Comments by "Nattygsbord" (@nattygsbord) on "Anders Puck Nielsen" channel.

  1. Ryssland borde omedelbart de-eskalera kriget och acceptera landavträdelser åt Ukraina så att vi kan få fred ☮🕊 För alla civila boendes i Kursk som drabbats av kriget!
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  2. I hope he gets long life with constant pain that scores 10 on the NRS scale
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  3. There is this game that Russia wants to show the 3rd world that it is strong and does not back down and put hard against hard in its struggle against the west. Maybe Russia is afraid to look weak and useless for the third world? But this is a vanity project a 3rd world country cannot afford. So a Potemkin phasade needs to be created, but this is not a substainable solution in the long run. So what Putin hope to achieve with this move is beyond me, it just seem idiotic like painting oneself into a corner, and then climb up on a branch on a tree and then put out the saw and start to cut down the same branch he is sitting on. This is just so foolish. A desperate mans wishful thinking. Perhaps is he betting everything on that his boyfriend will become president in USA again. But it seems more likely that Biden will win to me. And no this war have nothing to do with Nato agression. If that was true that Russia indeed felt threatened by an attack from the west, then why did that SU-57 fighter jet not sit protected inside a thick bomb shelter where it would be safe against drones and missile strikes? All other countries in eastern Europe got protected hangars everywhere, so why not russia? Its almost like they do not fear any Nato invasion at all. Vatniks also mock us Europeans that we are so unprepared for this war, with tiny armies, tiny military stockpiles and no artillery ammunition stored for a big war. So if they brag about how much stronger russian artillery is, then why do they feel threatened by their pathetically weak western foe? And if the west is so dangerous to russia that it starts proxy wars and threatens russia with an invasion at every moment, then why do the russian military pull out troops from Kaliningrad and send them to Ukraine? Isn't Kaliningrad super-important and needs to be protected at all costs as a top priority for the russian military in a war with Nato? Kaliningrad is enormously important, just as important as Moscow and St Petersburg. Kaliningrad have an important port, but that place is also an excellent starting point for a blitzkrieg against the Baltics, Its a place for missile attacks against the west (perhaps also with nukes). Its also for defensive reasons enormously important for russia if Nato went to war with russia. It would tie up large Nato forces that could threaten russia elsewhere, and it would protect russias missile shield and help russia control the Baltic sea. So why then would russia ever move all Kaliningrad troops to fight in Ukraine? That just seems enormously reckless and dangerous to me, if Russia truely is under threat from the west. And after the drone strike at Engels airbase did Russia move all its strategic bombers out of reach of Ukrainian drones. They were moved far north. To an airfield close to the border of Finland, just a few kilometers away and not more. And I think that would be an extremely reckless move if Russia sincerly feared a western invasion. Would USA ever put all their B-2, B-1 and B-52 bombers in one place just a few kilometres from the Warsaw pact border during the cold war? - I don't think so because that would be stupid and reckless. The entire nuclear capability of the US airforce could just have been destroyed in just one big air raid that could easily be done cross the border without much warning or time to react. No one would ever position their strategic bombers close to enemy territory unless they felt extremely safe and sure that they would never be attacked from the west. So for all those reasons do I think Putin never feared any western invasion
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  4. You must be living in a very fascinating and interesting alternative reality. Somehow is the Ukrainian military totally incompetent and 600.000 Ukrainian soldiers are dead... and yet for some reason have russia still not beaten Ukraine after 2 years and been forced to retreat in area after area.
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  5. And now russia is the new nazi Germany. They start unprovoced wars of aggression. They murder the Ukrainian intelligentia, just the same way the Germans killed the Polish intelligentia. And they promote censorship, they do not have freedom of opinion, and they build torture chambers for children on occupied territory. They kidnap children just like the nazis did. They terror bomb cities just like Germany did to Warsaw, Rotterdam and London. Standing against Nazi-russia is the right thing to do now if you have learned anything from history. Putin have learned from history. All his methods are copies from nazi-Germany. The ideas of ethno-nationalism and ethnic cleansing for example. And they justify their wars with excuses like "we are just retaken our old historical lands" and "we are protecting our opressed minority in a foreign land". Excuses Hitler used when he invaded Poland and Czechoslovakia. Those who side with russia today, side with nazi Germany.
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  6.  @andrzejbarcelonafrlk6416  More in Nato countries than elsewhere. I don't think any other place have went so demilitarized as Europe and have almost no ammunition stored.
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  7. TL;DR
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  8. I think putin do not want men to return home from the war and tell people how horrible it was, and he do not want people to see men who lost an arm, or a leg, or an eye. And he do not want people to know about the incompetence of their military and how the officers waste their mens lives in meat assults, and how men are not given good equipment. All those things can cause anti-war protests, and such protests are things that putin fears most. Putin does not fear the election itself since it is rigged and fake, and all his political opponents have been thrown in jail (Navalny, Girkin) or killed (Prigozhin).
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  9. "From day one Ukraine never had a chance of winning the real war." From what military school did you get that knowledge? From Russia Today evening show propaganda? Look at history. Russia have lost almost every war it have fought the last 170 years. It lost the Crimean war. It lost the Russo-Japanese war. It lost World war 1. It lost the Polish-Bolshevik war. It failed to conquer all of Finland in 1939 and in 1944. It suffered catastrohic defeats against nazi-Germany despite it fought a 1 front war against Germany that had to fight a 5 front war without any lend lease help. And then in the 1980s did russia lose the war in Afghanistan. And it lost the first Chechen war. "Now that Zelensky and Biden fed a half a million Ukrainians into the meat grinder" I bet you do not have any credible source for that claim. And clowns like Gonzalo Lira, Scott Ritter, Tucker Carlson, Russia today are all fake news so they don't count. "Zelensky & Biden supporters ARE STILL promoting the war!" They did not start the war - it was russia that started the war. And a peace deal at any cost will not create peace. Putin have broken every promise he have made... the Budapest agreement, the 2003 border deal with Ukraine, The Minsk agreement, the peace deal with Chechenya, the deal with Prigozhin. So I do not think a ceasefire will hold a year longer then when Putin think he have a realistic chance of invading and succesfully take Ukraine again. So making a peace deal is therefore pointless. It is also morally wrong. Russia should not be given anything. Ukraine have all the right to defend itself according to international law and the UN charter. They defend themselves against genocide, wars of aggression, russian tyrranny and opression, ruscism and raschism. Ukraine fights stands for truth, independence, freedom and democracy. Russia only stands for evil, manipulation and lies. And if rewarding russian terrorists will only send the wrong signal to terrorism sympatizers around the world, and encourage future acts of terrorism also from other states and organisations when they see that russia gets rewarded for bad behaviour. Appeasement simply doesn't work. Its just a dangerous strategy. The least bad option is therefore to kick russia out of Ukraine by force, as it refuses to leave stolen lands voluntarily.
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  10. Zhukov also each day asked his men how many toothsticks [Russian Soldiers] they had lost that day. That shows what degree of disregard that he held even for the lives of his own soldiers.
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  11. I do not think it is a coincidence that the grain deal happened after a series of Russian military setbacks. Their offensive towards Kyiv had failed and their flagship Moscow had been sunk, and russian losses had been pileing up while western aid was flowing into the country, while russias economy was under stress. A lifting of the economic sanctions on Russia plus extra money from exporting Russian grain and stolen grain from Ukraine more and more seemed an attractive option for Russia which seemed less and less capable of blockading the black sea, and the ever increasing threat of international military intervention to stop a global famine from killing hundreds of millions of people started to become dangerous to russia. If Nato and Africa joined forces against the Russian black sea fleet there would be zero chance that Russia could win such a fight. So they did choose to back down before it was too late.
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  12. The Russian army even brought crematorium trucks to ukraine to burn their dead soldiers to ashes to cover up their own losses
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  13. Russia is like an old man with a hoarding problem. It have deployed old 57mm AA guns on a T-55 tank chassi in Ukraine. Some Ukrainians have even observed old 85mm WW2 anti-aircraft guns deployed behind the frontline in the reserves. And to Russias defense do Ukraine also use old WW2 equipment, like the popular Swedish 40mm Bofors gun. Some country in the Baltics gave their old guns to Ukraine and I would not be surprised if Sweden provides the ammo. And they are still useful weapons against drones. And with CV90 arriving on the battlefield soon will this gun be used against ground targets as well.
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  14. He will have to stay in russia then. Or visit 3rd world countries like North Korea or Venezuela
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  15.  @avernvrey7422  China do not want him. And India is starting to get tired of him as well. So like I said, he can go to Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, Nicuaragua and such 3rd world countries. Otherwise he have to hope that no one in Russia tries to make a coup and kill him
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  16. I don't. The problem was that only russia could end this war. And russia have no interest in ending it as long as it believed that it could win it. However now is its economy going into the toilet. Its military are running low on soviet stockpiles of tanks and artillery. The russian population are feed up with the war. And the high losses makes putin in need of hundreds of thousands more russian soldiers. Indeed he probably needs millions more of them if he plans to win this war, as he must compensate for the lack of armor and artillery with more meat losses. This war was only fun for russia as long as it had the upper hand. Now it is more likely that it will pull out. I can understand if Ukraine wants to shorten this war as much as possible and cut their losses. However, the best for humanity as a whole would be that this war kept on going for another 10 years so that the russian military, demographics and economy became utterly destroyed for generations to come.
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  17. Could a Dniepr river crossing over the ice be an option? ("March Across the Belts" style)
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  18. Learn to spell.
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  19. Crossing a kilometre wide river is a hard thing. Russia have already failed many times in this war. And with lots of Russian guns on the other side of the ice cold river I think that it is too early for an attack now. But with long range artillery, drones and artillery radars could those Russian guns be wiped out and an amphibious operation could be possible. But it will not be easy. We are talking about a big and difficult operation here. Something like D-Day. Even crossing the river at the narrowest points could be very risky and difficult. So it remains to be seen what Ukraines next move is.
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  20. The Russians want to believe Putlers lies and they are too lazy and too proud to ever question him about how justified this war is, but instead they rather go to Ukraine and kill innocent people, destroy cities, rape and steal. So I feel like the Russians actually deserves everything bad that is coming their way.
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  21. Russia could not take Kyiv last year as you Rusbots promised. So there is no reason why I should listen to you now either. Your speed of advance is that of a snail. At this rate will it take 200 years before Ukraine is conquered. Pathetic.
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  22. I think the west should respond in kind. And no, I have lost all patience with all Scholzing and appeasement of far-right nutjobs in the west.
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  23. I read in one major newspaper (I forgot which one) that Germany have fixed its fossile fuel dependency problem for the next year, and the years to come. So Putins energy blackmail will therefore not likely succeed in the long run as the west can just get their energy from other sources. This game of shutting of all the energy more looklike a game of desperation by Putin, he is playing out his energy card while it is still worth anything. It will cause harm and pain and scare some people in the west. But after this winter will this game stop having an effect, and things will improve in the EU while Russia suffers more and more pain and see its energy revenues go down and get problems with financing the war. The Russian people are used to a shitty life and hardships and will tolerate more pain than west Europeans, but I still think Putin greatly overestimate Russias own abilities and underestimate Europe. To me all this looklike the crappiest and most idiotic economic warfare strategy a country have used since the Confederate States during the American Civil war. The Confederates did then stop all export of cotton and destroying in the hope that lack of cotton and high export prices would make England eager to support the South's struggle for independence. But the opposite did happen. The South did not get any desperatly needed foreign money to help its struggling economy, and England just started to grow cotton in India, and also Egypt started to grow it, as clothes producers were forced to look for other sources for cotton. And so the South was no longer as important for the world economy as in the past. It never raised any war taxes and thereby lacked the funding for its military and the war had to be singlehandedly paid for by other means which raised inflation and interest rates, and thereby made the war financing very ineffective. Russia now do the same thing. It refuses to export energy and food and thereby lose export revenues. And as it isolates itself it is becoming more and more irrelevant for the world economy, until no one any longer cares if they lose all economic ties with them. Capital controls work. But they only work if you got a strong economy with demand for your currency. Once the energy dependency on Russia goes away.. then it can no longer prop up its failed currency and the house of cards falls apart. And the law of supply and demand will press down the value of the ruble as there are no foreign demand for that junk currency once people starts to buy their energy from other countries.. So no, I think Putin is only going to lose the long game. As losses piles up and Russias lack of success becomes more and more appearant will the war lose some of its popularity. The Russian military lose its best men and equipment, and all that is left are junk. Putin will finally have welded togheter the world against him, as even France, Germany and Italy now their energy from other countries and have no reason to hold back on their support for Ukraine. And traitors like Salvini and Le Pen can no longer camouflage their support for Putin behind fake concerns about the sanctions that they say harms the wallets for ordinary people.
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  24. Draftdodger coward, stop hanging in the comment section and go and fight and die for Putain now.
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  25. It will take decades to repair all flaws in the russian military 😂
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  26. The iranian drones are dirt cheap and cost only a fraction of a missile. They are simple constructions with a moped engine that push them towards their targets and off load their big bombload. And even if just a fraction of the amounts spammed out hit their targets it can be costly and problematic in the short run. So the drones are Putins card for asymetric warfare. However I have heard that Ukraine now got 50 or so Gepards that are performing excellent in area defence. But Ukraine is of course a very big country, so this amount is far from enough from covering all of the country. 90% of the missiles and drones are shot down. But it is difficult to completly defend against all those attacks.
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  27. I am not aware of any ability of Denmark to close the sea to russian warships during peacetime like Turkey have. However had russia attacked Sweden before it joined Nato last year would the result for the russian economy have been catastrophic as Swedish warships on the west coast along with coastal missile batteries and military aircrafts would quickly have destroyed the russian Baltic sea trade. According to the World Bank do half of russias trade pass through the Baltic Sea and Sweden could quickly cut all of it off and destroy it if it wanted to. And not just alone Swedens west coast, but with the island Gotland in the south east are russian warships easily within reach. And this tiny lake does not offer many places for the russian navy to hide. And given their poor performance in Ukraine would I not be that afraid of a russian invasion. Their landing ships would be sunk before any troops or tanks could enter Swedish land. And the russian airforce that cannot even take on Ukraine would simply not stand a chance against an airforce with some extremely well trained pilots, excellent doctrine and modern military aircrafts. The Swedish military is much weaker now than back in 1994 due to reckless, incompetent and irresponsible cuts to the military budget. But even so would fighting Sweden today be a nightmare for Russia.
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  28. He was so afraid of a military coup last may that he only allowed 1 old tank on his military parade in his capitol out of fear. And he was not wrong, Prigozhin and Surovikin was not loyal to him. And now he is paranoid. He believed he had to kill Prigozhin and Navalny. Girkin is dying, but Putin is still too afraid to let him go free.
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  29. You forgot one very important point. Ukraine needs to show a victory before the election in USA. Now have USA given a very large aid package in May, and some people do eagerly expect some results. Especially with some fighter jets coming. Personally do I think that those expectations and this harmful unhelpful pressure on Ukraine to perform have made Ukraine very eager to score some propaganda victory. The election in America will likely decide the outcome of this war. I guess that a victory for Biden means a 85% for Ukraine to win this war. And a victory for Trump would mean a 85% chance for ruSSia to win this war.
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  30. I rather see it as a choice of russia to spend their meat now, instead of doing so in the future. That will mean that they will make some minimal gains now, but on the other hand will they be denied any gains in the future as they have spent this force. So this is also an oppurtuinity for Ukraine.
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  31. Objects for bragging and prestige for a country that pretends to be a military equal to the USA. They were build during the Soviet age.. and old upgraded ships are expensive to keep in service while new ships can be cheaper to operate and pack more punch. Having a big ship also allows you to leave coastal waters and do some fighting on the high seas. The ships carry large amounts of missiles. So 1 ship can spam a large enough number of missiles into the air to potentially take out an American carrier group. But then of course are those Russian ships worthless at anything else. They are not reliable, they cost much to operate, they rely on old technologies On paper did Moscow have a strong air defence at both long range and close range. But she did sink, so that reputation of being an anti-aircraft shield for all other ships in the Russian navy was probably a myth since she failed at this, which was one of her most important jobs.
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  32. Ohh please, the Wehrmacht were warcriminals... but comparing them to russian federation is an insult they dont deserve. Wehrmacht was competent at all levels, had good modern equipment, good training, good dicipline, the troops were willing to fight, their command structure was best in the world, and their strategic and tactical thinking had been refined after all campaigns in Europe and the previous world war. The Russian military by contrast is rotten junk at all levels. Filled with corruption, old poorly maintained rusty equipment and outdated food rations, the men lacks training and williningness to fight, the command structure is one of the crappiest in the world, dicipline is non-existent as soldiers post internet videos of mutiny and russian positions looks like waste dumps with garbage everytwhere and everything is disorder, and the russians military thinking is based around ideas that are as outdated now as they were a century ago.
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  33. If you have a Russian armored vehicle capable of carrying 10 men inside that gets destroyed - then the Ukrainians count that as 5 persons killed as there is no way of knowing how many people inside has been burned alive inside, and especially in the beginning of the war did the Russian military have lots of equipment and little manpower so their vehicles were usually just half full of men. So this number is a bit of a guess work and estimate. This is what operator starsky once said in a video. I also think that body counts can be problematic if you say have a bunch of Vietcong in a jungle, and you order an artillery strike on certain square kilometers of the jungle.. and 155 howitzers, battleship guns reduce the place to rubble, and afterwards come some F4 Phantoms and drop tonnes of bombs and napalm over the area. So how will you count the enemy losses when you will in there the day after? There is nothing left of the enemies bodies after the artillery have shewed them up and turned them into minced meat and thrown it around hundreds of meters. And the napalm have turned corpses into pieces of coal and ashes and you no longer have any idea if the burned thing on the ground was once a living human being. You might perhaps see an arm or a head or a feet in a boot lay around in that area. But it is impossible to tell if that those things belonged to one and the same person, or 3 different persons. So little is left of the enemy after this powerful bombardment that it is impossible to tell if 10 persons died there or 150.
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  34. As you said to Perun will those planes become valuable if this war becomes long and last for years. So it is a political statement that the west is willing to spend large amounts of money to help Ukraine, and also to do so in the long run if necessary. Those planes impact on the battlefield will not be that significant as there are too few planes and too few pilots. The best long term strategy would of course then be that the west trains say 200 young men with no previous flight experience into becoming pilots. This will take 2 years. But it is probably the only way Ukraine can get an air force with quantaty and quality needed. As it is now am I pessimistic. One german military blogger said in a video that most Ukrainian pilots cannot speak english so even if pilot training started today would still just say 20-30 pilots at most be able to participate in any training from the west. The other pilots speaks too poor english, and despite the war has been going on for 1.5 years now have they not bothered to learn any english despite months and months of begging for western jets. And if we are going to spend time on learning ukrainian pilots english - then of course will even more valuable time be eaten up. So I don't think we will see any Ukrainian F16 jets this year. And probably not for the first half of the next year either. Some people might be worried and upset about this. Upset how incompetent Ukraine have been to not prepare their pilots with a language course, or upset at Nato for all delays of giving those jets. But personally I mostly just view them as a long term political statement so I don't feel that upset as I think their impact on the war will be limited due to their small numbers.
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  35. Fact is that a vote by a disengaged voter is counted equally to a vote from a very engaged voter. The people who voted from Trump were strongly attached to him, but still did Biden win despite no one felt any entusiasm in voting for him. Putins political support rests on last time voters, elderly people who feel nostalgic about the USSR and entusiastic of a war that they themselves doesn't have to fight. This selfish garbage generation are one issue voters: high pensions is the only political issue that matters to them. Everything else is irrelevant to them. If Putin fails on everything else does not matter to them as long as he gives them pensions. And likewise can he be the greatest president ever, but if he then lowers pensions none of his achievements matter anymore - he will get voted out. And the next year is a Russian election year.
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  36. Anders, I hope you decide to remove the Putin bot comments. I don't think they deserve a platform. Are western points of view allowed in Moscow? No. Then I don't think that Russian points of view should have any platform here in the west either.
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  37. Start acting competent?
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  38. Western support for the war might fall if they do that (you know countries like Germany have a large pacifist brainless population that could not accept that, and Italy also got a large population that just look for excuses for abandoning Ukraine). Furthermore would Putin get what he wants. Instead of made up lies about evil Ukrainians murdering Russian civilians, can he now use the honest press take photos from his bombed home towns and say that Russians are the victims and blah blah, and rally the russian people to support his unpopular war. Personally I do not mind if Moscow and St Petersburg turns into dust and rubble. The people there certainly deserves no better. But is it worth the risk of bombing them, that is the question? Will the upsides be larger than the downsides that I mentioned?
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  39. Considering how incompetent this war has been handled by Russia I do not consider it unlikely that they do not even have any thought out plan at this point. The war have slipped out of their hands and went out of their control. This was supposed to be a 3 day war. I think you give the Russian leadership too much credit. You assume that they have a brain and act rationally and not like complete idiots. Personally do I more and more think that they are complete idiots. Their best equipment and troops are gone. And now they have to improvise with unconventional ways of winning this war. Terror bombings is one such desperate attempt. And it is nothing more than that. The Putin regime got nothing to lose by firing all their stockpiles. If they lose the war, then Putins political career is over anyways. So the only way he can save himself is to gamble and hope that he wins this war so that he can remain in power and save himself from getting killed. And they know that Nato - unlike themselves - are too civilized to start a war. With this in mind do Putin even dare to move troops away from the strategically super-important Kaliningrad and use those troops for the fighting in Ukraine. And this in a point of time while their army have already suffered catastrophic losses of contractor soldiers and T-80 and T-90 tanks. Had Russia believed that their neighbours might wanted to start a war with them - as their propaganda says - then I think that the timing of moving their Kalingrad troops to Ukraine could not be more terribly choosen. Leaving such an important strategic hub unprotected shows that the russians are lying to their teeths. They know the west doesn't want any war. And nor are they afraid of any escalation. So Russia therefore gambles everything on one card now and try to win this war. They throw in everything they got. They use up everything and do not think about tomorrow. Everything from t-62 tanks, rusty AK47s and world war 2 rifles to troops from Kaliningrad to members of Russias space forces. All their missiles are being spent as well as their old ammunition stocks. To me this strategy seems terrible for Russia. They are making a stupid short term decision without thinking about the long term consequences. Its like pissing your pants. If feels warm and cozy at first. But a few minutes later it feels uncomfortable, cold, wet, dirty and smelly to wear some pants covered in urine. I guess Russia will suffer more military defeats, and have to repeat their boring predictable nuclear threats like a broken record despite people in the west no longer believes in his nonsense. Fear and respect for him has been exchanged for contempt. People in the west look at the Russian military as incompetent. And the respect for their point of view have been hollowed out by their endless lies and barbarism and war crimes. It might just as well be that soon will people in the west look at Russia like it was a turd. And think that it needs to be flushed away, so people can solve this problem and keep on going with their normal lives again.
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  40.  @peterpan7903  North Korea and Pakistan also got nuclear weapons, but no one considers them as Great Powers. Then I do not think russia deserves to be called a great power either.
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  41.  @evgeniya7853  The past means nothing. Italy is no longer a super power like Rome was. Macedonia are not like it was under Alexander the Great. The Dutch empire that held Java and New York is gone, so is the Portugease empire that held parts of India and Africa and Brazil. The Norwegian empire that held Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, England, Faroe islands, and Orkney Islands and North America are also gone. The Swedish empire that conquered Moscow, the Baltics and occupied all of Poland and Germany are also gone. The Austro-Hungrian empire is gone. The enormous Spanish and Ottoman empires are gone. To say that russia deserves to be called a Great power because of its past is therefore just absurd if you do not grant all the other former Great Powers the same title.
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  42.  @John_Smith_86  "What other country has all these factors? Population, economy, and military" Glad you asked. Because russia does not have those things. 8 countries have more people than russia do. 10 Countries do have a higher GDP than Russia. 13 countries have more Fortune 500 companies than Russia. And I would rank USA, India, South Korea, China as all being stronger than russia militarily due to more men in uniform or more money spent on the military. However if a force mobilization was done, then I would consider Japan, Germany, France and UK also as militarily superior. Russia do still not have a 5th generation fighter aircraft. Its most modern air defence cannot even deal with American HIMARS missiles from the 1990s. And comparing Admiral Kutzetzov with a Catobar aircraft carrier, is like comparing F16 fighter with a Mitsubishi Zero in terms of capabilities. Its artillery is also inferior to its western counterparts in everything - range, precision, reload time, time to set up the system to be read to fire, and inferior because it takes longer time from firing to moving away.
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  43.  @SebastianHaban  We are talking about state policy here, and not acts of individual soldiers. The Russian state have systematically commited warcrimes here. Let's not obfuscate what this the matter is all about.
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  44.  @SebastianHaban  Nope. You are the one trying to divert from the main issue with your irrelevent nonsense. The issue is: Is Russia a terrorist state, and are the people in power responsible for war crimes? And the answer to that question is a simple yes. And all you do is to talk about individual soldiers that perhaps have broken against a rule of conduct, and then do your typical whataboutism.
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  45. If we do not punish criminal behaviour, then you only encourage more of it to be done in the future. Therefore should russia not be given any concessions at all. It should be punished for the many crimes it have committed. This is a chance for the western world to use russia to set an example to all other criminal states around the world. In that way could putler help to create long lasting peace worldwide.
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  46. Putins wishful thinking is the only reason this pointless war has not stopped yet. He is always grasping for straws. "One last push and Ukraine falls" and then he thought "just mobilize a new army and then we win".. and when didn't work he thought "the mid-term elections will lead to republicans blocking all aid to Ukraine, and then I win"... and when that didn't work he thought "lets just freeze EU into submission next winter", and when that didn't work he believed that terror bombings would bring Ukraine to its knees, but it didn't. He hoped Mike Johnson would help him defeat Ukraine, but that roadblock was just a temporary solution. And now do Putin hope his boyfriend Donald Trump wins the election - which is unlikely because people see that person for what he is. Ronald Reagan are rolling in his grave seeing what pro-russian traitors have done to his party.
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  47. Russia is in a dilemma. They either have to stop this border incursion by taking troops from other areas to do so, or let Ukraine keep on advancing deeper and deeper into russia and take more land. Of course does it not matter if russia lose land because it already have so much of it. But if Ukraine capture russian military stockpiles and can threaten Moscow and take nuclear plants and starts reaching railway lines and destroy military airbases then things would become hard for russia. So russia will then be forced to commit forces to this region. The overstrained logistics and russian glide bombs could pose a problem to the Ukrainians to keep this conquered land. But Ukraine could if it wants use scorched earth tactics when it makes a retreat, and wreck all railway lines, blow up all bridges, ruin all airfields, mine all roads, and take all toilets with them back to Ukraine as they retreat. And this could have some long term consequences for russia. As they then no longer will have any good starting position for launching any military offensives into Ukraine from North east.
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  48. Ukraine have been winning battles throughout this war. And the last year have russia lost enormous artillery losses. And as a result do Ukraine now for the first time of the war fire more artillery shells per day than russia. And Ukraine also owns more tanks than russia. So no, the war is tipping in Ukraines favor as long as the west keeps its support up.
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  49. I think letting ships move alone makes them vulnerable. Making them move by night makes them even more vulnerable. It is dark and the drones are hard to see, and therefore are they are hard to shot at. They are also fast moving which makes them even harder to take out. And unlike a light flying drone with just a battery and an electric cable that can easily be destroyed by any kind of hit cutting off a cable, a propeller or a battery... do I imagine that a big drone boat of over a ton in weight is more difficult to destroy or harm. I don't know, but they might even got a piece of armor plate covering their most vulnerable parts, so even if you hit with a shot it might just richochet off. And pullets flying into the water will off course not do any harm to the drone. And even if a drone is taken out, are there still many others moving in fast. And just a single hit from one of those could mean the loss of a ship.
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  50.  @SianaGearz  I saw IR camera footage from the drones on one of their recent attacks against a small russian ship. There the crew fired against them with with assault rifles and something that did looklike machine guns. I believed one weakness the russian ships had was their inability do lower their auto-cannons enough to hit the drone boats when they had come so close - and therefore was it impossible to hit them and do anything meaningful for self-defence. Anyways, if even attack helicopters like Hind could be made to resist some small bullets, then I think a naval drone would be even less vulnerable to enemy fire as there are no driver that needs to be protected and you do not have to worry about too much weight from armor plates like you have to do when you are building a helicopter - which cannot carry much armor because the helicopter cannot fly if it is too heavy. But for boats this is not a problem, as they can float even if they weight 120.000 tonnes.
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