Comments by "Bob" (@bobs_toys) on "Jake Broe" channel.

  1. I call it wallet bashing. They're being smacked down by NATO's change purse.
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  2. I was watching the Queen's funeral with my Chinese wife and niece. They commented on that the guard wasn't in perfectly straight lines. I pointed out that to get into the guard, you needed to be very special and highly experienced, they'd seen war. No one in the PLA can say this. The purpose of an army isn't to look pretty on parade.
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  3.  @mediviclozada4027  the drone to the Kremlin (or that those in charge thought it was a believable story) says otherwise.
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  4. No it didn't. It's perfectly natural for a clumsy person to beat himself up before tripping out of a window. Look at what happened to Nordberg in Naked Gun for an example of what a clumsy person can do.
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  5. It's common for people who are completely innocent of things to hit the roof when a third party suggests it be investigated. Look at the CCP's response to Australia calling calling for an investigation into the pandemic origins. What possible doubts could anyone have of their innocence after that?
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  6. Weeks are also good.
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  7. Gets murdered by the other rats that don't want to die for a failure.
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  8. It's good that you remember to give credit where it's due. It shows character. ​ @JakeBroe 
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  9. Have you actually met people? They're the worst.
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  10. "won't someone please think of the children" - Ritter
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  11. If you keep doing it every day, however.... And even increase the tempo. At some point they'd disperse enough to make sure that no individual dump was worth the expense, but that also seems like something that adds an extra layer of difficulty to the whole supply situation.
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  12. Apparently about 50k rockets have been built with the current output being over 9k per year. So without cutting into reserves, enough to have each vehicle fire off a pod per day, 365 days a year.
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  13. It was a big one to make up for being late
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  14.  @Rylus571  not in Kyiv it won't be. Or will be it VR day?
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  15. Still running Russia.
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  16. Probably because Lukashenko is just someone you can ignore. He's not going to do anything more than he's done.
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  17. The Holy Roman Empire. Which was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire.
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  18. Or a big cigar. I was watching a Futurama episode earlier that had the sort of cigar that will cause this many explosions.
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  19. "and end the war" is a line that can be ignored when coming from Russians. It's a thrust throwaway line that sounds good, but has been used in connection with so many things that didn't end the war it has no meaning
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  20. Sounds like you should be directing this rant towards Hamas for targeting civilians from behind Gazan human shields. If you actually cared for any other reason than Israel is involved.
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  21. Apparently I'm not allowed to quote Brick Top
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  22. We saw the same thing in Hong Kong after pro government rallies. By contrast, it's worth checking the 2014 protests with students doing homework and cleaning up after themselves. Same thing with the 2019 protests, but there were more times when that wasn't feasible.
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  23. A thousand bullets that don't hit something are irrelevant vs one bullet that does.
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  24. Some stairs that were constructed outside a 20th storey window.
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  25. When Russia is broken up, we should let China take the far eastern region. Mainly because they'll be unable to refuse (a large amount was their land) and in doing so they'll show future potential allies what it means to be an unlimited friend of the CCP.
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  26. They're Russian. When they attacked the Japanese in Manchuria, they did exactly the same things to Chinese and Koreans that they did in eastern Europe. It showed that the revenge on Nazi collaborators excuse was just that. As excuse. It was them acting as they are. Nothing has changed.
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  27. He's knocked out the closest thing the PRC had to a useful ally before it could be useful. He gave the west a years long head start on what it would have had in preparing for war. He enlarged NATO. He eliminated Russia as long term threat. What else do you expect from him? He's only human.
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  28. How much would he need to trust a double to let him speak for him for this long?
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  29. One of the parts of getting air superiority going is ensuring that the other side can't attack you from the air. So if they could simply turn the air above their army into a death trap for anything opposed to them, it would probably be OK.
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  30. You can tell who has useful, loyal soldiers. (by Russian standards)
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  31. Unless there's a two thirds majority to override a veto.
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  32. A Putinic victory.
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  33. This post made me go on and do it.
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  34. Weren't hundreds of thousands of extra already meant to be in the field?
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  35. It does indeed suck to be Assad
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  36. And ammunition that can't make it to the front lines is functionally identical to no ammunition.
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  37. Fortunately there's a huge amount of Russian money held in escrow. It won't be enough, but it's a nice start.
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  38. Only F35s
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  39. It's why it's better to just mock those who use that as a threat. Because they're clearly either morons, or they're such massive failures that nuclear war is an improvement for them.
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  40. Anyone who thinks that putting all Russia's eggs in the Chinese basket should check out the treaties of Aigun and Peking. They haven't forgotten about them (or what the USSR did to them. Those things they did in eastern Europe that are excused by saying they were done in revenge for collaboration with the Germans were done in Manchuria and Korea. This includes shipping entire factories to Russia)
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  41. It's part of the Russian strategy to deny Ukraine the ability to hurt them by ensuring that anything that's worth attacking has already been destroyed.
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  42. The PRC will do whatever benefits the CCP's leadership. If they decide that the best they can get is reclaiming the land lost in the treaties of Aigun and Peking, you can expect them to develop a "conscience" (and expect gratitude from the world) before invading Russia. As one possibility.
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  43. Or started
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  44. As much as I see where you're coming from, with the paranoia about disease and all that, can you imagine him giving this much of a free hand to someone whose claim to the job was his ability to look like him?
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  45. You can't see how this happens by accident? You're on a training exercise, you're walking along, you trip and you're over the border. You and a few friends try to walk to Kyiv to apologise in person, but the unreasonable people in the way refuse to let you do it. Then one misunderstanding leads to another and we've got what we have today. All completely innocent.
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  46. If they cut off his feet, he doesn't get frostbite or need to learn to tie his shoes.
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  47.  @budgetgaming2210  and after that, spring and another year.
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  48.  @budgetgaming2210  was that meant to be relevant to something? Or am I talking to a script that inserts the data before the first space into a random pointless comment?
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  49. Lenders don't care why it can't pay back its debt. All they care about is that it can't pay it back. It's ironic. The Russian rouble is so strong, yet so worthless it can't even be used to repay debt.
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  50. That's been a thing I've seen here among people I can actually verify are real. Not even the Russians support Russia.
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  51. Stalin won his big war. Also, Stalin's war was against his former ally.
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  52.  @mauricehodgson3143  everyone needs a hobby
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  53. If you can have the PRC host the Olympics multiple times, your bar is so low it's at risk of being burned up entirely by the earth's core. It's why I was horrified when my home city was "chosen" (with no competition, which should have told the politicians who wanted it all they needed to know about how bad an idea it was) to host it.
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  54. Or tampon.
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  55.  @thomasf.9869  I chose my words carefully 😉 Supplies to their army are things the absolutely should be a concern. But they're not concerned by it 😛
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  56. And when China comes into the fray, that'll be a naval thing more than anything else. So why not? Who else is there?
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  57. My in laws are from North East China. They hate Russians there. Amongst other things because the things they did in eastern Europe that were excused as getting revenge on Nazi collaborators were also done in their area and North Korea. What they did wasn't about punishment. It was just them being themselves.
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  58. Fortunately it's basically clearing the perimeter of a circle. They'd need to update their supply lines, but they'll never be more than 150km from their current territory. Not counting Crimea.
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  59. As someone who's been studying Chinese on and off for twenty years, I felt a huge amount of envy. I read about 300 characters. I'm still illiterate.
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  60. It also means the program is a good investment.
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  61. South Africa says Putin agreed not to attend BRICS summit
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  62. If they can't be supplied, they can't eat or fight. If they can escape, they can fight again. If they can't escape, they go into a prison camp and are useless to Russia.
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  63. This is why I laugh when pro Russians think China is a friend. There's a classic case of the student becoming the master if I've ever seen one.
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  64. They don't like to be reminded that the PRC was the secessionist state.
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  65. That's a statement that should be weird, but just isn't.
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  66. Apparently they've been there since Russia decided it "didn't want Kherson anyway" and handed it back in a "humanitarian gesture" as part of a "strategic withdrawal" to get rid of a beachhead to Odessa that wouldn't have been any benefit
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  67. Because they have all the leverage they could ever need.
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  68. They're first class at humiliating themselves. Credit where credit's due.
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  69. I'm still trying to find that rarest of beasts. A pro Russian who'd like to compare the map now with the map a year ago.
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  70. Putting a bunch of embittered ageing long term alcoholics who needed to be forced to be there in charge. What could go wrong? That hasn't gone wrong already.
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  71.  @DonQuickZote  the war will end. But not because X thing that's going to deliver Russia total victory that's just around the corner.
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  72. Does this include stoppages?
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  73. They were prank binoculars. Think of a prank cigar, but bigger.
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  74. For their Iranian friends, they've got a special four for one deal.
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  75. ​ @Vadim-gi4sg  except as a way of limiting where Ukrainian soldiers can move. Only a small thing.
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  76. Regarding the flags, you saw the same thing in HK when the pro govt protesters did stuff. The anti-govt ones (except where there was violence - violence that was started by the police and govt showing that peaceful protests were treated with contempt) cleaned up after themsleves. During the 2014 protests, the students were doing their homework during the sit in. But the pro govt ones? They made a mess. The photo opportunity was over, they dumped whatever they had and went back to where they came from (generally the pro govt protests were about the amount of people you could fit in a single bus)
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  77. If you put a gun to their heads, the survivors will do whatever you like.
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  78. Three and a half.... Three and three quarters....
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  79. When someone says they've got a bridge to sell you, it seems a worse deal than ever.
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  80. 🤣🤣🤣 I'm sure that was it! All completely voluntary!
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  81. Based on what I know and suspect from being associated with China for the best part of twenty years: >>Could Americans expect a draft? << Not my area, but I'd doubt it, it would be important to keep industry going at home. It would be a naval war, industry counts more than soldiers >>Would China become the worlds new dominate military power?<< If we ignore it, yes. If we don't ignore it, no. Most of what the PRC has achieved has relied on the rest of the world ignoring them. Fortunately Russia was the final nail in the coffin of the world ignoring them. >>How capable is Taiwan of defending itself without foreign aid?<< If we completely ignored Taiwan, it would be extremely open to a maritime siege. That this hasn't happened (and the CCP really, really, really wants Taiwan) shows what they belief about your next question: >>Which countries would even come to aid?<< For local countries, look at a map of Asia and ask yourself what happens when the CCP is unrestrained Japan and South Korea are screwed for a start. As is every country in the South China Sea. As is Russia (Seriously. Look up the treaty of Aigun in 1858 and Peking in 1860 - The PRC wants that land back) Further afield, Australia will definitely join in. New Zealand probably will (Hopefully Ardern is voted out soon) and obviously the UK, EU, USA and Canada will be all in. Basically because the consequences of Taiwan losing are catastrophic. Not just strategically but in showing the world what kind of allies the West actually makes. I also doubt this will ever become a land war. Basically because the key isn't to invade the PRC, but to stop it invading other countries. Plus, it's really vulnerable to blockade. Taking energy as an example, they recently bent the knee to Australia and gave in on their coal ban. And their economy is super unhealthy in general. And if war never happens, then their window of opportunity is about the next ten years. That population is ageing at a ridiculous pace (40% drop in births since their 2017 peak)
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  82. I've just realised: Epoch time.
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  83. I'd just assume they'd start cutting off data services
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  84.  @Duke_of_Lorraine . The one with the pig farm, yes
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  85. From the pro Putin people on here, I get the feeling all the smart Russians have left long ago. Those who are left..... Are not inspiring
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  86. Oh oh oh oh oh oh Not allowed to go. oh oh oh oh oh I'm sure there's a Led Zeppelin rewrite in here somewhere.... Something about the baby, hostages and gulags.
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  87. Now
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  88. It's about twice as dense as lead
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  89.  @aonewatchman  throw a ball of Styrofoam at your window, then throw a stone of a similar size at it.
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  90. The Haka is over compensation for a lack of Australian wildlife. Soft country, fierce display.
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  91. Germany set all sorts of lovely precedents, however there are two problems: 1. Getting to him And more difficult: 2. Getting to him before someone murders him.
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  92. We get a bit funny with words for regions. Like my wife is from Liaoning province in China. A province is pretty indistinguishable from a state. Yet we don't call it a state and always tack province on the end. I know that technically it is still translated, but translated in a very unusual way.
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  93.  @pepperVenge  on the 24th February, the war was in its first month. I'm used to this from how Chinese count their age. Europeans start with 0. When you're a newborn, you're zero years old. Chinese start with 1. When you're newborn, you're in your first year. It's like something that started in December 2019 and finished in January 2020 finished in its second year. Anyway, this is hair splitting for arguably accurate trolling. It seems a safe bet that soon, no hair splitting will be required
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  94.  @pepperVenge  on the first of March it was in its second month.
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  95.  @pepperVenge  the key word is in vs on In means it's inside its second month. It's inside February and it's inside March
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  96.  @pepperVenge  oh it's something that's technically true for the trolling. It won't rely on technicalities soon
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  97. I'd love that, however he's a person I'm genuinely worried about. Epic levels of respect for what he's done, but he's already straddling the line between brave and suicidal. A great one for after Putin has enjoyed a publicly funded piano wire bow tie, though. (or however it ends up happening)
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  98. You mean besides that it would be used against Russian museum pieces?
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  99. Because of you take the piss, people get upset. Like Belarus. Except Lukashenko had Putin to prop him up. Xi might prop up Putin. Or he might use the ensuing chaos to go on and right a historical wrong as well as protect Chinese being targeted by Russians in land handed over in the treaties of Aigun and Peking.
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  100. Frankly, if I were them I'd be more worried about China helping break them up. Some of Sibera has literally been Chinese territory since ancient times (Treaty of Aigun, treaty of Peking) and the rest is a nine dash line away from being included.
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  101. The worst thing Hitler did was create a world in which Russia was a major power. This isn't to say it would have been better if he'd won. It wouldn't. But with how things turned out, it was the worst thing he actually achieved, by a very wide margin.
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  102. Gratitude is the lively expectation of favours to come. It'll be interesting to see what would happen when the country he fled to figured it could just hand him over and keep his money
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  103. The last ww1 vet only died 12 years ago. There's 27 years between the end of ww1 and the end of ww2.
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  104. Excuses are a poor substitute for loan repayments. And who do you think creditors are going to choose when given a choice of who to lend to? Russia or the West?
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  105. My wife is from North East China. When the Russians attacked the Japanese, they treated the Chinese and Koreans in the same way as they treated the people in eastern Europe. Without the excuse of Nazi collaboration. The Chinese haven't forgotten or forgiven. Just like they haven't forgotten the treaties of Aigun and Peking. Which is why I laugh at Russians who think the PRC is their friend.
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  106. They care about social unrest that could threaten the CCP's grip on power. Which is why they have strategic pork reserves. Everything else... Not so much.
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  107. You'll need an encyclopaedia to list all the individual ways he lost the war. It's not about whether they've done badly, it's about the wide variety of highly creative ways they've done badly.
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  108. This garbage is the best your script writers could come up with. That's just sad. (although in fairness, I'd probably fail if I had to polish the Russian turd)
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  109.  @geretstarseeker453  that's the attitude I take towards wumao. They're so sad they're awesome. For those against turn. However I know they're still retarded that all the mockery and highlighting of their shortcomings in the world won't teach them a thing. So I can have fun.
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  110. Special multi faceted internal military operation.
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  111.  @daniellarson3068  I didn't say give it to China. I said let them take it. When Russia's lost its value as a friend, they'll be looking to take back what they lost in the unequal treaties of Aigun and Peking.
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  112.  @dmoore5120  that's like asking if the Germans would be any better than the Soviets. You'd think it's so bad that any random entity is going to be an improvement. But no. They'd be worse.
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  113. It could have been Putin manufacturing an excuse. Again.
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  114. Unless other areas under Russian control decide that it's time to take advantage of the weakness that was just shown.
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  115. Right wing is conservative (maintaining the status quo) or reactionary(going back to a previous status quo. EG back to the USSR) Left wing is desirous or supportive of change. (which might or might not be a good thing. Wanting to cut off three or your own limbs is change, as much as getting rid of child labour in the 19th century) If you're in a liberal democracy (people are allowed to have their own opinions, even if you disagree with them and are allowed to freely vote) then maintaining a liberal democracy is a right wing position. If you're in North Korea, it's very much a left wing position. If you want a single party communist state in the USA, you're left wing (it's a massive change) if you want it in North Korea, it's right wing. Is my view of left wing positions seems a bit biased towards being negative, it's because It's difficult to think of positions in western countries that are universally regarded as left wing and good, because the non controversial stuff has generally already been done.
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  116.  @floydlooney6837  depends when you're talking about. Prior to ww2 and when things were going well, yes. They were far left. He wanted to keep on changing the world. Then when Hitler had as much as he was going to hope for, he'd have gone right wing (conservative) By the time everything had collapsed, he'd have been very, very reactionary, wishing he could go back to the status quo he had when things were going well. These labels make much more sense if you ignore specific policy positions and look at it from the point of view of their attitude to change. In Australia, gun control is a right wing (conservative) position because it's well and truly part of the status quo. Any party removing it would be debatably left wing (going for a new status quo. EG bringing in a second amendment) or far right reactionary, going back to the status quo before the laws were implemented.
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  117. If we do, we treat it. Any disease or parasite we have is one that can survive within us and we can spread to other humans
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  118. LOL
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  119. With the arguments, probably self inflicted gunshot wounds.
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  120. That's amazingly better than a world in which Putin's thugs or the barbarians in the CCP have power.
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  121. They can get it from their Chinese "unlimited partners" soon enough
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  122. Gratitude is the lively expectation of favours to come. Russia isn't in a position to grant favours.
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  123. I remember my first job. I was in a small ISP. We used to be amazed what we had this much access to that much data about people without Security clearance.
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  124. The only people who we can expect to be blindsided by Eastern European mud, winter, etc are Russians and Australians. Everyone else has learnt too much about them.
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  125. Wait... Did you mean what did he do that worked? Or do you mean what did he intend to do that worked? There's room for confusion here.
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  126. ​ @jettser17UK  it isn't. But the agreement was to leave them alone until 2047. They were part of the PRC, but they governed themselves. It should have been a mostly independent country until then. This treaty was officially labelled a historical document of no modern relevance in 2017 (two years before the protests).
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  127. 166 years since Haishenwai was handed over.
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  128. For a few hours
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  129. The joker vs the farce?
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  130. And this is the person who said this five days ago. --------- You are not opposed to Isreal getting more money for ,Defense" - so you don't care about the 20K plus civilians in ga*a being s*aughtered? Double standards of Americans. Unsubscribed!
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  131. There'd be a horrific initial barrage targeted at Seoul, then that would be the end of their military's part in whatever happened.
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  132.  @smartlucker4011  you have to wonder if maybe keeping the capital within artillery range wasn't the best idea.
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  133. The problem is it's not just the banks that are muddy. It's everywhere the water covered. Which then needs to drain and dry.
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  134. This is where the PRC isn't being hypocritical. They keep as many of their cities empty as possible. Which is what a city should be.
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  135. Because every lender to the USA knows that it can and will pay when the debt is due. Now, sure, Russia is technically capable of doing it, but if you lend someone money you, don't care about the reason they haven't paid it back. All you care about is that they haven't paid it back. So now everyone thinking of lending money to Russia will factor in the chance of them doing something so horrible that the world's major economies will actively prevent them from paying their debt back. Will people still lend in the future? Probably. But they'll be increasing the cost of doing this to make up for the additional risk.
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  136. Lol. American born and raised, huh? Anyway, it does indeed suck to be Putin and Assad.
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  137. Source: Russia today?
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  138. Taiwan is political. Russia is low hanging fruit.
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  139. Canada: 27% of total deliveries Australia: 22% of total deliveries Kazakhstan: 22% of total deliveries Russia: 12% of total deliveries Uzbekistan: 10% of total deliveries
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  140. It's amazing how many tiny countries try to invade Russia unprovoked.
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  141. Then the question needs to be asked as to why this special military operation against a smaller country full of people who desperately want to be freed from their western backed puppet government needs a full war economy to conquer.
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  142. ​ @schmetterling4477 you should look up how Tsar Alexander really Fubared up Napoleon's first surrender.
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  143. Well spotted
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  144. My wife is Chinese (former party member) her niece has recently moved in with us to study. While we were watching the Queen's funeral, conversation turned to Stalin (amongst other things) She was completely shocked to find out that Stalin was generally viewed as completely evil and that Hitler was only the third biggest murderer of the 20th century.
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  145. Getting the same fate as those under Dan Andrews is terrible.
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  146. Apparently you thought wrong. The Kherson evacuation isn't exactly a sign of winning.
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  147. It was meant to be lion, but his father was an illiterate.
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  148. It used to be called China's last warning
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  149. The treaty of Aigun 1858. The treaty of Peking 1860. Those are a large part of why I agree with you.
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  150. Back? When were they in it?
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  151. "Nobody wants to destroy Russia!" That's a very February 23 2022 statement. Russia's actions since then have basically shown the world that it's a ticking timebomb.
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  152.  @a5cent  it's like North Korea. No one wants to go to war to get rid of it, but if it could sink beneath the waves, that would just be wonderful.
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  153. The Ukrainian invasion is like Valhalla. Where everyone who dies in battle comes back to life the next day to restart the fight. So as long as they don't claim they've destroyed five HIMARS in a single day.... It might not be a lie
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  154. Another person who shouldn't get a job as a fortune teller
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  155. People like round numbers.
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  156. Mail order widows?
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  157. It's insane to punish deserters. They're clearly the most intelligent, motivated soldiers Russia has. They should be promoted instead.
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  158. Apparently people being willing to accept their energy in exchange for deep discounts is a sign that that country is a solid friend and ally. Because friends take advantage of friends when they're down. People who simply want a bargain don't exist.
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  159.  @HEMI345S  to put it simply, Putin is a liar who will ignore any treaty he signs the moment it's convenient. What's the point in negotiating with someone like that?
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  160. The Russian army really is a barbarian horde.
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  161. And in a few cases, well.... You're giving disgruntled people with nothing to lose guns. And guess who's the most convenient target.
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  162.  @mal2ksc  Heavy is good. Heavy is reliable. If it doesn't work, you can always hit them with it
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  163. I'm tempted to eat one of my Guinea pigs. But that's because she's an extremely fat food animal that can't be toilet trained. It feels like a win win. But that's not what they're going for.
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  164. It looks at least as real as Russia's reported losses and successes.
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  165. Then at least they had people who were willing to breed.
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  166. Two things are it needs unanimous acceptance and doesn't touch countries with existing border disputes. In 2008 they started to apply, but their president (the one who was ousted after he campaigned on a pro joining EU platform then did a sudden about face and went for Russia instead)
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  167. Either way, not bad for something that'll be over in a couple of weeks
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  168.  @mariahewitt9787  I meant over in a couple of weeks from the end of February However, Putin can't do that. He can go back to not being alive. That's about it.
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  169. It'th thpecial!
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  170. With the benefit of the last few months, we can see that Russia's mobilisation is a farce
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  171. If he's got better intelligent sources than Putin, well...... That would just be hilarious (although not as far fetched as it seemed before I started typing this)
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  172. Anyone who has any security concerns whatsoever should stay away from anything from the PRC that has a network connection.
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  173. And it's a common enough scenario it's going to resonate with a significant number of Russians
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  174.  @Aeronaut1975  he had a truck AND a bomb. That's two.
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  175. Joke's on Zelensky. North Korean soldiers don't have meat!
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  176.  @gordonpkm7560  it feels fair to say that anything that does anything to do with any sort of food doesn't apply.
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  177. There's plenty of examples to go off with the CCP whining about the unfairness of UNCLOS (which it voluntarily signed up to) or the WTO rules (which it put a huge amount of effort into joining)
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  178. Or there's multiple idiots. And Russia can tear itself apart.
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  179.  @ChuckAmadi  Fancy seeing you here
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  180. Putin is a gentleman. I'm sure that a handshake and a promise on his honour will be enough. I'm also sure that in February, what happened was only military exercises and that Kherson will, in fact, remain Russian forever. Now I'm off to get this serious concussion treated. My ears are bleeding.
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  181. As good as the Polish army is, there are certain, specific times they're basically storm troopers. Incapable of hitting a single thing they're aiming at. Unfortunately the collateral damage would be exclusively Russian.
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  182. Because the country that has spent centuries invading its neighbours, including as Hitler's ally, has a right to be able to invade those neighbours on a whim?
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  183. It depends on the mood of nearby Australians.
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  184. I'm certain the govt of Syria has nothing but love for Russia after Putin helped Assad stay in power another decade.
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  185. It's better than lead. That's the bar here.
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  186. Or to put it another way: As the war proceeds, Ukraine is running out of options. Soon they'll have no choice but to act in one way.
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  187. I'm Australian, but I've spent my share of time in North east China. When it's normal to get to -30 and you get a day that's -10 it does feel like a warm day
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  188. That's exactly why they shouldn't be banned. They're so incredibly bad at their jobs they're hurting themselves. It's like if the CCP ever stopped funding the fifty cent army, I'm convinced the CIA should offer to pick up the tab on the condition that they keep doing exactly what they're doing now. When it comes to propaganda, give me a choice between a genius on my side and a drooling moron on the other side, I'll take the drooling moron.
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  189.  @RonSommar  it's an easy thing to do and he can totally see why it's done. That's why he's so eager to have talks to get it all cleared up, with suitable compensation for stopping his apology incursion.
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  190. What has Roman ever done for us? A question that traditionally gets a long answer. Ending in brought peace.
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  191. If a Briton gives food to a dog, it's quality food. The trash is reserved for cats and people.
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  192. You don't even need the math. A border of a country they're at war with was basically undefended. If they've got such a surplus of men and machines.... How? How is it still? Is even more damning.
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  193. I gather there's about 50k stockpiled. So that's 1.5 years on your math, plus whatever is made from production ramping up as we find out how useful those things actually are. Edit: It wouldn't be needed for that long, though, basically because there's only a finite number of useful targets.
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  194. How is this even a country?
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  195. They're in controlled grounds, so they'd get the leavings of other looters.
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  196. After it turns into a drinking game? Whatever happened to drunk history?
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  197. It's the same with the 50 cent army. If the CCP decided to stop funding them, having the CIA step in on the condition that they kept operating exactly as they were would be a good deal.
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  198.  @melindacadarette3447  And I'm in Australia, where we have two seasons I called "Summer" and "Less Summer" (You could call the other two decreasing and increasing summer) TL;DR - It's better to be a literal bot than a person that incapable of thought.
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  199. Something something America something something? That's the default, anyway
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  200. That doesn't work in a dictatorship. (or at least shouldn't) Everyone who has power has power because Putin wanted him to have power. The buck stops with the dwarf.
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  201. This borrows from their strategic surrender to Germany in ww1 where the Germans absorbed so much Russian territory it was difficult to administer it. They plan on forcing the Ukrainian army to spend so many resources dealing with surrendered soldiers they won't have spare capacity for offensive operations.
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  202. And it needs do be better than lead. It's a pretty low bar.
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  203. You lost any credibility whatsoever when you suggested that the only thing stopping Russia from taking all of Ukraine was they hadn't decided to. And I'm going to give a contemptuous laugh at the idea of Russia being able to do well in WW3. It's about as believable as you actually being French. (after all the people I've come across who claim to be from English speaking countries who support Russia but obviously speak English as a second language)
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  204.  @jjt9201  you're following an overused script. "I'm not pro Russian, I'm just here spouting Russian talking points" And it wants allies because what benefit is there to going it alone? Russia and the PRC would love allies, but they're both such terrible countries they're not going to get any. They're not even allies to each other.
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  205. I think Putin is comfortable with being a hypocrite. And as far as Kim goes..... He's the morbidly obese leader who's telling his subjects that two (one, zero, I haven't kept up) meals per day are healthy. :P
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  206. It feels like you answered your own question.
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  207.  @alegro4046  he could accidentally shoot himself twice in the back of the head. There's a whole range of things that can happen when you don't pay attention. Clumsy, clumsy man.
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  208. How would actually going nuclear help Putin? The threat absolutely helps, but what good would actually giving the other do him, and what good would obeying the order do for everyone between him and them? Keeping in mind missiles can go in two directions, and everyone involved in the launch process is aware of this.
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  209. It takes a special kind of idiot to need to ask if you're free to talk about these things in America while he's freely and openly talking about them on an American platform.
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  210. My guess is if they went, they'd use the trans Siberian.
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  211. If wonder if they'll respect their agreements as much as Putin respected the Budapest agreement.
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  212. "On 18 January 2017, Russia and Syria signed an agreement, effective forthwith, wherein Russia would be allowed to expand and use the naval facility at Tartus for 49 years on a free-of-charge basis and enjoy sovereign jurisdiction over the base" What a deal! I'm sure they'll respect it!
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  213.  @viixx7928  or they're just talking bollocks, hoping to apply what polish they can to this turd of a situation and keep a gullible populace from getting upset at what's been lost.
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  214. looks at the PRC I mean.... I know what you're saying, but considering that all Communist parties have failed to reach Communism, as far as using the flag goes.... looks at the PRC again
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  215. It's easier to list countries that the PRC hasn't screwed over since 2020.
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  216. That's not a cause for concern among the Russian leadership.
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  217. An armed mob. Armies have organisation and discipline
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  218. I've enjoyed watching people trying to make the same arguments about historical claims to Australians on Australian news sites. The same Australians who only made the final legal break with the UK in 1986, when the privy council stopped being our final court of appeal. (the king of Australia is a separate legal entity to the king of England) I somehow don't think they understand their target audience.
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  219. And in the decades since, it was the Russian state that collapsed. The USA remains and looks set to continue to remain. Edit: misread. 58k soldiers in 8 years vs 59k Russian soldiers in 8 months. (more or less)
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  220. The problem is they then sell it as soon as the govt has propped it up. Forcing the cycle to repeat even faster.
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  221. Basically if they're making money doing this, they're making money off Putin.
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  222. The point here is that unlimited friends don't take advantage of their friend when it's desperate. China isn't Russia's friend, though. Anyone who thinks that it's forgotten about the land Russia took from them or what the Soviet soldiers did while they were in Manchuria is sadly deluded.
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  223. I doubt this war will go on for that long, but there's another bigger war with the PRC coming.
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  224. Because the only thing that's bad about their targeting Intel is it gives the location of those who have learning disabilities. But as long as they're in the same building at people who aren't addicted to lead paint, it's still good.
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  225. The generals are a trap. Removing them from command helps the Russian army.
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  226. The British empire was at its peak when people wore top hats. Coincidence? I no longer think so.
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  227. If (when) China invades Russia to take back what was handed over during the unequal treaties (plus interest), would you be inclined to lift a finger to stop them? I wouldn't.
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  228. Russia has destroyed a huge amount of HIMARS rockets. They cunningly position their ammunition depots so they're in a good position to take out as many missiles as possible. There's nothing like a few hundred tonnes of shells, etc to ensure that the missile that tries to land near them gets well and truly destroyed.
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  229. I guess stockpiles aren't a thing that exists.
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  230. I also hear bad things happen if they hit you at high speed. These bullets are clearly dangerous.
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  231.  @moenielsen3218  if the people they might have collided with kill, rape or torture these civilians, that's also cause for concern. Depleted uranium might cause cancer. Russian soldiers will rape, murder and torture civilians
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  232. Yeah, until my daughter had her first pair with laces, she hadn't. The point here though is that she's a kid. This is an adult.
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  233.  @nickbrink3668  it's an adult. Either way, it's very different to a six year old (or a ten) I've never met an adult who couldn't tie his shoes.
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  234. According to Russian tradition, they wouldn't "find him" for at least a day after the heart attack.
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  235. Operation Fishkill writ large
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  236. I enjoy watching trolls grasping at straws trying to pretend BRICS is something it isn't Not a single one of those countries that won't let Russia lose voted in favour of Russia on anything war related. Russia's so desperate for friends it counts fence sitters and bargain hunters
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  237. Why don't you think he could last a day? He's the material from which Russian generals are made. Each private should carry an advertisement for a yacht in his knapsack for the day he becomes a Marshall.
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