@@NothingToSeeHere_69 The problem is that russ just go with whatever the mob/dictator says and when they do stand up... it's to be thrown in jail instead of actually disrupt the process
It was a CIA coup. Victoria Nuland, Keery, Mcacain, and Clinotns ( the warmongers) have been pushing war with Russia to steal their resources for over a decade. Lyndsy Graphm just admitted the USA wants to kill kill kill for MONEY. That is what the USA. has been doing all over the world for decades. Kill and steal resources and money.
Hi 😃, i'am hearing the same for quiet some time too 😂😂. there's a really good UA-cam channel called @insiderussia. The moderater Konstantin is a russian who fled his country because of the war against Ukraine and got some really good explanations, insides and can put some strings together. I suggest you to take a look at his latest video about RUs economy and Infrastructur. He said RUs economy is in a downfall, the civilians feeling it allready and it's getting worse day by day. 🤞🤞 Fingers crossed 😂😂😎. I'am sorry 4 my bad english 🫣. Best wishes from germany. ☮️-out 😃🤞🇺🇦
they have been on that brink for a while. the reasons are, that russia 1. has its economy fallen apart but gets money through ressource exports, so not much economy needed anyway, (it gets very much less money by the exports though) 2. it can dictate the pace of the war, since ukraine is restriced by its allies to very few strikes behind the russian border 3. it can steadily replace fallen soldiers all of these reasons won't work forever, if the western countrys keep it up, its just a matter of time befor russia wont be able to sustain the high costs at a massively lower income. plus: if ukraine manages to get cimea back, it will be over even sooner. but for now it's a longer run.
“For 3 years…” this isn’t a television series. Maybe it takes 20 more years to happen, but it’s obvious that Putin is doing unbelievable damage to Russias economy and influence in Europe.
Russia is also geopolitically worse off now in Europe. Sweden and Finland - which had been neutral countries throughout the Cold War - joined NATO as a result of Russia's war. The Baltic Sea is now a NATO lake and it now has a border with a NATO country in the north.
Sweden and Finland were never neutral. Otherwise they wouldn't allow their military and special services to participate in the Operation Gladio, for example.
3% + GDP Growth is meaningless if it goes into weapons. These are not productive investments and will be written off quasi certainly during the year of production. At the same time, you drain financial resources
If I'm remembering correctly, that IMF data all comes from self-reported figures as well. Thus, it says the Russian economy is doing fine because that's what Putin wants to tell the world. It's not a real study of the Russian economy. An economy that is: hemorrhaging skilled workers to emigration, was already on the brink of demographic collapse and is now losing young men by the tens of thousands to war, which relies mostly on petroleum sales but can barely sell above cost due to sanctions, which can't do normal business with half the world due to sanctions, which is now blowing tons of its cash on war, which has switched from production of normal products to production for war, and which wasn't a particularly healthy economy to begin with... is in NO WAY going to show a growing GDP unless the numbers are being fudged big time.
Weapons could be productive investments if they could sell them. Sadly for Russia, the war has exposed how shoddy and ineffective their equipment is against the West's, so the bottom has fallen out of the arms market for them. Few are going to want their stuff in the future.
@@adairjanney7109 Putin himself said that Ukraine is part of Russia. Besides his public stance, it was documented that he told George W. Bush in a visit to Washington D.C. that Ukraine was part of Russia, and wasn't a sovereign country.
The AZOV Brigade had deep roots in Nazism, which the western powers and mass media have gone out of their way. Exactly how you hope to qualify your statement, I don't know.
As a Ukrainian, seeing the flags pile up in the cemetaries and the photos on the memorial walls, I tend to think that following something closer to the Afghan method is our best hope. We can't beat the Russians in an open industrial competition of who has the most shells, the most tanks etc., because they will win that kind of great power war. But, guerilla war, or some mix of guerilla and conventional, where the other side fights assymetrically - Russia does not have a good record in defeating such.
@@WangMingGe But your country is already doing an incredible job. Ukraine stopped their offensive this summer. Fighting some kind of guerilla war isn't going to save lives any more than fighting a conventional war
@@nickkorea5850 I agree we are doing an impressive job. But, if you saw the casualty impacts (it is a lie, by the president, that we lost only 31,000 KIA for sure; he is not very popular anymore, except among media and fellow politicians), and observed the situation with shells/ammo, and so forth, you would see, it is really not possible to beat Russia in an open conventional war. We will have lost our entire army and they will still have reserves. I should mention, most of their tank factories and much of their weapons storage are in Siberia, in the Urals, in shelters hardened against nuclear attack during the Cold War, in some cases. Even if we were given non-nuclear long-range missiles many times longer range than Storm Shadow or ATACMs, we can't hit them. It is in the willpower of Russia that they will have to collapse. China and India will always buy their oil, minerals, timber and food (Germany , too, sadly still buys a lot via back channels/foreign-flagged ships). Usually, assymetric warfare DOES reduce casualties compared to open conventional warfare. See how in the Vietnam, when the Vietnamese tried open conventional tactics against the French and US, they usually lost heavily. Even General Giap, brilliant that he was, acknowledged that the Tet Offensive, military was a mistake and not sustainable (so they scaled down after that, and won in the end). I am not saying get rid of conventional forces, but do like the Vietnamese, focusing on reserving them for the defensive, or for extremely tempting opportunities. Really, if you came here and saw how some villages are totally empty of men 18-60s with all 4 limbs still attached, you would realize. The big offensives, like last summer, are stupid and not possible without massive air support (as in NATO doctrine, which we were stupidly pressured to follow despite not having the planes). We also have a ton of internal political problems which blind support for everything staying the same has prevented us from resolving. For example, bad and unpopular generals replacing popular/good ones, corrupt officials stealing aid money. It's more complicated that just keep smashing the Russians, full-scale until we win, because we will all die and have no country left if we do like that.
@@WangMingGe l conscription rates in sct peterburg and moskau is only 0.2% in both, while siberian towns has over 10% of the male population in ukraine.. You can beat russia, putin cant go on for many more years with war economy, and if he ever gets near kiev again, nato will go in, russia is Fu*ked, but every western leader tried to warn them this would be the results, checnia beat russia without any nato help
Correction to the start - Russia started the invasion with boots on the ground eight years earlier in Crimea. It's just that Ukraines cries for help were ignored until the main assault started.
@MetaKnight964 did there need to be? We all sat by and watched the 'little green men' we were told were mercenaries but were actually just Russian forces that were "helping" and sat by and did nothing. They didn't need to send mass forces in. They trickled them in over months.
and he will get it, and russians in 100 years will despise him for this era of history, just like most of the soviet world despises stalin for the things he did to the countries within the USSR, Holodomor, forced relocation to work camps, where the Estonian PM's family was sent, etc.
I don’t buy that, Putin has no internet? Surely after two years with hardly any progress and many losses he should be able to figure it out himself. He may be many things but he’s not an idiot.
Great, but 1 correction: You say Putin wants to return Russia to the glory days of the USSR. No, he wants to bring back the Russian Empire. He's compared himself to Peter The Great more than once. The revisionist history lessons he gives as reasons for taking Ukraine go back to the 13th century.
All Putin really wants is *stay in power*. That's it. That's all. Everything he does now including war is for that one simple goal. He doesn't care at all under what ideological sauce it will be if it works. If it works he's ready to say anything. The more confused his opponents are the better for him.
In that case he could start by giving back Kalingrad to Germany, all those parts back to Finland and the massive region east of Mongolia back to China. :D
@@lacroix1159 "Poland provoked occupation by Germany" (1939)? How occupation and annexation of neighbors ended for Germany? So far Moscow Na zis are unable to answer yet they always blame Ukraine.
I did never like Russia. I was indifferent. Now I really really feel discusted about Russia. I think my country starts to have more understanding an sympathie for Poland now. I think Germany wont tolerate Russia to attack Poland. Wrong: I know it. It wont be accepted. Russias arrogance will and must be stopped. Once and forever. Greetings from Germany, slawa Ukrainij
Look, show me please where did you have information about Russia attaching Poland or anywhere past Ukraine? I really can’t understand how, we, Europeans, cannot check other sources of information and just accept everything the media tells without thinking or searching for it.
As someone who roots for Ukraine and very much wants to see Russia defeated in this conflict, words can't express how I hate this sort of ignorant triumphalism. For the better part of two years, we have been hearing about how Russia is on a brink of a collapse. None of that has demonstrated thus far. Russia is still fighting the fight, now solidly entrenched in the eastern parts of Ukraine, Crimea annexed, and all. Ukraine has neither the requisite manpower, nor the technology to breach Russian positions. The usual sociological scenarios don't work in Russia. Western Europeans will take to the streets at one tenth of the discomfort the Russians will simply take on their chins. Meanwhile the public dissatisfaction with the war grows in the EU. A couple more years, and one by one, European countries will be governed by populists who'll want to end the war. At the same time, the demoralized, obedient Russians will still be toeing the Kremlin line. Not to mention, that Russia is still nuclear superpower, that has the capability of destroying the entire world multiple times over, and only God knows what the Russian dictator will do, when he faces the impossible odds. Russia has the entire periodic table, and is one of the largest exporters of food. They don't really need to buy much, other than sophisticated machinery, and advanced microchips. And they keep buying those through proxies from EU companies, so that's how nicely the sanctions work. Ukrainian soldiers are exhausted, they don't have the proper rotation. Every next western military aid will face more and more pushback. I just don't understand this unbridled optimism. I hope NATO/EU maintain their material and intelligence support of Ukraine for as long as it is necessary, but I don't see a lot of reason for optimism.
I am russian. this western NAFO anti-russian triumphalism is the same bullshit I saw from pro-putin/Z-compatriots. Russia is not as weak as one think and not as strong as others hope. The risk of collapse exist in only one case - if Putin dies. Until then it will slowly stagnate. Question is - will Ukraine survive the Russian stagnation. With the way EU handling landlease and sanctions (they are mostly inefficient or too late), it might not.
You fundamentally misunderstand the purpose of this war. The purpose of this war is to drive a wedge between Europe and Russia- not safeguard Ukrainian sovereignty. The US is now in a win-win situation. If Ukraine prevails, it permanently leaves Russia’s sphere of influence and becomes America’s debt slave (much like Britain following WWII). If Ukraine falls, it becomes the world’s largest burden for Russia.
Agreed. Rural Russia has no freeway/highway system so the roads outside of villages are muddy in the winter and dusty in the summer. Indoor residential plumbing (toilet, washing machine, shower) is in the minority of homes. Gas is cheap but Russian cars are horrible. Alcoholism is rampant.
Piles of rubbish which stink in the summer. Packs of dogs roaming around. Roads with potholes the size of buffalo. Wells used to draw water for drinking and cooking. At least that's what I saw in Archangelsk oblast, Yaroslavskaya oblast, Tulskaya oblast, and Leningradskaya oblast during the years I lived in Russia.
@@HoBoeBpeM9land the first Russian bot has been heard from. How are they paying you for your keyboard time? I hope in Vodka because the ruble isn’t worth much more than toilet paper. Which you don’t have in public parks. 😂
It's not about arrogance, but survival. In case Putin looses the war, or accepts a peace agreement which doesn't include a large portion of Ukraine, his presidency is gonna be challenged. And if he looses, his survival and that of his regime and major supporters will be in question.
research the Coo that happened in Ukraine in 2014. The people of Eastern Ukraine voted to join Russia again and a few days after the vote passed a violent overthrow of the government and installation of a puppet leader prior to Zelinski happened. Then for almost 9 years they have been shelling the cities of Eastern Ukraine and have been killing civilians daily. Totalling almost 20,000 civilians in almost a decade. Putin had warned Western leaders for years to stop killing ethnic Russians there and encroaching on Russian territory but They Refused to abide by there own (Minsk accord) and Putin finally said enough is enough and started the Special Military Operation. You have been lied to by Corporate media your whole life.
Snyder describes this well; Russians, unlike other colonisers, have made the colonised part of their own identity. Russia doesn't have an empire, it is an empire in Russian eyes.
“Russia/China will collapse any day now guys!!!!” We’ve been hearing both of these for years and every time it’s based on wishful thinking and the assumption that both nations have zero problem solving skills. And it has turned out time and time again that, in fact, they have problem solving skills.
There was a presidential election in 2008, which Putin didn't take part in because he was limited to two terms. Medvedev became president as Putins puppet, who was prime minister during that term. They than changed the laws so Putin was able to reclaim presidency.
@@davidkubac2447 Just a correction of a mistake in the video, which suggested there was no election that year. Only information, no further intentions
it grosses me out how society gives so much power to individuals, let alone unhinged ones that aren't even there to help. worst part is, my country has a few of these.
I've always considered this to be a move of arrogance, it comes across as if he attacked Ukraine (as well as the reason why he constantly messes with other neighboring countries) because he can't deal with the fact that all these "former soviet countries" that have "strengthened ties with the west" are currently thriving (or close to it) and Russia is not. While Russia did make some money/grow their economy a bit over the past few decades, it's a pretty small improvement if you consider the size of their country/population and then look at their direct neighbors and the profits-vs-size that those have achieved, Russia is a failed economy because they keep ruining relations, which include trade relations. They can keep pouring oil & gas money into their economy to prop it up all they want but it won't magically make things better, now that stuff is getting sanctioned we are seeing this in effect, they dont have a sustainable economy... 🤷♂ China is going to either buy up or straight up _take_ parts of Russia in the future.
research the Coo that happened in Ukraine in 2014. The people of Eastern Ukraine voted to join Russia again and a few days after the vote passed a violent overthrow of the government and installation of a puppet leader prior to Zelinski happened. Then for almost 9 years they have been shelling the cities of Eastern Ukraine and have been killing civilians daily. Totalling almost 20,000 civilians in almost a decade. Putin had warned Western leaders for years to stop killing ethnic Russians there and encroaching on Russian territory but They Refused to abide by there own (Minsk accord) and Putin finally said enough is enough and started the Special Military Operation. You have been lied to by Corporate media your whole life.
First - China does not need a Russian land (they want island on the south), only resources/ Second - where why do you think Russia have failed economy? If we look at neighbors they are not better mostly worse. If we talk about population - Brazil, Bangladesh, Malaysia have more population but still smaller economy than Russia.
@Zolotou2604 Manchuria is Chinese land, why wouldn't they want it back? Russia is weak now, might as well go ahead. What's Russia gonna do anyway? Start another war? Lol
@@Zolotou2604 ummmm how about ALL the ex soviet Warsaw pact countries are doing better? what do you mean worse? ruski mir is terrible for a country's sustainability. Poland finally stepped into the 21st century because of strong ties to the West, Eastern Germany is no longer as much of a giant pile of you know what. The list can go on and on.
Im just going to parrot what mr walker said: Russian interest rates at 16% Russian rubble worthless. Taxes going up. Demographics under thirty to over fifty one of the worst ratio on the planet. Oil and gas revenue crashing Military and other exports crashing Loss of thier youngest and smartest up to three million have left since Feb. 2022 Russia's antistructure is in crisis Cities freezing in winter and flooded in spring., roads are a joke Foreign investment none existent Access to world monetary loans NOT POSSIBLE. What Russia is getting in oil and gas sales are being paid for in Rupees an Yuan. Finland an Sweden are now NATO members. Military spending 1/3 of budget and rising. Putin is keeping the economy alive by burning through reserves. He is running large deficits now
The "wishful" thinking is that Russia is as big as China or US. Its not. Russias economy is the size of Texas or a Chinese Provence. It will fold. As an American I'm Bias. But China is still the 2nd biggest economy. Russia ain't nothing compared to the two. They wish they were. That's why RU is relying on China.
I also heard a lot about a three day special military operation. But in fact it have been hundreds of three day military operations. Russia is just a laughing stock.
the wests population is similarly collapsing so its empty words sure the eu is importing an enemy and pretending those are population numbers but lol, lmao even
Europe is not threatened by Russia/ukraine, it's being threatened by muslims, educate yourself. Also Russia is doing just fine, your friend is just employing wishful thinking.
The only reason he invaded is precedence. He hated ukraine for being an example for how to drop a putin-like dictator. Update. If you want more - he was a dictator from the beginning, but went totally bananas after the Arab spring and thr killing of Khaddafi, which made him go on a dictator saving spree - Assad, Maduro, supporting PRC against Hong Kong protests, Tokayev, Lukashenko. With Lukashenko it's a special case. From being one step away from invading Belarus he went to his best buddy again after the 2020 protests that, should they've succeeded, would've been even a worse precedent of trashing an usurping russian-speaking dictator than the euromaidan.
Finland paid attention to what Putaine said and that is why Finland kicked the Sweden in to the Nato too. Bilateral agreement between Finland and Sweden goes now that Finland helps the Sweden to train its conscription army back.
@@mikaelahlzen8172 I did my military in a Swedish speaking unit. Guys from Sweden came back to get a real training 😉 Here is the thing. Good training is rewarding and you know what to do incase if something crazy 💩 happens. In my opinion everyone including women should go to army. Not to be avoided by any religious or personal reasons. You don’t want to shoot anyone? Nobody wants, but now we have to. Just think about this… Denmark 🇩🇰 Norway 🇳🇴 and Sweden 🇸🇪 together are a bigger economy than the Ruzzia 💩 Finland 🇫🇮 has an economy twice the Ukraine 🇺🇦 We are the rich north and very powerful 👍
Russia collapsed twice in the 20th century alone. Russia has lost countless young men via war casualties and emigration. Even if the Russians conquer Ukraine, it will be incredibly costly for them to manage it. Russia has also lost Europe as a major trading partner.
@@davidbell7815 I’m referring to the Bolshevik Revolution and the Disintegration of the Soviet Union. When a government collapses, the country it governed doesn’t cease to be. Even Rome persisted for generations in the form of Byzantine.
Yeah there isn't much to collapse anyway. Most of Russia is not developed and outside of Metropolitan areas it's dirt poor. They make majority of countries wealth on oil exports. They will be fine, the Metropolitan will just not be able to afford western luxuries for awhile.
china isnt a brink a collaspe i agree. Comparing the ccp to putin is laughable. the CCP is way more competent than putin. the Putin regime however has much less longevity than the CCP.
@@gorillamasterofgaming5525 that is also wishful thinking. After two years of "we will cripple them with sanctions" all that happened was EU falling into deindustrialization due to the loss of cheap resources, as well as western countries loosing their monopolies in the financial sector(take shipping insurance for example. Once dominated by the West, now plenty of similar companies from Russia, India, etc. provide their own services, without the need to rely on the western financial system). Since sanctions created a precented, which showed that US/UK/EU financial systems are unreliable. This leads many nations to diversify their foreign exchange reserves, or straight up stray from the west. All the while Russia in its newfound reality started to invest much more into domestic production providing jobs and economy growth, instead of simply only selling resources to others in exchange for goods.
@@VIT-ey8woRussia is capable of sustaining itself im not denying this. But you have to understand dictatorships lack longevity because they’re less stable and more destructive on their country long term.
Good for you guys. Thanks to Social media, which has given us the opportunity to see both sides of the conflict and how its evolving. Lies from all sides wont work anymore.
why would it be funded by specifically the US army? The people and those representing the people make the decisions, unlike in russia where one tiny dictator makes all the decisions for the people.
I have similar feelings towards most people - I got no problems with the individual persons and their cultures, but I despise governments and corporate executives.
I just went Russia (St.Petesburg) for vacations and I did not see Russia in the brink of collapse. Last year I went LA and that place really, really looked in the brink of collapse 😅😅.
Exactly. I have Russian friends I speak with all the time. They are more worried about my safety when I have to go to Los Angeles for work. The western media spoon feeds the left nothing by B.S. and the eat up like it's 100% facts.
That's because all Russias money goes to two cities, st. Petersburg and Moscow. Visit Chelyabinsk for example and you'll feel what's Russia is really like
The context is that the US can afford it while the cost that Russia has incurred is exorbitant compared to its GPD. Remember that the USA financed two wars that lasted for over 20 years without much difficulty. The USSR waged a 10-year in Afghanistan and the cost relative to the income was a major contributing factor to the eventual collapse of it.
@nielsjensen4185 I don't really think they can. I guess 50 trillion dollars debt will come sooner rather than later. Whereas Russia owes 13%of gdp. Demographically, sure, Russia is f*cked.
The Soviet afghan war had nothing to do with the collapse of the Soviet Union. The inefficiencies of communism did. The entire structure was a bad foundation so Gorbachev correctly said, it’s time to try something else.
The US spends more on it's own military anyways. Really we are just dropping old shitty stock on Ukraine and getting contracts for newer and better stuff for our own military. It just happens that our old shitty stuff is 20 years ahead of everything russia has.
@@aar0n709 This is one of the takes on national stability that I've ever seen. A nation's stability in part leans heavily on it's economics. Once the economy fails to a certain level then collapse is a matter of "when" rather than "if." The USSR - Afghanistan was was disastrous for the economy of the USSR and while it took some time for the effects to be really felt that was a major factor in the collapse. What you was told was just the version told to the people. It's similar to how people say that Russia will collapse and people counter with that Russia is still there. Regardless of whether Russia wins or loses in Ukraine the country is doomed. It has suffered major losses that it'll never recover from. The collapse of Russia is a matter of "when" rather than "if."
Russians are panicking as Russian media reports that websites of several large Russian banks are not downloading or not allowing clients to log in. There are lines at ATMs at this very moment. Russia is about to collapse. These include Rosbank, Gazprombank, and Moscow Stock exchange.
IDK if things are as dire as all that but they aren't all cookies and rainbows either. Putin wouldn't have offered conditions to end the war when none were requested if things were all good.
Could say something like that about germany..... at the moment it seems like accruing debt is more like a talking point to Sound productive as a politician. ( pro or against more debt)
Russia has been on the verge of collapse for a couple of years now, and as far as anyone can see Russia is doing fine. Ukraine will lose its a matter of time, which Russia has.
Crimea is firmly in the grasp of Russia right now. But also important is that Crimean populace overwhelmingly supports Russia unlike most of Ukraine (except Donetsk and Lugansk areas).
@@jwhite5008 It's still an illegal annexation of Ukrainian land. And as for support for Russia, a large percentage of the current Crimeans moved there FROM RUSSIA. The peninsula's native Ukrainian and Tatar population have largely fled or have been been forcibly relocated by Russia.
@@bivvystridents3752 I understand your point, but there is a counterargument if this is more of liberation of Crimean land from Ukraine which had very little to do with it to begin with. It's true that now it's more or less governed as part of Russia - some people from Russia naturally moved in, while some moved out, but they are minority. So are and were people who viewed Ukrainians more than Crimeans. Please refer to a source that describes forceful relocation. I have not found credible one on this matter yet though I suspect some overreaction could have taken place. There are many of Tatars and Ukrainians still in Crimea as well as in Russia. They are not being targeted by nazis the way Russians were in Lugansk and Donetsk and they can live there if they like - no one is forcing them out or making their life worse intentionally - as far as I know Ukrainian language and customs are being de-facto banned (as in - not taught in schools or used in official documents) in Crimea but no one really spoke Ukrainian or observed Ukrainian customs other than that relatively tiny diaspora. Everything was in Russian before the annexation. However those few that engage in anti-Russia protests and plan counteroffensive do get unfairly repressed and that is a problem in Russia in general. I most definitely don't support that.
@@jwhite5008 Forceable relocation of Tatars??? Stalin and Beria shipped 200,000 of them to Uzbekistan in 1944. The remaining Tatars in Crimea have been systematically persecuted since 2014 for opposing the illegal seizure and annexation of the peninsula. So Ukraine retakes Crimea, and offers free one way train tickets to all Russians who choose to leave.
@@bivvystridents3752 Sorry I have not realized you were talking about USSR time rather then nowadays. That they are prosecuted for protesting is horrible but that does not automatically mean they are entirely right. I agree something needs to be done to rectify the situation with them but giving the land to Ukraine on that account seems wrong to me. Let's give entire Germany to Jews then? At the very least it would be important to first hear the opinion of all the Tatars, not just the ones who raised the issue - do they actually want to live there and be a part of Ukraine? I think most of them have families and friends elsewhere and would call the thing that happened almost a century ago a thing of the past, possibly demanding monetary compensation? However what you say is that forcefully relocating Tatars is wrong but forcefully relocaing Russians is ok? Let's continue the thought process then. Native Americans retake the US and give all US citizens a free ticket to Britain, Spain, France, etc Furthermore, what I imagine would happen if by some insanity your scenario becomes true:: 1) most of Tatars would not want to migrate to Crimea, especially while it is in this unstable state. 2) the entire landmass becomes a ghost town and then inevitably lawless place for contrabandists, militant groups, pirates, etc. 3) A huge number of displaced Russians do not have a place in Russia to call home. Russia would be unable to build housing at a short notice. A severe crisis ensues. This crisis would not be contained and spills over in the rest of Europe, at the very least they will have to contend with another refugee inflow, By the way in the most of Russia you cannot just make a permanent tent camp for refugees because -20C winter with no heated house is death. Here a central heating infrastructure is just a not a nice thing to have - it's basic survival. 4) This leads to a bloody war for control of Crimea between displaced Russians + their supporters who would probably include most Russians, and already stretched thin and battered Ukrainian army troops who never called Crimea home and would probably be somewhat reluctant to defend a bunch of bandits from VERY angry Russians. I understand that you think this thing is bad and I agree that people were wronged but a solution should definitely not be worse than the problem.
brink of collapse is indeed hyperbole. but if you think a nation that claimed to be a superpower capable of going toe to toe with the US in a direct war, failing to invade and at least reasonably claim to have captured what would be analogous to mexico, you have DEFINITELY proved your words are more empty than not, and fact is, russias metrics are definitely on the decline since the start of this conflict.
@@Skywatcher16 Maybe, just maybe, the aim isn't to "retake all of Ukraine" if it hasn't happened yet. Putin has stated multiple times that the concern with Ukraine is mainly about national security. Anyone with a brain knows that the US and UK through NATO and other means, have been fomenting war with the extremists that already exist in Ukraine. Extremists that wanted to turn Stepan Bandera a national hero. No leader in their right mind wants NATO weapons at their border. Secondly, certain people in east Ukraine were wanting help from Russia, because these same extremist groups I've mentioned have been attacking them. Russia is not on the brink of collapse. Yall are delusional.
@@Skywatcher16 the same can be said with the US, the Vietnam war, Afghanistan.. how many times have smaller armies and militias defeated the USA and caused their withdrawal? We don't have accurate figures about either side Ukraine or Russia on the number of casualties, who's winning or who's losing and what does that even look like? One thing for sure is Russia is not going to back down.
I fully support Ukraine, however all these videos pipe a similar thing. That russia is collapsing, putin will flee russia or step down. None of it's happening, I wish it would, but it's not. It's getting boring now.
As a Ukrainian, it annoys me too. I remember particularly, because they were saying "Russia ran out of missiles" or "Russia has only 2 weeks of missiles left" about a month and a half before a very damaging ballistic missile attack on my city (Vinnytsia). This was back in 2022. Oh, and they said the Russians also didn't have food either; their troops were starving, yet they look well-fed to me, at least whenever we capture any, they might be dirty, but no shortage of rations. Lies don't help us, it's just a way for fools to pretend they are virtuous.
the ruble was the best performing asset in 2022, despite all the sanctions, and russia just became the world's 4th largest economy, behind india as of june 2024 russia also has more natural resources and nuclear weapons than any other nation on the planet it would take an astonishing amount of ignorance to expect russia to collapse tbh
@@hamadkennedy6295 There are no real markets for ruble, so you can't conclude much from that. However, there is no imminent collapse coming for Russia, it can function as a war economy for years. However, the longer it continues, the more difficult it gets. The more resources Russia is focusing on war, the less it has resources for other things, like private investments or basic infra. It will start to run out of the soviet era weaponry in a year, and needs to change tactics, as it can't produce replacement for them efficiently. If Ukrainians can keep hitting the oil refineries, Russia will also lose significant source of income. It will need more funding for the war and needs draft more men and increase taxes and impose economic controls. This will lead to more corruption and internal disputes, that will require more funding to internal security. Putin also relies on popular support. The origins of this war is in the earlier attempt to cut the pensions, but that got the people on the streets, and he had to return the old pension rate, but only won the earlier support back by invading Ukraine.
You could make 50 decent sized countries out of Russia. The land is wasted on them, they only have twice the population of the UK; 140mil to 70mil. That's mental when you think about it.
@@stevensrocks798 the Inuit had low population numbers and lived a hunter gatherer existence (which is all you can do in rough climates, they did not have large urban centres or have large scale agriculture.
The second he was on the Telly, saying „I decided to conduct a special military operation“ it reminded me exactly of George Bush Jr.‘s speak bout Iraq‘s second invasion. And we know how that ended.
It's extremely hard to see how accurate claims that Russia is about to collapse really are. UA-cam is abound with videos of Russia on the brink... but just as many of Russias success and durability.
@@hamlet557 i guess then the ukraine-russia conflict is justified in your terms because we just thought it's time we remember how the ukrainian nation supported Bandera.
Russis has been collapsing since 1939... but it seems to be still holding up no matter how many bombs west sends there... we all seen what happened in japan... it's called American democracy... uh yahhh. 😂
Depends on the Rooskie bots sleep schedules I guess the actual Russian ones are probably asleep at the moment due to most of their population being in a timezone where its currently past midnight..... the confused western Rooskie sleeper bots might be lurking though.
@@dedster3164 it took them 15-20 years to rebuild, and it took them about 50-60 years to pay all their reparations. Japan and Germany rank WAY higher than russia
I believe it’s more of my financial situation. Russia is not producing very much. Therefore, if he produces more ammunition, he can stabilize his economy, but the bad part is he will also have to rebuild Ukraine If he wins, which will punch him further into debt at this point, I believe it’s just about saving face
false information. you can only wish. russia is ranked 65th below Kazakhstan by GDP per capita, and is ranked just ahead of Canada by gross GDP. ONE AHEAD OF CANADA? that's sad. 40 million people vs 140 million people and you can barely do better than Canada? pathetic.
Putin died 2 years ago Russia spent missiles 2 years ago Russia has no tanks left for a long time Russians are fighting with shovels Russia already collapsed 23 times 😂
I am pro ukraine. I just don't fall for obvious click bait videos. People been predicting the end of Russia for years. Still hasn't happened. No one wants a fractured Russia especially with all the nuclear weapons that could end up in the wrong hands.
Well Russia has a habit of collapsing once or twice per century 😂
Never. Their ideology of a Soviet Union was scrapped. But Russia has never lost territory.
teh problem was teh 1917 revolution. the tzar slowly started to fix the country but then the revolution came and instead of better it got worse.
@@NothingToSeeHere_69 The problem is that russ just go with whatever the mob/dictator says and when they do stand up... it's to be thrown in jail instead of actually disrupt the process
@@JustinStLouis-xz7ut Someone doesn't understand what "collapse" means...
@@bradleygerber7317 He doesn't English
2014 mate. everyone started to care in 2022 and forgot 2014 was the start.
the west did not realize, that the war had started in 2014 - a costly mistake.
It was a CIA coup. Victoria Nuland, Keery, Mcacain, and Clinotns ( the warmongers) have been pushing war with Russia to steal their resources for over a decade. Lyndsy Graphm just admitted the USA wants to kill kill kill for MONEY. That is what the USA. has been doing all over the world for decades. Kill and steal resources and money.
The separatist warfare goes way beyond.
@@jwhite5008lol it started 2004 when Russia tried to cheat the Ukrainian election. And Russia is the invader lol
@@jwhite5008 you say Poroshenko coup, the world says Ukraine taking back their government from Putin puppets.
"Russia is on the brink of collapse" I have heard this being said for 3 years now, when will it happen?
Hi 😃, i'am hearing the same for quiet some time too 😂😂.
there's a really good UA-cam channel called @insiderussia. The moderater Konstantin is a russian who fled his country because of the war against Ukraine and got some really good explanations, insides and can put some strings together. I suggest you to take a look at his latest video about RUs economy and Infrastructur. He said RUs economy is in a downfall, the civilians feeling it allready and it's getting worse day by day. 🤞🤞 Fingers crossed 😂😂😎.
I'am sorry 4 my bad english 🫣.
Best wishes from germany.
☮️-out
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they have been on that brink for a while. the reasons are, that russia
1. has its economy fallen apart but gets money through ressource exports, so not much economy needed anyway, (it gets very much less money by the exports though)
2. it can dictate the pace of the war, since ukraine is restriced by its allies to very few strikes behind the russian border
3. it can steadily replace fallen soldiers
all of these reasons won't work forever, if the western countrys keep it up, its just a matter of time befor russia wont be able to sustain the high costs at a massively lower income.
plus: if ukraine manages to get cimea back, it will be over even sooner. but for now it's a longer run.
“For 3 years…” this isn’t a television series. Maybe it takes 20 more years to happen, but it’s obvious that Putin is doing unbelievable damage to Russias economy and influence in Europe.
It's nonsense. Russia can keep going for another 5 or 6 years if they need to.
Russia is also geopolitically worse off now in Europe. Sweden and Finland - which had been neutral countries throughout the Cold War - joined NATO as a result of Russia's war. The Baltic Sea is now a NATO lake and it now has a border with a NATO country in the north.
Sweden and Finland were never neutral. Otherwise they wouldn't allow their military and special services to participate in the Operation Gladio, for example.
No worries, they are in Russia's cross hairs now; minding their own business was not enough for Sweden and Finland and their social programs...
3% + GDP Growth is meaningless if it goes into weapons. These are not productive investments and will be written off quasi certainly during the year of production. At the same time, you drain financial resources
Exact!
3% + GDP growth is about as accurate as the rest of the little man with the huge table’s bald-faced lies.
Weapons sales are the biggest business on the planet. Nothing sells for more value than aircraft carriers
If I'm remembering correctly, that IMF data all comes from self-reported figures as well. Thus, it says the Russian economy is doing fine because that's what Putin wants to tell the world. It's not a real study of the Russian economy. An economy that is: hemorrhaging skilled workers to emigration, was already on the brink of demographic collapse and is now losing young men by the tens of thousands to war, which relies mostly on petroleum sales but can barely sell above cost due to sanctions, which can't do normal business with half the world due to sanctions, which is now blowing tons of its cash on war, which has switched from production of normal products to production for war, and which wasn't a particularly healthy economy to begin with... is in NO WAY going to show a growing GDP unless the numbers are being fudged big time.
Weapons could be productive investments if they could sell them. Sadly for Russia, the war has exposed how shoddy and ineffective their equipment is against the West's, so the bottom has fallen out of the arms market for them. Few are going to want their stuff in the future.
If ukraine belongs to russia because it was once part of it, then russian must belong to mongolia
Sure why not. But I think government still will be in Moscow.
@@Zolotou2604Go drink your vodka 😂
@@guyman1570 Sorry I am not a Russian nor a stereotype because I don't like vodka.
And Spain and Portugal belong to Italy because the Romans took them during the first century!
@@adairjanney7109 Putin himself said that Ukraine is part of Russia. Besides his public stance, it was documented that he told George W. Bush in a visit to Washington D.C. that Ukraine was part of Russia, and wasn't a sovereign country.
Even Tucker Carlson said that Putin's remark about the need to "de-Nazify" Ukraine as the dumbest thing that ANYBODY has ever said,
The AZOV Brigade had deep roots in Nazism, which the western powers and mass media have gone out of their way. Exactly how you hope to qualify your statement, I don't know.
Не было такого, не ври.
Childish blunder..
@@Mr.Funnyman273 ok ivan
So you are saying that you are braindead?
10 years in Afghanistan did in the Soviets, don't see why a war closer to home wouldn't repeat history
As a Ukrainian, seeing the flags pile up in the cemetaries and the photos on the memorial walls, I tend to think that following something closer to the Afghan method is our best hope. We can't beat the Russians in an open industrial competition of who has the most shells, the most tanks etc., because they will win that kind of great power war. But, guerilla war, or some mix of guerilla and conventional, where the other side fights assymetrically - Russia does not have a good record in defeating such.
@@WangMingGe But your country is already doing an incredible job. Ukraine stopped their offensive this summer. Fighting some kind of guerilla war isn't going to save lives any more than fighting a conventional war
@@nickkorea5850 I agree we are doing an impressive job. But, if you saw the casualty impacts (it is a lie, by the president, that we lost only 31,000 KIA for sure; he is not very popular anymore, except among media and fellow politicians), and observed the situation with shells/ammo, and so forth, you would see, it is really not possible to beat Russia in an open conventional war. We will have lost our entire army and they will still have reserves. I should mention, most of their tank factories and much of their weapons storage are in Siberia, in the Urals, in shelters hardened against nuclear attack during the Cold War, in some cases. Even if we were given non-nuclear long-range missiles many times longer range than Storm Shadow or ATACMs, we can't hit them. It is in the willpower of Russia that they will have to collapse. China and India will always buy their oil, minerals, timber and food (Germany , too, sadly still buys a lot via back channels/foreign-flagged ships). Usually, assymetric warfare DOES reduce casualties compared to open conventional warfare. See how in the Vietnam, when the Vietnamese tried open conventional tactics against the French and US, they usually lost heavily. Even General Giap, brilliant that he was, acknowledged that the Tet Offensive, military was a mistake and not sustainable (so they scaled down after that, and won in the end). I am not saying get rid of conventional forces, but do like the Vietnamese, focusing on reserving them for the defensive, or for extremely tempting opportunities. Really, if you came here and saw how some villages are totally empty of men 18-60s with all 4 limbs still attached, you would realize. The big offensives, like last summer, are stupid and not possible without massive air support (as in NATO doctrine, which we were stupidly pressured to follow despite not having the planes). We also have a ton of internal political problems which blind support for everything staying the same has prevented us from resolving. For example, bad and unpopular generals replacing popular/good ones, corrupt officials stealing aid money. It's more complicated that just keep smashing the Russians, full-scale until we win, because we will all die and have no country left if we do like that.
@@WangMingGe
Working on the soft power 😊
@@WangMingGe
l conscription rates in sct peterburg and moskau is only 0.2% in both, while siberian towns has over 10% of the male population in ukraine..
You can beat russia, putin cant go on for many more years with war economy, and if he ever gets near kiev again, nato will go in, russia is Fu*ked, but every western leader tried to warn them this would be the results, checnia beat russia without any nato help
Dictators never use their pensions... it's a matter of time for Putin...
Or his 11 yachts ......he's too scared
yes, so that is why western world dictates to everyone :D
@@andrewbielecki6154Putin should donate a few of them to the Blak Sea fleet--i hear they're short on boats.
UKRAINE is literally a dictatorship. $$$
He’s far popular than sleepy joe 😂. Hopefully nothing happens to Trump before he tastes the helm lol
Correction to the start - Russia started the invasion with boots on the ground eight years earlier in Crimea. It's just that Ukraines cries for help were ignored until the main assault started.
2014
@@william3307 8 years counting since the year the war started in
There was no mass assault, don't you dare lie.
@@MetaKnight964 Don't you dare LEARN TO READ
@MetaKnight964 did there need to be? We all sat by and watched the 'little green men' we were told were mercenaries but were actually just Russian forces that were "helping" and sat by and did nothing.
They didn't need to send mass forces in. They trickled them in over months.
Putin wants just one thing: he wants his name in the history books. on the same level like Stalin or Lenin...
and he will get it, and russians in 100 years will despise him for this era of history, just like most of the soviet world despises stalin for the things he did to the countries within the USSR, Holodomor, forced relocation to work camps, where the Estonian PM's family was sent, etc.
I'd say he's managed to do that. But not for the reasons he was looking for.
No he wants to Ivan or Peter, Lenin he feels was one of the worst rulers of Russia
@spongiform you can think?😆 Oh look at him trying
He's more on a level with Borat
The reality is the people around Putin don't tell him what he needs to know, they tell him what he wants to hear...
If only the tsar knew!
Emperor has no clothes.
oh sure, Putin is just a mindless puppet of his guys, he is a saint!
I don’t buy that, Putin has no internet? Surely after two years with hardly any progress and many losses he should be able to figure it out himself. He may be many things but he’s not an idiot.
@@solidhqx Russia as a nation has an duty to protect its people even if it being a hard task
Great, but 1 correction: You say Putin wants to return Russia to the glory days of the USSR. No, he wants to bring back the Russian Empire. He's compared himself to Peter The Great more than once. The revisionist history lessons he gives as reasons for taking Ukraine go back to the 13th century.
All Putin really wants is *stay in power*. That's it. That's all. Everything he does now including war is for that one simple goal. He doesn't care at all under what ideological sauce it will be if it works. If it works he's ready to say anything. The more confused his opponents are the better for him.
In that case he could start by giving back Kalingrad to Germany, all those parts back to Finland and the massive region east of Mongolia back to China. :D
POOTIN HAS NEVER GROWN UP ? PAST HIS LOVE AFFAIR OF HIS BELOVED DEAD sTALIN 6 GOOD RIDDANCE
Putin is ex kgb agent, he does nothing in style of Russian empire
The little narcissist wants people to fear him, but instead they mock him.
Кто именно над ним издевается?
Privately..
@@igor-88 это в какой-то выдуманной вселенной происходит.
@@franticunitcute some Russian troll..
@@matios83 хорошо, что тебе нравится. будет не так больно.
The russian strategy in politics is very simple; Deny deny deny, lie lie lie, accuse accuse accuse.
more like ukranian:D
@@lacroix1159 Found the russian bot
@@DarkEagle99 yeah whatever
This is an american strategy.
@@lacroix1159 "Poland provoked occupation by Germany" (1939)? How occupation and annexation of neighbors ended for Germany?
So far Moscow Na zis are unable to answer yet they always blame Ukraine.
When you're the largest country in the world but still think you need land
Greed knows no bounds.
When you're not smart enough to see through lies 😂
@@Avatar24-bb8cu what?
@@TheDennys21 It's literally spelled out for you....
@@Avatar24-bb8cu again, what?
I did never like Russia. I was indifferent. Now I really really feel discusted about Russia. I think my country starts to have more understanding an sympathie for Poland now. I think Germany wont tolerate Russia to attack Poland. Wrong: I know it. It wont be accepted. Russias arrogance will and must be stopped. Once and forever. Greetings from Germany, slawa Ukrainij
Look, show me please where did you have information about Russia attaching Poland or anywhere past Ukraine? I really can’t understand how, we, Europeans, cannot check other sources of information and just accept everything the media tells without thinking or searching for it.
@@AnimeReels1415
Says the JM fanboy...
Try harder 😊
@@AnimeReels1415you only need to carefully hear putins nonsense!
You mean disgusted.
Putin doesnt believe in democracy.
Who would win?
The Black Sea Fleet
A Ukrainian readio controlled jet ski
@thecrimedetectives my fat fingers and phone keyboards are a match made in heaven…
Yes. I meant radio
@@Youbetternowatchthisrelatable
Russia won!
More like RC speedboats loaded with C4 than a jet ski...
@@wilberwhateley7569 they used jet skis by a Canadian manufacturer (if I remember correctly) as a base for the sea baby drones
As someone who roots for Ukraine and very much wants to see Russia defeated in this conflict, words can't express how I hate this sort of ignorant triumphalism.
For the better part of two years, we have been hearing about how Russia is on a brink of a collapse. None of that has demonstrated thus far. Russia is still fighting the fight, now solidly entrenched in the eastern parts of Ukraine, Crimea annexed, and all. Ukraine has neither the requisite manpower, nor the technology to breach Russian positions.
The usual sociological scenarios don't work in Russia. Western Europeans will take to the streets at one tenth of the discomfort the Russians will simply take on their chins. Meanwhile the public dissatisfaction with the war grows in the EU. A couple more years, and one by one, European countries will be governed by populists who'll want to end the war. At the same time, the demoralized, obedient Russians will still be toeing the Kremlin line.
Not to mention, that Russia is still nuclear superpower, that has the capability of destroying the entire world multiple times over, and only God knows what the Russian dictator will do, when he faces the impossible odds.
Russia has the entire periodic table, and is one of the largest exporters of food. They don't really need to buy much, other than sophisticated machinery, and advanced microchips. And they keep buying those through proxies from EU companies, so that's how nicely the sanctions work.
Ukrainian soldiers are exhausted, they don't have the proper rotation. Every next western military aid will face more and more pushback.
I just don't understand this unbridled optimism. I hope NATO/EU maintain their material and intelligence support of Ukraine for as long as it is necessary, but I don't see a lot of reason for optimism.
I am russian. this western NAFO anti-russian triumphalism is the same bullshit I saw from pro-putin/Z-compatriots. Russia is not as weak as one think and not as strong as others hope. The risk of collapse exist in only one case - if Putin dies. Until then it will slowly stagnate. Question is - will Ukraine survive the Russian stagnation. With the way EU handling landlease and sanctions (they are mostly inefficient or too late), it might not.
Thank you for your realistic take on the situation
You fundamentally misunderstand the purpose of this war. The purpose of this war is to drive a wedge between Europe and Russia- not safeguard Ukrainian sovereignty. The US is now in a win-win situation. If Ukraine prevails, it permanently leaves Russia’s sphere of influence and becomes America’s debt slave (much like Britain following WWII). If Ukraine falls, it becomes the world’s largest burden for Russia.
Finally a voice of reason.
I really don't believe Putin will ever use nuclear weapons over Ukraine. He'll lose far more than anything he might gain.
KGB is called FSB since the end of the soviet union
Go to rural Russia and tell me what you see.....and then ask yourself why they are wasting a trillion dollars on this war
Agreed. Rural Russia has no freeway/highway system so the roads outside of villages are muddy in the winter and dusty in the summer. Indoor residential plumbing (toilet, washing machine, shower) is in the minority of homes. Gas is cheap but Russian cars are horrible. Alcoholism is rampant.
@@JMARTIN1947 you know really thingin a bout it.. isnt all you need are some balls? play football
Piles of rubbish which stink in the summer.
Packs of dogs roaming around.
Roads with potholes the size of buffalo.
Wells used to draw water for drinking and cooking.
At least that's what I saw in Archangelsk oblast, Yaroslavskaya oblast, Tulskaya oblast, and Leningradskaya oblast during the years I lived in Russia.
@@HoBoeBpeM9lthe truth hurts doesn’t it?
@@HoBoeBpeM9land the first Russian bot has been heard from. How are they paying you for your keyboard time? I hope in Vodka because the ruble isn’t worth much more than toilet paper. Which you don’t have in public parks. 😂
It's not about arrogance, but survival. In case Putin looses the war, or accepts a peace agreement which doesn't include a large portion of Ukraine, his presidency is gonna be challenged. And if he looses, his survival and that of his regime and major supporters will be in question.
When Putin said de-nazify Ukraine he means Ru-sify and now nobody wants anything to do with Russia. Good job Putin.
I've thought for 2 years, putin pulled a pharoah...self destruction
Well, that bit him in the asp.
Hilarious, hope you never learn this ukraine this civil war way back in 2014 in Maidan Square or it might break your delusions.
拖垮欧美经济，一直让欧美援助，直到北约分裂；
援助到位后，俄罗斯大范围攻击一次，然后又缓慢攻击等援助到位；
research the Coo that happened in Ukraine in 2014. The people of Eastern Ukraine voted to join Russia again and a few days after the vote passed a violent overthrow of the government and installation of a puppet leader prior to Zelinski happened. Then for almost 9 years they have been shelling the cities of Eastern Ukraine and have been killing civilians daily. Totalling almost 20,000 civilians in almost a decade. Putin had warned Western leaders for years to stop killing ethnic Russians there and encroaching on Russian territory but They Refused to abide by there own (Minsk accord) and Putin finally said enough is enough and started the Special Military Operation. You have been lied to by Corporate media your whole life.
Why would anyone wanna run their country for the rest of their life?
$$$$$$
Because it it ends, he goes to prison
@@1Eagler
Or comes out flying outta window.
Queen of England, King of Sweden, sure we will find more people after a bit of digging.
I can't think of much worse than having the responsibility of a whole country forever until my dying day
why Is It so hard to acknowledge that those times with the soviet union/russian empire are long gone & wont come back.
Snyder describes this well; Russians, unlike other colonisers, have made the colonised part of their own identity. Russia doesn't have an empire, it is an empire in Russian eyes.
it's same for hungary and their pre-trianon crying.
“Russia/China will collapse any day now guys!!!!”
We’ve been hearing both of these for years and every time it’s based on wishful thinking and the assumption that both nations have zero problem solving skills. And it has turned out time and time again that, in fact, they have problem solving skills.
I've heard people saying they'll collapse a lot and I think that's a stupid claim. They'll struggle, but outright collapse isn't anywhere close.
Try telling the people in this thread that...madness
If problem solving means digging yourself into a deeper hole, then yes 👍 the hole is only as deep as nuclear armageddon anyway
@@itsscookin
Don’t cry little one
@@Givemeproofkid ur name is givemeproofkid
Russia is just a small village between Poland, Finland and Mongolia
Vladamir Putin: When you want to make Russia great again, but end up exposing it as a paper tiger.
paper bear
Putin and Trump deserve each other! I hate putting for what he's done to the people of Russia as much as I hate Trump for what he's doing to America!
True words @@tammytownsend5460
#1 SUPERPOWER COULDN'T DEFEAT CAVEMEN IN AFGHANISTAN
NATO = PAPER TIGER
Putins daughters just came out too 😅 "Yo! We're not like our dad, when he's gone please don't kill us!"
Link?
@@Alblaka is it really just that unbelievable or are you being pedantic or do you have to report back to your KGB agent at once?
The KGB disbanded in 1991 old boy paddi
@@aar0n709 imagine thinking something like KGB ever "disbands" .. "officially" for show maybe, if anything
There was a presidential election in 2008, which Putin didn't take part in because he was limited to two terms. Medvedev became president as Putins puppet, who was prime minister during that term. They than changed the laws so Putin was able to reclaim presidency.
And?!? Russians problem?!?
@@davidkubac2447 Just a correction of a mistake in the video, which suggested there was no election that year. Only information, no further intentions
it grosses me out how society gives so much power to individuals, let alone unhinged ones that aren't even there to help.
worst part is, my country has a few of these.
I've always considered this to be a move of arrogance, it comes across as if he attacked Ukraine (as well as the reason why he constantly messes with other neighboring countries) because he can't deal with the fact that all these "former soviet countries" that have "strengthened ties with the west" are currently thriving (or close to it) and Russia is not.
While Russia did make some money/grow their economy a bit over the past few decades, it's a pretty small improvement if you consider the size of their country/population and then look at their direct neighbors and the profits-vs-size that those have achieved, Russia is a failed economy because they keep ruining relations, which include trade relations. They can keep pouring oil & gas money into their economy to prop it up all they want but it won't magically make things better, now that stuff is getting sanctioned we are seeing this in effect, they dont have a sustainable economy... 🤷♂
China is going to either buy up or straight up _take_ parts of Russia in the future.
research the Coo that happened in Ukraine in 2014. The people of Eastern Ukraine voted to join Russia again and a few days after the vote passed a violent overthrow of the government and installation of a puppet leader prior to Zelinski happened. Then for almost 9 years they have been shelling the cities of Eastern Ukraine and have been killing civilians daily. Totalling almost 20,000 civilians in almost a decade. Putin had warned Western leaders for years to stop killing ethnic Russians there and encroaching on Russian territory but They Refused to abide by there own (Minsk accord) and Putin finally said enough is enough and started the Special Military Operation. You have been lied to by Corporate media your whole life.
Well according to Putin's own logic, Manchuria belongs to China. It is historically Chinese land. Why wouldn't China take it?
First - China does not need a Russian land (they want island on the south), only resources/
Second - where why do you think Russia have failed economy? If we look at neighbors they are not better mostly worse. If we talk about population - Brazil, Bangladesh, Malaysia have more population but still smaller economy than Russia.
@Zolotou2604 Manchuria is Chinese land, why wouldn't they want it back? Russia is weak now, might as well go ahead. What's Russia gonna do anyway? Start another war? Lol
@@Zolotou2604 ummmm how about ALL the ex soviet Warsaw pact countries are doing better? what do you mean worse? ruski mir is terrible for a country's sustainability. Poland finally stepped into the 21st century because of strong ties to the West, Eastern Germany is no longer as much of a giant pile of you know what. The list can go on and on.
The Americans are with Alice in wonderland. 😂
and russia is with iran and north korea, shows you who they value as friends, fellow terrorists and Juntas
If you have America as a friend, you don't need enemies
We should start negotiations for Ukraines membership of NATO.
Good luck getting past the unilateral vote and that fact that NATO doesn’t allow states that are currently at war
CNN and BBC are saying Russia is in trouble since like May 2022😂😂😂, come on bro.
No country falls in 1 day child dont embaress yourseld
@@manizarei2134Ukraine is on the verge of collapse, not Russia
Describing Putin as a patriot is an insult to patriots and the meaning of that word.
Amazing video. Very informative and interesting to watch. Thank you!
Pro western channel saying Russia will collapse. Genius
You’ve been saying Russias about to collapse for 2 years now 🤣 not a fan of Russia but it’s funny how desperate you are to try and push this narrative
Im just going to parrot what mr walker said:
Russian interest rates at 16%
Russian rubble worthless.
Taxes going up.
Demographics under thirty to over fifty one of the worst ratio on the planet.
Oil and gas revenue crashing
Military and other exports crashing
Loss of thier youngest and smartest up to three million have left since Feb. 2022
Russia's antistructure is in crisis Cities freezing in winter and flooded in spring., roads are a joke
Foreign investment none existent
Access to world monetary loans NOT POSSIBLE.
What Russia is getting in oil and gas sales are being paid for in Rupees an Yuan.
Finland an Sweden are now NATO members.
Military spending 1/3 of budget and rising.
Putin is keeping the economy alive by burning through reserves.
He is running large deficits now
I've been hearing news like this for months but the reality seems to be different
Yes it’s very confusing, but you’re right the truth shows
Too much wishful thinking
Those people dreaming.
The "wishful" thinking is that Russia is as big as China or US. Its not. Russias economy is the size of Texas or a Chinese Provence. It will fold. As an American I'm Bias. But China is still the 2nd biggest economy. Russia ain't nothing compared to the two. They wish they were. That's why RU is relying on China.
I also heard a lot about a three day special military operation. But in fact it have been hundreds of three day military operations. Russia is just a laughing stock.
If Russia was being invaded young men would volunteer for service instead of deserting for this unnecessary war.
Comments are just too toxic here.
Seems like it's mostly trolls attracted to war videos.
What did I even expect?
Do you want War to happen? do you want people to die?
Hitler used old men and children at the end of WW11.
the wests population is similarly collapsing
so its empty words
sure the eu is importing an enemy and pretending those are population numbers
but lol, lmao even
Europe is not threatened by Russia/ukraine, it's being threatened by muslims, educate yourself. Also Russia is doing just fine, your friend is just employing wishful thinking.
@@MetaKnight964 how are you doing not getting eaten by ants while you're living under that rock?
Talkie bots bout to be working overtime
So many fake comments 🥱
You noticed too?
man again? who does russia keep surviving these monthly collapses
The only reason he invaded is precedence. He hated ukraine for being an example for how to drop a putin-like dictator.
Update. If you want more - he was a dictator from the beginning, but went totally bananas after the Arab spring and thr killing of Khaddafi, which made him go on a dictator saving spree - Assad, Maduro, supporting PRC against Hong Kong protests, Tokayev, Lukashenko.
With Lukashenko it's a special case. From being one step away from invading Belarus he went to his best buddy again after the 2020 protests that, should they've succeeded, would've been even a worse precedent of trashing an usurping russian-speaking dictator than the euromaidan.
Finland paid attention to what Putaine said and that is why Finland kicked the Sweden in to the Nato too. Bilateral agreement between Finland and Sweden goes now that Finland helps the Sweden to train its conscription army back.
Im swedish, we absolutly need that help, Thanks Finland, sisu
@@mikaelahlzen8172 I did my military in a Swedish speaking unit. Guys from Sweden came back to get a real training 😉 Here is the thing. Good training is rewarding and you know what to do incase if something crazy 💩 happens. In my opinion everyone including women should go to army. Not to be avoided by any religious or personal reasons. You don’t want to shoot anyone? Nobody wants, but now we have to. Just think about this… Denmark 🇩🇰 Norway 🇳🇴 and Sweden 🇸🇪 together are a bigger economy than the Ruzzia 💩 Finland 🇫🇮 has an economy twice the Ukraine 🇺🇦 We are the rich north and very powerful 👍
lol, like they had an option. They are just puppets of NATO. NATO is ex-colonial group. nothing else. They all need Russian resources
Yeah, I’m not sold. They’ve been saying this for decades. Even if Russia suffers, it’s not going to collapse
Russia collapsed twice in the 20th century alone. Russia has lost countless young men via war casualties and emigration. Even if the Russians conquer Ukraine, it will be incredibly costly for them to manage it. Russia has also lost Europe as a major trading partner.
@nicolasleroux5302 if Russia collapsed twice then why is it still around. I don't think you know what collapsed means
@@davidbell7815 I’m referring to the Bolshevik Revolution and the Disintegration of the Soviet Union. When a government collapses, the country it governed doesn’t cease to be. Even Rome persisted for generations in the form of Byzantine.
@@nicolasleroux5302 Dont forget the fall of the tsar in february of the same year as the bolshevik coup.
Yeah there isn't much to collapse anyway. Most of Russia is not developed and outside of Metropolitan areas it's dirt poor. They make majority of countries wealth on oil exports. They will be fine, the Metropolitan will just not be able to afford western luxuries for awhile.
Former glory? It was a failure!!!
Another copium video?
Or the 1000000 "china is on the brink of collapse" videos have stopped bringing add revenue?
china isnt a brink a collaspe i agree. Comparing the ccp to putin is laughable. the CCP is way more competent than putin. the Putin regime however has much less longevity than the CCP.
@@gorillamasterofgaming5525 that is also wishful thinking.
After two years of "we will cripple them with sanctions" all that happened was EU falling into deindustrialization due to the loss of cheap resources, as well as western countries loosing their monopolies in the financial sector(take shipping insurance for example. Once dominated by the West, now plenty of similar companies from Russia, India, etc. provide their own services, without the need to rely on the western financial system). Since sanctions created a precented, which showed that US/UK/EU financial systems are unreliable. This leads many nations to diversify their foreign exchange reserves, or straight up stray from the west.
All the while Russia in its newfound reality started to invest much more into domestic production providing jobs and economy growth, instead of simply only selling resources to others in exchange for goods.
@@VIT-ey8woRussia is capable of sustaining itself im not denying this. But you have to understand dictatorships lack longevity because they’re less stable and more destructive on their country long term.
@@VIT-ey8wo dictatorships usually escalate into a major civil war.
Hearing this since the start of the conflict 😄😄
Ong il believe it when I see it
Good for you guys.
Thanks to Social media, which has given us the opportunity to see both sides of the conflict and how its evolving. Lies from all sides wont work anymore.
My Malevolent Creek PTSD came back as soon as I heard Managed Democracy.
Is this channel funded by the US army?
FJB
why would it be funded by specifically the US army? The people and those representing the people make the decisions, unlike in russia where one tiny dictator makes all the decisions for the people.
Boosting videos like this so that they appear in people's recommended, basically, yes.
I love the Russian people: I just hate the oligarchs and government.
Great many thanks from Russia for the distinction.
We hate them as much if not more.
I have similar feelings towards most people - I got no problems with the individual persons and their cultures, but I despise governments and corporate executives.
I just went Russia (St.Petesburg) for vacations and I did not see Russia in the brink of collapse. Last year I went LA and that place really, really looked in the brink of collapse 😅😅.
Exactly. I have Russian friends I speak with all the time. They are more worried about my safety when I have to go to Los Angeles for work.
The western media spoon feeds the left nothing by B.S. and the eat up like it's 100% facts.
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Totally
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That's because all Russias money goes to two cities, st. Petersburg and Moscow. Visit Chelyabinsk for example and you'll feel what's Russia is really like
The charges will continue until moral improves!
It almost worked no Putin wasn't even close for it to work.
I still think Russia has spent less on this war than the US?
The context is that the US can afford it while the cost that Russia has incurred is exorbitant compared to its GPD.
Remember that the USA financed two wars that lasted for over 20 years without much difficulty. The USSR waged a 10-year in Afghanistan and the cost relative to the income was a major contributing factor to the eventual collapse of it.
@nielsjensen4185 I don't really think they can. I guess 50 trillion dollars debt will come sooner rather than later. Whereas Russia owes 13%of gdp. Demographically, sure, Russia is f*cked.
The Soviet afghan war had nothing to do with the collapse of the Soviet Union. The inefficiencies of communism did. The entire structure was a bad foundation so Gorbachev correctly said, it’s time to try something else.
The US spends more on it's own military anyways. Really we are just dropping old shitty stock on Ukraine and getting contracts for newer and better stuff for our own military. It just happens that our old shitty stuff is 20 years ahead of everything russia has.
@@aar0n709 This is one of the takes on national stability that I've ever seen.
A nation's stability in part leans heavily on it's economics. Once the economy fails to a certain level then collapse is a matter of "when" rather than "if."
The USSR - Afghanistan was was disastrous for the economy of the USSR and while it took some time for the effects to be really felt that was a major factor in the collapse. What you was told was just the version told to the people.
It's similar to how people say that Russia will collapse and people counter with that Russia is still there. Regardless of whether Russia wins or loses in Ukraine the country is doomed. It has suffered major losses that it'll never recover from. The collapse of Russia is a matter of "when" rather than "if."
I wouldn't be surprised if china doesn't look at reclaiming old territories from Russia at some point
There buddies
@@JoyceYasinsky narcissists dont have buddies. they have people they use and abuse
It's a marriage of convenience
this channel and the comment section are hilarious. I understand why Russia can't take you seriously
Russians are panicking as Russian media reports that websites of several large Russian banks are not downloading or not allowing clients to log in. There are lines at ATMs at this very moment. Russia is about to collapse.
These include Rosbank, Gazprombank, and Moscow Stock exchange.
Source: Trust me bro.
It has been like 2 years of collapsing, like - Bro its gona collapse soon just wait.Then never happens
You just ran with that news, huh??? It's been 5 days now did you check to know why
In which parallel universe?
IDK if things are as dire as all that but they aren't all cookies and rainbows either. Putin wouldn't have offered conditions to end the war when none were requested if things were all good.
I'm surprised ol' Vlad hasn't tried to resurrect Stalin's "Palace of the Soviets", only with a statue of Putin on the top instead of Lenin.
America is on the brink of collapse too lol. We have more than 1 TRILLION dollars in debt interest every year in our budget.
True. And our congress is completely corrupt and divided.
Could say something like that about germany..... at the moment it seems like accruing debt is more like a talking point to Sound productive as a politician. ( pro or against more debt)
They did it to themselves. It was not just one man. The entire country will not exist much longer
Lmao it’s literally the opposite, current Russia feels itself better than ever
1:44 Maybe dont spend half of the budget on your friends yachts?
I do like your forthright analysis on Putin and Ukraine’s fight for democracy
Putin had it good then lost everything because of pride.
Russia has been on the verge of collapse for a couple of years now, and as far as anyone can see Russia is doing fine. Ukraine will lose its a matter of time, which Russia has.
As to the question whether his hubris will be Putin's downfall: Most definitely.
Pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes...
Good educational video very interesting thanks ❤
Why the fuck do you have Crimea as Russian on your map? Crimea is Ukraine!
Crimea is firmly in the grasp of Russia right now.
But also important is that Crimean populace overwhelmingly supports Russia unlike most of Ukraine (except Donetsk and Lugansk areas).
@@jwhite5008 It's still an illegal annexation of Ukrainian land. And as for support for Russia, a large percentage of the current Crimeans moved there FROM RUSSIA. The peninsula's native Ukrainian and Tatar population have largely fled or have been been forcibly relocated by Russia.
@@bivvystridents3752 I understand your point, but there is a counterargument if this is more of liberation of Crimean land from Ukraine which had very little to do with it to begin with.
It's true that now it's more or less governed as part of Russia - some people from Russia naturally moved in, while some moved out, but they are minority.
So are and were people who viewed Ukrainians more than Crimeans.
Please refer to a source that describes forceful relocation. I have not found credible one on this matter yet though I suspect some overreaction could have taken place.
There are many of Tatars and Ukrainians still in Crimea as well as in Russia. They are not being targeted by nazis the way Russians were in Lugansk and Donetsk and they can live there if they like - no one is forcing them out or making their life worse intentionally - as far as I know
Ukrainian language and customs are being de-facto banned (as in - not taught in schools or used in official documents) in Crimea but no one really spoke Ukrainian or observed Ukrainian customs other than that relatively tiny diaspora. Everything was in Russian before the annexation.
However those few that engage in anti-Russia protests and plan counteroffensive do get unfairly repressed and that is a problem in Russia in general. I most definitely don't support that.
@@jwhite5008 Forceable relocation of Tatars??? Stalin and Beria shipped 200,000 of them to Uzbekistan in 1944.
The remaining Tatars in Crimea have been systematically persecuted since 2014 for opposing the illegal seizure and annexation of the peninsula.
So Ukraine retakes Crimea, and offers free one way train tickets to all Russians who choose to leave.
@@bivvystridents3752 Sorry I have not realized you were talking about USSR time rather then nowadays.
That they are prosecuted for protesting is horrible but that does not automatically mean they are entirely right.
I agree something needs to be done to rectify the situation with them but giving the land to Ukraine on that account seems wrong to me. Let's give entire Germany to Jews then?
At the very least it would be important to first hear the opinion of all the Tatars, not just the ones who raised the issue - do they actually want to live there and be a part of Ukraine? I think most of them have families and friends elsewhere and would call the thing that happened almost a century ago a thing of the past, possibly demanding monetary compensation?
However what you say is that forcefully relocating Tatars is wrong but forcefully relocaing Russians is ok?
Let's continue the thought process then. Native Americans retake the US and give all US citizens a free ticket to Britain, Spain, France, etc
Furthermore, what I imagine would happen if by some insanity your scenario becomes true::
1) most of Tatars would not want to migrate to Crimea, especially while it is in this unstable state.
2) the entire landmass becomes a ghost town and then inevitably lawless place for contrabandists, militant groups, pirates, etc.
3) A huge number of displaced Russians do not have a place in Russia to call home. Russia would be unable to build housing at a short notice. A severe crisis ensues. This crisis would not be contained and spills over in the rest of Europe, at the very least they will have to contend with another refugee inflow,
By the way in the most of Russia you cannot just make a permanent tent camp for refugees because -20C winter with no heated house is death. Here a central heating infrastructure is just a not a nice thing to have - it's basic survival.
4) This leads to a bloody war for control of Crimea between displaced Russians + their supporters who would probably include most Russians, and already stretched thin and battered Ukrainian army troops who never called Crimea home and would probably be somewhat reluctant to defend a bunch of bandits from VERY angry Russians.
I understand that you think this thing is bad and I agree that people were wronged but a solution should definitely not be worse than the problem.
Youve been saying this for the past 2 years dude. Seriously do you think we have the memory of a goldfish?
Putler is an ex KGB agent who dreamed of the reborn of the soviet union however her dreams were broken early.
Like China, Russia all bark no.bite 😂😂😂
The western media have been saying Russia is on the brink of collapse for last two years 😂😂😂
brink of collapse is indeed hyperbole. but if you think a nation that claimed to be a superpower capable of going toe to toe with the US in a direct war, failing to invade and at least reasonably claim to have captured what would be analogous to mexico, you have DEFINITELY proved your words are more empty than not, and fact is, russias metrics are definitely on the decline since the start of this conflict.
@@Skywatcher16 Maybe, just maybe, the aim isn't to "retake all of Ukraine" if it hasn't happened yet. Putin has stated multiple times that the concern with Ukraine is mainly about national security. Anyone with a brain knows that the US and UK through NATO and other means, have been fomenting war with the extremists that already exist in Ukraine. Extremists that wanted to turn Stepan Bandera a national hero. No leader in their right mind wants NATO weapons at their border. Secondly, certain people in east Ukraine were wanting help from Russia, because these same extremist groups I've mentioned have been attacking them.
Russia is not on the brink of collapse. Yall are delusional.
Every day that passes, it becomes truer. Even after the war ends, Russian demographics are do not look good
It may not have collapsed, but Russia has definitely been weakened and made a laughing stock.
@@Skywatcher16 the same can be said with the US, the Vietnam war, Afghanistan.. how many times have smaller armies and militias defeated the USA and caused their withdrawal? We don't have accurate figures about either side Ukraine or Russia on the number of casualties, who's winning or who's losing and what does that even look like? One thing for sure is Russia is not going to back down.
Putin should see this.
I fully support Ukraine, however all these videos pipe a similar thing. That russia is collapsing, putin will flee russia or step down. None of it's happening, I wish it would, but it's not. It's getting boring now.
As a Ukrainian, it annoys me too. I remember particularly, because they were saying "Russia ran out of missiles" or "Russia has only 2 weeks of missiles left" about a month and a half before a very damaging ballistic missile attack on my city (Vinnytsia). This was back in 2022. Oh, and they said the Russians also didn't have food either; their troops were starving, yet they look well-fed to me, at least whenever we capture any, they might be dirty, but no shortage of rations. Lies don't help us, it's just a way for fools to pretend they are virtuous.
the ruble was the best performing asset in 2022, despite all the sanctions, and russia just became the world's 4th largest economy, behind india as of june 2024
russia also has more natural resources and nuclear weapons than any other nation on the planet
it would take an astonishing amount of ignorance to expect russia to collapse tbh
Think you'll need to look a bit further into those figures.
@@hamadkennedy6295 There are no real markets for ruble, so you can't conclude much from that. However, there is no imminent collapse coming for Russia, it can function as a war economy for years. However, the longer it continues, the more difficult it gets. The more resources Russia is focusing on war, the less it has resources for other things, like private investments or basic infra. It will start to run out of the soviet era weaponry in a year, and needs to change tactics, as it can't produce replacement for them efficiently. If Ukrainians can keep hitting the oil refineries, Russia will also lose significant source of income. It will need more funding for the war and needs draft more men and increase taxes and impose economic controls. This will lead to more corruption and internal disputes, that will require more funding to internal security. Putin also relies on popular support. The origins of this war is in the earlier attempt to cut the pensions, but that got the people on the streets, and he had to return the old pension rate, but only won the earlier support back by invading Ukraine.
@@WangMingGe очередной русской бот, называющий себя украинцем! На западе не существует пропоганды! Там правительства не врут!
You could make 50 decent sized countries out of Russia. The land is wasted on them, they only have twice the population of the UK; 140mil to 70mil. That's mental when you think about it.
Most of the land in Russia is quite rugged and cold, most of the good land there is already either inhabited or used for agriculture
@@JoeBloggs-yo9ou so is most of Canada, didn't stop the Inuit.
@@stevensrocks798 the Inuit had low population numbers and lived a hunter gatherer existence (which is all you can do in rough climates, they did not have large urban centres or have large scale agriculture.
Hmm is this why he keeps threatening nuclear war
You people have been saying that for 2 years.
He did well for the super yacht industry though
im a usa marine this is shit matessssssssss
USA marine? You mean US marine😅😅
To act like Putin doesn't know the truth about the war is ridiculous, but not being willing to accept the truth that's different.
The second he was on the Telly, saying „I decided to conduct a special military operation“ it reminded me exactly of George Bush Jr.‘s speak bout Iraq‘s second invasion. And we know how that ended.
It ended with the fall of the Baathist party and Sadam Hussein and his sons being killed. Not sure how you can compare the two
Russia aint collapsing buddy The united states is you dont even have to be american to know that smh
ruSSia will fall before the US that’s for sure lol
US stock market is growing. More immigrants are going to America and immigrants are leaving Russia.
It's extremely hard to see how accurate claims that Russia is about to collapse really are. UA-cam is abound with videos of Russia on the brink... but just as many of Russias success and durability.
I think u are wrong ! Putinhas great support from the Russian people......
Asi se mira mejor sin presencia de Rusos
As a russian, please continue making those videos. Thank you for making fortresses out of thin air in the minds of enemies of russia.
When the time comes, we'll remember that the russian nation supported Putin.
@@hamlet557 i guess then the ukraine-russia conflict is justified in your terms because we just thought it's time we remember how the ukrainian nation supported Bandera.
I'm sure the Rooskie bots will be here to correct us Westo's very soon ;)
Russis has been collapsing since 1939... but it seems to be still holding up no matter how many bombs west sends there... we all seen what happened in japan... it's called American democracy... uh yahhh. 😂
@@peterpanini96 Germany and Japan collapsed after 1939 and now both countries are much better places to live than Russia.
Depends on the Rooskie bots sleep schedules I guess the actual Russian ones are probably asleep at the moment due to most of their population being in a timezone where its currently past midnight..... the confused western Rooskie sleeper bots might be lurking though.
@@AUTO6 its not like it took them about 50 or 60 years to rebuild huh?
Remind me when Soviet Union collapsed?
@@dedster3164 it took them 15-20 years to rebuild, and it took them about 50-60 years to pay all their reparations. Japan and Germany rank WAY higher than russia
Putin wanting to reestablish the Glory of Old Russian Empire was also the Motive of Mussolini wanting to reestablish the Old Roman Empire.
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😂😂😂 okaaay another comedy video
I believe it’s more of my financial situation. Russia is not producing very much. Therefore, if he produces more ammunition, he can stabilize his economy, but the bad part is he will also have to rebuild Ukraine If he wins, which will punch him further into debt at this point, I believe it’s just about saving face
As of 6/12/2024 the Russian economy is doing better than the UK, France and Germany.
false information. you can only wish.
russia is ranked 65th below Kazakhstan by GDP per capita, and is ranked just ahead of Canada by gross GDP. ONE AHEAD OF CANADA? that's sad. 40 million people vs 140 million people and you can barely do better than Canada? pathetic.
Nonsens
Based on what?
Putin died 2 years ago
Russia spent missiles 2 years ago
Russia has no tanks left for a long time
Russians are fighting with shovels
Russia already collapsed 23 times
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Mfs been saying this for like 2, 2 1/2 years straight now. When's the collapse?
This video will age like milk
why?
Sure Ivan
I am pro ukraine. I just don't fall for obvious click bait videos. People been predicting the end of Russia for years. Still hasn't happened. No one wants a fractured Russia especially with all the nuclear weapons that could end up in the wrong hands.