At least they have something to show for it. The money they did spend on their military just got blown up. In other words, if Russia had minded their own business and stayed in their own borders, the oligarchs could have their superyachts and everything would be fine.
In Russia, vodka production was largely by local distillers, a garage industry. One man in a shed. Thousands of very small suppliers, everywhere. Then the Russian Gov made it illegal, and took all vodka production under national ownership and control. The aim wasn't to stop people drinking. It was the opposite; They made it really cheap, so even the lowliest worker could easily afford vodka. The Russian Gov knew that if it kept most of the population in a semi-inebriated state, they would have no trouble from them.
@@tonyjoka2346 Do you seriously think none of it is going to get destroyed ?? it's a war ! but most of it is tearing Russian vehicles apart, and it's a fraction of what NATO has !
The war did not last for "two years" now, it actually started 10 years(!!) ago, as Russia annexed Crimea and Donbas in 2014 ☝ Ukraine is fighting since then, although the world did not take much notice of it at the beginning.
The soviets dismantled something like 10,000 nukes and left about 3000 so those that are still there now maybe they work well, the best ones. also they have built a fair few new nuke missiles so you'd assume they made sure the warheads are active and functioning, if not brand new.
@404 : You and the other two bots can keep dreaming. Me, I think Russia’s incompetence with its military could result in a nuclear whoopsie, including the captured Zap nuclear power plant, not to mention a dirty bomb. The Chernobyl disaster was actually a GOOD result, and could have been much worse, including a radioactive fallout hitting Europe.
@@404killer Your caution is warranted, though it's more than likely that their nukes are the same as their tanks. Many that have to be refurbished but even with only 10% working, 300 nukes is a world ending situation. I don't think that the world is safe, I think that most of the world realized that war doesn't make you as much money as other scams.
An armed force which only cares about spent equipment will run into manpower problems. Western tanks had been designed with high survivability, while even T90M vectors suffer catastrophic "jack-in-the-box" turret aviation due to a design flaw at the base of disregarding your own fatalities. I have no personal enmity toward Russian soldiers. Go home, go in Peace.
This is why autocracies never last. And it’s not just corruption. Generals are promoted on loyalty to the leader rather than competence. There is no free press or opposition to highlight corruption or incompetence, the detection of which leads to change in western democracies. So take your voting rights seriously. The fate of your nation depends on it.
British institutions are the same, years of service . Institutions such as the NHS for example become very management top heavy for this reason which in itself creates a more complicated chain of command often slowing it to a crawl
@@tims7250 I got 2 letters today from the Welsh NHS. One was inviting me to an appointment with a consultant in late September (after months of waiting) and the second was cancelling it! I have seen the consultant once in 12 months and he says I need urgent surgery for a progressive and aggressive condition. The doctors and nurses are great, the systems are rubbish.
@@NoPulseForRussians It's true that he was over-lied to, but that's really because he rejected anyone who told him anything he didn't want to hear. He created the situation that's leading to his own downfall. When Georg von Békésy won the Nobel Prize, he noted, "I've lost my best enemies." When everyone agrees with you, then you can't learn from your own mistakes.
I can’t think that Russia is holding back because I just don't see Putin's ego allowing that. I think what we are seeing is the best the Russians can do.
As was mentioned in the video, if Russia could have "steamrollered" their way into Ukraine, taking the country in 10 days or so, then why didn't they? Because they couldn't, that's why. They vastly over-estimated the strength and capability of their armed forces. And once military support from the West began arriving in Ukraine, that compounded the Kremlin's problems further still....
@@Brian-om2hhDon't hold your breath on support from the US if Trump wins the election. After the US pulls out of NATO Trump will allow his buddy Putin to do whatever he wants. Vote Blue 🩵 🌎 💙 🗳 and save the world.
Great insight. When corruption is endemic and centrally planned and FSB gets its share, power stays tight. Cell phones made it impossible to censor bad news. Weak military means tiny fractures can rupture quickly. And the state welfare fund is nearly empty and there are no lenders.
Ukraine had navy,not Subs but had frigattes.Russia enter softly but now is in full power. Kiev was only a divertion to take Donbass back to Where always had belong.
And your sources that Russia lost so many ships comes from where? and with what evidence? If you want evidence one needs not look farther than the USA's disastrous military campaign in Afghanistan having stayed there 20 years and lost to peasants. The most humiliating defeat in military history. Its so easy to be gullible believing the US government's narrative of misinformation. Fortunately for them they have many who will even believe in Santa Clause and the Easter bunny as long as the US governments says so. Correct? Ring a bell?
You've hit the nail right on the head really, your analysis is very accurate. I am married to an ethnic Russian, who was born in Ukraine. Since we've been together she has talked about the corruption, bureaucracy, and the disorganization holding both Ukraine and Russia back economically. So it comes as no surprise, that their military is so disorganized. My wife's dad was in the Russian military, he was also involved in all kinds of corruption, making money on the black market, with military money. The thing is, Russia projects this false success, by investing lots of money into their major cities, allowing those who live in Moscow, and St Petersburg, and the likes, to live in a very modern society, while the rest of Russia lives like the village of Borat!
This is very true but you forgot about the shovels. Yeah those dam shovels aarrG or thats right then ya know cup a tea ha ah haha copping are we i love it
They are doing the best that they can. They are incompetent. I'm an old Army soldier who served in active duty in '80 to '84 and they are still using the same tactics that i was trained to fight against back then. No modernization of any kind.
I did the paratrooper thing for 10 years and attack helicopters for the last 10 from 1977 to 1997. I've seen TOW missiles go up from 3,000 bucks per missile to somewhere in the neighborhood of 12,000 or above. I always thought we are overdoing it on the spending in the US Department of Defense but all that money spent through all those years and I can tell you I never imagined a $300 drone could make this big a difference.
You were trained to operate at squad-platoon sized warfare? Or fight against drones? What happens here is the very opposite of the Fulda gap scenario. Mister grunt, you better to delegate thinking to your platoon commander than writing this.
@@worldoftancraft drones didn't exist when I was in from 1977 to 1997. That is the point I'm making, it's a revolution in warfare. As well as quite simply we spend up to $13,000 on a missile that they can do enough damage with the $300 drone. It has nothing to do with tactics. The world has changed and I'm only stating the obvious.
@@worldoftancraft you completely lost me. The only point I'm making is that the high cost of munitions is ridiculous comparative to a tiny little remote control device and again they didn't have those when I was on active duty. But hey, everybody is allowed to have their own opinions, even if they don't have a background in that field to make that opinion. That's called an uninformed opinion.
It did during the invasion of Finland. It did again in the first parts of WW2. It did during their numerous internal fights. It did during the invasion of Georgia….
@@IQ-BeastsThey’re using FAB-500’s because it’s the only air tactic they have left after taking heavy air losses over Ukraine. Even then, how effective are these glide bombs if Russia is still only making minimal gains? A good 10% are failing to even reach Ukrainian territory as they’re landing in Russia. So how many more are failing to hit their Ukrainian target accurately???
Tom was far more aware of the corruption and nature of Russian culture to tolerate it than most people. He was dismissed as a right wing crank but he was a great writer and most of the things he spoke about in Rising on the paranoia and corruption of the Russians has been proven very true
Keep in mind, Putin has never had any military training or experience. His job, as a KGB officer, was basically a clerk who kept track of undercover assets in foreign countries.
Be careful, regarding which training and experience Putin had. My late father in law, Klaus Bleibaum, was a former GDR officer and the military liaison to Putin in Dresden. My father in law has also been working as a spy for the GDR. When he retired as a spy, he became a staff officier (Oberstleutnant) with the Grenztruppen, directly under Generalmajor Horst Stechbart. My father in law said that Putin had military training and knew what he did. When a german spy has enough military training to become a staff officier immediately after retiring as a spy, you can assume that a russian KGB officier of Putin's rank has similar military training and experience. Wearing civlilian clothes and keeping a low profile doesn't nessecarily make you a cilvilian and unexpirienced in military matters. Don't let yourself be fooled into underestimating your opponent.
@@joebleibaum Putin lack of military training is one huge reason why Russia has fared so badly time and time again in Ukraine. We overestimated his skills 😂😂
Totally agree, I worked in Russia and was shocked at the scale of corruption I personally encountered. Sadly to be on the take, or taking things that is not yours is a national sport and even a way of life, sadly this started at the top years ago and has filtered all the way down to the guy in the street so the average Russian person can survive. The system is rotten at the core and will disappear into the ground like a rotten Apple.
I for the life of me cannot understand why you would want to kidnap children who are ukrainian. These kids will never consider themselves Russian no matter how much indoctrination you do, they'll remember that you murdered their parents. They would be a danger to anyone whose homes you put them in. This was a positively stupid move.
@@mrgrinch837 It is the Russian forces who are Saving the Children!!!!!!!! It is the Russian Forces along with their Special forces taking out the 43 BioWeapon Labs which were for killing Slavic People that the Deep State, Kazarian Maffia were setting to release to kill them. As the two who are still in power/authority of Ukraine have been kidnapping them to sell to the Wests Elites.
Russia has always sucked at war , their biggest advantage has always been shitty weather and disregard for their soldiers lives. This is the same army that took two tries to take Chechnya,a country with 2 million people and no air force at all.
Well, one only has to look at the US-Afghan war outcome. No airforce, no armor, no artillery for the Afghans, yet the outcome was pretty clear for all to see.
@@janosvass5628imagine if the US decided to invade Mexico and made it to the outskirts of Mexico City before being thrown back to Tijuana and being hung up there for 2 1/2 years.
@@janosvass5628 Difference is. US had the choice in between leaving Afghanistan or killing of big numbers of afghanni. We know what russia would do and still fail. ...ooooh...they did.
Russia defeated Nazi Germany and Japan in WW2. Its on public record. Your comment best reflects the US military and not Russia. It tied in Korea, lost in Vietnam and Afghanistan. For a country that boasts the world best military, its performance is at best very disappointing especially in Afghanistan where it stayed for 20 years and lost to peasants, making it the most humiliating defeat in the history of warfare.
Indeed. Tritium has a 12 year shelf life and it ain't cheap to replace in the warhead. Not saying we should call it a bluff but the super yachts and Oxford tuition didn't come from selling tanks.
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@@Shadow850031 the PLA beat back the US army back when they were poorly equipped. If they tried to invade Seattle, it would be a disaster. But who is even thinking of that. Neither can the US invade Beijing.
On paper. The problem is that nobody checks so maintenance is paid and then done... on paper. The tanks are inspected and confirmed they haven't been stripped for parts to be sold on the black market... on paper. You can inspect the paperwork and confirm they definitely have 14777 real tanks ready for action. It DOES seem a bit odd they are now reduced to motorbikes and quads but the tanks are there somewhere. Somebody must have just lost the paperwork. Phillip.
I'm an American in Japan; I have many Russian colleagues and friends. Most of them are women. Why? As they told me, there are far fewer men than women in Russia because the men go and die in war or from things like alcohol abuse. So when you see these ads for Russian "mail order brides," that's not some human trafficking scam; there's a serious lack of marriageable men left in Russia, and this has been going on for decades.
This is true, and also another reason for Russian Mail Order Brides is because of the poor conditions in Russia, making many women who have not been brainwashed into leaving their country for a better life.
The “heavy Russian losses” bs is coming from the same Ukrainian propagandists that claim that Ukraine only had 31k KIA since the beginning of the war. If you buy that I have a bridge to sell you
The loss of war against Japan in 1914 was one of the causes of the revolution of 1917 and overthrowing the czar regime in Russia ... The loss of war in Afghanistan in 1980s was one of the reasons of the collapse of the Soviet Union side by side with highly bureaucratic inefficiencies and corruption plus mismanagement... Would history repeat itself in 2020s and 2030s ? All is possible ...
Uuuuh, the loss to Japan in the far east weren't much of a impact on the Russian Revolution for a simple and sad reason It didn't happen near Russia, but in the far right territories. Most Russians at the time didn't give a shit about global politics because they were busy being serfs In World War 1, Russians, Ukranians and others from the developed part of the Russian Empire were sent to the slaughter, and that's what caused an uprising so great in the right place to overthrow the tzarist regime
@@anofsti It showed the incompetence of that regime in early 20th century plus the general public was living under poverty and oppression which prompted more riots and revolutions after the Russian army loss in the far East...
But I really dont get their standpoint, so do the others. Its like being a kid in the playground bragging about toys, while all the other kids brought the same exact toys. If Russia nukes then others nuke them, theres no winner, so they will not be dropping nukes. Putin also could never Nuke Ukraine, first of all its too close to Russia and the imminent radiation would affect Russia, second thing is Russian population was told that Russia is winning the war, so why are they then dropping nukes if everything is well, they would instantly lose the support of the commonfolk. Also if they nuked not only the west and nato would retaliate, but also China and their allies because they were stupid to throw a nuke putting the whole world in danger.
Russia only holds the 2nd strongest military title due to its nukes, I believe both China and India are much stronger. If we assume South Korea and Turkey can use American nukes at will. They are presumably stronger than Russia as well.
Nukes were part of the reason the Russian army did so poorly, the generals knew that with 6000 nukes, there was little chance for a large land war in Europe. So over the years they didn’t waste good money on new weapons and training when it could be better utilized for dachas and big yachts!
@@JimCOsd55 Russian military has always been crap even before they had nukes. The only war they "won" is WW2 and that is when they were fighting a genocidal regime and getting unlimited American aid.
India is not stronger at all Russia has huge problems but so does India also at a pinch Russia can actually build its own stuff India struggles and in high end cases simply can’t it also can’t deploy its military as it has to keep vast numbers on its border with Pakistan
@@MrTangolizard Agree. Majority of Indian Armed Forces are bound and remain stuck at its Pakistani and Chinese border. The other part left is just not mobile enough due to lack of sufficient logistics, especially on global level.
@@AzUniverzumUraesParancsoloja exactly they also suffer from not producing what they use and depend on imports one thing I will say where India most likely has the edge over Russia is its surface fleet
No. I met plenty of honest buffoons and plenty of skilled crooks. Labor Unions, for example, lot of them ate crooked if not by legal definitions then by ethical definitions. But I trust union carpenters way more than some guy standing on a street corner m (which is where non-union contractors get their labor -literally).
@@abelsichilima-t2j Yes, otherwise there would have been half a million more killed people... Japan prepared for defending the homeland for every price
@@for-lc6rj There is a great line from the extended Halo universe (the books or Reach I believe) that summarises Russian military doctrine for their entire history as a nation. Paraphrased is "The humans cant beat us so they attempt to drown us in their blood." Or in simple parlance, Russia has always been an inferior military with an abundance of bodies, why be good when you can be many.
Anyone who's ever played games like Risk or Civ will understand, defending such a massive territory while forming an attack is very, very difficult! Even if it seems like the odds are in your favour, being spread so thin and wide makes logistics very challenging.
In short, Putin severely underestimated the Ukrainian's military tactics and strategies, while overestimating their own, along with misunderstanding where Ukraine's citizens align. When the invasion began, he thought it'd take at most a week. This is probably my favorite example of tyrants being proven wrong. Why the hell am I still subbed to the channel? It's probably for the oversimplification of events in this war.
For decades, every time we've had a chance to see how their military responds, they perform FAR worse than we expected. Remember Mathias Rust who, in 1987, flew a Cessna 172 into Russia and landed on Red Square while the air defenses were napping?
The constant social media about Russia not using all w it's resources or best equipment has long been disproven. What you see is what you get. They are exactly what we see. A country with a lot of people, a stock pile of old equipment and a leader who doesn't care. Thier equipment is generic in ability but can still be lethal in war.
Well, few now think that Russia is strong. Everyone knows now that Russia is a paper tiger. And many see Putin’s nuclear sabre rattling and think, “Ag, their nuclear arsenal is probably so degraded that it won’t even work if they tried to use it!” Russia is finished, it’s now just matter of time for when the total collapse comes.
America occupies Iraq and Afghanistan at the same time for 20 years and loses 5,500 soldiers in that time. Americans considered it a mistake. Russia is still attempting to occupy Ukraine after 2.5 years and and so far have lost over 100,000 soldiers. Russians think it's a great idea.
@@thebigmon oh and one more thing genius, you think killing a million people over lies of weapons of mass destruction is a good thing?... And you stand up for late US diplomat, Madeleine Albright who thought the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children were 'worth it'?, you really are some kind of stand-up American aren't you?🙈
@@terrific804Ukraine has not lost that much, and in any event; they didn't ask to be invaded. Defending the Russians is a losing game. Regardless of what you think of America, Russia has NO reason to be in any part of Ukraine.
A lot of Russian scientists would flee out of the country for higher salaries especially after February 2022... A lot of capital would leave Russia even before the invasion of 2022...
@HailTheApocalypse There will be at least one more wave of people who now already have resources to emigrate but don't give a damn about paying taxes to fascist regime as long as they aren't fully robbed or made a cannon fodder by it.
Moscow Will make them return mostly the scientists or maybe they just can't have none reason to return... No family or properties in Rússia anymore.Switch off,just...Their archive burnt as well...😮
Yea the US would do the same they did to Iraq/Iran (not sure which) where they systematically destroyed and bombed the air defences before using a combined arms to blitz the country.
Yes, we can. it would be even worse disaster that actually in Ukraine. But I would not overestimate military power of countries like China or India as they have large but totally inexperienced armies.
Winston Churchill said in the thirties: "Russia isn't as strong as it thinks, but it isn't as weak as we would like it to be". It was true 90 years ago, and it is true nowadays as well. Do remember how they started the war when surprisingly attacked by Germany in 1941, and how they finished it. Starting with highly inferior equipment and command, and finishing it with an equipment almost equal to that of the Germans... same goes for the quality of the higher command. However, the situation nowadays id different. In 1941 it was a war for the very existence. Today the Russians used their brains and understand that it is a "luxury war". Russia is endangered by no one.
Strategic empathy, Algi. Russia absolutely feels that NATO in Ukraine is a huge threat to them. They can't have been more clear. Is NATO a threat to them? Yes. I very much think it is.
From the US, even before Russia invaded in 2022, I knew Russia was something of a paper tiger, but the extent is really breath-taking. I don't understand how a modern state could let its army rot so completely. Even if the war ended this second, it would take Russia years and billions of dollars to revitalize itself. So long as they continue to fight, they ensure they will never get better.
It isn't a modern state. I studied, lived, and worked in Russia for several years. Go outside Moscow and it's like a time-travel machine back to the 1850s.
Russia's biggest problem is the ego of it's leaders who try to keep a large military but fail to realise Russia economically isn't wealthy enough to maintain the level of forces it has to any decent modern standard..
More than just rot, it's poorly designed. I mean really, tanks which can have their turrets blown off so easily? So many seen like that. Who in their right mind would approve of something like that?
Since its failed adventure in Afghanistan in the late 70s Russia has been at "peace." The Chechen wars were small. In the interim, the Russian military basically stole most of the money appropriated to maintain and modernize their armed forces. Corruption from general officer (Gerasimiov) on down to subaltern lieutenants: pad contracts, earn kickbacks, buy military commissions, fake maintenance contracts, fake readiness reports, gasoline, parts and supplies diverted and sold...but there was no big war, so everybody got away with it. They never had a strong NCO corps. Junior officers do/did the training. Their officer corps is poorly educated, poorly trained and inflexible.
well if you compare the Russian forces at the start of the war in Feb 2022 to now July 2024. The Russians have doubled or even tripled their forces at the front in terms of men, however the Russians have actually degraded motivation training still low. command and control the same , however the Russians are fielding more old tanks like T-55s and 62s, as I think the Russians are running low on the newer and more capable 64s, 72s, 80s and 90s and want to conserve them. Also the battlefield has changed a bit since start of the war, with drones being the king of the battlefield, its simply suicide to send a massed armoured assault as drones and drone guided artillery from both sides will destroy them. that is why the Russians are using Chinese made motorcycles, golf carts, trucks and cars to ferry their troops to the front. This is done due to these vehicles not being able to trigger Ukrainian anti tank mines, being nimble and of course lower cost of these vehicles when compared to tanks and APCs. Also look at the picture of the current Russian offensive in Kharkov 2024, the majority of Russian tanks used were T-62s and 55s and were kept mostly behind and only used to exploit hole in Ukrainian lines however many were destroyed in doing so. and supposedly 25 percent of the Russian soldiers used were cannon fodder and a mix of convicts and foreign volunteers from poor countries in fact, its said the majority of cannon fodder are foreign volunteers from India, Nepal Bangladesh Sri Lanka African countries etc. These guys are sent in first before the Russians, many of them are kaput.
Ok ok russian is a paper bear, but it's a really old sick bear, and the paper is wet newspapers from the 1980s that were left outside in a leaky shed, and half the newspapers were stolen before assembling the bear.
A teacher in my middle school, his father was in the German army in the first world war stationed on Eastern front for a Time. This teacher gave a talk about his fathers experiences. He told the story about how his father's unit a modern German army unit of the first world war came upon a field. On the other side of the field was a large Russian cavalry Force. The Russians charged across the field with their horses holding their sabers aloft. The Germans waited till they're about halfway across the field and annihilated the entire Russian cavalry Force with their artillery and guns. 100 years later and the Russians are pretty much using the same tactics.
the russian federation by its whole is roughly 147 million. this includes children and the elderly. so they cant possibly muster 46 million men for service. who did your math ?
@@popnorbert8465 Vodka. Lots of it. 40 year old guys, scarred by life, used to hardship, proud that they can take it. They are not fit, they are not motivated, but they can sit in a trench and pull a trigger. Behind them, artillery has time to work out on which part of the barrel the shell goes in, drone operators have time to launch some Lancet drones, and some FAB-3000 are ordered. A punch by a drunken, wounded giant can still kill a man, even if he dodged the twenty punches before
They also frequently lose 50+ armoured vehicles and another 50+ artillery systems a day. The incompetence of the Russians is staggering to see for anyone trained by any Western military.
@@andrewstrongman305 sorry, I was indicating unfortunately not too clearly that for Putin this kind of Slaughter of his own people is not much of a bargain. I'll try to clean it up.
@@andrewstrongman305 I welcome you to the fields of drone warfare and men in boots. Will be a surprise how difficult it's to fight here. See, even boot instead of sandals, ever seen that in your beloved deserts?
russia's sheer incompetence just shows how big the void is between a real super power military (usa) and the pretenders. if russia didnt have nukes people would forget it even exists
@@rcchin7897 Training and real combat fight are two different things. By the way, Ukrainian soldiers in interviews laugh about training in NATO countries.
@@heldehog4360show me those videos troll. Ukraine has had middling NATO weapons slow-rolled out. That is it. They have no Navy or Air Force. Read that sentence again. And Russia is over 2 years in with no end in sight. Grow up
Even then, thats not strictly true. The us took more ir less full control of the areas they invaded. It just that the governments they set up couldn't withstand the talibans return. And how could they? You can crush an army, but crushing an idea is hard concept
@@willowsayswhat9642 Afghanistan was made of disparate peoples who didn’t recognise a common interest. Therefore not a nation and not a place where you can transplant democracy. The West should not intervene in cultures so different from their own. On the other hand, should intervene to save Ukraine from Evil. A similar people, with similar aspirations is being denied nationhood for no good reason.
A well-researched and presented documentary. It illustrates why autocracies are always weak and always will be. Russia seems to be particularly incompetent in this respect; it's clear that Russia will lose.
@@ikaustralia *looks at people using 50s construction methods in Chelyabinsk Oblast* Yeah, no. I followed Magnitogorsk during the NHL lockout because they had one of my favorite players on the team - and no one is impressed with the living standard there Unless you mean Russia Russia and expose the blatant racism against non-Russian ethnicities
@@ikaustralia Really? I was in Russia, I was in Western countries. If you live not in Moscow - it's terrible poor life. In the same time I could be in Netherlands or UK in any village - and there is regular civilization
Nato now knows how weak the Russian army is. What is more important, common citizens throughout the West know how weak the Russian army is. The West and NATO will be able to confidently inspire and acquire consent to resist and oppose, or attack, Russian defendant objectives.
But Russians don't know how weak the Russian military is, because telling the truth about the Russian military is a crime, punishable by up to 15 years in prison. Its the only way that Putin can remain in power.
@@scene2much the reason why the United States military as well as other countries didn't really highlight how weak Russia is is we have to justify our defense budget. We have to say that they have 14,000 tanks, we don't have to tell them that they're 14,000 pieces of crap. The stuff that we use today, are toys costs a fortune and the justification is that the other guy has more. Or they're better than the stuff that we have. The F-4 Phantom would be nothing on paper compared to the mig-25 foxbat, and that was widely believed until we got an actual fox bat Landing in japan. Upon close evaluation we found out that this is really a piece of garbage, but because of the fear of the foxbat it Justified the Department of Defense to develop the F-15 Eagle to replace the F4 Phantom.
Truly a superb video essay. Significant observations were intersped against the video in bite sized chunks so that it was very easy to follow. You should do some long pieces and market them in a documentary format. Good luck!
If you look back in history during world war II you will see how the leaders have never cared about the soldiers doing the fighting. When the Germans crossed the border into Russia the biggest reason they were able to get through so quickly was that Stalin did not think it was necessary to equip his army. Once the winter had started and that it was so bad it stopped the Germans I'm using their heavy equipment and at that point it went hand-to-hand combat. Hear something most people might not know about what happened during these types of engagements. Russia did not have enough rifles to equip all the people that they threw at the Germans. You might have one man with a rifle then three people following that person and once he or she was wounded now one of the unarmed soldiers can now grab that rifle and start fighting. To make sure that the soldiers would go fight even if they were unarmed their own army had machine guns back behind the lines and if you decided to retreat or not to even go forward your own soldiers would shoot them down. Basically you have the same thing happening today. When you send untrained people out to fight a battle the outcome is never going to be good. They are using the same tactics as world war II let's just throw bodies at them and eventually the enemy runs out of bullets.
The biggest problem for the Russian army is nobody knows it's real strength, except the guys who aren't listened to, the soldiers on the ground. The numbers used to make it to the 2nd strongest in the world pre-war, were the numbers provided by the Kremlin. Which are the numbers the Kremlin got from their top military brass, who knew it was truly slightly weaker because they skimmed of the top, but of coarse they don't mention that. But the next one in line does the same and the next and the next. It's like that child game of sitting in a circle, one tells a short story to the person to the left, that person passes it on to his left, and by the time the last person gets told the story, it's hardly recognizable. That combined with a strictly top to bottom hierarchy means the top will never know what's happening at the bottom.
my words exactly! from Alexander the great building St Petersburg at the expense of approx 250000 lives, through WW1, WW2, Afghanistan & now Ukraine, Russia's most abundant resource has always been human meat.
USA saved USSR. Stalin was already talking with HItler to give up Ukraine, Belarus, Parts of Caucasus and everything that Hitler has captured. Just to stop hitler from advancing.
And a good share of the actual fighting was done by Ukrainian (including Krim Tatars) and Belarusian soldiers. Iirc about 40% of the "Russian" casualties were of these ethnicities. They stopped the Nazis Southern Army Group. The opposing forces were even organised in the Ukrainian and Belarusian Front respectively (+/- equivalent to army group.) (I do not intend to down play the siege of Leningrad/St. Petersburg and other efforts. But it clearly was not the Russians alone.)
@@MrTangolizard A lot of the lease lend sent to Russia was shipped in British Merchant Navy ships ,accompanied by ships of the Royal Navy -at tremendous cost of ships and crews - l was told by an ex Brit sailor who took part in these operations that when they reached the Russian port they were not even allowed to disembark.. only the seriously wounded were stretchered on shore and Russian guards were stationed on every gangway to ensure the crews didn’t come in contact with the locals.
We didn't "bail them out". They fought their own war on their own front... with no help from us whatsoever. We didn't care what happened to Russia during ww2 which led to the cold war. Now we bailed the UK out of certain destruction... Russia?? We didn't even bat an eye.
@@ikaustralia how can you lose to a country that has the same gdp as spain, and has no real modern equipment? only reason would be the size of the army but not even that helped them
@@alsacestyle you do know the difference between debt and actual capital, right? If Russia increases their debt level to that of any western economy, it would appear 50 times richer in GDP 🫡
The worst strategic blunder by the US is forcing Russia work with China. The Russian economy is actually flourishing after the economic blockades by Europe.
This reminds me of a hillbilly’s yard full of junker cars,, he’ll tell you he has 11 cars, but 1.5 of them run and the others are being used for spare parts.. that’s the Russian armed forces,, when Putin and his buddies pocket the military budget rather than maintaining it
@@MrTangolizardThe Soviets built a lot, but after the Cold War much of that was just dumped in the open in ‘storage sites’. A lot of the equipment has been sitting out in the open for years, barely protected from weather or looters. Somewhere in 2022 there was a report that a commander of one of those sites had committed suicide because it was found that most of the tanks no longer had engines, wiring, computers, etc. It had all been stolen and sold by corrupt troops.
You say the Russia ground forces shouldn’t steamrolled but that was only if there was little resistance. They invaded with 230k troops against Ukraines 400k active and 700k reserves and massive conscription and they took 30% of the country with heavy resistance pretty much everywhere. 🤷♂️ Ukraine had one of the biggest best equipped and battle hardened armies in Europe. This whole weak small army is from pre 2014 and since then the us and nato had trained and given them a shitload of stuff.
Nothing new here. Russia’s failures in the Crimean War, Russo-Japanese war, the Winter War vs Finland, the Afghan War. All showed the same “paper tiger” characteristics.
If Russia is falling apart and why are three years into this war? What is it taking billions to captain them? Why is Russia now massing 900 thousand troops? Why are there nato members, France in particular calling for direct intervention? Not a fan of Russia, but something doesn’t add up.
The Russians are going into their third year because they have not given up. But the fact is the Ukrainians have enough to hold them where they are....the rest of the world is not really fully invested in this war outside of money and some arms. Russia should be thankful for that. Because if NATO decides to fully engage, the Russians won't last long. They are a paper tiger with lots of cannon fodder
In 1999 I served in Kosovo and we saw Russian VDV and at the time I was shocked at how badly equipped and behaved they were I’ve been saying since then if there tier2 units are like that I can only imagine what there line units are like
@@karlp8484 many were killed in the early stages of the war plus there are very few situations where there of use it’s interesting because during the Cold War we were told Russia has huge reserves of SF and that from day one they would be deployed behind the lines on huge operations hitting bridges comms etc but there have been little of that going on so I don’t think the Russian army is anything like the soviets and there either all dead or they simply don’t have many tier1 units
And months ago, Russia was cannibalizing soldiers from one military branch to put in the front lines (eg. Airmen sent to the front to fight with the infantry). IIRC, This was even before prisoners were used?
I can not believe the Ukrainians have been fighting Russia this long. They are smart and tough. Ukrainian soldiers and support have my respect.
So sad that one man's ego can kill so many people for nothing!😢
in the last 300 years, to whom are your referring to?
@@cheiatianbriem2078 George W.
@@cheiatianbriem2078 The subject of the video should give you a clue.
You're not too up on history huh.
@@craigb8228 nope
When you've been turning the military budget into super yachts and vodka for two decades what do you expect?
At least they have something to show for it.
The money they did spend on their military just got blown up.
In other words, if Russia had minded their own business and stayed in their own borders, the oligarchs could have their superyachts and everything would be fine.
you know the real reason right? @@Zomby_Woof
@@PatrickOrchids Putin wants their superyachts?
9 months old Russian troll account. 💀 @@PatrickOrchids
In Russia, vodka production was largely by local distillers, a garage industry. One man in a shed. Thousands of very small suppliers, everywhere. Then the Russian Gov made it illegal, and took all vodka production under national ownership and control. The aim wasn't to stop people drinking. It was the opposite; They made it really cheap, so even the lowliest worker could easily afford vodka. The Russian Gov knew that if it kept most of the population in a semi-inebriated state, they would have no trouble from them.
Parading smartly in Red Square is one thing. Fighting a war is something quite different.
Exactly, and we see the same thing with China and North Korea all the time.
But they don't have trouble destroying nato gear
@@tonyjoka2346 Or being destroyed by it.
@@tonyjoka2346 Do you seriously think none of it is going to get destroyed ?? it's a war ! but most of it is tearing Russian vehicles apart, and it's a fraction of what NATO has !
I heard thay they're pretty different
The war did not last for "two years" now, it actually started 10 years(!!) ago, as Russia annexed Crimea and Donbas in 2014 ☝
Ukraine is fighting since then, although the world did not take much notice of it at the beginning.
If only Ukrainians and the rest of the world thought so 10 years ago
Incredible knowledge of basic geopolitics!
Crimea voted. Look it up.
@@FeldwebelWolfenstool at the end of a barrel, so it was a totally legitimate vote.
@@FeldwebelWolfenstool we know how russian organised elections work
If Russia maintains its nukes like they maintain their other military assets, the world is safe.
The soviets dismantled something like 10,000 nukes and left about 3000 so those that are still there now maybe they work well, the best ones. also they have built a fair few new nuke missiles so you'd assume they made sure the warheads are active and functioning, if not brand new.
Nobody really knows how well their nukes work. Not even Russians
@404 : You and the other two bots can keep dreaming. Me, I think Russia’s incompetence with its military could result in a nuclear whoopsie, including the captured Zap nuclear power plant, not to mention a dirty bomb. The Chernobyl disaster was actually a GOOD result, and could have been much worse, including a radioactive fallout hitting Europe.
Huh?
@@404killer Your caution is warranted, though it's more than likely that their nukes are the same as their tanks. Many that have to be refurbished but even with only 10% working, 300 nukes is a world ending situation.
I don't think that the world is safe, I think that most of the world realized that war doesn't make you as much money as other scams.
"Russia have STARTED to ignore the human cost?"
My brother in Christ - they NEVER did.
Yeah
**Putin has never GAF about the lives of Russian troops save, perhaps, for which Russians are mobilized.**
They just invoke one of Stalin's most cynical mots:"One man dead is a tragedy, a million deaths is just a number in a statistic."
Russian intentionally sent first the ethnic minorities that did not like Russian rule. Two birds with one gravestone.
An armed force which only cares about spent equipment will run into manpower problems. Western tanks had been designed with high survivability, while even T90M vectors suffer catastrophic "jack-in-the-box" turret aviation due to a design flaw at the base of disregarding your own fatalities.
I have no personal enmity toward Russian soldiers. Go home, go in Peace.
"We are going to train them in theatre..."
"But where are all your experienced NCOs?"
"Dead."
And Russia has plenty of generals!
They’re all dead, too. :P
No. No. No. Would you believe that the Russian Army does NOT have non-coms!
This is why autocracies never last. And it’s not just corruption. Generals are promoted on loyalty to the leader rather than competence. There is no free press or opposition to highlight corruption or incompetence, the detection of which leads to change in western democracies. So take your voting rights seriously. The fate of your nation depends on it.
British institutions are the same, years of service . Institutions such as the NHS for example become very management top heavy for this reason which in itself creates a more complicated chain of command often slowing it to a crawl
@@tims7250The same happens in Australia.
@@tims7250 I got 2 letters today from the Welsh NHS. One was inviting me to an appointment with a consultant in late September (after months of waiting) and the second was cancelling it! I have seen the consultant once in 12 months and he says I need urgent surgery for a progressive and aggressive condition. The doctors and nurses are great, the systems are rubbish.
well said!
The same happens in Trump's inner circle
The person who didn’t know that the Russian military was crap was Putin.😅
Allied (U.S.) "Intelligence" thought Ukraine would lose quickly, and were as surprised as the Russians.
He was grossly over-lied to 😂
@@NoPulseForRussians It's true that he was over-lied to, but that's really because he rejected anyone who told him anything he didn't want to hear. He created the situation that's leading to his own downfall. When Georg von Békésy won the Nobel Prize, he noted, "I've lost my best enemies." When everyone agrees with you, then you can't learn from your own mistakes.
@@TooTallForPonyHe also will kill anybody he feels is usurping his authority.
@@geelangfordo3272 yeah, Russia has a real problem with people accidentally falling out of windows.
I can’t think that Russia is holding back because I just don't see Putin's ego allowing that. I think what we are seeing is the best the Russians can do.
As was mentioned in the video, if Russia could have "steamrollered" their way into Ukraine, taking the country in 10 days or so, then why didn't they? Because they couldn't, that's why. They vastly over-estimated the strength and capability of their armed forces. And once military support from the West began arriving in Ukraine, that compounded the Kremlin's problems further still....
@@Brian-om2hhDon't hold your breath on support from the US if Trump wins the election. After the US pulls out of NATO Trump will allow his buddy Putin to do whatever he wants.
Vote Blue 🩵 🌎 💙 🗳 and save the world.
Holding back, just like they never had a disfunctional military. 😂
They're not holding back, they're just not performing to the standard
@Brian-om2hh they lack a good, solid professional corp of non commissioned officers in it's army
The Russian Military, the second strongest military in Ukraine!
They are the second strongest military in Russia.
@@Zomby_Woof at one point they were the third strongest.
😂😂
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I was gonna post this 🤣
Wanting your military incompetent enough that it never turns against you is always going to be a problem when you actually want it to do its job.
Great insight. When corruption is endemic and centrally planned and FSB gets its share, power stays tight. Cell phones made it impossible to censor bad news. Weak military means tiny fractures can rupture quickly. And the state welfare fund is nearly empty and there are no lenders.
Spot on, ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries, it's like they don't even want their soldiers to survive there.
My favourite is how Russia has lost so many ships to a country without a navy. Says it all.
Ukraine had navy,not Subs but had frigattes.Russia enter softly but now is in full power.
Kiev was only a divertion to take Donbass back to Where always had belong.
@@MrKlipstar Man they really stopped teaching their bot farms proper english, comrade.
@@MrKlipstarwow they do scrape the bottom even for bots now
@@MrKlipstarbull💩💩
And your sources that Russia lost so many ships comes from where? and with what evidence?
If you want evidence one needs not look farther than the USA's disastrous military campaign in Afghanistan having stayed there 20 years and lost to peasants. The most humiliating defeat in military history.
Its so easy to be gullible believing the US government's narrative of misinformation. Fortunately for them they have many who will even believe in Santa Clause and the Easter bunny as long as the US governments says so. Correct? Ring a bell?
You've hit the nail right on the head really, your analysis is very accurate. I am married to an ethnic Russian, who was born in Ukraine. Since we've been together she has talked about the corruption, bureaucracy, and the disorganization holding both Ukraine and Russia back economically. So it comes as no surprise, that their military is so disorganized. My wife's dad was in the Russian military, he was also involved in all kinds of corruption, making money on the black market, with military money.
The thing is, Russia projects this false success, by investing lots of money into their major cities, allowing those who live in Moscow, and St Petersburg, and the likes, to live in a very modern society, while the rest of Russia lives like the village of Borat!
Only 10 kilometres outside moscow you can get a village like seen in Borat movie.
@@kaycey7361Better than your Million Addicted tents on roadside...🤣🧐
@@MrKlipstarstill rather be in the US than anywhere else
This is very true but you forgot about the shovels. Yeah those dam shovels aarrG or thats right then ya know cup a tea ha ah haha copping are we i love it
@@MrKlipstar in a race to the bottom russia would win easily.
They are doing the best that they can. They are incompetent. I'm an old Army soldier who served in active duty in '80 to '84 and they are still using the same tactics that i was trained to fight against back then. No modernization of any kind.
I did the paratrooper thing for 10 years and attack helicopters for the last 10 from 1977 to 1997. I've seen TOW missiles go up from 3,000 bucks per missile to somewhere in the neighborhood of 12,000 or above. I always thought we are overdoing it on the spending in the US Department of Defense but all that money spent through all those years and I can tell you I never imagined a $300 drone could make this big a difference.
You were trained to operate at squad-platoon sized warfare? Or fight against drones? What happens here is the very opposite of the Fulda gap scenario. Mister grunt, you better to delegate thinking to your platoon commander than writing this.
@@worldoftancraft drones didn't exist when I was in from 1977 to 1997. That is the point I'm making, it's a revolution in warfare. As well as quite simply we spend up to $13,000 on a missile that they can do enough damage with the $300 drone. It has nothing to do with tactics. The world has changed and I'm only stating the obvious.
@@mrgrinch837 Look up and find the other guy; his point is different.
@@worldoftancraft you completely lost me. The only point I'm making is that the high cost of munitions is ridiculous comparative to a tiny little remote control device and again they didn't have those when I was on active duty. But hey, everybody is allowed to have their own opinions, even if they don't have a background in that field to make that opinion. That's called an uninformed opinion.
The Kremlin was never used interchangeably with military.
Exactly, I rolled my eyes at that comment. That is not a thing🙄
It did during the invasion of Finland. It did again in the first parts of WW2. It did during their numerous internal fights. It did during the invasion of Georgia….
I've said many times that Russia is a nuclear power, not a super power. A true paper tiger.
Able to use tug boats on its sole aircraft carrier like no one else.
@@DarthPutler-c7l
Isn't that messed up?
@@ronalddevine9587 Very, but don't tell anyone, it's a state secret.
Not a super power but not entirely a paper tiger either.
@@IQ-BeastsThey’re using FAB-500’s because it’s the only air tactic they have left after taking heavy air losses over Ukraine. Even then, how effective are these glide bombs if Russia is still only making minimal gains? A good 10% are failing to even reach Ukrainian territory as they’re landing in Russia. So how many more are failing to hit their Ukrainian target accurately???
Tom Clancy addressed the "top down" hierarchy in Russia in his novel Red Storm Rising. He predicted this issue back in the 1980s.
Tom was far more aware of the corruption and nature of Russian culture to tolerate it than most people. He was dismissed as a right wing crank but he was a great writer and most of the things he spoke about in Rising on the paranoia and corruption of the Russians has been proven very true
Keep in mind, Putin has never had any military training or experience. His job, as a KGB officer, was basically a clerk who kept track of undercover assets in foreign countries.
Putin was far more that a clerk. In GDR he had authority over Stasi agents.
Be careful, regarding which training and experience Putin had. My late father in law, Klaus Bleibaum, was a former GDR officer and the military liaison to Putin in Dresden. My father in law has also been working as a spy for the GDR. When he retired as a spy, he became a staff officier (Oberstleutnant) with the Grenztruppen, directly under Generalmajor Horst Stechbart. My father in law said that Putin had military training and knew what he did. When a german spy has enough military training to become a staff officier immediately after retiring as a spy, you can assume that a russian KGB officier of Putin's rank has similar military training and experience. Wearing civlilian clothes and keeping a low profile doesn't nessecarily make you a cilvilian and unexpirienced in military matters. Don't let yourself be fooled into underestimating your opponent.
@@joebleibaum Putin lack of military training is one huge reason why Russia has fared so badly time and time again in Ukraine. We overestimated his skills 😂😂
@WhiteBaronn He has a PHD in corruption
@WhiteBaronn
He studied law and has a degree in economics
A good example of valuing loyalty over competence
Yes and that is what will happen if Trump gets elected. He only wants Loyalty to him personally.
a simple word corruption in that whole country
yes that is Ukraine for sure
@@chadhaire1711 Cap
Totally agree, I worked in Russia and was shocked at the scale of corruption I personally encountered. Sadly to be on the take, or taking things that is not yours is a national sport and even a way of life, sadly this started at the top years ago and has filtered all the way down to the guy in the street so the average Russian person can survive. The system is rotten at the core and will disappear into the ground like a rotten Apple.
@@chadhaire1711russia is more and has more racist and radical grups then Ukraine
@@chadhaire1711cope harder 😂
When did Russia EVER care about the human cost? They hardly consider themselves human
I for the life of me cannot understand why you would want to kidnap children who are ukrainian. These kids will never consider themselves Russian no matter how much indoctrination you do, they'll remember that you murdered their parents. They would be a danger to anyone whose homes you put them in. This was a positively stupid move.
just look at the tactics in 19444-45.
That's why the Ukrainians refer to them as "orks"
They never consider own citizens as human beings. Regarding neighbors - they consider all of them as livestock or cows
@@mrgrinch837 It is the Russian forces who are Saving the Children!!!!!!!!
It is the Russian Forces along with their Special forces taking out the 43 BioWeapon Labs which were for killing Slavic People that the Deep State, Kazarian Maffia were setting to release to kill them.
As the two who are still in power/authority of Ukraine have been kidnapping them to sell to the Wests Elites.
Russia has always sucked at war , their biggest advantage has always been shitty weather and disregard for their soldiers lives. This is the same army that took two tries to take Chechnya,a country with 2 million people and no air force at all.
Well, one only has to look at the US-Afghan war outcome. No airforce, no armor, no artillery for the Afghans, yet the outcome was pretty clear for all to see.
@@janosvass5628imagine if the US decided to invade Mexico and made it to the outskirts of Mexico City before being thrown back to Tijuana and being hung up there for 2 1/2 years.
@@janosvass5628 Difference is. US had the choice in between leaving Afghanistan or killing of big numbers of afghanni. We know what russia would do and still fail. ...ooooh...they did.
Russia defeated Nazi Germany and Japan in WW2. Its on public record.
Your comment best reflects the US military and not Russia. It tied in Korea, lost in Vietnam and Afghanistan.
For a country that boasts the world best military, its performance is at best very disappointing especially in Afghanistan where it stayed for 20 years and lost to peasants, making it the most humiliating defeat in the history of warfare.
@@spartanconscience2693 Afghanistan and russia... something Was going on there...
It really just boils down to two things
1) they had no combat experience.
2) they have corrupt leadership.
That's why they are always mouthing about nuclear. That's all they have.
Which they can't use without consequences that severely outweigh the benefits
Mouths, you mean?
Who knows how much of their nuclear arsenal is even real at this point.
@@Llortnerof Or even works properly.
Indeed. Tritium has a 12 year shelf life and it ain't cheap to replace in the warhead. Not saying we should call it a bluff but the super yachts and Oxford tuition didn't come from selling tanks.
You mean the nukes they have on paper?
its what you might call, all the Soviet Lies comming back to roost
Kaliningrad, you might want to leave the Federation.
Join NATO
Make Prussia great again!
Russia never left the dark ages
BOLLOX
Very sad
☔️THE GOSPEL OF THE WORD OF ALMIGHTY GOD "the Salvation of the last day that Christ brought in the second and last incarnation of His new and holy name"
(On earth, all kinds of evil spirits wander endlessly looking for a place to rest, and never stop looking for human corpses to eat. My people! Never act immorally! Never act careless! Instead, offer your loyalty to My home, and only through loyalty can you launch an opposition against the devil's device. No matter what happens you must not act as in the past, doing one thing in front of Me and another behind My back--that way you will be beyond the reach of redemption. Everything I say is for the sake of ensuring your destiny! A foul and dirty place is exactly what Satan needs; the more there is no hope of redemption, and the more perplexed you are, refusing to submit to restraint, the more the unclean spirits will try at any opportunity to enter. No one knows the gravity of this situation; everyone assumed that what they were hearing was idle talk and did not care in the slightest. I don't remember what happened in the past. Are you still waiting for Me to ease you by forgetting again! Even if humanity opposes Me, I will not hold it against him, because man's stature is too low, and therefore I do not demand high demands from him. All I require is--he should not waste himself, and submit to restraint. Surely this is not beyond your ability to meet a condition?)
Almighty God said
On earth, all kinds of evil spirits roam endlessly looking for a place to rest, and never stop looking for human corpses to eat. MY CITY! You MUST REMAIN IN My LOVE and CARE. NEVER ACT IMMORALLY! 🌹🙏
NEVER act CARELESSLY! 🙏
INSTEAD, OFFER your LOYALTY to My HOUSE, and only THROUGH LOYALTY can you wage opposition against the devil's creation. ☀️
NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS you SHOULD NOT ACT AS IN THE PAST, doing one thing in front of Me and another behind My back---that way you will be beyond the reach of redemption. 🛑
I've certainly uttered too many--too many words like these, haven't I? It's really because the old nature of man will never change that's why I have reminded him again and again. Don't get bored! Everything I am saying is for the sake of ensuring your destiny! 🙏
A STINKY and DIRTY PLACE is what SATAN DEFINITELY NEEDS; the more there is no hope of redemption, and the more you are perplexed, refusing to submit to restraint, the more you will try---at any opportunity for unclean spirits to enter. As soon as you get on this path, your loyalty will be nothing but empty chatter, without any evidence, and your steadfastness will be eaten by unclean spirits, to be disobedience or Satan's device, and used to disrupt theMy work. Because of that I will beat you to death whenever and wherever I want. NO ONE KNOWS THE SERIOUSNESS OF THIS SITUATION; EVERYONE ASSUMES that what they are HEARING is NONSENSE and DOESN'T care one bit. 🛑
I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED IN THE PAST. Are you still WAITING for Me to ease you THROUGH forgetting AGAIN! Even if humanity opposes Me, I will not hold it against him, BECAUSE THE STAGE OF MAN IS TOO LOW, and therefore I DO NOT demand HIGH NEEDS from him. The ONLY thing I NEED is---he should not waste HIMSELF, and SUBMIT to RESTRAINT. SURE it is NOT beyond your ability to meet a condition? Most people are waiting for Me to reveal more mysteries for the pleasure of their eyes. And even if you do understand all the mysteries of heaven, what can you do with that knowledge? Will it increase your love for Me? Will it ignite your love for Me? ☀️
I do not underestimate the person, nor do I just arrive at a jury verdict about him. If these were not the actual conditions of the person, I would never have simply crowned people with these labels. Think back to the past; Was there ever a time when I cursed you? Any time when I looked down on you? Any time when I looked at you without regard for your actual circumstances? 🙏
Any time when what I said failed to fill your heart and your mouth with conviction? Any time when I spoke without stirring up emotional memories within you? Who among you has been able to read My words without fear and trembling, fearing to be thrown into the bottomless pit? Who does not endure the test within My words? Within My words lies authority, but it is not to simply judge man; rather, understanding the actual conditions of people, I always reveal to people the meaning inherent in My words. At the point of certainty, is there anyone who can recognize My mighty power in My words? Is there anyone who can receive in himself the purest gold of which My words are made? How many words have I spoken, but does anyone value them? 🙏
From The WORD, Vol. I. The Manifestation and Work of God. God's Words to the Whole Universe, Chapter 10
📩 All who have "ears to listen" are led to what the Spirit of God is saying in His lowered and built kingdom/Church engraved with His new name, His totality, the ownership of this disposition, "THE CHURCH OF ALMIGHTY GOD "💐 fulfillment from what was said He to Peter 2,000 years ago recorded in (Mat. 16:18-19). His Coming is the fulfillment of all that was prophesied in the great book of Revelation, so the last "Salvation" He brought the whole truth, the way for eternal life. So the "victorious" ones who will receive them are the wise "virgins" because as recorded in the prophecy of His return no one knows it except the one who will receive it! So "come" and come to His kingdom/church standing in the holy place in the air/RUclips! This is also a fulfillment from the book of (Isaiah 2:2/9:6) which He first fulfilled in His first incarnation. 📥
"They say with a loud voice, "Salvation comes from the Lamb, and from our God who sits on the Throne!" (Rev. 7:10). ... and (Isaiah 2: 2 / 9:6) "On the Last Day, the mountain on which Jehovah's temple stands will stand out above all the mountains. All nations will flock there. " . "For a baby boy is born to us. The rule will be given to him; and he shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Almighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." 📤
the west has and its going backwards
May Russian corruption expand widely for years.
Their best example of how to do that is the United States and its Deep State organized crime.
Ukrainian corruption is much much deeper
Problem is it expands through their assets in other countries. Just look at Hungary, Austria. And look at the orange american candidate too.
I’m sure none of these issues plague the Chinese army… 😂
😂
Cousin Winnie does not sleep well, because of this question...
China is no joke even if only with it's numbers and manufacturing potential
Your sarcasm hits the spot as they even postponed the invasion of the ROC indefinitely now.
@@Shadow850031 the PLA beat back the US army back when they were poorly equipped. If they tried to invade Seattle, it would be a disaster. But who is even thinking of that. Neither can the US invade Beijing.
14777 tanks 😀😀😀 definitely bro... that'Z why they are using motorcycles and golfcarts instead....
On paper. The problem is that nobody checks so maintenance is paid and then done... on paper. The tanks are inspected and confirmed they haven't been stripped for parts to be sold on the black market... on paper. You can inspect the paperwork and confirm they definitely have 14777 real tanks ready for action. It DOES seem a bit odd they are now reduced to motorbikes and quads but the tanks are there somewhere. Somebody must have just lost the paperwork.
Phillip.
14777 tanks doesn't mean serviceable tanks
that what we see from satelites ofcource at least 8000 of them are rusted hulks since they lack maintenance for the last 40 years
@@philliptemple9841 yep. Alot of those tanks that are counted are just sitting outside like giant scrap yards not being maintained
@@TONYTONE757 one might wonder if this applies to their nuclear missiles aswell.
I'm an American in Japan; I have many Russian colleagues and friends. Most of them are women. Why? As they told me, there are far fewer men than women in Russia because the men go and die in war or from things like alcohol abuse.
So when you see these ads for Russian "mail order brides," that's not some human trafficking scam; there's a serious lack of marriageable men left in Russia, and this has been going on for decades.
This is true, and also another reason for Russian Mail Order Brides is because of the poor conditions in Russia, making many women who have not been brainwashed into leaving their country for a better life.
@@georgebangerter6777 many want to leave the USA for a better life also. Its a worldwide trend and not just in Russia.
@@spartanconscience2693 grass is always greener on the other side.
@@georgebangerter6777UPS must charge a fortune for that.
@@spartanconscience2693 Not really, not even close.
Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦 ❤😊 !
There is no way Russia is holding back. Their losses and expenses are far too high for that.
The “heavy Russian losses” bs is coming from the same Ukrainian propagandists that claim that Ukraine only had 31k KIA since the beginning of the war. If you buy that I have a bridge to sell you
They have way too many meat shields to spare
The loss of war against Japan in 1914 was one of the causes of the revolution of 1917 and overthrowing the czar regime in Russia ...
The loss of war in Afghanistan in 1980s was one of the reasons of the collapse of the Soviet Union side by side with highly bureaucratic inefficiencies and corruption plus mismanagement...
Would history repeat itself in 2020s and 2030s ? All is possible ...
Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 but I completely agree with you
Add to that the failure of a certain nuclear power generating facility.
1904 for Japan but yeah.
The fact is that Putin and even the war are still quite popular in Russia. I don't know what is wrong with those people.
Uuuuh, the loss to Japan in the far east weren't much of a impact on the Russian Revolution for a simple and sad reason
It didn't happen near Russia, but in the far right territories. Most Russians at the time didn't give a shit about global politics because they were busy being serfs
In World War 1, Russians, Ukranians and others from the developed part of the Russian Empire were sent to the slaughter, and that's what caused an uprising so great in the right place to overthrow the tzarist regime
@@anofsti
It showed the incompetence of that regime in early 20th century plus the general public was living under poverty and oppression which prompted more riots and revolutions after the Russian army loss in the far East...
Russias power is threatning others with "I have nuclear bombs!"
But I really dont get their standpoint, so do the others. Its like being a kid in the playground bragging about toys, while all the other kids brought the same exact toys. If Russia nukes then others nuke them, theres no winner, so they will not be dropping nukes. Putin also could never Nuke Ukraine, first of all its too close to Russia and the imminent radiation would affect Russia, second thing is Russian population was told that Russia is winning the war, so why are they then dropping nukes if everything is well, they would instantly lose the support of the commonfolk. Also if they nuked not only the west and nato would retaliate, but also China and their allies because they were stupid to throw a nuke putting the whole world in danger.
So my son treathen his friends who beat him telling them: I will come with dad
Russian keeps claiming that, we keep saying yeah, we got nukes too and your point being..?
Russia only holds the 2nd strongest military title due to its nukes, I believe both China and India are much stronger. If we assume South Korea and Turkey can use American nukes at will. They are presumably stronger than Russia as well.
Nukes were part of the reason the Russian army did so poorly, the generals knew that with 6000 nukes, there was little chance for a large land war in Europe. So over the years they didn’t waste good money on new weapons and training when it could be better utilized for dachas and big yachts!
@@JimCOsd55 Russian military has always been crap even before they had nukes. The only war they "won" is WW2 and that is when they were fighting a genocidal regime and getting unlimited American aid.
India is not stronger at all Russia has huge problems but so does India also at a pinch Russia can actually build its own stuff India struggles and in high end cases simply can’t it also can’t deploy its military as it has to keep vast numbers on its border with Pakistan
@@MrTangolizard
Agree. Majority of Indian Armed Forces are bound and remain stuck at its Pakistani and Chinese border. The other part left is just not mobile enough due to lack of sufficient logistics, especially on global level.
@@AzUniverzumUraesParancsoloja exactly they also suffer from not producing what they use and depend on imports one thing I will say where India most likely has the edge over Russia is its surface fleet
Corruption and incompetence are inseparable.
wild russian vanya.
No. I met plenty of honest buffoons and plenty of skilled crooks. Labor Unions, for example, lot of them ate crooked if not by legal definitions then by ethical definitions. But I trust union carpenters way more than some guy standing on a street corner m (which is where non-union contractors get their labor -literally).
Forget whatever Ruzzia says: They faboulos liers, thats all. So if you simply assume the opposite, you are always closer to reality.
Like the democrat party
Russian forces have terrible living conditions, but don't have to live in them long.
RuZZian Navy is #1 in Tug Boats
So true 😊
If God wanted Russian men to have long and healthy lives, he wouldn't have given them vodka or Putin.
Won what lmao
The trophy for most ships lost to a country without a navy?
Cope harder 🤡
- 2 years later😂
They have nukes. Otherwise we would not be having this conversation
...otherwise Moscow would be the new Berlin now. You are so right.
They have nukes but they have never used them against human and the us did
@@abelsichilima-t2j Yes, otherwise there would have been half a million more killed people... Japan prepared for defending the homeland for every price
@@kralikkral5560 new Berlin? I´m pretty sure they stopped the Wehrmacht without nukes
@@for-lc6rj There is a great line from the extended Halo universe (the books or Reach I believe) that summarises Russian military doctrine for their entire history as a nation. Paraphrased is "The humans cant beat us so they attempt to drown us in their blood." Or in simple parlance, Russia has always been an inferior military with an abundance of bodies, why be good when you can be many.
Anyone who's ever played games like Risk or Civ will understand, defending such a massive territory while forming an attack is very, very difficult! Even if it seems like the odds are in your favour, being spread so thin and wide makes logistics very challenging.
In short, Putin severely underestimated the Ukrainian's military tactics and strategies, while overestimating their own, along with misunderstanding where Ukraine's citizens align. When the invasion began, he thought it'd take at most a week. This is probably my favorite example of tyrants being proven wrong.
Why the hell am I still subbed to the channel? It's probably for the oversimplification of events in this war.
For decades, every time we've had a chance to see how their military responds, they perform FAR worse than we expected. Remember Mathias Rust who, in 1987, flew a Cessna 172 into Russia and landed on Red Square while the air defenses were napping?
Remember that Chinese air balloon over the USA in 2023?
The grift over many years of all the officers in charge of the army has caused the breakdown of the Russian Army.
They never actually thought they would go to an actual war, so why in the world would they have prepared for it?
The constant social media about Russia not using all w it's resources or best equipment has long been disproven. What you see is what you get. They are exactly what we see. A country with a lot of people, a stock pile of old equipment and a leader who doesn't care. Thier equipment is generic in ability but can still be lethal in war.
That old Soviet stuff is trash but it can be effective, just look at Ukraine and how they have used their old stuff much more effectively
By "generic" I presume you mean "inadequate".
Not only a Paper Tiger, but a WET Paper Tiger at that!
Well said good sir 😂
Moist like the gulags they forced into cannibalism...
Paper towel?
They're a Used Toilet Paper Tiger.
Putin once said: "It is not important to be strong, it is enough to make your opponent believe that you are strong..."
and drink wild russian vanya.
Well, few now think that Russia is strong. Everyone knows now that Russia is a paper tiger. And many see Putin’s nuclear sabre rattling and think, “Ag, their nuclear arsenal is probably so degraded that it won’t even work if they tried to use it!”
Russia is finished, it’s now just matter of time for when the total collapse comes.
America occupies Iraq and Afghanistan at the same time for 20 years and loses 5,500 soldiers in that time. Americans considered it a mistake.
Russia is still attempting to occupy Ukraine after 2.5 years and and so far have lost over 100,000 soldiers. Russians think it's a great idea.
Ukraine has lost 600,000 and 10 million of their civilian population have left the country who's winning, again?🙈
@@terrific804 🤦🏻♂️
@@thebigmon genius
@@thebigmon oh and one more thing genius, you think killing a million people over lies of weapons of mass destruction is a good thing?... And you stand up for late US diplomat, Madeleine Albright who thought the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children were 'worth it'?, you really are some kind of stand-up American aren't you?🙈
@@terrific804Ukraine has not lost that much, and in any event; they didn't ask to be invaded. Defending the Russians is a losing game. Regardless of what you think of America, Russia has NO reason to be in any part of Ukraine.
I’m surprised that Russia’s abused soldiers, realizing that they are being used to “soak up bullets,” don’t frag their officers and go AWOL.
It is happening. Watch the video of that Chinese mercenary. He tells it all.
That’s literally what’s happening
A lot of Russian scientists would flee out of the country for higher salaries especially after February 2022...
A lot of capital would leave Russia even before the invasion of 2022...
They've already fled. Along with many of their tech pros.
@HailTheApocalypse There will be at least one more wave of people who now already have resources to emigrate but don't give a damn about paying taxes to fascist regime as long as they aren't fully robbed or made a cannon fodder by it.
Moscow Will make them return mostly the scientists or maybe they just can't have none reason to return...
No family or properties in Rússia anymore.Switch off,just...Their archive burnt as well...😮
Could you imagine if Russia had to fight a first countries😂❤ military??
They are losing to equipment first world countries are trying to offload to restock their own warehouses with upgraded versions. Its a joke.
It would be a viscious and ugly 20 minutes.
Yea the US would do the same they did to Iraq/Iran (not sure which) where they systematically destroyed and bombed the air defences before using a combined arms to blitz the country.
Yes, we can. it would be even worse disaster that actually in Ukraine. But I would not overestimate military power of countries like China or India as they have large but totally inexperienced armies.
Winston Churchill said in the thirties: "Russia isn't as strong as it thinks, but it isn't as weak as we would like it to be". It was true 90 years ago, and it is true nowadays as well. Do remember how they started the war when surprisingly attacked by Germany in 1941, and how they finished it. Starting with highly inferior equipment and command, and finishing it with an equipment almost equal to that of the Germans... same goes for the quality of the higher command. However, the situation nowadays id different. In 1941 it was a war for the very existence. Today the Russians used their brains and understand that it is a "luxury war". Russia is endangered by no one.
They could never have done it without the billions in US aid. 300KTrucks and jeeps,12000 AFV's, planes tanks,you name it we sent it.
Strategic empathy, Algi. Russia absolutely feels that NATO in Ukraine is a huge threat to them.
They can't have been more clear.
Is NATO a threat to them? Yes. I very much think it is.
@@airemaile And the lives of the British killed in the convoys to Murmansk
Corruption breeds corruption.
From the US, even before Russia invaded in 2022, I knew Russia was something of a paper tiger, but the extent is really breath-taking. I don't understand how a modern state could let its army rot so completely. Even if the war ended this second, it would take Russia years and billions of dollars to revitalize itself. So long as they continue to fight, they ensure they will never get better.
It isn't a modern state. I studied, lived, and worked in Russia for several years. Go outside Moscow and it's like a time-travel machine back to the 1850s.
Russia's biggest problem is the ego of it's leaders who try to keep a large military but fail to realise Russia economically isn't wealthy enough to maintain the level of forces it has to any decent modern standard..
More than just rot, it's poorly designed. I mean really, tanks which can have their turrets blown off so easily? So many seen like that. Who in their right mind would approve of something like that?
Here the United States is more like a paper tiger; its budget deficit for 15 years suggests that the United States is living beyond its means.
Since its failed adventure in Afghanistan in the late 70s Russia has been at "peace." The Chechen wars were small. In the interim, the Russian military basically stole most of the money appropriated to maintain and modernize their armed forces. Corruption from general officer (Gerasimiov) on down to subaltern lieutenants: pad contracts, earn kickbacks, buy military commissions, fake maintenance contracts, fake readiness reports, gasoline, parts and supplies diverted and sold...but there was no big war, so everybody got away with it. They never had a strong NCO corps. Junior officers do/did the training. Their officer corps is poorly educated, poorly trained and inflexible.
well if you compare the Russian forces at the start of the war in Feb 2022 to now July 2024. The Russians have doubled or even tripled their forces at the front in terms of men, however the Russians have actually degraded motivation training still low. command and control the same , however the Russians are fielding more old tanks like T-55s and 62s, as I think the Russians are running low on the newer and more capable 64s, 72s, 80s and 90s and want to conserve them. Also the battlefield has changed a bit since start of the war, with drones being the king of the battlefield, its simply suicide to send a massed armoured assault as drones and drone guided artillery from both sides will destroy them. that is why the Russians are using Chinese made motorcycles, golf carts, trucks and cars to ferry their troops to the front. This is done due to these vehicles not being able to trigger Ukrainian anti tank mines, being nimble and of course lower cost of these vehicles when compared to tanks and APCs.
Also look at the picture of the current Russian offensive in Kharkov 2024, the majority of Russian tanks used were T-62s and 55s and were kept mostly behind and only used to exploit hole in Ukrainian lines however many were destroyed in doing so. and supposedly 25 percent of the Russian soldiers used were cannon fodder and a mix of convicts and foreign volunteers from poor countries in fact, its said the majority of cannon fodder are foreign volunteers from India, Nepal Bangladesh Sri Lanka African countries etc. These guys are sent in first before the Russians, many of them are kaput.
Ok ok russian is a paper bear, but it's a really old sick bear, and the paper is wet newspapers from the 1980s that were left outside in a leaky shed, and half the newspapers were stolen before assembling the bear.
is that the bear they chose?
But, hey, they have all those Ukrainian washing machines, right? :O
@@rcchin7897 Little do they know that the paper Russian bear is not machine washable :(
A teacher in my middle school, his father was in the German army in the first world war stationed on Eastern front for a Time. This teacher gave a talk about his fathers experiences. He told the story about how his father's unit a modern German army unit of the first world war came upon a field. On the other side of the field was a large Russian cavalry Force. The Russians charged across the field with their horses holding their sabers aloft. The Germans waited till they're about halfway across the field and annihilated the entire Russian cavalry Force with their artillery and guns. 100 years later and the Russians are pretty much using the same tactics.
And yet the war grinds on. God help all the suffering souls who are caught up in this nightmare.
the russian federation by its whole is roughly 147 million. this includes children and the elderly. so they cant possibly muster 46 million men for service. who did your math ?
Very good point.
They don't have many children: few are born and many young adults flee the country. They don't have many elderly too: many die before they get old
@@sjonnieplayfull5859 They don't have many fit fighting-age men either, so wtf DO they have?
@@popnorbert8465 Vodka. Lots of it. 40 year old guys, scarred by life, used to hardship, proud that they can take it. They are not fit, they are not motivated, but they can sit in a trench and pull a trigger.
Behind them, artillery has time to work out on which part of the barrel the shell goes in, drone operators have time to launch some Lancet drones, and some FAB-3000 are ordered. A punch by a drunken, wounded giant can still kill a man, even if he dodged the twenty punches before
@@popnorbert8465 'expendables' : 40+ guys, drunks, the ill, anyone outside of Moscow and Leningrad
Russia's losing 1000 soldiers a day.
They also frequently lose 50+ armoured vehicles and another 50+ artillery systems a day. The incompetence of the Russians is staggering to see for anyone trained by any Western military.
@@andrewstrongman305 For a sociopathic dictator this sounds like a good bargain to me.
@@mrgrinch837 For who?
@@andrewstrongman305 sorry, I was indicating unfortunately not too clearly that for Putin this kind of Slaughter of his own people is not much of a bargain. I'll try to clean it up.
@@andrewstrongman305 I welcome you to the fields of drone warfare and men in boots. Will be a surprise how difficult it's to fight here. See, even boot instead of sandals, ever seen that in your beloved deserts?
russia's sheer incompetence just shows how big the void is between a real super power military (usa) and the pretenders. if russia didnt have nukes people would forget it even exists
real super power military 🤣🤣🤣Please tell me where us army fight like russian in ukraine?The American army only knows how to act in films.
@@heldehog4360 run along little vatnik your field to rot in is waiting
@h : No armies fight like Russian in Ukraine. All other armies have more than three days of training.
@@rcchin7897 Training and real combat fight are two different things. By the way, Ukrainian soldiers in interviews laugh about training in NATO countries.
@@heldehog4360show me those videos troll. Ukraine has had middling NATO weapons slow-rolled out. That is it. They have no Navy or Air Force. Read that sentence again. And Russia is over 2 years in with no end in sight. Grow up
I think we should remember that a US-led coalition’s couldn’t beat the Taliban. A 3rd world government with no air force or navy.
Yes, but their defeat was not caused by mechanical breakdowns on a massive scale.
Even then, thats not strictly true. The us took more ir less full control of the areas they invaded. It just that the governments they set up couldn't withstand the talibans return.
And how could they? You can crush an army, but crushing an idea is hard concept
@@willowsayswhat9642 Afghanistan was made of disparate peoples who didn’t recognise a common interest. Therefore not a nation and not a place where you can transplant democracy.
The West should not intervene in cultures so different from their own. On the other hand, should intervene to save
Ukraine from Evil. A similar people, with similar aspirations is being denied nationhood for no good reason.
A well-researched and presented documentary. It illustrates why autocracies are always weak and always will be. Russia seems to be particularly incompetent in this respect; it's clear that Russia will lose.
The Emperor has no clothes? So, Russia is essentially a humongous banana republic without the bananas?
More like a Mafia Territory with old nukes.
And also without the Republic (Rule of law of, by, and for the people, not the all powerful state).
But they do have bananas... they are all in the Kremlin🤣
I worked in Russia shortly after the fall of the U.S.S.R. and was astounded by how archaic and rustic their living standards and technology was!
Come to Russia now and you could say the same about the Western on your return 😊
@@ikaustralia what you mean? so why russia is using western technology to extract oil, for creating mobile networks or their part of internet?
@@ikaustralia *looks at people using 50s construction methods in Chelyabinsk Oblast*
Yeah, no. I followed Magnitogorsk during the NHL lockout because they had one of my favorite players on the team - and no one is impressed with the living standard there
Unless you mean Russia Russia and expose the blatant racism against non-Russian ethnicities
@@ikaustralia Nobody wants to come to Russia
@@ikaustralia Really? I was in Russia, I was in Western countries. If you live not in Moscow - it's terrible poor life. In the same time I could be in Netherlands or UK in any village - and there is regular civilization
Nato now knows how weak the Russian army is. What is more important, common citizens throughout the West know how weak the Russian army is.
The West and NATO will be able to confidently inspire and acquire consent to resist and oppose, or attack, Russian defendant objectives.
But Russians don't know how weak the Russian military is, because telling the truth about the Russian military is a crime, punishable by up to 15 years in prison. Its the only way that Putin can remain in power.
@@scene2much the reason why the United States military as well as other countries didn't really highlight how weak Russia is is we have to justify our defense budget. We have to say that they have 14,000 tanks, we don't have to tell them that they're 14,000 pieces of crap. The stuff that we use today, are toys costs a fortune and the justification is that the other guy has more. Or they're better than the stuff that we have. The F-4 Phantom would be nothing on paper compared to the mig-25 foxbat, and that was widely believed until we got an actual fox bat Landing in japan. Upon close evaluation we found out that this is really a piece of garbage, but because of the fear of the foxbat it Justified the Department of Defense to develop the F-15 Eagle to replace the F4 Phantom.
Russia: "LOL, the US spent 20 years dominating Afghanistan, then screwed up the withdrawal! They're so incompetent!"
Also Russia:
Truly a superb video essay. Significant observations were intersped against the video in bite sized chunks so that it was very easy to follow. You should do some long pieces and market them in a documentary format. Good luck!
They are so screwed even if they don’t take it on NATO and if they do their doubly screwed
You are forgetting to mention the vodka!
Russia is truly a paper tiger.
Sadly they have a lot of paper so they can still inflict a lot of paper cuts, otherwise they wouldn't be so much of an issue.
And China is a paper Dragon
Paper bear more like
i think russia would beat china...as is..
🏳️🌈A paper tiger with half of the world’s thermonuclear weapons…🏳️🌈
If you look back in history during world war II you will see how the leaders have never cared about the soldiers doing the fighting. When the Germans crossed the border into Russia the biggest reason they were able to get through so quickly was that Stalin did not think it was necessary to equip his army.
Once the winter had started and that it was so bad it stopped the Germans I'm using their heavy equipment and at that point it went hand-to-hand combat. Hear something most people might not know about what happened during these types of engagements. Russia did not have enough rifles to equip all the people that they threw at the Germans. You might have one man with a rifle then three people following that person and once he or she was wounded now one of the unarmed soldiers can now grab that rifle and start fighting.
To make sure that the soldiers would go fight even if they were unarmed their own army had machine guns back behind the lines and if you decided to retreat or not to even go forward your own soldiers would shoot them down.
Basically you have the same thing happening today. When you send untrained people out to fight a battle the outcome is never going to be good. They are using the same tactics as world war II let's just throw bodies at them and eventually the enemy runs out of bullets.
Black Sea Fleet will soon need renaming to the Hiding in the Caspian Sea Fleet ;-)
It might nd up being the Aral Sea Fleet.
We could rename it to the Black Sea Submarine Fleet.
You forgot about the number of drones. Those are even more deadlier despite it not being a fully military made
The biggest problem for the Russian army is nobody knows it's real strength, except the guys who aren't listened to, the soldiers on the ground.
The numbers used to make it to the 2nd strongest in the world pre-war, were the numbers provided by the Kremlin. Which are the numbers the Kremlin got from their top military brass, who knew it was truly slightly weaker because they skimmed of the top, but of coarse they don't mention that. But the next one in line does the same and the next and the next. It's like that child game of sitting in a circle, one tells a short story to the person to the left, that person passes it on to his left, and by the time the last person gets told the story, it's hardly recognizable.
That combined with a strictly top to bottom hierarchy means the top will never know what's happening at the bottom.
One of Putins problems, he does not know what is real because people will not tell him the truth.
my words exactly! from Alexander the great building St Petersburg at the expense of approx 250000 lives, through WW1, WW2, Afghanistan & now Ukraine, Russia's most abundant resource has always been human meat.
Very well done and informative video thank you
reminds me of the Soviet-Afghan war. And if history is any indication, Russia has never won a war without help. Didn't the US bail them out in WWII ?
So did the U.K. a little know fact that at the battle of Moscow in ww2 80% of the heavy tanks on that front were British supplied
USA saved USSR.
Stalin was already talking with HItler to give up Ukraine, Belarus, Parts of Caucasus and everything that Hitler has captured. Just to stop hitler from advancing.
And a good share of the actual fighting was done by Ukrainian (including Krim Tatars) and Belarusian soldiers. Iirc about 40% of the "Russian" casualties were of these ethnicities. They stopped the Nazis Southern Army Group. The opposing forces were even organised in the Ukrainian and Belarusian Front respectively (+/- equivalent to army group.)
(I do not intend to down play the siege of Leningrad/St. Petersburg and other efforts. But it clearly was not the Russians alone.)
@@MrTangolizard A lot of the lease lend sent to Russia was shipped in British Merchant Navy ships ,accompanied by ships of the Royal Navy -at tremendous cost of ships and crews - l was told by an ex Brit sailor who took part in these operations that when they reached the Russian port they were not even allowed to disembark.. only the seriously wounded were stretchered on shore and Russian guards were stationed on every gangway to ensure the crews didn’t come in contact with the locals.
We didn't "bail them out". They fought their own war on their own front... with no help from us whatsoever. We didn't care what happened to Russia during ww2 which led to the cold war. Now we bailed the UK out of certain destruction... Russia?? We didn't even bat an eye.
Putin going to North Korea for help so his soldiers can drive daewoos to battle 😂
I wasn't aware Daewoo are of NK origin.
@@mikeneill6813Uh yeah… no. 😅
Saying Russia has the 2nd largest airforce? Bruh United states ia 1st and 2nd. Airforce and navy airforce are 2 different things
"Don't forget about us"
-US Nat'l Air Guard
The Russian army may be a ‘paper tiger’ but do not forget it’s a paper tiger with lots of atomic bombs…
The russian navy, NEVER saw combat. They have no experience at all.
Russia is still 2nd most powerfull army... in the Vladivostock after circus with two blind lions and one handicapped elefant
Corruption leads Russia to fall ....and vodka as well
Russia's capacity at failing is impressive!
😂 that's as far as the West could admit losing to Russia
@@ikaustralia how can you lose to a country that has the same gdp as spain, and has no real modern equipment? only reason would be the size of the army but not even that helped them
@@alsacestyle you do know the difference between debt and actual capital, right? If Russia increases their debt level to that of any western economy, it would appear 50 times richer in GDP 🫡
@@ikaustralia i don't give a damn about debt, russia has the gdp of spain that's a fact
The worst strategic blunder by the US is forcing Russia work with China.
The Russian economy is actually flourishing after the economic blockades by Europe.
Slava Ukraine!🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯
This reminds me of a hillbilly’s yard full of junker cars,, he’ll tell you he has 11 cars, but 1.5 of them run and the others are being used for spare parts.. that’s the Russian armed forces,, when Putin and his buddies pocket the military budget rather than maintaining it
You gave in this video only a broad picture of why Russians are the second best army in Ukraine 🇺🇦
The _Iron Curtain_ has turned into The _Meat Curtain_
At least 50%of that is former USSR outdated equipment that has been destroyed in this war
Not even close if u look up there production numbers it’s crazy how much crap they built
@@MrTangolizardThe Soviets built a lot, but after the Cold War much of that was just dumped in the open in ‘storage sites’. A lot of the equipment has been sitting out in the open for years, barely protected from weather or looters. Somewhere in 2022 there was a report that a commander of one of those sites had committed suicide because it was found that most of the tanks no longer had engines, wiring, computers, etc. It had all been stolen and sold by corrupt troops.
You say the Russia ground forces shouldn’t steamrolled but that was only if there was little resistance. They invaded with 230k troops against Ukraines 400k active and 700k reserves and massive conscription and they took 30% of the country with heavy resistance pretty much everywhere. 🤷♂️ Ukraine had one of the biggest best equipped and battle hardened armies in Europe. This whole weak small army is from pre 2014 and since then the us and nato had trained and given them a shitload of stuff.
Vodka Russian Army 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Videos show Russian troops wearing sneakers instead of proper combat boots. Vintage steel helmets seem to be in common use as well.
They probably raided some Ukrainian museums.
No worries! North Korea’s finest troops are on the way. I’m sure they’ll turn things around for old pootin. 😮😂😂
It takes 3 men to carry a rifle. They're titchy.
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Nothing new here. Russia’s failures in the Crimean War, Russo-Japanese war, the Winter War vs Finland, the Afghan War. All showed the same “paper tiger” characteristics.
If Russia is falling apart and why are three years into this war? What is it taking billions to captain them? Why is Russia now massing 900 thousand troops? Why are there nato members, France in particular calling for direct intervention? Not a fan of Russia, but something doesn’t add up.
Russia have lots and lots of low tech Artillery and that can cause many problems for the opposing side choose what
The Russians are going into their third year because they have not given up. But the fact is the Ukrainians have enough to hold them where they are....the rest of the world is not really fully invested in this war outside of money and some arms. Russia should be thankful for that. Because if NATO decides to fully engage, the Russians won't last long. They are a paper tiger with lots of cannon fodder
SLAVA UKRAINI!!!!!!!
30 years ago I graded the Russians as very dangerous. Now I think their whole military is just a decrepit Potemkin village.
In 1999 I served in Kosovo and we saw Russian VDV and at the time I was shocked at how badly equipped and behaved they were I’ve been saying since then if there tier2 units are like that I can only imagine what there line units are like
@@MrTangolizard I've been wondering where the ten foot tall, much vaunted SPETZNAS are at. Where the hell are they, are they all dead?
@@karlp8484 many were killed in the early stages of the war plus there are very few situations where there of use it’s interesting because during the Cold War we were told Russia has huge reserves of SF and that from day one they would be deployed behind the lines on huge operations hitting bridges comms etc but there have been little of that going on so I don’t think the Russian army is anything like the soviets and there either all dead or they simply don’t have many tier1 units
@@MrTangolizard I totally agree. I don't think the Russians have very much in the way of SF. Anymore.
And months ago, Russia was cannibalizing soldiers from one military branch to put in the front lines (eg. Airmen sent to the front to fight with the infantry). IIRC, This was even before prisoners were used?