Comments by "Kasumi Rina" (@KasumiRINA) on "Anders Puck Nielsen" channel.

  1. There's also no question as fuel refineries are a military target PERIOD, and power plants are a civilian target, so when I see Westerners criticizing us for striking russian military WHILE BEING SILENT ABOUT THEM DOING WAR CRIMES WITH DOUBLE TAP STRIKES ON CIVILIANS, I get absolutely furious!
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  2. It was literally on fire after first hit, and the two guys just finished putting it out when the second drone flied past. Anyway, the damage is irrelevant since Kremlin isn't a useful military target, it was done to embarrass and to humiliate them and maybe force to move some air defenses to moscow... Remember when SBU drone landed on plane and took off in Belarus? Same vibes, but plane IS actually a viable target so it returned for real damage. Notice how in both cases russians try it very hard to hide the damage. If it was a false flag they would be exaggerating it and showing every dent but now you can't film it even.
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  3. I mean, if they keep moving the goalposts from Kyiv in 3 days to Avdiivka in 10 years, they can pretend the campaign wasn't a complete disaster, when Ukraine was expected to hold out for 72 hours and instead russians fail to take even a single major city (like, ANY regional capital) after 2014 apart from Kherson. MAYBE russians should look at reality on the ground and admit they wasted half a million troops and will never, ever, have Kherson or Zaporizhzhia cities, and should just capitulate instead. I have never seen something as embarrassing as declaring to annex cities you cannot even besiege. This is like a extra level of cope.
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  4. The idea letting RUSSIAN investigators on a crime scene is like letting a serial killer be on the jury for convicting himself tho.
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  5.  @nozhki-busha True, for anyone doubting that most russian civilian hits are not misfires, look up "hospital bombing campaign" russia did in Syria. They're priority targets for them. Schools too, because people had a tendency to hide there as a "safe zone", while Ukrainian schools aren't used for refugees, but rather, get evacuated during air raid alarms.
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  6. Americans, call your local congressman office and make them sign the discharge petition for Ukraine aid, we only need a few dozen more signatures to collect, there are lists with numbers and those who haven't signed yet (mostly "progressives" and Republicans) online.
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  7. Thanks brave Norwegian sailors and one amazing British beaver for doing the toothwork on the pipes! Even before they invaded, we in Ukraine wanted that pipeline down, because it exists to avoid paying us for transit... SDP having a painful withdrawal from not sniffing russian gas is a bonus.
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  8. Journalists at the time: Ukraine will not retake land formally declared annexed because NOOKULAR WRAAAAA, so Ukrainians liberate Kherson.
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  9. They have planes falling almost daily and they are installing McMahons from WWE as department of education. LITERAL CLOWN SHOW.
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  10. Why are you comparing Imperial russia, which was one country, with their biggest enemy, USSR, and EITHER with modern russia, which isn't even near the power of either? Historically russia lost war to Chechnya. Wars with Napoleon have as much to do with current russia as modern Italy has to do with Punic wars. What next, listing pros and cons of war elephants?
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  11.  @dpelpal  I think this is the one think people don't understand: current performance of gains in style of Blackadder (outside of undefended gray zones), and WW1 style casualties, the russia underperforms so much they're actually going much worse than in Afghanistan, which they lost, and they had lower casualties than locals there, which isn't the case in Ukraine if you even take a cursory look at Oryx.
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  12. What 33 years of peace? They invaded Ukraine in 2014, Georgia in 1993 and 2008, Chechnya in 1994 and 1999, Moldova in 1991, the only years of "peace" was a break after 2nd Chechen war until Georgia, so... almost 8 years of... not really peace, but frozen conflicts. War every single year before and after. How delusional Westerners have to be to claim that bombing Donetsk airport in 2014 or Tbilisi in 2008 is somehow "peaceful"?
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  13. Notice how he never attacks the pu directly. It's always his cronies attacking each other, which works for him as his faults can be split evenly between officials and they never unite with each other for a coup.
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  14. His math with losses is all wack too, he claims a very low WiA/KiA rate (1 to 1), and then says Ukraine lost X times more and his casualty rate for Ukrainians doesn't correspond to his own figures. The "20k dead russians" is the only thing that's consistent with other reports, but even that can be sus because he claimed half of them were prisoners and half professional, mercs, they should not have 50/50 rate anyway as ones were used as cannon fodder. Basically for him it is profitable to exaggerate losses of both but then again, his verall casualty rate for russians is at 40k (half wounded) which might be close to truth if we ONLY count Wagner and not the rest of the army. Anyway, DO NOT BELIEVE PRIGOZHIN, his main career is running a disinformation network. Like people fell for his markers on the wall where he put one onto some islands near New Zealand, come on!
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  15.  @OleDiaBole  Ah yes, "not a single Crimean", apart from those Crimean Tatars who were arrested or disappeared for not wanting to be colonized again. Anyway, KURSK WAS ALWAYS UKRAINE, there isn't a single Kurianin who identifies as russian, there's no referendum needed, it's just Ukrainian land as it always was. Period.
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  16. Wake-up call was in 2007 and 2008. 2014 was time for prompt action. 2022 was time to understand everybody is a decade too late, doing nothing in 2025 is just FACE MEET PALM.
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  17.  @tomthebomb2715  Elon's wage slaves afford private jets? LMAO log out comrade Ivanov.
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  18. The "Formalising Ukraine's territorial losses" Kellogg, that guy? He's the worst, I assume Ukraine will put sacking him as one of first conditions to even have dialogue with USA. Like, imagine being worse than Sullivan. It was thought to be impossible, but somehow a pack of cereal is doing that.
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  19. The moscow is the most monitored city in the world with cameras working 24/7, we only have the CCTV video from first strike. It's the second one filmed 16 minutes after the first hit that was filmed, OF COURSE people would monitor a roof that's on fucking fire!
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  20.  @Princip666  look up New Year assault on Grozny. The russians definitely did "fight" in winter, if you can call losing half of their entire army in a day "fighting..."
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  21. I heard it's just specific Pokrovsk defense that is confused, it has just been reinforced. My mum grew up near those terrikons and the fact it's been 11th year and the war is STILL around where it started kind of makes me wonder what copium poo teen must be on.
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  22.  @luffebassen  what USA and its borders have to do with anything? No, russia invading America would be just as insane and stupid as russia invading Ukraine. It's almost like invading and colonizing other countries is equally, bad, be it russians in Alaska, russians in Mali, or russians in Afghanistan.
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  23.  @agffans5725  Yeah, but the second explosion video was also filmed by hands from a hotel window, you can see kitchen in the reflections. My personal non-credible take is picking up that ridiculous western vata claim that it was Mark Hamill... as he fundraises for drone army. I even made a render proving Luke Skywalker did it in Stable DIffusion lmao! XD I posted it on community posts here. Undeniable proof the Jedi blew up Kremlin to celebrate May the 4th.
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  24.  @lawrenceksyahoocom  in what fantasy land of unicorns russia ever followed any negotiated peace again? They negotiated peace with Chechnya and invaded it again in 1999, they had ceasefires with Ukraine in 2014 and 2015, which russians broke within HOURS, not even day. There is no settlement or arrangement that russia didn't break ON THE SAME DAY. There's only two ways for this war to end, and the one we are looking for currently is "to the last russian".
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  25. Unfortunately YouTube bot comment filters are horrible too. Half of them disappear.
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  26. 2008-08-08 was the date russia invaded Georgia. They ALWAYS start invasions during Olympics. 2014 or 2022. Apparently two can play this game. News was watching Ukrainian boxer take gold as russians failed evacuating Kusk region.
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  27. We had two peace treaties with russia in 2014 and 2015, both broken within HOURS of signing them, and russia never actually followed to ceasefire lines (the last one russians signed they won't enter Debaltseve - as they were bombing the green corridor there).
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  28. You think a unit without ammo won't have its tides turned by... getting ammo? You know Ukraine lost one of its biggest power plants because they fired 10 ballistic missiles and we only had 7 interceptors, so 3 missiles hit? You think ability to actually defend from missiles won't change anything, really? What about IFVs, drones, 155mm shells, air to air missiles our pilots fire at their drones?
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  29.  @carlossaraiva8213  difference is for every Fox News you have MSNBC, even if they're half-assed like everything liberals in USA do (no offense, but it's true). Even Turkey has working opposition media, despite Erdogan's best efforts... but in countries like russia, north Korea and Hungary, government has a monopoly on effectively ALL media. Now imagine if USA didn't have CNN, NBC, WaPo, NYTimes, and ONLY ran with channels like OANN and your leading evening show host was Alex Jones, and only allowed "opposition" being Confederate fan pages and Stormfront. This is the state of media in russia. Everything pro-putin with even more extreme views allowed as controlled opposition (which never wins anything larger than local election) to show him as the lesser evil.
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  30. YouTube changed way it counts views long ago, remember how it was stuck at 301+? To avoid that, they now check views for being long enough and real, so the first minute of video upload, most views have simply not passed the check yet.
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  31. That said, that one treeline today video where termites were drone-thermited by our guys was an amazing show.
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  32. 2:00 Not criticizing just clarifying the pronunciation, the "y" in Sumy is и/ы like the first Y in Sydney or Lynch. So closer to Soo-meh than Soo-mee. I know you have great pronounciations otherwise! The russians can't pronounce that city's name either. Despite russian having a word that sounds exactly like it (сумы - bags).
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  33. But wait Elmo defeated the bots, now they're only 90% of traffic!
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  34. I mean it literally had "Ani Lorak's revenge fund" and "Dubinsky pro" written on them, framing traitors of Ukraine in a little trolling op.
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  35. Oh but he is wrong, as in, factually always making mistakes, messing up dates, saying Petliura (who was killed in 1926) ran with Hitler or that Shubert (who died from typhoid) died from syphilis and claiming that moscow controlled everything in 10th century, BEFORE IT WAS BUILT. Or quoting Rurik, a fictional character.
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  36. It's appeaser math. Ukraine throwing a rock across borser - escalation, ru using ICBMs or dropping missiles in Poland - not.
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  37.  @waywardgeologist2520  what?
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  38.  @JensNyborg  Ideally we hope for a major civil war inside of russia, with rival warlords fielding personal armies, that's why Ukraine plays up Wagner, Shoigu and Kadyrov conflicts. Without a full-scale civil war that turns russia into wasteland the rest are half-measures. Otherwise, even if we push them from Europe to Urals, they will shell us from there. Not acceptable. Only other option is Iraq style international intervention that hopefully starts with moscow being glassed.
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  39. Five. The five regions russia claims to annex. Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson. Without controlling capitals to two of those.
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  40. It was the opposite before 2022, they ONLY spoke with russia (even BBC or CNN when writing about Kyiv would be using their moscow correspondents) they even in February 22 refused to admit they all were duped.
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  41. That's why right and left bank are proper terms since they always conform to specific sides of land, while river turns and twists so same side can be sometimes East, other times West, one turn North and the other South... HOWEVER, with Ukraine, it was always divided by left and right bank. Kinda like there's Upper and Lower Egypt, there's Eastern and Western Ukraine, with division on Dnipro banks. So by definition, anything on RIGHT bank will be considered in West of Ukraine and LEFT bank will be East. That's just how things are called here.
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  42. I want to add that "Europe is falling apart" was russian narrative since at least 2016 and "Ukraine is freezing" is regular russian fairytale on every winter... Get ready to roll your eyes even harder when they will claim that Italy is frozen at 20 degrees Celsius (ignoring 60% of russia doesn't have heating... in Siberia). Their propaganda is mega cringe. One time Skabeyeva announced "Ukraine is officially out of salt". I still don't know what that was supposed to mean... Neither their reports of "UK has no food in supermarkets" or "EU ran out of toilet paper" make any sense, it's just make-believe for domestic audience, projecting russian problems abroad.
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  43. I think a good example of false flag attack is the CoD No Russian mission: a busy airport, tons of civilian casualties and used to blame a foreign intervention. Not making Volochkova shit herself with a drone that has Ani Lorak written on it.
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  44. I agree completely, but even if they had double the force there, it would be impossible to surround (not even take, just besiege) Kharkiv even in theory... as in, even in best case scenario and super luck, they don't have enough manpower to do it. And the idea that Ukrainian forces are stretched more than russian because of Kharkiv is kind of debunked by basic geometry (inner circle is smaller than the outer).
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  45.  @deshawn2nice  ah yes, significant gains of... not even a single regional capital in 10 years. The orkish are STILL not even close to Sloviansk since they were pushed from it a DECADE ago. Ten years without capturing Donetsk Oblast'. This is insane, at this rate there will be nobody alive in mordor before they reach Kramatorsk.
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  46.  @thinker646  if putin wanted to move Wagners to Belarus and attack from there, HE JUST WOULD. Without announcing. Instead of near-overthrowing himself and announcing to exile ONE single wagnerite to Belarus. Who is reportedly back in russia after spending a few hours in Minsk airport.
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  47. At this point I think Westerners self-deceived into thinking they'll find a way to make him immortal.
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  48.  @stischer47  he was filing a complaint to a czar. Ancient tradition known as chelobitnaya, literally head-banging-the-floor appeal. Shrek wasn't insulting khuilo at any point, he was lamenting in the style of "boyars are bad, my liege, blyat". XD
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  49. ​ @RawaLanunBahasa  we all wished he would nuke moscow as soon as convoy approached it or at least nuke Rostov and Voronezh earlier... But there's time for everything. It's not IF but when russia will be nuked at this point.
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  50. The war started in 2014. Before that they invaded Georgia in 2008. West really helped with "russian reboots" and buying record amount of oil. We had literal Navalny protesters caught as PoWs, even the few russians who protest their own government still go to war because they're just like that.
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  51.  @maryginger4877  that's the ones he fails to conquer in 10 years. Next is Alaska and Germany. Same chances taking it as Zaporizhzhia city.
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  52.  @florinivan6907  You are seriously asking to get classified intel ON YOUTUBE?
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  53. Hey, russian cope is also reaching new levels, they report of destroying like dozen (number increases each report) of F16s in Odesa school airfield (seriously), two Ukrainian F35s and I need to check if they added Death Star on the list yet.
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  54. Marinka, too, is completely razed. Avdiivka also. They are the frontline since 2014. Almost a decade of shelling them, though, obviously, intensifying in last year.
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  55. The "this is not phosphorus this is thermite" should be repeated like a mantra. We don't want misinformation on something this basic which doesn't even discredit them more or something. Zero reason to keep mislabeling thermite as phosphorus, it is VERY OBVIOUSLY one and not the other, even visually. Phosphorus leaves "trails" hard to mistake them for anything.
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  56. For everyone who is trusting him, I always ask: can I sell you a WALL?!
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  57. Aid was anything BUT consistent, BTW... Also, as a Ukrainian, it's kind of insane seeing Westerners so casually bury us alive, SO MANY comments are now "Ukraine is done, this is sad but oh well", guys you are no different from "2-3 days to Kyiv." Instead of donating to Come Back Alive or United24 you'd rather have us all die. Come on, the answer for aid lowering is always donate, donate, donate. This is what WE do, we support army MORE not less, when Western aid stops, which it already did in 2023.
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  58. 2:20 Our priority #1 is to survive. The West's priority #1 is only for us to die. Trust me, when this is over, nobody in Ukraine will be "grateful" we will ALWAYS remember how the Westerners took away our nukes, strategic aircraft, and SCUDs, and blocked even body armor since 2014, tanks until 2023, and planes forever. The despicable, inhuman monsters who keep trading blood money with russians and chug their oil. Ukrainians will remember!
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  59. 7:15 A LOT? We have like 40 Leos and maybe 50 Bradley IFVs. That's it. This isn't a lot, this is INCREDIBLY little. To push out Germans in same lands we used THOUSANDS of tanks AND had West pushing from other direction! Westerners are deluded if they think there's one person in Ukraine who thinks this is enough.
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  60. That's partially how Ukraine counts russian personnel losses, we approximate average crew size. Of course Oryx count is BARE MINIMUM, and real losses are much higher, unfortunately for both. Plus there are pure non-mechanized infantry losses, we all seen fields in Bakhmut with piles and piles of russians with no armor and cover.
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  61. He did it from the start. Someone with enough brain power persuaded him to retreat from Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy so they managed to save a chunk of their army (and Sumy retreat was almost orderly... almost), but they kept staying in Kharkiv and that led to Izium and Balakliia and Lyman disasters. Right now, when Ukraine didn't have large victories since Kherson, putin decided to have an encore of that embarrassment and attacked the one city that's too big to encircle even if entire russian army does a daisy chain around it.
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  62. I cannot name the country that is 💣💥 ing us without comment getting removed. It starts with r and ends with -ussy.
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  63. Ah yes, the old "you Eastern European non-aryans cannot operate Patriots" argument. We have dismissed that claim.
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  64.  @Klaus-y3v  since 2005 and counting! We're almost at 20 years of waiting for a YouTube killer.
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  65. Kursk was always Ukraine! 🇺🇦
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  66. Extrapolating this to the rest of Ukraine, they'd need double the russian population to take Ukraine by 3025 or something.
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  67. Simce NATO are useless cowards and wont sink russian ships or give us missiles than can hit Sevastopol after taking away iur SCUDs, we need to invest into our own weapons, so PLEASE DONATE TO COME BACK ALIVE, LRYTULA & UNITED24.
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  68.  @hb1338  that wasn't their point and doesn't contradict it. What they said was that opponents don't need to have differences to have a conflict.
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  69. 3:1 ratio isn't assessment of losses, but the average amount attacking army needs to succeed in assault without taking other factors into account. Casualties are not one to three, in Bakhmut it was way worse for russians at first, and not as bad in the end. It varied. In the end 100k russians are no more for a pile of rubble. " I really really don’t believe the side that pushed the weapons of mass destruction & the media that helped us into that little war " You mean the russians threatening to nuke the West every other day? Yes, nobody should believe them. Not sure what MEDIA has to do with war, all media said that "russia is going to invade Ukraine in February 2022" and it was a fact, despite russians lying that they won't invade.
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  70.  @uazuazu  at this point I legitimately think he actually believes his own bullshit, like Kyiv in 2-3 days and taking Kharkiv NOW with less than 50k troops, he actually thought it might work.
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  71. We, in Ukraine, were telling everyone all along: it's not putin's war, it's russian war. The ratings of russian government always depended on amount of death and destruction shown on TV. Every time the public support falls, a new war is started to satiate the bloodthirsty russian people.
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  72. When all else fails? What else? Russian policy was always destroying everything that moves, look at Grozny, Aleppo, Mariupol. As soon as russians announced "defend civilians of Donbas" everyone living there was doomed. Humans can survive a lot of things: tornadoes, volcanoes, plague... but not russians "defending" them.
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  73.  @setlerking  believed in what? He was a seminary student turned burglar who became a leader of socialist atheist dictatorship and provided mass russification policy despite not being russian himself. Stalin had zero ideals, his only goal was power at any cost.
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  74. Luhansk push into Svatove/Kreminna roads was ongoing for some time, and push south into Zapo region is what russians expect, however we might see something unexpected this time. Time will tell.
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  75.  @anderspuck  please read articles on legality of White Phosphorus, I was surprised there's almost zero treaties limiting it. In fact, the thermite russians use (it doesn't leave white smoke trails characteristic to WP) is worse. Does it count as incendiary munitions?
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  76. Five. Luhansk, Donetsk, Crimea, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson. They all have same status though russia doesn't even control the capitals of two of those.
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  77. The videos locals made literally said how their kids ALREADY fighting in Ukraine and how they supported "special military operation" from the first day. Now Navalny's widow shows that video to the West (not translating what they said) to try to stop Ukraine aid because of poor Kursk citizens.
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  78. Yes it's just every loss is painful, and when media sees Ukrainians crying over every life as a tragedy they get a feel that entire front is collapsing. Soldiers will ALWAYS pain a bleak picture because their life depends on it. It's normal for people on frontlines always complain about not having enough shells etc., that's what saves lives.
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  79. Ah yes, the Economist, top military analysts, from the 2-3 days to take Kyiv to Ukrainians will need 16 months to learn to use white people equipment to Ukrainian counter-offensive will never take back Kherson fame.
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  80. About Ukraine-reported russian casualties: personnel losses are approximate, they literally had an asterisk saying that in reports. For same reason you said, methodology counting individual soldiers is imprecise. Generally, they count average crew size for each vehicle but you can't always be sure if it had higher or lower crew and it's hard to know for sure which are KIA and which are simply wounded or even retreated from a burning tank. Just clarifying that Ukrainian general staff itself openly admits that the count isn't, and cannot be, precise. It's all approximations. Speaking of personnel only here, the tech counts ARE assumed to be precise, Ukraine uses soldier reports, Oryx uses open source pictures, videos, and crew obituaries, which establish the bare floor of minimum losses for either side. Real loss count is 100% higher, only question is to what extent. Another thing that I want to add is that American counts are also flawed, there's another problem, they ASSUME 1 to 3 ratio of dead to wounded. Despite russian medevac being infamously bad, and prisoners not even getting one at all, what little we know it wad more 1.1-1.5 to 1 ratio, so 80k dead to 100k wounded would be closer to reality than ~40k dead and 120k+ wounded invaders, which Americans presume. They're projecting Western care for common soldier's life onto post-Soviet values where people are considered expendable.
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  81. We literally fundraised for a drone that goes 1000km, but this could have been flied locally. By either a troll or one of our spies.
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  82. They literally get endless supply of microchips from USA, missiles that kill kids in Ukraine have AMD and Texas instruments components running them, nobody stopped exporting drone engines or electronics to russia, EU also takes their blood money. While Ukrainians have to crowdfund drones, russia gets BILLIONS from the West to kill us with no repercussions. AND now North Korea and Iran - much better allies than Westerners it seems - are supplying russians far better than entire West combined, which is now blocking roads in Poland and stealing Ukrainian money to arm Israel instead.
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  83. Why would they bomb Kremlin for such a thing? This is humiliating for them, also they don't NEED an excuse to cancel the parade, if anything, being forced to cancel the parade in the center of moscow because Ukrainians are in the walls is much more embarrassing than canceling it without them admitting they can't stop our drone army. Anyway, the theory about "false flag to cancel parade" will be probably debunked by parade not getting canceled anyway.
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  84.  @agffans5725  "did not come from direction of Ukraine" the literally flew from opposite directions. Doesn't mean they flied in straight path from Kyiv non-stop. Likely they were armed closer and we KNOW they were launched from different sides.
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  85. I still find it hard to believe... no, I am not denying what happened, I mean... it sounds like incredibly good luck for us. But it's not luck, it's a result of "useless Ukrainian PsyOps" like giving Shoigu a congratulatory letter with his name for corruption, were always respectful to Wagner scumbags while berating the Kremlin brass... somehow, it worked, and he fell for it, blaming the leadership and attacking them. We out-PsyOped the propaganda king (Prigozhin ran the russian troll farms).
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  86. That's the second drone. First set the Palace on fire. The two guys were putting it out with their bodies (no water) and someone filmed the losers who drew the short sticks.
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  87. Looks out of the window... I don't think driving is an option now. We need, boats, for moving through the city. Hence the lost Humvees.
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  88. If Ukrainian army, which had less than a million people in it, lost more than a million in two years, WHY CAN'T THE RUSSIANS TAKE EVEN ONE BIG CITY? Like one regional capital near the border, like Kharkiv or Sumy. Or even entire Donetsk oblast'. Ten years and million of russians dead they can't even conquer ONE (1) oblast'. But if there is no Ukrainian army and everyone is dead, how is the russia not making a march to Poland?
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  89. @bFlorida-m1t  that's my point if we started training on F16s, Gripens and Mirages in 2022, our boys would be flying them in 2023, but we were refused training on Western planes because they said it would take "too long", "up to 16 months", so only AFTER more than a year passed, pilot training STARTED.
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  90.  @worldpiece2023  Europe's tanks are like 5% of Ukrainian armor fleet. Artillery for us and russia have exact same problems with any weather. Also this raputitsa thing I only heard about from Western YouTubers and nowhere else. Like, it's not a thing you learn in Ukrainian or russian society... at all.
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  91. Why would they be horrified? They're literally cheering it. That's the entirety of what putin's rating is based on since 1999: TV images of ethnic cleansing in faraway lands. The russians are willing to starve as long as they see someone they consider "less race" being killed with their budget. Always has been like that. Every missile flying out of Belgorod is cheered by locals. They have picnic parties celebrating another kindergarten in Ukraine destroyed.
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  92. 1. This problem was largely solved on 24.02.22, almost everyone who was pro-russian changed their mind while being bombed. Few who didn't and work for the enemy are committing high treason and get life sentence. 2. West has TONS of russian oligarchs, tourists, migrants and their families, threatening to deport or jail them, confiscating property etc. would have helped save Ukrainian children, but there's a biological problem: we learned that nobody in Western governments has testicles.
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  93. Nah, we'd have to do it with the entire russian male population. China should prepare to import the widows until it's too late as russia is prepping child soldiers to be sent in human waves storming Bakhmut after they run out of adult mobiks.
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  94. Nobody is annexing anything, annexation happens when there's no war. With fighting underway it is literally just military occupation. Not even Anschluss, just russians getting out of their minds and thinking a fake "law" will work like a magic spell. With same luck I can "annex" Siberia from my home.
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  95. A lot of memes just putting Bakhmut near Berlin or DC on maps, because the way media reports on it seems like it's literally the last bastion of defense and not a medium sized town in the middle of Donestk oblast'.
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  96. Media should just ignore trump in general, he knows nothing, makes things up as he goes, and constantly contradicts himself. US officials already had to correct themselves after bad takes on NATO and at this point Europe should just do by itself, stop expecting America to be relevant FOR LONG.
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  97. Yeah you aren't supposed to use it over cities. It is also thermite not phosphorus.
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  98. It was very easy to make predictions about russia doing what it always does, though.
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  99.  @anaremelam5998  you can't even spell it. But media always reports moscow's lies as if they were true and ignores Ukraine.
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  100. Many in Ukraine were actually MAD at our genshtab continuing to defend Bakhmut, it was literally the most questionable decision by them since the start of the war, it's horrible to defend.
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  101. Because ru gets endless weapon components from USA and Switzerland, and more money from EU than Ukraine, this is a fact: last year Europeans gave pu tin more money for oil and gas than Ukrainians for weapons.
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  102. Ukraine lost 3rd Assault brigade? Nope, Azov still going strong. Also russia totally didn't get GRU wiped out in Mariupol and then Wagner, their actually best fighting force fully modeled after Hitler's forces, in Bakhmut. With their Goering at home poofing up in the sky with his butt buddy.
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  103.  @Princip666  lmao putin looks super weak when when he can't control his own borders. The russia doesn't have borders it's up for taking. Finland should take scat putinsburg.
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  104. This feels like sour grapes again. The russians either acted on false intel of were stupid as usual, and Leeroy Jenkinsed towards Kharkiv same way they did in 2022, but got nowhere as far, and now their manlet is complaining he didn't try to take the city again, like how after they were defeated two years ago, he screamed about "feinting". Maybe they genuinely thought Ukraine ran out of ammo and rushed the offensive because they didn't expect the aid that was blocked since last August to already get through?
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  105. Austrian general is a joke, how the hell would he see what's in Donbass when all Austria's government does is stage waltz with putin? NONE of new Ukrainian brigades on western equipment even STARTED to take part in a fight. None. SOME elite units were eventually sent into Bakhmut but majority of casualties, unfortunately, were common guys, TDF and armed force.
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  106. Aha, we bought so much popcorn and only 15 pilots turned into good russians. I want more fun!
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  107. Yes, the definition of annexation is taking territory WITHOUT war, so like it's literally impossible to legally call a territory you're FIGHTING FOR annexed. Hell even Crimea is NOT annexed by under occupation. By any laws occupied territory is just that. Annexation is russian rhethorics it's bit recognized.
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  108. 5:01 Aha. Why didn't Jews just negotiate with Hitler, eh? Because when someone's goal is a genocide, the only deal would be to march into death camps.
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  109.  @julilab  nah the regions don't even have autonomy in russia, all armed forces under Ministry of Defense are answering to moscow. But the PMCs, which aren't even legal in russia, do NOT answer to those and are essentially private armies of some oligarch, like Prigozhin in the case of Wagner. They answer directly to him and he answers directly to putlo, so his goons have beef with MoD which has different resources and things like aircraft and heavy weaponry. And shells. Wagner depends on artillery support from official army to advance.
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  110. ​ @nonenone762  shit excuse. By this logic you would have supported Holocaust if Hitler had nukes. Actually russia having nuclear weapons is the biggest reason TO depose psychopaths ruling it.
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  111. A thousand years ago there wasn't any russia, just marshes... as a country they emerged around Ivan IIIrd as moscow moved from being a city-state to... well, a thing that subjugates other city states. They keep trying legacy of Kyiv leading to Constantinople leading to Rome, but it's more of a stretch than any other "Holy Roman Empires".
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  112. Static lines of contact don't mean the battle is over, I mean russians haven't moved in Marinka for a year, does that mean the battle is over? No, it's ongoing without major changes to report on. Also it's a war crime to use ANYTHING against civilians tho, with incendiary weapons or other imprecise/cluster stuff you aren't supposed to use it in populated areas in general because hard to avoid civilian casualties. Anyway russians use thermite not phosphorus. They made many actual war crimes like bombing of hospital in Dnipro TODAY, so people should focus on documenting and preventing those instead of repeating the nonsense about banned phosphorus (which they don't use anyway). No, shelling a theater with CHILDREN on it with half-a-ton bomb isn't much better because it didn't glow in the night.
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  113. 8:50 PREACH! This part, please edit it onto a short because more people need to hear it. We curse that administration for having to STILL sit in shelters for 3 years. And new one is SOMEHOW even more useless.
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  114.  @Dennis0824  10 years for Afghan war, and USSR collapsed after losing it. Don't know where you got 20. Oh you mean Western counter-insurgency? Compare YEARLY losses rate there to a DAY in Ukraine. The russians lose more than thousand soldiers EVERY DAY.
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  115.  @pquumm  Then don't stop sanctions. Forever. Sanctions on USSR held out for half a century. Actually, embargo them. They either pay or they can't buy or sell anything. Simple as that. Turn russia into North Korea just with shittier infrastructure, no roads, and worse people.
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  116. Ah yes, sorry, I forgot I should just DIE so you can buy more booze... sure. 40 millions Ukrainians is a sacrifice you're willing to make to have CHEAPER CONSUMER GOODS. Like you're a psychopath at this point.
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  117.  @schutzanzug6731  Ukraine has good tech but not enough people in army. So the other way around. And russia has to buy shells from north Korea and relies in USA for drone production, if only West was a bit less corrupt russians would be drone-less. They're not self sufficient, without Texas Instruments and AMD supply moscow will fall.
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  118. Bombing Kerch bridge timeline depends on literally drones or missiles getting through. We are trying to destroy it ALL the time. Not every day but periodically there's panic as something flies that way. As to insurance costs, sinking russian fleet is the only thing that can keep it down. As long as russia operates anything in water, waters would NEVER be safe. Not even a fishing boat should be allowed for russians to operate. No russian should be in Europe OR in our waters. Except under the surface I mean.
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  119.  @MusicalMemeology  some people still think NATO will grow balls or conscience but it became obvious when missiles land in Poland, fly through Romania regularly, and russians keep firing at Turkish ships and US drones that no amount of attacks on NATO will make them defend themselves. Ukraine is the only one who will fight and protect Europe as useless West surrenders immediately at every opportunity.
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  120. Ukraine LITERALLY just signed a binding treaty that USA will support it in NATO.
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  121. The russians literally mined the dam, then exploded it. People literally heard explosions and we have intercepts of russians confessing they did it. UN, Red Cross, Aric Toler, Christopher JM, NYT, and other useless organizations and propagandists spinning theories about mOtHeR nAtUrE doing it should be ashamed. They're completely discredited.
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  122. Good video, explains in 5 minutes what we are ruining our throats screaming about lol.
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  123. Ah yes, pushed back. Now look at the map. If a snail was advancing on the pace russia is, it would be ALREADY in Kyiv. But they're slower. Taking a minor city with 100k population over 10 months, means that russians would need 200 MILLIONS casualties to take entire Ukraine by 3025. Seriously. Look at the map! Ukraine retook more land in a few days of Kharkiv counter-offensives that russians took in a YEAR.
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  124. Proxy conflict? Proxies of whom, North Korea vs Lithuania? Put it off, this is a traditional colonial war of expansion, no different from their 18th century conquest in Siberia, Caucasus and yes, Ukraine.
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  125. They were right on 1), 3) and 5), West is STILL blocking Ukraine from striking enemy bases inside their country, and Germany, Hungary and USA are blocking everything they can from Ukrainians to make sure ru doesn't collapse. Also every Ukrainian is jealous of the allies ru got, North Korea alone supplies more shells than entire NATO combined, I WISH we had support even half as good as enemies get from Iran, China, EU etc.
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  126. 100%
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  127. West is really going out of their way to prevent it, they will fail saving it just like they couldn't save Soviet Union.
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  128. Yes but you see the West does everything it can to protect russia, compare how they shot down Iranian drones over heads of Iraqis compared to Poland and Romania WHICH ARE NATO having SAME drones and missiles fly through uncontested. If I was a russian commander I'd just set all paths to Ukraine through NATO territory knowing NATO is a puppet of Russia and will never ever defend itself from it. This nigjt Ukrainians are FURIOUS over Western response to Israel. Absolute monsters, letting us be bombed every day because Westernets consider us less than human.
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  129. Remember that UKRAINE, of all people, answered the call and took part in ALL NATO campaigns, only for NATO armies try to lawyer their way out of helping Ukraine. USA invading Denmark isn't really surprising after how we Ukrainians were betrayed by ungrateful spoiled westerners.
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  130. United Nations literally called a russian language day, joking that if you don't speak russians they will come and make you (top comment on the coordinated UN post), there was ZERO international response or condemnation on russia, instead endless NYT articles on "Ukrainians having bad patches". Everyone in Ukraine now calls for United Nations to be abolished. I personally think they should all be persecuted too, UN is a war crime cover-up organization. Red Cross too. We will never tolerate them existing in our country anymore.
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  131. The US thing is interesting: with Biden retiring we KNOW USA won't have the same administration after elections. I think Zelenskyy is still putting bets on tRump, like he mistakenly did in 2020 (and how Poroshenko was mistaken in supporting Clinton), so if having Ukrainian presence in Kursk and some damage there will sabotage "peace" talks I'm all for that. After all, any "peaceful" agreements with russia likely end with most of us dead, so we need to do anything in our power to avoid West attacking Ukraine and forcing it to disarm and just die.
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  132. Accidentally exploded exactly when counter-offensive started and within 24 hours Tucker Carlson started a show on Twitter with him and Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. peddling anti-Ukrainian conspiracies on the topic, WHILE New York times makes a propaganda piece about "nAzIs In UkRaInE" and UN with russian propagandists threatens to kill everyone who refuses to speak russian. Amazing coincidence that a worldwide propaganda campaign from Red Cross to United Nations and Elon Musk all started exactly on the day russians ACCIDENTALLY blown up the dam with tons of explosives. Amazing coincidence! They planned this for years, from buying Twitter to installing their puppets in UN and ICRC.
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  133. Instead, every time they put more LIMITS on Ukraine and ALWAYS warn russia to hide the planes further away if they guess we have longer range capabilities. NATO is a russian puppet.
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  134. The russian strategists are not smart. In fact, we're very lucky they're that stupid. Soldiers on frontlines are happy at every missile that flies past them into some random street crossing.
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  135. Hurt them more? Please tell me, watching furniture, mines and HOUSES washing up on a shore near my house in Odesa, that this hurt goddamn muscovites more in their dachas near north pole. Tell that to people stranded on roofs, animals and peopel who died because russians shoot on everyone who evacuates, while UN posts about "russian language day" and russian TV blasts 24/7 that their plan is final solution to Ukrainian question via drowning Ukrainian children. Do you understand that the only goal of any russian is genocide?
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  136. As Ukrainian, I'm just mad Biden claims he stopped putin right when the biggest children's cancer hospital was hit by russians... Americans. Doing nothing then taking all credit. Absolute zero self-awareness. And world does nothing to stop russia hitting hospitals and killing babies from afar, as Ukraine's strategic bombers were destroyed under US watchful eye, then they banned Ukraine from hitting deep inside russia, russians literally get away with mass murder scot-free. Apparently, stopping planes firing all the way from Caspian sea is "escalation" but burying children under rubble is not.
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  137. It was suggested by a politicians who knows nothing in an offhand comment, there's no way you can lose 3.5 times more tech and less people than is needed to drive it.
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  138.  @blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311  How many angles those 5 Bradleys need to be looked at to take them for "hundreds"? Every single day russia loses ten times more just over one factory in Avdiivka, near Donetsk... which russians are throwing meat waves at since 2014, it will be a DECADE of RUSSIANS FAILING TO TAKE A DUNG HEAP IN DONBAS SOON.
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  139.  @Princip666  putin's stated goals were, quote "demilitarization" - Ukraine's army is now bigger than before, shots down Tu22s, has Patriots, ATACMS, and will be flying F16s soon... and "denazification" - Ukraine managed to get Ozzy Osbourne to chant Slava Ukraine, and Luke Skywalker is currently fundraising drones for us, so that's EPIC FAIL of russians, instead of destroying it, they made Ukrainian nationalism mainstream default in Western countries.
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  140.  @carkawalakhatulistiwa  you seriously think russia losing its entire population to make Ukraine lose its is the best case scenario for russians? xD And for what, dying to... destroy a few small towns in Donbas? Also russia always breaks all peace accords, it's clear there will be no peace, as putin will fight to the last russian.
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  141. ​ @Grokku.61  ...in two days? More than russians took in 7 years between 2015 to 2022.
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  142. It was more than that, lmao 114% IIRC for United russia party.
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  143. The russia is EXTREMELY predictable. All their moves are something they already done, like look at Grozny or Aleppo and see Mariupol... They never used WMDs. Except as empty threats. Which aren't new either. Notice how russia isn't crossing the line of using chemical weapons (which they have) in Ukraine either. They know they only will get away with using them in London (Brits gave russia a carte blanche to use them when Litvinenko murder had no retaliation). But use of chems in Ukraine will lead to US involving itself in the war and russia will lose much faster, much harder. This whole "crazy Ivan" charade is fake and calculated. Always have been.
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  144. Oh whose side? EU pays russia for gas and oil tens, hundred times more than the crumbs it gives Ukraine, USA is giving russia endless missile components with zero restriction when never giving same range to Ukraine. As a Ukrainian, we KNOW putin's joke of a country is weak, problem is the entire NATO, Iran and North Korea give them much more weapons than we can get. West wanting russia to survive at any cost is the problem. We need to fix corruption in Washington and Brussels... somehow.
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  145.  @ilyakasnacheev  anyone in russia who had "voters" vote for them in occupied Ukraine is already an accomplice, that's one of MANY reasons Ukrainians celebrated the russian ultranationalist Navalny finally being dead. Imagine if the West, with how it keeps polishing his family's nether regions, accepted Navalny as legitimate ruler of PART OF UKRAINE. That's pretty scary for people who can't return to their homes because russians took them in 2014.
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  146. ​ @yunnaot  Navalny didn't live on the edge, he literally went into russia out of his own free will and got arrested from sheer stupidity of that action. He could easily live happily in Germany or US and be "leader of russian opposition" there but decided to die for nothing. But TO HIS LAST DAY, he supported russian imperialism over Ukraine. We, Ukrainians, are happy he's dead and stops poisoning western ears with russian imperialist narrative.
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  147. Denmark can (and should) absolutely dunk on USA, Germany and others' media whose main comments on this war come from very questionable commentators who freely repeat misinformation.
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  148.  @miriamweller812  NATO is a mutual defense pact. The organization isn't going around hiring guests on TV shows. Their producers do.
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  149. That's literally what they want. The 1945 status quo where West bows down to moscow, and gives them half of Europe including Poland, Czech Republic and Baltic States. It's a non-starter because while Germany or France will agree to become russian territory, Ukraine never will. Yalta conference was the biggest disgrace of 20th century, there will be no russian in Crimea one way or another.
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  150. LMAO inviting USA to exploit your natural resources, might as well just starve yourselves without the middle man.
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  151. Or else he will send another million to meat storm Kharkiv?
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  152. It tells.how corrupt is Western media, always giving credit to liars and cheats like him over Ukrainian voices.
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  153. Oh Ukraine doesn't need a reason to keep hitting the illegal bridge, we are doing this all time because it's like our religion. Three things that should be bombed and destroyed: Nordstream pipelines, Kerch bridge, and moscow.
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  154. Sumy is Ukrainian, always was, and russia never captured it or came close, one or two lost APCs there were burned.
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  155. There's also a saying that russian final answer to any problem is "we will bomb Voronezh". They are already bombing their own Belgorod thanks to misfires and crashed planes. The russians will absolutely sacrifice their cities and their male population and still lose. Like they always do. Every war russia was in, they either lost badly like in Japan, Afghanistan or Chechnya, or had USA bail them out.
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  156. 10:08 Yes Anders, our fear in Ukraine IS that this ridiculously low level of support will be indefinitely, that nobody in Ukraine will ever see peace because the West is willing to sacrifice 40 million people to avoid actually making AT LEAST as much ammo as bloody North Korea.
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  157. To win we'd need SOME help. Anything! It's been over a YEAR asking to close the sky, send troops or give us planes, or at least stop buying russian oil and West has done NOTHING! Except buy more fossil fuels from russians and sing kumbaya. No embargoes, recent US leak shown there's NO secret training or special forces work underway. Only embassy guards inside... Nothing is done, only talks and minimal supply of ammo and tech that barely covers our losses. Goddamn russia is presiding in UN Security Council. You can't even imagine how much Ukrainians despise the Westerners now. Inaction that killed millions, in Syria, Libya, Myanmar, Ukraine, Georgia and wherever else russians will decide to pillage next.
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  158. We didn't GET a chance to make a swift advance with navel-gazing before giving us weapons for almost two years and bans from striking russian territory, from which they safely resupply. Ukraine is advancing against russia with one hand tied behind its back while NATO is useless and trembling in fear.
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  159. The latest russian false flag was shelling and burning down a bus with civilians in Donetsk. That's what they do, try to paint Ukrainians as monsters killing civilians by, well, killing civilians. In Ukraine. Not embarrass russian air defenses. And for what? Not like they changed anything they do in the war after it.
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  160. Yeah, I love when russians and even worse, russophiles, claim that "russia won't do that because it doesn't benefit them"... you mean like invading Ukraine in 2014? Or like annexing Crimea legally instead of claiming it's independent like South Osetia and Abkhazia? Or like coming clear and openly invading in 2022? Nothing they do makes logic... unless their only goal is genocide, of course. Now "final solution to Ukrainian question" said on russian TV makes sense, especially when their propagandist calls to drown Ukrainian children.
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  161. I mean, we attacked russian elites at rublevka. This is literally the only thing both Ukrainians and russians can agree on, those are scumbags.
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  162.  @markbryant4641  yes, he was immediately proven wrong, every single time. A broken clock is right twice a day, Mearsheimer is wrong always. A coin toss is right 50% of the time, so anyone who manages to be LESS right than a coin, is just INCREDIBLY STUPID. Like braindead. He's the dumbest person in the world.
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  163.  @stevenobrien557  Well thanks to US government being a bunch of kremlin stooges, Zelenskyy's approval is at highest since 2022, also everybody knows that West failed Ukraine by not giving enough weapons for counter-offensives.
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  164. WHY THE F ADD MORE RESTRICTIONS? It's like they desperately try to help russia.
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  165.  @perfredelius  since 2014, either invade full scale or get frozen conflict that wastes resources with no gains (Minsk shenanigans)... Early 2022, get surrounded near Kyiv or retreat... on the other side, keep trying to encircle Mykolaiv, push to Odesa, or retreat to the river, then across it from Kherson... in Mariupol, keep throwing stuff at Azovsteel or let the garrison out... no further credibility loss than Azov commanders and Marines back in action (Turkey let them go). In sea and air they're pushed to be very careful because the dileema is losing another flagship or squadrons of jets or only acting from deep behind frontlines. Same with stretching supply routes on land since HIMARs and later, Storm Shadow appeared. Tons of no-win situation... mind you, russia is making these for us too, like moving air defenses to capital/West/away or wasting resources on civilian infrastructure over figthing on the front. They fail to make some too: nobody in Ukraine actually falls for "imminent attack from Belarus" after first one failed. So no extra resources sent up north.
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  166. ​ @suportbghelp4938  parroting literal authoritarian state propaganda is not "free thinking". Let me guess you're antimask, against LGBT and think dollar is falling, you "free thinkers" are just like robots who follow all the same programming and say exactly same things. You don't think. You repeat what you're told by kremlin and CCP.
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  167.  @evgeniya7853  no, the country should be ruled by PEOPLE, but not american people who clearly can't vote. Ukrainians directly governing USA would be a HUGE profit for everyone, like deport Musk and buy Chinese drones on money from auctioning his property.
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  168. Cluster munitions aren't banned by Geneva, but only by treaty against cluster munitions, which neither USA, nor Ukraine or russia signed. Is it wrong to use them in civilian areas? Kinda. Both russia and Ukraine have them though. Israel does a lot of war crimey stuff, but it's not about WHAT they fire but WHERE they fire. The russians use thermite, same used by Azerbaijan, IIRC Israel used white phosphorus which is not banned, attacking civilians (with anything) is. Depleted Uranium isn't radioactive. It's just a dense metal. Hence, depleted. Correct me if there's proof they leave fallout, but the "depleted uranium is war crime" is the narrative russians are pushing trying to stop shells and tanks from coming into Ukraine. Heroiam Slava!
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  169.  @BTC9403  it seems this is an exception and USA really decided to end. Just it. New world order will be without Americans deciding, France and Ukraine are the ones who have most influence now. UK can hop along, Germany with Scholtz REALLY wants to sink with America but they can do a 180 and join French instead.
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  170. By voting for appeasers. Obama, Merkel, Trump, Sarkozy, Berlusconi, Orban and entire GOP in USA.
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  171. You should learn that USA isn't the shonen protagonist and your main character syndrome is absolutely infuriating: nothing can be mentioned without someone adding bUt WhAt AbOUt mUrRiCa?! in comments. Have some self control for once!..
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  172. That's literally what PoWs say too. So anyone sniffing hopium that russians are SECRETLY anti-war, we literally catch Navalny supporters who claim to be apolitical yet came to kill us as part of their armed forces. See Zolkin interviews. Those are the "ordinary russians". Like, a dude was arrested for protesting corruption... Still went to war. They're fine with genocide.
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  173. putin being Gaddafi'ed is just ONE of Ukrainian requests. At minimum russians will need to pay CENTURIES of reparations for us to stop the war. Ukraine will not declare peace on russia until they remove all of their soldiers from our land AND neighbouring regions, stop missile attacks, AND pay.
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  174. Disposable cameras are a good example, like remember, stone age didn't end because the world ran out of rocks, same way countries relying on blackmailing Europe with gas to keep afloat might not as soon as Ukraine actually closes the pipeline (should've blocked all pipes going West in 2014, Germans would be freezing for one season but there would be no war).
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  175. Yes but look at how coordinated their propaganda was: ZERO environmental orgs actually even so much as voice concern, while Twitter started a Tucker show talking for an hour with blaming Ukraine, so did RFK, UN, and ALSO New York times, which all decided to post horrendous russian propaganda within 24 hours or explosion. Say what you will about russia being bad in war, the levels of their propaganda are unprecedented, entire United Nations and Red Cross, plus the Western media, is parroting Kremlin statements non-stop. It's astounding!
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  176.  @maccaberry1041  whut? ELECTION? The moscow didn't have a real one since 1613. Lol, lmao putin losing an election is the most crazy fantasy land unrealistic hopium possible. HOW, if his party gets 146% votes? The only way power changes in russia is through coups or direct inheritance. Khuilo has no heir. The russians won't have a state when he kicks the bucket.
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  177. They have their own fantasy r&$@a with Tolstoyevsky and ballet. While in reality it's closer to Green Elephant that fetishes Fallout in an unhealthy way.
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  178. For blackmail, there should be a leverage, but Americans don't have that, as Ukrainian diplomats explained to them, so now USA is walking back its asinine ideas, losing trust and reputation and gaining nothing. As it was with Greenland (which they ain't getting either).
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  179. But it was like that for over ten years now, literally. It took them a decade to destroy Avdiivka and Marinka, do they expect ten more years to get close to Sloviansk?
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  180. The only thing that endangers the continent is russia existing. They already blew the largest dam, next they blow up the biggest Nuclear Power Plant in Europe. If NATO, and EU, doesn't intervene, then they don't deserve to exist. Ukraine will win, the West can choose their role, and right now they're not doing enough.
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  181. Weak Ukraine means strong russia and vice versa, trying to make both weak ends with World War 3 ongoing and us two being the only relevant armies in the world. BOTH are WAY stronger now than in 2022.
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  182. No, russia is literally doing major assaults and trying to advance as fast as it can, it's NOT trying WW1 style tactics, it just looks like it.
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  183. It's that West is asking Ukraine hold him for a longer until they can bring the trampoline is an issue: ironically people who say we should be afraid of putin because nOOOKz are most afraid of him LOSING nukes because they won't have a level to pull then.
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  184. Let me play the smallest violin in the world as their attack drones fly above my house. Fuck them. These russians should bring bags with them. Nobody will cry over their bodies.
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  185. The only reason Western powers could do anything against Germany was because First Ukrainian Front was pushing from the other side. TEN MILLION UKRAINIANS, every fourth Belarusian and tons of other Soviet republics citizens died on the first front so West could open second. This time, Ukraine is fighting alone... We have very good memories. If even one of us survives, we will make sure to remember how all of us were left to die without anybody else fighting. Pathetic, useless, NATO cowards.
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  186. "You don't have any cards!" orangina kept desperately repeating to himself.
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  187.  @bennycarter5249  "POUTING" Wow, that's a new one! xD Why is trumр never criticizing рu tіn, he is RUZZІА'S ВІTСН.
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  188. Beavis and Bolek.
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  189. Yalta the Western Betrayal that gave moscow half of Europe, putin's dream is to repeat it and have Western leaders give him all territory up to Berlin in Crimea.
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  190. 1) Pointless if it isn't used. 2) We are attacking their oil for more than a year now, not enough. 3) EU literally paid more to ru than donated to Ukraine last year. 4) Again, what's the point if it send zero (0) troops?
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  191.  @NoName-cx3gk  as a Ukrainian and seeing how they keep invading 11 years in, I can tell you that no European country except us would last even one year against them alone.
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  192. Good news? Where the F did you find those content creators, all I see is clickbait about frontline collapsing and how that specific tiny town in Donbas will totally make them march straight to Berlin. For 11th year straight now.
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  193. You can literally donate to Come Back Alive or United24. In Ukraine we have a saying, if you have doubts about our army's performance, we just donate more.
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  194. No long range missiles either, drip-feed of ammunition so we can't bomb minefields and very few demining or engineering vehicles. Mostly from Germany. USA is really slow on uptake now.
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  195. The "putin tried to overthrow himself as 4D masterplan to send prigozhin charging into Ukraine from Belarus" camp are the same people who claimed that "russia blew up Kremlin itself to cancels 9th of may parade that actually wasn't canceled in the end".
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  196.  @matsfrommusic  In Ukraine, the non-conspiratorial consensus seems to be that prigozhin stopped the coup because he's an idiot. Hanlon's razor, no? We EXPECT russians to do dumb stuff and they keep doing it.
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  197. Just because putin is a psychopath it doesn't make him unpredictable. In fact, Ukrainian volunteer leader said "he won't make till autumn", it was obvious Prigozhin will be assassinated. Each and every move of russia can be predicted BETTER than sane countries simply because we know the idiosyncrasies of one madman, as opposed to utter chaos than dynamic political systems can be. We knew when russia will invade, we knew how, and knew how to make them lose the initial blitz. This war has almost no surprises.
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  198. Non-pro media is often more reliable than mainstream one, hell, as a Ukrainian, I can get more reliable information from ru military bloggers who are sometimes begrudgingly negative about command (before apologizing or disappearing), but NYT and WaPo are always 100% following poo tin's narrative in all of their reports.
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  199. D-Day comparisons are ridiculous too because Allies had First Ukrainian Front pushing from the East, while Ukraine doesn't have any allies, as the West is too busy being cowards.
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  200. Marines alone won't take moscow in three days, let's not become like russians in boasting. Strategic missile strikes are needed and full air supremacy campaign like in Iraq, with full coalition. and hopefully, UN leader strapped onto a missile to be useful just one time in his life. I think Unites States actually consider russian air defense very potent, which is a mistake, easily falsifiable with Ukrainian drones striking moscow at least twice now. And you know, Mathias Rust. An Iraq style coalition is absolutely possible but they don't want it. But the alternative is drying up russians in Ukraine much like in Afghanistan. This works worse because the fighting takes place on Ukrainian territory.
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  201. Have you seen the western non-response? It was astounding, even for famously inept UN and corrupt Red Cross this crossed the line. And New York Times synchronized their "UkRaInIaN nAzIs" bull on multiple languages with Tucker's show and RFK presidential campaign. The entire Twitter purchase now looks like it was to blame Ukraine for russian war crimes this week. And international orgs are posting non-stop russian propaganda for a few days now... Even Zelenskyy, already used to West being useless and unhelpful was shocked at the sheer level of russophilia by United Nations. The "russian language day", are they insane? Entire Ukraine calls for abolishing UN completely, and persecuting the organization for war crime denial.
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  202. Yeah they're afraid of russia withdrawing and collapsing, like USSR did after Afghanistan. West would prefer another million of Syrians dying to having to establish new diplomatic relationships with balkanized post-russia countries. It's actually psychopathic. Sacrifice millions to avoid establishing 14 new embassies, that's exactly how they let Soviets decimate Afghan population, and Soviet Union collapsed ANYWAY so an insane sacrifice of millions was for nothing.
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  203.  @karuchokikete7722  why? Even if 5% of ballots were damaged and invalid (Ukraine had about 2% in last elections) how is that changing the fact that most russians love the war and cheer on killing Ukrainians? There is near zero percent of russians actually helping Ukrainian army, most of them like Navalny team complain AGAINST help to Ukraine and read long speeches in US Congress on how to stop aid to Ukraine, which works and now we're bombed more thanks to "anti-putin" russians supporting all his policies just wanting a different tsar at the helm.
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  204. Also you can't pretend that flat-Eathers and anti-vaxers should have the same platforming as sane people who have functioning brains.
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  205. When you see Leopards, Bradleys or other new tech in battle, not before that. None of newly formed units are fighting yet.
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  206. Nobody in Ukraine believes russian agreements, if we didn't shell them that means we missed the time frame to move guns into range that's it. All analysis be damned, 95% of "why Ukraine isn't doing that" is either "they tried" or "didn't have the means". Like attacking russians ships in Crimea. We try all time, not all missiles hit and drones seem to be the best bet.
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  207. The russians didn't sympathize with attacks on mega-rich at Kremlin palace or rublevka, and nobody there got more nationalist over a bunch of oligarchs shitting their pants. There's also another problem. THOSE WERE UKRAINIAN DRONES. How the hell would russia get their hands on our Bober? Stop crediting russia for effective operations done by Ukrainians! "Ukraine being openly behind any of them could backfire." How? Our last attack on moscow secure us F16s. If we bomb it harder we will finally get long range missiles. The more we show that russian red lines DO NOT EXIST the more weapons we get.
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  208. So even by smallest estimate, half of russian population came to support the war openly, rest decided to not bother and support it from home. Navalny team also called on russians to go out and stand in the voting lines so the turnout looks bigger.
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  209. The other 50% failed to arrest ONE MAN or stop the other half from giving the country to fascism. Literally Hitler had LESS than 50% support, so Americans are FAR worse than 1930s Germans. They're closest you can get to current day гusкіеs, a place where everyone sits at the table with fascists. EVERYONE.
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  210. The russian people aren't suffering at all? They made picnics celebrating hitting Ukraine for Belgorod. How can you even equate victim and aggressor, that's like saying that in WW2 you are worried about Jews and Germans who have to sniff that black smoke from concentration camps.
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  211.  @rufaelmekuria6868  lmao how? The russia literally doesn't control outskirts of Donetsk, let alone adding any other land. Remember, battle for Marinka started in 2014 and russians still fail to take it. Adviivka too, it's literally right outside of Donetsk.
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  212. They have more troops than 250k now, and don't quote russian rules period, nobody is actually following them. Local governments in Donetsk and Luhansk are a joke, these cities are managed directly by moscow since 2014.
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  213.  @RichardTaylor1630  sorry I shouldn't have used the word "m&$kow". I meant the dirty shithole-town that needs to be demolished.
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  214. The difference is that putin and this woman openly bragged about mass kidnapping on TV, and that the act by itself falls under definitions of genocide... They even confessed the motive. I think the biggest mistake of russian state is not knowing foreigners can translate from russian - ALL internal russian propaganda is genocidal in nature, but their English language rhehoric is completely different: a tankie in Florida doesn't get the same messaging as ordinary russian who just wants to see dead Ukrainians/Chechens/Syrians on TV... Until someone translates.
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  215. You underestimate putin if you think older.guys are not in risk of mobilization. They are literally already preparing children of invaders in occupied Crimea to fight. The war will go to the last russian. Their ENTIRE strategy is for Ukraine to have less shells, tanks and planes that russia has men. That's why all the lobbying to freeze aid, as entire russian population openly storming trenches as they do now makes our boys run out of ammo really fast.
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  216.  @churchy4202  i literally seen a drone hit a house next door in Odesa. It's far from frontlines and my friends live there. There was no troops. We KNOW, because we SEE that russia ALWAYS targets civilians. Deliberately. Don't spit on our mind, you pathetic propagandist.
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  217. Apologies not accepted, Georgians actually fight against their government, Syrians deposed their dictator, and only Americans are giving country to fascists without fighting back. Disgusting.
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  218. Every russian PoW says he's not into politics. Somehow invading another country is apolitical for them. One even was in jail for going on Navalny protests yet said he's apolitical. Imagine that, not political political activists! Also YES OF COURSE russians who are against phtin still support the war. They just wanted Navalny or Strelkov or Prigozhin to wage it more effectively.
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  219. "The US under trump would gain far more through peaceful coexistence and trade…" that's like saying that "Germany under Hitler would gain far more through peace", I bet you have more chances of unicorns winning elections.
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  220. Remember Bush Sr. Chicken Kyiv speech? Or Thatcher coming to Ukraine with one goal – to dissuade it from independence. These extreme right wingers told us how we need to avoid "destructive nationalism" and that can only exist as moscow's property. They did, archives are all there! Then for DECADES West kept disarming Ukrainians, not JUST taking away our 1500 nukes, but also destroying planes, AND giving Ukrainian bombers to moscow – we are still bombed by those planes we were forced to give them. There's pictures of Obama, as a senator, overseeing shells being destroyed. They did EVERYTHING to help ru%^& imperialism. Nobody trusts the West here, there's all basically puppets of Kremlin, blocking aid to Ukraine to save invaders.
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  221. This is ridiculous to compare 1853 russian empire where the government spoke French or German with current shithole. They were both bad, but come on, and comparing russian federation to Soviet Union in 40s is just ridiculous considering Ukraine was a huge part of it, and it will forever be on opposite side of russia in all wars now. Probably the last one russians exist too.
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  222. Literally nobody cares what people in russia think, least of all putin. He can just tell them that goal was to defend moscow and give Ukraine all bordering regions like Bryansk and Kursk and the russians will celebrate it as a victory. The russian population does not have any agency, and Ukraine proven that if we take territory russia claims as theirs, they simply stop mentioning it in the news, if you watch russian TV you see that Belgorod region was never russian to begin with. They ignore it. Pretend it doesn't exist. Because they don't control the border.
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  223. Ah, you don't know modern russians, they aren't like USSR where everyone was skeptical of the government and not believed in communism, in russia majority is willing to starve as long as they show Ukrainian schools and hospitals being bombed on TV. This was the same in 1999, there was no food, russia was extremely poor, but sheer blood-thirstiness made population sustain on videos of civilians being carpet bombed in Chechnya. It's putinists, they're an ax crazy death cult.
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  224. Self-deception. They invaded Ukraine in 2014, but it was more convenient blaming invented "separatists". The fact invasion was ongoing on 8th year just expanded wasn't a surprise for anyone who knew what the war was. And against who.
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  225. There's zero consequences for not supporting putin. Yet russians go out of their way to stand in lines for a chance to vote for the tsar. Nobody forces them.
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  226.  @davidpnewton  not all people are big on river navigation. And left and right confuse many because of the way out maps generally look. Both are irrelevant since there's no more russians on right bank forever.
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  227. It can't. Man is literally running Kremlin troll factory. The BIGGEST disinformation campaign in the WORLD. His assessments of russian casualties can be used to troll russians though and even then he's inconsistent within himself too.
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  228.  @teebodk3917  China, Taiwan, and both Koreas are like that. There isn't any corner for putin, there is NO law in russia. It's a one person property, if he delares Alaska as russian, they will accept. If he gives up all territory Ukraine will demand as reparations (Belgorod, Kursk, Bryansk, Krasnodar and Rostov oblasts), then they will bow and agree those were never russian. The russia is literally just one miserable tiny psychopath's property. There is NO russia without putin. Period.
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  229. Yes, if Ukraine ordered Gripens or at least Mirages in early 2022 instead of waiting for F-16 (STILL donated from Europe), we wouldn't struggle as much with FABs and KABs later. USA was never our friend, it was neutral at best, always hoping for a stalemate and arming both sides.
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  230.  @bFlorida-m1t  You need training and infrastructure for planes, plus government needs to order manufacturer to make more.
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  231. ​ @bFlorida-m1t  Early on there were NO decision on Ukraine adopting Euro planes at all, whichever talks there were changed to getting old F16s and European countries replacing them with F35s. So it seems read United States tried to stop European plane sales and Europe would be stuck with American planes, but then USA refused to send (or sell) those to UA so we started training on Mirages way too late.
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  232. @onegerard  there's war in the middle of Europe right now. I heard the Swiss ship 🚢 attacked with Iskander missile from my window. If you think it's too far away, we border Hungary and both them and Austria said they will let ru troops through without a fight. That means if we fall, they'll be at borders of Italy and Germany.
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  233. Nah, he's rather neutral in objectivity (being pro-Ukraine defending itself is a neutral position BTW, lobbying for more active help is the pro-Ukrainian position). This segment is just bad. All of it. White Phosphoros IS a chemical (as is gunpowder, or water) but saying it like that might misinform people that it's a chemical weapon (not classified as such), or that it's banned (it's not). OR that russians use it, which also isn't true in Ukraine at least. People (including soldiers) just mistake 9M22S incendiary thermite bombs with WP... They're actually, arguably, even worse. Daily Mail of all things has a good article that's on top of search results if I Google "thermite incendiary munitions". It shows examples and explains use and legality (including graphs on launchers). Don't like people keep talking about white phosphorus because it doesn't show russia as more inhumane, as the truth isn't better, while discrediting people who claim it for no good reason.
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  234. But it hasn't ramped up production for decades now...
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  235. If Western folks are savvy, where are protests against russians chairing UN? Where is the demonstration against russians in Olympics? Why are Westerners aren't calling for embargo against russia? Nat, all we see is a bunch of people eating russian propaganda about "good ordinary russians" and "only putin" as 140 millions of putins chop our heads and keep killing children.
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  236. Twice? Look up Chechnya and 2008 Georgia invasion, hell, the Yalta conference in 1945... the russia was rewarded by the West for raping and pillaging forever. They're CONDITIONED to murder.
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  237. I wish there would be a good way to follow OSINT accounts maybe they'll move to Blue sky? Most tired and burned out like Oryx tho.
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  238. >war ends when USA and China decide that this war is hurting them too much, and they impose a frozen conflict on Russia and Ukraine. how the fuck could EITHER USA or China force anyone to stop shooting (we just won't) and also how the F would a "frozen" conflict stop war? We had frozen conflict between 2015-2022, can you count days when russia didn't shell Ukraine? Maybe on one hand.
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  239. IT IS at war, ru JUST sank a Swiss ship, I heard it go down! They were attacking Western countries since Litvinenko, there's attacks on factories in Germany and Bulgaria, and the whole migrant crisis was created to attack Europe. Pretending you can sit this one away won't help you when you notice you ran out of shells in less than a week as Bundeswehr expects.
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  240. You know nothing about how war mongering russian society is. The conscription is there to PLACATE the society and cover the news about exchanging putin's kum Medvedchuk on 200 Azov members. The russian people are furious they are free instead of being publicly executed after show trials as promised. So they had to announce they're sacrificing 300k (actually more than a million) of them to war to make russians calmer... They're still mad at the exchange, can't hide those news. Yes he's killing a million russians to hide saving the skin of his relative and they are mostly happy about it. Fleeing cowards are the minority most are drunk fighting their last days before being sent into Ukraine to never return (we already ordered millions of body bags, next year russia will be women only state).
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  241. There's nothing sounding reasonable when you see third year of houses completely bombed out and someone keeps pestering the victims about giving him all of their defense plans. No, just no. He's sounding as bad as Sullivan, another russian shill.
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  242. Ceausescu was killed by Romanians. Unless you see Romania taking over russia, how the F would they get to him? There's NO opposition in russia, even Navalny's team of useless clowns called on russians to go to elections and just stand there if they're not voting to guarantee a turnout. EVEN THE RUSSIAN OPPOSITION ABROAD IS WORKING FOR PUTIN.
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  243. You literally cannot make putin immortal, the idea that he can stay in power forever is literally insane, at some point, he dies.
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  244. russia didn't stop on Crimea they invaded Donbass next, and there were two peace treaties signed between ru and Ukraine in 2014 and 15, West pretended that it was with some fictional "separatists from Mars". While PoW exchanges were between Kyiv and moscow.
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  245. it's very obvious when russians installed their speaker into USA they blocked ammo and now are trying the old "we have more soldiers than they have shells" strategy.
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  246. Oh they also see Odesa as "russian", since I was born there wasn't a year when russians didn't try to claim my city is "theirs"... so what? the only russians that reached it are floaters in our sea... they stink. Reality is IT DOESN'T MATTER what russians think. They literally only got one regional center city in 2022, and lost even that one. That's it. Treat them as invasive pests, nothing more.
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  247. Yes, removing red lines is one thing but we need to have more actual missiles, but West exports most components to russia.
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  248. It's not white phosphorus and white phosphorus isn't illegal at all. There's whole articles debunking that, WP is dramatic but ZERO treaties relate to it, it isn't a chemical or incendiary weapon. Thermite that russians use might actually be classified as incendiary so more restrained by treaties than Wiley Pete.
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  249. Deep State map has a good radius for various missiles and munitions, for HIMARS & M270 to hit Crimea from Kherson or free parts of Zapo oblast' (think Huliaipole), we NEED to have ATACMS, but Biden's admin, despite all their helpfulness, has a weird arbitrary ban on missiles that can reach long enough. The ban makes NO sense as the argument "so they won't hit russian territory" doesn't hold under any critique since Ukraine borders russia and can hit into its territory with a literal thrown rock.
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  250. People are obviously disappointed it didn't turn to full-scale civil war in russia YET, but come on, thanks for being a positive voice when we just bought-out entire stocks of popcorn and the show was over before we really got into eating it.
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  251.  @FredrikLimegård  long overdue, especially when North Korea ALREADY has troops in Ukraine and South Korea hasn't even sold a single shell.
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  252. Whut? This channel is one of most downer stuff that isn't just soldiers on their positions criticizing command (as they should), it's very far from optimism. It's pragmatic.
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  253. How the F does he buy his employer? US foreign policy right now is literally just repeating what Dugin says... Ivanka might be extra careful when getting into a car, no?
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  254. And long range attacks on supply depots, it's part of staging.
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  255. Apologies not accepted. Sane residents of Georgia protest, sane residents of Syria deposed Assad, INsane residents of USA are about to inaugurate a 6-times-bankrupt felon child raepіst who promises a war against all allies a second time. Do you REALLY think you can sit this one out and pretend you dindu nuffin? YOU ARE SITTING AT THE TABLE WITH FASHIES. Y'all are guilty, same with ru, everyone there is complicit. Not a SINGLE attempt to prevent fasicsm from taking hold.
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  256. We in Ukraine believe the Westerners are intentionally sucking russian oily pipes because the West is extremely corrupt. Look at Schroeder getting taxpayer millions while literally working for russian fossil fuel companies. OF COURSE a country as corrupt as Germany will keep doing everything they can so their politicians will keep getting high on russian gasses, as UK keeps hosting oligarchs in Londongrad, and France hasn't recovered for being sold to Gaddafi by Sarkozy. It's an absolute embarrassment when we see Mussolini-land try to force Ukrainian kids (!) to sing along with russians in San Remo, as Pope forces rape victim to hug the rapist. There's zero trust in the West after Budapest memorandum, as Macron keeps selling what's left to China, USA STILL refuses to close our sky, and likes of Scholtz keep talking about "not attacking russian soil" while we DIE because NATO keeps blocking planes from being sold to Ukrainians. The war should be NOT on Ukrainian soil. Period. Anyone suggesting otherwise is a genocidal monster who declared 40 million people expendable. Take the war to russia or it will be taken to European Union. The moscow should look like Mariupol at least... and unless West changes (with russia chairing UN, fat chance, this world isn't worth saving), Paris, Berlin and Rome should look like that as well. Only Ukraine matters, nobody else fights. Every other country deserves Darwin award.
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  257.  @futte8024  everything I read suggests there was never any deal, russians withdrew final units in the night, we will see how many were hit, but there were numerous reports of russian soldiers bitching that there wasn't a deal as Ukraine kept shooting them in the back.
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  258. USA told us "we have everything we need", giving less than quarter of what we asked, no aircraft or tanks (Germany, Poland and Netherlands got some but it's not enough) while expecting us to defeat russia they're so afraid of to fight themselves with... ONE Bradley company, REALLY??? Americans would never fight like that and they know it. They used to complete air superiority against some insurgents with AKs and IEDs... Now they try to rush us because they're insane and inhumane. NO, we will be going the way it lets save the most lives, not meet the timetable of Jack Sullivan, Ben Wallace and other self-absorbed Western snobs.
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  259. lmaooooooooooooooooooooooooooo russia isn't outproducing USA with like 1/100 of military budget, and US is just ONE country, it's very obvious putin isn't immortal, and the only question we have is if he will fight to the last russian, or keel over while a few of them still remain.
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  260. No way countries that refuse to shoot down ru drones IN THEIR OWN AIR would lift a finger to help Ukraine. As a Ukrainian, I expect Hungary, likely Slovakia AND maybe Poland invading from another side, we are SURROUNDED by enemies. Problem is, ru cannot win. As in, even theoretically. No amount of Western help to putin will save his country. We know Polish and Hungarians are fantasizing on blocking more trucks and annexing huge swaths of Ukraine, but we already survived 2014-2021 AND 2023 without ANY US help, there's no way United States ceasing to exist and becoming colony of China will make invaders win.
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  261. Literally nobody heard about him until he decided to volunteer and become Sullivan #2, they're now two most hated non-russians in Ukraine. No contest, he's more hated than even Orban, Trump and Obama, other russian shills. Even more than Merkel, believe it or not. Was absolutely nobody before and could have stayed that way. But he had to make enemy of 40 millions people who now want his head.
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  262. More sanctions to russia and a complete embargo is the minimum requirement for russia to stop invading other people. Not even a single chip should be allowed to be sold there. Every single one of them explodes outside my window.
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  263.  @Jole30  lmao "russian law", there IS NO LAW IN RUSSIA. It's a single person dictatorship. What putin says is the law. And he contradicts himself all the time.
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  264. You've been listening to too much news, they're dooming since forever... Energy grid is so destroyed we don't have blackouts now? Sure, winter will probably be worse but not as bad as 2022... What bullcrap about demographic situation? Like please, tell me how a civilian in Ukraine in good conscience can have a kitchen talk "hey Lyoha, I keep noticing demographic situation is getting worse", what does that even mean? How does stuff like birthrate affect you or me anyway? Again, I'm a pessimist and I assumed we won't have a day without blackouts and russian troops near Odesa and having them STILL around Donetsk after 11 years failing to even get back to Sloviansk (which they held in 2014) is unbelievable. Nothing of that excuses West being useless at best. It's just no amount of Western, Iranian or North Korean aid can save RF from having everything you listed far worse. There was no way russia is going to win after we sank moskva. None. West and FSB are gaslighting us to think they somehow can pull through. They can't. Stop reading Telegram or wherever you get complaining about demographics, because people don't use that word in real life. Not in Ukraine at least.
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  265. Their "annexation" included Zaporizhzhia, a city they NEVER even approached, imagine staging a referendum to annex New York from Siberia, same vibes. Anyway, leaving Kherson for them politicially is the same as... well... not capturing Zapo city, which they, again, couldn't even approach. For us, however, since Kherson, Zapo, Donetsk, Luhansk and Simferopol have the same status in russian eyes, it eases the arguments to push onwards to Crimea, as some ultra-corrupt western journalists and politicians attempted to frame Crimea as special case for Kremlin's money. It is not. Ukraine reclaiming Sevastopol, Simferopol, Yalta, Mariupol, Donetsk, Melitopol and Luhansk is the same as holding to Zaporizhzhia and Kherson. The ruskies were calling even Odesa a "russian city", the only russians almost reaching it are now at the bottom of the sea, so? They will never take it. And their escape from Ukrainian Crimean AR should be as rapid as from Kherson, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy and Mykolaiv.
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  266.  @teuton8363  but it goes both ways: when I told people to not vote for the orange muppet, they answered me "but you don't understand, Trump ALWAYS LIES, so he won't do anything he promised"... why vote for a liar then?
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  267. Yet nothing is done to russian oligarchs and their families ALL of which live in NATO countries. Confiscated money isn't going to Ukraine and West still blocks fighter jets purchases with excuse after excuse.
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  268. What? Putin is the most predictable dictator out there, everyone can predict his moves as he's always doing the same thing: escalates to shows of weakness, and tries to downplay shows of strength. He also ALWAYS backs down when confronted. That's why West never pushes him, knowing that he'll retreat, they're cowardly and corrupt.
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  269. Unless you want to be a salt baron in Europe or something? Like Soledar mines and Artemsil could easily salt entire russian territory at least ten times and have more to spare... that's actually the plan: burn, raze, and salt the Earth like they allegedly did in Carthage and definitely did with Shechem. IIRK remembering that is one of 613 Jewish commandments, I am not sure about the rest but I like the salting.
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  270. North Korea is WAY more stable. They didn't have a power switch that wasn't a direct inheritance since 1940s. The russia had like three coups and collapsed in the same period. Also there's NO heir for khuilo. Too late to built one of his daughters up. Once he keels over, russia stops existing as a state. It's gone.
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  271.  @Klaus-y3v  well the only real competition is TikTok. You're welcome!
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  272. The fact that Germany allows such bullshit is the reason we Ukrainians never trust you. Your country is compromised and your chancellor keeps blocking missiles to Ukraine all so you can brown-nose the Navalny loving imperialists who you deem as "master race". Useless.
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  273. West aren't aware of their own shadow. US parliament speaker is literally guy with NO property and huge bribes from russia in 2018. They let actual russian assets rule their own country. We need to have Ukrainian government decide for the Western countries who are completely incapable of sorting their own problems and still haven't done anything to stop selling drones to russia. How many kids were killed by Texas Instruments & AMD now?
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  274. What ya guys think is more likely, men on black putting straightjacket on annoying orange or US carrier groups sank by a few Ukrainian drones Denmark got in exchange for more aircraft?
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  275. 4:07 as much as casualty list and russian strategic "genius" are rightfully mocked, nothing is AS embarassing as the fact they are still trying to capture OUTSKIRTS OF DONETSK FOR 9 YEARS NON-STOP! Like generations of russians are buried in Donetsk suburbs. When the sun will explode and we fly in another galaxy, russians will still find some suckers to throw at assaulting laser drone turrets in Bakhmut, eastern border of Space Europia.
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  276. "We don't want Prigozhin to replace Putin" why not? Firstly, most people in the field don't believe it's a possibility as Prigozhin was only promoted BECAUSE he was putin's cook. His ENTIRE power is being putin's man. Same with Shoihu & traitor Kadyrov. But hypothetically? If ANY of these clowns replaces the khuilo itself, we gonna get much tougher sanctions on russia as they don't have connections with, well, former Austrian chancellor who danced with pu on her wedding... or Berlusconi, or most of French politicians, the SPD party in Germany. Changing the bald dward to someone even less competent AND less connected will not help russia. It will weaken it further.
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  277. Whut? EU economy can make 50 times more shells than russia they just CHOOSE to not to. Comparing russian economy to ONE European country is already a joke, you have to inhale some insane copium to see GDP of NATO vs russia and think IF Nato didn't want russia to win, it had any chances. Now, Western countries doing everything they can to block Ukraine from winning is another problem entirely, this is called corruption.
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  278. It's just imperialism, nothing mysterious here. Why was Europe colonizing Indo-China & Africa 200 years ago and Americas earlier? They're just cosplaying that in moscow.
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  279. I didn't think russia would be THAT suicidal to destroy their main source of blackmailing Europe (no way Germans would stop their addiction to gassy russian pipes otherwise) UNTIL today's "[redacted] did it" conspiracy. Now I am sure putin is just this dumb, shame cause I thought it's some mysterious friend of Ukraine (which DREAMED about Nordstreams and other alternate pipelines that go around us being down for decades).
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  280. US directly disallowed the attacks inside russia. Their speaker and Pentagon repeated that, again. I assume Blinkin was hinting at Ukraine breaking the conditions set, like Israel always does... and gets away with it. As Terry Pratchett wrote: “if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don’t apply to you.”
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  281. Warheads aren't tactical or strategic, it's the launchers that are. Tactical simply means launched at smaller range, often from conventional weapon launchers, i.e. Iskander missile launchers or Pion barrelled artillery (yes, it has a nuclear shell variant). Why are people keep pushing the TACTICAL word every time nukes are mentioned? It makes no sense. Using tactical Iskander or strategic missile like Satan won't make a difference, that's a first. When giving weapons it also breaks the same treaties, that's a second. It's almost as if media wants to normalize using nukes by singling out "tactical" term as toy nuclear weapons or something? That's like killing someone with "non-lethal rubber" tires on a cop car... Doesn't help at all. /rant over Answer to your question: russia BOUGHT weapons from Iran. With money. Ka-ching. Love. Gold. Dead white men. Green paper. As long as European Union keeps buying russian oil, they will keep getting a BILLION dollars per DAY to buy endless drones, missiles and ammo. The russia has infinite money cheat by corrupt EU politicians.
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  282. You underestimate Bundeswehr's capability and EU already paying more to Gazprom and Rosneft than spending on defense combined.
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  283. A coin toss is right 50% of the time. A broken clock is right twice a day. "Realists" are literally worse off than just using a random number generator, they can't even come close to a coin toss in predictions as they're wrong 99% of the time. Same applies to major Western media like New York Times, the Bild, BBC (that literally paid millions to former Ukraine pres for libel) and Washinton Post. All of them are worse off than a coin toss in prediction. Yet these "experts" are somehow held in high esteem.
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  284. Opposition (Navalny etc.) heavily DENOUNCED these attacks, blamed Ukrainians working for putin, and "turning Ukraine-putin war into russo-Ukrainian war," like Navalnists always do. They're worse than useless.
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  285. What people also don't understand is that they cannot make Ukraine give concessions. At this point I no longer argue with those who claim I need to gift my home to russians "for peace", I am telling them "you and what army?" Trump's idea of splitting Ukraine in 24 hours will end just as well as russia taking Kyiv in 72. With a column of tanks he sent burned near Bucha. What did South Africa expect to achieve with those 100 guys with machineguns anyway?
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  286. On come on, Caligula waged war against the sea, this is as dumb as trying to invade Greenla–okay, you got a point. NOW STOP BLOCKING AID AT THE BORDER.
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  287. "even if we ignore how patriotic russians are" why ignore the fact that every single russian is cynical and doesn't believe in their country, the government, or anything? There isn't a single patriotic russian, tv propagandists proclaiming patriotism are very poorly acting and it's their job to lie. "and above all historically there is one resource russia has NEVER run out of and its men" russian federation exists since 1993 and they actually ran out of troops and lost the war in Chechnya. but if you mean states on same territory before current russia was founded, Soviet Union didn't run out of UKRAINIANS, which were main fighting force in WW2. Duh. Current demographics are WAY different, there's NO way they have 30 million military age men lmao, most russian population are babushkas.
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  288. Now anyone who claimed that calling off was the right choice must eat their necktie.  @hb1338  Ukrainian cardboard drones can hit the center of moscow. Anyone with actual tanks would have had far better chances storming government buildings in moscow than trying to outrun russian air defense on one thing they're good at shooting down, civilian planes.
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  289.  @davidhowse884  as a Ukrainian, I wish we could strap on Castle Bravo to a Cessna and requisition a Mathias Rust to drop it. I put it in a calculator you need that big of a fireball to hit moscow suburbs as well. It's a rural, primitive village, but it's a big one. One hit will stop all wars with only human casualties being the disgusting BBC reporters who report on Ukraine from offices in muscovy and using all local narrative.
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  290.  @geoffreycodnett6570  moscow isn't protected, it literally never had working air defense. A guy landed in middle of red square in his tiny plane during the 80s and nobody stopped him. The myth about moscow having air defense is debunked over and over I don't think anyone still believes in it. In fact since all russian army is in Ukraine their capital is protected by one out of shape traffic cop with a regulation stick who terrifies every russian protester that existed... Yeah both of them. Also the two guys were told to put out the fire with blankets or something. The russia is too primitive for firefighters so they usually let things burn or throw russians into fire hoping they will put it out, as happened now. After first impact they were forced to put out the fire with their bodies without any safety, then second drone almost turned them into good russians... 16 minutes between launches was enough for them to draw the short stick and start climbing.
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  291. Ukrainian command and Zelenskyy himself said that russia mined the dam in late 2022, they were planning to blow it up on New Year, so Ukraine had to stall the counter-offensive knowing that much more people will die if they flood us in winter.
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  292. It feels more like a panic response to counter-offensive than thought-out action. Remember DniproHES, or the Yellow River Flooding, none of that really helped to slow the Axis down, but killed a lot of civilians. Same exact idiotic attempt to fight.
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  293. They relied on blitz in 2022, and since then, rely on fairy coming and blocking all aid to Ukraine, now the entire population of russia is praying that tRump will overthrow US government and save them, I AM NOT KIDDING, if you see russian chats, they legitimately thought USA will change its foreign policy and were surprised that aid got through. Their entire nation's existence depends on a foreign politician forcing America to do a 180 in its ways... Seriously.
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  294. He already claims to be the champion fighting for russia, didn't need to embarrass himself by showing that moscow's air defenses didn't change since Mathias Rust's ordeal. Also, why the F would average russian have sympathy for the palace? If they wanted to show them threat, they'd bomb civilians or at least something people genuinely care about like a shop or bus stop.
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  295. The whole question is wrong. Someone who justifies a genocide of 40 millions people because of a few cents possibly (not really) saved on gas is a psychopath. There shouldn't even be a QUESTION about oil prices. How sociopathic one has to be to even weight millions of human lives with inconvenience of sometimes having to walk? Reminds me of that story where queen signed "kill" instead of "pardon" because the word was shorter.
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  296. We are exaggerating russian failures to mock them. Of course there is a school of thought in the West to claim Ukraine does as best as it can so there's no point giving more aid and we HATE those people. We Ukrainians had 1500 nukes, 1000s of SCUDs and dozens of strategic aircraft taken from us by coalition of USA, UK and russia on GUARANTEES they will protect our territorial integrity. All three countries broke the Budapest deal and now owe Ukraine an arsenal bigger than they have combined.
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  297.  @markobucevic8991  Literally all cities between Ukraine and moscow were under waginer control. Every single soldier and army unit surrendered without a fight. Prigozhin is a goddamn idiot for stopping. Moscow is defended by one cop with a rubber stick. Entire security service collapsed in HOURS. They all flew out of russia or hid under beds and now reward themselves for coup self-collapsing as they did nothing to stop it.
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  298. Ukrainian here. Read a lot of info, can try to answer you. 1. US support was effectively over by August 2023. It might resume but they already blocked it without Trump, you have Sullivan and other "escalation managers" leading to a lot of needless deaths already. 2. They ALWAYS kept hidden mobilization, true. It never stopped and is mostly targeting poor regions. 3. This is harder, but I remember Wagner structure having a core of elite mercs with good gear and training and convicts used for fodder. We can assume some form of that exists in main russian army with some units more equal than others.
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  299. It shows now that their limits were never about red lines but about backhand deals and corruption: no reason for USA to limit Ukrainian use of British missiles, yet they still do. Because America is corrupt and Sullivan gets kickbacks from Lavrov. No other explanation.
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  300. This isn't just putin. It's what almost every ru citizen thinks, putin doesn't really have an ideology, he does that "uniting slavs" spiel only because locals WANT him too, that's what is needed to keep power, feed the bloothirsty population with wars. That's how he started in 1999, they would overthrow him if they have a decade of peace.
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  301. They don't need to pretend they need to face the facts that ru$$ians are using NATO as safe airspace to attack Ukraine from.
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  302.  @cmtwgrdk2748  irrelevant. The only good presidents were Lincoln and Kennedy and Trump had a chance to be third but he screwed it majorly!
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  303. As a Ukrainian, seeing Poland refuse to even shoot down drones and missiles ON ITS OWN TERRITORY, and blockading UKRAINE on the border and destroying grain trucks, you probably have a better chance Belarusians (WHO ACTUALLY SHOOT DOWN "LOST" RU DRONES) joining your side than the Polish.
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  304. Please stop saying "the Ukraine war", not only this is a Western journalist's dream to justify adding "THE" in front of Ukraine, but also you don't call WW2 "The Poland war" right? Or WW1 "the France war" because it's silly highlighting the defender and not the aggressor as the reason for war, I blame NYT-style reporting.
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  305. They dismantled S300 complexes from around moscow and st petersburg to attack ground targets in Ukraine, but that is irrelevant in case of drones since they are low-flying. What russia would need are two variants: 1: surrender to NATO, get annexed by Germany and build Gepards to defend against small drones. 2: bomb moscow so there's nothing left standing, and Ukrainian drones don't have any targets to hit anymore. Either are an option to save russia but they're unlikely and it seems putin is willing to fight to the last russian male, with women fixing the demographic crisis in China and making a lot of mixed babies.
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  306.  @SianaGearz  Kherson is under Ukrainian control. some towns in the region like Kakhovka are still occupied. And YES, there are pictures of russian soldiers rounding up Ukrainian grandmas and pointing the gun at their backs as they "vote". The russians aren't shy about enslaving local population.
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  307. Ukraine will never accept that. Without being in NATO and EU, it will be another 2008-2022 situation when russia invades everyone and builds up army between invasions. We had enough. EITHER full NATO membership and security guarantees (immediate attack on moscow if a single russian ever steps over Ukrainian border), or we fight to the last russian. Period.
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  308. 4 years? You should have arrested that clown in 2016, then you had a DECADE to put him behind bars. You're FOREVER lost to Europe. Ukraine remembers Obama's appeasment and Biden's inaction too, and next admin is basically directly ruled from Kremlin and instead of doing what normal people would – DEPOSING A PSYCHOPATH FROM PRESIDENCY – you are willing to confirm, inaugurate and just... wait. Until y'all get sent to die fighting for a bunch of snow. You're JUST AS BAD AS RUSSІАNS. People who are unable to fight for your rights or protest, you're just passivelly accepting fascism.
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  309.  @monkey2.092  ah yes, look how that worked with russia giving gas subsidies to Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia, you seriously think USA won't lose 20k soldiers in first week of invasion when a few donated Ukrainian drones sink several aircraft carrier groups?
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  310. No. Bad peace means millions in death camps.
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  311. Reminder Ukraine gave away 1500 nuclear ICBMs that could reach America for guarantees of territorial integrity.
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  312. 1:55 They JUST found out that Budapest Memorandum never worked?
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  313. It was literally shot down in the process? 6 helis down. The russian air force cannot approach anti-air systems. That's why they fire long range American missiles that US blocks Ukraine from receiving but lets russia make with their components from afar, out of reach of air defenses. And they ONLY hit large buildings. Like the house across me.
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  314. I don't understand why they bother to fake elections when there's already zero opposition and majority of russians absolutely support Khuilo. He would have won ANYWAY. Is it like that bartender who KNOWS the client is an inspector making a test buy but still underfills him because it's easier for him to pay the fine than to knock off his aim?
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  315. The dumbest thing is he asks to give him lands he couldn't capture for 10 YEARS and over half a million troops lost, AND disarm, TO START NEGOTIATIONS, this is like some neckbeard telling a chick that she needs to give her family away and he might consider dating her. Zero self-awareness  @keithhigh7773  Imperialists weren't overthrown by Bolsheviks, but by Esery, which where the ones Bolsheviks lead the war against.
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  316. ​ @SpiderDiscord  how does it matter? The fact they tried to take capital and bragged they'd conquer it in 2-3 days on state TV primetime proves it was always the intention. Being delusional about your power doesn't change that fact.
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  317. The russians bombing Ukrainian homes with anything is illegal, it's a war crime killing Ukraine's civilian population whether by thermite (it's not white phosphorus, THAT is legal, russia isn't using it though, we need to get some and dump it on moscow), or artillery. Today russian missiles were shot into Dnipro's hospital. That is a war crime. It doesn't matter that missiles didn't glow in the dark.
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  318. He was always known to be assigned as fall guy for Kherson. Had to be dumb enough to accept.
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  319. It's a lose/lose situation though, they are pretty dumb if they think picking a fight with a sad puppy will somehow make you "win". Like if you kick the puppy, you're the asshole, and if he wins (as it happened), you're still the asshole for even starting it. They seriously didn't consider that attacking Ukraine is like fighting a cactus?
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  320. Zelenskyy in 2019 was an idiot who decided to suck up to trump, ignoring the reality of that biting in the back... he also "seen peace in putin's eyes", in 2022 Ze changed, briefly, and now suddenly acts like it's 19 again, which can't be good. You know, supporting Clinton in 2016 then tRump in 2020 have to be the worst choices to make good with US administration and he decided on that embarrassing call right before Kamala's candidacy was announced... Anyway there can be no peace with russia, as they literally won't just stop killing us, any negotiations usually mean Ukraine giving away weapons with NOTHING in return. Always.
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  321. 7:46 the last 125 drone attacks on Poland and Romania had no response. Putin is really dumb if he doesn't invade some Western country that will obviously surrender without a fight and Germany will pretend they "stopped the war" by mediating giving entire, say, Hungary or Sudetenland to orks.
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  322.  @AplusStrategy  True! I half-jokingly meant a scenario similar to 2008 Georgia with some large country pushing itself as peace-bringer like Sarkozy did with forcing Saakashvili to stop resisting. Anders example with Finland works.
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  323. I JUST learned English well enough, it would be ridiculous having to learn French since USA just decided to delete itself and international language will change back.
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  324.  @stststefan  you're wrong. We have different strategic goals, NATO wants war to be limited to Ukraine, and prevent ru federation's collapse. That's their entire plan. Ukrainians OF COURSE want war to be in any country except Ukraine, and we are doing what we can to move it our (see Kursk & drones), also our main goal IS russian collapse, always has been. So that's why West does all it can to provide putin with missile components and block Ukraine from using any. So our strategy is diametrically opposite to corrupt russophile West.
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  325.  @IsomerSoma  "underestimate their nationalism" lol, lmao. The army working from Africa not the russian national-patriots you are looking for. "The only powerful opposition in russia are the ultra-nationalists" who, like, Dugin and Navalny? One was nearly carbombed and holds no power, the other is in jail. The regime spent a lot of resources, including billions given to prigozhin's troll factory, to discredit the extreme right Navalnists on their russian marches with imperial flags and calls to hunt non-white people like cockroaches. Just because russian neoNazis are supported by Oscars and used by our Ukrainian intelligence to sow discord doens't mean we'll see Pevchikh and Latynina leading the coup lmao. Finally, the "coup consolidated russian people" has to be the dumbest cope I've heard this entire war. Khuilo himself is holding back tears when he says that in a shaking voice. He's weak.
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  326. Ah yes, a ruse to lose 7 aircraft while showing the world russian weakness and putin capitulating as soon as you move on moscow... if it's a ruse, it's Budanov's. I can see his toad controlling Prigozhin Ratatouille-style.
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  327. putin will NOT negotiate in good faith, why are people so obsessed in negotiating with a swindler? This is suicidal, like playing cards with a con man. You lose the moment you sit at the table.
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  328. Most oil russia sells goes directly into Europe, it's EU who sends russians billions every week, not China or India. If you want a list of people with most trade with russia, it will probably start with likes of Switzerland, who QUADRUPLED imports from russia this year, Italy is also very close... plus the typical list of ultra-corrupt countries: Germany, Austria, France. They are the biggest providers of weapons and tech for russia: French optics, German engines, Austrian and Italian gears that make russian vehicles roll. Second biggest must be USA, since we find Texas Electronics chips in their drones. Third is Iran, followed by Israel (most "russian"-made drones are Israeli design just assembled in russia) and North Korea. Ofc Chinese are also somewhere there but their biggest trade partner is USA, while EU really likes oil from russia... their pilots fly on fuel from Total and BP.
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  329. Kerch bridge bombing is ideologically important for Ukraine. Apart from its logistical value, it's THE holy trinity of must-hit targets, along with moscow and Nordstream. The fact we managed to hit all THREE, multiple times, is just... I'm wet. It's sexually pleasing for Ukrainians to see every time a russian invader is forced to flee Crimea, when muscovites cry scared, and when gas doesn't flow to Germany yet. The NS pipelines built were the biggest loss for Ukraine in nearest history. Destroying them cannot be overstated. Now only thing that remains is russian tanker fleet and oil pipes (most of which we control) to completely stop them from selling fossil fuels.
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  330. Because EU sold all of its cellulose to russia and now are wondering why they don't have enough to build shells... hell, US isn't better, they outsourced all production to China and got a Pikachu face when China out-produces them 100 drones to 1.
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  331.  @abhilashyadav2274  very obvious they just buying from USA as a favor to them at this point. F22 are being retired with only battles being against two balloons. TRILLIONS down the drain. My cat had more air kills FFS!
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  332. What level of copium are you? Ukraine is NOT giving up any territory, and it either joins NATO or keeps killing russians to the last one. There is no other option. Ukraine is NOT accepting conditions of 2008-2014 as they are what led to this war. Neutrality is NOT in consideration, period. You're just listing russian make-believes. Ukraine has ZERO territorial disputes we have a russian infestation. We just need more ammo to clean it. I had rats, my grandma had cockroaches in her house, those were harder to get rid of. But we did it. The russians are just slightly less intelligent.
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  333. There are LINES in front of military commissariates in st. petersburg. There are ZERO draft dodgers arrested. Since new major war crimes revealed, the last few russians who didn't support the war now do. They are a nation of head choppers and child murderers. There isn't a 10 righteous in entire russian federation. There will never be protests. The only way to deal with them is Sodom and Gomorrah. Khuilo putin will fight to the last russian anyway. All to keep power and money.
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  334. If by destabilizing you mean forcing Ukrainian army to attack the West and having EU fall faster than Assad regime... Their goal was ALWAYS Berlin. Only Germans seem to pretend it's otherwise in the continent.
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  335. Ah yes russian mines accidentally shelled themselves into the dam... somehow.
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  336. I don't think they understand anything, they remind me of our post-USSR oligarchs from 1990s, the whole privatization went about as well as demolition of US infrastructure goes now. Linda McMahon right after tapes of her covering up SA against kids installed as minister of education?.. What next, Chris Benoit as minister of family affairs?!
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  337. No way, European monarchies are kind of the best countries to live in the world, no way russia joins them even technically. Come on, to be the same as Kingdom of Norway or Nethelands?
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  338. This would also explain the UN, Red Cross and others non-response. It's likely they received instructions for trying to tell Ukraine to stop counter-offensive due to russian blackmail but since the dam was destroyed completely, none of these orgs had any other text since russians didn't prepare them for it and just went on with default 'spear russian language or die, Ukrainian Nazis' posting New York times and United Nations did to celebrate the biggest environmental terrorist act since DniproHES done by russians.
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  339. USA gave ru more missiles than it gave Ukraine anti-air. EU double their gas imports from orki. West is a MAJOR backer of poo tin.
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