Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "Anders Puck Nielsen" channel.

@terencedonohoe9123 It's an opinion but not an observation, because people have genuine reasons for not wanting to support Ukraine. Your refusal to even acknowledge that simple reality belies an emotional, not rational, reason for wanting to support one side of this war. And because it's not based in rational reasoning, your conclusions can't really be trusted. How am I supposed to know that your opinions are grounded in reality when you won't even entertain ideas that don't align with your own?
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@commiedoge747 ...Genuine question, which reports are you looking at? They've advanced to surrounding Vugledar as we speak and there aren't very many fortifications behind it. They didn't achieve their goal in their stated timeframe, but they're still moving westwards at an increasing rate. I wouldn't call that losing.
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 @MarkRozema-v9m Then why are they not sending more artillery? Surely they haven't burned through their supply? Or we'd see more shipments to Ukraine:)
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@sammiller6631 Wow, how original. Ironically, your reply reads like something from ChatGPT which was trained only on my comment. I understand that people have genuine reasons for supporting Ukraine. I'm not refusing to acknowledge that fact! It's the pro-Ukraine people who label anyone against their ideology as "bots", "trolls", or simply "Russian". All 3 of these imply a level of mindlessness or biased worldview. There is no room in this worldview for the existence of someone who may not want the West to antagonize other countries, someone who supports multipolarity and sees Ukraine winning as a reversion back to US-led unipolarity, or simply someone who wants change to the existing order for economic reasons.
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@sammiller6631 Why even make the distinction, between people who post and those who don't? You're assuming a lot about both groups of people. Another genuine reason besides being busy with their own lives or "not simping for Russia" is the fear of a US-dominated world. We saw that in the 1990s, and most Arab and South American states would rather avoid being meddled in. After Iraq and Afghanistan, there's a very good reason to want to prevent the US from dominating Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia. The US has a track record of causing human suffering around the world, in a way that Russia has never reached.
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@sammiller6631 Whataboutism. Try again. None of those come even close to the sheer scale of suffering across 3 continents. Also— the Russian Federation isn't responsible for those actions. But the US has had a continuous government all this time, and its instititiions— the same ones that produced the endless wars in Africa, Latin America, Middle East— are still a part of the country today. They're capable of doing it all over again. Russia neither has the capability nor the desire to do that again. It will always chiefly be concerned with its immediate borders. The US on the other hand, despite having a oceans protecting it, feels the need to spread its destruction across the entire planet. Letting it win against a regional power will only magnify the global suffering. One is clearly better for global peace.
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 @Grimshak81 A nuisance to whom?
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@hermes7587 What is "significant quantities" to you? Such a vague question, it seems like no matter the answer you'll twist it to fit your preconceived opinions. That being said— fertilizers, chemicals, and and nuclear power plants.
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@hermes7587 After reading this response, I'm not sure you know what you're talking about. Those "low value added" industries are the top sectors in terms of international trade volumes. So, food, gas, metals, and chemicals, all qualify according to what you asked for. And in fact, high-value added goods don't break into the top 5 by category. Automobiles are #6 (per UN statistics in 2023). So, I don't think you've done even basic research into the topic that you're basing your opinion of Russia on, or you'd have known that you're asking for two contradictory things. And I think you're vastly underestimating how much work goes into extracting resources— you might imagine a group of dirty workers with shovels, but logistics, machinery, and transport all go into making sure this "low skill" industry keeps moving. As I said, Russia's contributions are significant in terms of chemical fertilizer and nuclear tech. And basic machinery (where they're competitive). BTW, I wasn't talking about weapons— Russia (and China) lead the world in new power plant production, Western countries (besides France) simply don't really know how to build them anymore. It's not a matter of political restriction, but a lack of capability. And using Iran as a similar example isn't great— especially when Turkey has access to funding from Western companies but chose Russia to build most of its new reactors. Same with Bangladesh, India and Egypt.
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@MathiasKp Because Ukraine is little more than a mineral mine to the US' political class. Taiwan produces all of the world's consumer semiconductor chips. There really isn't anything more important than that.
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@marquisdemoo1792 You can ignore it, but Ukraine's fortunes are not good right now. If you want to stubbornly insist on your vision of victory, you'll miss the opportunity to negotiate an actual peace. Hell, Czechia's Prime Minister has said that Ukraine can't reach its war aims. And if Russia's on the frontfoot when coming to the negotiating table, the West will be in no position to demand that Ukraine join NATO. Sorry bud.
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@marquisdemoo1792 Oh, there will be peace— just not on Ukrainian and Western terms. There will come a point when there aren't enough Ukrainians to run logistics for the infantry, the lines will start collapsing, and the Russians will walk through to the boundaries they've already set. You can balk at this all you want, but Zelensky is currently in the US begging for more money— so things clearly aren't going too well. The Russians are at Vugledar right now and they've retaken a third of the Kursk territory. There's no indication that things will collapse by the time they teach their stated boundaries (LPR, DPR, Kherson— Odessa by extension).
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