Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "How Satellite Images Reveal What’s Happening in Ukraine" video.

@moyu-mi No one bordering Russia can stay "neural". They regularly interfere with the democratic process in other nations and act with hostility towards neighbouring countries. Quite frankly they've been more aggressive under Putin then they where during the cold war. Violating the airspace and waters of neighbouring countries, operating spies near military bases. Given that Russia all the way back to the days of the grand duchy of muscowy has rejected the Ukrainian ethnicity, culture and language being separate from that of Muscowy, Russia, and their right to independence... It's kind of hard to be neutral to another nation rejecting your right to exist... So from another nation bordering Russia, Norway. Slava Ukraina. We can't afford to fight with you. WW3 would be even more devastating. But we're going to support you as much as we can.
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@Kimjungun266 We here in the nordics have been bordering Russia for a long time. It was possible to talk to the USSR. Putin, not so much. You can't be safe without outside allies with such agressors. Especially because Russia never recognized Ukraines right to independence or even a separate identity... They've always been trying to stamp out Ukrainian culture...
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@RichardNVang Nukes have nothing to do with this excerpt ensuring that NATO and the west isn't duking it out directly for this. Because invading Ukraine was unacceptable. Russia could perhaps have gotten away with capturing some land. But trying to invade their capital Soviet style doesn't fly these days.
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@ValerianOcean The war shouldn't ever have happened in the first place... And I'm sorry that you have to deal with it. And yeah, Ukraine has room for improvement when it comes to their political class... Ukrainian treatment of minority languages as a example is not exactly inspiring... And previous goverments have been quite corrupt... I hope that you'll have better leaders when the war is over and you're rebuilding. On the whole Zelensky doesn't seem too bad. But we hardly got a chance to see what he can do in peace time before the war. He has gained a lot of respect though and he should be able to get a lot of western resources for the rebuilding. My own countrys goverment has pledged huge sums already for both the war effort and the rebuilding, and will continue to support you for long after the war is over.
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@Viktor20689 The US wouldn't care about Russia much if Russia didn't keep acting like the US wasn't the only reason Britain and France isn't using cyrillic yet... Russia is landlocked and technologicaly behind and barely any threat at all to the US... But the US depends on trade with Europe. And we need a free environment around us. Russia suppressing other ethnic groups either inside or outside your borders just doesn't fly...
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@Odah_ I wouldn't say crumbling... But Putin definitely made life a lot harder for everyone in the world with that invasion... It disrupted world trade that was already disrupted by other recent events...
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@moyu-mi Exactly, so why is Russia provoking NATO right next to EU borders with this behavior? Russias behavior in Georgia was bad enough. And maybe they could have gotten away with Crimea. But they kept going. That's why they're facing a NATO willing to do anything to defeat them short of starting a nuclear armageddon. Russia will lose this war even if it where to take centuries. It's simply a fact. NATO can keep going. Our economies are barely hurting, but Russia definitely can't keep up.
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@helengrunow5094 May I ask what you where commenting on when you wrote that? I've written a few comments. It's hard to keep track of it all.
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@RussianNationalist Hitler literally had plans for invading Switzerland... The reason they remained independent during WW2, just like Sweden was that the major nations where too busy actually fighting a war all around them and didn't have the resources to spare to invade Switzerland and Sweden, and that doing so wouldn't have benefited said countries enough to justify pulling troops and weapons off from other fronts. If Hitler had won and been at peace he absolutely would have gobbled up Switzerland. Staying neutral only works when you can play different major powers against each other. But Russia isn't content with a neutral Ukraine. In Russian mythos Ukraine is a integral part of Russia. And Putins Russia unlike the USSR can't be trusted at all. They say one thing and do something else repeatedly. Also since Trump pulled out of the treaty allowing NATO and Warsaw pact nations to fly over each others territories and ensure that the other side isn't doing anything hostile things are even more dicey... Sweden and Finland could not trust Russia to not invade them after Georgia and Ukraine... An occasional border conflict for a big nation like Russia is understandable. But Russia under Putin is just a bully that's unwilling to accept real compromises, unwilling to hold their word and be a reliable partner. Putin is a former KGB agent and it shows... He's charming, but he's no diplomat. And doesn't see the value of actually being honorable.
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@itzrohith6257 You're dreaming mate. You should watch less TV, it's all state propaganda in Russia... Anyone actually trying to tell you the truth is unable to do so except through YouTube. But earning money through YouTube, even if it's from Russian companies (who wouldn't pay anyone critical of the government on another platform where the government might cause problems for them) forces these YouTubers to label themselves as "foreign agents" or get huge fines... Like seriously... How can you still believe anything you're told inside Russia? As for winning... There's so much corruption in Russia and Putin and his former KGB cronies has stolen so much money from the Russian society that there's barely any army, navy, air force or military industrial complex left at this point... Russia is far less capable of fighting a war then Putin had been letting on, or even less capable then he was aware of himself... Money meant to make Russia capable of standing up against NATO has been stolen. And Russia is not winning...
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@Odah_ He's uinformed. But your comment about India just isn't accurate... India matters. We here in the west need India and Indonesia as a counter to China, who unlike Russia actually is quite capable still...
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@NapoleanBlown-aparte Propaganda is being used to win the war on both sides... Even if we can see through it easily enough they're also trying to win hearts and minds at home in Russia... And anyone they can turn against Ukraine is a win for them given how much Ukraine depends on western resources in order to keep their fighting capabilities...
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@Kyr93 "Unlimited troops" Yeah, sure... As for using the nukes... Let's just say that Russia would come out worse after using them. But there would be no winners in a nuclear war. So yeah, nukes are hardly relevant to the war effort, other than ensuring that it'll stay a proxy war rather than a direct one for the time being. Those missile manufacturers are unable to produce enough to win a war. And the quality of their products is... Debatable... Russian artillery genuinely is good, but again, ammunition production capability is limited, and Russia can't rely on buying ammunition from the whole world like NATO can. We're buying a lot of ammunition from South Korea and Australia for instance. As well as ramping up our own production in places like Spain and Scandinavia I believe it was? Anyway, while Russia is capable of dragging out this conflict, Russia most definitely is not capable of winning this war. And given the invasion of Crimea, support for rebel organizations in Georgia and Ukraine as well as Russian insistence on Ukraine not having a right to independence since the days of the durchy of Muscowy... Yeah, sorry but staying neutral really wasn't a option for Ukraine...
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@Viktor20689 Okey, technically you're correct. However noticed how pretty much all of those are ice covered most of the time? Also due to lack of infrastructure most of Russia has no access to the coastlines that Russia does have. So yes, Russia has all the traits of a landlocked country except for St. Petersburg etc...
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@Viktor20689 Manoeuvrability is of limited value if you A) are shot down beyond visual range or B) don't detect where your opponent is and therefore lack situational awareness. Also, that manoev Also, the west isn't behind in manoeuvrability just because the F35 is. Because there's a lot of other western fighters then that one. The Gripen for instance is every bit as maneuverable as the SU-35S. As for ICBMs... There's more then one way of being advanced. Russia may be ahead in speed (although honestly Russias credibility when it comes to high tech is questionable as there's a big difference between a propaganda prop, a prototype and equipment that's actually deployed... As for the actual nukes... Yeah, no... Russia has really good rocket engines, that's been an area where Russia at times has been ahead on. But they're controlled by less advanced computers, produced by factories barely capable of producing them in small quantities, in companies full of bureaucracy, by engineers that for the most part is getting close to retirement age... There's some innovation there, but Russia is really held back by these structural problems... Not to mention that hoe much of this is real and how much is just faked to fool Putin into thinking that the money spent hasn't been eaten up by corruption is always a open question...
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@АлександрТитан-ж1ъ That's actually one of my subjects in uni. It's not that simple. But quite frankly, Ukraine has a better claim to the title of inheritors of the Kievan Rus then Russia does. Russia is just Muscovy and Novgorod trying to claim a inheritance that doesn't belong to them I feel. The Russians arguably aren't tru Rus, the Ukrainians are. Ukraine has the inheritance of the Rus, the Tartars and the Cossacks, always fighting for their freedom against invaders trying to destroy their culture, while Russia is the imperialist Muscovy claiming all of Slavic culture despite being the worst part of it, and all other slavs not being Russian nor wanting to be. Russia has done more harm to the Slavic peoples then good.
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