Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "HistoryLegends" channel.

@PM-oe8sp Not really, the CIA has been very involved and practically rebuilt the SBU in its image since 2014. Credit wherever it's due, but you can't deny American influence on their capabilities.
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@nvmffs It's an old lingering hatred from the days of the British Empire. Britain's main geopolitical goal was to maintain a balance within continental Europe, and Russia during the 1800s threatened to dominate that balance.
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@gadyshnik True, but he doesn't seem as ideological as some other channels. I think his fascination is with military actions, not morality or politics. Weeb Union and Kalibrated are also slightly pro-Russian, but they take dry and measured stances when it comes to reporting actual events on the ground. For this reason I think they are better than Duran or Military Summary, who are more overtly pro-Russian even if they don't say it outright. I value these drier channels much more than people who are doing what they believe is "right", either Russian or Ukrainian.
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Lol, that actually makes it worse. They were defeated and forced to take the money at gunpoint. The fact that the Americans even offered money meant that they understood what they were doing was wrong and wanted to cleanse their image in the eyes of history. Instead of owning up to being colonizers and just taking the land.
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 @AgentDoubleOSeven77 Maybe. Both sides use the same bs. Only time will tell who wins in the end
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People may hate Assad, but they should hate a lawless Syria even more. Just look to Libya to see Syria's future if Assad's forces lose.
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@sniperactive1965 It's not hard to imagine that— with Ukraine having been trained in secret facilities in Montana (among others) since 2014, and supplied with Western weapons— they'd also he receiving some logistical and planning support.
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 @jhinthegodofadc422 Now that I think about it, is it really so unlikely? 100,000 people across an entire continent isn't a stretch. But still sources need to be shown or its fake af
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@pnoidd There is some bias visible (making jokes at the expense of Ukrainian losses) but generally he isn't afraid to jab the Russians when they lose too. And when they REALLY lose (like needing to retreat from Kharkov last year) he calls them out on it. It's as close to unbiased as you're gonna get on YouTube.
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Yeah but they have like 2x the population
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 @christianriddler5063 Yep. They lost, then lost against Poland, then started to lose against Germany... then they won. And took half of Germany, and everything in between. See the pattern?
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@reharl4953 I don't give it much credence since the US already had an aristocratic class in all but name. It was just a power grab by regional landed men. Not dissimilar from Yeltsin breaking up the USSR.
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 @LouisBilodeau-k4s It is if they fail.
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@ZugZugMahogny Has it not occured to them that treating Russia with distrust will just make it feel betrayed and start acting like they were afraid it would? It's a self fulfilling prophecy— if you give Russia no stakes, treat it like a villain no matter what it does, then it will act like one. All stick and no carrot is a terrible way to pacify a former adversary. What does it have to lose, if Poland and the Baltics will hate it and want US weapons pointed at Russia no matter which government is in charge of it?
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@hamzamahmood9565 Well, to be fair, Saddam's army was great on paper. But his soldiers were untrained and Iraq has a weak national identity, leading to lower morale than one would see with, say, Iran or Turkey. And the Taliban wasn't exactly trained by the CIA in a Montana facility for 8 years, given $100B+ in military aid, had the US economically sanctioned by the rest of the West, and given logistics, training, and dozens of foreign legionnaires. Basically— using Iraq to gloat about US military prowess is like me showing off how strong I am by punching a toddler, and then sneering when another guy can't beat up an amateur boxer.
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@xcrockery8080 "Do your own research" You're asking us to do all the work for you? YOU'RE the one that made the claim, the burden of proof is on you. Otherwise we can assume you're lying. ...Oh, you're not? How would I know, you've shown nothing to prove that you're telling the truth. Give an actual source, jesus christ
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@TheBigTuna12 To be fair the US is in a unique position where it never has to fight a war on its own soil. So purely for defense a good Navy and cybersecurity is enough. Now if it comes to funding other countries' wars maybe you're right
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 @stefanleithner6922 Any English or Russian alternatives?
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@PM-oe8sp It's not exactly kept a secret, lol. You really couldn't find anything yourself? Google How the CIA and Ukrainian inteliigence secretly forged a deep partnership, article by ABC news. An excerpt: "The partnership saw the CIA help Ukraine to rebuild its Main Directorate of Intelligence, known by its acronym HUR, which has become renowned for its audacious operations. The CIA eventually directed millions of dollars in funding to help train and equip Ukrainian intelligence officers, and to construct facilities, including around a dozen secret forward-operating bases on the border with Russia. The two services also began conducting joint operations together around the world, the highest level of trust for intelligence services, according to the former U.S. officials." Budanov, current head of Ukraine's SBU, was part of Unit 2245, trained directly by the CIA. He's literally a CIA asset, by definition. The US has been leading secret training programs since 2014, centered on a blacksite in Montana, among others. They, as the article mentioned, have 13 bases along Russia's border— and they led raids into Russia to steal military equipment. They run the logistics for this war, not just through Starklink but extensive intelligence sharing. I hope this is enough to show you how deeply involved the former is with the latter.
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 @ericmacrae6871 Dartmouth 2.0
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 @Nom_AnorVSJedi It is true, creators cater to an audience for fear of losing views. Shame. Vologda Mapping does not commentate, but he does very good maps.
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Such is war. A tragedy for all who participate, even the "winning" side
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 @stevenaquino690 Hyperbole. The commenter doesn't like that HL is saying that Ukraine is losing so he's accusing HL of being a pro-Russian simpleton (vatnik).
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@chasedavis9707 You're a short-sighted, bleeding heart idiot. Assad is the best Syria has. If he goes, we get diet al-Qaeda ruling one half of Syria and an aggressive (towards Turkey! Ironic) Kurdistan in the other. Syria collapsing would drag other states down with it. Whether you like him or not, Assad is objectively the best option. For stability and peace.
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If they're smart, they will do their best to disguise themselves as Tuaregs themselves
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 @nevets2371 "break it free" I hope those slave owners understood the irony of that statement
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@MadeleineTakam_Info_on_Profile I'm not disputing whether Russia was recruiting from these pools of men, but whether they actually volunteered to go.
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@abrahambrown3063 I'm saying that those people DID probably volunteer. My point was that 100,000 people across all of Africa isn't a difficult thing to imagine.
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@ole9215 You'd need to hack into Oryx's internal editors' message board or something to get concrete proof. I don't think it's out of the question though, information warfare is well known to the US and the West at large. We know for example that they lied about Russia eminently running out of shells. And Putin having cancer. And there being a revolt by conscripts. And so on. Is it really unreasonable to think they'd doctor numbers to support Ukraine and artificially keep morale up?
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 @vesakaitera2831 Well, it's been 2 months and the 1st line still hasn't been crossed... don't you feel stupid for being so confident and so wrong?
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