Comments by "UzuMaki NaRuto" (@UzumakiNaruto_) on "Ukraine. Military Summary And Analysis 19.08.2022" video.

@mitchyoung93 There was that one podcast that Dima did with the Duran and Lira that their viewers considered 'too pro-Ukrainian' and since then maybe Dima has pulled back or worse become infected by the pro-Russian Duran. Personally I find Denys Davydov to be far more fair and balanced. He's Ukrainian and obviously hopes his countrymen can win, but at least he can acknowledge Ukrainian losses and retreats instead of painting a completely false picture that doesn't match the reality of what's happening on the ground in Ukraine.
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@tomk3732 Well, UA losses are between 3x to 5x as high as DPR / LPR.... so I see UA forces as cannon fodder. Russia taken losses but nothing major. If that's what you truly believe then go ahead and believe it, but it doesn't mean its accurate or is anything based on reality. I'm sure the Germans were saying the same things to themselves in WWII when they were taking heavy losses and found it near impossible to make any further large advances in the USSR. Even by absolute most conservative estimates the Russians have lost close to 1,000 tanks and over 5,200 vehicles and we clearly see the results of those losses when the Russians haven't launched any major armored attacks since they pulled back from Kiev. But hey maybe its just the Russians holding back their armored forces until they achieve a breakthrough to exploit or something. 😂🤣😅 Russia has won this war and is in full control. They can slow it down or speed it up. Ukraine is there to watch the progress they can do nothing about. They slowed it down because they have no choice but to slow it down. I really doubt Russia is in love with the idea of fighting more months or possibly even years in Ukraine if they can avoid it. The best chance the Russians had in defeating Ukraine was in the first few weeks of the war and they completely screwed that up and now they're stuck in a stalemate where they can't push forward significantly and refuse to fall back because that would be admitting defeat.
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@pite9 The idea that Russia should be able to roll over them is not realistic. Even if they fully mobilized, it would be very costly to try to advance on all fronts with very inexperienced soldiers. Russia is handling this war exactly like they should. From their perspective, this is more like USA's war in Iraq than it is like the wars Russia fought in WW1-2. Russia expecting to roll over UA forces is EXACTLY what they were looking for and assumed what would happen. They were expecting it would be 2014 Crimea all over again just on a much larger scale that would include all of Ukraine this time around. Putin was counting on some Ukrainian troops defecting and others simply refusing to fight or to quickly surrender in the face of seemingly overwhelming odds and forces against them the same way it happened in Crimea in 2014. That was likely the assumption the Russians were basing their plans on which gave them confidence to attack on 3 wide fronts with the aim of taking the entire country with relative little Ukrainian pushback. If they had known before invasion that Ukrainian resistance would be so fierce they either would significantly increased their attacking forces or else they would've scaled back their plans to more reasonable goals. Perhaps they would've simply concentrated in the Donbas/Luhansk region and put all their forces to take those areas and most likely they would've been successful with much less resistance. Instead they went for all the marbles and failed miserably and now they're stuck in massive mess where their enemy won't stop fighting and they will have to keep a large force of Russian troops for probably many years to try and keep everything they've taken even if they don't plan to advance any further. Russia's inactivity may lead to less ukrainian losses and a prolonged war, but they save their own troops too. Proportionally, it's a winning strategy for Russia, especially since manpower is their weakness. They can afford to waste artillery shells, but if they lose too many men, it will make the civilians at home unhappy and it might even force them to do a draft. The Russians have no choice but to fight a long drawn out war now because they've lost too much equipment to be able to launch mobile armored attacks like they did at the beginning of the war. As I said above they didn't expect such fierce UA resistance because if they did and could do things over again they'd probably use much more artillery and missile strikes like they're doing now to pummel UA forces before advancing their armored forces forward. That would've saved them so many unnecessary troop and vehicle losses which could be used now, but because they assumed that UA forces wouldn't put up much of a fight they probably wanted to try and minimize the damage they were doing to Ukraine since they were going to occupy it or at least put in a Russian friendly government so it was best not to wreck too much Ukrainian infrastructure at first. Now they're stuck and while the Russians probably won't lose everything they've gained, its going to be pretty difficult for them to keep all that they've taken.
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TEXOCMOTP Its even harder to take Russian sources seriously when every supply dump going up in smoke for them is 'just an accident bro'.
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@tomk3732 The war entered "Syrian" phase where Russians mostly support DPR / LPR forces. As long as progress is made, they seem happy. In otherwards the Russians have turned to using DPR/LPR as cannon fodder because they've taken so many losses of their own and can only make limited advances at best in some areas. Also it doesn't help that they keep having so called 'accidents' with their supply dumps which makes it more difficult to keep their forces going in the field on top of all the armored and other vehicle losses they've taken.
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@tomk3732 *Its not a belief - its clearly backed by facts on the ground. Russian allies are moving forward, Ukraine is sending untrained conscripts to patch holes while Russians are turning these conscripts into meat.* Please provide links to backup your claims that Ukraine is pushing untrained conscripts to the front to fight for them? I'd really like to read about it myself. So please post the links here if you have them. Also if you truly believe this is happening, then what does it say about the Russian army that they can't even beat these garbage untrained troops and make some major gains in Ukraine? Even with more equipment and supposedly better trained troops how is it possible that the Russians are still doing so poorly against inferior Ukrainian conscripts? And how many tanks Ukraine lost then??? Why is it so rare to see these tanks Ukrainians didn't have many tanks to lose to begin with before the war. They're a much smaller army with much less equipment of all kinds which is why the Russians felt they could take all of Ukraine easily and quickly. They found out this wasn't the case very early in the war and now they're paying the price. Why would fighting low intensity for Russia conflict be actually so bad? They are fighting in Ukraine, they are moving forward, their costs are minimized, winter is coming, Ukraine is devastated in like 10 different ways. Its bad because it costs tons of money and resources to keep a large army in the field and fighting. Its much cheaper to finish a war quickly and to send many of your soldiers back home than it is to keep them fighting in the field and having them spend tons of ammo and supplies. The Russians are doing it now because they have no choice. If they could they would've ended this war long ago. Again, Ukraine lost the war. They cannot take any land back. They are slowly pushed back while their country has zero investment, millions that run away and possible huge food shortages coming not counting having freezing pp in winter. Without any chance of turning this around its madness to continue. Even if it takes Russia say 2 years to reach Dnieper river they still will get there. They can just fortify and enjoy having 50% of Ukraine. What you say to that - Ukrainian victory? The Ukrainians have the will to fight and all they need is the equipment and the training to do so. As long as western countries are willing to keep Ukraine supplied and are helping them get better then they can't ever lose. Russia would have to throw much more forces into Ukraine to make major gains there, otherwise the Ukrainians can just wait until they get stronger and better trained before they launch a major offensive or if worst comes to worst they can be like the Taliban and outlast the Russians until they tire of losses and of war. Even today Russia can simply stop. They can just liberate Donbass and stop. What is Ukraine going to do? Seriously - how many years they can keep fighting without moving forward while expense for Russia is minimal? As I said above the expense for Russia IS NOT minimal as its very expensive to keep a army fighting in the field. This isn't going to turn into the Donbas fight the past 8 years where each side fires a few artillery shells against each other everyday. Its going to be continued large scale warfare until one side gives up and I really doubt the Ukrainians will give up as long as they receive support from around the world. If I were the Ukrainians I would at most only give up the Donbas and Crimea areas in negotiations for peace and have the borders return to pre-war lines. That's it. Everything else must be given back to the Ukrainians or else the war goes on forever and I don't think the Russians can last forever especially with all the tanks, armored vehicles, helicopters, fighter aircraft they've lost and all the advanced weapons they've used up like guided missiles. You can't build those things overnight and it gets even harder when the sanctions are in place that can hurt you long term.
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@pite9 The idea that Russia would attack with the intent to collapse the government, without having a plan B is crazy talk. Putin would never agree to a plan like that. Putin is an incredibly thorough and responsible person. He's not someone who wouldn't cover his flanks, especially not for something this big, which will define his legacy. If you've paid attention to his actions and politics over the last 20 years you'd know this. Well in this case he and his military staff were completely wrong. His plan was always to take all of Ukraine and getting rid of Zelensky and replacing him with a Lukashenko type of leader that would be his ally and do as he asked when needed. If he and his staff didn't grossly overestimate the ability of Russian forces and severely underestimate the Ukrainians will and ability to resist he wouldn't be stuck in this mess right now. The south did flip over to Russia. Russia destroyed Ukraine's main army during those first 2 weeks in the north. It's Ukraine's army that got crippled, not Russia's. Meanwhile they set up their positions in Donbass and encircled Mariupol. All of this happened very quickly before Ukraine got the chance to properly defend the south and Mariupol, or organize their northern forces properly. So all 3 fronts were very important and successful. The north could have went more smoothly and I'm sure they made some bad decisions along the way, but overall it wasn't a failure. The south was definitely where the Russians saw the most success and from some reports I've read it might've been helped by some Ukrainian sympathizers although who knows how many and how effective they might've been, but definitely the UA forces weren't as prepared in the south as they should've been and that's where they lost the most territory. Also even though Mariupol was a defeat and Ukraine lost some very good units in the fight, they did do their job in delaying Russians from further advancing towards Odessa and now that city is completely out of reach. The north however was a complete disaster and there's no sugar coating that one. The idea that Kiev would back down and welcome Russia, like in Crimea is crazy. You clearly have no clue about the regional politics of Ukraine and where their political and cultural loyalties lies. Crimea was a russian state within Ukraine. Everybody with a basic understanding of Ukraine knew this, and we also knew that Kiev was staunchely anti-Russia, and most definately would go to war in the event of an invasion. Who said anything about Ukrainians welcoming the invading Russians? The idea was to implement their own version of shock and awe in launching a quick attack into Kiev to either kill, capture or chase away Zelensky and his government. Imagine if that actually happened how different the war might've turned out? With Zelensky staying in the country that perhaps changed the war significantly in that Ukrainian morale and will to fight was maintained if not boosted and just as importantly if not moreso it convinced western countries that sending more military aid to Ukraine made sense rather than it being wasted. If Zelensky flees or is killed, I question that the west would be so eager to pour so many resources into helping UA forces to continue the fight. Who knows maybe even if Zelensky is removed the Ukrainian people might continue to fight, but how long can they do so if they're not supplied by the west? The point is the Russians threw a hail mary to try and make this invasion short and sweet and they failed and now they're stuck. In fact I'm sure that if Zelensky had agreed to some deal early on, the US neocons would have made sure to remove him by any means necessary, replacing him with someone who was willing to fight against Russia. Ukraine was setup to play this part. How could Ukraine 'play their part' if Russia didn't go insane and invade in the first place? No one wanted Russia to invade and yet they did it anyways and now they're paying the price. Hopefully that price will be so large that it will be many years before they can do something like this again and that you can't go rogue like this and not expect the world to react.
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@herrrmike I don't know how you can see the Russians barely crawling forward in small advances as being any but bad. If that's all they're able to do now, they're probably not going to be able to do much more in the future especially when they keep having 'accidents' within their supply lines.
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@herrrmike But I will give you an analogy. Imagine a boxing match in which one of the fighters is pounding the other one round after round. Would you say that the fighter is not winning simply because the other one has not hit the canvass? Funny you bring up this analogy. What if this is a case of Rocky vs Ivan Drago where Drago looked so powerful and strong and near invincible and after landing blow after blow against Rocky, he's still standing and won't give up and fights back harder and harder as the match goes on? In the early rounds Drago looked unbeatable and now he's locked in a slugging match that he likely can't win. That's what's happening in Ukraine right now. The only way that the Ukrainians will lose at this point is if the west stops supporting them because it certainly doesn't look like they'll lose the will to fight anytime soon. That's what's happening in Ukraine. The Ukrainians are taking shots to the body every day. They are exhausted and disoriented. And soon they will hit the mat. Well if you're right then they should be surrendering very soon right? Russia should be curb stomping the Ukrainians in the coming weeks and months correct? If they can't do that against such a weak opponent who's on the brink of collapse then what does it say about the Russian army that they can't even beat someone so weak?
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@instructionalvideos2309 Russians are having even better success demilitarizing themselves these days. 🤣😂😅🤣🤣😂
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@candykane4271 According to all pro-Russian sources the Ukrainians are just days if not a few weeks away from total collapse! 😂🤣😅😅😅
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