Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "EXCLUSIVE: Ukrainian Special Forces Interrogate Wagner Mercenaries in Sudan" video.

  1. Just a continuation of the old Soviet efforts under another flag, and a very old strategy. Since only very old people know anything about the first part of the Cold War because firstly we lived it and second it's not pop culture entertainment it's easy for Putinist shills to believe pro-Putinist assertions especially those affirming their existing ideology. Defunding Russian Federation efforts by reducing their local military footprints is an affordable tactic for Ukraine. I find the proud Russian responses so detached from reality quite refreshing because they're just like the early Cold War. They conveniently disremember how containment worked out the first time against a vastly larger and wealthier USSR + Warsaw Pact whose residents know what Russian rule is like by experience so they aid Ukraine today. Russia is interesting in that Muscovite rule doesn't improve the lives or economic status of the conquered but the opposite (which is why Ukrainians fight for self-determination). Russian supporters today cannot imagine why (now much more prosperous) eastern Europe doesn't miss being drained of resources or having its economies managed by a hostile occupier who had to build a physical wall to keep people from fleeing to the West and shot those who didn't move quickly or stealthily enough. I served in West Germany on the free side of the Berlin Wall (and quite enjoyed it, Germans in the 1980s were delightful hosts) so no speculation needed. Watching the USSR implode due to inability to run its economy and subsequent consensual evaporation of the Warsaw Pact alliance was quite satisfying. The same corruption gutted Russian Federation military sustainment and saved Ukraine, and Kremlin purging of Russian military reformers ensured incompetent battlefield performance including the disastrous failure to seize Kiev in the first days of the war. I don't fixate on casualties however since Russian military losses have no home front impact that matters being mostly from non-Muscovite regions whose losses strengthen Kremlin advantage over them. Westerners should remember Moscow is the center of gravity and non-Muscovite losses are a feature in Kremlin planning not a bug, removing fighting age males who might otherwise pose a threat like Chechen rebels once did before Kadyrov pragmatically sold out. Putin's dollar store desert storm failing to capture it's smaller neighbor will go on a while, but like Afghans wearing out the British, Russians and Americans (Afghans are a tough lot) time is on Ukraine's side. I never expected to see Finland join NATO or Sweden even consider it, or for lazy Europe to rearm after mistakenly gutting its forces when it hallucinated the eternal eastern threat was no more. Containment took from 1945 to ~1992 and the cultural basis for conflict is permanent.
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  2. No content posts, single word posts etc are clues too and of course tankies and vatnik shills abound.
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