Posted on 01/27/2026 6:13:56 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
"Ukraine is Gamifying the Elimination of Russians with Drones" Jake Broe** I am a United States Air Force veteran who served as a Nuclear and Missile Operations Officer. Jan 27, 2026 8:00 p.m. EST Length 32:18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KknUmByywT0
"Ukraine has struck a Russian oil refinery for the first time in 4 weeks. Ukraine's new Defense Minister has announced a competition between drone units that allows them to earn "e-points" for every successful strike on the Russians. Trump is pressuring Ukraine to surrender the Donbas to Russia in exchange for US security guarantees."
It is an amusing thread, as yet more propaganda enters the thread.
Almost as if to obscure documented assertions from her "side" such as "America is a fascist state," President Trump has some secret deal with Putin, and my favorite so far, Florida Democrat "Alexander Vindman finally got his head on straight!"
>> “An additional observation, PONDERING the assertion that “Alexander Vindman finally got his head on straight!”
Here in an easily sourced video is Jake Broe’s podcast with Alexander Vindman only months ago.
Source:
Alexander Vindman: Ukraine Cannot Be Ignored | Jake Broe Podcast (E035) Jake “America is a fascist state” Broe interviews Alexander Vindman, 28 June 2025.
Therefore, citing the political apologia in this thread that “Vindman finally got his head on straight,” here he is.
” ‘The last time you saw me was here, swearing an oath to tell the truth about a president who broke his,’ the Broward County resident says in a voiceover. ‘See, my family came to America as refugees to escape tyranny, and I sure as hell was not going to bow down to some wannabe tyrant’.”
Source: Who is Alex Vindman? Trump whistleblower running for Florida Senate seat USA Today, 27 January 2026.
Democrat “Alexander Vindman finally got his head on straight!” Yup, that’s what passes for a supposed conservative comment on this thread. And if we do not agree, we are “unwelcome trolls” and “haters.” <<
_______________________
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
What is wrong with you?
When or where did I display or post anything about “unwarranted suspicion or irrational fear to distrust others?”
Where did my ‘👍’ post mention any of the crap you posted?
Are you hallucinating?
My ‘👍’ was to two FReepers about your drooling post about the POS’s Vindman brothers.
Stop making up BS stories about FReepers to fit your sick agenda, and knock it off with your self-righteous, finger pointing drama.
How about you focus on yourself, for a change, and focus on the endless sh*t pots you bring to FR to stir up your disrespectful, dishonest, underhanded BS??
And why don’t you explain your reasoning for using this Anti-American, Trump & conservative hating JakeBroe piece of trash as your source for your Ukie propaganda thread?
You do realize you’re on a >>conservative<< forum, correct?
If you mistakenly thought you were posting on a BlueSky or any other leftist, American hating website, you may disregard my question.
Everybody should check out >your< source.
https://substack.com/@jakebroe/note/c-204901933
“How many Ukie towns did Putin liberate today?”
How many people did he put under his thumb that never wanted to be a part of his corrupt regime.
“The real enemy is Islam, from Moscow to Lisbon. ALL should be united to expel it completely from Europe. Instead they kill each other. Insanity.”
The Muslims are taking over Russia without firing a shot while Putin is sending troops to get slaughtered.
Those that come back find that the Muslims have taken their jobs.
To clarify:
You called for freepers to be zotted after one of your comments was removed.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4364300/posts?page=169#169
How silly! I wanted to assure you:”Just because you may have a difference of opinion, true conservatives Freeper that oppose the invasion of a Sovereign nation will never call for you to be zotted.”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4364300/posts?page=170#170
*note my response:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4364300/posts?page=174#174
Please be at peace :)
ARTICLE
Ukrainians brace for -20C despite energy truce: ‘It will be a catastrophe’
BBC
Sarah Rainsford
1-31-2026
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75xg17rr1xo
It’s not the electricity cuts that Yulia Hailunas struggles with most after the Russian airstrikes. It’s the fact that it’s so bitterly cold inside her own home.
Like so many Ukrainians, she’s had no central heating since Russia launched a wave of targeted attacks on the power grid in January.
So Yulia now lives in a long, quilted coat and hat in her flat, and rests her feet on a saucepan-full of hot water to keep them from freezing. If that’s not enough, she lifts weights for 10 minutes to get warm.
When the weather outside is above zero, it’s just about bearable. But later this weekend, the temperature in Dnipro is forecast to plunge below -20C.
In Kyiv and elsewhere, it could be colder still.
“That’s what’s really scary, because all the heating pipes will burst and we won’t be able to repair them again. It will be a catastrophe,” Yulia worries.
On Thursday, Donald Trump announced that Vladimir Putin had agreed to halt attacks on Ukraine’s major cities during the “horrendously cold” snap, supposedly for a week.
The US president called it “very nice” of his Russian counterpart to agree to an energy truce. But details were sparse from the start.
The next day, the Kremlin clarified that Putin’s burst of good will expires on Sunday, just as the coldest weather bites.
There is usually a week or more gap between massive aerial attacks in any case, so it’s unclear whether Russia has actually paused anything.
There has been no major strike since 24 January, when hundreds of tower blocks in Kyiv lost power and heating.
“It has been quieter for a bit, but I don’t know if that’s linked,” a doubtful Yulia says, suspecting the strikes will restart at any moment.
“I think Putin wants to turn people against their government, to have them say: ‘Just give Russia anything to make this stop’,” Yulia says.
“He wants to break us, but it won’t work.”
Ukraine’s heating system is breaking down though.
The Geneva Convention, the laws of war, bans attacks on infrastructure that cause excessive harm to civilians.
But this is the fourth winter in a row that the energy grid has been targeted by Russia deliberately, leaving it more fragile and harder to repair after each successive strike.
There were widespread power outages across western and central Ukraine on Saturday after a “technical disruption” affected power lines connecting its grid to those of Romania and Moldova, its government said.
Engineers have been drafted in from Ukraine’s national rail company and elsewhere, working around the clock to restore electricity, and to defrost and patch up the heating pipes that run beneath giant apartment blocks in Dnipro, Kyiv and beyond.
An extended pause in strikes on the sector would provide a welcome break, but few Ukrainians trust Russia to deliver that.
That’s because, elsewhere, the deadly strikes have not stopped.
On Friday, one person was killed and several injured when a bus in Kherson was hit by shelling, while there were multiple air raid warnings for drones.
And all along the eastern frontline, the fighting is as intense as ever, still forcing civilians to flee their homes.
In Pavlohrad, about 40 miles from the front, we found families dazed after evacuating, abandoning everything, with no idea whether they’ll ever go back.
They were queuing to register at a centre for the displaced, offered a small handout of cash, food and toiletries by volunteers.
Kateryna cried as she told me how hard it had been to leave Vasylkivka, where she had lived all her life. “It’s like abandoning a piece of yourself,” she said.
But she had to protect her two young children, scared by the explosions.
“Our village wasn’t touched at first, but now it’s a total combat zone. The drones are hitting every day,” her mother Iryna described the Russian advance.
“One day there were 50 Shahed drones overhead.”
Trump sees the energy truce - a halt to massive aerial attacks on Ukraine’s big cities - as a way of reducing tension as he pushes for progress in peace talks.
He pledged to end this war “in a day” long ago but now admits doing so is difficult.
Ukraine has agreed to mirror Moscow’s actions by halting its own strikes on oil refineries in Russia and its shadow fleet of tankers that move Russian oil around the world, evading sanctions.
The trade pumps vital money into Russia’s war economy, but Kyiv wants to show Trump its willingness in his peace efforts.
Another round of negotiations is scheduled to take place in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, though it seems no senior US delegates will attend.
The US has been talking up progress and Ukraine also claims only one major disagreement remains – albeit a critical one, over control of territory in the east.
But Russian officials have been dampening expectations of a deal.
“Of course we are following the talks, we want some stability,” Iryna tells me people here long for peace more than anyone. “But how can we trust Russia not to stab us in the back?”
From the dark and the cold of this war, it does feel to Ukrainians like Moscow is just toying with Trump.
The next days and weeks will test that.
My indirect answer on why I support Ukraine getting millions in US weaponry and aid to them. China is our rival that is trying to bury us with their AI research and advanced chip lithography. The way ASML does it.>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJMmZIA6UnY You know what 3nm means?
China is allied with Russia in the BRICs alliance that wants to sink the USD. A Russian defeat in Ukraine will be great blow to the BRICs alliance and Chinese dominance. If they succeed in sinking the USD by 33%, this means your standard of living goes down 33%. Same for America.
“Russia Suffers Worst War Casualties Since World War II”
Jake Broe
678K subscribers
1-30-2026
Length 29:17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_AYnEUIe0E
VIDEO
“Three Russian Soldiers Surrender to UKRAINIAN ROBOT DRONE!?”
Artur Rehi
725K subscribers
1-29-2026
Length 20:22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD_AIJpJa54
Thank you, but you didn’t remotely answer my question. It was not a difficult question.
Quite the YouTube channel: a retrospective sampling:
China's Debt Bubble, $1T Fraud, Banks are Failing. China's financial Collapse Business Basics, 23 August 2022.And added to this page as linked above was "Learn why YouTube is the Greatest Opportunity in 2023: • How to Make Money From YouTube "Russia's COLLAPSE Is FAR Worse Than You Think, Protest Everywhere, Bankrupt Business Basics, 22 November 2022
France is Collapsing, Protests Everywhere. Financial Crisis is Coming Business Basics, 21 April 2023
The message from Business Basics YouTube seems quite consistent, in a way. Collapse! And click to subscribe to my channel. And get my newsletter if you give me your name and email address....
It's Over! UK's Failing Economy - Economic Crisis Explained 2023 Business Basics, 25 July 2023.It's a beautiful thing. China is collapsed (2022). Russia is collapsed (2022). France is collapsing (2023). The UK is collapsing (2023). Canada is collapsing (2023). Europe is collapsing (2024).....Canada Catastrophic Economic Crisis, Housing Prices Rising, Unemployment Problems. Business Basics, 31 October 2023.
EUROPE IS ABOUT TO DISAPPEAR FROM THE MAP! Demographics Crisis Explained Business Basics, 30 January 2024
And "make money on YouTube."
Here together are Jake and Artur on each other's channels:
@JakeBroe Can U.S.A. intercept Russian nukes? Artur Rehi podcast 001 A "REHI PODCAST" from 26 October 2022It's a funny world of YouTubers and those who love 'em.Artur Rehi: Can Ukraine Knock Them Out Cold? | Jake Broe Podcast (E007) @arturrehi And together again -- "America is a fascist state" chats with "Rehi" -- 14 October 2022.
Gamiyy, I say! Gamify!
Agreed.
And also our massive and fast growing national debt will assist the decline in our standard of living. Picture this.....
Remember 2000?
You said you were pleased with Trump on Ukraine. I answered it by listing why we should arm and aid Ukraine beyond what Trump is doing. No evasions.
Like Russia, China is a paper tiger.
Chinas debt bubble from You Tube. chat GPT said>>>
Summary Confidence Breakdown (approximate)
Well supported (75–85% true): China’s large HSR network exists; some lines are unprofitable; major debt exists for the railway sector.
Moderately supported (50–75% true): Post-2008 stimulus role, under-utilized segments and pricing issues, imbalance with freight rail.
*Weak or overstated (<50% true)**: Claim of an imminent systemic financial crisis solely caused by HSR debt; specific dramatic corruption figures without clear sourcing; simplistic comparisons to Evergrande.
Overall Confidence Rating for the overall narrative in the transcript
📊 ~60 % accurate but with exaggeration and missing context
Most core facts have a foundation — such as China’s high-speed rail debt, unprofitability of many routes, and massive infrastructure growth — but the interpretation and doom framing in the transcript are inflated or selective. Oversimplified narratives about affordability, corruption, and catastrophic economic impact do not align with the more nuanced, documented economic assessments.
About - Russia’s collapse is far worse. chat GPT said>>>
Overall Truth Score for the Transcript
📊 ~60% overall accuracy
Explanation:
Some claims are grounded in real trends: sanctions systemically affecting Russia’s economy, reduced export revenues, technology access limits, labor movements, and oil market shifts.
Other claims are exaggerated or inaccurate: economy “dying” completely, ruble rebounding above pre-war levels, running out of reserves by 2023, and wholesale industrial collapse.
Summary Ratings (by Section)
Topic Area Accuracy Score
Economy & sanctions impact ~70%
Oil & gas revenue narrative ~70% (conditional/time-dependent)
Currency/ruble claims ~40%
Social impacts (draft/emigration) ~70%
Catastrophic collapse predictions ~30%
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.