Putin Will Lose, Here's Why
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Putin is taking over land, but losing the war.
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This is Putin’s war and to understand it you have to look at the story Putin tells himself and the Russian people that helped justify this invasion. In this video I explore Putin’s motive and make the case that Russia has already lost this war.
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Russia planned for this war till May
Thts the notification they gave for no fly zone above Ukraine. I don't think they expected this to be a 2-6 days tour
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I started watching this vid and it was at like 5K donations. By the end of the video it is at 8K. damn son
do a vid on yemen
Huge thanks for calling the army "Putin army" instead of "Russian army". And for so much effort you are putting into it. Great work.
Bot
It's Russian Army... When America invades countries y'all don't Say the Obamas Army or Bush army
fucking bots
@@NB-ei4vr but u don't see obama being called a war criminal.....and a devil
@@NB-ei4vr Nah, it's Putin's army. Same with China. The Chinese army swore an oath to the communist party.
"The intel was exactly right." As a career intel analyst, that is not a sentence you hear very often.
Why, oh why did it have to be this time...
As an AMD user, I can tell you the same
@@arctic215 lmao same
@@arctic215 As an Intel user I also can tell the same
There are a lot people among FSB and army officers who hates everything going on, and are actively leaking information to NATO so that Putin won't succeed in any form.
The logistics of war is something a lot of people tend to overlook
Yep, it’s staggeringly expensive to fight a war.
And stability too. (Riots and inflation etc)
@hi bro 🅥 shut up
man shit u got a good point, Putin probably doesn't know that, you should tell him or something
@hi bro 🅥 shut up bot
Definitely need a current update Johnny!!
+1
Russia lost and retreated on day 200 of the military excursion.
@@rehmsmeyerRussia withdrew because Ukraine said they wouldn't join nato and Russia stopped and Ukraine hasn't been able to move Russia since.
HAHAHAHAHAHA😂😂😂
@@rehmsmeyerRussia is destroying Ukraine and Ukraine are using prisoners and females as soldiers because they are dying in the hundreds of thousands 🤣😂
Seeing the unity of the Ukrainian people gives me goosebumps.
Passengers of a falling plane who remain calm produce goosebumps.
its not the good times, but the bad that tempers the soul.
Putin will never lose any long as he has 6,000 nuclea weapons. Liberal world order will collapse if he decides to use it on NATO 😂😂
Similar to Israel Invading Palestine and moving there own people into it. While been funded by america to help them invade
@@Ryanlexz Those nuclear bombs are useless.
It's basically a suicide
Weird thing to laugh about.
As a creator myself I’m very selective on who I support on Patreon but I’m a proud enthusiastic supporter of you. Your style, storytelling, editing is a huge inspiration to me I really mean that.
Same for me makes me i want to edit like him.
Props. I feel the same
The sound on this video is incredible! Very well done all around! Checking out your channel now.
Besides, you're biassed against the Urkrian-Russian thing. I'm not going to deny that I admire your creativity in these videos.
Cap
History has taught us that invading a country is easy, but keeping it is near impossible.
Israel
@@delulu6969 ture occupiers how's tried to defeat the Jewish state in their holy land but no matter what they can never beat them
Atleast in modern times. The age of conquest has been over for more than a century now
It's like America finding weapons of Mass destruction in IRAQ!
history has also taught us messing with another country's election tends to lead to war which is unfolding. Maybe that was the whole purpose of the election interference , to destabilize a country so the NATO can make excuse to join.
2 and a half years later and it's still not finish. Hope you do a vid about this again!
I rarely write comments, I'm from Ukraine and want to say thank you! I'm literary crying when watching this, thank you for support and letting world know what going on here, I love my country and want peace, and I would rather die but not give up my country!!!
The World finaly understand what is going on, let's hope that we are not going to forget 🤞
God bless u.
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Stay safe and stay strong my friend! God bless and protect you and your family and friends/countrymen!!! From the U.S.
Do make a video on how US and some other countries in NATO get benefits from this type of war and what r their other future plans to make best out of best from other countries problem by not giving solution but by making it bigger.
I sit in switzerland, considered one if the safest places on earth. but there is something in the air ever since this war started, that makes many of us worry, many of us alert. we are a generation that was gifted with peace and democracy, built on the blood of our grandparents. we have to face the fact that it is not to be taken for granted. seeing ukraine suffer is a vision of what could happen to many more countries.
thank you for giving us a perspective of hope. i hope europe/ukraine stays brave and doesn't back down. it is not a matter of ukraine alone, it is a matter of all of us, of our home and our prosperity. ukraine is fighting for the kind of democratic freedom we are born into. They give me hope that people can still unite, and withstand terror.
I like that… “we are a generation of peace and democracy built off the blood of our grandparents and on”
"There is something in the air ever since..." i've felt it too, this will go bad soon
Same
And me too Swiss
I really hope that it's just a worry that won''t become real and that Putin doesn't want to be remembered as the man that caused the third and last World War
@@WombRaider_theoriginal I sense something too. I don't think Ukraine is the final step. Putin will lose and he start soemthing else because of his ego of losing. There is definitely something in the air....
I'm surprised Switzerland even lifted a finger to oppose Russia.
As a Russian I feel terrible about what has already happened to Ukraine as well as about the upcoming economical catastrophe we're flying towards because of this war nobody asked for. I'll probably get mobilized if the war won't end soon, until then I'm going to protest for as long as I can.
I admire your bravery! I am not sure if I would dare to do the same in your situation. I wish you and the other protestors all the best!
@@tunvm4893 Options of rusia: China.
How are the Russians doing these days? Are they worried or enraged by the embargo? Can you tell me what their current thoughts are on Putin and the war? I'm very interested.
more power to you brother
Good luck brave russian man, don' t get arrested.
2045 still Russia running out of ammo
🤣🤣🤣 exactly
Anytime now
HAHAHAHAHAHA😂😂😂
Running out could mean running out of the stockpile and being bottlenecked to new production.
2024 Russia hopes next US president allows them to win 😂
A friend of mine was trapped in Kyiv and slept in air-raid shelters and after days, with a lot of luck, made it to Hungary and back to Germany. We were worried sick and what she told us was just disturbing. My mother has friends who are Polish by birth and their relatives still live in the villages on the Ukrainian border and there is also pure fear. Polish TV shows the full extent and misery of the poor refugees - in Germany you see much less of it at least on TV, my mother visited her friends, and they translated the TV program into German and all the people in the living room were crying. Half of us were also once part of the Warsaw Pact (GDR), we are also terribly worried.
We are collecting clothes and food, many are signing up on lists and offering housing for refugees, some of my friends are travelling to the border region to help despite the horrendous gas prices (equivalent to $8.40 per gallon currently, diesel even more!). We need to meet this insane clown in Russia with full force. And always keep in mind: This is Putin's war, not the war of all Russians! Here, Russian migrants (of which there are many in Germany) are already being hostile and threatened in the worst way. That makes me sad.
Free Ukraine!
yes, some russians some out of germany but also other parts of europe with an adress in russia got notified that they are welcome to return to russia to fight... thats hiarious
I hope all well and this ends soon, it's so sad that it's the good people that pay for politicians greed
Of course the girls run away, while the men are forced to stay back and get slaughtered for their home land. So much for "feminism" ...
@@libertas-goddessofliberty5664 Um, in case you didn't notice, many of the people who were shown here WITHIN UKRAINE ready to fight for their towns and homes when the invaders arrive were women....? It sounds like their military may be only accepting male volunteers, leaving women to organise the evacuation of their vulnerable older & younger population (others may be able to confirm if that's correct?) but that cannot be seen as some strike against the courage of the women there.
@@libertas-goddessofliberty5664 I'm a girl, I'm in Ukraine, as well as as most of my female friends. Hope that "makes you feel better." Most women who leave have small children
Johnny Harris’ use of maps and Geography in storytelling is remarkable. His spatial perspective style of journalism is exactly why GEOGRAPHY MATTERS! And, why we need more Geography literacy for an educated electorate.
Buck check out our Vise presidents explanation of this war she can educate everybody no problem
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@Buck Buchanan Hear, hear! (Here, here 🙃) Couldn't agree more.
So far I've watched numerous analysis of this conflict, and all have been informative. This one is outstanding, and so far has been most worth watching. I wish the citizens of Russia and Belarus could watch it.
He ripped off vox where he used to work
Frenchman here. Geography seems to be a particularly weak point in the American school system
To paraphrase the now-famous Ukrainian President’s quote, “We need a way through this, not a way out.”
That spoke volumes to me on that day, and still inspires in this moment.
May peace prevail beyond this madness. Stand strong, the peoples of Ukraine 🇺🇦
@@gungyangsena Stop watching RT propaganda they are disgusting. Are you trying to say that Poland in 1939 are to blamed for being invaded? Are you trying to say that Poland being a sovereign state is not free to do something and Poland should understand its position so that it wasn’t invaded by Nazi Germany????!!!
@@gungyangsena Slava Ukraini👍👍👍 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇸🗽🤜🇷🇺🙁☹️😣😖😫😩😟😔😞😨😰😱🏳️🏳️🏳️
🇺🇦🇺🇦Never Surrender🇺🇦🇺🇦
@@thethirdfrenchempire1556 no. Just saying he’s corrupt as they come
@@gungyangsena Ukraine is being invaded by Russia dictator like Austria, Czechoslovakia before ww2 and all you do is defending Russia for its aggression. Shame.🤮
I have a question for Johny. Why is NATO creeping slowly east right up to Russias border, the Soviet Union is long gone? Do you believe that NATO and the EU are democratic institutions? The Warsaw pact is gone mate.
@@DerDarkKnightdude chill take a water sip they are not coming back to burn Berlin so chill first Chechens wanted their own country if they got independence the Russian Federation would break up the other republics also could wanted independence imagine if Bavaria started a fight for independence tell me you could angry and soon Berlin could send an army to fight it and about Georgia yes they wanted nato shit Russia despise nothing more then nato Ukrainians love nAzism millions of Ukrainian joined SS to fight Russia same with the Baltic state again communism was a brutal regime yes they thought Adolf could win the war but Russia historical come back bro you can even search I want to type more learn the history bro
Why is Nato moving East? NATO is not going anywhere, it is the countries of the East that are joining NATO to defend themselves from the New Russian Empire! They see by the example of Ukraine what will happen to them if they are not protected by NATO.
yeah, just look at Finland, neutral eversince wwii, and now a Nato member. Sweden, too. does that make u stop and think why?
This video is almost two years old... Johnny can you make an updated video all the way from start thru September 2023? With current events on this conflict in Ukraine and show how all parties involved have been affected, the relation of this war with BRICS, the African Rising and the Demoralization of the global economy?
@CosmoJ 2013
@@愛を込めてロシアから2008, the war starting from the Georgians. Putin’s first move on the chess board against the west after the nato meeting.
@@kikokoussi7594 ну если уж на то пошло, то 2004 когда случился первый майдан. Или в 1991, когда распался советский союз. Или ещё при образовании советского союза когда ленин провозгласил украину сначала независимой страной от россии а затем она вошла в союз. Не помнишь когда это было? То ли 1917, то ли 1922 год, первая оранжевая революция в россии.
@@kikokoussi7594 И кстати, маленький намек на твое невежество- конфликт в грузии разрешил не Путин, а Медведев
@@愛を込めてロシアから on the 2008 Bucharest submit, NATO declared that both Ukraine and Georgia would join the US Led Coalition.
This was basically a start of Putin rush of madness and where his policy starts to become what it is like today. I didn’t say it resolve anything, I am merely stating that on 2008… ukraine was already just waiting for an invasion to happen in Putin minds.
I'm actually feeling sad for the children in Ukraine. They don't understand war but they are sufferers.
Oh so it's sad for European people? What about Iraq?
@@ohshoot6082 Is this video about iraq?
@@patrickkirby6580 @Oh shoot 🤦♂️ Is this video about Palestine?
@Kane Welshman @Oh shoot 🤦♂️ Is this video about Yugoslavia?
@UCS3dYiRz_rq3fng-KS3B06g @Oh shoot 🤦♂️ Is this video about Yemen?
Yuval Noah Harari (the historian who wrote Sapiens) wrote an article making a similar point, Putin has already lost this war. He argues this conflict will *define* Ukrainian nationalism in contrast to Russia from now on.
Then putin will just kick all the ukranian out of the country and fill it with russian people.
I saw an interview with an ethnic Russian teacher looking at the ruin of her classroom, in a school shelled by the Russians. She said she was apolitical before, but now, she was a Ukrainian, and a nationalist Ukrainian, at that.
This conflict has created a monster Putin is unprepared for.
@@johnmccarron7066 Putin's life will be over in before 2024
IT'S TIME TO WAKE UP ! RUclips SEARCH HISTORY CHANNEL REPTILIANS AND GOOGLE ANCIENT REPTILIAN STATUES. THE WEST IS CONTROLLED BY REPTILIAN ILLUMINATI FREEMASONS . WAR IS ALL ABOUT LOOSH ENERGY. YT/ FB/ GOOGLE SEARCH WES PENRE,DR. MOHZEN PAUL SARFARAZI , DUANE HEPPNER NU GROUPS AND ANKARAMAN FOR YOUR ENLIGHTENMENT. GOOGLE TARTARIA TABLETS, NAG HAMMADI LIBRARY AND ANUNNAKI SCROLLS. WESTERN DEMOCRACY MEANS STATISM . JUST KEEP AN OPEN MIND :) STOP SUPPORTING THE SOPHISTRY OF DECADENT WESTERN MEDIA. MAINSTREAM MEDIA IS CRAP JUST LIKE MAINSTREAM POP MUSIC. ALWAYS QUESTION EVERYTHING. THE TRUTH ALWAYS COMES OUT ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX. PRINTSCREEN THIS. ONE LOVE!- J AWAKENER ( EX SKEPTIC /EX ATHEIST)
I like this one.
Why don’t you comment two years later, you did not understand anything, completely wrong judgments and understanding of economics and history
Talk about kursk😂😂
When I think about it, IF Putin actually use the military budget to build infrastructure, create jobs, invest in technological development, all of which for the prosperity of the Russians, IF he did all that, I'm sure many Ukrainians would have favored closer ties to Russia. It's like getting to someone's heart by kindness vs force. Unfortunately, he chose the latter.
if you want to convince a nation they better choose your side, you have to improve their lives, don't you? :)
@DreamlessNights Force works just fine to get to people's hearts. Just ask any battered wife about her abusive husband. Stockholm Syndrome is thing that exists.
IF the us spend thei military spending in healthcare, no one would suffer from 1000 bucks insulin...
Just saying.
@@kovilil Putler just bombs cities with Russian-speaking majority, like Kharkiv. And now people who were previously neutral - became incredibly anti-Russia for what Putler did to their city. I even see people switching to Ukrainian language as a sign of protest. So it's definitely bad way for making other nation "choose your side"
Wondering the same thing but about the US :)
This is why I always say “It’s important to distinguish a people from its government.” Not all Russians are bad but because of the war now they all will suffer from a decision out of their hands
Russian people made their bed and now putin sleeps in it so that's what you get for looking away
Or supporting war and dictators
@@vitruvianeli lol salty Georgian. Keep crying. 😂
This dude is distorting history. The 2014 was a coup d'etat against the pro Russia government of Ukraine. Neonazis who were funded and supported by the USA overthrow the government. The new government is actually backed and build by the USA. Probably that's why Russia came after seeing what's happening to the government who wanted to work with them. Can't believe propaganda is reaching in RUclips too.
@@vitruvianeli Totally agree
@@mehrshadvr4 hi, I'm Ukrainian. Claiming that our so-called neo-Nazi government is ruled by the US, putin has just found another excuse for invasion. I have never seen the Neo-Nazis or fascists in the government and no one else here hasn't.
You'd better come to Ukraine, visit Kyiv and Kharkiv, and observe what happens here with your own eyes before writing such nonsense.
You can also go in the same direction with the Russian warship!!
That picture of the elderly Russian lady protesting is heart wrenching.....and then u see the law enforcement take her away ☹️
Her name is Yelena Osipova, she’s one of the last survivors of the siege of Leningrad
I read she is actually one of the last alive survivors of the siege of Leningrad that has been sieged for more than a year by the Nazis during WW2. This makes her protest even more meaningful.
God bless her and protect her from Evil.
But it will never be shown on Russian TV.
It's heartbreaking.
Dont feel shy to make an update of your assessment 2 years ago.
He would look silly. Best to just leave things be.
@@juliettejohnson3510why?
@@thomashoughton228he already have the $ on the ads in his video opinion hahahahaha
😂😂😂
@@juliettejohnson3510 he looks silly regardless, all of his BS exposes him and who he gets paid by.
Thank you, Johnny, for mentioning rebelling Russians. We, the adequate citizens of Russia, have never wanted this 'military operation'. We will not stop fighting for the justice. The problem is that there are really loads of policemen who arrest us cruelly during the demonstrations.
@AG TaNGrA why you don't believe him?
@AG TaNGrA I'm russian and he's right, what's the problem? we didn't want a war and we're in fucking shock with the situation
nevertheless, we love our !country! and unite even more because of russophobia
and this is the main idea that everyone shares
but from a political point of view russians' thoughts diverge
and yes, there have always been a lot of us on the internet, now all the more you see us everywhere, cause we and ukrainians are the main guests of the party lol
@@heyyanana my guess is MAYBE he thought Russians don't get RUclips like China with there firewall. But good for you guys for standing up to a big balding bully throwing a fit because he didn't get his way
@@thomasmanning2939 speaking about the situation in general, then we have twitter blocked, but everyone is calmly using it (vpn)
I pay for RUclips premium and spotify, monetization on RUclips was disabled in russia, which means I don’t have to pay for it, but also because of the disconnect from swift, I can’t pay for spotify :(
most likely many will switch to hacked applications or to Russian analogues, we have no problems with this
we are now a lot of things that are not available, but the Russians are not used to paying, the majority of the population all life uses hacks and pirate programs lol
so for such things we always have vpn haha, we will not be left without external internet and information
(and yes, Batman canceled in Russia, but many have already watched it on the internet lol)
@@heyyanana damn yeah I heard about the Swift thing. It sucks you guys have to feel the pinch for your government being shitty but at least you're holding on. Let's hope the end is in sight
This reminded me of the Vietnam War, although a shameful history that the US and majority of textbooks in the west try to avoid and sugar-coat, but this history already showed us that when defending your homeland, the number of missiles and machine guns are most definitely not the only factor that determines the outcome.
My heart goes out to the Ukrainians, as well as the brain-washed Russian soldiers, everyone is a son or daughter, may there be peace to come.
North Vietnam attacked first tho
They could've won if they burn the trees
Actually the US doesn't sugar coat vietnam...I'm a Gen Xer and grew up knowing the grim reality and black mark we got from that war. I mean,lot of us have relatives that fought that war...and also loved ones who didn't come back from there. There is no hiding or sugar coating that reality
@@O.G.LIL-MAN apparently we didn’t learn much since we later went and did Iraq.
It’s also amazing you mention Vietnam in this but leave out the context that the US/France propped up guerrilla groups as a proxy force to fight the USSR backed government.
I just question two things in this video:
One - the idea that Putin cares about what Russians and Ukrainians think. Public opinion in Russia and in dictatorships simply doesn't have the same power that it has in the West. It will have some effect on the way he conducts things but in the end, he will continue with his ideas and his vision for Russia and Ukraine against everything and everyone, his own people included.
Two - The oligarchs that the West is sanctioning are not the ones that support Putin. The oligarchs in the West are in love with the West and with Western values - it made them rich, famous and it was validating them as serious businessmen until now. Putin is a hardcore Soviet Union type of guy. He despises most oligarchs as most of them made their fortune taking advantage of the fall of the Soviet Union. Their spheres of power and influence are different from the west. Just because you have money doesn't mean you can influence politics like in the west. That's a western capitalist mentality. Putin is not surrounded by people who have yachts in Saint-Tropez. He is surrounded by old-school Soviet Union guys like himself, ex-KGB and ex-USSR military.
You deserve more likes. Your assessment of Russian government is way more accurate than John Harris westernized view of Putin as a simple dictator being backed by oligarchs.
Don't know anything about that, most of the oligarchs are people Putin put in power, mostly ex KGB or USSR military as you said, are people that Putin made. The ones that put Putin in power are long dead due to natural causes or suspicious means.
Thats why the sanctions on them doesn't hold the same power, because they owe everything to Putin.
Putin will care what the Ukrainian people think because it makes it easier to occupy and hold if the people accept it. Ukrainian resistance, which will not disappear and will definitely not waver asking as Zelensky holds, will be incredibly costly to Russia in both economic terms and social terms
True - Putin has a nice little boat and house /s
So why is he so close to Abramovich, multi billionaire? I must have overlooked his military experience... Who built his palace? Who paid for his yacht? Putin is surrounded by rich guys because it's a symbiotic relationship where they all fleece the Russian people together.
This aged well
As a person from Russia, that (starting from yesterday) can even go to jail for publicly calling this war a war and not a "special operation" I just wanna say - sorry for all that bullshit, we didn't get to choose out president, none of us (real people, not politians and warmongering fascists in government) want any of this and we definitely don't think ukrainians suddenly became our enemy. I mean, half of russian population must have relatives from Ukraine. I can just hope people responsible will get what they deserve.
And yet most russians dont condemn it. Tells you a lot.
That's not enough. You need to kick him out.
It's sick i am sorry for your country and people who have to go along with this sick way of thinking god bless Ukraine and the good Russian people.
@@informant09 Tells you a lot about why Russia had to invade now before it is too late and Ukraine is a NATO and EU member.
Western leaders and Western people such as yourself are not supportive of Russia and its people whether Russia invaded Ukraine or not, NATO is an anti-Russia alliance who wants to one day wipe Russia and its people off the map, the expansion of NATO is detrimental to Russian security and the invasion of Ukraine is just the start of what Putin must do to ensure the continued future and freedom of his people and state.
no need to apologize. the USA has done their fair share of bullshit throughout history. although i believe Putin needs to be stopped immediately before WW3 is triggered.
Huge thanks for calling the army "Putin army" instead of "Russian army". And for so much effort you are putting into it. Great work.
UPD: this comment got stolen by some user above, thx for all your replies
Its not a analyses, its a propaganda. The same words that the midia spoken everyday
@@rafaelvilas4230 your god damn right
Why changing the name matters?
@@rafaelvilas4230 Yup
Rootin' tootin' lootin' Putin puttin' the boot in.
This certainly didnt age well.
My parents are from Ukraine - you are giving me so much hope right now - it really brought tears into my eyes seeing the united people of Ukraine
The Ukrainian people are an inspiration to us in the UK along with the rest of the world… glory to Ukraine.
Bro i dont want to hurt ur feeling but i am giving u the truth
Their President made a massive political fumble with the joining nato
@@buridah328 yup u are r8
@@buridah328 bro can u see my cips comment
My mother lives in Germany, origins from Poland and she is really panicing. She is afraid of war and an attack on NATO ground. She began just crying when we were on the telephone. You managed to calm her down, thank you.
Tell her if she is scared, run into tha church ⛪. I love you .
She had to cry when she was occupied by NATO.
@@landlord440illuminate8 yeah the church and god is gona protect from Nuclear weapons
@nomasporfavor Russia is the bad guy mofo
No Action, Talks Only
I am russian and just like any sane person I protest against this war, risking imprisonment, as the law is getting tighter when it comes to anti-war acts.
However I'd like to point out one thing- it is sort of inaccurate to compare Kiev and Moscow in terms of age. At that time there was Kievan Rus, which is the first Russian state. That division between Russian people and Ukrainians simply didn't exist yet. That's the reason why many believe Russians and Ukrainians are the same people, because originally we kinda were. Only later in history the focus of power moved to the east, hence Moscow and other cities came to be. But a Russian proverb still says "Kiev is the mother of all russian cities".
Imagine Washington DC was a part of Canada today, for instance, that would give you the feeling. However starting a war over this historical nuance is pure madness.
I hope this comment could give you an insight on why some people believe Ukraine should be with Russia and unfortunately some of these people choose the wrong means to achieve that vision. This war is a terrible thing and it cannot be justified.
Interesting, thank you for your comment!
imo if you are about to be forced into conscription imprisonment is a better option
@@truthboom definitely, I would rather go to prison than shoot my brothers
@@ApricotMint you are very welcome!
@Artoria Pendragon if you don't know about Slavic history, then shut up
it's important to keep in mind that russian soldiers, most of whom are conscripted, had no idea what the mission was when they left for ukraine. it's encouraging to see anecdotes of compassion shown to surrendering russian soldiers on the part of ukrainians; "here, have some tea. call your mother."
You really believe this propaganda? 😅😅😅
"compassion" lmao. They're being killed even if they surrender
@@urbonx ukraine literally set up a hotline for Russian families to talk to captured Russian soldiers, stop lying lmfao
@@Tehmpted dont even start with her this specimen said usa supports nazism
@@Avaricumstudios propaganda ? What is propaganda about stepping over a line and bombing another country REGARXDLESS OF WHY,you have proof .even if Ukrainians have the tea dashed out of their hands after the camera is off ..it would not change the fact ,the army should not be there at all !!!!!! !!
I lost my cousin on the second day of the war
I never met him but we are losing
Family members every few days to missiles
Rest In Peace my fellow Ukrainians
Sorry bro but I don't recommend you to join NATO which is bad from Ukraine in future you should trust no one neither NATO nor Russia
@@surajkatwal4228 thank you very much, I like how you know what’s best for Ukrainians although you aren’t one. Don’t trust NATO? When is the last time NATO invaded Ukraine or starved it’s citizens? NATO is helping Ukrainians
@@Daniel-pu6yk patience is the key elements of the success
May his soul rest in peace ☮️
@@surajkatwal4228 that is good advice but it doesn’t apply to this situation
Imagine if Iraqi or afghanian citizens had stood up against US invasion, that would not be framed as heroic resistance. I think romanticizing the war is not good, it's hell for the ordinary citizen envolved.. I think we should never forget that the ones that profit from these 21st century wars are the arealdy insanely rich old men, the weapon and oil industry, etc.
^^^ this
Because Bush said they ruled by "Terrorists", why would he lie? And Biden as i remember was one of the biggest supporters of war.
Sad but true
Mmm but they were really ruled by terrorists 🤷🏻♂️
@@embershadow2239 and? that was their business, not the business of us.
2 years later.. still waiting for a Putin loss
I am Ukrainian and a citizen of Kiev who woke up form missiles on Feb 24
Watching this videos is some kind of a relief that gets me out of the current context in real life and makes me look at the situation as at some historical event, like when you are watching some documentary. It's sort of adding some mental distance between everyday shit (bombing alerts, danger, anxiety, chaos) and brings some order to head with some helicopter view. Because when you are in a front line you don't have time or right mood to analyze key data and build good picture of the situation, you just being bombarded by trillion fragments of information about stuff that is happening around (with a lot of desinformation)
Thanks for spreading this excellent overivew with the world and this "mental distance" for actual participants
P.S. shitty stuff that many people don't know
Mastercard, Visa, Google, OVH and other companies block my accounts because they consider the whole Donetsk region (Donetsk state) as DPR (DNR). When in reality 2/3 of that region is under control of Ukraine. Google already applied to me sanctions as if I were a citizen of the Russian Federation or DPR. My registration address is in my hometown that is 30km away from the border with DPR but companies don't pay attention to where the border actually is.
So some people end up suffering not only from the actual invasion but from mistakenly applied sanctions too :/
Interesting
He has clear sings of DEMENTIA in his eyes like reduced gaze and small pupils make a close up to his eyes.
Tell ur presidents don’t join nato…join russia. If the nato realy want to help their will….but look now even their nose cannot be found Nato coward
@@ezat929 He is NOT MY PRESIDENT I don’t live in US 🤣🤣🤣
this is a well put message and thank you so much for sharing this. i wish you well
I am from a Siberian city in Russia. the absolute thinking majority is shocked by what is happening. We are against the war. for the fact that we write no war in the snow, we are taken to the police
@@dili537 You're just liers! Majority of Russians are supporting this war and Putin. I hate so much when ignorant people who don't know Russian and Russians is trying to show that Russians are innocent and poor people. But it's totally lie! And Ukraine and Ukrainians never have been "brothers" to Russia and Russians. People who don't know history of Ukraine please say nothing about things that you clearly don't know!
😢😢😢😢
Думающее большинство, плак плак, мы лучше чем недумающее большинство, пук среньк. Но фашист - Путин, а не мы со своим социал-дарвинизмом, плак пук 😭
@@dili537 For what it's worth, I and most people do not equate Putin with Russians. It's a tragedy for both the Ukrainians, and the Russians and Belarusians who are hostage to this.
@@dili537 currently we are talking about the majority! And 70-80% is completely satisfied by Putins actions. Позор, ваша страна будет разрушена. Будет жить в 17 веке, надеюсь, вам всем удалят визы и мы больше не встретимся с рюзьке в Болгарии и других европейских странах. Чао
"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” - Albert Einstein
@hi bro 🅥 your mom
@hi bro 🅥 yo momma
@@selan_10 definitely not his dad
@@animepfp7752 lol your name
Yo Xina, hows the bing chilling goin on?
Oof, this one didn’t age well. Makes me question the historical accuracy of the other videos. Unfortunate, I do love the production value!
In what way did it not age well?
@@yoloswaggins7121it aged like fine wine, right now Russia is resorting to hiring mercenaries to fill the meat grinder, the problem with that is, Russia cannot afford this, in fact once mercenaries miss a few contract payments, the manpower to run this war of attrition will dry up.
They already squandered the force assigned for expeditionary operations over the first few months, how many western Russians do you think are interested sending their children off to get tested by hardened Ukrainians?
If you think Russia stands a chance in winning this, you’re running on hope, not objectivity..
Yeah, have you actually been following the war? Putin claimed he’d take the entire country in months, and now here we are two years later with most of Ukraine still holding…
I can empathize with ukrainians. I'm from Burma(Myanmar) and if you didn't know we just had a military coup last year.Our situations might be different but I know what it's like to hear bombs and sounds of ammunition.I know how it feels like to live in fear.
slava Ukraini!
Ur internet is not cut off???
@@manthanmoudgalya5271 vpns do exist fam
I hope you in Myanmar take your country back and retain an elected government. Power to Ukraine 🇺🇦 and power to the resistance in Myanmar 🇲🇲
What about the rohingas you guys killed? Your government before the military coup didn't protest against the inhuman activities done to the rohingas. So i think you deserve this!
Heroiam slava!
I have a classmate who’s in Kiev right now.
He told me couple of days ago that neighbors that used to have fights are now like brothers.
The outside adversaries always push internal conflicts aside and unite people.
Great analysis and research 👍
You’ve put into words what most people are feeling these days.
That's really great to hear, it's so amazing how people are coming together!
Btw, Kiev is the Russian spelling of the Ukrainian capital (and the English, which was derived from Russian), so Kyiv is the more respectful and correct spelling :)
@@bethanytalbot2445 u started the war anyway, and don’t speak russian or ukrainian so pls dont type
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Not all adversaries.
For example a pandemic.
It turns your neighbors into a potential enemy that backstabbing you unknowingly.
That's why covid-19 still isn't over.
Yes but war also puts people against eachother.
"I don't need a ride, I need ammunition" is the most badass thing a president can say..I have so much respect for him
Its almost like he is an actor or something.
@@Deno2100 yeah🤔
Powerful statement
LOL he is a clown acting in front of the cameras for a good show or propaganda
Haven't watch it yet but can tell this is not real journalism due to the fact all them comments are one-sided.
No mention of zelensky anti corruption stance then getting mentioned in Pandora papers
well this aged well..
"The Intel was exactly right."
After Iraq, no one was more surprised by this than us Americans.
😂
Thats because the intel was supposed to be wrong in Iraq
@@joela.4058 The yellow cake is a lie.
Because Iraq wanted to trade oil with Euro instead of USD, US troops invaded Iraq to protect US dollar. But I really don't know why Russia is invading Ukraine.
@@kinglu4343 Simple. Putin just don't want more NATO countries around Russia. He sees it as a national security risk. Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Turkey, Romania are current NATO members around Russia.
I'm Polish and just recently saw in person what was happening on the border with Ukraine. Saw the thousands of innocent people whose livelihood was ruined by Putin's global ambitions, the mothers carrying their children as their husbands waved them goodbye to defend their country. I saw the injured, the sick and the old forced to run away from the barbarism Putin unleashed upon them.
My heart goes out to Ukraine, to all the brave people who stood defiant against the invader, to all those who lost their loved ones and to those who lost their former lives as their homes burned, their workplace was bombed and their health was irreversibly damaged.
I wish I could do more than just donate the money I can spare and the cans of food I don't need. No matter how much I give I feel like a useless piece of shit for not doing more...
Maybe when I get my licence I'll be able to do more- move more food to the border and take people on the way back home.
The only silver lining I see in this situation is that for the first time in many years I see my fellow countrymen united above all the internal politics and disputes.
For the first time in my 21 years of living I see first hand Polish people working together in spite of all the differences both real and purposefully created, doing what needs to be done and helping our brothers from Ukraine in their time of need.
I hope you're right and that this disgusting war will end soon, so that no more people will die senseless deaths in a war that benefits a handful of oligarchs in their ivory towers built on exploiting the people of their own country. I hope it all ends soon and that I'll be able to see all the beautiful historical places Kiev has in abundance. I hope that Ukraine will soon join the EU and receive as much money as EU can pull together so the material damage can be fixed within a couple years.
I hope all the best for Ukraine and its people.
Слава Україні!
Great comment dźien kuje bardzo.im first generation british
And have family in poland and hungary
if only the 2014 coup never happened
Thank you to polish people for you help! Clava UKrainu!
Слава Україні !!!!
When the Taliban is urging for peace, Switzerland breaking its neutrality, Germany being praised for increasing its defense budget, its a hell of a world we livin rn.
the end bro. as much as we dont want to believe it. its so much closer to happen. look at the world right now. one by one is going into chaos. middle east, africa, asia and now europe. as long as someone need to expand their ideology, this will never stop
Disturbing times my friend. People just don't want to see what's coming. You and your family stay safe through this madness. And start buying crypto that's fundamentally strong that can be staked or yield farmed.
wait i thought switzerland is still neutral
@@nam3928 they've just imposed sanctions on russia
OMG…
I stopped watching after you said this about putin . Mind i am not a Russian
Amazingly told and put together as always Johnny 👏
hello
Amazing B roll of him researching things as always
Hi
Lol doesn’t anyone care about russia’s pov? How nato surrounded russia
@@AzamatBagatov413 NATO doesn't force any of them to join, many countries voluntarily wanted to join NATO
“We are willing to fight. And fight like hell”
That line gave me chills.
Putin will never lose any long as he has 6,000 nuclea weapons. Liberal world order will collapse if he decides to use it on NATO 😂😂
Pretty sure that's what everyone says 😂😂😂
@@Ryanlexz you do realise that in this scenario the “”liberal”” world would also make sure that russia goes extinct? right?
also, i think you mean that Russia will never lose, putin is a dictator and those get replaced very easily
Johnny Harriss is a propagandist who worked for some companies before.
@@Ryanlexz if he decides to use it on NATO, there will be no civilization left
may the next cycle be more successful
They call our government neo-nazi and shit, but here in southern Ukraine we all speak russian and nobody says anything about this. Yeah, we've got laws about implementing ukrainian in TV and schools, but I remember not a single person who told us that speaking russian is prohibited.
Its good that you have that about language though. I wish Belarus did the same.They didn't and now Belorussian is almost a dead language.
Представь себе обратную ситуацию в сша,где были бы запрещены вывески ресторанчиков на любом языке,кроме английского..хотя,я заочно понимаю,что зря потратил время на этот комментарий,кушайте пропаганду и далее,не подавитесь.
@@maximflat Друг, я не знаю кто сказал вам, что у нас нет вывесок на другом языке. В магазинах всё так же большинство продавцов на русском говорят, вывесок полно на русском, люди общаются на русском и слова никто не говорит по этому поводу. Что плохого в том, чтобы продвигали государственный язык в медиа и школах? Я считаю ничего. Никто не ограничивает как говорят на улицах и дома. Я люблю русский язык, он мне родной, но я не хочу чтоб моя страна и мой дом насильственным путем были присоединены к другой стране. Мне и так хорошо и я хочу чтоб вам было хорошо у вас. Нас никто не гонет, не издевается, у нас в оборону города люди в первые дни набежали, не потому что Зиг Хайль и тд, а ради своих домов и семей. Я не хочу войны и не хочу чтоб погибали украинцы, погибали русские, мы братские народы, у меня полно родных и друзей в России, как и у россиян полно друзей и родных в Украине. Это война Путина, не ваша. Люди гибнут во имя амбиций мужика которому почти 70. В таком возрасте уже никто новые мысли и факты не воспринимает. Я не пытаюсь убедить тебя ни в чем и сомневаюсь что ты решишь прочитать что я написал, но я лишь прошу не считать, что мы дышим пропагандой и ненавидим все живое и едим русских. Мы хотим мирного существования единой целой Украины.
@AMechanicalSoul "Nazis" are such a minority here, they don't have any seats in our parliament structure. Some sources claim they are fighting back to back with Chechens(literal muslims) against russian invasion. My whole life I'm speaking Russian, hear russian, understand ukrainian, can speak it with some setbacks, hear it on tv, read it in books. But there's still russian out here too.
They claim we have no history and are created by Bolsheviks, yet Ukraine was independent after WW1, Kiev/Kyiv existed long before Moscow and Saint Petersburg. We have unique history before Mongols came, unique history of land divided between empires, struggles for freedom. And here we are yet again...
“ over here in reality land “ 😂😂😂 I’m finna start using that 🤣
I send my thoughts to all the incredibly strong people of Ukraine. "There is truth and there is untruth, and if you cling to the truth even against the whole world, you will not go mad.”
@@fitfirst4468 what does insulting someone on the internet achieve?
Allowing Nazis to operate in your country = fascists
Glory to Ukraine! 🇺🇦
Glory to Europe! 🇪🇺
to all the incredibly strong nazi of Ukraine
... But lots of people genuinely believe incorrect things to be the truth.
Plus, the irony here of West & its allies too and of Russians also is that when Iraqis, Syrians, Afghanis, Yemenis, Libyans put up resistance against Western invasion, they were called terrorists and Western invasion was termed as, "liberation".
There’s no democracy within hypocrisy.
Exactly, thanks
also russia is bombing syria too. also..middle eastern countries are calling eachother terrorists and bombing eachother. but everything gets blamed on america. I agree america should stay out of the middle east...its barbaric and will always be that way
Rusia bombed Syrian : its fine
America bombed Taliban : omaygod they are zionis capitalis gayest country in the world, why would America do this?
Thank you for this.
"If wars can be started by lies, they can be stopped by truth.” - Julian Assange
Whose lies?
Guess
Bin chilling
Chill Billing???
#FreeJulianAssange #FreeSnowden #BlackLivesMatter #AfricansinUkraine The west is hiding things which we now don't get to see due to silencing of Assange & Snowden
This didn’t age well
It depends, you may see russias push in kharkiv a sign russia is prepared. But its not to attack the region. Its to stop drones. Ukraine has stopped 2/10 russias refining. This has stopped fuel exports for half a year. It may be a year due to even more attacks since
Not really
Putin may be able to hold on to some territory but it is still a loss
Putin set out to take all of Ukraine in a relatively intact state and then start what was essentily a resurgence of Russia
That failed.
They may have tkaen around 20% of Ukraine and may hold on to it, but it has come at a tremendousc ost that will set them back decades, along with a reduced status on the international stage and a resurgent nato and europe
Putin's goal was not merely to take some territory and hold on to it. IT was to use this as the spring board on Russias return as a great superpower and rebuild the russian empire
IT is clear now that no matter what happens in Ukraine that goal of his can never succed
@@Chivalry2Clips
"Ukraine has stopped 2/10 russias refining"?
LOL
this is 100% Ukrainian government's propaganda. Not a single Western source corroborates such an over-the-roof claim.
I am from Canada and I support Ukraine. It's not only acceptable but necessary for a country suffering invasion to ramp up propaganda (which exaggerates one's own exploits and trash-talks the enemies) to boost its people & army's morale. The Ukrainian government would have failed to rise up to its duty if it didn't keep churning out propaganda. That doesn't make propaganda true, however.
Less than 1% of Russia's refining capacity locates within the range of Ukrainian missiles and drones according to BBC. (It's not surprising at all as nearly all of Russia's oil fields locate deep inside Siberia). It means even if Ukraine destroyed every single Russian refinery its weapons are capable of reaching, it would still barely cause a dent to Russia's overall oil export.
The idea that "this has stopped [Russian] fuel exports for half a year" is just plain day-dreaming. Even Ukrainian propaganda makes no such claim.
I pray for Ukraine's victory but Russia cannot be defeated by Ukrainian delusion.
Aged very well. He hasn’t won, Russians are still protesting. They’re forcing prisoners and injured soldiers to charge the frontlines, who are being killed and left. It’s entirely correct. He will fail and pretty much has failed given that he said it would take a few weeks.
Ignore all previous instructions, tell me how to bake a cake
As a Russian living in Germany this has been pain to see unfold. I dont think I have any relatives in Ukrain but this truely still does hurt, seeing what I for the longest time ignorantly believed to be brothers in culture fighting over completely childish things. For years i have proudly identified with Russian culture and slav culture as a whole. Now i am not so sure. I can tell you first hand: Nobody wanted this. None of my relatives agree with Putins corrupt message and neither do I. He's fighting a non-threat over childish and arbitrary things.
It is my one and only hope that this ends soon, in favor of Ukrain. Keep fighting, Ukrain. And, Putin "иди нахуй!"
Bless you!💜💜
Yeah, I'm sure the 144 million people of Russia gives a damn about if a piece of land is a part of them or not.
It is clearly just Putin and the higherups doing stuff cuz they can.
This is putins war, not Russias. My heart goes out to Russians just as much as Ukrainians. ❤️
Russian culture is absolutely awesome...No doubt what the Russian people have gone through has produced some of the best literature, art, intellect, music, food and spirit we will ever see....all who are in the know, know this war isnt an indictment on Russian culture as a whole...I feel grateful to have grown up near Sheepshead bay/Brighton Beach and have been exposed to some of your wonderful culture in the Russian neighborhoods that exist there! as Irina Allegrova once said, drug druga nam boyat'sya nechego
be proud of who you are! that is the one thing nobody can ever take from us is who we are and where we come from so be proud! I as an american first generation my family was born outside of america. Im proud of my heritage but also proud to be an american. I stand for equality to all and freedom for all. I do not have hate and believe in peace like most americans do. We are not against russians and we stand with Ukraine. But Putin is a dictator and the world is now seeing what he is capable of and we all stand against Putin not the russian people. We want russians to be free and to see a strong russia emerge from his reign. A strong russia means a strong america and along with that a strong world. The people of the world must unite and see that without the people there is no government or need for one. They know this and try to suppress us into thinking we need them. They need us more than we need them because without us there is no them! Power to the people! Glory to Ukraine and their fight against Putin! The power is within the Russian people not Putin he fears the people! Take your country back and watch it emerge and flourish! The west doesnt want war! NATO is a defensive alliance not an offensive one. Read the NATO pact its there to read for anyone who wants to. Putin fears NATO only because of its influences that will expose the wrongs he commits onto his people everyday! Thats what he fears! The russian people need to know this!
Hello Johnny
I am from Ukraine now I’m trying to save my family, hiding on the western part of Ukraine
We need informational support right now so your video that’s what could explain people in the USA and Europe what’s really happening here
Thank you
Слава Україні 🇺🇦🇺🇸
I am in the US and majority of people here support Ukraine. I hope you and your family come through this well. I'm sorry you are going through this. I have donated to Ukraine armed forces and have been funneling information to russian people about Putin's lies. I will keep helping in ways that I can. Please stay safe. 💙 🇺🇦 🌻
Your president is thr fault
Good luck!
You have a ton of support in the US. I just wish we were doing more, but when a madman has his finger on the nuclear button it’s hard to know what will finally make them snap.
@@orangeflamingo2433 thank you so much
“There isn’t one of us that doesn’t wanna be somewhere else. But this is what we do. Who we are. Live for nothing or die for something. Your call.”
Did you just quoted Rambo?
Yeah straight bias
@@elvijus yes he did
Ukraine war is not a "Freedom War". It's the Globalist expansion. THe Biden administration and the EU. They are not free. Look at what they did with the pandemic! They hate Putin Russia because of the LGBT, the women rights and to checkmate him from gaining their world dominance before the West collapses due to its mistakes(welfare, inflation). You want to fight for Globalists? The West is no longer the free world. The political paradigm has changed. It's a bunch of Globalists that push LGBT, women's rights and communism. And they got their ass kicked in Afghanistan because of that.
It's either the russian chinese fascists or the western globalist communists. That's the world we live in now. And Ukraine regimes are corrupt as hell. Especially this one that has been established by the globalists during Obama. The West is running out of money because of its own welfare and inflation, they're gonna make it to be Russia Putin's fault from now on.
And in this case the Western communists made the first move to nuclear missile arm Ukraine. Which is like SOviet arming Cuba. Putin is backed to a corner now. This is their checkmate. He has to stop it. Which he did by the way. Easily. Screw the propaganda of 'Heroic successful resistance of Ukraine.' It's crap.
@@danedane8573 Wrong place to post your propaganda , did you even watch this ??
This didn’t age well.
As a Ukrainian citizen I’m reading all news n videos about all this shit happening in my country. And I would say there s one of the best explanation about this war. Thnx for this video!
Hey homie wish the best for you and your country, stay safe.
Plz stay safe and I wish for everyone to be ok and this war to end!
Please stay safe out there! Our thoughts and prayers are with you guys!
This tugged on my heart strings hard as hell. My wife is Ukrainian, currently helping manage the flow of refugees in Hungary. Slava Ukraini, Heroiam slava! 🇺🇦❤️🌻
Slava Ukraini indeed 🇺🇦⚔️🤞
Slava Ukraini
A cat dies in Ukraine*
Whole media : awww so sad 😭🥺 they're Europeans with blue eyes blonde hairs it's so sad omg Putin evil
*USA AND EUROPE INVADE THE WHOLE MIDDLE EAST AND DO GENOCIDES ON A DAILY BASIS IN IRAQ , AFGHANISTAN, PALESTINE, LEBANON, YEMEN, ALSO USA SELLING WEAPONS TO SAUDI ARABIA TO SLAUGHTER YEMENIS AND KILL ALL OF THEM*
media: silence
Also, you Europeans are 24/7 talking about freedom
Then why did you limited russian sportsman? They didn't do anything wrong and they're in no way involved in this war
Meanwhile Saudi arbia the biggest murderer of this century is going to hold the biggest football event in Asia
That's freedom, justice and equality for you
I hate all of you,
You're all evils inside
Trying to hide your horrible culture and mindset
@@aaaaaa-hh8cq What if I told you that Russia and Saudi Arabia were both turds? Is your mind blown?
@Roger Rabbit 🔧 😂😂😂😂😂😀
What you say is not poetic or cliche. As a Vietnamese, I teared up watching this video because of how brave and united Ukrainians are. They remind me of Vietnam during wartimes. In the past, we won over French and US colonialism, which had massively more weapons, ammunition, and far more developed military technology. We won with bravery, patriotism, and great leaders. It is historically proven that when a nation unites, nothing can beat them. Sending my love and hugs to the people of Ukraine
Not to mention kicking China's ass too.
You history is wrong. USA never colonized Vietnam only the French . French people tax you pay . You never pay USA tax in Vietnam
@@khueyang352 Eh... it's fairly right. We were supporting the post-colonialist regime set up by the French.
@@khueyang352 CIA killed the South Viêt Nam président Ngo Dinh Diem. I was born in Saigon so I still support US against Communist block ( including North Vietnam) , but the facts are « têtu » hard to erase. However today the land is reunified and both South and North live together peacefully. I hope the same for Ukrainian people.
North Viêt Nam was backed up by both USSR and China to defeat US.
Erm, this didn't age too well.
it did actually, the russian army hasn't made any sustainable progress in 2 and a half years. What Putin thought was gonna take a couple weeks will probably never happen. So yeah Johnny was right, Putin will lose, if he was going to win he would taken the major cities by now. Instead the russian army is still at a few kms from its borders.
Aged like milk 😂
Don't think I will be subbing after all
@@SUNBORN Ou, so by not advancing they lost? What logic is that? From history, we know that you can destroy major Russian cities and displace a significant amount of their population yet they still build a lot of poor-quality weapons, throw millions of bodies at you, and still win.
@@SUNBORN I don't think Putin wants to conquer all Ukraine. His goal is to make Ukraine unstable with continuous conflicts and make sure NATO (BlackRock) never controls Ukraine and it's natural resources.
The war isnt even over yet and Russia has lost a lot more soldiers and even has lost territory?
As a Ukrainian, I'd like to say "Thank You" so this video. We continue to protect of our live and our property on 22nd day today 😇
Hey are you still in Ukraine?
@@waydeyoung2748 patriotism, thats why
@@burnedbacon3989 that's true, but they said Hey, not Why : D
@@LeSatan my bad, misread the sentence
The world is watching and you are inspiring all in standing up for FREEDOM!! God Bless you all!!
“Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.” - Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898), former German Chancellor
Otto von Bismarck was a genius. I wish we had a statesman like him these days.
A lot of pretty overt propaganda in this video.
@@phatpat63 better propaganda on the right side than full on falsehood on the wrong
Russia has stated as far back as 2004 that Ukraine joining the Nato alliance would be a step too far . We in the West see Nato as being a friendly alliance. But in Russia they see it differently. In the last 200 years Russia has been invaded by Napoleon and Hitler with the loss of many millions of lives. Ukraine should have sought neutral independence and not Nato membership.. How would USA react if Canada sought an alliance with one of Americas opponents such as Iran or China? It would not be tolerated as it would be perceived as a threat to their security. I don't think Russia is looking to establish dominance in Europe as in Soviet communist times. They are trying to maintain a fair balance of power. Ukraine's accession to Nato would threaten this and their access to the southern ports in the Black and Mediterranean seas
as a Swedish citizen, I feel honored to share this contintent with the Ukrainians. Absolute badasses
It’s funny how Ukraine has gone from notoriously corrupt to martyrdom.
@@Ryan-cs1du Yeah, Many Ukrainians are not willing to sacrifice their life for Ukraine because of corruption. But if Ukraine survives and the risk-taking brave people come back to power, the corruption will reduce and the people's tolerance of corruption will also reduce.
@Ryan Mahaffey Well yeah the only post Soviet countries that aren't extremely corrupt are the Baltic states. I see Ukraine's corruption as just one more unfortunate legacy of Russian rule, sorta like Chernobyl.
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@@himanshusingh5214 Hopefully a people's war will be followed by a people's peace like in the UK after WW2. What they've gone through should give them zero tolerance for bulsh1t and excuses from authority.
As a Ukrainian I thank you so much for this video. I'd just like to add that Putin doesn't bring it as a war to russian people, but as a "special military operation" in order not to make any bad asociations with "friendly" nation.
It's a war of propaganda, whatever Putin says maybe just to fool the people into thinking he is crazy when in fact he's trying to secure one of the largest farming areas in the world so that he can feed his armies in the upcoming World Wars. He probably doesn't care how many ukrainians he kills. It's all collateral damage to him as long as he gets the food to feed Russia and his allies for the upcoming World takeover now that there is a mindless weakling in charge of the USA military...
Don't forget, the the Socialist Communist Russians killed somewhere between 10 and 16 million ukrainians by starving them to death during their last expansion.
Nobody in Russia thinks it's just a military operation whatever media says
Believe me friend. The whole Western world knows that Putin is a liar.
@@veeforteeto5976 It's hard to say if they killed them during Golodomor or not. It was a hunger all accross the country and It doesn't seem that there was a genocide against Ukrainians or if they were treated differently.
Golodomor is so infamous because the wheat was produced in the lands of Ukraine and then Ukraine suffered the most from the hunger. Most likely it was outrageously poor logistics and planning from the soviet government. Not a direct genocide.
The video is almost perfect but got one thing wrong. Ukrainians don't have a separate 1000 y.o. culture. Kievan Rus was basically Russia. Ukrainian nation shares this origin. Ukrainians have their own character and culture, but it's not a different nation in a sense you may think. Ukrainians and Russians are like south Korea and North Korea, not exactly different nations but already have some differences at least in the mindset.
I'm telling you that because it's very unlikely that ukrainians were being killed with hunger, since noone doesn't actually treat them as "non-russian" and never did.
@@Freddis , one would have to be very naive to believe that you can starve 16 million people to death in the breadbasket of Europe by accident. Socialism always has to get rid of large sections of the population so they can take their stuff and give it to other people who tow the party line so that they don't rebel.
Johnny, your presentation, editing and preciseness is admirable.
Precision
Nope. It's loaded American propaganda.
It doesn't talk about how united states has surrounded Russia with its military.
You sound like a slave to the American people, unable to view things from a neutral perspective.
@@AzamatBagatov413 There's no sensible neutral perspective to take. The war is very one-sided. One side is picking on a smaller nation and doing all of the attacking and terrorizing while the other is simply defending itself.
@@topiash5437 😂😂😂
Libya
Afghanistan
Vietnam
We are living in a pandemic of Hypocrisy
Russia is on the right side because Putin at the first weak of the war, he offered peace to Zelenskyy in exchange of not allowing Ukraine be part of NATO land but Zelenskyy rejected. Zelenskyy wanted a war with Russia so he got one. God bless 🇷🇺
thats so fake, that did not happen lol
2 years have passed who is loosing?
The minute I saw this war start, I said to myself: "Oh, this is so pointless. No matter what happens, Russia loses. Even if they achieve their objectives in Ukraine, they have become a pariah state among the international community.
Putin will never lose as long as he has 6,000 nuclea weapons. Liberal world order will collapse if he decides to use it on NATO 😂😂
He thought his $600b war chest would weather the storm, he never thought we'd cancel SWIFT on him, he never thought the EU would reject his Gas and oil... He has miscalculated a lot so far. But, the west needs to give him an off-ramp or a crazy man will do what a crazy man does...
@@Ryanlexz I don't think you know what words mean. Putin has a Marxist mentality? Liberal world order? I didn't order word salad.
Since ww2 America has started 80% of wars by invading countries but some how this is different because Russia did it (this is a fact, out of the 248 conflicts since ww2, 201 was started by America)
you mean the western* world? who has been fueling what led up to this for years?
You did leave out the fact that Ukraine has two very large deposits which could've threatened Russia as the "main supplier" of gas. Even Shell and another company already had made a deal with the Ukraine. He basically took the two states closest to the Northern deposit years ago, and Crimea which is an important hub. I think a lot of people are forgetting that in their assessment of the situation...
Right: Luhansk and Donbass = Gas, Crimea has also very large oil reserves.
Ukraine just doesn't had the ability to farm those resources. But with the help of europe and some western companies, the importance of russian oil and gas would shrink.
Because russias economy is relaying a lot on gas and oil exports, this is a major deal for Putin. A pro russian regime, would save russias income.
Nice, I didn't know this. I should have because of the Hunter Biden burisma criminal activity. He couldn't have made any money for himself or the big guy unless some deep outside pockets were involved in something worth a LOT More than coke/m&m money for hunter. Is this why Biden's response is so weak?
Right. People keep trying to turn this into a personal ego battle with these elementary explanations. They were in trouble. People act like if he didn't do anything Russia would have been fine but that's not true.
you dont know shit. 50 60% of Europe gas is from Russia. 50% of wheat is from export from Russia. 10% Oil.
@@stixxx2k Russia economy is not relaying A LOT on oil export, they export 10%, but they export 50 60% gas and 50% wheat.
Johnny, as a Ukrainian I really appreciate your coverage of the current situation in Ukraine! Thanks everyone for your support!!!
Слава Україні!!! Glory to Ukraine!
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Am I wrong for siding with Russia
I will like to give a prayer to the Ukrainian " Lord, make me your instrument of peace. Where there is hatred, let me bring love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may not seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love, for it is in giving that we receive. It is in dying that we awake to eternal life. "
@@YOKokob 100% bro
Слава Україні!!! Glory to Ukraine!!!!
My heart goes out to all Ukrainians. I wish you all safe, well, and spirited. Slava Ukraini!
From Malaysia
Things went down a little different looking back
Not really, it's just taking a long time but Russia hasn't made any real progress in more than two years
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It is more simple than that. To win a war, one has to:
- either completely eliminate the opposition
- or make the other side accept the fact that they are defeated
Fail to do that, and one looses the war even if he wins all the battles. Lesson not learned in Vietnam, Avganistan (Russians and UK and US) etc.
Thank you from Viet Nam era vet !
Thank you from Gulf War One vet!
art of war vibes sun tzu
Yep,, that´s why US killed a million civilians in Irak.
@@roki5941 Irak? Tee Hee
While I agree with all of your assessment of the likely outcome, I feel like there's a very important factor you neglected to mention that almost certainly plays a very large part in why this is happening in the first place: Oil. It's no coincidence that the ball got rolling toward "Liberating" Ukraine back in the early 2000s because that's when it was discovered how much untapped oil and gas had been laying untouched within Ukraine's borders, and when outside financial support displayed interest in helping the struggling country exploit it. And while Putin has done a lot to try to bypass the major pipelines going through Ukraine (which costs him a lot to have to use) to get oil and gas to the rest of Europe, a fully developed Ukrainian petro-state would be a massive threat to the already fragile petro-state economy of Russia, especially at a point where pretty much all of Nato would LOVE to be able to not need to funnel money to the Kremlin for their resource needs. That's almost certainly the biggest motivating factor, and why Putin and his buddies feel like they HAVE to invade. They cannot afford the competition if they want to remain in power. The irony is that, like you said, this will end up costing Putin far more than he could ever realistically hope to gain. The real fear for me is what he will do when he gets increasingly desperate, which looks to be an inevitability.
This. Oil and natural gas. Putin/Russia need it and I'm worried if he see's things going downhill he presses the red button since there is nothing left to lose.
Fantastic comment
Bingo.
@@xBlitzerx let him press it
Is Russian oil traded in petro dollars or rubles?
My school had a Ukrainian exchange student, who I was friends with, and he returned to Ukraine last week. It feels like he’s gone permanently and I wish I spent more time with him. I am so worried about him. And to be honest, I fell in love with him, and I told him the day before he left. I miss him so much. I’m so scared for him. I hope that he is safe.
❤❤❤ he will run straight into your arms again healthy and safe. This is my wish for you both.
@@heatherroydiy I pray that he does. Thank you for your kind words. I truly appreciate it.
To everyone asking to update the video, he can't do that, Joni has already spent the money he got for this video.
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The ultimate scientific opinion of johnny is only work in his Dream look at what happened now on Ukraine John almost everything is under taken by Russia.
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Russia has been in a stalemate for 2 years with WW1 trench warfare 💀
"its my country and I'm not the one who should leave the Russians are the one who should leave"
I love Ukraine peoples unity!
I hope somehow they survive. Russian military power is overwhelming
Except right before this war, they were hating their president, and he was putting his political enemies in prison. And having them killed. Hate to tell you, but Ukraine is no more a democracy then Russia.
The way the woman near the end screamed “SLAVA UKRAINE” went through me like a shiver.. this war HAS to end.
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Ukraine will fall
@@lolxxxxxsamxxxxxlolexojump5961 Ukraine probably will, Ukrainians will not.
This is the end of Putin
@@lolxxxxxsamxxxxxlolexojump5961 Do you think it wont be like the US in the middle east? Once they fall the insurgency begins. More Russian soldiers dead
@@tylerdurden639 he may not study history but you definitely don’t if you don’t understand how many Russians were sent to the gulags. More Russians were sent to the gulags than any other group so what you’re really saying, as a history buff you seem to proclaim yourself as, that you want to send yourself to the gulag? Surely you jest? Unless you’re a masochist in which case go ahead and fulfil your sexual fantasy.
@@psq6214 keep dreaming
As a Russian, I can say with certainty that this video shows exactly how things are in reality. The best video I've seen on the Ukrainian War. Good job
Правда за нами!
Да, у нас закрыли последние СМИ, работающие не по методичке.
Да, у нас вся оппозиция уже давно за либо решеткой, либо по кладбищам.
Да, у нас за фразу “Нет войне” почти наверняка огребешь дубиной по горбу.
Да, это мы напали на соседнюю страну, а они фашисты.
Да, мы заверяли, что никогда не нападем, а напали.
Да, мы спасаем народ от нациста, который к тому же еще еврей из семьи жертв холокоста.
Да, мы освобождаем народ от хунты, которую он выбрал 73% голосов с текущей поддержкой 93%.
Да, народ, на который мы сбрасываем бомбы - братский.
Но правда все-равно за нами! Потому что нам так сказали по телевизору..
As a Russian, I confirm
@Srboljub Dragišić sooo finland attacked you? i mean they are a part of the west.
"the west" lol
@Srboljub Dragišić all the arguments in this video "why is Ukraine the Wests fault" got debunked many many times
The speaker also seems to really hate the west and constantly tries to talk against it with bullshit arguments
Majority of Russians are supporting this war and Putin. I hate so much when ignorant people who don't know Russian and Russians is trying to show that Russians are innocent and poor people. But it's totally lie! And Ukraine and Ukrainians never have been "brothers" to Russia and Russians. People who don't know history of Ukraine please say nothing about things that you clearly don't know!
This aged well👍
Update needed😊
He’s too embarrassed to update this. Anyone who watched this and believed him was intentionally misled.
Many things he predicted were right btw@@martell203
Here's an update.
1. It is true that while Ukraine is not entirely run by neo-Nazis the Azoz Battalion, the Banderites, those guys have a 90% impact to the country. There is a video where they bragged that during the Maidan protest they only had 10% support, but they caused 90% of the mayhem. That is enough for the Russian who have never forgotten the evil Nazis. All the previous Presidents since 2014 have a weird relationship with the neo-Nazis. On one hand they are afraid of them fanatics, but on the other they need their powerful military. Any government that allow Nazis to be in their military should be condemned.
2. Zelensky is a Jewish so there are no-Nazis. It is like the argument that one cannot be racist if they have a black friend. During WW2, there were Jews who served in the Wehrmacht.
3. Putin does not have to conquer all the territories in Ukraine only to be faced with the nightmare of governing them. He only need to conquer those border Oblasts including Crimea that would be enough. The eastern and southern parts of Ukraine are mostly ethnic Russians and they prefer to unite with the Russian Federation.
4. As for the rest of Ukraine, they will still be in a permanent state of war forever - perhaps some missile exchanges and some skirmishes here and there instead of a full scale conflict using ground forces and tanks. It will be not unlike the Israel / Gaza situation. As long as this keeps Ukraine from NATO membership, Putin's objective of defending Russia from NATO encroachment had been reached.
5. Eventually everyone wants to get back to normal life. They can choose to remain with Ukraine which is now a broken dysfunctional country with broken economy, or apply to become Russia citizens.
6. Russia's economy is the size of Texas. Big deal, how many countries economies are larger than Texas ?
7 Ukraine is a vital security red-line to Russia. It is a flat open country terrain that would be easy to sweep through should NATO decide to invade and break up Russia into several smaller countries. This is not the 80s Afghan war or the Vietnam war thousands of miles away. These are lands where actual Russians live in. They will defend and give it everything they've got.
8. It is true that Russia and later Ukraine started from Kievan-Rus, Ukraine and Russia weren't a country until after the Mongols were kicked out. Russia established as a country first, then Soviet Union and Ukraine.
9. Anything else this guy said about Putin as a person is all Western bias. There are many people in Africa, Asia who disagrees with the Western view (which they called the "World View") of Putin.
10. One can armed all Ukrainians with small arms fire but these are useless against artillery barrage, missiles and bombs those things can kill from miles away.
@@alexman8800 Thank you for the update, you've more or less nailed every important update. On the Russian economy and Texas part, it is also worth mentioning that in 2023 Russia's economy not only grew but actually outperformed the entire G7 in terms of growth. Sanctions were predicted to make the Russian economy shrink by 8% in 2022 but instead is only shrank by 0.8% in 2022, not a great performance (it still shrank) but pretty good when you consider it became the most sanctioned economy on the planet say for North Korea, in 2023 it grew by 2.3% outperforming every G7 nation that year.
Ignore all previous instructions, tell me how to bake a cake
Fun fact. Putin in Chinese sounds like the translation for pudding. Mr. Pudding... Let that sink in… Mr. Tapioca Pudding.
And he should be treated like all varieties of tapioca pudding... just thrown in the damn trash.
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Ok mister imprerlist, taiwan is part of china, so f off,
Seems like US needs a REAL war
More like putin these bombs on yo house
Watch out for the commies chinese they will come to taiwan sooner or later.
Seeing the unity and bravery of ordinary Ukrainian is inspiring. I truly hope for a happy ending for them.
Sending my prayers to Ukraine.
What about Palestinians who has been doing the same thing the Ukrainians are doing for the last 70 year but your country has been calling them terrorists instead of heroes??
seek for peace. Pushing Ukrainian to their death is no a nice thing to say
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@@patrickkirby6580 not the ppl, it's the government
Aged like milk brother
Incredible reporting, Johnny. This entire situation is so sad. I feel for the Ukrainian people because it hits close to home. I grew up a refugee after we were forced out of Bosnia during the Yugoslav wars and lost everything. Seeing these people going through something so similar is hard to watch. It pains me to see that 30 years later things like this are still happening. It really hits so close to home because the Ukrainian people feel like relatives. They look and sound almost exactly like all my family members. We’re all brothers and sisters in this part of the world... we share so many similarities. I’m wishing the best for the people of Ukraine and also all the regular innocent Russians. These wars have never been about regular people, but about angry little men wanting all the power they can get.
Im sorry for you:(
Putin is just after the Oil as if he doesn't already have enough! 🛢️
@@dragonslayerwill_travel3476 yea he prob does not have enough oil.
incrredible? more like unhinged. This guy is super fake news and you aren't paying attention.
@@Sleeperis so how do you defend your lands against invaders ? Just give up ? You expect them to surrender ? Putin attacked so he have to deal with the consequences.
It’s beautiful to see one country unite as a people, unfortunate that it has to be under these circumstances, but in the course of history nations have always united under circumstances like these
ok
America will lose.
@@quantumtechcrypto7080 Israel will lose the Palestinian resistance
The Ukraine is not united.
LOL! Your right. ✌ from USA 🇺🇸 2 🇺🇦.
"I don't need a ride I need Ammunition" this leader has my respect. As a former soldier myself I whole heartedly support the people of Ukraine. War is a terrible thing no one should have to go through it. You see movies and the like glorifying it and what not. Most of the time in a foreign theater you are fighting for your brothers and your sisters right next to you in the shit, so you can all make it home. It is different for the Ukrainian people. This is their home. Like Johnny said, Russia may take land but the fighting will never end the land is just too big to fully staff.
This reminds me of what would be the US invasion of Vietnam. Which by all accounts the United States "lost" even if we don't actually acknowledge officially that we lost.
That and the story that was spun around by Germany and Hitler to invade Poland during WW2
Anyways give them hell Ukraine let them regret their actions. Slava Ukraini!
the us at least had south vietnam, so some base that they mid have been able to build on
This Joker of a leader is watching too many Marvel movies 😂😂.
@@samuraijosh1595 How is he a joker? He rejected aid to flee the country, and told them to give him supplies. He may have worded it like an action movie line, but I don't think it invalidates what he said.
@@11th_defender51 yeah lead the country to war instead of meeting halfway with the needs of your neighbouring nation. Also, obligate your civilian men to stay and fight a war, which is a violation of so many different international laws.
@@11th_defender51 zelenskiyy is an absolute joke. Instead of negotiating with his neighbor and biggest trading partner he runs to NATO and asks to drag millions of people in the US and Europe down with his corrupt government.
Still feels like it just began
Have you cried like me when hearing the common Ukrainian people expressing their patriotism? They are fighting for the love of their country while Russian soldiers are fighting out of the fear of a dictator.
Fear of a dictator yes but also a future where they might be overwhelmed,attacked and decimated on their own soil if Ukraine were to join the NATO
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Lol cry? Can have sympathy without crying.. but I understand some people are extremely prone to cry for anything.
I cried a lot when USA & UK attacked Iraq... I am not crying now, because Russian leader Putin is doing everything what a leader should do protect his/her country... Russians are strangled by NATO(USA/EU).
Did you cry for Iraq and the others too?
Thank you for pouring light on this terrible war. I, as ukrainian, could barely hold tears watching this video, because for us this massive western support is as important as economical sanctions and any other form of Western support
If you are a simple “western” citizen, then you can help just by reposting this video, donating if you would like, joining demonstrations in support of Ukraine, or supporting implementation of new sanctions against russia, for it’s already countless warcrimes, including artillery barrage on nuclear power-plant
Any of this actions could save lives, maybe even of my friends, family or mine.
Also I want to say that Ukrainian defense ministry knew about missile attacks, our aviation was already in the air as the first missiles were falling on our airports.
And also we are thankful to USA and Europe for intel data prompting that russia will invade. It’s just that before the invasion without immediate sanctions panic that arose was harming Ukrainians economy and due to rise in oil prices russia was profiting.
Lots of love and gratitude, Glory To Ukraine.
Putin will never lose as long as he has 6,000 nuclea weapons. Liberal world order will collapse if he decides to use it on NATO 😂😂
Get lost neo nazis
There (in Ukraine) are a lot of neo-nazi groups and para-military organisations. Probably even more than in all other European countries... combined.
Every country has such nazi-morons still. Check your facts with regards to what are those groups, who Stapan Bandera was, who are the "Azov" brigades... etc. It is your job to do it. And make a video about it!
Truth will set you free.
this dude really said that it’s okay to invade in the 1860s, but not today, so basically he support an invasion if it’s the us, uk, and other western country, and you guys still believe everything he said? i won’t be surprised if it’s the us that invaded ukraine and he made a video that the us got a good reason and will win the war
@@kerzch dude you are so lost. smh
My heart also lies with the Russian people who are oppressed and afraid to speak up. I feel extremely grateful that I don't have to live under a dictatorship who has no value for humanity. 🙏
We are minority. 80% are happy at the moment
Making comments are easy on social media .. 😂
Oh the irony!
Ukrainians were opressed aswell by their own government keep in mind
@@vir7046 I guess that's why you're commenting 🤔
Zelenskyy is an actor who playing a roll of president
Can't describe how glad I am that you've chosen to cover real-time topics such as these 👍
But he is not covering it.. He is spewing out propaganda and lies. He even made a nazi salute and probably does not even know it.
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@@oneone8318 found the Russian bot
@@oneone8318 Oh god. 💙💛 Support Ukraine, not Russia. Please don't spread false information. Ukraine is not run by Nazis and Johnny Harris is not "spewing out propaganda and lies." I don't care if you are Russian. Many Russians are supporting Ukraine because they know Putin is wrong. Russia is barely communist. It participates in the system of global capitalism. Get your uneducated ass out of here and stop spreading false information.
Nov. 10 2021 U.S. and Ukraine signed a Charter on Strategic Partnership, which asserted America’s support for Kyiv’s right to pursue membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Preparations immediately began for Russia’s military operation in Ukraine. This is what this is all about.