Getting close to the confederate average

@@cameraman502 He can start Cosplaying as Longstreet Soon Enough

True!!

One more step and it will be Cave Man level....

Still got nothing on Sideburns tho

He dims the lights too lol

That's the same jacket he used to wear when he was filming Business Blaze before the rebranding to brain blaze.

@@Drew-lj7hk Also he breaks out his Dad Voice

How many channels does Simon work on?

@@jamesgreenldn 147 it would seem

It's like the Hank meme where you're happy to see warographics upload on the left side but you realise thousands of people are going to die on the right side

Well, it's doomed for the Ukrainians, at least.

We'll he's only like that when certain people are suffering so it's not like it's all the time.

It's more like hundreds of thousands 😢

@@GothPaoki of, certain people, huh. Do I hear an accusation behind that thin veil?

Or they took the money and ran

@@thecommie739 in what way could russian front line troops bribe Ukrainians there and then? With what wealth? How would they wire them the monies?

​@@user-ol2mr4bx7cthey are probably one of those people that believe the money laundering stuff

​@@user-ol2mr4bx7c Hes referring to internal corruption you fool

Cope harder

Isn't GM the one who makes washing machines and the Gau. Both spin

@@rellikskuppin7417 GM is an auto maker. I believe you're thinking of GE who make appliances and locomotives but also might make military weapons.

@cannon26ify Thanks brotha. ❤️

@@cannon26ify it was General Electric

Putin weaponized Whirlpool and Siemens

Kinda sad that a recon by force operation led to capturing 60 square miles in 3 days.

@@mr.z3664or, it means mass is no longer as important as porosity

The initial convoy that tried to take Kiev had about 72 hours worth of provisions as well.

Almost no armor? Did you miss the bit the other day when 20 Russian armored vehicles were lost in one assault? After loading most of their armored support they tried moving squad size elements forward to cover that would then advance in company or larger sized groups?

Like Val and Earl leaving Perfection

which means you more than likely live in japan, australia or new zealand

@@waywaywaywaywaytoolongtore7496 Australia for me. And I also was about to go to bed.

@@waywaywaywaywaytoolongtore7496 can i live with you

I am watching this in bed 😂😂😂

He just reads scripts

I think he's an AI. It's the only explanation that makes sense .

No sleep till Brooklyn!! /beastyboysmode

He reads scripts from the Establishment.

Dude doesnt cut and upload everything himself, for shure has an editing team lol

Totally plausible, I believe the total Russian force was observed as 30-50k, unsure how many of those are actual combatants. If we assume all are combatants (they're absolutely not though) 30-50k isn't even enough to take 1/3 of kharkiv if we base the casualties on what was seen in Bahkmut and during the Ruzzian campaign thus far. I think people keep forgetting Ukraine was never intending to sit directly on the border. That's a good way to catch some Z artillery with your face or get easily flanked because your position is super obvious. I could see the Russian conscripts being surprised at this and thinking the UA defenses must just be bad and pushing their luck past the distance their original mission intended. However, they'd be wrong because the Ruzzian government does not care to train them as a professional volunteer force. They will soon realize why that land was so easy to occupy whenever they finally make it to the actual strong points and defensive lines UA fell back too (like smart boys).

​@@Funko777, Russian conscripts are far away from front line. Russia get Kharkiv without need to really fight over it or in it. After complete DEMILITARIZATION (including erasing Ukrainian military manpower) everything will be free to walk in for Russians. Please remember, Russia don't use conscripts at front line!

@@Funko777the first part of your reply was fine but then you started spitting delusion about Russian “conscripts” they obviously have decent to good training if they’re able to assault positions in volchansk that are held by Ukrainian elite forces like the GRU and KRAKEN. 5-7k “untrained conscripts” would not have gone this far against Ukrainian elite.

Yeah and thousands of Russian mothers just posting fake obituaries online. Dumb lie that anyone can disprove

You guys got this💪

Stay safe

Bro you should flee immediately westward

​@@footofblut981they don't it's a matter of time stop this propaganda it's about his life

Can you tell us the percentage of soldiers who actually want to fight till the end, vs the conscripts who don't want to?

They're also doing 2 other things. Diverting forces from the Donetsk front, and also threatening Ukraine's rear supply routes that lead to the front

The Russians are already in Lyptsi that means the city is already under fire control, I get the impression Nord group has trained specifically for this operation.

I heard that long range missiles that have been hitting Belgorod are all set up in Kharkiv, which is one of the reasons why Russians are advancing in that direction.

@@tonybrand4643That is the main reason why Russians are advancing there.

Wild ass comment 😂

Steady on…

Yeah I'm not "excited" for the news, but I always appreciate Simon's pretty balanced and detailed breakdowns after heavily browsing /r/noncredibledefense all week. I appreciate he never claims to be an expert but does a good job of breaking down the info

We feel this way because we are starved of objective conversation anymore. To watch a top tier KZfaqr (disingenuous term imo) do a better job than the news itself? Doesn't get any better. No politics, no injected opinions, no agenda, just a group of folks working their asses off to give us actual objective brain food.

@@elidames6889 Yes! this articulated what I couldn't - thankyou! Lol

Thank you! Thought I was going crazy at first.

Your both crazy lol sucks for you and your delicate ears

Simon is not very bright. Russia used mostly second line troops in the early days of the war aside from the airbourne.

@Cryptid71 Indeed, even most of the 'conscripted' were former contract soldiers with experience in Syria, Georgia, some even in the second Chechen war.

Exactly, the Russian army now is NOT the same as the one that initially invaded. They've got experience and now they've adapted

@@FrostbiteDigitalThat’s what Ukraine supporters hate hearing lol. They refuse to believe Russia is not a super power and a joke of a country but in reality a country like Ukraine can take years to take or be victorious. It took the United States years to be victorious in some countries that are the size of Texas so obviously it takes time to win a war

Simon is recruiting consent, using his propaganda potential!😅

Furthermore I agree that Ukrainian news could be more truthful, I've been watching the channel "Reporting from Ukraine" for the past few months for some details I wouldn't get anywhere else and sure I get those there but if I believed everything he said then the situation at the frontline would be butterflies and roses peaceful because they're dealing with everything that's thrown at them with such military superiority that they don't need more men or weapons. I doubt that that's the case and I think that falsification of truth doesn't benefit anyone who is trying to solve the issues in this conflict. Yes I believe they're doing what they can to hold Russia at bay and inflict massive casualties, but I'm also aware that they don't have the means to effectively push them back and in channels like these that fact goes unstated.

if rus can strike ukr with NK missiles, why not rus with nat missile? This is just a big lose lose. rus likly win initial war, but there won't be peace. Same old blowback cycle, but with half the world backing insurgency, etc. It's like rus was fcked before they invaded. They are just here to fck sht up like a psychotic/abusive AF ex-boyfriend.

Not a good idea because it galvanises the resolve of the Russians and gives them an excuse to increase their buffer zone beyond the Russian speaking autonomous regions.

That is amazing news I didn't hear that !

​@@user-re3nl6oy9rGalvanised to invade Ukraine? Okay, sure... You do know Putin is already invading Ukraine right? And that Ukraine is defending itself against him, you know that, right?

Great episodes except his episodes about Bukele. The El Salvadorians come in mobs

I think Simon mentioned quite a few times in different podcasts, he doesn't really want to meet with his audience. I believe he said he doesn't read messages below videos either. Which is of course his choice and we are only to respect it.

@@PetrSojnek Yeah, you are right. I respect that. Although I admire people like him. Nevertheless, I understand it. He values his privacy and some of his content is inevitably political, as in warographics

Almost like it’s a war? Shit can change in days or even hours. They captured a lightly guarded “buffer zone” if that’s a big win that’s embarrassing lol Russia lost the war a long time ago showed the world how incompetent their military really is within the first month, their logistic capabilities to invade their own neighbor was a shit show. For being the “best” military and can barely invade their own neighbors and getting pushed back and losing 100s of thousands of men to essentially a Third World country is insane, Russia will never be looked at as a power house anymore

@@Dee-ye1ld But according to the our elected officials who's giving the Ukrainians possibly TRILLION of our tax dollars that we really need, the Russians are holding back they're best units to invaded London or Paris and Washington. So with that logic those "second hand troops" along with their African And North Korean mercenaries friends are doing a really good job.

They had actual ammo reserves a few months ago. Crazy that a side can go from winning to losing if their supply lines are cut right? -_-

The man probably goes over it with a comb and beard wax

​@@prateekbhurkay9376 as he should lol

Kings and Generals KZfaq channel has maps.

Exactly. And unlike Ukraine, Russia has been training thousands of soldiers per month for the last 2 years. Ukraine is begging Europe to deport Ukrainian men back home.

​​@@mr.z3664 the Ukrainian don't want fight to Zelensky intereste... because he get lots off aid money and getting richer...

It's funny ik

Shhhhh 🤫

Yeah nice made-up story LOL You do realize that Russia has admitted today that the attack was a failure😂😂

Go collect your potato Ivan, good work today

But far less than the Ukrainian liberated in their first counter offensive. They aren't liberating, but reoccupying lost territory.

so ur stupid and closed minded, cool. Do you want a medal?

Agreed. I pretty much just use Simon for my straight to the point coverage as he doesn't get bogged down in political speculation but sticks to the who, what, where, how and why?

Not even close. Check out Willy OAM.

Bro hasn’t seen History Legends vid. He has the best report. He literally details day by day how the Russian attack happened.

Most people prefer to be rotated off the frontlines from time to time. And unlike hundreds of years ago, people don't sign decades long military service contracts. This is all quite obvious, but then you are promoting the Russian narrative about a "coup", so I think we all know where your loyalties lie.

@@shaun7142 Um not many Ukrainian units are getting R&R. And it was a coup. The US handpicked the replacement Kiev government, all secretly recorded in a telephone call, you were obviously not old enough in 2014 to remember. Obama, McCain, Nuland all in on it. That same US picked Kiev government went to war against the east, shooting people at polling booths, the Odessa massacre. Dmytro Yarosh the far right leader of Right Sector was even part of the government for a time. You are clueless as to the real story behind the Ukraine mess. The US created this mess, the US wanted this war and it wants to prolong it as long as possible. Oh and they also blew up Nordstream.

I thought it was just me

None here either

Bro you clicked so fast on the video that even the sound was like ''Hey calm down''.

Lol

Blame your leaders 💀

How does he keep his face clean? Ugh!

Russia did it and it stopped a whole nato armed counteroffensive... Why are Russia probing attacks doing more damage in 3 days than the entire 8 months of counteroffensive?

Russia built the Syrovkin line INSIDE Ukraine in half the time Ukraine had to build ANY defense in the north. It's hilarious that people refuse to see the corruption in Ukraine. There were supposed to be defensive lines and fortifications built, they weren't built. No mine fields, no trenches, no fortifications, no dragons teeth. Look at a topographic map of the area, then tell me how Russia OWNING the high ground for miles around, putting Russian artillery easily in range of Kharkiv is good for Ukraine. Oh... the Russians haven't been stopped, let alone at 5K.

Clueless… various maps & geo located footage show they’ve penetrated further. The Ukrainians have had 18 months to build fortifications on the entire eastern front especially in Kharkiv Oblast & Sumy oblast. If Russia could build hundreds of km’s of fortifications along the entire southern front on Ukrainian land, Ukraine could have done the same but they didn’t, one word, corruption.

​@@glintongordon6811because russia is stronger?

@@glintongordon6811 Russia has an overwhelming artillery advantage over Ukraine, so it's not quite as simple as: "well, if Russia could build the Surovikin line, Ukraine should have been able to do it too". This would also go on to partially explain why the fortifications north of Kiev are much more robust than the ones North of Kharkiv, since the area north of Kiev borders Belarus rather than Russia, and with Belarus being formally neutral, the Ukrainians could most likely construct those defenses without worrying about being harassed by russian strikes. All that being said though, incompetence, corruption and misjudgements could all be possible explanations also.

Their problem is that money that had been allocated for building defensive lines in that area was embezzled. “Surovikin line” was riduculed (and lots of cash was stolen) but at least it was built and was enough to stall the summer counter-offensive.

@@AB-pb8oo that is only partly true. Some fortifications were not build, but most were. The strongest defensive line were build 4-5km from the border for the reason mentioned above.

For orcs from a parallel fictional world of schizophrenia. Western artillery and missiles are constantly bombarding Belgorod and the surrounding area. Oh yes, Orc propaganda shows the destruction of civilian buildings in Belgord as destruction in the Ukraine. ))) But the reputation of orcs as completely empty-headed and deceitful animals is a problem only for the orcs themselves. Saying that they cannot shoot on the territory of the Russian Federation is a diagnosis. Your diagnosis. ))

Ukraine has been regularly attacking Belgorod, so stop pretending that Ukraine can't attack across the border. It is an absolute FACT that defensive works that were supposed to be built, were not built. Zelensky himself already said "investigation is underway".

@@mr.z3664 yes they can attack russia with drones and weapons produced in Ukraine. But not with western weapons, until now. Some fortifications were not built. Keyword here is "some".

It's 100/31,418 ... so not quite

not kharkiv, some villages in the region. what your 350 km represent? square of kharkiv city has nothing to do with current battlefield as they not reached the city

@@xxxd3736 no... but Russian artillery is now well in range, and that's not good.

Because it’s Kharkov, not Kharkiv. That’s why

@@tomassali8870 its ukrainian so kharkiv

In Vietnam USA had less casualties than Vietcong. Russia is straight up struggling and losing more men. They already had a demographic crisis before this war

Russia can't loose, Putin can't loose. They will use EVERYTHING before Putin takes an L

​@@european-one Proportionally, Ukraine's casualties are worse. Before anyone says anything, I want Ukraine to win. But Ukraine has a far smaller population and every Ukrainian casualty represents a significantly larger proportion of the total population than any given Russian casualty. Looking at the total numbers alone is a mistake here.

It’s more like we’ll discuss it’s similarities to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

@@european-one yeah we sure did have less casualties, anyway, who won?

This is a different war compared to Vietnam and Afghanistan. Afghanistan was a asymmetric war where a conventional military was against a guerrilla force which is incredibly difficult to defeat with conventional.means as they can hide amongst the populace and receive aid while remaining hidden....and mostly stuck to using IED's because anytime there was a gunfight they got their asses handed to them. Vietnam was a combo of conventional forces in the form of the NVA and asymmetric warfare with the Viet-Cong and the rules of engagements set by Washington ensured the U.S forces were not able to do what they needed to do. This is a conventional war that has taken a hard turn towards to attrition warfare. Unfortunately, Russia has an advantage in such a war as they have a massive population to draw from and vast stockpiles left over from the Soviet era and despite the technological superiority of the West, it would have to be the Ukrainians who have to use the equipment and that takes time to train, supply and deploy, time the war will not wait for. It also doesn't help that the West does not have the industry base for a war footing and steps have to be taken to not drag NATO fully into the war because that would just go nuclear pretty damn quick.

​@@WhiteIkiryo-yt2itvietnam also had guerilla warfare.

@KonstandinosVerzamanis-xm4ip I noted as such with the point of the Viet-Cong being the asymmetric warfare element of the war in Vietnam.

You do realize that the Ukrainian defensive lines were not built right on the border right? They're between 10-15km back from the border to make them easier to defend and reinforce. So all russia has managed to do is capture a couple of practically undefended border towns which had prewar populations of less than 200 people, and they've been stopped dead by Ukrainian forces that moved forward from the defense lines to meet them.

@@cynderfan2233 so vovchansk a town of previously 17 k is now only a town of 200 which is insignificant and everything is fine despite Russians gaining 9 kilometres in 3 days just by a simple recon. Sleep well my dude but then again it looks you already are ..

@@cynderfan2233 Dude, multiple reports from guys actually on the ground on location have stated that the defensive works were never built.

​@@GothPaokialso ppl forget or don't know Russians spend last 4 months targeting Ukrainian territorial defence and border guards around kharkiv especially they used overwhelming amount of drones in this . Problem is that even if it is not about corruption no civilian contractor will be safe while building those trenches near border for atleast 20-30 km

@@cynderfan2233 you do realize that Ukraine has already admitted that defensive works that were supposed to be built, weren't built. No mine fields, no dragons teeth, no hardened positions. They're already "investigating" and have fired the officer in charge of the defense of Kharkiv.

Is Russia in karkiev? Lol they will never make it!

@@DedmanReactin bro if they were gonna enter the 2 largest Ukrainian city with just recon squads bro I'm going right now at the square and complain about my tax usage. Still it's very concerning that they gained 8-9 kilometres around the 2 largest Ukrainian city with just recon when it took them months to just gain a foothold around avdivka which is a relatively insignificant city

What are you waiting for while on the Orc channel? The truth?! ))) In the entire history, NOT ONE case has been recorded when an orc told the truth. They have their own, schizophrenic fictional universe in their heads. They feel comfortable there. In principle, they are not capable of cognizing reality - after all, this requires rational thinking, which the orcs simply do not have.

This is the most well thought out post about the reasons conservatives are hesitant to send more aid. Thank you

@@radiantsewerrat1987 Thanks. I’m just tired of hearing the same old tropes that American conservatives and libertarians are directly responsible for Ukraine’s increasingly dire situation, but if we’d only send even more money, Ukrainian victory would be certain. The unfortunate reality is that a total victory for Ukraine is increasingly unlikely, no matter how much funding we send. I’m tired of either being told we are either a) cowards, or b) ideologically captured by Russian propaganda. It’s neither. ALL of us are pulling for Ukraine. We simply understand that our government is operating with record levels of national debt and deficit spending. Inflation is out of control because the Federal Reserve bank keeps churning out money, which in turn makes the money we all possess worth less and less. A huge subset of the population can barely afford essentials like groceries, childcare, rental prices, much less to buy a home. We’re in a shitty situation and can no longer afford to be the world’s policeman. The scumbag authoritarians across the world like Putin and Xinping know this too, that’s why they are emboldened.

It's unfortunate because it was completely preventable. All the opposition leaders had to do was respect the Feb 21st 2014 agreement. Ukraine would of never had a coup, Crimea and the rest of Novorossiya would still be part of Ukraine and Yanukovych would have lost in democratic fashion.

No it's more WW1, Spanish Civil War. Afghanistan was more of a Milennial Vietnam

​@@EuroMaidanWasAnInsurrectionno, All Russia had to do was not invade. This entire war is entirely on Putin seeking power and Russias fault. The war ends when Russia goes home. Its as simple as that.

Only in terms of wasted US taxpayer money.

@@mr.z3664 nobody is paying Ukraine anything they are getting surplus weapons from NATO countries dating back to the 80's-90's. We are doing this because it costs more money to dispose them and we are using the billion dollar funds to replenish our own military

The Ukraine people are on the front, just because western weapons kick roosky ass doesn't mean there "fighting NATO" Russia didn't win because there incompetent. Not some conspiracy.

The US considers this a proxy war.

NATO

@@wiledman2430 wow... I want some of whatever you're smoking.

Nazis

Negotiation is a non-starter. Russia has stated as non-negotiable demands, for fighting to stop, Ukraine would have to cede territory, disarm its military, and be forbidden from joining NATO or other defensive alliances. This just means that Russia can recoup losses, rearm and prepare for a second invasion while Ukraine can do nothing to prepare a defense. This is exactly what happened with Chechnya, and all Russian rhetoric indicated that the goal of the Kremlin is to possess all of Ukraine.

Nobody seeks negotiations when they still think they can achieve their objectives by military means.

@@cplpuddingpopahh so you’d rather endless war, death and destruction. Sounds like standard neocon western thinking.

@@cplpuddingpopNope. Non NaTo, free election ins Donbas and Luhansk… Never claim Crimea anymore and you will have peace as treaty. If violated Ukraine can go ask NATO if borders are crossed again. Peace has to show what is in the battlefield. The 2 provinces are Russian almost now.

@@cplpuddingpopIf Ukraine doesn’t negotiate in 18 months they will have no leverage to negotiate, as they will out of men to fight.

It's actually not. More than 2 years into the war, Russia is yet to defeat a much smaller and weaker neighbor and is still stuck in a corner of Ukraine where they got kicked into after being chased away from the outskirts of Kyiv, Sumy, Chernihiv and even lost Kherson City and most of Kharkiv later.

He is saying its working but if ukraine gets the supplies they may need to change strategy

@@rainieresguerra6519 even though Clownskyy lied to the world that they only lost 31k, everybody can see his forces are slowly decimated into DESPERATE CONSCRIPTION, so it’s working. 🤣😂🤷‍♂️

@@tombrazy12hunnit Well, Ukraine needs as many soldiers it can mobilize, considering that the russians are throwing more and more russians into the war. Just tell me when Russia would be able to move out of the hole they have been in the last two years. 😩

@@rainieresguerra6519 they have the East, The South, Crimea, Bakhmut, Avdiika, recently Robotyne, I’m sure Kyiv government will say those are not “important “. 🤷‍♂️ Now they’re grinding the North at Kharkiv.