Russia is kind of laughably put together
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Exposing Russia's Incompetent Design
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When driving from Finland to Russia is literally like going back in time.
That's how I feel driving into Belgium
@@drpepper3838why?
You should try driving to the middle east or Afghanistan. You will go back before the big bang.
@@manyulgarprsch bad roads. Power cables above ground. Weird buildings
@@drpepper3838 Netherlands and Belgium are the same.
The flat Plaines in western Russia mentioned at the beginning that made invading Russia possible also works in reverse - and more often it was russsia invading others.
not Russia, ussr
@@TakehisaYuji it may have been called the USSR, but at the end of the day it was the Russian SSR invading other smaller states to incorporate them in the union. Speaking on this matter as an Estonian
@@lagritsalammas Yes and before that the Russian Empire, Tsardom and Muscovy
The Germans are in a similar position with in the European Plaine. The Helmstatd crossing is in the N. German Plaine and could have be used for a WP attack on W. Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark or for a NATO attack on Poland and the GDR.
The USSR covered all the CIS states and a few others, but was dominated by the Russian SSR.
The countries West of Russia were invaded by Russia dozens of times during the last 300 years. 5 times that Russia was invaded the last 500 years means nothing. Give me a break!
Russia looks and operates the way it does, not as a bug, but as a feature. The Muscovite core is not just where the largest population centers are, it is where those who shape policy are (both in the public and private sectors). The vast Eurasian landmass was so sparsely populated that Russia could easily post up parts of its massive army to limit the influence of outside powers. But developing the local economy there was never a priority: only where extractive industries (running on convict slave labor) or the military operated received state backing. Continued development was (and still is) seen as a threat by Moscow: become too rich, it might try to secede. Meanwhile, the kleptocracy and corruption is a tool to buy off potential rivals to Moscow, co-opting them to be part of the system, not advocate for reform. The system is totally incompetent, since it guarantees that Russia cannot develop its once inexhaustible human capital (something which is in terminal decline). But the system is perfectly logical for guaranteeing control from the Kremlin.
well put
The system certainly guarantees central control by the Kremlin, but I'm not sure I would characterize it as "logical." As you alluded to, the glaring flaw in the plan is that such a system has a predictably short lifespan. Putin's decision to invade Ukraine has exposed some of Russia's many weaknesses and accelerated the timeline of Russia's collapse, but a massively corrupt kleptocracy has a relatively short lifespan to begin with.
If you're a convict, you're not a slave.
Your information is so outdated. It's based on 90s Russia. Russia is not the same country as is China. Actually, read at least about Tatarstan!
So, now that Russia no longer has any allies and has openly stated that invasions are a legitimate way to expand their borders, what happens if China decides that they can just take Siberia and get its oil and gas without any middlemen from Moscow?
India and China, which have bought Russian weapons, have heavily modified them to keep up with other militaries. The Russian built Vikramaditya Kiev-class carrier is the flagship of the Indian Navy, even above the Indian-built Vikrant carrier. However, it is said that only 20% of the original ship remains, as it has been outfitted with modern weapons systems and went through billions of dollars of refurbishment. Additionally, both India and China have better military control structures, and better teams. That is just the weakness of the Russian military. Its economy's weakness lies in over two-thirds of their export revenue comes from fossil fuels.
im not so sure about china, they have huge issues with corruption in the military
so China and India are better at using russian weapons than russia itself. Chinese and Indians were always smart
@@riderchallenge4250 Lmao basically, yeah. Or they're just not dumb. However, the Russian Admiral Kuznetsov is still the biggest menace on the world's oceans there ever was. All the fish are scared that it'll spill oil so they swim away as fast as they can.
If you read history.... None of that matters when it comes to Russia.... Russia was in much much worse place in 1941..... American ''experts'' were sure that Hitler will destory Russia in 8 weeks.... Hitler said, we only need to knock on the door and the whole rotten structure will fall. Yet just 4 years after that Americans were scaring their children with communist superpower that will destroy the world....british were sure that napoleon will crush russia..... He even got to moscow, and what happened??? Russia is not winning this war only because Russians don't feel its a fight for survival.... They say ''Russian soldier is the best soldier in the world. But only when he is defending his homeland.'' If Putin manages to convince the Russians its a fight for survival..... The war will be over very soon in Russias favour regardless of weapons the west sends....
Ahaha, have you seen Indian military? Do you know how much equipment does Indian army have in comparison to Russia? It’s really senseless to compare a bigger army with more modern equipment to an army combined of different countries technologies without any battle experience.
It is mindboggling to see the death statistics of the battle of stalingrad. One major battle in WWII was deadlier than several wars, stretching for years or decades, after it. 🤯
That's what happens when two dictators ensure they will win at any human cost!
Just imagine being one of these poor lads, fighting and dying for a war they didn't want and probably didn't even understand and now they're just another statistic, chilling...
@@j4genius961 You don't have to imagine, Putin is literally throwing bodies at Ukraine right now hoping it will somehow eventually crack and we'll all just welcome the new Russian Empire in to the UN with flowers and champagne
@@rorychivers8769 "literally throwing bodies" uhh no lol
@@maximilianodelrio They've lost about 10 times the manpower they did in Afghanistan, in a tenth of the time, and what have they got to show for it? The complete destruction of their own military capacity. All this, just to try and conquer their neighbours, who started, and if I have this correct on my notes, sweet fuck all.
As a Russian myself, I confirm all in the video is true. I was waiting for a bridge to be build where it was really needed and it's only 1 km long. In summer there is a ferry, in winter an ice road, other times you need to take a very long route around another city. I'm talking about a place 3 hour drive from Moscow. And yeah, I left the country for a better life
You did the right thing in my opinion, welcome to the civilized world! ;-)
Ur smart
When did you leave? I left too for several years to eu and coming back was the best decision i ever made.
Моя жена Русская, и она думает тоже.
Sorry for my poor Russian. I'm still learning... 🤭
Buddy in norway on one of the major road you need to take a ferry several times so dont complain about things you dont understand or because you have unrealistic expectations or both.
And there is no source given for most of what was said in the video.
You guys do not understand the scale of corruption in Russia. For instance you win a contract to build something, a road or anything else. The people in power come to you and tell you gotta give up 50 to 70% of the money allocated to doing the job to them as a bribe. If you say no, they will take this project from you to someone else because as they say "you cant, others will for sure". It goes to the point you cant even make the project, let alone breakeven or profit. Also, it's not western part of russia (although it is definetly more developed than siberia) but literally only Moscow. St. Peterburg on paper is the 2nd city, developed and everything but it is not even close to Moscow. There is big gap between them and an immense gap between Moscow and Russia. There is even a saying in russian: "Moscow is not Russia". It simply is not, it is years in the future comparing to the country and the funny part is that you dont even need to drive a lot to see the difference. Once you are out of Moscow proper in the Moscow region (Moscow oblast) you already see how much poorer and worse the country is. The budget of Moscow is like the budgets of half of Russian subjects combined or something.
And still Moscow is subsidizing unprofitable regions. It is obvious that a region with bigger budget has richer people. However, some regions of Far East are richer than Moscow. And Moscow region GDP is only 16% of total. On the other hand, GDP of Paris is 32% of French total. Moscow region has 12% of total population, while Paris region has 16% of total population. Using some math, you can find out that in France there is 1.5 times higher inequality than in Russia if we compare capital regions to countries.
@@michealbaker8216 Well I'd argue that Moscow is subsidizing the other regions since there Siberian regions where gas, oil and other precious and expensive metals are extracted from should be the ones bringing on the revenue. Won't argue your numbers but just gonna ask you this: Have you been there? Have you seen the state of Moscow and other regions? I have and believe me when I say: Inequality irl is bigger in Russia than France for instance (since you took them as an example) I've been in both countries and France small cities/villages are so much more developed and better looking than Russian's. It's just uncomparable
@@michealbaker8216Russia has mire the GDP of Spain or Italy so better compare thrm to Russia.
@@TorianTammas No, you should compare GDP PPP (real GDP) of two countries. In this case it is more reasonable to compare Russia with Germany.
@@michealbaker8216 Spain has a third of the population of Russia. Italy has 69 million. So, combined Italy and Spain have twice the GDP and two-thirds of the population. Spain is a quite reasonable country when it comes to PPP.
You do need to take PPP into account, and it only holds true for Russian produced goods. Unfortunately, that's food and oil. After all, does China take in PPP into account when a Russian person buys a television, computer, or computer chips for a Kaliber ballistic missile? What about South Korea? That is why Chinese autos are much more expensive than in China or even Turkey. They have no competition from European, U.S., or Korean models.
You don't make any of this stuff, and don't have the technology to do it if you wanted. Which there are few major commercial goods produced in Russia. Does Russia make turbines for the gas pipelines? No, made in Canada. Does Russia produce oil extraction equipment? No, they just bought it from the West. Does Russia have the expertise it takes to get that oil out of the ground? Again, no. They hired Western companies such as BP, Exxon, and Shell that have the expertise to do it for them. Russians need to wake up. Putin has run the country into the ground.
Over the past twenty years, more bridges have been built and reconstructed in Russia than at any other time in history. Before criticizing Russian design, look at yourself, gentlemen of the Anglo-Saxons. The Arctic Circle in Russia is home to 2.4 million people. How many people live in northern Alaska and Canada? One hundred thousand?
The difference between the two examples you give and Russia is obvious: Russia *has* to have at least some of its population in the Arctic Circle, neither the United States or Canada does not.
This video does not and never does say that either American or Canadian infrastructure is in any way better designed than Russian infrastructure - the only mention of the US is comparative statistics which are used to illustrate the point that is made. May I also note that 'Over the past twenty years, more bridges have been built and reconstructed in Russia than at any other time in history' is sort of obvious - of course Russia has built more bridges in the modern era, technology has improved to the point that it makes it possible to do these at a fraction of the cost and equally it does not matter whether or not bridges have been constructed, what matters is exactly where and who are using these bridges which is primary point of the video.
If you want to engage in a critique of all Anglo-Saxon infrastructure go ahead, but this is not the focus nor even mentioned in this exact video. There are plenty of critiques to be made about pretty much any infrastructure system - any system at all in fact - but this video is focused on Russian infrastructure which, at least based upon the statistics and examples given in this video is quite shabby. You have taken what is clearly an analysis of the Russian state apparatus as a personal attack on yourself, which (at least to me) is a bit ridiculous.
The primary point of the video is to demonize Russia. It is now paid well.
Canada does not build prisons in the North!
Wait, casualties isn't the same as deaths. There aren't 200000 dead Russian soldiers in Ukraine (yet). Casualties included wounded, anyone who's not capable of fighting. A soldier can be a casualty several times, after healing
A casualty is anything that makes a soldier permanently incapable of fighting. Like getting captured, losing your legs to a mine, death etc
@@frozenbox597 Getting captured isn't permanent, but it can last long
> There aren't 200000 dead Russian soldiers in Ukraine (yet)
The Ukranian MoD statistics are 220k dead. And while many people tell that is a high optimistic number, my opinion is that it is actually low.
Ukranians count dead inanimate bodies using footage sent by soldiers. It is essential for them to gather these statistics so they can plan where and what to attack and how to defend. These are the SOPs that every NATO army has and which the Ukranians follow to the letter.
Yet, not every dead orc is caught on camera. Many die due to artillery far from the front line. And Russia has appalingly bad logistics which according to many has led to a 1 to 1 wounded to kill ratio because they simply cannot and do not evacuate wounder solders, and the few that are evacuated don't get proper medical help, either die in a campaign hospital or have a limb amputated which could be rescued.
There is a very good reason why Putin annouced a mobilization, and they are showing all the signs of lack of man power. Wounded, dead, deserted and imprisoned, I think the number could be closing in on a million. Of course, this is me being optimistic, but it matches with what is happening on the battle field and in Russia.
I really can't predict how well Ukraine's offensive actions will go this year, but Russia cannot hold another year of war. They are nearing complete exhaustion.
BBC counts
Sorry to tell you this but there are over two hundred thousand dead Russian soldiers from the Ukrainian War mostly because Russia never pulled the wounded people out.
15 million dollars a year as his official salary and he still engaged in corruption. Damn, talk about greed. WTF. 😂
That's a real paradox of Russian corruption. No matter how rich they are, they always want more, they can't stop, thus destroying everything around them
You don't have 15 million to judge. It's never enough.
Bruh he doesn't even follow his own constitution that he can change whenever he wants. Dude just doesn't care at all anymore
True
@@cSwDamian 🗿
At least they don't put tampons in men's toilets in Russia.
Intead they hit their wives and children, 😢
@@TheEsseboycool
Recently I have made a car trip Miscow-Nizhny Novgorod-Cheboksary-Kazan-Almetyevsk-Yoshkar Ola-Moscow. I can state that all places are good and friendly, not worse than US. What middle Ages?
Probably urban myth mostly. I look at videos, news from Russia and when it shows railroad tracks I see that everywhere they are welded rails on concrete ties. Unlike the US that still mostly use bolted rails on wood ties.
Go five hundred kilometers further into the COLONIES!
@@danielbecker4365probably has something to do with the fact the US is built around cars instead of rail
drive to chelyabinsk or omsk next time, it's not as bad as say irkutsk, but the contrast to western russia is still alarming
Bridges in Vladivostok significantly improved the situation with the transport accessibility of the Russky Island and the Cherkavsky peninsula, at the same time a low-water bridge was built across the Amur Bay, helping to cut off 20 kilometers from the airport to the city. Please don't talk about things you don't understand.
A minor point, but you said Russia had been invaded 5 times from the west in recent times as far back as Napoleon. Napoleon could read in his history books about the Swedish invasion of Russia though.
Even poland invaded russia once in 16 century
@@-kenjo-421 the Polish one was actually kinda successful for the Poles though. They held Moscow a few years. The Swedish one was just like the Napoleonic one an absolute disaster. The yet to be defeated king ran off into exile in modern Moldova his army crumbling behind him.
Moscow has always attacked the West and the East.
@@Mortablunt I count four. You triple-counted WW1 and double-counted WW2 even though WW2 wasn't defensive. Russia invaded Finland by itself and Poland with Germany. Blame the victim much? You forgot number 9: Russia's current totally defensive war with Ukraine.
@@RichardLewisCaldwellww2 for USSR is not defenceing? Dude, what "Operation Barbarossa" when is?
Russia is so badly put together that it still controls 12% of the worlds landmass 😅😂
Soviet Union controlled more, and we all know what happened to them.
And most of it is uninhabitable, what's your point?
@@haywire4686what is considered "uninhabitable? Western US is pretty hard to live in - but people do. Phoenix experience extreme hot often and people are literally passing away because of that. But now we have technologies that can help us to overcome nature sometimes and if Phoenix, for example, would be properly designed to defend people from the heat - it would be much better. It`s not the European level of city-planning, you now.
I'm at 0:22 and I'm already amazed at the ignorance of the person who wrote the script. Russia's east has few roads? So what? It also has few people. It's expensive to try to people it. It's a bit like . . . Alaska, which if you don't know, has even fewer roads. Outside of the Anchorage-Fairbanks corridor, you can go almost nowhere without flying. Even the *capital city* of Alaska, Juneau, has no roads to it. This is basic geography, and I'm not going to waste another second on someone who says something dictated by geography "is not ideal". Dude, *nothing* is ideal, and sometimes you do what you can or what you need.
true, we must roll all of siberia into asphalt for all the 3.5 indigenous natives and 5 russians living there
@@benismann Exactly!!
@@benismann
You spew the Pootler poo!
Alaska is NOT RuZZia--Alaska has toilets!
Do you support your puny Putler, the $400 billion DICtator and war criminal?--his crimes and atrocities?
You spew the Pootler poo!
Do you even know what you are talking about?
RuZZia's East does not have "few people"--Millions live there! in large cities!
Millions of people were deported there to fill the gulags and others were incentivized to move there.
The reason that is is NEGLECTED is because it is a Muscovian COLONY and all of the money gets sucked out and sent to Muscovy for Putler the $400 billion DICtator to spend on his palaces, wars, military equipment, bribes, and other luxurious excesses. The rest goes to Muscovy (the core state) to keep the local happy!
Do you support your puny Putler, the war criminal?--his crimes and atrocities?
He really wants to make a point of "RUSSIA BAD!!!" and get free views from xenophobs.
FYI "Steppe" in "The Eurasian Steppe" at 3:51 is pronounced with a single syllable just like "step".
I think the dude is german (see how he pronounces Kaliningrad). So he pronounces steppe exactly as a german would read it, lol.
@@vladibalan He is danish
When he says that Russia has been horribly designed, remember that he said London has amazing design. So it's probably worse than he says
When he says Russia is badly designed, he means Earth is a bad designer itself lol 😂
N9 hes just saying what benefits him more
@@szymi97 you can make similar arguments regarding canada as well....its just geography
Or he is pulling sh*t out of his a*s and trowing it on the wall so that the mass of uneducated ship can eat it.
,,Russias outdated railway infrastructure has created bottlenecks" he didnt even give an example or a single source for that statement.
Muscovy(now called the RuZZian Federation) was not "DEALT A BAD HAND"---Muscovy ATTACKED and ANNEXED the land around Muscovy all the way out to the Bering Sea!---It did NOT have to do deal such a bad hand TO ITSELF if it did not WANT to!
This video has a very strange depiction of the russian borders: the map presented here has nothing to do neither with the internationally recognized russian borders nor with the borders defined by the russian constitution. I wonder what has prevented the authors to check with the maps and be consistent.
There's not author. The people behind it have made it fast and just didn't care that much.
Like the video but when using the graph from 1991 it might be of some importance to mention that the SovietUnion fell that year. Still Korea did amazing after the korean war especially the 3 decades after.
Actually we really cannot compare these two countries - Russia has been a vast empire since 500 years, while Korea was always a tiny country with a homogeneous culture
Well I guess people who have expirienced the american strategy of ,,bomb everyone to sh*t" first hand would be very enthusiastic to rebuild their country
@Zepoz and now that they "did amazing" the birth rate is 0.8 and the population is collapsing.
@@SkyDiver-wd5oj1. Consequences of the runaway economic success
2. (Ethnic) Russian birthrate is hardly any better
even china is very frustrated with the incompetence of russia, im sure of that
no, just patiently waiting to take their territories in a couple of years.
@@loveistheanswer123 It's impossible. You've never been to Siberia. I was born there. I know the reality, you don't.
@@anabona4764good argument
So you can judge of nothing else but Siberia?
@@anabona4764he’s talking about manchuria, saltlord.
@@midleno8364 He doesn't know how Far East is protected. He should learn about it.
Reading the comment section of opinions of people that never have visit Russia, it's quite interesting.
Why do you need to visit a country to understand its political/economic/structural problems?
@vol.4691 Really? Are you kidding? Where are you from?
>russian empire flag banner
Haters stay hatin. Russia will prevail
True I will continue hating those from developing nations.
Russia will fall anytime now
Russia will fall anytime now
Russia will fall anytime now
Russia will fall anytime now
Russia will fall anytime now
Russia will fall anytime now
This is how all you yt “expert analysts” look like
Exactly. And never has it been Siberia of all causes..
anytime now which means at any point it could fall they are not saying the date only that it could happen now or tomorrow or in few years
yeah, they basically dn't understand how current Russian government controls regions and makes them dependent. They don't get that poverty of most of Russian regions is what makes them less likely to separate, not more likely
A "federation" that operates as a ultra-centralised state.
Federation- the action of forming states or organizations into a single group with centralized control or a group of states with a central government but independence in internal affairs
Russia perfectly fits the description so how much federated or how less it is doesnt matter as long as it falls into one of the two descriptions. Is India or Germany as federated as the US ? No. Ohh i guess they arent federations then.
Decentralization can also bring problems outside of the central governments reach, problems the central government unfortunately cant fix right when they appear dew to muh dEcEnTrAlISaTiOn.
Take the high speed rail in california as an example. Hasnt been finished since 2008 and has drasticaly gone over budget from 33 billion to 128 billion. Simce the federalisation is so immense there the central government cant do sh*t but ask why has this matter been handled with such incompetence and hope that something will change for the better.
@@Silver_Prussian
As I'm sure you're aware, the point being made is that Russia does not fit the description. The republics of Russia are only independent to the extent that it suits Muscovy. Russia does not operate under the rule of law. What Putin says is how it will be. The Constitution is just for show. The republics are in reality no more than colonies: wealth and power flow to the centre, Moscow.
@@istvanglock7445 1st learn what a federation is
2nd learn the difference between the words autonomy and independent
3rd the republics are not colonies,they get more invested into them than they make seems like you have a lot of words to learn.
@@Silver_Prussian But RUSSHA B@D! STOP CHALLENGING THE NARRATIVE WITH YOUR FACTS AND TRUTH AND REALITY! RUSSHA BAD! RUSSHA BAD! RUSSHA BAD!
@@Mortablunt as a russian, I can confirm russia bad, and the facts that the person above mentioned are not true at all, lmao
4:50 imagine making a point of how weak Russian army is with the Wagener’s rebellion. The guy doesn’t know what he is talking about!
wagner is disarmed and dead 🤣🤣
@@jonnyddeva653the Poles are telling the opposite
Havent even watched the video yet but he shows soviet borders for russian empire and Russian empire borders for soviet union.
Perspectively, Russia has these issues:
Too much corruption, mismanagement, volka, yachts, no accountability
Volka (wolves) isn't great issue. Russians love bears and hunt volks LOL. Yachts is not issue as well. Shipbuilding industry is growing.
Every nation has corruption but its different, not that its less but that its only in certain parts of government. We live in a corrupt world, there always has been and will be corruption, its human nature, you dont accept that fact and get nowhere or you accept it and move up the ladder.
@@anabona4764
Admiral Kuznetsov?
@@WangAiHua No. I'm Anabona..
@@anabona4764
If there were more than one of you would be good ASSets to RASSia!--Anas bona!
1:03 The 1945 part isn't any better actually
what does labelling them 1975 and 1945 mean? the ussr collapsed 1991 and no foreign armies invaded or troop deployment in 1975 ??
westoids when Russia: NOOOOOOO HOW DARE YOU
westoids when:
*US INTERVENTIONS SINCE THE SECOND GREAT WAR 🪖*
Includes:
Bomb attacks, sabotage, attempted regime change.
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0:36 For completeness: If 1km above sea level counts as a mountain, the Harz is a mountain in the middle of Germany in the Northern European Plane.
For your credit, you didn't state, quote Peter Geosingleminded Zeihan: "There are NO obstacles in the entire Northern European Plane."
The Harz is actually a mountain range and while it is marked green in that part of the video it really doesn't lessen the argument's validity as it itself doesnt pose a relevant hinderance.
The point about Stalingrad was awful, because the Soviet Union in Stalingrad employed a much more complex strategy than throwing men at the problem. At most it was the forces inside the city fighitng with quite minimal support to pin down the German attacking force which was the closest to your described throwing men at the problem, and even then it was a strategy of delivering troops to the city to stop the city to stop it form completely falling to the Germans while it was under German assault. It was necessary to pin down the best German forces in the defensible city as it left the flanks unsecure and guarded by less experienced and worse supplied Romanian and Hungarian forces, while the Soviets built up their main force around the city. It was these proper forces on the flanks which following saturated artillery strikes and tank assaults against Hungarian and Romanian forces lacking the equipment to counter them, especially the tanks, caused it all to collapse, allowing the Soviets to encircle the Gemran 9th army in Stalingrad.
The Russian railway network is in part designed the way it is for a particular reason, ensuring Moscow's control over the country. In the west the rail lines are organized such that the most important lines go through Moscow, which basically allows more central control for Moscow owing to everyone being forced to travel through the country's capital. On the other hand the eastern half of the railway network was more specifically built with the purpose of ensuring Moscow's control of Siberia in part over the fears that the massive and resource rich region would begin to develop ideas of indpendence owing to its sheer physical distance from Moscow. Additionally the construction of the Trans Siberian railway was also meant to be a monument to the greatness of Russian autocracy and conservatism in the eyes of Sergei Witte. In addition it wasn't fully completed until the First World war owing to the treacherous section of track in the mountains south of lake Baikal, which contributed to Russian defeat in the Russo-Japanese war owing to the capacity of the railway being constricted by two ferries in lake Baikal.
Regarding oil and gas sales, another thing to consider is the fact that compared to the European export Market which is developed rich nations with a mostly singular source before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, China is already importing most of its initial gas and oil through the sea from the Middle East. In addition to Russia lacking capacity to trade gas and oil with China, it also faces competition from the Middle East and Central Asia as well meaning that it cannot get the exclusive prices that it could get from Eastern and Central Europe.
What do you expect from westerners programmed to downplay the Soviets or communist whenever they have the occasion.. these are bots trying to look intelligent when in reality they have never opened a history book (outside of school) in their lives
" this small strip of land where all their crops are grown" meanwhile that small strip of land is like 20x bigger than the uk
Ukraine and belarus would be the part of Russia in next 10 years , and that will be the death of WEST...
Brics is working on it's own international currency
You spew the Pootler poo!
Frankly speaking this is terrible analysis, period. South Korea comparison - do a study in to their labour laws, high level corruption like Samsung, etc. Infra is bad where mountains and permafrost - look at Scandinavian countries, south asia, etc. Military - 42 countries (NATO+) against one Russia ... and so on; plus heavily biased and picky statistics.
what does it have to do with analysis? yeah there is problems in south korea (no shit) but it is still a successful country
It just kind of feels off to say they designed it badly, I know design takes in to account limitations and the context of its use but I wonder how much was done by actual necessity. This is Russia, the people and corporations and governments are part of that but that is how it unfurled. Like what state with Russias population distribution would have those connections even if they wanted to.
I don't think the title of the video is meant to be taken seriously. Mother Nature designed what is now Russia, and Russians have been struggling to get that design to work for them. With the corruption and incompetence, they haven't made it easy for themselves.
Vast amounts of northeast Russia are basically not at all inhabited. It's like how Alaska is huge but fucking nobody lives outside of Juneau and Barrow, basically. There's also the weather, and the permafrost, which not only makes summertime swamps guaranteed, but also prevents digging deep foundations for lasting construction.
Corruption is everywhere ..come to Kenya😂😂 we have corruption cases left and right ... Corruption doesn't mean a country will necessarily collapse... it just means the situation is fucked up
Correct!---Corruption is used by the gang in the Kremlin to run the EMPIRE!
Yep sacred word i come from italy a lot of corruption but I don't think we will collapse
@@okman6298
Italy is not an Empire genociding its colonials!
yes, yes, it'll collapse this week every week. i mean the level of cope
Russia survived the Nazis killing 30% of their people in 3 years, they'll survive having to pay a little extra for Alibaba ipads.
take a shot of vodka every time OBF says "see"
that's better than starting every other sentences with "now" as I've seen with some other youtubers
That’s what they do in Russia, see?
I'm just happy I didn't hear .."that being said"... Fuck me does that grind my gears
Sorry, I don't hate my liver that much... 😂
@@Alex-zs7gw You must be listening to “The Enforcer”. They say it in between every paragraph.
The dates are a bit off on the map around the 1:00 mark. And by "a bit" I mean anywhere from 35 years to a century, and up to 167 years... Nothing major happened to those borders in 1975 (nothing at all) or in 1945 (there were relatively minor adjustments - returning some territory to Iran in 1946 and takeover of Eastern Prussia, also Tyva/Tuva may have changed from Mongolia to the Soviet Union around the same time)...
I think he meant the eastern bloc getting created as a result of the war
@@oadka, no, where he wrote 1975, he meant 1795. 1772-1795 is when the partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth took place. Russia annexed a vast chunk of it.
@@jakubwieczorek1489 That makes sense, it being just a typo.
What is weird is why Finland is marked with the same year, but it didn't become part of Russia until 1809. And the modern borders of Finland are used, as if Karelia was already part of Russia, which it wasn't.
My parents were Vietnamese who got scholarship to study in the Soviet Union before migrating to Czechia in 1992. They told me that, outside Moscow and Saint Petersburg, the rest of Russia stuck in the 18th century. You can understand why.
Ironically, the rest of USSR was in better condition, comparatively. Lol
@@Dave102693 They have more resources than whole Moscow and St Petersburg have. But are they more developed? No.
Here, in eastern russia live a lot of vietnamese people, they are treated like garbage by Russians. I can't say Russians really HATE them, but they definitely think they are second teir of people, as well as the immigrants from middle Asia
so like in all the world cities are richer than the rural areas man what a novelty
@@anuvisraa5786 The problem is Russia does not improve. The rest of the world does work to improve. China’s rural areas today are even richer than some Siberian cities for examples.
"Russia will collapse any moment now, trust me bro"
His bro? The Ghost of Kiev!
any second now
2018 - 2021 "China will Collapse here's why"
2022 - ? "Russia will Collapse here's why"
12:09 I find it funny you saying traffic deaths are much higher in the US because it is car dependent, but I can tell you everyone who comes to Canada talks about how necessary a car is. I literally work at an immigration center and everyone who comes from outside the US talks about how badly they need a car, and everyone gets eventually gets a drivers license and a car. I live on the US border and have travelled across the US and Canada. There is practically no difference in terms of public infrastructure. They are practically the same country. If there is a large difference in car fatalities, my only guess is that the testing for Canadian driver's licenses is more intense (for example, getting a full G license in Ontario can take up to 2 years).
The train lines makes perfect sense. They are here to simply move stuff from colonies to moscow.
15:42 thought I was hallucinating "if China aims to honor its climate agree--DOO--ments" 😂
You can’t compare a tiny nation like South Korea to a massive country like Russia
Thanks for the shout out on our bridge issue, we've been waiting for that damn bridge since 90s and almost got it in 2014 until our "brilliant geostrategist" of a president decided it was a great idea to annex a territory of a foreign nation.
Putin is such a terrible president that in 20 years he managed to almost drive russia into the ground (although maybe he'll manage to do it by the time he's out), a country that had arguably the most potential to become the richest country in the world.
....and yet, somehow they have managed to f*** it up over and over and..
Ну, заплачь
Aljaska is Russian territory!!! immediately bring it back!!!and Russia should teach US a lesson that US shouldn't mess even in Mexico!!!not to talk about China and the others!!!
Me watching West talking about how Russia is going to collapse (the regime is at it's strongest since 1999): 😂😂😂
Russian robot in the comments
It seems more accurate to call Russia "Moscow" instead. So much of Russia is viewed through the lens of Moscow when everywhere else in the country is completely different.
Moscow is a fake show city, get outside of there and it's like going back 100 years
Exactly Eastern Europeans all know that what westerners call RuZZia is in reality the Muscovian Empire!
Yeah, there's even a saying "Moscow is not Russia" which is common in Russia.
@@galenibble
Exactly---Muscovy conquered many nations to become the huge EMPIRE that it is today!---It will always want more!
@@WangAiHua well, yeah. And I hate Moscow because of that for years. My hometown is literally choking on industrial gases and nobody cares.
Nice video just as constructive critisism, the video was quite chaotic, and the video message isnt as clear. Otherwise very nice editing, footage, visual. Long term follower :)
Their sources for what is said are also unclear.
Literaly trust me bro
Congrats on 500k Subscribers 🥳🥳
It has already been said a couple times in this comment section but it would be really good if you cited your sources clearly in the description or at the end of the video!
The script with sources has been added to the description :)
@OBFYT Thank you!
@@OBFYT It's seemingly a tiny thing because very few people look in the description, let alone check out the sources, but it makes an enormous difference in terms of credibility! So I'm very glad that you do it! It puts you on the scientific side of the educational UA-cam bubble instead of the entertainment side.
@@Blex_040credibility of sources also matters. And some sources have sources of their own. If you try to check everything you soon find yourself wondering about some random numbers: like does Russia have 42 thousand or 72 thousand bridges
Empires tend not to be really designed. They tend to grow opportunistically. That is certain the case with the Russian (or, really, Muscovite) Empire, as it was with the British one. We might see a different approach with the current construction of the Chinese Empire, but the Chinese are likely to end up having to be opportunistic imperialists too.
Russia is not an empire, it was one before 1917
Muscovite is used as an insult so dont use it unless its in a historical sense
@@Silver_Prussian Muscovy has remained an empire. Put lipstick on a pig, it will remain a pig. "Russia" is an usurpation. There have been many ways of being Russian. But the imperial way is that of Muscovy; it has killed off the historical alternatives and is still doing its best to stamp out any other options. It started as a Mongol enforcer and has continued in the same vein. "Muscovy" is accurate; if it's insulting, too bad. Muscovites might then consider taking a very different historical road from that on which they've insisted to travel these last 600 years or so.
@@Silver_Prussianwill the dog stop barking if you call it a cat?
@@hwfcup1344 no but i dont see how this basic widely known that you use a phrase has any connection to the topic
Chine itself was formed precisely through this "opportunistic imperialism". And with more brutality than even the Russians, probably more than any Empire on earth apart since the Mongols.
It's because 80% of the population lives in European Russia.......
Just cuz Northern Canada isn't populated by anybody doesn't mean they're going to revolt😂
guys look at the map of roads of canada. See north canada. This is very bad, Canada is badly designed and will collapse any second now
"10M sqkm is covered in permafrost...." For now.
He was so good with that sponsor I didn’t even notice it until I saw the yellow bar
Never heard of trans-siberian railroad?
It still takes 1-2 months to drive from Moscow to Vladivostok
@@grievetan 1 week
@@grievetan and plains exist, you know. And ships.
@@user-jq4ej7pf9o you are joking right? Trans-siberian railroad isn't a German autobahn
@@grievetan dude, just google it. I googled and it said "6 days, 3 hours"
Could you link the sources in the description?
What is the background song used at the beginning?
it's like, clown on russia all you want, but at least do it in a historically accurate manner. this video, like many other of your uploads, have literal black holes when it comes to historical accuracy.
500k SUBS!!!!!!!!!!! Congratz man
Thank you!
A lot of problems are the name of the game in Russia ... No it's not.. Corruption is killing Russia... And the war of greed in Ukraine is a good example of this ... Russia needs corruption free leadership than Russia can live up to it's potential without starting wars of greed ..
You miss the *BAM* railroad on the map though. It is pretty significant.
That is not the "European" Plain. You took the North European Plain and blew it out of proportions by colouring over plateaus, like Ardennes, Moldavian, Valdai, Volhyno-Podolic, Central Russian, Stavropol', the Central Polish Hills, and even mountains, like Harz, the Schistic Rhenish Massif and the Crimean Mountains. Do better.
Amazing video! Well done.
Dieser Sprecher hier ist eine echte Zumutung für alle Zuhörer, weil er dermaßen schnell, undeutlich, schlecht betont und vor allem sehr nachlässig artikuliert, weshalb man sein schlechtes Englisch nur unter großen Mühen verstehen kann! Darüber hinaus macht ihn seine sich überschlagende Stimme völlig ungeeignet für die Aufgabe eines Moderators!
6:40 bro they said casualties not death... At least get your fact straight....
vitim river bridge looks insane 💀
Very good analysis. Thank you for this video
I'm Moscow resident. In marth 2024 we'll have an election of president, and I believe that we kick him from his throne. Ask any questions.
Elections mean nothing in Russia. Anybody who believes that this election can change something is very naive.
Putin will get 141% at the elections, slava!
Russia is larger than Pluto
Russian leaders in the past wish they had this map video
Russia was not designed.
It was conquered.
just like everyone else
@1:00 why is Finland's map red? What happend 1975?
The issue with the permafrost not allowing grains to grow could be fixed with cheap mass-produced long lines of fresnel mirrors made from cheap materials like weathering steel (allow of steel with silicone, so the rust doesn't eat away at the steel) with a tinfoil mirror on one side of the "angled mirror planks", and long greenhouses with multiple layers of transparent plastic, and some thermal storage in the greenhouse, to concentrate sunlight onto a smaller area, which to allow grains and fruits to grow right outside the arctic circle, or even inside the arctic circle if using geothermal heat for keeping the plants alive during the long arctic nights. Adding to that the usage of some solar panels, which can be air cooled to work more efficiently, and some batteries, and LEDs can be used to grow the plants even during the nights, to increase their output even more, which could also work with geothermal electricity. And to build those more-or-less aligned east-to-west (for optimal solar concentration), building more railways would be beneficial, and those railways can then be used both for moving the produce, and for connecting multiple locations to the rest of the country, including new locations which to become viable thanks to the railway, and the railway doesn't even have to be high speed, as long as it can move roughly as fast as if not faster than with a car.
Or they could just burn a lot of carbon.
And then the entire methane from half a million years of decaying plant material is released at once into the atmosphere! Wonderful!
@@pablolongobardi7240long with whatever ancient viruses or strains of Anthrax are trapped beneath the permafrost.
Fun stuff for Russia!
How do you suppose all this can be built in a country which can't make a single modern microchip or a profitable export that's more complicated than a barrel of oil? Do you think an oligarch fighting for his life in the next Russian Civil War is going to care about 'fresnel mirrors'? What universe is this russia in?
Surely we need some more of those lovely greenhouse gases released don't we all! 😂
Love the video you did a great job
China's high speed rail network is at risk of not being profitable and there are huge concerns about the longevity of its HSR infrastructures. The rapid expansion of the HSR network in China may seem more like a vanity project for Xi Jinping bcoz not many Chinese cities and towns with HSR services have high ridership rates, apart from the ones connecting Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and other core cities responsible for China's economic growth. China also has vast income gaps as well, and not many could afford to pay ticket fares to ride the HSR trains. As a result, the Chinese railway company can easily end up racking up more debts as it has now more unprofitable HSR lines than years before.
Can we still laugh now?? 😂😂
Russia has a design aimed at keeping the primacy of Moscow and St. Petersburg. Those are the only two places that actually matter to the empire. The rest is for resource extraction to feed those two cities.
There's an interesting point to be made about the comparison between South Korea and Russia.
South Korea is an extremely capitalistic state and has been since its independance. Workers rights are minimal, corporations have a lot of control over the government and even play a role in the culture of South Korea (Search chaebols).
Russia in 1991 was also an extremely capitalist country. There was a seismic shift from communism to capitalism and it resulted in a mad dash for wealth and power. This resulted in Russian Society becoming extremely corrupt as oligarchs rose to power and took very influencial roles in government.
It's curious how two countries that were very similar in 1991 ended up on such different trajectories.
Very similar?
How is Canada "designed"? :)
"Russia is built to collapse. Just wai may be 5-15 years." Damn, i read this at least from seconf Chechen war. But Russia just become larger.
this channel's video on Switzerland is one of my favorite videos on youtube
11:24 what’s that bridge? I can’t understand what I said and want to look it up. Man that things crazy
155 bm³ total gas exports to europe seems a bit low, nordstream 1 alone had a capacity of a little over 100 bm³
about 60% going to germany, but there are other pipelines running through belarus ukraine and turkey so 155 cant be right
Personally this video is biased and is NOT objective, it's only the west that perceives Russia's military as weak. This is just not the case. Imo Russia is fighting against the US and its allies and is putting up quite the fight. America has never fought with peer military powers only third world countries
i literally live in russia, military is just useless in russia, my friends that served in military told me about really bad equipment and really shit environment that they had to tolerate
@@TakehisaYujiwhat’s the proof that you lived in Russia and your friends served in the military? You could be an average keyboard warrior Joe, who knows?
Russia is fighting against the Ukrainian people and a very few volunteers from around the world, with limited military supplies from 'the West'. Russia has been going backwards for a year now. Blowing up dams and threatening to blow up nuclear power plants. The Ukrainians will have F-16s before long.
A conventional war between the US and its allies against Russia would be over very, very quickly.
If Russia is unable to beat a country that's military is a third of its size, I do not believe you can say it is working either at its potential capacity or in any way compared to the West. As you have said, at least in recent times, the United States nor any Western military power has fought peer-on-peer strength against another country because seemingly (bar China, India, or the other non-NATO aligned nuclear powers) they are unmatched. The American model of military operation has never been hindered by the quality of its troops nor its technological capacity but instead the manner the fighting has conducted itself, and Russia as evidenced by Ukraine wants to fight in the manner that America and the rest of NATO would want to: open conflict.
I may also note that by your logic Russia has equally never fought a peer military power since the Second World War, which can also be said of the United States.
the developers gotta patch this fr
03:42
It's really ironic and tragic at the same time. A video that claims to be partly about geography, but then goes and claims that Europe and Asia are two continents. Below is a definition of a continent:
A large, continuous, discrete landmass separated by expanses of water. Could anyone be ever so kind and please point out the precise separation of Europe and Asia by expanses of water? Or perhaps the Ural mountain range is somehow a sea or an ocean?
Smart ass is taking a tone 😱
As you said its one continent, can you precisely say which one? Its Europe or Asia? Maybe none of those and if so then what is the name of a our continent?
Wars no longer give economic benefit. Those days are long gone. Putin is a relic.
I'll be honest, I did not like this video. All the numbers and facts are correct, no doubt about that, but you conclusions and connections are widely misleading. You keep comparing Russia to USA but you simply cannot compare the big nothing Siberia is to US but US is just not the same. How can you say there is not enough railroads per size when a) there is nothing to connect it to and b) in case of trans-siberian train you know nothing about whether for example the capacity is not sufficient enough. Feels like a deep dive into a shallow waters, this video.
true, we must roll all of siberia into asphalt for all the 3.5 indigenous natives and 5 russians living there
Siberia is like Alaska or Midwest in the us. No point in developing it because nobody lives there apart for the southernmost part.
I mean if the U.S. wants, it can teachnically take some parts of the eastern russia and add atleast 1 or 2 states to its territory.😂
Well if they have a referendum (and they will win by at least 180%) and annex the parts of Russia that it wants to take , it's a totally legal way of gaining new territory..........😂😂
Suree a country that can't even hold Afghanistan against goat herders can win against Russia 😂....
No, it can’t. They can not do anything about our nukes.
@@imborad5350bro 😅
They don't recruit uni students... Get facts..
2:03 That's not how it works. Buildings are put on pillars because the soil on top can't stand the pressure of the building. 1 meter deeper into the ground the ground can already withstand 100 kN/m² of pressure. At a depth of 2 meters, the ground can withstand 200 kN/m² or 200 kPa. So putting pillars and a building on that soil, makes the building not sink into the ground. Obviously when the soil thaws it adds an additional problem.
I just feel bad forbthe russian people. They deserve peace and prosperity like everyone else, but looking at the situation in russia, they have a big storm coming - if anything changes at all.
When the attrocities in Ukraine started happening, I saw a report about the place of birth of most of the soldiers who were committing them. They said that some of these places looked like they had stopped their development in 1917 and it really did look like that. And this video proves it.
They said, by they you mean the trustfull media, experts,fact checkers and youtubers who would never lie to you ?
Let me guess...
The mass rapes... as pushed by someone who was found to be LYING SO MUCH SHE LOST HER JOB!
The "Bucha Massacre" where all the bodies were mysteriously only found days later in plain sight!
The Kramatorsk incident, where a missile Russia doesn't use fell from magic teleporting Russians in UKRAINIAN TERRITORY!
@@Silver_Prussianyeah, Soloviev is the trustful media. Of course😂
3:58 Why did you include the Crimean peninsula?
So cool to see Juneau Alaska pop up here.
It's pronounced June-oh if you care, but I don't mind if you mispronounced it, I'm just happy that you have heard of it.
1:00 1975?? 😂
Russia is stuck in the past while the rest of the world is moving, or atleast trying to move, forward. All they had to do was focus on internal matters and downsize the military. There is absolutely no reason to have a big military when you have nuclear bombs.
Yeah, telll that to the USA, where the military budget only goes up every year and is more than the combined of the next 4 or 5 biggest spenders on the list.
@@mifyitaad whataboutism
@@Ar1AnX1x that word in no way refutes his claim when the US is putting nukes next to Russia.
@@mattllaves Russia has had Nukes in Kaliningrad for a long time, and they've been threatening to use them too, you're talking about aggressive behavior while defending the Russian Government? what the fuck
@@mattllaves ?do you own a map?