Comments by "Geoff Lepper" (@geofflepper3207) on "Ukraine Reaches Klischiivka But Retreats in Kharkiv: What Next?" video.

@attilamarics3374 If you've reread it a thousand times and you still can't understand what he said clearly and what everyone else understood the first time they read it then you need to restrict your online activity to watching cat videos and absolutely you need to stop commenting on serious topics. You'll just embarrass yourself again if you post again. Leave the adult topics to others more capable than yourself to discuss.
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@michaelotieno6524 The fact that Russian forces have made such an effort to build up such as vast network of trenches to create a separation between themselves and Ukrainian forces in the south is actually a sign that Russia military leaders think their forces are weaker and/or inferior to Ukrainian forces and could not withstand direct combat with the enemy. It's well known that military forces which feel they are inferior to the enemy and in danger of being overrun try to build minefields between themselves and the enemy and the Russians have apparently built the biggest minefield in the world (by one report as big as Florida). If Russian forces in the south of Ukraine thought they were superior to Ukrainian forces and able to make an advance then they wouldn't be building minefields because it would be a waste of resources and the minefields would greatly hinder their own advance. They would have to de-mine the minefields they just created if they wanted to advance at all.
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Bakhmut was first shelied by Russian forces in May 2022 and the main assault against the city started on August 1, 2022. Obviously, there was no frozen ground at the time. Ukraine did actually make huge advances after this time, both in the Kharkiv area and in the Kherson area. But that was long, long before western countries had finally agreed to start sending tanks to help Ukraine which didn't happen until 2023. More importantly the first heavy tanks from NATO didn't arrive in Ukraine until late in March 2023 and obviously they didn't all arrive at once. And American Abrams tanks aren't expected to arrive in Ukraine until this September. So for virtually the entire Battle of Bakhmut starting last August Ukraine had no western tanks and really by the time it had enough western tanks to form proper tank battalions to aid in an advance in the south the Russians had captured Bakhmut. I suppose that Ukraine could have tried to advance in the south without western tanks and other equipment supplied this spring but I'm not sure that was feasible. Yes the Russians might have used Bakhmut to sacrifice vast numbers of their soldiers to distract Ukraine from a possible offensive in the south but I'm not sure that Ukraine had the strength to make an advance in the south before the Russians captured Bakhmut. If that is the case then the Russians sacrificed vast numbers of lives and vast amounts of military supplies and equipment in Bakhmut for nothing.
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@attilamarics3374 He didn't say that he could see from a geographical map that the Russian military was being degraded. You're mixing up 2 separate things he said. It's not very impressive for you to criticize and mock him for a comment he never made. Do better. Sure I could mock you for saying that lions are gentle vegetarians but that would be a ridiculous thing to do because you didn't say that so I'm not doing that. Understand now or are you still confused?
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@attilamarics3374 Bad enough that you humiliate yourself once saying that no matter how hard you try you just can't understand a clear statement that everyone else understands. But to keep humiliating yourself by telling everyone about your incompetence over and over again is just sad. Try to show yourself some basic self respect and stop going out of your way to insult and humiliate yourself.
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Putin is in serious, serious trouble. He has no good choices other than to end his stupid war and pull all Russian troops out of Ukraine and it seems that he is too stupid to do that. Even if Putin wanted peace and even if Ukraine was willing to sign a peace agreement that Russia was willing to sign as soon as the war is over Ukraine is likely to be on the fast track to joining NATO and Putin will soon see NATO bases within a short distance of Crimea and Donbas. But if Putin doesn't sign a peace treaty then by next spring at latest his government will run out of foreign reserves and be bankrupt and will no longer be able to carry on the war. Guess he could try to conscript another 1.5 million men into the Russian military but that would anger a lot of Russians and likely another couple of million young talented Russians will flee the country which will make Russia's demographic collapse even worse. Men who have left the country won't be having babies in Russia and men stuck in trenches aren't having babies and those that die will never have babies. And then there is the fact that Russia probably is incapable of providing another million plus Russian soldiers with the clothes, food, etc., etc they would require and that Russian forces have shown no ability to make a significant advance anyway and as well Russia would be heading towards bankruptcy even faster with that many men taken out of productive jobs and put in the army where they are a drain on the economy. Really Putin's best strategy would be to fly to China for talks with Xi and then when he's in China to announce that he's retiring and will be staying in China for his retirement. Of course before doing so he should make sure that he has a nice big bank account in a Chinese bank.
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Russian forces spent a year trying to take Bakhmut at the cost of vast numbers of Russian soldiers dead or wounded and the waste of vast amounts of military supplies and the destruction of vast amounts of military equipment even though Bakhmut had no great strategic value. Also, they may have completely given up on advancing in the south and have created massive minefields to separate themselves from Ukrainian forces because they think that if they actually had to take on Ukrainian forces they could not compete and would be driven back but the longer Russian forces in the south are stuck where they are the more humiliating it will be for Putin - Pretty embarrassing for the dictator of the world's largest country when he declares that certain regions of Ukraine have magically become part of Russia when the Russian military then proves itself so incompetent that it can't defeat the forces of a much smaller country to capture that "new Russian territory".
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