Ukraine is losing the war. Almost all professional soldiers are destroyed and Western mercenaries are fleeing from the country. The army is collapsing and military servicemen are capturing people right on the streets. Dozens of videos where Ukrainian solders refuse to conduct suicide orders. I can tell you what is going to happen next - Zelensky authority among his own troops and population is lowering everyday. Soon, he will just lose the control over his military. It is time for you to have some balls and admit that you pushed the false narrative all the time listening your bs media and some corrupt bloggers. How are you going to escape the situation? Hope that your viewers forget it? PS Call me a bot but it doesn't make any difference.
I've seen the pictures of the Russian "Storage Depots". Almost every tank not already with units is rusted out and covered in moss after DECADES of being left outside. Saying Russia has 10,000 plus tank....Is like a General standing in a War Cemetery, pointing around him and claiming he has an army.
something that is much more staggering than the actually 15-30% taken off the top is the fact that a LOT of Russian equipment is aging and requires the scheduled maintenance. If funds are redirected that need to go towards fixing up a 40 year old tank then that tank essentially becomes a piece of garbage... so now it's not 50k USD that is stolen, it also amounts to a 5 million dollar tank being rendered useless due to it's redirection of required maintenance funds.
Well thats not a valid argument, since US also uses 40 year old MBTs, M1A1 entered service 41 years ago, overwhelming majority were build during the last century, only small amounts were build in the last 20 years, same is with Russian tanks, so its not a good argument.
Perun did an awesome (as usual) presentation on this. What I love about his video is the way that he explains how a 20% skim is so much more than a 20% impact. Selling $500 worth of fuel could leave a $5M piece of equipment stranded in a field in Ukraine, waiting to be pulled away by a farmer with a tractor. That goes for fuel, cheap Chinese tires, you name it. It goes from General Kleptokrovich to Private Konscriptovich
Corruption is a long standing "tradition" in Russia. It was a well documented pattern in the Soviet Union and the Russian Empire before that. The Soviet pilot that flew the Mig-25 to Japan assumed that you could pay "traffic fines" here in the US just by paying the officer that stopped you. He was bailed out of trouble by his handler who was trying to get him acculturated to US ways.
It was rough going for a while for Victor, but he did after a little bumpy going, he adapted to living in our country and is a citizen. I remember that in 1976, was 27 and that makes him in his 70's now. His book is a good read.
I think the best explanation for why this corruption was allowed to carry on right up until the eve of war is simple enough - the vast majority of Russian forces didn’t know the war was going to happen until the very last second. Corruption carried on because it’s business as usual, and by the time the chiefs of staff realised that Putin was actually serious about trying to conquer all of Ukraine - it was already too late.
Another shocker was literally thousands of reserve tanks having the electronics stripped out for the gold and copper. It led to a commander committing suicide after losing all his armour in Ukraine.
Recall an interview with a retired US Procurement auditor that specialized in heavy duty truck tires. It was shocking to see him explain why Russian BTR-60 and 80 had high rates of tire failure due to lack of proper maintenance and replacement when they aged out.
I don’t want to be that guy, but I think you or your guy might be confusing the BMP, with the BTR. BTRs are the 8x8 armoured infantry fighting vehicles. We’ve seen rotting tires on everything from trucks to APCs.
especially in Ukraine. Hell, it was just recently that Ukraine was found to be the most corrupt European country and only now they became 2nd to last to Russia but that doesn't mean the Ukrainians did better. The biggest worry for all the money and arms being sent to Ukraine is that much of it can be stolen and abused by Ukrainian officials.
Hi mate, fantastic to see you cover this topic. Corruption in militaries isn't the most discussed topic - but the impact on capability and readiness is significant. If you ever decide to come back to the topic or anything like it, feel free to get in touch - I have a decent stock of documents and stories that I gathered when preparing my look at the topic that I couldn't cover, even in a 60 minute time. Ditto if you ever want to look at at another nation or get a procurement/industry centric view on the issue.
The funny thing is that here in Latin America, we have so many so-called "youtube channels" of "truth", pricing, and idolizing Putin. Still, when confronted with information like this, they just go insane over anyone exposing the Russian corruption. Keep up the good work pal. Cheers from Latin America.
Hey, thanks for the insight. What is your opinion on why that is so? I've noticed that many people from Syria, and India are supporting Putin as well. Stands to reason l guess given current situations in their countries. One final thought: what is your feeling about Hitler escaping to south america? Seems to me their is far more evidence to suggest that he did than not. But, if course no one wants to believe that in the states and elsewhere.
@@alpardo7022 It is complicated to understand why, people from around the world supports Putin, my guess, is that, at least, people from my country, who do, is just because, they do hate the E.U and the USA, but many of them are quite young to said that they do belong to the old communist parties from Latin America, so that rules out that they are communist from the old school that may identify themselves with Putin, because he is trying to resuscitate the glories of the defunct CCCP. This young people, who supports Putin, are usually, from the new left, which wants nothing with conservatives, despite the old left was quite conservative in some areas, so honestly, to me, is quite hard to find a tangible answer, because Putin is an ultra-nationalist and a conservative, and those views do not merge well with the new left. As far Hitler in South America, well, many things suggest that, but that is a topic that my knowledge may not be the right one to talk about of such topic, I do live in Central America, not South America. I do hope that, at some point in history, this will be clarified for one and for all by a dedicated historian. Cheers from, CR.
@@Victor-lc3pw Plain hate to the USA or the EU, but keep in mind that, in a hypothetical scenario, if this people, the heaters, ever have the opportunity to choose where to live, in Russia or the USA, well, we all know, wich county the will choose.
I'm from lithuania and grew up right after the fall of the soviet union. I've seen the change and I've heard stories (and witnessed some of them myself). Corruption was a very normal part of life. Most people working for the government would siphon off whatever they could - would it be bricks, money, tools, materials or anything else. It was normal. Your car needs a roadworthiness test? Well, just pay for it directly to the person doing the test. It will be a bit more expensive, but usually not that much. Cops stopped you for speeding? Just pay it off. I myself had done it a few times as it was ... normal. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. There's still corruption everywhere in the world, but the way it was looked at in the USSR and is still looked at in many easter block countries is very different... Everyone's trying to rip their country off while still pretending to be huge patriots. It's disgusting.
the difference is that if you try to bribe someone in Lithuania now you will most likely go to jail or have some consequences. And in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus still today there is expected from you to pay a bribe just like 30 years ago. The post soviet european countries made a huge leap, meanwhile nothing changed in the Russian speaking countries.
To me, it doesn't make much difference whether you pay traffic fines to a cop directly or to the government system which will siphon your money for its self-interest as well. At least most likely the money you give to a cop will go to feed and dress his kids, not to do some political lobbying or worse buying the weapons to kill those who disagree with you.
Siphon off whatever they could...? I'm picturing that Simpsons episode when Homer clocks off and throws something in the back of his car and says, "Ah, another day, another box of stolen pencils." Only instead of pencils they're bricks. [Clink-clink!]
@@-king1264 games, movies, tv shows etc. We also had english (british english) at school, but "interactive" learning was faster and easier. I was born in 87 so by the time I was a teenager the internet was pretty much everywhere :)
A Russian soldier is walking down the road with one shoe on when his army buddies drive up to him and ask if he lost a shoe? The Russian replied Nyet! I found a shoe.
Old story. I had a buddy who opened wholesale drug business for a Fortune 500 firm after the USSR fell on it's ass. They persisted for several years but finally pulled out as the Russian Organized crime system was the most efficient means of distributing stuff, and they charged less payoff than the government crooks did to get stuff done. The company was not willing to explicitly deal with the criminal organization, and the govt people were too expensive to buy off. They folded up and left the country.
I read an article a couple years after 1991 about one of the reasons the USSR collapsed. I forget the finest details but gist was people couldn't tell the Russia Mafia from the Russia government. The whole place is filthy rotten corrupt. Chy-na operates the same way.
It's also important to understand how corruption influences the military culture in Russia. When everyone is corrupt, and everyone *knows* that everyone is corrupt, being honest just makes you a sucker. But that means there's a fundamental distrust built into the culture, because anyone can turn in anyone else at any time. Every fellow soldier is both a potential co-conspirator and a potential snitch, and there's always a potential benefit for them to screw you over if things go bad for them (and vice versa). While that's not the worst thing in a criminal enterprise, it's a pretty bad attitude to have if you're marching alongside those people in a military campaign, where you count on your fellow soldiers to help you survive. The result is that most Russian soldiers have a pretty garbage attitude when it comes to their jobs, towards their leadership, and even towards their brothers and sisters in arms. They can't count on each other to do their jobs, so there's a strong sense that everyone is on their own. This is why their rate of defection is so high: they haven't been taught the value of loyalty, so they have no problem turning on their former comrades if it will save their own skin. After all, its what their commanding officers would probably do in their position.
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Even if you think, "But they still used 67% on military!", the problem is the fact that the corruption hits the essentials like fuel, and ammonition, and small spare parts, and rations ... so it doesn't matter that the Russian military got the tanks, the cruisers, and the missiles. The tanks, even the most expensive ones, are useless without ammo, fuel, and personel.
I am from Russia and this is first good video I've seen on our corruption by a western RUclipsr/ex-military guy. Thanks for your effort to deliver us a good content
The US military couldn't account for a good couple of trillion in spending.. and then the building housing all the important documents relating to the investigation of this discrepancy got blown up or demolishioned during nine 11. Seems this kinda leeching on the balls of the taxpayer is kinda par for the course when it comes to most governments.
Your voice is essential, you're an actual look into your motherland God bless our Russian contemporaries that speak a truth we don't normally get in the West. Thank you, sir.
Task and Purpose is one of the greats, however this exact subject has been addressed by scholars for nearly two decades now, with the criticism of every Russian. Suddenly they agree. I am not targeting this at you I understand individuals do think differently I am just saying overall you are seeing it more often, much more now that they can not hide the fact.
I once worked in an industry that tried to establish itself in Russia a few years after the fall of the USSR and the end of the Cold War. The initial idea was that the very capable manufacturing facilities and skilled labor force in the country - the very same that designed and produced some truly outstanding products for aerospace and military use - could be easily turned around to make high-quality goods for consumers in the US and other Western countries, much better than the same that were being made in Taiwan and China. For example, imagine a road-racing bicycle, made in Russia out of near-aerospace grade carbon fiber and titanium, for little more than the best that could ever come out of the bike factories in Taichung and Shenzhou. On paper it was a win-win-win for everybody. The reality was that the corruption in Russia was so bad - in the government, the factories, and the different mafias - the smart companies cut their losses and got out of the country as fast as they could. Those who were unlucky or too stupid to pull out in time lost their shirts - not only over there but also here in the US as well. It was a sad case of "what could've been" that really went off the rails. If World War III ever happens, I seriously doubt that even half of Russia's nukes and supporting infrastructure will leave their launch tubes or even function as expected. Not like that would be a bad thing. That's probably the only upside to Russia's systemic corruption that I wouldn't argue about.
There was a Tom Clancy book (don't remember the title) where one of the characters went to Russia to confirm the deactivation of Russia's ICBMs. According to him there was water (maybe ice) at the bottom of the launch tube in such a great amount as to render that ICBM as unable to launch with a significant chance to explode.
@@Gozokukolat Tom Clancy was a great writer and the tons of research he put into each of his books really shows. I don't remember what that book is either, but that detail is typical Tom Clancy.
You just can't create a nuclear missile and put a nuclear missile in a silo......and years after no maintenance.....expect it to fire off and operate like normal. Nuclear missiles take a lot to maintain and are expensive to maintain. In light of ruSSia's corruption.......I wouldn't be surprised if at least half the money to maintain ruSSian nukes were pocketed by their corrupt military and Oligarchs. Hence, I wouldn't be surprised if half of ruSSia's nukes act like that one ruSSian missile launched that turned around and blew up the ruSSians that launched it.
@@richardharris3423 I agree. This is why I think Putin, and the Russian and Soviet leaders before him, may have talked a big game but knew deep in their (little black) hearts that total nuclear war is something they could not win. Which is why Moscow has resorted to doing other things in its bag of tricks, but that's another story.
It was my first impression when in the first days of invasion the 40 km queues of tanks were stucked in the streets over days that the amount of the needed fuel was not existing in the stores. The army was just not ready to march and the personnel was overwhelmed by this decision.
@@ВладимирЛомакин-у1к In Europa we have something called "TV" and "internet" where they presented airial photos and movies regarding the issue daily. If you need those kind of technology make a trip to St.Petersburg. There they have good fibre optic cable networks. Try it !
To me, corruption will always amount to high treason. The societal cost of it is obscene and it says a lot about the character of a person, who engages in it.
Well said, so if the Russian Govt. is run as a kleptocracy, and almost every govt. employee is expected to take advantage of their positions to enrich themselves, then of course Putin and his KGB, organized crime partners, and sycophant oligarchies are certainly guilty of high treason.
The problem is that it starts at the top and trickles down the social strata. That's why anti-corruption efforts also always have to start with the people most capable of deflecting such efforts.
@@sdhiousdfyhsdioufsdoiufh Corruption is a big issue in many political systems. But you seem to be supporting the abolishment of representative democracy which is just incorrect and doesn't help fix corruption.
A quick look at the orlan10 drone shows all you need to know about corruption. As a US civilian I could make such a craft, buying off the shelf parts for $5k or less. The Russian military is being billed $100k a unit. That's not a 20% loss due to corruption its 95%
100 thousand dollars is a control point, a mobile repair shop with a repair kit and a set of uavs of 5 pcs. The UAV itself costs 3 thousand dollars and shows superior efficiency.
Did you watch Operator Starsky dismantle one of those Orlan drones? It's insane how cheap it is lol. To be honest though, if you are using a drone for surveillance purposes only and to designate areas for Artillery, you dont really need anything crazy. Just a drone that can see. But shit the Orlan had a cheap ass camera on it as well lol. No wonder Russia sucks at artillery and has to get accuracy by volume.
This reminds me of a story from the 80's. When Soviet Union economy went belly up, the CIA was really surprised. After all they had a really, really good source for economic intelligence that gave them all the actual economical information. How did they know it was actual? Because it was the same information that was given to the Soviet politbyro, the one that actually ran the USSR. So why was the CIA caught of guard by the Soviet economic collapse? Because people in USSR were lying to their own leaders about how bad the economic situation was (because there was, and probably is, a tradition of shooting the messenger in Russia), and those lies were then leaked to CIA as the absolute truth. That might be what's happened to Putin, and the Western intelligence services.
Very few people get that about why a lot of people over-estimated Russia; they just couldn't put themselves into the shoes of the Russian (ex-Soviet) society, where lying to your superior is a widespread societal contract; how such lying is hardly policed, if policed at all. It was present elsewhere in ex-Soviet space as well, but especially so in the core of Russia, where it was AND is the strongest + it was the least weeded out there since the fall of the Soviet Union.
@@elektrotehnik94 Corruption was also an integral part of the Soviet system, if you wanted something to actually be done there. My father did most of his business in Germany and France, but he covered a few times his friends who did business in USSR in the 70's and 80's. Apart from the fact that you really had to be an alcoholic to deal with the Soviets long term (they drank... a lot... all the time... and expected foreigners to drink too) he said that he just couldn't get his head around the corruption system there. Not that he didn't understand it but the honest businessman in him couldn't accept it, you pretty much had to bribe everybody from the top all the way down to the lowest ranking person you did business with. A system like that just doesn't go away fast, specially when you look how Russia has been working for the last three decades.
mad respect man, i notice that u are very specific when u believed something incorrect, saying "yeah i was wrong this was right" in like a totally matter-of-fact way, that sort of attitude will get you far man. Taking responsibility, not just fessing up to mistakes, but openly aknowledging them, it's a good way to live
The thing with Shoigu's predecessor, Serdyukov, might be a bit more interesting than a fleeting mention in the vid. Some insiders tell while the guy wasn't perfect, he at least tried to tame/mitigate corruption related to military industry, and that might have resulted in a big embarrassment. So, it's not that he got fired because Shoigu desperately needed a minister seat (he was a minister of emergencies for a long time - yes, Russia handles disaster on a ministry level rather than via government agency use), but because Serdyukov tried to do his job for once.
As I understand it... One reform Serdyukov wanted to make was reduce the number of officers, as the Russian military is very top heavy. Again, part of the corruption, people get promoted because being General receives bigger salary and gives you more opportunities to skim. That made a lot of people angry.
My God, Shoigu Profan! Putin still suka, who would Zelensky name a clown, answer why Russian federation is circus? And point!!!( vkusno i tochka, meme about an typical *rus answer* to mac)
Great job & very commendable you even noted experiences of corruption in your own forces. Seems a pretty clear lesson for every other country- if you don’t appoint on merit & don’t support real consequences when corruption is exposed...youre on a fast track to a wasteful, low-morale, incapable military
Well said! And cultures can change. If I recall, South Korea used to be one of the most corrupt nations on Earth in the 1960s into the 1980s. But now it is decidedly less so. Hell, they threw a former President, and the daughter of a national hero, into prison for corruption. Do the Americans have the nerve to do so with Messr. Trump?
If you had seen the US Army after Vietnam, hoo boy. 50% of truck drivers couldn't even drive their trucks. In the National Guard, you only needed to attend 60% of your scheduled training to avoid penalties (It's why W missed so much fly time) Then St Reagan poured billions into the system with no controls, and *POOF* $400 toilet seats. So the American military may give away money, but at least an accountant somewhere noted it down. On a side note Clinton really squeezed out a lot of corruption by simply setting the military budget, and letting the generals fight over who got the money.
I can attest to my own role in Iraq in terms of handing out bags of cash. No doubt 75% of the cash was stolen after I distributed it to all these "small business owners." However, the major difference between a Western NATO army and the Russians is that I had to account for every single dollar of the micro-grant fund. And I mean literal bricks of brand new, straight from the US Treasury, American $50 dollar bills (even NATO partners used dollars as it is the proper currency used anywhere, Iraqis won't take Kronor!). There was no way any of us could steal even a tiny amount. I recall one American officer tried by faking the micro grants, and because he was attached to a US Army ODA team he had less oversight, but he was caught when he tried to bring the money back and spent five years in prison. In the Russian Army, the $500K in micro-grants at the Corps level would have turned into $250K at division, and then $100K by the time it got to brigade, and $75K by the time it came to the battalions.
@@FM4AMGV Exactly! Goes to show that corruption of the sort seen in Russia is not terribly prevalent in the US Army. Amateurs! Though the Americans have perfected the no-bid procurement process as a means of legally ripping off the US people!
Corrupt Russians are thriving while Noble Russians feel hopeless. Russia propaganda has obtained love from the citizens it should have instilled fear into, and instilled fear into the citizens it should have sought love from.
The US used bribery to ensure protection of information and/or the person carrying it. This incident happened once in my four year tour in the USAF. It took place in an unnamed country at an unknown time. I'm still subject to Security Act. It was a Sunday and I'm called to the finance office by my NCOIC. When I got there the finance officer, NCOIC, cashier and myself met with a person I wasn't introduced to. Four of us went into a walk-in vault and watched as the finance officer pulled out a box from out of the rollaway safe housed there. When he opened it, gold coins glittered. I think all our eyes popped. He counted out a number of coins which all had to certify. The cashier then put them into a money belt the stranger provided, and the unknown person wrapped it around his waist, and also signed for the coins, and left. All were told not to discuss the incident. Decades later read a short article where it was revealed that USAF couriers often had to cross borders to deliver documents to Washington when planes weren't available. I guess I met one of them that day. I suspect the coins were used as bribes if necessary. These was pre computer and satellite days.
I talked to several former Russian soldiers who now live over here and work as technicians. The things that they told me of changing test results for tanks and vehicles ( trucks ) was unbelieveable. The Army actually purchased several models of U.S. and British commercial trucks through a third party and tore them down to test and then copy in order to make a decent vehicle. They were issued flashlights without batteries and then have to buy them with their money. Clothing when damaged in battle is not replaced, parts, fuel, food, and sometimes amo such as grenades, explosives, etc....not available. They were told that until new stuff arrived don't cause a battle. These are things that any infantryman should have. He fought in the Afgan War and it looks as if things are not better. New truck tires are swapped out for bad ones on a dump and then locked away as new. The new ones are sold off to a commercial buyer.His commander was selling off fuel, blankets or clothing he ordered for the 48 new ghost solders he never had. The Russians used to call us capitalist pigs for our profit making ways...I guess they don't consider stealing and selling off the stuff for money being a capitalist.
I remember when we first got the Kevlar helmet, the civilians that made them cut corners, but the convicts that made them in prison were the only ones that didn’t screw their own service members.
Yea, the corrupt bastard making our substandard IBA’s from Point Blank. Skimping on layers of Kevlar. And his crooked wife owning another company cranking out below standard ceramic ESAPI plates.
Let me correct this for you. It should read, "... the convicts that made them in prison were the only ones that didn't HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF screwing their own service members."
The Russian's sold their night vision sensors (tubes) around the world for cheap. So the world market place soaked up the production the tubes that were suppose to go to the Russian's troops.
yeah cuz why not sell cheap bad shit when the gas money could buy some French-made good ones to install into their APCs n such, even after this was banned, smh Europe, so good support (
I'm not so sure that the old looking (perhaps Gen1) Russian and Soviet vintage NVG/NODs found online are really what you'd want to equip a modern army with. Even some of the "digital night vision" gear would most likely be better, even though clearly inferior to Gen2+ devices. Then there's the detail that modern night vision doesn't even use a "tube" (Gen1 electro-optical vacuum tube) to amplify light, but uses a micro-channel plate (Gen2+. I guess with the usual arangement of objective and eyepiece lenses, it is kind-of tube shaped in its housing)
@@dj1NM3 Yes they are not good but that is the state of the equipment that they are producing. But the fact is that they Russian solders don't even have any. As you know they seem to have plenty to sell online but non for their troops.
The Iraqis must have bought some as I liberated some on Op Granby, or Desert storm for US reader. I sold my trophies 🏆 to guys who never got through the Burm, no doubt they invented some combat stories to go with them but they need not it was a through disappointment to most of us.
The "corruption" money going to local governments and tribes to make peace with them isn't actually stealing money from the U.S. citizens for selfish purposes, but effectively using it towards strategic goals, which is the opposite of the Russian corruption where much higher percentage is taken for personal gain while damaging Russia's tactical maintenance and progress.
That’s not what Cappy’s criticism was. The money was labeled politically as money for development of the Iraqi people, not as a pay off for Shieks and Chieftains. The other comment he made which was disturbing was that payoff money would then go into the hands of Isis . Furthermore the reason why the US won in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan but as soon as left the enemies they had been trying to defeat took over in quicker and quicker succession is that the US panders too these corrupt people and systems as they are often the enemy of their enemy and the people see the US as part of the institutions that have kept them down. Historically it is if the US army intervened in the American Revolution they’d back the British. Last points are mine
@@myriaddsystems certainly there were people within the US power elite that profiteered from the war. US power elite is way too small for it to not work in any other way. 2 parties, lobbyists that can pay and do pay directly to the Pollies. Oil and gas industry and weapons industry owns US government. Why is climate change a party political issue? Cause the GOP GET paid and the Dems dont.
But it is because they knew that !oney would be given to local insurgents to fund the attacks on Americans. When will the west learn what you cannot win hearts and minds in the middle east, best to put bullets through hearts and minds.
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Perun did a pretty awesome video going in depth into how corruption rots everything from within, not that long ago. Anyone watching this might want to also check that out.
The concept of 'endless lies' is basically a modern equivalent of 'Vietnam Syndrome' which hindered the US and their allies during that conflict because the same thing happened then to such an extent that strategists made flawed decisions predicated on misleading data. Nobody, wanted anything, to reflect badly on them particularly the 'lifers' and this condensed an erroneous process to such an extent that contributors to crucial decision making processes 'viewed the situation through rose tinted glasses' as an old saying goes. (presumably the glasses were consistently full of hard liquor) This in turn led to situations where personnel were committed to operations where they were sent out on patrol and 'walked into the ground' with a minimum of sleep while their uniforms rotted off their bodies. Yet despite this officers and senior NCO's benefited from the privilege of rank with full nights rest due to security provided by exhausted troops and on more than one occasion entire patrols were wiped out because exhausted sentries fell asleep on watch. As if that were not a complete disgrace while the troops made do with rags far too many administrative REMF'S had fresh uniforms for every day of the week and lied like politicians about their roles and contributions to folks back home and may still be doing so. A process of interpolation only really achievable by reading accounts by combat Veteran's in various autobiographies, seems to be the best method for establishing this because their accounts seem to consistently agree to an almost universal extent.
You should maybe read a bit more or do some radical research and enlist! 1st Cavalry was getting their troopers into fresh uniforms pretty often. Not just laundered, but new. Attached Rangers were even more frequent, like about monthly since they were always on the line or LRRP missions.
@@davidmckendry7684 I agree. And unlike portrayed in almost every Hollywood movie, except "We Were Soldiers" the war was fought by professional soldiers up to 1970 when the first conscript soldiers arrived.
Remember a few years back when a bunch of USMC marked KAC 600m rear sights showed up on eBay for $35? Literally everyone I know was like "I don't know about this, man, seems sketchy.". This is really indicative of the kind of baseline aversion to corruption that exists in "the west". BTW that was the best $35 that I ever spent on eBay, lol.
Well the military does sell big lots of parts they feel they no longer need but some could be broken. I had the opportunity to buy a conex box of Barrett 50. Cals but some could be broken used and you’d need to definitely mix and match some parts to create functional rifles.
@@purpleranger5987 yeah a coworker has some army surplus stuff in his hunting kit, my boss has some MREs, and I've got some random tuff like knives and boxes I got from military surplus.
Thank you so much for explaining with a lot of details what most of the experts aren't able to explain. It is the very first time that somebody dives deep into analysing what is the illness that devastated an army and a country more than 100 wars!
The last line in your video about the TV "you can watch it but don't turn it on" brought back memories of my time in the US Army in 1968. The Company Sargent banded newspapers in the Company area as he thought they were litter. I explained that Freedom of Press is a very big deal in our Democracy. His reply was "Freedom of Press is the right to print newspapers, not to read them" From then on, I spent my lunch time standing in th CO's office reading the paper. All the fools are not in Russia
Where military starts is where logic ends. This is a rough translation of Polish phrase "Gdzie zaczyna się wojsko, tam kończy się logika" and it seems that all militaries all over the world all over the human history are similar in that.
Way way back in the 60's I heard of Russian ground crews and pilots falsifying deicing fluid for their aircraft because the 'fluid' is untainted, 100% grain alcohol, and we all know what happens to grain alcohol anywhere.
Russian corruption goes back to mongolian times or maybe even further than that. It's a national idea, widely accepted on every level. Basically, it's a part of mentality and you'll have to fight it because you'll be exposed to it during your upbringing by your parents and peers. The idea that you can "take a little here and there" and no one will notice is a russian norm.
@@szautan it started long before that. It's the peasants' way of thinking. It wasn't communism, it was shitty poor socialism there 95% feed 5% elite. And people stole things because they had none. Everything at your workplace belonged to the state, so you hoped that no one will notice, that's true. I have a shitload of stories from my parents in this regard. Soviet Union was a fucking dump and modern Russia is its pathetic fuckwit child.
We have a retired cousin who worked in Internal Affairs of the St. Petersburg Police. She said corruption is so there is no way to stop it. That said, a Road Policeman in Spb isn't considered successful if he doesn't have two apartments and a nice car. These guys are at the bottom of the food chain.
Well , fortunately for Ukraine and the west and unfortunately for the average Russian soldier corruption has been part of the system in Russia for years if not generations, just like in Mafia that’s part of loyalty , if you’re not corrupt that means senior leadership won’t trust you and of course if you’re corrupt then they have a very serious leverage and can make you do anything they want and of course they can fire you or send you to jail for any reason
Old Russian joke... Policeman goes to his boss and says "I have a new baby on the way, and need more money, can you give me a raise?" Boss responds, "I'm sorry there is no money in the budget to give you a raise, but here is a stop sign. Put it anywhere you want."
Good video. I saw glimpses of this myself when I served alongside the Russian Airborne Brigade in Bosnia. On more than one occasion I saw and heard the Brigade Commander conducting business. He and his associates assumed that as an American, I was ignorant of their discussions; not knowing that I had attended the Defense Language Institute (DLI). I also, want to acknowledge your comment as to the corruption of our own Defense Department. During 2004-2005, I was conducting inspections of some of the bases we were closing in Kosovo. I inquired about 10 generators that were warehoused (I believe they were 45kw). These generators were unused, in mint condition and had been sitting in the warehouse for 10-15 years. Meanwhile a Defense contractor (who will remain nameless - they know who they are) had been charging the US government $25K per year to service and maintain them. You do the math. And this one only one of many examples I saw while serving at the Combatant Command or Joint Task Force Level.
As an citizen of an ex soviet occupied country I can tell you that corruption in russia is not something that started with the fall of soviet union, it has been always their way of life, even during tsarist times when goverment positions were bought. Its their way of life and they dont know anything else.
@@somebody700 I would say that now Russia is a pathetic replacement for the Soviet Union. The political and economic systems are different, but the behavior is like that of a small and evil USSR. But my argument was about the creation of the Soviet Union. It was founded not by Russians, but by international Bolsheviks, who simply captured Russia first, and then other republics. To some extent it is unfair to say that the Russians forced everyone to be in the USSR. I would say that the Russians were most deformed by this country and forgot their culture.
Great video recap thank you. Quoting Napoleon Boneparte here..."Never interrupt your enemy when they’re making a mistake." It is unfortunate that the average Russian solidier pays the price for all of this.
We protect the most people possible, from as much violence/injustice as we can. To do that, sometimes the only solution left is to stop, wound and even kill - act like a monster, to prevent even bigger monsters from doing much worse things to even more people. This is the basis of warfare morality I follow. If you got better, let me know.
To avoid conscription u need from 2 to 4 k euroes. Several of my friends did this and it worked , price depends on 2 things : your conscription office and was there a corruption check or not
If the Russians could fix the corruption, they could simply make this into a tax, so that they could put that money into funding a foreign legion. They're already using foreign soldiers, but it could be better organised.
@@roflomaozedong hence only rich kids can afford it, and for other 90% of poor population, job in the army is a job, a paying one, even with all the corruption.
@@linzzzer Now convert it to russian Rouble. For us, it's chump change, but in russia, outside of big cities, it's a lot of money...I know, b/c Ive been to Russia, spen some time in Kaliningrad and Ive seen disparities between social groups and different strata.
where do you think this slapstick clown got his revelation from? he event states "i'm gonna outline how a whole system of dishonor ended up tricking military analysists, *including myself*" (no, really. he referred to himself as a MiLiTaRy aNaLySt, omitting the armchair part - 1:24)
The Pentagon stopped an audit when $250M couldn't be in office supplies. In one department. Basically on auditor said the books haven't just been cooked. But are fiction. Something like $5T over a decade can't be accounted for. But funds to upgrade, repair or simple maintenance to base infrastructure/housing is cut. FFS.
He stated pretty clearly the waste in the US military procurement system. I worked as a defense contractor for several years. I did not see straight up corruption (too low on the totem pole for that) but some aspects of waste were obvious. Spend it or lose it and gold plating being at the top of my list based on personal experience.
An excellent presentation, thank you. In watching I remembered when Putin asked each of his advisors if he should invade Ukraine. It was the video of him giving the security chief a tongue lashing. I remember how they all looked so pissed off, so dejected and I thought it was due to them being against a war but unable to say it. That's wrong, the reason they looked so pissed was because they were thinking... "Fck, he's going to find out, he's going to watch his army march into battle with no useful fking equipment because we've spent it all"..
@@johneadon7263 yup, they'd only been telling Putin that they had the best cookie jars in the world, full of the latest, tastiest cookies. And now Putin wanted the cookies and all they could offer was old stale cookies and crumbs...
I think this will be how Putin bails himself out. He won’t take responsibility for the disaster like Tsar Nicholas II did, instead he will throw his generals and military leaders under the bus as Scape goats. He will say he was lied to about Russian capabilities and that he will now work to purge the military of corruptions
Fun fact: this winter, right before the beginning of SMO, there were mass sellings of fresh army MRE (with marking "not for sale") in low-cost supermarket near my home in Saint-Petersburg. It seems to me that russian generals remember the bible story about hungry man and fish and they say: you dont't need food supply when you've got a rifle.
if you watch voices from Ukraine, they intercept Russian calls in Ukraine. the Russian soldiers will be in Ukraine, talking to their friends and family back at home. there is a specific instance where the guy was talking about his gear and his night vision, and how his squad leader sold the equipment. I thought it was hilarious that you brought this up because it's absolutely true.
You missed the history of it all. In the soviet era, higher military ranks were supposed to be modestly compensated, so there was an understanding that those higher ranks would.....supplement. When the UUSR dissolved, the only thing which changed, was that virtually all accountability was removed. It then went from systemic and limited, to the cultural norm.
Perun's latest video talks about Germany's procurement woes. A great one-liner from that video is "Whilst Russia does corruption, Germany does bureaucracy." The same is probably true in most Western democracies.
I would recommend reading about former soldiers' (conscripts and otherwise) testimonials about their experience. It's mostly corruption to the point of others stealing coats and socks. They had to pay for half the stuff themselves and barely did anything useful. When the shittiest smelliest socks are being stolen, talking about night vision goggles is comical
Exactly the same for CCP armed forces. In 2011 I went to a PLA regimental commander's home. They showed me some of the nicest ivory sculptures. I am very happy how corrupt this system is.
What you didn't mention was the military's involvement with the mafia. The mafia sort of bullies the military and treats them like a protection racket (yes, you heard that right, the army gets bullied by criminals). This is state supported as it helps keep the military weak and less of a threat to the regime.
The old Nicholas Cage movie Lord of War was pretty accurate about the condition of early 90’s Russian military. Big ticket weapons systems were disappearing. That’s what caused us to start buying their nuclear warheads during the Clinton years.
bro, you have to see the armed forces here in Brazil, we bought griphens fighter jets and they cost more per unit than the f-35s. the Brazilian tax payer is very angry with the delay from SAAB, they are delaying delivery all the time, and not to mention that the two-seat version will no longer be manufactured here. everyone is angry here
@@AlanSanchez-ww9qb Brazil's F-X program was started back in mid-90's, delayed, then suspended, then restarted in 2008 and finally picked in 2013. The deal includes a high degree of technology transfer and industrial investments for assembly and parts production in Brazil (F-35 were never in the running, I think F-18's were but US doesn't do tech transfer but the Swedes did). Saab opened a plant near Sao Paulo & trained Brazilian engineers to make the plane parts but corruption in Brazil is equally legendary. Brazilians call the Gripen NG = F-39. Haha
I liked the way you made an argument for how corruption serves to underpin Putin’s political power. I think this is a vital point and shows how endemic it is to the system. What is also important is that this corruption seeps down to the lowest levels of the social hierarchy. Getting ordinary people to pay bribes or to skim money or resources at their jobs makes them complicit in the system even if they receive a minuscule benefit. It makes it more difficult for them to complain about or act against the massive corruption at higher levels of government. This is a why Navalny was so effective: he showed the scale of the corruption and the mendacity of Putin and his inner circle. The one open question is whether the corruption can be sustained throughout a long war of attrition and economic sanctions. It was ok during peacetime when people had some expectations of gradual improvement in their daily lives. But if things move backwards economically and Putin’s cronies take a bigger slice from the shrinking pie, they might not accept it for long. Especially when the Russian soldiers are demobilized at the end of the war.
This video is spot on! It's hard to comprehend how corrupt Russian army and society as a whole is. Lived for a while in the Soviet Union and oh boy how bad corruption was back then also.
USSR had very quick change in level of corruption. But yeah overall the corruption started growing around 80s and well... The rest is history. Although you can argue that the second half of USSR they got corruption rising. Which is basically after the death of Stalin.
I see things haven't changed since the 1980's. If you can find it, I recommend reading the book "Inside the Soviet Army" by Viktor Suvorov. It was quite insightful in its time.
I read that. It's hilarious. The general that got a promotion telling the audience at a Soviet military exercise that the troops on the top of the train crossing the super fast scratch built bridge over a river were demonstrating a new but as yet unissued AA weapon system was the best. Spoiler: They were the train's engineer and conductor who panicked when the bridge started to shake violently as the train crossed it and got on the roof to jump clear if it collapsed.
No it wasnt. Suvorov is a Soviet traitor who ran to Britain in 78 and was paid to shit on USSR, just like Solzhenytsin and many others. If you learn history by reading those books i feel sorry for you.
@@Random_Guardsman Mongols never ruled the Russia. As long as local feudals payed contribution, they were free to do what they want in their respective lands. Mongols burned Kiev though, thats when Kievan Rus technically siezed to exist.
@@МихаилАлексеев-г2к Right, they didnt rule.. Mongols burned alot more than one city and forced them to pay to keep em from doing it again, they also built cities of their own with some of them standing to this day. But fine, they didnt rule, they just made sure that the people who "ruled" knew the axe would come down if they did anything.
My dad who worked for DCAS for 25 years said that corruption in defense spending ran at least 10% from 1965-1985. This showed up in post annual audits.
@@AlanSanchez-ww9qb Yes. In dollars (or hard currency) the US is about 10 times that of Russia. Yet corruption overall is higher in Russia. A retired executive (a friend of mine) in Russia has to live on a $2500/yr pension but does have free medical.
I can't believe you went through all that work to connect the dots! I can't believe that I listened to the whole explanation! And it looks like you enjoyed telling us about it. Me.... I have a headache! Have a nice day.
Outside of completely butchering the pronunciation of all Russian last names, your videos are amazing! No BS, no agenda, straight facts. That's why you get so many clicks and reviews, very much deserved!
Partway through, I was starting to wonder (especially after he would consistently butcher the same name in almost the same way multiple times) whether it was intentional disrespect.
You may already be aware of it, but in the interests of historic perspective for anybody who is not. The US once divested itself of corruption originating with organised crime which arguably approached dangerously close to the situation in Russia. It was only eventually achieved by a group led by a special agent named Elliot Ness which was established in 1930 and existed until 1932 and was known as 'the untouchables'. The name came about because recruitment for agents involved required them to have a minimum of vulnerabilities one being no family ties which could be exploited via extortion by criminals like 'Al Capone' who could arguably be compared to Vladimir Putin because his method's probably emulate Capone's. Several movies have been made ostensibly depicting events surrounding activities and events involving the Untouchables. So far as I know (and profoundly hope) corruption within the US military has long been opposed to good effect by the office of the Judge Advocate General.
Have you been invited yet to any of our service acadamies? Your analyses are on target, straightforward and easy to understand and entertaining. Keep it up!
Anyone interested in a deep dive on corruption and how it can work in a military like Russia and what all it can do, often worse than you'd expect from the numbers reported, watch Peruns video on it. He does excellent analysis on this type of thing. In detail, thorough, well researched, often tries to be unbiased and even uses Russian numbers for some cases not just western or such reported ones to make his points. Overall, good videos.
@terricon4 I second that. "Perun" produces some of the best vids about this invasion of Ukraine. He is an analyst by profession and it shows. He's an Aussie ( 👍) who knows his sh-t and backs up these analyses with data and numbers from reputable sources. His vids on Russian Military Logistics alone is worth a visit.
Disclaimer: if any of you want to watch Perun, be ready for a PowerPoint Presentation that lasts for approximately one hour. But don't worry, Perun makes detailed timestamps for his videos' chapters to make it easier for the viewers to digest and recap.
Dude you did a great job. I've always wanted to get some numbers on the depth of Russian corruption, thanks for providing. I wonder if Ukraine could take advantage of Russian lack of night vision capabilities and begin operating at night...
I think they do to the extent that they can. I suspect (as in I really don't know if this is true) that Ukraine's night fighting capabilities are not advanced.
@@Weeks25 The impression that I get is that the Ukrainians have been supplied with night vision equipment, but not enough to make it ubiquitous. Then there is training for night operations, which is probably lacking. While Ukraine has some advantages at night, I do not get the impression that they own it.
Has been since the Mongol’s took over. A lot of the self destructive tendencies that Russia has is just the side effect of Mongolian rule. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting shit to change.
Over the years, ive really enjoyed researching military’s around the world. When Russia invaded Ukraine this year. I kept telling everyone that im no expert by any means but according to all my research. Russia is a paper tiger and they’re going to struggle to win quickly or to even win. Everyone i know pretty much laughed at me but most of them have told me since then that i was correct.
dude, 25% of your beloved Banderostan is under Russiian control now with ZERO chance for Ukrops to reoccupy it. Keep believing in $hit, just remember about 'Russia run out of cruise missles' 3 months ago.
Lol… there’s about 130-150k was invaded to Ukraine in February against 200k Ukrainian army. On top of that Ukraine conduct mobilization and whole NATO send aid and satellite data and even than Russians still slowly keep taken territory. Ukraine is even more corrupted than you think
I recently saw a video of Russian soldiers that were actually well armed and HAD OPTICS ON THEIR WEAPON. It is one of the few videos where I saw them perform well so if Russia manages to stop corruption in the army they might actually have a functioning army.
It was probably Chechens that you were seeing. Good, hard-fighting Muslims, and tough as nails. They have no patience for time-wasters or cowards, and they take fighting seriously. When they go into a fight, they know to do so well-prepared, and their leaders aren’t in the business of throwing away their lives, so if their leaders need to steal, they steal from elsewhere, and don’t steal from the units and men that they send to fight.
@@samy7013 I don't think it was Chechens because none of them had the standardized Chechen beards or flags. Might have been Spetsnaz but I'm not entirely sure cause he seemed to have been working alongside for forces.
The more I learn about RUSSIA (under dictator of Putin), the more I am absolutely convinced that their governance structure (or lack thereof) is their weakest link. Even if they were able to take Ukraine, such a disorganized governance structure cannot hold it or hold the Baltic States together for too long.
@@JohnDoe-fz3dg Patrick Lancaster the Kremlin propagandist who uses the same paid actors time after time dressed up in different clothes in multiple places pretending to be someone different each time? 😂😂😂😂😂
@@JohnDoe-fz3dg the same lancaster who claimed that a civi vehicle hit an IED, while showing corpses inside that had the same wounds as someone who had just come out of an autopsy? that Patrick Lancaster? mans is a joke.
I'd venture to say that no amount of corruption, inhumanity, brutality or outright stupidity connected to the Russian government can really be considered the least bit shocking at this point. What'll be truly shocking is if these things ever actually change for the better. As they say, "Don't hold your breath on that one."
"They claim to have the largest military." I'm not sure this is accurate. And whether they claim it or not, the Russian military isn't the largest. Measuring by active personnel, China, India, the US, and North Korea all have larger militaries. In China's case it has more than double Russia's personnel. Including reserves and paramilitary, Vietnam, both Koreas, China and India beat Russia. It does have the most tanks - surpassing the combined total of the next two countries, North Korea and the US.
I bet China has a corruption problem like Russia maybe even worse seeing how they both are comming from old Communist ways. North Korean tanks are nothing more than T65's and Russias tanks are upgraded T72's and out of mothball T65's with some T 80's and T90's in the mix with 5 or 6 good T14 Armatas wich they cant afford to reproduce.
Russia is a huge land mass but the state Texas has a larger GDP than Russia. California btw makes the Russian GDP look like Chugwater, Wyoming compared to New York City.
It's actually shockingly similar to what happened in Germany, though the difference is it resulted in too small amounts of good equipment instead of a lot of junk equipment like in Russia
Not fully true, yes there probably is some corruption but the bundeswehr main problems are with bureaucracy, short term planning and incompetent/disinterested politican at the top. And unlike russia there is both a free and VERY critical press in germany + a very open culture in the defense ministry hence why we all know about the sad state of the bundeswehr while apparently not even putin himself knew about the state of the russian army.
Not really. In Germany, it is just staggering bureaucratic inefficiency, sometimes intentionally made worse by companies profiting from it. On top of that, nobody really cared about the outcomes until recently.
Hats off to you ,Sir . You have mangled Slavonic so inventively , so smoothly, that I couldn’t pass the opportunity to commend you for…..something or other…
@@Shinkajo legalized corruption. Measurable corruption. Planned corruption. Russia’s problem is that their corruption isn’t planned. Someone steals half of the diesel and then some other guy steals the other half of the diesel. Looks ridiculous? That’s because they weren’t coordinating the theft.
Here in the U.S.A, industries can legally vastly overcharge the government after some lobbying, campaign donations and expensive "business trips". The world has much to learn.
@@PeterMuskrat6968 The health care industry is the worst offender, they charge hundreds for meds that cost pennies to make. And their research is funded by tax payers.
At least the US military industry complex gets the job done after all those shady consulting and business trip expenses whereas Russian shell companies just steal government money and produce zero output
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Ukraine is losing the war. Almost all professional soldiers are destroyed and Western mercenaries are fleeing from the country. The army is collapsing and military servicemen are capturing people right on the streets. Dozens of videos where Ukrainian solders refuse to conduct suicide orders. I can tell you what is going to happen next - Zelensky authority among his own troops and population is lowering everyday. Soon, he will just lose the control over his military.
It is time for you to have some balls and admit that you pushed the false narrative all the time listening your bs media and some corrupt bloggers. How are you going to escape the situation? Hope that your viewers forget it?
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You realize Russia is clearly winning now Ukraine is on the run maybe your first thoughts on this war were correct
I've seen the pictures of the Russian "Storage Depots". Almost every tank not already with units is rusted out and covered in moss after DECADES of being left outside. Saying Russia has 10,000 plus tank....Is like a General standing in a War Cemetery, pointing around him and claiming he has an army.
something that is much more staggering than the actually 15-30% taken off the top is the fact that a LOT of Russian equipment is aging and requires the scheduled maintenance. If funds are redirected that need to go towards fixing up a 40 year old tank then that tank essentially becomes a piece of garbage... so now it's not 50k USD that is stolen, it also amounts to a 5 million dollar tank being rendered useless due to it's redirection of required maintenance funds.
Well thats not a valid argument, since US also uses 40 year old MBTs, M1A1 entered service 41 years ago, overwhelming majority were build during the last century, only small amounts were build in the last 20 years, same is with Russian tanks, so its not a good argument.
@@milosmilictrob2046 thing is,the Abrams are well maintained,so that it can last longer,and still perform well on battle
@@milosmilictrob2046 Actually they don’t and the U.S. maintains its equipment so it’s usable and it’s a very valid argument.
@@milosmilictrob2046 it’s not the age that is the problem. It’s the fact that no one is caring for the aging tank.
GD thieving bastards???
Perun did an awesome (as usual) presentation on this. What I love about his video is the way that he explains how a 20% skim is so much more than a 20% impact. Selling $500 worth of fuel could leave a $5M piece of equipment stranded in a field in Ukraine, waiting to be pulled away by a farmer with a tractor. That goes for fuel, cheap Chinese tires, you name it. It goes from General Kleptokrovich to Private Konscriptovich
I do love every time I see Perun referenced on the internet.
Perun's video is really good..
@Dr. Bright He's an economist and logistics guy out of Australia. He does good analysis.
Did Perun do one on Hunter Bidens corroption and payoffs?
Daddy perun does great work
Corruption is a long standing "tradition" in Russia. It was a well documented pattern in the Soviet Union and the Russian Empire before that. The Soviet pilot that flew the Mig-25 to Japan assumed that you could pay "traffic fines" here in the US just by paying the officer that stopped you. He was bailed out of trouble by his handler who was trying to get him acculturated to US ways.
It was rough going for a while for Victor, but he did after a little bumpy going, he adapted to living in our country and is a citizen. I remember that in 1976, was 27 and that makes him in his 70's now. His book is a good read.
Corruption dates back to the Mongol invasion of the Kievan Rus, 13th century.
Isn't it that way Mexican police operate too
Africa is like this to, at least when I was living there Britney /corruption was part of culture for everyone
@@JustMe-gn6yf You'll find it anywhere where officials are underpaid. Hard to bribe someone who makes a good living.
I think the best explanation for why this corruption was allowed to carry on right up until the eve of war is simple enough - the vast majority of Russian forces didn’t know the war was going to happen until the very last second. Corruption carried on because it’s business as usual, and by the time the chiefs of staff realised that Putin was actually serious about trying to conquer all of Ukraine - it was already too late.
Another shocker was literally thousands of reserve tanks having the electronics stripped out for the gold and copper. It led to a commander committing suicide after losing all his armour in Ukraine.
What electronics?most russian tanks dont even have an embedded digitial circuit in them
@@rohampasha9667 not anymore they don't
This was regarding the T-80 depots for the elite 4th Guards Tank Army. 10% were fit for service, the rest were write-offs.
@@rohampasha9667 Forget the chips. Copper wire is valuable stuff!
@@crownprincesebastianjohano7069 is there any veriable photographic evidence of this? ..
other than written facebook posts from the Ukrainian MOD
Recall an interview with a retired US Procurement auditor that specialized in heavy duty truck tires. It was shocking to see him explain why Russian BTR-60 and 80 had high rates of tire failure due to lack of proper maintenance and replacement when they aged out.
That is shocking. Considering BMP is tracked vehicle.
I don’t want to be that guy, but I think you or your guy might be confusing the BMP, with the BTR. BTRs are the 8x8 armoured infantry fighting vehicles. We’ve seen rotting tires on everything from trucks to APCs.
And their tyres are shit to begin with. So you have an inferior product that isn't maintained. Sounds excellent.
@@Taistelukalkkuna - thanks for pointing out my mistake so I could correct my comment. Reference was to Russian BTR-60 and 80 family of vehicles.
@@ATankEnjoyer - corrected
This isn't a problem faced just by Russia, it is a culture remnant of the USSR, and a rampant issue in most post-Soviet countries.
especially in Ukraine.
Hell, it was just recently that Ukraine was found to be the most corrupt European country and only now they became 2nd to last to Russia but that doesn't mean the Ukrainians did better.
The biggest worry for all the money and arms being sent to Ukraine is that much of it can be stolen and abused by Ukrainian officials.
And its not only in the military, its in every government instance.
There is nothing "cultural", Baltic states were part of USSR too.
@@vos2693 and eastern block and baltic states still have varying amounts of corruption
@@EdGeLV wow, you probably work as attorney or government official
A former Russian military soldier once told me back in 2012 that "Everything in Russia a bribe!"
i heard that russians have the attitude of "they pretend to pay us and we pretend to work "
Hi mate, fantastic to see you cover this topic. Corruption in militaries isn't the most discussed topic - but the impact on capability and readiness is significant.
If you ever decide to come back to the topic or anything like it, feel free to get in touch - I have a decent stock of documents and stories that I gathered when preparing my look at the topic that I couldn't cover, even in a 60 minute time. Ditto if you ever want to look at at another nation or get a procurement/industry centric view on the issue.
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The funny thing is that here in Latin America, we have so many so-called "youtube channels" of "truth", pricing, and idolizing Putin. Still, when confronted with information like this, they just go insane over anyone exposing the Russian corruption.
Keep up the good work pal.
Cheers from Latin America.
Hey, thanks for the insight. What is your opinion on why that is so? I've noticed that many people from Syria, and India are supporting Putin as well. Stands to reason l guess given current situations in their countries. One final thought: what is your feeling about Hitler escaping to south america? Seems to me their is far more evidence to suggest that he did than not. But, if course no one wants to believe that in the states and elsewhere.
I've talked with many people from Middle East and Africa and many of them like Putin because he is against the US. Are they jealous or what is this?
@@alpardo7022 It is complicated to understand why, people from around the world supports Putin, my guess, is that, at least, people from my country, who do, is just because, they do hate the E.U and the USA, but many of them are quite young to said that they do belong to the old communist parties from Latin America, so that rules out that they are communist from the old school that may identify themselves with Putin, because he is trying to resuscitate the glories of the defunct CCCP.
This young people, who supports Putin, are usually, from the new left, which wants nothing with conservatives, despite the old left was quite conservative in some areas, so honestly, to me, is quite hard to find a tangible answer, because Putin is an ultra-nationalist and a conservative, and those views do not merge well with the new left.
As far Hitler in South America, well, many things suggest that, but that is a topic that my knowledge may not be the right one to talk about of such topic, I do live in Central America, not South America.
I do hope that, at some point in history, this will be clarified for one and for all by a dedicated historian.
Cheers from, CR.
@@Victor-lc3pw Plain hate to the USA or the EU, but keep in mind that, in a hypothetical scenario, if this people, the heaters, ever have the opportunity to choose where to live, in Russia or the USA, well, we all know, wich county the will choose.
I made it to the part where he said Russia is struggling against Ukraine. If he can't even get that right, then how can I trust anything else he says?
I'm from lithuania and grew up right after the fall of the soviet union. I've seen the change and I've heard stories (and witnessed some of them myself). Corruption was a very normal part of life. Most people working for the government would siphon off whatever they could - would it be bricks, money, tools, materials or anything else. It was normal. Your car needs a roadworthiness test? Well, just pay for it directly to the person doing the test. It will be a bit more expensive, but usually not that much. Cops stopped you for speeding? Just pay it off. I myself had done it a few times as it was ... normal. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. There's still corruption everywhere in the world, but the way it was looked at in the USSR and is still looked at in many easter block countries is very different... Everyone's trying to rip their country off while still pretending to be huge patriots. It's disgusting.
the difference is that if you try to bribe someone in Lithuania now you will most likely go to jail or have some consequences. And in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus still today there is expected from you to pay a bribe just like 30 years ago. The post soviet european countries made a huge leap, meanwhile nothing changed in the Russian speaking countries.
To me, it doesn't make much difference whether you pay traffic fines to a cop directly or to the government system which will siphon your money for its self-interest as well. At least most likely the money you give to a cop will go to feed and dress his kids, not to do some political lobbying or worse buying the weapons to kill those who disagree with you.
Siphon off whatever they could...?
I'm picturing that Simpsons episode when Homer clocks off and throws something in the back of his car and says, "Ah, another day, another box of stolen pencils."
Only instead of pencils they're bricks.
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How did you learned English?
@@-king1264 games, movies, tv shows etc. We also had english (british english) at school, but "interactive" learning was faster and easier. I was born in 87 so by the time I was a teenager the internet was pretty much everywhere :)
A Russian soldier is walking down the road with one shoe on when his army buddies drive up to him and ask if he lost a shoe? The Russian replied Nyet! I found a shoe.
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Old story. I had a buddy who opened wholesale drug business for a Fortune 500 firm after the USSR fell on it's ass. They persisted for several years but finally pulled out as the Russian Organized crime system was the most efficient means of distributing stuff, and they charged less payoff than the government crooks did to get stuff done. The company was not willing to explicitly deal with the criminal organization, and the govt people were too expensive to buy off. They folded up and left the country.
I read an article a couple years after 1991 about one of the reasons the USSR collapsed. I forget the finest details but gist was people couldn't tell the Russia Mafia from the Russia government. The whole place is filthy rotten corrupt. Chy-na operates the same way.
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Фанни рашн-хейтинг гёрлс-клаб.
It's also important to understand how corruption influences the military culture in Russia.
When everyone is corrupt, and everyone *knows* that everyone is corrupt, being honest just makes you a sucker. But that means there's a fundamental distrust built into the culture, because anyone can turn in anyone else at any time. Every fellow soldier is both a potential co-conspirator and a potential snitch, and there's always a potential benefit for them to screw you over if things go bad for them (and vice versa). While that's not the worst thing in a criminal enterprise, it's a pretty bad attitude to have if you're marching alongside those people in a military campaign, where you count on your fellow soldiers to help you survive.
The result is that most Russian soldiers have a pretty garbage attitude when it comes to their jobs, towards their leadership, and even towards their brothers and sisters in arms. They can't count on each other to do their jobs, so there's a strong sense that everyone is on their own. This is why their rate of defection is so high: they haven't been taught the value of loyalty, so they have no problem turning on their former comrades if it will save their own skin. After all, its what their commanding officers would probably do in their position.
I learned that playing DOTA2 with russians: no teamplay and toxic beaviour.
No, it doesn't make you "a sucker", it makes you an outcast and a target. "Honest" people don't make it anywhere past the rank of Major.
That's all fine and dandy... anyway there was another mass shooting in the US.
Did u serve in Russian military or just made up all of that? Lol. Results speaks for themselves.
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Even if you think, "But they still used 67% on military!", the problem is the fact that the corruption hits the essentials like fuel, and ammonition, and small spare parts, and rations ... so it doesn't matter that the Russian military got the tanks, the cruisers, and the missiles. The tanks, even the most expensive ones, are useless without ammo, fuel, and personel.
@@MercuryRisingFast The US does what?
@@MercuryRisingFast lies
This was a great breakdown of just how deep the corruption ran and destroyed the military from the inside. Thank you!
I am from Russia and this is first good video I've seen on our corruption by a western RUclipsr/ex-military guy. Thanks for your effort to deliver us a good content
Hope you’re safe freind, did you move countries?
The US military couldn't account for a good couple of trillion in spending.. and then the building housing all the important documents relating to the investigation of this discrepancy got blown up or demolishioned during nine 11.
Seems this kinda leeching on the balls of the taxpayer is kinda par for the course when it comes to most governments.
Perun's video on corruption is way more detailed & holistic, check him out
Your voice is essential, you're an actual look into your motherland God bless our Russian contemporaries that speak a truth we don't normally get in the West. Thank you, sir.
Task and Purpose is one of the greats, however this exact subject has been addressed by scholars for nearly two decades now, with the criticism of every Russian. Suddenly they agree. I am not targeting this at you I understand individuals do think differently I am just saying overall you are seeing it more often, much more now that they can not hide the fact.
"Steal anything not nailed down, Anything I can pry up is not nailed down" - Russian military proverb
Lincoln once said of one of his cabinet, "he'd steal anything except a red hot stove."
@@rodwallace6237 , nice, haha.
Reminds me of the movie "Lord of War".
@@rodwallace6237 and when the man was outraged, said oh well I withdraw the statement.
I thought that was a finnish saying about the cossacks
I once worked in an industry that tried to establish itself in Russia a few years after the fall of the USSR and the end of the Cold War. The initial idea was that the very capable manufacturing facilities and skilled labor force in the country - the very same that designed and produced some truly outstanding products for aerospace and military use - could be easily turned around to make high-quality goods for consumers in the US and other Western countries, much better than the same that were being made in Taiwan and China. For example, imagine a road-racing bicycle, made in Russia out of near-aerospace grade carbon fiber and titanium, for little more than the best that could ever come out of the bike factories in Taichung and Shenzhou. On paper it was a win-win-win for everybody. The reality was that the corruption in Russia was so bad - in the government, the factories, and the different mafias - the smart companies cut their losses and got out of the country as fast as they could. Those who were unlucky or too stupid to pull out in time lost their shirts - not only over there but also here in the US as well. It was a sad case of "what could've been" that really went off the rails. If World War III ever happens, I seriously doubt that even half of Russia's nukes and supporting infrastructure will leave their launch tubes or even function as expected. Not like that would be a bad thing. That's probably the only upside to Russia's systemic corruption that I wouldn't argue about.
There was a Tom Clancy book (don't remember the title) where one of the characters went to Russia to confirm the deactivation of Russia's ICBMs. According to him there was water (maybe ice) at the bottom of the launch tube in such a great amount as to render that ICBM as unable to launch with a significant chance to explode.
@@Gozokukolat Tom Clancy was a great writer and the tons of research he put into each of his books really shows. I don't remember what that book is either, but that detail is typical Tom Clancy.
You just can't create a nuclear missile and put a nuclear missile in a silo......and years after no maintenance.....expect it to fire off and operate like normal. Nuclear missiles take a lot to maintain and are expensive to maintain. In light of ruSSia's corruption.......I wouldn't be surprised if at least half the money to maintain ruSSian nukes were pocketed by their corrupt military and Oligarchs. Hence, I wouldn't be surprised if half of ruSSia's nukes act like that one ruSSian missile launched that turned around and blew up the ruSSians that launched it.
@@richardharris3423 I agree. This is why I think Putin, and the Russian and Soviet leaders before him, may have talked a big game but knew deep in their (little black) hearts that total nuclear war is something they could not win. Which is why Moscow has resorted to doing other things in its bag of tricks, but that's another story.
You're describing events that took place 30 years ago. Is time denial a thing now?
It was my first impression when in the first days of invasion the 40 km queues of tanks were stucked in the streets over days that the amount of the needed fuel was not existing in the stores. The army was just not ready to march and the personnel was overwhelmed by this decision.
кто тебе сказал такую глупость .россия без топлива.ты попутал с европой.
@@ВладимирЛомакин-у1к In Europa we have something called "TV" and "internet" where they presented airial photos and movies regarding the issue daily. If you need those kind of technology make a trip to St.Petersburg. There they have good fibre optic cable networks. Try it !
To me, corruption will always amount to high treason. The societal cost of it is obscene and it says a lot about the character of a person, who engages in it.
Well said, so if the Russian Govt. is run as a kleptocracy, and almost every govt. employee is expected to take advantage of their positions to enrich themselves, then of course Putin and his KGB, organized crime partners, and sycophant oligarchies are certainly guilty of high treason.
Execution is a fitting punishment. Those who betray its own country will betray anyone.
The problem is that it starts at the top and trickles down the social strata. That's why anti-corruption efforts also always have to start with the people most capable of deflecting such efforts.
You do realize that every single politician is corrupt?
Or were you born yesterday?
@@sdhiousdfyhsdioufsdoiufh Corruption is a big issue in many political systems. But you seem to be supporting the abolishment of representative democracy which is just incorrect and doesn't help fix corruption.
A quick look at the orlan10 drone shows all you need to know about corruption. As a US civilian I could make such a craft, buying off the shelf parts for $5k or less. The Russian military is being billed $100k a unit. That's not a 20% loss due to corruption its 95%
My observations exactly, I could not believe the price tag quoted for the Russian POS drone...LOL
100 thousand dollars is a control point, a mobile repair shop with a repair kit and a set of uavs of 5 pcs. The UAV itself costs 3 thousand dollars and shows superior efficiency.
@@milaro222 any proof? Some info on costs of a single bottle flyer?
@@milaro222 what are you saying?
Did you watch Operator Starsky dismantle one of those Orlan drones? It's insane how cheap it is lol. To be honest though, if you are using a drone for surveillance purposes only and to designate areas for Artillery, you dont really need anything crazy. Just a drone that can see. But shit the Orlan had a cheap ass camera on it as well lol. No wonder Russia sucks at artillery and has to get accuracy by volume.
This reminds me of a story from the 80's. When Soviet Union economy went belly up, the CIA was really surprised. After all they had a really, really good source for economic intelligence that gave them all the actual economical information. How did they know it was actual? Because it was the same information that was given to the Soviet politbyro, the one that actually ran the USSR. So why was the CIA caught of guard by the Soviet economic collapse? Because people in USSR were lying to their own leaders about how bad the economic situation was (because there was, and probably is, a tradition of shooting the messenger in Russia), and those lies were then leaked to CIA as the absolute truth.
That might be what's happened to Putin, and the Western intelligence services.
This must be one of the most epic task failed succesfully that ever happened irl
“shooting the messenger”
*happy Tokarev noises*
Very few people get that about why a lot of people over-estimated Russia; they just couldn't put themselves into the shoes of the Russian (ex-Soviet) society, where lying to your superior is a widespread societal contract; how such lying is hardly policed, if policed at all.
It was present elsewhere in ex-Soviet space as well, but especially so in the core of Russia, where it was AND is the strongest + it was the least weeded out there since the fall of the Soviet Union.
@@elektrotehnik94 Corruption was also an integral part of the Soviet system, if you wanted something to actually be done there. My father did most of his business in Germany and France, but he covered a few times his friends who did business in USSR in the 70's and 80's. Apart from the fact that you really had to be an alcoholic to deal with the Soviets long term (they drank... a lot... all the time... and expected foreigners to drink too) he said that he just couldn't get his head around the corruption system there. Not that he didn't understand it but the honest businessman in him couldn't accept it, you pretty much had to bribe everybody from the top all the way down to the lowest ranking person you did business with.
A system like that just doesn't go away fast, specially when you look how Russia has been working for the last three decades.
@J kausti Hard to know the real number when the guys doing the inventory is lying, because he sold half the stock he is supposed to keep on ebay.
mad respect man, i notice that u are very specific when u believed something incorrect, saying "yeah i was wrong this was right" in like a totally matter-of-fact way, that sort of attitude will get you far man. Taking responsibility, not just fessing up to mistakes, but openly aknowledging them, it's a good way to live
The thing with Shoigu's predecessor, Serdyukov, might be a bit more interesting than a fleeting mention in the vid.
Some insiders tell while the guy wasn't perfect, he at least tried to tame/mitigate corruption related to military industry, and that might have resulted in a big embarrassment. So, it's not that he got fired because Shoigu desperately needed a minister seat (he was a minister of emergencies for a long time - yes, Russia handles disaster on a ministry level rather than via government agency use), but because Serdyukov tried to do his job for once.
He alienated too many powerful people in the military and the armament industries whilst Shoigu is a courtier who knows to play nice
As I understand it... One reform Serdyukov wanted to make was reduce the number of officers, as the Russian military is very top heavy. Again, part of the corruption, people get promoted because being General receives bigger salary and gives you more opportunities to skim. That made a lot of people angry.
He is still an international war criminal, but at least he does his crimes for his antihumanic ideas, not just for stealing money
My God, Shoigu Profan! Putin still suka, who would Zelensky name a clown, answer why Russian federation is circus? And point!!!( vkusno i tochka, meme about an typical *rus answer* to mac)
Great job & very commendable you even noted experiences of corruption in your own forces. Seems a pretty clear lesson for every other country- if you don’t appoint on merit & don’t support real consequences when corruption is exposed...youre on a fast track to a wasteful, low-morale, incapable military
Well said! And cultures can change. If I recall, South Korea used to be one of the most corrupt nations on Earth in the 1960s into the 1980s. But now it is decidedly less so. Hell, they threw a former President, and the daughter of a national hero, into prison for corruption. Do the Americans have the nerve to do so with Messr. Trump?
Like the US Military! = )
If you had seen the US Army after Vietnam, hoo boy. 50% of truck drivers couldn't even drive their trucks. In the National Guard, you only needed to attend 60% of your scheduled training to avoid penalties (It's why W missed so much fly time) Then St Reagan poured billions into the system with no controls, and *POOF* $400 toilet seats.
So the American military may give away money, but at least an accountant somewhere noted it down.
On a side note Clinton really squeezed out a lot of corruption by simply setting the military budget, and letting the generals fight over who got the money.
@@Krieghandt I was not aware of what Clinton did to stop corruption that is very interesting I'll have to look into that
@@TheOuskie No
I can attest to my own role in Iraq in terms of handing out bags of cash. No doubt 75% of the cash was stolen after I distributed it to all these "small business owners." However, the major difference between a Western NATO army and the Russians is that I had to account for every single dollar of the micro-grant fund. And I mean literal bricks of brand new, straight from the US Treasury, American $50 dollar bills (even NATO partners used dollars as it is the proper currency used anywhere, Iraqis won't take Kronor!). There was no way any of us could steal even a tiny amount. I recall one American officer tried by faking the micro grants, and because he was attached to a US Army ODA team he had less oversight, but he was caught when he tried to bring the money back and spent five years in prison. In the Russian Army, the $500K in micro-grants at the Corps level would have turned into $250K at division, and then $100K by the time it got to brigade, and $75K by the time it came to the battalions.
Not very bright to try and take the money back himself, proper thieves have networks where the money washes through
@@FM4AMGV Exactly! Goes to show that corruption of the sort seen in Russia is not terribly prevalent in the US Army. Amateurs! Though the Americans have perfected the no-bid procurement process as a means of legally ripping off the US people!
Man if he hid the money some place and shit
Corrupt Russians are thriving while Noble Russians feel hopeless.
Russia propaganda has obtained love from the citizens it should have instilled fear into, and instilled fear into the citizens it should have sought love from.
The US used bribery to ensure protection of information and/or the person carrying it. This incident happened once in my four year tour in the USAF. It took place in an unnamed country at an unknown time. I'm still subject to Security Act. It was a Sunday and I'm called to the finance office by my NCOIC. When I got there the finance officer, NCOIC, cashier and myself met with a person I wasn't introduced to. Four of us went into a walk-in vault and watched as the finance officer pulled out a box from out of the rollaway safe housed there. When he opened it, gold coins glittered. I think all our eyes popped. He counted out a number of coins which all had to certify. The cashier then put them into a money belt the stranger provided, and the unknown person wrapped it around his waist, and also signed for the coins, and left. All were told not to discuss the incident. Decades later read a short article where it was revealed that USAF couriers often had to cross borders to deliver documents to Washington when planes weren't available. I guess I met one of them that day. I suspect the coins were used as bribes if necessary. These was pre computer and satellite days.
I talked to several former Russian soldiers who now live over here and work as technicians. The things that they told me of changing test results for tanks and vehicles ( trucks ) was unbelieveable. The Army actually purchased several models of U.S. and British commercial trucks through a third party and tore them down to test and then copy in order to make a decent vehicle. They were issued flashlights without batteries and then have to buy them with their money. Clothing when damaged in battle is not replaced, parts, fuel, food, and sometimes amo such as grenades, explosives, etc....not available. They were told that until new stuff arrived don't cause a battle. These are things that any infantryman should have. He fought in the Afgan War and it looks as if things are not better. New truck tires are swapped out for bad ones on a dump and then locked away as new. The new ones are sold off to a commercial buyer.His commander was selling off fuel, blankets or clothing he ordered for the 48 new ghost solders he never had. The Russians used to call us capitalist pigs for our profit making ways...I guess they don't consider stealing and selling off the stuff for money being a capitalist.
I remember when we first got the Kevlar helmet, the civilians that made them cut corners, but the convicts that made them in prison were the only ones that didn’t screw their own service members.
Yea, the corrupt bastard making our substandard IBA’s from Point Blank. Skimping on layers of Kevlar.
And his crooked wife owning another company cranking out below standard ceramic ESAPI plates.
In prison they have lots of time to do it correctly...
Let me correct this for you. It should read, "... the convicts that made them in prison were the only ones that didn't HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF screwing their own service members."
They did poor work
@@kevinlove4356 exactly, I dont think civilians had an armed guard watching over their heads for theft.
The Russian's sold their night vision sensors (tubes) around the world for cheap. So the world market place soaked up the production the tubes that were suppose to go to the Russian's troops.
yeah cuz why not sell cheap bad shit when the gas money could buy some French-made good ones to install into their APCs n such, even after this was banned, smh Europe, so good support (
I'm not so sure that the old looking (perhaps Gen1) Russian and Soviet vintage NVG/NODs found online are really what you'd want to equip a modern army with.
Even some of the "digital night vision" gear would most likely be better, even though clearly inferior to Gen2+ devices.
Then there's the detail that modern night vision doesn't even use a "tube" (Gen1 electro-optical vacuum tube) to amplify light, but uses a micro-channel plate (Gen2+. I guess with the usual arangement of objective and eyepiece lenses, it is kind-of tube shaped in its housing)
@@dj1NM3 Yes they are not good but that is the state of the equipment that they are producing. But the fact is that they Russian solders don't even have any. As you know they seem to have plenty to sell online but non for their troops.
Isn’t that treason? Reading about Russian Government incompetence just makes me pity them like some extremely disabled lion
The Iraqis must have bought some as I liberated some on Op Granby, or Desert storm for US reader. I sold my trophies 🏆 to guys who never got through the Burm, no doubt they invented some combat stories to go with them but they need not it was a through disappointment to most of us.
The "corruption" money going to local governments and tribes to make peace with them isn't actually stealing money from the U.S. citizens for selfish purposes, but effectively using it towards strategic goals, which is the opposite of the Russian corruption where much higher percentage is taken for personal gain while damaging Russia's tactical maintenance and progress.
In this case it's the US creating corruption, or rather taking advantage of their corruption.
That’s not what Cappy’s criticism was. The money was labeled politically as money for development of the Iraqi people, not as a pay off for Shieks and Chieftains. The other comment he made which was disturbing was that payoff money would then go into the hands of Isis . Furthermore the reason why the US won in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan but as soon as left the enemies they had been trying to defeat took over in quicker and quicker succession is that the US panders too these corrupt people and systems as they are often the enemy of their enemy and the people see the US as part of the institutions that have kept them down. Historically it is if the US army intervened in the American Revolution they’d back the British. Last points are mine
Yeah but profiteering is. Second gulf might be worth looking at...
@@myriaddsystems certainly there were people within the US power elite that profiteered from the war. US power elite is way too small for it to not work in any other way. 2 parties, lobbyists that can pay and do pay directly to the Pollies. Oil and gas industry and weapons industry owns US government. Why is climate change a party political issue? Cause the GOP GET paid and the Dems dont.
But it is because they knew that !oney would be given to local insurgents to fund the attacks on Americans. When will the west learn what you cannot win hearts and minds in the middle east, best to put bullets through hearts and minds.
1 million subs are around the corner for this channel and that's just the beginning. Unbelievably great content. This is information so well gathered and explained. Awesome work!
Perun did a pretty awesome video going in depth into how corruption rots everything from within, not that long ago. Anyone watching this might want to also check that out.
eyyy a Perun shoutout. That guys killin it
Literally wanted to shout out Perun and saw the top comment already did it, nice
My man! Every Time I see vids like this Perun has covered, I recommend him. He deserves it.
Came to the comments to say the same thing
@@e2rqey Makes me wonder how bad it is in China
The concept of 'endless lies' is basically a modern equivalent of 'Vietnam Syndrome' which hindered the US and their allies during that conflict because the same thing happened then to such an extent that strategists made flawed decisions predicated on misleading data.
Nobody, wanted anything, to reflect badly on them particularly the 'lifers' and this condensed an erroneous process to such an extent that contributors to crucial decision making processes 'viewed the situation through rose tinted glasses' as an old saying goes. (presumably the glasses were consistently full of hard liquor)
This in turn led to situations where personnel were committed to operations where they were sent out on patrol and 'walked into the ground' with a minimum of sleep while their uniforms rotted off their bodies.
Yet despite this officers and senior NCO's benefited from the privilege of rank with full nights rest due to security provided by exhausted troops and on more than one occasion entire patrols were wiped out because exhausted sentries fell asleep on watch.
As if that were not a complete disgrace while the troops made do with rags far too many administrative REMF'S had fresh uniforms for every day of the week and lied like politicians about their roles and contributions to folks back home and may still be doing so.
A process of interpolation only really achievable by reading accounts by combat Veteran's in various autobiographies, seems to be the best method for establishing this because their accounts seem to consistently agree to an almost universal extent.
You should maybe read a bit more or do some radical research and enlist! 1st Cavalry was getting their troopers into fresh uniforms pretty often. Not just laundered, but new. Attached Rangers were even more frequent, like about monthly since they were always on the line or LRRP missions.
What a bunch of made up BS!
This is great news that Russia is impudent.
@@davidmckendry7684 I agree. And unlike portrayed in almost every Hollywood movie, except "We Were Soldiers" the war was fought by professional soldiers up to 1970 when the first conscript soldiers arrived.
Can we give Cappy some credit on that AWESOME Russian accent
I’ve been practicing trying to get it a little less bad haha
The pronunciation on the names 😵💫
@@Taskandpurpose You're getting a Oscar
I'll gladly give an unironic Hooah to that. 🥂
Sure, but not for a US Army infantry Spec/4 uniform :)
Remember a few years back when a bunch of USMC marked KAC 600m rear sights showed up on eBay for $35? Literally everyone I know was like "I don't know about this, man, seems sketchy.". This is really indicative of the kind of baseline aversion to corruption that exists in "the west". BTW that was the best $35 that I ever spent on eBay, lol.
Well the military does sell big lots of parts they feel they no longer need but some could be broken. I had the opportunity to buy a conex box of Barrett 50. Cals but some could be broken used and you’d need to definitely mix and match some parts to create functional rifles.
Is it true that the Marines eat crayons I've heard it a lot
@@purpleranger5987 yeah a coworker has some army surplus stuff in his hunting kit, my boss has some MREs, and I've got some random tuff like knives and boxes I got from military surplus.
Thank you so much for explaining with a lot of details what most of the experts aren't able to explain. It is the very first time that somebody dives deep into analysing what is the illness that devastated an army and a country more than 100 wars!
The last line in your video about the TV "you can watch it but don't turn it on" brought back memories of my time in the US Army in 1968. The Company Sargent banded newspapers in the Company area as he thought they were litter. I explained that Freedom of Press is a very big deal in our Democracy. His reply was "Freedom of Press is the right to print newspapers, not to read them" From then on, I spent my lunch time standing in th CO's office reading the paper. All the fools are not in Russia
not enough diversity in the got a few unit leadership visits from the parlamentiary representativein one case a WWII 2 star , they were not amused
Where military starts is where logic ends.
This is a rough translation of Polish phrase "Gdzie zaczyna się wojsko, tam kończy się logika" and it seems that all militaries all over the world all over the human history are similar in that.
Way way back in the 60's I heard of Russian ground crews and pilots falsifying deicing fluid for their aircraft because the 'fluid' is untainted, 100% grain alcohol, and we all know what happens to grain alcohol anywhere.
Excellent report! Thank you, Chris. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇸🔔🇺🇦💪
Russian corruption goes back to mongolian times or maybe even further than that.
It's a national idea, widely accepted on every level. Basically, it's a part of mentality and you'll have to fight it because you'll be exposed to it during your upbringing by your parents and peers. The idea that you can "take a little here and there" and no one will notice is a russian norm.
because It was communism so things where national therefore everybody so you can take and no one will notice because it's nobody s and everybodys
@@szautan it started long before that. It's the peasants' way of thinking. It wasn't communism, it was shitty poor socialism there 95% feed 5% elite. And people stole things because they had none. Everything at your workplace belonged to the state, so you hoped that no one will notice, that's true. I have a shitload of stories from my parents in this regard. Soviet Union was a fucking dump and modern Russia is its pathetic fuckwit child.
We have a retired cousin who worked in Internal Affairs of the St. Petersburg Police. She said corruption is so there is no way to stop it. That said, a Road Policeman in Spb isn't considered successful if he doesn't have two apartments and a nice car. These guys are at the bottom of the food chain.
Well , fortunately for Ukraine and the west and unfortunately for the average Russian soldier corruption has been part of the system in Russia for years if not generations, just like in Mafia that’s part of loyalty , if you’re not corrupt that means senior leadership won’t trust you and of course if you’re corrupt then they have a very serious leverage and can make you do anything they want and of course they can fire you or send you to jail for any reason
Old Russian joke... Policeman goes to his boss and says "I have a new baby on the way, and need more money, can you give me a raise?" Boss responds, "I'm sorry there is no money in the budget to give you a raise, but here is a stop sign. Put it anywhere you want."
@@minnesotasteve that’s actually sounds pretty realistic
Good video. I saw glimpses of this myself when I served alongside the Russian Airborne Brigade in Bosnia. On more than one occasion I saw and heard the Brigade Commander conducting business. He and his associates assumed that as an American, I was ignorant of their discussions; not knowing that I had attended the Defense Language Institute (DLI). I also, want to acknowledge your comment as to the corruption of our own Defense Department. During 2004-2005, I was conducting inspections of some of the bases we were closing in Kosovo. I inquired about 10 generators that were warehoused (I believe they were 45kw). These generators were unused, in mint condition and had been sitting in the warehouse for 10-15 years. Meanwhile a Defense contractor (who will remain nameless - they know who they are) had been charging the US government $25K per year to service and maintain them. You do the math. And this one only one of many examples I saw while serving at the Combatant Command or Joint Task Force Level.
Wow. Thanks for serving our country. Glad we pulled out. Great video, too! :D
Now i wouldn’t say “shocking”..
😂😂
T&P looks more and more like cia everyday
@@CharlotteMike81 нью йорк таймс.
As an citizen of an ex soviet occupied country I can tell you that corruption in russia is not something that started with the fall of soviet union, it has been always their way of life, even during tsarist times when goverment positions were bought. Its their way of life and they dont know anything else.
exactly (i am too from ex soviet occupied country)
As they say, fish rots from the head.
Is Russia an ex soviet occupied country?
@@Victor-lc3pw No. It still is.
@@somebody700 I would say that now Russia is a pathetic replacement for the Soviet Union. The political and economic systems are different, but the behavior is like that of a small and evil USSR. But my argument was about the creation of the Soviet Union. It was founded not by Russians, but by international Bolsheviks, who simply captured Russia first, and then other republics. To some extent it is unfair to say that the Russians forced everyone to be in the USSR. I would say that the Russians were most deformed by this country and forgot their culture.
It sounds like you're saying corruption in the Russian military is a modular, multi-role, force de-multiplier. 😆🤷♂️
It is a force multiplier, but you multiply with numbers below 1.
@@plainlake From the sounds of it, the numbers are all a lot lower than 1.
Good one!
Excellent report, Cappy. Thank you.
Great video recap thank you. Quoting Napoleon Boneparte here..."Never interrupt your enemy when they’re making a mistake." It is unfortunate that the average Russian solidier pays the price for all of this.
We protect the most people possible, from as much violence/injustice as we can.
To do that, sometimes the only solution left is to stop, wound and even kill - act like a monster, to prevent even bigger monsters from doing much worse things to even more people.
This is the basis of warfare morality I follow. If you got better, let me know.
To avoid conscription u need from 2 to 4 k euroes. Several of my friends did this and it worked , price depends on 2 things : your conscription office and was there a corruption check or not
that a lot of money for a russian life. I would guess it cost only 200usd
If the Russians could fix the corruption, they could simply make this into a tax, so that they could put that money into funding a foreign legion. They're already using foreign soldiers, but it could be better organised.
@@roflomaozedong hence only rich kids can afford it, and for other 90% of poor population, job in the army is a job, a paying one, even with all the corruption.
@@Warszawski_Modernizm It pays (at the rate of July 8, 2022) thirty dollars a month. NOT DAY. NOT A WEEK. A MONTH.
@@linzzzer Now convert it to russian Rouble. For us, it's chump change, but in russia, outside of big cities, it's a lot of money...I know, b/c Ive been to Russia, spen some time in Kaliningrad and Ive seen disparities between social groups and different strata.
Perun did great video about exactly this. Highly recommend.
where do you think this slapstick clown got his revelation from?
he event states "i'm gonna outline how a whole system of dishonor ended up tricking military analysists, *including myself*"
(no, really. he referred to himself as a MiLiTaRy aNaLySt, omitting the armchair part - 1:24)
Perun's video is great, very detailed. Cappy's is more approachable and came from different perspective
Absolute corruption corrupts absolutely.
Love the topic shift. Can you do a video on the pentagon failing all its past audits next? Idk if it’s corruption but it’s definitely bad
The Pentagon stopped an audit when $250M couldn't be in office supplies. In one department. Basically on auditor said the books haven't just been cooked. But are fiction. Something like $5T over a decade can't be accounted for. But funds to upgrade, repair or simple maintenance to base infrastructure/housing is cut.
FFS.
I plan on doing a video about the US future warrior program which was essentially about a trillion dollars of waste
I used to work in the defense industry. In my opinion the pentagon waste is the result of gross incompetence rather than blatant fraud.
He stated pretty clearly the waste in the US military procurement system. I worked as a defense contractor for several years. I did not see straight up corruption (too low on the totem pole for that) but some aspects of waste were obvious. Spend it or lose it and gold plating being at the top of my list based on personal experience.
@@patwilson2546 everybody deserves a gold plated AK, man! 😆
The editing and humor of this dude's vids is epic.
The Billy Madison GIF was great
Task and purpose is a fairly no nonsense website/magazine but the youtube content is goofy and that's great.
"i'm going to be the first non-corrupt russian officer! i'll do everything as efficiently as possible!"
"you're fired, i don't trust you"
"aww"
An excellent presentation, thank you. In watching I remembered when Putin asked each of his advisors if he should invade Ukraine. It was the video of him giving the security chief a tongue lashing. I remember how they all looked so pissed off, so dejected and I thought it was due to them being against a war but unable to say it. That's wrong, the reason they looked so pissed was because they were thinking... "Fck, he's going to find out, he's going to watch his army march into battle with no useful fking equipment because we've spent it all"..
yeah, they all looked liked kids asked to show a cooky jar full of food when it jad been eaten
@@johneadon7263 yup, they'd only been telling Putin that they had the best cookie jars in the world, full of the latest, tastiest cookies. And now Putin wanted the cookies and all they could offer was old stale cookies and crumbs...
@@andy-james- now we find the cookies have no petrol and that a tractor comes along and towes them away.
I think this will be how Putin bails himself out.
He won’t take responsibility for the disaster like Tsar Nicholas II did, instead he will throw his generals and military leaders under the bus as Scape goats.
He will say he was lied to about Russian capabilities and that he will now work to purge the military of corruptions
Fun fact: this winter, right before the beginning of SMO, there were mass sellings of fresh army MRE (with marking "not for sale") in low-cost supermarket near my home in Saint-Petersburg. It seems to me that russian generals remember the bible story about hungry man and fish and they say: you dont't need food supply when you've got a rifle.
Was it just something you saw?
Was it people you know who saw it? Some journalist/ news article? Is it a regular thing?
Right before the SMO? What is an SMO? Wait, are you talking about the war? Oh yeah, that's right..he won't allow you to call it. That sucks 😒
if you watch voices from Ukraine, they intercept Russian calls in Ukraine. the Russian soldiers will be in Ukraine, talking to their friends and family back at home. there is a specific instance where the guy was talking about his gear and his night vision, and how his squad leader sold the equipment. I thought it was hilarious that you brought this up because it's absolutely true.
You missed the history of it all. In the soviet era, higher military ranks were supposed to be modestly compensated, so there was an understanding that those higher ranks would.....supplement.
When the UUSR dissolved, the only thing which changed, was that virtually all accountability was removed. It then went from systemic and limited, to the cultural norm.
Imagine being an armsdealer during the collapse of the USSR with all those corrupt high ranking officers💰💰💰. A shame I wasn't there
Isn’t there a movie on this
Perun's latest video talks about Germany's procurement woes. A great one-liner from that video is "Whilst Russia does corruption, Germany does bureaucracy." The same is probably true in most Western democracies.
Friggin LOVE your videos. Humor with information and sounds like, good research. 👍
I would recommend reading about former soldiers' (conscripts and otherwise) testimonials about their experience. It's mostly corruption to the point of others stealing coats and socks. They had to pay for half the stuff themselves and barely did anything useful.
When the shittiest smelliest socks are being stolen, talking about night vision goggles is comical
Imagine a world where corrupt officials and politicians get to fight for table scraps on the Alaskan island chain.
Exactly the same for CCP armed forces. In 2011 I went to a PLA regimental commander's home. They showed me some of the nicest ivory sculptures. I am very happy how corrupt this system is.
why?
@@uberbum7668 making ccp armed forces ineffective
@@uberbum7668 Because it makes it easier for us.
This is one of those chanels that makes me ask "why am I not already subscribed?" Great balance of information and entertainment. Well done.
" Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth"
What you didn't mention was the military's involvement with the mafia. The mafia sort of bullies the military and treats them like a protection racket (yes, you heard that right, the army gets bullied by criminals).
This is state supported as it helps keep the military weak and less of a threat to the regime.
When you say Mafia are you talking about those Tracksuits guys.
even de nuke departments
@@isaiahkayode6526 i think those tracksuit guys are called Slavs
@@KennyNGA gopniks*
The old Nicholas Cage movie Lord of War was pretty accurate about the condition of early 90’s Russian military. Big ticket weapons systems were disappearing. That’s what caused us to start buying their nuclear warheads during the Clinton years.
Yuri Orlov was a bottom feeder selling heavily worn weapons to African warlords. Others were worse.
Thank you for your comprehensive , accurate , and detailed analysis. It was vary informative.
"We could share this flashlight, that could work" I laughed my ass off over that one. Good one Cappy!!
bro, you have to see the armed forces here in Brazil, we bought griphens fighter jets and they cost more per unit than the f-35s. the Brazilian tax payer is very angry with the delay from SAAB, they are delaying delivery all the time, and not to mention that the two-seat version will no longer be manufactured here. everyone is angry here
Good thing Finland and Canada are going with the F-35s. Maybe, the Fins knew something about their neighbor Sweden?
@@AlanSanchez-ww9qb Brazil's F-X program was started back in mid-90's, delayed, then suspended, then restarted in 2008 and finally picked in 2013. The deal includes a high degree of technology transfer and industrial investments for assembly and parts production in Brazil (F-35 were never in the running, I think F-18's were but US doesn't do tech transfer but the Swedes did). Saab opened a plant near Sao Paulo & trained Brazilian engineers to make the plane parts but corruption in Brazil is equally legendary. Brazilians call the Gripen NG = F-39. Haha
@@sandeepmukkamala6892 Grippen Ng is the pre production name, Grippen E is the real name of the equipment.
@@sandeepmukkamala6892 Hahaha.... F-39. Hope it does not take another decade for Brazil to get the F-39 rolling of the assembly lines.
@@andreisouzabento7506 cheio de Brasileiro aqui nos comentários kkkkkkkkk não tem jeito, o brasileiro vai dominar o mundo
I liked the way you made an argument for how corruption serves to underpin Putin’s political power. I think this is a vital point and shows how endemic it is to the system. What is also important is that this corruption seeps down to the lowest levels of the social hierarchy. Getting ordinary people to pay bribes or to skim money or resources at their jobs makes them complicit in the system even if they receive a minuscule benefit. It makes it more difficult for them to complain about or act against the massive corruption at higher levels of government. This is a why Navalny was so effective: he showed the scale of the corruption and the mendacity of Putin and his inner circle.
The one open question is whether the corruption can be sustained throughout a long war of attrition and economic sanctions. It was ok during peacetime when people had some expectations of gradual improvement in their daily lives. But if things move backwards economically and Putin’s cronies take a bigger slice from the shrinking pie, they might not accept it for long. Especially when the Russian soldiers are demobilized at the end of the war.
This was really good, mate. Very well done!
This video is spot on! It's hard to comprehend how corrupt Russian army and society as a whole is. Lived for a while in the Soviet Union and oh boy how bad corruption was back then also.
USSR had very quick change in level of corruption. But yeah overall the corruption started growing around 80s and well... The rest is history. Although you can argue that the second half of USSR they got corruption rising. Which is basically after the death of Stalin.
I see things haven't changed since the 1980's. If you can find it, I recommend reading the book "Inside the Soviet Army" by Viktor Suvorov. It was quite insightful in its time.
I read that. It's hilarious. The general that got a promotion telling the audience at a Soviet military exercise that the troops on the top of the train crossing the super fast scratch built bridge over a river were demonstrating a new but as yet unissued AA weapon system was the best. Spoiler:
They were the train's engineer and conductor who panicked when the bridge started to shake violently as the train crossed it and got on the roof to jump clear if it collapsed.
No it wasnt. Suvorov is a Soviet traitor who ran to Britain in 78 and was paid to shit on USSR, just like Solzhenytsin and many others. If you learn history by reading those books i feel sorry for you.
Russia has been this way since the mongols ruled them.
@@Random_Guardsman Mongols never ruled the Russia. As long as local feudals payed contribution, they were free to do what they want in their respective lands.
Mongols burned Kiev though, thats when Kievan Rus technically siezed to exist.
@@МихаилАлексеев-г2к Right, they didnt rule.. Mongols burned alot more than one city and forced them to pay to keep em from doing it again, they also built cities of their own with some of them standing to this day. But fine, they didnt rule, they just made sure that the people who "ruled" knew the axe would come down if they did anything.
My dad who worked for DCAS for 25 years said that corruption in defense spending ran at least 10% from 1965-1985. This showed up in post annual audits.
So, the difference between the U.S. and Russia is really the percentage of corruption. 😏
@@AlanSanchez-ww9qb Yes. In dollars (or hard currency) the US is about 10 times that of Russia. Yet corruption overall is higher in Russia. A retired executive (a friend of mine) in Russia has to live on a $2500/yr pension but does have free medical.
I can't believe you went through all that work to connect the dots! I can't believe that I listened to the whole explanation! And it looks like you enjoyed telling us about it. Me.... I have a headache! Have a nice day.
Outside of completely butchering the pronunciation of all Russian last names, your videos are amazing! No BS, no agenda, straight facts. That's why you get so many clicks and reviews, very much deserved!
@@rmk_1 Man didnt even try
Partway through, I was starting to wonder (especially after he would consistently butcher the same name in almost the same way multiple times) whether it was intentional disrespect.
Lmao the title made me chuckle, the intro made me laugh, then I learned happily for 20 min. Mission accomplished. Absolutely excellent video
You may already be aware of it, but in the interests of historic perspective for anybody who is not.
The US once divested itself of corruption originating with organised crime which arguably approached dangerously close to the situation in Russia.
It was only eventually achieved by a group led by a special agent named Elliot Ness which was established in 1930 and existed until 1932 and was known as 'the untouchables'.
The name came about because recruitment for agents involved required them to have a minimum of vulnerabilities one being no family ties which could be exploited via extortion by criminals like 'Al Capone' who could arguably be compared to Vladimir Putin because his method's probably emulate Capone's.
Several movies have been made ostensibly depicting events surrounding activities and events involving the Untouchables.
So far as I know (and profoundly hope) corruption within the US military has long been opposed to good effect by the office of the Judge Advocate General.
nice tale
Really, what about the Fat Leonard scandal? Pacific fleet Admirals & captains on the Chinese payroll, look it up.
Yes this been going on for years & Years 👍
Have you been invited yet to any of our service acadamies? Your analyses are on target, straightforward and easy to understand and entertaining. Keep it up!
Anyone interested in a deep dive on corruption and how it can work in a military like Russia and what all it can do, often worse than you'd expect from the numbers reported, watch Peruns video on it. He does excellent analysis on this type of thing. In detail, thorough, well researched, often tries to be unbiased and even uses Russian numbers for some cases not just western or such reported ones to make his points. Overall, good videos.
@terricon4 I second that. "Perun" produces some of the best vids about this invasion of Ukraine. He is an analyst by profession and it shows. He's an Aussie ( 👍) who knows his sh-t and backs up these analyses with data and numbers from reputable sources. His vids on Russian Military Logistics alone is worth a visit.
100%
Disclaimer: if any of you want to watch Perun, be ready for a PowerPoint Presentation that lasts for approximately one hour. But don't worry, Perun makes detailed timestamps for his videos' chapters to make it easier for the viewers to digest and recap.
Dude you did a great job. I've always wanted to get some numbers on the depth of Russian corruption, thanks for providing. I wonder if Ukraine could take advantage of Russian lack of night vision capabilities and begin operating at night...
I think they do to the extent that they can. I suspect (as in I really don't know if this is true) that Ukraine's night fighting capabilities are not advanced.
No, because Ukraine is even more corrupt that Russia.
Ffs, they are selling of the Javelins on the dark web
I’ve heard them say several times in intercepted calls that they can’t move at night but the Ukrainians can because they have night vision.
@@Weeks25 and you actually believe that?
The only ukrainians who can move at night are Spec Ops or vehicles eith NVGs, just like the Russians.
@@Weeks25 The impression that I get is that the Ukrainians have been supplied with night vision equipment, but not enough to make it ubiquitous. Then there is training for night operations, which is probably lacking. While Ukraine has some advantages at night, I do not get the impression that they own it.
As always , well researched and presented. Well done mate!
I know a Russian person, and she was telling me how even teachers will request bribes.
It’s part of the culture….
Has been since the Mongol’s took over.
A lot of the self destructive tendencies that Russia has is just the side effect of Mongolian rule.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting shit to change.
They start them young in ruZZia and the bribing system is in all schools
That's kind of upsetting.
@@jacobbarlow6098 Tis the way the cookie crumbles I suppose
Many Americans don’t understand bribery is a core part of dare I say the majority of cultures across the globe
I appreciate all the work and research you put into these videos.
Over the years, ive really enjoyed researching military’s around the world. When Russia invaded Ukraine this year. I kept telling everyone that im no expert by any means but according to all my research. Russia is a paper tiger and they’re going to struggle to win quickly or to even win. Everyone i know pretty much laughed at me but most of them have told me since then that i was correct.
dude, 25% of your beloved Banderostan is under Russiian control now with ZERO chance for Ukrops to reoccupy it. Keep believing in $hit, just remember about 'Russia run out of cruise missles' 3 months ago.
Lol… there’s about 130-150k was invaded to Ukraine in February against 200k Ukrainian army. On top of that Ukraine conduct mobilization and whole NATO send aid and satellite data and even than Russians still slowly keep taken territory. Ukraine is even more corrupted than you think
@@abdellah7879 yeah. i🤡☠️🧠
usually people would rather die than admit they were wrong
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Excellent production, thank you
Cheers Brian
I recently saw a video of Russian soldiers that were actually well armed and HAD OPTICS ON THEIR WEAPON. It is one of the few videos where I saw them perform well so if Russia manages to stop corruption in the army they might actually have a functioning army.
It was probably Chechens that you were seeing. Good, hard-fighting Muslims, and tough as nails. They have no patience for time-wasters or cowards, and they take fighting seriously. When they go into a fight, they know to do so well-prepared, and their leaders aren’t in the business of throwing away their lives, so if their leaders need to steal, they steal from elsewhere, and don’t steal from the units and men that they send to fight.
@@samy7013 lol lmao
Was they some sort of filmp props?
@@samy7013 I don't think it was Chechens because none of them had the standardized Chechen beards or flags. Might have been Spetsnaz but I'm not entirely sure cause he seemed to have been working alongside for forces.
Was it a Russian approved propoganda video? Sounds like a Russian approved propoganda video
I love the fact he felt it necessary to explain what multiplying by ten does
The more I learn about RUSSIA (under dictator of Putin), the more I am absolutely convinced that their governance structure (or lack thereof) is their weakest link. Even if they were able to take Ukraine, such a disorganized governance structure cannot hold it or hold the Baltic States together for too long.
You should check out Patrick Lancasters channel.
Russia has been like this for centuries.
@@JohnDoe-fz3dg Patrick Lancaster the Kremlin propagandist who uses the same paid actors time after time dressed up in different clothes in multiple places pretending to be someone different each time?
😂😂😂😂😂
Western “”democracy”” is just as weak. We’re fools if we think government corruption is a uniquely Russian problem
@@JohnDoe-fz3dg the same lancaster who claimed that a civi vehicle hit an IED, while showing corpses inside that had the same wounds as someone who had just come out of an autopsy? that Patrick Lancaster? mans is a joke.
I'd venture to say that no amount of corruption, inhumanity, brutality or outright stupidity connected to the Russian government can really be considered the least bit shocking at this point. What'll be truly shocking is if these things ever actually change for the better. As they say, "Don't hold your breath on that one."
"They claim to have the largest military." I'm not sure this is accurate. And whether they claim it or not, the Russian military isn't the largest. Measuring by active personnel, China, India, the US, and North Korea all have larger militaries. In China's case it has more than double Russia's personnel. Including reserves and paramilitary, Vietnam, both Koreas, China and India beat Russia. It does have the most tanks - surpassing the combined total of the next two countries, North Korea and the US.
Atleast 70% of those tanks are old, non-functional T-55s and T-62s rotting in huge tank graveyards in Siberia.
I bet China has a corruption problem like Russia maybe even worse seeing how they both are comming from old Communist ways. North Korean tanks are nothing more than T65's and Russias tanks are upgraded T72's and out of mothball T65's with some T 80's and T90's in the mix with 5 or 6 good T14 Armatas wich they cant afford to reproduce.
@@CETGale The T-14 Armatas are parade vehicles and even there they break down, lol.
Their is a lot of Corruption in Indian Military too, But Indian hypernationalists will still deny it.
Russia is a huge land mass but the state Texas has a larger GDP than Russia. California btw makes the Russian GDP look like Chugwater, Wyoming compared to New York City.
It's actually shockingly similar to what happened in Germany, though the difference is it resulted in too small amounts of good equipment instead of a lot of junk equipment like in Russia
Really!?
Not fully true, yes there probably is some corruption but the bundeswehr main problems are with bureaucracy, short term planning and incompetent/disinterested politican at the top.
And unlike russia there is both a free and VERY critical press in germany + a very open culture in the defense ministry hence why we all know about the sad state of the bundeswehr while apparently not even putin himself knew about the state of the russian army.
Not really. In Germany, it is just staggering bureaucratic inefficiency, sometimes intentionally made worse by companies profiting from it. On top of that, nobody really cared about the outcomes until recently.
As a person who has 2 uncles who served in Soviet army, the fact that you guys on the west only finding about this now, is really strange to me
Hats off to you ,Sir . You have mangled Slavonic so inventively , so smoothly, that I couldn’t pass the opportunity to commend you for…..something or other…
They can't do corruption like us. We're a lot more savvy.
Lol, nobody can beat the Russians in corruption except maybe the Chinese
@@Shinkajo I don't think you understand what I mean by "savvy", which is exactly my point.
@@mtnman1984 so what _do_ you mean?
@@Shinkajo legalized corruption. Measurable corruption. Planned corruption.
Russia’s problem is that their corruption isn’t planned. Someone steals half of the diesel and then some other guy steals the other half of the diesel. Looks ridiculous? That’s because they weren’t coordinating the theft.
People are funny when they realize that profit, by definition is exploitation
Here in the U.S.A, industries can legally vastly overcharge the government after some lobbying, campaign donations and expensive "business trips". The world has much to learn.
That’s high level, but at least here we usually get a somewhat decent product.
Over there… you pay the money and you get nothing in return.
@@PeterMuskrat6968 The health care industry is the worst offender, they charge hundreds for meds that cost pennies to make. And their research is funded by tax payers.
Yup researching military contracts (and other toes as well) is super depressing
At least the US military industry complex gets the job done after all those shady consulting and business trip expenses whereas Russian shell companies just steal government money and produce zero output
@@Nikowalker007 Yup.
It’s like Robin Hood but without the giving back part
Corruption is the second job of every military on the planet, sometimes the first.