. I'm fairly sure that if Ukraine is told "Here are 1 million 5.56 rifles, 100k light machine guns, 50k 50 cal machine guns, 100k shoulder fired AT weapons, 50k 6x6 or 8x8 transport trucks, 50k 4x4 Jeeps/Gelendewagens/Hiluxes, 10k M113 APCs, 500 Abrams/Leopard 2s, 1000 155mm SPGs of various kinds, 1000 VC-90s/Bradleys/Strykers, 200 F-16s, 50 Apaches, 50 Chinooks and enough ammo and spare parts to 12 months of high intensity operation" they will find the manpower to utilize that. If that means conscripting every able bodied male from 26 and up, or 24 and up, or whatever, is their problem. This "must be 18 years" is such a weird talking point. Ukraine is a very large country. Getting 1 million men into arms is not a population problem. It's a resource problem.
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  4. Perhaps Denmark should just buy the US instead? We tax the rich, have public healthcare, and a multiparty political model that curbs the worst polarization...
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  5. That, and the Ukrainians have an actual sense of humor. They're a lot like the Poles when it comes to deadpan witty sarcasm, and I absolutely love it.
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  6. I'm a vet on disability, but $10 I can do! Go get the boys 15 trucks!
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  7. The Hungarian people deserve better. How this guy came to power is "a little more than just suspicious". He will prance around playing big man for 6 months but he has already been informed that if he tries to interfere with Ukrainian aid he will be booted. So let him. Nothing will come of it.
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  8. WOWSERS! That's "not a small amount" to say the least. And Japan always gives aid for humanitarian and infrastructure, so the kindness will be directly felt by ordinary Ukrainians. Military aid is vital, but Ukraine also need to be a functioning country, and Russia has done its best (worst?) to destroy everything important, so big big thanks to the people of Japan.
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  9. If Russia wasn't doing actual harm in the real world it would make for an amazing reality show where it just gets wilder and wilder every episode. From "They will freeze to death" to "They're serving squirrels in London" to "The American economy is crashing and will flatline in just a couple of weeks". You just gotta love it. Fiction writers really need to take note here.
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  10. What an absolute BANGER Jake! I had the honor and privilege of training Estonian lads in the mid to late 90s as part of the Nordic-Baltic 8 Security Initiative (aka The NB8, aka Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania). These brave, motivated, inventive and all-round stand up guys told me what life was like under the Russians. They told me how humiliating and infuriating it was to be in a military where you couldn't go above the rank of NCO unless you were an ethnic Russian. They told me about the inhumane punishments they would get if a Russian officer heard them speak their own language. This is where I contracted my, quite severe, case of Russophobia. Except I'm not afraid. And my disdain is not irrational. It's based on inarguable historical fact and first hand witnesses! If you are new to former east block politics you only need to learn two things: 1) The only willing "member" of the Soviet "Union" was Russia. Every other country had their political elite murdered after which rigged elections showed "that the people wanted communism". 2) There is no NATO expansion. There is only NATO acceptance. It only takes one member to block a new applicant. And, trust me, we have put strong requirements, on every applicant, to get rid of the "Soviet hangover" of corruption, nepotism, theft, graft and ineptitude. And all of them went "Heck, fam, we are doing that, as fast as we can, anyway". The Baltics were the first to reach levels of government transparency, human rights and economic stability that were considered acceptable for EU and NATO membership (And I'm proud that my country was there to lend them a shoulder to lean on in the process).
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  11. You can tell just by looking at Yurii ("The Pikachu Soldier") that he's a man who will either die standing or prevail to the end. The look in his eyes says it all. Nothing can stop him but a bullet. He cannot be scared, intimidated or forced into backing down. What he's seen has changed him into the very thing every adversary fears the most: Nothing but cold intelligence, experience and resolve. He has no moral qualms at this point. He no longer asks himself if he can do it. He no longer fears death. Cold, hunger, pain and fatigue only affects his performance. Not his resolve. He IS war... So congratulations Russia. You've created this man yourself. Now send your middle aged, drunk, inexperienced and unmotivated conscripts to meet him in person...
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  12. SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON AND COMMENT GUYS! THIS NEEDS TO GET OU THERE! Bloody good job Jake! Thank you for your excellent service. I know it's sometimes heart wrecking to do what you do. I think you're more "weaponized" as a youtuber than you were as a nuclear missile launch officer! Also MAJOR kudos to NAFO!
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  13. The last guy who said that "Ukraine was always underappreciated" is absolutely right. Ukraine was the technological powerhouse of the USSR, and even after the collapse they've been international players in many high tech fields. One funny piece of trivia I found was that Ukraine has in many ways been the underpinning of the adoption of laser based technologies. Especially chip manufacturing has largely relied on Ukraine's noble gas manufacturing plants. Chip production uses lasers of very precise wavelengths which requires absurdly pure gas of various kinds. They also have a proud history of computer game development along with many other software based solutions that many of us take for granted today.
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  14. War is ugly.. so damn ugly. Which is why we need to help the Ukrainians end it as fast as possible, teaching Russia a lasting lesson in the process.
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  15. Imagine, with 1.5 million winter uniforms "missing", and the generally bleak (to say the least) supply situation in Kherson, what the prospect of.. 1) A thick was of cash. 2) A Ukrainian passport. 3) Three meals a day. 4) A real bed to sleep in. 5) Being in a heated building. ...will do to even the professional army corpses (say, like VDV) who have been fighting, and taking casualties frequently, without a break, since February....
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  16. As revolting as it is, the old saying is true: You can ignore politics, but politics will not ignore you.
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  17. Yeah, that guy did a perfect 180. In the beginning he was constantly hammering on about how words can solve everything. And now he has fully realised that he has been pulled along, like a potato on a string, solely to stall and delay. When you're dealing with Russia you only need one language: Raw unadulterated force.
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  18. They treat the Geneva Conventions (all 4 of them) like the holy gospel. Which is admirable in the most literal sense of the word.
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  19. Putin truly does remain a master strategist!
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  20. I simply can't wrap my head around the fact that there aren't FIVE House Republicans who have the BALLS to say "America must project power towards those who want to throw the world into chaos. This is bigger than party politics. Let's waste this clown and strike a deal, and instate a Speaker who will let every bill presented go to vote, regardless of party".
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  21. Thanks for giving a shout-out to Reporting From Ukraine. Dude does stellar work. I'm an old artilleryman of the Danish army, and from what I can tell his beat-by-beat walk-troughs of the battles seem very legit. This is truly an artillery war like we haven't seen since WWI. Not WWII...
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  22. If you love this kind of "weapons grade trolling" I can recommend Operator Starsky here on YT. He's in the Ukrainian armed forces, so obviously he's very careful when it come to OPSEC surrounding current events, but he has this same adorable deadpan witty sarcasm.
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  23. I've been saying that for a long time but people think I'm nuts. At about when the Ukrainian estimate was at 57k there were documents laked from the Russian ministry of pensions that stated they had to pay out to 53k relatives. The documents were 3 weeks old at the time. So things lined up very well... at first glance. But at closer inspection things fall appart: These were only the regular Russian army figures, as those are the only ones eligible for compensation to their relatives. The LPR/DPR folks families can go fly a kite if they lose a family member. Same goes for the Wagners recruited from prisons. So even at this early stage Ukraine was underestimating their own effectiveness. They have counted on a way too good survival rate among the wounded. If you count on 3 out of 4 getting hit surviving because of proper first aid and competent field medicine, but in reality it's 3 out of 4 DYING the result looks entirely different.
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  24. I am sorry to hear that. I was in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan so I've seen a lot of people, who wholeheartedly didn't deserve it, lose their life, loved ones or homes. You guys did exactly nothing-point-zero-zero-zero to deserve what came to you. Stay strong brother. Better days are coming. Maybe not next week or next month, but better days are coming.
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  25. Germany has cut down on the stock piles of the Bundesver, but Germany is an economic powerhouse so replacing 3 Patriot batteries, despite the long lead times, is doable. But those 3 batteries cost more than the entire F-35 fleet Denmark is in the process of acquiring... so yes, very impressive.
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  26. Unless there has been a decade long concerted effort people don't hate the people in other countries. But they CAN get mightily pissed at the GOVERNMENT of another country right quick in a hurry.... That said, I haven't seen it happen this fast before.
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  27. If I'm ever screwed six ways from Sunday I want a friend like Poland. Fortunately I'm Danish so I already have Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland.
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  28. I fought in ex-Yugoslavia and Afghanistan. Those were messy shitty conflicts. This war is a clear cut as it gets: Assholes vs People Who Just Want To Mind Their Own Business(TM). Ukraine wasn't on any terror lists. They weren't sponsoring or supporting anyone with nasty motives. They weren't rattling the saber or using gunboat diplomacy. They were just trying to get over the "Soviet hangover" and become a normal country.
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  29. That is precisely why he is one of the best. He's not in this "to hear himself talk" or to make YT revenue. He is in this because, as a professional military analyst, he thinks there are things that should be shared with the public, but since they doesn't fit into the sensationalised and head-line focused mass media, then he'll obviously have to do it himself. (He also absolutely knows a whole lot more then he is letting us know).
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  30. You can't possibly tell me there isn't a lot of damage from radiant heat. Hardened components will have lost their temper and a lot of things will have been warped. That was not a small fire. 1000m2 of blaze is going to cook everything within a fairly substantial radius.
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  31. I had the good fortune of training Estonian lads back in the mid to late 90s when they had just joined NATO. The absolute HORROR stories they told about what it was like to be a "sub-Russian" in an army where all officers were ethnic Russians made my blood boil. This war has taken it from just boiling to fifty thousand PSI of steam pressure. I fought in ex-Yugoslavia and Afghanistan. Ex-Yugoslavia was shitty conflict where everyone was a villain, but we backed the least villainy one. Afghanistan was stupidity. We were trying to liberate a people who fundamentally didn't want to be liberated... But Ukraine... Ukraine makes me wish I wasn't retired. If I had still been in my good years I would have joined the International Brigade in a heart beat. In Ukraine there are no messy shitty grey zones. Ukraine is a clear cut good versus evil situation. Ukraine is defending and liberating people who want to be protected and be free of despotism and tyranny. Ukraine is where any able bodied soldier, who harbors a seething hatred towards Russia, can go and lay down hell from dawn to dusk and still be 100% morally in the clear. Solderis who obeys the orders of a command structure that promotes rape, torture, genocide and looting are as "valid military targets" as it can get.
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  32. I trained Estonians back in the mid to late 90s when they too ran as fast as they could. Their stories made me realise just how flawed our history lessens were, and how much of the official Kremlin BS had made it, unquestioned, into the category of "fact". Listening to these brave men made me realize that the ONLY willing "member" of the Soviet "union" was the power elite in Russia.
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  33. It's pre-talk rhetoric. He was probably laughing when he heard the news.
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  34. We know. Nobody like him comes to power via honest means.
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  35. The F-16 program is, as far as I've sniffed out, not delayed because of political sluggishness. The first pilots have already qualified, but the ground crew have had a rude awakening that needed some adjustment time. Any fighter jet pilot will adapt to a new plane fairly easily, just like you'd get used to a new car fairly easily. But a jet mechanic who's used to Soviet and post-Soviet air planes will find the completely different DNA of a western plane daunting. You're right about the rest though.
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  36.  @amtoft1713  You should. They didn't know anything about neither Russia nor Ukraine a few months ago. They don't have a personal conviction of any sort regarding the conflict. They were ordered to go and knew their families would get the punishment if they even asked questions. So they did as they were told. Like everyone else at gunpoint does.
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  37. Thank you for the update Lasse! I hope as soon as the Ukraine situation "is resolved" that we can start having a look at Transnistira and the occupied regions in Georgia!
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  38. Just like they consider honesty and dependability a fools traits. We've almost come to the point where if Russia doesn't like it, then you basically have an automatic endorsement.
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  39. If my ass wasn't over the hill I would have been in Ukraine. And I would have gone to Taiwan too. I've been in two of this world's hellholes to try to stop the bloodshed (ex-Yugoslavia and Afghanistan). Neither of those instances had particularly clear lines on who where the good guys and who were the bad guys. But there is absolutely nothing fuzzy about the situation in Ukraine, nor will there be if the unthinkable happens in Taiwan.
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  40. This war has taught me three things: 1) Don't fuck with Ukrainians. 2) If you're ever in a shitty situation you better have a friend like Poland. 3) Russia can fuck up even the things everyone has always thought was un-fuck-up-able.
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  41. I'm not religious but to say that Jake is doing "the lords work" for you guys would be an understatement. All of my friends, who's been listening to the alarmist media who claims it's useless to support Ukraine "because Russia is so big and mighty", get sent this way.
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  42. It's like Romania remembers what Russian rule was like, isn't it? :P
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  43. Yup! This is not "Russia attempts posture in Cuba" but rather "Russian fleet seeks shelter in Cuba". I guarantee you that the officers on these ships bribed their way to be there.
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  44.  @craigjones6855  As a % of GDP-per-capita Poland is in the top five. The US isn't even in the top 10.
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  45.  @michaziomek  In the civilian courts it's supposed to be "Rather let 10 guilty slip through than convict one innocent". When you're in the armed forces, intelligence branches or security agencies it's the other way around. And it has to be that way. If you don't accept that you shouldn't chose a career there.
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  46. We used to make fun of Russia for losing the naval war to a nation without a nation. It just turns out that Ukraine has the most modern navy in the world. Fully unmanned, fully dispersed, undetectable until at strike range and dirt dirt cheap. I'm SO glad I'm not guarding a GAS rig in the middle of the freezing ocean....
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  47. I have heard a lot more sober and serene talking at AA meetings than I've ever heard on Russian propaganda TV.
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  48. You're the best Jake! This was EXACTLY the way to deal with instances of corruption in Ukraine: By pointing out that we're not perfect either! Corruption at all state levels are absolutely "the Soviet hangover" for many former east block countries, there's no denying that. But greed, stupidity and flaky morals exists in all societies, so nobody can really point any fingers. I'm not religious at all, but the bible quote "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone" is still a good antidote to hypocrisy.
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  49. Yup. And those aren't just your garden variety "I have a job in the army" soldiers. Those are the most dangerous and battle hardened soldiers currently on planet earth. And yet Zelensky is safer in their company than Putin is when addressing the Duma from 25 meters away.
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  50. Funny thing is... I've never met a Tesla owner that wasn't shallow, stupid, rude or any combination of the three.
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