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

Ander's is spot on about why you won't see pictures of important installations on social media etc. I've lived here for a decade (Ukrainian wife) and way back at the start of the invasion in 2022, the train station of our home town in Donbas, not far from our flat, got hit. I had some pictures, and was going to show some buddies on IRC and my wife accosted me and told me never to do that, or the Russians might find out how well (or bad) they did. But since then I adhere to OPSEC and that's how all us civilians in Ukraine do our bit. E.g. if someone lives in Kyiv or other big city near an air-defence system, you don't take pictures of it and you don't talk about it. The locations are secret for obvious reasons.
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@Ikkeligeglad SO what ? I repeat relevant posts like that instead of typing them out again. He does the same.
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I don't want to say too much because of OPSEC, but I will say this, I have been IDP from Donbas in NW Ukraine since last year and lately I have heard a lot of jet activity in the skies here, way more than usual. This might be the F-16's online as per your theory.. That's all I will say. Merry Xmas Anders. Always appreciate your insightful presentations. 🙃🎄🎅✈
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@soul0360 Indeed. Before the full scale invasion, we didn't have Marshal Law and OPSEC was not a thing I was aware of, (the only action was pot shots across those static front lines in Donbas from 2014 to 22) so it never really crossed my mind not to do dumb things like that once the entire country was affected. The wife quickly straightened me out, haha
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Russians think like slaves i.e. they are used to a "big leader" (Veliki Vozhd) making the big decisions for them and this ingrained submissive thinking has its roots in centuries of Serfdom, almost uniquely due to the entire Russian population being ostensibly the "property" of their Tsar. Many countries and cultures practiced slavery & countries had slaves, but no country or culture ever enslaved the entirety of their people like the Russian Tsar did. not since at least Roman times, you'd have to probably go back to Egyptian Pharaohs ? (but that 3,000 years before Russia) I think Pharaohs they treated a large proportion like property, but most likely not even to the extent Russian Tsars did (making Russia more backwards than Egypt 3,000 years prior!!!). It's just the way the socially backwards system developed so it's got to do with the hundreds of years the entire Russian population were slaves of the Tsar (and by extension the state) under Serfdom. Ask any Ukrainian that question and you'll this similar answer. e.g. a Russian will take a beating form his master and maybe shrug it off, thinking they might have deserved it, a Ukrainian would not even entertain the thought or reality of someone being his master and resist that with a perpetual struggle to oust the oppression, let alone the humiliation of a punishing beating. The Ukrainian. strives to be free, the Russian, makes do with the bad situation and hopes it might get better sometime down the track.
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yeap, I agree and `i live in Ukraine. , I think Anders counter arguments are valid.
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same, also the acoustics in the tiny room did change how he sounded!
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Hello Anders algorithmic response here. 😉 As you state, the pundits get it wrong, they look for one single reason for Czar Putin's objectives and fall on territory. But they fail to realise the situation here is multi-factorial, for sure political control was the primary objective, but also, the Kremlin is not about go give up any territory they have gained so far, and in fact, lay claim to territory they have not yet conquered, even going so far as to enshrine it into the Russian constitution. BUt anyway I agree 💯 with this great presentation. But let's not forget there is more than one reason.
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With the comparison by Pundits of the behaviour of President Macron of France and PM Starmer of the UK, it is not valid. For starters, JD Vance HATES Ukraine, he stated in the past he does not care what happens in Ukraine. Trump has alwasys like Russia more than Ukraine. This is not the case with the UK or France, Vance and Trump have no beef or bad attitude with those two countries. But they have a VERY bad attitude towards us in Ukraine. So, of course it is not a legit comparison to say President Zelensky should behaved more like PM Starmer or President Macron, with the VERY differing attitudes of Trump and Vance to UK/France vs Ukraine.
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@dixonpinfold2582 Yes indeed, the Soviet era, was a continuation of the old Tsarist system in essence "re-branded" as Soviet socialism It's not fully realized by most that mention collectivisation - usually about the negative affects of the implementation by Stalin - and move on in the discussion, that the Kolkhoz's (collective farms) & Sovkhoz's (state farms) were ostensibly a continuation of Serfdom by stealth. A worker on these farms was bound to the land like a Serf in that they had to get permission to leave the Town or Village the farm was based around. If they sought this permission, it was of course, rarely, if at all, granted. You make some interesting observations, and I agree with the comparisons to tinpot dictators that were so prolific in post colonial Africa. I note with bemusement, Nguema was actually the Uncle of the current President of Equatorial Guinea, Obiang, whom Captain Simon Mann and other former "Executive Outcomes" (world first PMC essentially) mercenaries tried to over-throw in the failed Wonga Coup attempt in 2005.
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PPP itself has an inherent fallacy no one ever mentions or factors in Anders. Ok Russia has more purchasing power to buy more "cheaper" hardware internally, but how many "cheaper" T-90 tanks or Su-35 jets or MiG's can they buy ? They can't buy a gazzillion of them, they can barely build 50 jets a year and 250 tanks a year (same goes for missiles etc, they can only make a couple of dozen each month), so what are they going to spend the rest of their useless PPP adjusted rubles on ?
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@ashroskell man you miss the point totally, before this Prigozhin asassination the Kleptocrats and others in the inner circle like the Siloviki and Turbo Patriots etc, themselves (i;e; not dissidents) did not have to fear retribution as when Putin made a deal with them, he stuck to it. They were not ruled by "fear", but by being loyal and that guaranteed no hassles. What you are referring to is the dissidents, who had to fear being killed by the Kremlin. That fear was always there, but not for the inner circle, for them now fear is the new normal too. You over generalised and didn't go down to the details. Anders made it quite clear too, but hey even I miss points in clips and need to re-watch them over, i happens to all of us! 🙃
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@FreeTheDonbas So Russian imperialism is ok ? Maybe you wouldn't be talking that BS if you'd lost a home to Russian imperialism like i have, clown.
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Your earned bragging rights on this one Anders. Much appreciated, that Mearsheimer clip was gold. He is a charlatan. Mr Galleoti is ok BUT..... but.... he does say a lot of things that are cleverly hidden apology for Russia. He even said on his "In Moscows Shadows" podcast, that he wished "this ghastly was was over so he could go back to visiting Russia" (he is currently banned and wants to get off the ban list). This is very revealing about Mr Galleoti and very disappointing. He is your typical Russophile expert that has a inbuilt bias and fetishhism for Russia.
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@Asptuber I'm not in Lyviv, I am in another large city in North West Ukraine, I'd rather not say which, you can probably guess it!
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@Asptuber Yea Lyviv is where all the action is for foreigners but I am not there, I am up in that corner near Belarus and Poland.
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@HenryKlausEsq. IDP = Internally Displaced Person.
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@BTinSF Yea that would explain the extra jet activity over Western Ukraine that I've heard in the past week or so, where it's reasonably safe to fly without worrying to much about ruZZian threats.
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