Pootin the leader of axis of evil, fueling Gaza, Yemen, Iran, N. Korea and China to make as much mayhem as possible… Pootin will be remembered as a modern day Hitler…
I have dear friends in Russia who I talk to aevery day and I read the local news outlet in their medium sized city and I assure you that the Great Patriotic War is never forgotten. The children hear it in their classrooms that are visited by the aging heroes who remain and there are many events and celebrations throughout the year in addition to Victory Day that are celebrated by the entire community. Those of us in the West share a great debt to these people and need to rein in our imbecilic leaders who are projecting hatred and animoisity toward these brave people. Russians do not want to hurt you or control you country like the Americans do, but if you become their enemy, you will pay a steep price.
"and I assure you that the Great Patriotic War is never forgotten." I would guess the Ukrainians will never forget it, with so many pixels spilled on line using the USSR's WWII-experience to justify Putin's stupid colonial war in Ukraine... & the bombing of Ukrainian cities....while vatniks gush daily here about GAB bombs being rained on Ukraine..
Dude all Russia does is invade and destroy other countries Its like its only export. A lot of dead soldiers who died for nothing I wander how many would have made the ultimate sacrifice if they new that the Russian people 80 years later would live under a fascist dictator just like Hitler.
" I assure you that the Great Patriotic War is never forgotten. " Russia/Putin heavily uses that memory to justify Putin's stupid War in Ukraine some 80 years later....
Does Russia appreciate the help that the Western powers gave to them in WW2? You know, opening up fronts in North Africa, Italy, France? Sabotage over all occupied Europe? Keeping the Japanese at bay in the Pacific( Russia was shitting themselves thinking that Japan would enter from Manchuria)? Do they recognize that? Please show me where there is a a single statue erected in Russia in honor of the brave men of the supply convoys over land and sea, many of whom died getting their much needed supplies to the Soviet Union. There isn't ONE. Shame on Russia for her ingratitude for that. Shame on Russia for her total and complete ingratitude for the intelligence that the Allies were passing to her, manly from Ultra. Do the ageing people remember that dyugashvili was actually an ally of hitler until Barbarossa in June 1944? Just do not even try to threaten NATO, ok? "Steep price to pay "is the type of stupid language they will shove right up your .... wherever you want. Go ahead and try if you don't believe me Bryan.
Dumb. Both the Red Army and the Germans were armies that supported totalitarian systems that killed millions of innocent people in their attempt to create a new type of man. Lover of freedom hate both of them.
“When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem.” ― Josef Stalin Makes sense for a guy who killed millions of his own people.
I've been following you for the past two years and listen to your broadcast every day. I'm always amazed by your deep understanding of Soviet history. Throughout this war, you have been providing the most reliable and accurate information to your audience. Great Job Alexander 🤝🤝🤝
@KOROLOV. For your information, if you do a deep-search on RUclips, you can find Alexander as a guest, covering the 2014 coup and Maiden Massacre on RT.
Just got news of Ukrainian attack against civilians in Sevastopol, Crimea. Attack was from 5 ATACMS armed with cluster warheads, manned by U.S. specialists. 4 were intercepted, 1 got through resulting in 100 civilian casualties of vacationing beach goers. Russian MOD stated that responsibility lies with Washington and Kiev, and that the attack will not go unanswered.
Straussians wants their "full-spectrum dominance" by any mean - but from the safety of US. The MIC/neocons/ziocons work hard to endanger the lives of people worldwide. The hatred and greed make war profiteers and supremacists stupid.
@@nbern7283 This is a regular "ethnic" approach by Blinken & Sullivan at the "ethnic" US State Dept. and Zelensky & German at the "ethnic" Kievan Junta. Look at the zionist methods in Gaza -- zionists enjoy killing children.
The opening on WW2 and the understanding of the cost the Soviet Union sustained was one of the best oration I have heard. Mycollage professor on World History did not convey the cost as you did Mr Mercouis . Much thanks for that lesson on History I commended your knowledge and understanding keep up the great work!!!
I'm sitting watching this in my apartment in Krasnagorsk, Moscow. My Russian wife lost a grandfather, great grandfather and 7 other family members during WW2. As she says to me , theirs was the victory. They want that buffer zone between East and West. Russians are tired of this war, they don't want war but they do feel they are fighting for their very survival against the West who want their resources. 27 million is a lot of people to loose in comparison with the numbers we lost in Britain and the 350,000 the Americans lost in that war. I must remember that it was John Wayne and the Americans that freed us of the Nazis tyranny and not the Soviet Union.
"Russians are tired of this war, they don't want war but they do feel they are fighting for their very survival against the West who want their resources. " Yeah because they have been told these lies by Russian State TV and Russian propagandists. The reality is that Ukraine posed little to no military threat to Russia when Putin invaded (2/24/22) and of course the Russian government tightly controls as it did pre-war any development of Russian resources.....
@@mattb5427 Apparently this poster never heard of "Operation Sea Lion" or the Battles of Britain and the Atlantic...or the lists of British leaders to be "disappeared" or shot developed by the Gestapo once Britain was invaded...
"Russians are tired of this war, they don't want war but they do feel they are fighting for their very survival against the West who want their resources." That's what you have been told by Russian State TV and Russian propagandists. Its LIES > The reality is Ukraine posed no military threat to Russia pre-war (pre-2/24/22) and the Russian government tightly controls RU resources as many large Western companies have found out to their cost over decades...
RU LIES THEY TELL THEMSELVES: "Russians are tired of this war, they don't want war but they do feel they are fighting for their very survival against the West who want their resources." That's what you have been told by Russian State TV & RU propagandists. ITS LIES > The reality is Ukraine posed no military threat to Russia pre-war (pre-2/24/22) and the Russian government tightly controls RU resources as many large Western companies have found out to their cost over decades...
00:05 22nd June 1941 marked the beginning of the intense and bloody war in human history for Russians. 03:21 Uncertainty over Soviet understanding of post-war devastation 09:47 Russian leaders deny aggressive intentions, feel embattled due to Western pressure 13:08 Ukraine wants ATACMS inside Russia 18:48 Ukrainians want ATACMS inside Rus; Putin Red Line 21:32 Ukrainians want to use American missiles deep inside Russian territory 26:54 Russian aviation destroys deployment points of Ukrainian National Guard brigades 29:23 Russian forces successfully capture Ukrainian territory 35:05 Introduction to testing and training of new bombing technology 37:56 Russian ability to adapt Su-34s for Fab 3,000 bombs 43:52 Ukrainian drone strikes misunderstood as depleting Russian air defenses 46:46 Attacking Russian facilities with missiles is not a logical plan. 52:56 Discussion on potential use of cruise missiles by Russians and poor decision-making in the US 55:37 Russian forces advancing and occupying key defense lines in Ukraine 1:00:57 Russian forces capture key Ukrainian fortified position 1:03:49 Russian forces cut off key supply road 1:09:21 Russian forces gaining progress in the Toret area 1:12:16 Emergence of a single battle in central Donbass 1:18:32 Concerns about Western policy towards Ukraine 1:21:35 Criticism of Zelinsky's Peace Summit 1:26:49 Russian dissatisfaction with Zalinski's mismanagement of international diplomacy and war 1:29:37 Continued drift towards escalation with attacks missiles proposed against Russian territory Crafted by Merlin AI.
As a 77 year old man, born in Vietnam on a rice paddy, the safest place during the bombing by the French colonialists, I remember very well each detail of the massacres by Americans who caused from 5 to 7 millions Vietnamese deaths. People like me understand well why native Americans fought to their extinction in the US. In the same spirit, Russians don't joke about using massive nuclear force.
❤ well said, ! Putin is not bluffing the majority of Russians including myself support him totally ...I'd rather die than depend on american idiots.Russians never give up
Thank you Alexander for the reminder of 22nd of June; as a born in the USSR in 1964, this day always feels terrible, sad, as the real tragedy occurred; even living now over the Ocean-i will never forget the heroic sacrifice was taken by all Soviet people and Red Army. I simply can't believe it happens again against my motherland by the same nations.... Thank you again for sharing that memory.
How many of us US Americans would not be here today if our fathers had not been saved from combat death in Europe by the Russians taking on the burden of defeating Germany? What if 400k battle deaths had instead been 4 million, on the scale that Ru and Germany dealt each other?
There is a huge difference between the Russian people and the Soviet Union. In World War II, Soviet socialism and national socialism were two hideous monsters fighting each other
Alexander.... Back in the day.... We can only know how much we suffer in each of our families. My family lost 12 members to the war itself and Holocaust as a continuation to Germans policies related to Jews as general. The Soviet Union was a special creation. Not any foreigners can understand that. Seems like Your feelings at least represent the most educated and best portion of Western Population 👍. I'm deeply grateful for Your attempts to educate Western people in regards to the History of the Second World War and beyond. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Sorry that your families sacrifices were for nothing. Russia is just as fascist and cruel as any dictatorship. You would have thought that those who suffered from these regimes in the past Would do whatever it takes so as not to bestow such tyranny on thier children and grandchildren. I guess the Russian people just don't have a fraction of the courage as do the people of Ukraine. Perhaps that's why they hate them so much.
That's really special, comrade! Guess you never heard how The United States is a special creation, huh? Never heard the term "gulag" nor of the hundred million who disappeared into it during the '20's and '30's... Stalin, Hitler and Mao were each mass murders with death count to rival or surpass Genghis Khan and his heirs.. We in the West are not as ignorant of history as you seem to think. The soviet Union was a "special creation" all right.. by Satan himself... and we understand that, Grishka!
Hi Alexander. There are still active youth groups of Russian students out in the field in Russia recovering Russian ww2 dead. They also come across German dead as well and repatriate these german and Russian dead in Ceremony. German dead are returned to Germany!
2 MORE TERRORISTS KILLED IN DAGESTAN’S DERBENT: Active phase of counter-terror operation in city completed state law enforcement, confirming more gunmen eliminated after shootout. Armored vehicle leaves scene of Orthodox church storming in Dagestan’s capital Makhachkala , with reports that at least 1 more terrorist killed in lightning assault. Dagestani District Chief Omarov detained after law enforcement find out his 2 sons and nephew among terrorists - Omarov’s currently being interrogated to determine his links to planned attacks in South Russian Republic. - Intel Republic
The amount of people who lost their lives in the USSR during the War is absolutely staggering. No one suffered more than the Red Army & the millions of civillians of the USSR also. It should be never forgotten.
Indeed, yet the West refuses to acknowledge this genocide. The common harped on excuse is that the USSR consisted of plethora of ethnicities. And yet it is these highly diverse peoples who sacrificed themselves, marching on to liberate others, including those of whose genocide everyone is ready to acknowledge and remember. A disgusting hypocrisy. “We liberated them, and they will never forgive us for it” (marshal G. Zhukov).
It is rarely acknowledged that the country with the next highest loss was China. Russia and China carried the bulk of the losses, but we are brought up to believe it was the US and the UK.
"The amount of people who lost their lives in the USSR during the War is absolutely staggering. " Yes it is but no one should use those deaths and that conflict (WWII) to justify Russia's colonial war in Ukraine.... as many do on these pages with their loose & stupid 1940's talk and Nazi talk...
Poland suffered more, losing over 25% of their population in the war. Also Belarus and Ukraine SFSR suffered far more than the Russian SFSR did as far as deaths, destruction etc. No one forgets what the USSR did, its just no one forgets all the horrible things they did at the same time. So one good thing does out out weigh the many terrible things they did do.
The Russian onslaught on Ukraine has just begun. While 17,000 casualties a week seems high, there is still room to increase it. In WW2 there were days with such numbers of casualties. The overall shape of the AFU is not good. And very comparable to the state of the Wehrmacht in late 1944. Huge front line collapses did not happend, but this is just because Russia is not aiming for that, yet. But when they aim for it, it will increase the number of Ukrainian casualties even further. Btw the use of teargas might be attributed to Police units serving at the Ukrainian front. Wich is just another sign of the overall deterioration of the AFU. Just like the use of territorial defense units at the front line.
NATO is not a defensive alliance. They illegally bombed Yugoslavia (direct violation of the UN Charter). We must never forget what they did to Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria etc.
Your in Syria now aren't you? Afghanistan really you want to go there Lets add Chechnya ,Georgia and of course who could forget Ukraine to the list of Russians aggression . The only thing Russia exports is WAR.
Not according to the NATO website - On 9 February 1994, the North Atlantic Council, at the request of the UN Secretary General, authorized CINCSOUTH to launch air strikes, at the request of the UN, against artillery and mortar positions in or around Sarajevo which were determined by UNPROFOR to be responsible for attacks against civilian targets in that city. The NATO Council also decided that all heavy weapons had to be withdrawn from a 20-kilometre exclusion zone around Sarajevo or placed under UNPROFOR control within 10 days. Heavy weapons of any of the Parties found within the exclusion zone, unless under UNPROFOR control, would be subject to air strikes after expiration of the 10-day period, in close coordination with the UN and in accordance with the Council decisions of 2 and 9 August 1993.
Alexander, in the first few years of the 21st century the death toll was revised upward-to 36 million; 27m civilians, 9m military. This info was taken from then open NKVD and other archives. The NKVD archives, for example, were then closed. Also, another fine program today. Best wishes.
No, the figure of 26,6 million is final and accepted as such by the Russian historical community. This roughly includes: - military casualties of 15 million people (including pows that were exterminared in death camps at 3 million people); - civillian casualties on occupied territories at 7,6 million people (who died of hunger, disease and direct extermination by nazis - mostly in Ukraine, Belarus and Lenigrad during the siege); - casualties deep inside the USSR caused by hunger, disease, etc. during the war at 4 million people.
@unconform81: In the late 20th century the Russian Academy of Sciences estimated approx 27 million civilian deaths; in the early 21st century the Russian Ministry of Defense estimated the military deaths at approx 9 million dead. One can imagine the Russian public’s horror at such a disclosure. Mr. Putin shut down the NKVD archives as a result. Col. Douglas Macgregor, in his book Margin of Victory, touches on this subject to slight degree. In fact, he mentions a Russian Colonel General (with access to the NKVD files) who told him that the true figure is more than 39 million total-and counting.
Super high figures and when 40,000 can day from one day of bombing Stalingrad its not hard to see why. So many of the millions died in the rural landscape.
@@kevinwaalker where did you read the propaganda history. The whole world knows ussr defeated hitler and the role of the jackal was only america. This is why the whole world now far ahead of west, the lies and the system to teach the low iq population just made them failure. Most of the population is like yo🖕🤯.
@@MRrivdrlin28 Are you talking about occupied France ? The Russians were willing partners You learn some history Maybe the stuff they don't teach you in Russian schools.
Last year, the EU approved 12 sanction packages against Russia and the Russian economy grew by 19.3 %Meanwhile, the EU economy is in tatters. EU sanctioned itself
Don't be silly. No country, ever, has seen its economy grow by 19.3% in one or two or even three years. The Russian economy did grow in both 2022 and 2023 and is growing again this year, an astounding achievement given the sanctions the collective West has been throwing at it, so there's absolutely no need to exaggerate its accomplishments.
@@vaska1999 Its growing because Pootin is throwing the monetary reserves at the economy Building things that go BOOOOM What happens when the money runs out? There is going to be one big BOOOOOMMMMM.
@@kevinwaalker The Russian economy is growing because, unlike the economies of finance capital, it's based on industrial production and on actual, material things of real value -- and because Russia has excellent trading relations with over 80% of the world. Meanwhile, American cities and highways are crumbling and soup kitchen lines go for miles....
@@vaska1999 Really Interesting . Where do you think I live that I cant see how wrong you are? You really want to compare the state of Russia's infrastructure compared to the United States. A third of Russia's population doesnt even have indoor plumbing. In the year 2024 for Fukk sakes. As far as trading partners your lack of knowledge is mind blowing. Who doesnt trade with the U.S. Besides Iran and North Korea? Who cares. You are trying to compare an economy of 30 Trillion U.S dollars to one of 2.2 trillion using the ruble as currency. Why do so many uninformed people comment on these boards when they no absolutely nothing. Or have completely baseless arguments.
I have the same wish to have the same quality of leadership in New Zealand. Russia is so lucky with President Putin, Foreign Minister Lavrov and other Ministers plus their Government spokesmen/women. Brain fog prevents me from mentioning them by name but they are the highest quality.
It never fails to amaze me the absolute stupidity of some of my fellow countrymen . The way they are so easily fooled into believing Putin is the problem!
If only Putin wasnt a member of St. Petersburg fan club of everything Western for so long. Todays situation in Ukraine is partially his fault. The speed at which he changed his rhetoric about USSR after this war started - was nearly instant (from everything was evil, now to some things were evil).
Well if in that world you don't get thrown in jail for seven years for holding up a sign that says PEACE FOR ALL. YOR GLORIOUS COUNTRY JUST SENRENCED A 16 YEAR OLD TO FIVE YEARS IN PRISON Fantasy that's for sure Dream on Nutter.
@@thadtuiol1717how you feel now you get some of your own medicine, and maybe Mexico could be the next alliance with Russia, that will be fun 😂😂 ,,, you can't beat the Houthis lol
عاجل - اليمن نفذ عمليتين عسكريتين أولاهما استهدفت سفينة ( TRANSWORLD NAVIGATOR ) بزورق مسير للمرة الثانية في البحر الأحمر، والأخرى استهدفت سفينة (STOLT SEQUOIA) بعدد من الصواريخ المجنحة في المحيط الهندي
The most outstanding takeaway in Alexander's latest program, in my view, is the articles he cites stating that the tyrannically brutal US exceptionalism and the global colonial despotism of the US-EU is effectively dead, regardless of the results in the US and EU elections later this year. What now remains is a crippling dissonance in the USA and Europe fed by a realization that the USA and EU countries are founded upon the rapacious exploitation and pillage of the rest of humanity without which they will effectively cease to exist in another generation or so. Humanity will be the better for it.
@@thadtuiol1717how many times do we have to hear that it's game over for Russia? We heard it when the Howitzers where to be sent to Ukraine, we heard it when the Javelins where to be sent, we heard it when the various tanks where to be sent [and are now on display in Moscow], we heard it when [fill in al useless weaponry or ammo sent to Ukraine], as one can hear it from you now that South Korea sents some weapons and ammo Fact of the matter is, Ukraine is out-manned, out-classed and out-grinded, and will therefor never be victorious over Russia
Have you not heard about a massive ATACMS attack on Sevastopol with one of the missiles deviating from others exploded above a beach, killing 3 adults, 2 children, and wounding 124? Russia has called the attack an act of terrorism, blamed the US and promised to retaliate?
Where are the shelters on Crimea and civilian emergency procedures ?? Many vatniks on this page have refused to blame Russia when action of the Air defense in Ukraine causes debris & explosions in the air in an attack and thereby causes UA civilian human losses and destruction on the ground... I guess turn about is not as fun as talking & gushing about BIG RU FAB bombs deployed against Ukraine at the rate of up to x100 a day huh.??
Tear gas is a banned weapon if used in warefare but not against civilians rioting or in self defense. Russia is technically correct that Ukraine is using chemical weapons.
My mother lived in Europe during WWII, as I mentioned in my previous post. The majority of Russian soldiers were young men. She recalled seeing many Russian prisoners-of-war during the war working under the supervision of German men, barking dogs while being physically assaulted and abused. The scenes were heartbreaking, and she couldn't do anything as a young girl. Those memories remained with her throughout her life. To Russia with love ❤
I had opportunity to recently stay in Poland. The Polish people have nothing but contempt for the Russian army. They were brutal, to put it mildly. Thousands were murdered.
@@RussBruno Also remember in the waning days of WWII in late 1944 to 1945 the men of the Red Army conducted probably the largest number mass rapes of women all over Eastern & Central Europe and Eastern Germany in the history of warfare....Even Tito's Commie partisans complained about the rapes in Belgrade done by Russian soldiery...
RUSSIAN CRUISE MISSILES CRUISE OVER KIEV SKIES WITH EASE in top vid as shocked Ukrainian capital resident catches all missiles on her phone cam as they fly past her home and toward their goal. Ukrainian forces claim they shot down 2 missiles out of 3 Russia fired (despite fact that more than 3 can be heard in top vid) as aftermath in bottom left pic shows massive smoke cloud covering city skies. - Intel Republic
What happened Germany : The western allies poured hundreds of billions of dollars in military equipment and aid into Russia. And so the Russians with this overwhelming aid defeated us. Zelensky : That's what's happening in Ukraine right now.
Regarding battlefield testing of weapons, I have read that, for any new or revised weapons, after a couple of weeks the design Engineers go to the front to talk to the soldiers about how the weapons perform. This obviates the risk of "report attenuation" as it goes up the chain and allows more rapid correction of problems.
Source ?? Evidence ?? ATACMS missiles are designed to be used by ordinary American artillery soldiers. They are shot from the wheeled HIMARS vehicles & the tracked M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) that Ukraine has been using at the front for the last almost two years on almost a daily basis for precision strikes. You don't have to be a "rocket scientist" to use such weapons....
Thank you for highlighting the immense loss of the population in the Soviet Union during WW2 Alexander. Imagine what the Russian population numbers would have been today, had it not been for the unimaginable loss of life.
Before WWI the Russian economy was growing very fast and industrialization was growing by leaps and bounds. Wars, invasion, civil wars set them back very far.
@@casteretpollux Stalin spent a massive amount of money on the USSR military and heavy industry to support the military. The only reason they did so poorly in the first 18 months of the war was the purges, stalins refusal to listen to intelligence telling him when the german's would invade, and his orders to stand and fight rather than retreat and regroup.
Seems like america and Stalin have alot in Common!! ...Col Doug McGregor said exactly the same thing of america if it were in Russias position..america dropped more Bombs on Laos than what was dropped during ww2 ..And still the yanks vomit is still lying around killing and maiming people and Buffalo...They just leave a trail death wherever they go ..
@@Zeus-gr8zkpost the link where the Russians said it was 3 days, the only thing I could find was a US general saying that in a press conference at the start, stop spewing nonsense
Fourth FAB 3000 Video A video of the effect of the fourth FAB 3000 hit is available. It appears that Russia targets these bombs to an area between several buildings. In the latest case, the FAB 3000 landed between several structures and effectively destroyed all of them. Smaller buildings were flattened, larger buildings were riddled by shrapnel. Trees were completely stripped of their foliage at a considerable distance. The FAB 3000 is likely set, using a proximity fuse, such that the bomb goes off a few feet above the ground. This means that a large part of the energy of the FAB 3000 is not wasted in digging a useless hole. It is likely that the area that is affected by shrapnel is much larger than is reflected in a drone video.
These horrendous loss of life is just heartbreaking. I just cannot come to terms with what has precipitated this dreadful war. How could we in our so called enlightened age still push for more wars without any thought about the ramifications particularly the type of weapons being used. 😢🙏
Don’t forget that most of this 27 million were quite young people, that otherwise had families. And about Stalin: he can be considered controversial figure in history. But when Germans tried to exchange his son for several military commanders of the Red Army, she said “We do not exchange soldiers for generals”. He knew, just like every Soviet citizen, that the survival of all the peoples of the USSR was at stake. Europeans weren't trying to win the war, conquer us, they were trying to wipe us off the face of the earth entirely, for good. They tried to burn my grandmother alive with all her family. She was 4 years old, miracle survivor.
@@Peter_Dixon And Stalin passed several orders which made it a crime to surrender to the German's. One of the punishments was the imprisonment of the soldiers family in the Gulag.
With all the confusion in the world today, Germany may be let loose again and who knows what they may be cooking this time. Anyway whatever will be restricted to europe, they are now not able to face the entire world. We in the global south are watching with keen interest.
" Germany may be let loose again and who knows what they may be cooking " Their whole armed forces is only 180,000 men including a navy and an air force...and they no longer have conscription (ended over a decade ago in 2011). Plus their forces are under NATO command with a US Supreme Commander...
Very insightful introduction vis a vis Russian society and the impact of Word War 2 on the collective psyche. My parents were in various parts of the Soviet Union a few times in the 60's, and I was taken by their stories of many times seeing newly weds laying flowers at the local war memorials as the first thing they did after getting married.
3 things happened on the 22nd June 1st napoleon invasion in 1812 2nd hitlers invasion in 1941 3rd operation belgration the destruction of army group centre in 1944 hitlers biggest defeat
You forgot Prigozyns coup of Moscow 2023 Ill bet the families of those seven aircraft shot down will remember. Because the next day they got a bag of potatoes and a goat That's a big day in Russia. No?
@@JosephBisio Remember when your precioux Hitlensky said he would stop shelling and then he quadripled it? Again: Lucifer will have 1000 years (since you Nazis love that so much) of fun with your Souls.
It's not permission that they need to strike deeper in Russia its the ISR targeting data that's provided by US/NATO in order to do that. If we're being objective if ukraine had the ISR capabilities they would've already been doing it.
The head of the Sergokalinsky district of Dagestan, Omarov, wrote a request for resignation, he was detained - rosZMI Earlier there was information that his children and nephew were among the attackers in Makhachkala. Later, the security forces confirmed that Omarov's detention was connected with the participation of his sons in the attack on Makhachkala and Derbent. His page has already been removed from the United Russia website.
Thank you mister Alexander Mercouris for making sense out of the smo once upon a time it was just helmets, today gradually their real intentions are in the open.
In Vovchansk, I think the Russians laid a trap that the Ukrainian walked into. Given how many troops the Russians have in that region and more outside the region that could be deployed into Vovchansk, it is hard to imagine that they don't have enough troops to close the pocket north of the Vovchansk river, yet that pocket was held open for weeks. Why would the Ukrainians go for such a bad deal? For Ukraine, war is more about getting the West to support them as it was about defending the Russians. They need an attack before the NATO summit and Vovchansk seem the best candidate.
"In Vovchansk, I think the Russians laid a trap that the Ukrainian walked into." I think they got their asses kicked in Vovchansk and lost ground and prisoners and have ceased attacking there for now... The town however is now a ruin...that should make you very happy ..Another bit of Ukraine ruined by the orcs...
Indeed! And children were also killed 😢 And about 120/140 injured. Very sad and very dangerous to do! 5 killed, a lot of injured and 5 in critical condition! 3 Children were under the victims, I believe. Done by ATACMS from the USA! Disgusting! It happened on a beach!
Sevastopol was just attacked (Crimea) On a beach, full with families and children! 5 Killed and around 120 injured! 3 Children killed 😢 ATACMS from the USA!! Disgusting! And very dangerous!! This is NOT a military target Ukraine and the USA!! You’re playing with fire 🔥
@@mariannevisser1777 Well the Russians just got a taste of what Ukraine has been on the receiving end for the last two+ years .... Many of the people were hit by falling debris from the anti-aircraft action...just as what has happened in Ukraine countless times... Russian authorities know that Sevastopol area is a major military base area & should have prepared shelters & emergency warning procedures for their people just as they do in Ukraine... Yesss remember the dead and wounded this day Yes remember them when our Putin fanboys on this page gush about the FABs dropped on Ukraine at the rate of a 100+ per day...
Do you think when the Roman Empire came to an end in Europe, people were stood around with answers to prevent it? It ended because it had come to its end, like the West.
The gruesome US missile attack yesterday on the beach at Sevastopol, filled with families enjoying summer holidays, with scores of civilian deaths and hundreds of injuries, is the US bringing Gaza to Russia. It was targeted by US drones over the Black Sea, so there is no doubt they knew who they were killing. Not enough is being said about this atrocity. Russian air defence is its weakness.
No its Ukraine bringing what happens almost daily inside Ukraine to stolen territory controlled by the Russian Federation...Plenty of Ukrainians have been killed or injured by falling debris in air battles over their cities.
@@dragonsdynamite6403 There were no peace deals ever crafted and the main reason is that there is zero trust on both sides .. An exchange of drafts and notes is not a "peace deal", its just scraps of paper...a demand to surrender or a Russian demand to roll back history to 1997 or 1992 is not a "peace deal"
There was a terror attack today in Dagestan, which is north of Azerbaijan on the shore of the Caspian Sea. The attackers targeted two Orthodox churches and a synagogue. At least six police officers and one priest are dead. The attacks occurred in the coastal town of Derbent, which is just north of the border with Azerbaijan,& in the capital of Makhachkala. There were also unconfirmed reports of attacks in the town of Izberbash. RU National Guard units were called out to put down the attacks.
@JosephBisio Drooling over attacks on civilians by your friends while not caring over the thousands of Ukrainian dead , is that what you are doing sweetheart ?
Re: the effect on the USSR in the post-war period, most of the leadership had been through a similar but lesser disaster in the past, with WW1, the civil war and the serious post-war famine and epidemics of disease. They pressed ahead on both occasions, building then re-building at rapid rate.
@@travelhackingTV Lampshades?! I thought you were joking as no one references that with a straight face anymore. Have you been in a coma for the last 20 years?
@@mattb5427 yeah yeah, you wouldn’t even be alive if Germany got its way. Ugly Hitler would make sure he was the only ugly one alive surrounded by the lily-livered blondies
Of course they knew the loss and how many. !! But you see the same thing being done now in Ukraine with the usa and UK they do not acknowledge their dead in Ukraine publically nor does the media. !! And theyve done this else where. !! So why bring up Russia doing that when your own country does it. !!??
I cannot say whether Putin is great or not but what is impressive is his plan for his country. The UK has not have a leader give a plan for decades. We are lucky if we have a vague 3 year plan. Just drifting in the wind.
Complete strategic folly has been no obstacle to the West before!😀 If they consulted the experts, they would understand the need to surrender to/compromise with Putin ... No wonder after losing so many Russian troops and liberating so many ethnic Russians. Russia refuses to hand the Donbas back to Ukraine. Russia's "Istanbul Plus."
Just two red lines are yet to be crossed. Firstly the deployment of NATO forces to assist Ukraine in liberating occupied territories. Secondly the tactical use of nuclear weapons to defend Ukraine against the Russians. Once nato members understand that they cannot defend themselves against Russia, the nuclear option becomes more likely as fear grows.
@@markduncan8227 can you expand on the fake profiles ? Don’t know about them. The fidgeting is down to compulsive lying. He’s a paid up RT shill. Once a fraud always a fraud. In truth should be disbarred from YT. Not a word of truth in him 😢
@@markduncan8227 hi Mark. I don’t know about his fake profiles so if you expand on that it would help. He’s obviously a compulsive liar and in truth should be taken off YT. Paid up RT shill
Depending on the country they can be considered a form of chemical warfare and this illegal. It depends on the laws of the nation at hand and the context of their use.
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Thanks Alexander ❤
Привет, Александр
Riot in Dagestan… Anti 🇷🇺 and religious…
… Everything is going according to plan
Pootin the leader of axis of evil, fueling Gaza, Yemen, Iran, N. Korea and China to make as much mayhem as possible… Pootin will be remembered as a modern day Hitler…
I have dear friends in Russia who I talk to aevery day and I read the local news outlet in their medium sized city and I assure you that the Great Patriotic War is never forgotten. The children hear it in their classrooms that are visited by the aging heroes who remain and there are many events and celebrations throughout the year in addition to Victory Day that are celebrated by the entire community. Those of us in the West share a great debt to these people and need to rein in our imbecilic leaders who are projecting hatred and animoisity toward these brave people. Russians do not want to hurt you or control you country like the Americans do, but if you become their enemy, you will pay a steep price.
"and I assure you that the Great Patriotic War is never forgotten." I would guess the Ukrainians will never forget it, with so many pixels spilled on line using the USSR's WWII-experience to justify Putin's stupid colonial war in Ukraine... & the bombing of Ukrainian cities....while vatniks gush daily here about GAB bombs being rained on Ukraine..
Dude all Russia does is invade and destroy other countries
Its like its only export.
A lot of dead soldiers who died for nothing
I wander how many would have made the ultimate sacrifice if they new that the Russian people 80 years later would live under a
fascist dictator just like Hitler.
Russia and Eastern Europe were vaccinated against today's woke neo-marxist mind virus by WW2.
" I assure you that the Great Patriotic War is never forgotten. " Russia/Putin heavily uses that memory to justify Putin's stupid War in Ukraine some 80 years later....
Does Russia appreciate the help that the Western powers gave to them in WW2? You know, opening up fronts in North Africa, Italy, France? Sabotage over all occupied Europe? Keeping the Japanese at bay in the Pacific( Russia was shitting themselves thinking that Japan would enter from Manchuria)? Do they recognize that?
Please show me where there is a a single statue erected in Russia in honor of the brave men of the supply convoys over land and sea, many of whom died getting their much needed supplies to the Soviet Union. There isn't ONE. Shame on Russia for her ingratitude for that. Shame on Russia for her total and complete ingratitude for the intelligence that the Allies were passing to her, manly from Ultra.
Do the ageing people remember that dyugashvili was actually an ally of hitler until Barbarossa in June 1944?
Just do not even try to threaten NATO, ok? "Steep price to pay "is the type of stupid language they will shove right up your .... wherever you want. Go ahead and try if you don't believe me Bryan.
Anyone who loves freedom owes such a debt to the Red Army that it can never be repaid." - Ernest Hemingway
Like the 20,000 Polish military and intelligentsia murdered by the NKVD in Katyn forest after the Red Army invaded Poland with their Nazi allies?
Dumb. Both the Red Army and the Germans were armies that supported totalitarian systems that killed millions of innocent people in their attempt to create a new type of man. Lover of freedom hate both of them.
Hemingway was a commie. Didn't he try to help the Bolsheviks conquer Spain when they were raping and killing nuns.
“When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem.”
― Josef Stalin
Makes sense for a guy who killed millions of his own people.
Hemingway had no idea how ironic that statement would look now.
I've been following you for the past two years and listen to your broadcast every day. I'm always amazed by your deep understanding of Soviet history. Throughout this war, you have been providing the most reliable and accurate information to your audience.
Great Job Alexander 🤝🤝🤝
i always pass news forward
He is good but he is wrong about Soviet Union.
Very probably Stalin killed more Russians than the sec W. War.
@KOROLOV. For your information, if you do a deep-search on RUclips, you can find Alexander as a guest, covering the 2014 coup and Maiden Massacre on RT.
Just got news of Ukrainian attack against civilians in Sevastopol, Crimea. Attack was from 5 ATACMS armed with cluster warheads, manned by U.S. specialists. 4 were intercepted, 1 got through resulting in 100 civilian casualties of vacationing beach goers.
Russian MOD stated that responsibility lies with Washington and Kiev, and that the attack will not go unanswered.
Погибли 5, из них 2 детей, более 100 раненых, 55 детей.
@@nbern7283 I am enraged, and deeply saddened by this.
Straussians wants their "full-spectrum dominance" by any mean - but from the safety of US. The MIC/neocons/ziocons work hard to endanger the lives of people worldwide. The hatred and greed make war profiteers and supremacists stupid.
I am surprised Alexander did not talk about this in his program. I got this news in the morning of my time (West Coast, US). I am absolutely enraged.
@@nbern7283 This is a regular "ethnic" approach by Blinken & Sullivan at the "ethnic" US State Dept. and Zelensky & German at the "ethnic" Kievan Junta. Look at the zionist methods in Gaza -- zionists enjoy killing children.
The opening on WW2 and the understanding of the cost the Soviet Union sustained was one of the best oration I have heard. Mycollage professor on World History did not convey the cost as you did Mr Mercouis . Much thanks for that lesson on History I commended your knowledge and understanding keep up the great work!!!
I'm sitting watching this in my apartment in Krasnagorsk, Moscow.
My Russian wife lost a grandfather, great grandfather and 7 other family members during WW2.
As she says to me , theirs was the victory. They want that buffer zone between East and West.
Russians are tired of this war, they don't want war but they do feel they are fighting for their very survival against the West who want their resources.
27 million is a lot of people to loose in comparison with the numbers we lost in Britain and the 350,000 the Americans lost in that war.
I must remember that it was John Wayne and the Americans that freed us of the Nazis tyranny and not the Soviet Union.
Britain and US were never at risk from 'nazi tyranny' so our losses were particularly futile.
"Russians are tired of this war, they don't want war but they do feel they are fighting for their very survival against the West who want their resources. " Yeah because they have been told these lies by Russian State TV and Russian propagandists. The reality is that Ukraine posed little to no military threat to Russia when Putin invaded (2/24/22) and of course the Russian government tightly controls as it did pre-war any development of Russian resources.....
@@mattb5427 Apparently this poster never heard of "Operation Sea Lion" or the Battles of Britain and the Atlantic...or the lists of British leaders to be "disappeared" or shot developed by the Gestapo once Britain was invaded...
"Russians are tired of this war, they don't want war but they do feel they are fighting for their very survival against the West who want their resources." That's what you have been told by Russian State TV and Russian propagandists. Its LIES > The reality is Ukraine posed no military threat to Russia pre-war (pre-2/24/22) and the Russian government tightly controls RU resources as many large Western companies have found out to their cost over decades...
RU LIES THEY TELL THEMSELVES: "Russians are tired of this war, they don't want war but they do feel they are fighting for their very survival against the West who want their resources." That's what you have been told by Russian State TV & RU propagandists. ITS LIES > The reality is Ukraine posed no military threat to Russia pre-war (pre-2/24/22) and the Russian government tightly controls RU resources as many large Western companies have found out to their cost over decades...
00:05 22nd June 1941 marked the beginning of the intense and bloody war in human history for Russians.
03:21 Uncertainty over Soviet understanding of post-war devastation
09:47 Russian leaders deny aggressive intentions, feel embattled due to Western pressure
13:08 Ukraine wants ATACMS inside Russia
18:48 Ukrainians want ATACMS inside Rus; Putin Red Line
21:32 Ukrainians want to use American missiles deep inside Russian territory
26:54 Russian aviation destroys deployment points of Ukrainian National Guard brigades
29:23 Russian forces successfully capture Ukrainian territory
35:05 Introduction to testing and training of new bombing technology
37:56 Russian ability to adapt Su-34s for Fab 3,000 bombs
43:52 Ukrainian drone strikes misunderstood as depleting Russian air defenses
46:46 Attacking Russian facilities with missiles is not a logical plan.
52:56 Discussion on potential use of cruise missiles by Russians and poor decision-making in the US
55:37 Russian forces advancing and occupying key defense lines in Ukraine
1:00:57 Russian forces capture key Ukrainian fortified position
1:03:49 Russian forces cut off key supply road
1:09:21 Russian forces gaining progress in the Toret area
1:12:16 Emergence of a single battle in central Donbass
1:18:32 Concerns about Western policy towards Ukraine
1:21:35 Criticism of Zelinsky's Peace Summit
1:26:49 Russian dissatisfaction with Zalinski's mismanagement of international diplomacy and war
1:29:37 Continued drift towards escalation with attacks missiles proposed against Russian territory
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As a 77 year old man, born in Vietnam on a rice paddy, the safest place during the bombing by the French colonialists, I remember very well each detail of the massacres by Americans who caused from 5 to 7 millions Vietnamese deaths. People like me understand well why native Americans fought to their extinction in the US. In the same spirit, Russians don't joke about using massive nuclear force.
❤ well said, ! Putin is not bluffing the majority of Russians including myself support him totally ...I'd rather die than depend on american idiots.Russians never give up
Thank you Alexander for the reminder of 22nd of June; as a born in the USSR in 1964, this day always feels terrible, sad, as the real tragedy occurred; even living now over the Ocean-i will never forget the heroic sacrifice was taken by all Soviet people and Red Army. I simply can't believe it happens again against my motherland by the same nations.... Thank you again for sharing that memory.
How many of us US Americans would not be here today if our fathers had not been saved from combat death in Europe by the Russians taking on the burden of defeating Germany? What if 400k battle deaths had instead been 4 million, on the scale that Ru and Germany dealt each other?
Maybe the U.S. would act different now, as 4 million casualties would have taught them a necessary lesson.
Well strange isn't it and at the start of the war Russia and the NAZIs were best buds
Go figure
There is a huge difference between the Russian people and the Soviet Union. In World War II, Soviet socialism and national socialism were two hideous monsters fighting each other
@@kevinwaalker Hey Nazi: "Ukraine" was part of the SU.
Oops!
My Grandfather didn't make it home and can tell you it shapes my life to this day because of the way it affected my mother. Fug around and find out.
Malaysia, the second member more relevant in ASEAN, will join BRICS, and ASEAN is a Common Market of 650 million people
Alexander.... Back in the day.... We can only know how much we suffer in each of our families. My family lost 12 members to the war itself and Holocaust as a continuation to Germans policies related to Jews as general. The Soviet Union was a special creation. Not any foreigners can understand that. Seems like Your feelings at least represent the most educated and best portion of Western Population 👍. I'm deeply grateful for Your attempts to educate Western people in regards to the History of the Second World War and beyond. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Sorry that your families sacrifices were for nothing.
Russia is just as fascist and cruel as any dictatorship.
You would have thought that those who suffered from these regimes in the past
Would do whatever it takes so as not to bestow such tyranny on thier children and grandchildren.
I guess the Russian people just don't have a fraction of the courage as do the people of Ukraine.
Perhaps that's why they hate them so much.
@@kevinwaalker Yum, Nazi Tears!
That's really special, comrade! Guess you never heard how The United States is a special creation, huh? Never heard the term "gulag" nor of the hundred million who disappeared into it during the '20's and '30's... Stalin, Hitler and Mao were each mass murders with death count to rival or surpass Genghis Khan and his heirs.. We in the West are not as ignorant of history as you seem to think. The soviet Union was a "special creation" all right.. by Satan himself... and we understand that, Grishka!
Brilliant piece of history this Alexander.
Hi Alexander. There are still active youth groups of Russian students out in the field in Russia recovering Russian ww2 dead. They also come across German dead as well and repatriate these german and Russian dead in Ceremony. German dead are returned to Germany!
2 MORE TERRORISTS KILLED IN DAGESTAN’S DERBENT: Active phase of counter-terror operation in city completed state law enforcement, confirming more gunmen eliminated after shootout.
Armored vehicle leaves scene of Orthodox church storming in Dagestan’s capital Makhachkala , with reports that at least 1 more terrorist killed in lightning assault.
Dagestani District Chief Omarov detained after law enforcement find out his 2 sons and nephew among terrorists - Omarov’s currently being interrogated to determine his links to planned attacks in South Russian Republic. - Intel Republic
Same war.
Ukraine shall soon be known as the former Ukraine , an ex-country .
Ukraine shall soon be known as Russia again.
@@kennethknoppik5408 as Chadimir Putin says , RUkraine 🇷🇺
🇷🇺 will end up like Yugoslavia…
@@Peter_DixonRUkraine...I love it! Glory to Ukraine as part of Russia.
🇷🇺 is already falling apart…
СЛАВА СВИМ СОВЈЕТ. ХЕРОЈИМА И ВЕЧНО ХВАЛА
ЗА СЛОБОДУ НАРОДА!
Србија памти…
You wouldn't know it, but many Americans feel the same, once we learn the truth.
@@buttercuptaylor7135 sadly the most of Americans have a very poor school education and as a consequence even poorer knowledge….
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The amount of people who lost their lives in the USSR during the War is absolutely staggering. No one suffered more than the Red Army & the millions of civillians of the USSR also. It should be never forgotten.
Indeed, yet the West refuses to acknowledge this genocide. The common harped on excuse is that the USSR consisted of plethora of ethnicities. And yet it is these highly diverse peoples who sacrificed themselves, marching on to liberate others, including those of whose genocide everyone is ready to acknowledge and remember. A disgusting hypocrisy.
“We liberated them, and they will never forgive us for it” (marshal G. Zhukov).
It is rarely acknowledged that the country with the next highest loss was China. Russia and China carried the bulk of the losses, but we are brought up to believe it was the US and the UK.
The Chinese did too. About the same staggering amount to defeat Japan. But china according to the west doesn't count.
"The amount of people who lost their lives in the USSR during the War is absolutely staggering. "
Yes it is but no one should use those deaths and that conflict (WWII) to justify Russia's colonial war in Ukraine.... as many do on these pages with their loose & stupid 1940's talk and Nazi talk...
Poland suffered more, losing over 25% of their population in the war. Also Belarus and Ukraine SFSR suffered far more than the Russian SFSR did as far as deaths, destruction etc.
No one forgets what the USSR did, its just no one forgets all the horrible things they did at the same time. So one good thing does out out weigh the many terrible things they did do.
The Russian onslaught on Ukraine has just begun. While 17,000 casualties a week seems high, there is still room to increase it. In WW2 there were days with such numbers of casualties.
The overall shape of the AFU is not good. And very comparable to the state of the Wehrmacht in late 1944.
Huge front line collapses did not happend, but this is just because Russia is not aiming for that, yet.
But when they aim for it, it will increase the number of Ukrainian casualties even further.
Btw the use of teargas might be attributed to Police units serving at the Ukrainian front. Wich is just another sign of the overall deterioration of the AFU. Just like the use of territorial defense units at the front line.
"While 17,000 casualties a week seems high"
Yeah way too high and inflated by Russian MoD propaganda....Divide by 3 or 5 or more as appropriate...
Waiting for Your content all day long. Alexander.... Your Analysis is indispensable 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
NATO is not a defensive alliance. They illegally bombed Yugoslavia (direct violation of the UN Charter). We must never forget what they did to Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria etc.
Your in Syria now aren't you?
Afghanistan really you want to go there
Lets add Chechnya ,Georgia and of course who could forget Ukraine to the list of Russians aggression .
The only thing Russia exports is WAR.
It's an Agression alliance.
@@kevinwaalkerRussians are in Syria at the request of the government there. Chechnya is part of the Russian federation.
rinse repeat of his uncle Putin's "drunk history" for the 100th + time.....Nothing to see here...
Not according to the NATO website -
On 9 February 1994, the North Atlantic Council, at the request of the UN Secretary General, authorized CINCSOUTH to launch air strikes, at the request of the UN, against artillery and mortar positions in or around Sarajevo which were determined by UNPROFOR to be responsible for attacks against civilian targets in that city. The NATO Council also decided that all heavy weapons had to be withdrawn from a 20-kilometre exclusion zone around Sarajevo or placed under UNPROFOR control within 10 days. Heavy weapons of any of the Parties found within the exclusion zone, unless under UNPROFOR control, would be subject to air strikes after expiration of the 10-day period, in close coordination with the UN and in accordance with the Council decisions of 2 and 9 August 1993.
Alexander, in the first few years of the 21st century the death toll was revised upward-to 36 million; 27m civilians, 9m military. This info was taken from then open NKVD and other archives. The NKVD archives, for example, were then closed.
Also, another fine program today.
Best wishes.
No, the figure of 26,6 million is final and accepted as such by the Russian historical community. This roughly includes:
- military casualties of 15 million people (including pows that were exterminared in death camps at 3 million people);
- civillian casualties on occupied territories at 7,6 million people (who died of hunger, disease and direct extermination by nazis - mostly in Ukraine, Belarus and Lenigrad during the siege);
- casualties deep inside the USSR caused by hunger, disease, etc. during the war at 4 million people.
Alexander seems to have judged that no one was born in the 5 years!
@unconform81:
In the late 20th century the Russian Academy of Sciences estimated approx 27 million civilian deaths; in the early 21st century the Russian Ministry of Defense estimated the military deaths at approx 9 million dead. One can imagine the Russian public’s horror at such a disclosure. Mr. Putin shut down the NKVD archives as a result.
Col. Douglas Macgregor, in his book Margin of Victory, touches on this subject to slight degree. In fact, he mentions a Russian Colonel General (with access to the NKVD files) who told him that the true figure is more than 39 million total-and counting.
Super high figures and when 40,000 can day from one day of bombing Stalingrad its not hard to see why.
So many of the millions died in the rural landscape.
What a shame USSR fought and won the war and shameless America and france taking credit.
That's because allies of the NAZI regime were not considered in the winners circle.
You have to consider the hole war . Not just pieces of it silly.
@@kevinwaalker where did you read the propaganda history. The whole world knows ussr defeated hitler and the role of the jackal was only america. This is why the whole world now far ahead of west, the lies and the system to teach the low iq population just made them failure. Most of the population is like yo🖕🤯.
EXACTLY 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯
The French regime was an ally of Germany. Marechal Petain the head of state was the first among them. Learn your history too…
@@MRrivdrlin28 Are you talking about occupied France ?
The Russians were willing partners
You learn some history
Maybe the stuff they don't teach you in Russian schools.
Last year, the EU approved 12 sanction packages against Russia and the Russian economy grew by 19.3 %Meanwhile, the EU economy is in tatters. EU sanctioned itself
What do you care Dickson
You live in Midland.
Don't be silly. No country, ever, has seen its economy grow by 19.3% in one or two or even three years. The Russian economy did grow in both 2022 and 2023 and is growing again this year, an astounding achievement given the sanctions the collective West has been throwing at it, so there's absolutely no need to exaggerate its accomplishments.
@@vaska1999 Its growing because Pootin is throwing the monetary reserves at the economy
Building things that go BOOOOM
What happens when the money runs out?
There is going to be one big BOOOOOMMMMM.
@@kevinwaalker The Russian economy is growing because, unlike the economies of finance capital, it's based on industrial production and on actual, material things of real value -- and because Russia has excellent trading relations with over 80% of the world. Meanwhile, American cities and highways are crumbling and soup kitchen lines go for miles....
@@vaska1999 Really
Interesting .
Where do you think I live that I cant see how wrong you are?
You really want to compare the state of Russia's infrastructure compared to the United States.
A third of Russia's population doesnt even have indoor plumbing. In the year 2024 for Fukk sakes.
As far as trading partners your lack of knowledge is mind blowing.
Who doesnt trade with the U.S. Besides Iran and North Korea? Who cares.
You are trying to compare an economy of 30 Trillion U.S dollars to one of 2.2 trillion using the ruble as currency.
Why do so many uninformed people comment on these boards when they no absolutely nothing.
Or have completely baseless arguments.
Thank you for your great work, Alexander ❤👏🏻💯
I was thinking you wouldnt post anything today... Have a great end of Sunday and God bless you sir!
I wish my country had a brilliant leader like President Putin . It’s rather amusing how this simple comment winds up the NAFO keyboard warriors 🤭
You are 🇷🇺, maybe a migrant somewhere… but still a 🇷🇺
I have the same wish to have the same quality of leadership in New Zealand. Russia is so lucky with President Putin, Foreign Minister Lavrov and other Ministers plus their Government spokesmen/women. Brain fog prevents me from mentioning them by name but they are the highest quality.
It never fails to amaze me the absolute stupidity of some of my fellow countrymen . The way they are so easily fooled into believing Putin is the problem!
If only Putin wasnt a member of St. Petersburg fan club of everything Western for so long. Todays situation in Ukraine is partially his fault. The speed at which he changed his rhetoric about USSR after this war started - was nearly instant (from everything was evil, now to some things were evil).
Say that to the 5 dead and over 100 injured on the beaches of Crimea.
What a fantasy dialogue from the USA. They live in a parallel world.
Well if in that world you don't get thrown in jail for seven years for holding up a sign that says PEACE FOR ALL.
YOR GLORIOUS COUNTRY JUST SENRENCED A 16 YEAR OLD TO FIVE YEARS IN PRISON
Fantasy that's for sure
Dream on Nutter.
@@kevinwaalker Ok, Adolf
They will have no idea how they will destroy themselves because of their ignorance.
@@davidlazarus67 If that happens, you'll be destroyed too, david.
@@thadtuiol1717how you feel now you get some of your own medicine, and maybe Mexico could be the next alliance with Russia, that will be fun 😂😂 ,,, you can't beat the Houthis lol
"Judea Declared War on Germany," 1933. "Judea Declared War on Russia, " 2014
Thanks Alexander for the historical perspective. We should never forget that.❤️🙏❤️
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Bravo.
Best wishes for every success from Australia.
The most outstanding takeaway in Alexander's latest program, in my view, is the articles he cites stating that the tyrannically brutal US exceptionalism and the global colonial despotism of the US-EU is effectively dead, regardless of the results in the US and EU elections later this year. What now remains is a crippling dissonance in the USA and Europe fed by a realization that the USA and EU countries are founded upon the rapacious exploitation and pillage of the rest of humanity without which they will effectively cease to exist in another generation or so. Humanity will be the better for it.
Russia is unbeatable! Greetings from México
Lol, hardly! Now South Korea is sending weapons and ammo it's game over for Russia. South Korea's industrial output and quality control is legendary.
Russia is a real military superpower
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@@thadtuiol1717how many times do we have to hear that it's game over for Russia? We heard it when the Howitzers where to be sent to Ukraine, we heard it when the Javelins where to be sent, we heard it when the various tanks where to be sent [and are now on display in Moscow], we heard it when [fill in al useless weaponry or ammo sent to Ukraine], as one can hear it from you now that South Korea sents some weapons and ammo
Fact of the matter is, Ukraine is out-manned, out-classed and out-grinded, and will therefor never be victorious over Russia
@@thadtuiol1717South Korea have already supplied artillery shells. What weapons do you think they will send now?
Have you not heard about a massive ATACMS attack on Sevastopol with one of the missiles deviating from others exploded above a beach, killing 3 adults, 2 children, and wounding 124? Russia has called the attack an act of terrorism, blamed the US and promised to retaliate?
How could this be the Russians shoot down all missals
ALL OF THEM
So they say.
Where are the shelters on Crimea and civilian emergency procedures ?? Many vatniks on this page have refused to blame Russia when action of the Air defense in Ukraine causes debris & explosions in the air in an attack and thereby causes UA civilian human losses and destruction on the ground... I guess turn about is not as fun as talking & gushing about BIG RU FAB bombs deployed against Ukraine at the rate of up to x100 a day huh.??
A different attack from the 9 missile one you must be thinking about.
@@kevinwaalker "Accuse Russia of der Propaganda ZeReich is using!" -Nafos/Nazis
@@kevinwaalkeryou're a ghoul
Great show. Waayyyy better than any western BS..
Tear gas is a banned weapon if used in warefare but not against civilians rioting or in self defense. Russia is technically correct that Ukraine is using chemical weapons.
Yes they are correct.
Thanks from the Netherlands.
My mother lived in Europe during WWII, as I mentioned in my previous post. The majority of Russian soldiers were young men. She recalled seeing many Russian prisoners-of-war during the war working under the supervision of German men, barking dogs while being physically assaulted and abused. The scenes were heartbreaking, and she couldn't do anything as a young girl. Those memories remained with her throughout her life. To Russia with love ❤
I had opportunity to recently stay in Poland. The Polish people have nothing but contempt for the Russian army. They were brutal, to put it mildly. Thousands were murdered.
@@RussBruno Also remember in the waning days of WWII in late 1944 to 1945 the men of the Red Army conducted probably the largest number mass rapes of women all over Eastern & Central Europe and Eastern Germany in the history of warfare....Even Tito's Commie partisans complained about the rapes in Belgrade done by Russian soldiery...
@@RussBruno Pre 2/24/22 Russia had a 48% favorable rating among the Polish public. This dropped to 2% after the invasion of Ukraine
RUSSIAN CRUISE MISSILES CRUISE OVER KIEV SKIES WITH EASE in top vid as shocked Ukrainian capital resident catches all missiles on her phone cam as they fly past her home and toward their goal.
Ukrainian forces claim they shot down 2 missiles out of 3 Russia fired (despite fact that more than 3 can be heard in top vid) as aftermath in bottom left pic shows massive smoke cloud covering city skies. - Intel Republic
Ukraine only seems to fire Atacams at civilian targets like Belgorod.
All full out: Macarroni, Draghi, Trudeau, Johnson, Tuss, Sunak, soon Biden etc 🥱
All WEF antichrist Satanists.
Germany: You can't win a war against Russia.
Zelensky: Why?
Germany: Because we already tried and it didn't end well for us.
What happened
Germany : The western allies poured hundreds of billions of dollars in military equipment and aid into Russia.
And so the Russians with this overwhelming aid defeated us.
Zelensky : That's what's happening in Ukraine right now.
Haahaa....tell Robert habeck that.. forget about the chancellor..
done.kaput
permission? this is likely NATO operators, NATO targeters....
Alexander mercouris you have always bring such an incredible background history and indepth analysis
Regarding battlefield testing of weapons, I have read that, for any new or revised weapons, after a couple of weeks the design Engineers go to the front to talk to the soldiers about how the weapons perform. This obviates the risk of "report attenuation" as it goes up the chain and allows more rapid correction of problems.
Ukraine can not use the ATACMS missiles without American specialists.
Source ?? Evidence ?? ATACMS missiles are designed to be used by ordinary American artillery soldiers. They are shot from the wheeled HIMARS vehicles & the tracked M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) that Ukraine has been using at the front for the last almost two years on almost a daily basis for precision strikes. You don't have to be a "rocket scientist" to use such weapons....
Thank you for highlighting the immense loss of the population in the Soviet Union during WW2 Alexander. Imagine what the Russian population numbers would have been today, had it not been for the unimaginable loss of life.
It might have been better if Stalin hadn't made a series of agreements with Hitler before hand. A lot less people would have died.
Before WWI the Russian economy was growing very fast and industrialization was growing by leaps and bounds. Wars, invasion, civil wars set them back very far.
@@Jamicaman516They were not prepared. They then moved arms production east and got ready.
@@casteretpollux Stalin spent a massive amount of money on the USSR military and heavy industry to support the military. The only reason they did so poorly in the first 18 months of the war was the purges, stalins refusal to listen to intelligence telling him when the german's would invade, and his orders to stand and fight rather than retreat and regroup.
Arise Russyia!
❤😊GOOD DAY SIR
One of my Russian friends said that if Putin were Stalin, today Ukraine would be ash!
Seems like america and Stalin have alot in Common!! ...Col Doug McGregor said exactly the same thing of america if it were in Russias position..america dropped more Bombs on Laos than what was dropped during ww2 ..And still the yanks vomit is still lying around killing and maiming people and Buffalo...They just leave a trail death wherever they go ..
❤😊RUSSIA IS WINNING BIG.
Yeah, I can see that (going into the 3rd year of a 3-day special military operation).
The people of the world are winning thanks to Russia.
@@Zeus-gr8zkpost the link where the Russians said it was 3 days, the only thing I could find was a US general saying that in a press conference at the start, stop spewing nonsense
@@Zeus-gr8zk You know you make yourself a Laughing Stock with Milleys 3 Days Comment, yeah? Is that why your Dad never loved you?
@@Zeus-gr8zkI think something happened to you during the covit, no more vaccine for you 😂😂😂
Thank you
Fourth FAB 3000 Video
A video of the effect of the fourth FAB 3000 hit is available. It appears that Russia targets these bombs to an area between several buildings. In the latest case, the FAB 3000 landed between several structures and effectively destroyed all of them. Smaller buildings were flattened, larger buildings were riddled by shrapnel. Trees were completely stripped of their foliage at a considerable distance.
The FAB 3000 is likely set, using a proximity fuse, such that the bomb goes off a few feet above the ground. This means that a large part of the energy of the FAB 3000 is not wasted in digging a useless hole.
It is likely that the area that is affected by shrapnel is much larger than is reflected in a drone video.
These horrendous loss of life is just heartbreaking. I just cannot come to terms with what has precipitated this dreadful war. How could we in our so called enlightened age still push for more wars without any thought about the ramifications particularly the type of weapons being used.
😢🙏
Great one Alex as always
Don’t forget that most of this 27 million were quite young people, that otherwise had families.
And about Stalin: he can be considered controversial figure in history. But when Germans tried to exchange his son for several military commanders of the Red Army, she said “We do not exchange soldiers for generals”.
He knew, just like every Soviet citizen, that the survival of all the peoples of the USSR was at stake.
Europeans weren't trying to win the war, conquer us, they were trying to wipe us off the face of the earth entirely, for good.
They tried to burn my grandmother alive with all her family. She was 4 years old, miracle survivor.
If Stalins' son was a prisoner of war, shouldn't Stalin have himself in prison?
@@kellysander529 he was captured by the Germans .
@@Peter_Dixon And Stalin passed several orders which made it a crime to surrender to the German's. One of the punishments was the imprisonment of the soldiers family in the Gulag.
wow thanks for that
@@Jamicaman516 Ukraine has such a law in effect right now.
Sorry Alex, the Zelensky line isn't a defense line, its a coke line... 😂😂
With all the confusion in the world today, Germany may be let loose again and who knows what they may be cooking this time. Anyway whatever will be restricted to europe, they are now not able to face the entire world. We in the global south are watching with keen interest.
Rest assured, we have no army and, most important, no desire to be let loose.
You have got to be joking, Germany today is the most cucked and cowardly country ever!
All what goes mad now in Germany is the product of transatlantic brainwashing. No true German patriot wants Germany to be in war.
" Germany may be let loose again and who knows what they may be cooking " Their whole armed forces is only 180,000 men including a navy and an air force...and they no longer have conscription (ended over a decade ago in 2011). Plus their forces are under NATO command with a US Supreme Commander...
27 millions are demographic losses - direct and indirect
Very insightful introduction vis a vis Russian society and the impact of Word War 2 on the collective psyche. My parents were in various parts of the Soviet Union a few times in the 60's, and I was taken by their stories of many times seeing newly weds laying flowers at the local war memorials as the first thing they did after getting married.
3 things happened on the 22nd June 1st napoleon invasion in 1812
2nd hitlers invasion in 1941
3rd operation belgration the destruction of army group centre in 1944 hitlers biggest defeat
You forgot Prigozyns coup of Moscow 2023
Ill bet the families of those seven aircraft shot down will remember.
Because the next day they got a bag of potatoes and a goat
That's a big day in Russia.
No?
@@kevinwaalker get a job or a hobby you ghoul
@@kevinwaalkerPrigozyn’s coup was not a coup d’ état, so not in same category. He said so himself.
Ukraine war criminals attacked crimea beach resort killing civilians with atackams. Happen this morning
Yeah remember them when our Putin fanboys gush about the FABs dropped on Ukraine at the rate of a 100+ per day...
False flag event
Obviously the Russians did it.
I mean come on.
@@kevinwaalker You would have stood next to Hitler.
@@JosephBisio Remember when your precioux Hitlensky said he would stop shelling and then he quadripled it?
Again: Lucifer will have 1000 years (since you Nazis love that so much) of fun with your Souls.
@@deadpoolguy283 Like the Russians did in 1939-41
You know like that Comrade?
It's not permission that they need to strike deeper in Russia its the ISR targeting data that's provided by US/NATO in order to do that. If we're being objective if ukraine had the ISR capabilities they would've already been doing it.
I have lot of respect (uctu)for russia...i ❤ them.....from czechia
The head of the Sergokalinsky district of Dagestan, Omarov, wrote a request for resignation, he was detained - rosZMI
Earlier there was information that his children and nephew were among the attackers in Makhachkala. Later, the security forces confirmed that Omarov's detention was connected with the participation of his sons in the attack on Makhachkala and Derbent.
His page has already been removed from the United Russia website.
Thank you mister Alexander Mercouris for making sense out of the smo once upon a time it was just helmets, today gradually their real intentions are in the open.
On the question of chemical weapons technically tear gas is classed as a chemical weapon.
In Vovchansk, I think the Russians laid a trap that the Ukrainian walked into. Given how many troops the Russians have in that region and more outside the region that could be deployed into Vovchansk, it is hard to imagine that they don't have enough troops to close the pocket north of the Vovchansk river, yet that pocket was held open for weeks. Why would the Ukrainians go for such a bad deal? For Ukraine, war is more about getting the West to support them as it was about defending the Russians. They need an attack before the NATO summit and Vovchansk seem the best candidate.
"In Vovchansk, I think the Russians laid a trap that the Ukrainian walked into." I think they got their asses kicked in Vovchansk and lost ground and prisoners and have ceased attacking there for now... The town however is now a ruin...that should make you very happy ..Another bit of Ukraine ruined by the orcs...
I think the Russians laid an egg in Vovchansk and paid heavily in dead and prisoners....
❤😊UKRAINE IS COLLAPSING.
And Israel, along with the empire of lies supporting both
So is the USA and Canada {ass-kissers).
Good intro always🤔 expected always delivered!
Many thanks Alexander
Sevastopol was just attacked, hundred or more casualties, they know The US was responsible, there will be a severe response
Indeed! And children were also killed 😢
And about 120/140 injured.
Very sad and very dangerous to do!
5 killed, a lot of injured and 5 in critical condition!
3 Children were under the victims, I believe.
Done by ATACMS from the USA!
Disgusting! It happened on a beach!
Sevastopol was just attacked (Crimea)
On a beach, full with families and children!
5 Killed and around 120 injured!
3 Children killed 😢
ATACMS from the USA!!
Disgusting!
And very dangerous!!
This is NOT a military target Ukraine and the USA!! You’re playing with fire 🔥
@@mariannevisser1777 Well the Russians just got a taste of what Ukraine has been on the receiving end for the last two+ years .... Many of the people were hit by falling debris from the anti-aircraft action...just as what has happened in Ukraine countless times... Russian authorities know that Sevastopol area is a major military base area & should have prepared shelters & emergency warning procedures for their people just as they do in Ukraine...
Yesss remember the dead and wounded this day Yes remember them when our Putin fanboys on this page gush about the FABs dropped on Ukraine at the rate of a 100+ per day...
USA is desperately falling, crashing, Thank God.
@@mariannevisser1777 So now you give a shit about civilians being killed
This is a daily accordance in Ukraine at the hands of Russia.
Do you think when the Roman Empire came to an end in Europe, people were stood around with answers to prevent it? It ended because it had come to its end, like the West.
No but I think they could wright a coherent sentence.
@@kevinwaalker Maybe you should learn how to "wright", Naziboy?
Stalin refused to exchange his son saying that Red Army doesn't trade a general to a soldier. Period
The gruesome US missile attack yesterday on the beach at Sevastopol, filled with families enjoying summer holidays, with scores of civilian deaths and hundreds of injuries, is the US bringing Gaza to Russia. It was targeted by US drones over the Black Sea, so there is no doubt they knew who they were killing. Not enough is being said about this atrocity. Russian air defence is its weakness.
No its Ukraine bringing what happens almost daily inside Ukraine to stolen territory controlled by the Russian Federation...Plenty of Ukrainians have been killed or injured by falling debris in air battles over their cities.
@@JosephBisio if only there were 1, 2, 3, even 4 peace deals prior to it to stop these unnecessary deaths.
@@dragonsdynamite6403 There were no peace deals ever crafted and the main reason is that there is zero trust on both sides .. An exchange of drafts and notes is not a "peace deal", its just scraps of paper...a demand to surrender or a Russian demand to roll back history to 1997 or 1992 is not a "peace deal"
Excellent analysis
There was a terror attack today in Dagestan, which is north of Azerbaijan on the shore of the Caspian Sea. The attackers targeted two Orthodox churches and a synagogue. At least six police officers and one priest are dead. The attacks occurred in the coastal town of Derbent, which is just north of the border with Azerbaijan,& in the capital of Makhachkala. There were also unconfirmed reports of attacks in the town of Izberbash. RU National Guard units were called out to put down the attacks.
@JosephBisio
Drooling over attacks on civilians by your friends while not caring over the thousands of Ukrainian dead , is that what you are doing sweetheart ?
Re: the effect on the USSR in the post-war period, most of the leadership had been through a similar but lesser disaster in the past, with WW1, the civil war and the serious post-war famine and epidemics of disease. They pressed ahead on both occasions, building then re-building at rapid rate.
Without the USSR sacrifice duo g WWII, Europw would be speaking German.
and from 2/3 they would make lampshades
Nonsensical.
And the result of defeating Germany is we get to speak Turkish, Urdu, Arabic and God knows what else.
@@travelhackingTV Lampshades?! I thought you were joking as no one references that with a straight face anymore.
Have you been in a coma for the last 20 years?
@@mattb5427 yeah yeah, you wouldn’t even be alive if Germany got its way. Ugly Hitler would make sure he was the only ugly one alive surrounded by the lily-livered blondies
Of course they knew the loss and how many. !! But you see the same thing being done now in Ukraine with the usa and UK they do not acknowledge their dead in Ukraine publically nor does the media. !! And theyve done this else where. !! So why bring up Russia doing that when your own country does it. !!??
Hello from Iceland 😊
Hello, how is the weather over there right now?
I cannot say whether Putin is great or not but what is impressive is his plan for his country. The UK has not have a leader give a plan for decades. We are lucky if we have a vague 3 year plan. Just drifting in the wind.
Thanks for the update
Another perspective - the total population of Australia is c.27 million people...
Long Live Russia!
Long Live All Russians!
❤THANKYOU ALEXANDER❤
Thank you ❤
Complete strategic folly has been no obstacle to the West before!😀 If they consulted the experts, they would understand the need to surrender to/compromise with Putin ... No wonder after losing so many Russian troops and liberating so many ethnic Russians. Russia refuses to hand the Donbas back to Ukraine. Russia's "Istanbul Plus."
I like it when Alexander makes historical references to better understand the present.
❤😊THANK YOU SIR
Just two red lines are yet to be crossed. Firstly the deployment of NATO forces to assist Ukraine in liberating occupied territories. Secondly the tactical use of nuclear weapons to defend Ukraine against the Russians. Once nato members understand that they cannot defend themselves against Russia, the nuclear option becomes more likely as fear grows.
❤😊YOURE THE BEST.
At getting disbarred. Slava Ukraine 🇬🇧
@@markduncan8227 can you expand on the fake profiles ? Don’t know about them. The fidgeting is down to compulsive lying. He’s a paid up RT shill. Once a fraud always a fraud. In truth should be disbarred from YT. Not a word of truth in him 😢
@@markduncan8227 hi Mark. I don’t know about his fake profiles so if you expand on that it would help. He’s obviously a compulsive liar and in truth should be taken off YT. Paid up RT shill
@@rokitron65 Nazi
@@markduncan8227 Says the Fake Profile.
The FAB 3000's may have fallen exactly where the Russians intended them to. There is no way of knowing really.
Shouldn't Putin just directly address the American people and ask why?
Why?
The U.S has not given Ukraine what they need to throw the Russians out?
@@kevinwaalker Because the USA doesnt care about you Nazis. Only about $$$ and Hitlensky is worth dogshit
He already did through Tucker Carlson months ago.
Americans, in their mass, hate Russians - they're being told to do so for decades
Communication is a weakness
Maybe you should hold a pencil in your hands so you don't have to touch your face every 3 or 4 seconds
Oddly enough i think that CS gas and othe crowd control chemicals are illigal on the battlefield.
Depending on the country they can be considered a form of chemical warfare and this illegal. It depends on the laws of the nation at hand and the context of their use.
God bless and protect Russia and all men and women of good will.
❤✝ CHRIST IS RISEN ✝❤
❤🦾🇷🇺🙏✝ BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS ✝🙏🕊🇷🇺🚀
😢 devastating numbers. Has to have had an effect on society
Excellent