Comments by "Black_Triton" (@black_triton9264) on "The New Atlas" channel.

  1. The parts that "Russia gives up quickly" is called the Security Zone (in their doctrine) which is populated by combat outposts whose role is to to stop patrols and identify enemy push axis and then bug out. Then there are positions in depth for blocking plus mobile counter-attack groups... The actual Main Defensive Positions were never reached by UA.
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  2. The US administration really went to bat for US citizen Gonzalo Lira šŸ‘
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  3. The Syrian war is about preventing another pipeline.
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  4. Fun Fact: out of all the territories occupied by the 3rd Reich, only Serbia, Poland and Greece did not raise Waffen SS units.... However, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Bulgaria, Albania, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Hungary, Romania, and Ukraine did. Let's call it the first EU šŸ¤£
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  5. Ā @DB5652-v3rĀ  I know right. I have friends that still believe the MSM. I'm like; if the last two years aren't proof that you are being lied to, I don't know what can help you
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  6. It's not their first time, either. But no reverse gear. I guess the only thing that they will stop them is complete destruction. I hope they don't take us along for the ride
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  7. The high ground West of Robotyne is "limited Russian control"? I wonder what their definition of that term is? šŸ¤”
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  8. Ā @edvsilas8281Ā  Agreed. Or saving anyone's life. This whole thing was avoidable if the West were actually honest brokers. That's the tragedy.
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  9. The port moves "7,000 tons a year"? Sounds more like a slow afternoon. Then there is the main port: Sevastopol
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  10. Remember, we went from NATO contributing 5,000 helmets (Germany) to tanks, HIMARS and Patriots. Thats a lot of red lines. More left to cross?
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  11. But is UKR really free to do that? Because only sovereign states have that freedom. Not proxies.
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  12. I was invited by a Legion officer to their (all ranks) mess in Afghanistan. Within 30 minutes, every Legionnaire, enlisted and commissioned, welcomed me to the mess. Class act šŸ‘
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  13. Spoiler Alert: there is no justice
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  14. @chamberpot969Ā  do you think can still squeeze into his Hitler Jugend uniform? He'll be well received by the Azov types šŸ¤£
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  15. @chamberpot969Ā  remember when, as Foreign Secretary, Truss said, "Rostov would never be Russian territory"? Baited by Lavrov to expose how little she knew.
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  16. Sometimes, they do say that. Stoltenberg has been saying that from quite early on.
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  17. Ā @aidanmacdougall9250Ā  sadly true. That's why the region is known as "the bloodlands"
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  18. So basically, he's asking for all of Europe's military equipment... I'm laughing my azov šŸ˜‚
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  19. Ā @JGalt-em4xuĀ  you sense this correctly. Think of defensive islands with security posts in front, side, back and mobile blocking/ counter-attack groups in reserve. Look at the maps of Kursk '43 and you'll see the same but on a grander scale
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  20. Ā @boggisthecatĀ  Agreed. But I focused only on the occupied countries. Otherwise, we can include SS volunteers from Iceland, Arab legions, India, Switzerland, Sweden and some US/UK POWs (although that was never really successful). It is interesting that Greek POWs never spent much time in captivity; a few months in Czechoslovakia and then released back to Greece. The best news about Mariupol came out shortly after the ethnic Greeks arrived in Greece... for about 48hrs then the govt/MSM shut them down.
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  21. No we weren't. Because none of it was NATO doctrine. Instead, we were regaled with stories of Russian incompetence from the 1st Chechnyan War.
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  22. ā€‹@WiseOwl_1408 you misspelled money
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  23. In Eastern Europe and in my experience, officer clubs are open to retired officers and their families as recreational centres and places to eat for free or heavily subsidised meals. A lasting fringe benefit.
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  24. Be careful. If you complain too much about this, you'll be accused of being some kind of yahtzee. Settle down, citizen!
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  25. Ā @fcuk_xĀ  Ukraine isn't a sovereign state?! (gasp)
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  26. Why isn't there a Ukr version on mediazona? šŸ¤”
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  27. Ā @kishanchali8752Ā  "if your attack is going too well, it's probably a trap"... an old military maxim. I can imagine that it's difficult to see from the pointy end.
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  28. True. And why the difference? One population suffered under nazi occupation and the other didn't. The war was in their country unlike Canada/USA. Greeks hating nazis today is in their DNA. It's also in the Russian DNA and probably stronger.
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  29. Ā @boggisthecatĀ  But NZ is part of the "Five Eyes", so.... there's that. Sounds like a NATO (USA) last bastion alliance.
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  30. @ConserpovĀ  I have to qualify that I never went to an entry level military academy. I went to a civilian university. But I did go to army command and staff college (it would be like going for an MBA if you were in business). And at that level, there was no curriculum on "the military classics". Just current doctrine stuff.
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  31. Spin and PR is all UA/NATO have. And they serve it via MSM to NPC viewers. UA has squandered their 3rd army on RU defensive positions. I think this ends with the UA collapse rather than an RU big arrow offensive.
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  32. Lack of UA training for the counter-offensive is not the only reason for the failure.... RU prepared well to defeat them.
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  33. NATO doctrine calls it "the security zone". The Soviet/Russian doctrine calls it "the destruction zone". I think their terminology is more accurate.
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  34. It's not even a line of defence. We call it the security zone. The Russians call it the destruction zone. I think their terminology is more accurate.
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  35. So your govt invites them over, and you expect these bombed out people to be let loose in your country and left to their own devices? Maybe, the UK should have pushed for the Minsk agreement to avoid this whole mess. But instead it pushed Ukraine further into destruction to "hurt Russia". How's that working out for you? I dunno, can you suck and blow at the same time? In the UK, the answer is YES
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  36. Well, the US weapons have been used rather haphazardly by ukraine with incongruant systems. So, not a real test. However, pause to assess? Would be prudent.
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  37. Great job, Brian.
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  38. I wonder what the Taliban would have overheard US soldiers saying in Afghanistan šŸ˜‚
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