Comments by "" (@GWNorth-db8vn) on "The Enforcer" channel.

  1. Appeasing Putin has worked about as well as appeasing Hitler did.
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  2. The problem I have with the Israeli/Palestinian situation is that I can argue either side's points with equal sincerity. Going back further in history just makes the whole thing grayer.
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  3. The buffer zone Putin originally wanted to create was somewhere around Moldova, after absorbing Ukraine as part of Russia. The goalposts keep moving East.
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  4. It's like a symphony of terrified Russian bots in the comments today. Always a hopeful sign.
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  5. When Georgia gets their land back, they can use another decent port.
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  6. I think it's important to make a distinction between kamikaze drones and cruise missiles. No one is driving a Shahed. It's programmed with its target and released.
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  7. I've been thinking the same thing from the start. I think they're slowly realizing that appeasing Putin's feelings won't work. He has to lose to end the war, or he'll just take a breather and move on to the next step. He won't get any more reasonable by dragging it out.
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  8. All of the above.
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  9. That building at the NPP is probably the turbine hall. It sounds like it and it has the overhead crane beams to move heavy objects. It's attached to the reactor building, and one of those trucks catching fire there would be a Bad Thing. What's interesting about the refinery attacks is that they're not economic strikes. Natural gas is a separate industry with its own huge infrastructure, and the Ukrainians haven't been hitting that. Russian crude is "heavy sour" oil which contains a lower percentage of valuable volatiles and a lot of sulfur. It is party refined to get the good parts, then the rest is "mazat", a thick oil used in boilers and ships. It has to be pre-heated to use in a burner. The amount of mazat that Russia produces to get the valuable fractions is so high that it is abundant and cheap domestically and there hasn't been any incentive to modernize to cleaner fuels. Russian ships and factories produce clouds of black smoke as a result. Without these refineries, Russia won't be able to produce enough diesel, gas, lubricants to fill the army's needs and the transportation of everything it needs to move inside its own territory. Hard times ahead for the Rodina.
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  10. Chechens are clan people. Kadyrov's clan made a deal with the Russians to put him in power, but the other clans haven't forgotten. What Chechens have always been famous for is never forgiving an offence and showing up with hundreds of relatives at the home of anyone who offends one of them. They were never known as fighters or warriors. They're more like gangsters.
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  11. A lot of that has been done by hobbyists over the years, and cheap sensors meant for cell phones made a huge difference. People have been building autonomous model planes that can fly themselves to a point, circle, and take video before returning home since the nineties. A guy in New Zealand built a half size autonomous Tomahawk about twenty years ago and had it confiscated by their version of the FBI. It's like the quadcopters. Give the nerds the money and we'll build anything you like.
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  12. Taking out the design bureau won't slow down production of air defense systems. It will make sure they can't come up with improvements to make them actually defend things, though.
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  13.  @eliotness4029  - Generic troll post by someone who doesn't actually read English
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  14. They mickeymoused that, too. There's an integrated fire finder and counterbattery system that's standard on NATO guns and SPG's. The Americans sent the 777's without it and only started supplying them after the Dutch started sending complete systems.
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  15. It's been dragged out over and over for eighty years. As my sainted Granny used to say "Shit or get off the pot"
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  16. Russia's been slowly eliminating the Eastern peoples since they conquered them hundreds of years ago. Putin saw an opportunity to speed the process along.
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  17. Transnistria was in an interesting spot during the Cold War. It was the edge of the actual Soviet Union with a buffer zone of virtual puppets between it and NATO. It's also a thin strip of land at the south end of the Carpathian mountains, and the only real passage between East and West until the Great European Plain in the north of the continent. The Soviets stored their equipment and supplies there in massive amounts, enough to support their entire southern front in a hot war. Not much of it has gone anywhere, and that might be what Russia's counting on. It's also been marked on NATO targeting maps for fifty years.
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  18. Wouldn't be surprised if they're talking about a failed launch of a Russian drone.
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  19. Yes, we'll all go together when we go Every Hottentot and every Eskimo When the air becomes uranious We'll all go simultaneous Yes, we'll all go together when we go -Tom Lehrer We're finally back to the world I learned to understand and accept as a child and young man.
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  20.  @Piccyman1  - This is an unusual type of troll around these parts. This is an actual Chinese troll, repeating the CCP official talking point of the day. There are other examples of it on this comment section and other videos.
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  21. It doesn't hurt natural gas, which is used for heating. It will sure mess up their transportation and military requirements.
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  22. The Americans were daylight bombing from the start. The Brits tried it early and lost so many planes they switched to night raids. The Americans didn't want to be seen carpet bombing civilians, so they bombed in daylight and pretended to be trying to hit specific military targets. The net effect was the same. They both kept up their own schedule right to the end. The Americans did bomb Japanese cities at night, but they didn't have the same horror of killing non-whites as Europeans. The Mosquito was designed from the start to be a fast daylight intruder. Too fast for the fighters to catch, too low for the AA guns to get a shot at. It gave the Brits the ability to actually hit precise targets with a small strike rather than simply wiping out cities.
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  23. They pulled out one unit, and that got blown out of all proportion again. There are still SAM systems in Crimea, but fewer and fewer of them as the Russians run low on them everywhere. The situation near Belgorod is worse for them than Crimea.
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  24. @@jamesstewart514 - By "We" you mean Russia doesn't want them sent. It's a standard Kremlin propaganda talking point.
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  25. This is their normal peacetime intake. Everyone gets called up for a year. They won't be doing the usual peacetime things, though.
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  26. Putin's purges are more of his old school Soviet attitudes and methods. "Corruption" when applied to anyone at the rank of Colonel or above, was always used by the Soviets as a way to show that someone, or a group, was out of favor. Popov isn't the only one who should be nervous. "Corruption", when applied to lower ranks, is used as a way to send a message that things need to be tightened up. Early in the war, there was a classic example of this when a Lieutenant, a Captain, and a Major were charged with corruption for selling off fuel. The Colonels are the ones who make the most profit off grifts like this, but none were charged. It's a way to send a message without directly dealing with people who have patrons higher up and connections. When a General gets charged, all the people who supported him and the ones who rode his coattails are also at risk, and they know it. Tends to make them even more compliant.
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  27. They make bobcats in red now? I can see that being distracting.
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  28. Aux armes, citoyens! Formez vos battalions!
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  29. Engels was Marx's co-writer.
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  30. Port visits are the main thing the Russian navy's surface ships do. It's the only reason the Kuznetsov has ever left the wharf. They're a coastal patrol force with a few showpiece ships. Lately, they've been using them mainly to launch missiles at civilian targets from as far away as the Caspian. Barges with tubes mounted could do the job as well. Slick looking ships, though. Full points for style.
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  31. I know I'm a weirdo, but I'm interested in the M14. Assault rifles are after my time, but I know what a .308 feels like and how heavy a 14 is, so watching someone else handle one actually tells me something.
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  32.  @cherryfressh6188  - History is never simple. Nobody ever woke up in the morning and just decided to do something heinous for no particular reason. Everyone does what they think is the right and decent thing. Neither side of this conflict has clean hands, but neither is composed of slavering monsters, either.
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  33. I bet those holes in the killdozer tank are from bolts and such when the metal was in its original use. On a pedantic note, the "dragon's teeth" are actually caltrops. Dragon's teeth are anchored to concrete underground and a vehicle climbs up them and gets stuck. Caltrops roll when they're pushed and one point comes up and lifts the vehicle. There are also hedgehogs, which are 3D crosses welded from angle iron or train track. They're held in place by the points being driven into the ground when something drives up them.
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  34. He's the kind of officer who they used to leave alone in a room with a pistol with one round in it.
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  35. People will be moving in with their babushkas on the farm, and horses will be worth more than their weight in vodka.
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  36.  @jochemlambers  - CIA doesn't co ordinate military movements. They provide information to the people who know how to do that, and they provide advice to the Ukrainians.
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  37.  @eliotness4029  - You're replying to a statement with a random insult that has no reference to the statements you're replying to. Like a bot copy pasting off a list.
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  38. The Port of Sevastopol is the only prize on Crimea. It dominates the Black Sea. The rest of the place is rocky mountains or poor farmland that's been dry since 2014, when the canal supplying all of its water was cut off. Without the Fleet, the port's useless.
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  39.  @bradburke8232  - The whole area is a patchwork of old grudges and hatreds. Countries don't matter as much as tribal loyalties, and they don't match any borders.
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  40.  @Radbot776  - I have no idea whether I've met any. Probably. We don't ask here. Chechens' history and reputation under the tsars and Soviets is a matter of record. They've built themselves a whole new mythos in the last generation, but they're still the same tribal mobsters they always have been. Does Kadyrov strike you as a typical twentieth century leader or a medieval warlord?
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  41.  @chrisbrown8748  - We're talking about how a war is fought, not who fights it or what you think of their reasons.
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  42. Sorry. They've done way too many despicable things in the last thirty years to be considered the good guys in anything. Here's a tip - If you have to claim that your religion puts you on the right side of anything, you're not.
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  43.  @TankandDimples  - No idea. Probably not a field.
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  44. Putin's mansion "Outside Sochi" is actually about 145 km (85 miles) from Sochi, just outside the much grittier and less desirable city of Novorossiysk. Sochi is the ritzy expensive tourist area made famous by the Olympics. The compound's at: 44.421827, 38.212339 It's outside Sochi only in a real estate agent sense, like when they say a place is minutes from town, meaning 45 minutes.
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  45.  @steakinbacon8593  - They won't have to pay to dig it, and they only have one real port now. It's a hole filled with water. Even Russians can't go too far wrong. If they want' to put any useful part of their fleet there, it will take years to enlarge it enough and they'll never finish it in time anyway.
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  46. The only similarity between the two wars is that they're both wars.
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  47. You're not wrong, but this is Andrew.
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  48.  @ABa-os6wm  - Evolution in action.
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  49.  @simonewing4222  - So far, it has always been boring threats. They make them, we don't.
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  50. Only in the western, ethnic Russian areas. The rest of the country still has mud roads.
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