Silicon Bites #45 - Careless Match-related Incidents on the Rise Across Russia and Occupied Crimea.

Edition No45 | 20-05-2024
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[@carolwilliams8511]

Slava Ukraini. Brave nation of heroes. Ukraine is in a very difficult situation. Without the West it couldn't fight back very well, but it would still have a go. Much respect to them.

[@wordscapes5690]

Russia managed to shoot down 100 of the 80 drones sent.

[@Coffeepanda294]

They shot down 100 drones, 50 F-16s, a dragon and two X-Wings.

[@SiliconCurtain]

😂

[@MrBendylaw]

General Oligarkov is said to have dismissed the threat of the 'Ukrainian Death Star'. He was sweating profusely when he said it.

[@squireson]

@@Coffeepanda294 The X-wings aren't very impressive, 10 'pew-pew' sounds will usually do it. At least that's what it takes with my nephew.

[@GrahamCStrouse]

@@Coffeepanda294Don’t forget the Battlestar!

[@NyPer920]

Thank you Jonathan for all your efforts on behalf of gallant Ukraine.

[@SiliconCurtain]

👍👍👍

[@tamarasidlartchouk3138]

Thank you, Jonathan for sharing your thoughts with us. Russians started with the double tap technique of killing in Syria, and I was horrified to hear from putin : we are training here in Syria and experimenting our new weapons. Nobody reacted at that horrible remark.

[@SiliconCurtain]

👍👍👍 it’s a horrific and utterly immoral strategy. Russia is the heir to Nazi Germany in its brutality.

[@tamarasidlartchouk3138]

@@SiliconCurtain👏👏

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

@@SiliconCurtain Yet trying to convey that they are the rightful heir of Ancient Greece culture and history, and of the Byzantin Church...

[@toddsmith1793]

Jonathan, I appreciate your dedication to your channel, audience and Ukraine’s fight for democratic sovereignty. I look forward to your weekly summation, and editorial, concerning all matters effecting the War in Ukraine. You soldier everyday in your fight against disinformation and propaganda. You never falter or take a step back. Ukraine could not ask for a better supporter or friend. You make this World a better place… Thank you, Jonathan 🙏🏼 Postscript: Have you ever considered interviewing Steve Schmidt? Steve is a political strategist who, at one time, was one the leaders of the Republican Party (GOP). In the 2008 Presidential Campaign, Steve was the Chief Political Strategist for the late John McCain’s failed bid (Sarah Palin wasn’t Steve’s suggestion as Vice President). Then came Trump… Anyway, he’s a staunch supporter for Ukraine since 2014; a renowned Historian, and an avowed critic of Donald Trump and MAGA. I think Steve Schmidt would be a fascinating interview.

[@SiliconCurtain]

👍👍👍

[@kenibnanak5554]

Using civilians as shields is a very old Russian tactic. Some reported that in WW2 as the Russian army advanced through Eastern Germany Russian tankers strapped captured German women and children to the outside of their tanks to hinder firing on them. Since neither Stalin nor the USSR were ever held accountable for their war crimes we should therefore not be surprised the Russian army is still full of slime. I would credit Communist insurgents in the Philippines in the 1990s with credit for inventing double and triple taps in which they set off one bomb, then a second one timed to go off 4 or 5 minutes later would impact the rescuers. Sometimes even that was followed by a 3rd bomb a few moments later. Thioks discouraged Rescue workers whose own casualties began to climb. Of course during WW2 both the allies and the axis used aerial bombs that had a mix of instant fuzes and time delay fuzes set to go off 15 minutes or 12 hours (or more) later or anything in between. This too discouraged rescue and required expendable oersons be used for any rebuilding of bombed facilities and infrastructure.

[@RennieNightcart]

Recommendation: That in the near future a 'flock of Angry Birds' pay a visit to the billion $ Palace/compound of Vlad the Terrible, in Gelendzhik Ruzzia.

[@stephenthomas3085]

Agreed. It could be legitimately described as a military target in that it is the hide out of the Great General and Field Marshall Vladimir V Putin, the greatest military leader ever.

[@parslowpongbert1566]

Also, those ice breakers Putin needs for his artic conquest look awfully vulnerable.

[@squireson]

Very little actual military value

[@coodudeman]

@@squireson as is the case with most targets that are hit in most wars sadly...

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

@@coodudeman Is that nihilism, I feel in your undertone?

[@michaelmichaels-tw7wd]

Thanks Jonathan. Top Quality as always Slava Ukraini 🦄🤗💖💙💛💖🤗🦄

[@SiliconCurtain]

👍👍👍

[@laurencehastings7473]

Strong words and I agree wholeheartedly

[@user-om4vw5sb7w]

Thank you for your time, expertice and countless effort to keep us informed. I appreciate your work very very much ! All the best from Germany

[@SiliconCurtain]

👍👍👍🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@MrBendylaw]

The Delicate Sound of Blunder Goodbye, Rus-Sky Set The Controls For the Heart of the Kremlin Does Anyone Remember V. Putin? I could do this all day.

[@jhngfdsdfgkjnbv]

from Russia's retaliatory strikes, Ukraine lost up to 90% of the capacity of thermal power plants as a result of Russian missile strikes, - MP Kucherenko "We have lost 8 thousand megawatts of electricity, which is a lot. I talked to power engineers yesterday - 800 out of 8 thousand are working. The tenth part."

[@MrBendylaw]

@@jhngfdsdfgkjnbv You're a particularly graceless trollbot, aren't you?

[@theresamcpherson7352]

Thank you Jonathan. I enjoy hearing your thoughts!

[@SteveEdwards-zl8en]

WE need to realise that we are fighting for our Democratic way of life , slowly but surely we are waking up , we should not be surprised at the response of Germany but they too are coming round .

[@michelemarr76]

We need some stronger coffee, so to speak. We MUST wake up faster!

[@jhngfdsdfgkjnbv]

Deleting comments is so democratic 😅

[@michaelmichaels-tw7wd]

it IS world war 3 the battle for Freedom, Democracy & Human Rights. We must not let Evil win

[@user-jp4lt7xu2g]

Our colonial and post imperial way of life? Go to the front

[@carolwilliams8511]

You Tube has a technical problem it needs to fix.

[@HDR422]

Thank you Slava Ukraine

[@mike4480]

..Glory to All of the Heroes of Ukraine ,… & Thanks again Johnathan … 💙💛💙

[@djparn007]

Thank you, Jonathan. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

[@SiliconCurtain]

👍👍👍🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@dr.williams5251]

You got me with the Pink Floyd reference. The Budapest Memorandum gives the US + UK the legal authority to give Ukraine whatever it takes to protect their sovereignty. No red lines, vladolf putler erased them. . Ψ(AFU) has done a number of 100 drone strikes. So a 1000 drone attack is technically possible, is it physically possible?

[@reaperbsc]

Probably? But what would be the point? I'm not sure there are any targets that would take anything close to that many to strike.

[@paulgilbert9346]

@@reaperbsc 25 airfields, 25 refineries, 25 military bases and 25 arms factories. All hit with 10 drones would make a huge statement though

[@geoffhaylock6848]

@@reaperbsc If you allow for air defence loses, breakdowns, fail to detonate, then the more you send the better your odds. It is also a good idea to confuse the enemy of the real target by sending drones in all different directions.

[@richardcory5024]

The US does not want Russia to lose. Neither does it wish Ukraine to lose. What the US is hoping for is a stalemate and peace talks, with Russia keeping most of what it has taken already but with Ukraine joining NATO and the EU. The US does not want, above all, the breakup of the Russian Federation, leaving China to pick up the pieces.

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

What is this thing people refer to as the so called "Russia"? I'm not sure such a thing ever existed. I think the people whom refer to this so called "Russia" are massively failing to realize that they have been scammed into thinking such a thing as so called "Russia" ever existed; and now they are in denial of ever have been scammed. Hard, hard thing to admit to have been scammed. Crush the scammers and educate the people. End of line.

[@sebastianthomsen2225]

SLAVA UKRAINE! 🔱💙💛✌

[@user-jp4lt7xu2g]

Do you have the faintest idea of the historical meaning of this phrase?

[@mike4480]

Glory to All of the Heroes of Ukraine ..& Thanks Johnathan .. 💙💛💙

[@user-jp4lt7xu2g]

​@@mike4480Poor losers manipulated by your (and my) politicians

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

@@user-jp4lt7xu2g Do you really believe so called "Russia" is the rightful heir of Ancient Greek culture and of the Byzantine Church?

[@user-jp4lt7xu2g]

​@@PandemoniumMeltDown No, why? But I know the history of that expression, and you?

[@Grahamgusbull]

Wonderful session thanks Jonathan 👍🇬🇧🇺🇦

[@bobouzala]

Thank you Silicon Curtain! ❤️👍🇺🇦

[@kinleydorji]

Thank you as always, Jonathan. Slava Ukraini! ❤

[@benjydever]

Great content

[@sumiland6445]

💛💙💜💙💛 here I am, listening uninterrupted 😊 🇺🇦 🌏 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

[@andyay9079]

Great monologue as usual. Great diction and easy pace which is great for us oldies!

[@SiliconCurtain]

👍👍👍

[@renatob9909]

Jonathan, you are a good journalist, very interesting content.

[@KingRaccoon747]

Ace report dude !

[@stevenjohns-savage7024]

Thanks Jonathan 😊

[@freekmusbach8722]

Yes, standardized ammo galore. thank you J. Thorough research and well written and scripted as usual. And how important it is that this message reaches out to not just the public but lawmakers and politicians in our realm and beyond as well. Very important role indeed and I applaud your sense of urgency and realism on the matter. Losing is not an option!

[@jonno27]

I love your work generally, but i am really here for that headline.

[@SiliconCurtain]

I appreciate that!

[@geofftestpilot9076]

❤LOVE the title! Maybe "A MOMENTARY LAPSE OF REASON " ??

[@SiliconCurtain]

😂

[@nodularification]

I think it may be a permanent lapse...

[@geofftestpilot9076]

@@nodularification 🙄🤔🫡😂😂😂

[@alandesmond7860]

Aways awesome coverages

[@DarkestAlice]

Thank you, Jonathan, for another excellent Silicon Bites episode. Was there a new Roger Waters scandal or is it just an old summary? 🇺🇦 Перемоги і миру всім українцям! 🇺🇦

[@SiliconCurtain]

He has been saying lots of Kremlin friendly bilge for the last few years.

[@DarkestAlice]

@@SiliconCurtain Yes, another "useful idiot". I just thought there was something new, as your summary referred to him and "the good" Pink Floyd members. And I was waiting for some juicy new stuff. 😁

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

@@SiliconCurtain Roger makes me sad...

[@eamonnclabby7067]

The Pink Floyd reference...Brill...😅😅😅

[@SiliconCurtain]

👍👍👍

[@sweinnc]

Calculate what area the moscovites have gained compared with the percentage of their population lost. How long could they contain such losses?

[@reaperbsc]

I think the word you were looking for was sustain. Rather then contain. Either way, I agree. This can only continue for so long. russia can't hide this many dead.

[@sweinnc]

@@reaperbsc you are correct. English is not my native language. I tell my kids that every time I say something grammatically incorrect. Sorry. 🙂

[@reaperbsc]

No apologies necessary. I just wanted to help get your meaning across. That's all. You're right, and that's an important point.

[@Pandamasque]

I doubt even the Kremlin-dwellers know the answer to that question.

[@gerryhouska2859]

Supply of livestock for muscovite meat waves is huge.

[@WalterBurton]

The news over the past days has been an F5 tornado inside of a Category 5 hurricane. Thank you!

[@user-ph5ys7ed7i]

The Budapest Memorandum was a way to entice Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons while cementing its sovereign status. (It should be noted that Ukraine was already committed to relinquishing its nuclear weapons, together with Belarus and Kazakhstan, as a result of the 1991 START Treaty, which had been agreed between President Reagan and Premier Gorbachev months before the collapse of the Soviet Union, and consequently passed along its obligations to the Soviet successor states.). Russian President Yeltsin recognized Ukraine as its own nation-which contradicts Putin’s modern claims that Ukraine was never independent. If Russia attacked Ukraine, it was understood that the U.S. and the UK would extend security assurances. Even though there is nothing explicit in the agreement that stipulates military intervention, Ukraine wanted the memorandum to articulate that the U.S. and UK would come to Ukraine's defense if an enemy breached the new country’s sovereignty. According to Steven Pifer, a former US diplomat who participated in the talks, it was understood that if Ukraine “should become a victim of an act of aggression,” the U.S. and the UK would step in. And while that response was not explicitly defined, Pifer notes that: “there is an obligation on the United States that flows from the Budapest Memorandum to provide assistance to Ukraine, and […] that would include lethal military assistance.” James Timbie, another key U.S. negotiator, noted that “Ukraine’s leaders pushed hard to obtain robust and legally-binding security guarantees from the United States. But the United States, wary of undertaking any new security commitments, was unwilling to provide them. In the end, the negotiators found a politically acceptable compromise by crafting assurances that reiterated pledges to respect Ukraine’s territorial integrity and inviolability of its borders and to refrain from the use or threat of military force.” Perhaps it is easy to understand why the Budapest Memorandum has been absent from most of the existing analysis on the war in Ukraine. There are three simple explanations why the international community is pretending it doesn’t exist: An inconvenient truth Ignoring the Budapest Memorandum may be a conscious decision. Specifically, it may be an inconvenient truth. If the agreement was constantly referenced, it might, in turn, lead to its acceptance and acknowledgment, which might therefore lead to an expected change of behavior to accommodate the fact. If we acknowledge the commitment made to Ukraine by the U.S. and the UK, they would be expected to change their existing behavior-i.e., respond militarily-which might lead to a nuclear exchange.

[@gerryhouska2859]

The UK stands by Ukraine, unlike the recalcitrant USA.

[@user-jp4lt7xu2g]

Therefore Ukraine can wave goodbye to any prospects of NATO membership, which should have been obvious to them since day one

[@18_rabbit]

this is almost entirely false conclusions and heavily twisted interpretations, to be generous to you, about history. Ukr knew full well that it was risky to give up its Nukes, and that by definition of the context of their own identity, history, etc, no western country could protect it in any practical sense whatsoever, directly. Only indirectly. This is very basic and you are twisting reality into a deeply ignorant way of seeing power. Literally you sound like u've never read a history textbook, never read an account of negotiations of such denuking processes, etc. As for your last line (lol) it belies who u may actually be (?) i suspect, which is a ru alligned troll (?), bcuz if a coalition of the willing does end up participating in this war, there are very low odds that a nuclear exchange would later happen. The fact that the entire Cold War which was quite hot actually, didn't result in a single exchange, is part of how we know that the ppl who control those weapons in Ru know that it's an extremely last resort tool, and if the Ru mil command realizes it's at an overall conventional disadvantage, then it paradoxically won't want to use a single nuke, bcuz it's been warned that if it does, it will lose a massive portion of its conventional mil to a western conventional attack. Essentially per what some experts have been interpreting from the sum total of known facts about the relevant militaries, Ru cannot use any of its nukes, bcuz it's too weak overall, AND shows no signs of suicidality. Just dark gestures as if it's a nihilistic mystico-religous-crazy , criminal state. Partly true, but they are also humans who run things in Ru and they dn't want to die! Ru is brilliant at playing the dn't tempt us crazy psycho's, blah blah. They were dramatic long ago as well with Kruschev. All quite a laugh.

[@peterwhite7428]

Right Johnathon. Everything you have said is true

[@SiliconCurtain]

👍👍👍🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@therivalyn195]

thank you as always 💛💙

[@suethompson1736]

Thnx Mr Fink!😊

[@ItsMe_Hello_People]

Thank you!

[@madeleinesuzette]

Thank you Johnathon 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇦🇺🇦🇺🦘🦘🦘💪

[@michelleagnew8780]

This is a great video. Thank you for your hard work putting this together.

[@SiliconCurtain]

👍👍

[@rossr6616]

Stellar Report Jonathan! Love the Georgian updates too, here in U.S.

[@markendicott6874]

Excellent update - thank you.

[@christineschafer5282]

Tons of info and so well presented - well done !!

[@SiliconCurtain]

👍👍👍

[@user-ph5ys7ed7i]

Except for Russia, Ukraine was the only other nuclear inheritor state that heavily debated whether to maintain or give up its nuclear weapons.

[@johncromwell2529]

Bravo Jono Great work!

[@user-ph5ys7ed7i]

Poo-tin - an accurate verbal and picturesque description of the Russian leader.

[@WoesteWobbe]

Thank you for the update, I always like to hear your take on things concerning Ukraine. Greetings from The Netherlands (Y)

[@danfeutz6911]

I like the reference of the title. Great storyline

[@SiliconCurtain]

👍👍👍

[@18_rabbit]

Such efficient condensed news, thank u so much!

[@tomwatson1220]

Half Man Half Biscuit meets global conflict, that's quite an achievement 🤣

[@tonyplank]

More amazing content. Thank you!

[@SiliconCurtain]

Thanks for watching!

[@eddiegoodman9267]

Thanks for the update and views 🇺🇲🇺🇦 Oklahoma USA 🇺🇦🇺🇲 Prayers

[@SiliconCurtain]

👍👍👍

[@SL-sd3sg]

💙💛💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

[@CynthiaBlair]

Sad that Roger Waters has become a vatnik of late... I guess Russian propaganda has become rather mainstream? Or perhaps abundance, peace, freedom have become boring for Mr Waters? I doubt he and PF would have enjoyed such lofty careers if they had been born under Russian sovereignty.

[@piseag458]

I think he's more a victim of the propaganda he's anti war historically very critical of Western military involvements .. its been difficult for me too,to get behind fighting fire with fire,Roger would have to do the same obviously very difficult for him to do its a core belief developed over many years a part of him! and probably does not feel natural to him calling for war.I feel much sympathy for him in this respect, but he needs to see everything from Ukrainian point of view and understand the ruzzian mindset,to do so and not revert back to anti war which becomes anti-west in the hands of russian propaganda takes a daily effort of following news,film and those that care and are knowledgeable about Ukraine, such as this channel is.If only Russia would permit 'a Roger Waters' it would balance things out a bit more.

[@SiliconCurtain]

He’s been an antisemitic vatnik for many years, I think.

[@piseag458]

@SiliconCurtain hmm.. thanks ,I can't decide if he's antisemitic as much as he is anti-Israel due to Israeli policy towards Palestinians, perhaps I haven't been paying close enough attention on that one,very disappointing if he is.

[@lsees5753]

Thanks!

[@SiliconCurtain]

Amazing, thank you!🙏

[@777nydia1]

Great commentary as usual. Thankyou!

[@irongron]

That's my second fave Pink Floyd song after "Dogs" from Animals.

[@SiliconCurtain]

👍👍👍

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

I'm in an Obscured by Clouds trap, I feel there is no escape! Please do not send help, it's, it's... beautiful!

[@Donovanwashere]

🇺🇦🙏🇺🇸

[@admiralbenbow5083]

I like the Floydian slip !

[@SiliconCurtain]

🤪

[@terryhand]

I would love to believe that the mysterious algorythm somehow drops this podcast into Roger Water's KZbin feed!

[@richarddietzen3137]

What a summary. Newer viewers are now much more up to date on the military and political events affecting Ukrainian defense. I hope you can speak through a major U.S. media channel like CNN.

[@SiliconCurtain]

👍👍👍

[@jetserb]

CNN or Clown News Network and Johnatan would fit in with this half truth biased reports, fir 2.5 years Russians are loosing but somehow they are winning 😂😂😂

[@foxrings]

I'm curious if those Russian glide bombs have inertial guidance on them. If they don't, they would be extremely vulnerable to GPS jamming.

[@CollectiveWest1]

I agree with you about the misconceived strategy of the US and some Western countries of aiming for two incompatible objectives: a safe and secure Ukraine, and a stable Russia (hopefully a reformed Russia). The reality is that the Kremlin regime will not tolerate a safe and secure Ukraine, and there is no chance of internal democratic reform, even if some form of settlement were negotiated with Ukraine in future. The Putin regime created short term stability in Russia, which is an illusion, because the regime in fact made Russian instability inevitable in the longer term, by centralising power, encouraging criminal corruption and destroying other institutions which help with peaceful transitions of power (free courts, free media, free and fair elections, regional political centres). At some point, Russia will become unstable, regardless of what any other country does. The Putin regime has has hard wired incipient instability into Russian society.

[@takingbacktheplanet]

frankly, it's only a matter of diplomacy that Russia is (unlike China, so far) not declared/designated a terrorist state... 😥.

[@timmommens901]

🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦✌✌🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@shaunfarrell3834]

Love the reference to Ummagumma! The music is still good but Waters stance is hard to swallow or comprehend. The approach of the west has been pusillanimous from the start back in 2014. The shackles need to be taken off for Ukraine, for our own sakes. Scholz stance has never made any sense, and at this point has been comprehensively debunked. Like others he reminds me of Halifax. If Muscovia does not lose, we will have far more unpredictable geopolitics; the source of this fear, the advisors pushing it are hard to comprehend, presupposing they haven't been bought or are covert assets? While I understand the legal arguments and economic fears of the Financial Services sector, most have already been crossed already by freezing the assets in the first place. Total isolation, fully agree. Thank you Jonathan.

[@carolwilliams8511]

Germany has no nuclear weapons. France, UK and America does.

[@morstyrannis1951]

Thanks Captain Obvious.

[@gillydior]

🇬🇧❤🇺🇦

[@rashkavar]

Honestly the thing I don't understand about the NATO strategy of limited escalation - we know by now that the result is slow escalation - the kind of escalation that convinces Russia they can keep pace. If Ukraine had gotten everything they needed in the first few months of the war, Russia's entire army would have been swatted like a gigantic fly, and Putin or whoever replaced him in this hypothetical scenario (as getting one's army obliterated is not conducive to dictators retaining power) would be keenly aware that "OK, don't piss off NATO, they're really ****ing scary and there's nothing I can actually do about it short of literally ending human civilization. Since if I do that, I'll probably die too...I'll find some other approach." What we're doing is leading them on, keeping the goal of Russian victory over Ukraine just a little out of reach, in that "maybe I could if I just try harder" range. That's literally a training technique - people who break world records are rarely those who say "I'm going to break a world record" then work their butts off for years, and then finally meet their goal - they're the people who set a more moderate goal and then just keep pushing a little further all the time.

[@ActionThisDay]

Powerful statements about containment of Russia by driving them out of every civic forum -- social, economic, sport and cultural. If such statements were turned into policies by the West, there would be strong incentives for Russia to stop their aggression and be a responsible member of the family of nations.

[@vaughanbean1156]

23:18 Remember the old joke about the Berlin wall? All you had to do was stand on the wall and see which way the people were running to deduce the superior system. Russia and China writ large.

[@morstyrannis1951]

The USSR was a prison camp with an armed perimeter to keep the population contained. China and ruSSia are not much different.

[@Coffeepanda294]

🔥

[@AL-ku1zq]

The UK had an awful lot of Russian money in it. Doubtlessly that bought a lot Russian interference in UK politics and finance. Has that much or at all?

[@GrahamCStrouse]

British banks have laundered billions of Russian dollars. Thatcherism is a big part of the reason why Britain’s such a mess right now. It’s not precisely because she was a conservative. It’s because she got Britain out of the making shit business almost completely. All the Brits do now is provide services, especially banking services. British banking is a lot like Russian Resource extraction. The country is dangerously reliant on it.

[@piseag458]

​@GrahamCStrouse Interestingly Thatcherism went on the rise about the same time as the 'discovery' of North Sea Oil.. Brent crude.

[@rjScubaSki]

Brexit and degradation of the armed forces through economically incompetent austerity are the main effects

[@piseag458]

@rjScubaSki I agree with much with that,not to mention handling of covid ,billions spent on track and trace that didn't work.

[@vaughanbean1156]

31:40 Why are we not surprised?

[@vaughanbean1156]

9:20's In 2020 German trade with Russia was $1.7 billion, in 2022 it was $15.5 billion. Do the math.

[@takingbacktheplanet]

man i hope nobody in the west actually thinks Ukraine would/might use those wonderful munitions to actually cause damage to civilian Russia... 😱i think they've proven themselves - especially by now >:|!!!!

[@sneakerset]

Apparently, Ukraine's Air Force has put SEAD and DEAD missions as a highest priority. Meanwhile, Rostec / KRET continue to spend 420 to 560 Million dollars annually on importing Chinese and other(s) electronic components to supply their 50,000-plus employee force building electronic warfare system(s) source: Euromaidan. EW had degraded the effectiveness of HIMARS and ATACMS source: Business Insider. Russian jammers require countermeasures, and Ukraine pilots are training in the Wild Weasel combat environment - the US sent HARM missiles for a reason.

[@EU_values]

👍👍👍🇺🇦🇬🇧

[@WalterBurton]

👍👍👍

[@5ty717]

At ~ 10.00 you make a very good point that i hadn’t (fully) grasped… Shulz’s motivation is suspicious now cause his WWIII argument is shown to be baseless. Olive Shulz is unwittingly playing kre M Lins useful idiot parody… … or… WITTINGLY… …

[@rikkys]

If you dont want your choppers to crash. Build a sustainable society with freedom and rights for all. Build an education system that encourages your citizens to learn engineering and seek employment in helicopter design. Its pretty easy.

[@GrahamCStrouse]

I like the sentiment but in this case it was most likely just a case of ordinary stupidity. Choppers are accident prone aircraft, relatively speaking. You can be the world’s worst dictatorship & still know enough not to fly your nation’s President through thick fog in mountainous terrain.

[@jetserb]

Make sure that most of your Generals are Trans and that your younger gemeration dont wantvto join.the army and make sure that you have queer book reading at least once a month for grades 1,2,3 and 4 😂😂😂

[@nathamwright]

Has become ? was always i suspect you meant.

[@gennadius2638]

This may get nasty

[@40watt_club]

One great achievement would be to get rid of Scholz, van der Lying (both Merkel installed) and maybe LaGarde (a convicted criminal). Slava Ukraini

[@sallywilton2236]

All you say is true but it appears that Russia is going to lose anyway because they are going to run out of oil, run out of money and run out of hardware by the year end.

[@christianecoughlan7392]

Grant scraps has been useless so far and suddenly in his position he gives lessons to other countries. 😅😅😅

[@wamingo]

Probably it's Tomahawk or no Taurus.

[@reaperbsc]

Germany needs to grow some balls and stop waiting for the US to do everything first.

[@reaperbsc]

Germany needs to grow some balls and stop waiting for the US to do everything first.

[@reaperbsc]

Germany needs to grow some balls and stop waiting for the US to do everything first. (Everytime you try yo censor me, I get to report you. Please keep going.)

[@reaperbsc]

Germany needs to grow some balls and stop waiting for the US to do everything first. (Report number 4.)

[@reaperbsc]

Germany needs to grow some balls and stop quiting for the US to do everything first. (Report number 5)

[@user-jp4lt7xu2g]

So Ukraine is winning, right?

[@hornantuutti5157]

Neighter one is winning atm. give it time and dont be a bot.

[@morstyrannis1951]

People always attain freedom, sometimes after generations. Eastern Europe Europ was “liberated “ from their Nazi occupiers only to see them replaced with ruSSian ones. But they were eventually driven out. Even the clueless passive ruSSian serfs had freedom for a short time. But Yeltsin’s crime cartel began to rob the country blind and then petite Putin perfected the subjugation of the vatniks again.

[@duncansmith7576]

good content and great accuracy but do you have to talk so slowly!! 42minutes could have been 25

[@piseag458]

you can speed the video up in the settings.

[@SiliconCurtain]

Thinking and talking, not so easy!

[@piseag458]

@@SiliconCurtain 😆😄 no complaints about delivery here 😊

[@jefftarwood4594]

You can always just read the transcript.

[@johnwilliams-gz4ss]

Olaf Schultz went to Russia when he was younger. I wonder if they have any pictures of him, if you know what I mean ?

[@general-un4gg]

I love your channel. unfortunately I can only tolerate your way of reading for fifteen minutes. In interviews or chats with others, you don't talk so disruptively. No offense intended at all, but I think it's a shame.

[@stephenthomas3085]

How on God´s good earth can he talk 'disruptively' when he is the only person speaking...?!

[@18_rabbit]

no idea what u mean? He reads just fine and has great elocution, smooth delivery. I couldn't ask for more!

[@shaunfarrell3834]

talk disruptively? What are you blathering on about?

[@ivanprilepchanski7052]

Your ranting on youtube won’t change anything. Go to Ukraine and fight for its “democracy “ make Ukraine resilient. It needs “brave “ people like you . Show your braveness on the battlefield instead of showing it in social media . Everyone can do it on social media . Be a real man for once and go to the battlefield !!!

[@reaperbsc]

Go home russian.

[@paleopteryx]

Lately iranian helicopter pilots have started smoking heavily too...

[@shaunfarrell3834]

I think in their case it is more what they have been smoking is the problem!

[@morstyrannis1951]

They’re definitely smoking after the crash.

[@carolwilliams8511]

Germany has no nuclear weapons. France, UK and America does.

[@shaunfarrell3834]

And?

[@Ganiscol]

@@shaunfarrell3834 it means Scholz does not necessarily trust them to deliver on the nuclear umbrella promise (note: neither France nor UK promise to anybody in Europe to extend their deterrence capability to them). But the real question is: Why is the US not providing Tomahawks? The ship launched land attack version surely could be fitted to trucks. They retrofitted their Iowa class battleships with armored box launchers in the '80s and therefore know how to do that. I bet if the US provides Tomahawks, Germany will pledge Taurus mere days later. Germany has at least poured as much monetary and equipment aid into Ukraine as UK and France combined. Maybe the two should just step up their Stormshadow / SCALP deliveries to Ukraine in the meantime, instead of waiting for and lamenting to Germany to give Taurus?