Comments by "jeppen" (@jesan733) on "HistoryLegends" channel.

  1. It's not.
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  2.  @corvusduluth  depends. If they don't fight, then they're just foreign nationals.
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  3.  @malcolmlwu  "Even for Western media Russia currently maintains a superiority rate of 7~10 to 1 against Ukraine" According to recent assessments and graphs, the Ukrainian rate of artillery fire is now on par or even better than Russia's. You can g..gle "ukraine outnumbered russia in daily shots" and then switch to images, and you'll see the graphs.
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  4. "Russia has any number of Iskanders to use and endless supplies of Tornado-S" It doesn't, it's pretty much out of them. "Mines conveniently missing from this area?" There are limits even to Soviet Russia's supply of mines. "RU wanted Ukraine to strike through here for one reason: to force the army to expose itself" The first stage of grief is denial.
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  5.  @voltaire229  that was great for Japan and Germany. Only defeat made them reshape and do well. Russia also needs defeat to flourish.
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  6.  @SigmarSvearike  dude, Germany is one of the richest countries in the world.
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  7.  @olgag6581  google this phrase: "In fact it turns out she’s not completely lying. They thought they’d take Kyiv in two days, not three".
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  8. Only shame to Russia.
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  9. This channel clearly selects and shows mostly Ukrainian losses. The narrative is strongly pro-Russian.
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  10.  @russianbear9311  the evidence we don't know, but we know it's the assessment of the American intelligence community.
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  11. Funny how Ukraine has been crumbling for 2 years, yet the orcs only make progress you have to zoom in on the map to spot.
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  12. That "victory of Bakhmut" just exists in the Russian propaganda. In the real world, Russia probably lost 3-5:1. For sure, it might have been worth it for Russia since most of its dead were true expendables, but still.
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  13.  @david-468  "also the generals of the u.s. military and pentagon having direct talks with Ukraine isn’t influencing or forcing Ukraines decisions?" Influencing, not forcing. It's a partnership where the US helps with advice, intelligence and planning. "Do you live in reality?" I live in a democratic reality where our countries are true partners, not master-vassal relationships like Russia-Belarus. "also you act like we the United States and Europe would train troops and then expect them to stay on the defensive" Why not? "we wanted a counter offensive and Ukraine did our bidding, we are an evil country" None of this is true. Ukraine obviously wants to do counter-offensives because it wants to liberate territories. We, the west, haven't even fully committed to Ukrainian victory. I think we're still scared Putin would go nuclear on us if we pushed too hard. We're too chicken to even allow Ukraine to hit targets in Russia with our missiles. It's insane and extreme cowardice, and I think we'd be secretly relieved if Ukraine folded and allowed Russia to keep occupied territories so we can go back to business as usual.
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  14. So many errors in that sentence, on several levels.
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  15.  @megachaloub759  "west expected this year Ukraine would win" The west hoped for a win, but the slow progress is very far from Russia's extreme fiasco in the SMO and its battle for Kyiv and Kharkiv, and the later Kherson eviction and Kupiansk rout.
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  16. Haha, really unbiased.
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  17.  @cryMoreLoL  I'm just fascinated by the immaturity in the comment fields on this channel, and you take the prize. So congrats.
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  18.  @baklava-tchai2247  "you can be pro russia and still try to discover what really happens" Not really. Being pro-Russian means you're willfully delusional.
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  19.  @kelvinosas6518  NATO didn't oust Saddam, nor the Taliban. That was US coalitions not under NATO command. (Later, NATO took over ISAF command in Afghanistan). In Libya, NATO enforced a UN-mandated no-fly zone, while any ground attacks remained with coalition forces (not NATO command). In Serbia, NATO chose to defend the Kosovo people against Serbian atrocities and ethnic cleansing despite Kosovo not being part of NATO. So you have your history quite wrong.
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  20.  @GeoPoliticTruthTalk  best money ever spent.
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  21.  @ailouros6669  so you're saying that Donetsk is a big pile of rubble from shelling and Avdiivka is fine? Because you're not high on drugs?
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  22.  @sonaruo  so Ukraine is out of artillery ammo, but when rashists take at most a city block a day, then they lose a lot of small-caliber artillery ammo to them? Makes sense.
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  23.  @unifieddynasty  thanks, but I'm not a neocon and I haven't proven your point. I'm just clever enough to have my priorities straight. We have an ongoing sharpening of the contradictions in the world, after a calm post-cold-war period. America has kindof mismanaged that calm period and its very strong position, considering the fact that the geostrategic situation for democracy have rather deteriorated. The blame could at least to some extent be attributed to neocons' misadventures in Iraq and Afghanistan. My priority now is to support democracy, and however imperfect, that means supporting the the Western world and its institutions, led by the US. If the US turns inward, wars and authoritarianism will expand and the hope of a democratic world will diminish substantially. Also, this being a "client state" isn't that bad in the western world. Germany and Japan are tied much more loosely to the US, and their relationships are much more beneficial, than e.g. the Belarusian relationship to Russia or the North Korean relationship to China. In the calm period, it was kindof understandable that a lot of people were very critical of US power, but it fascinates me that so many people in the west can't get over it (and themselves) now when the Russian empire fights a revanschist genocidal war in Europe. It doesn't make sense to not be on the side of democracy.
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  24. The AFU is bleeding Russia to death to get back Ukrainian territory.
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  25.  @ДмитрийСвергин  "How many Russian troops are in Ukraine. Three hundred thousand contractors. Those who started this operation. The armed forces of the DPR and LPR are with them. In addition to them, three hundred thousand more from the reserve were mobilized. The regular troops of Russia, which is a million people, do not participate in the operation." This is complete nonsense. Contract troops, those who weren't killed or maimed, didn't renew contracts. DPR/LPR cannon fodder has been mostly finished by now, and plenty of the mobiks too. The regular troops of Russia, not many left, are almost all in Ukraine and that's why not even Belogorod was defended, much less the border to e.g. Finland and the Baltics. Russia has left everything open and undefended, relying on nuclear deterrence, because NATO could go in armed with toothpicks and take over. Army bases all over Russia have skeleton crews and the May day parades were pathetic displays were they even employed people to act as soldiers (with a promise of not being mobilized on the spot so that young men would dare take the job).
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  26.  @danielbwest haha, my mistake then!
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  27.  @xShadowlurkex  how could little Israel win over its neighbors? Egypts population was 32 million in 1967 and Israel was only 2.8 million.
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  28.  @societyreborn33  if a "dissenting opinion" isn't reasonable from a guy whose job it is to know, then the conclusion is unavoidable.
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  29.  @ErikFin  i fall to see how your comment lends support to mearsheimer's statement.
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  30.  @MrJekken  Rssian humiliation is much, much worse. Rssia shouldn't perform this badly. That Ukraine could even dream about that beach party is a failure of Rssia. And now they're completely inept in handling Kursk.
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  31.  @andyjones1982  "Otherwise, Russia does amazingly well considering the comparative size of its budget." Russia doesn't fight with its budget. It fights with 30 cumulative budgets until it run out of stored equipment, against an enemy that has been given capabilities in a piecemeal fashion always 3 months after it would've made optimal impact. E.g. it was now given the capability to destroy Russian helis, when the summer offensive is basically over. "you weren't opposing a top rate military. Russia now is; it is effectively fighting NATO." Russia is fighting a NATO force without air power and without long range cruise missiles. And air power is the foundation of NATOs warfighting. "They really were conducting a limited "special military operation" and we exaggerated their intent in order to allow us to claim a false victory." No, you captives of Russian propaganda downplay their intent in order to cope with their true failure. Sure, they didn't have enough troops and capabilities to grab Ukraine, but they really believed they did. "But now it is beginning to unravel. The recent losses by Russia are disappointing" They're quite encouraging, I would say.
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  32.  @sigmasix3719  all your comments are just pointless. You laugh at others based on your firm belief in the firehose of lies that is the Russian propaganda.
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  33. @Necromass-pi2ih not this channel. On this channel Ukraine is totally collapsing. For two years.
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  34.  @magnacarta9364  "But Russia is not playing that game , in some instance Ukrainians have been dying at 16 to 1 Russian & in other cases higher" Yeah, why not 160 to 1? There's no limit to how the Russian propaganda disrespects you and makes you believe nonsense.
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  35. The Russian military strategy of being brutal toward your own troops.
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  36. There are no foreign mercenaries fighting for Ukraine, just volunteers.
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  37. I'm sick of people who are sick of western politicians while simping for Rssian ones.
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  38.  @keithtwizzy2700  not only intelligence, also precision fire. I think Ukraine is better at both, generally.
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  39.  @aidanm.655  I think you miss an alternative: they've tried various offensives and failed, and Ukraine is simply stronger. The number of mobilizations are irrelevant since sizes of each mobilization can be arbitrary. Also Russia has never stopped mobilizing since it started last year. Russia can throw more meat into the game, but they're running out of metal to go with them. But you'll see.
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  40.  @Sun-Tzu-  "They haven't been trying to take it." Cope, little Russian bot.
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  41.  @Slackware1995  the real US assessment according to original leaked documents is 2:1 casualties Russia:Ukraine by February: Up to 43,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in action, with an estimated total casualty count between 189,500-223,000. That compares with the up to 17,500 Ukrainian soldiers killed in action and 124,500-131,000 casualties. This was doctored by Russia in falsified versions. E.g. they had switched places for the 1 and 7 in Ukrainian deaths to arrive at 71,500. This is typical of the Russian propaganda: Just inject enough of various falsehoods to confuse and gaslight, so nobody knows what's true anymore, nor trusts anything.
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  42.  @LeadLeftLeon  "Ukraine is fixated on territory to minimize the amount of land that goes back to Russia when this ends." No, they're using elastic defense to optimize attrition. If they're holding on to territory for other reasons, it's to avoid having e.g. Kramatorsk in range of Russian terror bombings by ordinary artillery. "I wonder if Russia will annex Odessa and what's left of the Ukrainian coastline once Ukraine's manpower is depleted." Don't worry, no risk. Ukraine's manpower will never be that depleted. Russia can never cross the Dniepr again.
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  43. Great. Can someone point me to a vid where HistoryLegends expose the Russian side in a similar way? Because after all, Ukraine has the excuse of necessity, of being forced to scramble resources to defend against senseless aggression. What excuse does Russia have for its far worse environment? I'm sure HistoryLegends must have spoken about the Russian side with even more sarcasm.
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  44.  @bulldog6545  but has he done any general video on Russian mobilization like this, exposing the atrocious treatment and morale?
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  45.  @bulldog6545  that's a good response, but in matters like this, a good sense of relative proportions is crucial for understanding. Any narrative can be spun by cherrypicking a few vids.
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  46. Ukraine's offensive literally ran into a minefield, so they paused that and started to methodically work on Russian rear positions and artillery by superior counter-battery fire and precision bombings through HIMARS and Storm Shadow. Meanwhile they've been clearing mines and making small scale clearings of Russian positions and trenches. So they essentially reverted to attritional warfare. Eventually they'll turn back to offensive maneuver warfare, and there are rumours it has started. I wouldn't call it a failure; they encountered difficulties and immediately adapted well to preserve equipment and manpower. You're listening to too much Russian propaganda if you think Ukraine isn't behaving rationally. Btw, the US hasn't forced Ukraine into any offensives.
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  47.  @Kratos_the_OG  Russia is the opposite of being honorable, though.
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  48. Because of how mercenaries and volunteers are defined. Volunteers get regular pay and are part of regular chain of command.
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  49.  @unclefester831  keep coping. Russia's fiasco is apparent.
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  50.  @aidancarmichael6868  "can we just have a moment of silence for the Russian moon landing please" Yes, and to Prigozhin's tribute to the Russian moon landing.
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