Comments by "" (@GWNorth-db8vn) on "Ukraine Special Forces DESTROY Warship, Russia Runs Out of Gas | Breaking News With The Enforcer" video.

  1. I don't think the dam actually burst. It sounds more like the spring runoff and rain were more than the reservoir could hold and it's being released into the river. The levees downstream are failing from the river rising, not a sudden flood. It's a whole stretch of river that's the problem. I've heard a few versions of what is actually happening, and that seems like the most likely today.
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  2. The USSR pretty much broke even economically, but at least everyone got something. Industry takes people and involves huge amounts of raw materials. When the USSR collapsed, the rich found oil by far a simpler way to fill their pockets and nothing went back into investment. Every city and town in Russia has the concrete shells of factories that have been abandoned for decades and stripped of metal for scrap. Except for the two showpiece cities and a few hellholes still mainly involved in arms manufacture, the entire country is a wasteland. They can't expand their production of anything because the factories, equipment, and skilled people don't exist anymore.
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  3. It's a corvette, not a cruiser. People say lots of things for lots of reasons. That looked like someone setting a fire on a ship to me. I'm sure we'll get overheads soon enough to see whether it looks damaged or goes somewhere.
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  4.  @denisem.1042  - I'm at a "wait and see" stage again. I fell for an early Russian version that sounded convincing, which was a much smaller event than we're seeing today. It's really flat sandy land like Ukraine, and the river comes down from the mountains to the north. The river meanders on a wide flood plain, and there are levees and embankments everywhere.
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  5. Everything in Russia has been abandoned and stripped of any portable metal. Every city in the country has an area of concrete ruins that once were an economy. The rulers in Moscow simply don't care about the peasants.
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  6. As far as the rest of the world is concerned, America is failing Ukraine and the West. How and why things happen inside the US are none of our business, as you are so fond of reminding us. Quit playing games and pointing fingers and get your shit together.
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  7. The House has refused to take up the bill so far. The House being one person who decides what gets considered in the House. The rest of the government is rarin' to go.
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  8. They have a lot of rusty old garbage on the books. Maintaining nukes is expensive, and so are yachts and castles. No one in Russia can be confident any of them would actually work. Putin's just running his mouth again.
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  9. Roll, Bama.
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  10. I think "dam" is a bad translation and should read "embankment" or "levee". There's nothing like a dam in Orsk, but there are levees all along the river and a big new one about five meters high running along the south side of the colliery. It's also not covered in grass yet. That might be what they're talking about. I think the colliery flooded first, then the new embankment held the water for a day or so, then it failed. The levees have failed at several more places since then, and almost the whole city is flooded now. It wasn't a dam burst that caused the flood. There's flooding along a thousand miles of the river from a huge spring melt and rain in the mountains. The news we're getting is all slightly reworded translations of a single original source, and there just aren't any real details coming out, like one decent sketch map.
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  11. It carries eight Kalibr missiles and is small enough to send to the Black Sea via the canal system if they needed to. It's a new, modern ship and it's owned by Russia. It's a threat.
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  12. Depends on how much damage. They might have to remove big sections to repair internal damage.
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  13.  @TheMartymar1976  - It's one of the leading causes. If they started a fire below decks and damage is visible above deck, that ship is done for a long time, if not scrap.
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  14. The problem is that the European countries don't have massive stockpiles of anything that they can send. The US does. If they don't get the thumb out, that makes WWIII a sure thing.
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  15. That's not a certainty, but even if they do get the finger out and get the aid flowing, it's cost them a lot of future influence and made them an ally that no one will be able to rely on.
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  16. That's a weird linguistic quirk that doesn't have an analogue in English. "The Ukraine" isn't belittling in English and "The" isn't a word in Russian. The phrasing Ukrainians find offensive involves using words around 'Ukraine" that indicate either that it is a single individual thing or part of a larger thing. "In Ukraine" and "In The Ukraine" as translated into English are actually the same word for Ukraine with two different words for "In". English just doesn't work that way. English names are just names. They don't have any other information built in.
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