Comments by "TheEvertw" (@TheEvertw) on "Artur Rehi" channel.

  1. We should definitely respect the dead Russian WW2 soldiers. We have a special section in our local graveyard where 865 are buried (ereveld Leusden). It was recently restored in honour of these men, looks like new. Likewise Russia should respect its own citizens who died fighting its own war. And certainly not build a parking lot over their graves. Shame on Russia.
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  2. Putin has for decades humiliated and ignored North Korea. To now be required to kiss Kim's behind is something he will feel, very deeply. The end is near for him.
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  3. A polish colleague I worked with a year and a half ago told me they would get rid of the right wing nutters. Glad to see they actually did it. Well done, Poland!
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  4. The USA has elected chaos. We will live through it. Better than the USA will, at least. The USA already was a nasty place for those who aren't rich (i.e. those earning less than the median income, ~70k per household), and it is going to be a lot nastier still.
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  5. This is THE reason why the West should have been much more aggressive in their support of Ukraine. Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in the expectation of western help if Russia would ever attack it. However, that help has been extremely disappointing. We can expect many more countries to develop nuclear weapons as a result.
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  6. About the non-reaction to these drones violating our air space: In judo you learn that when you have your opponent in a ch0ke-hold, you don't let yourself be distracted. Russian economy is coming apart at the seams, and Ukraine is getting more and more stuff -- yet not fast enough. Anything that Russia does that annoys us should cause us to 1). give more strategic stuff to Ukraine, and 2). increase the range and reach of sanctions.
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  7. Trump is playing chaos games to try and get better "deals" with the other nations. He will find out that international trade is based on TRUST, and that the USA will suffer the most as a result of his chaos. The fall of the USA from its current place as richest and most powerful nation in the world has begun.
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  8. I hope God and the Ukrainians will forgive us for being so slow in providing the F16s. That was a HUGE error.
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  9. Trump is sensing that Putin is weak, and that he can get his Nobel peace prize by coming in on Ukraine's side. And I would be all for giving it to him, if he did that.
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  10. Russia delenda est. It will fall not by outside hands, but by the hands of its own citizens who are tired of having their life squeezed from them by these corrupt thieves.
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  11. I think the main reason why Ukraine attacks these strategic radars is to make continuing the war ever more expensive for Russia. And it is forcing Russia to withdraw air-defense assets to protect these strategic targets.
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  12. I am having a happy Tuesday, today we celebrate St Nicholas, time to give and receive presents!
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  13. Eh, most Europeans are what you would call liberal. The Neo-Liberal movement is our conservative movement.
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  14. You have to love those actors asking Putin for weapons. But I don't know if Putin would want to arm his population. In fact, I am pretty sure he doesn't. He likes his civilians easily cowed and complacent, not armed to the teeth. You won't see civilians walking around with Kalasnikovs in Moscow, as they were in Kyiv.
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  15. The Ukrainians are getting boats from several countries. Therefore it makes excellent sense to send many brigades to the beach of Crimea and watch the sea. They need more soldiers there!
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  16. Should Russia invade the Baltics, my expectation is that NATO will outflank Russian forces through Finland and liberate the Baltics from the east.
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  17. How can you say that! 100% of those incoming missiles were successfully destroyed by the air defense systems!
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  18. It is a shame that Ukraine has to exchange war criminals to get back civilians. That mom and the police officer should never have been in captivity.
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  19. The west actually did have a strategy: by creating many economic links, war becomes suicide. Russia is experiencing right now the strength of that strategy: their economy is down the drain. We only underestimated the lunacy of Putin.
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  20. It is not correct to compare the current time with Chamerlain's time. Signing the Minsk accords in 2014 and 2015, that was our Chamberlain moment. When Russia attacked Ukraine in 2022, that can be compared to Germany invading Poland in 1939. After Russia broke the Minsk accords, no country on the planet should ever trust the Russian Federation again.
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  21. It is time to pray, my friend. God prevented nuclear war during the Cold War. I believe he will prevent it now as well.
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  22. When the F16s arrive, Russia will have to withdraw a lot of their air defense back to Russia. If they don't, I bet Ukraine will have their old planes do a proper attack on those Tu-22s and wipe them out.
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  23. Putin is probably playing the same game that Hamas is playing. He is trying to get more countries fighting against him, so that Putin's fellow dictators might be tempted to join in the war. Likewise, Hamas is trying to provoke Israel into such a bloody retaliation that other Arab nations will get involved in fighting Israel. That is the reasoning for the muted support for Ukraine from the EU / NATO. I do not if it is the correct thing to do, but that is the reasoning behind it. Israel chooses a different path. It looks like they will invade Gaza to effect regime change, or even end the self-rule of the Gaza strip.
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  24. I believe the future of Ukraine is much like that of Israel, militarily. They will become a huge weapons producer & exporter. Like they were in Soviet times. Most likely, they will become specialists in drones and drone / cruise missile hybrids.
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  25. If Trump & the Americans think that the EU is soft because we chose not to have a big military, they should know that it was a deliberate choice not to invest much in our armies. Because we invested in a rules-based open market to bind economies so tightly together that starting a war would be economic suicide. Russia is finding this out. And now, Trump is finding this out, by the fallout of the Canada tariffs. In our rules-based world order, the USA was the backstop. And we rewarded the USA handsomely, by investing MASSIVELY into its military-industrial complex. That is why, for example, there are so many F-35s bought by European states. That will now all change. Europe will rapidly re-arm itself, using its own military-industrial complex -- which we kept on the back burner but still very much alive and on the cutting edge of technology, exactly for this eventuality.
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  26. The ex-Russian soldier is right. They have no choice. Either they are sent to die in Ukraine as a murderer and thief, or they fight and depose Putin.
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  27. These Russian bunkers don't look well-designed. I know that our munition bunkers have a thick layer of earth on top of them to dampen any explosions. Hard concrete like with these Russian bunkers don't stop explosions, instead they make them worse by letting the pressure build up before suddenly collapsing. And I won't be amazed if proper bunkers have weak spots through which explosions and conflagrations are directed upwards instead of towards the next bunker.
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  28. I can imagine these Wagnerites thinking "f-this", being commanded to fight for Bakhmut by the Russian military, after having left Bakhmut because they were being sacrificed by the Russian military. And getting shelled along the way by the Russian military. Let the mutiny begin! It would be the best way for them to regain at least some honour.
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  29. Putin: We are losing the war! Quick, what did comrade Stalin did when he was losing WW2? Colonel: Comrade Stalin mobilized the Ukrainians, and asked the USA for aid. Putin: never mind...
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  30. Zelensky's plan is excellent, and the ONLY way forward. The alternative is that Ukraine develops n#kes and deploys them against Russia. It has every right to do so, as this is an act of self-defense. While there is a doctrine not to accept countries that are at war, this is not part of the NATO treaty. The member states can decide to waive that rule in this case. That is much to be preferred compared to the alternative...
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  31. Putin is doing the world a great service. It is offering it the choice to either submit to corruption or to fight it. Without him, corruption would have continued to spread and rob people all over the world. God bless Ukraine!
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  32. You are on the mission of your life, son. Continue waking people up to the fact that we are at war with Russia. Those who doubt should know that Russia has for a decade been interfering with western politics. Brexit and the Trump presidency have been engineered by Putin, using social media. The republican party in the USA is being controlled by Putin. Geert Wilders who won the recent Dutch elections was helped by Putin, but thankfully the majority of our parliament is still strongly in favour of Ukraine. Rupert Murdoch and Elon Musk support Putin and daily spread Russian propaganda to a huge public. There is a war going on, and the west is losing it right now.
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  33. I always thought the Kershon front would be decisive. Go, Ukraine, go!
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  34. The Washington Post is not a reliable source with regards to the Ukraine war. They are pro-Russian, and constantly publish "news" that is biased against Ukraine.
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  35. These probes are not just to sow panic. If the Russians let the Ukrainians build and extend a bridgehead, they will infiltrate Oleshky, take roads, and then suddenly a pontoon bridge appears and an armoured brigade has crossed the Dnipro. So, it would be right for the Russians to take these reports very seriously.
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  36. Russia has a very severe case of Dutch Disease. Because it was rich from oil and gas exports, its production and farming was neglected. Now that is destroying the country.
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  37.  @alexanderhildermann9761  So, why are the prices of staples rising in Russia? Why is it so difficult for Russians to get butter or eggs? I think it is you who needs to check your knowledge. Russia still produces some things that the government prioritized, but it depends on imports for far too many things.
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  38. Thank you for your hopeful yet grounded analysis. Instead of panicking, it is time to prepare for any eventuality.
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  39. "+50" That was only a slight exaggeration. In Niger it got to +46 yesterday.
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  40. If Putin wants us to believe and trust him, he shouldn't have invaded Ukraine only a few days after categorically denying any such plans. No-one will ever believe him ever again.
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  41. ​ @mark4371  For your information, the US was not defeated in Afghanistan. A would-be dictator and friend of totalitarian regimes decided to pull out, without proper preparation. But for that, the US could have kept their presence in Afghanistan up indefinitely.
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  42. ​ @mark4371  I don't know if you know basic math, but 3.5 T$ is only 20% of the US military budget over that period. As I said, they could have maintained that indefinitely. Sure, 3.5T sounds like a Lot of Money. But the USA is MUCH bigger than that. Trump, in his first year, gave 1.9T$ to his rich mates as a present.
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  43. I really like your new hairdo. Except for the mustache. That should be longer and more curly. Cossack style. Spartacus from @TimeGhost has a nice example.
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  44. A better commander would know how to take over from Pootin. The best chance for Ukraine would be a competent leader over the military in Russia. He'd give it a few months, and then take over. And when he takes over, he'll stop this useless war immediately.
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  45. 9:30 -- For a second I thought you were saying "Of course it has flaws. It was made in Russia."
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  46. One of the differences between Russia and Western countries is that when Russia publishes the capabilities of a weapon system, they exaggerate them. But when western countries publish the capabilities of systems like Patriot, they play down the capabilities. Because then they can surprise their opponents...
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  47. The USA has for some time been robbing the poor to give to the rich. They do this in many ways. For instance, the average US city has a down-town where many poor people live in miserable conditions. Yet these people pay more taxes into the city than the city spends on them. But the rich people living in the suburbs, they pay less tax than what the city spends on them. So these cities take money from the poor to give to the rich in their suburbs.
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  48. Scholtz tried to appease the extremists in his country, probably hoping that the AfD would just go away. Turns out they don't, they are fed by Russia and will continue to grow if appeased. Hopefully, he has finally understood that this evil must be confronted head-on.
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  49.  @TheFrewah  To be fair, it landed in the middle of a field without any access roads at all. That thing is scrap metal.
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  50. I have said this a year or so ago, the only thing the West achieves by spoon-feeding their weapons is that it turns Ukraine into the most advanced practical weapons producer in the world. And the only weapons producer who builds the weapons needed by the 21st century battlefield.
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