Putin PURGES Ministry of Defence...But No One Knows Why!
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It's pronounced 'shoy - goo'.
Shoigu is not kicked out, he just changed his position in Kremlin a little, just like Medvedev did. Why does everybody is talking like he is gone?
Russia already explained= 2 of the generals were caught taking bribes in Mariupol construction projects- Shoigu was put on the National Security council until the investigation is over= and according to the Russian constitution EVERYONE has to resign when the presidents new term starts-the president can rename them, or move them around
So you read Forbs and ISW, make your conclusions which are 90% of time are wrong 😆 and then look at one battle on the whole map and comment on it? If you were commenting the Civil War you would have said South won. I lost my interest in this as you are not realistic. You are here to sell gum.
@@mrmyus242 it is a clown show
To coin a phrase, I think Putin's just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
Great analogy!
Great metaphor 😂👍
Shoigu should avoid flying and stay away from windows
titanic is the western empire
У нас атомный ледокол, хотя о чем это я, ваша отсталая страна не умеет строить такие вещи)
Never forget that Xi and Putin spoke at length during the Olympics, and then the invasion started right after the olympics ended.
Xi brides Putin with egg rolls and promised support from his Kung Fu assassins??!!!?
Also don't forget no matter what happens if putin starts another f up like starts a nuclear war. Then it works out he still doesn't get what he wants so he will destroy that dream. And he will p xi of if he starts a nuclear war and xi will become putins nightmare. No matter what he does it's good by putin kiss everyones rear end as well as your own
so what are you trying to imply?
Xi probably told putin if you use nuclear weapons you will have me to deal with.
@@aceman9030 Don't let dictators talk at Olympics. Think about it for a minute.
Paul, so many commentors are missing the point. Yes, generals are replaced all the time in war, but only to be replaced with other generals to improve your chances on the battlefield. Putin replaces generals to improve his chances of not being over thrown.
One simple reason is that as a dictator, you don't leave people around to accumulate power. Newer people don't have the connections needed to rise up. Either way, in most cases, bringing in new people during a war isn't a sign of strength so I'm happy to hear the news!
They all got promoted to nighter positions you clown
When a Russian president is elected the entire cabinet (ministers & deputies) offers their resignation. This is a standard process & it gives the incoming President maximum space for his or hers preferred people.
So, maybe Shoigu was not "fired" because as Defense Minister he would have been one of the people submitting a resignation to the office of the president. Putin may have accepted his resignation &, as other people noted, laterally promoted him.
After all, they are friends, Shoigu & Putin. Putin does not have many honest, actual friends but Shoigu is one of them. He's not going to can the guy outright.
Shoigu stole 180 billion in 12 years from the ministry of defense. A lot of it since they started the war. He wanted the war to start, so the mod gets more money he can steel. He wasn't interested in winning, so the money keeps coming in.
Putin found it out. He didn't know, how bad Shoigu's corruption was. Shoigu and his people lately stole up to 30% of the military budget.
The new guy, the new minister, will steal far less, and will make the army more efficient. He has no high ranking friends, he just has Putin, and he really admires Putin.
So sadly all of that will make the russian army stronger. The command won't be more incompetent, because that's impossible, and Putin commands the armies himself. Here nothing will change.
The only change is, Russia will be able to better produce weapons on a mass scale, logistics will improve, the military will have billions more each year.
The replacement of Shoigu is bad for Ukraine. However, Shoigu, and him being in charge for the last years, bought Ukraine and the west some time. Now the west has to step up and increase its efforts, to finally help Ukraine winning this war, and to do so, before Taiwan gets attacked, and before the western attention can be devided between two, very important wars.
I think people in the Russian military are seeing the writing on the wall and are thinking about cutting losses but putin really wants to take Ukraine so the military needs to be under new management in my opinion.
@@CoffeeAndPaul Man, whatever you'll say people just want to hear conspiracy nonsense and not facts sadly
I do not understand why Putin thinks Russia's economy can survive a protracted war. It has too many single-points of failure.
Ukraine has been destroying Russian oil refineries, forcing Russia to export more crude and import refined products. Russia cannot just turn off the spigot on the oil wells, it must keep flowing - countries surplus refinery capacity, like India, are benefitting.
After Russia' refineries are largely destroyed, Ukraine should target rails - mainly engines. Russia depends on them and they are expensive & time- consuming to replace.
not all refineries have been destroyed. how many refineries there are in Russia and how many were damaged by Ukraine, this is far from “destroyed”. you forget that Ukraine also does not have the opportunity to continue the war.
The Ukrainian front is on the verge of collapse. you don't understand anything.
Russian economy is a war economy, so normal rules don't apply.
Because Putin doesn't use the internet and doesn't like to get bad news, so he really thinks they have a chance here. He's living inside his own fantasy world where Russia is not weak, poor and defeated. This is the same script every dictator goes through before getting killed or committing suicide. Clock is ticking louder each day for him.
Russians fix those refineries at a super fast rate, literally in weeks if not days so don't get your hopes up.
Ol' Vlad is likely embarrassed that his "special military operation" that was supposed to only take a week or two has turned into a two year slog that has achieved little besides death and destruction.
Why now, why not before
@@bryan0x05it's the Russian way, sunk cost fallacy, they do the same with human lives
@@Anonymousg64🤡
@@Anonymousg64I do agree with you, but I think the person asked why the guy was fired for his thousandth f up, and not one of the many before.
I hope you know that Putin benefits from a long-term war LOL but he is always open to cease-fires because it will benefit him even more
Please start including/mentioning Georgia in your videos Paul, they feel abandoned there and I don't see many articles about It in the European media, would be great to see people woth big following like you sharing and mentioning!! They need to know they are not alone
What’s wrong with Georgia? You talking about the bill they pass and sign into law
@@Nooneapparently Yes. He wants the US/West to be able to fund a coup there like they did in Ukraine.
@Nooneapparently The country, not the state.😂
What’s happening in Georgia? Are they in the war now to?
@yyeezyy630 no but they are in a position Ukraine was in 10 years ago
Truth be told this is what dictators do when they're afraid...
Thanks Paul, as always great work 👍👍👍, always hold veterans in the highest esteem, have great respect for you and all veterans, thank you for your service 🇺🇸💪 , 👍👍👍
Shoigu was promoted to head of the national security council…
shoigu wasn't fired, he was Reshufeled, he is still in power
He has a very important job running the Russian Military Industrial Complex. Putin showed that he trusts him.
@@dennisyoung7363he is not running anything. The new guy is going to run the Russian MIC. He’s an economist and his job will be to make the Russian MIC more economical and efficient.
@@dennisyoung7363 Putin doesn't trust anyone.
@@kurousagi8155, the Kremlin defense committee that Shoigu is moving his portfolio into MIGHT have more control over the Russian defense industry than the office of the defense minister does. I honestly don't know.
I do know that each of the Siloviki core members oversee some very expansive budgets, however.
If Shoigu wasn't Siloviki before (SPOILER: he indeed was not because the armed forces community is not particularly concerned with domestic security which is the Siloviki foundation, the main concern that motivated the Siloviki group's birth & continued existence today) he's soon going to be one.
Shoigu is supremely competent at hiding his own corruption & he knows the systems down to the T. For instance, when Shoigu was MoD he himself didn't take bribes, at least not large ones that we know of. What he did do was allow the people under him like Ivanov (who's been arrested) to force bribes & take them whereupon they kicked a percentage to Shoigu. This way there is at least one degree of personal removal from the actual bribe & his extra income. Shoigu doesn't need to take bribes anymore because he's elevated himself to almost Putin's level, & that's rarified air indeed. Shoigu had the power, & likely still has the power, to elevate people into sufficiently senior government positions where bribes are automatic & understood, & Shoigu can skim off the top with some security by way of anonymity. Everyone knew he's taking a cut but there's no real paper trail. Shoigu, like Putin, keeps through off every book.
I don't think he will be killed, but his career is over.
Putin might be getting paranoid
Shoi-glue has finally come unstuck... Its actually surprising to hear about a Russian General that is not exploding.
It seems like Shoigu got promoted.
I strongly encourage you to do a follow up on this vid and include the fact that the new ryski economist defense minister is a soviet economist that believes in the soviet style economy. From not so distant history, we know where that type of "economy" has led that filthy country.
“This is what the whole country expects from us and you” - Putin said that the Russian Armed Forces are advancing in all directions and are improving their position every day. Vladimir Putin, during a meeting with the commanders of military districts, said that the more efficiently our army works, the more chances we have to resolve the issue with Ukraine peacefully. He recalled that we were forced to start protecting people in these territories. The Russian leader introduced the new Minister of Defense Andrei Belousov to the commander and General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. The meeting was also attended by the former head of the Moscow Region Shoigu.
FWIW, There's an opinion piece which suggests _"Putin’s war machine reshuffle reveals his deepest fear - the rise of Kremlin rivals"._
Thank you for explaining this difficult situation so I understand 👍
"CVP," whose knowledge of Russia's political system is as poor as his Russian prounciation, is dodging the the obvious question that Antony Blinken is asking of Zelensky, "What is happening in Sumi and Kharkov and what happened to the over one billion dollars we sent to build fortifications because the Russians have managed to bypass those fortification without ny problems?
combining all info i found till now, i think efficiency and a defense ministry that "cost" too much are big reasons to change leadership.
as-in dismanteling the infrastructure of a costly internal black marktet in the MOD.
some knowledgeable individuals i watched are of the opinion that the "Shoigu" block was getting financial overly inefficient and was costing the state too much.
when your system runs on pleasing your surbordinates through condoning systematic corruption, it is the easiest way to get some percentages back to the inventory of their army.
when the upper echelon of your army is taking in a big part of your military budget and hardware for profiteering, its easier and faster to purge leadership, instead of trying to squeeze a few percentage by putting a lot of effort in cutting cost by streamlining arms production.
guess they try to demolish the corruption ring in one fell swoop.
i think it will backfire hard, as that system is an intergral part for functioning in the field.
what will happen now that the "ceo's " of their shadow economy are removed?
since a lot of their gear is appearantly aquired by purchasing it through the black market infrastructure facilitated and led by their own upper echelon.
like any vacuum, a corruption vacuum will also give rise to internal chaos and strife.
The Russian bald wander leader guy was right it looks like.
Shoy goo. It’s shoy goo lol. Watch the infamous video of prighozin shouting "shoigu! Gerasimov!" In front of the bodies of wagnerites
Paul gets very basic things wrong all the time. I'm convinced that he doesn't research things at all. He doesn't even watch RUclips videos to learn how to pronounce common words that he's using in these videos.
Thanks, Paul.
I *think* Putin is realizing he is in a death struggle when he thought he would be in parade mode two years ago already. He can't have too many people around actually remember how personally responsible he is for basically all of Russia's current and impending problems. Hence some turnover. He could have done any of these things at any point, he's reacting to a situation, which will become clear in the coming months. My guess is that the current brass was skimming too much and he realized they would absorb whatever massive infusion of cash he wanted to actually hit the ground in Ukraine.
Plus for all the money that they were skimming, he wasn't getting his money's worth.
It is, and has always been, about Putin trying to save his own skin.
Russian troops have occupied the northern part of Volchansk and are bypassing the city from the east - BILD analyst Röpke. The Russian Armed Forces entered the northern part of Volchansk, fighting there is taking place in the area of the meat processing plant. Advancing Russian troops bypassed the city 4 km to the east. They have cut the road from Volchansk to Tikhaye. In the vicinity of Volchansk, the Russian Armed Forces occupied the villages of Pletenevka, Ogurtsovo, Gatishche and Bugrovatka. At the same time, the Russian Armed Forces are attacking the village of Liptsy to the west. Russian troops captured the village of Glubokoye. The Armed Forces of Ukraine introduced the Grad MLRS, BTR-82A and Swedish CV-90 infantry fighting vehicles into battle...
I believe that Shoigu is pronounced like “soy-goo,” but with an “h” inserted after the S.
It's like Shoi-goo. You can watch videos where Prighozin screams his name
Hard to pronounce it correctly, when his body does look like a soy-goo
It's because the oligarchs or factions have stopped fighting over the scraps Putin allows them and begun fighting over who will be in position to shape post-Putin Russia.
Shoigu was an extension of Putin, his trusted man at the top of the military.
#DictatorProblems A dictator's biggest fear is the military and a coup. That Shoigu has been "promoted" to a "higher" position ignores the fact that in a dictatorship, the head of the military is the 2nd highest position and 2nd only to the dictator.
The promotion, previous arrest of Shoigu's right hand man, and current purging of Shoigu loyalists shows that the dictator began to fear the oligarchs may have gotten to Shoigu.
Interestingly, this reshuffle recently played out in Ukraine as part of Zaluzhny's promotion to ambassador was related to fears that the opposition party was trying to encourage the military to overthrow Zalensky in light of Zalensky following the constitution and not holding elections during war.
Shoigu was and is loyal to Putin. He was fired, because he was too corrupt. He stole 180 billion from the military, and wanted the war to continue, so the military gets more money for him to steal. He wasn't interested in winning. It was not about replacing Putin.
Putin found out, one of Shoigus friends told it to the FSB. Putin likes Shoigu, so he won't kill him, but Putin wants to win the war, so he replaces him with a far less corrupt person without high ranking friends, who should be able to make the military far more efficient.
That's what all of it is about. Shoigu lately stole up to 30% of the military budget, troops ended up without artillery shells, like Wagner, and Putin fears, Shoigu's corruption will cost him the war, so he replaces him, punishes his friends and brings a new guy in, and hopes, that will fix the problem.
What exactly happened and why, that's by now known information, so there is no room for speculation 🤷♂️
A little paranoia is common among dictators.
Silicon curtain on RUclips has a good discussion too
Thx Paul
Somethings up with the video I can't get past 2:15 for some reason.
I think Shoigu needs to get him some of that Strike gum energy and run for the hills before Putin finds an open window near him.
Thanks
What did you say when Zelensky fired a couple of his own?
Yeah, they forgot Zeluzhny already.
Just fired one of his closest from heading the ministry of reconstruction because he's been too clean and too many foreign representatives were choosing to deliver aid through him.
@@dennisyoung7363that’s different. They had tons of issues that are all public like he tried to draft 500k people to regain land but Zelensky wanted to play defense and save personnel fron the huge loses of offensive combat. He also believed one of the reasons he wanted to do that was to make everyone hate Zelensky for drafting everyone they possibly could. There was tons of issues and it was transparent.
@@yyeezyy630 i think you have the roles reversed, he wanted to show that they already lost 500k and the war is not going in ukraines favor
@@aceman9030 let’s trade. my source was USA Today what is yours?
Paul, great information about what is going on in Russia. Furthermore your analysis of what is going on is thoughtful and makes a great deal of sense. Which happens to be the reason that I believe your analysis will turn out to be very wrong.
We, in the West think using various rules and assumptions about laws, structures, and logic. I don't believe that any of that applies in Russia. I believe that Putin is running a mobocracy with mob rules and values that we simply do not understand. I don't think that the cause of this purge is the poor conduct of the war. I believe that factions within Russia are fighting for power, and Shoigu is now on the outs, which means everyone associated with him must go or be eliminated. Was dissatisfaction with the war one of the things that Shoigu's enemies used against him? Probably, but it was not the reason for the conflict among the factions within the Kremlin. The Kremlin is not transparent, so we may never know the true reasons for Shoigu's downfall. I don't believe that the conflict inside the Kremlin is over, but we shall see in the coming days and weeks if others will be purged.
The next question is what does this mean for the war inside Ukraine. The defense minister will not be in charge of the battlefield tactics or strategy, and we don't know who will be calling the shots. Gerasimov was too close to Shoigu, so he likely is finished. We just don't know who will be in charge. The new defense minister is an economist who I agree will be placed in charge of the entire Russian economy. My best guess is that this will prove to be a disaster for Russia, and may end up causing Russia to lose. Like the new defense minister, I lived through the 1980's. The Soviet Union collapsed because its command economy where the government owned everything and commanded what was to be produced and the prices for everything stopped working. The new Defense Minister published a book or paper printed by Stanford University in the early 2000's entitled "New Russia", wherein he stated his opinion that Russia needed to return to its command model economy of the 1980's where the government used forced labor to produce everything, and that Russia should ban all imports and exports.
The Russian economy is collapsing now, and this guy will speed up the process if Putin gives the OK for the Defense Minister's economic program. The next couple of months should be very interesting.
Советский Собз распался, так как руководство Советского Союза хотело развалить страну и попытаться стать частью Западного мира, именно поэтому были сданы почти все позиции. Создавался искуственный дифицит, когда товары спецтально хранили на складах, что бы не вести в магазины, специально и целенаправленно проводилось промывание мозгов населения, которое было приучено верить СМИ. В Советском Союзе тогда было выращено инфантильное поколение, которое не знало прелестей жизни при капитализме. Всего этого больше нет, выросло новое поколение познавшее капитализм, новое поколение презирает жалких ничтожеств предавших их страну и их будущее. Командная система плоха для мирного времени, но во время войны и послевоенного восстановления она как раз эффективней всего. Вы американцы никогда не достигали такого уровня эффективности, когда достигался большой результат при минимуме средств. Эта война показала, что оказывается производство снарядов важно и вы всем НАТО уступаете в производстве боеприпасов даже не могучему СССР а всего лишь однлй его бывшей республике, пережившей кошмарные годы либеральных реформ.
Full mobilization be next move .
One side is fighting with volunteers, one side is abducting people off of the street..
Now that’s an idea. If it fails Putin can blame the economics guy lmao that’s sucks for the new guy
Well pergoizhin said that there was an active fifth column working against the Nation and enriching their projects and he also knew that if this wasn't fixed pronto at the ministry of defense...this would happen... regardless... not sure if lesson was learned
Thanks for your insights. Problem I see is that putin started this war with a national address where he said he accepted personal responsibility. How can he get away with blaming corruption where it is a national trait?
My best guess is a Chasiv Year Ultimatum
It's a pretty basic standard cabinet shuffle.
As the weather warms there will be more open windows in Russia
I GET IT. LIKE SANDS THROUGH THE HOURGLASS, SO ARE THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES!
What happened to US nuclear secrets at Mar a Lago?
Schoiiiiigu
Regardless of the country, seems the militant groups always come from the rural areas..
Country people are often lovely but they are also often less educated, less likely to have travelled, less likely to have had to share space with others and compromise, more likely to come from a culturally homogenous area, generally less wealthy, more likely to be religious/ superstitious...so they also tend to hold backward views and see the world through a very narrow lens that can easily lead them towards small mindedness and susceptibility to nationalist and populist propaganda. I always idealisticaly thought of country life as wholesome,connected to the earth and peaceful but a decade of living amongst country people dispelled that myth real quick lol.
@@rickywinthrop I grew up rural but educated.. Some are just trigger happy effing idiots.. lol
@@lakeliving2013 Yeah. There are exceptions to every rule. I lived in a tiny town for years but grew tired of the small mindedness and stunted nature of most of my neighbors. I'm also uneducated but don't see the world the way they do based on what I value and what brings me meaning. I'm a socially liberal, fiscally conservative, athiest, socialist tradesman who likes to garden, talk philosophy, read books, travel whenever possible, daydream, do light drugs and drink great wine. I can't stand clubs or groups, gossip or violence/cruelty/ machismo and LOATHE pickup trucks. I'm also stubborn as hell and won't change my ways for anyone who isn't married to me. Might as well have been an alien from another planet. Needless to say, the city is where its at for someone like me.
@@rickywinthropFor some reason they removed my previous post but I'm retired now and enjoy the country life but you sound like my brother from another mother.. 🍻
pootin is DESPERATE!
We forget that many of our politicians take all kinds of documents to their homes! So, I can see that the Russian generals can be as careless.
A purge is a purge is a purge...
Yeah, like the UkoNazis who are being purged from Donbas.
I know why. These are Shoigu’s people, and now that Shoigu is out, so are they.
Good report ! Continue your good works ! 🫡🫡💪💪🇺🇦🇺🇦
Shoy-goo
Simple mispronunciations makes him sound like an imbecile.
That should be a meme
Almost 3 years and he still calls Bakhmut , Bakhmet. Idiot
It's normal
When you are gearing up for the next level of warfare, you take your best people and move them from diplomatic roles into interior duties, prioritizing weapons development.
It reeks of desperation, likely because the US aid finally came through while the new offensive hadn't started yet. That was a major slip up in timing for the Russians. They didn't launch the offensive while Ukraine was on the ropes. Now with potentially no more gaps in US aid (unlikely Trump will win in November IMO) Putin is looking at going back to doing things the hard way, to feeding his troops to a meat grinder and nothing more, with no real achievement to show for it. He may take a town here or there still, but the cost in his mens' lives is extremely steep. Too steep to be sustainable in the long term. If Putin doesn't watch it Ukraine and Russia may one day have similar population numbers.
This is the 4th time putin made a nobody the defense minister, its because its the most powerful position in russia and Putin is scared for a coupe
Ваши познания о России забавны, Шойгу наоборот приблизили к себе, он никуда не ушел от власти)
That's the dumbest reasoning i've ever heard when the real reason is quite simple. The Russian military industrial complex isn't very efficient, so he put an ecomomist in charge to make it more efficient. Like sh*t bro you don't have to read between the lines for everything because sometimes there's nothing between the lines to read.
@@killman369547 no its making sure there isn't a concentration of power, thats why also a lot of soigus deputy's have been arrested
I think a million dollars in cash and gold in an "emergency exit" suitcase is pretty normal in Russia.
"I don't think that someone who is close to the top would be so careless as to, not just leak the nuclear secrets, but to like keep evidence of that leak in their home somewhere..."
This seems to be a common theme between the US and Russia.
I'm just a guy. So I'll leave it up to security and legal experts to trace such reckless and criminal mishandling of sensitive documents back to its oranges.
Putin preparing for physical attacks on the West:
“Putin is plotting ‘physical attacks’ on the West, says GCHQ chief”.
Recently an arsonist working for Wagner arrested in the UK.
he was gonna attack UK with matches???
The size of the losses on the field happened as Putin makes these changes. Who will be responsible for that?
Competence isn't more than important than Loyalty until it is.
The 42nd Mechanized Brigade was left to defend Liptsy and the surrounding area on its own. After the words: “Chile, we must leave,” the 42nd Kraken terrorist organisation fled all the way to Russian Tyshky, so there are currently no more battles in this area.
Putin is heartbroken for firing his boyfriend, shoigu.
Remember George Marshall ? How many generals did he fire again?
True, but how many were replaced with men who had no military experience?
@@stevenleslie8557 Eisenhower wasn't seen as "battle" experienced. He however excelled where it was most necessary.
Not unlike what is happening with the Russian "reshuffle".
And many of the generals "replaced" were not retired but moved around.
I think ( as if my opinion matters ) that you are partially on the right track.
Almost every week you & others show footage from russian serving personnel bitching about the conditions on the front .
On top of that we get daily feeds of returned service personnel being deprived of the promised reimbursements & even medical care
And then there are the daily feeds of relatives & family seeking information about front line troops or complaining that compensation is inadequate or refused.
You will note that the new man addressed this in his first speech to the parliament .
IMHO putin is looking for a way out that will allow him to remain in power so he is purging everyone who knows he ignored the advice from his generals and took the advice from the insergents he sent in to create the lie that generated the reason for the SMO
So every one who knows about the covert destabilization operations in Ukraine has to go as does every one who knows the invasions was putin's decision alone .
So now he can blame a stack of generals ( who will vanish shortly ) do a "humane" withdrawal without too much back lash from the people .
I am sure he has one eye on the protests in Georgia and both he & Lukashenko are not happy about it and worried it may spill into Belarus or even the whole Federation of Fear .
Remember it is not only body bag stuffings that is coming from the other republics and there are growing separatist movements in most of them watching closely the diminishing number of tanks & APCs that could be used against them.
I did not know The Finance minister resigned. I heard she wanted to leave when the war began but Putin wouldn't let her.
Elvira's gone?
Ukr intel helped this along too...brilliant!
and telegram….his actual words in this video. This guy is ridiculous
Ukraine Intel. Yeah, they're pretty sharp. Filthy losers.
You really need to listen to people that understand Russian politics and don't think as Westerners.
It is closer to a Mafia run operation with inside clics.
Shoigu was in a position of great power. He was removed and his clic needs to be eliminated. If needed he will take the fall.
This new Minister ideas are well known. His job is indeed to find money to keep the "specially idiotic operation" going and preserve the regime. Which means they are struggling with money.
He is an old guy (older than he looks) and he will do what he knows. Russian economy will become more "Sovietized". Didn't work before and even less in the current world. Personally I suspect that Putin will try to get China's financial support, which would mean that Russia would become a Chinese vassal state (so much for the Russkiy-Mir).
This war depends on wether the Western countries call or fold. Russian economy is in shambles, this agression is not sustainable, contrary to what they want us to believe. China depends on the West just as much as the West still depends on China.
Don't fold.
Yeah, I understand you. Russians are bad, but Ukrainians are best. No corruption, nothing.
We should really consider that he is filling the defense ministry with yess men that are less likely to oppose him or block pushing the button!
Thanks Paul. First, the changes sound like a purge. Second, the Jury's very much out on Belousov. Some ay he'll help Russia like Albert Speer. However, several economists are arguing Belousov is a hard core socialist and economic centralist. His reforms will take time to implement and be the Soviet Union 3.0, with comparable results.
What is even more surprising is that this is taking place just as Russia has launched multi-front spring offensives. Normally such purges either take place _well before_ such moves so the new leadership can demonstrate its abilities (or not) or _after_ those moves so they can take the blame for the failures.
It's because of his new election and the wording he used to campaign, such as stability and stuff like that. Everything he's been doing, this as well, has continued to have the same wording, and that kind of wording is mainly PR for the domestic audience. So Putin can get them all to say he did something about this or that issue.
Warthog defense said construction conspiracy
Great that it's not like this "total war" thing backfired the last time it was tried.
Don't worry. It's fine. Everything's going according to plan.
alternatively, Putin could be promoting officers who have proven to be good commanders.
Gerasimov is still the theatre commander.
Surovikin is sidelined. Right now he's on some sort of advisory committee having to do with Russian air defenses.
Teplinsky, I dunno where he is but he is a capable commander.
Either Surovikin or Teplinsky would be effective theatre commanders & that should concern Ukraine. If you're Kyiv then you want to see Gerasimov keep his job, mainly because he's not very good at it.
Russia and logistics are two words that fits badly together.
Vlad is not the most rational type person.
People who want to be big want to be gone quickly also.
Yes, but Zelensky is no longer allowed to leave Kiev.
Shoigu couldn’t get the ammo.
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A group of Ukrainian troops in the east of Chasov Yar found itself in tactical encirclement, the DPR security forces reported. They also added that the Ukrainian Armed Forces transferred the personnel of at least three brigades from Chasov Yar to Kharkov, which of course opens the road to Chasov Yar.
The Minister of Defence is the most powerful person in Russia and the only real threat to Putin. Putin has never assigned someone to that position with any military experience. They have always been unknown nobodies suddenly becoming the Minister of Defence. But they were loyal and naive and that qualifies for Putin. Until he doesn't feel comfortable about his own security. Shoigu hasn't got any real power anymore and he's isolated now that his friends are gone. One false move and Shoigu is a gonner.
Put that back up your a$$ where you got it. Shoigu is now running the military industrial complex. It's a huge, high profile job. I know, it's complicated.
@@dennisyoung7363Shoigu is not running anything. The whole reason an economist is replacing him is to make weapons production more economical. The new guy is going to kill development projects and consolidate production to achieve economies of scale to increase Russian military production without increasing costs.
@@kurousagi8155 It's a little more complicated than that. It has to be balanced with the civilian economy. Shoigu's job is running the MIC.
@@dennisyoung7363Konstantine of Inside Russia says that Shoigu’s new position is not even close to as lucratively kleptocratic. The new position is not a promotion. It isn’t quite being pushed out of a window. It’s a bit window adjacent, though.
@@dennisyoung7363Shoigu is now sat next to a 5th floor window. Bits of paperwork will pass over his desk but he doesn't get to make any decisions - his replacement as Minister for War and Genocide does that.
Situation in the Kharkov direction 11:00 CET: In Volchansk the center was taken into semi-encirclement, because it was pretty difficult for Russian troops to get closer due to the active work of snipers. On Lipchansky there are no significant changes, Russian assault operations are going on. Tanks and infantry were hit in Vesyoly, and artillery and aviation have been operating in Glubokoye the whole morning. The “X-guides” of the “North” group destroyed the GUR “Kraken” in the area, which initially prevented the Russians from working in Volchansk.
As I understand it Shoigu has not been kicked out but moved to another leadership position. He may be placing him in an area he needs more "loyalty". Putin's largest threat is internal not external.
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Right outta stalins play book 🤣
🤦♂️ please take 💊💊💊 three times a day . If the delusion persists contact your Doctor ASAP
@@Peacewar2020you first
@@Cthulhuwarlord Considering your comment of - how many days are Russia into they’re 3 day SMO - seems your already under medication 💊
@@Peacewar2020 nah, more of using common sense unlike yourself
@@Cthulhuwarlord Common Sense 😂 is that the cope word for your under medication?
The obvious reason for the changes: it is his new term and always there are changes at that time. Longer term, he is changing the focus to post war (assuming NATO backs down, which is done deal if you look or talk to people inside).
Presenting Shoigu as 'fired' is a misrepresentation. He has even more power now. You can do better.
These guys should not take any plane trips soon.
The state security council is a higher position 😎
They should rename it to the Ministry of Offense, because that's all they do.
"Ministry of Meat" is more accurate.
The KBG clan is the purging the other clan. Great news for Ukraine and the free world!
No use removing the puppet when it’s the same clown pulling the strings 😂😂😂
The way of Stalin
You are very negative to Sergei Shoigu that got promoted to a interesting job, which includes development of new weapons and technology.
We have already seen Sergei Shoigu have visited the Fab manufacturer and made those dumb bombs precision glide bombs.
A lot more interesting job than all the boring administration paper work.
Please give a shout out to Jake Broe's birthday NAFO donation drive. We are approaching $600,000. 25 NAFO trucks and a pile of drones are the goal.
Tzar in the making
6:02 the election is done genius
Little Stalin
Don’t talk about Zelensky that way lol, when are they holding elections! Never, Zelensky is so Democratic that he kidnaps men off the streets ships them off to front line to die by force.. that’s not a dictator lol, Stalin was Georgian not Russian
Removing bodies that don’t want him to press the red button?!
russia is weak lol
KINDA LATE IN THE GAME TO PUT A BEAN COUNTER IN CHARGE OF ARMAGEDDON
Putin's Robert McNamara.
TBH this guy isn't going to succeed in rooting out corruption in the Russian armed forces. The commander in chief sets the tone & the culture of his or her armies by what they themselves do, & Putin is probably still stealing, still siphoning money from his Federal apparatus.
If the boss is dirty the underlings will be just as dirty or they'll be dirtier.
Shoygu is given a "do nothing job"??? He already had a do nothing job.