@Russian Waifu (T-72 Tank Commander)🇷🇺 again: So, are you going to tell us, what exactly were the, "misinformation and lies"? I am neutral, i am asking because i want to know what's going on on all sides. So, would you please tell us?
As a Russian-born American, this channel is what I have recommended many times to my American friends searching for more, and better sourced, information on this war. Very well sourced. I haven't even realized, before watching this, that a lot of information I was only finding in the Russian and Ukrainian-speaking segments of the Internet, is actually available in English, as well. Keep up the good work, sir! And thanks.
Yes, here on these popular RUclips channels and western media, you'll learn why the enemy is losing and thus why we the good guys will prevail. Of course when that's not reflected in reality, the reasons for why the baddies are losing keep changing. First was bad logistics, then bad morale, then no more ammo/equipment, and now too much equipment, and no infantry. It's basically industrial grade copium for the true believers.
@@agenthex The strawman of your own creation has been successfully destroyed. Congratulations! Now, would you care to comment on things actually said in this podcast?
@@Alex_Shishkin_1962 As mentioned maybe why they have too much equipment (you know, which require mass logistics to transport, esp ammo) when they're running out of everything (incl logistics) from videos past. Don't worry though, nobody actually thinks anyone watches these in order to rub any brain cells together.
@@agenthex As mentioned, you'd do better by commenting on things actually said in the podcast, instead of battling strawmen of your own creation. But that WOULD require some brain cells to rub together, so no surprise that you find it difficult.
A small side note here: In the United States Marine Corps, drill instructors are drawn from, and return to, combat units. Typically to advance from Sergeant to Staff Sergeant or from Staff Sergeant to Gunnery Sergeant, you must successfully complete an assignment either as a drill instructor or as a recruiter. Drill instructor is much more selective and it's considered a high prestige assignment. However, it is not a permanent assignment. Thus, drill instructors get sent into combat all the time, though typically by the time that happens, they are staff NCOs who do their damage with a radio and not a rifle. Other types of training, such as MOS schools, are typically staffed by a mixture of ordinary enlisted, plus a few officers, plus (depending on how technical the training is) a healthy mix of civilians. To really damage and disrupt the Marine corps training pipeline, you'd need to send not the trainers, but the people who teach the trainers how to train.
While your Statement is accurate there are some caveats. To be a Drill Instructor you do not have to have previously served in a combat arms command nor return to one, have a combat MOS or have combat experience. While there are Drill Instructors that have all 3 the majority don't. Also one doesn't have to be Either a Drill Instructor or Recruiter to climb up the NCO or Staff NCO ranks after reenlisting. Combat Instructor, MOS Instructor, Posts to either the Marine Security Guard or Security Forces Commands are among other acceptable B Billets for advancing ones Marine Corps career. Hope this expands upon what was already mentioned.
Interesting, in Germany most NCOs in our training company were there permanently in administrative roles, or were shipped over to us for the last year or so of their contract. We also had some people directly returning from deployment, who worked for 6 to 9 months before returning to their original postings and a few junior NCOs and Officers as part of their training. All the privates in the company were directly grabbed from the last graduating batch of recruits.
From what I recall when I was in the Army, drill sergeants and recruiters had the highest rates of divorce. I remember one of my PLDC instructors talking about his time as a drill sergeant. One particularly tough day at work and he "brought his work home with him". He started ordering his two sons around as if they were basic training recruits. His wife had to totally shut his ass down!
I think the equivalent that Perun was searching for was sending the training commands themselves into combat. Mobilize them, starting with the base Commanding General and move all the way down to the phase 1 recruit. Even if you say screw the recruits and put just the training staff, the problem is that there's going to be a loss of institutional knowledge merely because those training commands will no longer be there to train their replacements for the next waves of recruits. There's only so much you can pick up from reading training manuals and watching videos. There's no substitute for a Senior Drill Instructor taking in a Kill Hat and showing him the ropes so that one day that Kill Hat becomes a Senior and starts the mentorship cycle all over again.
Respect from Sydney Australia. You are an intelligent and articulated person and I'm honoured to be your countryman. I have a suggestion for you which I hope you don't find inadequate. The people who conduct personal attacks on you have only one goal in their mind. To lower you to their abysmal level so they can have some sort of interaction or confrontation with you. This is as relevant as possible such people can hope to become in life. My friend, please don't respond to such worthless noises. You are flying way way above their domain and you should simply ignore their stupidity and let them stay where they belong. I know it is hard at times but being an emerging figure that you are, I think this is the type of muscle you'd need to grow and develop. I hope what I've said has not offended or inconvenienced you in any way.
To repeat - “Don’t punch down, punch up.” I had the privilege of attending a small, newly-opened HS where the coaching staffs/serious volunteers of all the teams were on the same page about scheduling & scouting - “Play better teams & learn from them.” We played larger schools w/ good win-loss records & players w/ skills we needed to learn. We had excellent scouting reports & game films. The confidence we gained & our appreciation for that, won games. In full agreement w/ Mr. Basiri, thank you for your amazing contribution to citizens’ understanding everywhere. Putin’s & the puppet govts’ abuse of conscription (war slavery) & the way they were used like bomb-sniffing dogs should be prosecuted as war crimes v. by anyone in the chain of command, including civilian leadership, who “suffered or permitted” the abuse.
A good solution would be to ask critics for evidence to support their claims. Only if they can provide some evidence (doesn't have to very much, just some) to support their claims are they worth discussing with. Otherwise, knowing the internet, they might quite likely start going ad hominem. I must say that this channel's comments section is pretty civilized as far as youtube comments sections go, probably due to the positive selection that occurs from finding people who are willing to actually sit down and watch a long informative video instead of short sensationalized content.
@@r2020E I've tried this, but time and time again engaging just resulted in them escalating their hostility, all the while refusing to even acknowledge the concept of continuity or rationality from one comment to the next. As far as I can tell, the currently dominant strategy of trolls is to undermine the fundamental basis for conducting civil discussion and forming consensus. I'd really love to hear what percentage of these actors are state directed (whether officially or grey-zone). Unfortunately systematically ignoring bad-faith actors, and excluding them from discourse through active moderation seems the most viable counter at present, but this risks undermining the benefits of open discussion by leading to the return of gatekeeping, as per traditional media, only at a potentially unmanageable scale without the benefit of institutional systems to administrate the process.
@@r2020E I've asked for probably a hundred or two sources by now and the success rate is under 1%. But it does prove that most people 'on the other side' have no clue and no basis for anything.
Makes a demented sense. Surveys of Russian propaganda, citizenry and educational materials reveals that Russia's main definition for "NaZi" is simply "Opposes Russia"
Good approach to make videos focusing on Russia and Ukraine separately. The deep dive is the way to go. Excellent work as always! PS: I watch a lot of this type of coverage and this is the first to discuss DLPR forces in detail. It answers a lot of questions I've had about the strength of Russian forces
@Russian Waifu (T-72 Tank Commander)🇷🇺 interesting man Joined one day ago. Shouting "misinformation" towards other comments. Russian Supporter? Eh. Name literally Russian Waifu with Russian flag? Yea waifu man Russian bot? Unlikely.
@Russian Waifu (T-72 Tank Commander)🇷🇺 id like to hear. Why support Russia? Are you paid? Unlikely, rubbls only work in rus and it doesnt have much value in the west Do you truly believe in Russia?
"Conscript Nuclear weapons Operator"; as someone that has ordered a platoon of recruits to turn right and having watched half of them fail, that prospect fills me with immeasurable dread.
Consider the same conscript has also been “doing” the maintenance on the missiles. The Russian missiles are probably more dangerous to Russia than anyone else.
Proof it is possible to have a non-toxic comment section on the internet AND get views without OMINOUS WORDS IN ALL CAPS in the title. Good job, friend.
The Russian military could absolutely change its structure and solve most of the issues they’ve had in Ukraine. Establishing high readiness units that are 90%+ staffed with attached logistics units would increase Russia’s apparent lack of ready BTGs. Their recent ops show that they would benefit greatly from this (Syria, Ukraine, Chechnya, etc). They seem to be acting like a rapid deployment force like America or Britain but with none of the structure besides BMPs and bullets.
Feb 23, 2022: Russian military was too small, undermanned, under supported. June 2022: Russian military has lost much of its experienced troops and leaders, as well as supporting equipment, and many units have suffered as much as 90% casualties or more. If you thought replacing losses and getting adequate manpower was hard in Feb 2022, it's going to be infinitely harder in Jun 2022. You have far more backfilling to do now, and you have less men, experience, and equipment to backfill with than before. Russia gambled that NATO would do nothing, Ukraine's military would be a pushover, and that the Russian propaganda and nuclear threat would be enough to scare everyone into submission and all they'd have to do was roll into Ukraine in a tank "blitz" and 3 days later they'd have what they wanted. They weren't prepared for a fight or a response like what they got. They were betting they wouldn't need it, and that they'd "shock and awe" their way to victory before the ruse could be found out.
Another issue with training fresh recruits, according to Conflict Intelligence Team founder Ruslan Leviev, now is that all the experienced officers are on the frontlines, and you have freshly graduated lieutenants back home. Given that RU is pulling its active reserves or people who retired long time ago, the average age of new soldiers is much higher now, and these guys do not tend to listen to some runny nosed kid trying to teach them. So now you have batches of untrained soldiers joining the fight, which makes the whole issue even worse
I believe it, but everyone says Russian army is at a critical point eccetera eccetera but it keeps fighting and make small gains. I mean I know gaining territory can be very transitory and doesn’t mean you’re winning. But from what people says it looks like the Russians should collapse any minute. Can some one explain please (i’m not attacking, I really wanna understand)
@@fluo9576 they are only making gains where they concentrate forces. and then a few days later they lose it again. Russia is holding on for now, by throwing everything they have at Ukraine. but eventually they will run out. I calculated that at current loss rates Russia won't be able to keep this up for even 1yr. 8-10months tops before they start running out of literally everything, stockpiles of weapons, tanks, aircraft, missiles, men, everything. The economic sanctions went into effect rather quick and had a rather immediate effect, but the true long term consequences of that for Russia wont be plainly visible to those who don't know what to look for, for some time yet. I could be wrong of course, but this is not looking good for Russia at all.
@@fluo9576 Ukrainian news outlets say russians have 20:1 in artillery numbers. About the same with tanks and bmps. They said, Ukrainian mlrs grads, smerch etc. Are out of ammo for a month now (ability to destroy supply lines of russians are gone now). 152mm ammo is running low too, while 155 guns and ammo are still rarity. Basically they could've bring more metal and more meat throughout may, than we (or rather west) could and now we suffer consequences. Basically only advantage Ukrainianside has at this point is with light infantry. Also russian army is different to western armies, meaning they can tolarate 100% loss of manpower, when western armies can barely tolarate 6%
Great work. Separatists' forces contribution is rarely discussed in details, it's good that you paid attention to it. As for the question "why Moscow uses them as a cannon fodder" ... we have more and more evidence of a new kind of genocide. Original population of the occupied territories is used as expendable resource. Their losses are not important, since the occupied territories will be populated with migrants from all over the Russian Federation. As it happened already in Crimea.
The ironic horror is that both those regions were populated with russian-speakers in the first place b/c of genocides. The Soviet planed and executed starvation-based genocide called the Holodomor killed 6-7 million Ukrainians (some estimates as high as 8 million) from 1932 to 1933. Huge swaths of the country was depopulated and then Russian-natives moved in. "Population Management" policies like this were pretty damn common in the USSR, the Holodomor was probably the most egregiously horrifying of them tho. Keep in mind the Holocaust has an official death toll of just 6 million, many of them Ukrainians. Russification attempts were a longstanding practice of the Russians overall, Poland and Finland both were other attempted conversions. Crimea was actually forcibly depopulated completely of it's Cossack and Islamic Tartar natives towards the end of Imperial Russia, since the Black sea was so important the Czar flat out colonized the peninsula. The Donbass was emptied out by the Holodomor and "Population Management" polices of the Soviets. Between the decades of genocide from the Soviets and the brief interlude of Nazi occupation, vacant space opened up in Ukraine. The demographics of the eastern Donbass region and Crimea are the way they are BECAUSE of genocide.
@@Lusa_Iceheart that whole "planned shortage/starvation" thing sounds awfully familiar right about now. I wonder if we're going to read about a Western Holodomor in future history books
SO sorry to learn that you are a cancer sufferer. I lost my wife to breast cancer that turned to stage 4 metastatic cancer, and I have some small sense of the things you and your loves are going through. I truly hope that you fight this for as long as possible and, as an ex- intel operator, I appreciate your approach to be as specific as possible about sources, what you know, vs what you suspect. Keep up the good work and ignore the trolls.
I am so sorry for your loss. I lost my mother to esophageal cancer in 2012 and my dad is fighting prostate cancer right now. It doesn't look good, he has a lot of metastases in his skeleton. I HATE cancer
Yes, a new Perrun video! Best notification possible. You’re the first to postulate an improper ratio of men to armor for their struggles and it makes *a lot of sense.* One note though: they’re not fighting NATO. Just Ukraine. So, you would think that they wouldn’t need full mobilization for this war.
The thing is, Ukraine has a population of 44 million (almost 1/3 of Russia), and they are doing full mobilization. So Russia would need to do at least partial mobilization to keep up. And really full mobilization to get the 3 to 1 advantage to fight a conflict where they are mostly attacking. This is mitigated currently by Ukraine not mobilizing before the war started so they are having trouble training and equipping their new forces, but that's just short-term.
You're missing the point that the problem is the units are designed to fight after a mobilisation so with extra influx of conscripts filling up the basic grunt jobs. No war, no mobilisation, no conscripts and suddenly you're 30% understaffed and that deficit is heavily focused on the infantry part. Prior to the invasion the infantry problem might have been fixed by a completely restructuring of their units and demoting a lot of specialists back to basic grunts. But it seems even in the Army High Command nobody was really planning for a full out invasion so nobody thought this necessary.
Russia never had enough men to fight NATO. Even China does not have enough men to fight NATO. Only nukes, and the West's desire for peace and prosperity, kept them "safe".
At the very least Russia should have adjusted the makeup of their BTG's to reflect the number of infantry they have. It seems to me they would have fared much better in this war had they used fewer IFV's in the opening stages (less fuel needed and adequate infantry support for their armor.)
I will admit this comment is primarily to help with the RUclips algorithm, but I do actually have some relevant experience. During the mid 1980s through the first gulf war, I worked as a contractor for the SDC (strategic defense command) supporting things like the AMC (army materials command, yes the SDC is an army bunch) and Patriot project office. To me it is obvious what you do in real life, and I really want to congratulate you on the perspectives you have shared on logistics, force structures and the problems both sides face. The video on Poland was most welcome, and I congratulate you on the excellent research and presentation. I am rather biased, my wife of 24 years is Ukrainian, her family is from Kherson and I am very much concerned and personally worried about the conflict. Seriously, keep up the excellent work and analysis, you have filled out the details of why things that are obvious to myself exist and occurred. Ukraine has the ability to win this war, provided the west supplies the weapons and supplies, and Russia doesn't go to full mobilization. The motivation of even native Russian speakers in Ukraine is real, and provided they are properly supported should not be discounted as a factor. The Ukrainian population decided rather decisively in 2014 that they did not desire to be a puppet state of the Russian Federation. We should support them in their hour of need.
@@JB-pu8ik I left Redstone in 94, to go work for Motorola. Hard to turn down a 50% pay raise and relocation expenses. Prior to Redstone I worked in Huntsville for SCI on the IBM PC starting in 81. Lots of people from the Apollo project were still around then. Huntsville was a great place to learn things and work on cutting edge stuff. I even had an experiment I participated in go up with Challenger.
Separatist regions were only 1/3 territories upheld by the Russian troops, almost all leading positions there are done by Russians, not locals. Mariupol, for example, is city in Donetsk Region/Donbass, but it was under Ukraine all those 8 years, and it was fast developing city, with one of highest level of life in Ukraine. It was mainly Russian-speaking, but it wanted to stay in Ukraine, as they were living there very well - unlike Donetsk that was very developed city and fast developing as well, but after Russian troops sieged it in 2014, it became ghost city. I was living in that city during that time, and it became sort of "3rd wolrd country" living place, with almost no police or anything, and different "Motorolla"-guys going around and shooting each other (and all of them are Russians too). And that "referendum" was on just that 1/3 of territory and they voted for everyone, so even for Mariupol and other cities like that - even thought they had no control over it and they weren't having any voting on those territories. Plus around 50% of population left territories under Russian control in 2014-2017 (me included), so they had around 1/4-1/5 of region population there. So all their "legitimacy claims" are just ridiculous. Also, reason why Yanukovich was thrown away is not him being pro-russian, but him trying to become dictator, him cancelling freedom of speech and banning protests, cancelling next elections to "rule always", changing 180 degrees his political course, so he had opposite course of what he was elected for. And president - is just a manager of people's will, so when he does opposite of what they want, it is a problem. So obviously only way was to throw away such government, because otherwise people would end up in slavery under dictator.
Can we get some substantiation/ links/ sources on Yanukovich trying to become like a dictator? First time I’ve heard of this, I’ve though he was always semi-dictatorial & that his (sudden?) pro-Russian stance was the main “nail in the coffin” of his regime, more-so than his dictatorial tendencies… 🤷♂️
Also, thank you for writing this out. ❤️ Every person that wrote their journey fleeing out of Donbass in 2014-timeframe teaches me an impotant detail about how batshit crazy Russian claims over DNR/ LNR land actually are. With Love, from Slovenia ❤️
@@elektrotehnik94 the change of position on 180 degrees make big protests. Then to cancel protests they made illegal/unconstitutional "voting", where they banned protests and allowed police force to shoot protestors by those new laws, also those laws decreased freedom of speech. When those were not working and protests only became even bigger - he ordered to cancel elections - but no one was there to sign up those laws anymore, as most of his parliament already run away from country to Russia. However, this make protests to become even bigger and more fierce, with millions of people in whole country going against him. So yeah, technically it was his final nail to coffin because it caused all the rest of the events to happen, but this was not the only reason. If he just ignored protestors and did nothing, then protests would end in some time, he would get some opposition in parliament and then everything would end up on political battle (especially considering he had only around 9 months left to rule before next elections, so he would just lose them and new president would do what people actually want), but he decided to seize power to himself instead. I bet it was because same year in Russia were big protests, and Russia sent few police to beat up protestors - and whole Russia became afraid of it and stopped protests. So maybe Putin adviced same tactics. But for Ukrainians it will not work, we are too much freedom-loving for dictatorship to came up like this.
@@elektrotehnik94 that was a "last mile" of becoming a "full dictator" through the Maidan times. That was a thing that escalated everything. You could watch Netflix's "Winter on fire". That is pretty precise documentary. Also, the whole Ukrainian politics is an extremely long talk. With a tons of stuff going on "in the backyard". In order to understand Ukrainian politics one should go through the whole Ukrainian history since at least 19th century. Ukraine has extremely long history of fighting for the independence and all those ideas have their ground. As well as Russian influence. So, in order to understand Yanukovitch phenomenon, you should dive deep into political processes at least since 1991. Because there was not a single year since then without Kremlin trying to "bring Ukraine back to Russia". Doing that through funding of pro-russian political powers etc. The thing about Yanukovitch is that he was essentially implementing Russian way of state system. With deep corruption, police state, dismantling Ukrainian Army etc. That was a slow process and it got a little of attention till the core moment of making last step into dictatorship. And that was a moment when the Revolution took place. Russia could not accept that outcome. And here comes most modern history of an ongoing war that initially began in 2014. P.s. that was en extremely poor description of what was happening here. It is impossible to go through all of it in RUclips comments. You could read "The road to unfreedom" by Timothy Snyder in order to get "the whole world" picture and what role Ukraine has to play there. Also you could Google "chytomo ukrainian books about the war". There is a page with a list of books to read about ongoing events. (Do not want to add a link here. RUclips might delete a comment because of that)
I lived in Donetsk 2004-2005 and went back every year since, up to late 2013. The last time I was there seemed like Donetsk's pinnacle of development. It was after Euro 2012, beautiful newly built European Standard Stadium, the airport was finally renovated, the streets were all well kept, flowers everywhere in the center (Donetsk was known as the City of Roses). Great restaurants, cafes, bars. It was my favorite city after Kyiv and Chernivtsi. I can't even look at it today. Depressing as hell.. Now run by former Taxi Drivers, Bazaar thugs and Gopnicki....
The Germans noted problems with standard infantry fighting with tanks as opposed to properly trained armoured infantry troops. The standard infantry would tend to sit back and "let the tanks handle the problem", while the armoured infantry knew how vulnerable the tanks could be. Apparently one simple but key part of training armoured infantry was having them sit in the tank so they would get an idea for just how poor the visibility from a tank could be.
Modern panzergrenadiers use IFVs for that, but same difference, visibility-wise. And yes, that was why the panzergrenadiers were created in the first place.
Yes this has always been a problem with armoured/Mechanised forces in general. It takes a good deal of training to have an effective Mechanised Infantry unit vs an effective Light Infantry unit, especially when you have taken casualties.
The similarity to US experience in Vietnam is an eerie mirror to this: No mobilizing National Guard/Reserve, use of 1-year conscripts, many conscripts come either from volunteers, or those who were too poor/uneducated/not connected enough to duck it.
A much older example: The Dutch continuation of the 'remplacement' system where you could pay someone to fulfill your conscription for you meant that the Dutch army had a low social status and low quality officer corps all the way into WW1 because everybody who could afford it stayed out of the army, therefore the army got a imagine that 'the good citizen' didn't go there. Over time this began interacting reciprocally and officers were not considered to be a part of the elite, which they were in other countries. Meaning members of the elite saw becoming a professional officer as a social degredation for them. So their image became worse. And more people saw that career choice as a degradation, and so on. It was a major source of concern at the time because it seemed quite likely that either Britain or Germany might attack eventually and the lack of a martial culture could lead to easy collapse and surrender while nobody had any illusions about the quality of Dutch leadership compared to say, the German officer class.
@@MM22966 It could be. In Guanghzou I got talking to a bunch of sailors from the base just up the road from Whampao Military Academy (a historical site) after drawing curiosity asking at the gate if the rest of the area was open (it wasn't) and then heading down the road for lunch in what turned out to be a navy lunchroom. I'd already stood out because they rarely see gweilos down there, nevermind ones so tall, nevermind ones who then speak Mandarin and a word or two of Cantonese. Nevermind ones clued up enough to approach a somewhat-nervous sentry and ask if it's alright to photograph in that and that direction, since sure it's historical, but we do see a navy tender in the background. 😆 What stood out to me is that all of them were from the countryside. All over China, but none of them were from a major city of a million or over. In China there's quite the city-rural divide and the rurals are looked down on, not always without justification as the rural is 2-4 decades behind urban China. For those guys it was their whole life, ussually the only opportunity, they lived basically divorced away from their families and a bit of tentative poking on (geo)politics got me way more 'they taught me this' style answers while the default Chinese answer is undecided 'I don't know' or 'I don't think about such things'. That could go either way. They could be staffing low-quality people, OR they could be recruiting rural people who are brainy but have no way to get educated due to where they are, for who being a career officer becomes a do-or-die affair.
Just like most bullies they puffed up their chest and tried to appear big and tough, but when someone actually fights back the truth of their weaknesses becomes evident.
Thank you for the video! I find your topics to be well presented, reasoned and above all researched, more than pretty much anything else i have found. Keep up the good work, and don't let comments like that one at the end get you down!
You know that when haters send you mail that its just a validation that your content is bang on.. Keep going Perun, Oz isn't Switzerland, you don't have to be Neutral - Just accurate.. Love the content..
Russian Spetznaz: average 4yrs experience among it's SF soldiers, inexperience, defeated in Ukraine. Chechens: fearsome reputation, but defeated handily in Ukraine and the Russian conscripts keep confirming they've fled the battlefield. Russian Paratroopers: defeated handily day one in Ukraine. Average Russian soldier: 2yrs of service with little training. Average Russian Conscript: no experience, almost no training. Average Russian bomber, attack, and fighter pilot: lacks adequate pilot training, still controlled by centralized command structures rather than allowed independent action on mission. "Elite" Russian armored and infantry units: all being eviscerated in Ukraine. Wagner group suffered a crushing defeat recently in Ukraine. All Russian units still using cold war era equipment (Su-25, Su-24, Su-27 and derivatives, Mi-8, Mi-24, BMP, T-62, T-64, T-72 and derivatives, artillery, ships, submarines, etc.), and most of that are in various states of disrepair.
I never understood why Chechens are so feared in non-RU media. Majority of Kadyrovites are actually members of Rosgvardia, or National Guard, or alternatively ministry of internal affairs, which is under the Rosgvardia anyway. These guys aren't trained for military operations. Only thing they can do is beat up protesters and search for drugs.
should i tell you that "modern" isnt shirtage of "modernised", and us and other forces have about half of equipment being cold war production, whenever also modernised as and russian and Ukrainians equipment, so keep your vainglory a bit lower, dont show it so brightly
@@БодяДробовик yes, other nations use older equipment too. But the Western equipment of the 1980s and 1990s was already superior to the Soviet Union equivalent. Since 1991, the West has continued to modernize significantly. Continued to learn and adapt. Russia has produced next to nothing new since 1991, and what they have produced isn't in large enough numbers to matter. The F-16 has since been given IR tracking and targeting, targeting pods, long range radar, newer weapons and missiles, subtle stealth improvements like new materials and paint (every little bit helps), updated helmets and cockpits, newer engines, and more. And that's just one example. We can discuss Burke destroyers, Carriers, M1 tanks, rifles, optics, body armor, ground vehicles for logistics, lasers, drones, stealth aircraft (B-2, B-21, F-35, F-22, NGAD, stealth drones, unmanned drones on carriers, loyal wingman, etc.), artillery (M777, Excalibur ammo, rocket launched small diameter bombs, Brimstone and Hellfire missiles, etc.), and much much more.
As an owner of a Mosin-Nagant (aka garbage rod), I can confirm that it is an inaccurate piece of junk. Super fun to shoot though and surplus ammo is cheap and plentiful. It's also hard to understand why the DPR/LPR forces aren't given at least SKSs. You can buy one of those in the surplus market for $100 (at least you could ~5 years ago).
In the OSINT community, Donetsk and Lugansk are commonly known as Donbabwe and Luganda. This pretty much sums up the military, economic and political power of those 'republics'.
They've served a useful purpose though. Inter alia: -Kept Ukraine some distance from ever being in NATO by virtue of it being a constant war -Been (im)plausibly deniable as proxies for the land grab of territory -Been useful in creating tensions within Ukraine, with possible leverage over Ukraine if they were ever re-integrated under some peace deal -Forced Ukraine to divert resources to deal with the military threat posed by them, where Russia has also been free to supply weapons and troops without Ukraine being able to fight back against the Russians directly (or risk a serious escalation it wanted to avoid) -Given Russia a Casus belli of the (oft-repeated-by-Putinbots) 'look at those war crimes carried out by Ukraine in Donbass/Genocide against Russian speakers/It's only right Russia invades and kills massive numbers of Russian speaking civilians in order to liberate them -Served as platforms for the latest invasion. -And so on...
@@JohnSmith-gd2fg On the other hand, it was a great training ground for Ukrainian soldiers after 2014. No amount of exercise can substitute proper conditioning in real warlike environment. Thousands of Ukrainian troops got accustomed to fighting there, and it now pays off.
Also, this mass conscription may have especially significant effects on morale on troops conscripted by the DPR/LPR government, and I am surprised that I have not heard of notable surrenders by those forces. If conscripts are eating a counter-offensive and folding, have there been notable surrenders of units because nobody wants to be there?
RU officers might be running these troops, as the recent example of General Kutuzov shows. RU officers are infamous for lying, gaslighting, threatening and basically saying and doing anything to keep troops in line, so maybe these guys do not surrender whole cloth, but rather one by one.
There have been notable surrenders among the DPR/LPR units recently. You can see some of them on Volodymyr Zolkin’s RUclips channel. On top of that they have been mutinying en masse over the last few weeks. They have been making videos in which they all refuse to fight (safety in numbers I guess). Again, the videos are on RUclips. It’s worth pointing out that the surrendering DPR & LPR men are completely untrained - by their own words to Volodymyr Zolkin - and some are disabled. Many are students rounded up. There are intercepted phone calls from wives to the Russian military in the separatist areas reporting their husbands have been kidnapped by DPR/LPR government men.
You have to take into account the nature of modern warfare. Battles are fought over longer distances and with smaller units. That means there are not many situations where you actually can surrender, unless you get surrounded like in Mariupol.
Truly the best Ukraine war analysis available. Your videos should make CNN, Sky, BBC, NRK, SVT, TF1 jealous being unable to provide even a glimpse of what you produce.
I’d love to see a video focused on what kind of equipment we are seeing with the infantry and the differences stuff like optics and night vision are making on the battle field! Great content perun, I have an intel background and love your focus on sources, and reducing bias
I fully concur with your comprehensive and insightful analysis. A might add, three factors further exacerbate Putin's shortfall in available infantry. 1. demographics. For decades, ethnic Russians have been having reduced numbers of children, the result of socioeconomic factors and alcohol induced infertility. This has resulted is a diminished pool of recruits for military service. 2. Public acknowledgement of high casualties. Combat-age Russians have become highly averse to making themselves available for recruitment. The same holds true for the willingness of ethnic Russian troops to engage with the enemy. 3. Collapse of support from the Russian Federation's Collective Security Treaty Organization. CSTO's non-Russian leaders are no longer willing to allow their young men to be contracted to support Putin's debacle in Ukraine. The same holds true for a growing number of government officials in the RF's largely non-Russian hinterland. And finally, I believe that the Russians have not adequately equipped the DPR and LPR for combat out of fear that they may turn on their Russian masters. As an aside, my grandfather who fought in the Russian Imperial Army at Port Arthur was issued a Mosin-Nagant rifle. That defeat by the Japanese fueled the Russian Revolution of 1905.
It is disgusting that some people send other people to their death, especially over something like this. It breaks my heart man. Espeically because they being used by Russia twice. First as bait, and second denial. It is disgusting.
I always anxiously await your presentations, I soak up knowledge on this ongoing conflict like a nervous sponge, in case some sign of an end-point may appear on the horizon. But I won’t settle for propaganda, I only want honest views from multiple sources, and yours is one of the most reliable out there. Fantastic work, mate. Though I would also like it if you’d give more shout-outs to other personalities and channels that cover the subject, it’ll really help band us all together against the misinformation from many dime-a-dozen military channels/sites or propaganda outlets.
"Sergeant never-skips-gym-day here..." Dude that was hilarious. I was thinking exactly that, but not as funny. FWIW - I'm watching this video on a tip from another commenter on a different video. I wasn't keen on spending an hour on one topic... but if you are as informative as you are amusing... it will be an hour well spent. Thanks for starting off strong.
Not really. Professionalism would be utilising your massive materiel advantages to avoid being forced into an attritional war in the first place - an attritional war is never the first choice of any military.
@@vonskyme9133 Why would Russia mobilize and finish a quick war instead of bleeding out the entirety of the west arsenal in the hands of the incompetent Ukrainians? Along with also imposing massive economic disaster in the EU and US?
@@devrusso because, even according to their own official numbers, they're facing a much greater economic impact, while the West has provided something like 5% of their arsenal. More in some areas like handheld rockets, less in others (well under 5% of tanks or artillery, no aircraft etc).
@@vonskyme9133 Are you under delusions that the sanctions will be lifted when the conflict is over? Under official numbers, Russia's inflation is at 14% right now. Inflation in the EU ranges from 6% to as high as 23% - of course it's only supposed to get worse once the winter months come and Russia can leverage the gas negotiations to a greater extent. Inflation in the US is put around 8% since they have a huge oil strategic reserve which is feeding the markets right now. The Russian ruble today is as strong as it was before 2014 Crimea's annexation. The Dow Jones and NASDAQ in the US are down about 40% compared to last year. Ukraine has asked the USA for about 80% of ALL its mobile rocket systems. Light AT guns in the west are supposed to run completely dry by the end of the year (at the current pace) All while Russia avoids a full (even partial) mobilization that would most likely bring some unrest domestically. Russia is winning so massively, meanwhile using such minimum resources it's LITERALLY hard to believe. It's a game of chairs, some countries are gonna be left out of the renewed international paradigm, and Russia has already secured its place as a superpower in the years to come.
the conscripts are driving the tanks, driving the air defense vehicles, helping the mechanics... and if you take them away just as you enter Ukraine, the experienced troops manning the gun, commanding the tank, operating the air defense equipment, can't do their jobs without conscripts to drive them and such.
I thought the contracted soldiers did most of the driving and gunning in heavy vehicles. The conscripts mostly do all the boota on the ground roles. Which is important since heavy equipment is mostly support for infantry; Infantry which Russia doesent have without mobilization.
I'd like to know if the Russians have the production capacity to continue expending artillery ammunition at the rate they are currently using it in Donbas, and if not how long will stocks allow them to continue their current reliance on artillery.
Their stockpile alone will Last them a long time, russia for the Last 70 years aimed to be the king of artillery, because it was artillery that saved them in ww2 for the most Part. And to be clear, though i dont think they ran out of it jet as many claimed for the past few months, i do make a distinction in guided and dumb ammunition.
@Russian Waifu (T-72 Tank Commander)🇷🇺 "Russia will eventually come out victorious..." Yes. But sanctions will still apply... and don't forget, trade sanctions won't kick till about ten months from now. Enjoy the misery.
Looking at it from the inside since I didn't run from Kyiv, your analysis seems to be on point. Can't say I didn't wince when you used the separatist sources, but that's necessary for being objective. I can get behind that. Kudos, stellar video.
So wait if they put their guys who are their professionals into their vehicles then that means that a lot of their early losses would be people who know how to use those Oh dear
As always, thanks for the insightful analysis! 👍 ...can't wait for the analysis on the Ukranian side. Keep up the great work! Now, let's see if you have some Stellaris videos. If you do, you'd be my favorite channel on YT.
slowly a picture forms in my head... if you have no infantry to take a city and a huge artillery to destroy a city while the whole world is laughing at your weakness, what do you do with the artillery and the city...?
From what I've heard, recent historians say Soviet troops rode tanks into battle, not because of any tactical reasons, they make excellent targets for ground attack aircraft etc, but because they lacked the trucks or halftracks to properly transport the infantry in sufficient numbers.
They built 265,600 trucks on their own and got another 380,000 trucks from the Americans. They had plenty of trucks during ww2. The Germans were the ones with horses, because they lacked fuel for trucks and everything else.
@@scratchy996 I'm aware, Soviet trucks weren't very reliable, they didn't have all those American trucks in 42 43, and I didn't say it was because of lack of gasoline. The Soviets still had plenty of non motorized units until the end of the war. As in no organic unit transportation like the Americans. Americans rode tanks too, on occasion but not quite like the Soviets.
They would also ride on the vehicles because dismounting was easier. A T34 is, to understate, EXTREMELY FUCKING CRAMPED. Even with trucks gasoline is a premium in war, and tanks always had the first allotment during the Second World War for gas.
A further note. Soviet era APCs and IFVs are extremely tight in the back. It’s the space premium. If you’re hauling ten men with full kit, there’s not breathing room let alone leg room. Say a rocket strikes the lead vehicle; doctrine calls for a dismount. Ten men trying to pour out of a single exit point as the machine guns train in. If the guy in front falls you’re all stumbling over him. It’s easier to sit on the roof, and although some of you will get capped, hopefully you can get off the vehicle and into the dirt faster than a fatal funnel from the rear hatch.
@@davidfryman2173 I would bet trucks used far more gas than tanks. Tanks moved mainly by rail, and got all their supplies by truck. The Soviets didn't have APC's during the Second World War. In the US, our troops regularly road on top of M-113's not to dismount quickly, but because the armor didn't stop heavy MG rounds, and the danger of mines. One rpg hit, and everyone inside is dead. I imagine that's exactly why Soviets do the same.
All hail the Ground Pounders! Unsung, underpaid, unlovely, unshaven, unappreciated, smelly, dirty and indispensible eyes, hands, boots on, in, under and over the ground/mud/snow/pucker brush/rubble. Heroiam Slava!
About MH-17, some of the weapons/ammo we (Netherlands) sent have "revenge for MH-17" written in Dutch on them. I loathe violence and all but can't help but feel okay about what some people wrote on the weapons before they were sent off to help UA.
Bravo! Thanks for doing the work to explain what is going on in detail. I'm not involved in the military conflict but am directly involved in the humanitarian relief effort on the ground, Thus it is really important to understand the conflict and predictions of how it will develop, and hopefully be resolved. Keep up the good work. We can't get this kind of detailed info from the mainstream media.
sounds like a troll the farms are alive n kicking . and please dont pick on his lack of full stops i dont use them mostly either😂 ...great piece well done
JUJITSU: The art of utilizing the momentum or the predisposition, of the foe to one's advantage. Just thinking outside the 'war strategy box' here. To preserve BOTH Russian and Ukrainian life, I would suggest: Ukraine could weaponize Russia's most successful product: VODKA. Russian troops feel abandoned, traumatized, lied to, home sick in a hostile land where neither side has a quarrel. There is One thing they would die for: Russian vodka. Ukraine should use their superior logistical abilities to distribute a train load of Russian vodka to all occupiers as a measure of 'hospitality'. A smiling Babushka pulling a wagon full of Russia's Finest, could disable a battalion of poorly led, poorly equipped poorly fed Orks in a single Friday night. Could herd them into a drunk tank and take their equipment intact. In war: A SNOCKERED FOE...is a friend! So...Let's do a little arithmetic. The 'think tank experts' are approving spending 20-40 Billion of our dollars on war machines and munitions to bludgeon a bunch of demoralized slobs who don't want to be there. 150 thousand Orks X $8 a bottle of Russia's finest: $1.2 million. Hire a battalion of Babushkas to deliver vodka to the occupiers @ $100 X 400: $40,000. Wagons and rail transport: $10,000. Total cost: $1.25 million. 150 thousand drunk Russians and their war machinery: PRICELESS! Slavo Ukraine!
Its interesting that the more capable/contract infantry forces the Russians deployed in the initial invasions, the VDV and naval infantry, themselves may have been far too vehicle heavy and infantry light. Battle Order's summary of the force structure of the VDV seem to me to illustrate a force which was far too vehicle heavy, relying on BMDs with comparatively few dismounts, compared to other airborne forces with far too little "bayonet" strength, even for what was the early bulk of skilled infantry. Given the casualties these forces have suffered though, as Perun has said, that's more of an early invasion aspect than a current one.
It didn’t occur to me that the video about the Poland situation would be less popular. I was excited by the idea of learning about connected things that would matter later. I’m really glad to hear that you are going to do more like that.
@@michaelsandy2869 I watch all Perun videos at least twice - some more often! There's so much detail and thought provoking stuff in them that it's impossible to take it all in in one viewing. I sometimes even find I rewatch an old one and get more out of it because I've watched a newer one since! These aren't 'normal' YT videos at all - he's effectively building a library of Ukraine related information and analysis - these videos will be used as a resource for years (decades) to come.
I found the Poland one very interesting, it gave me a whole new perspective on central European history, not just the Ukraine invasion. But I can see why some of Perun's new audience would not have watched it, as they would have been frustrated that it didn't deal directly with the day to day situation in Ukraine. Many of us have a wider interest in the situation and region, but I suspect a lot of viewers just want Perun to tell them that Russia is losing, and why!
@@paulhaynes8045 One particular fact he brought up, about the different rail gauges, I had encountered before but forgotten about. And so his video got me thinking about how one of the major obstacles for Ukraine-EU trade is being massively addressed right now, because of the war. And that SO undercut's Putin's war aims and long term goals.
I was USMC Infantry and a favorite thing my company commander said once was, "No matter how great the tech gets or how shiny the equipment is. If you have a well entrenched and motivated infantry force dug into a good position then all of that might as well not exist. Eventually another equally motivated and equally disciplined infantry force will have to go in and dig them out, with bullet and bayonet."
I never served, but I know from too many hours in Wargame: Red Dragon that infantry dug in on the fringes of an urban area is a fucking nightmare for anyone and anything that gets near them, and a nightmare to dig out. You have to beat the fuck out of them with every fire support asset you have, divert around that area, or both.
To put this into perspective Perun. My father was a British Soldier for 36 years, spent the first 6 years in the Infantry before Transferring to the Intelligence Corps. Started a Private left a Major, so did alright by himself. He once told me that every specialism in the Army is there for one purpose, and one purpose only, to ensure the Infantry can do its job. Whether directly or indirectly the entire Army Machine is there to ensure those boots can gain and hold ground. Even more, much of the air force is also there for precisely the same reason. To make sure the grunts on the ground can do their job. Without the Infantry 80% or more of your military is essentially worthless. Tanks cannot hold ground, not unsupported by infantry. Artillery can pound an enemy but cannot take or hold ground. Air power can again pound an enemy, but cannot take and hold ground. And so it goes on. Infantry in dads opinion was the most underappreciated part of the armed services, and absolutely the most vital for most Nations on Earth.
In the US, it’s made clear that you’re nobody if not an infantryman. But I’d argue infantrymen know better, and appreciate the limits of their own ability to hold ground (without the supporting cast). The whole point is kind of moot. It’s an interdependent organization. The magic is made when there’s shared understanding. And Ukraine’s effort (be it uniformed or not) has it on full display.
@@snail415 Oh absolutely, I was not trying to make the case that the various supporting arms are less important than the infantry, just that without the infantry they are of limited use in a war that revolves around taking and holding ground. You absolutely need those supporting arms in modern warfare, but you also need the grunts, because without those grunts no matter how well those supporting arms do, you are not taking and holding that ground.
Your dad was no doubt correct. Under appreciation might be the most apposite term. When WW2 dawned, but before conscription was introduced, my teenage father used his own initiative and joined the RAF, in full knowledge that once conscription arrived it would be more than likely that he would be compelled to join the "footsloggers" as they were known, and who had suffered very high mortality rates in WW1. He won himself as position as a trainer in the RAF so managed to avoid the perils of combat in that theatre of war also. Needless to say he survived. Perhaps you could say it was the "survival of the smartest."
I was a reservist in an Army Engineering unit for a few years when I was younger and thinking back everything we did was for the infantry, or for those supporting the infantry. When we built field defences it was for the infantry, if we built a bridge it was for the infantry or those supporting the infantry. Who needs 20000L of drinking water? Infantry work is thirsty work so again infantry. If we were destroying a bridge it was so the enemy infantry couldn't use it. Clearing lanes through minefields was so the infantry could get through without getting their legs blown off. We always gave shit to the grunts but honestly our entire purpose was to help them do their job. Cheers to the dumb as shit but hard as fuck infantry.
Lovely, another 1h PowerPoint presentation. And that's with no sarcasm, I'm always looking forward to the next one. You're the only one that has ever made me love presentations. You always have very informative videos and I'm glad you decided to give this a shot, I also hope you'll continue the coverage after the war ends. You have so much to give and I'm really looking forward to your takes
Not a soldier but am really finding your talks very informative. Very clearly laid out, clear language and really spot on with what the uninitiated need to know. Just excellent.
I'm a combat vet who also studies military history, logistics, and more, and I love these presentations. He does a great job covering the nuances and aspects others miss or don't understand.
Just saying, everything about the way you are producing this content is absolutly perfect. Don't change your formula, and keep up the good work, it's greatly appreciated.
What a letter! I really look forward to these deep dives! Great balanced and honest reporting. What is up with the Ruzzian trolls? They can't even swear at us grammatically.
I served in a Marine infantry unit for 4 years, and logistics was a very important part. "Beans, bandaids, and bullets doc! Thats what keeps the Corps going". My S-3 or S-4 Gunny would always say. You cant win any battles if your men don't have the basics. And nothing destroyed morale quicker than knowing the convoy got blown up and we weren't going to get any mail for the week.
In Finland we have an annual portion of the conscripts trained in all the advanced AA systems. It is a way to produce trained reserves. The Russians don't apparently have working methods to distinguish friendly and unfriendly targets. In their war in Georgia in 2008 they actually shot down more of their own planes than the Georgian AA managed to down.
Yes, that's right. On the other hand, Finnish system is quite bit different from Russian. Actually, Finnish system is quite bit different from basically any army that uses conscription. We train our conscripts almost to same level as others train their professionals. Most motivated ones are even kept current with regular refresher trainings and most of other can be easily refreshed to their tasks in case conflict happens.
It is sad to me that one can only find such analysis and journalism from dedicated people like you, and not from most media outlets. Context is everything for information, and you provide both in great quantity and quality.
This is future of media eventually. I think these kind of channels will be much more popular in future. Of course there will be people who are happy eating media fast foods, but still.
News stories about anything are only going to be 3-5 minutes at most, and there's no way you can fit this much information seen in this video into snippets like that. This isn't to say that there are opportunities for better coverage of the conflict, but you guys are complaining about something that isn't comparable.
@@stockscareful6368 It's both exhilirating and dangerous. TBH MSM is still very much going to be bedrock. Anyone who wants to do the same stuff as Perun will have to touch base with mainstream media, if only to report what is being reported, or who is saying what.
@@snapicvs bit dramatic don't you think? "Mainstream media" can mean a lot of different things to different people, some is fairly informative (but brief), some is blatant fear mongering and misinformation. Anyway... it's not surprising that the regular TV news doesn't put a 1 hour lecture on about military tactics and logistics. There are some shows and books around for people that are interested in that stuff. People like you or I might be interested in it, but we can't expect the news channels to do this level of teaching. From what I've seen they do often get military experts on for 10 minute explanations. It's brief... but it's supposed to be for the average joe. I'm not a "fan" of the mainstream media, but I don't think it's always negligent (depending what you're looking at I guess). They hardly ever go deep on many topics I find personally interesting. Their job is to try and tell the surface level story of what's happening (and in the process unfortunately make some profits by appealing to our base emotions). Maybe part of the problem is expecting the news outlets to educate us on everything... it's a problem because if that' what people think then they're going to get a bad education. The news is what it is... bite sized snippets. If you want to really learn something go and read a book honestly. RUclips lectures are a decent halfway point if you're lucky (like this video here), but independent media is certainly not immune from the same problems of mainstream media. There is a lot of bias and bad incentives on RUclips too. What RUclips can provide is TAILORED content for you so it's no wonder you find stuff that you prefer because you're choosing from millions of options (or the algorithm does). The TV news by nature has to be very generic. Most people would watch this video and be bored shitless. I think this very in vogue (and smug) anti-mainstream circle jerk is getting a bit full of itself honestly.
Logistics of the Ukraine War-Ukrainian perspective: I frequently see media reports of western governments announcing weapons for Ukraine and interviews of Ukrainian soldiers saying "they're not here, we needed them yesterday". Obvious factors in this are the time delay in pulling them from storage, checking them for condition, shipping them to Poland, training Ukrainians on them and finally handing them over for transport into Ukraine. In a recent UATV piece on RUclips a Ukrainian officer interviewed a retired American general who had been a NATO commander. He maintained the key issue was logistics. The Ukrainian transport system was ill prepared for the conflict, and while they are improving the shift of the fighting to the east is putting a huge strain on their ability to move materiel from the western border to the eastern side of a large country. The US military does extensive logistical planning and training and he maintained that as the Ukrainians get better it will significantly impact the tide of the war. It seems to me your analytical skills would be an excellent fit for this type of topic. Subtopics could include: 1) What is the relative contribution of the different elements to the problem. 2) How do the interlocking pieces of logistics fit together. 3) How could the Ukrainians improve. 4) What could the west do to help? I am a huge fan of your work and believe your analysis could shed a useful light on a relevant topic. Thank you for all the excellent work you do. Be well, I'm looking forward to your next upload.
The logistics problem for Ukraine has an aspect most NATO-planners never has to deal with: fuel shortages. Not just getting the fuel where it is needed, the lack of fuel to transport at all. That leave an already congested railroad system as alternative.
I been seeing videos of Ukrainian soldiers driving minivan with ammunitions to parts of the front. That's the kind of thing you are talking about? How are they supplying the fighting men with the latest weapons if part of the time, the Russian control the sky?
@@discover854 partly that, though I feel the end distribution is just a symptom of the large scale logistics from the borders in the west to the war in the east is severely hampered. An efficient chain would be able to haul the bulk across the country, with minivans only doing the last stretch to the frontline, but from interviews with for instance medical volunteers it seems that minivan has to pick things up in the west and do the whole travel by itself, which isn't very efficient.
Excellent points on the complexity of both moving logistics and also having troops who have been trained on the materials that are difficult to move to them. Col (Ret) Glenn Ekblad. Vietnam and Iraq Veteran, ets.
The way to get better logistics supply would be dig a tunnel. For now. Using unmarked SUV and non military vehicles so they're not blown up kinda works. How much better have they got in the past two weeks since the comment? Well they're steadily shortening the distance to transport the supplies and the number of guys who need them.. except body bags.
As a Spaniard, I'm loving your content on Ukraine. I really like how you address your limitations, how you're always explaining what your sources are, and how they could be wrong and/or partial. I will say that your "no BS" attitude is really refreshing, and that while you might have your biases (like when you talked about the MG17 flight) or blind spots, you are really trying hard to paint an as objective picture as possible. Keep up the good work, and take my (seldom given) thumbs up. EDIT: Don't let the comments stop you from keeping the good work. We need more people like you, bringing the harsh reality front and center
JUJITSU: The art of utilizing the momentum or the predisposition, of the foe to one's advantage. Just thinking outside the 'war strategy box' here. To preserve BOTH Russian and Ukrainian life, I would suggest the following non kinetic approach to subduing orks occupying Ukraine: Ukraine could weaponize Russia's most successful product: VODKA. Russian troops feel abandoned, traumatized, lied to, home sick in a hostile land where neither side has a quarrel. There is One thing they would die for: Russian vodka. Ukraine should use their superior logistical abilities to distribute a train load of Russian vodka to all occupiers as a measure of 'hospitality'. A smiling Babushka pulling a wagon full of Russia's Finest, could disable a battalion of poorly led, poorly equipped poorly fed Orks in a single Friday night. Could herd them into a drunk tank and take their equipment intact. In war: A SNOCKERED FOE...is a friend! So...Let's do a little arithmetic. The 'think tank experts' are approving spending 20-40 Billion of our dollars on war machines and munitions to bludgeon a bunch of demoralized slobs who don't want to be there. 150 thousand Orks X $8 a bottle of Russia's finest: $1.2 million. Hire a battalion of Babushkas (Amazon women??!) to deliver vodka to the occupiers @ $100 X 400: $40,000. Wagons and rail transport: $10,000. Total cost: $1.25 million. 150 thousand drunk Russians and their war machinery: PRICELESS! Slava Ukraine!
As a Subsciber to Perun there are so many things to regret about finding this channel: That the Ukranian war is happening That this kind of analysis is so rare both in the level of detail and the credible sources That your details remind me that this is a meat grinder chewing up so many lives in Ukraine on both sides Keep up the good work - sadly the dark thoughts it gives are called realism. Over 70 years since World War 2 and this tragedy is reproducing so much of that evil.
What "evil"? War will always happen. Ever read about history? There are at least 5 wars going on in the globe and you seem to wake up yesterday. For the love you expressed for this channel, you seem naive.
@@sebastiandc1392 Speaking of naive, your comment is about as baseless as I have read in quite a while. You clearly have never experienced war or all the evil that invariably comes with it.
@@thomascolbert2687 Fss. You have no idea the place i grew up in. "baseless"? You must be one of those burning books. Read them. He said WWII and "that evil" haha. What "evil"? Vietnam? Bosnia? (i have friends there that can lecture you about "evil") going way back, British empire genocides?, french ones? Ottoman? Ghengis Khan? War is war, nasty, painful, and always we ought to avoid it, but is not up to oneself, there will always be a bully in the block that will think otherwise. Now if your IQ only allowed you to be a simple grunt, i would understand why you can not get the picture of my comment. Do display some sort of intellect if are due to replay to my comment, if not, shut up. Im sure you are by the 7th boost already....
@@sebastiandc1392 I didn't intend to imply that this was an isolated example of "evil" however it is one of the best documented in real time. In terms of graphic images of developments such as apartment blocks (i.e. people's homes) being destroyed it compares in my mind with images of damage in Lebanon. In terms of tragedy, is there a way of comparing events that doesn't just become statistics? I also wanted a counterpoint to the "love your content" comments, the content is excellent but the subject matter is tragic, complex reactions to that juxtaposition.
@Russian Waifu (T-72 Tank Commander)🇷🇺 I've contacted the NSA, CIA, DoD, MI5, MI6, Mossad, ISI, I even reached out to the FSB and SVR, and no one, not a single agency could locate who asked.
When things were going bad for the Reich, Panzer-Lehr Division was put into action: the armour training corps. They were very capable, some of the most experienced tankers with high quality equipment. But every tanker trained once Lehr took to the battlefield was that much less capable as the institutional knowledge was lost from the training institutions.
One issue the Panzer-Lehr training division suffered was speed of deployment. You see, they were so used to operating the tanks at half speeds to train new crews that they themselves avoided driving the tanks at top speed. It became a real issue with exacting timetables, and pretty soon, when a general asked when the division was supposed to arrive, the standard answer was “Sooner or Lehr”. It’s a true story. Look it up if you don’t believe me. 😉
@@MarcosElMalo2 Panzer-Lehr was an elite division that was actually able to deploy relatively quickly, they began forming on 30 December 1943, and moved to the Nancy-Verdun area in January 1944 to complete the process. On 19 March 1944, Panzer Lehr division took part in the German occupation of Hungary codenamed Operation Margarethe, and the division absorbed the 901st Panzergrenadier-Lehr-Regiment while there. After this they were ready to go, and fought (several times) almost to destruction. You can see the real value of an elite unit by examining Lehr division's actions during Operation COBRA. By the end of the war, Panzer-Lehr bore little resemblance to the unit activated on Dec 1943. Also I looked up this Sooner or Lehr thing and it's a fiction/joke propagated by Allied forces after the end of the war.
Might have been worth deploying late-war, since Germany had limited numbers of tanks and even more limited amounts of fuel. If you can't deploy more armored units and definitely can't supply them, there's no need to train them.
@@ahmadtheIED he means they drove the tanks themselves at half speed (eg 20kph when they could go 40) Not that the division moved to deployment slowly, if I understand correctly.
As a halfukranian citizen of Russia I must say - another excellent video. You are doing an outstanding job covering this conflict both in terms of the research you are doing and how you analyze and organize the data and how explicit you are. I would say even better than Russian language antigovernment media does for that reason. Keep up the good work!
JUJITSU: The art of utilizing the momentum or the predisposition, of the foe to one's advantage. Just thinking outside the 'war strategy box' here. To preserve BOTH Russian and Ukrainian life, I would suggest: Ukraine could weaponize Russia's most successful product: VODKA. Russian troops feel abandoned, traumatized, lied to, home sick in a hostile land where neither side has a quarrel. There is One thing they would die for: Russian vodka. Ukraine should use their superior logistical abilities to distribute a train load of Russian vodka to all occupiers as a measure of 'hospitality'. A smiling Babushka pulling a wagon full of Russia's Finest, could disable a battalion of poorly led, poorly equipped poorly fed Orks in a single Friday night. Could herd them into a drunk tank and take their equipment intact. In war: A SNOCKERED FOE...is a friend! So...Let's do a little arithmetic. The 'think tank experts' are approving spending 20-40 Billion of our dollars on war machines and munitions to bludgeon a bunch of demoralized slobs who don't want to be there. 150 thousand Orks X $8 a bottle of Russia's finest: $1.2 million. Hire a battalion of Babushkas (Amazon women??!) to deliver vodka to the occupiers @ $100 X 400: $40,000. Wagons and rail transport: $10,000. Total cost: $1.25 million. 150 thousand drunk Russians and their war machinery: PRICELESS! Slava Ukraine!
Harrowing anecdote about the musicians being pulled out of conservatories to be fed directly into the meat grinder. It's easy to get lost in the grand sweep of the conflict from a bird's eye view but it's always good to keep in mind the staggering human cost of war.
Another bloody tragedy. Putin and his ilk are barbarians.. they'd trample over anything good or fine just to stay in power. It is my fondest wish he lives to go on trial for this.
@@jf7243 It is true. Men in LDPR are afraid to walk out of their homes or pick phone calls. A friend of mine who lived in LPR and who wasn;t neither a soldier nor pro-Russian, vanished a day before the invasion. Presumably he has been forcefully conscripted.
58 minutes after publishing - 16K views. Things have changed for Perun the last couple of months 😁 Keep up the good work - I'm heading for the hammock and look forward to yet again be enlightened! Thank you Perun, you rock!
@@kyle18934 124k now & it was at 105k when I started watching. Not surprised really, as content of this quality isn't all that common (Far more Pewdipie than Putin's war).
This is precisely what anyone with a military perspective sees about the conflict in the Ukraine... I've heard other people make video articles about the Ukraine conflict and frankly they are talking out of their asses. Good job!
Expectation of war: using your night vision to spot out the enemy and having your squad take 'em out with your tacticool carbines with laser designators. Reality: bored off your ass standing and sitting around wishing for better food, being spotted by a tiny commercial drone you never heard, and getting your limbs blown off by the artillery shells called in on your coordinates while never spotting an enemy soldier or firing a shot.
I mean weapon made by the lowest bidder is more of a capitalist approach. Look something like Nazis or french or several other nations not following this model at various times in history has resulted in great equipment. I mean France generally speak almost refuses to use anything made by other countries unless it's a collaboration (with modern exception of the hk416). They seem have pretty good gear.
@@murphy7801 that would be a big mistake to attribute the quality of equipment directly to the mode of procurement. If your country has a terrible industrial culture, you can pour as much money as you want into ordering from the best, but it's still going to be crap. USSR was spending a massive fraction of GDP on arms and keeping people just above the poverty level. Did it help? No.
Have been looking back through these videos and it’s insane the amount of issues you’ve noted here are now really affecting them, cannibalising training units really shoots to mind here with the 1-3 day refreshers their conscripts are getting before being sent to the front
Quick clarification at 10:00. There is a small but important difference between an Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) and an Armored Personnel Carrier (APC). APCs, also nicknamed "battle taxis", are just supposed to get infantry relatively close to the fighting and then drop off their troops. They kind of act like a truck with a gun and some armor, but you wouldn't put a truck onto the firing line. APCs have less armor than IFVs and less armament (typically just a machine gun). IFVs drop off their troops, but then continue to fight alongside the troops they just dropped off. Unlike APCs, IFVs are an important tactical component of a platoon, often providing the majority of the firepower of that platoon. They are often armed with some kind of cannon and often an Anti-Tank Guided Missile (ATGM). So, tl;dr APCs are just transports, IFVs are combat support vehicles. In the Russian military the APCs are generally from the BTR series, and the IFVs are from the BMP series. So BTR, battle taxi; BMP, combat unit.
It's worth pointing out that the distinction between 'IFV" and 'APC' depends heavily on the environment; even your stock "Gavin" (thanks, Lazerpig!) with nothing more than pintle mount machineguns would sometimes be used to support its dismounted troops, and its not that uncommon for the threat environment to be hazardous enough that actual IFVs are more deathtrap than fire support. The trick, of course, is figuring out which situation is which without a lot of dead soldiers or blown up vehicles.
As a Dutchman I also have strong feelings about this Igor Girkin. Maybe some day a well placed 155 mm Excalibur round could give those Dutch and Australian families some closure.
It is obvious just by listening to your commentaries that you are well educated, astute, informed, methodical and balanced. Much of the negative feedback and flack that you receive is due to the fact that in this day and time that people have forgotten or much more likely disregarded that the truth is the truth and facts are facts regardless from where they come and truth and facts do not have an agenda. Keep producing your outstanding videos.
Truth. I respect Perun and he seems to present a high level of integrity and honesty. He's always clear about his sources and lack of clear information. He gives us a great view into what is likely true given the best sources avalibe at the current time.
@@thomaskaplan4898 idk about extremely biased but definitely i agree a westerner will have some inherit bias to the west the same way easterners are biased towards the east. We all have at least some bias what's nice is Perun trys to be up front and honest about it. Which makes ot easier to balance his videos with other sources.
I have been thoroughly enjoying your video essays on the Ukrainian conflict, they are very informative. Keep up the good work!
@Russian Waifu (T-72 Tank Commander)🇷🇺 What are the misinformation and lies?
@Russian Waifu (T-72 Tank Commander)🇷🇺 So, are you going to tell us, what exactly were the, "misinformation and lies"?
@Russian Waifu (T-72 Tank Commander)🇷🇺 Comes to show you suppress others only because they are not Russians
@Russian Waifu (T-72 Tank Commander)🇷🇺 again: So, are you going to tell us, what exactly were the, "misinformation and lies"?
I am neutral, i am asking because i want to know what's going on on all sides. So, would you please tell us?
@Russian Waifu (T-72 Tank Commander)🇷🇺
Do tell us the “misinformation and lies”?
As a Russian-born American, this channel is what I have recommended many times to my American friends searching for more, and better sourced, information on this war. Very well sourced. I haven't even realized, before watching this, that a lot of information I was only finding in the Russian and Ukrainian-speaking segments of the Internet, is actually available in English, as well.
Keep up the good work, sir! And thanks.
As someone looking for non-biased reports, I'll take your word for it.
Yes, here on these popular RUclips channels and western media, you'll learn why the enemy is losing and thus why we the good guys will prevail. Of course when that's not reflected in reality, the reasons for why the baddies are losing keep changing. First was bad logistics, then bad morale, then no more ammo/equipment, and now too much equipment, and no infantry. It's basically industrial grade copium for the true believers.
@@agenthex The strawman of your own creation has been successfully destroyed. Congratulations! Now, would you care to comment on things actually said in this podcast?
@@Alex_Shishkin_1962 As mentioned maybe why they have too much equipment (you know, which require mass logistics to transport, esp ammo) when they're running out of everything (incl logistics) from videos past.
Don't worry though, nobody actually thinks anyone watches these in order to rub any brain cells together.
@@agenthex As mentioned, you'd do better by commenting on things actually said in the podcast, instead of battling strawmen of your own creation. But that WOULD require some brain cells to rub together, so no surprise that you find it difficult.
A small side note here: In the United States Marine Corps, drill instructors are drawn from, and return to, combat units. Typically to advance from Sergeant to Staff Sergeant or from Staff Sergeant to Gunnery Sergeant, you must successfully complete an assignment either as a drill instructor or as a recruiter. Drill instructor is much more selective and it's considered a high prestige assignment. However, it is not a permanent assignment.
Thus, drill instructors get sent into combat all the time, though typically by the time that happens, they are staff NCOs who do their damage with a radio and not a rifle.
Other types of training, such as MOS schools, are typically staffed by a mixture of ordinary enlisted, plus a few officers, plus (depending on how technical the training is) a healthy mix of civilians.
To really damage and disrupt the Marine corps training pipeline, you'd need to send not the trainers, but the people who teach the trainers how to train.
While your Statement is accurate there are some caveats. To be a Drill Instructor you do not have to have previously served in a combat arms command nor return to one, have a combat MOS or have combat experience. While there are Drill Instructors that have all 3 the majority don't.
Also one doesn't have to be Either a Drill Instructor or Recruiter to climb up the NCO or Staff NCO ranks after reenlisting. Combat Instructor, MOS Instructor, Posts to either the Marine Security Guard or Security Forces Commands are among other acceptable B Billets for advancing ones Marine Corps career.
Hope this expands upon what was already mentioned.
Interesting, in Germany most NCOs in our training company were there permanently in administrative roles, or were shipped over to us for the last year or so of their contract. We also had some people directly returning from deployment, who worked for 6 to 9 months before returning to their original postings and a few junior NCOs and Officers as part of their training.
All the privates in the company were directly grabbed from the last graduating batch of recruits.
Also his point is, image the situation where they start pulling those drills to man front line units.
From what I recall when I was in the Army, drill sergeants and recruiters had the highest rates of divorce. I remember one of my PLDC instructors talking about his time as a drill sergeant. One particularly tough day at work and he "brought his work home with him". He started ordering his two sons around as if they were basic training recruits. His wife had to totally shut his ass down!
I think the equivalent that Perun was searching for was sending the training commands themselves into combat. Mobilize them, starting with the base Commanding General and move all the way down to the phase 1 recruit. Even if you say screw the recruits and put just the training staff, the problem is that there's going to be a loss of institutional knowledge merely because those training commands will no longer be there to train their replacements for the next waves of recruits.
There's only so much you can pick up from reading training manuals and watching videos. There's no substitute for a Senior Drill Instructor taking in a Kill Hat and showing him the ropes so that one day that Kill Hat becomes a Senior and starts the mentorship cycle all over again.
Respect from Sydney Australia. You are an intelligent and articulated person and I'm honoured to be your countryman. I have a suggestion for you which I hope you don't find inadequate. The people who conduct personal attacks on you have only one goal in their mind. To lower you to their abysmal level so they can have some sort of interaction or confrontation with you. This is as relevant as possible such people can hope to become in life. My friend, please don't respond to such worthless noises. You are flying way way above their domain and you should simply ignore their stupidity and let them stay where they belong. I know it is hard at times but being an emerging figure that you are, I think this is the type of muscle you'd need to grow and develop. I hope what I've said has not offended or inconvenienced you in any way.
Or just wait a day or two and the massive downvotes of such comments will make the algorithm hide them in the lower cesspool never to be seen again.
To repeat - “Don’t punch down, punch up.”
I had the privilege of attending a small, newly-opened HS where the coaching staffs/serious volunteers of all the teams were on the same page about scheduling & scouting - “Play better teams & learn from them.”
We played larger schools w/ good win-loss records & players w/ skills we needed to learn. We had excellent scouting reports & game films. The confidence we gained & our appreciation for that, won games.
In full agreement w/ Mr. Basiri, thank you for your amazing contribution to citizens’ understanding everywhere.
Putin’s & the puppet govts’ abuse of conscription (war slavery) & the way they were used like bomb-sniffing dogs should be prosecuted as war crimes v. by anyone in the chain of command, including civilian leadership, who “suffered or permitted” the abuse.
A good solution would be to ask critics for evidence to support their claims. Only if they can provide some evidence (doesn't have to very much, just some) to support their claims are they worth discussing with. Otherwise, knowing the internet, they might quite likely start going ad hominem.
I must say that this channel's comments section is pretty civilized as far as youtube comments sections go, probably due to the positive selection that occurs from finding people who are willing to actually sit down and watch a long informative video instead of short sensationalized content.
@@r2020E I've tried this, but time and time again engaging just resulted in them escalating their hostility, all the while refusing to even acknowledge the concept of continuity or rationality from one comment to the next. As far as I can tell, the currently dominant strategy of trolls is to undermine the fundamental basis for conducting civil discussion and forming consensus. I'd really love to hear what percentage of these actors are state directed (whether officially or grey-zone).
Unfortunately systematically ignoring bad-faith actors, and excluding them from discourse through active moderation seems the most viable counter at present, but this risks undermining the benefits of open discussion by leading to the return of gatekeeping, as per traditional media, only at a potentially unmanageable scale without the benefit of institutional systems to administrate the process.
@@r2020E I've asked for probably a hundred or two sources by now and the success rate is under 1%. But it does prove that most people 'on the other side' have no clue and no basis for anything.
It’s poetically ironic that those who claim to be “de-nazifying” are making the same mistakes that the nazis made.
Kinda similarly ironic to antifa using fashist scare tactics and marching through cities dressed in black uniforms.
Ironic.
Makes a demented sense. Surveys of Russian propaganda, citizenry and educational materials reveals that Russia's main definition for "NaZi" is simply "Opposes Russia"
And also murdering tens of thousands of ukrainians
@@isaiahkayode6526 Poetic, IMO
Good approach to make videos focusing on Russia and Ukraine separately. The deep dive is the way to go. Excellent work as always!
PS: I watch a lot of this type of coverage and this is the first to discuss DLPR forces in detail. It answers a lot of questions I've had about the strength of Russian forces
@Russian Waifu (T-72 Tank Commander)🇷🇺 interesting man
Joined one day ago.
Shouting "misinformation" towards other comments.
Russian Supporter? Eh.
Name literally Russian Waifu with Russian flag? Yea waifu man
Russian bot? Unlikely.
@Russian Waifu (T-72 Tank Commander)🇷🇺
The way you view the world, it must be a rought place to exist in 🙃
@Russian Waifu (T-72 Tank Commander)🇷🇺 id like to hear. Why support Russia?
Are you paid? Unlikely, rubbls only work in rus and it doesnt have much value in the west
Do you truly believe in Russia?
@Russian Waifu (T-72 Tank Commander)🇷🇺 looks like Russias internet research agent's are doing their work
@Russian Waifu (T-72 Tank Commander)🇷🇺 wont be long, our good friend, Javelin will make you & your tank more useful.
"Conscript Nuclear weapons Operator"; as someone that has ordered a platoon of recruits to turn right and having watched half of them fail, that prospect fills me with immeasurable dread.
Consider the same conscript has also been “doing” the maintenance on the missiles.
The Russian missiles are probably more dangerous to Russia than anyone else.
@@allangibson2408 An inspection would probably find the warhead gone and any fuel or coolant refilled into bottles labeled "XXX".
@@xyxxanx9810 Warrior needs food... badly
@@xyxxanx9810 Not a terrible coolant. Worked for fighter aircraft. Too tasty to leave in a such a machine.
A great example of what YT is good for, when the creator makes the effort and has actual knowledge to share.
Proof it is possible to have a non-toxic comment section on the internet AND get views without OMINOUS WORDS IN ALL CAPS in the title. Good job, friend.
The Russian military could absolutely change its structure and solve most of the issues they’ve had in Ukraine. Establishing high readiness units that are 90%+ staffed with attached logistics units would increase Russia’s apparent lack of ready BTGs. Their recent ops show that they would benefit greatly from this (Syria, Ukraine, Chechnya, etc). They seem to be acting like a rapid deployment force like America or Britain but with none of the structure besides BMPs and bullets.
@@thor9563
BWAHAHAHAAAAA.
Crackpot spotted.
Feb 23, 2022: Russian military was too small, undermanned, under supported.
June 2022: Russian military has lost much of its experienced troops and leaders, as well as supporting equipment, and many units have suffered as much as 90% casualties or more.
If you thought replacing losses and getting adequate manpower was hard in Feb 2022, it's going to be infinitely harder in Jun 2022. You have far more backfilling to do now, and you have less men, experience, and equipment to backfill with than before.
Russia gambled that NATO would do nothing, Ukraine's military would be a pushover, and that the Russian propaganda and nuclear threat would be enough to scare everyone into submission and all they'd have to do was roll into Ukraine in a tank "blitz" and 3 days later they'd have what they wanted. They weren't prepared for a fight or a response like what they got. They were betting they wouldn't need it, and that they'd "shock and awe" their way to victory before the ruse could be found out.
Another issue with training fresh recruits, according to Conflict Intelligence Team founder Ruslan Leviev, now is that all the experienced officers are on the frontlines, and you have freshly graduated lieutenants back home. Given that RU is pulling its active reserves or people who retired long time ago, the average age of new soldiers is much higher now, and these guys do not tend to listen to some runny nosed kid trying to teach them. So now you have batches of untrained soldiers joining the fight, which makes the whole issue even worse
I believe it, but everyone says Russian army is at a critical point eccetera eccetera but it keeps fighting and make small gains.
I mean I know gaining territory can be very transitory and doesn’t mean you’re winning. But from what people says it looks like the Russians should collapse any minute. Can some one explain please (i’m not attacking, I really wanna understand)
@@fluo9576 they are only making gains where they concentrate forces. and then a few days later they lose it again. Russia is holding on for now, by throwing everything they have at Ukraine. but eventually they will run out. I calculated that at current loss rates Russia won't be able to keep this up for even 1yr. 8-10months tops before they start running out of literally everything, stockpiles of weapons, tanks, aircraft, missiles, men, everything. The economic sanctions went into effect rather quick and had a rather immediate effect, but the true long term consequences of that for Russia wont be plainly visible to those who don't know what to look for, for some time yet. I could be wrong of course, but this is not looking good for Russia at all.
@@fluo9576 Ukrainian news outlets say russians have 20:1 in artillery numbers. About the same with tanks and bmps. They said, Ukrainian mlrs grads, smerch etc. Are out of ammo for a month now (ability to destroy supply lines of russians are gone now). 152mm ammo is running low too, while 155 guns and ammo are still rarity. Basically they could've bring more metal and more meat throughout may, than we (or rather west) could and now we suffer consequences. Basically only advantage Ukrainianside has at this point is with light infantry.
Also russian army is different to western armies, meaning they can tolarate 100% loss of manpower, when western armies can barely tolarate 6%
@@micindir4213
Errrrr...
A 100% loss in manpower surely means you don't have a military any more?
Great work. Separatists' forces contribution is rarely discussed in details, it's good that you paid attention to it. As for the question "why Moscow uses them as a cannon fodder" ... we have more and more evidence of a new kind of genocide. Original population of the occupied territories is used as expendable resource. Their losses are not important, since the occupied territories will be populated with migrants from all over the Russian Federation. As it happened already in Crimea.
The ironic horror is that both those regions were populated with russian-speakers in the first place b/c of genocides. The Soviet planed and executed starvation-based genocide called the Holodomor killed 6-7 million Ukrainians (some estimates as high as 8 million) from 1932 to 1933. Huge swaths of the country was depopulated and then Russian-natives moved in. "Population Management" policies like this were pretty damn common in the USSR, the Holodomor was probably the most egregiously horrifying of them tho. Keep in mind the Holocaust has an official death toll of just 6 million, many of them Ukrainians. Russification attempts were a longstanding practice of the Russians overall, Poland and Finland both were other attempted conversions. Crimea was actually forcibly depopulated completely of it's Cossack and Islamic Tartar natives towards the end of Imperial Russia, since the Black sea was so important the Czar flat out colonized the peninsula. The Donbass was emptied out by the Holodomor and "Population Management" polices of the Soviets. Between the decades of genocide from the Soviets and the brief interlude of Nazi occupation, vacant space opened up in Ukraine. The demographics of the eastern Donbass region and Crimea are the way they are BECAUSE of genocide.
Pretty sure Russia will repopulate these areas with Russians once killed almost everyone there by forcing them into a war.
@@Lusa_Iceheart that whole "planned shortage/starvation" thing sounds awfully familiar right about now. I wonder if we're going to read about a Western Holodomor in future history books
Genocide bis when native Americans are almost wipe out from north America.
Truth is not with you nato
@@matthiasthulman4058 Good prices night be going up, sure, but it's _nothing_ compared to a full blown famine.
SO sorry to learn that you are a cancer sufferer. I lost my wife to breast cancer that turned to stage 4 metastatic cancer, and I have some small sense of the things you and your loves are going through. I truly hope that you fight this for as long as possible and, as an ex- intel operator, I appreciate your approach to be as specific as possible about sources, what you know, vs what you suspect.
Keep up the good work and ignore the trolls.
I am so sorry for your loss.
I lost my mother to esophageal cancer in 2012 and my dad is fighting prostate cancer right now. It doesn't look good, he has a lot of metastases in his skeleton. I HATE cancer
Yes, a new Perrun video! Best notification possible.
You’re the first to postulate an improper ratio of men to armor for their struggles and it makes *a lot of sense.* One note though: they’re not fighting NATO. Just Ukraine. So, you would think that they wouldn’t need full mobilization for this war.
The thing is, Ukraine has a population of 44 million (almost 1/3 of Russia), and they are doing full mobilization. So Russia would need to do at least partial mobilization to keep up. And really full mobilization to get the 3 to 1 advantage to fight a conflict where they are mostly attacking.
This is mitigated currently by Ukraine not mobilizing before the war started so they are having trouble training and equipping their new forces, but that's just short-term.
You're missing the point that the problem is the units are designed to fight after a mobilisation so with extra influx of conscripts filling up the basic grunt jobs. No war, no mobilisation, no conscripts and suddenly you're 30% understaffed and that deficit is heavily focused on the infantry part. Prior to the invasion the infantry problem might have been fixed by a completely restructuring of their units and demoting a lot of specialists back to basic grunts. But it seems even in the Army High Command nobody was really planning for a full out invasion so nobody thought this necessary.
Russia never had enough men to fight NATO. Even China does not have enough men to fight NATO. Only nukes, and the West's desire for peace and prosperity, kept them "safe".
At the very least Russia should have adjusted the makeup of their BTG's to reflect the number of infantry they have. It seems to me they would have fared much better in this war had they used fewer IFV's in the opening stages (less fuel needed and adequate infantry support for their armor.)
I will admit this comment is primarily to help with the RUclips algorithm, but I do actually have some relevant experience. During the mid 1980s through the first gulf war, I worked as a contractor for the SDC (strategic defense command) supporting things like the AMC (army materials command, yes the SDC is an army bunch) and Patriot project office. To me it is obvious what you do in real life, and I really want to congratulate you on the perspectives you have shared on logistics, force structures and the problems both sides face. The video on Poland was most welcome, and I congratulate you on the excellent research and presentation. I am rather biased, my wife of 24 years is Ukrainian, her family is from Kherson and I am very much concerned and personally worried about the conflict. Seriously, keep up the excellent work and analysis, you have filled out the details of why things that are obvious to myself exist and occurred. Ukraine has the ability to win this war, provided the west supplies the weapons and supplies, and Russia doesn't go to full mobilization. The motivation of even native Russian speakers in Ukraine is real, and provided they are properly supported should not be discounted as a factor. The Ukrainian population decided rather decisively in 2014 that they did not desire to be a puppet state of the Russian Federation. We should support them in their hour of need.
@@JB-pu8ik Doubtful, I worked at Redstone/Marshall.
@@JB-pu8ik I left Redstone in 94, to go work for Motorola. Hard to turn down a 50% pay raise and relocation expenses. Prior to Redstone I worked in Huntsville for SCI on the IBM PC starting in 81. Lots of people from the Apollo project were still around then. Huntsville was a great place to learn things and work on cutting edge stuff. I even had an experiment I participated in go up with Challenger.
I want to thank you for the work you do. One of the very few content makers on RUclips that i am actually waiting for. Thank you.
Separatist regions were only 1/3 territories upheld by the Russian troops, almost all leading positions there are done by Russians, not locals. Mariupol, for example, is city in Donetsk Region/Donbass, but it was under Ukraine all those 8 years, and it was fast developing city, with one of highest level of life in Ukraine. It was mainly Russian-speaking, but it wanted to stay in Ukraine, as they were living there very well - unlike Donetsk that was very developed city and fast developing as well, but after Russian troops sieged it in 2014, it became ghost city. I was living in that city during that time, and it became sort of "3rd wolrd country" living place, with almost no police or anything, and different "Motorolla"-guys going around and shooting each other (and all of them are Russians too). And that "referendum" was on just that 1/3 of territory and they voted for everyone, so even for Mariupol and other cities like that - even thought they had no control over it and they weren't having any voting on those territories. Plus around 50% of population left territories under Russian control in 2014-2017 (me included), so they had around 1/4-1/5 of region population there. So all their "legitimacy claims" are just ridiculous.
Also, reason why Yanukovich was thrown away is not him being pro-russian, but him trying to become dictator, him cancelling freedom of speech and banning protests, cancelling next elections to "rule always", changing 180 degrees his political course, so he had opposite course of what he was elected for. And president - is just a manager of people's will, so when he does opposite of what they want, it is a problem. So obviously only way was to throw away such government, because otherwise people would end up in slavery under dictator.
Can we get some substantiation/ links/ sources on Yanukovich trying to become like a dictator?
First time I’ve heard of this, I’ve though he was always semi-dictatorial & that his (sudden?) pro-Russian stance was the main “nail in the coffin” of his regime, more-so than his dictatorial tendencies… 🤷♂️
Also, thank you for writing this out. ❤️ Every person that wrote their journey fleeing out of Donbass in 2014-timeframe teaches me an impotant detail about how batshit crazy Russian claims over DNR/ LNR land actually are.
With Love, from Slovenia ❤️
@@elektrotehnik94 the change of position on 180 degrees make big protests. Then to cancel protests they made illegal/unconstitutional "voting", where they banned protests and allowed police force to shoot protestors by those new laws, also those laws decreased freedom of speech. When those were not working and protests only became even bigger - he ordered to cancel elections - but no one was there to sign up those laws anymore, as most of his parliament already run away from country to Russia. However, this make protests to become even bigger and more fierce, with millions of people in whole country going against him.
So yeah, technically it was his final nail to coffin because it caused all the rest of the events to happen, but this was not the only reason. If he just ignored protestors and did nothing, then protests would end in some time, he would get some opposition in parliament and then everything would end up on political battle (especially considering he had only around 9 months left to rule before next elections, so he would just lose them and new president would do what people actually want), but he decided to seize power to himself instead.
I bet it was because same year in Russia were big protests, and Russia sent few police to beat up protestors - and whole Russia became afraid of it and stopped protests. So maybe Putin adviced same tactics. But for Ukrainians it will not work, we are too much freedom-loving for dictatorship to came up like this.
@@elektrotehnik94 that was a "last mile" of becoming a "full dictator" through the Maidan times. That was a thing that escalated everything. You could watch Netflix's "Winter on fire". That is pretty precise documentary.
Also, the whole Ukrainian politics is an extremely long talk. With a tons of stuff going on "in the backyard". In order to understand Ukrainian politics one should go through the whole Ukrainian history since at least 19th century. Ukraine has extremely long history of fighting for the independence and all those ideas have their ground. As well as Russian influence. So, in order to understand Yanukovitch phenomenon, you should dive deep into political processes at least since 1991. Because there was not a single year since then without Kremlin trying to "bring Ukraine back to Russia". Doing that through funding of pro-russian political powers etc.
The thing about Yanukovitch is that he was essentially implementing Russian way of state system. With deep corruption, police state, dismantling Ukrainian Army etc. That was a slow process and it got a little of attention till the core moment of making last step into dictatorship. And that was a moment when the Revolution took place. Russia could not accept that outcome. And here comes most modern history of an ongoing war that initially began in 2014.
P.s. that was en extremely poor description of what was happening here. It is impossible to go through all of it in RUclips comments. You could read "The road to unfreedom" by Timothy Snyder in order to get "the whole world" picture and what role Ukraine has to play there.
Also you could Google "chytomo ukrainian books about the war". There is a page with a list of books to read about ongoing events. (Do not want to add a link here. RUclips might delete a comment because of that)
I lived in Donetsk 2004-2005 and went back every year since, up to late 2013. The last time I was there seemed like Donetsk's pinnacle of development. It was after Euro 2012, beautiful newly built European Standard Stadium, the airport was finally renovated, the streets were all well kept, flowers everywhere in the center (Donetsk was known as the City of Roses). Great restaurants, cafes, bars. It was my favorite city after Kyiv and Chernivtsi. I can't even look at it today. Depressing as hell.. Now run by former Taxi Drivers, Bazaar thugs and Gopnicki....
The Germans noted problems with standard infantry fighting with tanks as opposed to properly trained armoured infantry troops.
The standard infantry would tend to sit back and "let the tanks handle the problem", while the armoured infantry knew how vulnerable the tanks could be.
Apparently one simple but key part of training armoured infantry was having them sit in the tank so they would get an idea for just how poor the visibility from a tank could be.
Modern panzergrenadiers use IFVs for that, but same difference, visibility-wise. And yes, that was why the panzergrenadiers were created in the first place.
Yes this has always been a problem with armoured/Mechanised forces in general. It takes a good deal of training to have an effective Mechanised Infantry unit vs an effective Light Infantry unit, especially when you have taken casualties.
Gotta love that I was binge watching this and started looking for a new video 3 minutes after this went live.
Don’t be greedy
The similarity to US experience in Vietnam is an eerie mirror to this: No mobilizing National Guard/Reserve, use of 1-year conscripts, many conscripts come either from volunteers, or those who were too poor/uneducated/not connected enough to duck it.
A much older example: The Dutch continuation of the 'remplacement' system where you could pay someone to fulfill your conscription for you meant that the Dutch army had a low social status and low quality officer corps all the way into WW1 because everybody who could afford it stayed out of the army, therefore the army got a imagine that 'the good citizen' didn't go there.
Over time this began interacting reciprocally and officers were not considered to be a part of the elite, which they were in other countries. Meaning members of the elite saw becoming a professional officer as a social degredation for them. So their image became worse. And more people saw that career choice as a degradation, and so on.
It was a major source of concern at the time because it seemed quite likely that either Britain or Germany might attack eventually and the lack of a martial culture could lead to easy collapse and surrender while nobody had any illusions about the quality of Dutch leadership compared to say, the German officer class.
@@nvelsen1975 I've heard this is also problem with the Chinese and Japanese, though I don't know how true it is currently.
@@MM22966
It could be. In Guanghzou I got talking to a bunch of sailors from the base just up the road from Whampao Military Academy (a historical site) after drawing curiosity asking at the gate if the rest of the area was open (it wasn't) and then heading down the road for lunch in what turned out to be a navy lunchroom. I'd already stood out because they rarely see gweilos down there, nevermind ones so tall, nevermind ones who then speak Mandarin and a word or two of Cantonese.
Nevermind ones clued up enough to approach a somewhat-nervous sentry and ask if it's alright to photograph in that and that direction, since sure it's historical, but we do see a navy tender in the background. 😆
What stood out to me is that all of them were from the countryside. All over China, but none of them were from a major city of a million or over.
In China there's quite the city-rural divide and the rurals are looked down on, not always without justification as the rural is 2-4 decades behind urban China.
For those guys it was their whole life, ussually the only opportunity, they lived basically divorced away from their families and a bit of tentative poking on (geo)politics got me way more 'they taught me this' style answers while the default Chinese answer is undecided 'I don't know' or 'I don't think about such things'.
That could go either way. They could be staffing low-quality people, OR they could be recruiting rural people who are brainy but have no way to get educated due to where they are, for who being a career officer becomes a do-or-die affair.
"where is the night vision equipment"
Fell off the back of a truck
someone's cousin may have seen it on ebay
Just like most bullies they puffed up their chest and tried to appear big and tough, but when someone actually fights back the truth of their weaknesses becomes evident.
Some bullies are psychopaths. They enjoy the challenge.
Now there is men but no metal.
If someone had a gun to my head and told me to pick which one is Perun and which one is Economics Explained from a voice sample I’d get shot
Thank you for the video! I find your topics to be well presented, reasoned and above all researched, more than pretty much anything else i have found. Keep up the good work, and don't let comments like that one at the end get you down!
You know that when haters send you mail that its just a validation that your content is bang on.. Keep going Perun, Oz isn't Switzerland, you don't have to be Neutral - Just accurate.. Love the content..
Russian Spetznaz: average 4yrs experience among it's SF soldiers, inexperience, defeated in Ukraine.
Chechens: fearsome reputation, but defeated handily in Ukraine and the Russian conscripts keep confirming they've fled the battlefield.
Russian Paratroopers: defeated handily day one in Ukraine.
Average Russian soldier: 2yrs of service with little training.
Average Russian Conscript: no experience, almost no training.
Average Russian bomber, attack, and fighter pilot: lacks adequate pilot training, still controlled by centralized command structures rather than allowed independent action on mission.
"Elite" Russian armored and infantry units: all being eviscerated in Ukraine.
Wagner group suffered a crushing defeat recently in Ukraine.
All Russian units still using cold war era equipment (Su-25, Su-24, Su-27 and derivatives, Mi-8, Mi-24, BMP, T-62, T-64, T-72 and derivatives, artillery, ships, submarines, etc.), and most of that are in various states of disrepair.
It's hilarious.
I never understood why Chechens are so feared in non-RU media. Majority of Kadyrovites are actually members of Rosgvardia, or National Guard, or alternatively ministry of internal affairs, which is under the Rosgvardia anyway. These guys aren't trained for military operations. Only thing they can do is beat up protesters and search for drugs.
should i tell you that "modern" isnt shirtage of "modernised", and us and other forces have about half of equipment being cold war production, whenever also modernised as and russian and Ukrainians equipment, so keep your vainglory a bit lower, dont show it so brightly
@@БодяДробовик Butthurt Putin lackey spotted!
@@БодяДробовик yes, other nations use older equipment too. But the Western equipment of the 1980s and 1990s was already superior to the Soviet Union equivalent. Since 1991, the West has continued to modernize significantly. Continued to learn and adapt. Russia has produced next to nothing new since 1991, and what they have produced isn't in large enough numbers to matter.
The F-16 has since been given IR tracking and targeting, targeting pods, long range radar, newer weapons and missiles, subtle stealth improvements like new materials and paint (every little bit helps), updated helmets and cockpits, newer engines, and more. And that's just one example. We can discuss Burke destroyers, Carriers, M1 tanks, rifles, optics, body armor, ground vehicles for logistics, lasers, drones, stealth aircraft (B-2, B-21, F-35, F-22, NGAD, stealth drones, unmanned drones on carriers, loyal wingman, etc.), artillery (M777, Excalibur ammo, rocket launched small diameter bombs, Brimstone and Hellfire missiles, etc.), and much much more.
As an owner of a Mosin-Nagant (aka garbage rod), I can confirm that it is an inaccurate piece of junk. Super fun to shoot though and surplus ammo is cheap and plentiful.
It's also hard to understand why the DPR/LPR forces aren't given at least SKSs. You can buy one of those in the surplus market for $100 (at least you could ~5 years ago).
In the OSINT community, Donetsk and Lugansk are commonly known as Donbabwe and Luganda. This pretty much sums up the military, economic and political power of those 'republics'.
They've served a useful purpose though. Inter alia:
-Kept Ukraine some distance from ever being in NATO by virtue of it being a constant war
-Been (im)plausibly deniable as proxies for the land grab of territory
-Been useful in creating tensions within Ukraine, with possible leverage over Ukraine if they were ever re-integrated under some peace deal
-Forced Ukraine to divert resources to deal with the military threat posed by them, where Russia has also been free to supply weapons and troops without Ukraine being able to fight back against the Russians directly (or risk a serious escalation it wanted to avoid)
-Given Russia a Casus belli of the (oft-repeated-by-Putinbots) 'look at those war crimes carried out by Ukraine in Donbass/Genocide against Russian speakers/It's only right Russia invades and kills massive numbers of Russian speaking civilians in order to liberate them
-Served as platforms for the latest invasion.
-And so on...
@@JohnSmith-gd2fg On the other hand, it was a great training ground for Ukrainian soldiers after 2014. No amount of exercise can substitute proper conditioning in real warlike environment. Thousands of Ukrainian troops got accustomed to fighting there, and it now pays off.
Still one of the best channels for info and analysis of this terrible situation.
Also, this mass conscription may have especially significant effects on morale on troops conscripted by the DPR/LPR government, and I am surprised that I have not heard of notable surrenders by those forces. If conscripts are eating a counter-offensive and folding, have there been notable surrenders of units because nobody wants to be there?
Hard to surrender, especially when you might get shot by your own officers (Russian-side troops reported it themselves)
RU officers might be running these troops, as the recent example of General Kutuzov shows. RU officers are infamous for lying, gaslighting, threatening and basically saying and doing anything to keep troops in line, so maybe these guys do not surrender whole cloth, but rather one by one.
There have been notable surrenders among the DPR/LPR units recently. You can see some of them on Volodymyr Zolkin’s RUclips channel. On top of that they have been mutinying en masse over the last few weeks. They have been making videos in which they all refuse to fight (safety in numbers I guess). Again, the videos are on RUclips.
It’s worth pointing out that the surrendering DPR & LPR men are completely untrained - by their own words to Volodymyr Zolkin - and some are disabled. Many are students rounded up. There are intercepted phone calls from wives to the Russian military in the separatist areas reporting their husbands have been kidnapped by DPR/LPR government men.
@@tileux "Mutinying on mass" despite all the progress the Russians are making over the past several weeks. Yeah okay.
You have to take into account the nature of modern warfare.
Battles are fought over longer distances and with smaller units. That means there are not many situations where you actually can surrender, unless you get surrounded like in Mariupol.
Truly the best Ukraine war analysis available. Your videos should make CNN, Sky, BBC, NRK, SVT, TF1 jealous being unable to provide even a glimpse of what you produce.
they don't broadcast facts, so why would they have this man's fair and balanced analysis?
I’d love to see a video focused on what kind of equipment we are seeing with the infantry and the differences stuff like optics and night vision are making on the battle field! Great content perun, I have an intel background and love your focus on sources, and reducing bias
I fully concur with your comprehensive and insightful analysis. A might add, three factors further exacerbate Putin's shortfall in available infantry. 1. demographics. For decades, ethnic Russians have been having reduced numbers of children, the result of socioeconomic factors and alcohol induced infertility. This has resulted is a diminished pool of recruits for military service. 2. Public acknowledgement of high casualties. Combat-age Russians have become highly averse to making themselves available for recruitment. The same holds true for the willingness of ethnic Russian troops to engage with the enemy. 3. Collapse of support from the Russian Federation's Collective Security Treaty Organization. CSTO's non-Russian leaders are no longer willing to allow their young men to be contracted to support Putin's debacle in Ukraine. The same holds true for a growing number of government officials in the RF's largely non-Russian hinterland. And finally, I believe that the Russians have not adequately equipped the DPR and LPR for combat out of fear that they may turn on their Russian masters. As an aside, my grandfather who fought in the Russian Imperial Army at Port Arthur was issued a Mosin-Nagant rifle. That defeat by the Japanese fueled the Russian Revolution of 1905.
It is disgusting that some people send other people to their death, especially over something like this. It breaks my heart man. Espeically because they being used by Russia twice. First as bait, and second denial. It is disgusting.
I always anxiously await your presentations, I soak up knowledge on this ongoing conflict like a nervous sponge, in case some sign of an end-point may appear on the horizon. But I won’t settle for propaganda, I only want honest views from multiple sources, and yours is one of the most reliable out there. Fantastic work, mate. Though I would also like it if you’d give more shout-outs to other personalities and channels that cover the subject, it’ll really help band us all together against the misinformation from many dime-a-dozen military channels/sites or propaganda outlets.
An entire army of drill sergeants sounds *terrifying*
Only to the handful of new recruits ...
"Sergeant never-skips-gym-day here..." Dude that was hilarious. I was thinking exactly that, but not as funny.
FWIW - I'm watching this video on a tip from another commenter on a different video. I wasn't keen on spending an hour on one topic... but if you are as informative as you are amusing... it will be an hour well spent. Thanks for starting off strong.
i found myself looking forward to these as sunday evening entertainment allmost. better than netflix or whatever :D
Keep the info coming! Excellent channel! Good man!
The sound quality on this one is a million times better than your earlier content. My ears greatly thank you... keep up the good work!
Perun you’ve been leveling up your script and slides. Nice work
Running excitedly to get to the latest lecture early …
Great video. I learn something new and insightful every time I watch your stuff
Russia winning an attrition war while fighting an army 4-5 times larger is some serious professionalism.
Not really. Professionalism would be utilising your massive materiel advantages to avoid being forced into an attritional war in the first place - an attritional war is never the first choice of any military.
@@vonskyme9133 Why would Russia mobilize and finish a quick war instead of bleeding out the entirety of the west arsenal in the hands of the incompetent Ukrainians? Along with also imposing massive economic disaster in the EU and US?
@@devrusso because, even according to their own official numbers, they're facing a much greater economic impact, while the West has provided something like 5% of their arsenal. More in some areas like handheld rockets, less in others (well under 5% of tanks or artillery, no aircraft etc).
@@vonskyme9133 Are you under delusions that the sanctions will be lifted when the conflict is over?
Under official numbers, Russia's inflation is at 14% right now. Inflation in the EU ranges from 6% to as high as 23% - of course it's only supposed to get worse once the winter months come and Russia can leverage the gas negotiations to a greater extent.
Inflation in the US is put around 8% since they have a huge oil strategic reserve which is feeding the markets right now.
The Russian ruble today is as strong as it was before 2014 Crimea's annexation. The Dow Jones and NASDAQ in the US are down about 40% compared to last year.
Ukraine has asked the USA for about 80% of ALL its mobile rocket systems. Light AT guns in the west are supposed to run completely dry by the end of the year (at the current pace)
All while Russia avoids a full (even partial) mobilization that would most likely bring some unrest domestically.
Russia is winning so massively, meanwhile using such minimum resources it's LITERALLY hard to believe. It's a game of chairs, some countries are gonna be left out of the renewed international paradigm, and Russia has already secured its place as a superpower in the years to come.
@@vonskyme9133 Sorry for the huge comment. As they say, if I had more time, I'd have made it shorter.
the conscripts are driving the tanks, driving the air defense vehicles, helping the mechanics... and if you take them away just as you enter Ukraine, the experienced troops manning the gun, commanding the tank, operating the air defense equipment, can't do their jobs without conscripts to drive them and such.
I thought the contracted soldiers did most of the driving and gunning in heavy vehicles. The conscripts mostly do all the boota on the ground roles. Which is important since heavy equipment is mostly support for infantry; Infantry which Russia doesent have without mobilization.
I'd like to know if the Russians have the production capacity to continue expending artillery ammunition at the rate they are currently using it in Donbas, and if not how long will stocks allow them to continue their current reliance on artillery.
@Russian Waifu (T-72 Tank Commander)🇷🇺 listen to 8:16
Their stockpile alone will Last them a long time, russia for the Last 70 years aimed to be the king of artillery, because it was artillery that saved them in ww2 for the most Part. And to be clear, though i dont think they ran out of it jet as many claimed for the past few months, i do make a distinction in guided and dumb ammunition.
@@geniusderweise400 they can always procure more weapons but not much people to fight
The USSR drained an entire inland sea to make artillery propellant. They have plenty of dumb munitions left, even if 90% of their stores are fucked.
@Russian Waifu (T-72 Tank Commander)🇷🇺 "Russia will eventually come out victorious..."
Yes. But sanctions will still apply... and don't forget, trade sanctions won't kick till about ten months from now. Enjoy the misery.
Looking at it from the inside since I didn't run from Kyiv, your analysis seems to be on point. Can't say I didn't wince when you used the separatist sources, but that's necessary for being objective. I can get behind that. Kudos, stellar video.
So wait if they put their guys who are their professionals into their vehicles then that means that a lot of their early losses would be people who know how to use those
Oh dear
You’ve done it again. Your rationality, evidence, and communication skills are world class.
I was totally caught off guard by the comment at the end. Great video!
As always, thanks for the insightful analysis! 👍 ...can't wait for the analysis on the Ukranian side. Keep up the great work! Now, let's see if you have some Stellaris videos. If you do, you'd be my favorite channel on YT.
The amount of work you put into these and your sharp intelligence in the way you organise and deliver the material is extraordinary. Thank you.
The Russian with the two machine guns has no trigger discipline.
slowly a picture forms in my head... if you have no infantry to take a city and a huge artillery to destroy a city while the whole world is laughing at your weakness, what do you do with the artillery and the city...?
Commit war crimes that destroy any foreign and occupied support for your war effort of course!
Source: am a Hoi player
Love your vids. I use them as example on how to do a good powerpoint presentation wih My students.
From what I've heard, recent historians say Soviet troops rode tanks into battle, not because of any tactical reasons, they make excellent targets for ground attack aircraft etc, but because they lacked the trucks or halftracks to properly transport the infantry in sufficient numbers.
They built 265,600 trucks on their own and got another 380,000 trucks from the Americans. They had plenty of trucks during ww2. The Germans were the ones with horses, because they lacked fuel for trucks and everything else.
@@scratchy996 I'm aware, Soviet trucks weren't very reliable, they didn't have all those American trucks in 42 43, and I didn't say it was because of lack of gasoline. The Soviets still had plenty of non motorized units until the end of the war. As in no organic unit transportation like the Americans. Americans rode tanks too, on occasion but not quite like the Soviets.
They would also ride on the vehicles because dismounting was easier. A T34 is, to understate, EXTREMELY FUCKING CRAMPED. Even with trucks gasoline is a premium in war, and tanks always had the first allotment during the Second World War for gas.
A further note. Soviet era APCs and IFVs are extremely tight in the back. It’s the space premium. If you’re hauling ten men with full kit, there’s not breathing room let alone leg room. Say a rocket strikes the lead vehicle; doctrine calls for a dismount.
Ten men trying to pour out of a single exit point as the machine guns train in. If the guy in front falls you’re all stumbling over him. It’s easier to sit on the roof, and although some of you will get capped, hopefully you can get off the vehicle and into the dirt faster than a fatal funnel from the rear hatch.
@@davidfryman2173 I would bet trucks used far more gas than tanks. Tanks moved mainly by rail, and got all their supplies by truck. The Soviets didn't have APC's during the Second World War. In the US, our troops regularly road on top of M-113's not to dismount quickly, but because the armor didn't stop heavy MG rounds, and the danger of mines. One rpg hit, and everyone inside is dead. I imagine that's exactly why Soviets do the same.
Loving your stuff my friend. Brilliantly clear and well presented.
thanks as always. This is a new perspective I haven't seen anywhere and it's very thought-provoking
All hail the Ground Pounders! Unsung, underpaid, unlovely, unshaven, unappreciated, smelly, dirty and indispensible eyes, hands, boots on, in, under and over the ground/mud/snow/pucker brush/rubble. Heroiam Slava!
I also saw that when there are infantry they scattered without shooting back when ambushed.
I love how you shed light to niches topics.. its the little cogs that helps the whole machines rolling and its very eye opening
Good work
Oh boy, I haven't had to hide from the "draft" for many decades. I may go for a visit and see if I remember how to do it.
Person is awesome !! ... we need a 1000 more analysts just like him !! ... someone who is actually intelligent !! WITH ! commen sense
Recently stumbled on this channel... excellent breakdown and analysis. Keep it up, man. 👍
About MH-17, some of the weapons/ammo we (Netherlands) sent have "revenge for MH-17" written in Dutch on them.
I loathe violence and all but can't help but feel okay about what some people wrote on the weapons before they were sent off to help UA.
I wonder how many of the weapons sent from Australia have the same?
Thank you for your analysis on the Russian army and it's auxiliaries in the Ukraine. Really appreciate your work.
Very informative and coherent. Thanks for another excellent analysis
I barely even look at other Ukraine coverage at this point. This is the only sensical and informative source on the Ukraine war that I've found.
Bravo! Thanks for doing the work to explain what is going on in detail. I'm not involved in the military conflict but am directly involved in the humanitarian relief effort on the ground, Thus it is really important to understand the conflict and predictions of how it will develop, and hopefully be resolved. Keep up the good work. We can't get this kind of detailed info from the mainstream media.
sounds like a troll the farms are alive n kicking . and please dont pick on his lack of full stops i dont use them mostly either😂 ...great piece well done
JUJITSU: The art of utilizing the momentum or the predisposition, of the foe to one's advantage.
Just thinking outside the 'war strategy box' here. To preserve BOTH Russian and Ukrainian life, I would suggest:
Ukraine could weaponize Russia's most successful product: VODKA. Russian troops feel abandoned, traumatized, lied to, home sick in a hostile land where neither side has a quarrel. There is One thing they would die for: Russian vodka. Ukraine should use their superior logistical abilities to distribute a train load of Russian vodka to all occupiers as a measure of 'hospitality'.
A smiling Babushka pulling a wagon full of Russia's Finest, could disable a battalion of poorly led, poorly equipped poorly fed Orks in a single Friday night. Could herd them into a drunk tank and take their equipment intact.
In war: A SNOCKERED FOE...is a friend!
So...Let's do a little arithmetic. The 'think tank experts' are approving spending 20-40 Billion of our dollars on war machines and munitions to bludgeon a bunch of demoralized slobs who don't want to be there.
150 thousand Orks X $8 a bottle of Russia's finest: $1.2 million. Hire a battalion of Babushkas to deliver vodka to the occupiers @ $100 X 400: $40,000. Wagons and rail transport: $10,000. Total cost: $1.25 million.
150 thousand drunk Russians and their war machinery: PRICELESS! Slavo Ukraine!
Great video, thank you. Could you at some stage also do a section on the conflict in Transnistria? It may become relevant in this war.
Brilliant.
Its interesting that the more capable/contract infantry forces the Russians deployed in the initial invasions, the VDV and naval infantry, themselves may have been far too vehicle heavy and infantry light. Battle Order's summary of the force structure of the VDV seem to me to illustrate a force which was far too vehicle heavy, relying on BMDs with comparatively few dismounts, compared to other airborne forces with far too little "bayonet" strength, even for what was the early bulk of skilled infantry. Given the casualties these forces have suffered though, as Perun has said, that's more of an early invasion aspect than a current one.
Suddenly everyone's gone from being a virology expert to a surface warfare expert. Remarkable.
Man, I’ve gotten really invested in Private Conscriptovic’s story.
I hope he’s doing well.
It didn’t occur to me that the video about the Poland situation would be less popular. I was excited by the idea of learning about connected things that would matter later. I’m really glad to hear that you are going to do more like that.
The Poland video might have a longer useful lifespan.
I watched the video on Poland twice, and the corruption video twice, and I almost never watch RUclips videos twice.
@@michaelsandy2869 I watch all Perun videos at least twice - some more often! There's so much detail and thought provoking stuff in them that it's impossible to take it all in in one viewing. I sometimes even find I rewatch an old one and get more out of it because I've watched a newer one since! These aren't 'normal' YT videos at all - he's effectively building a library of Ukraine related information and analysis - these videos will be used as a resource for years (decades) to come.
I found the Poland one very interesting, it gave me a whole new perspective on central European history, not just the Ukraine invasion. But I can see why some of Perun's new audience would not have watched it, as they would have been frustrated that it didn't deal directly with the day to day situation in Ukraine. Many of us have a wider interest in the situation and region, but I suspect a lot of viewers just want Perun to tell them that Russia is losing, and why!
@@paulhaynes8045 One particular fact he brought up, about the different rail gauges, I had encountered before but forgotten about. And so his video got me thinking about how one of the major obstacles for Ukraine-EU trade is being massively addressed right now, because of the war. And that SO undercut's Putin's war aims and long term goals.
I was USMC Infantry and a favorite thing my company commander said once was, "No matter how great the tech gets or how shiny the equipment is. If you have a well entrenched and motivated infantry force dug into a good position then all of that might as well not exist. Eventually another equally motivated and equally disciplined infantry force will have to go in and dig them out, with bullet and bayonet."
I never served, but I know from too many hours in Wargame: Red Dragon that infantry dug in on the fringes of an urban area is a fucking nightmare for anyone and anything that gets near them, and a nightmare to dig out. You have to beat the fuck out of them with every fire support asset you have, divert around that area, or both.
It's axiomatic that infantry are like lice: small, easily hidden, individually squishy, but incredibly difficult to dig out without a lot of effort.
To put this into perspective Perun. My father was a British Soldier for 36 years, spent the first 6 years in the Infantry before Transferring to the Intelligence Corps. Started a Private left a Major, so did alright by himself.
He once told me that every specialism in the Army is there for one purpose, and one purpose only, to ensure the Infantry can do its job. Whether directly or indirectly the entire Army Machine is there to ensure those boots can gain and hold ground. Even more, much of the air force is also there for precisely the same reason. To make sure the grunts on the ground can do their job. Without the Infantry 80% or more of your military is essentially worthless.
Tanks cannot hold ground, not unsupported by infantry. Artillery can pound an enemy but cannot take or hold ground. Air power can again pound an enemy, but cannot take and hold ground. And so it goes on.
Infantry in dads opinion was the most underappreciated part of the armed services, and absolutely the most vital for most Nations on Earth.
In the US, it’s made clear that you’re nobody if not an infantryman. But I’d argue infantrymen know better, and appreciate the limits of their own ability to hold ground (without the supporting cast).
The whole point is kind of moot. It’s an interdependent organization. The magic is made when there’s shared understanding. And Ukraine’s effort (be it uniformed or not) has it on full display.
@@snail415 Oh absolutely, I was not trying to make the case that the various supporting arms are less important than the infantry, just that without the infantry they are of limited use in a war that revolves around taking and holding ground. You absolutely need those supporting arms in modern warfare, but you also need the grunts, because without those grunts no matter how well those supporting arms do, you are not taking and holding that ground.
This was an eye opening take considering I have zero military experience.
Thank you.
Your dad was no doubt correct. Under appreciation might be the most apposite term. When WW2 dawned, but before conscription was introduced, my teenage father used his own initiative and joined the RAF, in full knowledge that once conscription arrived it would be more than likely that he would be compelled to join the "footsloggers" as they were known, and who had suffered very high mortality rates in WW1. He won himself as position as a trainer in the RAF so managed to avoid the perils of combat in that theatre of war also. Needless to say he survived. Perhaps you could say it was the "survival of the smartest."
I was a reservist in an Army Engineering unit for a few years when I was younger and thinking back everything we did was for the infantry, or for those supporting the infantry. When we built field defences it was for the infantry, if we built a bridge it was for the infantry or those supporting the infantry. Who needs 20000L of drinking water? Infantry work is thirsty work so again infantry. If we were destroying a bridge it was so the enemy infantry couldn't use it. Clearing lanes through minefields was so the infantry could get through without getting their legs blown off. We always gave shit to the grunts but honestly our entire purpose was to help them do their job. Cheers to the dumb as shit but hard as fuck infantry.
Lovely, another 1h PowerPoint presentation. And that's with no sarcasm, I'm always looking forward to the next one. You're the only one that has ever made me love presentations.
You always have very informative videos and I'm glad you decided to give this a shot, I also hope you'll continue the coverage after the war ends. You have so much to give and I'm really looking forward to your takes
Agreed. Grateful af
@Russian Waifu (T-72 Tank Commander)🇷🇺 Take your 3 rubles and scurry off now
@@Vinzmannn more like 3 USD worth 30 000 Rubels
@Russian Waifu (T-72 Tank Commander)🇷🇺 you still have 50 comments to go to meet your hourly quota comrade. Disappointing performance.
@Commander Russian Waifu Maybe it can someday (when they recovered from losing this war) be as strong as the Ukrainian Economy?
Not a soldier but am really finding your talks very informative. Very clearly laid out, clear language and really spot on with what the uninitiated need to know. Just excellent.
I'm a combat vet who also studies military history, logistics, and more, and I love these presentations. He does a great job covering the nuances and aspects others miss or don't understand.
@@SoloRenegade More or less the same thing I was going to post, 👍
Aged like fine wine lol. Now they mobilized the conscripts after sending in the instructors.
Exactly what I'm thinking 😅
Untrained conscripts.. there are reports of conscripts getting of less than a week of training before sent off to Ukraine.
Just saying, everything about the way you are producing this content is absolutly perfect. Don't change your formula, and keep up the good work, it's greatly appreciated.
Agree
100% Don't mess with perfection. It's like a good curry- Don't change the recipe. Ever!
Greetings from the UK 👍🏻🇬🇧
What a letter! I really look forward to these deep dives! Great balanced and honest reporting. What is up with the Ruzzian trolls? They can't even swear at us grammatically.
5:30. Just as a note: The missile did not explode. The distance was too short. Very little damage to the tank.
+1 hell yes. This American thinks the view from down under is damned informative.
I served in a Marine infantry unit for 4 years, and logistics was a very important part. "Beans, bandaids, and bullets doc! Thats what keeps the Corps going". My S-3 or S-4 Gunny would always say. You cant win any battles if your men don't have the basics. And nothing destroyed morale quicker than knowing the convoy got blown up and we weren't going to get any mail for the week.
Three key military deadlines - breakfast, lunch, dinner. All day, everyday, in peacetime or at war, that’s the goal.
If you have no communications at the frontlines, you won't know that your mail ain't coming, this is the Russian's 1000 IQ move
@@marsillinkow Hahahaha, that makes sense.......I legit LOL'd at your comment
@@christinalaw3375 I think he's Australian.
@@Truthinshredding1 Correct, he is Australian
In Finland we have an annual portion of the conscripts trained in all the advanced AA systems. It is a way to produce trained reserves. The Russians don't apparently have working methods to distinguish friendly and unfriendly targets. In their war in Georgia in 2008 they actually shot down more of their own planes than the Georgian AA managed to down.
Yes, that's right. On the other hand, Finnish system is quite bit different from Russian. Actually, Finnish system is quite bit different from basically any army that uses conscription.
We train our conscripts almost to same level as others train their professionals. Most motivated ones are even kept current with regular refresher trainings and most of other can be easily refreshed to their tasks in case conflict happens.
@@pikkuraami No one wants to serve in Russia but every Finn wants to fight for Finland.
Finland army? Haha
US also has all reservist trained in all the same jobs as active duty. But that costs a ton of $$.. RU doesn't have this.
@@f4stpoke133 haha to to you.
It is sad to me that one can only find such analysis and journalism from dedicated people like you, and not from most media outlets. Context is everything for information, and you provide both in great quantity and quality.
You nailed it here GoCoyote. The high quality of Perun’s content is a damming indictment of mainstream media’s willful negligence.
This is future of media eventually. I think these kind of channels will be much more popular in future. Of course there will be people who are happy eating media fast foods, but still.
News stories about anything are only going to be 3-5 minutes at most, and there's no way you can fit this much information seen in this video into snippets like that.
This isn't to say that there are opportunities for better coverage of the conflict, but you guys are complaining about something that isn't comparable.
@@stockscareful6368 It's both exhilirating and dangerous.
TBH MSM is still very much going to be bedrock. Anyone who wants to do the same stuff as Perun will have to touch base with mainstream media, if only to report what is being reported, or who is saying what.
@@snapicvs bit dramatic don't you think? "Mainstream media" can mean a lot of different things to different people, some is fairly informative (but brief), some is blatant fear mongering and misinformation. Anyway... it's not surprising that the regular TV news doesn't put a 1 hour lecture on about military tactics and logistics. There are some shows and books around for people that are interested in that stuff. People like you or I might be interested in it, but we can't expect the news channels to do this level of teaching. From what I've seen they do often get military experts on for 10 minute explanations. It's brief... but it's supposed to be for the average joe. I'm not a "fan" of the mainstream media, but I don't think it's always negligent (depending what you're looking at I guess). They hardly ever go deep on many topics I find personally interesting. Their job is to try and tell the surface level story of what's happening (and in the process unfortunately make some profits by appealing to our base emotions).
Maybe part of the problem is expecting the news outlets to educate us on everything... it's a problem because if that' what people think then they're going to get a bad education. The news is what it is... bite sized snippets. If you want to really learn something go and read a book honestly. RUclips lectures are a decent halfway point if you're lucky (like this video here), but independent media is certainly not immune from the same problems of mainstream media. There is a lot of bias and bad incentives on RUclips too. What RUclips can provide is TAILORED content for you so it's no wonder you find stuff that you prefer because you're choosing from millions of options (or the algorithm does). The TV news by nature has to be very generic. Most people would watch this video and be bored shitless. I think this very in vogue (and smug) anti-mainstream circle jerk is getting a bit full of itself honestly.
Logistics of the Ukraine War-Ukrainian perspective: I frequently see media reports of western governments announcing weapons for Ukraine and interviews of Ukrainian soldiers saying "they're not here, we needed them yesterday". Obvious factors in this are the time delay in pulling them from storage, checking them for condition, shipping them to Poland, training Ukrainians on them and finally handing them over for transport into Ukraine. In a recent UATV piece on RUclips a Ukrainian officer interviewed a retired American general who had been a NATO commander. He maintained the key issue was logistics. The Ukrainian transport system was ill prepared for the conflict, and while they are improving the shift of the fighting to the east is putting a huge strain on their ability to move materiel from the western border to the eastern side of a large country. The US military does extensive logistical planning and training and he maintained that as the Ukrainians get better it will significantly impact the tide of the war.
It seems to me your analytical skills would be an excellent fit for this type of topic. Subtopics could include: 1) What is the relative contribution of the different elements to the problem. 2) How do the interlocking pieces of logistics fit together. 3) How could the Ukrainians improve. 4) What could the west do to help? I am a huge fan of your work and believe your analysis could shed a useful light on a relevant topic. Thank you for all the excellent work you do. Be well, I'm looking forward to your next upload.
The logistics problem for Ukraine has an aspect most NATO-planners never has to deal with: fuel shortages. Not just getting the fuel where it is needed, the lack of fuel to transport at all. That leave an already congested railroad system as alternative.
I been seeing videos of Ukrainian soldiers driving minivan with ammunitions to parts of the front. That's the kind of thing you are talking about? How are they supplying the fighting men with the latest weapons if part of the time, the Russian control the sky?
@@discover854 partly that, though I feel the end distribution is just a symptom of the large scale logistics from the borders in the west to the war in the east is severely hampered.
An efficient chain would be able to haul the bulk across the country, with minivans only doing the last stretch to the frontline, but from interviews with for instance medical volunteers it seems that minivan has to pick things up in the west and do the whole travel by itself, which isn't very efficient.
Excellent points on the complexity of both moving logistics and also having troops who have been trained on the materials that are difficult to move to them. Col (Ret) Glenn Ekblad. Vietnam and Iraq Veteran, ets.
The way to get better logistics supply would be dig a tunnel. For now. Using unmarked SUV and non military vehicles so they're not blown up kinda works. How much better have they got in the past two weeks since the comment? Well they're steadily shortening the distance to transport the supplies and the number of guys who need them.. except body bags.
As a Spaniard, I'm loving your content on Ukraine. I really like how you address your limitations, how you're always explaining what your sources are, and how they could be wrong and/or partial. I will say that your "no BS" attitude is really refreshing, and that while you might have your biases (like when you talked about the MG17 flight) or blind spots, you are really trying hard to paint an as objective picture as possible. Keep up the good work, and take my (seldom given) thumbs up.
EDIT: Don't let the comments stop you from keeping the good work. We need more people like you, bringing the harsh reality front and center
JUJITSU: The art of utilizing the momentum or the predisposition, of the foe to one's advantage.
Just thinking outside the 'war strategy box' here. To preserve BOTH Russian and Ukrainian life, I would suggest the following non kinetic approach to subduing orks occupying Ukraine:
Ukraine could weaponize Russia's most successful product: VODKA. Russian troops feel abandoned, traumatized, lied to, home sick in a hostile land where neither side has a quarrel. There is One thing they would die for: Russian vodka. Ukraine should use their superior logistical abilities to distribute a train load of Russian vodka to all occupiers as a measure of 'hospitality'.
A smiling Babushka pulling a wagon full of Russia's Finest, could disable a battalion of poorly led, poorly equipped poorly fed Orks in a single Friday night. Could herd them into a drunk tank and take their equipment intact.
In war: A SNOCKERED FOE...is a friend!
So...Let's do a little arithmetic. The 'think tank experts' are approving spending 20-40 Billion of our dollars on war machines and munitions to bludgeon a bunch of demoralized slobs who don't want to be there.
150 thousand Orks X $8 a bottle of Russia's finest: $1.2 million. Hire a battalion of Babushkas (Amazon women??!) to deliver vodka to the occupiers @ $100 X 400: $40,000. Wagons and rail transport: $10,000. Total cost: $1.25 million.
150 thousand drunk Russians and their war machinery: PRICELESS! Slava Ukraine!
As a Subsciber to Perun there are so many things to regret about finding this channel:
That the Ukranian war is happening
That this kind of analysis is so rare both in the level of detail and the credible sources
That your details remind me that this is a meat grinder chewing up so many lives in Ukraine on both sides
Keep up the good work - sadly the dark thoughts it gives are called realism.
Over 70 years since World War 2 and this tragedy is reproducing so much of that evil.
What "evil"? War will always happen. Ever read about history? There are at least 5 wars going on in the globe and you seem to wake up yesterday. For the love you expressed for this channel, you seem naive.
@@sebastiandc1392 Speaking of naive, your comment is about as baseless as I have read in quite a while. You clearly have never experienced war or all the evil that invariably comes with it.
@@thomascolbert2687 Fss. You have no idea the place i grew up in. "baseless"? You must be one of those burning books. Read them. He said WWII and "that evil" haha. What "evil"? Vietnam? Bosnia? (i have friends there that can lecture you about "evil") going way back, British empire genocides?, french ones? Ottoman? Ghengis Khan? War is war, nasty, painful, and always we ought to avoid it, but is not up to oneself, there will always be a bully in the block that will think otherwise. Now if your IQ only allowed you to be a simple grunt, i would understand why you can not get the picture of my comment. Do display some sort of intellect if are due to replay to my comment, if not, shut up. Im sure you are by the 7th boost already....
@@sebastiandc1392 War yes, war crimes I hope no.
@@sebastiandc1392 I didn't intend to imply that this was an isolated example of "evil" however it is one of the best documented in real time.
In terms of graphic images of developments such as apartment blocks (i.e. people's homes) being destroyed it compares in my mind with images of damage in Lebanon. In terms of tragedy, is there a way of comparing events that doesn't just become statistics?
I also wanted a counterpoint to the "love your content" comments, the content is excellent but the subject matter is tragic, complex reactions to that juxtaposition.
I’m currently in the Donbas, your assessments are accurate and you have helped fill in a few gaps. Please keep it up. Thank you.
Take care that side
Stay safe buddy
Stay safe, Slava Ukraine
Filling up gaps between local population?
God speed bud. Stay safe
“Sgt Never Skips Gym Day” had me in stitches
He skips basic firearms safety training though.
@Russian Waifu (T-72 Tank Commander)🇷🇺 I've contacted the NSA, CIA, DoD, MI5, MI6, Mossad, ISI, I even reached out to the FSB and SVR, and no one, not a single agency could locate who asked.
Wonder how those gains are doing on a diet of potatoes and carrots hiding in a foxhole
@Russian Waifu (T-72 Tank Commander)🇷🇺 Richard OK OK OK right right right uh uh OK OK right right uuuhm uuhm right OK uh uh right OK uuhm Medhurst
@@msytdc1577 while the good sergeant got a chuckle, you made me actually laugh out loud. Thanks.
When things were going bad for the Reich, Panzer-Lehr Division was put into action: the armour training corps.
They were very capable, some of the most experienced tankers with high quality equipment.
But every tanker trained once Lehr took to the battlefield was that much less capable as the institutional knowledge was lost from the training institutions.
One issue the Panzer-Lehr training division suffered was speed of deployment. You see, they were so used to operating the tanks at half speeds to train new crews that they themselves avoided driving the tanks at top speed. It became a real issue with exacting timetables, and pretty soon, when a general asked when the division was supposed to arrive, the standard answer was “Sooner or Lehr”.
It’s a true story. Look it up if you don’t believe me. 😉
@@MarcosElMalo2 Panzer-Lehr was an elite division that was actually able to deploy relatively quickly, they began forming on 30 December 1943, and moved to the Nancy-Verdun area in January 1944 to complete the process. On 19 March 1944, Panzer Lehr division took part in the German occupation of Hungary codenamed Operation Margarethe, and the division absorbed the 901st Panzergrenadier-Lehr-Regiment while there. After this they were ready to go, and fought (several times) almost to destruction. You can see the real value of an elite unit by examining Lehr division's actions during Operation COBRA.
By the end of the war, Panzer-Lehr bore little resemblance to the unit activated on Dec 1943. Also I looked up this Sooner or Lehr thing and it's a fiction/joke propagated by Allied forces after the end of the war.
The classic example is US v Japanese pilots. Japan used up their elite pilots. The US shipped their elite pilots home to train others.
Might have been worth deploying late-war, since Germany had limited numbers of tanks and even more limited amounts of fuel. If you can't deploy more armored units and definitely can't supply them, there's no need to train them.
@@ahmadtheIED he means they drove the tanks themselves at half speed (eg 20kph when they could go 40)
Not that the division moved to deployment slowly, if I understand correctly.
As a halfukranian citizen of Russia I must say - another excellent video. You are doing an outstanding job covering this conflict both in terms of the research you are doing and how you analyze and organize the data and how explicit you are. I would say even better than Russian language antigovernment media does for that reason. Keep up the good work!
JUJITSU: The art of utilizing the momentum or the predisposition, of the foe to one's advantage.
Just thinking outside the 'war strategy box' here. To preserve BOTH Russian and Ukrainian life, I would suggest:
Ukraine could weaponize Russia's most successful product: VODKA. Russian troops feel abandoned, traumatized, lied to, home sick in a hostile land where neither side has a quarrel. There is One thing they would die for: Russian vodka. Ukraine should use their superior logistical abilities to distribute a train load of Russian vodka to all occupiers as a measure of 'hospitality'.
A smiling Babushka pulling a wagon full of Russia's Finest, could disable a battalion of poorly led, poorly equipped poorly fed Orks in a single Friday night. Could herd them into a drunk tank and take their equipment intact.
In war: A SNOCKERED FOE...is a friend!
So...Let's do a little arithmetic. The 'think tank experts' are approving spending 20-40 Billion of our dollars on war machines and munitions to bludgeon a bunch of demoralized slobs who don't want to be there.
150 thousand Orks X $8 a bottle of Russia's finest: $1.2 million. Hire a battalion of Babushkas (Amazon women??!) to deliver vodka to the occupiers @ $100 X 400: $40,000. Wagons and rail transport: $10,000. Total cost: $1.25 million.
150 thousand drunk Russians and their war machinery: PRICELESS! Slava Ukraine!
@@thor9563 Is Mikhail Mikhailov a half-ork then? Though this is assuming since he's half Ukr and a Ru citizen the other half is Ru.
@@hugghneugh4288 It doesn't matter what's in your blood, but what's in your heart and mind. Are YOU an orc?
@@thor9563 Ahh, deflecting my question and an ad hominym argument. Great.
@@thor9563 And from your previous post, you definitely made it sound like it's what's in your blood.
Harrowing anecdote about the musicians being pulled out of conservatories to be fed directly into the meat grinder. It's easy to get lost in the grand sweep of the conflict from a bird's eye view but it's always good to keep in mind the staggering human cost of war.
Another bloody tragedy. Putin and his ilk are barbarians.. they'd trample over anything good or fine just to stay in power. It is my fondest wish he lives to go on trial for this.
Maybe Russia wants to depopulate these border regions and then move in Russians.
Sorry my comment is a bit depressing
Is that really happening? If true it tells more than a tale!
@@jf7243 It is true. Men in LDPR are afraid to walk out of their homes or pick phone calls. A friend of mine who lived in LPR and who wasn;t neither a soldier nor pro-Russian, vanished a day before the invasion. Presumably he has been forcefully conscripted.
58 minutes after publishing - 16K views. Things have changed for Perun the last couple of months 😁
Keep up the good work - I'm heading for the hammock and look forward to yet again be enlightened!
Thank you Perun, you rock!
And in 4 hours 50.5k. He's definitely found an audience and a void that needed filling on RUclips.
69k now, nice.
107k after 8 hrs
@@kyle18934 124k now & it was at 105k when I started watching.
Not surprised really, as content of this quality isn't all that common (Far more Pewdipie than Putin's war).
@@GARDENER42 I'm surprised he doesn't half 500k subscribers already. he is one of the best if not the best channels I know on this stuff
This is precisely what anyone with a military perspective sees about the conflict in the Ukraine...
I've heard other people make video articles about the Ukraine conflict and frankly they are talking out of their asses.
Good job!
Even the ones who are not terrible - have serious tunnel vision.
Who would you cite specifically?
@@jonathanpork-sausage617 any major news organizations so called "expert"
@@mr.fantastic7756 Yes. The Western Media is appalling nowdays. But sadly I don't rate this channel.
Ditto
My expectation modern warfare: Having cool armor and gun
Reality: Gets conscripted and given the worst equipment
Snarky statement about military: never forget your gear was made by lowest bidder.
Expectation of war: using your night vision to spot out the enemy and having your squad take 'em out with your tacticool carbines with laser designators.
Reality: bored off your ass standing and sitting around wishing for better food, being spotted by a tiny commercial drone you never heard, and getting your limbs blown off by the artillery shells called in on your coordinates while never spotting an enemy soldier or firing a shot.
or getting a pen pusher job.
I mean weapon made by the lowest bidder is more of a capitalist approach. Look something like Nazis or french or several other nations not following this model at various times in history has resulted in great equipment.
I mean France generally speak almost refuses to use anything made by other countries unless it's a collaboration (with modern exception of the hk416). They seem have pretty good gear.
@@murphy7801 that would be a big mistake to attribute the quality of equipment directly to the mode of procurement. If your country has a terrible industrial culture, you can pour as much money as you want into ordering from the best, but it's still going to be crap. USSR was spending a massive fraction of GDP on arms and keeping people just above the poverty level. Did it help? No.
"Good luck running hostage rescue with a tank"
Wait wait wait, are you trying to criticise the Beslan tactics?!
*Rescue
Have been looking back through these videos and it’s insane the amount of issues you’ve noted here are now really affecting them, cannibalising training units really shoots to mind here with the 1-3 day refreshers their conscripts are getting before being sent to the front
Quick clarification at 10:00. There is a small but important difference between an Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) and an Armored Personnel Carrier (APC). APCs, also nicknamed "battle taxis", are just supposed to get infantry relatively close to the fighting and then drop off their troops. They kind of act like a truck with a gun and some armor, but you wouldn't put a truck onto the firing line. APCs have less armor than IFVs and less armament (typically just a machine gun). IFVs drop off their troops, but then continue to fight alongside the troops they just dropped off. Unlike APCs, IFVs are an important tactical component of a platoon, often providing the majority of the firepower of that platoon. They are often armed with some kind of cannon and often an Anti-Tank Guided Missile (ATGM). So, tl;dr APCs are just transports, IFVs are combat support vehicles.
In the Russian military the APCs are generally from the BTR series, and the IFVs are from the BMP series. So BTR, battle taxi; BMP, combat unit.
@@kalacaptain4818 I'm gonna insert the obligatory "OMFG IT'S A TANK!" and point at a random tracked vehicle.
Gotta love that lazerpig video
It's worth pointing out that the distinction between 'IFV" and 'APC' depends heavily on the environment; even your stock "Gavin" (thanks, Lazerpig!) with nothing more than pintle mount machineguns would sometimes be used to support its dismounted troops, and its not that uncommon for the threat environment to be hazardous enough that actual IFVs are more deathtrap than fire support.
The trick, of course, is figuring out which situation is which without a lot of dead soldiers or blown up vehicles.
A lot of the BTR-82s and BTR-80s are typically IFVs though.
Perun knows this if you watched any of his prior videos lol
As a Dutchman I also have strong feelings about this Igor Girkin. Maybe some day a well placed 155 mm Excalibur round could give those Dutch and Australian families some closure.
I think most would be okay with it being "just 7.62 mm".
@@FriedrichHerschel Any size would be acceptable
As an Aussie, can concur.
My country had sent in Ukraine some Emperors that can do the job. Hope this will help !
Flamethrower ?
It is obvious just by listening to your commentaries that you are well educated, astute, informed, methodical and balanced. Much of the negative feedback and flack that you receive is due to the fact that in this day and time that people have forgotten or much more likely disregarded that the truth is the truth and facts are facts regardless from where they come and truth and facts do not have an agenda. Keep producing your outstanding videos.
Thank you for such a nice comment about Perun. I am sure that he will find your comments to be very helpful in balancing out the less flattering ones.
Truth. I respect Perun and he seems to present a high level of integrity and honesty. He's always clear about his sources and lack of clear information. He gives us a great view into what is likely true given the best sources avalibe at the current time.
I like Perun. But he is extremely biased towards the West but that is normal because he is a westerner.
@@thomaskaplan4898 idk about extremely biased but definitely i agree a westerner will have some inherit bias to the west the same way easterners are biased towards the east. We all have at least some bias what's nice is Perun trys to be up front and honest about it. Which makes ot easier to balance his videos with other sources.
A number of critical responses may have been bots.