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

  1.  @legrandfromage6450  Russia is using up its Soviet stockpiles of weapons and they are never coming back once they have been expended. Russia lives off those stockpiles, because they do not produce much itself. It uses the material of the Soviet union, and not of Russia so to say. Russian military production have lived off borrowed time. They got bailed out earlier this year from a delievery of 3 million artillery shells from North Korea and Iran. But once that ammo runs out will russia soon feel a shell hunger as russia itself do not produce much for itself each month. And Iran and North Korea do not have endless amounts of ammunition to give with their 3rd world economies. Russian reserves of foreign currencies are running out, and once that happens will inflation rise by a lot. Its already quite high despite painfully high interest rates. The west do have the production capactity to outproduce russia, but it will need a year or two before Europe is finished with its expansion of capacity of artillery shells production. And the west have only sent a fraction of its artillery pieces and armored vehicles to Ukraine - and yet have that been enough to smash 14.000 armored fighting vehicles, 7000 tanks and over 10.000 artillery pieces. So the return on investment for a few (mostly old) western vehicles have been excellent. Now do Ukriane have its short term artillery supply secured. It now have long range weapons. Soon it will have fighter jets. And most likely will the EU and USA get more pro-Ukrainian after the elections have been done with. Regardless will the election in the EU not matter, as the parliament is weak and unimportant and the real power sits in the Commission and the council of ministers. And any attempts of blocking aid from Hungary could be countered by threats of cutting aid to Hungary, or individual member countries can send aid to Ukraine on their own instead of rolling it through the EU first. And Trump lost an election in the past against Biden. Which shows that Trump obviously is not as invincible and unstoppable as he claims. He also lost the popular vote against Hillary Clinton. And now with his russophile stance he have also managed to piss off large parts of the Republican base. Add to that the fact that America have a long tradition of prefering to keeping the sitting president in office. And excemptions from this tradition is very rare - like president Ford, Carter and Trump. After the elections will the transatlantic link probably be merged togheter stronger than ever before. EU alone have the economic resources to beat russia many times over. And America got so much surplus weapons that only a fraction of it would be enough to guarantee victory in Ukraine. They have thousands of Bradleys and Abrams sitting in a desert unused. If only say 1000 Abrams tanks and 1000 Bradleys was sent to Ukraine, then it would tip the scale enormously in Ukraines favor. But I do not even think such a shipment would be necessary. Superior long range artillery and mass production of artillery shells would be enough.
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  2. To me his strategy seems more like "bite and hold", he have given up on taking Ukraine and is instead trying to keep the limited amounts of land that he have managed to steal so far. And he hopes that time will rescue him. That Italians will say "We are tired of paying for someone elses war". Then hopefully will the traitor Macron will join the club. And Scholz will pretend that he supports Ukraine and say he will help them but, withhold all arms given to them - including German made weapons owned by other countries that wish to donate their kit to Ukraine. Just like Germany did earlier this year. Then the war is in a deadlock, and he will say that it is time for peace talks. And the franco-italy-german axis with Hungary will cause conflict within EU and Nato and demand that Ukraine make peace at all costs.
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  3. Funny how the think in Kremlin. If I wanted Finland to move closer to russia and leave Nato behind, then I could have offered Finland heavy price reductions on oil and gas. I could have opened up the russian market to Finland. But instead, is russias actions to make nuclear threats and try to energy blackmail instead. LOL. This is so counter-productive and tone deaf to how people think.
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  4. It seems like this coup was a failure. Maybe he hoped that some Generals would come over to his side. His force was probably never 25.000 men. I mean remember I heard in march that only 7000 wagnerians was left in ukraine to fight so I doubt he have many troops left - especially after he no longer got supplied with new cannon fodder from prisoners. Had this plan worked out, then he should have tried to conquer as many towns as possible as soon as possible. Make Putins regime look unstable. Overwhelm Putins troops and hope they switch side or lay down their arms. The people prefer the chef over Putin, so now he only needs the support from oligarchs and the Generals. And with growing disatisfaction with Putin could many come over to Prigozin and his hidden friends would dare to openly support him. After that stage would he suddenly become powerful enough to challange Putin for real. Putin would be forced to end the war in Ukraine to put down the rebellion (because remaining in power is more important than fighting in Ukraine). However Prigozhins attempt failed to gain enough support and his tiny army is probably too small to win, and a loss in this war would cost Prigozhin his life. Belarus and Russia offered his troops amnesty if they gave up. They would not go to jail or suffer any punishment or negative consequences if they just give up peacefully. Prigozhin did not accept this offer. But later on he made peace with Russia. Personally do I think this idea of trusting Putins promises of amnesty would be idiotic. One can simply never trust his words. Putin would just act like the Danish King Christian II did after a long war against Sweden. He promised to forgive all his former enemies if they lay down their arms and acted loyal to him. No one would be punished. Everything was forgiven. Now everyone was friends he said. And he offered all Swedish nobles to come to the royal castle in Stockholm and eat dinner with him to celebrate the new peace. And that they did. And after the meal was eaten did Danish troops close all entrences to the building.. and man after man was dragged out and beheaded on the public square in an event known as Stockholms bloodbath - which later on caused anger and a rebellion that made my country declare independence for exactly 500 years ago on this day. It is possible that Prigozhin makes a stupid mistake by giving up now. I don't think Putin will ever forgive a thing like this. Was this coup fake and staged by Russia? - Likely not I think. I mean Putin seemed surprised by this matter. Russia today remained silent for many hours and not knowing what to say. And all pro-russian internet bots remained silent and didn't seem to know what narrative that they were going to spin, as Kremlin was not giving out any orders and didn't seem to know what to do. Putin may have secured his seat in power, however he have been coming out weaker after this incident. He no longer seem like this strong leader who have every Russian behind him and standing unified against a hostile outer world consisting of most countries on the planet. With one year left of the election can this possibly weaken him. However the military impact of this coup on the war in Ukraine is insignificant. No troops have been transferred to Moscow. And if fighting starts will it take time moving thousands of troops. So Ukraine will not be helped by this even here and now. Its not until russian troops have been removed from the frontline and moved that Ukraine could begin to exploit the situation. So this coups military impact in Ukraine have been insignificant.
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  5. I agree. I also believe that the russian volunteer corps is an organisation used by Ukraine inside Russia, because if Ukrainian troops were used instead, then would Putin try to manufacture fake videos about atrocities made by Ukrainian troops. And all this would be used to justify warcrimes made by russia. And they will say: "Hey look at this russian village those evil Ukrainians destroyed, that totally justify us destroying Mariupol and killing 200.000 civilians. This proves that the Ukrainians are equally bad as us, and even worse". But since this military unit are made up of russians its not so easy to make that narrative from russia.
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  6. Easy, if russian troops just leave ukrainian soil there will be peace.
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  7. That problem is already here. Russia now lacks counter-battery radars and skilled crews, skilled artillery observers and they doesn't seem to bother sending up drones to direct their artillery fire. Their gun barrels are wearing themselves out so they put old tanks like T-55 and T-62 into service to fill the role of artillery when there is a lack of artillery pieces. In the past one could see a battery of four guns lined up on a field in Ukraine firing on one and the same target. But now that it no longer the case. Now you only see 1 gun on the field. The Russians are spreading out their guns for an unknown reason. Perhaps to avoid getting hit by artillery as easily? Regardless is this tactic extremely ineffective from a logistical standpoint when you have to transport artillery ammunition to 4 different locations to feed your guns with ammo. And a single gun firing a shot at a target every 45 seconds is not effective either. Preferbly one wants to fire all guns at once at a single target, but not the Russians. They only use one gun at one target independently. And nor do they bother to correct their artillery fire when it misses, by say 200 meters. But instead it fire again and again at the same spot, like they are more interested in hitting a spot on the map rather than targeting a specific enemy object on the ground which they want to destroy. So not only are Russian guns firing 5 times less shots per day than the last summer - 12.000 today vs. 60.000 shots per day last summer. Their artillery fire is also more inaccurate. And the heavy losses lately suffered in counter-battery radars have rendered the Russian artillery unable to now fight off the Ukrainian artillery. The Ukrainians have since a few months back in time become very relaxed with positioning their own artillery and have been concentrating many guns at the same spot and have been sitting on the same place for weeks. And Ukraine got counter-battery radars like Cobra sent from Germany, they got better guns (Archer, Caesar, Panzerhaubitze, HIMARS, M270 M777), more high precision ammunition such as BONUS rounds sent from France or Excalibur sent from Canada. And they correct their artillery fire with drones. So their artillery is very precise and deadly and got a better range. Russian losses in armor have been heavy. Both for their tanks and for their APCs/IFVs. Their usage of old T-55 and T-62 tanks can reflect upon that fact as well. And they lack tank skilled crews, or at least that is the impression I get from their stupid noob mistake manouvers in the minefields around Vuhledar. Russia does also not seem to possess any mechanized infantry that are trained to assist their tanks. So if their armored offensives was a failure last year and got slaughtered by the Ukrainians, then I think this year and the coming year will be worse. Now Russia use older crappier tanks with even less survivability against modern weapons. Its crews are even more unskilled than the troops used last year. And the Ukrainians have learned a lot from the fighting last year how to deploy their anti-tank weapons. And now they got more options to choose among. They can now kill tanks with BONUS rounds from artillery, German anti-tank mines, and western tanks. And you don't need a javelin, Panzerfaust-3 or NLAW to kill those older crappy Russian tanks that are now used. You can probably just as well kill them with an AT-4, RPG-7, TOW or even the old PV-1110. But Russian tankers also have to fear drones and other anti-tank weapons that Ukraine uses, such as Matador, MILAN, Stugna-P, Carl-Gustaf, and Soviet made anti-tank guns. Ukraine got a broad spectrum of anti-tank weapons with all kinds ranges, penetration power, attack modes and production costs. They can easily rip even T-14 armata tanks to pieces with DPU ammo, javelins and panzerfaust-3 if the need emerge. While lighter APCs are food for Leopard 1's, French armored cars and CV90.
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  8. Assburger could only talk about one favorite topic and nothing else
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  9. Russia sends in Russian neo-nazi troops from the Wagner group to de-nazify it?🙄 Put down your vodka bottle now Sergei!! Don't post things on the internet when you are drunk. You will only humiliate yourself.
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  10. As Anders says do it take time to organise counter-operation by the police against the terrorists. Maybe not all people are there on the station that night and ready for a strike. And even if you manage to assemble a large number of police men you will have to give them right equipment for dealing with heavily armed terrorists. And then you have to try to figure out where the terrorists are so you can plan a counter-move, and with all the phone calls coming in non-stop its perhaps hard to get a good big picture and organise a plan to defeat the terrorists. During the mass shooting at Las Vegas was it hard to locate the gun man, and it took a long time to get police men up to the floor where he was. And only after over an hour after the attack started had passed did they finally go into the room of the mass shooter and found him dead on the floor after having commited suicide. So this police work might not be that impressive from a respons time point of view. But to their defence, one could say that I think it is dangerous and suicidal to attack terrorists with a hand gun against men with assault rifles. And dangerous and almost suicidal to fight against them while being outnumbered. A single cop cannot take on a dozen terrorists, or an unknown number that might perhaps be even higher.
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  11.  @morstyrannis1951  That might be the case, but I would still not be surprised if it takes 20 minutes before any police could arrive at the crime scene for the reasons I mentioned.
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  12. Defeatism is a self-fulfilling prophecy yes. However there are also those who are determined to support Ukraine - like Poland, the Baltics, and Scandinavia and the British. There are many in America and Germany who also strongly supports Ukraine. And that matters. EU have also put its own existence at risk in this war. It is pretty much a victory or die scenario for the union. If russia is allowed to win, that will create much bitterness in the union and countries in the north east will feel angry and betrayed the selfish behaviour of countries like Hungary and Slovakia. We much rather kick out Hungary from Nato and EU and replace it with Ukraine. EU will have to make sure that Ukraine wins. And most countries that are currently involved in navel gazing have to look beyond their own self-interest if they want the EU to survive this war.
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  13. russia should take their oil money and give it to the 3rd world
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  14. Russias economy is running out of savings. And when that happens must Putin resort to tax increases or inflation. And that will not be popular the next election. His military is running out of ammunition - both artillery shells and missiles so the ability of fighting this war is going away. Russia lose tanks faster than they can be built. And russias manpower is limited - unlike wests mountains of artillery shells. So if the west can hold out, I consider this war almost as a guaranteed victory for the west. So much money and weapons have been given to Ukraine that now have this war become a sunk cost for the west. A prestige project. It will be hard to just accept a loss. Indeed some fears that the EU might not survive such a blow. So the west will be firmly committed to an Ukrainian victory. Poland, Finland and the Baltics will firmly back Ukraine with rock hard determination. But I also suspect that Britain will remain a strong supporter, and Czechia, and Slovakia. In Sweden are 98% of the people strongly in favor of Ukraine according to opinion polls, so I don't expect Sweden to be among the first to abandon Ukraine.
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  15. I don't miss the russian men though
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  16. Russians always sounds so sour and grumpy. Like Medvedev who says that russian kids should be executed for sabotaging a railroad, or when he threatens workers at a tank factory with jail time if they are too slow at their work, or when he threatens the west with nuclear weapons. It is no wonder that no one wants anything to do with them
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  17. Well those who are silent are useless allies. Thoughts and prayers will not help anyone. In a typical dictatorship you might got 10-20% evil crazies that are in power. 60% of the people are neutral. And then you got say 15-30% who wants freedom. Hitler never got power by gaining more than 50% of the votes. Only about a third of the Germans voted for him. So it was the silent majority who did not oppose his actions that allowed him to have his powers. Had the silent majority sided with his opposition, then he would have been removed quite quickly and easily. So seen from this perspective do I think the judgement on the useless silent majority that allowed evil to happen must be very hard. Think about it. Let's go back to medieval Europe. What if one day all people in the most powerful European country stopped seeing the King as their King. That they no longer believed that he was appointed by God or had any special qualities because his royal blood, but instead saw him just as an ordinary man. Imagine then what would the King do if his servants refused to treat him like a King? Should he ask his royal guard to punsih them? But what if they too then didn't see him as their King and refused to obey him because he was not any special. All of a sudden would all the power of the King just fade away. His paper of ownership of lands and castles would mean nothing and be useless. He would have no wealth or troops. So everything is just fantasy. His power only becomes real if people recognize him as their King. And the same goes with a dictator. If people refuse to follow him, then his regime falls apart like a house of cards.
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  18. If they want a may 9th victory parade, then might need to push soon. But personally do I think that a big offensive is not possible. Not unless russia take troops from other parts of the frontline and concentrate them in one area. But that method will have many drawbacks for russia. So then they have to mobilize more men to send to the meat grinder. But golf cart assaults with men with no military training is not going to reap much rewards. However Putin seems very stubborn, and might stick with his unwise decision to waste all manpower reserves on frontal assaults (so called meat waves).
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  19. Denmark is just as much a super power as russia so it only makes sense for it to buy itself an aircraft carrier to defend its large territory that includes the largest island on earth. Especially now when Trump is very angry and threatening.
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  20. Not for year 2024. But I think there will be a year after 2024. I think there will be a year 2025. And that will likely not be good for Nazi-russia as they by then will have economic problems and a lack of artillery shells. While Ukraine hopefully will get American aid again. And ammunition factories in Europe is rolling out large numbers of artillery shells for Ukraine each day. And Ukraine will have access to new military capabilities such as ATACMS. The tables will then shift in Ukraines favor. And russian manpower losses may then start to skyrocket as a result of increased Ukrainian firepower and russias lack of material to support their infantry (tanks, artillery etc). This in turn might create much unhappiness about the war in russia and force them to leave Ukraine
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  21. Nothing new. Ask Julius Caesar or Ernst Röhm
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  22. This war is not about Russia and has never been about it. Right now it is about Putin. If he lose this war, then his career is over and he might get a trial as a war criminal, get forced into exile, or get murdered by a russian bloodthirsty shark like himself. So he wants to avoid that. He also have this ideological view that russia must be strong and never allow it to be humilitated. Dictatorships like Russia and China don't mind being seen as evil, and what scares them is to be seen as weak and unsignificant. A Chinese bot gets more offended about a "Made in China" joke about junk quality plastic toys, than he is about fact based arguments and moral indignation about severe human rights abuses against the Uighurs. And the same goes for Russia. The worst thing that could happen in their view would be that the west laughs at their incompetent outdated military and mockingly do not take their nuclear threats seriously. Being seen as bad guys making nuclear threats and terror bombing civilians on a daily basis are things that bothers them much less. Hencefourth do I think we should aim for a historical humiliation of Russia. Make them accept the unaccepatable: A humiliating defeat. Let them know that any attempts of Russian imperialism could lead to Russia getting worse off after the war than before it. That will make them think twice the next time they consider starting a war of aggression. The little child needs some spanking so it learns to know its place. It can do whatever it wants within its countries own borders. But if it tries to steal things from other kids, then it should have its teeths kicked in. And since empathy and sympathy are arguments which have obviously not worked on the Russian people to make them stop - as 90% of the Russians still supports this war of aggression and genocide. Like 90% of the Russians supported the war of aggression against Chechenya and theft of Crimea... So is my suggestion that we replace argument of sympathy and empathy with something else since they don't work on bullies. Empathy and sympathy works on normal people, but not on psychopaths like Putin who is prepared to make nuclear threats, a man who lies and breaks international laws, kidnaps childrens, and makes a hitman list over the Ukrainian intelligentia which he wants to murder to destroy Ukrainian opposition to Russias illegal occupation. So my suggestion is simple: We should not try to convince Russia with sympathy and empathy. We should force them to abide by international law and make them respect international borders by *fear*. Our superior military, economic strength and our diplomatic influence and soft power should be 100% dedicated to totally destroying Russia unless they back off.
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  23. Ukraine is a large country so its difficult to protect every kilometer of it. Advanced western air defence systems are effective but they cost money... too much money. You cannot use a missile to shot down an iranian drone, when those kamikaze drones are 20 times cheaper. So the solution I believe is that anti-aircraft guns such as gepard, phalanx and 40mm bofors guns deal with them. Meanwhile can the iskander be intercepted by S-300 and what have you The low Russian production rates of those missiles will make Russia unable to do massive attacks for ever. At best can they make 6 or 8 new such missiles each month and fire them away.. and about 80-90% of them will be shot down. So the damage they do will then no longer pose any major problem for Ukraine as a country on the whole
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  24.  @toms169  But couldn't that be because German industry is dependent on russian gas and therefore want to go back to buisness as usual as soon as possible and is fearful to burn all bridges with russia? And then there are German politicians who (probably?) are in the pockets of FSB... like Schröder, Wagenknecht, AfD, the socialdemocrats and so on. So of course are they against a hardline against russia. And then you got a million strong russian decendents who are pro-russia. And many east Germans have this confused views on Ost-Politik, appeasement, admiration for Putin/Orbans anti-LGBT conservatism, and so on. And then you got stupid pacifists, and women who sincere uncontrollable fear of a nuclear war. So a consensus is hard to reach. And it is hard to combine new policies with old German political tradition. And this could explain why Germany is hesitant to send Taurus. However Germany is not the main problem in Europe. I think the Italian and French indifference to Ukraines fate is more worriesome right now. And Slovakia and Hungary are openly hostile to Ukraine, and USA have even recently held a Nato meeting (togheter with Sweden) where the issue of Hungary was discussed, as there are a concern that this country is acting like a pro-russian Trojan horse inside Nato. Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovakia and a few other East European countries do care more about their own farmers than helping the wartorn Ukrainian economy to stay afloat. I also think that russian FSB have infiltrated our media and is pumping out russian propaganda talking points: "The war is over", "Ukraine cannot win", "Ukraine is forgotten now coz Israel", "The counter-offensive was a massive failure", "Ukrainian losses are heavy and unsubstainable", and such nonsense. Especially New York Times have pumped out pro-russian garbage throughout this war, with all kinds of lies. They claim that USA destroyed the Northstream pipeline according to an anonymous source. Or that allies are trying to force Zelensky to make peace right now. Personally I think Ukraine has done pretty well this year. Russian artillery have been dealt a severe blow with losing 5000 pieces this year. They have lost their most modern pieces and now more and more use old D1 artillery pieces from WW2 as a replacement. Ukraine now almost have a monopoly on counter-battery radars. And Ukraine now fires more artillery shells per day than russia despite EU have failed to give more than 30% of the 1 million artillery shells it have promised to give to Ukraine. And now russia also lacks experienced artillery crews. This is devestating I think. A much more hard blow to russia than if they had lost Kherson and Zaporizhia provinces this year. Think about it. This is an artillery war. And russian artillery is nearly extinct because of Ukraines systematic hunt for their artillery pieces. And imagine having to fight this war for 10 years without artillery. That would be devestating for russia. You cannot fight defensive war effectivly without artillery, and even less so can you make any attacks. So I think russia is doomed if we keep on supporting Ukraine. Russian industry only produce something like 200.000 artillery shells per year (according to Ukrainian sources) or 1 million (according to russian sources). But when russia consumes 17 million artillery shells this year and 22 million back in 2022... then I think russia no longer can keep on fighting the war next year like they have the previous years. And 1 million artillery shells imported from North Korea will only shortly delay the coming starvation of artillery shells. And without artillery shells will more infantry die and losses starts to go up. Ukraine knows what this hardship means, and soon will russia also begin to feel it. I also suspect that the russian propaganda about their economy doing fine is just nonsense. Having a 15% interest rate is not what I call a healthy economy. When people have to pay more money to the banks for their homeloans, credit card debts, car loans, student debts and so on.. before they can start buying food, books, cinemas tickets and furniture.. then I think that the russian economy will slowly starve itself to death. If no one can afford to buy stuff anymore will factories be forced to shut down, or to lower wages or fire workers. And when people no longer get a wage, then they will be even more unable to buy anything - so factories have to downscale production even more and lay off workers. And that means less taxes coming in to the government, and more people that needs unemployment benefits and welfare to survive when they cannot work and support themselves. I also think it is difficult for companies to earn a 15% profit per year so they can afford to both repay their loans and make a profit. And on top of that they also need to pay for wages, repairs for machines, and for material inputs for production. So I think the desperate measure of raising interest rates to prevent the ruble from falling will become very harmful to the russian economy. And they will probably have to raise interest rates even more in the future.
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  25. Biden is worthless and utterly sucks. The only reason why few people say this is because a pro-russian traitor is leading the other party and is the only alterntive this weak leadership of Biden, if one can even call it a "leadership" as I do not think he has shown any leadership at all. Just an useless coward. A fool that gives in into empety threats and blackmail. He got thousands and tanks and Bradleys just sitting in the american desert. He does not need all 9000 of these, but can send away only say 1000, while Europe gives another 1000 and that would be enough for Ukraine to win.
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  26. Russian lies. Zelensky did even offer peace by promising to never join Nato, but Putin refused to accept that offer. Because this war was never about russia feeling threatened. This war was about stealing land from Ukraine and to install a russian puppet regime.
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  27. Reminds me of David M Glantz youtube video about the war on the eastern front where the russian army constantly make simultanous assault on all fronts at once and the the german defences would break somewhere along the line. This tactic was however not much effective and just led to high losses for russia.
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  28. Putain happily continues a war he have started even after 180.000 russian troops are dead. And the 2nd chechen war was mostly started with a false flag attack where the russian secret service blow up a russian apartment building to create outrage that could justify another chechen war. So if Putin is willing to kill so many of his own countrymen, then I don't think that killing protesters is a hard thing for him. He have happily poisoned and murdered political opponents before. And he would likely have less respect for a peasant than an oligarch
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  29. Scott Ritter the pedophile
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  30.  @frankhusel5033  The Wehrmacht was tactically excellent, and it was strategically capable of understanding how to conquer for example a city. Germany did some stupid grand strategy mistakes - but that is another matter. And the German troops were willing to fight, while the russian military have always been plauged with mass surrenders. And while the SS behaved like swine on the eastern front, would I still say that the Wehrmacht were much more civilized. More civilized than the red army which were always firing on ambulances, and had the habit of gangraping little girls, killing wounded soldiers at hospitals and mutilating captured enemy soldiers, beating them and starving them to death - a tradition which Putin seems to have preserved. The Wehrmacht did however by contrast usually obey the Geneva convention. At least on the western front. The Clean Wehrmacht is a myth, but on the other hand is it a myth that all men in the army was evil bastards. Most of the men who served wanted to treat russian civilians well and captured red army soldiers with the same respect as soldiers captured in the west. But because of the commisar order from Hitler did the German army also partially participate in the killing of communists and jews. However, I will still say that the red army was worse and did more war crimes than the German army. And from a historical perspective is the russian army the most barbaric of all. With warcrimes against Swedes, Finns, Poles, Germans, and brutal occupation of Czechs, slovaks and Hungarians, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, and more warcrimes and terror bombings in Syria, Chechenya, Georgia, Dagestan and Afghanistan. Genocide on hundreds of thousands of jews during world war 1. And warcrimes by the Wagner group in Africa. Warcrimes against civilians is built in into the Russian way of war. That differs it from other European armies who do not deliberatly kill civilians and use rape as a war tactic.
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  31. But losing more men dead in a week than they lost in 10 years of war in Afghanistan seems terribly ineffective and wasteful if one asks me
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  32.  @ulrikschackmeyer848  They have been fighting a war and maybe they are fully busy with that. So maybe I don't blame the pilots as much as I would blame the Ukrainian government for not thinking a single step ahead. This language problem was completly predictable and could have been foreseen and solved months ago. Realizing that they need to learn english in the middle of the summer of this year seems a bit dumb 🙄 I mean the west have talked about giving Ukraine fighter jets since at least january. Ukrainians take credit upon themselves and blame the lack of aid from the west for all military failures instead of being honest and admit that not everything is the wests fault. Dumb incompetence like this do certainly cause some problems fighting this war as well. Ukrainian propaganda is extremely dumb sometimes. They say that they will continue to fight regardless if the west helps them or not, and take the last years succesful defense of their country as an example of that. But that are lies. And I demand honesty and gratefulness to its allies instead of using them as scapegoats for ukraines dissapointments on the battlefields. Fact remains that Ukraine would have lost this war by now if it was not for the west. Without western artillery would the stocks of 152mm shells have runned out and the ukrainian military would have been forced to fight without artillery support - which would definatly made Ukraine lose the war regardless how brave their soldiers may be. Javelins, stingers, HIMARS, Patriot, Gepard are also system which Ukraine could not have done without. And the economic aid from USA and EU have been vital for propping up an economy suffering from enemy occupation, sea blockades, destruction, refugees, young men in the military, landmines on farmlands, energy blackouts, rationing... So giving west blame for everything is unfair. I sympatize with the Ukrainian cause as my web history the last 1.5 years bare witness of. I think it have taken 8 full months for just the training to get started. That is poor performance by both Nato and Ukraine. We should have started training instantly. Which aircraft would be delievered, in what amounts, with what modifications and what nationality of those planes and such details could be sorted out later while the pilots are training. But for some reason do people at Nato to be very inflexible in their line of thought 🙄
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  33. Maybe towing a line with sea buoys after the ship could help locating an attacking drone with sonars then? You can compare the audio from different locations, and if the volume is higher at one place its more likey that the ship closer to that buoy than to the other buoys. Just like with the human ear that can determine where a sound comes from through 3 parameters: - Volume, if a someone standing to the right and saying something to you. Then will the sound likely be louder in your right ear and lose some volume before it reaches your left ear. - Time, the sound will likely reach your right ear a few milliseconds before it reaches your left ear, because the speaker stands closer to your right ear than to your left ear so the sound have a shorter distance to travel to the right ear. - Phase, the audio will sound slightly different when it reaches your left ear compared to the right ear. If you are standing inside a room is it possible that the sound bounces on walls and loses some high frequency sound before it reaches your ears. And the longer the sound travels, the more frequencies will be lost.
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  34. Ukraines problem is more an ammunitions problem. Its not like they lack weapons from the west as they now have more tanks than russia and superiority in artillery before USA stopped shipments of artillery. Ukraine is not losing the war on the battlefield. Its rather pro-russian traitors in the republican party in USA that is causing problems for Ukraine in this war. Because cheating is the only way worthless rusbots can win wars. If russian clown numbers and fake statistics were true then its strange that russia still has failed to win this war. I mean russian propaganda claims that Ukraine have a totally incompetent military and have lost 600.000 men including the entire Ukrainian air force which have lost 800 planes despite they only own 200 planes. So by russias own statistics I can only make the conclusion that the russian military sucks. Why is it giving up ground and fail to take land when their enemy is already beaten?
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  35. Macron is a guy who would be willing to appease nazi Germany even after it occupied foreign lands and had begun putting people into concentration camps and throwing women and children into mass graves. He would happily sign trade deals between France and Treblinka death camp. For him money is more important than lives of innocent people.
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  36. The less future brainwashed vodka loving fascists the better
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  37. Yttersta vänstern i Sverige har ingenting med nedläggningen av Svenska försvaret att göra eftersom partiet aldrig någonsin har välkomnats in i en regering eller deltagande i försvarsfrågor för deras pro-sovjetiska hållning under kalla kriget. Det här är en gammal socialdemokratisk politisk tradition i Sverige. Det är istället högerpartierna och Socialdemokraterna som slaktade 90% av svenska invasionsförsvaret för att istället satsa på EU projektet - i direkt strid mot viljan hos 90% av svenska folket. Så ja, de är landsförrädare i mina ögon. Qvislingar. 2004 års försvarsbeslut är den enskilt värsta katastrofen som har drabbat det svenska försvaret under de senaste 500 åren. Värre än nederlagen vid Kircholm 1605 och slaget vid Poltava 1709.
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  38. 90% of the Russian people supports Putin and is cheering his regimes bloodthirsty rethoric towards Ukraine. So to hell with the Russian people. The only russians I respect are the 14 million or so russians that do not support this crap.
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  39. Ice boats barracuda camouflage sail? 😂
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  40. Their position is illogical as Darth Putin points out. Because if the support for Ukraine is a waste of tax dollars for a foreign war and USA needs to safe its weapons for a fight with China, then it should absolutly not send any weapons to Israel.
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  41. American conscripts are usually not raped, beaten, bullied, and forced to do free slave labor for their officer and have their money stolen by men of a higher rank. But for Russia all those things are different. The border between serf and conscript in Russia is very blurry
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  42. You seem very butthurt LOL And no Bakhmut have not been going well for Russia. Russian losses have been extremely high and territorial gains have been tiny - something typical of Russian warfare throughout history
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  43. There are more photos of destroyed Russian tanks and other equipment than there are photos of destroyed Ukrainian weapons. So you Russians live in a fantasy world when you think this war is going well for your pathetic country
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  44. But Jens Stoltenberg are openly speaking about supporting Ukraine. And the member countries are cooperating in supporting Ukraine. And that so much military equipment travels to Ukraine over Poland is a sign of a large level of cooperation. And Turkey that normally refuses foreign warships to pass the bosporus have made exceptions for warships from Nato countries - such as Spain that carried military equipment to Ukraine.
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  45. China and USA are superpowers that are correct.
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  46. History is filled with such things. The Germans covered their tanks with zimmerit against allied anti-tank mines that never went into service. American troops did carry heavy uniforms resistant to enemy gas attacks, but the germans never used any gas during the war so many young american soldiers drowned on D-day because they had to carry nearly a hundred kilos of gear on their bodies, and many did never make it towards land. I think Generals are supposed to predict future trends, and they are not stupid. But it is of course not easy to predict how good a new weapon will be. Its easy to over-estimate it or underestimate it.
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  47. Russia is fighting a war to steal foreign land. This is not a war of self-defence. Russia is also a dictatorship. While democracies tend to have a citizenry more highly motivated to fight instead of surrendering at the first contact with the enemy. And the poor quality of the Russian army (bad equipment, bad training, bad communication equipment, bad logistics, corruption, poor doctrine, lack of NCOs, crappy combined arms teamwork etc) makes it also a much wiser choice to surrender to the enemy than doing a pointless fight that will be suicidal. And we all know that Russian politicians and Russian Generals do not care if they lose hundreds of thousands of soldiers. A human life is worth nothing in Russia. And things have always been this way for at least 300 years if not even more...
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  48. One cannot measure this💩country just by its low GDP and compare it to other countries. Its also a country with high corruption. It have not a single Fortune 500 company outside the oil industry, and not having any of the worlds 500 largest companies means less global power, less technological know-how and innovation, slower economic growth. Then we have the problem of corruption, technological backwardness compared to western countries, high levels of enviromental pollution, and a low GDP per person. Despite being a country of 144 million have it not managed to invent a single anything that have improved lives of ordinary people, and the closest thing they have come to that are tetris - which is just pathethic. So for these reasons would I not even rank russia among the 20 biggest economies in the world.
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  49. ​ @evgeniya7853  Explain how Russia is a great power then? Is it the size of the population? No because Bangladesh, Nigeria, Pakistan and Indonesia and Brazil all got more people than russia. And none of those countries are a super power. Is it because russia got nuclear weapons? No, because North Korea and Pakistan also got nuclear weapons. Is it because Russia got an aircraft carrier? No. Thailand, Spain, Turkey and Italy also got weak aircraft carriers like Russia and none of them are considered a Super power. Is it because the Russian economy is strong? No. Because Brazil, Italy and Canada all got a higher GDP than russia. Russias standard of living is low. Its manufacturing is weak. The country have no Fortune 500 companies that are not related to oil & energy, or banking related to energy - and to me this is great sign of economic weakness. I would not even rank the country among the 20 most important economies in the world. Add to that all problems that harms long term economic growth such as corruption and enviromental pollution that destroys public health, kill fish stocks and wild animals and plants and trees. Is russia a super power because of its military? Not really. Given the levels of corruption, outdated doctrine, ineffiecent logistics, outdated equipment, poor training and lack of dicipline would I feel much more afraid of going to war against Japan, South Korea or India than I would be against Russia. Is Russia a great power because of its global cultural influence? No, I have never bought anything made in Russia, aside from some IKEA glass that said made in Russia. But IKEA is a Swedish company and I am a Swede.. so allow me to not be so impressed. I cannot say that Russian culture have left much impression on me. Its not like I watch any Russian TV series like I do with CSI from USA or Black Adder. I buy Nintendo from Japan and Heineken beer from the Netherlands, drive French cars, listen to ABBA from Sweden, play with Danish Lego. But what everyday item do I get from russia? I dunno. So for that reason do I not regard russia as a cultural super power either.
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  50.  @John_Smith_86  Those countries have much military potential, but are just choosing to not use it. Russia is the opposite. It have inherited lots of military gear from the Soviet union that it no longer know how to make. The military is struggling due to corruption, outdated military doctrine, worthless logistical system and Generals appointed due to nepostism and loyalty to Putin rather than due to skill. Russias economy can simply no longer afford to keep the old Soviet mass army alive. Low birthrates and a weak economy makes that unsubstainable. Nor can russia keep up in a technological arms race with the west as the country still not have managed to put a 5th generation fighter into production. Meanwhile have western countries started to develop 6th generation fighters. This war have created many equipment losses for russia. Russian military kit have also become a laughingstock around the world that will harm future arms sales. And that in combination for the need for russia to focus production for their own needs rather than exports will make it incredibily difficult for russia to develop any weapons in the future as it will not be able to let other countries pay for its development through exports to the same extent now when exports goes down. And to make matters even worse are China and India catching up to russian technology, and may one day no longer have any need to import any weapons from russia at all.
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