Comments by "Tiago D\x27Agostini" (@tiagodagostini) on "Defense Politics Asia (DPA)" channel.

  1.  @BenJ2020  The pictures of French and British vehicles burning maybe?
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  2. But that is standard US operation. They always have 5 carriers deployed 1 in reserve and 6 in maintenance /refit routine. That is exactly their normal schedule. The only difference is that the one that usually is in the Persian Gulf it at the mediterrean , and that has been true since Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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  3. Pretty much. A country under attack on its own borders always goes into total war pretty much. There is no other option. You might not have total martial law, as in the civic courts still work, but the economy is 99% in total war mode.
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  4. If you need help translating anything from portuguese, just ask.
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  5. Because they believe in the long run will be profitable. For some countries, to be remembered as reliable ally by USA can bring much more money in future than these costs. PRoblem is that it is a bet, sometimes do not work.
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  6. Well a fight between NATO and Russian troops would always end in nuclera war. Both sides know that.
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  7. But if they do not threaten to gain terrain there is zero reason for Ukraine to do it. So Russians do need to gain terrain in areas that are less defended if they want to make the war move.
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  8.  @esense9602  Brasil already have access to the same reserves in the border with Guiana.
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  9. Well, they are working bibertarian countries. They are much more worth of defending than some other Nato members that are pseudo dictatorships
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  10. That is why Bakhmut is important for the Russian. Not the city but the intersection of roads and railroads there. COntrolling that single place makes Ukraine's logistic much harder. Taking a single city they can have more imapct than taking 10 times that area anywhere else.
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  11. You do not FIGHT a war that you have zero chance to win and you will only end in a worse situation. PA knows it, they are not idiots and they are trying to achieve the lesser of 2 evils. That is called being the adult in the room. Life is not fair, but trying to go against impossible odds do not change anything and just ends up with innocent people dead. The whose "prision" condition now will only get worse. Yes there is some lack of focus of west to improve the conditions of that region (that would be the way for peace, helping to develop an economy so both sides can coexist), but random rockets into cities is just terror and terror is juveline stupidity personified.
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  12. Can be a non PR stuff. Not to take territory but to force Russians to react and therefore delay their pushes on other areas. THat is classical warfare strategy when you need to retreat someehwhere else but is too crippled to do it in an organized form without the enemy exploiting it.
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  13.  @ЕвгенийПершин-е1ь  While the vehicles are very likely lost they are not that deep that they cannot do a fighting retreat if the Ukranians have half as many men in the rear to help them keep the corridor open. It is feasible. But the logner they keep this.. the riskier it gets.
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  14. IT can still be net positive. IF they lose 500 soldiers in kursk to aleviate pressure on other fronts and safe more than500 on other fronts is still a net positive for them. But it is risky
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  15. Wonder if these villages and towns that are beign conquered after aadvika are in less destroyed state than the previous ones. So sadto see cities destroyed.
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  16. In fact the opposite. That is the tactic that UK used to force German population to overthrown GErman empire govenrment in WW1.
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  17. CNN is super lefitist, so likely Trump won by even more int heir own polls
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  18. because they expected them in one place and not in other. Also small drones could be launched from inside Russia by "civilians". Not sayign that is for sure what happened, but it is not soo fishy when you consider the alternatives.
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  19. aaa it is a pendulum.. Russian mistakes gave the Ukrainians the initiative last semester... not it reverts.. normal pendulum of war .. one side make mistakes, other capitalize on it.
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  20. They are just being manipulated, their leaders live richly in other coutnries. That is sad.
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  21. LIES! They have found a NOTE, not a decree. That was for emergency state, not a coup requestign for the congres sto ORCE a review of the elllection procedures. STOP SPREADING LIES
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  22.  @StraussBR  LIES. The state of exception gives control of the country to the CONGRESS! STOp psreading GLobo and MOraes laies!
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  23. Stop spreading lies. You are a censorship supporter, an enemy of freedom!
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  24. Well I saw an specialist last year say he was worried, because Russia never won a war that they started well, but they also never ever lost a war that they started with a massive blunder.
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  25. It does not matter if it is in a war or not. A country that arrest ANYONE for their speech, is NOT a democracy. Not sayign Russians invasion is right or that they do not have equivalent or even worse transgressions, just that liberty of expression is unegotiable to be a democracy.
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  26.  @spider6660  And a significant part of that is by plane. China exports are usually manufactured stuff. China imports are usually too ehavy to go by plane on other hand.
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  27. I would say is more Europe's plan than USA. USA current administration only went along.
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  28. Counter argument, no crater in the center of the blast, so it is not a free fall bomb and ISrael uses only plane dropped bombs in urban areas. Second, those hamas rockets are 4 meters long (the ones with long range) if they simply crash with fuel load they have more than 1 hundred KG of explosive on them...
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  29.  @nuurulbasarmohdbaki6046 Military forum? Check top of your screen LOGO, it is called youtube.. .not a military forum. Second if you think economics are not critical for war, then you are simply a fool.
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  30.  @kartikeyatiwari2502  Soviet union won with a massive economic help of USA. And germany was fighting USA, UK and SU. Churchil was sure they woudl win the wa when USA got itno it not because of US armed forces but because of US economics. There is a reason for them term sinews of war to exit.
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  31. Because the war is against NATO. Ukraine is suplying only the blood, every ounce of the rest comes from EU and USA. That puts the situation in a much closer matchup
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  32. IF that was the purpose they failed hard, because the attack agaisnt israel was so violent and random (targeting civilians) and kidnapping of children and woman that world view willb e like 9/11, they will accept anything short of a nuke.
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  33. ONe was already shceduled for the gulf in the following week,t hat one was completely within normality.
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  34.  @DefensePoliticsAsia The carrier is obviously there as political message to Iran.
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  35. Yes, just pointing that one can quite quickly be diverted. The Ford although I wonder if it was not on some sort of standby for black sea in case needed for the Ukraine war (in case it slipped into NATO)  @simonrb1942 
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  36.  @DaFinkingOrk  The carrier is there for 1) political message 2) air defense in case other coutrnies enter the fray (israel air defenses were severely depleated) The secodn carrier likely will not stop in the mediterran, it will go on and move into the Gulf to be a very very clear deterrent to Iran.
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  37. Well it does give them a tad more leverage in a deal
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  38. An israeli bomb do not hot the parking lot BY the house and there is no penetration crater. You can be sure that was very very unlikely a plane dropped bomb simply because of that. Also the filming of the explosion was done by a cell phone, that " conveniently was in middle of night filming into the dark horizon as if waiting something to explode". Highly suspicious I would say. Notice ISrael claim is nto tht the rocket HIT the hospital but that it exploded when it was to be launched from there. There are too many variables now, but one thing I know, israel air force would not miss the main buildign by several meters if they wanted to hit the building with something.
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  39. When it started to collapse it surely was faster than any othr city in this war.
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  40. Robotyne as all other locations where alrge battles happened, is front gate for groups of road crossings.
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  41. No. Speaking in english is a clear message. He only cares for USA opinion
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  42. Well Russia is in a mobilization. If USA felt threatened and needed to mobilize. They can pass 1 million... issue is.. this would trigger Chian involvement on any conflict where USA mobilizes fully
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  43. IFV of no kind will resit an anti tank weapon. You can have the most advanced bullet proof vest you want, when a 30mm roudn hits you you vaporize. IT is the same thing.
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  44.  @HBToastedAlmond  Because it undermines Ukranian government. IF the Ukranian volunteers start to think they are dieign because of the government not because of Russia, that is when coup happen.
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  45.  @cameronspence4977  You realize, even my western sources, Russian Artillery outguns Ukraine's at 5:1 ?
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  46. Not impossible ( CIWS systems at the point of impact can do it) but the defense system must be in the perfect position at the perfect time... so very unlikely .
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  47.  @MartinMartinX  In this scenario yes, but if you fire at a war ship fleet you will have a dozen CIWS at the very target. THsoe scenarios are not so simple even for this missile.
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  48.  @wallingnaga6563  No, if it is commign to the same ship the CIWS is in it is good for that. Simple geometry. All modern CIWS are made with modern hypersonic ASM in mind at least for defense of the very ship it is installed
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  49. Vulhedar at least seems so. Russians usually do not quit their pushes so fast if they are for real ( at least they never did before in the war)
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  50. I heard spinning is a nice trick!
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