Comments by "jeppen" (@jesan733) on "Anders Puck Nielsen" channel.

@gustavalexander8676 I made a single comment first, then broke it up into three pieces to get past automoderation. You use the oldest rhetorical trick in the book when claiming I'm "angry". I'm not, I'm just amused by the arrogance. Some answers: 1) Go ahead and list the "well researched academically supported points" with evidence that they're just that. Then I can respond. 2) Where did I say it was? It's clearly a Russian narrative with little basis in reality, considering larger empires (such as the Soviet Union) has lost against weaker opponents (such as Afghanistan). 3) Again you make unfounded generalizations about my behavior, as if one instance of denouncements make me categorically denounce every opposing viewpoint. But to answer your questions: Yes, No, Unlike you and them, I don't just believe things said in my bubble.
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@jabezhane no, you're not old-fashioned at all. As I said, old-fashioned is spending 6% of GDP containing Russia in peace time and always standing up for democracy. When you say 0.3% is too much for a major active war waged by Russia and suggests we should give up on European democracy, it's not old-fashioned, it's the opposite. It's a new brand of irresponsible, clueless, populist and Russian-propaganda-infested political activism. Reagan turns in his grave at your nonsense, if you're a real person and not a bot.
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@mike_oe that's wrong, I absolutely argued for it and he didn't.
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@jabezhane are you stupid, evil or bot?
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Russia is sacrificing roughly 1200 soldiers per day in Ukraine. It's hard for me to believe that North Korea will contribute enough soldiers to make a big differerence.
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Trump could, but Biden has set up Ukraine to last quite for some time, and Europe has been ramping up defense production to increase supply for three years now. And Europe has quite a lot of money. If it comes to Trump and says: "Hey, we'll pay you good money for all the arms from now on, and send it to Ukraine, we'll bankroll it all." Do you think a transactional guy like Trump will turn that down because of a strong desire for peace on Russia's terms?
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@luffebassen lolling and trolling is consistent, at least. You're on the dark side, and I advise you to clean your room and start taking responsibility. You can have the last word. Bye.
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@glintongordon6811 what did you expect meat wave attacks were, visible walls of zombies marching? Russia is clever enough to use many small groups of infantry trying to infiltrate (and getting spotted and destroyed).
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@GeorgE-yo5yc "Only Ukraine lost more troops defending Bakhmut since their were facing not only more experienced Wagner troops" You're lying, they were facing Wagnerites recruited from prisons usually with no experience. "but a massive disadvantage in artillery - 7 to 1" Russian artillery farts in the general direction of Ukraine. Ukrainian artillery precision strikes targets. "Normally, the attacking side has higher losses against the defending one" And plenty ukrainians and international volunteers estimated an 8:1 advantage in attrition for Ukraine. They just mowed down meat waves of drugged-up wagnerites. "tatistically, every a Ukrainian soldier arriving on the front line in Bakhmut during the most fierce fighting had only 4 hours to live on average." This is an idi-tic figure some random nobody on the ukrainian side uttered and it has become gospel for putinists. However, anyone with a brain understands that it would've been impossible for Ukraine to rotate in fresh troops 6x per day and that would also mean casualties of some 30,000 per day if they had a mere 5,000 troops active in Bakhmut. It's so utterly st-pid I fail to see how people can repeat it now more than 6 months later. "Also, Bakhmut and Avdiivka are one of the most fortified citadels in the world with an elaborate system of trenches and tunnels." This is silly putinist propaganda to rationalize the impotency of Russia in taking the small cities . Also it contradicts what you said before, that more random shelling would mean very much.
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@markbryant4641 don't overinterpret my statements. The Russian propaganda machine does appreciate its "useful idi-ts", but at the same time they throughly disrespect you and feed you ever-more ridiculous ideas to believe. I don't know what you're doing here. You should go to Redacted where you belong.
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You should reevaluate your sources of info, my friend. You've reproducing Russian propaganda.
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@Naum96 only 30k fortunately.
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@janne9034 in the end, all costs are always salaries. Virtually all NATO countries are far exceeding the NATO guideline of at least 20% spent on equipment.
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Only people who are truly captive of Russian propaganda thinks this is a defensive war for Russia. That said, yes, of course Russia has pulled huge resources from the rest of Russia to Ukraine, and basically left its flanks undefended.
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The US isn't busy, it's just politically gridlocked. Continued support to Ukraine it can easily do while doing whatever else it wants to do.
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@tlmoller yes, the vacuousness and ugly, short-sighted selfishness is concerning. But I think Washington will in the end go for continued support because it's so clearly in the US' interests.
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@ByZHellas Zel understands what I just told you, that ru doesn't have limited goals. Ukr (and e.g. the Baltics) have suffered for three generations under the previous ru empire (called the Soviet Union then) and then suffered for another generation under ru interference and influence operations and war. They're determined to fight for freedom, they refuse to let more generations suffer under ru dominion. Again, this fight is not Zel's decision. It's the decision of Ukr's people to defend. Zel can't negotiate for Ukr to become a failed state and give up millions of more people to occupation.
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@ByZHellas there's another ru narrative that's false in your premises: That Ukr is fighting a losing war, that it's predetermined to lose, that it's losing "exponentially". It's not. Ru's gains are still snail's pace, and Ru fighting is largely ineffective and unsustainable in terms of losses. If Ukr is properly supported, Ru loses, or at least is forced to a grinding halt. Ukr is relatively much, much stronger than Afghanistan was when it beat the Soviets.
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@ByZHellas it's interesting how pro-ru people lol while estimating a strength imbalance in the favor of a murderous aggressor. For them, this is a basically game where the strong deserves to win, and where the humiliation and suffering of the weak can be enjoyed as entertainment. It's simply incorrect that Ukraine is overmatched in resources. It's also incorrect that Ukr is losing exponentially. I've literally seen graphs of territorial gains and they don't look exponential at all. Ru produces cheaply since they're poor (low wages). The west is producing shells expensively since they've got higher wages and since they're still investing in new more automated production lines and working through bottlenecks, and have higher quality requirements. As the production lines comes online, the cost will trend down. However Ukraine has huge drone production and they do it cheaper than ru. There's absolutely nothing that says Ru has higher stamina. They're fighting an unnecessary war and has various costs related to that, and could break at any moment. The west fought in Afghanistan for 20 years and Ukraine is far more important. Putin doesn't have 20 years to live. It's very clear that you're immersed in pro-Ru propaganda when you insist that Ru isn't doing meat wave tactics. They are. Your assertions about escalating Ukrainian problems are also based on cherry-picked and biased view of reality. It's possible to instead view Ukr's refusal to mobilize 18-24 yos as a sign of strength. They don't need to tap into those seven age cohorts. Also, your assertion that Ukr should negotiate peace now while it still has cards makes no sense if their situation is as bad as you claim. If it is, why would Ru accept peace? They would know what you know and refuse to negotiate anything but surrender.
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@ByZHellas It's very clear that you're immersed in pro-Ru propaganda when you insist that Ru isn't doing meat wave tactics. They are. Your assertions about escalating Ukrainian problems are also based on cherry-picked and biased view of reality. It's possible to instead view Ukr's refusal to mobilize 18-24 yos as a sign of strength. They don't need to tap into those seven age cohorts.
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@ByZHellas it's interesting how you guys lol while estimating a strength imbalance in favor of the aggressor. So this is a basically game where the strong deserves to win, and where the humiliation and suffering of the weak can legitimately be enjoyed as entertainment. Right?
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@ByZHellas "Ukraine is at a disadvantage in every type of weapon and munition and manpower on the frontline" Can you prove that in any way? "it's industrial might and numerical superiority which wins wars." So why did the US exit e.g. Vietnam? "the graphs (maybe not over winter, but the months before that have been increasing in Russia's favor) have been in Russia's favor as well." Not enough to be very impressive, and now Ru has clear problems (see e.g. Pokrovsk) and is seemingly losing steam. "but gradually as one side is whittled away (and that can only be Ukraine here, they don't have anywhere near the resources or munition production that Russia does)" This is not clear. Ru is fighting ineffectively and is losing far more men and other resources than Ukr. "the lines become harder and harder to hold until it all comes crashing down" This is merely your guess. If Ukr had a huge problem, I guess they'd lower the mobilization age from 25. "this downward trend of manpower, morale, equipment, and all else continues, they will collapse eventually, far faster than Russia will." Again, this is not clear. You're making statements based on pro-Ru info bubble contents.
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@ByZHellas the FABs are perhaps Ru's only major advantage. Ukraine does have JDAM but can rarely use them because of standoff ru air-to-air missiles that Ukraine currently cannot counter. The assessment of 12-15x disparity in artillery is quite false. It has dropped to 2x lately, but Ukr has better accuracy and range, and Ukr artillery is thus far more lethal. NATO doctrine isn't based on "lightning strikes", but rather on accurate strikes and air superiority. Thus it's not expecting to need as much munitions. Also Ukr produces millions of drones each year. Ru had a brief advantage in fibre optic drones, but that's gone now. And the drones heavily advantages the defender. Ru soldiers aren't saying that it's slowed down in Pokrovsk due to more Ukr soldiers, but rather due to drones and robotic warfare. The storm troopers very rarely come as far as meeting an ukr soldier to shoot at. I see no basis for the claim that Ru has adapted more to the war of attrition. Ukr is using it, and Ru's hunger for territory, to its advantage. What pro-Ru people refuse to see is that Ru has very unfavorable attrition ratio. You convince each other that Ru still has this 10x artillery advantage that was true in the summer of 2022, and that this must mean Ukr loses more men. It's ridiculous. That front-line soldiers always want more resources including more men is not strange. However, there is a grim logic behind not adding more men: If you have less people on the front lines, density is lower and then each enemy fab or artillery strike will cause less deaths on average. For as long as the Ru advances can be kept really slow and you can attrit most attackers using drones, this low manpower allocation optimizes the attrition ratio. They could double the manpower, but then they'd double their losses while not doing much difference to Ru losses (because the total daily recruitment of Ru attackers are kindof dealt with as it stands anyway). As I said, the real paradox is claiming Ukr has a huge manpower issue in an existential war and is thus close to collapse, yet Ukr has exempted seven age cohorts that are normally used by militaries all over the world. It doesn't make sense. If the front lines were at the risk of collapse due to too few men, then they'd add two more cohorts (lower to 23) or something like that. And they'd do it at least 6 months before that, because they're not stupid. So no, there's no imminent frontline collapse. I'm sure you don't think you are in a pro-Ru bubble, but you are.
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@davidcritchley3509 so why did you choose the side of evil?
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@me-mo1um you think Russia's conduct isn't evil? Demonizing and dehumanizing opponents for 7 years to then start a war of imperialist expansion?
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@petermomanyi529 "Nato's role in the colour revolutions is well documented" I know, Nuland handed out some cookies on a square somewhere in Kyiv one day. "4 years later, the coup happened." A coup is made by a small number of government insiders. This was a popular revolution after months of huge protests in the streets of major cities. "Eastern Ukraine has always been pro-Russian, and that's why they demanded autonomy after the coup." Russia almost immediately invaded with "little green men" and heavy weaponry, and enlisted collaborators to also fight in order to pretend that a civil war had broke out. "Assuming Zelensky speaks for all of Ukraine is unwise and unrealistic." He's the democratically elected president. Ukraine has its internationally recognized borders and Russia has to leave.
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@FunnyBunny-pd5xx I know about it already. Tragic outcome of a chaotic struggle.
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@petermomanyi529 it's not NATO, it's the EU. Russia doesn't want the EU on their borders. It doesn't want prosperity, democracy and low corruption among a major brotherly neighbor, because then Russians will see and ask why they can't have good things.
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@ChristianSt97 they're not taking the Donbass. The progress isn't fast enough to be meaningful.
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@ChristianSt97 I have seen the map. The advances are truly tiny.
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@attilamarics3374 putinists think normal people are lying, and proceed to perform these attempted humiliations. It doesn't really work, you're only humiliating yourselves.
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Russian propaganda has a habit of claiming that videos of arrests in Ukraine are mobilization events. However, they're more probably arrests traitors of e.g. people sending Russia info on valuable targets for missile strikes. I happen to trust the Ukrainian MoDs figures of Russian losses. I've seen no reason to doubt them during this war. The visibly confirmed equipment losses checks out (compared to e.g. Oryx) and all losses including personnel losses ebbs and flows with offensives, changed capabilities and even weather.
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@dr.jonas.skeppstedt families won't rejoice by occupation and the follow-up Russian killings, rapes and torture.
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The only countries that have contributed more than €1 billion in military aid to Ukraine until October 31 last year were United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Canada, Poland, Netherlands, Czechia, Norway. These countries plus Ukraine have a combined manufacturing output of 4.3 TUSD (World Bank stats 2021). Russia, Iran and Belarus have a combined 0.33 TUSD. So the Alliance has a manufacturing output roughly 13 times that of the Horde.
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