Comments by "Paul Gibbon" (@paulgibbon5991) on "Jake Broe" channel.

  1. Dictators tend to be invulnerable and untouchable...until, very suddenly, they're not.
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  2.  @VVV85650  Botski reported, may you soon be drafted.
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  3. Stop victim blaming.
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  4. Got a source for any of those rumours? If not, what is presented without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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  5. Bear in mind that Trump is a Russian asset / useful idiot who promised his good buddy he'd pull the US out of NATO. The issues are very closely interlinked, especially when you've got Russian state media openly cheering for Trump because they think he can plunge the US into civil war.
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  6. Much like how a shield doesn't need to outpace an arrow to stop it.
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  7. This is how Russian disinfo works. They don't want you to believe what they're saying, they want you to be confused and believe nothing.
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  8. There was a time once before when America was asked to assist a country standing alone against a fascist invader, and they chose to do the right thing, despite isolationist and fascist sympathising elements within government. Ukraine has suffered more than the UK did in WW2--we never had our cities occupied, our civilians murdered and raped, or our children dragged away for forced adoption.
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  9.  @TJefferson8  I find it quite funny how you don't notice the contradiction in your statement. Climate change is already driving people from areas that are becoming arid, flooded or otherwise unusable and turning them into...guess what? Immigrants. You provide an excellent case study about why the average voter should never be trusted with such things, but you probably don't see the irony through the Faux News-induced red haze
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  10. Remember that they used the same tactic when they blew the dam and when their admiral was killed, and it worked. They just need to deny Ukraine a clear victory in the public eye by spreading denial and confusion.
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  11. Doubtful. Trump and many other of his cult are either bought and paid for assets, or useful idiots.
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  12. Remember to pressure your representatives, donate whatever you can spare and shut down vatniks and tankies wherever you see them.
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  13.  @bennykoh  We're looking more at how he blackmailed Ukraine when they refused to give him dirt on his rivals, offered to pull the US out of NATO, and by his own admission trusted Putin more than the CIA. When the coup attempt failed, we narrowly avoided a very dark future.
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  14.  @paulomora5942  Clue: You don't need to equal the speed of a missile (especially a very unmanoueverable missile) if you're in front of it. You're saying that an arrow is faster than a guy with a shield, thus it's impossible for the shield to stop an arrow.
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  15. Boring, predictable bothsides. Also, the only ones I've ever seen talking about the Ghost of Kiev are Russian botskis.
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  16.  @princeindoorandoutdoorplan3003  Oh, you mean the astroturf Kremlin-funded insurrection, along with the actual self-confessed Russian "little green men" there to false flag? Also, the war criminals who murdered the passengers on a civilian airliner, lest we forget.
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  17. The thing that makes Russia truly unique is that....they truly are dedicated to evil douchebaggery for its own sake. It doesn't matter if their country sucks, if they can degrade others. There's no aspirations or higher principles, only the aping of past Russian powers. There is no positive, friendly relations with other countries, only puppet rulers, threats, blackmail and--at best--dictators giving each other hollow smiles and assurances, with the knives ready to come out at a moment's notice. All wrapped up in unattractive, whiny rhetoric of being the eternal victim and being utterly blind to how they could get much of what they want through simply letting the paranoia and aggression ebb and dealing with the world as equals.
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  18.  @divermike8943  A fake popular ("grassroots") movement. In this case, pretending that the insurgents were Ukranian rather than self-confessed Russian instigators.
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  19.  @macmcleod1188  Remember the Norweigans and Irish!
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  20.  @KL-nj7vi  The problem is that the Republicans might make noise about their crazies, but very reliably bend the knee to them whenever they gain some popular support.
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  21. Remember that it's not just "territory", it's millions of innocent people who would be left to the mercy of Putin's army of murderers and rapists. Millions of Ukranians would lose their family and friends forever if any land is ceded to the orcs.
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  22. Far too much foot-dragging. Why has Russia not yet been declared a state sponsor of terrorism?
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  23.  @daniell1483  Russia was very good at always being the second biggest problem, and at painting themselves as a "necessary evil".
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  24.  @peetky8645  Anyone who is anti-war should want Russia excised from Ukraine by the quickest route possible, and measures taken to make sure Russia will not go on an empire building spree again for at least a century. Anyone who uses "anti-war" as a cover for appeasement (or collaboration, in the case of Trumplicans) is a useful idiot at best and actively, malignantly evil and anti-democratic at worst. And if a foreign power was engaged in an active campaign of genocide, torture, rape, murder and child kidnapping against your people, in between indiscriminately shelling your home....you would join the fight. Maybe not as a combatant, but you would contribute, on account of being a human.
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  25. Or in the case of Russia, morale is a force divider.
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  26.  @Acacontrols  Learn some pattern recognition. We'll wait for you.
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  27. It's a case of "the criminal thinks everyone is crooked".
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  28.  @rffromusa8319  It's what Russia does. Why do you think there are so many Russian populations in neighbouring countries? Stalin spoke of "Creating Facts", and making other nations de facto Russian through genocide and resettling. Kind of like China and Tibet.
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  29.  @clyde15  We wasted months Scholzing around while the tanks sat in storage, being maintained with taxpayer money. Even after Putin demonstrated that he'll squawk escalation about every form of aid and then do nothing. Wallace is a shameful cretin--I'd dearly love to see how him talk face to face with a Ukranian who suffered due to the west dragging their feet and tell them they ought to be more grateful. On behalf of the UK, I apologise for that narcissistic moron. Give Ukraine every last thing they need to slay the orcs and restore their borders, then immediately lock in NATO membership. That's how the war ends, and all that changes is how many innocents die before we do what we should have been doing a year ago. No more excuses.
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  30.  @clyde15  Sounds like you're saying we should have started the process this time last year.
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  31. It's like how sending tanks would have no effect on the war whatsoever, but would still be an escalation for some reason.
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  32.  @Einzeilhandery  Botski reported, may you soon be drafted.
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  33.  @kristinehansen4665  It's far more civilised to flip a switch and cut power to a hospital, or water to people you don't have to look at. And the West will pretend they don't see it, and that only one side is doing evil things.
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  34.  @MichaelPetek  The sad thing is, we haven't been able to RELY on the US since 2016. Yes, it's really nice when they are in a sane period like now, but Trump showed that America can never be relied on for more than 4 years at a time not to go bug-eating crazy.
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  35. In a way, things are better. Right now, we're seeing boils bursting--it's a nasty sight, but much better than if they continue to swell and build up poison.
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  36. Remember when we went to Iraq and deposed Saddam Hussein for trying to threaten people with WMD's, on far more tentative evidence?
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  37.  @petersinclair3997  Almost certainly. Here's the difference--we're not currently invading Canada, Jamaica or India and slaughtering their people based on historic claims. We can admit that our age of Empire was a bad thing. Russia fails to do this, and glorifies the time when they had other nations under their boot.
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  38.  @moxie591  "If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war ... One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me." --Nikita Kruschev
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  39.  @yaya_is_real  "Whataboutism" is a Soviet-pioneered propaganda technique, whereas cricitisms are not answered directly, but distracted from by pointing out something that somebody else did. Whether the counter-accusation is actually relevant or stands up to criticism is not important, the intent is only to divert the attention of the audience.
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  40.  @yaya_is_real  Understand that when I call you a bot or paid troll farmer, I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt. Someone who simps for Russian voluntarily is a far more vile creature.
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  41. Remember to vote him out. We don't need any of Putin's People in power in Europe.
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  42. I think they mean naval. Not that that's a very scary threat, when you know their history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mdi_Fh9_Ag&t=1s
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  43. It's very Russian. If you've done anything bad at any point during the history of your nation, you can't criticise Russia now. They have the absolute bleakest view of human nature you can image--which again, says a lot about what living in Russian culture does to you.
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  44.  @BTinSF  The problem is, there's no punishments for knowingly employing illegal immigrants. So they get used as virtual slave labour with no rights, and then get thrown to the wolves when they become inconvenient.
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  45. And while we're waiting, Ukranians are being murdered, raped, tortured and kidnapped by the orc horde. More every day. Patience has run dry.
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  46.  @gregluker6875  But a related question is--would you launch a nuclear missile if it had, say, a 50% chance of failing to launch-or even worse, blowing up in the silo?
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  47. "Look, we're never going to USE these things, right? They're just there to threaten people with. So how about we skip the upkeep for this year, and split the money between us?"
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  48. You may as well say it's the Tsars 3.0. The imperial imperative has been pretty consistent from way before the USSR came to be.
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  49. It's interesting to note how the Botski Brigade have gone into absolute OVERDRIVE over the failure of the wonder missiles / the Patriot launcher being damaged. Perhaps their handlers are aware of how it defangs Russia's nuclear threats if the hypersonic missiles are shown to be reliably beatable.
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  50. Yes, hence why you get the rhetoric about Russia never losing / never having attacked anyone. Like how WW2 only started after Hitler invaded the USSR.
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