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It's incredible what Russian engineers can do with 4 but microcontrollers.

U$A warns China not to sell shovels to Russia. 😆Somehow the Russians are so good at using shovels.

​@@jptrainorwhat is this weak attempt at cope?

According to Von Der leyon

In response to the blocking of Russian assets in the West, Russia took away from Europe 2 factories producing washing machines (ariston, indezit). There are enough chips.

Slava 🇹🇼

Now they have rakes.

@@Booz2020 as real as 🇺🇦 😘

Get a new joke

@@patrolmanpeteGat a new leader.

😂😂

It’s not actually strategically important. Tactically yes, not strategically. Whether it falls or not has no bearing on any major cities, let alone all of Ukraine.

@@spetsnaz600 Classic Westoid copium.

@@spetsnaz600 Actually it is strategically important, Ukraine said so, that's why they sent several brigades to try to keep it. Keep your whining until after it's lost.

@@TheRealBillBob It is not. You’re living in a fantasy land. These are all tiny towns and villages, they have no bearing on the strategic map. Russia lost Kherson (a major city) and even that did not significantly affect the battlefield in a strategic sense. I’m just stating the facts, which I understand are inconvenient to you because you’re still chugging the “2nd most powerful army in the world” kool-aid.

Zelensky is right though, 31K Killed in action & 500K missing in action

@@crumcon US Army Col. Douglas Macgregor says that 500k to 600k died. That's a gigantic loss. A flower of the Ukrainian youth lies in the ground. They died for nothing because America wants another war.

@@crumcon You mean 500K off-the-book casualties.

The problem is Russia has 5x the population and can manufacture their own equipment and ship them to the front lines quite easily since they are adjacent to Ukraine.

the manpower shortage is overstated, both sides could theoretically keep this going indefinitely, the bigger issue is equipment which doesn't look good for the russians because they are basically maxed out on production.

Yes..and when Russia take the Donbas,,they will say,, Donbas isn't so significant 😂😂

After Russia takes Kiev, Ukraine will say, well it wasn't a strategic point too

Strawman fallacy. But then again. Russia only managed to capture a 2 small cities in 1 and a half years. Well… whatever is left of it

Almost a half million so far...

​@@nicolasoltonsource: Zlensky's tooth fairy 🧚‍♀️🤓

​@@nicolasolton thats why zelensky need half a milion new troops you can be one of them 🤗

@@nicolasolton the bbc says 50000. Where does your intelligence come from?

@@votebrian66 under his shoe. That's where it comes from.

we use Robot drones

@@mabuhayproductionltd3627😂😅

@@claus-not-santa yes in the future less soldiers and more robots

The French 😂

@@jidec3165 Yes the Foreign legion are some killer beasts, Russians will run in fear

Lmao nice try Russian bot 😂 3 years and russia couldn’t take over 20 percent of Ukraine

@@randomeastasian347 Great ukrainian army advancing toward kyiv.

@@randomeastasian347 Someone doesn't understand how attrition works.

​@@randomeastasian347Russia already controls over 27 percent of Ukraine, and those are the US numbers which means that number might be even higher.

Are you in hurry??​@@randomeastasian347

The Russians expected Ukraine to come to its senses meaning for negotiations to continue. Ukraine did just that until Boris Johnson came along

And people saying Russia is still weak obviously never heard the responses of Ukrainian soldiers on the frontlines. They would say otherwise, they acknowledge that they are being overpowered by the RAF.

Slava 🇹🇼 Heroyam TAIWANese 🦾

No need to be so sinister about it. Ukraine is a proxy not a friend. Israel is a friend. Britain is a friend. Canada is a friend. Ukraine is an investment in weakening Russia.

​@@Booz2020 nonsense

what is your point if you have one

@@ldhorricks his point is that Ukraine has been dropped like a hot potato. Be so have the Afghans, Kurds, Syrian “moderate rebels”, Vietnamese ect. My god even the previous iteration of Ukrainian rebels were dropped.

Slava 🇹🇼

Duped? Wtf were they supposed to do? Let the Russians roll over them?

Ukraine is NOT a member of NATO

​@@ethancoster1324 Negotiate and don't become NATO's cudgel against Russia. Become Neutral like Switzerland.

​@@ethancoster1324 No, they were supposed to tell nato they don't want to provoke Russia, and kept the security concerns of Russia in mind like most presidents before Zelensky did.

And the washing machine air force. 😂

And with more gain upto 30% of East/South UA for 2 years SMO

They have been coming for 2 years now. When are they actually going to show up ?

Ukronazi copebots are gonna be upset now, don't be mean.

TSMC 🇹🇼 Slava

Stop the war Ukraine and save lives

TAIWANESE Lives Matter 🇹🇼

@@Booz2020 Nope, Obama, MIC, Uniparty.

I bet many cowards were asking England to surrender to Germany during ww2 whole Germany was bombarding English cities. But luckily for the world England didn't surrender. Ruzzians can stop the war any time.

CIA don't care

Certainly better than Russian news. Hardly ever talk bad news. - Moskva sank? A fire. - Massive retreat? Returning to better defensive positions I don’t recall ever Russian news actually critizing Putler in years

​@@IrrationalCharm you dont actually watch do you? Russians are far more objective and truthful then the west can even afford to be anymore.

My dogs would have heart attacks - its bad enough in thunder and during fireworks. I feel bad for the wildlife and pets that got caught up in this war

He's scared because he knows the American Republicans have started shooting dogs...

@@niv8880 So sad😔😔😔😔😔

Hey now, at least the Ukrainian politicians are safe and sound away from the frontlines while their soldiers are suffering

Meanwhile Taiwan is watching carefully not making the same mistake Ukraine did. Chinese Taiwanese are smart people they would choose peace then war at the end of the day.

Dude get serious, my country the Netherlands has a bigger economy than Ruzzia. 🤣🤣

Could?😂

@@13BulliTsAre you the owner of Netherlands? How much then is debts of your state?

LOL. Russia's GDP is around twice that of Netherlands. In 2022 Netherlands military spending was 15.61 Billion, being 1.58% of GDP. Russia's was 86.37 Billion. That's the difference between a war economy and a regular economy. Both countries are higher now, but Russia is expected to reach 140 Billion in 2024. Peace would be wonderful, but tell me this disparity when dealing with a mad dictator that must be stopped is not a problem. 🤣🤣🤣

@@JoeyBlogs007 you are still playing that game of comparing GDPs? As a Dutchman I can tell you that we would not be able to survive the sanctions place on Russia for more than a month. Maybe it’s time to acquire some more brain cells and come up with a better metic than GDP to judge an economy.

They have changed a lot in Russia! To the positive!

Wrong!

Wasn't Russia suppose to win this war in a week? Its already over 2 years, why is Russia so weak?

​@@spetsnaz600Truth hit hard

@@TajZver What truth?

they still have old rusty ammo from N Korea

@@mabuhayproductionltd3627and they produce nothing themselves, just like EU and US do.. Just kidding 😅

@@denisdenisov4036 Just wait new factories comming up all over the West. All countries starts to produce Ammo and missiles,tanks,ships ect. we just getting started. We have 300 Billion $ of Russian Money, so sweet.

@@mabuhayproductionltd3627By taking Russian money, the US will lose credibility in the world and other countries will not have money in US Banks. BRICS will replace the dollar and crash the American economy, so this isn’t a win.

​@mabuhayproductionltd3627 Old rusty better than nothing and they are kicking a$$ with them so go figure 😂

Nothing is going to turn anything around for either side unless US or China becomes fully vested in the war. For now it’s going to be a tactical tug of war and stalemate. The aid will allow Ukraine to stabilize the front and repel the Russian counter offensive though.

No, it never was.

Yes the Russian Army is in Bad Shape, Commanders is being shoot.

Nobody claimed that. Strawman fallacy

No the real problem is that Ukraine should have stayed neutral instead of cozying up to the West and wanting to join NATO. Like it or not Ukraine are in the Russian sphere of influence. It’s simple geography.

@@braxxian Russia has many times said and accepted that the Old sphere of Influence is no more. All states has the right to elect own goverment, make trade deals, join different international organisations. So Russia has No saying in what Ukraine should do. Russia would also not Accept if China fx would protect Chinese citizens in Russia, give them autonomy, have chinese as official language ect.

Very well explained

I agree with much of what you said. Ukraine's decision to attack a heavily defended part of Zaporizia and fight to the bitter end in Bakhmut cost them thousands of needless deaths. Ukraine's failure to build robust defense lines like the Russians did in the south is coming back to haunt them; however, they would not have lost nearly as much ground if they had received if the Republicans in Congress had not sat on the aid for almost six months.

@@fr2ncm9 I cannot really agree. A couple of points to make. The US has clearly been supplying Ukraine with shells and missiles outside of the Congress's authorization of 61B. They have admitted to having shipped ATACMS missiles back in March. Now that the money has been approved, have you looked at the contents of the most recent aid package? It is really nothing that will make any difference. ATACMS are supposed to be the highlight yet the Russians are shooting the vast majority of them down. Even if one or two do get through, what difference can they possibly make? And mind you, there is a rather limited supply of these anyway, we are talking low triple-digits at best. Or is a dozen of desert-camo Bradleys going to become an impregnable wall? My points is that there is not much the US can give to Ukraine to use. They can only escalate by sending their own troops which would be disastrous for the US. Vietnam will look like a kids' play by comparison. Ask yourself, if Biden, Ursula or whoever runs the show were presented with the proposal: "You need to dis out XXX billion (make it a trillion if you like) dollars and that will defeat Russia and bring Putin to his knees.", would they have not jumped at it in a blink of an eye? - They would. You know they would. Unfortunately for them though, money alone cannot win this war. I would go as far as say that the Republicans were actually making Biden a favour by delaying the authorization: during all that time the administration had a perfect excuse - "it is the Republicans!". Now that the money has been authorized, there is no longer an excuse for the continuing failure. In the end, what were 61B going to do that the already spent 400-500B did not? US makes some 500-550 Patriot missiles a year. Some 30-40K 155mm shells a month. ATACMS are no longer produced. M777 are no longer produced.

Yep pretty accurate. No one seems to understand that Russia considered Ukraine joint NATO as an exetential threat to their security and will pay any price to remove it. They consider this their great patriotic war are fighting this war World War 2 style irrespective of losses. They will win just like they did back in 45.

but without war how will all these politicians get rich?

Ukraine: No men, no arms... and still winning :)

@@-lavale- in their hearts maybe

Highly unlikely with his accent.

They are loosing, they know it and there is nothing they can do about it. Its no wonder they are demoralised.

Ssssssssssssssshhhhhh

Russia can stop any time. Ukraine Can´t

@@mabuhayproductionltd3627Ukraine can stop war VERY quickly. The begging monk ZielinsKnie just has to sign capitulation!

That's a no. Putin will be back in a couple years for more land and on and on and on until he is stopped ​@@claus-not-santa

@@mabuhayproductionltd3627 yes. Ukraine can't. US can.

The US and NATO do not allow the cease fire until all Ukrainian Women and Children are exhaused.

So you didn't see the massive double barrel AA gun? 😂

The House was sooo slow to approve

TAIWANESE Lives Matter 🇹🇼👀

Am glad someone in this chat is aware of this. You are right those weapons were already shipped long time ago. Our government make is sound as though soon as they release $61Bn weapons will start to come of the shelves. Am a retired Army E-8 24yrs . Am supply 92Y. So I know how logistics works.

@@lizhall2961 Ok. But the same house allegedly agreed to ship atacms without waiting for the approval right? Sometime sounds fishy isn't it??

@@Booz2020 Chinese lives matters too! So no big deal.

Where are putins yachts

Ukraine ain't a backyard country, like Ruzzia's Lada's. 😂

@@marisabenson1222Why this interest? Are they bought for western alms??

@@13BulliTsPity you cannot even visit Russia!

It’s fine. Putin wears more expensive watches than the most expensive car in Ukraine. Putin surely is spending your money well

Thats USA

@@mabuhayproductionltd3627 that's questionable .

Can you name one (serious )war the US have won? ​@@mabuhayproductionltd3627

@@ZozoZoz-qh1ku No not realy USA has spend more than any other state on Weapons. Russia did have a lot, but most is destroyed now. Very Smart policy by US Goverment.

@@mabuhayproductionltd3627 how you know how many destroyed ? u just don't know!!! in soviet era they spend 80% of money on weapons! they have a loooooot! and also , when usa spends 100 billion , in reality they buy for 15 billion weapons and other 85 billion goes in pockets ! u know that I think!

They have ample manpower. It blows my mind that Ukraine recruitment age is 27 years and older. In most countries, it is 18 years. They are looking at amending their legislation in order to recruit younger people.

@@paulmitchell2468 yes you are right , it 27, but they just reduced it to 25, however, even with that. They are still well short of the number that is needed to match the Russians. And there are tons of footage of recruiters "kidnapping" men in kyiv. Not a good sign of a nation that can win a war. If the fighter is not committed to the fight he or she can't win. At that point they become a cannon fodder.

It's a gift by politicians to the weapons industry. The same weapons industry that pays for the campaigns of these same politicians

Himars victims beg to differ

America = Continent USA = Country without name

@@TheNics29 you know what I mean

Russia has been having so much success with shovels the question I what are we not sending shovels to Ukraine?

@@jonathanjacob5453 not enough washing machines. Most are made in China 😂😂😂

@@eubutuoy I saw at least 10 washing machines at the electronics store on display. I assume that there must be at least 50 washing machines at the warehouse. That 60 washing machines. Those could easily be turn into 60 hypersonic missiles for Ukraine. Come on NATO let’s get moving.

New stock no. Old stock saves money on storage, maintenance, and eventually disassembly costs when given away

Доллары? Почему не гривны? Колония США это Украина и Евросоюз.

​@@SnowCat6That's not the correct use of the word "colony"

Strawman fallacy

​@@IrrationalCharm You are using words you don't understand.

@@springbloom5940 yeah, i just threw two random words together.

@@IrrationalCharm ...and your reading comprehension is poor.

@@springbloom5940 lmao. this russian bot xD

USA are also leasing weapons to Ukraine... Europeans pay...

I tried to tell people this , but they think that the whole $61bn is going to Ukraine.

Almost half went to replenish allies stockpiles of weapons sent to Ukraine per US request.

And it's also being split between supporting ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.

Well, about $15 billion is going to Ukraine, the rest is to develop US based MIC production.

​@@w3s77Excuses

The MSM is 100% BS. Anyone who hasn’t realise that yet clearly hasn’t been paying attention.

Due to Corruption, Russia is loosing the war

@@mabuhayproductionltd3627This is why Ukraine is advancing every day and Russians have problem to keep the speed……..towards west!!

@@claus-not-santa Keep figthing and Ukraine will win

sources???

Even more humiliating for Russia. Can’t even take Ukraine when Ukraine hasn’t even built any defenses

Ask Russia. Its often accepted in war when one side wants peace, the aggressor in the war makes the first steps

and how many russian are losing?

Russia already killed 100 million ukrainian troops of the 45 million population. So no more troops left

@@geoms6263doesnt matter, Ukraine is losing territories everyday, they also taking casualties as well not just the russians

True. It’s aliens that are firing Ukrainian artillery

​@geoms6263 there are losses on both side, it just that Ukraine doesn't have that much men . They can't replenish their lost.

It seems Zelenskiy was on meth

Ukraine has more land than April 2022 so Ukraine is VERY VERY glad it didn't agree a surrender then.

​​@@TimMountjoy-zy2fd There was not asked a surrender of them in April 2022... So what ?

@@TimMountjoy-zy2fd Arrows on a map don't actually mean control of a territory. Russia only annexed the conquered territories somewhere in September. What I'm saying is, back in April Ukraine would have only lost Donetzk and Luhansk. Now it is Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.

​@@TimMountjoy-zy2fd if I used your cocktail of drugs I wouldn't be a normal person.

​@@univeropa3363kherson has a beautiful blue and yellow flag in city center. So does zap.

Yes, The Russians installed chips in shovels and now they have wireless shovels that fight humanless wars for them . . . :)

Wait and see……. When Russians have taken it then it suddenly does not have any strategic meaning!

U really believe those lies

3 day operation.

People with your level of clarity about the situation are very few.

Yea, all these days were pumping up weapons and money but all of a sudden slowing down means it's either they don't want to give or not enough to give. Given the hatred and cheering to see Russia humiliated by west, even a child would say the latter

They literally do... They've captured Novomykhaikivka, Berdychi, Seminivka, Bohdanivka, Novobakhmutivka, Krasnohorivka, Solovione, Kyslivka, Arkhanhelske, Keramik in less than a week

@@AC35K But those are small meaningless things. THey are fighting someone that claims to have no equipment and no soldiers, yet they only take small insignificant villages. No Kharkiv, no Kherson.

@Archeaon "Small meaningless things"... Do you even understand how the Ukrainians celebrated such places in the last years offensive and how hard it actually is to move forward a few miles a day as the Russians are doing at many fronts?

​@@Archeaonsounds like the Winter war

Imagine when your allies don't deliver ammunition because the Kremlin has infiltrated a political party. Ukraine has been severely let down.

😂😂

NATO and the US would steamroll Russia most times if it came to direct blows. That's why Russia has the most nukes.

@@ethancoster1324 İ DONT THİNK SO...LOOK T O AFGHANISTAN

@@niko-zs6vv No one has been able to successfully indefinitely pacify Afghanistan. Britain failed in the 19th century. Russia in the 20th and the US in the 21st.

@@niko-zs6vv precisely looking at afghanistan you realize how easily nato would multiply by zero all russians in a direct confrontation. Russians suffered 15k killed against peshmerga shepards...🤣🤣

Для украинцев ситуация простая - на фронт и в землю.

Just a year ago there was a military rebellion in Russia. Did you predict that? If you didn’t, how can you predict the outcome of this war?

😂😂😂😂😂 belarus is a puppet kingdom for putin. And I'm curios what charges this judge is facing. Because coincidentally most westerners who "defect" to ruzzia or belarus are often facing charges in their home countries.

Good question!!

What is there to negotiate? Zelensky has said that negotiations can start after the Russians pull their forces back to their side of the border. Until then, what is there to negotiate?

The comedian's making a joke out of russia

@@nicolasolton I think Ukranians have every right to want to return to pre-war borders. Unfortunately, that's just an unrealistic outcome at this point. I think Zelensky would've been better off reviewing Finland's Winter War against USSR as an example - even though Finland put up an amazing defense, they still decided to give up some territory to avoid a long protracted war.

@@wenerjy Not really. The PMC Junta has only historic right to Lutsk and Lvov regions.

​​​@@nicolasolton Lack of realistic thinking ... But I am sure, when USA tells Zelensky that he has to go to the negotiation table he will do ... and the outcome will be "Land for peace"