You could have also mentioned that Russia's Defence Minister, Dmitri Shoigu, has absolutely NO military background, experience or training - but he has a nice uniform, medals and the authority to "develop strategy"....he was a factory manager, so you might think his appointment might have improved Russian military procurement, although there is absolutely no evidence of this. You could have also mentioned the deployment of murderer like Vladislav Kanyus, who spent 12 hours torturing his ex-girlfriend to death, and instead of going to prison. volunteered to fight in Ukraine, where, after six months his record was expunged and he was discharged with all honours! The family of his murdered girlfriend, Vera Pekhteleva, are in terror that he'll return to seek vengeance on them....and we have no idea what atrocities he may have gotten away with in Ukraine!!!
Putin himself also has no military background or understanding either, yet he is now making the decisions normally taken by very high ranking military commanders...... The World has clearly seen the capability of the Russian armed forces, and it does not appear to coincide the the previously assumed capability the West had of them. They appear to be a complete shambles. No cohesion, pi$$ poor logistical capability, poor command structures, little tactical awareness, below average levels of training etc. And this is the mighty, invincible army Putin said could put boots on the ground in 6 European Capital cities within 48 hours. Somehow, I think not...... In an all out conventional non nuclear conflict, NATO would tear them apart within 2 to 3 weeks.....
This video also seems to go hard on the common Russian soldier's actions (I mean, it's pretty appalling) without pointing out that kind of stuff comes right from the top. For much of Russia's history, the aristocrats were largely corrupt as fuck. Doesn't matter how much propaganda you've guzzled up until that point, but if you join an Army and are given practically no training and a Combat Rig with Rubber Inserts for armor plate, you'll clearly see how much your "government" gives a crap about you. And really, most Russians do know that the State gives 0 fucks about them and hasn't for centuries, so for them joining the Army is more than likely for profit motive.
The Minister of Defence is meant to be a bridge between a civilian government and military. The issue isn't that Dmitri Shoigu doesn't have a military background, it's that he larps as having one.
Russia may have proper body armour but hardly any troops actually get it. Inserts sold/swapped. Loads of videos showing how bad the captured body armour, helmets are.
@@amandahugankiss4110 because Russians have no money. Under capitalism, it is logical to sell to those who have money. I’ll tell you more: in Russia there are many companies that make Ukrainian military orders in the IT sector because they pay money. The problem you are all thinking about is simple. Arimiya must arrive. but if it doesn’t bring you resources, for example by stealing from other countries, why is it needed? I worked with people in the army and these are their words. That's why everything was sold. if Russia is given a strong tank, they will sell it to Ukraine since it will pay much more. If every Russian was offered his 24 (2 years) salary, he would give up immediately. If they wanted to stop the war, they would simply buy all the Russian tanks. or rockets. or airplanes.
I have a russian night vision goggles, sold by russians who left east Germany after the GDR collapsed. Even AK47 were available for low price. It is said that some officers sold entire military bases of stuff in the 1990s
They sold even more when leaving Ukraine. There were a lot of Soviet weapons factories there that were at least temporarily shut down, and all their stock disappeared. If you ever wonder why AK47s are so popular in Africa, there you go.
at 90 they sold everything. Imagine that the government sold your job. your home. your power plant and now you pay all your salary for what you considered minimal expenses. the school has been sold. The only thing that didn’t pass was you and your loved ones because you had nothing to do with it. on the contrary, you must fight with others for the opportunity to sell yourself. I’m not kidding, I lived in Russia in the 90s. Macrosoft didn’t pay salaries, saying that it was an honor to work for them. a lot of people didn’t pay, think about how to live if you work and don’t pay you? crime corruption. Everything you see was formed in 90. Ask any soldier in the trench why is he there? for the sake of the country? haha. he doesn’t care about propaganda, it’s just an excuse. he came for money. If the United States wanted, they would give Putin and the oligarchs billions and a personal piece of the White House and they would give all the keys to Russia. but why is this necessary if, apart from oil, Russia is not needed?
@@VasterLordUlquiorra Yeah... sad but true. Even more sad when you hear that the soldiers don't even get the promised money. Maybe it's time for another revolution and to get rid of the new zar. But what then? I think Russia needs a change from the very base upwards. Decades of lethargy can not be erased in a short time.
If there was little or no corruption Russia might have defeated Ukraine in short order. But if Russia was the sort of country that stamps on corruption like that, they wouldn't have considered attacking Ukraine in the first place. Quite the dilemma.
The question is how does this end? Does the west keep supplying the Ukraine with weapons and money only for them to run out of troops? Or keep supplying them until Russia withdraws and then give them trillions of dollars to rebuild their destroyed cities? Without the wests intervention this war would have been over in a matter of months if not weeks which is sad for Ukraine but many of their dead would be alive today.
This is very true a force the size of Russia with good quality and well trained troops, whose kit was maintained in a dedicated way - SHOULD have taken Kyiv. Just a good job Putin is such a criminal gangster and mired in theft and corruption...
So much corrupción! Reading The Insider article about corrupted FSB general in Ucrania from last week is reminding that Rusia has big problem there,how is still happening?
Corruption is also a useful political tool for the higher ups. Everyone is corrupt, so you can't get anywhere without being corrupt yourself. But Corruption is still illegal, it's just that people who "Play Ball" with the Boss have their crimes overlooked. If you ever step out of line, all the Boss has to do is stop turning a blind eye and you're done for.
What the video fail to convey is that this is not a system and society that has become corrupted, but a systematic and organised corruption chain that forms the society. Simply put, it is not different from the pirate way of dividing plunder, where the lowest new recruits gets to split one share, regular sailors gets one share each, the boatswain gets two shares and so forth all the way up to the captain having a dozen shares or more. In the Russian society, the number of shares, fitting your rank and status, tells how much you are allowed to steal. If you go beyond that, you are upsetting the system, if you don't steal you are simply stupid as the theft is one of the few job perks to compensate for the lack of wages. To gain the rank and status, you need the favour of the superiors. Those in turn needs to have their subordinates make them look good and competent leaders. Hence, vrany. Everything is going to plan even when the house is falling apart and the car burning. Everyone knows it is a lie, and everybody accept the fake as truth since the actual truth would make so many people up and down the chain look bad. Hence the inspector sent out to check the inventory of the army storage happily stands among the empty shelves noting down what the local clerk is telling him should be there, and the general receiving the report can now tell the MOD everything is in order and fully prepared before taking the rest of the week off in his newly purchased dacha. Of course, you get more perks if you can lie really good. Like the favourite propagandist in Russian media complaining about the decadent West and how Russia is attacked by NATO before taking the yacht to his Italian Villa to shop Gucci clothes.
Same reason that the FSB had no clue about the Ukrainians, why the US knew the Russians were going to invade. I would note that for all the crap hardware, the Ukrainians have still found it hard to advance even with its limited high tech western weapons. The Navy has kept mostly out of the war as its even more dysfunctional. In fact we all know the Russian airfornce is thanking their saints that Ukraine does not have an airforce anymore or western close combat air assets. We must alll realise that even with good tanks, the anti0tank weapons have rendered much tank warfare a near death sentence unless your anti anti tank armour is as good on the top as the sides. Its amazing the troops in Russia don't fold with any Ukraine offense...I'd say most of the old cold war weapon stock that was one step from rusting is now empty armour stores and most boxes are empty even if the weapons are one step from useless.
Yep. They've been running a kleptocracy in russia for 1000 years in some form. Also the word "truth" in russia has no direct translation, because all it has ever meant there is "whatever will benefit me most" or, most nobly: "the answer that will not get me executed"
You have to ask how good the NK weapons might be bar missiles. Kim offered troops (paid for by Russian oil or just real dollars) but few Russians seem to speak Korean, surprise, surprise.
mostly from oil and gas sales,...imagine what that sort of money could do to enrich the lives of the russian population in general if they had a democracy
@@graantmnzDemocracy doesn't solve this kind of problem. America might not be quite as bad as Russia, but you're still lucky if "actually helping my constituents in any meaningful way" even makes the Top 5 in your representative's list of priorities.
Military spending numbers are absolutely ludicrous. This is partly because of the complex nature of the machines involved, but a lot of it is due to the fact that there's only a tiny handful of buyers (national militaries) and they're paying with other people's money (taxes).
@@graantmnz First of all, this is capitalism. and capitalism is to arrive. Russia perfectly shows the dark side of this, everyone thinks the current is to work on it. Many, even now, are trying to get funding for the war by stealing terrible, incapable projects, just to make money; they don’t care whether Russia loses. The majority do not care if Russia is captured by the USA and they become richer, but they do not care and will fight if they become poorer. That's why democracy doesn't help at all. It’s enough not to listen to the media but to go into the dark sector. Let me remind you that in the USA, since the 90s, the rights of citizens have been taken away and censorship has penetrated into all corners. then it started in Europe. You can no longer say that China’s Internet is a gulag and everything is according to the passport. because Western companies do the same. You can’t even write comments on UA-cam and be sure that they will be seen and will not be deleted by the system in an incomprehensible way. All you see is the tip of the iceberg. Russia became capitalist in the 1990s. but in such a system a person is nothing. just a number. The problem is that the country is poor and the cost of your life is $5-10. just think about what will happen if the USA starts a war with Mexico and your salary, in addition to it and military service, will be $200-300 and the prices will remain the same) Also, propaganda always says that Putin is to blame, but this happened in 91 under another president and the war in Chechnya was under a president who supported the West and said that it was democratic. They even gave us money for the war because the army couldn’t cope. Think about it
@@angeurbain6129 looking at the evidence on UA-cam dose not seem to be good enough for you which makes your comment a opinion in disregard of evidence presented in clear sight of logistical failure which is fact!
@@angeurbain6129 Yep, we have proof of Russian...abandoning vehicles as soon as they ran out of fuel, with the most common being that they were sold by their commanders who profit, from it and right now, Russian gas stations aren't selling any gas...yea, Russia is somehow running out of gas, I don't know what is going on behind the scene but its seem like it's a mess. Reminder, that this is the same Russia that lost in the First Chechen War...which was against armed civilians, yea they lost to armed civilians and they can't even win in a straight-up fight in the Second Chechen War...no instead they have to depend on their enemies backstab each other to win, yet people keep on shitting the US for losing against Rice farmers...when in reality, those Rice farmers were supplied by the Soviet Union and China...in fact, they can't even invade North Vietnam due to China existence so yea...at least the US has a better excuse then Russia.
Amateurs talk tactics, experts talk logistics. Russia tries to steal every technology they can, because they know we are much better in everything than them, but they are too blind to realise that they should also copy our priorities. Ofcourse the autocrats need to keep their underlings divided so they themself can stay in power. But their military will forever suffer from this. Their logistic will keep on sucking and their army will be corrupt and thieving. Hope Ukraine makes the successful transition to a western country with a logistically sound military
12:19 - A long time? Nah. Something tells me they'll never be considered the world's second most powerful military ever again. So much lost, never to be regained.
Exactly. Demographics will absolutely cripple Russia in the next 20-30 years. They simply won't have the manpower to wage war ever again. Good riddance to the Russian Empire at last.
They managed to fuck up once in Afghanistan, twice in Chechnya and again when they tried to take Ukraine's coastline in 2014 and managed to recover their reputation. I wanna agree, but it's also likely people will forget how badly they fucked up within the decade.
Russia this morning lost 2 more Ka52 helicopters. Each 30 million in cost. Russia has max 133 of them. And many tens of them got destroyed. Even 60 Ka52 attack helicopters destroyed would cost 1.8 billion dollar And that is just 1 type of military unit. It also lost (verified) 3 S300 launch Syatems and S300 radar system earlier this week. Amounting to many hundreds of millions in costs
The Kremlin were rumbled quite a few years ago by an Australian TV cameraman during one Red Square military parade. He happened to notice one particular missile launcher truck - with the same driver - drove past him *three* times. It was later discovered by the US, that the aircraft involved in the huge flypast in the parade, were also flying a circular flight path, repeatedly overflying the parade, to make it appear there were many times more aircraft than there actually were...... The US military budget is around 10 times that of Russia's. The facts speak for themselves I guess. And no, I'm not American....
Around when the mobilization started, some depos of gear and equipment where lost in fires. My theory is that the officials in charge realized that they stolled and sell way to much items and they probably empty some storages to fill others and burned the empty ones, blaming it to accidents, protestors or ukrainians agents.
I was in Kosovo in 99 🇬🇧 and worked through the Russian sector at Pristina airport. They'd not been paid in months, were usually drunk. Were dressed in kit from the 70s. The MI 24 helicopters they seized the airfield with just before 🇬🇧 airborne troops arrived were just abandoned around the place. As they had no fuel to fly them again. I went back in 03 and they were still there rusting away.
you are dishonest, I'm saying this as person who fought against cowards from GB who bombed us during the 1999, before you arrived you at Kosovo. Stop spreading lies dude. Belter talk about your drunk soldiers in GB units who went regularly in Bordels in which Kosovo mafia kept kidnaped girls from Ukraine, Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Russia and Greece, . So your countrymen's had 0 moral in most of cases at least those i had change to see after the 1999 when i returned as humanitarian worker. Only moral and normal soldiers in NATO were IMHO Italians and I'm talking about majority in their units. They were the only one who protected civilians after the 2000, but your stinky GB above all others (even above the US) were cooperators with Kosovo mafia and if you were there then you know it. But i doubt that you ever went to Kosovo as soldier because you wouldn't talk like that and spread lies about Russians or any other soldiers, nor you would generalize all people, due all this i named your GB as ''stinky'' because you adore to play the world police with US. Actually IMHO you are abusing the US military power for the interests of your Government.
During the 04 your GB units permitted Albanian mafia to burn more then 100 Churches and monasteries that were protected by UNESCO ! Some were older then 1000 years. I have a picture were exactly of a British soldier GB standing and watch the mob breaks the old stained-glass windows in the monastery and enters the monastery via the ladder to destroy it further. He didn't even shoot in the air, of course he wasn't alone, but the picture is such that you can see his marks. Your British units allowed it. Us units did the same etc all from NATO except Italians .That speaks volumes about moral among British units. For sure there are good people in them as well. Anyhow, I most sincerely hope that one day Scotland becomes independent, as well as Wales and Ireland because it is the turn of your foreign policy to be applied within the GB. And I also hope that all those nations that your politicians have helped (of course because of your political interests, not because you love them), will come to Britain in as large a number as possible. You promised them "democracy", so the best way is to live in the GB that is the best place to feel that ''democracy''. And as far as I know, you are already paying the high price because you are occupied by the same mafia that you helped, they are now kidnapping people in your country and selling drugs to your youth. What can I tell you except "as you sow, so shall you reap".
@@bobibobik5903 The country was divided up into sectors for each nation to administer. And by 04 there were barely any 🇬🇧 there anymore. They certainly were not patrolling or standing guarding buildings or 1000 churches. Smells like 💩 to me fella. If we hadn't gone at all you'd be speaking serb now at best! And if you are of Serb decent, maybe if your people hadn't tried to genocide the Kosovan people NATO wouldn't have ever gone there.
@@beefsuprem0241 at 2004 UK sent additional 750 soldiers how is that ''were barely any 🇬🇧 there anymore''?!? IMHO you were never there, but who knows maybe you were as some worker but not as soldier. I told that more then 100 church's and monasteries were burned and that some of them were older then 1000 years. So there were more then enough NATO soldiers to protect not just churches but civilians. The list includes several UNESCO World Heritage Sites. It's huge number of sites so i'll name just some in one municipality were mob even cemetery were dug up, and bones of the dead were scattered away !!! Among those destroyed and damaged were among others: * Our Lady of Ljeviš in Prizren from 1307 (UNESCO World Heritage Site) the Church of Holy Salvation in Prizren, destroyed by vandals after German KFOR troops had left the site.! As i told not only from your beloved GB run away or did nothing but there were others * St Elijah's Church in Podujevo destroyed and desecrated, coffins from the nearby cemetery were dug up. * Skenderaj: Devič Monastery in Drenica, monastery pillaged and torched, the tomb of St Joannicius of Devič was desecrated ! * Church of St George in Prizren (the city's largest church) * Church of St. Kyriaki, Church of St Nicolas * the Monastery of The Holy Archangels in * Saint Cyrillus and Methodius in Prizren ! that is just for one municipality named Prizren .. So that symbol of s.. that you shared you can stick in of flag of those GB units who didn't protect civilians.
@@beefsuprem0241 BTW it's amazing that after NATO came to Kosovo just in period from 2000 - 2004 more then 8500 civilians were killed and you don't call that ''an attempt of genocide'' ? There were no genocide in 1999 against albaninas at all, that is a lie and in Hague it was proven that it was all fake propaganda served by German minster Rudolf Albert Scharping , and vice canceller Joseph Martin "Joschka" Fischer in the cabinet of Gerhard Schröder. So Scharping and "Joschka" Fischer did the main propaganda job, but your government under Tony Blair and US president Bill Clinton orchestrated them, it was done in order so that Germany could gain a more important role in NATO. You can even find the documentary made German TV '' Es begann mit einer Lüge '' ( ENG IT BEGAN WITH A LIE produced by WDR and made by Jo Angerer and Mathias Werth ). Sad truth is that thx to NATO bombs with depleted uranium more then 100 000 civilians have died at Kosovo and Serbia ! Evry year people are daying from cancer including NATO soldiers who were there or those who arrived after 1999 to serve at Kosovo. Next time pls ask your smart politicians to help your own country, but you can came here as tourist when ever you like that is OK. The sad thing is that We were your aka the GB 🇬🇧 allies in 2 world wars! In the 2nd World War my grandfathers entered that war just because of GB 🇬🇧 , Due they gave their word aka they were obligated as allies. They could avoid it due to Germany wanted peace with us ( same as some other GB allies did it for example). 1,5 millions of my people lost life in WW2 and in return NATO stubbed us in our back when We needed your help to fight against radical extremists. We were ''guilty'' Just because We fought against terrorist's in our own country. The Same terrorists that CIA and MI6 created , and those same terrorist attacked the US and the UK during 1st decade of 2000's . I suppose those are double standards. Now live with them, i fee sorry for all good people in your country who are suffering because of those extremists, due to Tony Blair and other are doing just fine as well as their bank accounts. I Wish you all the best, cheers.
This guy I know flew Migs in a Soviet Bloc country and he said when he went to Russian airfields, many of their transport planes (if not other planes) couldn't take off or land because the air crews would always siphon off the alcohol based hydraulic fluids used in the landing gear to drink it.
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It's pretty much what happens when a state virtually collapses, loses much of its former territories and also its expertise to those who can pay more, while at the same time struggling with a rapid transition from one socioeconomic system to another. What Russia really, really likes to forget is the help from the west in the form of financial bailout and negotiation with the former Soviet states.
@@pauln6803No. Russia had legendary levels of corruption when it was an Empire and nothing changed under the Communists except who benefited. Russia collapsed BECAUSE of corruption, mot the other way around.
for over two centuries, ineptude and corruption at the top have been the norm. Now, there have been some exceptions, such as particular Adm. during the Russio-Japanese war.
We should not have been able to drive the Brits back into the sea, yet we did. Two better examples of what I am driving at, due to being less than 90 years ago, are the post-war governance of Poland and East Germany. They had Communist governments, GDP at unhealthy low levels, and all the problems that come from being Communist. Yet both are doing good now! * So, the way I look at it, Russia doesn't have an excuse. *It would behoove Germany to be concerned with the well-being of her indigenous population, followed by indigenous Europeans as a whole.@@pauln6803
In fact, the dictator considers the state as his property, so he does not need to steal from himself, or encourage corruption in his own economy. Money is usually stolen by proxy regimes for which power is temporary and the future is tied to overseas property. Such as Ukrainian.
When a Russian fuel depot was blown up inside Russian territory and Russia accused Ukraine, I had a feeling that someone was covering their tracks, no way of knowing how much fuel was lost. On paper that fuel depot had X amount of fuel, but in reality, it probably had a lot less than it should have had. There is a bad actor in Russia that most likely sold off that fuel and to cover their tracks had the place blown. That's the thing about Oligarchs, they can buy an Army to do these things.
Of course, that's very likely that actual scenario. In the remaining years of China still being an empire (leading toward Japan's invasion, and WWII), there was a huge fire in the main storage facilities in the Forbidden City, where vast amounts of treasure, priceless artifacts and so on were stored . . . which, of course, "disappeared" in the fire. Of course, what really happened was that most of this had already been plundered, with some token remnants of this treasure being left there to leave burnt remains from the fire.
Or they stole the fuel and then Ukraine did blow it up. Its not like they arent targeting Russian depots and logistics lines across the border. In the end it doesnt really matter, what matters is that the fuel is no longer available for the Russian front.
It looks like the reason Russia has had to dig out the old T-62s is because those in command of the various tank parks were selling off the better T-72s on the black market. So not only are Russian troops having to use older and very much outdated tanks they even cheated the Russian state the money it would have received from those sales.
I am concerned. If you were facing a guy with a .357 revolver and there was a good chance of 3 faulty primers in the chambered rounds... you would be worried yeah?
@@billycarr7446 The point here, is that even *one* nuclear weapon launched by Russia, spells the end for Putin. And he knows it, which is why, despite all the nuclear threats, he hasn't dared deploy one.
While it is true that a less corrupt and incompetent army could have won the war in Ukraine in months or weeks, it should be noted that the self same army would have been less likely to go into Ukraine in the first place. Competent, professional soldiers, or at least those who try to do their best, are less likely to follow orders they don't like or aren't certain are right or are too vague.
Well, the military just kinda largely does as it's told by the government. Best you can do in a free and democratic society is resign your commission in protest if you are of significant rank. Just as in an autocratic/authoritarian state, the government holds the power.
You become more motivated when you are fighting in your country. Moral elan whatever you want to call it is a big factor in a units success. Leadership and tactics and supplies are the other factors an army needs. When I saw videos on the news with all the russian vehicles sitting around waiting to be blown up.and thought there is no combat experienced officers in their ranks. If that were the U S they were attacking there would not be a I F V or truck or tank left..their lack of experience shows
It is said that a fish rots from the head. An army is a reflection of the society it is raised fro., and the government it serves. Putins personal fortune is estimatsd at over 1 Trillion $ I the Russian army was not corrupt, it would have been unlikely to invade Ukr in tbe fiest place.
Corruption takes many forms and is almost impossible to root out once it has taken hold. Perhaps the quickest way to start corruption is by creating a wealth gap between workers and management. While it is reasonable that a modest margin exists once the upper classes have become super-wealthy, their lust for money grows and is further realised by cutting worker remuneration. The maldistribution of wealth growing in the West is the greatest danger to civil society.
Spoken far better than I could 👍 I wholeheartedly (regrettably) agree with your final point - I look at some cities across America and (no judgement) it baffles me that so, so many have fewer and fewer actual options when it comes to trying to improve their lives and where they want to be headed. ...and I've privately been asking myself whenever these places make the news, "how long can whole communities, towns, cities - how long can a person keep any sense of optimism, patience or belief in the very image being presented to the world as the Greatest Place - how long, for how many generations (of voters, of taxpayers) does such a nation literally not move a sliver of it's insane resources, mental and physical, into this erosion that can only end in predictable, miserable ways ?
Uhhhhh you’re kind of off topic pal…. You don’t know these people and how they operate. It’s part of the system, nothing happens without corruption in Russia. Don’t sit in your apartment thinking you know how it works over there. It’s on a different level.
@@FactNinjahow nice, another human being has something reasonable and possibly opinion-changi- nope, just a lump of bile claiming sentience. ...ffs no you're right, for once your blind-fire assumption/critique on someone else's opinion was utterly masterful - how you managed to guess my level of familiarity on a topic and extrapolated and unmasked my disposition.........I just need to chill a moment 😐 Hey should I check with you, next time I go to reply to someone ? Just in case you're around, so you can "weigh in" with that mighty ignorance ? Make sure you wear that shirt that says "I've no manners, please teach me some", people love it when you dress the part 🤤
There’s some truth to this. Conscripts wouldn’t feel pushed to petty theft at such a large scale if their wages at least provided for their basic needs and the needs of their families.
The Russian withdrawal from Germany/Poland 1992/94 was one of such stories. Whoever in the Russian military was responsible for whatever sold it to the Poles and Germans: fuels, spare parts, whole vehicles, uniforms and for sure also fire arms. The polish mafia was equipped to the teeth and for some time became an acute problem for the police in both countries. And Russian military withdrawal generals palastes, which grew in the middle of the 1990s crisis could make Michel Jackson envy. And large portion of the officer corps who left the army soon after we're found to start their own nice businesses in the years where money was in an utter shortage.
While Soviet troops were in Europe, there was peace there for 49 years. As soon as Soviet troops withdrew in 1994, NATO bombed the very center of Europe in 5 years.
I heard that russia was going to build 30 more warships which I HIGHLY doubt if they weren't able to build 20 t14s for almost a decade how the hell are they going to build 30 warships
They'll manufacture 30 inflatable rafts and call them modern warships; anyone who disputes that will be sentenced to 15 years in jail for discrediting the Russian armed forces.
Maybe they will build 30 "Punt's" and arm them with "Punt guns..." They would be able to wage a naval war against Ukraines water foul population with them...😅
It's more closely related to economics, though. Russia's trying to maintain a superpower image off the back of an economy about the size of Italy's, at the start of it, with even greater levels of corruption, forgetting they'd built it by asset-stripping the Warsaw Pact. I noticed it in 1978, and nailed it to the table in November 1988, which is why the West didn't twitch: we knew what was happening. That placed me as the economist on the WEU Council Secretariat. After all but killing their golden goose, Europe's nursed it back to life, so Russia's casting its greedy eyes westwards yet again. This time, however, the goose is backed by some very fierce cats indeed. They've been training the ducklings to fight, knowing that the Ukrainian Viking bloodline is the same as theirs. We now have Ukraine in the SAS family, alongside Belgium, Australia and Israel. Belgium earned its place at the start of WWI, when its army fought the Germans to a standstill while the French and BEF stopped them at the Marne: that left the Maritime front wide open, until great-grandpa stopped them (literally - he commanded the left flack of the entire line, the one they were trying to turn). That earned Royal favour, so mum served in SOE and I was head-hunted by the SAS as a result of my 1978 study. I did it on my own, though.
Well said. Good post..... Technically, Russia should no longer be a UN member. It was the USSR who, with others, founded the UN. The Russian Federation ought to have been excluded some time ago.....
Russian or not it's disgusting that such levels of corruption exist in vitually every tier of leadership in their military. What a disgrace to those who are wiling to fight and die for their country. Or are they fighting and dying for corruption?
They're conscripts, not volunteers. Russia could meet it's volunteer military needs with their population, but authoritarian regimes don't provide anything worth fighting for. Just ask China. Peace through superior firepower.
Some are fighting for a paycheck or out of loyalty to the country. Some volunteered before the war and are fighting to stay out of jail, where they would probably be drafted anyway and sent to an even worse part of the military. And some believed the propaganda because it was their only source of info.
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Everyone in Russia went to fight for money and die for money (to feed their family) but they literally cannot earn money at home. If you say that the problem is Putin. what was wrong in 90? and why was everything so much worse there and also the war?
When the war started, Russia had less than half the trucks they needed to support their army. That's literally what stopped them dead 3 days into the war. They lost the war just 3 days in.
You joke but there were actually quite a few WW2 tanks and tank destroyers that had open topped turrets. I don't think they were very popular, especially in the face of artillery. I guess they did it because they were cheaper and quicker to build but could still be quite effective in the right circumstances.
Presenting Vladdy's "Flying Turret Circus"! I will say it again, Russia is nothing more than an oversized banana republic that straddles 11 time zones.
Thanks for putting this together man 👍 it's an angle well-worth exploring as I think those of us in the West have drawn paralells with our flavour of corruption...
Just think what the current Russian government could have done for it's people if it hadn't chosen to squander all that money on these destroyed tanks. the people of Russia could have been enjoying a better lifestyle, better health and etc.
@@okbutthenagain.9402 we should be more concerned about our own countries, they're going to sh*t with massive corruption, democracy is a lie and soon to be enslaved with a CBDC. But hey lets focus on Russia. But that's the point, dont focus on the real problems.
@@jamesdoe3713 You have a point, there is certainly a lot of ... room for improvement ... in many western world countries too and we should never forget that. But we also have to keep a sense of proportions. Here's a good rule-of-thumb if you live in the western world and want to understand the amount of corruption in Russia. Start with what you see in your country, then multiply by + 10 if you live in a corrupt country (USA, the UK, France etc.) + 50 if you live in a country with a relatively low corruption level (Germany, Canada, Australia...) + 100 if you live in a country with a very low corruption level (the Nordic countries, New Zealand, the Netherlands...) + 5 if you live in a country with a very high corruption level (Italy, Poland etc) + 2 is you live in Ukraine It's not exact of course but it should give you a fairly good idea. My point is that the amount of corruption and power abuse even in the worst western nations is so much lower than in authoritarian regimes like Russia we can't really comprehend their situation and they can't comprehend our. I included Ukraine since it's a special case. Ukraine was just as bad as Russia only a few years ago but recently they've been working their way out of the s'''thole. They haven't come far yet but they've been making steady allbeit slow progress. This is one of the main reasons why Russia invaded. The Russian regime can't afford to let its people see how Ukraine is doing better since the comparasion between the two countries is far too obvious. Their solution is to try to drag Ukraine back down.
1:15 And the US military budget that year was more than 10x that of Russia's and still most kept parroting the line, '...the second most powerful military in the world...'?! Jokers.
They spent their money on the things that mattered for the defence of their country and not flashy wonder weapons. The Ukraine did not try to impress the rest of the world with their flashiest gear (like Russia did).
Ukraine didn't have to pay for some Wunderwaffen and other white elephants like (pretending to have) an ocean-going navy. And all their military budget could be focused against Russia and Belarus, they know they do not have to worry about an invasion from Poland.
You should mention that it is assumed that the russian military budget is not what they actually say officially. Its supposed to be a lot higher, approximately up to double the amount.
The US military has a branch that works independently that supervises how the money is been spent in the military, so is incredibly hard for soldiers and officers to be corrupt. When I was in the military, a pistol was misplaced in my unit and the whole unit was lock down until it was found 😅
Oh there are ways. An entire special forces armory was robbed of automatic rifles, ammo, night vision, etc. and as far as I know they never caught whoever did it (and whoever did it had access). Poor access controls.
It's only difficult for common soldiers to be corrupt. If you really want to be corrupt in the US military, go work for Lockheed or the Pentagon or something, they get to spend ungodly amounts of taxpayer money without any recourse from audits. Those bastards are definitely siphoning profits from us proletariat.
@@bidenisasnake9932 I mean, it's reality. But you can spread whatever conspiracy nonsense you want. Those of us with experience know. Even just miscounting ammo while training cause the entire unit to shutdown until every bit of it is accounted for.
There are tens of billions that are un accounted for by the Pentagon for at least past 20 years that we know of it comes up every year at audit time that military has no answer for where that money is so please stop talking stupid when it comes to corruption and how money is spent by US military . Every military has corruption period no military is immune to it .
One name comes to mind,PERUN. If you want an in-depth analysis of how corruption can ruin an army, the Russian army, then I highly recommend the UA-cam content by Perun. His videos/ presentations are absolutely fantastic and can not be held in compassion with anything else out there....
You are missing the real point. Each of those tanks hand a crew. It takes 1 year to train a driver. It takes 2 years to train a gunner. It takes 5 years to train a tank commander. It takes 6 years to train a platoon leader. It takes 10 years to train a platoon sergeant. It takes 10 years to train a company commander.
Another thing not pointed out enough is how the Russian military is geared towards defense rather than offense. Their entire infrustructure system is built on heavy rail and trains, so when they push out over another country's border, they have no transport capabilities. You'd need like 2 trucks to support just 1 main battle tank and it's crew for a few days, but current russian logistics is more like 3 battle vehicles for every 1 support truck. That's why most maps you see of the invasion of Ukraine, the charge stopped only after maybe 100 miles in because there was no logistics to push any further.
They're used to rolling into Latvia and just stomping all over everyone because they're peaceful and don't have a big military. They are built for oppression and bullying of weaker nations, not taking on an equipped and determined opponent.
Partially correct. Russian Doctrine focuses upon Offensive Operations as essential to achieving victory in any conflict. Defense is only supposed to be temporary, until the Russians may return to the Offensive. This is historically true, and there is significant merit to the theory. You are correct that Russian Logistics is highly dependent upon Railroads... Russia has failed to develop their Logistics to support their Doctrine! One of the greatest strengths of the USA is our LOGISTICS, which may facilitate our military operations. The greatest failure of the USA is for our Politicians to be able to turn Military Successes into negotiated Diplomatic success... Tragic that what the USA achieves at great cost is thrown away with Politicial and Diplomatic INCOMPETENCE!
The real problem with logistics is that Russia has a different gauge rail than the rest of Europe. Coincidentally, because of being in the Soviet union for a long time and being more oriented on Russia until 2014, this is actually not a problem in Ukraine. They also use the wider Russian guage. The problem is that the railway lines connecting Russian rail system to Ukrainian, has been targeted by both sides to harm enemy logistics. This has been a common tactic since at least WW2 when both Germans and Allies targeted each others railway lines and hubs with fighters and bombers, and resistance would also sabotage tracks all the time in occupied territory. In my home town you can still see the bullet holes in the H beams of the train station. It is one of the few pre-war stations left in my country that hasnt been renovated. Additionally, Russia is having trouble getting the parts to keep their trains running due to all the sanctions.
You can see that the vehicles that have detonated their ammunition or have otherwise been of fire look rusty. That's because steel oxidizes and rusts much more quickly when heated and burnt. And the moisture from the air speeds up this process even further.
I'd add another factor, rivalry without competence. The west has a supersonic airliner? So should we. The result was Concordski, which relied on afterburners all the way. The west has reactive armour on their tanks? So should we. The trouble is, they used rubber. Didn't work. The West have cheap runabout cars? Let's nick a factory (I was present at the very start of that one, Agnelli being taken for a sucker - I handled Ivanov's conference registration. Making his KGB minder opened his mind to me, and opened my file with MI5 - the sob was within 500m of the UK MOD!
😂😂😂😂Ukrain the most corrupt country in Europe, 🤡Zelensky saved billions of US corrupt government' donations on its own bank account. Millions of US citizens can't affort decent housing or food caused by US corruption. Fact check, only facts not your MSM anti Russia propaganda.
@@sirsalty9516 if they send those to war, how would those poor oligarch gets to host their lavish parties? it would get scratch and be rendered useless for special occasions.
@@synthfur05No, we don't know that, because it isn't true. This is not an argument that other governments are squeaky clean, but that some systems have fat greater levels of accountability and oversight.
Well, you're wrong if I'm being honest. All countries share this similar issue, every government has its share of corruption, and it's just the methods that differ.
@@rosaria8384 No, Nope, Nyet, Non , Nein…. You are not being honest. As I said above, not every government is squeaky-clean, but there is a vast difference in both degree and type of corruption.
Poorly paid conscripts ( conscripts in general ? ) don't have the incentive to perform to a high standard, increase pay and work towards professional standards ( maybe too late ) is the only route towards a professional military
The weakness of the Russian army is evident at all levels: demoralized soldiers stealing washing machines, tanks running out of fuel, soldiers equipped with Airsoft helmets and vests, and GPS locators simply taped to aircraft dashboards. These are just a few examples, but the problem goes beyond equipment. The weakness of the Russian army can also be seen in the training of troops, the incompetence of military commanders, logistics, medical support, and the morale of soldiers. Every aspect of the Russian military is “rotten”. And the root cause of these problems is corruption, because corruption in the Russian army is systemic and permeates all levels and structures
Of course the Ukraine was just as corrupt prior to the war. It may be that faced with annihilation that their corruption has been greatly reduced. We have seen a number of high profile arrests after the invasion bagan. But I think that if the money intended for defence had actually gone to that purpose, the Russians may not have been so confident of success.
Uraine trying to reduce corruption and kick out oligarchs who are friends with Putin regime is one of the major reasons for the invasion. Youve got this completely backwards. Reducing corruption is also prerequisite for joining EU or NATO which is a stated goal of Ukrainian govt since 2014.
A fun fact, or not so fun if you want, is that each of the bi yearly intakes of recruits at leat 30% or more are removed from units and put in to armaments production at various factories. Many of the CO's and battalion leadership receive their customary kickback for every recruit they provide. Theres also the cases of Russian investigative journo's being murdered by those involved in the blackmarkets wholesale of military equipment.
A military perceived as weak is perhaps the most dangerous condition for any population. Deterrence is half of the national defense strategy for any country. I really enjoy this channel.
I don't know part of me feels like this is Russian equipment cope. What really killed the Russian army was the fact that they didn't train their troops well, or have strong tactical theory, they literally ran at defenses over and over again, instead of abandoning tactics that weren't working they just continue to display throwing there head at the wall tactics. Their air units were not trained to fly multiple air group battle formations, resulting in never gaining air superiority. I think also their military equipment is seriously lacking, they went to war without night vision or thermal optics for their troops or other vehicles (I know some of their tanks have thermals but their not modern thermals.) which we all know night operations are key to victory and not using night time equipment puts a military force at a serious disadvantage. What this war really showed was Russian army hadn't changed much about themselves since world war 2. I think it really showed they did not have a strong professional military but a group of conscripts that were given little to no training, with ideas of being a tough guy above all other considerations.
When talking about officials only making $180,000 a year yet owning $18,000,000 mansions I see the reflection of our politicians…Pelosi Schumer Obama…you get the picture
The only thing is like to point out is that Ukraines budget went entirely to it's ground forces. The Russians have a big navy they don't use, thousands of jets, nukes to maintain. In reality they probably spent the same amount on their ground forces lol.
Just don’t adopt a communist government and you’ll be fine. Oh and don’t let ruzkis settle as well, their culture is just like that for hundreds of years.
Maybe one issue - most of the tanks in Russia's arsenal were inherited from the Soviet Union so - - - maybe it's costing Russia not-so-much? At least in expendatures. Loss of prestige, lives, and maybe the war are other matters. Good video overall. Thanks.
@@guitarhausdoesntknowwhatac3285 Nope they use old equipment and that is smart move, anyone who knows at least something about military should know that. But the problem with YT is that are a lot of self proclaimed gurus of all matters, they know it all ☺ due to they google it and absorbed the misinformation's served by similar know it all gurus or propaganda. Ask any NATO military officer who know at least something about Russian army and you'll hear it alone.
@jimbowling8528 that is not maybe mate that is correct 100%. 7 years before the Russians decided to finally protect people that was terrorized by the ukraine regime, the specialist for Russian army from my native country talked exactly about those things that you've mentioned. They have a huge reserves from the USSR era, after all Russia did not wage wars across the globe in last x decades ( as some other superpower did) so they had no place to spent that arsenal. Plus they were producing a lot of weapons for export for the so called east block. Since the the end of USSR that export went down because east Europe start to get weapons' from US. That all added to accumulated arsenal of weapons. For them is cheaper to let to use older tanks which are still great ,and even to live them behind due to for them it's an old arsenal. It's like an old technology that We trowing away ( cars, machines etc and such older items would seems like fortune to some other people).
@@guitarhausdoesntknowwhatac3285 so you think that there are no items made in large quantities that are HQ? Dude this are 1st class tanks for their time and era. Once Germans had so called HQ Tigers etc but guess what even German generals told that the best tank of the World War 2 was Russian T 34 . You should learn something from that due to it was made in large quantities as well - larger then Tiger
The 11:1 military spending is an over simplification. Ukraine didn't support three Navies, Baltic, Pacific and Black Sea. Ukraine didn't support a nuclear submarine fleet or land based ICBMs, Ukraine didn't also spend a fortune trying to usurp other countries like Georgia and the ex-soviet far east. So realistically Ukraine was spending about 1/3 to 1/4 of russia's budget on land forces. Still a big gap, but not the mamoth gap that the raw figures imply.
The military budget of Ukraine is now irrelevant because this budget is now basically the budget on Nato. JUst for the fun compare the military budget of the USA and the one of Russia.
@@angeurbain6129 Except that's a lie and you know it. NATO have not donated a single thing to Ukraine. Various countries under NATO have but not NATO itself.
Military aid to Ukraine has been, as of May 31, about 0.18% of US GDP, about 0.7% of Total Budget, about 5-6% of Defense Budget, and about 0.15% of EU (Plus Norway and UK) GDP. So no, Ukraine hasn't the whole budget of Nato at its disposal, It has a fraction of Nato military potential
Someone should mention that Vlad Putin's personal wealth is estimated at between 1 and 2 TRILLION dollar-equivalent. This on a salary equivalent of $200k per year.... What's that about rotting from the top down?
I don't understand! These employees who were convicted of corruption were registered by someone during employment,someone wrote them a description and recommendations, someone kept them in office, someone had to control their work. Really so long time, I rise on a career ladder, nobody knew anything? I just don't believe it. This is too fantastic for me to understand!
Pathetic that you lay the blame on the soldiers drafted into senseless conflict as somehow spreading upwards into higher ranks. The soldiers know they are lied to, forced to fight, their equipment never arrives, their pay is late, they are given stupid orders, and so on and so forth. They know higher ups dont care about them, so if they can get anything out of the conflict, they will. Excrement drips downhill. Not the other way around.
What happened to Russia we knew so well ! The writer is from a SE Asian country, which has a quite a bit of rapport with Russia. In this country, Russian literature esp. that of Tolstoy, Chekov, Dostowsky and many others has become a kind of religion. Not only that Russia has gifted to the world so many academics, scientists, aeronauts too numerous to set out in a tiny write up like this ! All that greatness is now being subjugated all due to the megalomaniac, insane Put-in ! After all Russia is the foremost country in the world due to its massiveness spanning 11 time zones. If one metaphorically takes the world Govts., as a family with many siblings Russia invariably becomes the ‘big brother’ keeping other siblings from harming each other looking after them benevolently. Russia should be one of the foremost Arbitrators in the sphere of ‘peace’. However, as of now Russia has become subjective to Arbitration as a result of the maddening war against Ukraine. Who are the new Arbitrators; MBS of Saudi Arabia whose bona fides in this particular sphere is much to be desired. What happened to ‘hapless’ Khassogi who write articles mildly criticizing MBS and was dismembered as punishment. When MBS arbitrates Russia is not even present. Put-in is following the classic blunders made by Putler taking upon himself the conduct of foreign policy, economy and the Red Army itself. Russian FM Lavrov has become the ‘laughing stock’ at the UN. When the Russian Permanent Rep., spews out vitriol, insinuation, half truths (mostly flagrant lies), other FMs look amused and flabbergasted ! Surely, they are ‘laughing’ at Russia in a most derisive manner, making Russia a ‘pariah’ country, indicted by the UN as ‘war criminals’. All these due to one single misanthrope a.k.a. Put-in, who should be removed from his post as Prez. Of Russia!
Unfortunately though, the removal of Putin would probably not solve the problem. I cannot speak much on how they were during the time of the Tzars and earlier, but, from the time of the communist revolution in 1917 and the birth of the Soviet Union, Russia's government and army has always seemed rather beligerent towards it's neighbours. Heavy censorship and attempted re-writing of history for their own people became commonplace. Look at that new historybook they brought out to be used in Russian schools for instance, or how many Russians seem to believe that they alone practically defeated Nazi-Germany, while conveniently ignoring or belittling the help they received from the Allies, both by fighting germany on other fronts, aswell as the lend-lease aid through the atlantic convoys. Then there is the fact that after Germany was defeated, the Russians tried to keep Eastern Europe occupied and forced them into the Warsaw pact for Russia's own benefit, and how they have since tried to grab land wherever they could, like Afghanistan and, during Putin's time, part of Georgia and Moldova and now ofcourse, Khrimea and Ukraine. Thirdly, there is the complete and utter contempt that the Russians seem to have for human life, both for that of their enemies and civilians, aswell as that of their own men. It was the case during WW2 when they lost in the millions of soldiers, the temporary use of order 227 and other things, aswell as the callous bombing of civilians in Syria, and the mass-graves they found in Bucha in Ukraine. And ofcourse the barely trained sods they keep sending into Ukraine to die by the thousands. Tl;dr, what I am trying to say is, Russia as a nation has a problem that far precedes Putin, and his removal will not solve it. He is not the source, but a symptom of a system that was rotten long before Putin ever came to power.
The writer is overwhelmed; really overwhelmed after reading your comment. Your take on Russia and the 3rd dimension underlined the fact that how little I know about Russia. Perhaps, the writer is seduced by the sheer size of Russia ! There is nothing small about Russia unless it be that of the mindset of Putin which appears to be minus scale ! Take for instance the Tr. Siberian Railway from Moscow to Novosibrisk which runs about 7500 km and double tracked all the way. Unfortunately, our Putin has a single track mind which leads him to disastrous campaigns for the general detriment of Russia and its long suffering people, making it a 'pariah' state in front of other world nations; albeit couple of countries in Africa. Thank so much@@MrGiselbart I hope to read further on your takes on Russia which is highly interesting to me ! Thanks so much once again !
@@karsten11553 If you get trickfucked you get Screwed. Bottom line. Nobody cares. Unless it’s them specifically. Eat shit and die they say, unless you are a soldier.
The most powerful military ranking is probably between the US Air Force, US Navy and the US National Guard at this rate for the top 3, with maybe China coming in 4th ahead of the US Marine Corps.
@@enpakeksi765 The USSR fought in Afghanistan against Bin Laden, who was sponsored by the United States by supplying tens of billions of dollars worth of weapons. If Russia had helped the Taliban, the US would have fled Afghanistan in 1 year. Bin Laden repaid his masters well in the USA in 2011
@@johnsch1988 Yet you guys lost in 10 years and your country fell apart both politically and economically. It's obvious that you haven't learned a single thing since then with Ukraine. BTW Bin Laden was never a part of the Taliban - he was the leader of Al-Qaeda and not even from Afghanistan. The Taliban and Al-Qaeda were just allies - the Taliban just had more control over the country than Al-Qaeda and still do.
Well Russia's so called "best military in the world"didn't last past the first moment of contact with their so called enemy. Russia's display of ineptitude and lack of military planning, execution and equipment has shown the world that their "capabilitites are nothing like the propaganda they love to spout. Also Russia deserves no respect for their lack of capability military wise. Wary yes, Respect. Nope!
@@jamesdoe3713 Wrong. Russia deserves nothing more than loathing, distrust. No respect as they desrve none. Lastly their military cannot be respected after the human rights violations, rapings, murders, and illegal invasion. The West can be wary of what is left of the paper tiger of Russia's military but it certainly doesn't get any respect.
You forgot the violent hazing that happens in russian army by the soldiers themselves, which also contributes to the soldiers being more willing to sell out their fellow soldiers...
You could have also mentioned that Russia's Defence Minister, Dmitri Shoigu, has absolutely NO military background, experience or training - but he has a nice uniform, medals and the authority to "develop strategy"....he was a factory manager, so you might think his appointment might have improved Russian military procurement, although there is absolutely no evidence of this. You could have also mentioned the deployment of murderer like Vladislav Kanyus, who spent 12 hours torturing his ex-girlfriend to death, and instead of going to prison. volunteered to fight in Ukraine, where, after six months his record was expunged and he was discharged with all honours! The family of his murdered girlfriend, Vera Pekhteleva, are in terror that he'll return to seek vengeance on them....and we have no idea what atrocities he may have gotten away with in Ukraine!!!
Putin himself also has no military background or understanding either, yet he is now making the decisions normally taken by very high ranking military commanders...... The World has clearly seen the capability of the Russian armed forces, and it does not appear to coincide the the previously assumed capability the West had of them. They appear to be a complete shambles. No cohesion, pi$$ poor logistical capability, poor command structures, little tactical awareness, below average levels of training etc. And this is the mighty, invincible army Putin said could put boots on the ground in 6 European Capital cities within 48 hours. Somehow, I think not...... In an all out conventional non nuclear conflict, NATO would tear them apart within 2 to 3 weeks.....
This video also seems to go hard on the common Russian soldier's actions (I mean, it's pretty appalling) without pointing out that kind of stuff comes right from the top. For much of Russia's history, the aristocrats were largely corrupt as fuck. Doesn't matter how much propaganda you've guzzled up until that point, but if you join an Army and are given practically no training and a Combat Rig with Rubber Inserts for armor plate, you'll clearly see how much your "government" gives a crap about you.
And really, most Russians do know that the State gives 0 fucks about them and hasn't for centuries, so for them joining the Army is more than likely for profit motive.
The Minister of Defence is meant to be a bridge between a civilian government and military. The issue isn't that Dmitri Shoigu doesn't have a military background, it's that he larps as having one.
@@SuperFriendBFGУ России ахуенные бронежилеты, их не пробивают пулеметы
Russia may have proper body armour but hardly any troops actually get it. Inserts sold/swapped. Loads of videos showing how bad the captured body armour, helmets are.
They sold their guns to a force they were still fighting?
Holy shit.
Holy. Shit.
That is the worst thing I can think one could do.
They also sold medical supplies as well. Who knows how many soldiers and noncombatants lost limbs or their lives due to limited medical supplies.
After the gun selling that just seems logical. lol
I mean, who wouldn't sell their bandages to their enemies?
Fuck. Me. Running.
@@amandahugankiss4110 because Russians have no money. Under capitalism, it is logical to sell to those who have money. I’ll tell you more: in Russia there are many companies that make Ukrainian military orders in the IT sector because they pay money. The problem you are all thinking about is simple. Arimiya must arrive. but if it doesn’t bring you resources, for example by stealing from other countries, why is it needed? I worked with people in the army and these are their words. That's why everything was sold. if Russia is given a strong tank, they will sell it to Ukraine since it will pay much more. If every Russian was offered his 24 (2 years) salary, he would give up immediately.
If they wanted to stop the war, they would simply buy all the Russian tanks. or rockets. or airplanes.
It will probably shown in the algorythm but "How corruption destroys armies" by Perun covers many similar points in great detail.
Here are the Peruns videos on Corruption and the Russian Army:
1. ua-cam.com/video/i9i47sgi-V4/v-deo.html
2. ua-cam.com/video/Fz59GWeTIik/v-deo.html
Private Conscriptovich is at it again!
Perun with great videos@@Rob_F8F
Brilliant videos.
How corruption destrois a country. Sprecial f the "head"is maffia that is stealing what they can
I have a russian night vision goggles, sold by russians who left east Germany after the GDR collapsed. Even AK47 were available for low price. It is said that some officers sold entire military bases of stuff in the 1990s
They sold even more when leaving Ukraine. There were a lot of Soviet weapons factories there that were at least temporarily shut down, and all their stock disappeared. If you ever wonder why AK47s are so popular in Africa, there you go.
at 90 they sold everything. Imagine that the government sold your job. your home. your power plant and now you pay all your salary for what you considered minimal expenses. the school has been sold. The only thing that didn’t pass was you and your loved ones because you had nothing to do with it. on the contrary, you must fight with others for the opportunity to sell yourself. I’m not kidding, I lived in Russia in the 90s. Macrosoft didn’t pay salaries, saying that it was an honor to work for them. a lot of people didn’t pay, think about how to live if you work and don’t pay you? crime corruption. Everything you see was formed in 90. Ask any soldier in the trench why is he there? for the sake of the country? haha. he doesn’t care about propaganda, it’s just an excuse. he came for money. If the United States wanted, they would give Putin and the oligarchs billions and a personal piece of the White House and they would give all the keys to Russia. but why is this necessary if, apart from oil, Russia is not needed?
@@VasterLordUlquiorra Yeah... sad but true. Even more sad when you hear that the soldiers don't even get the promised money.
Maybe it's time for another revolution and to get rid of the new zar. But what then? I think Russia needs a change from the very base upwards. Decades of lethargy can not be erased in a short time.
If there was little or no corruption Russia might have defeated Ukraine in short order. But if Russia was the sort of country that stamps on corruption like that, they wouldn't have considered attacking Ukraine in the first place. Quite the dilemma.
The question is how does this end? Does the west keep supplying the Ukraine with weapons and money only for them to run out of troops? Or keep supplying them until Russia withdraws and then give them trillions of dollars to rebuild their destroyed cities?
Without the wests intervention this war would have been over in a matter of months if not weeks which is sad for Ukraine but many of their dead would be alive today.
This is very true a force the size of Russia with good quality and well trained troops, whose kit was maintained in a dedicated way - SHOULD have taken Kyiv. Just a good job Putin is such a criminal gangster and mired in theft and corruption...
So much corrupción! Reading The Insider article about corrupted FSB general in Ucrania from last week is reminding that Rusia has big problem there,how is still happening?
Exactly, no smart men at the top.
Its the same thing as Germany losing WW2. Any condition that would have them win would require them to not be dogmatic nazis.
Corruption is also a useful political tool for the higher ups. Everyone is corrupt, so you can't get anywhere without being corrupt yourself. But Corruption is still illegal, it's just that people who "Play Ball" with the Boss have their crimes overlooked. If you ever step out of line, all the Boss has to do is stop turning a blind eye and you're done for.
What the video fail to convey is that this is not a system and society that has become corrupted, but a systematic and organised corruption chain that forms the society.
Simply put, it is not different from the pirate way of dividing plunder, where the lowest new recruits gets to split one share, regular sailors gets one share each, the boatswain gets two shares and so forth all the way up to the captain having a dozen shares or more.
In the Russian society, the number of shares, fitting your rank and status, tells how much you are allowed to steal.
If you go beyond that, you are upsetting the system, if you don't steal you are simply stupid as the theft is one of the few job perks to compensate for the lack of wages.
To gain the rank and status, you need the favour of the superiors. Those in turn needs to have their subordinates make them look good and competent leaders. Hence, vrany.
Everything is going to plan even when the house is falling apart and the car burning. Everyone knows it is a lie, and everybody accept the fake as truth since the actual truth would make so many people up and down the chain look bad.
Hence the inspector sent out to check the inventory of the army storage happily stands among the empty shelves noting down what the local clerk is telling him should be there, and the general receiving the report can now tell the MOD everything is in order and fully prepared before taking the rest of the week off in his newly purchased dacha.
Of course, you get more perks if you can lie really good. Like the favourite propagandist in Russian media complaining about the decadent West and how Russia is attacked by NATO before taking the yacht to his Italian Villa to shop Gucci clothes.
Same reason that the FSB had no clue about the Ukrainians, why the US knew the Russians were going to invade. I would note that for all the crap hardware, the Ukrainians have still found it hard to advance even with its limited high tech western weapons. The Navy has kept mostly out of the war as its even more dysfunctional. In fact we all know the Russian airfornce is thanking their saints that Ukraine does not have an airforce anymore or western close combat air assets. We must alll realise that even with good tanks, the anti0tank weapons have rendered much tank warfare a near death sentence unless your anti anti tank armour is as good on the top as the sides. Its amazing the troops in Russia don't fold with any Ukraine offense...I'd say most of the old cold war weapon stock that was one step from rusting is now empty armour stores and most boxes are empty even if the weapons are one step from useless.
Yep. They've been running a kleptocracy in russia for 1000 years in some form. Also the word "truth" in russia has no direct translation, because all it has ever meant there is "whatever will benefit me most" or, most nobly: "the answer that will not get me executed"
like it would make any problem to make some case
You have to ask how good the NK weapons might be bar missiles. Kim offered troops (paid for by Russian oil or just real dollars) but few Russians seem to speak Korean, surprise, surprise.
Ukraine's best ally is named Private Konscriptovich.
Oh no! Shoigu alone does far more damage to the Russian military than a thousand conscripts can possibly manage.
@@tessjuel Private Konscriptovich: "Hold my vodka comrade."
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"would cost the Russian army $4 million"
That's not bad
"Each"
Oh god
mostly from oil and gas sales,...imagine what that sort of money could do to enrich the lives of the russian population in general if they had a democracy
@@graantmnzDemocracy doesn't solve this kind of problem. America might not be quite as bad as Russia, but you're still lucky if "actually helping my constituents in any meaningful way" even makes the Top 5 in your representative's list of priorities.
Military spending numbers are absolutely ludicrous. This is partly because of the complex nature of the machines involved, but a lot of it is due to the fact that there's only a tiny handful of buyers (national militaries) and they're paying with other people's money (taxes).
Those are some expensive sunflowers 🇺🇦🌻
@@graantmnz First of all, this is capitalism. and capitalism is to arrive. Russia perfectly shows the dark side of this, everyone thinks the current is to work on it. Many, even now, are trying to get funding for the war by stealing terrible, incapable projects, just to make money; they don’t care whether Russia loses. The majority do not care if Russia is captured by the USA and they become richer, but they do not care and will fight if they become poorer.
That's why democracy doesn't help at all. It’s enough not to listen to the media but to go into the dark sector. Let me remind you that in the USA, since the 90s, the rights of citizens have been taken away and censorship has penetrated into all corners. then it started in Europe. You can no longer say that China’s Internet is a gulag and everything is according to the passport. because Western companies do the same. You can’t even write comments on UA-cam and be sure that they will be seen and will not be deleted by the system in an incomprehensible way.
All you see is the tip of the iceberg. Russia became capitalist in the 1990s. but in such a system a person is nothing. just a number. The problem is that the country is poor and the cost of your life is $5-10. just think about what will happen if the USA starts a war with Mexico and your salary, in addition to it and military service, will be $200-300 and the prices will remain the same)
Also, propaganda always says that Putin is to blame, but this happened in 91 under another president and the war in Chechnya was under a president who supported the West and said that it was democratic. They even gave us money for the war because the army couldn’t cope. Think about it
When a advancing army completely stalls because logistics fail them running out of fuel clearly says incompetence or corruption is happening
This is not what is going on for the russian army in Ukraine.
@@angeurbain6129 looking at the evidence on UA-cam dose not seem to be good enough for you which makes your comment a opinion in disregard of evidence presented in clear sight of logistical failure which is fact!
Your answer is dishonest. The evidence point toward a defeat of the Ukrainian army and a de facto demilitarisation of Nato.@@stephenharris3427
@@angeurbain6129 Yep, we have proof of Russian...abandoning vehicles as soon as they ran out of fuel, with the most common being that they were sold by their commanders who profit, from it and right now, Russian gas stations aren't selling any gas...yea, Russia is somehow running out of gas, I don't know what is going on behind the scene but its seem like it's a mess. Reminder, that this is the same Russia that lost in the First Chechen War...which was against armed civilians, yea they lost to armed civilians and they can't even win in a straight-up fight in the Second Chechen War...no instead they have to depend on their enemies backstab each other to win, yet people keep on shitting the US for losing against Rice farmers...when in reality, those Rice farmers were supplied by the Soviet Union and China...in fact, they can't even invade North Vietnam due to China existence so yea...at least the US has a better excuse then Russia.
Amateurs talk tactics, experts talk logistics. Russia tries to steal every technology they can, because they know we are much better in everything than them, but they are too blind to realise that they should also copy our priorities. Ofcourse the autocrats need to keep their underlings divided so they themself can stay in power. But their military will forever suffer from this. Their logistic will keep on sucking and their army will be corrupt and thieving. Hope Ukraine makes the successful transition to a western country with a logistically sound military
12:19 - A long time? Nah. Something tells me they'll never be considered the world's second most powerful military ever again.
So much lost, never to be regained.
Exactly. Demographics will absolutely cripple Russia in the next 20-30 years. They simply won't have the manpower to wage war ever again. Good riddance to the Russian Empire at last.
They managed to fuck up once in Afghanistan, twice in Chechnya and again when they tried to take Ukraine's coastline in 2014 and managed to recover their reputation.
I wanna agree, but it's also likely people will forget how badly they fucked up within the decade.
@@highjumpstudios2384 Not after a fuck up so massive that it greatly expanded NATO.
Russia this morning lost 2 more Ka52 helicopters. Each 30 million in cost. Russia has max 133 of them. And many tens of them got destroyed. Even 60 Ka52 attack helicopters destroyed would cost 1.8 billion dollar
And that is just 1 type of military unit. It also lost (verified) 3 S300 launch Syatems and S300 radar system earlier this week. Amounting to many hundreds of millions in costs
The KA-52's are especially bad since they're a sophisticated peice of modern equipment that the russian's simply can't replace due to sanctions.
@@user-dx6bv2pe1s Yep, Putin was an idiot for attacking Ukraine in 2022. He should have stayed satisifed with the 2014 gains.
@@user-dx6bv2pe1smillions lost vs billions lost. Doesn’t seem equal
Russian's military hardware is "Parade Ready" in Moscow & "Scrapyard Ready" in Ukraine.
The Kremlin were rumbled quite a few years ago by an Australian TV cameraman during one Red Square military parade. He happened to notice one particular missile launcher truck - with the same driver - drove past him *three* times. It was later discovered by the US, that the aircraft involved in the huge flypast in the parade, were also flying a circular flight path, repeatedly overflying the parade, to make it appear there were many times more aircraft than there actually were...... The US military budget is around 10 times that of Russia's. The facts speak for themselves I guess. And no, I'm not American....
Around when the mobilization started, some depos of gear and equipment where lost in fires. My theory is that the officials in charge realized that they stolled and sell way to much items and they probably empty some storages to fill others and burned the empty ones, blaming it to accidents, protestors or ukrainians agents.
Russia we will fix our problems we have never in the history of the world ever fix in 10 years tops I love the ignorance of it all🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I was in Kosovo in 99 🇬🇧 and worked through the Russian sector at Pristina airport.
They'd not been paid in months, were usually drunk. Were dressed in kit from the 70s.
The MI 24 helicopters they seized the airfield with just before 🇬🇧 airborne troops arrived were just abandoned around the place. As they had no fuel to fly them again. I went back in 03 and they were still there rusting away.
you are dishonest, I'm saying this as person who fought against cowards from GB who bombed us during the 1999, before you arrived you at Kosovo. Stop spreading lies dude. Belter talk about your drunk soldiers in GB units who went regularly in Bordels in which Kosovo mafia kept kidnaped girls from Ukraine, Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Russia and Greece, . So your countrymen's had 0 moral in most of cases at least those i had change to see after the 1999 when i returned as humanitarian worker. Only moral and normal soldiers in NATO were IMHO Italians and I'm talking about majority in their units.
They were the only one who protected civilians after the 2000, but your stinky GB above all others (even above the US) were cooperators with Kosovo mafia and if you were there then you know it. But i doubt that you ever went to Kosovo as soldier because you wouldn't talk like that and spread lies about Russians or any other soldiers, nor you would generalize all people, due all this i named your GB as ''stinky'' because you adore to play the world police with US. Actually IMHO you are abusing the US military power for the interests of your Government.
During the 04 your GB units permitted Albanian mafia to burn more then 100 Churches and monasteries that were protected by UNESCO ! Some were older then 1000 years. I have a picture were exactly of a British soldier GB standing and watch the mob breaks the old stained-glass windows in the monastery and enters the monastery via the ladder to destroy it further. He didn't even shoot in the air, of course he wasn't alone, but the picture is such that you can see his marks. Your British units allowed it. Us units did the same etc all from NATO except Italians .That speaks volumes about moral among British units. For sure there are good people in them as well.
Anyhow, I most sincerely hope that one day Scotland becomes independent, as well as Wales and Ireland because it is the turn of your foreign policy to be applied within the GB.
And I also hope that all those nations that your politicians have helped (of course because of your political interests, not because you love them), will come to Britain in as large a number as possible. You promised them "democracy", so the best way is to live in the GB that is the best place to feel that ''democracy''.
And as far as I know, you are already paying the high price because you are occupied by the same mafia that you helped, they are now kidnapping people in your country and selling drugs to your youth. What can I tell you except "as you sow, so shall you reap".
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The country was divided up into sectors for each nation to administer. And by 04 there were barely any 🇬🇧 there anymore.
They certainly were not patrolling or standing guarding buildings or 1000 churches.
Smells like 💩 to me fella.
If we hadn't gone at all you'd be speaking serb now at best!
And if you are of Serb decent, maybe if your people hadn't tried to genocide the Kosovan people NATO wouldn't have ever gone there.
@@beefsuprem0241 at 2004 UK sent additional 750 soldiers how is that ''were barely any 🇬🇧 there anymore''?!? IMHO you were never there, but who knows maybe you were as some worker but not as soldier.
I told that more then 100 church's and monasteries were burned and that some of them were older then 1000 years. So there were more then enough NATO soldiers to protect not just churches but civilians.
The list includes several UNESCO World Heritage Sites. It's huge number of sites so i'll name just some in one municipality were mob even cemetery were dug up, and bones of the dead were scattered away !!! Among those destroyed and damaged were among others:
* Our Lady of Ljeviš in Prizren from 1307 (UNESCO World Heritage Site)
the Church of Holy Salvation in Prizren, destroyed by vandals after German KFOR troops had left the site.! As i told not only from your beloved GB run away or did nothing but there were others
* St Elijah's Church in Podujevo destroyed and desecrated, coffins from the nearby cemetery were dug up.
* Skenderaj: Devič Monastery in Drenica, monastery pillaged and torched, the tomb of St Joannicius of Devič was desecrated !
* Church of St George in Prizren (the city's largest church)
* Church of St. Kyriaki, Church of St Nicolas
* the Monastery of The Holy Archangels in
* Saint Cyrillus and Methodius in Prizren ! that is just for one municipality named Prizren ..
So that symbol of s.. that you shared you can stick in of flag of those GB units who didn't protect civilians.
@@beefsuprem0241 BTW it's amazing that after NATO came to Kosovo just in period from 2000 - 2004 more then 8500 civilians were killed and you don't call that ''an attempt of genocide'' ?
There were no genocide in 1999 against albaninas at all, that is a lie and in Hague it was proven that it was all fake propaganda served by German minster Rudolf Albert Scharping , and vice canceller Joseph Martin "Joschka" Fischer in the cabinet of Gerhard Schröder. So Scharping and "Joschka" Fischer did the main propaganda job, but your government under Tony Blair and US president Bill Clinton orchestrated them, it was done in order so that Germany could gain a more important role in NATO.
You can even find the documentary made German TV '' Es begann mit einer Lüge '' ( ENG IT BEGAN WITH A LIE produced by WDR and made by Jo Angerer and Mathias Werth ).
Sad truth is that thx to NATO bombs with depleted uranium more then 100 000 civilians have died at Kosovo and Serbia ! Evry year people are daying from cancer including NATO soldiers who were there or those who arrived after 1999 to serve at Kosovo.
Next time pls ask your smart politicians to help your own country, but you can came here as tourist when ever you like that is OK.
The sad thing is that We were your aka the GB 🇬🇧 allies in 2 world wars!
In the 2nd World War my grandfathers entered that war just because of GB 🇬🇧 , Due they gave their word aka they were obligated as allies. They could avoid it due to Germany wanted peace with us ( same as some other GB allies did it for example).
1,5 millions of my people lost life in WW2 and in return NATO stubbed us in our back when We needed your help to fight against radical extremists. We were ''guilty'' Just because We fought against terrorist's in our own country. The Same terrorists that CIA and MI6 created , and those same terrorist attacked the US and the UK during 1st decade of 2000's .
I suppose those are double standards. Now live with them, i fee sorry for all good people in your country who are suffering because of those extremists, due to Tony Blair and other are doing just fine as well as their bank accounts.
I Wish you all the best, cheers.
This guy I know flew Migs in a Soviet Bloc country and he said when he went to Russian airfields, many of their transport planes (if not other planes) couldn't take off or land because the air crews would always siphon off the alcohol based hydraulic fluids used in the landing gear to drink it.
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Imagine just how good the Russian military would be without all the corruption, graft and outright theft. Thank goodness for the super yachts.
It wouldn't be the Russian military then.
It's pretty much what happens when a state virtually collapses, loses much of its former territories and also its expertise to those who can pay more, while at the same time struggling with a rapid transition from one socioeconomic system to another.
What Russia really, really likes to forget is the help from the west in the form of financial bailout and negotiation with the former Soviet states.
@@pauln6803No. Russia had legendary levels of corruption when it was an Empire and nothing changed under the Communists except who benefited.
Russia collapsed BECAUSE of corruption, mot the other way around.
for over two centuries, ineptude and corruption at the top have been the norm. Now, there have been some exceptions, such as particular Adm. during the Russio-Japanese war.
We should not have been able to drive the Brits back into the sea, yet we did. Two better examples of what I am driving at, due to being less than 90 years ago, are the post-war governance of Poland and East Germany. They had Communist governments, GDP at unhealthy low levels, and all the problems that come from being Communist. Yet both are doing good now! *
So, the way I look at it, Russia doesn't have an excuse.
*It would behoove Germany to be concerned with the well-being of her indigenous population, followed by indigenous Europeans as a whole.@@pauln6803
This is a common habit among dictatorships. Wonder why....
Money is their security blanket.
@@mach1553That and Power.
Putin is not a dictator...
In fact, the dictator considers the state as his property, so he does not need to steal from himself, or encourage corruption in his own economy.
Money is usually stolen by proxy regimes for which power is temporary and the future is tied to overseas property.
Such as Ukrainian.
...he's just A Special Case of being the sole Russian citizen with a right to act. 'Vanvanvich doesn't get any of that.
Typical autocracy.
When a Russian fuel depot was blown up inside Russian territory and Russia accused Ukraine, I had a feeling that someone was covering their tracks, no way of knowing how much fuel was lost.
On paper that fuel depot had X amount of fuel, but in reality, it probably had a lot less than it should have had.
There is a bad actor in Russia that most likely sold off that fuel and to cover their tracks had the place blown.
That's the thing about Oligarchs, they can buy an Army to do these things.
Of course, that's very likely that actual scenario. In the remaining years of China still being an empire (leading toward Japan's invasion, and WWII), there was a huge fire in the main storage facilities in the Forbidden City, where vast amounts of treasure, priceless artifacts and so on were stored . . . which, of course, "disappeared" in the fire. Of course, what really happened was that most of this had already been plundered, with some token remnants of this treasure being left there to leave burnt remains from the fire.
Or they stole the fuel and then Ukraine did blow it up. Its not like they arent targeting Russian depots and logistics lines across the border.
In the end it doesnt really matter, what matters is that the fuel is no longer available for the Russian front.
It looks like the reason Russia has had to dig out the old T-62s is because those in command of the various tank parks were selling off the better T-72s on the black market. So not only are Russian troops having to use older and very much outdated tanks they even cheated the Russian state the money it would have received from those sales.
So , it’s true they fight with shovels !
In this war Putin is getting rid of poor people and old equipment
@@casper6014that too.
The old equipment is left😂
no he's getting rid of criminals which are young people that oppose him why do you think Russia's in trouble?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Cheap Chinese tires ✓
Expired field rations ✓
Sold off most of their unit's diesel fuel ✓
Good to go.😂
This is why I’m not concerned about russian nukes, they’d be lucky to get off the launchpad.
I am concerned. If you were facing a guy with a .357 revolver and there was a good chance of 3 faulty primers in the chambered rounds... you would be worried yeah?
@@billycarr7446 no I wouldn’t, I don’t worry. It’s just not how I roll.
@@billycarr7446 The point here, is that even *one* nuclear weapon launched by Russia, spells the end for Putin. And he knows it, which is why, despite all the nuclear threats, he hasn't dared deploy one.
While it is true that a less corrupt and incompetent army could have won the war in Ukraine in months or weeks, it should be noted that the self same army would have been less likely to go into Ukraine in the first place. Competent, professional soldiers, or at least those who try to do their best, are less likely to follow orders they don't like or aren't certain are right or are too vague.
Well, the military just kinda largely does as it's told by the government.
Best you can do in a free and democratic society is resign your commission in protest if you are of significant rank.
Just as in an autocratic/authoritarian state, the government holds the power.
You become more motivated when you are fighting in your country. Moral elan whatever you want to call it is a big factor in a units success. Leadership and tactics and supplies are the other factors an army needs. When I saw videos on the news with all the russian vehicles sitting around waiting to be blown up.and thought there is no combat experienced officers in their ranks. If that were the U S they were attacking there would not be a I F V or truck or tank left..their lack of experience shows
It is said that a fish rots from the head.
An army is a reflection of the society it is raised fro., and the government it serves.
Putins personal fortune is estimatsd at over 1 Trillion $ I the Russian army was not corrupt, it would have been unlikely to invade Ukr in tbe fiest place.
Just the value as scrap metal is substantial
Corruption takes many forms and is almost impossible to root out once it has taken hold. Perhaps the quickest way to start corruption is by creating a wealth gap between workers and management. While it is reasonable that a modest margin exists once the upper classes have become super-wealthy, their lust for money grows and is further realised by cutting worker remuneration. The maldistribution of wealth growing in the West is the greatest danger to civil society.
Spoken far better than I could 👍 I wholeheartedly (regrettably) agree with your final point - I look at some cities across America and (no judgement) it baffles me that so, so many have fewer and fewer actual options when it comes to trying to improve their lives and where they want to be headed.
...and I've privately been asking myself whenever these places make the news, "how long can whole communities, towns, cities - how long can a person keep any sense of optimism, patience or belief in the very image being presented to the world as the Greatest Place - how long, for how many generations (of voters, of taxpayers) does such a nation literally not move a sliver of it's insane resources, mental and physical, into this erosion that can only end in predictable, miserable ways ?
Uhhhhh you’re kind of off topic pal…. You don’t know these people and how they operate. It’s part of the system, nothing happens without corruption in Russia. Don’t sit in your apartment thinking you know how it works over there. It’s on a different level.
@@FactNinjahow nice, another human being has something reasonable and possibly opinion-changi- nope, just a lump of bile claiming sentience.
...ffs no you're right, for once your blind-fire assumption/critique on someone else's opinion was utterly masterful - how you managed to guess my level of familiarity on a topic and extrapolated and unmasked my disposition.........I just need to chill a moment 😐
Hey should I check with you, next time I go to reply to someone ? Just in case you're around, so you can "weigh in" with that mighty ignorance ? Make sure you wear that shirt that says "I've no manners, please teach me some", people love it when you dress the part 🤤
@@FactNinja And you had been in Russia and discovered it first hand, so you know ?
There’s some truth to this. Conscripts wouldn’t feel pushed to petty theft at such a large scale if their wages at least provided for their basic needs and the needs of their families.
The Russian withdrawal from Germany/Poland 1992/94 was one of such stories. Whoever in the Russian military was responsible for whatever sold it to the Poles and Germans: fuels, spare parts, whole vehicles, uniforms and for sure also fire arms. The polish mafia was equipped to the teeth and for some time became an acute problem for the police in both countries. And Russian military withdrawal generals palastes, which grew in the middle of the 1990s crisis could make Michel Jackson envy. And large portion of the officer corps who left the army soon after we're found to start their own nice businesses in the years where money was in an utter shortage.
While Soviet troops were in Europe, there was peace there for 49 years. As soon as Soviet troops withdrew in 1994, NATO bombed the very center of Europe in 5 years.
I heard that russia was going to build 30 more warships which I HIGHLY doubt if they weren't able to build 20 t14s for almost a decade how the hell are they going to build 30 warships
By the magic of the Russian system each of those 30 battleships will set out to sea within a few years in the form of brand new superyachts!
They'll manufacture 30 inflatable rafts and call them modern warships; anyone who disputes that will be sentenced to 15 years in jail for discrediting the Russian armed forces.
How on earth will they do that? Their economy is wrecked.
Their one aircraft carrier has probably spent as much time on fire as it has at sea.
Maybe they will build 30 "Punt's" and arm them with "Punt guns..." They would be able to wage a naval war against Ukraines water foul population with them...😅
It's more closely related to economics, though. Russia's trying to maintain a superpower image off the back of an economy about the size of Italy's, at the start of it, with even greater levels of corruption, forgetting they'd built it by asset-stripping the Warsaw Pact. I noticed it in 1978, and nailed it to the table in November 1988, which is why the West didn't twitch: we knew what was happening. That placed me as the economist on the WEU Council Secretariat.
After all but killing their golden goose, Europe's nursed it back to life, so Russia's casting its greedy eyes westwards yet again. This time, however, the goose is backed by some very fierce cats indeed. They've been training the ducklings to fight, knowing that the Ukrainian Viking bloodline is the same as theirs. We now have Ukraine in the SAS family, alongside Belgium, Australia and Israel. Belgium earned its place at the start of WWI, when its army fought the Germans to a standstill while the French and BEF stopped them at the Marne: that left the Maritime front wide open, until great-grandpa stopped them (literally - he commanded the left flack of the entire line, the one they were trying to turn). That earned Royal favour, so mum served in SOE and I was head-hunted by the SAS as a result of my 1978 study. I did it on my own, though.
Well said. Good post..... Technically, Russia should no longer be a UN member. It was the USSR who, with others, founded the UN. The Russian Federation ought to have been excluded some time ago.....
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That Israel part didnt age very well
Russian or not it's disgusting that such levels of corruption exist in vitually every tier of leadership in their military. What a disgrace to those who are wiling to fight and die for their country. Or are they fighting and dying for corruption?
They're conscripts, not volunteers.
Russia could meet it's volunteer military needs with their population, but authoritarian regimes don't provide anything worth fighting for.
Just ask China.
Peace through superior firepower.
Some are fighting for a paycheck or out of loyalty to the country. Some volunteered before the war and are fighting to stay out of jail, where they would probably be drafted anyway and sent to an even worse part of the military. And some believed the propaganda because it was their only source of info.
It's not people's lives that they care about, it's their own selves.
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Everyone in Russia went to fight for money and die for money (to feed their family) but they literally cannot earn money at home. If you say that the problem is Putin. what was wrong in 90? and why was everything so much worse there and also the war?
When the war started, Russia had less than half the trucks they needed to support their army. That's literally what stopped them dead 3 days into the war. They lost the war just 3 days in.
Russia is the only country that makes convertible tanks. And because it's summer they go around with the top down
You joke but there were actually quite a few WW2 tanks and tank destroyers that had open topped turrets. I don't think they were very popular, especially in the face of artillery. I guess they did it because they were cheaper and quicker to build but could still be quite effective in the right circumstances.
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Spend this money on fuel.
Okay, I'll spend this money on vodka.
No, spend the money on fuel.
Okay, so I'll buy the fuel and then sell it.
Presenting Vladdy's "Flying Turret Circus"! I will say it again, Russia is nothing more than an oversized banana republic that straddles 11 time zones.
Your reply is the best !
Your opinion means nothing to anyone but yourself
@@Koz4concern Russia is losing big time
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Keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better. Your opinion means nothing to anyone but yourself
@@Koz4concern Your stupidity is showing. You watch too much RT.
Thanks for putting this together man 👍 it's an angle well-worth exploring as I think those of us in the West have drawn paralells with our flavour of corruption...
You don't actually buy into this b*******
Just think what the current Russian government could have done for it's people if it hadn't chosen to squander all that money on these destroyed tanks. the people of Russia could have been enjoying a better lifestyle, better health and etc.
Maybe some life qality and life style compared to Canada. But they choose wrong.
had a good look around the EU and the US lately???
@@jamesdoe3713 Russia's corruption is of a staggering level of incompetence and thievery. Also people are talking about Russia not the EU.
@@okbutthenagain.9402 we should be more concerned about our own countries, they're going to sh*t with massive corruption, democracy is a lie and soon to be enslaved with a CBDC. But hey lets focus on Russia. But that's the point, dont focus on the real problems.
@@jamesdoe3713 You have a point, there is certainly a lot of ... room for improvement ... in many western world countries too and we should never forget that. But we also have to keep a sense of proportions.
Here's a good rule-of-thumb if you live in the western world and want to understand the amount of corruption in Russia. Start with what you see in your country, then multiply by
+ 10 if you live in a corrupt country (USA, the UK, France etc.)
+ 50 if you live in a country with a relatively low corruption level (Germany, Canada, Australia...)
+ 100 if you live in a country with a very low corruption level (the Nordic countries, New Zealand, the Netherlands...)
+ 5 if you live in a country with a very high corruption level (Italy, Poland etc)
+ 2 is you live in Ukraine
It's not exact of course but it should give you a fairly good idea. My point is that the amount of corruption and power abuse even in the worst western nations is so much lower than in authoritarian regimes like Russia we can't really comprehend their situation and they can't comprehend our.
I included Ukraine since it's a special case. Ukraine was just as bad as Russia only a few years ago but recently they've been working their way out of the s'''thole. They haven't come far yet but they've been making steady allbeit slow progress. This is one of the main reasons why Russia invaded. The Russian regime can't afford to let its people see how Ukraine is doing better since the comparasion between the two countries is far too obvious. Their solution is to try to drag Ukraine back down.
1:15 And the US military budget that year was more than 10x that of Russia's and still most kept parroting the line, '...the second most powerful military in the world...'?!
Jokers.
To the general public, Russias military budget was 66 billion while Ukraines was 6 billion...
I bet Ukraine spent more on their military.☺
They spent their money on the things that mattered for the defence of their country and not flashy wonder weapons.
The Ukraine did not try to impress the rest of the world with their flashiest gear (like Russia did).
Ukraine didn't have to pay for some Wunderwaffen and other white elephants like (pretending to have) an ocean-going navy. And all their military budget could be focused against Russia and Belarus, they know they do not have to worry about an invasion from Poland.
Very dumb comment. The military budget of Ukraine is basically the military budget of Nato so do the math. ...
It's an epic "David vs Goliath" analogy.
@@angeurbain6129 not even close. They haven't even got a tasting of NATO's main course (its airforce)
You should mention that it is assumed that the russian military budget is not what they actually say officially. Its supposed to be a lot higher, approximately up to double the amount.
The US military has a branch that works independently that supervises how the money is been spent in the military, so is incredibly hard for soldiers and officers to be corrupt. When I was in the military, a pistol was misplaced in my unit and the whole unit was lock down until it was found 😅
Oh there are ways. An entire special forces armory was robbed of automatic rifles, ammo, night vision, etc. and as far as I know they never caught whoever did it (and whoever did it had access). Poor access controls.
It's only difficult for common soldiers to be corrupt. If you really want to be corrupt in the US military, go work for Lockheed or the Pentagon or something, they get to spend ungodly amounts of taxpayer money without any recourse from audits. Those bastards are definitely siphoning profits from us proletariat.
So you think. Good little pigeon.
@@bidenisasnake9932 I mean, it's reality. But you can spread whatever conspiracy nonsense you want. Those of us with experience know. Even just miscounting ammo while training cause the entire unit to shutdown until every bit of it is accounted for.
There are tens of billions that are un accounted for by the Pentagon for at least past 20 years that we know of it comes up every year at audit time that military has no answer for where that money is so please stop talking stupid when it comes to corruption and how money is spent by US military .
Every military has corruption period no military is immune to it .
One name comes to mind,PERUN. If you want an in-depth analysis of how corruption can ruin an army, the Russian army, then I highly recommend the UA-cam content by Perun. His videos/ presentations are absolutely fantastic and can not be held in compassion with anything else out there....
USA is just as Corrupt.
@@bidenisasnake9932 It really isn't.
It’s amazing how rusted out they became
Like the rapidly increasing military budget in the US isn t obscenely grotesque
We can as well wonder if this same fate effects their nuclear arsenal too.
That Stalin-laugh at 2:39! 😂
You are missing the real point.
Each of those tanks hand a crew.
It takes 1 year to train a driver.
It takes 2 years to train a gunner.
It takes 5 years to train a tank commander.
It takes 6 years to train a platoon leader.
It takes 10 years to train a platoon sergeant.
It takes 10 years to train a company commander.
This is a Lack of Accountability…. On all level’s!
A fish rots from the head down. It's not the low level soldier, it's the kleptocracy in Moscow.
Hard to imagine how Russia's arms industry ever rebuilds credibility and demand.
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GLORY to Russia
@@bobibobik5903cope Russian
Very old Construction industry saying, "The crew takes on the personality of the Boss".
Two hours to see all those “Jack in the box” tanks?……wait till I get my popcorn to enjoy this lol Glory to Ukraine🇬🇧💙💛🇺🇦
Well said and great plug that could help Ukrainians! Thank you!
Another thing not pointed out enough is how the Russian military is geared towards defense rather than offense. Their entire infrustructure system is built on heavy rail and trains, so when they push out over another country's border, they have no transport capabilities. You'd need like 2 trucks to support just 1 main battle tank and it's crew for a few days, but current russian logistics is more like 3 battle vehicles for every 1 support truck.
That's why most maps you see of the invasion of Ukraine, the charge stopped only after maybe 100 miles in because there was no logistics to push any further.
They're used to rolling into Latvia and just stomping all over everyone because they're peaceful and don't have a big military. They are built for oppression and bullying of weaker nations, not taking on an equipped and determined opponent.
Partially correct. Russian Doctrine focuses upon Offensive Operations as essential to achieving victory in any conflict. Defense is only supposed to be temporary, until the Russians may return to the Offensive.
This is historically true, and there is significant merit to the theory.
You are correct that Russian Logistics is highly dependent upon Railroads... Russia has failed to develop their Logistics to support their Doctrine!
One of the greatest strengths of the USA is our LOGISTICS, which may facilitate our military operations. The greatest failure of the USA is for our Politicians to be able to turn Military Successes into negotiated Diplomatic success...
Tragic that what the USA achieves at great cost is thrown away with Politicial and Diplomatic INCOMPETENCE!
@@paladinsix9285"World's Largest Nation has military built for peaceful defensive purposes." More Vodka fueled vatnik propaganda to come comrade.
The real problem with logistics is that Russia has a different gauge rail than the rest of Europe.
Coincidentally, because of being in the Soviet union for a long time and being more oriented on Russia until 2014, this is actually not a problem in Ukraine. They also use the wider Russian guage.
The problem is that the railway lines connecting Russian rail system to Ukrainian, has been targeted by both sides to harm enemy logistics.
This has been a common tactic since at least WW2 when both Germans and Allies targeted each others railway lines and hubs with fighters and bombers, and resistance would also sabotage tracks all the time in occupied territory.
In my home town you can still see the bullet holes in the H beams of the train station. It is one of the few pre-war stations left in my country that hasnt been renovated.
Additionally, Russia is having trouble getting the parts to keep their trains running due to all the sanctions.
How can the metal rust so quickly? The images that you are showing may not be from the war zone?
You can see that the vehicles that have detonated their ammunition or have otherwise been of fire look rusty. That's because steel oxidizes and rusts much more quickly when heated and burnt. And the moisture from the air speeds up this process even further.
Something like, " for the want of a nail the shoe was lost. For the want of a shoe the horse was lost....."
I'd add another factor, rivalry without competence. The west has a supersonic airliner? So should we. The result was Concordski, which relied on afterburners all the way. The west has reactive armour on their tanks? So should we. The trouble is, they used rubber. Didn't work. The West have cheap runabout cars? Let's nick a factory (I was present at the very start of that one, Agnelli being taken for a sucker - I handled Ivanov's conference registration. Making his KGB minder opened his mind to me, and opened my file with MI5 - the sob was within 500m of the UK MOD!
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😂😂😂😂Ukrain the most corrupt country in Europe, 🤡Zelensky saved billions of US corrupt government' donations on its own bank account. Millions of US citizens can't affort decent housing or food caused by US corruption. Fact check, only facts not your MSM anti Russia propaganda.
in World of Tank and War Thunder soviet and russian tanks are overpowered, in fact they are just iron coffins with autoburning corpses
Yep. But bought lots of yachts.
145.000.000$ confiscated yachts of Putin.
hey maybe they can strap a few guns on the yachts. might be more reliable combat vessels then their actual warships.
@@sirsalty9516 if they send those to war, how would those poor oligarch gets to host their lavish parties? it would get scratch and be rendered useless for special occasions.
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Imagine that. It turns out that modelling your government after the USSR is likely to cause corruption.
modelling a country after another failed country is a bad idea
You know that basically every modern goverment very similiar to each other with very small differnces?
@@synthfur05No, we don't know that, because it isn't true.
This is not an argument that other governments are squeaky clean, but that some systems have fat greater levels of accountability and oversight.
Well, you're wrong if I'm being honest. All countries share this similar issue, every government has its share of corruption, and it's just the methods that differ.
@@rosaria8384 No, Nope, Nyet, Non , Nein…. You are not being honest.
As I said above, not every government is squeaky-clean, but there is a vast difference in both degree and type of corruption.
As soon as you try to sell me something, I'm outta here.
Poorly paid conscripts ( conscripts in general ? ) don't have the incentive to perform to a high standard, increase pay and work towards professional standards ( maybe too late ) is the only route towards a professional military
The weakness of the Russian army is evident at all levels: demoralized soldiers stealing washing machines, tanks running out of fuel, soldiers equipped with Airsoft helmets and vests, and GPS locators simply taped to aircraft dashboards.
These are just a few examples, but the problem goes beyond equipment.
The weakness of the Russian army can also be seen in the training of troops, the incompetence of military commanders, logistics, medical support, and the morale of soldiers.
Every aspect of the Russian military is “rotten”.
And the root cause of these problems is corruption, because corruption in the Russian army is systemic and permeates all levels and structures
Corruption is the blood suck of any economy. Reduce the corruption, improve the economy.
The whole system is rotten ,to the core ,from top to bottom.
wth? 34 percent unemployment rent? that is literally 10 times more than real number. is that really that easy to lie about politics
Of course the Ukraine was just as corrupt prior to the war. It may be that faced with annihilation that their corruption has been greatly reduced. We have seen a number of high profile arrests after the invasion bagan.
But I think that if the money intended for defence had actually gone to that purpose, the Russians may not have been so confident of success.
It was as bad until 2014. After that Ukraine made an honest attempt to reduce corruption and it’s worked decently well.
Uraine trying to reduce corruption and kick out oligarchs who are friends with Putin regime is one of the major reasons for the invasion. Youve got this completely backwards.
Reducing corruption is also prerequisite for joining EU or NATO which is a stated goal of Ukrainian govt since 2014.
That nation was lost in 1917. It never recovered..
No, it was lost when the moscovites took power hundreds of years ago
A fun fact, or not so fun if you want, is that each of the bi yearly intakes of recruits at leat 30% or more are removed from units and put in to armaments production at various factories. Many of the CO's and battalion leadership receive their customary kickback for every recruit they provide.
Theres also the cases of Russian investigative journo's being murdered by those involved in the blackmarkets wholesale of military equipment.
nonsense
Ever heard of Michael Hastings?
The US is just as good at taking care of those darn investigative journos
Check out the Perun YT channel for a more in depth analysis of corruption in the military. The channel is a gem.
A military perceived as weak is perhaps the most dangerous condition for any population. Deterrence is half of the national defense strategy for any country. I really enjoy this channel.
I don't know part of me feels like this is Russian equipment cope. What really killed the Russian army was the fact that they didn't train their troops well, or have strong tactical theory, they literally ran at defenses over and over again, instead of abandoning tactics that weren't working they just continue to display throwing there head at the wall tactics. Their air units were not trained to fly multiple air group battle formations, resulting in never gaining air superiority. I think also their military equipment is seriously lacking, they went to war without night vision or thermal optics for their troops or other vehicles (I know some of their tanks have thermals but their not modern thermals.) which we all know night operations are key to victory and not using night time equipment puts a military force at a serious disadvantage. What this war really showed was Russian army hadn't changed much about themselves since world war 2. I think it really showed they did not have a strong professional military but a group of conscripts that were given little to no training, with ideas of being a tough guy above all other considerations.
They were also using open line radios without encryption
When talking about officials only making $180,000 a year yet owning $18,000,000 mansions I see the reflection of our politicians…Pelosi Schumer Obama…you get the picture
The only thing is like to point out is that Ukraines budget went entirely to it's ground forces. The Russians have a big navy they don't use, thousands of jets, nukes to maintain. In reality they probably spent the same amount on their ground forces lol.
This doesn't happen when you take care of your people. We need to be careful in America. This shit is happening more here. Greed is a cancer.
Just don’t adopt a communist government and you’ll be fine. Oh and don’t let ruzkis settle as well, their culture is just like that for hundreds of years.
True we seem to be holding the rail
4:21 : Gotta love the stabilized barrel carrying the blue-jacketed woman.
Maybe one issue - most of the tanks in Russia's arsenal were inherited from the Soviet Union so - - - maybe it's costing Russia not-so-much? At least in expendatures. Loss of prestige, lives, and maybe the war are other matters. Good video overall. Thanks.
This is actually worse since it suggests that russia has seriously problems with production of modern equipment.
@@guitarhausdoesntknowwhatac3285 Nope they use old equipment and that is smart move, anyone who knows at least something about military should know that. But the problem with YT is that are a lot of self proclaimed gurus of all matters, they know it all ☺ due to they google it and absorbed the misinformation's served by similar know it all gurus or propaganda.
Ask any NATO military officer who know at least something about Russian army and you'll hear it alone.
@jimbowling8528 that is not maybe mate that is correct 100%. 7 years before the Russians decided to finally protect people that was terrorized by the ukraine regime, the specialist for Russian army from my native country talked exactly about those things that you've mentioned.
They have a huge reserves from the USSR era, after all Russia did not wage wars across the globe in last x decades ( as some other superpower did) so they had no place to spent that arsenal. Plus they were producing a lot of weapons for export for the so called east block. Since the the end of USSR that export went down because east Europe start to get weapons' from US. That all added to accumulated arsenal of weapons.
For them is cheaper to let to use older tanks which are still great ,and even to live them behind due to for them it's an old arsenal. It's like an old technology that We trowing away ( cars, machines etc and such older items would seems like fortune to some other people).
@@bobibobik5903 Quantity =/= quality.
@@guitarhausdoesntknowwhatac3285 so you think that there are no items made in large quantities that are HQ? Dude this are 1st class tanks for their time and era. Once Germans had so called HQ Tigers etc but guess what even German generals told that the best tank of the World War 2 was Russian T 34 . You should learn something from that due to it was made in large quantities as well - larger then Tiger
We pretend to work, they pretend to pay us!
The 11:1 military spending is an over simplification. Ukraine didn't support three Navies, Baltic, Pacific and Black Sea. Ukraine didn't support a nuclear submarine fleet or land based ICBMs, Ukraine didn't also spend a fortune trying to usurp other countries like Georgia and the ex-soviet far east. So realistically Ukraine was spending about 1/3 to 1/4 of russia's budget on land forces. Still a big gap, but not the mamoth gap that the raw figures imply.
The military budget of Ukraine is now irrelevant because this budget is now basically the budget on Nato. JUst for the fun compare the military budget of the USA and the one of Russia.
It's still impressive and hilarious how Ukraine didn't fund or have a navy but they still manage to sink Russia's best warships like the moscova.
@@angeurbain6129 Except that's a lie and you know it. NATO have not donated a single thing to Ukraine. Various countries under NATO have but not NATO itself.
You play with words here. Nato countries have donated plenty of money and equipment to Ukraine.@@melindacadarette3447
Military aid to Ukraine has been, as of May 31, about 0.18% of US GDP, about 0.7% of Total Budget, about 5-6% of Defense Budget, and about 0.15% of EU (Plus Norway and UK) GDP.
So no, Ukraine hasn't the whole budget of Nato at its disposal, It has a fraction of Nato military potential
Someone should mention that Vlad Putin's personal wealth is estimated at between 1 and 2 TRILLION dollar-equivalent. This on a salary equivalent of $200k per year....
What's that about rotting from the top down?
Here when this has 4k views
I don't understand! These employees who were convicted of corruption were registered by someone during employment,someone wrote them a description and recommendations, someone kept them in office, someone had to control their work. Really so long time, I rise on a career ladder, nobody knew anything? I just don't believe it. This is too fantastic for me to understand!
can you do a new video of "average german tank" destroyed in ukraine ??
Stalins laugh is pure evil. When you start a state with a crime everything else rots too.
i hope corruption to destroy all Russia
Pathetic that you lay the blame on the soldiers drafted into senseless conflict as somehow spreading upwards into higher ranks.
The soldiers know they are lied to, forced to fight, their equipment never arrives, their pay is late, they are given stupid orders, and so on and so forth. They know higher ups dont care about them, so if they can get anything out of the conflict, they will.
Excrement drips downhill. Not the other way around.
What happened to Russia we knew so well ! The writer is from a SE Asian country, which has a quite a bit of rapport with Russia. In this country, Russian literature esp. that of Tolstoy, Chekov, Dostowsky and many others has become a kind of religion. Not only that Russia has gifted to the world so many academics, scientists, aeronauts too numerous to set out in a tiny write up like this ! All that greatness is now being subjugated all due to the megalomaniac, insane Put-in ! After all Russia is the foremost country in the world due to its massiveness spanning 11 time zones. If one metaphorically takes the world Govts., as a family with many siblings Russia invariably becomes the ‘big brother’ keeping other siblings from harming each other looking after them benevolently. Russia should be one of the foremost Arbitrators in the sphere of ‘peace’. However, as of now Russia has become subjective to Arbitration as a result of the maddening war against Ukraine. Who are the new Arbitrators; MBS of Saudi Arabia whose bona fides in this particular sphere is much to be desired. What happened to ‘hapless’ Khassogi who write articles mildly criticizing MBS and was dismembered as punishment. When MBS arbitrates Russia is not even present. Put-in is following the classic blunders made by Putler taking upon himself the conduct of foreign policy, economy and the Red Army itself. Russian FM Lavrov has become the ‘laughing stock’ at the UN. When the Russian Permanent Rep., spews out vitriol, insinuation, half truths (mostly flagrant lies), other FMs look amused and flabbergasted ! Surely, they are ‘laughing’ at Russia in a most derisive manner, making Russia a ‘pariah’ country, indicted by the UN as ‘war criminals’. All these due to one single misanthrope a.k.a. Put-in, who should be removed from his post as Prez. Of Russia!
Unfortunately though, the removal of Putin would probably not solve the problem. I cannot speak much on how they were during the time of the Tzars and earlier, but, from the time of the communist revolution in 1917 and the birth of the Soviet Union, Russia's government and army has always seemed rather beligerent towards it's neighbours. Heavy censorship and attempted re-writing of history for their own people became commonplace. Look at that new historybook they brought out to be used in Russian schools for instance, or how many Russians seem to believe that they alone practically defeated Nazi-Germany, while conveniently ignoring or belittling the help they received from the Allies, both by fighting germany on other fronts, aswell as the lend-lease aid through the atlantic convoys.
Then there is the fact that after Germany was defeated, the Russians tried to keep Eastern Europe occupied and forced them into the Warsaw pact for Russia's own benefit, and how they have since tried to grab land wherever they could, like Afghanistan and, during Putin's time, part of Georgia and Moldova and now ofcourse, Khrimea and Ukraine.
Thirdly, there is the complete and utter contempt that the Russians seem to have for human life, both for that of their enemies and civilians, aswell as that of their own men. It was the case during WW2 when they lost in the millions of soldiers, the temporary use of order 227 and other things, aswell as the callous bombing of civilians in Syria, and the mass-graves they found in Bucha in Ukraine. And ofcourse the barely trained sods they keep sending into Ukraine to die by the thousands.
Tl;dr, what I am trying to say is, Russia as a nation has a problem that far precedes Putin, and his removal will not solve it. He is not the source, but a symptom of a system that was rotten long before Putin ever came to power.
The writer is overwhelmed; really overwhelmed after reading your comment. Your take on Russia and the 3rd dimension underlined the fact that how little I know about Russia. Perhaps, the writer is seduced by the sheer size of Russia ! There is nothing small about Russia unless it be that of the mindset of Putin which appears to be minus scale ! Take for instance the Tr. Siberian Railway from Moscow to Novosibrisk which runs about 7500 km and double tracked all the way. Unfortunately, our Putin has a single track mind which leads him to disastrous campaigns for the general detriment of Russia and its long suffering people, making it a 'pariah' state in front of other world nations; albeit couple of countries in Africa. Thank so much@@MrGiselbart I hope to read further on your takes on Russia which is highly interesting to me ! Thanks so much once again !
JHC. Use paragraghs for gods sake. One look told me it would induce a headache trying to read that bloke of letters.
Point taken and writer is sorry that paragraphing was forgotten in the heat of writing ! Shall do so in to the future. ! @@okbutthenagain.9402
Point taken and writer is sorry that paragraphing was forgotten in the heat of writing ! Shall do so in to the future. ! @@okbutthenagain.9402
Ukraine is flattened and that is a fact. Millions have been displaced and every major city demolished.
Kyiv looks pretty intact to me.
You sound surprisingly proud about Russia bombing cities. Truly an accomplishment to admire.
@@karsten11553 If you get trickfucked you get Screwed. Bottom line. Nobody cares. Unless it’s them specifically. Eat shit and die they say, unless you are a soldier.
Excellent video Sir 👍
Just think how much scrap metal for Ukraine 😊
Ukraine is being turned into scrap and so is a generation of males.... sigh if people werent so ignorant and controlled :/
The giggling Stalin meme clip gets me every time! 😂😂😂
Let’s do another video that shows how corruption has destroyed Journalism in America.
Only one emote is needed to Russia
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The most powerful military ranking is probably between the US Air Force, US Navy and the US National Guard at this rate for the top 3, with maybe China coming in 4th ahead of the US Marine Corps.
Ahhha 20 years in Afghanistan and lose !😂
@@johnsch1988
Russia was in Afghanistan for 10 years and lose as well.
@@enpakeksi765 The USSR fought in Afghanistan against Bin Laden, who was sponsored by the United States by supplying tens of billions of dollars worth of weapons. If Russia had helped the Taliban, the US would have fled Afghanistan in 1 year. Bin Laden repaid his masters well in the USA in 2011
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Bin Laden died in 2011, yes. Such was his payment.
@@johnsch1988 Yet you guys lost in 10 years and your country fell apart both politically and economically. It's obvious that you haven't learned a single thing since then with Ukraine. BTW Bin Laden was never a part of the Taliban - he was the leader of Al-Qaeda and not even from Afghanistan. The Taliban and Al-Qaeda were just allies - the Taliban just had more control over the country than Al-Qaeda and still do.
Do you think Gomer Pyle would be promoted to general of one of their divisions
I don't think we can disrespect Russian capabilities. The War in Ukraine is not over nor is the larger War.
Nobody said that Russia would "lose", just that they threw away their overwhelming advantage to win.
correct, but the internet warriors love their ignorance and flag waving.....
Well Russia's so called "best military in the world"didn't last past the first moment of contact with their so called enemy. Russia's display of ineptitude and lack of military planning, execution and equipment has shown the world that their "capabilitites are nothing like the propaganda they love to spout. Also Russia deserves no respect for their lack of capability military wise. Wary yes, Respect. Nope!
@@jamesdoe3713 Wrong. Russia deserves nothing more than loathing, distrust. No respect as they desrve none. Lastly their military cannot be respected after the human rights violations, rapings, murders, and illegal invasion. The West can be wary of what is left of the paper tiger of Russia's military but it certainly doesn't get any respect.
You forgot the violent hazing that happens in russian army by the soldiers themselves, which also contributes to the soldiers being more willing to sell out their fellow soldiers...