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

  1.  @tds187  the difference is in Russia there is a compulsory period of military service after high school. Where those in Ukraine that were mobilised was simply putting a gun in the hand of a civilian and sending them off. Maybe at the beginning of the war when Ukraine was desperate they were giving guns out to anyone who wanted to fight, but ever since then as the war has gone on that hasn't been the case. I've watched alot of combat footage and most Ukrainian troops I've seen in the last couple of months are pretty well armed and equipped and when it comes to their training well the proof is on the battlefield. If the current units of Ukrainian soldiers were poorly trained I doubt they would've been able to make all the progress in that they have in the past few weeks. Contrast that to the slow crawl forward by Donbas forces the past few months. Some get trained by NATO. But vs Russia, historically one of if not THE best of land militaries, 3-4 weeks training is useless when all of Russias mobilised have minimum a year experience and generally far longer. Russia has NEVER been a great land military at least not in the last 100 years. They survive and win because of their numbers, because of production and because of the size of their country. Put Russia's entire population in WWII into western Europe and they would've suffered the same fate as the French and have surrendered in a few short weeks. The fact is the Russians were lucky that they live in a country that is so huge as to be impossible to be completely conquered and its saved their bacon a number of times. As for training, I'll take NATO training over whatever crap training system the Russians have anytime. Again the results on the battlefield speak for themselves where the Ukrainians fighting well and are able to be flexible and to act quickly according to the change circumstances on the ground. The Russians have yet to show they can do the same outside of maybe a few units which is why their attacks are so simple and their defense is so weak now that they're getting pushed. We'll see in the coming weeks and months if all these new recruits will be any better but it seems doubtful. On the otherhand NATO is ramping up the number of Ukrainians who are getting trained and equipped by them and I'll put money on them performing better than the Russians on the battlefield anyday.
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  2. If Putin was 'brilliant' he wouldn't have invaded Ukraine especially with the state of the Russian armed forces its currently in.
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  3. Well according to reports, Europe largely has enough supplies to last the winter already. Far more people will likely die to the heatwaves in the summer and the lack of air conditioning than they will to winter weather.
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  4. @adinahaun6001 So you don't even want to mention the tens of thousands of killed that Russia has already suffered and will continue to suffer against a much weaker Ukrainian army that has only received a fraction of western military hardware that they have available for war? One can only imagine what the full might of NATO forces would look like when so little modern equipment given to the Ukrainians can already do so much damage to the Russians.
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  5.  @williamtell6750  This is the strongest army in Europe and has been built up over more than 8 years with finance and advice from the West. For most of 2022, the Russian (allied) forces were outnumbered. ARE YOU ON CRACK?!?!! 'Strongest army in Europe'?!?!?!! LOL. The Ukrainian army in 2022 is just a smaller version of the Russian army except with some of its troops being NATO trained and some with combat experience from fighting the past 8 years in the Donbas. I don't consider any army to be 'the strongest in Europe' when: - it has an outdated and weak airforce - most of its armored vehicles are from the Soviet area that would get demolished by western armies - still have a large portion of its soldiers not be well trained, well led and well equipped - have to rely on outside sources for much of its ammunition and supply needs - rely mostly on western intelligence to be their eyes and ears to know what the Russians are doing because those kinds of resources themselves Pretty much the Ukrainians have the same advantages that the Russians do that prevents most countries from messing with them. Namely lots of manpower, lots of old but still useful equipment and a good sized country where you can trade territory for time as it did during this war. I just find it funny how all the Russian nuthuggers just a few months ago were saying the Ukrainians were weak and overmatched and that it was only a matter of time when they would be defeated and now some like you make them out to be 'the strongest army in Europe'. 😂🤣😅🤣😂🤣 The truth is that we all know that on its own Ukraine would've been defeated most likely within a few weeks of the invasion starting no matter how brave the Ukrainians were and how hard they fought because no matter what you can't fight without weapons, ammo and supplies and with the way the Ukrainians were going through their ammo supplies they would've very quickly ran out and that would have been that. Western support has helped Ukraine survive and keep fighting for this long and if someday the war ends and Ukraine is able to retrain and rearm its armed forces up to NATO standards ONLY THEN it may become Europe's most powerful army.
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  6.  @williamtell6750  The full Russian army is stronger than who? Certainly not NATO of course never the US who would've curb stomped the Russian forces into the ground long ago.
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  7. If the Russians do not fully occupy Ukraine right up to the Polish border, the US will rearm and retrain another powerful army to attack Russia again. Too bad for Russia that will NEVER HAPPEN and if they can even keep what they've taken so far they would count it as a major victory let alone trying to take and occupy more territory.
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  8. @Paul Kirby What peace agreement? The same kind that Russia will break yet again sometime down the road? Only path to permanent peace is ejecting Russia from Ukrainian borders and having them join NATO ASAP. Just see how effective that was for the Baltic countries and how they're still free today rather then having them falling back under the boot of Russian rule. NATO works and its why Russia doesn't want anyone else joining it.
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  9.  @harryflashman4542  The Ukraine government and oligarch class have stolen the wealth, now they're killing the men. That's not a recipe for success. Well if the current leadership can change and clean things up in their country then they have a good chance at becoming something something better than they previously were. Not every country has to remain an eternal backwater craphole like Russia. All it takes is to have good leaders who want to do what's best for their nation and their people and for the population to be willing to work together towards that goal to build a better country. Just look at China where under the leadership of Mao it was a complete disaster of a country that was far behind the west in development. Then when Mao died and he was replaced with Deng Xiaoping and his government, everything changed and he laid the foundation for the massive turn around of China being a largely poor and underdeveloped nation to becoming the second most strongest economy on the planet in just a half century or so. The point is things can change for the better if you have the right people in charge and a population that's willing to work hard to collectively improve their country. Ukraine has its problems, but maybe this war when it finally ends will be a sort of a new beginning for them when they start rebuilding their country and who knows, perhaps they can come back stronger than they previously were. All that is in the future though because the first order of business is to get rid of the Russians first.
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  10.  @harryflashman4542  If you say so. I think the Ukrainians can comeback and become a stronger people and build a better nation at the end of the war. They don't have to be a backwater shithole of a nation like Russia forever.
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  11. @Alex D According to latest reports if they're to be believed in some areas in and around Bakhmut the Russians are putting up little to no fight before falling back. That would be pretty insane to fight so hard to gain so little ground and then start giving it up so easily the moment your enemy starts coming forward.
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  12.  @louise_rose  I remember back in the day the Germans controlled like 90% of Stalingrad and had declared that they had the city under their control. Gee I wonder how that turn out? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
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  13.  @nvmffs  If Russia is ending the war at the same speed that they've almost taken Bakhmut, then we'll be here for years.
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  14. Alexander and the Duran has to be receiving Russian money to want to keep doing what they're doing. All of it is pretty useless other than giving pro-Russian supporters some false hope that they'll somehow prevail against Ukraine when that won't ever happen as long as the west supports them.
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  15. If Russian tanks don't sink then why did they get bogged down in the first weeks of the war and were forced to stick to the roads where the Ukrainians were taking them out like ducks in a barrel?
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  16. I wonder how will the Western media spin it when (not if) the Russians achieve the objective and total victory of their 'special operation'? Ukraine is clearly running out of men and options, at this rate the Russians will achieve their objectives before the Autumn. The Russians failed long ago in their 'total victory' objectives which was taking the entirety of Ukraine and turning it into another Belarus. Also if you truly believe that Ukraine is running out of men and resources then why aren't the Russian advances as fast and large as they were at the beginning of the war? According to you the Ukrainians should be on their last legs. Why not launch a truly large offensive and really break the Ukrainian army?
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  17. And yet even the 'woke' US armed forces of today could still easily kick the asses of the Russian forces without ever breaking a sweat. Without their nukes, no one in the west would ever take the Russians seriously as a threat anymore.
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  18.  @spartan2188  We also shouldn't forget that the majority of people living in Donetsk and Luhansk DID NOT WANT TO BREAK AWAY FROM UKRAINE and that they only wanted more autonomy WHILE REMAINING in Ukraine. It was the Russians who backed a relative small group of militia to rise up to fight and try and breakaway from Ukraine that started everything.
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  19.  @xana7196  to be precise we only wanted an autonomy because when the coup happened they started threatening Donbass. Can you show me proof that the Ukrainian government started threatening people in the Donbas? Please post the links here if you can because I'm genuinely interested. Also everything I've read so far indicated that the Donbas people wanted more autonomy while STILL REMAINING in Ukraine. Very few people in the Donbas actually wanted to separate from Ukraine and become completely independent and/or wanted to join Russia.
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  20.  @spartan2188  Who attacked first, the milita or the Ukrainans? I'm assuming this is in 2014, when it all started. Russia attacked first when it took over Crimea by sending in their forces and then they thought they could do the same in the Donbas and then in 2022 they thought they could do the same yet again with all of Ukraine. Seriously if Russia had scaled back their plans to be more realistic and simply invaded and took over the entire Donbas region as many people believed they might do, they probably would've gotten away with it and wouldn't be stuck in a long term war where they're now taking huge losses in men and equipment as well as taking a hit politically and economically. It would've been much more difficult for Ukraine to fight back against a large concentrated Russian army streaming into the Donbas and who knows if the west would've reacted so quickly and united to give Ukraine the supplies and weapons it needed to fight back against the Russians. Now their best bet is to hang onto what gains they've made and hope that global support for the Ukrainians to continue the war eventually dies down. The Russians can't do much more than that without taking even more losses for relative little further gain.
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  21.  @makafuistonenyabada373  What RUSSIA is doing with the SMO is to collapse the entirety of Ukraine as a military force and render it very unattractive for the COLLECTIVE WEST to want to invest militarily there. You do realize that this is coming at a MASSIVE COST to the Russian army as well right? They're taking many more casualties and equipment losses than Ukraine is so how is this going to work in the long run when the Russians are grinding themselves down at a faster rate than they're doing to their enemy? I mean they're digging up T-55 tanks that are actual museum pieces to take to Ukraine to replace their losses. I thought it was crazy when they were taking out T-62s and T-64s to use and now they're bring out EVEN OLDER tanks?? And you would have me believe that the war is going well for them and they're on the brink of victory? Cmon now. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 At the rate they're going, there's a decent chance that the Russian forces themselves will collapse well before Ukraine does especially if the west actually decided to drop the gloves for real and send large amounts of modern heavy weapons for Ukraine to use. Its pretty insane to think that the west sending in modest amounts of modern equipment to Ukraine is already enough to fight the Russians to a standstill and how much actual combat power they have yet to give that would completely annihilate the Russians in short order if they actually got serious about helping the Ukrainians.
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  22.  @xana7196  yes, you are right stating that we wanted an autonomy as a part of Ukraine. But those nearly 9 years of the civil war have been mind changing. It's now impossible to return. Or we are free or dead. Very few people here want back to the Ukrainian deadly hugs If the Russians didn't interfere in Ukrainian affairs the Donbas conflict probably wouldn't have gotten to this point of full out war. The Donbas militia uprising would've been crushed and hopefully Kiev and the people in the Donbas could've sat together and come up with a more peaceful solution than further fighting. Also with regards to Crimea you do realize that the Crimean Tatars lived in Crimea LONG BEFORE the Russians were there and then over time the Russians preceded to purge and deport them out of the region so that only a relative few remained living there present day. So Crimea isn't really Russia's. They just got rid of the original inhabitants, put Russians in there and claimed the land as their own over time.
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  23.  @xana7196  Since Ukraine split up with the USSR it was planned to become an Anti-Russia. There was a huge under surface job done by the common West and their Ukrainian puppets to fulfill it. So their favourite tactic, divide and conquer, had been already applied on the Ukrainian society. Did you ever wonder why the USSR fell apart in the first place and why when it did many former nations who were apart of the USSR IMMEDIATELY wanted to join NATO and the EU instead of sticking with Russia? It couldn't possibly be that Russia treated those countries like complete crap with little regard in helping them improve their standards of living or the lives of all those people under them could it? It couldn't be that they were tired of being constantly bullied and brutalized by the Russians could it? 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 Maybe this is less about the west trying to divide and conquer and more about Russia doing a piss poor job of managing the USSR to the point that everyone wanted out and they only stayed because they were forced to. If nations were happy with being under the control of the Russians, they wouldn't have run away at the first chance they got to the supposed 'enemy' who they looked to for protection and more prosperity for their people. Seriously how bad do you really have to be that even the very pro-Russian people living in the Donbas had little desire to become apart of your nation? 'We like you alot Russia, but hell if we want to break away from Ukraine to join you'. Perhaps Russia should stop blaming others for their problems of which many they have created for themselves with their shitty ass government and leaders managing things so poorly. Imagine if Russia had its own version of Deng Xiaoping that created the foundation to help China become the economic power that it is today? How different would things be if Russia had a leader like that running their country and managing things properly? China got lucky that it got Xiaoping after the disastrous Mao and Russia got unlucky that it had a never ending line of incompetent/corrupt/inept leaders for much of its history. This is why China is where it is today and Russia is where it is today.
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  24. If you TRULY CARED about 'balanced reporting' then you wouldn't be watching Alexander and the Duran for your information.
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  25. This war is more unwinnable by Russia than it is for Ukraine. The Russians aren't likely going to be making many more major gains in their offensives in Ukraine while the Ukrainians will fight as long as it takes to get the Russians off most of their land.
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  26. 2,500+ lost armored IFVs/AFVs later and I don't think the lower profile of Russian vehicles are making much of a difference to the ATGMs that are taking them out.
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  27. What tempo? The Russians are pretty much throwing masses of men and equipment at the enemy to make any kind of advances. That's not tempo, that's simple brute force because they don't know how to fight any smarter in a manner that would save more of their troops and equipment for future battles. I'm glad the Russians are that stupid and hope they keep doing it for the modest gains they get from it.
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  28.  @maddmike8516  The Russians are following a simple path of movement to contact then instead of rushing in they drop back and call artillery. Then they will move forward again until more resistance then they drop back call artillery again. Repeat. It’s simple. Slow. But reduces casualties. Dude ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?!? Tell me ONE SINGLE modern, well trained, well equipped army in the entire world that would ever CHOOSE to fight the same way that the Russians are doing now because its supposedly the best way to do so? Do you really think that if the US Army were fighting in Ukraine right now that they would be employing the same tactics that the Russians are now because its the best way to reduce casualties? Do you really believe that? Cmon now. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 . The Russians are launching infantry heavy attacks because they've lost too many armored vehicles to be able to launch any large scale armored offensives. Seriously ever since the retreat from the Kiev front, when was the last time you saw the Russians launch large armored attacks with hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles the same as they did at the beginning of the war? How about NEVER. Not during the Donbas offensive and certainly not during the months of fighting in and around Bakhmut. Could you ever imagine the Americans fighting the same way? Not using all their Abrams and Bradleys or airforce and launching infantry attacks that are only mostly supported by artillery and ground launched missiles? You would say the Americans are insane for trying that and yet here we're seeing the Russians doing exactly that and you say its 'good tactics' rather than them having no other methods of attacking? Ok there. 🤣😅😂🤣😅😆
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  29.  @KingOhmni  Believe it or not but directionless men can find themselves during times of war. More so if they already co,e from broken backgrounds or are prone to violence. How can they 'find themselves' when so many of them have been wiped out at the front being thrown to the wolves? Dead men can't find themselves.
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  30. @CochinKerala Russia at the beginning of the war - Counting advances by the number of kilometers forward per day. Russia currently in 2023 - Counting advances by each town taken after many weeks of heavy fighting But hey Russia is winning right?
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  31.  @halilzelenka5813  Alexander has filmed alot of videos where he's been proven wrong. Its mind boggling that anyone would still take him or anyone at the Duran seriously when they've been constantly wrong with almost every military prediction they've made.
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  32.  @halilzelenka5813  he’s also been right about things. Like the resignation of Truss and her chancellor of the exchequer, including the timeline of resignation as well as the order in which they resigned. Even a broken clock can be right twice a day, but mostly when I talk about how wrong Alexander has been I'm mainly referring to his military opinions on the war in Ukraine where he's been almost completely wrong every step of the way. If you look back at all his videos here or on the Duran channel and look at his opinions and predictions that he made in the early months of the war and then see how things actually turned out, he's been wrong almost every single time. From the very beginning of the war until present day, I can't remember very many predictions that he's made concerning the war and the Russian and Ukrainian military that have ever been correct. The reason for this is because no matter what has actually happened in real life, Alexander still believes that the Russian military is strong, is competent and has capabilities that it clearly doesn't have. The Chechen wars exposed how poorly led and trained the Russian forces were and the Ukrainian war now shows completely that Russian forces is 100% a 2nd rate military that even after all this time still relies more on sheer numbers to overwhelm their enemies rather than improving the quality of their army to be more effective with smaller numbers like most western armies have. The bottom line is Alexander is 100% a Russian shill that refuses to acknowledge reality when it comes to the utter piss poor performance of the Russian army in Ukraine. No matter how big the disaster is, he'll find a way to put a positive spin on it to lessen the blow and criticism towards the Russia military and Putin.
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  33.  @halilzelenka5813  keep in mind that the Russians withdrew from Kherson, preserving their manpower. It wasn’t a complete debacle. The troops were not stranded on the west side of the Dniepr. You're pretty much using the line that Alexander will use when talking about yet another major Russian retreat in his next video. This is the only silver lining out of an otherwise major defeat. For how long did Alexander and many other pro-Russian folks keep saying that the Kherson offensive was going nowhere and that Kherson city wasn't going to fall anytime soon and yet with proper planning and a healthy dose of MLRS systems that destroyed so many supply dumps and continued to disrupt Russian supply lines that finally they made the smart decision to fall back across the river rather than fight a losing battle that would've resulted in high casualties. Who would've thought that back in September that Kherson would return into the hands of the Ukrainians and yet here we are witnessing just that even as Putin had just annexed this region a few short weeks ago. Also this is more confirmation that the Russians have definitely taken high casualties during this war that they would throw in poorly trained and equipped troops into the fight. The Ukrainians on the otherhand are increasingly becoming the opposite where they're able to send their new recruits to western countries to be trained by NATO instructors and be properly equipped by them. With troop quality going in favor of Ukraine more and more over time, its going to be difficult for the Russians to stop them unless they themselves start training and equipping their own troops better.
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  34.  @halilzelenka5813  what happened in Mariupol? Ukraine refused to withdraw and their forces were encircled. That was the decision of the Ukrainian forces there to defend to the end when the better choice would've been to fall back. The only good to come from that was that it tied up and killed alot of Russian forces for a couple of months that could've been used to push further west on the southern front. What happened in Severodonetsk and Lysichansk? Ukraine refused to withdraw troops that were in a hopeless situation. These troops were then encircled and destroyed or captured. This didn't happen at all. Most of the Ukrainian forces in the Lysychansk salient escaped because the Russians didn't have the armored forces to close a 10km gap to complete the encirclement. I was watching that area closely during that time and the Russians had lost so many armored vehicles by then that they didn't even have the forces to close that relatively small gap. Who has more artillery capacity? Russia. How are most people killed in this, and any modern, war? Artillery. Having more artillery pieces isn't as important if 1) your artillery fire is largely inaccurate and requires a ton of shells to complete a mission and 2) having more artillery pieces means you need more logistics to keep them supplied with shells and spare parts to keep them running. That is a HUGE downside when your logistics are already poor to begin with and you're already having major difficulties keeping your army supplied in the field. Compare that to Ukrainian artillery when it started receiving more western artillery pieces and SPGs. Much more accurate fire which means less shells needed to accomplish a mission which also means less logistics required to keep them in service and firing. Especially recently when the Ukrainians have been receiving the Excalibur shell from the US and now they're able to hit targets with amazing accuracy. And this doesn't even include HIMARS/M270 MLRS systems that can hit targets with pinpoint accuracy up to 80kms away. You don't need a huge volume of fire when you have a HIMARS rocket acting like a sniper bullet hitting your target from dozens of kilometers away. But keep telling yourself that the casualty ratio is heavily in Ukraine’s favour. Unlike you, Alexander and all the other pro-Russian hacks who choose to live in fantasyland, I do my own research and follow the facts. If we're excluding civilian Ukrainian casualties and are only talking about military losses then the Russians have absolutely taken more casualties. Imagine at the beginning of the invasion you're able to launch multiple major armored attacks into Ukraine and now barely 9 months later you're barely able to launch even a few moderately large mostly infantry heavy assaults against your enemy and you're using mostly Cold War era vehicles and you're telling me that the Russians haven't taken huge losses? Cmon now. The facts speak for themselves and its reflected on the battlefield. Take off your pro-Russian hat and look at what's actually happening on the ground for a change.
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  35.  @davidmorris6226  *it will make gains. It’s sustaining the gains that’s an issue. Russia has more men to throw in this fire than Ukraine, which after Russia’s invasion has a population of like 20 million people.* Just because Russia has more actual men to throw at a fight doesn't mean they'll all go willingly especially if they keep getting thrown to the wolves with poor training and equipment. Also even if Russia has the manpower, they can't simply pull tanks and other armored vehicles out of thin air to replace all their massive losses. They're currently using their stock of 60s tanks and are dipping into their 50s era tanks. What are they going to do when they start running low on those?
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  36.  @brewsterly2927  Russia has (now) the most highly trained and combat hardened force in the world! HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAA!!! 😆😅🤣😂🙂😂🤣😅 Hey man whatever you're smoking, I want some too because its giving you some amazing fantasies. Seriously if that's truly what you believe then Russia should be smashing the Ukrainians with their superiorly trained men instead of taking heavy losses as they've been doing for months now fighting at Bakhmut and elsewhere. For real you haven't been following the war much and watching all the videos of the battlefield if you really believe that the Russian army is 'the most highly trained and combat force in the world'.
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  37.  @RR-qq3jo  You're right. Ukrainians should've just let Putin and the Russians take their country and do with it what it wanted just to save themselves from all the pain and suffering. I wonder if someday someone should break into your home if you'll let the robber take anything they wanted and maybe let them live there too if they wanted? Forget resisting. Just give them whatever they want right? 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
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  38. @R H While the North Atlantic alliance continued to expand despite Russia protests and concerns. Maybe if the Russians weren't such tyrants and bullies to the nations under their control for so long, they wouldn't be running to the west at the first chance they got to join them. Maybe if the Russians brought any kind of prosperity to these countries instead of sucking them dry, some or all would still hang around. Russia reserves the right to use nuclear weapons They reserve the right to use nuclear weapons because we've seen how utterly weak and laughable his conventional forces have been in Ukraine and hence has to resort to threatening to use weapons that could end the world to have anyone take them seriously anymore. The Russians know that without nukes the west would not be afraid of them. If they didn't invade Ukraine they probably could've maintained the charade of having a powerful army for a little longer.
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  39. How can you call it an 'achievement' when it took so many thousands of casualties, countless amounts of equipment lost and resources used to take one small city? I'm sure if the Ukrainians wanted to be so wasteful and not care about losses they could just counterattack around the flanks of Bakhmut and eventually take it back. They're smarter than that though and any attack they'll launch in the future won't be nearly as costly and wasteful.
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  40.  @paulmorris5166  Seems like everything Putin does and says is 'brilliant' to all the pro-Russian hacks.
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  41.  Bora Bora  *But when Russia try to protect million of their people on their door steps You collective West call Russia Invaders occupiers unjust etc.* Protect those people from what? Knowing what a better standard of living looks like? More like the Russians are trying to prevent people from knowing how much better things are when you're not living under the boot of Russian influence and control.
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  42. @andresarmento7227 Lightly armored vehicles is also the reason why the Russians have lost like 2,500+ of them to date if not more. I guess when you care more about the speed of advancement during an attack rather than the protection of your troops and crews then it makes sense to prioritize mobility over protection. Lets just put it this way. Given the choice you would NEVER EVER choose to be inside a Russian tank or IFV over a western one if you value surviving an attack.
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  43. @user-gy9qs7nd4q Russia has decided that it will not put time constraints on its operations,in other words military objectives will take as long as needed. This Russian invasion DID have time constraints in that they wanted to overwhelm and take Ukraine within a few weeks at most. When that didn't happen that was when they threw the timeline for victory out the window and settled in for a longer fight. Military success is the benchmark that is guiding them hence the tactical withdrawals we have observed. The fact is that the Russians will be lucky to hold all that they've taken so far during this war. If they're able to keep what territory they've gain now, it would be considered a major victory for them. Who knows if that can do that though as they're increasingly scraping the bottom of the barrel in men and equipment that they can throw into the fight.
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  44.  @dantheman9228  really so two military police units have tanks and artillery and travel with huge ammo supplies yea right and besides nobody chased them out in a fight they just packed up and left. There's at least several videos online that show all the armored vehicles that the Russians left behind and several supply dumps with plenty of ammo. Its not an insignificant amount of stuff they left behind for the Ukrainians.
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  45. I bet you a million dollars that even if the latest Russian offensives make any progress it will be far from over for the Ukrainians. Seriously how can anyone have followed the war for any amount of time and believe that Russia can still defeat the Ukrainian army? Pretty much the only way Ukraine can lose is if the west stops sending support to them.
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  46. If the Russians weren't desperate then they wouldn't need to be pulling people from everywhere to join their army right now and get them into the fight ASAP would they? Its funny how Ukrainians are suppose to be the desperate ones and yet they can take the time to send their troops outside of the country to get their men trained and equipped by NATO before committing them to battle and the Russians want to get their newly raised troops into the fight ASAP.
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  47. If Putin and the Russians were handling things well there wouldn't have been a coup attempt to begin with. The fact that it got to that point and that Wagner had the forces to even try such a thing is INSANE.
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  48.  @brianmead7556  Better to work for peanuts in another country and live than go back to Russia and possibly get called up and die.
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  49. How are Soviet tanks better when they're getting destroyed at such a high rate to the point that the Russians are resorting to bringing tanks from the Cold War era back into service because they lost so many of their moderately modern ones? Could you ever imagine the US losing so many Abrams tanks that they would have to resort to bringing M60 tanks back into service to replace their losses? Would never happen.
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  50.  @T1227trx  How were Ukrainian supporters coping with regards to Mariupol? Also in general I don't think those who support Ukrainians are anywhere near as delusional and biased and are allergic as Russian supporters are. Even now you have pro-Russian hacks who refuse to acknowledge reality and continue to play down every Russian loss/setback as being minor.
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