The guy isn't a loser. His leaders have stolen his chances since he was born... they stole the money that was meant for the hospital where he was born, the school he went to he maybe got a bad paying job fixing the streets of his town, because that money for the streets also got stolen. i would start drinking for less ....
Good point. Nobody is inherently a loser. I've had soldiers on my teams who had a loser attitude. No problem. Treat them with respect and restore their dignity. Whatever they had experienced in civilian life that had damaged their self-image became a thing of the past.
If he had a sense of moral - he would go steal money, that's much more morally right then murdering for money. You can steal from a corporation of government. But they choose to enlist and become paid mercenaries.
@russbell6418 Yes, that's too common among veterans, even those who have never experienced combat. Having had their self-esteem and dignity restored only to go back to the things that tore them down.
No, he's a loser. Not all Russians are like this, many live comfortable normal lives in cities and towns. They work or study just like everyone else. If everyone was like him he wouldn't think he's a loser, he would just be normal.
I mean, I’ll bang on Russia as much as anybody else, but this is just straight up sad. The percentage of recruits over 50 is just mind numbingly depressing.
Nothing is more shameful than sending grandpa to fight a war of aggression, and retreat means death. I couldn't imagine America doing this, or anything outside of a totalitarian country.
As an ex soldier my self I find this so distressing. We were self confident and backed up to the hilt by our commanders with the best kit of the day and trained to a very high standard,and every man jack expected to return home in one peace and most did. UK forces are still among the best in the world. God bless Ukrainian and God help those poor misguided Russians.
I would guess that if an attack fails, everyone would try something different. Russians seem like a mindless zombie horde, advancing ahead the same way
Families need to be able to collect if solders die in combat....its disgraceful because they know....they're using these men as "Frontline buffers"....knowing they won't have to pay them...
They stand there with guns in their hands and they know they're facing certain death but they still don't make sure that "officer" dies first. Incredible!
@@Robert6889 More importantly, have YOU heard of "I'm just following orders" was no defence in the Nuremburg Trials? It is an unjust war and the Russian commanders sending their men ito CERTAIN death is MURDER. But the Russian's are cowards and very few rise up against anythign from their superiors.
I suspect that may well be the point. The people in charge of Russia do not care at all about the future of the nation. Russian birth rates are unsustainably low, and yet instead of doing anything to raise fecundity, they are needlessly sacrificing hundreds of thousands for a pointless war that only benefits the oligarchs. I think the powers that be may actually want Russia and Ukraine to be destroyed in a mutually destructive conflagration. I always suspect there is more to any geopolitical intrigue than meets the eye.
I just saw a documentary about a woman who traveled to the wilderness far away and died, very possibly in a suicide. Apparently a lot of people go to the wilderness to commit suicide away from family and friends so that they just disappear and die without getting attention. One expert said that as well many people travel to live (not die) in the wilderness as a sort of temporary suicide in that they have disappeared from their friends, family and society, possibly to find out if anyone will miss them when they're gone. Although these Russian soldiers are not going to the wilderness and certainly won't be alone there is some similarity to people who flee society to go to the wilderness as a type of "suicide" whether temporary or permanent. Perhaps there is also some similarly to the children who pack a few things in a bag and run away from home and say, "When I die they will be sorry for how badly they treated me". Except those children almost always change their mind and return home within an hour.
In Afghanistan US had just under 2000 fatalities. When you imagine that (Including both sides and civilians) that many die in Ukraine every day, for nearly a thousand days now. The scale is hard to grasp. Cheers for the vid squire.
@@glintongordon6811he didn't say this war had the highest civvy casualties, just that the number of civilians killed is not zero. Significantly, Russia has been targeting civilians from day one.
@@glintongordon6811 That makes no sense either. Ukraine war has less civilian deaths than the most miniscule conflicts in history? How about conflicts fought in air or sea without any civilian presence? Numbers are impossible to verify, but a lot of explosive material is raining down on cities where people live, so obviously it is happening on some scale.
@@beerandchips2545 Ага - с начала войны солдаты РФ даже отпускали переодетых в гражданскую одежду солдат ВСУ в связи с заявлением что это внучек приехал погостить со Львова в Харьковскую область. А сколько народа они уничтожили в 2014 году призахвате Крыма , отключили воду и электричество. Они даже мост построили для подвоза пвточнвх камер. Вот откуда такая информация?
That is a really demotivating speech. I remember when i was in Desert Storm and our dirtbag e-6 said to us “privates are a dime a dozen , i can replace privates but not vehicles”. Needless to say he became high on the frag list.
@@theshoot2958Happens a lot, just held to a different standard and practices in the modern age. Most of the time, it existed before the name, and long after the name was declared
In the US, we value our lives, we value human life. any "leader" who doesn't value the lives of his men is the enemy of those men. This is part fo what makes teh US military so good. We get creative and adapt to stay alive and win.
My dad said there's an old Russian saying, "The poor could make a good living, if the rich would pay them to die for them." Sounds like Putin made that saying a reality. 😢
@ScottDore-jn3nf LoL, russians are poor financially. Don't pitty them for joining the war. They could riot and change the government but they believed that they won't be killed by Ukrainians at the war. They were not fooled. They wanted to believe that. It's their fault.
Who's to say your family will ever even see a sliver of that money if you die too. "Sorry Natasha, comrade Sergey is MIA so we can't pay out, he may still be alive"
I watch a Russian UA-camr called “Vasya In The Hay”. It has opened my eyes up to how rural Russians live. It’s not a life, such is the poverty. I recommend anyone to watch a few episodes.
@@seancidy6008 No wonder Conservatives are flocking to Russia. Judging by all the video blogs they are releasing, it's a great place to live for the white man.
No, his reference to "Indians" was referring to volunteers from India. Many impoverished Indians responded to Putin's overseas recruitment campaigns. When they got there and found out how crappy things were, they sent word back home. In response, Prime Minister Modi of India had a word with Putin and summarily got all Indian contracts nullified, so that the Indians can leave and go back to India. I believe that this is a unique situation with the foreign volunteers. India's government doesn't like Putin's war. Not so much for the sake of humanitarian purposes, but for the potential economic and geopolitical risks to the hemisphere. India is one of two countries (China being the other) that has the clout to do this. Good video, by the way.
Not exactly, there have been a number of Chinese volunteers who were allowed to act autonomously but denied the freedom to return home by russia. China's penalty against its citizens who volunteer to fight in russia is pretty severe
@@GarryMercer-tq5uo Interesting. I didn't know that, but I can see it happening...especially in the provinces in China, where the poverty can really be bad. Thanks for the info.
I think you mean India is one of two countries since putin isn't a country, well yet, I can see it being just called putinland soon enough lol. But the context is being able to gtfo of the donbass so you must mean the Indians who are leaving.
@@dialytan2002 Actually, that sounds about right, in terms of the numbers. A lot of poor Indians and Nepalis signed up. Modi interceded to have them released months ago. But, I'm guessing that there were a few who chose to stay there for financial reasons. These foreign soldiers are kept in common units. My guess is that the Russian commander referring to the "Indians" was referring to either a depleted unit that needed replacement, or one that was already gone. I just don't believe that a Russian commander would randomly refer to a group of people as "Indians". It's more likely to refer to Koreans as "Chinese", which some Russian intercepts have picked up. But, Indians are too distinct a group.
The English equivalent of the term russians use is "nullify" or "zero out". The 155th brigade is known for executing surrendered nine Ukrainian "droners" and leaving the bodies stripped to their boxers open-air for the Ukrainians to observe. Also, before that for cutting off the head of a killed Ukrainian soldier, putting it on a spike and recording a video with it. So yes, the AFU pay special attention to the 155 russian brigade. The 95th Separate Polesian Air Assault Brigade of AFU in particular regularly publishes a lot of videos with KIA russians from the 155th.
Reminds me of a Russian recruitment ad showing men doing jobs like gorcery store bagger, taxi driver, etc.. feeling lost then transformed into "real men" when becoming soldiers. They know the demographic
Russian is just trading men for farm land. You can see how pointless this war is. They don't have any strategic objectives other than to gain more square kilometers.
Ukraine is losing many more soldiers due to the overwhelming firepower superiority of the Russians. The Russians believe that their opponents will run out much faster.
My last Battalion commander didn't give big speeches before an assault. He was loading his mags and checking his gear like the rest of us. He led from the front and if he called me today to go to war I would come out of retirement armed to the teeth.
Now imagine that you and your commander found yourselves on the battlefields of World War I, where your commander had to repeatedly send you into attack and then into counterattack. How quickly would the relationship become strained?
Damn, Paul. This hit home REALLY hard. I know EXACTLY what you are talking about. Back in 2010 I tried to turn my life around and joined the French Foreign Legion. I didn't make the cut and that has shattered my sense of existence since then. I've finally been able to start trail my path, but, at 43, I feel like it might be too late. Last year, I decided I was going to join the Ukrainian International Legion. I basically told myself in December 2023: "If this last attempt at launching fails, I'm joining the Ukrainian Legion." Just the thought of it seemed to spark some sense of purpose inside me. As it turned out, something lined up in the stars and a new opportunity appeared. I decided to take it and I didn't join. I question that decision everyday, and I follow the war daily, watching your videos, watching Ryan McBeth, Preston Stewart, Denys Davydov, Artur Rehi, etc. But I think I'm going to insist on the current path I'm on and see what happens... But the thought is still there, in the back of my mind...
LucasFernando your comment is very poignant and totally relevant to this situation, glad you found something else worth dedicating your life to! I can tell you over and over not to feel bad because the French Legion didn't happen but it won't help anything. I served in the USAF and my career was far from distinguished but I'm very glad I tried it, just like you tried your best for the Legion. I've met hundreds of guys who never even tried to enlist in anything, and I can tell many of them still feel a pang of regret even if they don't say it. The point is you tried hard to get in the FFL, which is one of the toughest units in the entire world, that spits out men even their own, like a chipper in the best of times! Besides there are hundreds of reasons they might bar you from entering the FFL, they might have too many men on the books at the moment for instance so their quals would be a lot tighter, etc. the last thing you should do is take it personally!
Im a man who actually did join the ukrainian international legion. I regret it. It's just full of depressed guys looking for purpose. Many of whom have zero idea what the war is even about. They only know "ukraine good russia bad" very simple minded. I personally have been following the war since 2014. I know it very well
Now all that crazy and depressing footage of russian soldiers unaliving themselves when they get injured makes sense. Imagine being in a state of mind where you believe you have nothing to live for and your own side says they will eliminate you if you retreat, might as well go out the easy way.
@@Robert6889 Fatalism isn't a uniquely Russian culture trait, but they are exceptionally more prevalent than in other places. You can see fatalism anywhere from their literatures to history.
@glintongordon6811 Desperation. If you're a poorly educated Russian serf who's struggling to feed his family you may wind up thinking you have no other choice. This is why the age of the average Russian recruit is far older than most militaries.
2:20 I had a friend, we grew up together, and after he got his degree at Harvard, he taught university courses in Estonia, Lithuania, and St. Petersburg. He was in St. Petersburg for two years, living with his fiancé's mother in a middle class apartment. He talked a lot about how hard it was for him to wrap his head around the sheer fatalism and learned helplessness embedded in Russian culture. Usually university students can be naive and idealistic, and you have to remind them of reality, as a professor.... but not in st. Petersburg! Even the bright, high performing students who are more privileged than peers, they were deeply pessimistic about politics. They all have this mentality described here from the 35 year old enlistee. "It's not for me to decide." Everyone is painfully aware of how bad things are, but things cannot be changed. They _must_ be this way. Teaching in the US, students complaints tended to say my friends was overly erudite and he could be condescending. Teaching in St. Petersburg, though, he got the reputation of an air-headed, happy-go-lucky youth from California, lol. I dont want to make this sound more dramatic than it is. But this kind if pessimism is hard-coded into Russian culture, and it leaves its mark on everyone, in one way or another.
Maybe not fatalism, just being bummed out all the time. Why? Because they live in a dictatorship with anything they say or think could provoke a visit from the police. Like being watched constantly.
Paul is completely right regarding passive men, that life happens to them. I was that guy too. But in Russia, because there is soo much passivity built into the culture (the enormous alcoholism rates reflects this) there is a huge percentage of men that have accepted that someone else is in charge, and there is no way to fight the system. Passivity is not a flaw or exception in their social system but a feature. This also is common in most authoritarian societies.
Alcoholism LOL I thought with the advent of the Internet people became smarter, it turns out there are still people like you... Here's what the Internet says TOP-20 most drinking countries in the world in 2022: 1. Moldova 2. Lithuania 3. Czech Republic 4. Nigeria 5. Germany 6. Ireland 7. Luxembourg 8. Latvia 9. Bulgaria 10. Romania 11. Slovenia 12. France 13. Portugal 14. Belgium 15. Seychelles 16. Russia 17. Austria 18. Poland 19. Estonia 20. Great Britain
This applies everywhere. Young men growing up in poor neighborhoods, seeing rich people next door, will try anything to become respected, make money. Including crime.
Paul is one of the few if not the only American military vlogger who actually realizes what Ukraine is facing and respects the Ukrainian military for their fight and the ways they approach it. Much respect and keep on doing what you're doing!
It's systematic. Gaslighting and violence at every step, psychological and physical, until humand cannot even begin to think about reisiting. There is personal videos from soldiers who literally talk: "Our commander is drunk, he send us on suicide mission, he personaly going to kill us, he is traitor, etc". They know that they going to die, but instead of resisting or at least running away, most just choosing to obey and die. Like animals.
@@letir7561"he personally going to kill us, he is traitor" very interesting phrase, they calling him a traitor, so they are ok with killing ukrainians, they just don`t like dying
This reminds me of when my brother signed up for Vietnam...he used to say he changed his mind when the plane landed😅😅😅 god bless his heart he was shot with scrapnel in a hellicopter and came home with a whole different attitude....he just died a month ago after fighting years of the effects of agent orange ....he had seemed to finally retire n adjust to what happened so many years ago....RIP TIM! He fought in a "senseless war" ...
Seriously, man… you are becoming a source of wisdom in the “school of life” bordering on the philosophical. You pour out very thoughtful and wise reflections on human stupidity in each post and I am left with that feeling of fortunately I am not the only one who sees beyond this war, as a symptom of the social illness in which we find ourselves (on both sides of the front...)
One thing that I don’t believe, is having a superior officer liquidating me. The army that I was in was the 🇺🇸, and I can assure you that there would be no way an officer would liquidate any of us.👞
Now imagine that you and your commander found yourselves on the battlefields of World War I, where your commander had to repeatedly send you into attack and then into counterattack. How quickly would the relationship become strained?
At this point,.as a U.S. citizen I'd take pay to go to Ukraine,well as a contract worker, not meat wave attacks! I had a relative that made almost 10k a month as a truck driver in Iraq, not always these opportunities for everyone that's desperate. Another relative made extra money even as soldier around the same time because it was wartime.
country run by criminals basicly. russia is pretty much a dystopian post-apocalyptic world. law enforcement and military is corrupted to the top because even the officers dont have any money, the salaries are bad. everybody is just trying to survive and wont hesitate throwing their friends under the bus if it means more bread on the table.
Their signing up in Moscow so Putin doesn't have to sign up anyone from Moscow, its not a good look for Putin. He saves face with the people who live in the biggest two citys, and who do most the voting, that counts.
I think it is more about pleasing minor members of goverment - their families and friends live there. Because voting is dead and irrelevant. Besides, mayors try to gather recruits the way they can and mayor of Moscow just can use more money than others.
Zero out is another term used for killing your own troops. If you don't make certain goals or objectives they will say Zero Out! They also used to use Code 200 which is the Code for Zinc Coffins or mean Killed in Action.
I doubt many of these Russian soldiers, if they ever come home, will be greeted with much other than indifference, especially if wounded. Because the typical Russian, especially outside Moscow, is too busy trying to stay alive themselves to spend time worrying about soldiers, even the wounded ones. Particularly if the returning soldiers also return to their previous lifestyle of staying drunk, brawling, and only occasionally working. About the only consideration they will get is saying it's the war that screwed them up, not their life long habits. But people will continue to ignore and avoid them.
Paul, I have a question for you. I work in the civil service and occasionally have to make life-and-death decisions. The other night, I had to make one of those calls, and if I had gotten it wrong, a young man would have been dead. He could have been turned into mincemeat by some very unforgiving machinery, and someone would have literally gone around picking up pieces of him. I made the right call with imperfect information, and he went home in his drug-induced state (that part is on him). Once I got home and took off my uniform, I felt physically ill, and my nerves were shot. I am good at making decisions when things are going down, but when I get home, I torture myself. I can’t stop playing the "what if" game in my head, and I am so fearful that I will have to make one of those calls someday and get it wrong. I am not a soldier, but I work in an area where mistakes can and do kill people. Do you have any tips for stopping the "what if" game and calming my nerves? I think the military term I am looking for is "burden of command," and yes, "burden" seems to be an understatement
Oh, I'm SURE that the recruiters in Moscow aren't complaining!!! Each recruiter would have a mandatory number that they would have to sign up PER month or they would be sent to the front themselves!!! It is the Russian version of being sent to the Eastern Front for the Germans in WWII!
"Russian version of being sent to the Eastern Front for the Germans in WWII" You do realize how nonsensical that is, right? Who do you think the German Eastern front was against? Its been the same in Russia for a long time.
@@GodwynDi How would it be nonsensical? The Germans in WWII, considered being sent to the Russian Front a Death Sentence. Considering the death toll of the Russian troops in Ukraine, I seriously doubt that any recruiter would want to be sent to the front.
It’s not twisted. Just because they are the enemy don’t make us better then them. I was taught by my father to respect all soldiers. Most soldiers fall into that category you put them Russians in
Using their own people like disposable items. It's disgusting. How long are the Russian people going to tolerate this? My brother was in the US Army for 14 years. Fours tours through Iraq and retired as an SFC. The Russian government is treating their people like grunts in a videogame. Soldiers are an INVESTMENT. You retain them and they get better with time and experience. You don't shovel them into a meat grinder. This is a disgusting way to treat people.
@@GodwynDi an overthrown government that is replaced with the same type of government is not a revolution. Its just the next fascist strongman accepted by the sheeple. Revolution is a revolutionary change. They have yet to change.
and my country that is supposed to be the leader of the free world just elected a convict who cares as much about people as Putin does... he would gladly put people thru a meat grinder if there was profit or power in it for him. Yet the people elected him. It would be nice if only stupid, selfish people had to pay the consequences for putting these sociopaths in power, but many innocents have to pay the price as well....
Great Episode Paul. Archiving this kind of thing is very important. Some day the Russian people will be able to read/see all this freely translated. Find out the truth about their family members. Good Job. 41C
As the song goes, ♫ "200 men on a one way trip ..." ♫ Fratricidal commanders and trigger-happy blocking troops makes the whole thing a hundred times more twisted.
I've been watching your channel for years. Your comment about men needing to be needed as a reason to go on living, to try harder for something tangible, a purpose is something I think is true for males. Something to compete for whether children or recognition, something.
17:04 First they said Russians fighting with WWII and rusty rifles, old and rusty tanks, now by sad old not motivated soldiers... But despite all NATO help and technology and logistic and peopaganda and sanctions and pressures and embargo and intelligence support... Russia gains territory every hour!
Ukrainians were very friendly towards Russians pre war. We had families in Russia. They still invaded, and our relatives tell us "we are there to save you", "soon we will live in one country again, just wait" It's not about compassion. USSR and KGB still live on when they needed to be destroyed past WW2 by allies. Let's see if that weakness will be the final one that destroys the world.
@@VajrahahaShunyata Yeah, I meant "workers paradise" in a sarcastic way. You're absolutely right with your gulag comment. The whole country was a gulag, not just parts of Siberia and the far east.
This really points out the realities of how grim life is in Russia, particularly outside of Moscow and Saint Petersburg, in how dying in a meat wave assault is better than continuing to live under Putin's regime. Russia's best hope certainly is sounding more and more like a German or Japanese style loss at the end of WWII where they had a total defeat and were given the chance to reset and start again.
This needs a complementary explanation. Russia “promises” a sign up bonus. The victim is sent to the frontline on a one way ticket. Russia never pays the victim or the family because they say he is missing in action. End of story. Russia gets its meat for free.
Keep the audio on during the videos. I think the emotion in the way the superior is talking is important to grasp an understanding of the speech. The Russian language is grammatically extremely different and can translate differently. I fully support Ukraine but would love to hear the audio.
one of my favorite book any man can be ivan he's actually every man a teacher a construction a solider they can shackle your body but your mind is gods place only u and your relationship to god is in the heart
Hey Paul, I've been watching your videos the past couple of years. Greet reporting every time mate. I was thinking, I also watch the war correspondence Jake Broe and Autur, maybe they could advertise your drone campaign? If your reached out to them I'm sure they would promote it for you. You guys are all in this for the same cause. Good luck with it all mate! 🇺🇦✌🏼
What ever happened to the "I want to live" outreach to help Russian solders defect? One issue I see is if its successful you have to feed and shelter these folks.
@@glintongordon6811 is there ? surely it is continuous ? ...oh i see what you mean ....join , get kitted ,a week of training , off to the front , die and fertilise the soil....rotation happens when the farmer comes and rotorvates the fields ....now i get it.
@@baldricksimson bro Russia rotate troops every 10 months... ukraine is the ones who have people complaining about being on the Frontline for 2 years... Go watch the videos of rus veterans meeting their families
I was in the US army. Paul, you are calling it as it is. The guys want respect and a feeling that they are needed. Unfortunately, and it is a human trait, most get to that level and never go further. . Some losers in civilian life turn things around. Most don't. The army offers jobs with serious responsibilities and opportunities.
“Indians” might mean soldiers from India. Modi was recently complaining to Putin about Indians being drawn to Russia under false pretenses and then being dragooned into the army.
The life of a Russian Storm Z soldat, Hobbe's classic description "nasty, brutish, and short." Even more ominous is your spot-on comment, "This is the least motivating speech I've ever heard." Sorry Paul, I had to laugh at that one, but while I was laughing someone dropped a piece of StrikeGum in my muth
This video hit me in the feels. That strong pull of men wanting to be respected and needed by the people in their lives is not talked about nearly enough.
The guy isn't a loser. His leaders have stolen his chances since he was born... they stole the money that was meant for the hospital where he was born, the school he went to he maybe got a bad paying job fixing the streets of his town, because that money for the streets also got stolen. i would start drinking for less ....
Good point. Nobody is inherently a loser. I've had soldiers on my teams who had a loser attitude. No problem. Treat them with respect and restore their dignity. Whatever they had experienced in civilian life that had damaged their self-image became a thing of the past.
If he had a sense of moral - he would go steal money, that's much more morally right then murdering for money. You can steal from a corporation of government. But they choose to enlist and become paid mercenaries.
@russbell6418 Yes, that's too common among veterans, even those who have never experienced combat. Having had their self-esteem and dignity restored only to go back to the things that tore them down.
@DonFahquidmi THANK YOU for being a great and caring leader. I wish that type of thing was more common
No, he's a loser. Not all Russians are like this, many live comfortable normal lives in cities and towns. They work or study just like everyone else. If everyone was like him he wouldn't think he's a loser, he would just be normal.
I mean, I’ll bang on Russia as much as anybody else, but this is just straight up sad. The percentage of recruits over 50 is just mind numbingly depressing.
Nothing is more shameful than sending grandpa to fight a war of aggression, and retreat means death. I couldn't imagine America doing this, or anything outside of a totalitarian country.
Life under authoritarian rule. Vote blue if you don't want to see it in the US.
Least grandpa got to live, 18 year old boys, not so much.
You don't know what their life at home was like.
@@seancidy6008 do I need to in order to understand this as a negative thing?
As an ex soldier my self I find this so distressing. We were self confident and backed up to the hilt by our commanders with the best kit of the day and trained to a very high standard,and every man jack expected to return home in one peace and most did. UK forces are still among the best in the world. God bless Ukrainian
and God help those poor misguided Russians.
I would guess that if an attack fails, everyone would try something different. Russians seem like a mindless zombie horde, advancing ahead the same way
Families need to be able to collect if solders die in combat....its disgraceful because they know....they're using these men as "Frontline buffers"....knowing they won't have to pay them...
The Russian army would not last a month against a comparable sized British army force. UK forces are excellent, I agree!
@@minerran I'm against russia, but still a nice joke
@skiddzjust1389 it's quite true I'm afraid. If their militaries were the same size the Brits would even give the U.S a run for their money.
A paratrooper over 50? Dudes not even gonna survive the drop let alone combat.
They stand there with guns in their hands and they know they're facing certain death but they still don't make sure that "officer" dies first. Incredible!
That’s what I’ve been thinking for well over a year now it just blows my mind
Right
Now I know why Azov and others find small number of trenches when instead of z boys just bodys are captains when they retreat small cases
Are you familiar with concepts such as oath, subordination, and duty to the country?
@@Robert6889 More importantly, have YOU heard of "I'm just following orders" was no defence in the Nuremburg Trials? It is an unjust war and the Russian commanders sending their men ito CERTAIN death is MURDER. But the Russian's are cowards and very few rise up against anythign from their superiors.
These guys are literally playing "russian roulette" with a full barrel and 1 defective round.
Actually that's ruight
You know what’s hilarious and funny about that statement is Thursday a reason why it’s called Russian roulette and that you just said it was hilarious
There is a reason not Thursday. Talk to text is good not on my stupid, smart phone.
@@timothydixon2545 still makes no sense whatever you typed or said. 🙄
And they are of the 155th brigade the one brigade responsible for war crimes they have lower chances then the others
This is like systematic suicide.
It's a dictatorship syndrome that consume all those who blindingly follow him. We in the US can see this.
Newsflash: Russians are fatalistic and always have been.
I suspect that may well be the point. The people in charge of Russia do not care at all about the future of the nation. Russian birth rates are unsustainably low, and yet instead of doing anything to raise fecundity, they are needlessly sacrificing hundreds of thousands for a pointless war that only benefits the oligarchs. I think the powers that be may actually want Russia and Ukraine to be destroyed in a mutually destructive conflagration. I always suspect there is more to any geopolitical intrigue than meets the eye.
If you're forced, it's not suicide, it's murder
I just saw a documentary about a woman who traveled to the wilderness far away and died,
very possibly in a suicide.
Apparently a lot of people go to the wilderness to commit suicide away from family and friends so that they just disappear and die without getting attention.
One expert said that as well
many people travel to live (not die) in the wilderness as a sort of temporary suicide in that they have disappeared from their friends, family and society,
possibly to find out if anyone will miss them when they're gone.
Although these Russian soldiers are not going to the wilderness and certainly won't be alone there is some similarity to people who flee society to go to the wilderness as a type of "suicide" whether temporary or permanent.
Perhaps there is also some similarly to the children who pack a few things in a bag and run away from home and say,
"When I die they will be sorry for how badly they treated me".
Except those children almost always change their mind and return home within an hour.
In Afghanistan US had just under 2000 fatalities. When you imagine that (Including both sides and civilians) that many die in Ukraine every day, for nearly a thousand days now. The scale is hard to grasp. Cheers for the vid squire.
It puzzles me that people believe these numbers. Russia Ukraine war literally has the lowest civilian casualty count of any conflict, Google it.
@@glintongordon6811he didn't say this war had the highest civvy casualties, just that the number of civilians killed is not zero.
Significantly, Russia has been targeting civilians from day one.
@@glintongordon6811 civilians only on ukraine side (~50k), think of it yourself is that big number or not. But army casualties are huge
@@glintongordon6811
That makes no sense either. Ukraine war has less civilian deaths than the most miniscule conflicts in history? How about conflicts fought in air or sea without any civilian presence? Numbers are impossible to verify, but a lot of explosive material is raining down on cities where people live, so obviously it is happening on some scale.
@@beerandchips2545
Ага - с начала войны солдаты РФ даже отпускали переодетых в гражданскую одежду солдат ВСУ в связи с
заявлением что это внучек приехал погостить со Львова в Харьковскую область.
А сколько народа они уничтожили в 2014 году призахвате Крыма , отключили воду и электричество.
Они даже мост построили для подвоза пвточнвх камер. Вот откуда такая информация?
That is a really demotivating speech. I remember when i was in Desert Storm and our dirtbag e-6 said to us “privates are a dime a dozen , i can replace privates but not vehicles”. Needless to say he became high on the frag list.
What a DOUCHE BAG- Thank you for your service! Glad you made it back safe too
People still get frag after Vietnam?
@@theshoot2958Happens a lot, just held to a different standard and practices in the modern age. Most of the time, it existed before the name, and long after the name was declared
In the US, we value our lives, we value human life. any "leader" who doesn't value the lives of his men is the enemy of those men. This is part fo what makes teh US military so good. We get creative and adapt to stay alive and win.
Putin would trade any of his soldiers for a rock to stand on as long as that rock gives him one step forward ... a soldier's life is worth one rock...
My dad said there's an old Russian saying,
"The poor could make a good living, if the rich would pay them to die for them."
Sounds like Putin made that saying a reality. 😢
Kidding?
So sad I feel for these older soldiers and even the young ones no one is win except Putin poor Russians
@ScottDore-jn3nf LoL, russians are poor financially. Don't pitty them for joining the war. They could riot and change the government but they believed that they won't be killed by Ukrainians at the war. They were not fooled. They wanted to believe that. It's their fault.
Damn that sucks eggs
Is it? Sounds more like western standards
$150'000 is no use when left dead in a field.
And I'm pretty sure they, their corpse nor the family of said corpse is ever going to see a penny of that money.
Thats the point. The MoD uses them with false promises for meatwaves
I'm so sad for these Russians soldiers and their families, Russian people are so nice the people are so different from the government
Who's to say your family will ever even see a sliver of that money if you die too. "Sorry Natasha, comrade Sergey is MIA so we can't pay out, he may still be alive"
its not for HIM tho, its 4 da fam
I watch a Russian UA-camr called “Vasya In The Hay”. It has opened my eyes up to how rural Russians live. It’s not a life, such is the poverty. I recommend anyone to watch a few episodes.
Russia is backward in technology and its society, but they are also 'my country right or wrong' patriotic in a way that people in the West used to be.
@@seancidy6008 No wonder Conservatives are flocking to Russia. Judging by all the video blogs they are releasing, it's a great place to live for the white man.
I watch it too. If you aren't living in Moscow/St Petersburg, it's like living in the 1800s without the stuff you need to survive in the 1800s.
Havnt seen him recently...like his content !!!
@@juliaelrod2154 Vodka makes your passing easier.
No, his reference to "Indians" was referring to volunteers from India. Many impoverished Indians responded to Putin's overseas recruitment campaigns. When they got there and found out how crappy things were, they sent word back home. In response, Prime Minister Modi of India had a word with Putin and summarily got all Indian contracts nullified, so that the Indians can leave and go back to India. I believe that this is a unique situation with the foreign volunteers. India's government doesn't like Putin's war. Not so much for the sake of humanitarian purposes, but for the potential economic and geopolitical risks to the hemisphere. India is one of two countries (China being the other) that has the clout to do this. Good video, by the way.
Not exactly, there have been a number of Chinese volunteers who were allowed to act autonomously but denied the freedom to return home by russia. China's penalty against its citizens who volunteer to fight in russia is pretty severe
@@GarryMercer-tq5uo Interesting. I didn't know that, but I can see it happening...especially in the provinces in China, where the poverty can really be bad. Thanks for the info.
I think you mean India is one of two countries since putin isn't a country, well yet, I can see it being just called putinland soon enough lol. But the context is being able to gtfo of the donbass so you must mean the Indians who are leaving.
There's less than 70 Indians serving in the whole Russian Army, so he's not referring to them. I think the translation was wrong.
@@dialytan2002 Actually, that sounds about right, in terms of the numbers. A lot of poor Indians and Nepalis signed up. Modi interceded to have them released months ago. But, I'm guessing that there were a few who chose to stay there for financial reasons. These foreign soldiers are kept in common units. My guess is that the Russian commander referring to the "Indians" was referring to either a depleted unit that needed replacement, or one that was already gone. I just don't believe that a Russian commander would randomly refer to a group of people as "Indians". It's more likely to refer to Koreans as "Chinese", which some Russian intercepts have picked up. But, Indians are too distinct a group.
The English equivalent of the term russians use is "nullify" or "zero out".
The 155th brigade is known for executing surrendered nine Ukrainian "droners" and leaving the bodies stripped to their boxers open-air for the Ukrainians to observe. Also, before that for cutting off the head of a killed Ukrainian soldier, putting it on a spike and recording a video with it. So yes, the AFU pay special attention to the 155 russian brigade. The 95th Separate Polesian Air Assault Brigade of AFU in particular regularly publishes a lot of videos with KIA russians from the 155th.
Reminds me of a Russian recruitment ad showing men doing jobs like gorcery store bagger, taxi driver, etc.. feeling lost then transformed into "real men" when becoming soldiers.
They know the demographic
Real men that no one will ever try to recover their dead body and not even their wife will bother to remember
@@GarryMercer-tq5uo What wife?
Russian is just trading men for farm land. You can see how pointless this war is. They don't have any strategic objectives other than to gain more square kilometers.
look at the map dude, russians have more land than they can manage, the soldiers are there for money
Ukraine is losing many more soldiers due to the overwhelming firepower superiority of the Russians. The Russians believe that their opponents will run out much faster.
Man, its even isnt farm land, its mined as hell
maybe they plan to move more west and sell Siberia to China?
@@joca2903damn that would be crazy ngl
My last Battalion commander didn't give big speeches before an assault. He was loading his mags and checking his gear like the rest of us. He led from the front and if he called me today to go to war I would come out of retirement armed to the teeth.
I would hope he was also looking at maps and intel reports.
@@gunt-her Nope, we just prayed and hoped for the best. Here's your sign.
@@mabutoolmao
Now imagine that you and your commander found yourselves on the battlefields of World War I, where your commander had to repeatedly send you into attack and then into counterattack. How quickly would the relationship become strained?
Damn, Paul. This hit home REALLY hard. I know EXACTLY what you are talking about.
Back in 2010 I tried to turn my life around and joined the French Foreign Legion. I didn't make the cut and that has shattered my sense of existence since then. I've finally been able to start trail my path, but, at 43, I feel like it might be too late.
Last year, I decided I was going to join the Ukrainian International Legion. I basically told myself in December 2023: "If this last attempt at launching fails, I'm joining the Ukrainian Legion." Just the thought of it seemed to spark some sense of purpose inside me.
As it turned out, something lined up in the stars and a new opportunity appeared. I decided to take it and I didn't join.
I question that decision everyday, and I follow the war daily, watching your videos, watching Ryan McBeth, Preston Stewart, Denys Davydov, Artur Rehi, etc.
But I think I'm going to insist on the current path I'm on and see what happens...
But the thought is still there, in the back of my mind...
LucasFernando your comment is very poignant and totally relevant to this situation, glad you found something else worth dedicating your life to! I can tell you over and over not to feel bad because the French Legion didn't happen but it won't help anything. I served in the USAF and my career was far from distinguished but I'm very glad I tried it, just like you tried your best for the Legion. I've met hundreds of guys who never even tried to enlist in anything, and I can tell many of them still feel a pang of regret even if they don't say it.
The point is you tried hard to get in the FFL, which is one of the toughest units in the entire world, that spits out men even their own, like a chipper in the best of times!
Besides there are hundreds of reasons they might bar you from entering the FFL, they might have too many men on the books at the moment for instance so their quals would be a lot tighter, etc. the last thing you should do is take it personally!
A wannabe soldier.....
Im a man who actually did join the ukrainian international legion. I regret it. It's just full of depressed guys looking for purpose. Many of whom have zero idea what the war is even about.
They only know "ukraine good russia bad" very simple minded.
I personally have been following the war since 2014. I know it very well
@@robertmaybeth3434
>Artur Rehi
>Denis Davidov
You really don't need a brain lmao
Do you want the Ukrainians to throw you in to plug another breach where your positions are being shelled by Russian artillery?
Now all that crazy and depressing footage of russian soldiers unaliving themselves when they get injured makes sense. Imagine being in a state of mind where you believe you have nothing to live for and your own side says they will eliminate you if you retreat, might as well go out the easy way.
@@toliklisiy5868 cope harder
@@toliklisiy5868??? You must be kidding, or just a kid... these footages are sadly legit and f'up
@@toliklisiy5868 yes comrade, glory to motherland
They also know what they do to pow's and can't imagine we would treat them differently. It's brain rot.
@@toliklisiy5868lol, where are you from? I have been to rural russia, people live in mud.
Fatalism is almost a Russian stereotype.
Read 'All Quiet on the Western Front'; this is not just a trait of the Russians.
@@Robert6889 Fatalism isn't a uniquely Russian culture trait, but they are exceptionally more prevalent than in other places. You can see fatalism anywhere from their literatures to history.
@@Robert6889what is fatalism? Can you explain it in German context?
@@jdsofarFatalismus. Google
@@jdsofaryou can copy paste your question into Google and get an answer immediately and in German
i bet hardly ANY money gets paid to the soldiers , recruiting older men saves a fortune in pensions and medical care
Then why do people keep signing up?
@glintongordon6811 Desperation. If you're a poorly educated Russian serf who's struggling to feed his family you may wind up thinking you have no other choice. This is why the age of the average Russian recruit is far older than most militaries.
@@glintongordon6811 no jobs and high interedt rates
@@glintongordon6811 Why do people keep falling for confidence crimes?
@@Lucas-wn5wm but if they don't get paid what's the point.
Tragic. What an incredible addition to your channel. Everyone everywhere should see this. Great work!
The Russian's had 10k casualties last week!
And Ukraine zero 😅
@@RefurbIshment-z7l Sure, Vatnik.
@@therealchayd A new Bandera Boy
😂😂😂😂😂😂 Evidence? Proof? Reliable sources?
@@RefurbIshment-z7lnot 1 Ukrainian has been killed in the entire war
2:20 I had a friend, we grew up together, and after he got his degree at Harvard, he taught university courses in Estonia, Lithuania, and St. Petersburg. He was in St. Petersburg for two years, living with his fiancé's mother in a middle class apartment.
He talked a lot about how hard it was for him to wrap his head around the sheer fatalism and learned helplessness embedded in Russian culture. Usually university students can be naive and idealistic, and you have to remind them of reality, as a professor.... but not in st. Petersburg! Even the bright, high performing students who are more privileged than peers, they were deeply pessimistic about politics. They all have this mentality described here from the 35 year old enlistee. "It's not for me to decide." Everyone is painfully aware of how bad things are, but things cannot be changed. They _must_ be this way.
Teaching in the US, students complaints tended to say my friends was overly erudite and he could be condescending. Teaching in St. Petersburg, though, he got the reputation of an air-headed, happy-go-lucky youth from California, lol.
I dont want to make this sound more dramatic than it is. But this kind if pessimism is hard-coded into Russian culture, and it leaves its mark on everyone, in one way or another.
What is fatalism? Like they just want to die and have no hope because of the history of ww2?
Maybe not fatalism, just being bummed out all the time. Why? Because they live in a dictatorship with anything they say or think could provoke a visit from the police. Like being watched constantly.
Paul is completely right regarding passive men, that life happens to them. I was that guy too. But in Russia, because there is soo much passivity built into the culture (the enormous alcoholism rates reflects this) there is a huge percentage of men that have accepted that someone else is in charge, and there is no way to fight the system. Passivity is not a flaw or exception in their social system but a feature.
This also is common in most authoritarian societies.
Alcoholism LOL I thought with the advent of the Internet people became smarter, it turns out there are still people like you... Here's what the Internet says TOP-20 most drinking countries in the world in 2022:
1. Moldova
2. Lithuania
3. Czech Republic
4. Nigeria
5. Germany
6. Ireland
7. Luxembourg
8. Latvia
9. Bulgaria
10. Romania
11. Slovenia
12. France
13. Portugal
14. Belgium
15. Seychelles
16. Russia
17. Austria
18. Poland
19. Estonia
20. Great Britain
One of your best videos. Life without purpose. I would blame the Russian elite and leadership for not improving the quality of life in Russia.
This applies everywhere. Young men growing up in poor neighborhoods, seeing rich people next door, will try anything to become respected, make money. Including crime.
@kti5682 what?
I would blame the man and woman in the street
for letting the elite get away with it
@@jimkelly4214 They fought multiple revolutions trying to fix it. Never worked.
Excellent podcast!.. I had a best buddy like you who died in Nam... It's great you came back safe from the Middle East. Bless You......
That would be like a $240k signing bonus for a usa soldier.
We're assuming the bonus actually gets paid.
Yes the parity purchasing power or something like that has to be taken into account when you talk about the Russian economics.
Hard to spend the money when you are under sanction
@@jonnoMoto thats a cashback for kremlin
I bet there's a "... if you survive" clause somewhere at the bottom of the page, font size 0.25
Paul is one of the few if not the only American military vlogger who actually realizes what Ukraine is facing and respects the Ukrainian military for their fight and the ways they approach it. Much respect and keep on doing what you're doing!
Watch Dylan Burns, he's not a vet but is very level headed and visits the frontline to get his footage
@curious_O_o I know. I follow him too. Good kid, very articulate when it comes to arguing and debating.
How do they manage to frighten their own soldiers so much that they don't even think about fighting back? They DO have weapons too, don't they?
they are not afraid, they want to be there
@@Мрійник. No, they want to live
@@EdwardMoore-n9z then why they are still there?
It's systematic. Gaslighting and violence at every step, psychological and physical, until humand cannot even begin to think about reisiting. There is personal videos from soldiers who literally talk: "Our commander is drunk, he send us on suicide mission, he personaly going to kill us, he is traitor, etc". They know that they going to die, but instead of resisting or at least running away, most just choosing to obey and die. Like animals.
@@letir7561"he personally going to kill us, he is traitor" very interesting phrase, they calling him a traitor, so they are ok with killing ukrainians, they just don`t like dying
GREAT point.
The feeling of being needed and being part of something is SO important.
This reminds me of when my brother signed up for Vietnam...he used to say he changed his mind when the plane landed😅😅😅 god bless his heart he was shot with scrapnel in a hellicopter and came home with a whole different attitude....he just died a month ago after fighting years of the effects of agent orange ....he had seemed to finally retire n adjust to what happened so many years ago....RIP TIM! He fought in a "senseless war" ...
Thanks!
Good report Paul ! 🫡🫡🇺🇦🇺🇦💪💪🇨🇦🇨🇦
Seriously, man… you are becoming a source of wisdom in the “school of life” bordering on the philosophical. You pour out very thoughtful and wise reflections on human stupidity in each post and I am left with that feeling of fortunately I am not the only one who sees beyond this war, as a symptom of the social illness in which we find ourselves (on both sides of the front...)
Wow
One thing that I don’t believe, is having a superior officer liquidating me. The army that I was in was the 🇺🇸, and I can assure you that there would be no way an officer would liquidate any of us.👞
Now imagine that you and your commander found yourselves on the battlefields of World War I, where your commander had to repeatedly send you into attack and then into counterattack. How quickly would the relationship become strained?
Amen brother
@@Robert6889 World War I I was not born so I won’t be able to imagine that.
The law allows for the death penalty in wartime.
@Cue_D_ball yes you can. Devolop your brain. Dumb people die, naive people get taken advantage of
Soon they'll promise 'Serve a year on the front line and when you make it home, we'll let you write the amount on your own check'.
@@garyb7193 can't write without arms. Smart.
Sign up for Storm Z, win a free pony!
Serve a year in the front line… just a human wave attack every day.
At this point,.as a U.S. citizen I'd take pay to go to Ukraine,well as a contract worker, not meat wave attacks! I had a relative that made almost 10k a month as a truck driver in Iraq, not always these opportunities for everyone that's desperate. Another relative made extra money even as soldier around the same time because it was wartime.
Problem in Russia is no one asks you where you want to serve, and you know where the highest demand is these days.
Always that chance, one attempt on Trumps life in America.. Crazy people everywhere.
@@5idinobody in any army gets to choose
Did your relative survive it? And whats the closest he came to death and/or beheading?
So why don't you join the foreign legion?
The way you said losers was savage
russia society is so grim
country run by criminals basicly. russia is pretty much a dystopian post-apocalyptic world. law enforcement and military is corrupted to the top because even the officers dont have any money, the salaries are bad. everybody is just trying to survive and wont hesitate throwing their friends under the bus if it means more bread on the table.
You don't even know. I had to deal with russians directly in my peaceful life, and none of those encounters were positive.
@@guillaumehoudard114 fentanyl, homelesness, gangs, school shootings, they/them furies, medical sistem, obesity, what else ?
@@planetfun85 still having that over not being able to pay cancer treatments
@@planetfun85haha you have Hiroshi Yoshimura - Surround on your detox playlist you know what’s up 👊🏻 that helped me through some crazy hard times
Their signing up in Moscow so Putin doesn't have to sign up anyone from Moscow, its not a good look for Putin. He saves face with the people who live in the biggest two citys, and who do most the voting, that counts.
I think it is more about pleasing minor members of goverment - their families and friends live there. Because voting is dead and irrelevant. Besides, mayors try to gather recruits the way they can and mayor of Moscow just can use more money than others.
7:37 he could just be saying that about his wife because hes afraid to tell the truth to the media. You have to keep that in mind.
Great video. Nobody covers these interviews, except for POWs and the intercepted calls.
Zero out is another term used for killing your own troops. If you don't make certain goals or objectives they will say Zero Out! They also used to use Code 200 which is the Code for Zinc Coffins or mean Killed in Action.
All you said in this video is so true! Thank you so much for that!
What an idiotic war! Completely useless.
Let us all help Ukraine!
Both Russia and Ukraine are equally corrupt no difference.
Thanks
Good content, thank you!
17:20 he literally means the Indians, Modi got Putin to send his Indian soldiers home.
I doubt many of these Russian soldiers, if they ever come home, will be greeted with much other than indifference, especially if wounded. Because the typical Russian, especially outside Moscow, is too busy trying to stay alive themselves to spend time worrying about soldiers, even the wounded ones. Particularly if the returning soldiers also return to their previous lifestyle of staying drunk, brawling, and only occasionally working. About the only consideration they will get is saying it's the war that screwed them up, not their life long habits. But people will continue to ignore and avoid them.
Paul, I have a question for you. I work in the civil service and occasionally have to make life-and-death decisions. The other night, I had to make one of those calls, and if I had gotten it wrong, a young man would have been dead. He could have been turned into mincemeat by some very unforgiving machinery, and someone would have literally gone around picking up pieces of him. I made the right call with imperfect information, and he went home in his drug-induced state (that part is on him).
Once I got home and took off my uniform, I felt physically ill, and my nerves were shot. I am good at making decisions when things are going down, but when I get home, I torture myself. I can’t stop playing the "what if" game in my head, and I am so fearful that I will have to make one of those calls someday and get it wrong. I am not a soldier, but I work in an area where mistakes can and do kill people. Do you have any tips for stopping the "what if" game and calming my nerves? I think the military term I am looking for is "burden of command," and yes, "burden" seems to be an understatement
Oh, I'm SURE that the recruiters in Moscow aren't complaining!!! Each recruiter would have a mandatory number that they would have to sign up PER month or they would be sent to the front themselves!!! It is the Russian version of being sent to the Eastern Front for the Germans in WWII!
I wonder if the guy doing it is a big fat dude named General Burkhalter?
"Russian version of being sent to the Eastern Front for the Germans in WWII" You do realize how nonsensical that is, right? Who do you think the German Eastern front was against? Its been the same in Russia for a long time.
@@GodwynDi How would it be nonsensical? The Germans in WWII, considered being sent to the Russian Front a Death Sentence. Considering the death toll of the Russian troops in Ukraine, I seriously doubt that any recruiter would want to be sent to the front.
Thank you for the great content & for your much needed material support of UA!
Languish in the holding pattern of life. Most excrllent.
The fact that they're paying 20k for 18-65 tells you a lot about how dire things are in most countries you'd be over 20 years past enlistment age.
Home isn’t worth going home to it’s Russia
It is if youre russian
It’s not twisted. Just because they are the enemy don’t make us better then them. I was taught by my father to respect all soldiers. Most soldiers fall into that category you put them Russians in
Using their own people like disposable items. It's disgusting. How long are the Russian people going to tolerate this? My brother was in the US Army for 14 years. Fours tours through Iraq and retired as an SFC. The Russian government is treating their people like grunts in a videogame. Soldiers are an INVESTMENT. You retain them and they get better with time and experience. You don't shovel them into a meat grinder. This is a disgusting way to treat people.
The Russian people aren’t being told. They are string to realize what is actually happening.
They have been tolerating it for over 600 years...
@@VajrahahaShunyata Multiple revolutions isn't really "tolerating" it just never seems to get better.
@@GodwynDi an overthrown government that is replaced with the same type of government is not a revolution.
Its just the next fascist strongman accepted by the sheeple.
Revolution is a revolutionary change.
They have yet to change.
and my country that is supposed to be the leader of the free world just elected a convict who cares as much about people as Putin does... he would gladly put people thru a meat grinder if there was profit or power in it for him. Yet the people elected him. It would be nice if only stupid, selfish people had to pay the consequences for putting these sociopaths in power, but many innocents have to pay the price as well....
Great Episode Paul. Archiving this kind of thing is very important. Some day the Russian people will be able to read/see all this freely translated. Find out the truth about their family members. Good Job. 41C
As the song goes,
♫ "200 men on a one way trip ..." ♫
Fratricidal commanders and trigger-happy blocking troops makes the whole thing a hundred times more twisted.
Ooh for sure. Russian prison rules buddy
Thanks, Paul.
The only problem is they not going paying them just ask widows. Have they receive the money every one of them will say no
I've been watching your channel for years. Your comment about men needing to be needed as a reason to go on living, to try harder for something tangible, a purpose is something I think is true for males. Something to compete for whether children or recognition, something.
Australian here, cancer treatment is free.
@@MC-el2us russian trolls love to talk about how healthcare in Russia is free too... I guess they just mean vodka
Thanks Paul!
17:04 First they said Russians fighting with WWII and rusty rifles, old and rusty tanks, now by sad old not motivated soldiers... But despite all NATO help and technology and logistic and peopaganda and sanctions and pressures and embargo and intelligence support... Russia gains territory every hour!
I had a stiff drink before watching this. Your vid hit me hard. We definitely need more caring in this world. In our governments. Among neighbors.
Ukrainians were very friendly towards Russians pre war. We had families in Russia. They still invaded, and our relatives tell us "we are there to save you", "soon we will live in one country again, just wait"
It's not about compassion. USSR and KGB still live on when they needed to be destroyed past WW2 by allies. Let's see if that weakness will be the final one that destroys the world.
The average lifespan of a Russian soldier in Ukraine is something like 4 months.
It's a week for a Ukrainian soldier
@@mickser101do the math Vlad 😂
3 months to long !
@@mickser101 Sure thing Ivan, lmao.
and like avg age of 50
Excellent segment. I love the dives into the human backstory of what this war is actually bringing out.
Life within " The Workers Paradise "....................... Really sad , this .
The workers paradise ended in 1991. Russia is now the oligarchs paradise.
It was never a paradise. It was a gulag and you obeyed
@@VajrahahaShunyata Yeah, I meant "workers paradise" in a sarcastic way. You're absolutely right with your gulag comment. The whole country was a gulag, not just parts of Siberia and the far east.
@@VajrahahaShunyata " Workers Paradise " is a facetious term . No news in what you said .
@@jonlee2217 its hard to catch sarcasm in a text sometimes, my apologies 🤏😂
This really points out the realities of how grim life is in Russia, particularly outside of Moscow and Saint Petersburg, in how dying in a meat wave assault is better than continuing to live under Putin's regime. Russia's best hope certainly is sounding more and more like a German or Japanese style loss at the end of WWII where they had a total defeat and were given the chance to reset and start again.
Its so sad they throw every away for an insane Little Man .who dreams of Empire. Instead of Empire Russia is going to Break up .
@@MaxwellMoore-d1u And they won't realize it until it's too late.
Thanks Paul 👍👍👍👍👍🌻🕶️
This needs a complementary explanation. Russia “promises” a sign up bonus. The victim is sent to the frontline on a one way ticket. Russia never pays the victim or the family because they say he is missing in action. End of story. Russia gets its meat for free.
What kind of army man says this? You signed up for the army? Would you not have signed up if the war on terror was more intense ?
I bet they were all made to unload BEFORE he started this speech!!
Keep the audio on during the videos. I think the emotion in the way the superior is talking is important to grasp an understanding of the speech. The Russian language is grammatically extremely different and can translate differently. I fully support Ukraine but would love to hear the audio.
A Day in The Life of Ivan ConstructoVich ,.. and then things got worse ..
one of my favorite book any man can be ivan he's actually every man a teacher a construction a solider they can shackle your body but your mind is gods place only u and your relationship to god is in the heart
dont be a bowl licker !
@@JamPowe-w8c why it’s not required reading in school is a mystery
your analysis concerning what men would do to be needed is spot on. I'm genuinely impressed - respect
".....They know how to do meth..", 😂😂😂😂😂
I'm 62 years old this is NUTS for old guys! No way should 65-year-olds be going to the front lines??? IT SUCKS!
Worst battle speech of all time?
Hey Paul, I've been watching your videos the past couple of years. Greet reporting every time mate. I was thinking, I also watch the war correspondence Jake Broe and Autur, maybe they could advertise your drone campaign? If your reached out to them I'm sure they would promote it for you. You guys are all in this for the same cause. Good luck with it all mate! 🇺🇦✌🏼
What ever happened to the "I want to live" outreach to help Russian solders defect? One issue I see is if its successful you have to feed and shelter these folks.
It's either very hard or very risky to surrender in a war.
😂😂😂😂 They don't want to leave, they get their money do their jobs and go home, there is a troop rotation going on right now
@@glintongordon6811 is there ? surely it is continuous ? ...oh i see what you mean ....join , get kitted ,a week of training , off to the front , die and fertilise the soil....rotation happens when the farmer comes and rotorvates the fields ....now i get it.
@@baldricksimson bro Russia rotate troops every 10 months... ukraine is the ones who have people complaining about being on the Frontline for 2 years... Go watch the videos of rus veterans meeting their families
@@glintongordon6811 A bunch of them most certainly do not 'go home'.
You think old Putin wants a bunch of war vets hanging around his pubs, drinking vodka, telling stories, uh, uh😮
They never get paid
So why is so many signing up?
@@glintongordon6811 goofy is as goofy does
@@bowgibbly1 is that why ukraine keeps losing?
Keeps losing how do you lose a war every day then? If you lose your done you can’t losing a war you lost a war or you win
@@glintongordon6811, they don’t know it’s a one way trip.
I was in the US army. Paul, you are calling it as it is. The guys want respect and a feeling that they are needed. Unfortunately, and it is a human trait, most get to that level and never go further. . Some losers in civilian life turn things around. Most don't.
The army offers jobs with serious responsibilities and opportunities.
russia lost 40k this month.
I think you mean Ukraine lost 40,000 and they can`t even recruit more then 3000 a month.
@@MrBeagleblue Rus Ape.
Evidence? Proof? Reliable sources?
@@MrBeagleblue can you make a report? Im interested
“Indians” might mean soldiers from India. Modi was recently complaining to Putin about Indians being drawn to Russia under false pretenses and then being dragooned into the army.
Hi people!
Great work, keep it up
The recrutes probably get their signing on bonus after training which they do not get
Thank you for this Video ! Greetings from Germany 👍
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The life of a Russian Storm Z soldat, Hobbe's classic description "nasty, brutish, and short."
Even more ominous is your spot-on comment, "This is the least motivating speech I've ever heard." Sorry Paul, I had to laugh at that one, but while I was laughing someone dropped a piece of StrikeGum in my muth
Feels sad for those folks dying!
Thanks for your service to all that is and are serving
20,000 rubles signing bonus=4 packs of Strike Gum.
20grand for russian soliders, 2grand for a Nk solider. crazy.
This video hit me in the feels. That strong pull of men wanting to be respected and needed by the people in their lives is not talked about nearly enough.