Comments by "UzuMaki NaRuto" (@UzumakiNaruto_) on "Alexander Mercouris" channel.

  1. @LevanGudadze My prediction is that Bakhmut will come under Russian control in the coming days, before February 20-21, when Russian President Putin will address the federal assembly. I noted this in my today's update, pointing out the deplorable situation of the Bakhmut garrison and the city nearby Chasov Yar. Pretty obvious that any Russian advance was going to be reported by Alexander as some massive success and was the beginning of the end for the Ukrainians. He said it himself during the Kharkiv counteroffensive that there would be back and forths between the two sides in this war and now that the Russians have seen some success at such a high cost, he's happy again without remembering that things could change in the coming months.
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  2.  @cliff311976  Whatever back and forth happens in this war, Russia is not going to be pushed back. That's what pro-Russian folks like you said before Kharkiv and Kherson offensives happened and then it went from 'Russia is not going to lose ground' to 'This is only a temporary setback for the Russians'. Lets see in the coming months as more Ukrainian troops get NATO training and equipment and then see what happens on the battlefield.
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  3. @Peter Dixon Disastrous is an apt description of the last 14 days of Ukraines failed offensive, thank you Alexander. As opposed to the super successful and very low casualty Bakhmut offensive by the Russians right? 😂🤣😅😆😅😅
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  4.  @simnobody  Against an establish battlefront running around in vehicles (armored or not) looking for openings is just makes you dead Well this has certainly been the case for the Russians so far in this war which is why all their major armored pushes early in the invasion have eventually been halted by the Ukrainians. They've lost so much armor that they were reduced to fighting WWI style with infantry heavy attacks. Its crazy to think that a modern supposedly 2nd most powerful army in the world could lose so many armored vehicles that they're no longer capable of launching large scale mobile offensives. It would be like the US Army losing so many Abrams and Bradleys that they have to dig up Vietnam era tanks to bring back to push to the front. It would be insane to see the US being reduced to doing that, but here we are seeing the Russians doing exactly that.
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  5. @clarenceedwards2866 If we do a comparative analysis between this war and the US/Iraq war, the Iraqis did not have the kind of defensive weapons that Ukraine have so that they were not able to defend their skies like Ukraine have; also they were not able to launch missiles at US bases in the region. Lets be real. No matter what weapons you gave the Iraqi army they still would've gotten curb stomped because of how poorly trained and led their troops were. In order to have an effective army you need proper equipment that's being used by well trained troops and are led by well trained commanders. Otherwise the result you get is the Russian army that's getting wrecked by an army that only has a fraction of the size and strength that the Russians do. This is also testimony to Russia's capability to fight wars against formidable enemies because they are in fact fighting the entire west through their proxy Ukraine. If the Russians were actually fighting NATO they would've gotten their heads caved in long ago. This war would've been over in a month or two at most. The fact is the Russians have been fighting a much less well equipped army who after all this time is still only receiving a very tiny percentage of modern NATO weapons and they're still fighting the Russians to a standstill. In the beginning of the war pro-Russian hacks were sure that the Russians could defeat NATO and now they've been proven to be a complete fraud of an army who's always had to rely on being larger than their enemy in order to defeat them. Now that they've met an enemy that they can't intimidate with their size and are willing to fight back, they're getting their asses handed to them.
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  6. This does come with a significant increase in weight and also makes them a much larger target. The weight increase for Bradleys is also because of increased protection for its crew and troops. Unlike the Russians, NATO countries actually CARE about the survival of their troops because they don't see them as throwaway cannon fodder. Also the lower profile of the BMP and other vehicles has done nothing from having 2,500+ of them destroyed or damaged so far during this war. A few feet in height isn't going to make much difference to a ATGM coming your way.
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  7. Russia could leave Ukrainian territory tomorrow and there would be near immediate peace. Very simple and easy.
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  8.  @chesshooligan1282  Russia isn't in Ukraine yet. Russia is in Russia. Ukraine could leave Russia tomorrow and there would be peace tomorrow. Yeah let me just come over to your home and annex a third of it and then tell you that its now mine and you have to accept it or else there won't be peace and see how you feel about it. LOL Just being Russia says a part of Ukraine is now there's doesn't make it theres'. Only MORON Putin could think that would work. Also if we're talking about returning land back to their historic owners, then why doesn't Russia give back Kaliningrad to the Germans when it they had occupied that territory for centuries and then was stolen by the Russians after WWII? Isn't it hypocritical for Russia to say Ukraine is apart of them and yet they happily still live on land that was stolen from the Germans/Prussians?
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  9. @Shares Games This war wouldn't need a resolution if idiot Russia didn't invade to begin with believing they could take over Ukraine within days or a few weeks. If they knew what they would be in for, they likely wouldn't have invaded to begin with which would be the best decision for everyone. The only real solution now for long term peace is for Ukraine to regain most if not all of its lost territory and then join NATO ASAP. Only by joining NATO can Ukraine guarantee that it won't ever be invaded again because that would bring NATO nations into the fight and that would end in a complete curb stomp of any Russian invasion. The Baltic countries are proof that NATO works and that joining them prevents Russia from threatening aggression towards them otherwise they would've been back under Russia rule a long time ago.
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  10.  @miguelestrada3157  There's a difference between preparing to encircle a place or an army and actually doing it. Russians haven't shown that they have either the forces or ability to complete such an operation.
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  11. @KANAŁ SENIORA This gives Russians a lot of logistics advantages. Their troops would have all the necessary supplies at hand. If the Russians were any good at logistics they might've taken most if not all of Ukraine in the first few months of the war rather than being pushed back over a year later. The Russians have always been mediocre to horrible at organizing their logistics and being able to keep their troops supplied and moving forward.
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  12.  @freedomofpress5605  If the Russians were great at taking out Ukrainian logistics then the majority of western supplies and heavy equipment wouldn't have reached the frontlines would it? The Ukrainians shouldn't be able to launch their offensive now if all their supply depots were going up in flames the same way that the Russians have been since last summer when HIMARS arrived. Also you keep saying that Ukraine have been feeding their troops into the meat grinder as if Russia haven't been doing the same except in far greater numbers. I don't even know why they bothered with wasting so many men and resources to take Bakhmut when the Russians could've saved those forces and put them on the defense to meet the expected Ukrainian offensive with more reserves to fight with.
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  13. Dude Russia just took a small city. Its not like they took Kiev. Cmon man have some common sense. It took the Russians a better part of a year to take this one place and you call this a major victory compared to at the beginning of the war when Russia was measuring their advances in kilometers per day? They won a pile of rubble while losing thousands of men and countless amounts of equipment. I really hope Russia will have more of these kinds of victories.
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  14.  @Humbulla93  Better to be NATO's bitch than Russia's slave like Belarus has become. Funny how so many former USSR nations feel the same way and were RUNNING TO THE WEST to join NATO/EU the first chance they got rather than stay in an alliance with Russia.
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  15. Western nations have alot of problems, but its still LIGHT YEARS better than living in the backwards shithole that is called Russia. If I could move anywhere it would be to Japan or some place else in asia.
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  16. The Russians have lost at least 2,500+ IFV/APCs to date so I don't think that lower profile is working out too well when facing modern ATGMs.
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  17.  @mikelee7318  Perhaps Ukrainian commanders believe that they're still able to cause enough damage to the Russians to make it worthwhile to take casualties continuing fighting them there? Perhaps they think that delaying them at Bakhmut is also worth the expenditure of forces as well as reasoning that if they give up the city sooner rather than later that they'll have to fight them elsewhere anyways and have more territory and cities ruined so why not try to reduce the damage to their country by fighting at Bakhmut for as long as possible? Sure the Ukrainians are taking significant casualties, but so are the Russians and their offensive is barely crawling forward right now. The Russians nearly have the Ukrainians encircled yet even after all these weeks they're unable to close the gap and complete that encirclement. As well Russian armored vehicles are getting destroyed in significant numbers in and around Bakhmut and now they can't even launch any further large scale armored offensives anymore. Could you ever imagine that the US army would be losing so many Abrams and Bradleys that they would be reduced to pulling out Vietnam era vehicles to replace those losses while having their soldiers fighting in trenches WWI style the way the Russians are doing now? I sure as hell couldn't and yet the supposed '2nd most powerful' army in the world is doing exactly that which is truly insane for them in 2023.
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  18. No one with a sound, sane mind will believe all the crap that Putin has said either.
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  19.  @brianwesley28  Why stop at only 10x? Lets just say the Ukrainians have lost 20x more men than Russia has to try and make yourself feel abit better over every single Russian defeat. I mean that's pretty much all the pro-Russian hacks have left to try and console themselves over Russian disaster after Russian disaster. The Chechen wars where the Russians got their asses handed to them by a much smaller nation with a much smaller population and army should've been a huge warning that the Russian army needed to change and get updated and yet 20+ years later they still haven't learned a thing and keep doing the same things and keep getting the same disastrous results.
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  20. @georgekostaras The future role of mercenaries in modern warfare has been vastly overestimated. As we’ve seen with Wagner they’re politically unreliable and the circumstances that made them so successful are passing Only Russia was dumb enough to give Wagner heavy weapons to allow them to have such significant combat power to even entertain the idea of turning against their own side. If Russia didn't hand them tanks, armored vehicles and other heavy weapons they wouldn't have had to consider if a mercenary group was 'politically reliable' or not.
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  21. The Russians know how to wear an average western citizen down. These back and forths seriously lose traction on Ukraine in the west. It gets harder to justify Ukraine situation when nobody cares. Sure the Russians know how to wear a westerner down, by throwing massive amounts of men and equipment at a enemy and trying to overwhelm their opponent with sheer numbers regardless of the losses they take. It worked in Chechnya but it won't work in Ukraine sadly for the Russians.
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  22. Congrats to Finland for getting final approval to joining NATO on April 4th, 2023. 😎😎😎😎😎😎
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  23. That's why Russia is stuck in WWI doctrine and will ultimately lose the war. You're trying to justify WWI tactics because back then artillery lacked precision and the only way to hit the enemy was through volume of fire. Russia is acknowledging that they haven't advanced very far from WWI when they still have to rely on volume of fire rather than accuracy. I think you don't understand how modern wars are fought when you think firing thousands of shells everyday is the way to go without thinking how much resources it takes to produce those shells and then to haul them hundreds of kilometers to the frontlines to your guns. That takes time, energy and plenty of fuel, manpower and trucks. If you can accomplish the same task of hitting your target using much fewer shells, that greatly reduces the burden on your logistical train which Russia is already having major problems with and is why the invasion in the first few weeks was such a disaster for them.
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  24. @malvolio That's part of the reason. The other part is that the Russian airforce is also a paper tiger that's incapable of gaining any kind of air dominance in Ukraine and anytime they've ventured behind Ukrainian lines to try and attack, they've taken losses from Ukrainian air defense and man portable systems. It doesn't look like the Russians have the aircraft and perhaps more importantly the missile technology that the west has to suppress air defenses that would allow them to go out and bomb the hell out of Ukrainian support and supply systems. If this was a US or NATO operation, the enemy airforce would be largely destroyed within probably the first couple of weeks and air defenses would be mostly wiped out as well and that would open the skies for NATO airforces to bomb enemy supply lines, artillery, missile systems etc. while being able to provide close air support to ground troops. That's the power of having a good airforce with modern aircraft with well trained pilots. It costs alot to build and maintain, but it can provide you with alot of firepower and flexibility in how you can attack your enemies. Fortunately for the west, Russia doesn't have an airforce that can match them.
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  25.  @alanmcbride6658  Well as we've seen so far in this war, the vast majority of supplies and equipment being sent to the Ukrainians seem to be getting through relatively unharmed. Haven't seen much of it getting destroyed before it reached the frontlines and was put into action. As far as I've seen recently, the biggest destroyer of NATO equipment like western artillery has been from loitering drones rather than from anything else.
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  26.  @ChrisCollier  Well he was a dumbass for criticising Ukraine while BEING IN UKRAINE and then when he was detained last time he didn't learn his lesson and kept going. He should've left when the war began and then be like Alexander and criticise Ukraine all he wants from a distance.
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  27.  @Seerwealth  The Russians tried that on the first day of the war and they ended up taking significant casualties. I don't think they'll try again anytime soon without air superiority which they've never had. Too dangerous these days to be flying around in helis close to enemy lines with all the air defense around.
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  28. You're kidding yourself if you actually believe Chinese armed forces will actually ever be equal to the US. They can and probably already have surpassed the Russians, but no one will ever surpass the US as long as they continue to spend so much money on defense every year.
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  29. Dude are you for real? You do understand that all the equipment that NATO has sent to Ukraine is barely scratching the surface of all the equipment that NATO countries have in their inventories right? The US alone has THOUSANDS of Abrams tanks sitting in the desert doing nothing but gathering dust waiting for a possible major future war that will likely never come. If they were serious in wanting to beat the Russians quickly they'd send hundreds of these tanks to Ukraine and allow them to really kick some ass with them. When the war ends down the road it will take the Russians far, FAR longer to recover from their equipment losses than it ever will take from NATO countries to do the same.
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  30. @redpillscholar560 And yet somehow its Russia that's still mobilizing hundreds of thousands of more men after the first 'partial mobilization' for this 'special military operation' that wasn't suppose to be so costly.
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  31.  @JQ0110  Russia can reinvade around Kharkov at will, while it cannot cross the Dnepr at will. There is no comparions at all. What is Russia going to invade with when they're using Cold War era tanks right now to replace all the armored vehicles that they've lost to date? Are they going to start using WWII vehicles or something? Or are they going to start stripping units of their vehicles from other parts of the country? Either way launching more major offensives especially armored offensives seems very unlikely for a very long time otherwise they would've done so already.
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  32. @paulmorris5166 Russia losing hundreds of square kilometers of territory and a number of towns/cities during the Ukrainian Kharkiv and Kherson offensives - 'Its nothing significant bro, just a minor setback for the Russians' Russia finally taking over Soledar and perhaps Bakhmut someday after months of fighting - 'These are massive victories that spell the beginning of the end for Ukraine bro!!' 🤣😅😆😂😁😄😅😅🤣😂
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  33.  @ThillerKillerX  Honestly if Russia would have done a shock and awe, this would have been over already. The Russians DID try the shock and awe except it was the ghetto discount version and not the US version. Without tons of very accurate precision guided weapons and overwhelming air superiority, the Russians could never hope to launch a shock and awe campaign that is anything as massive and effective as the US could.
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  34.  @OzzyBloke  Do you have an actual trustworthy source that you can link me to that shows this to be true or is this just another 'trust me bro' claim?
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  35.  @MegaCavatina  Putin isn't laughing now. Wagner group moving in the wrong direction and now he and the Russians have to deal with it.
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  36. USA's time at the top won't be over for a very long time. They just might have to share it with China as a 1A and 1B. Russia as a major power on the otherhand was over probably back in the 1980s and the breakup of the Soviet Union was the final nail in their coffin as being a major power in the world rather than a regional power that's only strong enough to bully nations that are far smaller than they are.
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  37. Its OK. If the Ukrainians start making deep advances, just like last time Alexander will say the Russians are luring them into a trap before they'll launch a fierce counterattack that will devastate the advancing Ukrainians.
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  38. So you're saying the tons and tons of munitions already fired and all the burnt out wrecks of thousands of vehicles haven't already polluted the earth in Ukraine? OK. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
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  39.  @SupernaturalPowerz  why didn't they destroy Ukraines power grid from the start? Probably because they expected the Ukrainians to collapse quickly and hence why destroy infrastructure that you're going to take over? Now when its clear the Russians aren't going to advance much anymore and that if they can even hold all that they've gained they'd be lucky, then they don't care if they start destroying Ukrainian infrastructure.
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  40.  @harryflashman4542  Russia is not concerned with daily optics in the news but the real lives of civilians and soldiers. HAHAHAHHAHHAAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!! 🤣😂😅😆😂🤣 If the Russians actually cared about civilians they wouldn't be bombing them now and if they actually cared about their own troops they wouldn't be wasting them so carelessly on the frontlines. There's already some of the recently mobilized troops on the frontlines in Ukraine right now just a few weeks after being called up which means they've had little if any training. So much for 'caring' about their soldiers when they're already throwing some to the wolves.
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  41.  @SupernaturalPowerz  Advance to where? Thought they've already annexed their regions, who said anything about going deeper into Ukraine? Russians have annexed what they've annexed because they've admitted defeat that they can't annex anymore. If the invasion went according to Russian plans they would've annexed the entire Ukraine and taken it over and installed a Lukashenko type of leader to run things and be their lackey. Unfortunately they failed spectacularly in that objective and then they failed to keep everything they've taken and as a last resort they 'annexed' the territory that they did in the hopes of keeping what they've taken and even that isn't working out when the Ukrainians have taken a decent chunk of those annexed territory back and are looking to take more back. It will be interesting to see how the Russians will spin things when Kherson city eventually falls back into Ukrainian hands again and they've lost a major city within their newly annexed territories.
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  42.  @harryflashman4542  oh you really believe that it's Russia's goal to blow up kindergartens and playgrounds. That is just propaganda. Russia is hitting substations in civilian areas. Whether you believe the Russians are doing it on purpose or not, its clear that they've been hitting civilian targets with their missiles since the beginning of the war. If you really believe all these missile attacks where many of them are hitting civilian areas are 'accidents' then it just shows how really inferior Russian technology is that they can't hit their intended real targets rather than killing innocent people. And this doesn't even include all the video of Russians killing civilians in cold blood by shooting them dead up close and personal. Like just a month ago there was a video that was released that showed Russians in the first few days of the war sitting by a roadway at an objective and they were shooting up every vehicle that they saw coming down the road towards them and all of them were civilian cars. They simply opened up on any car that drove by near them without any care in the world as to whether they were military or civilian. So don't tell me that at least some Russian troops haven't purposely shot and killed civilians in this war. As for troops, they are ex-military, reservists, they are already trained. For that matter there is not a lot of contact between Russian troops and Ukronazis, they are just killing them with artillery. Maybe some troops that the Russians have mobilized are reservists with some training, but clearly there's a sizable portion that have been called up or forced to join that AREN'T reservists and are raw recruits with little to no training and have been poorly equipped with weapons and supplies. This proof comes from the Russian recruits themselves that have posted numerous videos complaining about their conditions and how they've been treated by the Russian authorities since they've been called up. The American's nuked Japan twice just to prove they could. But they had been fire-bombing cities for a long time before. Millions of civilians burnt to death. The west has no moral ground to stand on when it comes to civilian casualties. What war has the west fought in recent history when civilians have not been targeted. Are you really trying to compare a WORLD WAR to a war between two countries? OK. LOL. Also its funny how you mentioned the Americans bombing and nuking the Japanese but conveniently leaving out the countless MILLIONS of Chinese people as well as millions of other asians around Southeast Asia that the Japanese murdered and many more that they used as slaves or when it came to women as sex slaves. Yes leave out all those millions that the Japanese killed and abused and enslaved so that you can try and say the Americans are the evil ones for nuking the Japanese. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 Seriously you need to read up on all the Japanese atrocities that they committed during WWII and realize that the Japanese getting nuked was being kind to them compared to all the horrors that they inflicted on much of Asia during the war. The Rape of Nanking ALONE killed more Chinese civilians than both Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs COMBINED.
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  43.  @harryflashman4542  I'm of the view that it is the Ukrainian missile defense system which is either hitting civilians or causing Russian munitions to fall on non-military targets. Frankly I don't believe that Russians have any interest in wasting munitions on non-strategic targets. Of course you would say that. I think people like you, Alexander and the Duran don't really care to find out the facts and if they point towards the Russians doing something wrong that you would have the courage to acknowledge it. Instead you'll find any and every excuse to either justify or excuse Russian actions no matter what they do because they're 'your side' that you support. I really don't believe anything they post as their strategic goal is using the media to draw the world into this war. More money, more weapons, troops, NATO strikes on Russia. Imagine a nation that's being massively invaded by its neighbor asking for help to defend itself? Oh my God HOW EVIL OF THEM! How could the Ukrainians even think of defending themselves!! 😯😯😯😯😯😯 They should just pull an Afghanistan and lay down without a fight and give their entire country over to the Russians for them to run. 🙄🙄🙄 As to Japan, the civilians in Japan did not have a role in killing civilians overseas. That is akin to killing people merely because they share the same nationality as the perpetrator of a crime. Genocide. If that's your argument then why aren't you condemning the Japanese army for murdering millions of Chinese civilians in retribution of Chinese troops killing Japanese soldiers? The Japanese command turned a blind eye and didn't stop their troops from raping, looting and murdering Chinese civilians as they kept advancing and Nanking was one of the worst examples of that when they unleashed a level of violence and carnage on the Chinese that was so horrible that it can never be forgotten. And the funny thing is that one of the few people who tried to stop this massacre was a German Nazi Party member and businessman by the name of John Rabe who established a safe zone for Chinese civilians to escape to and used his Nazi Part membership to try and influence the Japanese to stop what they were doing. He also documented the Nanking massacre in detail along with photos and film and later when he returned to Germany he tried to write to Hitler to tell him about the atrocities and to ask him to contact the Japanese to get them to stop the violence. Of course he was unsuccessful and he was the one to get in trouble with German authorities for trying to do the right thing. And the Japanese of course never stopped what they were doing until the Americans defeated them. If you want to say Japanese civilians didn't deserve getting killed, then what about the millions of asians killed by the Japanese military before and during WWII? Did they deserve it? This is a case of reaping what you sowed and the Japanese in WWII certainly deserved to reap what they sowed.
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  44.  @danijelagrujic823  Because its good to get information from various sources even if you don't agree with everything everyone says. If you want to avoid living in an echo chamber and care more about facts than simply cheering for your side then I'd say its good to listen to opposing opinions and debating them if you want than just hearing all the real or fake good news that your side is winning. What's the point in that when inevitably that house of cards will fall. Alexander is trying his best to cover for the Russians, but its getting increasingly hard for him to do so when the Russians keep getting pushed back on the battlefield and he has to keep coming up with new excuses as to why they're losing so badly when they're suppose to be the superior force in this war.
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  45.  @limedickandrew6016  Regardless of the type of tanks the Iraqis had during the Gulf wars, its pretty clear that they were nothing but cannon fodder for the Allied armored forces. The Russians have already lost a large portion of their newer tanks and its going to be interesting to see how many even remotely modern tanks they're going to have left to bring to the fight in the coming months and how many even half decently trained crews they'll have to run them. If the Russians hadn't completely messed things up so badly in the opening few weeks of the war, they'd be much better off now than they currently are. Luckily for the Ukrainians the level of Russian incompetence was off the charts and now they're fighting at a huge disadvantage in modern equipment and in experienced men.
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  46. If the Russians use nukes it would show how truly weak their armed forces are that they have to resort to using the ultimate mass destruction weapons to try and get their way.
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  47. Good job on the Russians for taking three quarters of the ENTIRE WAR to take a small town and its surrounding area that has relatively little strategic value. It was funny as hell to see Alexander minimizing the Kherson and Kharkiv offensives where the Ukrainians took back significant amounts of territory and many towns and a major city over several months and see him saying it was no big deal and then now see him jizzing all over himself that Bakhmut is almost taken as if that means anything.
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  48. Well the flow is going Ukraine's way and in many places Russia isn't pushing back much and that flow is slowing becoming a flood. Could anyone have seen the Ukrainians moving close towards Kherson city even a week ago? And yet here they are doing just that.
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  49.  @tds187  Russia has been patient. But mobilisation is deep in force. And any gains Ukraine has made in the past month will be quickly recovered by Russia. How does it make sense to not try and stop the bleeding now instead of losing more territory that you will have a hard time getting back? Also what about the Russians already there? Are they going to be simply sacrificed for nothing? And Russia is about ready to step up in the next phase in these newly Russian territories. What next phase? Sending poorly trained and equipped troops to the frontlines to take a bullet?
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  50.  @tds187  Russia has no urgency because time is irrelevant. Russia can manage this conflict as long as it needs. And as cold weather comes, Russia is fully armed and clothed and prepared. Ukraine is not. So Russia has no need for urgency. Russia doesn't seem to be training their new recruits much before sending them to Ukraine and even if they are I doubt it will be better than the training that the Ukrainian troops are now getting from NATO instructors. In the long run Ukraine will get ever increasingly better trained and armed soldiers while Russia will likely be throwing worse and less trained troops in more and more. Also I don't know why the Ukrainians wouldn't be able to fight in the cold when they share the same climate as Russia does.
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