Comments by "Paul Gibbon" (@paulgibbon5991) on "Russia Destroyed the Dam and Has Worse Planned" video.

  1.  @septimiufly5134  Nuclear threats cannot be a factor. The message cannot go out to the world that nuclear blackmail works or makes anyone go easy on you for your atrocities. There should be no restraint in breaking Russia's economy and military for the rest of the century and supplying whatever orc-slaying weapons Ukraine requires.
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  2.  @reaper2943  "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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  3. "Some people" being botskis, you mean.
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  4.  @nyali2  "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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  5. Given the Russian love for scorched earth, triggering a new Chernobyl is entirely plausible. That plant needs to be watched 24/7, with NATO intervention ready to go.
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  6.  @Naptosis  Maybe it's time for the UN to go the way of the League. And we can get a new organisation that isn't just that place where dictators endlessly veto punishment for their crimes.
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  7.  rodneyhoward9450  Botski reported. May you soon be drafted.
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  8. We need NATO troops ready to drop in and liberate it at very short notice.
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  9.  @hungrymusicwolf  The UN is showing its irrelevance more and more since the Cold War ended, and is now just a club where dictators investigate and excuse themselves. Like the League, it needs to be dismantled and rebuilt as something that can punish tyrants.
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  10. BUT WHAT ABOUT--
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  11.  @speurtighearnamacterik8230  I used to be that sort of 2edgy4u atheist. Then I turned fifteen.
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  12. Russians don't feel shame. They do get mildly annoyed when they have to live close enough to a genocide to hear the artillery, but that seems to be about it. Russia wants this.
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  13. Touch what? The deliberate destruction of a dam that was entirely secure, as an act of terrorism? You have no point to make, just a random hateboner against environmentalism. Fall silent.
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  14. The Russians control the dam, and have for some time.
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  15.  @MikeKayK  It's easy. Just take the brakes off, stop Scholzing around, and give Ukraine everything they need to obliterate the orc horde. It should have been there a year ago.
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  16.  @dominicjohnson307  Nah, let's do what we should have done a year ago, and take the fight to the terrorists.
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  17.  @davidhardaker192  Remember how it started, ten "red lines" ago? Stop rolling over to blackmail.
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  18.  @marcellogenesi6390  Because Russia controls the dam, because they bragged about mining it, because they bragged about blowing it up, because State TV has been crowing about their plans to destroy infrastructure and force Ukranians to go without power, becaus Russia has a long and vile history of scorched earth tactics that hurt them as much as the enemy. Next question, you silly little botski? Oh, and if you can show evidence for your claim about the pipeline than the Russian ships sniffing around it before the blast, do please share it. But you won't. Fingers crossed your draft papers arrive real soon.
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  19.  @BramBREAKDOWN  Article Five stands ready' the goblin of the Kremlin never attacks countries with allies. The opinions of Russian savages no longer matter.
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  20.  @davidfairless1028  Botski trash reported. May you soon be drafted.
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  21. BUT WHAT ABOUT--
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  22.  @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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  23.  @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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  24.  @dominicjohnson307  Neutrality always aids the aggressor. At least have the guts to admit you're a vatnik.
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  25.  @westboyles5859  Side that held the dam and planted bombs there, and announced their intention on state TV to blow it up. Nice and simple for you.
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  26.  @malbasedvalentine3210  Botski reported. May you soon be drafted.
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  27. Right-wingers love how manly and rugged and homophobic Russia is, and how Putin is the strongman Trump aspired to be. Left-wingers are still salty about the War on Terror and see Russia as opposing globalism or (in especially deranged cases) still communist. The Russian propaganda engine feeds and funds "anti-war" and nationalist movements across Europe and the US. A telltale of all of these movements is that they don't feature any actual Ukranians.
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  28. The nuclear plant plant needs to be watched 24/7, with NATO intervention ready to be on the ground there within hours.
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  29. Russia goes home and returns what they stole. Anything less sends the message to the world that terrorism and nuclear blackmail work. World security demands the catastrophic failure and visible punishment of the terrorist state.
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  30. What professional qualifications are you basing this statement on?
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  31. @@cjs472 Sorry, we all froze to death last winter. Gas reserves are topped up, and support for Ukraine remains high. Fingers crossed we get a nice civil war in your home country before then, botski trash.
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  32. Russia controlled the dam, mined it, said they'd cause environmental disasters on State TV and bragged about blowing it up. Stop being a tankie.
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  33. Got to love the "We'll kill you all if you try and stop us! Why are you so Russophobic?!" line.
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  34.  @smthnew861  Enough of them are. Innocent Russians can be attended to after their fascist mafia state has been bankrupted, demilitarised, broken and buried, and every last bit of damage to Ukraine has been repaired out of their pockets. Russians had a chance to choose democracy, they chose Putin. I am past caring about anyone who chooses to be part of Russia now.
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  35. Offensives happen when they work, not when some random guy in the West thinks they should. If you're not in the Ukranian command structure, your opinion on when would be best is quite irrelevant.
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  36.  @canuckprogressive.3435  Just report them and move on.
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  37.  @knaller2k  We're not in a nuclear war, we're in a stage then of a massive conventional offensive, the obliteration of all Russian nuclear launch sites, and messages going out to everyone in the Kremlin to hand over Putin's head or become a target themselves.
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  38.  @dannym6675  Giving in to nuclear blackmail is also escalation. It tells Putin he can threaten nukes to get whatever he wants, and also sends the same message to every other tinpot dictator--get some nukes and you can bully your neighbours with impunity. That's how you start a new global age of proliferation. Russia must fail, visibly and publicly, to gain one single thing from their threats. Otherwise, what do you do when Putin says "I'll have Poland now--nobody interfere or I'll nuke you."? Other factors to bear in mind are that the Russian missiles have been shot down with 30 year old systems, their warheads have almost certainly been neglected due to corruption and vranyo, that drifting radiation triggers Article Five, and that China is also pushing Russia to wind down the nuclear talk. None of which makes a nuclear attack impossible, it just makes it dumb from Russia's perspective--you don't launch a nuke unless you're 100% certain it'll destroy the target. Nuclear threats are part of the standard Russian strategy--make extreme threats and count on someone in the West backing down and letting you keep what you stole.
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