Comments by "0x777" (@0x777) on "BBC News" channel.

  1. I got one too. Putin went into a coma and finally came back. He walks out on the streets of Moscow, enters a bar to order a drink. Putin: Say, is Crimea still ours? Bartender (puzzled): Well...yeah, sure. Putin: What about Kiev? Bartender: Also ours, of course. Putin: For a moment I was worried... what do I owe for the drink? Bartender: For you, just 100 Hryvnia.
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  2. The whole "accepting that you're powerless" bit should be done by now, but you think that Putin would accept a higher power?
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  3. With that amount of run-up, they must be aiming at Brazil now.
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  4. Glorious army never retreats! Glorious army makes swift progress towards East!
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  5. Putin went into this war with a few wrong assumptions and expectations that turned out to be catastrophic. First, he assumed that he could blindside Ukraine like 2014 when he captured Crimea. This was supposed to be Crimea 2.0. Take the capital, waltz into the eastern regions and dictate the conditions before anyone could react. The date for the press conference was even set. The invasion started Thursday, there was a press conference set for Tuesday ... that never happened. What he did not expect was a surprisingly tough and well prepared defense that pretty much mopped the floor with his assault on the capital and stalled his advance in the East for days and weeks. The Russian troops were not prepared for that. They had supplies for a week and there wasn't any logistics even prepared. The whole show should've been over in 5 days. Second, he did not expect the West to react like this. He absolutely thought that again the West would just stand by and shrug. That not only there would be sanctions up the ass but also as much support and supply for Ukraine, which amounts to pretty much "as much as you can give without actually joining the battle", that was certainly not what he'd have expected. And finally, he did not know that the level of corruption and wasting in the Russian army was that bad. Even during the first weeks we already saw that the equipment is in abysmal repair, that many of the more sophisticated and delicate weapon systems simply don't work due to a lack of maintenance, that corruption and outright theft caused critical parts to fail or simply go "missing", and that the general state of the troop is severely lacking, from morale to equipment to training to even the most fundamental necessities for a fighting troop. The combination of that is what we witness here.
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  6.  @Writeous0ne  So Russia planned to tank its economy by buying Rubles to keep the rates from crashing through the floor? Weird strategy... but then again, I've seen the war, apparently their financial strategies are as bonkers as their military ones. Also, Europe's gas problems are not as severe as you may think. The problem right now is less that there ain't gas, the problem is getting it in. Off the coast of Spain a fleet of tankers with liquid gas is idling about, what Europe lacks right now is enough places to pump it. That's going to be resolved in about 3-4 months when the harbors are retrofitted. Yes, liquid gas sure is more expensive than simply pumping it through pipes, but at the current price tag, it's quite interesting. Europe also spent a good deal of money to wane itself off gas. You currently pretty much get half the price of a new heating system paid for if you switch away from gas, which is what a lot of people did, we're now at the point where the price of gas is getting so low that a lot of people are cursing that they switched to wood because gas would actually now be cheaper to heat with... weird how this went.
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  7. Regimes like that ain't too good with time keeping. Something similar had a 1000 year Reich that lasted 12 years in total.
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  8. Glorious army makes swift progress in push towards East!
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  9. A military operation so special it should be riding the short bus.
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  10. More a special military fuckup.
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  11. So special it gets supplied by short busses.
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  12. Sure. Ukraine is reestablished in the borders of 2013, Russia pays for the damage it caused, the rest is up for debate.
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  13. Yeah, but it rarely goes SO sideways. Usually at least the key elements, or at least some of them, work out. I've rarely seen a military operation that stumbles from blunder to blunder like that one here.
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  14. Hush! We can still tell them once they won back all the way to Russia.
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  15. Using nukes at this point would be incredibly stupid. First, at this point he can't even be sure anymore that his generals would follow the order and actually do it. Because they know what this means. Second, the West has so far withheld far reaching weapons from Ukraine because they fear that they could be used to attack actual Russian soil which could lead to an escalation. Once the nuke escalation level is reached, that bar is gone and Ukraine will get any kind of weapon they wish to have. Which would lead exactly to this: Attacks on Russia proper. Which in turn would bring that war back home, quite literally so. And all that is assuming that the Uran in the warheads isn't already in Iran...
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  16. If people who start wars would also have to fight them, they'd not only be far shorter but also far more entertaining.
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  17. Which makes sense. Even if you say something positive about it, it can only be sarcastic at this point.
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  18. Russia is already not taken serious anymore at a military level. Before February, people considered Russia to have the second best army in the world, now people are wondering whether they have at least the second best army in Ukraine.
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