Comments by "Geoff Lepper" (@geofflepper3207) on "Sky News" channel.

  1. Russia is still manufacturing missiles. That's why even if Russia virtually ran out of its stores of missiles it can still fire some missiles. But it is firing far fewer missiles than it used to and also has often been forced to use some missiles for purposes for which they were not intended because Russia used up missiles of a certain type. Seems that with that strategy Russia will end up running out of stores of virtually every type of missile it has other than ICBMs. It's going to take a very, very long time for Russia to rebuild its military after this war, especially if the Russian government is bankrupt and out of foreign reserves by then.
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  2. ​ @thalentekhuluse2829  It hardly seems a big thing for western countries to demand that Putin end his unprovoked imperialist invasion into Ukraine and pull all his troops out of Ukraine. Virtually every government in the world is quite happy and satisfied without invading other countries and stealing their territory How is it pushing Putin too far to request that he behave peacefully and not invade other countries and steal their land when virtually every other leader in the world behaves that way and is quite happy to live peacefully with their neighbours?
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  3. At lesst Pence, unlike Trump, wasn't afraid to debate Harris. I have a theory that in the 1960s Trump saw an episode of Batman and became so intimidated and afraid of Eartha Kitt as Catwoman that he's been intimidated and afraid of strong Black women ever since. Seeing Angela Davis on TV and Pam Grier in the movies a few years later just increased his problem and his fear of dealing with strong Black women. Poor Donnie.
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  4. ​ @trollingsnowflakes3144 Saddam Husain did eventually face consequences for his horrific attacks against civilians. We can only hope that some day Assad will face consequences for his horrific attacks on civilians.
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  5. ​​ @ydy2001001  China put out a map last summer claiming territory in Russia, India, Malaysia, the Philippines and three other countries angering all those seven countries. On top of that China has serious territorial disagreements with Japan and Indonesia and China's last major war was an invasion into Vietnam. None of these countries likes the idea of an Imperialist China invading their country and taking land so they will not be happy to see China acting in an Imperialist way. And India has major political conflicts with China including anger over a Chinese dam that is going to block a lot of water from flowing into northeast India. Plus China is very friendly and close to Pakistan with which India has had major political conflicts bordering on war ever since the 1940s. Don't have the delusion that all non-Western countries love China. G7 countries alone have close to half the GDP of the world. That alone is a lot of business for China to throw away on a stupid, unnecessary invasion.
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  6. ​ @seangallagher8233  I don't hear her talking about it. Trump on the other hand has been crying and carrying on a toddler temper tantrum for four years and constantly lying about losing which is quite pathetic. And Trump incited a violent insurrection to try to steal the 2020 election and become dictator among all sorts of other shenanigans he engaged in to try to steal the election. And unlike Trump who lost the popular vote by a huge margin in 2020 despite massive Republican efforts to suppress voting Clinton won the popular vote by a significant margin in 2016 and so deserved to become president. Absolutely no comparison to how Trump reacted to badly losing in 2020 and how any other presidential candidate in American history has responded to losing an election because Trump is the only presidential candidate in American history who has the maturity of a toddler and an immature toddler at that.
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  7. It's been a full year since the first Russian shell fell on Bakhmut. So even if the rubble that used to be a small city has been captured at the cost of vast numbers of dead Russian soldiers and lost Russian tanks and with the expenditure of vast numbers of shells it is a disastrous operation for Russia. Bakhmut is 41 square kilometres. Ukraine is 603,700 square kilometers. So at that rate it will take Russia over 14 thousand years to capture all of Ukraine, something Putin thought he could do in a few days. That's a complete Russian disaster. And that doesn't even take into account that while Russia was effectively slaughtering its own troops struggling to take a tiny bit of territory in Bakhmut Ukraine was capturing vast swaths of territory in other areas. Then there's is the little problem that Russia can't afford to keep fighting this war for 14 thousand years. In fact if almost certainly can't afford to keep fighting this war for 14 more months.
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  8. ​ @yourma-uh5um that makes no sense and is completely illogical and impossible as the Russians invaded Donbas in 2014 to join violent pro-Russian extremists in starting the war in Donbas.
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  9. Remaining senior Russian officers still alive in Crimea possibly planning another large meeting to discuss how they can avoid the disaster that occurred at the last big meeting. Every death is a tragedy but when the deaths of Russian officers mean that many more Ukrainians will live those Russian deaths don't seem quite as tragic.
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  10. The only negotiations to be done should be about the logistics of how Russia will hand over Russians accused of war crimes to Ukraine or to the Hague for trial and about how massive Russian reparations will be paid to Ukraine and to people from poorer countries to compensate them for the higher food and fuel prices they faced due to the impacts of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. There's nothing else to negotiate once Russia has stopped its unprovoked genocidal invasion of Ukraine and pulled all of its troops out of Ukraine.
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  11. ​ @neilnelson7603 no not normal for Europe. Basically at the end of WW2 close to 80 years ago European countries decided that centuries of fighting wars with each other was enough and they decided to just live in peace with each other ..... with the exceptions of the Soviet Union/Russia and Serbia which have repeatedly launched invasions against other European countries. So it's not a European thing and hasn't been a European thing for close to 80 years. Rather it's a Russia/Serbia thing.
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  12. ​ @meso8848  What a coincidence. 2014 was when imperialist Russian troops invaded Donbas and pro Russian extremists started a violent insurrection in Donbas. One would think that pro Russian extremists in Donbas would behave logically as any other people in the world behave and just move to Russia if they want to live in Russia, especially as three decades ago the people of Donbas voted overwhelmingly to stay in Ukraine but there isn't much logic in pro Russian extremists.
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  13. ​ @ibrahimtouman2279 it's happened on a large scale on three different fronts before in this war so it is not completely absurd to think that it is possible that once again Russian troops could panic and flee, especially as the Russians have used up a lot of their military equipment and supplies whereas the Ukrainians keep getting new equipment and supplies from Western nations. For instance Russian forces now have left far fewer tanks than they had when they fled in panic from Northern Ukraine last April or even than they had when they fled in panic from the Kharkiv region last September.
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  14. Western sanctions haven't caused the increase in grain and fuel prices that adversely impacted "third world countries". It was Russia's unprovoked genocidal invasion of Ukraine that did that. Look at how much Ukrainian land can't grow grains now because of the invasion and how many Ukrainian farmers have to spend their time fighting off Russian terrorist invaders instead of growing food and look at the barbaric Russian terrorist attacks on Ukrainian grain and port infrastructure. That obviously is the problem that is making things worse for people around the world.
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  15. ​ @chrismartin5662  My guess is that Ukraine was shelling its own territory because Russian invaders and violent revolutionaries trying to steal part of Ukraine were on that territory.
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  16. ​ @dinaf1409  Why should Palestinians go anywhere when they have their own homeland in Palestine?
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  17. It's disturbing to hear western leaders talking about making plans to increase production of military supplies and equipment when the war is almost 17 months old. They should have been increasing such production at least by April 2022 when it became clear that Ukraine had the capability to defend itself. I'm sure that in WW1 and in WW2 western countries didn't wait till 17 months after fighting had started to consider increasing military production. Ukraine is fighting not just for itself but also to protect all of Europe from the threat of invasion by Imperialist Russia and European leaders should have realized that long ago and increased military production accordingly. If Russia does somehow manage to conquer Ukraine (as unlikely as that seems) and then invades a NATO country 6 years down the road thus forcing NATO to directly fight against Russia then western leaders will regret not quickly increasing military production in spring 2022 to ensure that Russian invaders in Ukraine suffered complete defeat.
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  18. ​ @codecj3412  Except that people in the Russian military have shown a habit of using insecure technology when communicating electronically and thus letting Ukrainian troops know which places to target with shells or missiles of drones.
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  19. So the Russian military commanders decided to have a meeting at one headquarters to discuss the destruction of a another Russian headquarters and the Ukrainians then destroyed the second headquarters during the meeting. What are the chances that the remaining Russian senior officers left in Crimea have another meeting at a third location to discuss the destruction of the second headquarters location and during the meeting the Ukrainians strike that location too?
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  20. ​ @limedickandrew6016  Capturing Kiev and conquering Ukraine in a few days as planned would have been a victory for Russian terrorism. That didn't happen and the Russian military campaign has suffered disaster after disaster after disaster and hasn't made a significant advance in well over a year and has lost vast amounts of territory in that year and now has to build mine fields because it is afraid to take on the Ukrainian military directly. And it's now well over 500 days into the war. When the Russian military has failed so miserably to conquer a much smaller country that is a massive loss for Russia.
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  21. ​ @simonpedge  Russia is going to have to pay trillions of dollars in reparations for Ukrainian deaths, injuries and for many things. Guess I should feel sorry for average Russians who will be stuck in impoverished conditions for the next 40 years as a result but it's hard to care much about that right now.
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  22. ​ @Writeous0ne  Ukraine doesn't want to steal Kursk and make it part of Ukraine because unlike imperialist Russia Ukraine doesn't want to steal territory from other countries so Ukraine is not worried about Kursk never becoming part of Ukraine. So your comment doesn't make sense.
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  23. There is some truth in that but it still is stupid to waste hypersonic missiles to attack civilians when Ukrainian forces are preparing a major offensive. Putin's regime is a terrorist regime and terrorists do terrorism. It's in the nature of Putin's regime to do terrorism so that's how they fight wars ....in Ukraine, Syria, Chechnya, etc.
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  24. ​ @davidzimmerman4159  No Russian troll. It's 1.5% of the American military budget. Not 1.5% of American GDP.
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  25. ​ @franceyneireland1633 I seem to remember a story from the 1800s in which the corporation of one robber baron kidnapped the messenger boy of a rival company and substituted a similar looking boy for him so that they would be able to see all if their rival's messages.
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  26. And it certainly won't be good for future sales of military equipment from Germany if Germany behaves like a cowardly mouse and refuses to let its tanks be used even in a battle against an empire building, brutal dictator who is a threat to all of Europe.
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  27. ​ @croftipsy no - not western propaganda. It's Wagner propaganda. It's Wagner that has been saying how horrible things are for them and is now claiming they are advancing.
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  28. China might take a few hundred thousand square kilometers of "Russia" as their share and clearly there is nothing Russia could do about it. Not that the imperialist Chinese regime is any better than the imperialist Russian regime.
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  29. Putin has thrown everything he possibly can into the war and Russian forces have still been humiliated. Plus Russia has an acute labour shortage and infrastructure in Russia is breaking down because there is nobody to fix it. And Russia is quickly exhausting the stores of military weapons that it took 80 years to accumulate. If Putin tries to mobilize more men the Russian economy will start collapsing due to lack of workers plus for every man he mobilizes one or two will flee the country.
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  30. Yes, the ambassador got every Russian lie spot on. His dictator will be happy with that so the ambassador can now have a little longer without being recalled to Russia and imprisoned. Unless Putin notices how nervous and unconvincing the ambassador looked spouting Russian lies and propaganda. That could get him imprisoned.
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  31. ​ @tonymacaroni6831  Russian troll completely lacking any morality, credibility or self respect identified. Goal of Russia was to capture Kiev and conquer Ukraine within days. Obviously that attempt has been an utter disaster. Russia has lost the war badly.
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  32. Don't believe that the Japanese had any hostages when the Americans landed on Iwo Jima in WW2 but the American forces still had a very difficult time in achieving victory even with total air and naval superiority because the Japanese had prepared a network of tunnels and American troops never knew when a Japanese soldier might pop up behind them out of a hidden tunnel entrance.
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  33. ​ @vladimirprotein1275  Driving terrorist, genocidal Russian invaders from Ukraine actually would be very constructive Russian troll.
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  34. How goes the Russian three day special military operation to capture Kiev and conquer Ukraine Russian troll?
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  35. ​ @lindakelley2676  True. Consequences from white European colonists invading Palestine and stealing all the land and oppressing Palestinians for 75 years and putting Palestinians in large, overcrowded, impoverished prison camps and thinking that Palestinians don't deserve basic human rights.
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  36. ​ @teresagoldman5043  No. The white European colonist invaders have brutally oppressing and attacking Palestinians for 75 years, starting long, long before there was a Hamas organization.
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  37. ​ @sybersecurity277  I don't condone the actions of those particular people who celebrated the deaths of Israeli civilians but what would your attitude be if invaders from another continent invaded your land and stole all the territory and put your people in overcrowded impoverished prison camps and brutally oppressed and humiliated your people for decades and took away all basic human rights from your people and made clear that they intended to keep your people in that horrific situation forever?
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  38. ​​​ @Leon-en9il  I would agree that Jewish people forced to leave Arab countries or leaving because of persecution should be entitled to compensation (or their family members should be compensated if they are deceased). But if they left simply because they were pushed to go to Palestine by Zionist representatives or left simply because they heard that Jewish Europeans were stealing Palestine from the Palestinians and stolen land would be available then they deserve no compensation. And of course wrongs by governments elsewhere to Jewish people don't justify Jewish Europeans stealing Palestine from the Palestinians, especially as those wrongs by Arab governments generally happened after white Jewish Europeans invaded Palestine. It would be pretty bizarre for white Jewish Europeans to claim that it was ok for them to steal Palestine from the Palestinians because in doing so they think it will make Arab governments so mad that they will take actions against Jewish people in their countries in the future. Notice that Jewish people lived for centuries in Arab countries and began a mass exodus out of those countries only after white Jewish European colonists announced that they were forming a country on land stolen from Palestinians. If there had been no white Jewish European invasion into Palestine one has to assume that the Jewish populations that had lived in Arab countries for centuries would still be there. Still not justifying the actions of any Arab governments or people who persecuted Jewish people in Arab countries but the order of events should be understood.
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  39. People in countries fornerly invaded and colonized by western European countries who have somehow thought that is a reason to support Russia (Europe's last Imperialist power) or to be neutral regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine suddenly realizing "Gee, the Russians are terrorists who want to starve us. Maybe they are just as bad as western media have been saying they are".
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  40. ​ @fabianabongo6284  Russian troll - that stategy may not work very well after the Russian regime goes bankrupt early next year. And don't forget that after the Russian regime goes bankrupt your payments will stop.
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  41. The Zionists told the Palestinians to go there and have destroyed virtually everywhere else in Gaza. If the Zionists want them to leave Rafah then the Zionists need to take down the walls around the Gaza prison camp and let all Palestinians return to their land around historical Palestine.
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  42. Whether or not Communist China would succeed in an invasion of Taiwan it would be an economic disaster for Communist China. After Russia invaded Ukraine Europe cut purchases of Russian fossil fuels by something like 90% in just a year or so and fossil fuels can be produced by only certain countries. Most Chinese products can be made anywhere in the world. Even if wealthy countries cut imports of Chinese products by just 60% the Chinese economy would be devastated. And almost certainly the reduction would be much more than 60% and countries such as Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, India and Malaysia know that imperialist China has desire to take some of their territory and likely would not be happy to see imperialist China actually launching an imperialist invasion and might respond very negatively to such an imperialist invasion by China and also would be happy to replace China in supplying products to wealthy countries. Invading Taiwan would be a very stupid self destructive decision for Communist China.
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  43. Hope that the recent success of the Ukrainian military reflects what I was thinking during the summer - that Ukrainian forces would struggle to adjust as they slowly switched from Soviet to western weapons and at times had a hodge podge of both and that would be a difficult time for them on the battlefield but once they had more of less transitioned to western weapons and kept getting huge supplies from NATO countries they would start to have an advantage over a Russian army still using Soviet weapons and not getting significant supplies of new weapons from anywhere. Though I presume that the Ukrainans are still using Soviet style tanks and planes. One other thing: After major restrictions were put on technological exports to Russia it was said that more and more Russian civilian planes would be usable as parts break down and the Russians would be unable to get replacement parts and they could cannibalize parts from other idle Russian planes for a while but eventually the whole sysyem breaks down and the Russian civilian air industry would collapse. I am wondering if Russia also needs western parts for its military aircraft and thus if they are running out of parts needed to keep their airforce in the air. I presume that countries are much more likely to avoid having their military planes dependent on foreign parts, especially in the case of Russia.
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  44. Macron and the Ukrainians kept trying to negotiate with the Russians but the Russians weren't serious about negotiating. And what the heck is there to negotiate when the way to have peace is simple - Russia just needed to not launch an unprovoked, genocidal invasion against Ukraine. See. Simple.
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  45. Four years from the British and some allies fleeing Dunkirk to the British, Canadians and Americans landing back on the continent at Normandy and then still another month plus to make any significant ground and break through those hedge rows. If there had been German online trolls they would have been relentless in their insults of allied forces for those four plus years. Imagine them mocking allied troops for being defeated by hedge rows. And of course they would have praised Hitler for trying to unite Europe under German control thus bringing Europe "peace". And possibly the former Edward VIII would have a podcast praising Hitler and trying to undermine British resistance to fascism just as some right wingers now have podcasts supporting Putin and his invasion. Possibly with guests like Charles Lindbergh and Oswald Mosley and Father Coughlin.
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  46. Another analyst said that there are 5 or 6 different types of Russian organizations trying to respond to the Ukrainian incursion. That's a recipe for confusion. On D-Day General Eisenhower had complete and absolute control over all allied forces involved in the invasion whereas various German generals had control over various segments of the German military that needed to respond to the alllied landings. That didn't work out well for Germany.
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  47. Despite the paramoia of western leaders about aggravating Putin even if there was the possibility that Ukrainian forces had launched drones from Estonia I'm not sure that Putin would dare to retaliate thus putting Russia into a real war with NATO. And I doubt very much that any NATO countries would allow Ukrainian forces to launch attacks from NATO territory.
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  48. It's simple. Their candidate lost. End of story. They don't have the "right" to stage a toddler temper tantrum and stage a violent insurrection intent in killing the election winner simply because they are angry that their candidate lost.
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  49. Perhaps on May 9 Putin will make two announcements. 1- We have now achieved a decisive victory in the war in Ukraine but remember Russian citizens that we have not been at war in Ukraine. 2. We now need all reservists to go to fight in our war in Ukraine to hopefully try to achieve something we can pretend is victory but remember Russian citizens that we have already achieved overwhelming victory in our war in Ukraine and also remember citizens that we have not been at war in Ukraine.
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  50. "Russia has always won" and "Russia doesn't want war" and "Russian people are brave". With people that ignorant and gullible it's no wonder that Putin still has some support.
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