Russia Has a BIG Energy Problem

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  • Опубликовано: 25 июн 2024
  • Russia has a massive oil and gas problem, and it's only getting worse. Can Russia still afford to fight? For how long? And could the current situation ultimately lead to the collapse of Russia?
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  • @icarusproject
    @icarusproject  26 дней назад +53

    Thanks for watching! Check out my new second channel for several extra videos every week: www.youtube.com/@PaulJWarburg

    • @minionzatwork
      @minionzatwork 26 дней назад

      Useless propaganda video. BRICS is only strengthening. You're either high on doggy doo doo or just totally unaware how your dollar is being dumped everyday. Sure, Russia has problems, US has worse problems still.

    • @Marcus_Aurelius_6
      @Marcus_Aurelius_6 24 дня назад

      Prigozni In his interview with his soldiers in case anything happens to him, clearly reveals the reasons for Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
      It wasn't NATO, nor denazification; those are for the foolish. The reason the Kremlin invaded Ukraine was looting of Ukraine's factories and industry by the Kremlin oligarchs, who had already divided up what each would plunder.
      Spread the word.
      ruclips.net/video/nupKl9EiVCg/видео.htmlsi=vlt5c5YyGFYkijOv

    • @Srala_uzkoine
      @Srala_uzkoine 2 дня назад +1

      😂

  • @xantares13
    @xantares13 26 дней назад +391

    Putin thought he was a Tsar when in reality he was a gas station attendant.

    • @jjcoola998
      @jjcoola998 25 дней назад

      Hey, that is not fair to gas station attendance they actually work hard and clean up peoples messes all day and generally aren’t maniacal sociopath monsters either though their customers typically are

    • @scotts918
      @scotts918 25 дней назад +24

      Who's being bent over the counter by China, and is forced to thank them for it

    • @DuyDi-rj5rk
      @DuyDi-rj5rk 25 дней назад

      😍
      Putin is just a dwarf who cannot walk straight or think straight. He lies, he steals, he kills all his life

    • @davidreeves8266
      @davidreeves8266 25 дней назад +1

      STEALING!!!!!!!... :)

    • @DK-ev9dg
      @DK-ev9dg 25 дней назад

      Loser, bitter and jealous. Russia is almost self sufficient in everything

  • @JuanMartinez-vf5hd
    @JuanMartinez-vf5hd 26 дней назад +102

    "Started to build their portion of the pipeline before china even agreed" is so funny

    • @raven4k998
      @raven4k998 25 дней назад +6

      well that and thinking that black mail cannot fail and now they are figuring out that everything is back firing against them everything🤣

    • @RatTerminator
      @RatTerminator 24 дня назад +1

      It'll take a decade 😂

    • @raven4k998
      @raven4k998 24 дня назад +5

      @@RatTerminator yeah and for what if Chinas going hydrogen they have no need for oil and gas🤣

    • @RatTerminator
      @RatTerminator 24 дня назад

      @@raven4k998
      CCP only cares about CCP 🇺🇲💪

    • @gae_wead_dad_6914
      @gae_wead_dad_6914 11 дней назад

      @@raven4k998 China's DEFINITELY not going hydrogen.
      They don't even have the infrastructure to support people using electric cars in their country lmao

  • @maxlevett7474
    @maxlevett7474 26 дней назад +344

    I don`t think there will be any Putin statues in city centers in the future

    • @shotshit
      @shotshit 26 дней назад

      maybe they put yours

    • @joecarey4356
      @joecarey4356 26 дней назад +6

      This is not accurate

    • @Duck1985
      @Duck1985 26 дней назад +35

      @@joecarey4356 you are not accurate

    • @user-qo4kb4dr1i
      @user-qo4kb4dr1i 26 дней назад +5

      ​@Duck1985 he does think there will be Putin statues??

    • @maxlevett7474
      @maxlevett7474 26 дней назад +13

      @@user-qo4kb4dr1i in his back yard behind a high fence so nobody can see it

  • @thegreatdane3627
    @thegreatdane3627 26 дней назад +408

    guess russia learned a very simple truth: It is much easier to find a new supplier, than it is to find a new customer.
    If you have money and are willing to pay, there will always be someone willing to supply. It may take a few years to build new supply chains, but no supplier is irreplaceable.
    Finding a new market is much harder, especially if you are seen as an unreliable supplier.

    • @adairjanney7109
      @adairjanney7109 26 дней назад

      uhh the energy crisis has not even started for EUrope yet, see Peter Zeihan he is like one of your guys biggest gayballs cheerleader, he says Germany is going to deindustrialize because of no more cheap Russian gas, I wonder if the German people were told that, and given a choice at all in any of this, or even the Ukrainian people whose elections were cancelled and whose men are forced against their will to fight a war for NATO. Basically this war is NATO using Ukrainian's to bleed Russia, its so gross on so many levels.

    • @engliterra355
      @engliterra355 26 дней назад

      this problem is completely made up. Oil and gas are one of the most easily sold goods in the world, everyone needs them. Collective west is not the only buyer in the world and even the west keeps buying those through a middle man, just paying more.

    • @phoenix5054
      @phoenix5054 26 дней назад

      China is learning this too. They hoped to replace the West with Africa and Southeast Asia witj BRI, only to find they are the ones replaced by the US with Mexico and India.

    • @pingpong_
      @pingpong_ 26 дней назад +35

      I hope EU and USA learn that it always costs too much to save Russia from collapse

    • @engliterra355
      @engliterra355 26 дней назад +4

      @@pingpong_ when did EU or US save Russia from anything lol)

  • @chris-vn6sw
    @chris-vn6sw 26 дней назад +465

    Putin trading Europe as a partner for North Korea. Genius 😂

    • @Nick-xf5hr
      @Nick-xf5hr 26 дней назад +55

      Just like uk quitting the eu genius

    • @cooperised
      @cooperised 25 дней назад +39

      @@Nick-xf5hr As a Brit I completely agree 😢

    • @ethanwmonster9075
      @ethanwmonster9075 25 дней назад +14

      5d chess giga brain master mind

    • @denissinner4625
      @denissinner4625 25 дней назад +2

      @@Nick-xf5hr that way different level of bad

    • @DuyDi-rj5rk
      @DuyDi-rj5rk 25 дней назад

  • @bordersw1239
    @bordersw1239 26 дней назад +323

    Here in the U.K most of my family have frozen to death and I’m still eating squirrel - just as Putin predicted. Oh, wait 😉

    • @thegreatdane3627
      @thegreatdane3627 26 дней назад +60

      you guys still have squirrels? We ate ours months ago, now it's nothing but grass and bugs here in Denmark...😧

    • @51madmitch
      @51madmitch 26 дней назад +21

      😂😂😂💪🇺🇦🇺🇦💪

    • @dougaltolan3017
      @dougaltolan3017 26 дней назад +16

      UK?
      Surely you mean England...
      Here in Scotland we don't understand "freezing". Cold, damp, grey sure, but not freezing.
      That and we've got more renewable energy than we know, what to do with :P
      Grilled venison, anyone?

    • @supersasquatch
      @supersasquatch 26 дней назад

      @@thegreatdane3627 you guys clearly haven't heard about Cannibal Canada, since Putin betrayed mankind with his brazen invasion of a sovereign independent state, our world has been shattered into a mad max life of misery and death here

    • @glennwhitlock1272
      @glennwhitlock1272 26 дней назад +20

      Squirrel!! You're lucky. We're drinking the water we boiled our squirrel in.

  • @jim2376
    @jim2376 26 дней назад +93

    Dictator Xi to Dictator Putin: "Your dictatorship is now my dictatorship's discount gas station. Thanks for the cheap oil, comrade."

    • @robertatkins9419
      @robertatkins9419 25 дней назад

      Dictator Jim to Dictator Warburg: 'How many mugs, apart from willing bigots, who buy into the propaganda garbage put out on this channel?'

    • @Bryankips
      @Bryankips 16 дней назад +3

      Businessman Putin 😎 🇷🇺 🇨🇳

  • @d3fcon_1
    @d3fcon_1 26 дней назад +174

    Don't forget - Gazprom (russian state petroleum company) is now LOSING money instead of barely gaining it.

    • @seneca983
      @seneca983 26 дней назад +7

      Gazprom is the state company handling natural gas, not petroleum.

    • @aocg1914
      @aocg1914 26 дней назад

      Putin pretty much used all rusia money, and the "invesment" never payed a dime, and now they make even less money, its over, period..

    • @d3fcon_1
      @d3fcon_1 26 дней назад

      @@seneca983 gazprom does everything in this economics sphere, and petroleum too

    • @kingPln89
      @kingPln89 26 дней назад +21

      They made a net loss of 6 billion USD last year. That’s huge even for them

    • @MrKogline
      @MrKogline 26 дней назад +8

      @@seneca983 First, So natural gas is a petroleum product. Second, they also produce and transport other petroleum products, including crude oil and condensates. You are more wrong than most politicians, impressive.

  • @MorningNapalm
    @MorningNapalm 25 дней назад +68

    Putin didn't realise how much of the strength and skill of the Soviet Union was, not in Russia as Putin had assumed, but in Ukraine.

    • @ronhall9394
      @ronhall9394 День назад

      with a smattering of Korean (Northern Accent)

  • @BigRedDragonFan
    @BigRedDragonFan 26 дней назад +51

    Good video. One point you overlooked is the most technologically challenging energy projects were developed by foreign companies with outside technical experts. With those avenues gone, they can’t get replacement parts or properly maintain themZ

  • @bronyaenjoyer
    @bronyaenjoyer 26 дней назад +205

    The russian trolls work so fast

    • @shotshit
      @shotshit 26 дней назад

      Faster than you

    • @nicksmile5811
      @nicksmile5811 26 дней назад +3

      what are you then?

    • @TheShire26
      @TheShire26 26 дней назад

      @@nicksmile5811me? I’m just a humble farmer

    • @Duck1985
      @Duck1985 26 дней назад

      @@nicksmile5811 A person? Bots are not people, they're filthy cockroaches. What do you think Nick?

    • @andrewbielecki6154
      @andrewbielecki6154 26 дней назад +73

      @@nicksmile5811 He's on the right side of history, not a supporter of genocide and fascism

  • @RealityCheck6969
    @RealityCheck6969 26 дней назад +99

    I am glad you mentioned the ukrainian discovered reserves. Most people forget about that. Ukraine could have substitute Russian gas for decades to come so Russia would have been out of business.

    • @MrMakabar
      @MrMakabar 26 дней назад +4

      Not really. The EU would just not have depended on Russia that much and gas prices would have been lower. The funny part is that EU gas consumption has fallen so much, that Ukraine probably is not going to sell gas to the EU even if the war ends. Everybody is going for green alternatives instead, so no need for it.

    • @bwhog
      @bwhog 26 дней назад +8

      Yes, most of Ukraine's mineral wealth, as well as oil and natural gas, are in the east (AIRC), so Russia being able to claim and keep that territory is devastating for Ukraine and for Europe as a whole.

    • @engliterra355
      @engliterra355 25 дней назад +3

      it's a legend. Those fields are small and hard to mine. Why didn't Ukraine get crazy rich from them in 30 years of independence and was buying gas from Russia instead?

    • @robertatkins9419
      @robertatkins9419 25 дней назад +1

      It's just blatantly false to say that Ukraine could substitute Russian gas. Most people don't 'forget' about something that simply isn't true, and this makes a LIE of your very name.

    • @MrCobalt
      @MrCobalt 24 дня назад +2

      @@engliterra355 Because the massive amounts discovered were only discovered recently, and then Russia made its move in 2014 shortly after that discovery, Ivan. But you know this already.

  • @binancehighlights4038
    @binancehighlights4038 26 дней назад +61

    Putin just failed Russia. It is like to loose a game on easiest difficulty

    • @pacivalmuller9333
      @pacivalmuller9333 25 дней назад +4

      We will see.

    • @fordblu1974
      @fordblu1974 25 дней назад +5

      @@pacivalmuller9333 they already lost

    • @pacivalmuller9333
      @pacivalmuller9333 25 дней назад +3

      @@fordblu1974 Yes I have been hearing this since 3 years now. Yet the only army that marches forward in Ukraine is the Russian one, and Russia had better economical growth then Germany.

    • @petehowett2854
      @petehowett2854 25 дней назад +1

      I think that,not only are YOU,watching the WRONG GAME,but the fact that YOU ARE IN THE WRONG STADIUM

    • @Heidelaffe
      @Heidelaffe 25 дней назад +5

      @@pacivalmuller9333Marching forward?
      Last year the UKA managed a large liberation and this year Russia is paying an extremely high price for just tiny gains. Of cause UA is not defending every inch with countless lifes, but apparently they let Russia pay a hefty price for it.
      Russia should just move back behind the border of 2013 and take a good look at themselves and what they become.

  • @UncleJoeLITE
    @UncleJoeLITE 26 дней назад +42

    Thanks for the analysis, regards from Australia.

  • @insanebe1
    @insanebe1 25 дней назад +10

    That is a nice theory but Russian oil still makes it into Europe, here is how it works, Russia exports it to third-party countries like India and UAE, they refine it and then export it as "Indian Refined Oil Products" to Europe, These have been a significant increase in EU imports of diesel and jet fuel from India.

    • @PeterSedesse
      @PeterSedesse 2 дня назад

      Yes, but for that to happen requires two long shipping routes. From Russia to India, and then from India to Europe. This means Russia is selling that crude to India for $25 per barrel less than the USA gets for its oil. The purpose of the sanctions was not to eliminate Russian oil from world markets, it was to eliminate all the profits to Russia By increasing shipping times and insurance rates

  • @dgaydos
    @dgaydos 22 дня назад +12

    A gas station masquerading as a country. --- John McCain. (And a gas station that doesn't even have a convenience store...lol)

  • @pgr3290
    @pgr3290 26 дней назад +81

    I liked the news last week that OPEC+ want to regain lost market share on the oil markets. Since the self imposed Saudi cuts the gaps have been filled by American and other non OPEC producers. It has shrank both OPEC market share and diminished the cartel's influence. They announced the cuts would roll back starting October and continue to increase production for the year ahead. Russia lives and dies on the oil price. We could be looking at much depressed prices for several years ahead. That's an utter disaster for Russia in the middle of an unsustainably expensive war and good economic news for all the net importers i.e most of the countries that support Ukraine lol

    • @Kaz590
      @Kaz590 26 дней назад +7

      How this is true. This would flood the market and drive oil prices down. In turn would drive russian prices lower and could collapse their economy

    • @thegreatdane3627
      @thegreatdane3627 26 дней назад +12

      fun fact: Saudi Arabia slipped into recession in 2023. For some reason that got very little attention in the media.

    • @pgr3290
      @pgr3290 26 дней назад +4

      @@Kaz590 OPEC+ will start to unwind 2.2 million barrels per day worth of voluntary cuts in the 12 months after October. By this time next year there has to be a decision on another 3.66 million barrels capacity heading into 2026. Saudi Arabia have been alarmed at the loss of market share and generally just the power to influence the market, which has definitely dwindled. The cuts have kept Russia afloat. Any significant drop in oil price and it can be ruinous for them.

    • @lifessogood2995
      @lifessogood2995 26 дней назад

      Yet gas prices still went up

    • @thegreatdane3627
      @thegreatdane3627 26 дней назад +8

      @@lifessogood2995 the oil price in Europe was above $100 pr barrel form 2007-2014, and we were still fine. Today's price is $85.

  • @Kodakcompactdisc
    @Kodakcompactdisc 26 дней назад +27

    Can’t happen fast enough.

  • @MrMakabar
    @MrMakabar 26 дней назад +38

    The really scary part for Russia is that most of the EUs gas replacement strategy was not buying gas from other producers, but replacing gas with green alternatives like heat pumps, renewable electricity and so forth. This is very likely never going to come back. Even if Putin gets replaced by a democratic government and the EU wants to buy gas from them to no longer buy from say Algeria or import LNG.

    • @dzeklakovic7568
      @dzeklakovic7568 26 дней назад

      Those are leftist fairy tales. It's easy to say "Just go green lol", but no one has a damn clue how to do it.

    • @znail4675
      @znail4675 25 дней назад +2

      Getting rid of kitchen gas stoves solves most of the gas dependency.

    • @chrisstrawn4108
      @chrisstrawn4108 25 дней назад +8

      Maybe they shouldn't have invaded Ukraine and done away with Putin's critics like Navalny. Russia will have to be worked into the international community but it's extremely unlikely they will be rehabilitated. They are proud of being the skunk of Europe and blame everyone else for the title.

    • @znail4675
      @znail4675 25 дней назад +5

      @@chrisstrawn4108 Russia is heading towards being North Korea 2.0.

    • @VLAD18041976
      @VLAD18041976 25 дней назад +2

      @@znail4675 yep, and you get plenty of electricity from the wall outlets. And its always there!!! Oh wait...

  • @Angel2043-w3s
    @Angel2043-w3s 26 дней назад +18

    Too much vodka; The Russians should smoke weed and just chill .

    • @oneshothunter9877
      @oneshothunter9877 25 дней назад +3

      I'm 💯 in on this with you, brother.
      I am rolling a fatty as I write this.
      Chill.
      Be happy.
      Live and let live.

    • @petehowett2854
      @petehowett2854 25 дней назад +1

      They do,although not a lot of Russians,do.They can get their hands on Afghany Black hash,very difficult to find even,in the Netherlands.I mean,legit black afghany

  • @johnnyb1368
    @johnnyb1368 26 дней назад +89

    Hope Russian's can speak mandarin,
    There going to need it soon.

    • @zedeyejoe
      @zedeyejoe 26 дней назад

      China is already taking Russians Eastern territory. Nothing Russia can do to stop it.

    • @unknownentity8256
      @unknownentity8256 26 дней назад

      They're already a Chinese colony, they just don't know it yet.

    • @user-bs2ok3yv8i
      @user-bs2ok3yv8i 26 дней назад

      Russians will get replaced by Chinese... apparently Chinese are moving into Russia from the East without even asking and building settlements that use Yuan and speaking Chinese only...

    • @dh1380
      @dh1380 25 дней назад +4

      Hehehe not long now

  • @pjhgerlach
    @pjhgerlach 26 дней назад +129

    Imagine Russia being a civilized peaceful country trading with its neighbours....... nah will never happen. 😏

    • @Britephartt
      @Britephartt 26 дней назад +13

      But it could if the Russian people wanted it but they seem to like be oppressed international villains.

    • @help1ng316
      @help1ng316 26 дней назад +8

      Seeing it from an economic perspective they whiffed soooo hard. Imagine a pipe/train network from russia to europe, north america and china. The sheer amount of easy transport would make a new "silk road" along the edge of southern russia running from east to west and vice versa. But no, we get war :(

    • @Flugs0
      @Flugs0 26 дней назад +9

      fr though, the country could be so prosperous if putin actually cared about his people

    • @dougaltolan3017
      @dougaltolan3017 26 дней назад

      They were pretty close just before thus war.

    • @g.v4848
      @g.v4848 26 дней назад +1

      @@help1ng316 Russia just can't help being backwards and totalitarian, it's always been like that.
      From having prolonged and worse serfdom than the west, to cruel tsars, to their absolute communist police state, to still clinging to outdated imperial ideals in a world of global trade.
      Russia would have been a third world-power between east and west if it wasn't controlled by incompetent old farts clinging to outdated hierarchies

  • @neluma
    @neluma 26 дней назад +67

    Russia could leave Ukraine and go home

    • @humansvd3269
      @humansvd3269 25 дней назад

      Except NATO just put nuclear weapons next door and that's unacceptable. Same as of China set up shop in Mexico or Cuba.

    • @erwinbos7753
      @erwinbos7753 19 дней назад +1

      No​@@David.Anderson

    • @rightwank8718
      @rightwank8718 8 дней назад

      stop being reasonbable ... and join the outrage!!

    • @abdelkaderhamdaoui8337
      @abdelkaderhamdaoui8337 3 дня назад +1

      Young Ukrainians are all in Hungary, Poland and Romania avoiding the military call up and most Ukrainian soldiers have sought refuge in Russia.

  • @tonylyons7711
    @tonylyons7711 26 дней назад +70

    Slava Ukraine ❤

  • @dpelpal
    @dpelpal 26 дней назад +117

    I am Russian, live Samara. I teach English. I do not imagine to know the working of large petrol companies in Russia. But things are much worse in Russia than many know. And, comparitive to Western Country (I speak of UK/EU/USA) then we live very poorly. I fear it will only be worse.
    There are other Russians! Russians who do not support Putin!

    • @thevox1075
      @thevox1075 26 дней назад

      And there are MANY Americans that despite all the propaganda still don’t see the people of Russia as enemies. This war needs to stop, Putin needs to go, and Russians should attempt to become friendly with the west. This Cold War mentality doesn’t do anyone any good. The people of America aren’t the demons that Russian propaganda makes us out to be. I’ve become friends with a Russian that lives up in the Northwestern part by the White Sea. She now understands that we’re not hating them here. But our government here is corrupt as well, and seems to love the money earned from making wars. Not that ANY of those profits make it down to the citizens, we’re still getting ever increasing taxes. 🙄

    • @HaiShaman
      @HaiShaman 26 дней назад +8

      i am American, live Chicago.I teach Russian. I do not imagine to know the working of large petrol companies in USA. But things are much worse in USA than many know. And, comparitive to Eastern Country (I speak of RU/CN/India) then we live very poorly. I fear it will only be worse.
      There are other Americans! Americans who do not support Biden!

    • @dpelpal
      @dpelpal 26 дней назад

      @@HaiShaman You would probably sell your own mother to be American, and the entire world is laughing at Russia's army😅

    • @markotrieste
      @markotrieste 26 дней назад +8

      Good luck! Stay safe.

    • @dpelpal
      @dpelpal 26 дней назад +5

      @@markotrieste Thanks to you☺

  • @ryanreedgibson
    @ryanreedgibson 26 дней назад +32

    When performing test crashes for the Federal Highway Safety Institute we used to mark the weak points "weak" now we just mark them "russia". Which not only means weak but poorly designed.

  • @sogerc1
    @sogerc1 26 дней назад +37

    Why do bad things happen to bad people?! 😂

    • @dpelpal
      @dpelpal 26 дней назад +3

      I am Russian trust me it all bad here lol.

    • @1wun1
      @1wun1 26 дней назад

      Exceptionally

    • @Crying_dog
      @Crying_dog 26 дней назад +1

      Karma

  • @williamwaters4506
    @williamwaters4506 26 дней назад +29

    Fantastic explanation! I would add that the timing of the Ukraine invasion was strategic. NATO was seen as a weak organization that outlived its purpose. When Trump was president he said that NATO had outlived its purpose. Who was going to stop Russia once Putin invaded Ukraine? Ukraine has a population about the size of California which meant it should have been a quick invasion, especially since Ukraine, like Russia, had a lot of government corruption and Zelenskyy was seen as a buffoon.
    The Ukraine invasion began in 2014 when Russia took control of various parts of Ukraines land. The second of invasion was supposed to be the final blow. Why President Obama did not take action against Putin during the initial invasion is a mystery to me.

    • @chrisstrawn4108
      @chrisstrawn4108 25 дней назад

      You are correct that Obama should have taken action and did not but you miss the importance of the utter disaster of our withdrawal from Afghanistan. Most of us voted for Obama because we were sick of being lied into open ended, pointless wars. 2013-4 most of America would have been in the streets protesting if Obama was seen as getting us into yet ANOTHER war. We Americans have this big weakness in that we assume once a new President comes in then the international slate is cleared. Not true. Obama was constrained by the lies and cynicism of the Bush administration combined with his own innate timidity. Biden has similar issues.

    • @pauldewit117
      @pauldewit117 25 дней назад

      Agree, excellent video. Putin wanted to invade Ukraine much sooner. But covid threw a spanner in the works for him. By that time Don the con was replaced. He really shot himself in the foot here.

    • @palithaassalaarachchi1497
      @palithaassalaarachchi1497 24 дня назад

      Obama is another Chamberlain.

    • @afterthesmash
      @afterthesmash 13 дней назад

      You must also be a user of Gemini Advanced. It won't tell me, either, what Obama did in response:
      Me: What measures did the Obama administration impose on Russia as a consequence of Russia's actions against Ukraine?
      Gemini: I can't help with responses on elections and political figures right now. I'm trained to be as accurate as possible but I can make mistakes sometimes. While I work on improving how I can discuss elections and politics, you can try Google Search.
      Gemini seems to think that Google Search is infallible. I found a few resources on that old dog suggesting that the Obama administration did more than nothing, but of course that could all be fake news.

    • @kreb7
      @kreb7 13 дней назад

      Dealing with 2 wars in the middle of worst economic disaster since ww2

  • @57thorns
    @57thorns 26 дней назад +67

    11:50 Imagine Russia "selling" the eastern part of the country to US instead of China? That would be hilarious.

    • @archersfriend5900
      @archersfriend5900 26 дней назад +8

      They have done it before.

    • @DavidRichardson153
      @DavidRichardson153 26 дней назад +3

      No "selling" about it. They actually did sell some eastern territory to the US, so the precedent is set - and you can thank Cassius Clay for that.

    • @57thorns
      @57thorns 26 дней назад

      @@DavidRichardson153 I know about Alaska, that was a communist dicatorship and a tsar ago though...

    • @57thorns
      @57thorns 26 дней назад +2

      @@DavidRichardson153 The reason for the quotation marks is that is it more likely they will declare independence and then parhaps chose to ask to join US as protection against China.

    • @Broockle
      @Broockle 26 дней назад +12

      Russia falling apart would be quite awkward internationally.
      Who gets the nukes, who gets the territory, who gets to be independent. Who still wants to consider themselves Russian. o boi.

  • @bwhog
    @bwhog 26 дней назад +9

    You also should mention the fact that, in order to support the war effort, Russia has had to divert more of its spending to the production of munitions which puts a further strain on their financial situation. This is non-productive spending since everything they build goes up in flames (literally).

  • @BCAT3089
    @BCAT3089 26 дней назад +8

    so this is why Russia just went all in with North Korea

  • @cawstongreenway
    @cawstongreenway 26 дней назад +19

    China gets "mate's rates" 🤣🤣🤣Cannot believe Putin is still in power 🙄

  • @tonythedegen
    @tonythedegen 26 дней назад +7

    very interesting, thanks for sharing!

  • @gm7304
    @gm7304 26 дней назад +5

    1st time here Great Job Thank You.

  • @JoeyFTL
    @JoeyFTL 26 дней назад +2

    Great video as always man

  • @lancethrustworthy
    @lancethrustworthy 26 дней назад +11

    A good and memorable video.

  • @1wun1
    @1wun1 26 дней назад +4

    China is having a party 😂

  • @jimthain8777
    @jimthain8777 26 дней назад +20

    So the important question:
    Did China manipulate Russia into this debacle?
    My answer: Yes, it did.
    Manipulation has always been at the heart of Chinese politics.
    Now you're seeing that in action on the world stage like never before.

    • @defconone1498
      @defconone1498 26 дней назад

      Putin's arrogance started this but no doubt China looked with envy at the new potential. China is not doing all that well economically either.

    • @hardtackbeans9790
      @hardtackbeans9790 26 дней назад +2

      At their meeting during the Olympics just before the invasion, Xi kept giving Poots side glances like WTF?!! I thought it was an odd look at the time. Xi had just made territorial claims on Manchuria the previous summer & thought that must be odd to suddenly be the greatest of friends now.

    • @ChadHarm_Toad
      @ChadHarm_Toad 26 дней назад +1

      They had been mortal enemies the summer before the invasion. I think Xi was genuinely shocked when they found out just weeks before the invasion.

    • @gottagowork
      @gottagowork 26 дней назад

      Just as ruZZia manipulated UK into Brexit and US into voting Trump.
      Yes, bad politicians involved in both cases, but those were in turn influenced by the "masses of people" propaganda.

    • @chrishooge3442
      @chrishooge3442 26 дней назад

      I doubt it. Putin made so many miscalculations that I suspect he cooked this up all on his own. Ukraine fought back. Sanctions landed immediately. Energy blackmail didn't work. The thunder run into Kyiv was wildly unprepared. The air campaign failed to achieve anything like Air Superiority. The Black Sea fleet got decimated...actually worse...lost 30% of it's ships.
      All of that starts with a colossal Intelligence failure. Putin was a former KGB officer and he couldn't even get that right.

  • @drmikeosgood
    @drmikeosgood 25 дней назад +1

    This has been an excellent informational video! Great job.

  • @tonyruggz4487
    @tonyruggz4487 26 дней назад

    Interesting, informative..and factual. Ty..subbed. 👍👍👊

    • @allydea
      @allydea 26 дней назад

      How do you know it was factual?

  • @jebes909090
    @jebes909090 26 дней назад +3

    they only have shovels and washing machines left after all

    • @nobodyherepal3292
      @nobodyherepal3292 26 дней назад +3

      Ya, that’s why they just begged North Korea to send troops to reinforce them now too.

  • @ComradeCatpurrnicus
    @ComradeCatpurrnicus 26 дней назад +56

    I'm sure North Korea would take some of their useless oil off them in exchange for some useless Soviet era ammunitions 😅

    • @bdub1934
      @bdub1934 26 дней назад +2

      wtf they gonna do with oil?

    • @ll_Taylor_ll
      @ll_Taylor_ll 26 дней назад +1

      Are you on drugs?
      We in the west still buy it but we use India as the middle man 😂 we just paid $18.4 Billion for Oil from India which they mainly get from Russia.

    • @luxter858
      @luxter858 26 дней назад +6

      ​@@bdub1934 eat it

    • @57thorns
      @57thorns 26 дней назад +6

      @@ll_Taylor_ll Russia still have lost refinery capacity, so that oil is either crude or India has refined it. Not as good as cutting off Russia completely, but it does keep global oil prices down and Russia is actually not really making any money. Same as the situation with China.

    • @ll_Taylor_ll
      @ll_Taylor_ll 26 дней назад

      @57thorns Not making money? Just go and check at how much india are now buying and selling to us 😆 They pay Russia average of $81.4 per barrel and import 1.78 million barrels per day $$$$ which they then sell to us in the west.

  • @42VS42
    @42VS42 26 дней назад +1

    Excellent video. Very inspiring and encouraging to see all of this information with none of the nonsense. 💛💛💙💙

  • @EPoel-vg8ci
    @EPoel-vg8ci 26 дней назад +1

    interesting and good vid..... how far is he going?

  • @icecold9511
    @icecold9511 26 дней назад +5

    To be clear, Russia didn't so much as sell Alaska, as they barely had any claim to it and there was other competing claims. They had no presence in Alaska. They sold their claim to Alaska.

    • @user-jw3vc4od4i
      @user-jw3vc4od4i 26 дней назад +2

      The Russian Orthodox Churches that still exist in Alaska would indicate that they had some presence there.

    • @icecold9511
      @icecold9511 26 дней назад +2

      @@user-jw3vc4od4i
      But minimal presence. The other claimants, us and Canada primarily, considered them interloper.

    • @user-jw3vc4od4i
      @user-jw3vc4od4i 26 дней назад +1

      @@icecold9511 Canada did not yet exist.

    • @JeRefuseDeBienPrononcerBaleine
      @JeRefuseDeBienPrononcerBaleine 26 дней назад +1

      @@user-jw3vc4od4i Because the name was different doesn't mean it didn't exist.

    • @user-jw3vc4od4i
      @user-jw3vc4od4i 26 дней назад +1

      @@JeRefuseDeBienPrononcerBaleine Well, "Canada" certainly could not have had a claim on Alaska when "Canada" itself was nothing more than British colony. Alaska was sold to the USA by Russia to keep it out British hands.

  • @RichardD-jf1ko
    @RichardD-jf1ko 26 дней назад +5

    1st time a country is committing a mass scale suicide

    • @alecpym1706
      @alecpym1706 24 дня назад +1

      No the Brits have also done it with Brexit.

  • @rockodomingo7518
    @rockodomingo7518 12 дней назад +2

    Out the window Putin goes problem solved

  • @jonpritz8358
    @jonpritz8358 4 дня назад

    Great report...thanks

  • @robertmiles1603
    @robertmiles1603 26 дней назад +12

    Really? I'd say it has a big Putin problem. That problem being Vladimir Putin.

    • @SovietReunionYT
      @SovietReunionYT 26 дней назад +1

      Putin is the symptom, not the disease. Once he's removed, the replacement wont be any better.
      Russia's key problem is a sense of having lost an empire that they need to rebuild. Much like with the Brexit types in England. Too many Russians cant accept that the Russian Empire was a bad thing, that the Russians trying to run the Soviet Union like it was a Russian empire was a bad thing, and that Russia needs to build an alliance of equals in order to prosper. Nobody respects a bully, no matter how powerful they are. Bullies are always resented.
      But the thing is, Russia CANT participate in an alliance of equals because it's STILL a massive evil colonial empire. It never got fully ripped to pieces like the Austrian and Ottoman empires, and it never got forced to decolonize like the British and French empires. 90% of Russia's land is stolen from other nations, and they want it back.
      The US has the same problem, which is why it too can never participate in an alliance of equals, it will remain an evil empire that bullies its "partners" until it gets destroyed.

    • @SovietReunionYT
      @SovietReunionYT 26 дней назад

      Putin is the symptom, not the disease. Once he's removed, the replacement wont be any better.
      Russia's key problem is a sense of having lost an empire that they need to rebuild. Much like with the Brexit types in England. Too many Russians cant accept that the Russian Empire was a bad thing, that the Russians trying to run the Soviet Union like it was a Russian empire was a bad thing, and that Russia needs to build an alliance of equals in order to prosper. Nobody respects a bully, no matter how powerful they are. Bullies are always resented.
      But the thing is, Russia CANT participate in an alliance of equals because it's STILL a massive evil colonial empire. It never got fully ripped to pieces like the Austrian and Ottoman empires, and it never got forced to decolonize like the British and French empires. 90% of Russia's land is stolen from other nations, and they want it back.

  • @billybobwombat2231
    @billybobwombat2231 26 дней назад +4

    Good

  • @JJ_Khailha
    @JJ_Khailha 26 дней назад +1

    Good vid.

  • @dennisroland5654
    @dennisroland5654 14 дней назад

    Very fine presentation, Thank you.

  • @henrylind9730
    @henrylind9730 26 дней назад +5

    Slava Ukraine

  • @brendaraudebaugh6246
    @brendaraudebaugh6246 12 дней назад

    Thank you for your very interesting video.

  • @AirB-101
    @AirB-101 25 дней назад

    An EXCELLENT general recap! Thank you Sir!

  • @Critical-Thinker895
    @Critical-Thinker895 26 дней назад +33

    Yes finally a RUclipsr who gets it. Russia did not invade because of memories of the homeland. Their main objective was to solidify their acquisition of all the oilfields that have been discovered off the coast as well as the much needed ports. Russia had already been suffering for their slow recovery from WWII and men that were working age that could raise families. Now their future has been destroyed by Putin's desire for oil. The geopolitical ramifications of Putin's mistake will be huge.

    • @HepCatJack
      @HepCatJack 26 дней назад +3

      There were videos in 2022 that pointed to the oil & gas of the Dunbass region about to be developed by UA with some help from western expertise giving Russia a competitor so that couldn't threaten countries that they supplied with gas by cutting them off.

    • @zedeyejoe
      @zedeyejoe 26 дней назад +2

      Lots of lithium in Ukraine as well :)

    • @jva4120
      @jva4120 26 дней назад

      It's all of it together. There's not just one reason. Memory has been the spearhead of russian domestic politics for more than 10 years now. And increasingly more hysteric too.

    • @mattevans4377
      @mattevans4377 26 дней назад

      And the only reason countries defend Ukraine is because of the oil as well.
      Welcome to the resource wars.

    • @HepCatJack
      @HepCatJack 26 дней назад

      @@zedeyejoe the lithium was mentioned as well.

  • @yabatopia
    @yabatopia 26 дней назад +5

    One important thing to add: to this day there’s still flowing Russian gas to Europe. A large portion is liquid LNG, shipped to the Belgian port Antwerp-Zeebrugge. From there it’s going to the rest of Europe and other countries. The EU has recently decided to ban the distribution of Russian LNG from EU ports like Antwerp-Zeebrugge to non-EU countries in the near future, but there is no ban to EU countries. Even crazier: the pipelines between Russia and the EU are still flowing, although at much lower volumes than before 2022, even passing the territory of Ukraine.

    • @chrishooge3442
      @chrishooge3442 26 дней назад +3

      My understanding that the pipeline through Ukraine will not be renewed at the end of 2024. Those flows will stop.

  • @randomescu
    @randomescu 26 дней назад +1

    All winters following the war were incredible hot. Well, not hot but 16⁰, compared with negative Celsius. You can wear shorts and a t-shirt at 16 if you are not a wimp.

  • @Allanwify
    @Allanwify 26 дней назад

    Great video.

  • @MoonlightHorizon-ev7ev
    @MoonlightHorizon-ev7ev 26 дней назад +36

    If I was Russia I would take the L, pull out of Ukraine, and start talking to Europe again to make a mutually beneficial energy agreement vs the absolute piss take that china is trying.

    • @Kodakcompactdisc
      @Kodakcompactdisc 26 дней назад

      They have hundreds of billions to pay in restitution before even one sanction will be lifted. They know they’re f’ed

    • @hellwire4582
      @hellwire4582 26 дней назад +2

      That would be against anything Russia stnads for. If there is one country that doesnt pull back. its russia

    • @blenderbanana
      @blenderbanana 26 дней назад

      Fascists can't apologize or correct themselves.

    • @altifore3934
      @altifore3934 26 дней назад +17

      ​@@hellwire4582what russia stands for? Or what putin stands for?

    • @lukask4498
      @lukask4498 26 дней назад

      Putin can't do that. That's the fastest way to get "canceled" in Russia. Russians will have to strike again, problem is majority of russians still support the war. They are just not happy about not winning it.

  • @jacob_90s
    @jacob_90s 26 дней назад +21

    Early squad assemble!

    • @vovochen
      @vovochen 26 дней назад +1

      HERE WE ARE

    • @blenderbanana
      @blenderbanana 26 дней назад +1

      Weekday Pre-dawn Drinker! GO!

  • @nathanwaterser8218
    @nathanwaterser8218 15 дней назад +1

    10:37 "In Russia the oil industry is booming, just iterally than Vladimir Putin had hoped"
    Lmao

  • @idanceforpennies281
    @idanceforpennies281 26 дней назад +4

    Russia and China have a border but that area for both of them is about as far from population centres as it's possible to get on earth. That's going to have to be one long friggin pipeline (plus laterals) to reach large Chinese population centres. So it's not attractive at all to the Chinese unless the gas is really really cheap.

    • @VulcanLogic
      @VulcanLogic 26 дней назад +1

      That pipeline is pretty susceptible to drones and the remoteness means it will be difficult to repair.

    • @chrishooge3442
      @chrishooge3442 26 дней назад +1

      My understanding is that China just bailed on a new pipeline project.

    • @idanceforpennies281
      @idanceforpennies281 26 дней назад

      @@chrishooge3442 Not surprised. I think it's just easier for the Chinese to ship in LNG to existing storage terminals, which already have a spiderweb of pipelines. That way they get supply from anywhere and transport it everywhere.

  • @Nick-xf5hr
    @Nick-xf5hr 26 дней назад +51

    India is complicit in carrying on the war in Ukraine. A very duplicitous nation.

    • @spushkin1
      @spushkin1 26 дней назад +8

      Agreed.

    • @minionzatwork
      @minionzatwork 26 дней назад +4

      India of 1.4 billion people will live it's own destiny and is not a poodle of the West. You can suck it. India will align with whoever it chooses too.

    • @MrGoMario
      @MrGoMario 26 дней назад

      India is a poor, 3th World country with little to say... They are glad for any breadcrumbs Russia and/or China throws at them....😅 GDP per Capita is like 2500 USD 😅 The word #ShitHole comes to mind.

    • @MrAntonBaton
      @MrAntonBaton 26 дней назад

      ​@@minionzatwork
      Just like the west will align with whoever it wants, when China comes knocking on your door, right, my lovely Indian boy:)

    • @jakew7982
      @jakew7982 26 дней назад +18

      @@minionzatworkFound the Indian nationalist. Your women love us 🥰

  • @user-ei7rs1vo9c
    @user-ei7rs1vo9c 5 дней назад

    3weeks down the line and unfortunatley its still here

  • @gherkamum
    @gherkamum 26 дней назад +1

    Oil must be getting low...

  • @bigbadallybaby
    @bigbadallybaby 26 дней назад +6

    Also may of the experienced engineers involved in building and maintaining the oil and gas mining have left the country either as they have fled or they were from other countries in the first place. This leaves a massive skills gap.

  • @malindafrank.028
    @malindafrank.028 22 дня назад +4

    🇺🇦👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🇺🇦

  • @ettoreatalan8303
    @ettoreatalan8303 23 дня назад

    An oil well cannot be switched on and off at will. Clogging occurs if no oil flows. This makes switching it back on particularly complicated and expensive.

  • @tombouie
    @tombouie 26 дней назад

    Well-Done

  • @igorbukovy4313
    @igorbukovy4313 26 дней назад +35

    I am glad that russian plan backfired. War has no place in 21st century, energy can not be used as a tool of war. Each country should try to achieve energy self-sufficiency.

    • @BuddyLee23
      @BuddyLee23 26 дней назад

      Oh, I think we will soon be discovering just how much of a role war has in the 21st century…

    • @humansvd3269
      @humansvd3269 25 дней назад

      It can and has been used as a tool of war since the beginning of time. Current year doesn't change reality no matter how much you want it to.

    • @petehowett2854
      @petehowett2854 25 дней назад

      Which "plan" is that then?As far as I can see,from the Russian side,all the fronts are moving,in tempo.

  • @vovochen
    @vovochen 26 дней назад +20

    *Thank you.* You must however link your sources !!!!!!!!

  • @AK-ej5ml
    @AK-ej5ml 25 дней назад +2

    According to "Russian Fossil Teacker" Russian fossil fuel exports have fallen from 1.9 billion tons annualised rste in January 2022 to 1.7 billion tons in April 2024, so while it is reducing I don't think 10% is enough to call it a disaster for Russia. We need to do much, much more to limit Russian exports.

  • @dam13n
    @dam13n 25 дней назад

    Can you cite what sources are thru out videos?

  • @SkepticalChris
    @SkepticalChris 26 дней назад +31

    Putin failed to understand that just because Russia produces alot of oil and gas, means they're the only ones that produce oil and gas.
    Oil and gas is produced all over the world and is not difficult to buy for the right prices.

    • @bdub1934
      @bdub1934 26 дней назад

      The US no long needs anyone gas. Thats why we are pulling out of the middle east.
      We still have an Israel problem but other than that we dont give a shit about the Middle east.

    • @expertizer
      @expertizer 26 дней назад +1

      actually it is! here in germany we pay triple the price of 2021for natural gas and the double price for electricity.

    • @jennysue601
      @jennysue601 26 дней назад +14

      That is untrue. German here. Neither average price kwh electricity 2021:30 cents, 2024 37 cents. It did not double . Average natural gas price in 2021 was 6.5 cent per kwh, 10.7 cents per kwh in 2024. It did not tripple. There was a temporary spike late 22/23 but that was just that. Temporary.

    • @ll_Taylor_ll
      @ll_Taylor_ll 26 дней назад

      We still buy Russias but we buy it through India...

    • @user-qo4kb4dr1i
      @user-qo4kb4dr1i 26 дней назад

      ​@@expertizerha, that would be insane, and I don't think you believe that

  • @thomastoadie9006
    @thomastoadie9006 26 дней назад +10

    Economically seen Russia’s invasion is like pulling a Brexit.

    • @andrewbielecki6154
      @andrewbielecki6154 26 дней назад +4

      I'd say its 1000000x worse

    • @paulgibbon5991
      @paulgibbon5991 24 дня назад +1

      As stupid as Brexit was, we didn't start throwing our own workforce into a grinder.

  • @barriewilliams4526
    @barriewilliams4526 25 дней назад +2

    He's still a master strategist though😂

  • @christiannoble5549
    @christiannoble5549 26 дней назад +1

    Back to the more important questions. Why is the guy turning a rebar at 8:50 on a lathe?

  • @sandytrunks
    @sandytrunks 26 дней назад +3

    @11:27 "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
    ~ Albert Einstein

  • @ErtaiCZ
    @ErtaiCZ 26 дней назад +6

    Apathy is death. Worse than death!

  • @LoknBtweenfingaz
    @LoknBtweenfingaz 24 дня назад +2

    The delayed affect of world economic sanctions are exponential and are felt for generations down, while Russia stagnates in research and development funding the west continues to develop, this growth becomes exponential further widening the gap between Russia and the rest of the world.

  • @JaneSoole
    @JaneSoole 9 дней назад

    Delighted to have found this brilliant and clear analysis. Thank you. I will sleep more happily tonight!

    • @robertkonrad8827
      @robertkonrad8827 2 дня назад

      There is nothing more restful than the sleep of a mindless russophobe.

  • @redsable6119
    @redsable6119 26 дней назад +8

    When bullies get their comeuppance.

  • @petracastro6021
    @petracastro6021 26 дней назад +4

    I agree that Russia has economic problems. But it's not true that western countries stopped buying Russian gas and oil completely. This is mainly because European countries don't want to put in peril their own economies.

  • @nicholasgranat2999
    @nicholasgranat2999 22 дня назад +1

    Never thought an invasion would be their undoing! Not everyone is a good chess player!

  • @pgluvp4e
    @pgluvp4e 16 дней назад

    Very nice story! Thank you

  • @stevenjohns-savage7024
    @stevenjohns-savage7024 26 дней назад +14

    I was in hospital back then.😡. Now I'm here useless but still supporting Ukraine because there not alone 😊

  • @Broockle
    @Broockle 26 дней назад +7

    7:40 "Russia does this for its citizens as one of the rare benefits to them for being part of Russian society"
    This is quite a burn 😆

    • @Broockle
      @Broockle 26 дней назад +4

      For Russia the oil industry is booming 😎
      o no he didn't 😂

  • @Simpleman88
    @Simpleman88 25 дней назад

    Very good

  • @drp2007
    @drp2007 26 дней назад +2

    Vlad to his populace, Oops.

  • @fjalarhenriksson
    @fjalarhenriksson 26 дней назад +14

    You just lied about China. They are not developing they are falling into pieces 🤣

    • @yargolocus4853
      @yargolocus4853 26 дней назад +2

      China is very much developing big time. It's not without issues ofcourse

    • @DementiaDon
      @DementiaDon 26 дней назад +1

      @@yargolocus4853 Their population is declining and they have massive structural issues within their economy.

    • @uteriel282
      @uteriel282 26 дней назад

      @@yargolocus4853
      china is even more of a dumpster fire than russia.
      between natural disasters that the government does nothing about, over their buildings collapsing and killing people nearly every day because of cheap construction to fanatical hate crimes against foreigners because of brainwashing and propaganda the country is falling apart bit by bit.
      not to mention how china is antagonizing every asian country right now while their own military capability is just about equal to russias.

    • @mikethespike7579
      @mikethespike7579 26 дней назад

      @@DementiaDon China is fast becoming a basket case. A lot of what we see from China are just flashy Potemkin villages. Hidden behind the scene things are falling apart.

    • @yargolocus4853
      @yargolocus4853 26 дней назад

      @@DementiaDon those are the issues. there is progress too, such as in electric car production, batteries, and infrastructural development. I can't see them going *down* in the far future

  • @derrekvanee4567
    @derrekvanee4567 26 дней назад +4

    *çùkæ bl·lýæt go to bed*
    Ruzza van afford the people and has the big boom-boom sticks to show the issue.*
    That said, ruzzans... Get him off life support. Even Poophorzian would be sick if not for *shoiguuuu.....*

  • @jan-martinlichte2647
    @jan-martinlichte2647 25 дней назад +1

    I wonder why the limited future of fossile fuels is not taken into account. It's not only for the climate catastrophe that we will stop consuming fossile Energy, but simply because renewables are so much cheaper already today, with the gap widening every day. Ten years from now, all the oil and gas fields will not be of strategic importance anymore

  • @shamol3896
    @shamol3896 23 дня назад

    I've seen so many videos like this. I'll have to read the comments on this video in a year.

  • @Jupiterloobncj
    @Jupiterloobncj 26 дней назад +6

    I had to chance to visit russia and ukraine. I was shocked how such a heavy weight culture with very skilled people could be so mediocre. Autocracy is the answer i found

  • @Infopirates
    @Infopirates 26 дней назад +3

    Sorry, we don't feel any problems here, in Russia 🤓

  • @super_happy_alien509
    @super_happy_alien509 9 дней назад +1

    Ai Gore: Global warming will destoy us all !!!.
    Putin:..... Plan lost ,,,,,,,,,, Damm globel Warming !!!
    Ai Gore: Global Warming Saved us all !!!!!!!!!!!
    Greta thunberg: This is not what i had in mind !!!!!!

  • @jubjub7101
    @jubjub7101 15 дней назад +1

    There are A LOT of videos about Russia being in trouble in one sort or another. Energy, military, aviation, population, raw materials, etc. You would hope one or two of these would help the decision to pull out of Ukraine. Instead, I’m more concerned these issues will ramp up the Russian government’s lashing out.

  • @karlrichardson7548
    @karlrichardson7548 26 дней назад +3

    Every other learned person in the known world, along with the U.S. government has said that Russia is doing just fine economically, and the economic isolation of sanctions have had very little detrimental impact and may have inadvertently boosted Russia geopolitical standing in the world. But hey one random guy on youtube cobbled together out of date and/or wildly inaccurate data and put together a 12 minute clip. So I guess that's it. Russia is going down :)

    • @livreene7250
      @livreene7250 26 дней назад +1

      Oh, no, is that why Putler went kowtowing to Kim Jung Un? So delightful!

    • @paulgibbon5991
      @paulgibbon5991 24 дня назад

      [citation needed]